Adam Auslund recaps a Crazy College Football Saturday, Why the Ravens Aren’t Dead Yet, & Petros Papadakis stops by!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports really good ooka man, Fox
Football Sunday. I'm out of oslind You may have heard
me last night on FNA with Kevin Figures. You're with
me for the next four hours now. As they like
to say, when you go into a tough environment in
college football, the door gets locked behind you. That's basically
what's happening here on Fox Sports Radio. In fact, I

(00:23):
was talking with Aaron Torres before I went on air
because obviously I'm going four hours solo, no k fig tonight,
which I still have the instant replay machine. Of course,
obviously my Wilson here, my volleyball to talk back to
Breebreeze here, Mark is here. But Aaron Torres was like, so,
who young with tonight. I was like, just just me.

(00:46):
He's like, oh, hey, good luck fun. I felt good
now just because I'm running solo, Like han, We're still
gonna have a good show for you. A lot to
get into, including we might have Petros Papaetus on this hour.
Next hour. La Murray of the Athletic will be here,
my friend Lot Murray covers the Clippers for the Athletic,

(01:07):
also covers the NBA nationally. As we're just about ten
days away from opening night. Opening tip, we got geek news.
I'm gonna review pt Anderson's latest flick. Tell you if
it's better than Boogie Knights plus a ton of NFL.
We're gonna try something called matchup power rankings in the
second hour. I may even let Breebrey help me out

(01:29):
with that. But before anything else, you know how we
do things here. Even though the f of the FNA
is gone, it's still first off, Baby Mark, give me
that good college football drum line music with Nick Cannon.
I think so, I'm gonna call this my college football rap,
but like wr ap, just to wrap up the week,

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as we had kind of a big deal week. So
you may know on Friday night last night, we're doing
FNSR till two in the morning Pacific Center time. So
it takes a really good game for me to want
to wake up at nine am. I'm sorry, big noon kickoff,
but I knew ahead of time. Ohio State Illinois was
not going to be that looked like Illinois knew too.

(02:15):
They pulled an organ made it more about the uniforms
and the actual game. We're having an orange out. We're
gonna wear all orange. They said, Hey, it's October, we
can all look like pumpkins. Well they turned back into them,
and you might as well call Ohio State Billy Corgan
because they were the smashing pumpkins in this case out there, like,

(02:36):
that is not Billy Corgan, that is not the smashing Pumpkins.
I take offence to limp Biscuit being compared to them,
but there was definitely some melancholy and definitely some infinite
sadness in Illinois. The smashing Pumpkins are from Chicago, so
I thought that would make sense. But I did wake
up at noon and the game was over, because really
it was over before it ever started. Ohio State has

(02:59):
the best defense in the country. There's no shame in
losing to them. But Illinois was ranked seventeenth. I know
they only have two losses, but they were decisive ones
to Ohio State and Indiana. Those two losses they lost
by combined seventy one points. Get them out of here,

(03:19):
like it's over. They are no longer playoff eligible in
my mind, in my one man playoff committee, like I've
seen enough, Illinois, You're done. You wanted to look like
Shyracuse today. You did by the end of the game
that Eliini Orange looked more burnt orange than Texas. After
Jeremiah Smith got done burning them with a fade route

(03:41):
on that last touchdown, Ohio State put the game away there.
Illinois is not the only team that's ineligible to make
the playoff.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
In my mind, the same goes for Florida State. They've
shown who they really are and we let them off
the hook. Sorry, that's greed there for you. But since
Week one after they beat Alabama, that looks very fluky.
Now they've lost three in a row. Florida State lost
to pitt today. It's over ship them out. They're done.

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Going back to last season with Florida State, they have
eight straight acc losses. The Seminoles haven't won a conference
game in three hundred and eighty five days. Meanwhile, the
team they beat in Week one, Alabama, just forty eight
days ago. Bama's looking good. They went from looking like
Calen's of Boor was going to get fired faster than

(04:31):
to Sean Foster with UCLA to having the most impressive
month in college football after they beat Missou Today they
won in Missouri. Those fourth down throws by Ty Simpson.
They were impressive. I think they you know, during this
five game winning streak since losing to Florida State, Alabama
has gotten fourteen touchdowns to one pick from Ty Simpson.

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He's gonna leave for the Heisman now he is. He
is the leader in the clubhouse and Missoo had won
fifteen straight at home. That is a high quality win.
I know a lot of people that picked Mazoo to
win that game. And this was the third straight, third
straight week Bama faced a ranked, undefeated team. Kala de
Boor has more than righted the ship. They look like

(05:16):
a speedboat right now. They do get Tennessee at home
next week, though. Obama as for Texas and Oklahoma in
the tongue twister Red River Rivalry, Red River Rivalry. If
you were a former offensive lineman, I hope you didn't
watch Oklahoma versus Texas because they were getting shredded. The
Red River looked more like the Red Sea with the
way those offensive lines were parting like I thought I

(05:37):
saw Charleston Heston at one point. That Oklahoma offensive line
got wrecked. Biggest drive, biggest moment of the Red River
Rivalry came when Texas drove seventy five yards and got
a touchdown pass from Arch Manning to DeAndre Moore. It
was huge. Manning was you could say, surgical for his standard.

(05:59):
Arch Manning more immerse than surgeon maybe when it comes
to arch Manning. Look, I think Petros would attest to
this too their kids, unless there would be YU congrats
to them being the wildcast. But how quickly we all
forget as we judged these teenagers, some of them young

(06:21):
men in their early twenties. We hold these players to
standards we never held ourselves to. I think it's kind
of bs. The older I get, the more sympathetic I
become to people making mistakes or having missteps. And it's
not like Arch Manning has done anything wrong. I don't
know why so many people were praying for his downfall
because of his last name and expectations he never asked for.

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Why root against him? Why hate? I'm kind of happy
for Arch that run he had going left to seal
the game, waving goodbye to the Sooners, his first and
only signature moments so far. But as for what happens
with Texas with this win, well, I still got a
Georgia coming up. Texas A and m it's going to

(07:03):
be difficult to get back into the playoffs because such
a slow start. As the SEC great victory. As for Jametier,
he played, he threw three picks. Honestly, I think they
lose the game regardless him being fully healthy. I don't
know if that makes a difference, Skip Bayless. I know

(07:24):
some people are trying to say, no, they're winning this game.
If John Matier was healthy and he didn't have to
ramp up all of a sudden, and he was back
in seventeen days after having surgery on the thumb, how
does that make a difference with their offensive line that
was surgical in their own way, with the pressure they
were getting on him that wasn't about the thumb. You
could count the number of plays where he had a

(07:46):
clean pocket on one hand. If you want to know
who won the games this weekend, just go to the trenches.
Like that's the old John Madden. Focus on that part
of the game. It's not sexy, but it usually determines
the outcome, as it did for my uh Oregon Ducks.
I don't know why we need the bong in there
just because it's Oregon, but it didn't start great for Indiana,

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and I am a Ducks fan, and I even thought,
I even thought there were some favorable calls that were
going their way. Early on Kurt Signetti, he looked like
he was gonna get flagged for roughing the referee after
a badly missed PI call in the second quarter. Someone
said he almost went full Bobby Knight and could have
picked up an entire bench instead of a chair and

(08:32):
thrown that across the field. Like Signetti is a force
of nature. They eventually started to get those PI calls
in their favor Indiana in the second half, and it
led to a rushing touchdown putting them up twenty or thirteen. Sometimes,
you know, complaining works. Signetti was very Kurt, you could say.

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The most impressive thing to me, though, was after Indiana's
quarterback Fernando Mendoza throws a pick six at the twelve
forty two mark of the fourth on a ball that
was well underthrown. He was on his back foot. Mendoza
comes right back and goes with a back shoulder throw
to Surrat for the touchdown on third down with six

(09:14):
minutes left to put them up twenty seven and twenty.
Incredible bounce back drive from Mendoza to show that confidence
after a pick six like that. But after Indiana sealed
the game by taking out who I thought was the
Heisman favorite in Dante more I think it was a
tip pick. They continued to get pressure all game long,

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which I didn't see coming. They were slicing in dice
in Oregan's offensive line. It goes back to winning that
battle in the trenches. That was the difference in the game.
Indiana had never beaten a top five team on the road.
Incredible win. Signetti told you, I win, Google me, I
win Google me. What a badass, what a win. I

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legit thought Oregon was the best team in the country.
I thought Dante Moore was winning the Heisman. That's probably
not happening at this point. It's more in a game
with the Oregon Ducks. So from the most heralded and celebrated
coach in the country to the most criticized, as James
Franklin said, you know what, I can also lose to

(10:22):
bottom ten teams too. Let me distract you from being
four and twenty one against top ten teams first by
losing the UCLA last weekend when they were twenty five
point favorites. When I said, going in, what's going to
be higher in the game, Penn State with the amount
of points they score on the Bruins or the plane
flying the banner that says fire Martin jarmin their ad Well.

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UCLA has won two in a row now and Penn
State has lost three straight after losing at home to
Northwestern today, Happy Valley is miserable. Drew Isler went down
with the leg injury. He's out for the season. Do
we know why? Were there specifics about this acl amputation? Like,

(11:05):
it's awful. Everything is going horribly for Penn State. I
feel for them. I feel for Drew Howler. James Franklin
is he going to make the trip to Iowa next week? Brie?
Are you a refreshing Twitter right now? Just to make
sure he is still the head coach? Like this is
as bad of a meltdown and an implosion as I

(11:27):
have ever seen. Like since James Franklin's first season in
twenty eleven, he now has four losses as a twenty
plus point favorite, the most of any head coach. Penn
State's also the first school to lose consecutive games as
a twenty plus point favorite in the last thirty years,

(11:47):
all the expectations they had. They were ranked number two
in the AP coming in this year, right behind Texas
at number one, and they are crumbling underneath those expectations.
But James Franklin has a huge buyout. I don't know
what's happen.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
I did see this, someone said, here lies Penn State's
twenty twenty five season. Oregon killed their hopes, UCLA laid
them to rest, and now Northwestern is dancing on their grave.
That kind of sums it up. The only bigger meltdown
this season so far that would have happened before the

(12:21):
half was over. Between Georgia and Auburn. The end of
the first half in that ballgame was a cluster f
of epic proportions. Auburn, they have it at the goal line,
they run a sneak. It looks like Jackson Arnold gets in.
They're about to go up seventeen to nothing. But the
ball comes out and Georgia recovers did it come out

(12:42):
before he crossed the goal line? Well, after a ten
minute review, they said it did. The call in the
field was confirmed, but you can see the ball crossed
the goal line. You don't need the hawk eyed Jeremy
Renner vision to see this. It's obvious. But Georgia had
the football then There's about no joke. Ten more penalties

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before the end of the first half, including a targeting
call that was reviewed, a late hit call multiple reviews,
and literally eighty five yards worth of penalty yardage alone,
which ended up getting Georgia field goal. So instead of
Auburn being up seventeen to nothing, it's ten to three Auburn.

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That's a ten point swing at the half. That's why
they lost the ballgame. Hugh Freeze looked catatonic after what
happened against Oklahoma just a couple of weeks ago too.
Hugh Freeze had his face freeze like he was stunned
at the egregious calls one after another. That was the
most unwatchable ending to a half of football I've ever seen.

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And I could care less about either team here. It's
to sec whatever. Like I said, kind of an Oregon guy,
the last minute thirty two of the half took twenty
two minutes in real time, not to mention the Kirby
smart fake time out. Now, I guess it depends on
who you believe. Are you going for Auburn or Georgia here.

(14:09):
Some are saying they gave him a free timeout because
the clock was running down, the play clock and his
team had the ball. It looked like he was making
a tee. Apparently he said no, I was clapping, and
he was saying that Auburn was clapping and trying to
get them off sides. Can't do that. I think Kirby

(14:34):
Smart got away with one, and I think the SEC
is probably gonna apologize because I don't know who the
officials were, but they ended up giving him a redo.
This is professional sports now, with the nil and everything.
It always has been, but it's never been more official.
A redo play, so not a timeout, not a delay,

(14:59):
a game redo. That is incredible to me. But Auburn's offense,
they kind of got to blame themselves after that goal
one fumble they had. Maybe that's not the reason they
lost the game. After that, their offense had zero points,
three first downs, two in garbage time, forty yards total,

(15:22):
twenty five of those yards in garbage time. They average
one point seven yards per play. They could do nothing.
So Georgia can feel somewhat better about it. I guess
the refs didn't fully decide this game. But I'd feel
like Steve Frantis with Jim Gray here. If I was

(15:44):
an Auburn fan, I would I don't care about either
of these two teams. What I care about is it
not taking twenty two minutes for a minute and a
half to end in the first half. Just get the
calls right. If you're gonna review it, you have to
streamline things. You have to make it a little bit
easier than that. The watchability went down the drain. Auburn's

(16:07):
one of the best three loss teams we've probably ever
seen because they've lost a good competition and there's been
controversy in two of their losses. This is Georgia loss,
no different, So quite the day. I think you can
say in college football coming up next, you know what,
forget the Madden cover curse. What about the two K curse?

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Speaker 3 (18:08):
Up Alan drinking did beg you?

Speaker 7 (18:12):
Donny?

Speaker 1 (18:12):
You know when I saw Cam Scataboo go for three
touchdowns Thursday night, I thought of the first white tailback
I saw do the same back in the year two thousand.
Our next guest put a hat trick on San Jose
State back when he was running the rock for the
USC Trojans. Big data fight on It's big to have
Petros Papadakus on Fox Sports Radio. P. How are we doing.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
I'm okay. I just got home from Cincinnati. Oh.

Speaker 1 (18:38):
Never really used a man like you in Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (18:40):
Yeah, No, it doesn't go like that ATAM.

Speaker 8 (18:42):
It goes if you should ever use a change of scenery.
We sure could use a guy like you in Cincinnati.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Oh well, but yes, I.

Speaker 8 (18:51):
Was there as a charming city and now I'm here
is Cincinnati?

Speaker 1 (18:56):
You gonna win the Big twelve? I know they just
beat the UCF Knights.

Speaker 8 (18:59):
Yeah, you know, they didn't look as consistent they made
some mistakes today. And UCF is a really athletic team
with good coaches, but they are sixty three new players.
And Scott Frost who went six and six his first
year at UCF when he was there, you know, a
decade ago. Almost he's kind of in the same position.

(19:21):
But Cincinnati could have put him away maybe three or
four times and sort of failed to. But yeah, they
have a lot of offensive weapons. And Brendan Soresby's really
one of the most underrated quarterbacks that I've seen in
a while. I was impressed with him last year, and
he really changed his body this year and runs the
ball hard into the teeth of the defense. And they

(19:43):
improved on the perimeter, and they have two good backs,
and they have some good linebackers and some good defensive
front secondaries a little suspect, but other than that, they're great.
Texas Tech is great, and BYU is obviously really good.
And it doesn't feel like anybody in the Big twelve
is really maybe Texas Tech and we're still in October,

(20:04):
but any of these teams can can pop up and
bite you in the neck.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
It seems like any given time.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Utah is one of them as well. Beat up on
Arizona State forty two to ten.

Speaker 8 (20:14):
Well, they were without their quarterback, and you know that
guy Simms is a known known offender as far as
a turnover machine goes, and I think they were just
not able to run the full game into their offense.
Levitt's really really good, So I mean, I understand why
that happened. And it's in the rain, and you're in
Salt Lake City, so there a lot of parody in

(20:36):
the Big twelve, I guess is the moral of the story, Adam.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Did Lincoln Riley just get his big, biggest victory in
the Big ten so far today? Did you?

Speaker 9 (20:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (20:44):
I want I say so. No, I mean I don't know.
I wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (20:47):
I wasn't going to be surprised if USC won that game.
I mean, just as hard as it is for USC
to go across the country and playing a big historic
stadium in a strange place after a long trip, as
hard as it is for USC to do that, it's
pretty hard for teams to come to the East and

(21:07):
do it in the West, as Penn State, who came
out here and had their whole bubble bursted as far
as their season goes by losing to Ucla, who now
all of a sudden looks like a world beater, and
I'm sure at some point they'll come back down to earth.
But it's an unbelievable change that UCLA's made. But anyway
back to usc yeah, it's a statement. Anytime you could

(21:30):
beat Michigan and the number fifteen team in the country
and you have a walk on running back go for
one hundred something yards King Miller, this kid from Calabasas.
I mean, that's a huge story and good for Lincoln
Riley and the Trojans. I think that once they hit
the road again in the Big Ten, they could fall

(21:50):
like they did against Illinois. But it's a great day
to be a Trojan. But I think it's very underwhelming
performance by the Michigan quarterback Underwood.

