Andy Furman and Alex Furman talk NFL Combine, Jalen Carter, MLB Rule changes, and More!

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let's get this out in the open right now, let's
get it right here. My co host today, my son
Alex Furman, and some men say it's a bad dream.
I'm a little proud here, I'm a little intimidated, a

(00:44):
little nervous. I don't know what the rest that I
should go in, but I will say this before we
get started. You need to show me respect today. That's
what you need to do, all right, And I want
to know how in the hell did you get here? Well, Dad,
it's it's great being here. Thank you so much for
having me on the show. Honestly, I'm a little bit
surprised it took us this long to get to do

(01:05):
a show together. Were you that intimidated of doing a
show with me that took us this long? Well, I
blocked it for a long long time. I couldn't help
it any longer. I really couldn't. You know, Look, a
lot of people think it's nepotism. It's not. And you
obviously didn't get here on your good looks. But look,
you do have a bit of a radio background, so
there is some sort of a connection between you and radio,
So it's not an epotism all the way. Well, in

(01:28):
this family, the firm and family, we're a radio family.
As a kid, always watched you do your stick do
your show through the window in the producer's studio, And
as a kid, I always thought, man, he's having so
much fun. You love doing what you were doing. And
even as a kid, I always knew like I wanted
to do what my dad did. So I went to
school for I went to Thomas Moore College and graduate

(01:49):
with a communications degree. And from there, you know, I
did an internship at a radio station here and there,
and the past five years I've been on country music radio.
So I really have a good foot and you know,
radio door if you will, and now we're here, Oh good, great, okay.
And more than that, as far as sports concerned, you know,

(02:12):
you might be the brain to the outfit today because
you played the game. Obviously, I don't know where you
got the jeans from really, because you were a three
sport athlete in high school, went to state and track,
you're wrestled, you played football, and you played football in
college as well, So you do know that you know
what prompted you to get into sports because obviously looking
at me and knowing that I was your dad, and

(02:33):
it wasn't much of an athlete really. I like to
sit around and smoke cigars. Yeah, I didn't play I
played stickball as a kid, That's basically it. And I
talked about it, but I never really played on a
varsity team, never got a varsity letter. So what prompted
you to play sports? That's a good question, I think.
I mean, you always took me the Reds games. You
always took me to Bengals games and Bearcats games. So

(02:53):
just being exposed to sports as a young kid, I
really got into sports. And then also, you know, playing
with the neighborhood kids. You know, I remember as a
kid playing you know, tag football, tackle football, baseball, basket,
you know, whatever it may be. And you know, from there,
I kind of developed a competitiveness, you know, one beating
my friends in the neighborhood, and that kind of really

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just started my sporting career, if you will. That's why
I wanted to play sports in middle school and high school,
and you know, played the little college football as well.
There you go. No, look, I always wanted this answer.
I never they had the opportunity to talk to you.
I'm actually I'll be going to talking to you more
today than I probably had in the last month, which
I don't know, if let's go to a band. But
you know, I remember when I was in high school.
I was a manager of the basketball team in high school,

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and I always saw the basketball players and the athletes
in general, be at football or basketball. They were like
the elite of the school. They were the jocks, and
I kind of hung with them, so I kind of
got the free pass to be with them. But you know,
did you ever feel like being an athlete you were
like the elites of the school, the jocks, not the
the goofy kids the kind of losers, if you will, Yeah, right,

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if I didn't be the manager, if I was the
manager of the team, I would have been considered one
of the losers. I'm sure the geeks of the school.
I don't think I ever felt eliteism, if you will.
For me, it wasn't all that I would attribute to
two things. One, how I was raised, so you're you,
and Mom always taught me never to think that I

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was better than anyone else. I've never felt better than
anyone else. But also, um, it's the coaches, right. The
coaches really instill pride into you, into the team. So
whenever you're walking around campus with the jersey on, you're
not thinking that you're better than the bank geeks or
the art well you know what I'm saying. Okay, you know,

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but the skater kids or whatever it may be. You know,
we weren't taught to think that we were better than them.
But it was more of you know, you're wearing this jersey,
be proudful of the school that you represent, the program
that you represent, be proud of the players that you
play with, all that kind of stuff. So personally, for me,
I never felt like that, But I know the wars. Right,

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all right, let's get into business right now, we know
your background. Oh, by the way, you didn't tell everybody
where you're from. Oh yeah, yeah, were you for a
while born? My story is I was born in Bulgaria,
which if you don't know where that is on the map,
it's I couldn't find it. Now again, I couldn't find it.
It's halfway across the world. It's by Russia, right. And
after I was born, I was put into an orphanage

(05:25):
with your brother, with my brother, and then um I
was there for about three or four years old, and
then my mom and my dad came and picked us up.
That was me. That was you, Yeah, that was you.
And then we flew halfway across the world. And now
it was a pain. I'll tell you why. I you
know why I never told you the story. We had
to fly from here to Bulgaria. I'm saying Cincinnati to Bulgaria.

(05:46):
I had to buy tickets both ways and going I
had to pay for two tickets, and there was no
two tickets you and your brother, so they charged me
for two extra tickets on the way. So maybe one
day I'll get that back from you. Do you want
me to. I have no idea what that is, but
that's okay. We're in different worlds. Okay, So you were
in Bulgaria. Yeah, I was umbo three years old as

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you came back here, and it took you about six
months to speak English. Yeah, yeah, it took me about
six months to speak English. I landed here in Cincinnati.
I've been in Cincinnati ever since, you know. I went
to high school here, I went to college here, and yeah,
I honestly I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm
so blessed. I'm blessed to call you my dad, and
I'm blessed to call my mom my mom. All right, Okay,

(06:28):
you're embarrassing me again. Some major points here. I want
to talk a little sports with you, because that's what
you here for. And I think the big story this
week in the National Football League was the combine in Indianapolis.
I'm gonna be honest with you, Okay, I always have
been honest. I didn't watch a bit of it. I
didn't turn the two mount at all. I have no
desire to see guys running a forty yard dash in
their underwear, lifting two hundred twenty five pounds twenty times

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why to me that lacks the competitive nature of sports?
And I was a formal football player in college. How
do you view the event? I don't find the exciting.
I don't see anything involving football with the combine. I
really don't don't. I don't get it. I really don't. Yeah,
I'm gonna have to disagree on the lack of competitiveness here.
Think of the combine dad as a sport in itself, right,

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and these guys are competing on an individual level. And
as a player, you know, I ran the forty, I
pushed to twenty five. I've done the drill. So I
understand why the combine is so closely tied to football
and why those statistics, those measurables are so important. And
really the whole combine is just showcasing what the player

(07:36):
can do, what he's capable of. Now, m right, But
they're interviewing you with these personal questions which mean nothing. Look,
I'm seeing guys that are playing in the National Football
League that allegedly had some incidences with women, like Deshaun
Watson and Cleveland. So I've always said this, that talent
Trump's trouble. You could get in trouble. You could be
a bad person. But if you've got the skill set,

(07:58):
you're gonna get drafted and get the good money. You
may not be a top draft pick, they may push
you down a little bit because of your background, but
you'll be playing the game. And I'll give you an example.
Yesterday Anthony Richardson the quarterback of Florida. They say he
said quarterback marks with vertical broad jump? Who cares? Who cares?
When you go to a football game, you're watching on TV,
You're watching the Bengals playing a pay course stadium, and

(08:20):
you're seeing Joe Barrow the same ge I wonder what
his vertical broad jump was when he went to the combine?
No one cares really, and then make a big deal
about it. Right, Well, I guess they're just again, they're
just trying to measure the measurables, right, How how can
this guy jump? What's this broad jump? What's this arm strength? Like?
How far you can throw the football? And it's just
all based on the individual competitive in this against one

(08:45):
quarterback against the other. What can I do to make
myself a better pick than the next guy? Right? And
then you know the whole talent versus Trump thing. We'll
talk about that later, but I understand that. Look, I
am not alone in this because the National Football League
right now is talking of maybe maybe eliminating the Combine altogether,

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and there are some teams that don't even go there
any longer. I think the Raiders don't show up. I
think the Cowboys don't show up at Green Bay Rams.
They've stopped going. You could do it by zoom. These
interviews are ridiculous. I don't know what they proved, and
I think eventually they're gonna get rid of the Combine. However,
the Combine, at least in my mind, is more of
a TV event than an event to help players get drafted.

(09:29):
It really is. Don't you think people love it. It's
become a media event. Back in the day, when they
formed a combine, it was a closed situation. People went
out to Indianapolis, the players did what they had to do,
and that was it. Now it's open for fans. They're
in the stands TV. It's a big TV event people watch.
I guess the ratings are pretty good. I think people
would rather watch the Combine on TV than watch maybe

(09:51):
soccer or WNBA. I guess, because let's face it, the
NFL's king. Yeah. Well, I mean a lot of this
stuff now day as being televised just for the consumer experience,
if you will. But the combine, yeah, but also just
to keep the fans engaged. You know, the NFL season
is only for so long and then nothing's going on,

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so they got they want to keep the uh, the
watchers engaged. But I still think that the combine holds
an important value Dad, that is the players competing against
each other. And uh, it's just I don't know. Well, look,
they say that there is value. I hear what you're saying.

(10:34):
I agree. There is a value on the field workout,
and they say it's an opportunity to see prospects compete
in an environment in which they get one or two
chances to show what they can do in a specific task.
I get that, but I'll go one step further. Those
specific tasks are never used or shown in the game
of football. That's the problem. That's true. Anthony Richardson's never

(10:55):
gonna jump right abroad or you know, Virgal jump abroad
in the middle of a football game. It's more about
his skill sets, receivers hurdling other players. Now on TV anything,
I kind of like that. Yeah, yeah, but they should
have a hurdling event. Well maybe yeah, well that's what
the broad jump it's. But it's again, it's a way
for the NFL teams to really hone in on what

(11:18):
this guy's skill sets are and how they line up
against the other players and who's going to be the
best pick for their team. And that's what the combines off. Okay,
now here's the big question of the day. I'm gonna
ask you, did you watch it? I watched a little
bit of Yeah, just a little bit of it, you know,
but not much. You know. I think the quarterbacks was
this third day was this past third day from the quarterbacks.

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But I've been watching a little bit. I've been watching
the d line do their forties. Really, some of these
guys are doing four or five, four to six. I'd
never ran that fast and these are two hundred and
fifty pound guys running four flours. It's amazing. Yeah, and
I've seen guys really burn it in the combine and
they kind of become bust in the National Football League.

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Ross at the Bengals. They drafted Ross at the ninth pick,
and he came in here. He was like looked like
he was had wings, he was running so fast. He
never made it. He was a bust. I mean, so,
I mean there's no correlation. Look, I would have to
say this combine or not the draft. To me, there's
nothing more than a crapshoot. It's a luck situation. You know,
there's a couple of quarterbacks out there that'll plug make

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it and make it big. Or I think that Richardson's
a guy that's gonna make it. I mean he's got
a body by six four ways about two forty. I mean,
this guy's gonna make it in the National Football League.
He's like Ben Roethlisberg. Yeah, he really is. So I
think there's some guys that are naturals, but some guys
you just don't know. It's a chance that you take. Well,
look at Tom Brady. When Tom Brady went to the
sixth round, sixth round pick, Yeah, well I don't think

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he even had a good combine right when he went
through to Combraine. Yeah, you go last, but not least.
You know, what would sports be without giving guys like
you and I thought it to talk about and I'm
talking about trouble Memphis Grizzly star John Morant he's gonna
miss two games for the Memphis Grizzlies. Why because he
was seeing I guess at a club on Instagram brandishing

(13:05):
a gun. I mean, really, yeah, someone's got to talk
to these But I love it because it gives us
things to talk about. You. That's why they do it. Yeah.
I don't understand any reason why ever going out in
public with a weapon. I don't know what you need
it for. What do you need it for? He's up
at its five o'clock? What's he doing up past five o'clock?

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He just got done with the game they lost, and
he's out at a bar brandishing a gun. I don't understand.
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save at Progressive dot com. You know what you talk about? Change,
all right? And the only change I like is when
I go to the store, give him a dollar bill
and get changed back. That's the change I like. But
this change in sports all the time, right, and maybe
change is good. So I'm not a change guy. I
don't like change. I like the way things are. I

(15:56):
like the status quo. And I'm talking about the game
of baseball and the reason changing it's because of you,
and you a demo because you and your people are
always telling everybody, I'm bored. I'm bored. I don't want
to spend three or four hours in a baseball game
on board. You know what baseball's beauty is because it
was timeless. Baseball's beauties because no one went to the

(16:17):
game and said, you know, I gotta get out of
here now and day. If no one cared when I
was a kid who got to doubleheaders. We've got a
Yankee stadium at one o'clock and get over at eight o'clock.
We see two games, but you had to cry and
whine and make things change. Right. Well, I don't think
it's me personally, but it definitely is my demographics. I'm
kind of out of the status quo. But to me personally,

(16:40):
is baseball boring? Is baseball too long? I don't think so.
That's the way baseball is designed. That it was designed
that way. What's the relaxing game exactly? So why are
they putting in the clock on baseball? Now? Well, let's
talk about that now. Last year, the average length of
a Major League baseball game was like three hours three minutes.
In twenty twenty one, it was three hours in ten minutes.

