Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks talk NFL Schedule Release, NFL Milking The Average Joe Dry and More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. All right, what about us?
What about us? We'll get to that in just about
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be played and written about. The one and only my partner,
Bucky Brooks. How ai you, Buck?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I'm good, I'm good. What's going on? Andy?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
You're sounding great? You're looking even better.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I'm gonna say one thing if I may, and a
lot of people others will break down ballgames behind this microphone.
Others are going to talk about last night's Dallas Oklahoma
City game. The Oklahoma City loses that ballgame one seventeen one, sixteen,
Dallas advances, Luca goes crazy with a triple double twenty nine, ten, ten,
And that's fine. You know, do what you gotta do
behind the microphone. I am going to use this platform

(01:06):
right now to be somewhat of the voice of the fan.
I think the fans right now, they're paying schleps like myself,
need to have a representation. And I know you're gonna
disagree with me. You're gonna go one way. I'm gonna
go to the other. But if that's okay with you,
I asked your permission because we need to have a
voice for the fan. And I'm going to invite the
fans after I start making my spiel here, invite the

(01:29):
fans to give us a holler and see if they
agree if they follow me at eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty
three sixty nine. Are you ready, Bucky Brooks? Are you
ready for me to go a little crazy to represent
the fans of America?

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Hey, I'm ready. I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Okay, here we go, all right, now here, here's my
spiel right now. You know as good as anybody else,
Bucky Brooks, that NFL, the National Football League, is king
and they're making the common man, the common schlep, the
common fan. Why do I say that a family of
four that wants to attend an NFL game gotta cost

(02:06):
you at least four bills, at least four hundred dollars
plus concession prices and parking. Now they have added these
streaming platforms. That's making me go crazy. It is not
fair to the common fan. This, in my mind, is
a monopoly, and I like to see the government get involved.
I really would. The government has started in the state
of Ohio letting or trying the pass legislation for sports

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bar to broadcast games for free. How do you like that?
But I got these costs over here. I want to
run this by you right now. If in fact you're
a fan of the National Football League and you want
to watch games, it's gonna cost you for ESPN plus
ten ninety nine a month for Peacock, five to ninety
nine a month for the NFL Sunday ticket, for payments

(02:52):
of one hundred and twelve dollars and twenty five cents
for all the streaming services one hundred and forty five
dollars and twenty one cents a month. It's an outrage.
It stinks. I can't stand it. And if the fans
of America are with me, let me hear from you.
Right now, Bucky Brooks, it's all yours.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
Look, I understand why everyone is upset because, like all
the streaming services, the amount of money that it costs
to broadcast your favorite games has gone through the roof.
It has changed certainly dynamic. We have Netflix coming on board,
We have all these streaming services that are coming on
board beyond our traditional linear services. So it's going up.

(03:35):
But I will still say this. I think someone did
the math, and I think for all of that, it
still ends up costing like maybe forty dollars a weekend
to be able to watch your NFL games. And we
have to make a decision if we don't want NFL
football to go on a pay per view deal, like,
we have to be willing to pay for some of
these streaming services. If not, man, it's going to get

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to the point where it's just like a boxing match
or a UFC fight or anything like that. And for
so long we've been spoiled because football, the most popular
sport in the country, has been given away for free.
And now with the escalating cost and all this other
stuff has changing, and so I just think fans have
to understand it's kind of the cost of doing business now,
like you kind of have to pay for your entertainment,

(04:19):
just like you pay for anything else when you go
to the movies and all that, Like that's a part
of the deal.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't
think I'm alone. And I want to hear from the
fans of America. I want to hear from them. They
need representation, and today they will have representation of Fox
Sports Sunday, and I will say this. You know, Baseball's
tried it, you know, but they fall and flat on
their face because I don't think anybody really cares to
pay for a regular season game. It doesn't make any sense. Really,
Why would you shill out some money to see a

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Friday night game in the middle of June, which means nothing.
All right, Baseball can't do it because they're the popularity
of the National Football League. I get it. I get
it why they're doing it. It's a business model, and
there's additional revenue. It's a revenue stream. And I also
get it the fact that Roger Goodell works at the
bequest of the owners of the National Football League. All Right,
he's making it very happy because he found another revenue

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stream at the expense of you and me, and I
don't like it. How's that?