Speaker 1 (21:59):
I feel like Indiana has got the best victory of
the season so far. Like I had Orgon winning the
whole thing. Of course, you know, I've always worn that
Duck's hat. I thought they were going to have the
Heisman as well with Dante Moore and.

Speaker 7 (22:13):
Eugene By the way, look.

Speaker 1 (22:15):
I was there for three days once, so.

Speaker 8 (22:16):
Yeah, all these organ people act like Oregon is so cool.
It's like, go hang out in Eugene and then tell
me that all the fans don't come in from Springfield.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Hey, I was representing Cottage Grove all right, Yea.

Speaker 8 (22:27):
And everybody's got some stupid ass pair of shoes that
are all neon and.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
Athletic ye like custom Nikes.

Speaker 8 (22:34):
Dude, it's a place for running one hundred and the
two hundred, like leave me alone. Like, obviously they have
a great football program, but all these organ people like, well,
you know, I'm a duck. It's like, why how much time.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
Have you spent in Eugene? Leave me alone? Anyway, Yeah,
I was a huge one. I mean that Signetty guy
is a.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Where the hell did he come from? Does he have
the same backstory that like Chip Kelly had that was mysterious? No?

Speaker 8 (22:56):
No, his father was a coach and he's a West
Virginia guy.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
I mean, he's a coach man.

Speaker 8 (23:00):
He's great, and what he's created is pretty phenomenal. But
I think that you're seeing I mean there's a few
teams that really stand out. I mean Ohio State, but
again it's still October. But I think you're going to
see I don't think you're going to see an undefeated
team at the end of the year in college football,
and I don't think it matters as much because of

(23:23):
the size of the playoff, and the playoff is going
to grow, so it's going to matter less. So if
you're NBC or whatever and you pay billions of dollars
for the rights to put on these regular season games,
and they only lose their meaning every time ESPN expands
their college football playoffs. So it is kind of an
interesting time. But I don't think I think you're going

(23:46):
to see a lot of parody, like Oklahoma going out
today and lay in an egg.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
Oklahoma got dominated the Red River rivalry. Is I'm getting
dominated by the on button here on the mic. That
was one where you kind of called it. I heard
your prediction he was going to be rusty, the thumb
was going to be an issue. It was, But to me,
it was still about the offensive line. They just got
destroyed by Texas in that game.

Speaker 7 (24:08):
Yeah, they got beat I mean I was on a plane.
You know, when you.

Speaker 8 (24:11):
Call a football game, you call that football game and
then you kind of try to catch up with the
rest of the day. But but yeah, I just I
saw that Mateir was not sharp and Texas is off.
I mean, Texas is a really talented team, is a
reason they started out the season ranked number one or
number two. But I think you're going to see them

(24:33):
fall again. I think arch Manning has kind of shown
who he is and which is a decent, big.

Speaker 7 (24:39):
Twelve quarterback who's still.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
Learning, even though he went through what is it, two
fall camps and a spring ball or two springs in
a fall already maybe three at Texas. So I thought
he would be a little sharper with all the hype
in the off season.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
But should we have known? Did we all just get canned?

Speaker 8 (24:58):
Do we all just I mean, because it's not like
he's just going out there, and like he really does
look like Uncle Rico, like he's doing okay. He makes
good plays, he's big, strong, and he can run, and
I mean he's a smart kid obviously, and his teammates
love him.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
I mean, I don't think that it's like.

Speaker 8 (25:15):
He's a total fraud, like he's a hologram or something,
but he's certainly not that you know, Tim Tebow or
or some of these other people who dominated college football
in a way that we hadn't seen before, and then
those were the comparisons that were made in the off season.
So I mean, and then you know they've always handled

(25:36):
it pretty pretty.

Speaker 7 (25:37):
Well and in a humble fashion.

Speaker 8 (25:38):
But I mean, you're the victim of your own hype,
and he didn't really have that much to do with
it other than just being himself.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
But where do you come out on that pee because
I think I'm kind of following in your footsteps that
I have a hard time hating on the kids, especially
once like Archie didn't do anything to deserve this much hate.
He just has him played well.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
He did bow up on that one dude from Sam Houghton.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
Oh sure buy Oklahoma today.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
Yeah, well that's and that's great. But if you're yeah,
and that's good, you beat Oklahoma. So but you know
before that, when you bow up on Sam Houston, it's like, Okay, he's.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
Not Baker Mayfield though out there it's not that extremely.

Speaker 8 (26:15):
Well, Baker Mayfield was also out there dominating football right
and crazy ass ways. I mean, I don't have a
problem with arch Man and I don't hate on the kids,
but you know, they do deserve a little bit more
hate than than than we used to get, simply for
the reason that they get.

Speaker 7 (26:29):
Paid now a lot.

Speaker 8 (26:30):
Like I found out somebody's long snapper was making one
hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
My head almost rolled.

Speaker 8 (26:35):
Off, like it's hard. You know, it's hard to live
life and know that when you played college football. But
so when they may get they do get paid, you know,
they they are, they are a little bit more and
no expenses by the way, Adam, you know, you get
your money and then they pay for your food and
your housing too, and all your clothes.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
It's it's more professional than it ever has been, even
though it was back then too.

Speaker 8 (27:00):
So you could get clowned a little bit when you
bow up on the dude from Sam Houston.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
Yeah, I'm good with that. Speaking again, clown, you mentioned it.
But Penn State, is James Franklin going to survive? We're
hearing the same thing that we heard with Deshaun Foster, like, oh,
the buyouts too big, they're not going to do it.

Speaker 8 (27:16):
Well, you know, in today's day and age, it is
kind of when you have these I mean, and it's
not fair to compare to Sean Foster to James frank.

Speaker 1 (27:23):
I'm just saying what the biots said that you can't
buy him out.

Speaker 8 (27:27):
It was an abject failure and didn't seem like he
ever wanted the job, and probably didn't in the first place.
James Franklin as very notorious for losing big games, and
it feels like losing that Oregon game really sung his battleship.
I mean, they just don't seem like the same team.
And now Drew Aller has suffered the season ending injury,

(27:48):
and it just seems to be going from.

Speaker 7 (27:50):
Bad to worse. But in today's day and age, and
this is the.

Speaker 8 (27:54):
Other reason about Deshaun Foster, It's like Deshaun Foster had
a buyout that I'm quite sure, quite certain that it's
nowhere near in the ballpark of James Franklin's for that,
And that's kind of the problem. I mean, we're entering
the world of revenue sharing. We're entering the world of
these athletic departments having to shell out all kinds of
money for all kinds of different reasons. And I mean

(28:17):
we had a conversation earlier about Lincoln Riley, but I
mean Lincoln Riley would have been fired last year if
his buyout wasn't so big, right, So we're in a
different day and age in college football and it's not
as easy to buy these guys out unleft. Of course,
you have you know, Phil Knight or somebody like that
who's willing to step up and do it, which is

(28:38):
basically what Rick Caruso did at USC to hire Lincoln
Riley in.

Speaker 7 (28:42):
The first place.

Speaker 8 (28:43):
So I don't know Penn State's infrastructure of money, but
somebody would have.

Speaker 7 (28:48):
To come up with the buyout because it's not as
easy as it used to be.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Did you have fun rooting for Jerry Neuheisel like his
dad did? Is this a big deal to have that?
Parallel with him winning against Texas and being carried off
the field and then him being EOC and all of
a sudden they've turned things around.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
Yes, they have turned things around.

Speaker 8 (29:05):
And it's really impressive because it felt like almost like
a hot air balloon, and that the coaching staff literally
the head coach, the coordinator, and the offensive coordinator were
some kind of ballast and they got cut and then
the balloon took off. That being said, I mean they
literally fired all their coaches. That being said, I mean,

(29:26):
we see how quickly things can change, you know, Ask
John Matteer, Ask the kid from Calabasas, who's a walk
on that ran for one hundred and fifty yards today
for USC King Miller. So as fun as it is,
this is a great moment in the season for UCLA.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
I think it's great for Jerry. I think Rick's a
great guy.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
That being said, I don't think Tim Skipper's getting enough
credit for actually being the head coach of this football team.
There is that, and I saw him do it last
year at Fresno. He has when Jeff Tedford got sick,
so he has experiences and intern and I think his
attitude and his ability, and he's the guy that told
Tino Sinceri basically to kick rocks and gave Jerry this opportunity.

Speaker 7 (30:10):
So I do think Tim, you know, Rick's on TV.
I know that.

Speaker 8 (30:15):
You know, Jerry looks like Gidget. It's great and I've
known him for a long time. But he's a great
kid or a guy or man now, you know. But
I do think we're losing the Tim Skipper narrative. And
that's and who knows how if they'll continue. But they
went from people thinking they weren't going to win another
game to how people are starting to talk about, you know,

(30:37):
this is not a walkover. They can get to be
Bowl eligible and they look pretty good and that that
is that's pretty different from losing to New Mexico at home.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Unlike Lincoln Riley, I feel like Hugh Freeze actually has
a reason to complain about the officials and the refs
after what happened against Oklahoma. And I don't know if
you saw the game against Jorge.

Speaker 7 (30:57):
Guy that was Olaholm, the hidden guy.

Speaker 1 (31:01):
The hidden guy was Oklahoma today at the goal line.
It sure looked like Auburn should have been up seventeen
to nothing before the end of the first half. And
they said he across the line like it most.

Speaker 7 (31:11):
I mean, what do you want from me?

Speaker 1 (31:12):
I don't know, man, what were you working today? Yeah?
Should you take a six sears?

Speaker 8 (31:17):
The guy next to me on the plane, he was
really nice guy. He's like an editor and I didn't
make a mistake. But you know, I engaged him early
and then it never like he kept asking me questions
and like echo would close my eyes. I put my
hood on, like I tried everything, but I was trying
to watch the games and then like fall asleep and

(31:38):
it's just never.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Anyway, he never got the signal.

Speaker 8 (31:41):
Real time, Like talking to him. I gave my phone number.
I said, you know, call me.

Speaker 1 (31:45):
You know, well you give everyone the secret Texils.

Speaker 8 (31:47):
I haven't even even know that I had a radio
show or anything like that, you know, but but some
guy anyway, whatever, So it was a long it was.

Speaker 7 (31:55):
It's been a long triple Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Well, I appreciate you jumping on with me late night.
Here is I got four hours here on Fox Sports Radio.
K Fig is out. I'm going solo like Han here
on Fox Sports Radio. We're forty minutes in. We've had
Petro's papadakas on. I reviewed some of the games from today.

Speaker 7 (32:11):
To go from here.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
I know, you know what, La Murray next hour will
help me carry this thing. And Breebree might get involved
with a segment here too. She's producing here at Fox.
So troubles are over, dude. Yeah, Pete, thanks for doing
this to night. I appreciate it.

Speaker 7 (32:24):
Pleasure. I have a good one and good night to all.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Coming up next, we will get to Saquon Barkley and
that little hangover after running for two thousand yards last season?
Is there evidence? Is there a history of this being
a curse on running backs? I'm out a Oslin and
you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back in I'm
out of Moslin. It is Fox Football Sunday. Good to

(32:50):
be with you. Guys. Just had Petros Papadakas on. No
big deal, great kid, don't get cocky. Maybe a little
bit still to come. We got your matchup power rankings
in the NFL. But I gotta start with this. If
Petros didn't come on, I was gonna do this anyways.
I mean we got to fill here.

Speaker 10 (33:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
People for a while thought the Madden curse was real.
You know, you get on the cover, you either have
a season ending injury or a down season. Hey Marshall Folk,
sorry you made the cover and three, but uh, here
comes microfracture surgery on your knee. I don't know why

(33:31):
there was a remix there, but you'll never move the
same again. Michael Vick broke his leg notably in the
preseason after being on the Madden cover in four, and
then he got the best skid for dog fighting and
went to jail and everything. Yeah, I'd say that was
a Madden curse. I think a couple guys escaped and
actually had career years, like one of my favorites, Megatron,

(33:56):
Calvin Johnson. But the real curse happens in the NFL
to guy who run for two thousand yards, because afterwards
they tend to transform to lesser versions of themselves. And
it may be happening again to Saquon Barkley this time
and the three and two Eagles. Now, Sakuon Barkley is
averaging just fifty four yards per game. If you play

(34:18):
fantasy and you have him, I didn't need to tell
you that he's getting just three point four yards per carry.
That's down from almost six from last year. He's on pace,
not just to miss going for two thousand yards again,
He's not even on pace for one thousand. At this rate,
he'll end up with nine hundred and eighteen rushing yards
if my math is correct, and I think it is

(34:41):
here this time. Now, he still looked explosive with his cuts.
And there's a lot of moving parts on an NFL
team and factors and variables outside of your control, like
an offensive line that's not blocking well enough, and receivers
maybe talking too much about not getting the ball enough.
But I'm not surprised that bar is struggling to this

(35:01):
degree when you look at the history of guys who
have run for two thousand yards and what they've done
that very next season, we got to start with the
original two thousand yard rusher. I guess that would be O. J. Simpson.
Now when I think of him, I think of a
few other things before I get to thinking about him
being one of the greatest football players ever. I actually

(35:23):
think of the greatest joke ever told about him by
Norm MacDonald, who was relentless with his attacks on Weekend
Update before it was like Colin Quinn? Who is that
who I was thinking of? Colin Quinn? Was he the
guy that came in Dennis Miller after him? They could
not fill his shoes, but he took some very pointed
shots at OJ rightfully so got away with murder, not

(35:47):
in the civil trial. Eventually he went to jail for
something else, but still Norm MacDonald it was like his
crusade to go after him, continuously calling him a murderer
because you know he is he was And here was
probably my favorite joke. And is this the reason I'm
doing the segment. I wouldn't go that far, but I
do love this joke by Norm McDonald's and his book.

Speaker 11 (36:10):
OJ Simpson says that he would have taken a bullet
or stood in front of a train for Nicole Man.
I'm gonna tell you that has some bad luck when
the one guy who would have died for you kills you.
That's part, if you know, Dann Worse's luck than that.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
Norm McDonald Gone too soon, OJ, not gone soon enough?
I love that joke. That is an old timer to me,
but I actually have a tie to Oj Simpson. Don't
get scared. They're not gonna hear the psycho music or
anything like that. My family helped him get to USC.
I had this second cousin named Big V. He worked

(36:49):
at the community college up in San Francisco where OJ
was originally running the rock for before he transferred and
used the portal. They probably didn't have that technology back then.
Whatever they had, he transferred in from SF to USC
and I got a second cousin that helped facilitate that.
And my mom one time was babysitting for Big V. Well,

(37:15):
guess who called on the phone. It was OJ Simpson.
He was trying to talk to Big V. And you
know how I know it was OJ Simpson because he
said to my mom, do you know who this is?
This is OJ Simpson, so not only a murderer, a
d bag who was very much into his fame, but

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he did rush for two thousand yards. He was the
first to do so back in nineteen seventy three, two
thousand and three yards to be exact. Well, that very
next season just eleven hundred yards in fourteen games, so
took a dip afterwards. Who was next up? Eric Dickerson,

(38:00):
a great man, Ed, one of my favorites. Worked with
him on Rogan and Rodney recently on a football Monday. Well,
he went for two thousand, one hundred and five yards.
That's the all time record back in nineteen eighty four
with the goggles and the Jerry curl. Very next season,
Ed just played fourteen games, got banged up just twelve

(38:21):
hundred yards. Adrian Peterson, same thing happened to him twenty twelve,
goes for two k. Twenty thirteen season, Uh just played
fourteen games, just twelve hundred. Jamal Lewis two thousand yards
back in two thousand and three. The next year only
played twelve games, only had barely one thousand yards. The

(38:41):
great Barry Sanders did it back in nineteen ninety seven.
He went for two thousand and fifty three yards. The
very next season, still respectable, almost fifteen hundred yards, and
that was his final year in nineteen ninety eight for
the Detroit Lions. He retired at thirty. Yes, he r
for fifteen hundred yards at the age of thirty and said,

(39:03):
I've had enough. Detroit was in, you know, real bad
franchise hell at the time. Derek Henry went for two
thousand yards back in twenty twenty very next season, only
played eight games. That might have been a Madden cover
curse along with the two K curse going on the
double whammy. He went for under one thousand yards in
those eight games. Terrell Davis in nineteen ninety eight two

(39:25):
thousand yards nineteen ninety nine micro fracture surgery was never
the same, only played in four games. And of course
Chris Johnson at two thousand yards in two thousand and
nine by far his best season, just thirteen hundred yards
even in sixteen games in twenty ten. So Saquan maybe
going through what a lot of these guys went through,

(39:46):
the two K curse. I'm adame Oslin here listening to
Fox Football Sunday, NFL coming up next.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
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Speaker 1 (39:57):
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Speaker 7 (40:09):
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Speaker 1 (40:10):
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App Andrew and Bakersfield. I think you want to respond

(40:55):
to that last segment talking about the two K curse
with Sakuon Barkley Andrew, what's up?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
What's up? What was the name of the running back
for the Cowboys? Murray? He didn't he get two thousand yards?
I'm wondering how he did after that, But that's your no.