(17:01):
The last time the length was under three hours. Get
this was back in twenty fifteen, and the game has
run long. I think they run long because guys are
going out, they're fixing it, batting gloves, they're doing this, pictures,
they're doing that, whatever it may be. And obviously there's
a lot of commercials in between. So now they got
these new rules, and you know the rules. You know
this the rules specifically tell me what the new rules

(17:21):
are and what they need to do. Among all the rules,
there's three big ones. One is the pitch timer. So
fifteen seconds with the base is empty, twenty seconds with
runners on, okay. And that's going to affect not the
new kids, not the rookies because they probably had that
in the minor leagues, but the veteran pitchers are gonna
be looking at that clock and go crazy. It's it's
not a healthy thing. I don't like it, you know,

(17:41):
just saying that that, I'm thinking about this when I'm
a pitcher and I'm going up a known batter. I've
been up against this batter before. The pitchers should have
four pitches in his mind that he's going to throw
to the batter right already, in his mind. So why
is it taking that much long to throw the because
you know it's a game between picture and batter. Two

(18:03):
when the batter steps out, pitchure steps off the rubber. Okay,
what else is with the pictures? Got what? What are
the rules? All? Right? So including the pitch timer here
it gets one time out per plate appearance and must
be in the batters box eight seconds with eight seconds left.
And we saw this in the what the first week
of MLB spring training where a team lost because the

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batters exactly, Yeah, so we've already seen that role in effect.
Pictures gets two engagements per batter. Violations is the book?
And then limits are limits on pickoff attempts lead to
twenty six percent increased in stolen bases attempts in minors.
The second one is the pitch has a limit on
pickoff attempts. The runner is gonna know that he's used

(18:43):
up as slimming on pickles, so he's gonna take off
and scoot down the second base and it's gonna be
stolen bases. I don't like it. It's just increasing the
excitability of the game, right, They want more off Yeah, exactly? Okay,
one this one I don't agree with the shift restrictions. Yes,
two infielders must be in position on either side of
the second base when the pitch is released. So that

(19:05):
means that when the lefty gets up, they used to
have three guys on the right side of the enfield
to stop it. The shift can't do that anymore. Yeah,
you know what, it didn't affect that. You kind of
never heard of this guy. They didn't affect Ted Williams
when he played, and he was a lefty. But you
know what, lawn till he hit to the other field,
well bunked. But that's okay. I get it because you
know it used to be there was no zone defense

(19:25):
permitted in the NBA. Now you could play his own,
so everything changes with time. I guess I don't get
this rule because thinking it practically, if I know that
the batter is going to hit it towards left, I
would want my players in the left side. I agree
to play defense, Joey, I think hit to left field,
all right, So I put three guys on the right side.
But that's the rule right now. It's crazy, all right.

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Continuing on shift restrictions, all four infielders must be on
both feet within the infield when the pitcher is on
the rubber. Shift restrictions increased batting average and decreased strikeouts
in the minors while giving players more opportunities just saw
off their athletes. Okay, and there's a third rule, right,
And there's a third rule. This one. I kind of
agree because, you know, playing baseball, I did steal basis

(20:09):
and I was going head first like Pete Rose. But
it's bigger basis. So first, second, and third increase fifteen
inches square to eighteen inches square. I get it. That's okay.
I don't think it's gonna make that big of a deal.
But if if it cuts down an injuries and coop
with the double play deal, I could see that. Yeah,
I'm into that. So I'm okay with that distance reduced

(20:29):
by three inches from home to first and home to third,
reduced by four and a half inches from first to
second and second to third. Okay. So now after these
rules have been put in place, we've played for a
week now in spring training games exhibition in Arizona in Florida. Okay,
I happen to have the data. I've been like, you
know what happened with the results. Now, now two hours

(20:50):
and thirty seven minutes. That's how long now the average
night any game between teams playing and spring training has
done so far. I don't know if that's a big deal.
Maybe to some it is. I don't know. Two thirty
seven not bad. And the pitch clock through ninety four
games the first week of spring training. Okay. Now, if
major League baseball games average two I was in thirty

(21:11):
seven minutes, it would be the quickest pace of play
since you know when nineteen seventy nine. So I don't
know if that's good, better and different, But I guess
people want it that way. They want to get on faster.
They got things to do. And I think one of
the successes of Major League soccer, in my mind maybe
is that you know it's ninety minutes. You know you're
gonna go to a game. They start the match at

(21:32):
seven o'clock, you'll be out of here at nine. Well,
unless they go the extra five. That's just something that
happens in the South game. And bigger basses equal more
stolen bags. The Cincinnati Reds stole fourteen bases in fourteen
attempts in their first five spring training games this year,
so it's more exciting. It's a little faster. Maybe that's
what people want. I don't know. But now it's been

(21:54):
moving over now to NT double A football, they want
to change things too to make their game faster. I
just say know to me, I'm one of those guys
that loves records. I love statistics, and I think when
you change the parameters of a game, the statistics don't
mean anything anymore. Like when a guy rushes for a
thousand yards in twelve games, that that was because the

(22:15):
barometer of a great season. Now he's rushing for a
thousand yards in seventeen games, it doesn't mean anything. Yeah,
but they don't change, So I don't know that's what
they're doing. They're changing. They don't want to consecutive timeouts
on time penalties replay adjustments in college football. So we'll
see what happens, all right. He's Alex Furman. I'm Andy Furman.
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(22:37):
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(22:59):
round submission to claim the heavyweight title. It was Jones's
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I'm going to take some time away to get help

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and my overall well being end quote. Morant will miss
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oh nine. In college basketball, we had a pair of
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number three Kansas seventy five to fifty nine. Number four
UCLA knocked off number eight Arizona eighty two to seventy three. Elsewhere,
Number twelve Tennessee went down at Auburn seventy nine to seventy.
Number two Alabama up ended on the road at number

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twenty four Texas A and m sixty seven sixty one.
Number sixteen Miami earned a share of the ACC title
by beating Pits seventy eight to seventy six, and the
first two bids punched to the NC Double A Tournament,
Southeast Missouri State out of the Ohio Valley Conference and
fairly Dickinson out of the Northeast Conference. Guys, back to you,
thank you so much, Nip. We'll seeing about an hour.

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All right. He's Alex Furman. I'm Indy Furman. And by
the way, now we know why they complain. We'll get
to that in just about a minute. And in about
seven eight minutes from now we'll have old versus new.
And I guess I'm considered the old. Is that right?
You're the old in the situation that I'm the new one.
But old is good. Old is good. Because you know
why old is wise. Old is wise, and that's it.

(24:45):
We'll get that in a couple of minutes from now.
But right now, I talk about people complaining. Okay, and
you know, if you ever wondered what these NFL players
complain about, certainly to complain about their check. They want
more money. You know, people bounce from teenth to team.
Not so much because the team is good, better and differ,
but they want more money. But now they're at work,
and we have the answer to why they're complaining because
the National Football League Players Association, they released a survey

(25:08):
earlier this week where players who are asked to grade
the working conditions of their team. I don't think this
was such a great idea that puts the teams in
a bad light. It really does. But it's great for
us to talk about because now we're seeing what's happening
the National Football Leage Players Association. At thirteen hundred players
rate how their current team handles categories including treatment of

(25:30):
their families, nutrition, the weight room, strength, training room, training staff,
the locker room, and travel. Everything but football now, everything
but personnel, right, okay, And the first one, I guess,
would you consider the worst? I don't even want to
talk about him because it's disgusting. What team was the
number one? Yeah? Dad? This came out earlier this week,

(25:51):
Jacksonville Jaguars. Really bad situation here? A rat problem? What
a rat problem? Dad? According to the survey, raton is
arriving with the actual rat, like the animal that you
don't want to touch. According to the survey, the rat
issue was the number one complaint for these players and
Jacksonville players reported that three to four weeks during the
twenty twenty season, rat infance station in the locker room

(26:15):
and largery facilities. Can you believe that? Arte? What if
I was a member of that team, I would change
in my car. I'm not changing in the locker room. Rats?
Are you kidding? How does this happen? We're talking about
a multi million dollar industry, a company, the Jacksonville Jaguars,
and they have a rat infestation for two to three
We see this because a they're not cleaning the locker

(26:36):
room number one and number two. You know as well
as I do. Because you were an athlete, you're a
bit of a pig. Right. You come in there, you
have a sandwich, you don't finish it, get through on
the floor. There's probably food all over the place. They
don't clean it up. That attracts rats, right, Well, I
guess so I mean, like I try to pick up
after myself as a whole, athletes as a whole. I
guess you know they want people doing things for that shorty,

(27:00):
maybe a little and tild Maybe you know they've gone
to this status quo where I can get picked up
out of myself. But you're telling me there's not a
cleaning crew. Maybe they were afraid of the rats. That's
the problem. By the way, before we continue, because I
want to see the second team. We're broadcasting life in
the ti iraq dot com studios, just to let you know. Okay,
what other team is in there on this list? Okay,
So this one kind of shocked me because when you

(27:21):
think that you're in the professional setting and you know,
everything should be kind of provided for you. So the
Cardinals are apparently a bunch of cheapskates. The Cardinals will
let you take your food home from the practice facility,
but they are charging players to take the food home. Dad,
you can't get a free meal. That's amazing. You know,

(27:42):
I knew that team was chief of the get go
I never told you this story. Before they were the
Arizona Cardinals. They were the Saint Louis Cardinals and they
moved from Saint Louis to Arizona and the owner at
the time was a fellow the name of Bill Bidwell.
His son operates the team right now. And you know me,
I'm crazy. I write letters to everybody, and I want
them to be the PR director of the Arizona Cardinals

(28:02):
right when they moved, because I always did PR work
for various teams, so I did. I checked Bill Bidwell,
I checked his background. I think, what kind of a
guy he is. Well, he loves to wear he did
love to wear boat ties. I went to Brooks Brothers.
I want a dozen boat ties, a dozen both ties
with a letter and my resume. Never never heard of poop,
never a letter, another thank you from this guy. And that,

(28:25):
to me is the reason why I root against the
Arizona Cardinals every single Sunday. Not even a thank you,
completely ghosted. You write anything back, no thank you, no
thanks for the ties, Andy, nothing, we're looking over your resume, nothing,
nothing unbelievable that that's that's wrong. Well, it shows here
because the players they have to pay for their unfait
that comes right out of their paycheck. It's amazing, it's unbelievable.

(28:46):
You think that, again, a multimillion dollar industry, you would
company they can afford their players to eat, to have
one free mail, they can't afford it. They're stayed the
best frequent hotels and they kind of pay for their meals.
Think about that. It doesn't make any is Okay, what's
the third team on this list? So the third team
we'll go to the Bengals together team home team. Really

(29:09):
this isn't a big deal. But you know, first world
problems here, Dad, The plumbing isn't working at the Bengal stadium.
Really backing up? Yeah, so is she's with the showers,
toilet's not consistently working. And the only team that does
not This is the first world problem. The only team
that does not have outlets in their lockers to charge
their phone's. Dad, No, I would think that's important. I

(29:32):
think that's an important I think this day and age,
you need to have that. You have to have the
charging thing. You know, this this this NFL PA deal
that they put together. Again, I said, I don't think
it was a great thing. It doesn't do any good.
I mean, I've always asked the question, what's the upside?
What was the upside for the NFL to have this
being released? It's not good and it embarrasses a lot
of teams. But I will tell you this much. It

(29:52):
must have some clout because I look at the Baltimore
Ravens and they said they hated their strength coaches and
they fired them after this survey came out. So strength
coach of the Boltonmore Ravens have gone. It's amazing. Give
me one more because I want to laugh about that.
All right, So the cults, I guess they need a
new chef in town. Uh Spring sixteenth. Overall, the team
gave them a D rating. The players dislike the food

(30:15):
so much. I get this, Dad. The players will bring
food from home into the facility just so they don't
have to eat the goods. They don't have to pay
for it. I mean, the culture giving them food they
have to pick They weren't going to eat it, but
they weren't paying. Maybe the chef was so bad they
just gave them food out for free. I'm a little
surprised about the about the Bengals with the with the plumbing. Yeah,
I know, I don't get it. It's just and and

(30:38):
and the plugging it for your phones. They should have
outlets said, they really should again, these teams have millions
and millions of dollars. Of course they're going to other places,
but players accommodation is has to be pretty important. You
gotta keep your players happy, right right, and you gotta
keep me happy today. That's your job. A little respect
and keep me happy. Are you ready for this? We're

(30:58):
gonna do this old versus new. I'm gonna put you
on the spot on this deal. Okay, we do that.
He's Alex Furman, I'm Andy Fermant. Together we have Fox
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called old versus new, but I'm gonna call it right
versus wrong because I think I'm right, I really do,
and then you're gonna prove me wrong. Let's see what
we could do on this right, let's talk. I've got
a couple of different topics here, my take, and you

(32:02):
take a little music relax here, and I say the
college basketball coaches should go back to wearing suits on
the sidelines. Nothing looked better than when you see Jay Wright,
the former Villanova coach, in a suit. Today. It's sloppy,
it's on kemp, it's too relax for me, and it
goes down when someone at the top, like a coach,
wears a sweatshirt and the sweatpants on the bench, everybody