Speaker 2 (05:13):
I mean, that's fine, but like we can't keep operating
under yesterday's model when everything was free and everything operating
on the three big channels ABC, NBC, and CBS. It's
a different time now, and you just have to get
used to paying for that the choice that you have,
because with all of these things, you have choices. You
don't have to watch. You don't have to watch like.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
I do have to watch. You have to watch, I
do have to watch.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Well, then if you're gonna watch, you're gonna have to pay.
Like that's just what it is. I mean, that's just
where we are right now. When it comes to your entertainment,
you have to pay to be entertained. And football is
a level of entertainment and you have to be willing
to sholl out some dollars to make to make sure
you're able to watch it.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
The sad thing is I would pray that when they
do this that people may be with someonet boycott and
maybe the revenue stream will not be as big as
they expect it to be. But that's not gonna happen.
People are gonna pay, they'll pay through the news. They
love the National Football League, and to me, it's still
cheaper and more convenient to pay and sit on your couch.

(06:13):
They get in your car and drive and fight the
crowds in the parking I mean parking. Right now, you
go to a Giants game, the New York Football Giants
is almost two hundred dollars to park your car. Two
hundred dollars to park a car. The National Football League
right now costs more money to watch than going to
a Broadway show. Think about that. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
I mean it might be crazy, but I mean it's
the most popular sport in the country. People line up
no matter what day in the NFL game is broadcast.
It always is one of the top rated shows live entertainment.
It dominates the ratings at the end of the year.
We can complain about it. We could talk about the

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escalating costs, but what also happens is you talked about
going to watch it in person. Two hundred dollars the park,
whatever you want to pay for the tickets, entertainment, concessions
and all that. The biggest deal is still being able
to go watch a game at a bar or watch
it at home and do those things, so you just

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have to make a decision. You can't have it your way.
You're not going to have everything for free in this
marketplace as just the way that it operates, like in
a capitalistic society. Like that's how it is. Owners are
making a ton of money because they know that people
are willing to pay whatever it takes to to watch
their football.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
You sound too intelligent for me. You sound too and
you're making a great case, and I can't argue with you.
I know what it's all about. But I will tell
you this. I don't live in the state of Ohio,
but I'm pretty darn close to it. I live in
Kentucky and the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, but I will
cross that bridge of the Ohio River and go to
the taverns in Ohio should this legislation pass, where they

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will get these games on TV for free in the
bars and taverns in the Great Buckeye State. That's what
they're working on right now. Because I think it hurts business.
It would really help business if, in fact, I could
get this thing passed, because I'd rather sit and have
a cold cocktail watching a game at a bar then
go pay for parking and push the crowds. Every time
I go to a game, if I'm not sitting in

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the press box, I sit in the stands. Everybody stands.
I can't watch a game when everybody's standing. What's the
point of standing at a game? When you when you
purchase a seat, I don't get it. That's what they do.
They stay the entire time and you can't see. That's
why if I do go, I get a press pass.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Wait a minute, okay, So okay, So you don't want
to pay money to go to the game in person,
but you also don't want to pay for the right
to stream the game in your house. But you can
go to a bar and probably spend more money than
you would pay at your house to watch the game.
Like make it make sense, Like like what are we

(08:50):
talking about? Like what are we talking about? What we
want everything to be for free? You have to pay
for the beer. You have to pay for the food
at the bar, A nurse.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Of beer for a quarter.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
I could do that.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
I could do that, get a sandwich, get a beer.
That's what I'll do. And I'll probably end up meeting
somebody and they say, hey, let me, let me buy
a cocktail. You know, that's the way it works that way.
But look, I'd rather do that than have the satisfaction
of getting it free than having to get that thing
paid for. I don't know. Am I alone? I mean,
you know you're making so much sense. I get it.