Speaker 1 (41:10):
I went through all the guys that win for two
thousand yards in their career. Everybody. There was not a
Cowboy on the list, not Emmett, not herschel Walker. The
Boys were left off the list in this case, although
they have had some great, great running backs and quarterbacks
anything else.

Speaker 12 (41:28):
Andrew, Yes.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
So my thought is when Squon didn't go for the
record last season, obviously because he didn't want to upset
Eric Dickerson, which is a bad decision in my opinion.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
Well, wait a second, Ed has a case. He had
to do it in one less game. You know th
Saquon got an extra game. That doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
Well, that doesn't mean you don't get the record.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
You think he should have gone for it. Anyways, it
was really the Eagles holding him back. If memory serves me,
well here and it.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Does, Yeah, well he I think he should have gone
for it. And when you take your foot off the
gas at a point like that, I think it's hanging
over their heads now, but real quick, Kim Skipper, I
used to live in Fresno, and so when they decided
to fire Kim Skipper, I said, come on, guys, you

(42:23):
know his last name is literally the captain of a boat.
And I'm like, I'm like, Fresno missed it on this one.
And I did not know that he was with UCLA.
I figured that out listening to your show.

Speaker 1 (42:38):
So thank you, Andrew. I appreciate the phone call. That
was all Petros Papadakas. I can't take credit for that,
but yes, interim coach currently for the UCLA Bruins. He's undefeated.
He's two and l Now, the NFL is undefeated when
it comes to being King, not even King James, who
we might get into a little bit later, can step
to the NFL, and we have the six packs on

(43:00):
Friday nights. So I want to try something a little
bit different. Here's kfig is out. You know, there was
a time before the NFL Sunday ticket where you couldn't
just pick any game to watch, or it could cheapen
the experience if you were only watching touchdowns on red zone.
I guess some people say that now I kind of
think that's true. It's almost too easy. Y'all are living

(43:21):
in the most privileged era of NFL viewing. You're the
one percent. I remember being subjected to every forty nine
Ers game regionally, growing up in NorCal and watching them
pound another NFC West opponent into oblivion instead of getting
to watch whatever national game was on Fox. That was
probably a much better matchup. It was the forty nine Ers,
just curb stomping the Saints, the Rams, the Cardinals. So

(43:48):
I say we time travel back to a much simpler time.
Here travel, let's rank the games from worse to first,
from least likely to watch to most likely to watch. Like,
what are the must watches for you? You can base
it on whatever criteria you want. I base it off

(44:09):
the teams you love or you hate, the time of
day when the game is being played, who you think sucks,
who you think's great, Who's good but you can't enjoy
watching them, Who's bad but you think they're a fun
team to watch. Let's power rank the matchups for Week
six of the NFL season. Mark hit me. Now, we
got two teams with buys, Minnesota and Houston, and one

(44:32):
game was already played. Saquon Still wasn't able to do
much on the ground for the Philadelphia Eagles against the
Giants on Thursday night. Fourteen games left in the National
Football League, Brie is gonna play along with me, producer
Brie Brie. So we're going from number fourteen, the game
we least care about or have the least amount of

(44:52):
interest in, all the way down to one. Number fourteen
of my power rankings. Is there because after tonight's late
night show, I'm I'm not waking up in three hours
to watch Denver take on the Jets in London. This
is gonna be like when I'm asked about going to
church on Sunday and I'll be like, yeah, I'll meet
you there. I'll be at the bedside service. I'm going

(45:13):
to be at the bedside viewing party for that game.
I'll be fast asleep. I'll be dreaming of a better game.
The Jets are a nightmare and they're staring down one
or two win season, so whether they're in the States
or in London, their stench will travel. Brie. What's the
fourteenth or the worst game on the slate of games

(45:33):
left here for you?

Speaker 13 (45:34):
So this truly has nothing to do with your Panthers.
But I think Panthers is like the worst matchup. I mean,
Dallas has the.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Worst What do you mean that's a good rivalry. They
played each other twice in the playoffs and the Panthers
w have beat them both times.

Speaker 13 (45:47):
Here, Dallas is the worst defense in the league truly,
and like the Panthers don't have a running game right now.
And Bryce Sang will probably be like knocked out in
the second quarter. I'm sure like any Dalton will come
in or something.

Speaker 1 (45:57):
This was intentional. You were just trying to upset me.

Speaker 14 (46:00):
It really wasn't it. Just I have no interest whatsoever.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
Alright, fine, number thirteen in my matchup power rankings, that
would go to, sorry, Kevin, the Titans at the Raiders.
If cam Ward thinks the Titans are ass wait till
he meets the Raiders. That's like Nicki Minaj with those
butt injections to expand her backside, like the size of
that booty. That's what this game is going to be.

(46:25):
Two one in four teams. It's bad. That's number thirteen
for me.

Speaker 13 (46:29):
Brew you actually that's the same one for me. Okay, Yeah,
trash offense is like no one cares. I want the
Raiders to lose. Sorry, Kevin'm so sorry. I feel so bad,
But I just want, like more Pete Carroll versus like
Chip Kelly drama, and I want, like you want infighting,
I do, and I like because there was that report
that came out that Ashon Gente all the offense kind
of surrounding him like Pete Carroll didn't like totally agree with.

(46:50):
So I kind of want drama. I want Tom Brady
to be in the middle. So that's what I'm I'm
going for.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
My twelfth worst or best matchup the Green Bay Packers
hosting the Bengals who may have a new quarterback and
they do and Joe Flacco. Oh, we called it, but
Bree can't bring up that audio for whatever reason and
play it to prove the fact that we said, like
a week ago, Joe Flacco might get traded to the Bengals.
But this should be another double digit loss for Cincinnati

(47:17):
and my Super Bowl pick with the Packers. They had
a bye last week. They need to trap these Tigers
like they did in the Swiss Family. Robinson, Bree, who's
your number twelve?

Speaker 13 (47:26):
So this one was where I put Broncos at Jets.
Broncos are kind of like the second coming of the Saints.
To me, I got Adam Chautman there, Bo Nix looks
like a young Drew Brees. Will Let's is the kicker,
and the Jets just look like a high school team
with a bunch of players led by like a varsity
quarterback and justin fields there just it just looks really depressing.

Speaker 14 (47:43):
So that's why I put those.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
Two of our games are in similar positions at least
so far. The number eleventh game in my matchup power
rankings for me Arizona at Indianapolis. They don't even have
Kyler Murray. No one was higher on Daniel Jones than
me coming into the season. Even Danny Dimes had his doubts,
I'm sure. But Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the

(48:04):
Lost Season happened last week just like I said it would.
They destroyed the Raiders at home the Colts, and now
they got the Cardinals coming in, and yeah, I think
the same is about to happen, even though the Cardinals
defense is decent. Bri, You're number eleven.

Speaker 14 (48:18):
I have that exact same game.

Speaker 13 (48:20):
That's so funny there, I feel like there's issues in
the locker room. Jonathan Gannon was like, Oh, the vibe
is jope as hell, and I think that is just
way too descriptive and.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
As hell that's what he said. That's cringe as hell.
So I just think you do fellow players.

Speaker 13 (48:33):
Oh god, yeah, So I just think that there's issues there.
It's just gonna be really bad. Colts are probably gonna
just like steamroll them.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
Number ten in my watchability Power rankings Cleveland at Pittsburgh.
I actually think we might be underrating how good the
Steelers might be and underrating how bad the Browns might be.
Pittsburgh really hasn't even got the running game going yet,
their defense going. Yet they're still three and one. Dylan Gabriel,
by the way, he did form well in London for

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the Browns against the Vikings. He was not bad. But
I think he's gonna get sacked four or five times
and by halftime they're calling for shaduor Sanders to come in.
This is not a great game for him or the viewers. Bree,
what's your number ten?

Speaker 14 (49:13):
I have Rams at Ravens.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
I don't know that's fair.

Speaker 13 (49:16):
Yeah, I should be lower, but I feel like there's
the possibility of an upset, and I'm just always happy
when the Rams lose, and I just you.

Speaker 14 (49:22):
Never know, might be a good little Cooper rush game.
Who knows.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Apparently marked us number nine. They're gonna like this on
my list of most watchable games. The Saints host the Patriots,
who just got a big victory on Sunday Night Football
against the Bills. Drake May who some are calling Drake
maybe are now calling him Drake Definitely. I would call
him Drake definitely.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
Maybe.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
I still need to see more to believe in him
if he's going to be the successor to Tom Brady
with New England. But I don't need to see more
Saints games, So this is number nine for me. Patriots
in New Orleansbury.

Speaker 13 (50:00):
I have Bengals at Packers, Joe Flacco passing like a
happy Jamar Chase and T Higgins and Green Bay coming
off a bi week. I think it could be a
little competitive, really, a little interesting.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
Really, Yes, my Super Bowl Packers.

Speaker 7 (50:13):
Now.

Speaker 1 (50:13):
I rank this next game number eight on my list.
This is the Commanders hosting the Bears on Monday Night Football.
The Bears May have won two in a row against
the Cowboys and Raiders. Meanwhile, The Commanders just went to
La and got down ten points and then scored twenty
seven unanswered against the Chargers. I think this is a
mismatch and the lesser of the two Monday night football

(50:36):
games because the Commanders are just gonna beat up on
the Bears. That's number eight for me.

Speaker 14 (50:41):
I have Patriots at the Saints here.

Speaker 1 (50:43):
Oh yeah, I'm so objective. I thought you were gonna
have the Saints. Is your number one pick?

Speaker 13 (50:47):
Oh, I'm not that crazy. It's a Homer pick totally.
But I think the Saints defense will put a little
bit pressure on Drake May, so I'm excited for that.
I don't know if the Saints are going to win it,
but I think it they'll make the Patriots a little uncomfortable.

Speaker 1 (51:00):
So we're all the way to seven on our matchup
power rankings for this weekend. In Week six of the
NFL season, we'll finish these off coming up later in
the hour. But up next we're gonna switch things up.
You guys know, my first and really only love is
the NBA, and my second is La Murray from the
Athletic He'll be here to talk about the Clippers investigation,

(51:22):
maybe a little Lakers Luca Lebron, who's heard and Giannissena
Koompo and if he's going to be traded before the
start of the season, which is only like ten days away.
La Murray from the Athletic coming up next. I'm out
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(52:32):
I got a lot to say about Adam Silver and
this decision that has been laid at his feet with
the investigation going on with the Clippers. But before we
get to any of that, I got to hear this
man speak on it. Let's get to him.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
Sound drinking dude.

Speaker 1 (52:47):
Thank you, Donny Well. Our next guest is a friend
that I have a pleasure of working next to throughout
the Clipper season. But while I'm being a company man
and defending first and asking questions later, this is the
guy doing the real journalism, all right, Pablo Torre. Yes,
our beat writers are actual journalists, and I'm proud to
be joined by one of them who also covers the
NBA nationally. It's La Murray of the Athletic. He is

(53:12):
the Law. Follow him at La Murray the NU on
X Law. If you've noticed, I haven't bugged you much
lately to come on Clippers Talk, but now the seasons underway,
I'm calling in the favors like tonight here on Fox
Sports Radio. Law, thanks for doing.

Speaker 7 (53:26):
This, Hey, thanks for having me Law.

Speaker 1 (53:28):
I think we got to start with it, but I
will get to a story later as well as people
keep asking me about it. The Clippers, Are they guilty? Adam?
What's going on with the investigation? Adam Like, how long
do you think that the NBA is going to take
with this, and what's the most likely outcome in your
mind given the information we have so far with this
aspiration cap circumvention investigation going on.

Speaker 12 (53:51):
Yeah, it's it's complicated. And when this first came about
and we knew what was happening, I was like, Okay,
I think that the NBA would want to have a
resolution before the regular season began. But as more layers
of the onion get unpeeled here and in September, it

(54:12):
felt like something new on a weekly basis, and then
the NBA launches their investigation and it's four names of
a law firm that I'm not looking at right now,
Like you understand that, Okay, weeks having to be decided
in a matter of weeks would be optimistic because it's

(54:34):
not clear to cut. This isn't Donald Sterling on tape
and getting the tape from DEAMZ or whatever it was
back in the spring of twenty fourteen, you know, And
so you take as long as you need to take
to have a thorough investigation one that everyone is already

(54:56):
going to be cynical about as far as how thorough
they want it to be. I mean, that's just the reality.
The league hasn't always been transparent about how they conduct
their investigations or even what they share at the conclusion
of those investigations. And because this is something that is

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going to affect not just an owner but one of
the more influential owners in the NBA, I have my
cynicisms about what the actual publishment will be and what
the penalties will be. So I think this will take months.
I don't think this will be a whole season thing.

(55:40):
I think there will be questions as to why it
would last that long, and those questions might peak in
February when into a doveom is hosting All Star Weekend.
I don't think the NBA should be trying to do that.
I think that they should be trying to get this
done in a reasonable timeframe. But I just throw to
see what the penalties would be that would both hurt

(56:04):
the Clippers as well as not have the Clippers ownership
kind of go back to the other owners and say,
all right, you all open up Pandora's box. So that's
a long way to saying I just feel like the
penalties are going to be unsatisfactory for everybody involved.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
Can you speak to that dynamic a little bit more,
because it's interesting when you have the commissioner who works
for the owners but also is levying punishment possibly against
an owner here. Does a lot of this come down
to just how the other owners feel about Steve Balmer?

Speaker 12 (56:38):
Well, there's another party that is I feel like more
significant here, and that is a system arbitrator. So the
NBA is conducting this investigation and they will presumably talk
to whoever they need to talk to in order to
come to the conclusion that they will get to. But

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once they do that, it's not Adam Silver time just yet.
It still goes to a third party system arbitrator, and
from there, whoever that person winds up being, they will
suggest whatever it's supposed to happen, and then it's up
to Adam Silver to administer what he's going to do

(57:23):
from there. So I believe I have that writer and
if that's the case, that just adds to the complication here,
and it also kind of outlines the biggest deal for me,
and that is this is not going to be something
that is adjudicated by public opinion, Like that's really what

(57:45):
we've been seeing over the last month or so. We're
seeing a lot of this is what should happen, and
this is what I believe is happening based off of
what I'm seeing, and and there's a lot of that,
and that's just besides exhausting, it gets to a point
where the relevance of that pales in comparison of what

(58:09):
actually will happen. So, I mean, Adam Silver, yes, like
he has to consider what the other owners are going
to say. I mean, the owners have a history of
having a lot to say publicly and going to their
sources and expressing one emotion while also having a little

(58:33):
bit in the reservoir to say, don't go too far
in because we don't want y'all to go and look
at what's happening with us, et cetera. So it is
going to be very complicated, and I just feel like
the most important part of this story is yet to come.
Like there's going to be significant fallout either way from

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this investigation, but which direction that fallout live is something
that I don't think anyone can can really say that
they have a good idea, How will.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Land just you We'll get in some more of this
coming up in the next hour. I'm out of Maslin.
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, and our guest here
is Law Murray of the Athletic Law Before we go
more national elsewhere in La Lebron has a sciatica injury
and could be out till when December. Does anybody have
any idea? It sounds like Luka Doncic is already getting

(59:30):
set to play without him knowing that, Hey, this could
put him at the top of the MVP rankings as well,
because he has a real shot to lead this team
and they're going to have to get by without Lebron
for some time. But is that time nebulous right now?

Speaker 12 (59:42):
I think that it's very tricky to kind of put
a date on when Lebron would come back. I mean, ideally,
ideally a three week reevaluation. Let's just say, in the
best case scenario, the evaluation goes great, feeling absolutely like
healed in the matter of three weeks, and then he

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plays before in the last game of the month of October.
That is obviously incredibly optimistic. I think it would be
optimistic if Lebron was ten years younger, Billy. I think
the date that I have circled to see exactly where
we are with this is I think the Lakers have

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a five game road trip in November. I think the
second week of November that takes them to the other
side of the country, and they have a couple of
days before they start that to start playing the games
of that trip. I think that's after the Lakers would
miss the first nine games of the season with that
started Lebron not being there, and if the if there's

(01:00:47):
real improvement in his condition, then perhaps he debuts on
that road trip or can join them. But sciatica is
a very very challenging and stricky and unpredictable and possibly
recurring issue. You know, the fact that he's dealing with

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this now when he hasn't been playing high stakes basketball
since April, I mean, it's it's we're in October, you know,
he's at May, June, July, August, September, five complete months
where the Lakers haven't played. Lebron ended last year the
Timberwol Series Game five with a springed NCL, so he

(01:01:29):
had to get over that injury, and then this injury
develops over the offseason. I think the bigger issue with
Lebron isn't necessarily when he goes back, but how much
basketball and at the level will he be able to
play with Father Time undefeated, Like that's that's the reality here.