(32:24):
else looks like slobs. Okay, I like when coaches were
suits dead, All right, do me wrong? I think I
think honestly, Dad, your age is showing here. Oh please, really, honestly,
you sound one hundred, dad. Do you want people to
start wearing suits when they're out flying around? Now? The
coach of UCLA wearing a suit the other night when
they were playing Arizona State, and I loved it. Maybe

(32:44):
Nick Cronin's old school or I don't know, but he
had the courage and the class to wear a suit.
You gotta do that. Why should coaches dress up suit tie?
There's no need. There's no need. It's not this if
a coach is more worried about what he's wearing on
the sideline, and it takes us focus away from the game, true, Dad,
And as a player, I don't want my coach worrying

(33:06):
about if this tie matches his belt. Okay, I liked
it when the coach was down by fifteen points with
ten minutes to go and he take that jacket off,
throwing the stands and open up his tie. That's what
I liked. Okay, But I will agree to disagree on that. Okay,
here's a different one. This is really simple. I'm not
a big fan of change. You know that. Only when
I go to the sovereign I am still time. I
am the only time I like change when I give

(33:28):
him a ten dollar bit. I guess some money back.
That's the change I like. But baseball, we touched on
it earlier today. The beauty of the game was that
it was timeless, not even got a clock. Get rid
of it. Get rid of the clock. People'll be looking
at that clock. You know what's gonna happen. I'll tell
you you're gonna go to a game this year and
they're gonna count down five four three. They're gonna do it.
Not to the stand and the fans stand. They're gonna

(33:48):
do that. Driving the pitch is crazy. I promise you
you'll see that. No, I can't disagree with you anymore. Honestly.
The reason behind us is the patience has gone with
social media, with the Internet. People want instant gratification now,
and that's what they want in their sports. Dad. So
I was with a friend of mine. We went to
a bonfire and he said he doesn't want to watch

(34:09):
a game for three and a half hours. People don't
want to watch on TV. Well, that's where the democratic goat.
What does he got to do that's better? What did
he say? It's boring, it's too slow. He wants action.
We want action. I don't disagree with the pitchlock. Like
the pitch clock, he keeps the game to stay with
baseball for a minute over here, right, Okay, and look,

(34:32):
you won't remember this, but back in the day I'm
talking about maybe in the sixties, they had not won
but two All Star Games in the summertime. I guess
it was a big deal. They only did it for
a couple of years, no big deal. But besides the
World Series, it was the only time the National and
the American League stars met. I say, get rid of
into league play. I get it. There are a lot
of people in various cities. If you're living in a

(34:52):
National League city, you want to see maybe the Yankees
come to Cincinnati, and they will come here this year. Okay,
I get that, But I think the competitive nature of
the game, it's better to play teams within your division.
I like that, and I think it's more important to
have a separation of the two. No, true baseball fans
they want to see these interleague plays. When the Yankees

(35:14):
do come to the stadium or two to Reds, I
want to see Aaron Judge play. I want to see
the Yankees play the Reds. So the true baseball fans
they love these games, they want to continue, okay, and
they hand out these all Star voting ballots in the stadiums. Right, So,
if I'm gonna go to a game in Cincinnati and
they're gonna hand out a ballot that they're gonna have
on that ballot both National and American League players, you know,

(35:37):
how in the hell do you vote for an American
League player where you never see all of them? Anyway?
I bet I guess you could study the stats to
do that, but it's not right. Have the separation of
the two leagues. Please. I really liked it better than
I think. It's just another way to keep those true
baseball fans engaged, and true baseball fan isn't just tied
to one team. So I love my Reds, but I'm
also a Yankees fan. I like the Yankees, I like

(35:58):
the Mets, I love the Dodgers. The only way you're
gonna get baseball fans to be engaged with other players
is to have some sort of a fantasy baseball situation
like football has, and that on level work because baseball
plays every single day. Football is perfect because they do
the fantasy deal once a week. I don't think they
could do it. I remember back in the day people
doing fantasy baseball with pencil and paper. You go crazy

(36:20):
doing that before computers. I had no idea how they
did it. I don't. I never did it. I couldn't
do it. It It just do much work every single data update.
That and especially if you live on the East Coast
and they're playing West Coast games and the game's end
at one am, I mean, you just can't do it.
Football is perfect. The fantasy football has really taken football
to another level. Let me run this by you see
what you think about this one. All right? I watched

(36:41):
the NBA All Star Game this year. Why I love
the NBA. I love basketball, but I got it wm it.
I tried to watch that game. It was, it was.
It was ridiculous. I mean, it was like I've seen
better games in the park. I really have. Okay, but
the biggest scripe that I have is that please, if
anybody in the NBAS listening that, please, can we go
back to East versus West instead of having two captains

(37:03):
picking players at random out of a bag. I guess
I watched that game and I saw two members of
the Boston Celtics on opposite teams How in the hell
does that happen? It's crazy. Give me East versus West, please? No.
I like that. I like that the captains are selecting
their players. Two players from Boston playing against each other.
You won't see that anywhere else. But they're not gonna

(37:26):
go hide it heavily because they don't want to get hurt.
They're not gonna play each other hard. It's three ridiculous.
I saw that game. They're just throwing shots up at
half court. It's crazy. Give me East versus West. He's
going one hundred, forty hundred and fifty, one hundred and
sixty points. It's nuts. Well, I have my own opinion
all the All Star games across the board. Baseball the best.
Baseball is probably the most competitive All Star game, but

(37:48):
basketball is it's a it's just a joke. But it
never used to do that. It's like a circus ring.
It's just it's all week long and it's just all
bit media hype. That's all it is. That But ever
used to be that way. Yeah, I was going to
say that, yes, because it used to be such a pride.
I made the All Star ride and now it's just

(38:08):
it's like a week of vacation for these out there
playing around having fun. There's no sense of pride in
that anymore. Borrow something, I mean, you've got something for
me that you'd like to see change nothing at all.
You give me a sport, give me, I'll give you something.
I don't like the idea, and maybe this is really
out of the ballpark here. I don't like the idea
of sports overlapping. I think why baseball is hurting. There's

(38:31):
no that about that is it's no longer a national sport.
It's a regional sport. But I think one of the
major problems is that when baseball hits its peak, which
is the World Series, the National Football League is starting
around Labor Day and it hurts. You have to have guidelines.
Every team should have a season. I look at the
Major League Soccer. Not a tremendous fan of Major League Soccer,
but holy Mackael, the season starts in February and it's

(38:53):
in November. Come on, I get it. They only played
twice a week and those athletes can't play more than
twice a week. It's a tough board, but give me
a season and lock it in. It's crazy. NBA, the
playoffs and the first week of July when I was
growing up, and I hate to go back in time,
but Memorial Day was all over. It was over. Well,
I think to talk about that that it's that people

(39:16):
want more sports consumption, so no media money. There's a
money operators in the league. They don't want more sports,
they want more money. No longer it goes, the more
money they make. Because the NBA used to have opening
round playoff games best three out of five every playoff game.
Right now it is four out of seven. Why more games?

(39:37):
More and more people are going. That's that's what it's
all about. It's all about money. When you have a
question in your mind about anything in life, usually trace
it back to the green cabbage. That's what it's all about. Money.
It really is. So so basically we were at different
ends of the spectrum, right girl, that I'm new that
has nothing to do with it. Age has nothing to
do with that. Because I ventured a guess that if

(39:58):
we opened the phone lines maybe in the next hour
and find out a lot of people don't like change,
They don't like what's going on in baseball. They enjoy
going to a ball game. They never looked at their
watch going to a baseball game that I prompted you.
All right, we'll continue now if he mentions the R word,
stay away from him, that and so much more right
here a Fox Sports Sunday next. Oh baby, why take

(40:21):
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you shall receive. And of course the callers are always
first class on this show. And before we get into
what we're going to talk about, which is going to
be a guy that really and truly on getting tired
of talking about him, we got Kurt. Kurt's listening to

(41:03):
New Orleans. Kurt, get on with Furmant and Furmant on
Fox Sports Radio. How you doing, Kurt Okayer, Hey, great man,
thanks for taking my call man, thanks for you know,
I appreciate it. Man. We're down here. I'm down here
in New Orleans and branded. Man, all we have is
the quarterback left Saints to watch all the time. That's
another question later and you can answer wise. Mickey loomis

(41:24):
so so sad because we can't still can't get a quarterback.
But you know, football bigger. I'm a big NFL fan.
I'm as league baseball fans who football goes three three
and a half hours all the time. Are the attentions fans?
Are the attentions fans of baseball fans? Or is it
that a cute man that they can't Well, there's action,
but there's more action in football. That's the problem. There is.

(41:47):
There is, Yeah, yeah, there is. But you know in
the Stylegiah, I mean I think it's a younger generation though, dude,
I really do, because he's fat. I said it. Yeah,
it's just wave microwave society. Man, we're in a society now.
If you want to you know, we're in a society now.
You want to get instant food, you want to get
your glasses in an hour. Everything has to be done

(42:08):
like now or yesterday. Right, sit down and relax I mean,
I mean, come on, man, two two and a half
hours way out? So what man? This is major league baseball.
You know, it's just you can't compare football a baseball.
But baseball wants to take over, you know, the general,
you know, the the nation's love and all of this,
and they can't even stay stay true to what they're true,

(42:30):
too true, too many? Quick question man, quick question? Man?
Why can't why can't we Why can't the same raft
a quarterback? Why can't we draft a quarterback? Man? What
is this game? We play that one for the longest time.
But you know why, we'll see what happens now. I
think if they can make a trade and trade down,
because I don't think the Bears are going to go
for a quarterback at number one to have one justin feels.

(42:51):
So we'll see what happens. They're gonna make some wheeling
and dealing right now. But you know as well as
I do. You know, well, you talk about a team
like the Jets, they can't get it right either a
quarterback just a way. It's a tough Yeah, missed on
Mahomes a few years ago. That was it? Very good
day you two? All right? Now, speaking of quarterbacks. I'm

(43:12):
gonna throw a name in your lap, and you tell
me what you think when you hear the name Aaron Rodgers.
What goes through you are? Where do I begin? Honestly,
I think he's done. And let me tell you why.
I hear Dad many times during last year, during the
mid season, there was just this look on his face.
In the middle of the game. They would just pan

(43:33):
to him, yeah, and he had this look like he
just did not want to belong. He did not want
to be on the field. He did not want to
be playing football. And that's why I think he's done
postgame interviews blaming others. His mind is not on football.
I don't think it's been on football for quite a while.
If I'm being honest, Dad, I think he's done and
I'm tired of hearing it. Okay, And I said coming
into the segment that if he mentions the R word,

(43:56):
which he has, and I mean the R word meaning retire,
because that means he's not all in. And if I'm
a teammate, I want my guy to be all in.
I don't care if you don't have the skill set,
if you don't not that talented, but at least give
me a one hundred percent, Give me a one hundred percent. Look,
he had this four day in a piece darkness retreat,
which is over. He still hasn't made a decision. I mean,
do you need the attention that badly? I mean, he's

(44:17):
like a spoiled baby. And it hurts me to say
that because he's a great quarterback. He's a first ballot
Hall of Famer. I enjoy watching him play, but there's
certain things that I just don't want to hear or
see or read what he's doing off the field that's
not football related. Yeah. Yeah, Well, he's always on podcasts.
He does the Pat McAfee podcast too. He's always together.

(44:38):
But you know, I understand what you're saying. If he's
going to do a four day retreat, no no reason
to tell the entire world, you know, no reason. But
you know, he has always been a kind of like
an open mind thinker. You know, he if he has
a bad back, he's not taking medicine. He'll go to
a medicine man and get something right herbal That's just
the kind of guy he is. But this retreat, you know,

(44:58):
it's not the first time he's done something like this.
You know, that right right, Well, it'll be a year ago.
We went through the same situation, the same exercise. I
think the Green Bay Packers are tired of it, to
be honest with you, And he's talking about maybe being
the host of Jeopardy. I mean, if you're talking things
like that, that that means you don't want to play football.
That means the competitive juices are gone. Right now, I
think it's gone. And that's why I said earlier. I
think halfway through the season he had just looked like,

(45:20):
I just don't want to be here. I'm burnt out,
I'm done, I'm tired of playing football. I want to
do something else, and that's I think that's where he's
going right now. Well, look, he admitted last offseason he
was contemplating retirement, and then he made his decision to
return just about a year ago. I think it was
March eighth of a year ago. And then he signed
a three year, one hundred and fifty million dollar contract

(45:41):
extension that's going to pay him almost sixty million dollars
guaranteed if he plays this year. So maybe the competitive
juices may be gone, but I think that money in
the background is going to be one of the reasons
why he's gonna play, Okay, I would think, ok, all right,
So let's say he does play, he gets I think
it's like fifty three male that he's going to get
playing in twenty twenty three. What is your thoughts of

(46:01):
green Bay? Do you think green Bay wants him to
play if he knows, if they know that he's checked out.
I think green Bay wanted to play on the certain conditions,
and the condition is that you've got to be all in.
You gotta be all in. I think the teammates they
have to meet with him. They're gonna and the general
manager as well, you know, will have you here. We
love you here. You've done great for us. You're a
two time MVP, won the Super Bowl once. But if

(46:23):
you want to play here, you can't be just saying
that you may retire and we want to see you
come out here and give everything you got. You're thirty nine.
What kind of a future does he have left? That's
the key. Well, so if he just keeps going the
way that he's doing, um, you know, saying I haven't
made my decision yet, but it's going in this thing

(46:43):
he's just making. He's almost making a really bad name
for himself. Dad, think about it. He's a great quarterback,
a Super Bowl winning quarterback, but he's just fumbling through
the media and he's just projecting something. Oh I think
he does, but he's projecting something that no one's gonna
want to work with him. Well, you know, he's gonna
want to work with that kind of guy. And there
was some talk that he might go to the Jets.

(47:04):
I don't see him going to the Jets. And one
of the reasons why is the fact that if you
go to the AFC, you're competing against some great quarterbacks,
including Joe Burrow, Mahomes, Josh Allen. You stay in the NFC,
who do you have? Yeah, you know, Kurt Cousins himself.
He still may very well be the best quarterback. He
probably is if he stays in the NFC with Green Bay.
Let's say this, Let's say that he does still want

(47:26):
to play football, but he wants to leave Green Bay.
What are his options the Jets. I don't think it's
going to be a good it's not a winning team. Plus,
the New York media would kill he die in New
York media. So I think the Jets are out, So
he has to stay in the NFC. But where would
he go in the NFC? You know, I think there's
a lot of people that don't want to spend that
kind of money, and knowing that he's starting nine years

(47:46):
of age, I think that they're tired of his antics.
I think that if someone want to ask me right now,
you're gonna ask me, where's he going this year? When
this time to suit up? In twenty twenty three, he'll
be playing for the green Bay Packers. I don't think
he's going to retire because I don't think anybody in
their right minds going to walk away from fifty three
million dollars. That's the key. I agree. Great, so he'll
be at green Bay. He'll play for fifty three male.
But he may not be all committed in right He

(48:08):
may not. And look, last year he was upset. I
get it that Green Bay did not supply him, so
to speak, with great receivers. The defense was a little
shotty at times. He had some problems over there. But
I think that they could win, and he may have
a better chance of winning in green Bay than winning
in New York with the Jets. And at the end
of the one thing that he has to realize if
he goost to New York, not only will he be

(48:30):
on the sports pages every day. They got that page
six deal in the New York Post, they'll be following
him around twenty four to seven. They'll kill him. They'll
kill him in New York. They really will. So I
don't think he's going there. But I just I'm tired
of it, really, yeah, And I'm tired. Bay Packers are
tired of it too. I thought Green Bay Packers. I
think they're just over it. I think they're really they

(48:50):
just shot themselves down on the foot side and that extension. Look,
he's got three options right now, all right, return to
the Packers, which I think he is going to do,
a trade to another team, which I'm not so certain
he wants or any other team would want to take
a chance, because you can't build with him. He's starting
on you. There's no future there, okay. And what retirement,

(49:11):
that's basically I don't think you walk away from that
kind of money. And then what's he going to do
after retirement? Well, probably TV. I would think, like I said,
I think he's just build himself a reputation where he's
just kind of putting a bad name on himself. He's
close to retirement. He had a great career at Green Bay,
a great quarterback, super Bowl winning quarterback, but just his

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actions now towards the end of his career, I think
people are kind of down world spiral. It's not going
to look at and I think the fans at Green
Bay are tied of it as well. You know, well,
all the fans want to do is see a team win.
They don't care what a guy does. I mean, proof
positive in Cleveland with DeShawn Watson. They don't care about
his background. If they win, they will make a statue

(49:51):
for him. If they win the super Bowl, they don't
care about what he's done. Give me a winner. That's
all what people want. And they didn't want to hear
what a players doing offseason politics, whatever it may be.
They don't really care. No, Aaron Rodgers had come out
and said that, look, and he was smart and saying this,
I didn't have my best year playing last year or
in twenty nineteen, and there was a reason people think

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I'm done. But he said, I thought I was done
before I became a COVID MVP twice. He won the
MVP twice. But you know, here's a guy that I
think Moore is expected of this guy, two time MVP,
but he only won the Super Bowl once. I know
it's tough. I know it's tough, but here's a guy
that probably should have won the super Bowl at least
another super Bowl. But I think he's coming back. But
I don't feel as if he's saying he has something

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to prove. That's what I want to hear. You know
what I mean, you're talking about the retreat. I'll just
make a decision when I come out of it. He
never made a decision. But you know there are other people,
like when Tom Brady came back at the forty four
days of retirement, he kind of made made it like
he wanted to have something to prove, like his legacy.
He wanted to play again. I don't hear that from
Aaron Rodgers, which tells you what that he checked out.

(50:57):
He's checked out. When they are one that was out there, Yeah,
when they are words there when you mentioned retirement in
anybody in any business. I mean I'm not just talking
about athletes. If if a businessman says or a salesman says,
I think I'm going to retire, that means you don't
have it anymore. You're out of gas. You just don't
want to do it anymore. Right, Yeah, I see that
with you sometimes. No. All right, here is Alex Furman.

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All right, he says he's not guilty. What do you say?
That's next? A stupid mistake. We'll get to that in
just about a minute. A lot of people think, well
I did this morning was a stupid mistake working with you.
That's my son Alex Furman. I'm Andy Furman. We are

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Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio, and this is
kind of a sad story. I don't I don't enjoy
talking about it, but I think it's important to discuss
it because it's out there and maybe if we could
reach one athlete and maybe the bell will go off,
the line will go on and say, yeah, maybe I
shouldn't be doing stuff like this. I'm talking about. One
of the top prospects in next month's NFL Draft has

(52:46):
been charged with reckless driving and racing in connection with
a crash that killed a teammate and a recruiting staff member.
We're talking about Jalen Carter. Let talk about this now.
The Georgia star Jalen Carter, one of the top prospects
the draft, has been charged at reckless driving and racing
in connection with a crash that killed a teammate and
a recruiting staff member. Devin Willock, who was an offensive

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lineman for the Georgia Bulldogs, and Lacroix. Lacroix was the
assistant coach Chandler Lacroix. They were killed and what police
initially reported as a single vehicle accident. Reckless driving and
racing are both misdemeanors in the state of Georgia, and
Carter also said in his statement he expects to be
fully exonerated of any criminal wrongdoing. I got to ask

(53:29):
you this before we roll on here. I know it's
a lot to swallow here, but how does this happen?
How does something stupid like this appen? Really, honestly, this
is just a sad story all around, you know, affects
so many people. My heart goes out to the families affected.
My heart goes out to Carter's family as well. I mean,
they're just as affected as the families that lost their

(53:49):
loved ones. But you ask, how does this happen? Think
about a dad winning national championship. You feel on top
of the world, You're on this high, You're you're feeling invincible,
and he's still a young kid. And young kid made
a stupid mistake. He was racing, lost control of the

(54:11):
vehicle and crashed and killed two people. And that's that's
just what it is in this situation. Just a young
kid made a bad choice and it cost two people.
There's their lives, and it may caused him a slide
in the NFL draft. I would think it might. We'll see,
but as I always say, talent Trub's trouble and he
was looked on some draft boards as the number one pick.
But we'll see what happens. And you mentioned the celebrations.

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The crash did a car hours after the Bulldogs celebrated
their back to back national championships with the parade and
the ceremony down at Sanford Stadium. Willock was pronounced dead
at the scene. He was twenty years old. A teammate Lacroix,
the scouting coach. He died shortly after being taken to
a hospital. Now here's the deal, right now. Details of

(54:54):
the investigation that were released the other day said that
Carter and Lacroix were operating their vehicles in a consistent
with racing. I get this. The investigators have determined that
alcohol impairment, racing, reckless driving, and speed were significant contributing
factors to the crash. A toxicology report indicated that lacroix

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blood alcohol concentration get this point one nine seven point
one nine seven more than twice the legal limit in
the state of Georgia. This was at the time of
the crash, according to the police, and the suv driven
by Lacroix was traveling get this, one hundred and four
miles an hour before the crash. I guess. And they
say speed kills. I get it. I understand. But it

(55:38):
doesn't excite me. I guess to some people that does.
But you made a great point, you said, some of
these athletes, and they're young, they feel like they're invincible.
I got a story that was told to me by
a Hall of Fame basketball reporter by the name of
Peter Vesty, a good friend of mine used to write
for the New York Post. He wrote for the New
York Daily News, and at the time when he was
running for the New York Daily News, he was covering
the New York Nets. At the time, basketball a ya

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and they were on a plane trip and they were
going through some turbulence and the plane was bouncing around
and doctor Jay was on that team, all right, and
everybody was screaming they were afraid. And doctor Jason Peter
told me this that, oh, don't worry, this plane can't
go down because I'm on it, and that's the mindset
of athletes. Yeah, that's what they think. I'm invincible. This
plane can't crash because I'm on the plane, right. Yeah.

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So it's amazing, it really is. I think once players
reach a certain threshold, and we're talking about young kids,
once they go into the collegiate athlete status quo, if
you will, they feel invincible, they really do, and then
they start doing some stupid things. You know, they start
hanging around, maybe with the wrong people, drink and they

(56:44):
think that they can still get away because it doesn't matter.
I'm just starting linebacker for Georgia. I'm not going to
get kicked out of the school, right, I'm not gonna
get kicked off to the team. But you say one
thing that really bugs me about this situation. Yeah, man, Yeah,
you say TTT talent Trump's trouble. Yes, well, I see
character Trump's trouble, especially in this situation. So you're telling

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me it's not going to affect his drafting. I think
the only thing, honestly, that may affect his drafting is
if he can face the music, showed that he is responsible, respectable,
he's willing to work with the police deal with this situation.
Head on. Maybe that might save him in the draft.
Pick Dad. That won't trouble the coaches. That won't trouble

(57:28):
the GMS if they know that Carter is a responsible
young adult and they don't have to babysit them if
they're going to draft them. Okay, let me tell you something,
because I got some facts. I got facts. Be okay.
I got Charles McDonald's NFL mock draft as of February
of the twenty third of this year, he had Jalen
Carter the number one pick of the Chicago Bears. With

(57:49):
this guy McDonald's way off base because the Bears, it's
not gonna happen. But this was before the accident. But
he had the Bears picking Cart at number one. All right.
Now we move along to CBS dot com their mock draft.
Now after the accident, they have jail and call a
full cart of falling to the seventeenth pick, round one
by the Pittsburgh Steelers. All right, So it's gonna hurt

(58:13):
him financially, but he's gonna play in the National Football
League and he's gonna make a lot of money. Well,
I'm not going the way. I'm just saying that he's
not going to play in the NFL. He's an amazing athlete,
but I think that the only saving grace that he
can have for himself is how he's going to deal
with the situation. If he can just prove that he's
a young man with good character, the coaches don't have

(58:34):
to keep an eye on him, the Jams don't have
to keep an eye on him, and he's not a
threat in that way, then I think he'll go. I
think he'll go maybe mid high draft pick. I'm hearing
what you're saying, and history there's a situation where he
repeats itself. And if you remember years ago when the
Cincinnati Bengals drafted Joe Mixon, he had a problem in college.

(58:56):
He broke a girl's jaw right and everybody said, how
could you reft? This guy? Stayed well, he came to Cincinnati.
He's been great, He's been a model citizen, has been great.
He had right before the playoff game this year when
the Bengals are going to Buffalo, and that still is pending.
I guess in the in the law, we'll see what
happens with that. But other than that, you never heard
of peep out of Joe Mixon. Yeah. So he's great
with the fans, he's great with the kids. He always

(59:18):
goes over and signs autograph. I went to as like
a spring training thing that the Bengals had, and he
was right there signing allographs, taking pictures with the fans.
Didn't know. He's a great, great citizen. But but there
was some baggage when he was in college and people
were questioning should I take him? Now, he was lucky
he came to Cincinnati because Cincinnati's kind of a loving city.

(59:38):
I really mean when I say that, he goes to
a place like Philadelphia, New York, LA, you know they'll
have you know, these women's groups marching and going crazy.
Nothing like that happened here in Cincinnati. So it was
a pretty good deal for him anyway. Yeah, well he's
been he's been good ever since he got out of
college and got in the NFL. He's shaped up there
you go, he's Alex for him. So before we get involved,

(59:59):
before we move, he will get drafted. We agree on
that he will get your first round. I say first
round still first round number one, But he's not going
to be the number one pick now, I think, And
it depends on how he handles himself. Cool is welcome
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six o'clock on Pacific time, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Spots Radio. And by the way, we're gonna tell you
if size really matters. That's coming up next of Fox
Sports Sunday Live from the tire Rock dot Com studios.
But first, his Nick Cope with the update. All right,
let's start in college basketball, where there were a pair
of TOM ten matchups on Saturday, Number nine Texas dominating

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against number three Kansas seventy five fifty nine in the final,
Number four A UCLA taking care of number eight Arizona
eighty two seventy three. The Bruins went a perfect seventeen
and oh at home this season. Elsewhere, Number sixteen Miami
earned a share of the ACC title and the TOM
seed in the AC Tournament by beating Pits seventy eight
seventy six. Number two Alabama went down on the road

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at number twenty four Texas A and m sixty seven
sixty one. Number seven Baylor upended at home by Iowa
State seventy three to fifty eight, and number six Marquette
just got by Saint John's ninety six to ninety four.
We also have the first two tickets punched for the
NC Double A Tournament, Fairly Dickinson out of the Northeast
Conference and Southeast Missouri State out of the Ohio Valley Conference.