(01:01:50):
Lebron coming back will be a huge moment, But the
Lakers are a team trying to do something with this
season and with this roster, and Lebron's coming back is
just going to start the next clock towards when is
the next thing want to pop up that keeps him
out again?

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
Well, I'm going to discuss this a little bit later on,
but the situation in Milwaukee, let me just ask you this.
If I put the over under on seasons left for
Yannis in Milwaukee and I put it at a season
and a half, are you going under? Is it a
matter of time that he's no longer a Buck at
this point?

Speaker 12 (01:02:24):
Yeah, I'm definitely going under. Like this is not the
roster that Giannis is ideally suited to, you know, contend
with like he's had better rosters and a lot of it.
You know, it's just a matter of bad luck. Like
the Bucks haven't exactly had a postseason where they've been

(01:02:47):
punching at full strength. You know, they won their championship
in twenty twenty one, and even then they were very
close to Yanis not being able to play in the
NBA finals. If that right, if that religion in the
Eastern Conference finals was an enter too deeper, you know,
So what Giannis was able to do was perroic, miraculous

(01:03:07):
and legendary. And every postseason since the Malkee Bucks have
been eliminated with one of their top three players not
being able to either complete the playoffs or not be
in the playoffs at all. Right, it started with Chris
Middleton in twenty twenty two, and then in twenty twenty three,
Jannis he gets hurt, and then in twenty twenty four,

(01:03:29):
Janis this is the entire postseason while Davian Lillard misses a
couple of games, and then we all saw what happened
last year with Dane coming back from the DVT justice
Terior's achilles. It's been a mess. And this Bucks team
does not have a Damian Lillard. They don't have a
Drew Holliday, they don't have a Chris Middleton, they don't
even have a Brook Loss. You know, this is the

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Bucks team where Giannis might be in position to do
some crazy stuff individually, but he's also going to work
really hard because his point guard is Kevin Porter Junior,
and probably the next most accomplished starter that he's sharing
the lineup with is Miles Turner or Kyle Kusman, depending

(01:04:12):
on how much you care about the Lakers championship. That
Kuzma one like it. It's pretty much a mix to
makes you say I've done this. I'm on the other
side of thirty. I've done all I could for this franchise,
and it's time for me to take control of our
situation now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
The reports were law that apparently back in August he
was zeroing in and I guess checking off the box
of the Knicks would be a team he would go to,
he'd be willing to go to. Is it trade with
the Knicks even likely or plausible, remotely realistic considering they
don't have the picks right now?

Speaker 12 (01:04:49):
I mean, it's more than just the picks, Like Michel
Bridges is first of all one of the biggest reasons
that they don't have picks, and then they just extended
mikel Bridges. I think this is a huge and I'm
surety sure you didn't ask me this to have on
Michel Bridges conversation. But Michel Bridges is a very crismical
figure in the NBA this season, Like, for one, I

(01:05:12):
think he was probably the biggest reason why the New
York Knicks changed coaches. Like MIKEL Bridges is an iron
man and Tom Tibudeau is the type that well iron.
They say iron sharpens iron, but it was going to
get dull if Bridges and kids were together. And so

(01:05:33):
I feel like mckel Bridges needs to be in a
situation where he is worth the deal that he just
agreed to and work the deal that the Knicks made
to acquire him in the first place. And I think
Mike Brown a guy who you know he's going to
need to find a way to do something different with
that offense, especially if Josh Hart doesn't start. I think

(01:05:54):
Michel Bridges is in line to touch the ball a
lot more simple as that, like someone else has to
do things with the basketball besides Jalen Brunson. And so
I feel like because Michael Bridges has been valued by
the Knicks as highly as he has, that definitely is
a big factor and restricting what the Knicks could send

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to the Bucks the Bucks don't have a lot of leverage,
but I mean that's enough to say the Bucks are
just going to give him away.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
So is there another team that hasn't been talked about
that you'd look at.

Speaker 12 (01:06:27):
I'm terrible when it comes to trades. I am notoriously
conservative when it comes to just and I wish I
had a better word being conservative, but you know, it's
all I got right now. This is this is one
of those things where Jannis is a really good player,
but you got to really think about the fit for

(01:06:48):
a lot of these teams, like brook Lopez is the
only center that Giannis and been at. Kuombo has ever
won a playoff series with the only one in his
entire Bucks career, and it's because he's a unique player
who can play inside and outside, but especially you know,
his ability to shoot while not sacrificing sides allows Giannis

(01:07:10):
to do everything that he does inside of the repoint line.
That's N's biggest weakness. That's why it's it was critical
the Bums are gonna, you know, have all this money
that they're losing in the Damian Lillard transaction to get
him off the team. Miles Turner is actually a really
good fit for Honest. That's that's that's uh, that's something

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where it places. Well, you don't have to change that dynamic.
There's not a lot of NBA teams that can say that,
And so I think the thing that you'd have to
do if you're gonna start trying to figure out who
could use it gi Honest, I think you got to
start thinking, well, what's a team that has a legitimate
stretch five who could play next to Giannish And as

(01:07:56):
the Honest gets older, he probably don't have to play
more center anyway. Uh, just on principle. So I don't
have a team right now. The league changes way too
much for that. Again, look at the Bucks offseason. The
Bucks probably had one of the most outrageous offseasons that
anybody could predict when the railar season ended. But if
you look at the next team, I don't know if

(01:08:17):
Gianna sees it that way, but I think it has
to make basketball sense. I can't say this enough. Yanis
is only one with one head coach and he's only
won next to one center in the NBA. So if
this had to work for the purpose of trying to
win a championship, the pieces around him Yadis is not

(01:08:37):
as plugged in play as some of these other first
team guys in the NBA.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
Lot Murray's our guest here on Fox Sports Radio LODGST
a couple more for you. Did anything surprise you in
the latest GM survey that had the Thunder repeating his
champions Nikole Joki's winning MVP. Was there anything that stood
out to you in the annual GM survey?

Speaker 12 (01:08:59):
I would say that because it's the same thirty guys
making this elections here, I'm just always amused when they
just put one guy in multiple positions, you know, I mean,
it outlines how people see the game. But it was
kind of hilarious to see Luka Donkevich at point guard,
shooting guard and small for I mean, help throw him

(01:09:20):
out there at power forward too. I mean, he might
not be as big as one now, but you might
as well. You know, that's who he's going to be guarding,
ideally essentially with Lebron Nowt. But no, I think the
GMS seemed to really like the Atlanta Hawks, and that
is something as far as they're all season live, and

(01:09:42):
that's something that I'm going to come back to in
April because when awards are voted on the media doesn't
do Executive of the Year. That is a peer voted award.
The other NBA executives picked that award. So that's something
that I kind of always circle and the GMS they

(01:10:05):
really like what the Hawks did. And the Hawks have
an interesting really everything's interesting, not just on the court
with how these guys will fit. They have perss Zing
if they have Luke and Nark, they have Nikuileg Sanda Walker.
Now they obviously made a draft trade that people are
very upset about the what happens with the Pelicans. They're like,

(01:10:27):
what are you doing, you know, valuing Derrick Queen to
the point where you might find a lottery pick. But
the other side of that is Atlanta trading down and
possibly benefiting from that transaction. But I think the biggest, single,
biggest thing that I'm exsuing with the Atlanta Hawks would
happen in trade Young And that is something we're front
office has to make decision too. It's like, if you
don't extend him, then are you signaling that he might

(01:10:51):
be available? And when might he be available? Would you
do something in mid season? Would you try and get
some value form after the and would you trying to
get to a new contract with them. I think Atlanta
is going to be very interesting, and it's also interesting
that the other GM's are they're praising Atlanta before this

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season begins.

Speaker 1 (01:11:14):
Last one for you here in Law, I need your
top three teams in each conference. I need to know,
as we're just about a week out from the NBA
kicking or tipping off here, who your inner circle of
contenders are. Give me your top three in the East.

Speaker 12 (01:11:28):
This is the question that I will feel a lot
better about next week when I actually like crack open
the sheets. But I will give you, I will humor
you here. Top three in the East. I will go
with New York, Cleveland and the Orlando Magic.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
Ooh, I like that Desmond beIN that big of a
move this summer for them.

Speaker 12 (01:11:51):
Yeah, I mean it better be. They can't be worth
shooting the three ball.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Yeah, And with all the Achilles injuries going on in
the Eastern Conference, it makes sense to put them there.
I think I have them there as well. What about
the Western Commerce Yeah, the Western Conference.

Speaker 12 (01:12:04):
Again, this is something that I will feel better about
next week, which means I'll say this now, but don't
help me to it.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
That's cool.

Speaker 12 (01:12:13):
But I'll just say, for mistake of it, Oklahoma City,
Minnesota and.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Denver, Okay. So not Houston in there, not the Clippers
in there, Not the Lakers in there.

Speaker 12 (01:12:26):
Definitely definitely not Houston. Definitely not the Lakers. The Clippers,
I want to like, I have never covered a Tehran
lu coach top three seed, and I know the Clippers are.
I will tell you this, they absolutely are motivated to
go for it. They have every reason to go for it.

(01:12:47):
I think the guys that were on that team last year,
they understood how hard they had to work just to
stay out the Players Tournament, and as good as they,
you know, as well as they performed to end the
regular season, they didn't have enough gas in the tank
to win a playoff series against a team that honestly
they could have beaten. It was a very even matchup.

(01:13:07):
It was going to be a very difficult series. It
was a coin clip series. That's exactly what it was.
As let's praise as Denver gets for taking okay See
to seven, even though okay See absolutely obliterated them in
multiple games in that series. You could say the same
thing about the Clippers in Denver in that series. It
could have gone either way, right down to how their
regular seasons turned out, because one or two things fall

(01:13:30):
differently in their regular seasons, and the Clippers are hosting
that Game seven instead of Denver, so the webs is
very bunched up. I do not feel good about anything
I just told you just now, But a week from now,
I will feel great about everything I told you just now.
I will hold myself to it. For the rest of
the regular season, we'll be looking.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
For that piece on the Athletic at LA Murray the
nu he does right for the athletic, does it nationally
and also locally in Los Angeles where I am currently at.
He covers the Clippers, and we're lucky to have him. Law,
thanks so much for doing this tonight here on Fox
Sports Radio. My friend.

Speaker 12 (01:14:07):
All right, thank you, have a good show.

Speaker 1 (01:14:11):
You know I never judge Law Murray's basketball takes or opinions,
nor dread them love them. Law Murray of the Athletic,
close personal friend. Coming up next before we get back
to the NFL here regular stop and we'll talk about
the Cowboys a little bit too. In our matchup power rankings.
We'll finish that off top of next hour. But up next,

(01:14:33):
I do want to go Cisco and Ebert with it.
I got a movie review for you. Pt Anderson's latest
kind of a Big Deal, one Battle after another. Does
it rank in his top five movies? I mean he's
at like ten. Now I'll tell you next. I'm out
of Mosland and you're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome
back in. It's Fox Football Sunday. I'm out of Mosland,

(01:14:53):
Adam Ashland. It's Osland, Ben one of these days. No,
we're boys now, mean I'm cool like that, not Tom Petty, cool,
but cool enough. Coming up next we'll get back into
our week six matchup power rankings. But Brie, give me
my music. Come on, all right. I gotta say I

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don't often go to the movies anymore, but when I
do is to see something from one of these five directors.
That means, in no particular order, Tarantino, David Fincher, Denny
Villanov something the French guy did the Dune movies. He's
done a lot of good stuff, Sacario Arrival, Christopher Nolan,

(01:15:36):
of course, and pt Anderson. These are the five best
living directors still on top of their game. Spielberg has
washed Tim Burton, James Cameron, Avatar, The Way of Water
is right, He's washed Ridley Scott, Francis Ford, Martin Scorsese.
I don't even think Wes Anderson is nearly as good
as he was in his first four films. His old
writing partner, Noah Bombback, has passed him by. So I'm

(01:15:59):
a film snot. There's the introduction. I'm the critic from
that cartoon in the nineties that was a spin off
of The Simpsons. I'm an overly critical ahole. Why be
in this business if you aren't critical and if you
don't have strong opinions. I actually used to be much worse,
Like late two thousands, Adam was a menace. I was
told a director to his face, what's wrong with his movie?

(01:16:21):
I just saw a screening of it. I was right too,
the Mark Peas experiment from two thousand and nine. Check
that out on IMDb. It's got like a rating of four.
I told that guy he should have listened to me
and fixed it before it actually went mainstream because it
didn't do well in the theaters. But I'm not gonna
complain too much about pt Anderson's latest called One Battle

(01:16:42):
after another spoiler free review. I did try to avoid
all of the trailers myself and teasers for the movie,
because when it's a movie I know I want to
see based off the director, I prefer not seeing a
movie or a preview for that movie beforehand. I don't
want to see all the scenes out of order in
a montage fashion. I would rather just watch the thing

(01:17:06):
as it was meant to be seen, from start to finish.
So I will treat you how I would like to
be treated, with no discernible spoilers. One battle after another.
Is PT's most mainstream, easily digestible, audience friendly flick that
will be a crowd pleaser, and is it's doing pretty
damn well out there even for non pt Anderson fans,

(01:17:29):
like if you don't love Magnolia or some of his
out there stuff Boogie Knights, like some of the subject
matter could be challenging here, with revolutionaries and the state
of American politics currently. In the first half hour did
make me feel like it was leaning towards one side
of the aisle, but after that it felt more like
a Tarantino movie on steroids, with hilarious moments, with some

(01:17:52):
equally dramatic ones at the same time. It wasn't too preachy,
It wasn't it was enjoyable. To me, it felt like
t Anderson was trying to out Tarantino. Tarantino with his
stylistic choices, just amplified them, and they kind of packaged
it in a more wider net appeal type of way.
He's never done a movie with this type of budget before.

(01:18:16):
This is a blockbuster, it's two hundred million dollar movie,
but it still has some raw stuff in it. It
can be very graphic, can keep you feeling like a
lot of it is just one shot, running gun type
indie filmmaking, but it's pacing is very pleasing to the
viewer as it just keeps on moving and you're just
along for the ride. It's satirical and genuinely funny and

(01:18:37):
really smart ways. Leo is like the Sun of the
Big Lebowski.

Speaker 14 (01:18:43):
Yeah, well you know, that's just like.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Yeah, both those. He's a burnout stoner with a very
checkered past, but his performance is great. The DiCaprio is
always great, so Sean Penn, Venicio del Toro. They're all
on top of their game. They feel natural and perfectly casted.
By pt Anderson. The action is also breathtaking at times.
I had never seen a car chase like you get

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in this. It's almost mad Max x ESQ Like. It
has that feel to it Tarantino. It's that type of
thing with the action scenes beautifully done, shot edited. It's
going to be up for Best Picture and I wouldn't
be shocked if it wins. So if you want to
be entertained for three hours where it doesn't feel like

(01:19:29):
that at all and it's not FNA or double A here,
this is another good choice for you. I highly recommend
pt Anderson's new movie. And that's one battle after another
and it's easily digestible. You're going to enjoy it. Up
next back to the NFL, you'll enjoy this. We got

(01:19:50):
seven more to get to in our matchup power rankings
on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:19:56):
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Speaker 7 (01:19:59):
Welcome back.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
It's Fox Football Sunday. I'm Adam A, Adam oslind double
A whatever you want to call me except this Adam
Ashlen osland Lund. Why do I have credit cards that
say an D like I'm from the Land of Oz?
Coming up still, I'm gonna tell you about Adam Silver
and who he is as a commissioner and what that

(01:20:21):
means for the Clippers in this investigation going on for
cap circumvention. But first, we do need to get back
to our little showdown here between me and bre Brie,
as we have seven more games to go through in
our matchup power rankings for Week six of this NFL season.

Speaker 12 (01:20:41):
This is the game that people are gonna talk about
for years to come.

Speaker 1 (01:20:44):
I don't know about that, but my number seven best
game to watch this weekend. Some people are gonna accuse
me of this being too high on the list, but
that just means you're an NFL casual. If you don't
know your history here like Bri, you should know this
is an underrated rivalry and I expect another good game

(01:21:07):
between the Panthers and the Dallas Cowboys. Panthers are hosting them. Yes,
Dallas is a twelve and five record against the Panthers
all time, but again, my Panthers have beaten them twice
in the playoffs. So this is number seven of the
games that I'm interested in.

Speaker 13 (01:21:24):
Bri, what you got, I got Brown's ad Steelers. I
want Pittsburgh to roll over Cleveland and maybe see like
a shador Sanders, so that we could just put all
that narrative to bed and just be done with that.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
Wait, you think he's gonna be really bad and that
will kill everyone's excitement for Schaduer.

Speaker 13 (01:21:40):
Yeah, but I don't know, you know, Schottenfreuter just a
little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
What a hater? Bree lit that height out all right,
But I kind of like it. We're moving at number
six in the matchup power rankings. This is also about
you know, paying respects or respect to the past. In
a traditional rivalry year, it's the Chargers in Miami taken
on the Dolphins. You might remember the It's actually called

(01:22:10):
this Epic in Miami, a playoff game between these two teams,
and it's maybe the greatest game ever played with seventy
nine points combined back in the eighties. This will not
be that, but I think it could be competitive in
a fun watch. I do, even though, Yeah, the Chargers
are reeling, half their offensive line is gone and the

(01:22:32):
Dolphins have one victory. Mike McDaniel, bad boy Rick moranis
is hanging on to his job by a thread right now.
It could be troublesome for him, but I still have
this as my sixth most interesting game to watch, Bree
what's number six for you?

Speaker 13 (01:22:50):
I have Bears at Commanders, just because last year's Hail
Mary game was like super memorable, kind of a little
bit of a shootout.

Speaker 1 (01:22:57):
The Bears are coming umber. It was so memorable. I
have no idea what you're talking about.

Speaker 13 (01:23:01):
I mean, it was a really low scoring game, but
it was still like interesting. And like I said, the
Hail Mary was super was really exciting. The Bears are
coming off of bye I think it's a good chance
for them to get up back on track. I'm actually
rooting for the Bears in this one, so I think
that's gonna be interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:23:14):
A Bear sympathizer, but a Shoulder Sanders hater. That's Breebery.
Here to the top five in our NFL matchup power
rankings for Week six. Number five for me, I got
Buffalo in Atlanta. Well, the Falcons have been very up
and down. Both their victories have come at home, and
the Bills just lost for the first time to the

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Patriots at home. I want to see how they respond
as their run defense is not great and Jehan Robinson
could be getting loose and this could be a very
entertaining contest, Brie, what's in your top five? What's number
five for you?

Speaker 7 (01:23:50):
Here?

Speaker 13 (01:23:51):
I have Chargers at Dolphins, and I think it's kind
of a Yeah, it's kind of like a chaos matchup.
I think the Dolphins are either going to rally or
the Chargers that have a chance to get back on track.

Speaker 1 (01:24:02):
Or charger or Chargers chargering.

Speaker 13 (01:24:05):
That's also kind I feel like that just seems like
a very chargerish game for me, Like the Dolphins are
just gonna kind of kind of come out all like rolling,
so we'll see it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:13):
I mean, they're desperate. A wounded animal is a desperate one.
Even a cute Dolphins, both of them are kind of.

Speaker 14 (01:24:20):
That's very sure.

Speaker 1 (01:24:21):
Number four in my best matchup in the NFL Power
Rankings for this week. I like the forty nine ers
on the road in Tampa. I remember Jeff Garcia, who
was like a glorified backup being a starter for the
Niners back in the day, losing thirty one to six
in the playoffs to a Bucks team that would go
on to win the Super Bowl. Back in two thousand

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and three, they were playing Kevin Traiders, and I'm interested
to see if their latest actual backup in Maca, Jones
can outduel the guy who should be the front runner
for MVP right now in Baker Mayfield. He has been
that good. Niners going to t Tampa number four, fourth
best matchup for me, Bree, what's say you?

Speaker 13 (01:25:04):
I have Bills at Falcons here, and I because I
think the Falcons are going to lose, and that's just
really good for me in the NFC South, and I
could kind of see like an offensive shit.

Speaker 1 (01:25:13):
Just not going to affect your Saints. It does not
matter whatsoever you're not contending in the South.

Speaker 14 (01:25:20):
You just never know.

Speaker 13 (01:25:21):
Okay, the Bills are ten and two when they're playing
a road game following a loss, and it just seems
like a really good stat So that's what I'm going
for here.

Speaker 12 (01:25:27):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:25:27):
Number three for me, you had this lower or higher
depending on how you look at it. But I know
Lamar Jackson's not playing, and I know it could get
really ugly for Baltimore, but this is their last stand.
I want to see if the Ravens show any fight
against the Rams at home? Yeah, show something. What's that

(01:25:51):
meme the stick figure with the state, Do something something, please, Baltimore?
How about run the ball? A little bit more. You
don't have Lamar Cooper Rushings at quarterback. I like seeing
teams with their backs against the wall with everything to
play for because their season could be on the line.
More on that coming up. Who's number three for you?

Speaker 13 (01:26:13):
I have Seahawks at Jags. Jags are looking to go
five and one for the first time in like twenty
six years. It looks like Sam Darnold. I feel like,
you know, he has a chance to kind of like
just kind of puff out his chests a little bit. Also,
Trevor Lawrence has that opportunity to, so I feel like
just kind of like a matchup of the QBS of
who's gonna look better.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Trevor will puff out his hair, He'll hit it hard
with the blow drive beforehand. Yeah, fabio over there. This
is my number two when it comes to matchups and
power rankings. That would be yes, the Jags who are
at home against the Seahawks. I wondered if the Jags
could legitimize themselves in that Monday night game against Kansas City.

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They did. They made believers out of everyone, even though
it was like the most awkward and clumsiest game winning
touchdowns ever. Trevor Lawrence just stumbling into the endze end
zone like he was skating on marbles. That's what it
looked like. The Seahawks just lost in a shootout at
home to the Bucks, so they want to bounce back.

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This is a very good matchup, hence it being number
two in my I guess rankings of most watchable games
number one. Do I need to do I need to
tell you guys or did you do the math here
to figure this out?

Speaker 12 (01:27:26):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:27:27):
Who have I not talked about yet? That would be
the Sunday night football game. They got it right. I've
been waiting all week for Sunday Night. They did not
get the song right. They never get the song right.
They changed it every year with Carrie Underwood, and it
gets worse and worse every iteration of it. But this
matchup on Sunday Night football, speaking of desperation. You got

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the Kansas City Chiefs at home in Arrowhead against the Lions.
Who remember they opened up against the Lions a couple
of years ago and the Lions played spoiler winning there
on Ring night for the Kansas City Chiefs. But I
find this to be a fascinating matchup because of the
level of desperation we expect to see from KC. They

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lose this game, there's a real good chance they don't
make the playoffs. You start two and four in the
AFC West with how good Denver is starting to look.
If the Chargers can you know, get a little healthier,
I don't know. This could be for the first time
in a decade someone else's division for once. So does
Kansas City show up against the Lions who've been playing

(01:28:32):
great football? Bri who's number one on your list? I
did not do the math. I have no idea where
you're going.

Speaker 13 (01:28:37):
Oh so I had forty nine ers at Buccaneers at
number two, and then Lions and Chiefs said it was
number one.

Speaker 1 (01:28:42):
Wait did I just skip you with number two? Did
that really have?

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
It?

Speaker 14 (01:28:45):
Really is over breed totally.

Speaker 13 (01:28:48):
So I had forty nine ers at Bucks as my
number two, and then I had Lions and Chiefs that
number one, so that I feel like that this could
be the dagger in the chief season.

Speaker 1 (01:28:56):
So what about your a hoole rankings? Am I number
one there? Because I just stiff right by you. We
were doing so.

Speaker 14 (01:29:03):
Well, you were doing so good. I was like, oh, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:06):
It was the premiere, it's a news segment, all right,
matchup power rankings, like, is he so.

Speaker 14 (01:29:12):
Mad that the Panthers are number fourteen on my list?
Over here? This is your karma of doing that.

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
I forgot about it until now. Who's your number one? Again?
Because I just can't stop thinking about how I forgot
about it? So simpatico. Yeah we are, We're in the
same place, and everybody feels like this is probably the
best game this week. It's consensus, it's universally known. Coming
up next, how much do you know about Adam Silver?

(01:29:38):
Is he a vampire? Like some like to say, was
he in that new Nosferatu movie? Wasn't that great? Eggars?
I think? Is that director Robert Eggers? He can do better.
The Witch was way better. But Adam Silver has a
decision to make regarding the Clippers, and it's an awkward
one because they are hosting All Star weekend, but currently
they're being investigated for cap circumvention. I will tell you,

(01:30:01):
based upon precedent, what Adam Silver could do next. I'm
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have teased it enough. It is time to talk about
the commission. Evening Commission, so if he didn't know. The
Clippers are being investigated by the NBA for cap circumvention.
All this stems from Pablo Torre, formerly of the Evil

(01:31:28):
four Letter, slow dripping his findings of a seven seven
month long investigation. It appears his stuff is well sourced.
I don't know he's got three thousand pages. But it
doesn't mean that his conclusion of Steve Balmer was re
routing money to Kawhi is true. First, the allegations were
about Steve Balmer donating fifty million and Kawhi ending up

(01:31:52):
with forty eight million from this company Aspiration, which was
a green company reversing your carbon footprint. And then Mark
Cuban started challenging Pablo to find some carbon credits because
the Clippers can hide money easier or more easily there.
And Pablo did find some of those, and then it
became this back and forth where it feels like it's

(01:32:13):
Pablo Tory versus Mark Cuban a little bit more than
it's Pablo Tory versus the Clippers, and he wants to
be presented as a well respected journalist and this is
just a different way to go about that endeavor and
that profession. Now by doing it through podcasting, podcast journalism.
But the NBA is looking into this now. Pablo Torre

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got the ball rolling. The NBA is looking into it now.
What we did find out this week is that the
NBA is not moving the All Star Game from into
a dome, and they also haven't contacted Pablo Torre regarding
their investigation. But ultimately here this is about Adam Silver

(01:32:58):
and who he is as a missioner in what his
motivations could be commission Now, what do you think about
when you think about your legacy? Maybe you think about
being a family man or woman, your career. Do people
know you off of that? What defines you? It's what

(01:33:19):
you do that defines you. Rachel told, Christian Bale and
Batman mcgains. You know, I think about what people associate
me with radio the Clippers, you know, believe me. Adam
Silver thinks about how people will remember his tenure as
the commissioner of the association, and not just that, but
how it relates and compares and contrasts to David Stern's tenure.

(01:33:43):
Stern is credited by making superstars household names and building
the world wide brand that the NBA has become. He
is known best for marketing stars. David Stern also as uh,
you know some skeletons in the closet, you could say,
with possibly rig drafts and a frozen envelope to get

(01:34:08):
stars to move to certain markets like Meanwhile, to this point,
Adam Silver, for the most part, is known for kicking
Donald Sterling out of the league, banning him for life.
Adam Silver said that with his thin bat like chest
to keep the batman theme going, or because some call

(01:34:30):
him a vampire it's wrong, but that was his crowning
achievement to this point and something much appreciated by Clipper Nation,
believe me. But the negatives with Adam Silver are brought
up by his detractors, and they would be this declining
ratings due to a variety of reasons and some stuff
outside of his control, like legacy media dying and our

(01:34:53):
viewership and listenership being more divided than ever. It's more
of a challenge now the NBA back on NBA see
this year will not have the same ratings as it
did in the nineties, not just because there's three hundred
more channels to look at, but because of YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram,
all those other outlets to consume content we're streaming right

(01:35:16):
now on iHeartRadio. It's all counter programming and it can
be competitive. Silver is also associated with the load management era.
I would argue he's just at a disadvantage because if
you read the science and listen to the actual doctors
about this stuff, yes science, not many like to do

(01:35:38):
that instead of just you know, being dumbass weekend Warriors
and saying, no players, they just aren't as tough as
they used to be back in my day, That's all
it is. The real reason is kids are at more
of a risk for injury and youth sports because of
specialization and overtraining, meaning by the time some of the

(01:36:00):
them become pros, there's far less tread on the tires.
And if you don't believe me, there is a great
article by the Evil four Letter in twenty eighteen titled
these kids are ticking time bombs the threat of youth basketball.
So I don't necessarily hold that against Adam Silver. But

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aside from this, one of Silver's problems might be self inflicted.
He is diverting from the path of his predecessor in
this way. He doesn't favor dynasties. I bring this up
a lot, but David Stern once said his dream finals
matchup was the Lakers versus the Lakers. Does that sound

(01:36:42):
like a commissioner looking out for the little guy? And
during his tenure there were many sketchy playoff games that
were strangely officiated, you could say, for you where people
think it was fake or in favor of the larger

(01:37:02):
market team for them to go deeper into the playoffs
because it made the NBA more money. Well, guess what
we just saw in the NBA Finals this past year,
the OKC Thunder winning a championship over the Indiana Pacers,
two small market teams. And we've also had seven different
champions the last seven seasons. And unlike David Stern, Adam

(01:37:23):
Silver used this as a positive for the league. His
belief is you need to get the greatest amount of
fans invested in the product, so you have to make
as many possible fan bases believe going into a season
that they have a chance. So you're saying there's a chance.
He is in favor of parody. He's not dynasty hunting

(01:37:45):
like David Stern was, where one team could define a decade.
Silver wants diversity in champions. The more teams involved every
year means more fans are going out to see their
teams play, to watch them, to buy their merchant, to
help grow the league and fill the owner's pockets. That's

(01:38:06):
that's what's happening. Chrice is wrong, bitch. Look, I'm just
saying it's not about having opposing fans hate watching one
team they've grown tired of seeing win every year. Like
maybe you were with the Golden State Warriors or the
Lakers at one point, or even the Spurs, even going

(01:38:27):
back to the Bulls or the Celtics, those were dynasties.
David Stern was in favor of that. Silver wants to
be more inclusive and grow the pot by getting more
teams involved, and that means not catering to larger markets.
And because of what Stern helped do with marketing stars
so well, in the different ways we can watch our

(01:38:48):
favorite teams now even if they aren't in your city.
It's not hard for SGA, even in OKC to have
multiple endorsement deals, so having to go to New York
or LA to build your brand that's not necessary anymore,
which plays into Silver's dream of supreme parody, where you
could throw a dart out of board going into every

(01:39:10):
season and maybe that team at landed On wins because
who knows, it could be anyone. It's the same reason
he's expanded the playoffs for more teams to have a
chance and being featured in more meaningful games, same reason
he's trying this n season tournament. So even if you
didn't win the Larry ob he wants you to have
some pride in winning a different trophy. The Emirates Cup Yay,

(01:39:34):
sound the party kazoo. Here's like Emercks Cup here. The
more things to win, the more you can have pride
in your team, and more likely you are to invest
in your team and the NBA product, and therefore the
more the league grows monetarily. Are you following me here now,

(01:39:55):
you might ask yourself, all right, Adam, how does this
relate to the Clippers investigation going on? Well? The reason
Adam Silver has talked about salary cap circumvention being the
cardinal sin in the NBA is because that would mean
teams could have unfair advantages, which could lead to less parody,

(01:40:18):
the parody that he so desperately craves. That would undermine everything.
We just talked about. If the allegations turn out to
be true, and that's all they are right now, allegations,
he may not use the velvet hammer on the Clippers.
He may go with Thor's hammer to punish them instead,
so he can make an example out of them and
scare any other team away from even thinking about circumventing

(01:40:42):
the cap in the future, because hey, this is what
could happen to you. Just look at how hard I
hit the Clippers. He could turn it into I don't know,
the NBA's death penalty. If the Clippers are found guilty
of cap circumvention, this would seem to be an affront
to everything Adam Silver is trying to build by having

(01:41:05):
the most fair and level playing field in sports. So
he can tell fans you have a reasona believe in
your team and be invested in this league because anyone
can win this championship. We no longer favor big markets
and dynasties. This ain't David Stearn's NBA, this ain't your
grandfather's NBA. I'm putting my mark on the association and
you will remember that this is my legacy. Many could

(01:41:29):
be looking at Adam Silver in this very moment in
how he handles it. This could be a career defining decision,
a legacy defining verdict. Now, when it comes to the
Clippers and what's happened in the past, not talking about
Donald Sterling, but more recent past, I guess this was