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At UFC two eighty five in Las Vegas, John Jones
defeated Cyril Gone by first round submission to claim the
heavyweight title. It was Jones's first find in three years,
and he forced Gone to tap out in just two
minutes and four seconds. In the NBA, Grizzly Star John
Moran has apologized for flashing a gun at a nightclub
while on Instagram Live. Morant will miss at least the

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next two games on the court. The Sixers snapped the
Bucks win streak at sixteen games, one thirty three to
one thirty the final no Timberwolves got by the Kings
one thirty eight to one thirty four, and the Cams
beat the Pistons one fourteen to ninety That's all I
got back to you, all right, Nick, The pleasures all
you as you know that. We appreciate that great work
as always. And we heard this story before. That's coming

(01:02:11):
right up. We've crossed the fifty online what we call
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Bus Radio. He is Alex Furman.
I'm Andy Furman. We're related by by blood, I guess
is it by blood not by food. I'm adopted dad,
all right, so we're not related. So your strength basically, yeah,
will you pick me up off the shelf? That's what

(01:02:32):
we did. By the way, could you believe next Sunday
is a selection Sunday already college basketball? And that's what
I mean about these overlapping seasons. I mean the NFL,
I mean, I don't know if it's done on purpose
or by accident, but the way they have things spaced
out with the combine. Then they'll have the draft, then
I'll have this, that and that, and then the the
practices that come on there, the workouts. I mean, it's

(01:02:53):
it's a year long deal. Yeah, and people just keep
on following the NFL. It's an amazing situation. Well, I
think the fans are demanding this Dad. As the sport grows,
as popularity grows, the fans want to consume more and
more in the NFL. They have to keep up with it.
But they little football I hear here, but they're not
doing that with the XFL. See, there's really no interest

(01:03:14):
in that college football in the NFL and won two sports. Yeah,
and that's it. Well the XFL is what's just starting
up again? Some of those games. Yeah, I don't want
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bottom barrel betting which I will beat the living daylights
out of you in about five five to seven minutes
from now. Okay, now this should be right up your
ally because you played college football and we know that
you're not a brute. Really, were you afraid to try
out for the team because where did you wet? Like
one hundred and twenty pounds? Yeah, a small lot kit, No,

(01:03:58):
I wasn't. I mean you ran, you could run, That's
what I had. I had speed on my side. You
know when I played football. I was like a slot
receiver you think of like a like a Westwalker, right right.
I was short, but I had speed man. I would
do quick. I had good hands, so I would, you know,
get in the middle. I would run those slant routes.
I remember one game, I think because Higlands High School.

(01:04:18):
I knocked you out pretty good and I ran out
of the stands on the field. That's right. You were
on there faster than the train. They threw me out
of there. But I was wondering if he was still alive.
It's the daylights out of me. But I bring that
up there because you know, they're talking about size that
doesn't really matter. And again they bring up Bryce Young,
the great quarterback. When you think of Bryce Young and
they say he measures five ten, some people say he

(01:04:39):
measures six one whatever. It may be six foot one
ninety four or five ten two old four. Who knows
what he measures. All I know is this when I
see Bryce Young on the field, I know he's a
great quarterback. Yeah, I know he's a Heisman Trophy winner.
That's all I know about Bryce Young. I don't care
about his size. And why is this such a big deal?
Tell me about that? Well, I think what most people
are really worried about as he's going to get hurt. Right, So, Kylie,

(01:05:01):
what's a color Murphy? He's Murray, Yeah, Murray. He's five ten,
but he's a small guy. When he run, he gets hurt. Right.
Josh Allen's a little bigger guy. He's a running quarterback,
but he can kind of Lamar Jackson, the bigger guy.
He can take the hits. So I think really just
the size thing is that they're just worried that Young
is going to get hurt. But he's gonna get bigger.

(01:05:22):
He's gonna buck up, Sure he will, you know. And
it's funny because yesterday they officially measured Bryce Young. He
measured in five ten and an eighth with a two
hundred and four pound weight, and that makes him the
lightest Round one quarterback since way back in two thousand
and six and one of the shortest passes drafted since
AFL NFL Merger back in nineteen sixty seven. Who cares?

(01:05:45):
But in the Alabama Media Guide they listed him as
six feet one ninety four. But who cares. It doesn't
make a difference. And I love the answer he gave
when the media was questioning him yesterday, he guess what
I've been this size respectfully my whole life. I know
who I am, I know what I can do for me.
It's fair. Everyone can speculate, ask me every question. I'm
going to continue to control what I can control, continue

(01:06:06):
to keep working my hardest. I'm confident in myself. I
know what I could do. So really, I mean, what
do they want from this guy this? I remember last
year Kenny Pickett who was drafted by the Steelers, who
played for PID. They made a big deal about his
hand size. Yeah, I mean, it's it's It's nuts, isn't it.
That's why I think they got to eliminate the combine.
I said that, Well, I don't think they gotta get
rid of the combine data. We talk about those measurables,

(01:06:28):
but I don't think you can judge a quarterback based
on height, weight and hand size. I agree, right, And
then there's plenty of athletes to prove this wrong. Think
about Johnny Menzel, twenty two overall pick in twenty fourteen.
He's only six feet tall, but he didn't really do anything.
He didn't really do. But Michael Vick number one draft
pick and oh one six feet tall. Yeah, he may

(01:06:53):
have been less than six feet six. And then Drew
Brees all star quarterback here, you'll go into the Hall
of Fame six feet yeah. So it's not really it
doesn't matter how big this guy is, it's how he
plays the position. But I agree with you. I certainly
agree with you. Look and they said that basically. Bryce
Young met with the Bears, and I always said, it

(01:07:14):
isn't justin fields the quarterback of the future. You know
they have the number one pick. You gotta believe they're
gonna trade fields for picks. They do need bodies. I
think they may not be a bad idea. If they
get the number one pick and drift Bryce Young for
about two firsts and two seconds. There's a possibility because
the Bears what they need. They need offensive linemen, they
need defensive linemen, and they need receivers. Maybe it's a

(01:07:35):
way for them to go for the future and trade
justin fields. That's a possibility there, it's a possibility. I
like fields at the Bears. I think the Bears like fields.
I don't think going for another quarterback. You're going to
answer their prayers if you will. But I understand the
theory where they can pick up a few more draft
picks and get a few more bodies on the field.

(01:07:55):
I think what they ought to do, honestly is just
keep fields they and then just start building the team
around fields, highlighting his strengths and protecting his weaknesses. Okay,
let me let me go one step further with this
Bryce Young thing. To defend Bryce Young and the size factor.
You know, if he was playing at a mid major school,
let's say a Mid American conference, maybe Miami of Ohio, Toledo,

(01:08:18):
something like that, the size might be a factor. Maybe.
I don't know, I'm not a scout, but the fact
that he played at Alabama, these guys are brutes. I mean,
you're playing in the Southeastern Conference, is the best conference
in college football, and what he did in that conference
against those powerhouse teams, it's really it was tremendous. A
As I mentioned, he won the Heisman Trophy. He was

(01:08:38):
a Southeastern Conference offensive player in the year back in
twenty twenty one. And get this, twelve interceptions, seventy nine
touchdown passes in two seasons at Alabama, and in the
last game in that Sugar Bowl game when they beat
Kansas State, he threw three hundred twenty one yards, not one,
not two, but five touchdown passes. I watched Bryce Young.
I think he's one hell of a quarterback and I

(01:08:59):
think it's gonna be a great quarterback on the National
Football League. I guess maybe there's some sort of a
dependent upon the team that drafts him in the system
they're in, but I think he's got all the skills
to be a tremendous quarterback on the National Football League.
He does, and everyone's making a big deal about his height,
his weight, and his hand size whatever maybe they do.
They do, but they don't have to worry about Young.

(01:09:20):
He will be a great quarterback in the NFL. Look
what they should be concerned about. He had that sprain
ac joint in his right throwing shoulder. That to me
is more of a factor, and I have the medical
staff check that out more than his height and weight.
And you can't do anything about height and weight right
your ball, you can bulk up, you can gain you
what he will. I'm sure that the training staff will
do that for him, but I don't I don't understand

(01:09:41):
why people are so concerned with that. And it seems
to me that every year at the draft or every
year at the combine, there's one player they kind of
pick on and say, all right, Kenny, pickt your hand
size is too small. He did well list year he grew,
you know, his graft went up in the season went on.
I thought he did rather well. I really do. So
I don't get it. I think he'll do well. And
I want to look at the draft board over here.

(01:10:02):
I got some of these draft boards over here. As
far as Bryce youngest concerned. Let's see Bryce Young as
far as CBS dot Com right now projected Team Houston
the number two pick. All right, they got Anthony Richards
to number one being drafted by Indianapolis to call so
the Bears. Obviously you're gonna trade that number one pick.
According to the CBS dot Com draft pick. Okay, let's

(01:10:24):
see Bryce Young over here, they're gonna go into the
Colts at four. By Charles McDonald's pickers. Again, that was
back on February twenty third, his mock draft picks. I'll
see what happens there, you know, regardless of the fact
that there's gonna be three or four quarterbacks drafted a
round one and he's gonna be one of them. And
I think he's gonna have a pretty good NFL career.
I agree, and again, size doesn't matter, not in my eyes.

(01:10:45):
It's how he plays on the film. I'll tell out
to a lot of women out you know we're talking
about I think we're gonna make sure we talk about quarterbacks.
Quarterback size doesn't matter. Quick quarter of course, put in
because you make it yourself in trouble. All right, there
we go. He's Alex Furman, I may d Ferman. We
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(01:11:55):
Alex Furman's cut out of the will. He's out of
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speaking of bottom barrel betting, last week, Andy, you and
Jeff actually tied one to uh or correct. One went
one for three, alright, one was inconclusive because it got postponed. Great,

(01:12:18):
all right, but let's start us off with this week.
So we got some darts going on, guys between the
PDC Premier League has a match going between a guy
named Gerwin Price and a guy named Peter Wright. Seemed
to be some sharpshooters in their craft, but Price is
favored by one and a half points. Now, straight up, guys,
who's gonna win? Price are right? The price is right?

(01:12:40):
All right? No? No, no, you go off. I'm gonna yeah,
guest first, Dad go on, I'm gonna go with right,
all right, the price is right. That the price is right, alright,
alright sweet, all right, So, right off the bat off
of that air quote hot fight that was Tommy Fury
versus Jake Paul, we have another boxing fight, but it's

(01:13:01):
not against YouTubers. It is an elinor Abdry mob versus
Angel Daniel Garcia Molina. So, Andy and Alex, do you
guys think that this fight's gonna go the distance? Or
is there going to be a knockout? Earlier? Go ahead?
I'm thinking how many? So it's the typical. I believe
it's a eight rounds, eight rounds, Okay, I say knockout

(01:13:23):
in a six alright? Garcia? Oh, Garcia, I got Molina
on a technical knockout. Molana on a technical knockout. Alright, alright,
gotcha both. Now, guys, let's switch gears and head into
the entertainment and movie side. So we have the Academy
Award nominations, with one of them being Best Adapted Screenplay,

(01:13:45):
and there's a lot of nominees, but let's just go
with the top three here at the nominees for the
top three are women Talking Glass Onion, which is a
knives Out story Knives Out two, and then there's Top
Gun Maverick. Now, what do you boys think. Do you
think Top Gun Maverick's gonna win Best Adapted Screenplay? Yes?
Or no, Alex, I don't think that. There's no reason

(01:14:08):
it was adapted screenplay. I think it was. That was
all real. So I'm gonna go with glass Onion because
I watched the first movie. I love that. Daniel Craig
is amazing. I'm going glass on Youion? Really? Oh yeah?
Have you seen that much? So good? This is not
fair because you know right away you're favoring him. I
could tell there was some conversations within the two of

(01:14:28):
you prior to the show, and you know me like,
I'm like Aaron Rodgers. I stay in the cave. I
look gun out much. So I'm going with Top Gun
Maverick because I happened to see it. Other than that,
I did not see glass Onion all right, So in
the darkness retreat you were in, Yes, yeah, that's my
life barely gets out of the cave, I see. I see. Well, guys,
let's head into the light and go into the XFL

(01:14:50):
which is going on right now as we know, and
we have right now, well not right right now, but
right now currently season. So we have the Saint Louis
BattleHawks versus the DC Defender. Now, do you guys think
the winning final score goes over thirty five points? Hmmm,
it's on you. I don't think so, no question. I

(01:15:15):
watched one game and it was just you know why,
it's a great question because defensively they're so bad, so
you think they might. But offensively they stink too, right,
I watched a little bit of it. They're fumbling, they're
dropping passes, there's penalties, you know, And I hate to
agree with you, I really do. So I'm gonna say, yeah,