(01:41:50):
one year later. They were investigated in twenty fifteen for
negotiating with DeAndre Jordan with a third party in their
free agency pitch, and they were two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. They were also investigated in twenty nineteen after
landing Kawhi as Uncle Dennis. Uncle Dennis, who kind of

(01:42:11):
manages him, was asking for sweeteners allegedly. The NBA they
didn't find any wrongdoing there, but what they did say
was that should anything else arise, they could go back
and reopen that investigation. Now, the good news is this
time around for the Clippers, Adam Silver has made it

(01:42:33):
clear that he believes in due process and while the
NBA is not a court of law, you're still innocent
until proven guilty. Adam Silver said, the burden to proof
in the Kawhi Clipper situation is on the league quote.
Our investigators look at the totality of the evidence. If

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there was the mere appearance of impropriety, I would be
hesitant to act. Unquote if there was the mere appearance
of impropriety. Well, that's kind of where outside fans are
coming from. Oh look we're connecting dots. Sure looks like

(01:43:15):
something happened. I don't know. There's mountains of circumstantial evidence,
the mere appearance of impropriety, he would be hesitant to act.
That wording is interesting because, according to the CBA Bylaws,
CAP circumvention may be proven by quote, direct or circumstantial evidence,

(01:43:38):
including but not limited to, evidence that a player contract
or any term or provision thereof cannot rationally be explained.
So when Adam Silver says, if there was the mere
appearance of impropriety, I would be hesitant to act, is
he saying he needs direct evidence and would not punish

(01:44:00):
if it was just circumstantial because it's up to his discretion.
Kind of There's another part to this. Adam Silver is
here to serve the owners a lot of layers. George
Casantra said it before. It's like an onion. The more
you peel it, the more it stinks. Adam Silver serves

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the owners. He works for the owners, and this is
a strange predicament, and we talked about it with Lamer
a little bit earlier. But it's this dynamic where the
people he works for sometimes he has to punish. Punishing
his bosses makes this a very interesting dynamic. There's a
couple former bosses I'd like to punish sometimes everybody feels

(01:44:44):
like that for Silver though, it matters in getting the
pulse of what the owners want out of this. Are
they afraid of what's hiding in their own closets? La
Murray mentioned that earlier would he be hesitant to punish
one because you know, would someone else be next? Like

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they got skeletons, they got their own issues, or do
they see Balmer the fifth or sixth richest person in
the world. It changes all the time, is having advantages
over them and maybe they think he needs to be
severely punished if the evidence looks bad enough in the
NBA's investigation. After all, these same owners they helped hammer

(01:45:29):
out the latest CBA, which was essentially aimed at Steve
Balmer and the other biggest spenders to stop them from
going into the luxury tax by implementing these punitive aprons.
Second apron, you got to stay away from it. It's scary.
It is Eli Roth horror film. Well, it's just one opinion.

(01:45:52):
Sun's owner Matt Ishbia said a couple of weeks ago
about the NBA's investigation with the Clippers, quote, I'm not
that concerned about it, to be honest. I know Steve
Balmer and I think he's a great guy. He says
he didn't do that, and I believe him. Hmmm. Steve
Balmer seems to be well liked by the other owners,

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but they and everyone else will want to see what
the NBA's investigation comes up with. I am reserving judgment.
I'm rooting for the truth to come out. As petres
of Money would say, gotta root for the truth, but
try to bite a real show. Whatever the truth may be.
I can handle the truth, Jack, I can the code read.
If the Clippers are guilty, they will be disciplined, and

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they should be. We need fairness and a level playing field.
And if any team is paying a player outside of
his NBA salary under the table, that goes against the
competitive integrity of the league that Adam Silver wants to create.
Some sources have said this won't be resolved until after

(01:46:58):
the All Star game. Who hosts the All Star Game?

Speaker 3 (01:47:02):
Brie pop quiz hotshot.

Speaker 1 (01:47:04):
I feel like it's down the street from us here
in Los Angeles. Do you have you been to that
new arena? It sounds like it's pretty nice. This into
a domeb Do you know about it?

Speaker 14 (01:47:12):
See, I've been there.

Speaker 1 (01:47:14):
They allowed you in a Phoenix Suns fan. Wow, Well,
it's an awkward situation like asking a Suns fan to
create the Clippers arena, but having the All Star Game
there and having this hanging over things. If they haven't
come out with a statement or levied punishment, should the

(01:47:35):
Clippers be guilty? That is awkward awkward. Is this going
to drag into the next offseason? I don't know. I
think this is a situation where and lat Murray kind
of alluded to this earlier on with us here on
Fox Sports Radio. Maybe it's not going to take as
long as we think. Maybe here's what you have to do.

(01:47:58):
You either finish. Maybe not the week after the All
Star Game. That would seem too much like they were
holding back information and their findings in the report. If
like the day after the All Star Game, all of
a sudden, the NBA says, hey, finish, the investigation, just
coincidence that had happened right after we got out of
the building.

Speaker 12 (01:48:18):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Maybe they wait like a month or two after, Maybe
it takes till the off season. The sweet spots are
that and I don't know how sweet that could be
for Clipper Nation because there is that bylaw that says
they could suspend a player. And obviously, let's say the
Clippers are a top three seat in the Western Conference,

(01:48:40):
they're rolling, you get out of the All Star Break
and all of a sudden, Kawhi Leonard got suspended. That's
what the NBA came down with. That would be devastating
the timing of that, But for the NBA's sake, I
think the sweet spot is either early on in the season,
say by December or next summer. That's probably what we're

(01:49:07):
looking at here, because you don't want it too close
to the All Star Game, where all the questions head
into it Dome instead of celebrating the game, are about Wow,
we're in Steve Balmer's palace and the Clippers just got punished,
and that's the story. That is not what the NBA wants.

(01:49:27):
They're trying to as much as they want to distract
from some bad All Star games. They want to do
it by replacing it with a better format, whether it's
USA versus the world. They got a lot of stuff
on the table. It still seems like a moving target.
What are we doing exactly? For many teams we have
like semi finals games and then the All Star Game final.

(01:49:49):
It's a difficult thing to figure out. I guess because
they haven't been able to do it for a while,
and I think people, for the most part, put way
too much into an All Star Game. It's an exhibition
the Pro Bowls go. Is anybody sad about that? I
get it as different. It's much more physical. It's hard
to do an exhibition game like that. The reason baseball's
the best is because guys can go just as hard

(01:50:12):
as they typically do. NBA guys aren't gonna do that.
I thought there were moments the last few years where
some did, some didn't. But this has become a huge
talking point by NBA fans and old heads and nostalgia
freaks who just want to talk about All Star Games
of yesteryear. When I went back to like an All

(01:50:33):
Star game from nineteen ninety and from the opening play,
it was Dennis Rodman I forget on who. Maybe on
Magic they're like, Wow, they're actually gonna play some defense
this year. If that plays indicative of anything, So it's like, okay,
that means they had a reputation back then in the
All Star Game that they also weren't playing defense if
it stood out when they actually did play defense for possession.

(01:50:58):
But the only way be worse for the NBA when
it comes to the All Star break is if the
place they're playing in that team is being punished for
a scandal like this. That's bad press. Not all pub
is good pub for people who have actually made it

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and are successful already. The NBA is pretty successful. They
can pick and choose what stories they would like to
be relevant, or they would like this to be spun
in a positive light this All Star Game and not
have it be a backdrop for a bigger story. We
shall see just my two cents on it. How do

(01:51:41):
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Football Sunday. Coming up back to the NFL. I got
a lot to say regarding the Baltimore Ravens. It's not over.
It's never over. It's not over yet, but it could
be over after tomorrow if the Rams really do a
number on them. But I still feel like they'll have
a chance. I'll tell you why. That's coming up the

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he goes.

Speaker 5 (01:52:59):
Unlike cart orges don't have motors, they have a mind
in their own strange.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
Unlike card Man jus of throwing an alligator through a
drive through window.

Speaker 12 (01:53:11):
Too high, strange.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
I would really like it if the instant replay machine
would properly work tonight that's Stranger than Fiction, are its own.
It's jumping around there during the intro. We're better in that.
It's a scuzzy drive. I know it. But Brebrie, our
producer here and a Fox Sports radio anchor, is with
us and leading on Stranger than Fiction. We'll see if

(01:53:37):
she does a good job or not. Come on, bre
what do you got? What's my story?

Speaker 14 (01:53:41):
How long have you guys been doing this segment? That's
let's just start off there. How many years do you think?

Speaker 1 (01:53:47):
I'll give it seven or eight? It was one of
our later segments. We had geek news, we had rap news,
we had something called into the Twitter Sphere. Magic Johnson
tweets was an intro we had before. I think that
might even still be in here.

Speaker 3 (01:54:10):
It's the Magic hour.

Speaker 13 (01:54:14):
Of the hour.

Speaker 12 (01:54:18):
Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:54:21):
And then on F and A, we just go through
his tweets, which usually are captain obvious tweets like this,
our Dodgers are moving on to the National League Championship
Series after a two to one victory over Philadelphia tonight.
It was electric all night at Dodgers Stadium. At least

(01:54:41):
he put that out that night. Usually would take a
couple of days for magic to finally actually tweet something
about a game that occurred. So, yeah, we've had a
lot of segments, including this one. Stranger than Fiction, Brie,
Let's hear it.

Speaker 13 (01:54:54):
Okay, So when you think about like haunted cities through
like America, I usually give like beach stupid.

Speaker 14 (01:55:04):
Let's tell the whole world, Adam, thank you, thank you
so much.

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
Haunted by all the dead seals that the great white
sharks out there devoured terrible.

Speaker 14 (01:55:12):
How dare you?

Speaker 13 (01:55:13):
Okay, I'm a you think of Salem in Massachusetts. I
think of New Orleans, Louisiana, right, Okay, yeah, yeah, the
voodoo haunted stuff. Well, this story takes place in Las Vegas. Okay,
so shout out to my dad who lives out there Vegas.
There is a contest happening from a reported haunted Las

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Vegas casino called the El Cortes Hotel and Casino. It's
the longest running site in the city, which opened in
nineteen forty one. It's considered one of the most haunted locations,
and it was actually owned in part by infamous mobster
Bugsy Segal. Oh so, apparently there's a long history of
paranormal activity reported by staff and visitors, and because of

(01:55:59):
this reputation, the casino itself is seeking someone to search
for spirits and their chosen ghost hunter will be awarded
five thousand dollars for their effort.

Speaker 1 (01:56:14):
They get a call in the professionals, the guys from
TAPS likes. Who are you gonna call the guys from taps?
Remember the ghost Hunters show or Ghost Adventures whatever it
was called. There were plumbers by day and ghost Hunters
by night. It was big. What channel was that on Discovery?
It was a huge show. You don't remember that with

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the bald guy, he kind of looked like I'm googling
it now.

Speaker 13 (01:56:38):
Yeah, ghost ghost Hunters.

Speaker 1 (01:56:41):
The bald guy in that looked like the guy in
Pond Stars. Best I can do is ghost Hunters.

Speaker 13 (01:56:49):
So this whole concept, so you have to enter contest
basically to get paid this Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
It could be anyone. It could be a random person.
It could be me, it could be Rob Parker.

Speaker 13 (01:57:00):
They're going to be fully equipped with ghost hunting year
to see if the stories are true. So if you
are chosen as this ghost hunter, you will be able
to check into the l Cortez for a haunted weekend
where you'll be able to explore the casino's oldest and
eeriest corners searching for signs of ghostly activity.

Speaker 1 (01:57:21):
Let me tell you, let me tell you what they're
not going to be able to find. There ain't any ghosts.

Speaker 13 (01:57:29):
So I looked up like the process, the application, and
like all I've had to do all I would have
to do because I'm not gonna do it. I'm so
scared of ghosts. I don't care. I want nothing to
do with that.

Speaker 14 (01:57:41):
No, not really, but.

Speaker 1 (01:57:43):
I know you're afraid of the dark, and that's enough.

Speaker 13 (01:57:45):
I am not afraid of the dark. I'm just saying
I hed you got a nightlight as stupid. Okay, So anyway,
so yeah, super simple, like just your name, your birthday,
your day of birth, and the winner will have to
explore the property use ghost hunting equipment called EMF meters,
EFP recorders, and flashlight.

Speaker 1 (01:58:03):
Those things are like about as accurate as the people
out of some scientology churches here in Los Angeles.

Speaker 13 (01:58:11):
Like when you're on your beach like cleanup and they
have this little thing and you're looking for like metal
or jewelry.

Speaker 14 (01:58:16):
What's it called?

Speaker 1 (01:58:17):
What's metal detector? I'll tell you what I'm detecting.

Speaker 13 (01:58:23):
So anyways, yeah, so that is that is the thing
of what they're trying to do. You're gonna journal your findings,
You're gonna capture evidence, take plenty of photos or short
videos to document something anything spooky, and you have a
chance to win five thousand dollars of being willing to
do that. I don't know what the goal is. I

(01:58:44):
don't know what you're trying to find, Like are you
a ghost? Yeah, but like how many I'll.

Speaker 1 (01:58:48):
Tell you what you're going to find, Like you're going
to find these little orb things they call them. Oh
that speck of dust is an orb, that's a ghost,
that's a spirit. That's the type of stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:59:01):
They always go figures, phantom footsteps and sudden cold spots,
so air conditioning, little spots, a little like sprays here
and there, Shadowy figures.

Speaker 14 (01:59:10):
Like I don't know, that could be like a little
light or in some kind of it could be you.

Speaker 1 (01:59:14):
No, a shadowy figure like it ends up being you
because of the lighting going on.

Speaker 14 (01:59:19):
So anyway, so that was my stranger than fiction.

Speaker 1 (01:59:22):
Where do they go to sign up? If you want
to win five thousand dollars and do some.

Speaker 13 (01:59:25):
Ghost dot Org, slash blog, slash Vegas ghost stream jump.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
Okay, could we shorten the link a little bit, there's
websites to shorten the link.

Speaker 14 (01:59:36):
Shah, there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:59:37):
I don't know if it was If it was mid
two thousands, I'd still be into it because mid two
thousands we were still into poker, and that would also
tie into this story since it was in Vegas. Did
you bet on the Baltimore Ravens winning the Super Bowl
this season? I'm gonna tell you why you're still not wrong?
Coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:59:58):
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Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
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Speaker 7 (02:00:06):
Adam Ashlyn, Adam Aslin.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
Adam Ashmus, Brian Auslin. Do you want to hear my
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(02:00:29):
We also had LAMRII of the Athletic. You'll be able
to podcast it all momentarily, but still to come. How
is a player who went one for eighteen in a
series on the verge of being the goat? I will
tell you about that, but first it's back to the
NFL because bri won't have it any other way. Now,

(02:00:52):
I never watched this show before, but there was something
on the Disney Channel in the mid two thousands called
That's so Raven. Well, everything that occurs this season for
the Baltimore Ravens has fans saying that it's like Derrick
Henry fumbles, they blow the first game, that's so raven.

(02:01:13):
They were so Jim Harbaugh. The defense gives up another
third and long completion, that's so raven. Lamar Jackson gets hurt.
That's so raven. Like anything that can go wrong has
and will continue for the Baltimore Ravens to go wrong,
like they're one in four teams that start one and four.

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Do you uh want to know the odds on making
the playoffs? Ods have a six percent chance of making
the NFL playoffs. Now that could go up a little
bit because now there's seven teams in each conference that
make it. Inclusion, you gotta get everybody in there. Before
last year, only fifteen of the two hundred and fifty

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three teams in NFL history that start one in four
made the playoffs six percent. But last year Los Angeles
Rams started one in four, so they brought the total
to sixteen teams have done it. Baltimore, they haven't had
a one in four start in a decade, the last
time being twenty fifteen. That twenty fifteen squad did not

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make the playoffs. They went from being this year Super
Bowl favorites to starting off one and four. But they
actually will. Actually, they still have a decent chance and
are currently the odds on favorite to be the seventh

(02:02:40):
team in NFL history to make the playoffs after starting
one in four. Why because the NFC North has gone south.
It's bad.

Speaker 7 (02:02:50):
The Bombs lost.

Speaker 1 (02:02:52):
It's it's pretty bad. They are still currently the Baltimore Ravens,
the odds on favorites to win the NFL seed North
somehow at even odds. The Bengals, they're two and three.
They're relying now on a former Raven quarterback Great to
dig them out of this hole with Joe Flacco, who

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has never been elite outside of one playoff run and
certainly doesn't qualify as elite at the age of forty. Now,
nobody can be elite when you're that old, getting old.
We're all washed. They're thirtieth in strength of schedule, the Bengals,
but that's also because the Ravens are currently counted as

(02:03:34):
an easy team to beat for them and they still
have to play them twice. What about the Browns in
their division, Well, they're one and four. They have the
twenty ninth toughest schedule, so relatively easy, but it's inflated
because they are expecting the Ravens to continue being this bad.
But the Browns are not competition for the NFC North regardless.