(01:15:36):
they will go over thirty five. How's that? Of course,
maybe a couple of interception, a couple of picks sixes maybe,
so I'll say, yeah, they will go over thirty five. Alright, alright,
we have one yes and one no? Got it there?
All right? Final one by the way, Yes, I don't
know if he's gonna be here next week or not.
But if I lose, I don't want to hear the
results next week. If you win, if you win, you'll know,

(01:15:58):
so hell yeah. So if I go, andy, you went,
you win? And if I don't say anything, you know,
no one knows exactly? Well no, no, Now you gave
it away. I did give it away, all right, all right, boys,
Final one and we got some soccer with the Premier
League and it's Manchester United versus good old Liverpool. So

(01:16:19):
do you think that there will be three goals? What's
the will you take the over under on three goals
for the game? Total? Three goal? Total? Total? Three? Yeah? Total,
three goals up to you. That's a good yeah. Yeah. Uh,
I'm gonna go over dad, over three. Yeah. I think
I think that these teams are pretty good defensively. I

(01:16:41):
think I'm gonna go under. I'm gonna go on. I'm
gonna go into the three goals total over and under
all right, over, gonna actually one for just in case,
just in case, an extra one you think? No? Yes, no,
I only got five of us for the day right now? Really?
All right? That's fine? Did you did? All right? I
appreciate that you got anything for me. You want to

(01:17:02):
bet on something? Right now? How when we get home?
How fast are you're gonna take a nap? Minutes? Over?
Five minutes? Dad? Uh, it's an a fi. I was
hoping that you would drive. I can sleep in the car,
right really, Patrick put it for under five minutes I'm
gonna put it. I am absolutely putting under five minutes
right now. What's wrong with taking a nap? I don't
understand when you wake up at your age, you do

(01:17:24):
it every time you tell you no way. You're attacking
me now and we said we weren't going to be
doing any of that stuff. All right, you made it
through two hours. You're doing pretty good. You go one final,
a lot to go. We'll see what's going on now
and uh and we got a good one too because
we've got to dig a Philip's coming up and now
our number three. So I want you to show a
little respect to the film and not youre dame coach.
You will do that, right sir. So there's a recap

(01:17:44):
here before we roll along. You take I mean, you're
doing okay? You like it? Do you think it's good? Honestly?
Fitzing a little bit? It's so hard studio. I'm taking
my pants off a surprise. It took us this long, dad,
to do a show together. You know, I've radio business
for five years, so I got a pretty good handle
on the tail, if you will, right, um, But to

(01:18:08):
do it for this long, what were you because you
didn't know a thing about music. You didn't want to
hang out with me, didn't want nothing about music, you know,
and that's what you were doing music. I was transitioning. Interesting. Okay,
we're gonna talk a little bit about the Jets and
their quarterback situation over the years, because when I went
back and did some research, it really, in one word, stinks,

(01:18:32):
It really does. So, and we talked early on about
maybe Aaron Rodgers coming to the Jets, which I don't
think it's going to happen. I think it's going back
to Green Bay. But they certainly need some quarterback help
and maybe there are cars. They answer, they interviewed him twice.
See what happens. The ownership of the Jets say that
if he plays in New York and wins, he could
be a first ballot Hall of Fame, in which I
think is ridiculous. That's not a selling point, you know,

(01:18:53):
a selling point to the sky his money, that's what
the selling point is. You got to do that. So
we'll see what happens. So we'll talk about that. Then
we got digger and also in our number three, we
have what we call maybe the news that you missed.
You've got some interesting news stories. I do not necessarily sports, right,
but now a brand new product. Really, yeah, you're gonna

(01:19:14):
love it. I think you'll love it. Why would I
love it? It's something you can use every single day. Dad.
I have a feeling. I know where you're going and
I don't like it. I don't like what I'm hearing. Really,
so we'll do it okay. Other than that, any complaints
before we move on, anything that I should change, as
it difficult to work with me as a partner. I'd
like to know before we before we see a do

(01:19:34):
just change your shirt. You're switching everywhere. It's suking way.
I'm suking way. Really. You know, if I knew better
and that there's some women out there in the newsroom,
I would take my clothes off and do the show naked.
I would because if you don't give me the gut
of they've been looking for an answer for fifty four years.
That's coming up. I'll Fox Sports Sunday right here next

(01:19:55):
all right, they really need to get it right. That's
coming right up. Yes, he is Alex from I'm Andy Furman.
I don't know why they said the pride of the family,
but I guess you know, it's a Hollywood type of thing.
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and rolling along right now with you talking about the NFL,
and you would have to admit it's someone worth They
ask you the most important position, maybe not only in

(01:20:37):
the NFL, maybe the most important position in sports entirely
is what it's the quarterbacks position, no doubt, no doubt
about that. You know It's It's funny because the quarterback,
in my mind, he can make a receiver. But at
times I guess the receiver could make the quarterback. But
more often than not, I think a quarterback can make
a receiver. If you go back and look at Tom
Brady's career, how many, if any Hall of Fame reivers

(01:21:00):
did he have? Randy Moss maybe, And that's basically he
didn't have any great receivers in New England. Sure, sure,
that's true, but there can be an argument also that
the receiver can make the quarter a great quarterback even
better if you will, raising his stats and his legacy
in the game. Um, you know Jerry Rice with who's
Steve Young? Yeah? Yeah, that so like just a combination

(01:21:22):
like that. Um, well, Jason Row exactly, I see that
right now. Okay, I don't talk about the New York Jets.
The Jets, in my mind, have been in the left
the laughing stock in the NFL for like the last
fifty years, and it starts where with the picking of
their quarterbacks. Okay, that Jet Pennington, he had potential. I
guess if he stayed healthy and played during the AFC

(01:21:43):
championship runs and the Jets had the Jets, maybe maybe
they would have got their second Super Bowl. And the
last decade, New York has drafted some of the biggest
names in college and you know what, they all have
been busts in the NFL. The jury is still out
on sam Don Sanchez, Mark Sanchez, Gino Smith. They gave
defans hope in New York and they ultimately let them down.

(01:22:08):
Zach Wilson, he gained a lot of high play to
Brigham Young since the end of the twenty twenty college
football season, and with five quarterbacks taken in the first
round that the twenty twenty one NFL Draft, all five
will be compared throughout their careers. And Wilson, Zach Wilson,
that is might be in the toughest to find success.
I'll tell you what. He just he blew it when

(01:22:28):
he had that press conference. If there were a loss
that it was not him. Yeah, I think he just
lost the team at that point in time. But if
you would be so kind, I hate to put this
pressure on you, but if you would be so kind,
could you take a look at maybe some of the
draft picks your New York Jets have picked sixty A
two thousand. Who were they and what did they do? Yeah,
let's start with two thousand, first round draft pick in

(01:22:50):
two thousands. Chad during his career twenty two twenty two touchdowns,
six interceptions, fairly impressive, but just like what you mentioned.
And No. Four injured his road to cuff and then
re re injured it in five, missing thirteen games. So
there's a bus right there. Dad. You can't keep the
quarterback healthy, right all right, but it's not his fold.
But you gotta get his healthy. You gotta get a

(01:23:11):
guy that's healthy. So moving on OH three, we got Brooks.
I don't remember him, do you remember? Well? He came
out of Wisconsin and OH five and then when Pendleton
was injured, that's where he stepped up through seven touchdowns,
six interceptions to the quarterback RADI and of only seventy
two so not not not very good. And they end

(01:23:33):
up going to the Vikings and Cowboys. But then in
OH six, we're moving over to Kellen. Okay, Kellen, he
is real shot in New York. Came in O seven
when he started eight games through ten interceptions and only
five touchdowns. So then there's another bus right there. They
can't just get a decent quarterback. And well, let's take

(01:23:54):
a step back here. Is most of the issue the
quarterbacks or do you feel like it's the line they're
getting hurt? I think the inter might be the personnel
people that it's drafting. Maybe they're just drafting the wrong guy.
I don't know, I don't I don't have the answer.
I'm not an NFL personnel guy. But when you keep
on getting it wrong so many times, you got a question,
who's making the picks. One of my favorite, Mark Sanchez

(01:24:16):
and No. Nine okay, seventeen touchdowns, thirteen interceptions, past completion
rateing of only fifty four. And he was sick for
a while, she was, he was, but he continued to start.
Through twelve. His total record was thirty three twenty nine
total touchdowns, sixty eight touchdowns, sixty nine interceptions. So Sanchez,

(01:24:37):
by the last two quarterbacks, he's looking the best so
far because he's just kind of like the middle of
the road. He's probably your most average quarterback the Jets
had in the last what twenty years. The last quarterback
they had probably that at any success was Joe Namath.
When you think about it, that really the only Super
Bowl winning quarter right, the only Super Bow winning quarterback.
So now you gotta say, they gotta get it right.

(01:24:58):
They gotta get it right right now. And the quarterback
that I guess they're zooming in on and weighing in
on his Derek Carr, who left the Las Vegas Raiders
and basically obviously a serious option for New York. They
met him for a second time in Indianapolis the other
day during the combine, and they really high in this guy.
And if we remember, they sold him on a situation
that he would be a future Hall of Famer if

(01:25:20):
he signs with the Jets and wins. I mean that's ridiculous.
I mean I don't think he's looking at that. He's
looking at a money and looking at the team that's
surrounding him. Yeah, that's what it's all about. So Aaron
Rodgers is a possibility, but I think that his future
at the age of thirty nine, you're not going to
build around the Aaron Rodgers. I think Derek Carr could
be the guy. I think it will be the guy
and the Jets staff right now comparing Derek Carr to

(01:25:43):
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, who won a Super Bowl later
in his career after changing teams. Well, Matthew Stafford, believe
it or not, had some tremendous numbers playing for the
Detroit Lions. Lions had a terrible defense and they couldn't win,
but he has some great number. So I don't think
many people were that surprise putting Matthew staff for in
LA with that surrounding cast that he had had a
great cast there. The only thing that Bob that bugs

(01:26:06):
me with Car going to the Jets is what conference
he's in. He's going to be in the AFC Conference,
and he's going to go up some go up against
some great quarterbacks. We're talking about Burrow, Patrick, Josh Allen,
Justin Herbert. I mean, just a really good competition. Is
Derek Carr going to be successful if he goes to
the Jets? You talk about money and winning. Is he

(01:26:28):
gonna win at the Jets? You know, I think that
he's not going to have that many choices, So that's
a possibility there. But you look at this, they compare
it to Matthew Stafford. Say why would they compare him
to Matthew Stafford? Their careers are pretty similar because Car
has four times as many Pro Bowls selections as Matthew Stafford.

(01:26:48):
That's an amazing stat really who the only Pro Bowl
season was back in twenty fourteen. Both quarterbacks were on
teams that really were not top notch teams, the Raiders
and the Lion for most of their career, and Stafford
tasted success in his first year with the Rams in
Los Angeles after spending the first get the twelve years

(01:27:09):
in Detroit. That was something with the Lions he threw
the game winning touchdown pass during the Rams Super Bowl
win over the Bengals, if you remember that. So I
think Carr coming to New York and he's got maybe
coming off you know what, he didn't enjoy playing in
Las Vegas, but I think the future would look bright
for him in New York playing for the Jets. You know,
they like everything about him. But I don't hear if

(01:27:31):
anybody else or any other name mentioned when it comes
to quarterback in the Jets besides Derek Carr and maybe
Aaron Rodgers is a rumor situation, maybe more from Rodgers
than from the Jets. Yeah, yeah, I can't see I
can see Car maybe being a good fit for the Jets.
But then again, I think Car is in a position

(01:27:52):
a time in his life right now where he just
wants to win. And my only issue is is that
I don't think he's going to win with the personnel
already at the Jets. May just be a bad fit
for him. And though, but he's been talking to the
Jets two times already this week at the combine, so
there's some there has to be some kind of interest there.
Dead you know, you bring up an interesting point, but
I don't know if that's such a big factor. The

(01:28:12):
fact that if he goes to the Jets, he's playing
in that tough AFC where they have quarterbacks like Justin Herbert,
Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen and Joe Burrow. And the NFC
basically Aaron Rodgers. We assume we'll be back in Green Bay,
Jalen Hurts and Kirk Cousins. That's basically it. And I
got to believe if Rogers goes back, he may very
well be the best quarterback in the NFC. Derek Carr

(01:28:34):
right now, there's other options. Excuse me, we haven't heard
about those options. But I would say to forty nine ers,
they're a super Bowl possibility with a quarterback question. Yeah,
you know they've got injuries there with Brock and things
like that. The Saints, the Falcons, those three teams right
now could be on the radar for Derek Carr. So
it's gonna be very interesting. We'll see what happens. But

(01:28:55):
you know, the Jets better get it right, and the
fans are really they're they're impatient. I'll blame him now,
I don't I don't won Super Bowl and you were
in New York right now. The Giants have kind of
superseded the Jets as for as success. They went to
the playoffs last year, they won a playoff game and
they beat Minnesota. Was kind of surprising really, But we'll
see what happens there with the Jets. But the quarterback situation,

(01:29:17):
to me, it's wide open. And Derek Carr to me,
going to New York, I'd like to see him against
some success. I don't know why. His stats were pretty good.
He completed almost sixty one percent of his passes through
thirty five yards, twenty four touchdowns, fourteen interceptions last year
and they still couldn't win. And they had the leading
Russia in the National Football League in Jacob So I

(01:29:38):
don't understand the problem there, maybe defensively or maybe he
just can't win it they wanted to unload his contract.
I don't know. Well, I know he loved this time
with the Raiders, and he thanks the Raiders for his
time and making him a start. But you talk about
these other teams, I mean, I would be really interested
in seeing him in Atlanta or in New Orleans. That's

(01:29:59):
a it's really no. Actually, no other teams are really
talking to him, and the only thing that we're hearing
is it's of the Jets. You know, it's funny you
mentioned Atlanta because I was really shocked when Markus other
was cut. But if Falcon's the other day, he started
thirteen games with the Falcons, wasn't really I guess in
their long term plans. But the Desmond Ritterer, second year
player coming out of the University of Cincinnati, is he

(01:30:21):
the future? I mean, I think they need a veteran
quarterback there in Atlanta. I think that's the team that
could really use it. Derek Cards, don't you think, well
maybe or maybe it's they're on a two year rebuilding
scheme and they're gonna do it with Ritter Andaron. Ritter
is a great quarterback out of Cincinnati. I loved watching it.
He starting quarterback, is a guy you could build your
team around. So you think, I think so. He's he

(01:30:44):
took Cincinnati to a Pro or to a bowl game. Yeah,
but Cincinnati in the NFL are two different as. I
understand that. I understand that, But I'd liked Ritter as
a bit of a homer. Now you're showing me you're
a bit of a homer with the Bearcats. I get it.
I know you do, but you know, back off a
little bit. But the breaks on that would it'd be
interested to see car maybe in New Orleans as well. Yeah,

(01:31:04):
I think the fans they would like to see. Yeah,
I think so. Who knows, But to Mariota, I mean,
here's a guy that bounced around. He's gonna be thirty
years old this year and he'll probably be a backup.
I don't see him starting anywhere and any team of
fifteen touchdowns, nine interceptions, passed the writing of eighty eight
and then he benched him for Ridder late in the year.
Ridda didn't do much on the passing side of the game.

(01:31:24):
So we'll see what happens. I think that, you know,
he'd like to get a shot. You would think that
when they get rid of Mariota, there's been ridden right now.
Probably thinks he's in the running for the starting spot.
But you know, his his ego will be deflated. Should
they sign it Derek Carr, which I think they will,
I think they need to well possibly so, I mean,
he maybe better served there in Atlanta than in New York.
I would agree, a better chance to win, I would agree.

(01:31:46):
I would agree. We'll see what happened? All right? Uh,
it's amazing what's going. I mean, you talk about the
season being over and people just still continually talking football
and the National Football It amazes me really well, the
sport doesn't end at the at the end of the
Super Bowl, right, NFL is all year long, and they
do it because the fans. The fans absolutely love it.

(01:32:08):
But the fans are so engaged they have to keep
keep the news going and all that kind of stuff
that I mean, it's just you know, I'll tell you
something funny. We talk about the Aaron Rodgers situation, the
Lamar Jackson situation, and you talk about the National Football League.
I guess right now you have to say Patrick Mahomes
is probably the face of the league, right you're talk
about National Football League. He's like the face basketball. Maybe

(01:32:31):
Kevin Durant perhaps the face of the league. Does baseball
have a face of the league? Judge? You think I
don't think he is? Why why? I just don't think
baseball even has a face. I really don't. I mean,
I think that's one of the problems. I don't know
how you create that. How do you create that? When
when I say Aaron Judge, what do you think I

(01:32:51):
think the great yeary head, last year there's sixty plus
home runs. But other than that, there you go. I
mean the league that he's on a great ball club. Yeah,
basically I think, Yeah, Maybe who did you pick? Maybe
somebody has an answer for me. Okay, he's Alex Ferman.
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(01:33:35):
This team has a major battle off the field. We'll
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We're live on the ti iraq dot com studios. Bottom

(01:33:56):
of the hour. The question of the day, I'm gonna
ask dig A Helps, the former Notre Dame basketball coach
who also coached at Fordham. Why he's not in the
Basketball Hall of Fame career record of four nineteen nine eight,
three ninety three, one ninety five and Notre Dame and
he's graduated all fifty six of his players at Notre Dame,
fourteen years in the NT Double A Tournament. Why isn't

(01:34:18):
he in the hall? In Springfield, We'll find that out
bottom of the album. Right now, we got football to
talk about. That's what everybody talks about football. I'll talk
about the Baltimore Ravens. Let'll tell you this team is
in a mess. It's in a big mess. The general manager,
Eric da Costa, he wants a long term contract and
he's negotiating right now with his quarterback Lamar Jackson. And
Jackson right now is probably gonna hit free agency, which

(01:34:39):
is on Tuesday, March seventh. Okay, but the general manager
Da Costa, he's not really in good graces. Were one
of the top wide receivers on Baltimore. The Costa was
quoted this week criticizing his own track record for drafting
receivers and the veteran starter Rashaud Bateman respond it to

(01:35:00):
him on Twitter, saying, the Costa is this quote pointing
the finger at us and quote lying about his own players.
The Costas said that Bateman, who was the twenty seventh
overall pick in twenty one in the draft, has now
issued a piece offering and a hugging emoji. If there's
critiquing of the Ravens handling of the passing offense, this

(01:35:22):
isn't good now, If this is not good at all,
And it amazes me why a general manager would say
something like that, pointing the finger when it was all
his doing. Well, don't get it. This is what happened here.
So de Costa was on The Vault, which is a podcast,
and quote saying if I hadn't answered, that would probably
mean that would have better receivers. That's a pretty stupid

(01:35:43):
to the draft picks. We're gonna keep swinging, swinging and missing.
I imagine it's what's going on here. But he's saying,
with the draft picks and we've never really hit an
all pro type of guy yet. And then that's when
Bateman he didn't like that response. Listening to this podcast, right,
let's see, how about you play your players to their

(01:36:04):
strengths and stop pointing your finger at us. And number eight,
Lamar Jackson, you guys blame us and let us do
we take the heat twenty four seven and keep us
healthy take care of or was it say trying all
line and captain players for no reason? So obviously it's
just a whole bunch of finger pointing here, dad, And

(01:36:24):
no one's really happy with the situation. Cost is not
happy with the picks that he's picking. He's not producing players,
he's not producing a winning team. And then Bateman saying,
quit picking quick pointing the finger at us. This is
all if you're doing. Okay, a couple of things. Number one,
I did a little bit of research. I don't do much,
but I did a little bit of here. Since the
Baltimore Raven's first drift, which is back in nineteen ninety six,
get this, Baltimore is the only team to not drift

(01:36:47):
a Pro Bowl wide receiver. That's unbelievable. Over the past
twelve seasons, Baltimore's wide receivers have combined to produce get this,
the fewest receiving yards like twenty five nine ten in
the NFL, and the second he was catches two thousand
and four, which kind of points to the offense they have,
which is basically a running offense with Lamar Jackson. So
the next question is that Lamar Jackson goes to free

(01:37:09):
agency or gets traded either one of the two. When
he's not there, that they live with Tyler Huntley as
their quarterback. I don't think so. This team is in
a complete downfall, in a mess. And this guy Da Costa,
I mean, he's probably walking on eggshells right now because
of what happened. Yeah, now he's definitely on thin ice.
The players are not unhappy, the organization isn't happy. Baltimore,

(01:37:30):
the fan base are not happy. Baltimore is a great
team and they're always been one of the toughest teams
that the Bengals have always played had to go play against.
But now he's walking on eggshells. His team can't produce
a winning season. He's about to lose his quarterback. If
he can't pet the money that Lamar wants. He's about
to have all the Cleveland Browns of the problem with

(01:37:51):
the guaranteed money, with the Shawn Watson, with the two
forty five two fifty million guarantee deal, which you know
really set the stage for everybody else in the national
foot that was that was a barometer right now. And
you look at a guy like Lamar Jackson who basically
has a has an MVP under his belt, and Deshaun
Jackson has done anything, I could see why Lamar Jackson
wants to get this kind of money, this guarantee money.

(01:38:12):
And you know what, I don't have a problem where
plays in the NFL getting guaranteed money because one hit,
they're finished, N're gone. And the way he plays, he's
he's a reckless quarterback anyway, Lamar straight well, Lamar Jackson
isn't like any other quarterback in the NFL. He's his
own type of Terback's is on his own level. He
runs like a deer on the field and you can't

(01:38:35):
keep up with was he at Louisville when you were
he was at Louisville. He was a great quarterback at
Louisville UM. And we didn't think that he would be
a good quarterback in the NFL because he was a
running quarterback, right you know, no nfls like to stay
in the pocket. But he's a great quarterback out of
the pocket. And Lamar rightfully so he knows what he's
worth and he wants his money. I think that basically
Lamar's got the chips in his corner. Yes, because with

(01:38:57):
Tyler Huntley as a backup, and ain't gonna win there,
you know. Okay, Now we move on right now with
Digga Filips is winning in the wings. He's Alex Ferman
on the Indy Furman with Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Splits Radio. This guy's a future Hall of Famer. Digah
Films joins you next, but first, I Loo Isaac Lowankhan
has all your sports. Good morning, Fells. When we start
with a big showdown in the NBA on Saturday night

(01:39:17):
that saw the Philadelphia seventy six Ers wedded Milwaukee one
thirty three to one thirty breaking the bucks sixteen game
winning streak. The Sixers rallied from an eighteen point third
quarter deficit by scoring forty eight points in the fourth quarter.
Joel and beat the game the go I had three
pointer with forty one seconds to play. Minnesota won at
Sacrobato one thirty eight to one thirty four, breaking the

(01:39:39):
King's five game winning streak. In college basketball Saturday nights,
Southeast Missouri State won the Ohio Valley Conference tournament when
it overtime went over Tennessee Tech for its first NCAA
Tournament berth since two thousand. Fairly Dickinson's going to the
NCAA tournament, that's right, because they won their Northeast Conference
semi final games Saturday night. The other semi final winner, Merrimec,

(01:40:03):
is ineligible for the NCAA tournament because it is still
making the transition from Division two to Division one. So
congratulations to Fairleigh Dickinson, which was four and twenty two
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fellas back to you, all right, thank you, Hilo, see soon.
All right, Now, the one and only coach Diggah Phelps
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this the coach? Yeah? Andy? How are you doing? Coach?
How are you? Thank you for joining us. I really
appreciate your time, especially on a Sunday. I mentioned your
career record four ninety five at nd graduating all fifty
six of your plays, not to embarrass you, fourteen years
in the ant DOUAA tournament. Why the hell aren't you
in Springfield? That's a good question. I don't know what's

(01:41:36):
there really interesting? Timber eighty s idea Clemson. He did
some research and I got fifty one wins against top
twenty teams, and of those twenty fifty one wins, twenty
six or against Hall of Fame coaches. Wow. I think
your time will come. I really do. My son wants

(01:41:57):
to ask you a question. Jager Alex here. Great to
have you on the show. I'm sure you're falling in
the news. How would you handle the situation in Alabama
with Brandon Miller. Well, that's a real tough situation, and
I think the experts who are dealing when they are
trying to do the right thing, and yet as far
as this career and basketball is a pretty good player.

(01:42:19):
So it's it's really a tough issue to handle. And
I think how it started and how it ended up
is I don't think he felt that had ever happened
when he made the first move with that gun. So
we'll see what they say, how they handle it. As
a coach, what's going through your mind when things develop

(01:42:41):
like this, What's going through your mind? Well, it's obviously
tough for our team if it becomes a situation, we
would do our best player, especially if we're trying to
take a shot at the national championship. But sometimes you
just can't control what's your student athletes through when you
don't have any prior dessert a game or when you're

(01:43:01):
in meetings with him. All right, we totally to dig
a fell future Hall of famer. You know, the face
of college basketball certainly has changed that certainly over the
list several years and since you're retired your thoughts on
this basketball portal, which makes it look like free agency
in college basketball. I think it's going to ruin the game.
I think eventually you're just not going to be able
to police it, and the money's going to ruin the game.

(01:43:24):
And that's what's sad about it. It's going to take
a few years for it really kicks in, but when
you're seeing the money starting to fly and he gets
out of control, it's going to really I think hurt
college worth, you know. And they've got this name, image
and likeness situation where basically it's almost like giving recruits
money but making it legal. Back in the day, they

(01:43:45):
were doing it behind closed doors. They were given sacks
of cash to play for their school. Now you get
a Richard Lum. He says, hey, come over here. We'll
give you a situation where you could come to our
car dealership on a Saturday and get on social media.
It's the same thing. But I don't think healthy, No,
it isn't. And I think it's going to really room
the game of college sports in time, and I think

(01:44:07):
the NCAA has no control over it. But it's going
to be interesting to seeing about five years where it stands. Okay,
let's talk about the ANTBAA Tournament this year. Some of
the teams you would like, and who do you look
as a front runner to possibly win it all? Our
sister Jeans said, Kentucky's gonna win it all. Well, Caliperry's
got those guys playing, They got a lot of confidence.