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If they come out of the season knowing who their
young quarterback of the future is to build around, that
would be a successful year for the Cleveland Browns. The
real competition for the one in four Ravens would be
the Steelers. Of course, they're three to one with wins
over the Jets, the Patriots, the Vikings. Okay, the Jets
doesn't count. The Patriots does count. Now they're playing better

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the Vikings even with Carson Wentz. Somebody used to call
them Wentz when they had to watch them throw wins.
So funny, skip mister one point four. The Vikings. They
just got a victory. It wasn't great. It was over
the Browns actually, But they have the twenty sixth strength
of schedule remaining. These Steelers, but they still have games

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against the Bills, the Lions, the Colts, the Packers, the Chargers,
and two more against the Baltimore Ravens. Baltimore's route and
path to reclaim the division and why they're still favored
to win it is this. They don't play another divisional
game until Week eleven, and they are currently one and

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zero against the division, having put a beat down on
the Browns in Week two, which we thought was their
big response after losing to the Bills and giving away
a game in Week one. The Baltimore Ravens have the
twenty fifth easiest schedule, even though they don't have themselves
twice on the schedule to play. They've already played the Bills,

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as I mentioned, they've played the Chiefs, two of their
tougher opponents on the schedule. So by week eleven, when
they get back into divisional play, the Ravens might actually
be healthier healthier let's say, can they survive until then

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is the question? Well, this week they have the Rams
at home. That's a problem, especially because the Rams they
just blew a game where they're favored by eight on
Thursday Night Football, so it's not quite a bye week.
For them, but they get extra time to prepare for
this team. They still got Mac Jones. Lamar's not playing
in this game. It's Cooper Rush, who looked a little

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rushed and sped up by that Texans defense last week.
Cooper Rush looked like Cooper Manning's son Arch Manning if
he didn't know by his play with Texas outside of
today's game, like, He's definitely not Eli's or Peyton's son.
He's Cooper's. But even if the Ravens, you know, lose
that game, let's say they moved to one in five,

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it's likely the Rams are giving seven points. They are
heavy favorites. The Ravens still are not out of it.
I'm telling you they have a chance because they got
a bye week coming up. That's their chance to reset.

Speaker 2 (02:06:49):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:06:49):
That could mean they have a foot out the door
against the Rams later today because they're waiting for the
bye week to come save them. You can't lose the
bye week. You can sometimes guy gets hurt in practice, whatever.
But after the bye week, the Baltimore Ravens have the Bears,
the Dolphins, the Vikings, the Browns, the Jets. I could

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see them very quickly getting to four and six, and
by then you may say that's bad. But all of
a sudden, there's three straight divisional games against the Bengals,
the Steelers, and the Bengals again, then the Patriots and
Packers before finishing the year in Pittsburgh. Why do I
get the feeling that final game against the Steelers will

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determine the AFC North and the only team who makes
the playoffs from the NFC North is going to be
that division winner. I don't think they're getting two teams in.
You get one team and you like it. The NFC
North is in a bad place, and so are the Ravens.
There's a connection here, right, that's their hope to carry
the flag for the division and have some King of

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the North pride like Rob Stark, who I still like
to believe is live somewhere and didn't get red wedding
because I love the King of the North. But obviously,
so much of this is dependent on the health of
Lamar Jackson, because the offense hasn't been the problem really
when he's out there, at least their defense is losing
them games, and their injury report on that side of

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the ball is more dark than an Edgar Allan Poe
poem since we're talking about the Ravens, I mean quote,
deep into that darkness, peering long. I stood there, wondering,
fearing that was the eighteen hundred version of That's So Raven,
basically that Edgar Allen Poe poem on the raven never more.

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If they somehow win this week against the Rams, somehow,
I'm gonna Charles Barkley guarantee Gayatie they win the NFC
North and therefore make the playoffs a tall task. But
maybe Lamar and that hamstring, I don't know. Maybe they

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get the tiger bomb out and it healed a little
bit more quickly, or you know, the deer Antler spray.
They get that out ray Lewis's old locker. Yet no
one talks about that anymore for some reason, even though
I think it was on the band's substance list and
they ended up winning the super Bowl and he came
back miraculously from I think a torn triceep not the

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worst thing Ray Lewis may have done. But still it's
just the Ravens aren't done. You can think they're done.
You can throw dirt on them, you can puff your
chest out if you're the Steelers right now. And I
do think Pittsburgh has a chance to elevate themselves and
be even better because two staples of that franchise are

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running the football and playing great defense. They haven't been
great in either of those categories so far this season.
They can pick it up. I think they will against
the Browns later today. Of course, Browns are coming back
from playing overseas and losing that game to the Vikings,
as I mentioned, But outside of them, the Bengals are
in disarray. They're gonna gets smoked by the Packers. Smoke cheese,

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s Gouda cheese. They're gonna get destroyed. Packers are favored
by fourteen in that game, and Joe Flacco. Outside of
and Kevin referenced this last night on FNA FNA outside
of one time were Baker Mayfield, who turns out to
be maybe the MVP this season and by the way
the Panthers passed on him, who was there for a bit,

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and Sam Darnold. I'm in a special place of hell.
They had two good quarterbacks for a second, but outside
a Baker Mayfield going to the Rams and then playing
like a Thursday night game a day later against the Raiders,
and somehow he performed and played well and picked up
the playbook right away. Outside of that, typically it's very

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difficult to just get that speed run or take a
crash course and be immersed in whatever Cincinnati Bengals culture
is and know how they want to do things philosophy wise. Now,
their receivers are good enough and if Joe Flacco and
he still has a strong enough arm to get it

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to him. It's about timing rhythm routes, knowing the playbook.
But yeah, I feel like the Packers, since they're favored
by fourteen points, have a real good chance of plating
that game. My point is the Baltimore Ravens are not
out of this yet. The bye week is coming, Winter
is coming. This is like a reverse of that, because

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Winter is Coming was like scary and ominous. This is like, oh,
the bye week, it's it's maybe it's a mirage. It's
an oasis in the desert. But that could save them
even if they lose tomorrow against the Rams and Matt Stafford,
who are motivated, who are upset. Sean McVay keeps losing
to Breeze favorite head coach Kyle Shanahan. It ain't the

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head coach of your saints who likes to kick field
goals when they're down by thirty five and the first
half and think that's gonna do something more. Oh, that's
a big moral lift that'll get us back on track.
What a loser mentality? Oh you have the Raven song? Now,
that's so raven? Well why didn't you play it when

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I was talking about it? Are you talking on the
air now or not? Are you just talking to my
ear because I can't tell you're an update anchor speaking
to the mic and tell me about that's so raven?
Because I've never seen the show. I was more of
a Victoria justice guy.

Speaker 14 (02:12:33):
That's like past. That's so raven. Victory is way after that. Well,
that's even that's weird.

Speaker 1 (02:12:39):
I'm don't admit that. No, I'm I've never seen what
is her show justified?

Speaker 14 (02:12:45):
I have no idea.

Speaker 1 (02:12:46):
I'm just saying Disney starlets that ended up being super
hotties later. I only know about that that show because
you know she ended up being h beautiful.

Speaker 14 (02:13:00):
That's so raven.

Speaker 13 (02:13:01):
Had Raven Simone, I think that was her actual name,
and so she would, like, you know, just be living
her life as like a high schooler and then all
of a sudden she would just like kind of like
stop in the middle of whatever she was doing, and
then they would like zoom into her right eye and
she would have like a vision some kind of like.

Speaker 1 (02:13:17):
Oh like a third eye thing.

Speaker 14 (02:13:19):
No, like she could see into the future if she
knew what was gonna be.

Speaker 1 (02:13:22):
But that's like the raven thing from Game of Thrones.
Oh yeah, you have the raven sight, but it's like
a mog like with the raven.

Speaker 14 (02:13:32):
Didn't they see into the past too? Ram was it?

Speaker 13 (02:13:35):
Whenever he would go into the raven I was gonna say, so, yeah,
a little bit different.

Speaker 1 (02:13:39):
Okay, okay, I'm sorry. This Disney shows different than Game
of Thrones.

Speaker 14 (02:13:43):
Yeah, just a tad.

Speaker 13 (02:13:44):
Honestly, you want to hear the theme song? I guess Okay,
here we go sketchy. Honestly, it's not bad, right, not
one of the worst, like Disney theme songs so raven.

Speaker 1 (02:13:57):
This theme song is so raven?

Speaker 3 (02:14:00):
What yeh?

Speaker 1 (02:14:03):
Is that? Young Nicki Minaj? Who is that?

Speaker 14 (02:14:05):
Missy Elliott? Want to be kitchy?

Speaker 1 (02:14:08):
Not bad?

Speaker 14 (02:14:10):
I think that's the first time a Disney Channel theme
songs that have been playing on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (02:14:15):
So my first time not the first time, what do
you mean? Okay, that last part was not in the
original DuckTales theme. I used to have a little tape
cassette that I called cartoon Rap, and I would hold
my top boy whatever home alone cassette recorder up to
the TV when these old cartoons would play, like Ducktails

(02:14:37):
or Rescue Rangers or Dark Wing Duck. Because they had
such great theme songs, gummy bears bouncing here and there
and everywhere, I would double them. I would record them
onto my cassette and I labeled it cartoon rap because
I was so hardcores a little kid, Todavid.

Speaker 14 (02:14:53):
That yourself with that cassette.

Speaker 1 (02:14:58):
Yeah, I just like to say Victoria Justice.

Speaker 9 (02:15:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:15:01):
I didn't watch the show back then, but I found
out about her later on what was her show called?

Speaker 13 (02:15:07):
I Don't Know what?

Speaker 1 (02:15:08):
You don't know?

Speaker 9 (02:15:09):
See?

Speaker 1 (02:15:09):
I kind of thought all these shows were you know,
it was a block of Disney programming.

Speaker 14 (02:15:13):
Around that was like after my time.

Speaker 13 (02:15:16):
Okay, so that's a raven was my time sister sister?

Speaker 14 (02:15:22):
Was my time sister sister. Yeah, that was like Lizzy
mcdger Lazy McGuire was my time.

Speaker 1 (02:15:28):
I don't know who that is, even Stevens.

Speaker 14 (02:15:30):
Yeah, that was my time. Hillary Duff was liudzy McGuire.

Speaker 1 (02:15:33):
Shi lah Bouf really turned into a real piece.

Speaker 14 (02:15:35):
Of work, turned into a spoof.

Speaker 1 (02:15:38):
Coming up next, the Dodgers did some work even with
their best player in a cold streak or during a slump,
and they still win. That tells you how good this
Dodger's team is. They moved on to the NLCS tonight
we found out their opponent will be Milwaukee. But I'll
tell you why that player can still turn out to
be the goat during these playoffs even though he just

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went one for eighteen in a series. I'm out of Maslin.
This is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (02:16:05):
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Speaker 1 (02:16:19):
I'm goodness sued he did right. He sampled this. Nothing's
new under the sun. I'm out of Mazlind. Welcome back in.
It is Fox Football Sunday. Coming up, we'll get to
Breeze three. But first, Josh in New York, Welcome into FSR. Josh,

(02:16:42):
what's up?

Speaker 9 (02:16:43):
Howdy howdy, the Great show Man. And we all love
we all love Jackson Dart.

Speaker 12 (02:16:51):
Here in the Tri State area.

Speaker 1 (02:16:53):
But is he gonna last though? If he rushes that much,
is he going to be able to stay upright for
the rest of the season. I worry about his health.
He's been in the blue tent five times and.

Speaker 9 (02:17:06):
He should have been taken out of that game. They
shouldn't let him.

Speaker 12 (02:17:08):
That's on. I call him Brian the Bonehead.

Speaker 9 (02:17:11):
Hopefully he gets fired the head coach. But but Jackson Dodd, Yeah,
we're worried about him because he's out there and he's
running around and he's exposing himself too much playing. He's
just lucky a defensive backs on that attackle anymore, or
he would have trouble with them if it was like
ten twenty years ago. Uh, he's got to be more protective.
He's got to learn how to slide more. But don't

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worry about that extra yard man, Just slide or get
out of bounds. You're the quarterback and the offensive line
has got to have to chip into and do their
job and protect this guy.

Speaker 12 (02:17:43):
And we'll see what he's going to do.

Speaker 9 (02:17:46):
Now, cam' scataboo to me.

Speaker 1 (02:17:49):
The white Hino.

Speaker 9 (02:17:50):
Heard guys listen, man, I heard guys talking. Oh, he's
running like Zanke. He's running right rigas if you watch him,
he's more closer inside.

Speaker 12 (02:17:59):
He's a mini media. Earl Campbell.

Speaker 9 (02:18:00):
He's smolling at Earl Campbell, but he's running the way
Earl ran ear.

Speaker 12 (02:18:04):
Was hitting you every way.

Speaker 9 (02:18:06):
It's almost like like a linebacker running with the football like.

Speaker 1 (02:18:08):
He's going out his most famous play, he lowered his
helmet into the defender's chest and moved him that way.
Earl Campbell.

Speaker 9 (02:18:17):
Yes, and and and and Scott is a reckless runner, too, verygless.
He's got that what's called you know, the old time
guy used to call that low center of gravity because
he's not that tall and it's hard to get a
real good direct shot on him. Let's let's face it,
he's another guy. I hope they use him right, and
we don't want to get injured and nothing. I'm a
big giant fan at staying the truth, and I put

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up with a.

Speaker 1 (02:18:39):
Lot of nonsense to let Josh, Josh, you're throwing me
off here because our call screener and our producer here
Brebrey said you were a Jets fan off air.

Speaker 9 (02:18:48):
Oh no, I wanted to talk about the Jets in
London because the Giant game is already all the Giants already,
you got, you.

Speaker 1 (02:18:54):
Got your victory. Now you want to say how many
points the Jets are going to lose by? Or are
you a Jets fan too?

Speaker 13 (02:19:00):
Well?

Speaker 12 (02:19:01):
I joked about a Jets deck. Come on, those guys
multiple Jesus.

Speaker 9 (02:19:07):
In New York, right, we got we got guys a
Cowboys fans. How many times you get over the Dallas
to a home game? Come on, man, could knock that off.
That started, I believe a little older than me.

Speaker 12 (02:19:16):
I believe that started in.

Speaker 9 (02:19:17):
The seventies where it really took hold and guys thought
by Jet. But listen, I was just worried about the
Jet players with all that fog in London finding the stadium,
you know, because h Aaron Glenn. I mean, he could
be a player coach after seeing that dance on the sidelines,
he could be on the kickoff team. I think Aaron
Glenn is the one guy then that could still play
football on the Jets. And you know, like I said,

(02:19:39):
I was just worried about the players finding the stadiumcause
of the London fog. You know, Cookie, the jetsaw You
know I was talking about this great defense to eighty
five bands.

Speaker 12 (02:19:47):
Come on, stop knock it off?

Speaker 1 (02:19:48):
Were you The Jets have one of the worst defenses
I've seen. And I feel bad for Aaron Glenn because
I really liked him as a player. But they are
getting lit up left and right. They can't stop An knows,
but they got nothing right now.

Speaker 9 (02:20:03):
And the most amazing thing is I'm meeting these young
dudes who don't even file sports, but they bet on sports.

Speaker 1 (02:20:11):
It's an addiction. Josh, come on, what he's supposed to do?

Speaker 9 (02:20:14):
What was I supposed to tell him? I said, listen,
bet the JITs to lose every weekend. You won't be disappointed.
I thought, what am I supposed to tell him?

Speaker 12 (02:20:21):
Tell who is?

Speaker 7 (02:20:23):
He would say?

Speaker 12 (02:20:23):
What team does he played for?

Speaker 9 (02:20:24):
The Yankees?

Speaker 1 (02:20:26):
Josh, I appreciate the phone call. I don't know. I
guess I should have know he's from New York. He
wants to talk about the Giants. He wants to talk
about the Jets. The Yankees are out. The Mets had
an epic collapse. Was he going to get into the
Islanders like the Rangers? I think hockey just started up.
I'm not exactly a puckhead. If you didn't know, I'm

(02:20:49):
more of a steam head, you could say, because major
League Baseball and that takes center stage for me during
the playoffs. Show me a basketball to spring and I've
got a freezing cold take, or at least I think
it is. Some people might think as a hot take here,
but it shouldn't be. This should be grass is green,
the sky is blue, water is wet. The Dodgers are

(02:21:11):
gonna win the World Series again, you know the obvious stuff. Okay,
maybe the last one's more of an opinion than a
statement of fact, but I don't consider this an opinion.
If the Dodgers do win the World Series, Wow, Shohei
o Tani is both pitching and hitting at a high level.