(01:44:27):
They had their down part of the season, but they've
been doing really well legally and I think it's up
for grabs this year. It really is. I don't think
anybody can dominate. When I saw Houston get beat by Temple,
I said, oh okay, here we go, and it's gonna
be one of those years where I feel a mid
major school like a few years ago when Liola Chicago
got to the final four. That's not going to surprise

(01:44:48):
me this year to see him in major get to
the final four. What happened to you? A fighting Irish
this year? A major disappointment? Number one? And number two.
Who's going to be the next coach? Well? Number one one, Yeah,
it is a disappointing season as they've played the whole
year with only three wins in the ACC and obviously
now it depends on what they do in the ACC

(01:45:10):
tournament because they can't go anywhere with a losing season.
They can't go to the NIC postseason. That's going to
be interesting, but I think they're going to wait to
the seasons over. I think that's what most good schools
do because you could get them at major school going
to the final four, and that would be the coach
you want to hire. So I think by the first
week of April, when all this ends with the NCAA tournament,

(01:45:33):
then I think Notre Dame will make a move to
pitch affect the right coach. Had they made any names,
I haven't even read a possibility of a rumor of
a name out there. Notre Dame hasn't said anything itself.
It's all the other people are coming up with rumors. Right.
What about conference realignment? What is it healthy? Is it good?
I'm seeing the pat twelve. UCLA may be going in

(01:45:54):
the SEC again Oklahoma Texas? Is that good for colored sports?
I mean, whatever happened to the rivalry? When you were
at Fordham you would play the local Do you played
Saint John Syracuse? You played all the local schools? No,
You're right. I think the most important thing is when
you look at how it's going to happen. And we
talk about student athletes. Well, if Southern County you said,

(01:46:15):
joins a Big ten and now all of a sudden
they got to play Penn State and Maryland on the road. Well,
when did I go to class That's a three thousand
mile trip from the West coast city East coast, And
you talk about merging the conference. I just think they
just leave it alone. Let the tournaments in their conference.

(01:46:36):
Tournaments are so valuable and so important to each area
of the country and the five majors. Of course, when
you look at the Big East, the accd SEC to
Big twelve, in the Pac twelve, they're the powerhouses. But
you got some mid major schools that can do some
damage this year. And I can see that happening. You know,
you mentioned the three thousand mile trip, and I see

(01:46:56):
that the basketball, press football, I could live with that.
How does the bull team with a baseball team make
that trip and who pays for that? That's the other
part of it. Or you do with the other team
sports and that's what's going to be the crazy thing.
Or I just think they got to sit down, stay focused,
and keep it local. I told the Digga Fel's future
Hall of Fame basketball coach, coach and no dame of

(01:47:17):
coach at Fordham And speaking of Fordham a week ago,
they aren't it you and you a team And I
was around to see that at the time when they
were the toast of the town in New York City
twenty six and three, the first time this is amazing,
really the first time over the air radio picked up
local college basketball. Fordham was on WNBC radio six sixty
AM at the time because you were the toast of

(01:47:40):
the town selling out Madison Square Garden time. And again,
what was it like last week seeing those guys, Well,
I hadn't seen some of them like fifty one years.
That was really fun to get back with all those
guys and have a good time. We got together Friday
night and I spend time with each guy, and then Saturday,
of course at the game and halftime, we're on it
at the court and it was one of those great

(01:48:01):
moments that you reflect on in your life where it's
flashback memories. And that year was unbelievable for what they did.
We ended up starting four guards, a six five center
and went ninety four feet and by the time we
played five games, we had the press figured out. The
problem was if you played us the sixth game and
you've never seen us before. That's why we got at you,
because we knew how to press and what the weaknesses

(01:48:22):
were of the press and and make those weaknesses become strange.
And that's why they went twenty six and three. What
are some of those guys doing now? Charlie why? Charlie
Yelverton was demand what is he doing? Well, he's over
in Italy, Charlie Why, And that's where he's living now.
And Bart Warowitz he's one of the founders of Google.
So you know what he's doing. He's collected a good check,

(01:48:45):
That's what he's doing. Coach is always a pleasure. I
wish you nothing but success and good health. And I'll
be there in Springfield when you get in, and you
will get in that I promise. Okay, Andy, you take
care and keep your show going. It's a good show.
You got a man, Coach, Diga Phelps formerly a note
of damon for him future Hall of Fame with joining
us on Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's

(01:49:06):
Alex Furman. I'm Andy Fermanan. By the way, coming up next,
here's the news that you missed. Who have it all
for you? Next we call these odds and ends. We'll
get to them a just about a minute. He's Alex Furman.
I'm Andy Furman. Thank you. It's been a pleasure thus far.

(01:49:28):
No fighting, that's been pretty good. No, you've been very nice.
I don't have to go back to mom and tell
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odds and ends stories you may have missed or you

(01:50:31):
may never have seen. And you got a beauty. You
got a beauty with this one because I'm sure you've
been using it. That's why. Well, actually, dad, I know
what I'm going to get you for Christmas next year.
It's a brand new device, a remote kissing device. I'll
give me a break, that was created by a group
of university students in China. And what it's for is
for long distance relationships for you and your long distance girlfriend.

(01:50:54):
What are you trying to say? Three D silicone gadget
that has a mouthsape module and it is triggered through
a kiss, which is then transferred through the internet. Believe
it or not to the other mouth on. There's too
much about this. You probably have one, do you have? Why?
I looked up gifts to get my dad and this
was the first thing that popped up. How much does it,

(01:51:14):
cause it's still in very development. I'll give you that.
So how it works. It mimics the movement, temperature, even
the pressure dad of the kiss using sensors and links
to phones via Bluetooth and an application. So you can
download an app and and kiss back and forth with
you And what are you want to say? You want

(01:51:34):
to give me the voice? You can have the show
right in? Come on? Okay, you know what, Maybe you
don't need it, but I can get this for Jeek.
I can get this for Jake. This okay. So anyway,
so there has been some criticism. Some people on the
internet are calling this weird. It is weird. It is weird,
but you know, money on it. I'm sure group of

(01:51:54):
units first and there's a picture of it. It looks
very um not normal. Contact is functioning right now, it's well,
they have prototypes out. Here's what it looks like here
and i'll give you this. So the app, there's a
function in the app. Let's say you're single, you don't
have a significant other. Well, the app allow if you
could practice, because if you're not a good kiss you

(01:52:14):
could practice maybe, right, did you practice kissing when you kissing?
So let's say you're a single person, you don't have
the significant other. There's a function in the app that
allows users to pair up anomalously with strangers in the
quote unquote kissing Square, meaning users can upload their kisses
and download others and feel the experience of someone else's

(01:52:37):
kiss you anything else. I got this. This is a
feel good story, and I've seen this all over my
social media from time and time again. Seven year old
Louisiana boy has a firm grass on baseball, not just
to play, but he is the youngest umpire. A seven
year old umpire um Lathan Williams is known as Lathan

(01:52:59):
the Kid umpire on social media channels, has been serving
as an umpire for local baseball game since five years
old and making calls featuring players as old as twelve
years old. That's pretty cool. I love that this kid.
He could care less about playing baseball. He just wants
to be behind. He wants to be behind the play,
calling the shots. I don't know anybody want to be

(01:53:20):
an MP. It's not bad. He likes to do it.
I got something that's really embarrassing and I'm gonna do it.
Okay out of New York City New York City's Department
of Transportation. They swung and they missed with a road
sign for the Jackie Robinson Parkway that spelled the Baseball
Hall of Famous. First name is Jakie is j A
c Ki? How in that hell can you spell Jackie

(01:53:42):
Robinson's name wrong? Especially in New York City Now. The
sign was spotted last Sunday in Queens, New York, featured
a picture of Jackie Robinson, major League Baseball's first African
American player in the modern era, over the words Jackie
Robinson Parkway Jakie. Department of Transportation spokesperson Scott Gestel said

(01:54:03):
that the bots sign was replaced Monday. Now. I'm thinking maybe,
just maybe he was done intentionally to get attention for
the sign. I don't know, but Robinson, as you know,
broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in nineteen
forty seven. He celebrated as a civil rights trailblazer and
as a superstar athlete who made the All Star Game
six times and batted three thirteen over his ten year

(01:54:25):
Major League baseball career. The road was formerly known as
the Interboro Parkway, was renamed for Robinson in nineteen ninety seven,
the fiftieth anniversary. He was groundbur Rookie season. You know,
I could see this kind of relate to it a
little bit. I had like these ethnic nights when I
was a pr guy at various race tracks across the country.
And I had a Polish Night at a racetrack which

(01:54:47):
shall remain nameless, and on the marquee at the racetrack,
I asked the people who changed the letters on the
marquee to spell Polish Night with a backwards P, and
then they did a Polish Night to night seven o'clock
with the P being awards on the marquee. When they
put that up there, I called the newspaper, which shall
be renamed the name nameless, I will not name it.
I tell you the city, and I called the paper up.

(01:55:08):
I said, some morons spelled Polish wrong for Polish Night
at this racetrack. They came out and made the front
page of the paper. So maybe it was done intentionally
to get attention for Jackie Robinson. I don't know, you
got anything else. I don't have anything else. Maybe it
wasn't done intentionally, Dad, Maybe I'm thinking intern mistake I
got thinking was turned off and no one checks. I

(01:55:30):
got one more hit me your day? You go, all right,
let's say a guy here. Alligator interrupts lacrosse practice at
Florida High School. That's pretty dangerous. I can see this
happening more often than not. Right then they choke up
on golf courses too, and they really Florida High School
lacrosse team's practice was interrupted when an alligator decided to
take a walk across the field. Have you ever seen
and I lived in Fort Laidadale for a while, Thank goodness,

(01:55:52):
I've never seen an alligator. But they are out there.
They're there now. The high school tweeted a video showing
the alligator that caused as seen by showing across the
Tampa field during the practication. The video, recorded by mister
Eric Clause, shows players keeping their distance while on the
gators walk by. Aerosmith's Walk This Way is playing in
the background. That's pretty creative, Okay, I got one more out.

(01:56:14):
A Florida woman earned the Guinness World Record when she
completed twenty three old Ja marathons thirty one point one
tenth miles in a twenty three day period. That's unbelievable work. Yeah,
Megan Cassidy of kissing me but kissing me take your pick,
earned the record for most consecutive days to run an
ultra marathon distance when she ran thirty one point one

(01:56:37):
miles a day from Decever seventeenth until January eighth. Disappointed
to Guinness World's Records, they confirmed it, she says, running
every day like that it's not so bad because she
keep up with it. She told this to the Okolia,
Okayola News Gazette. There are days it kind of got lonely,
but I'd wear a bib telling about what I was doing,

(01:56:58):
and people loved hearing about it. She says. She completed
her runs in the Lake Nona area due to the
quality of the trails. She said one of the most
difficult parts of her attempt was making sure to take
in enough food. She said, it's hard to eat enough
calories in the first few days. Your brain tries to
stop you from doing this. She who tells you that
you're not hungry. I had to tell my boyfriend to

(01:57:20):
make sure I ate at least a quarter of a
pin of lasagna every day. Cassidy beat the previous record
of twenty two days. She says she believes she could
have gone beyond twenty three days, but she had to
stop her attempt because she had to go back to
watch she had. She wasn't working this entire time. That's
pretty amazing. I'm not a runner at all. I can

(01:57:40):
never do the long distance stuff. Then really, why I
just didn't? I never had to stand about. We know,
when I was running track, my coach would put me
on the four by two. The worst race, honestly was
the four by one hundred ELID And that's one time
for those who don't know, it's one time all the
way around the track. Man. By turn three, I was
winded already. But your spring as fast as you can

(01:58:01):
possibly go for one hundred for you know, four hundred meters,
and it was just the worst race ever. Okay, so
you ran that race and I remember that, but I
never attended your practice. What are the product you do
that every day in practice? Run the same thing. Well,
so it was a relay race, so you know, one
day you'll practice your handoffs, make sure your handoffs are
nice and smooth, and then the rest of the days

(01:58:21):
were kind of like conditioning. So you're running short bursts,
maybe twenty five fifty yards and then slow down and
then kind of doing those kind of workouts and then
if it is like a four by four hundred meter relay,
you're running the track and just keep making sure you
get your your stand up. You know. Yeah, of all
the sports you participated in, and you had team sports,
and I guess you could sider track a team sport,

(01:58:43):
although you concerned with your individual time, and you had football,
which is a team sport, and wrestling that had to
be the worst. I mean, no, wrestling was my favorite sport.
I loved the sport that was individual sport because it
was me against someone else. There was no one else
to blame. It was my performance again someone else's performance,
and it was if I could go back, I would

(01:59:04):
wrestle in high school or wrestling in college, and I
love wrestling. Wrestling is my favorite. It's very difficult as
a spectator, as you know, your mother and I were
there all of them, and you have to sit through
like seven eight hours to see you wrestle for like
three minutes basically, but you know it was worth it.
But and sometimes the pounding that you take it was
like ridiculous. The dieting. The dieting alone is that enough.

(01:59:25):
Our time has come to an end. I want to
appreciate everybody who listened. I want to thank you for
coming in. It was fun. I hope we could do
it again and again. We have our show coming up
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