(02:21:31):
He is easily the greatest player of all time. Emphasis
on easily. This should be an accepted fact is a fact.
If a player is not just a player, but actually
two players in one and he's elite in both ways,
and he does it at the highest level in the
biggest moments, that's the best player ever easily.

Speaker 7 (02:21:53):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:21:53):
I know, he just went up one for eighteen and
they still won. And moved on to the NLCS and
one in four games because that's who they are, and
they took out the Phillies, who a lot of people said,
if it's not the Dodgers, it's the Phillies who were
gonna win it. Whoever comes out of this series is
winning the entire thing. But even with Otani being that bad, look,

(02:22:16):
every Goat contender has flaws. Otani had a bad series,
but I don't know if he has actual flaws. As
a player, Like with Otani, you aren't sacrificing quality for quantity.
Everything he does is at the highest level. Remember in
video games, where you'd have so many points that you

(02:22:37):
could use on building a creative player with different attributes.
You could disperse those points and maybe you couldn't maximize
a player unless you had a cheat code, but you
could take the points and go, okay, I'm putting some
into power, some into speed, some into agility, some into stamina.

(02:22:59):
You had to sack somewhere you only had so many points.
Not with Otani. He is the cheat code. He's not
five tools, He's all six Infinity Stones. And he will
soon be widely accepted as the greatest player and the
greatest baseball player in the universe. It is inevitable, like
venos an over used analogy, but every other goat is

(02:23:23):
flawed in some way due to error they played in
or limitations as a player in Major League baseball history,
like Bonds is the greatest hitter ever, but didn't pitch.
Did do Royd's read game of shadows? His feet, not
his head. It wasn't his baseball cap. His head didn't

(02:23:43):
grow his feet did. You can read about this. The
cream and the clear couldn't keep him in the clear
from having an asterisk on his career. He's not in
the Hall of Fame. It's over. Willie Mays did do
it clean. Although some people say greenies back then were
being used amphetamines, But it's Willie Mays. Everybody was using them,

(02:24:05):
and I think they'd be what's that ADHD stuff? Now?
Adderall like, guys, can I think you can use that
and get away with it. That's the equivalent of greenies
back then. Like that's not cheating to me. But Willie Mays,
as great as he was, he didn't pitch. Babe Ruth
did hit and pitch, but not to black players. His

(02:24:27):
numbers were in the segregation era of baseball. It's not
the same. The level of competition is not the same.
He didn't play in the analytics era. Also like Shoe
Hail Tani, where every flaw is exposed through numbers and spreadsheets.
What was the scouting report on Babe ruth like oh

(02:24:47):
says here he likes to eat a lot of hot
dogs and drink a lot like Did they really have
the understanding of what pitches he struggled with, what part
of the zone where he had holes in his swing?
It was much harder to be great, or it is,
I should say, when everyone has all the information possible
on where your flaws could be, and they will pick
at them. That's what O'tani deals with. There's no other

(02:25:11):
player you could bring up that dominates as many parts
of the game as well as O'tawni does. Even if
you think there were slightly better hitters, those guys did
not pitch like him. Even if you think there are
better pitchers there are none of them can hit like him.
The only thing missing from his resume is a World

(02:25:32):
Series title while doing both hitting and pitching on the
biggest stage. That would put him on top of the mountain.
That actually would put him in the clouds. He'd be
a baseball god at that point. Law This is why
he came to the Dodgers. He couldn't solidify his legacy
like this with the Angels because you have to make

(02:25:54):
the postseason to reach that stratosphere of a player. I
remember Rob Parker couple of years ago voting for Aaron
Judge over Otani in the MVP race because Judge was
putting up his numbers with the pressure of being in
a playoff chase that was on the line for them. Well,
Otani wasn't exactly playing under the bright lights in the

(02:26:17):
highest leverage games down in Anaheim. Now he saw Mike
Trout fade into anonymity, become an afterthought there and said, no,
I'm going to a place that can help elevate me
to the greatest player ever status. Kevin Kevin Figures once
called Mike Trout a flower in a pot of dirt. Well,
show he Otani was a damn oasis in Anaheim. How

(02:26:40):
are you going to keep him down on the farm?

Speaker 12 (02:26:41):
Though?

Speaker 1 (02:26:41):
After they've seen Carl Hungus once, Otani saw the good life.
During the Freeway Series against the Dodgers a few times
he knew what his destiny was. Now he's being worshiped
like the Golden God. He is not just by me here.
I mean, even his rare goal in Bobblehead had people
climbing over each other like a TV on sale on

(02:27:05):
Black Friday or something like that thing. I don't know
what they went for on eBay. But we're living in
the age of Otani. We have the modern day Babe
Ruth who's doing all of this in four K, not
on wax cylinder or one of those eighteen hundreds cameras
where you'd have to stand there for ten minutes straight,

(02:27:26):
stand still. Otani is caught in four K. We have
a mythical figure doing this in front of all of us.
To see. This is an old wives tales about Wilt
Chamberlain grabbing the cord off the top of a backboard
or whatever other numbers he put put up off the court.
But it's not Mickey Mantle supposedly hitting a ball six

(02:27:48):
and forty three feet, which did not happen. It's not
you know, Babe Ruth, Hey, he was able to drink
and still be that good. I guess that did happen.
But we have stack technology now we don't need to
lie about anything.

Speaker 12 (02:28:04):
That's a bunch of crap.

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
No, But I'm sure in the future people will say
stuff Otani is doing was just you know, developers getting
creative during the early days of AI, which is what
we're in. That was just AI hype. That was that
era where everything was fake before government regulations. That's what
they'll say about some of the stuff we're seeing Otani

(02:28:27):
do fifty years from now. Maybe he's that special. And
I ain't grow up a Dodger fan. I may work
at a five seventy LA Sports now. I grew up
a San Francisco Giants fan, and we thought he was
actually gonna go to the Giants, but they didn't have
the DH in the NL at that time, or else
maybe he would have signed with them instead of the Angels.

(02:28:50):
And I'm in awe. Even when he goes one for eighteen,
the Phillies still walked him, remember that in Game four.
They respected him enough. Maybe he was one for seventeen
at that time in the series and they walked him
to eventually lead to the winning run on a pass

(02:29:10):
ball from the pitcher to the catcher. It was it
was a comedy of errors at the very end. But
this is something where I don't care if you're a
fan of the Dodgers or not. Remember Lebron's old campaign
Witness Witness greatness, Appreciate greatness, like this is the eighth

(02:29:30):
wonder of the world. And if Sho hail Tani gets
out of this slump, and I think he will because
he's that good and starts hitting hitting bombs. I think
he had two home runs against the Reds and the
wild Card Series before he went into the tank or
had a cold bat against the Phillies. If he gets
a hot bat while he's pitching, like the way he

(02:29:53):
did against the Phillies in Game one, and they win
the World Series, it's over. It's over. That's it. He's
the greatest player ever. There can be no debate who
the goat is. It's definitive in baseball. If you can
do not just hit at the highest level, but pitch
at the highest level at the same time, it's over.

(02:30:16):
This should not be controversial. This should be obvious, plain
and simple to everyone. I know we like to do rankings.
I know some people really enjoy the MJ versus Lebron stuff,
but this should be clear cut and widely accepted and
universally accepted. If Otani hits and pitches on their way

(02:30:36):
to winning the World Series at a high level, he's
the greatest of all time. Coming up next, far from it,
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(02:30:56):
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(02:31:19):
show posted right after we get off the air. Before
that happens, though, Mark, but.

Speaker 3 (02:31:31):
It's entertainment. It's good.

Speaker 1 (02:31:35):
It's Breeze free, Bree. How does this work again? I'm
a new are you serious? Well, for the new audience,
it's a different show.

Speaker 14 (02:31:47):
To that is very very true.

Speaker 13 (02:31:49):
Okay, So anyway, so I kind of just look at
anything that's kind of big of a topic, maybe.

Speaker 14 (02:31:54):
Through the week or really like the last I.

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
Don't mean how the sausage was made.

Speaker 13 (02:31:58):
You literally just said how you wanted how it was described.

Speaker 14 (02:32:02):
My gosh, yeah, I know, over everything.

Speaker 13 (02:32:08):
So I was just kind of thinking, well, we have
a lot of backup quarterbacks kind of in the league
right now, right, and a lot of them kind of
are like kind of.

Speaker 1 (02:32:16):
Specific looking specific.

Speaker 14 (02:32:19):
Yeah, I don't know how to describe it.

Speaker 1 (02:32:20):
What does that mean?

Speaker 13 (02:32:20):
Well, I just like I feel like when I look
at like Carson Wentz Sorr, I look at Dylan Gabriel,
I just kind of think they look like actors.

Speaker 14 (02:32:27):
I don't know why.

Speaker 1 (02:32:28):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 13 (02:32:29):
No, I'm just saying they have very distinguishable features.

Speaker 1 (02:32:33):
Okay, so characters like in a game of guess who.

Speaker 13 (02:32:38):
Or they like if they had to be played in
a movie by somebody, like, who would you want them
to play? So then I just thought, in a grander
scheme of just quarterbacks in the league right now, not
just backups, but in a grander scheme of quarterbacks right
now in the league, all right, who would you cast
them as a like a what which actor would you
cast in to play them in a movie.

Speaker 1 (02:33:00):
Is this because there's that new show like on Hulu
or Netflix?

Speaker 14 (02:33:04):
Oh, the Glen Palell movie.

Speaker 1 (02:33:05):
Yeah, it's a TV show where he wants to get
back out on the field. So he disguises himself and says,
it's like, yes, I'm the missus doubtfire of football players.

Speaker 14 (02:33:15):
Who gun Palell is adorable though, But no.

Speaker 1 (02:33:19):
Not after he put the fake nose on and.

Speaker 13 (02:33:21):
Well actually okay, so honestly, honestly, for my first one,
I did put Glenn Powell and like Trevor Lawrence, like
if he just like grew, if he had like a
wig and kind of groud his hair him on a
similar kind of no structure.

Speaker 1 (02:33:32):
Uh, yeah, that's that's accurate. He looks it looks all right.
I'm not calling Trevor Lawrence as sheet because he has
long hair. I'm I'm trying to find a SoundBite to
match there. So I can go with any quarterback, Yeah,
any quarterback and say what actor he looks like?

Speaker 13 (02:33:49):
Yeah, or like if you can if you hadn't you
hadn't cast an actor to play him, who would you cast?
So that was like one of mine, right, my second one,
I went for Baker Mayfield, I went to Sebastian.

Speaker 1 (02:34:01):
Stan, Sebastian Stan. See now I have to look these
people up.

Speaker 13 (02:34:04):
No, okay, like for the Winter Soldier, like Captain America.

Speaker 1 (02:34:08):
Oh, the Pam and Tommy Show on Hulu. He was
Tommy Lee.

Speaker 14 (02:34:14):
You saw Captain America though.

Speaker 1 (02:34:15):
Yeah, Winter Soldier, he's a badass. He was with the
New One. There was another Marvel movie. It was The
New Avenger Spin. I didn't watch it.

Speaker 13 (02:34:23):
No, I have no clue, but I just know he
was with The Winter Soldier. And you know that docu
what was it docu series or it was just like
a TV show, the.

Speaker 1 (02:34:33):
Disney show, Disney Plus. They put out a lot of content.

Speaker 14 (02:34:36):
Yeah, I'm sure you got IP.

Speaker 1 (02:34:38):
Nowadays you got to use all of it.

Speaker 14 (02:34:39):
So Jared Goff, I went Ryan Gosling.

Speaker 1 (02:34:42):
Jared Goff is Ryan Gosling. I mean, he would take
that as a real high compliment. I know he's like
married to a model or something like that, or dating one,
but I'm pretty sure that's because he's a starting quarterback
of an NFL team and it's not really about his looks.
I mean, I remember Charles Barkley talking about Kenny Smith's
wife and being like she ain't marrying Kenny Smith the plumber.

(02:35:06):
She's married to Katy Smith, the former basketball player.

Speaker 13 (02:35:09):
Ryan Gosling did play a football player and uh remember anyway,
So yeah, those are my three went Gunpal, fashion Stan
and Ryan Gosling.

Speaker 1 (02:35:18):
Okay, Uh, I'm gonna have to think about that. Aaron
Rodgers could be played by Colin Farrell. I will say,
is that Mary, There's there's a resemblance, there's a likeness there. Mark,
you want to give me one while I stall, well.

Speaker 10 (02:35:37):
The way I stall with this is when I got
this whole thing wrong. I just picked quarterbacks and to
put them to cast them into something. So I picked
Josh Allen could be on a western with his with
his wife Haley Steinfeld. Maybe another True Grit movie, True
Grit number three.

Speaker 1 (02:35:59):
And then the Coen Brothers doing this one too. I
like it, why not?

Speaker 10 (02:36:02):
And then Trevor Lawrence but possibly put him in a
Three Musketeers movie because of his hair and he's tall
and you know, he could be a three Musketeer. And
then Baker Mayfield. He could be in Downtown Abbey or
put him in a Dura cel battery commercial and.

Speaker 14 (02:36:20):
That's my three.

Speaker 1 (02:36:21):
Dursel the Copper Topper, that too. Who do I want
to go with?

Speaker 12 (02:36:26):
Here?

Speaker 14 (02:36:27):
Carson Wentz and looks like him.

Speaker 1 (02:36:29):
Wait, I know who Joe Burrow is, but nobody else
knows who this actor is. They should because Boardwalk Empire
is one of the more underrated shows, and Michael Pitt
was in the first two seasons. He also plays Kurt
Cobaine in a gust Van Sant movie Last Days. Look
at Michael.

Speaker 14 (02:36:46):
Pitt, I know exactly.

Speaker 1 (02:36:47):
Look at Joe Burrow. Tell me they aren't the same guy.
I thought you were gonna say. Steve Bishemi also in
Boardwalk Empire. I don't know if he wants to be
compared to him. You know that was kind of weird
that Steve Bismy's like a heart throb if you grow
up in the thirties. I guess during Prohibition his looked
work better there because they're trying to pass that off

(02:37:08):
as something.

Speaker 14 (02:37:08):
Realized was in the village?

Speaker 1 (02:37:11):
Was he?

Speaker 14 (02:37:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:37:11):
I didn't remember that. Yeah, that was when m night
started to fall off a little bit. I guess I
need one more, one more? Oh, what generic white guy
can catch you? Who can I go with? Carson Wentz
Kirk Cousins. You already did. Carson Wentz Kirk Cousins kind

(02:37:34):
of looks like he smiles a little bit too much. Oh,
you know what he looks like. I know he looks
like I think. This guy's name is Jason Patrick. Look
at actor. No, not Jason Patrick, Patrick Wilson. He's in
a one of those horror movies that come out like
every year and not the Saw movies now Insidious, Insidious, Uh,

(02:37:56):
the investigators from the Conjuring. Patrick Wilson is one of
the main guys from all the Conjuring movies going on.

Speaker 14 (02:38:01):
Oh, he totally looks like him.

Speaker 7 (02:38:03):
He does.

Speaker 1 (02:38:03):
That was a good pool right out of my took us.
I don't know how I came up with that in time.
Way to go at him?

Speaker 12 (02:38:09):
Great kid, don't get talking.

Speaker 1 (02:38:11):
You know what. For that reason alone, I feel like
we did an okay show. No, we got Breeze three,
and we got you leading on a stranger than fiction story.

Speaker 14 (02:38:22):
You guys agreed with you.

Speaker 1 (02:38:24):
You gave me a look.

Speaker 14 (02:38:24):
I did not. I never.

Speaker 1 (02:38:25):
It wasn't a great look.

Speaker 14 (02:38:26):
It was didn't look at you at all. I promise you.

Speaker 1 (02:38:29):
Okay, good Breeze three. On your part, I probably should
have asked where you were going with this, Oh you
want to use that against me, because I'm like, now,
we'll just do it organically, we'll do it on air.
I just want to do this naturally. I don't want
to prepare, to over prepare too much as I have,
as if I haven't done that enough in today's show,
because when it's a one man band like this and

(02:38:51):
I'm clicking my heels together for the symbols like it's
not always as easy. Kevin, You're missed FNA morphed into
Double Today on Fox Sports Radio. But I had a
blast four hours on a Saturday night into Sunday morning.
There's no other place I'd rather be. Mark, thank you

(02:39:12):
for your work and contribution to this show. Rebreed dual
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