(09:20):
I understand why the revenue stream is important. The ownership
wants that's what it is. It's business. It's a way
to make money. Every business wants to make money. That's
what they do. And the National Football League is a business.
That's a tremendous business. But I started this spiel by saying,
the fans of America be with me. Let me hear
from you. Give me a phone call. If I'm crazy,

(09:41):
I can handle it. Tell me I'm crazy. If you're
with me, to tell me maybe maybe we can start
a petition, maybe you could do something to boycott this.
I don't know, but tell me eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox. And I've never begged before, but eight
seven seven nine ninety six sixty three sixty nine, because
I want to know if I'm alone, and if I am,
I'll Apollo is okay, fine, that's the end of it.

(10:02):
And when the season starts, I'll be the first to pay.
I will.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
I mean, look, maybe everybody's sleeping. I don't know. I
know it's an early, early part of the day on
a Sunday. But still in all I think the National
Football League is a big deal to a lot of people.
And look, a lot of people can't wait for the
season to start. It's something like like eighty five days away,
and I can't wait for it to start. To me,
there's only one season in sports, and that's the National

(10:28):
Football League. They had this schedule revealed the other day,
going against the NBA playoffs. I didn't see the ratings.
I guarantee you that NFL schedule revealed killed the ratings
for the NBA playoffs. It did. That's people. And look
to think, when you think about it, most of the
people who were NFL fans, even in non NFL cities,
and they root for a certain team, they know what

(10:51):
that team is gonna be, who they're gonna play in
the division, right, it is just a question of like
the non divisional games and will they be home or away?
But they still or not to watch the schedule reveal.
It's crazy, isn't it. Any other sport would try that
Nobody would watch baseball reveal Are you kidding? Hockey? NBA?
No one cares. It's all about football, That's what it is.

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It's all about football.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
But it is because it tells you to the popularity sport.
Those other teams, I mean, those other leagues they broadcast
their draft, they don't get the same kind of traction
when it comes to ratings. So I mean, it just
tells you. It tells you there's an insatuable appetite to
consume football in any form, whether it's college at the highlights, yeah,
whether it's looking at the highlights that you have an

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opportunity to do when you watch the draft or schedule
lease shows when you see the highlights, but talk about
and predict where your favorite team is going to end
up at the end of the season, all those things.
It is about consuming the number one sport in the land,
which is football. And because of that, and because of
the ratings and all those other things that justify why

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the owners charge more to the fans. Why wouldn't you like,
that's business like supply and demand and demand is so
high that you can continue to give them supply and
charge them at a premium.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Don't you think they're pushing the envelope to some extent
because I think less there's always been more, and that's
the keith in the National Football League, which every game
means so much. You know, they're going to play eighteen
games and this coming season we'll get into this later on.
Today they're playing I think every day of the week
except Tuesday, which is unbelievable really. I mean sometimes you
got to pull back just a little bit. It's the
tease factor and if you give me too much, you know,

(12:32):
and may rooin it. I mean, eighteen games, I think
that's the limit. And especially for the players Association, I
don't think they want to play more than eighteen for
the sake of injury factor.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Nah, they may not want to play more, but they
are in an agreement that has been collectively bargained with
the owners, and the owners have certain concessions that they
make given those extra games. And what they come down
to is in the National Football League and the ownership
they are, I mean in the players are in an

(13:04):
agreement that is like fifty to fifty pretty much. So
the more that they make, the more it goes to
the players. And as long as more mornings going to
the players. Players are always going to sign up for
those deals. We can talk about health and safety and
all those other things. Owners can hide behind that and
say that stuff, but it's still it's about the money.
And as long as we're talking about significant money, they're

(13:26):
always going to do it. They'll complain about it, but
it'll go because remember, you're placing a preseason game with
a regular season game. For all the stuff that you
said that you hate about paying for a game and
going to it, imagine paying for it and not being
able to see your stars. Imagine paying the money that
you pay paying for parking concessions, standing up all this

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and you're watching players who aren't going to be NFL players.
That's the difference. So they're trying to give you another
opportunity to see your favorite players, your stars, the guys
that you know, the household names. But you gotta play
a premium and most fans paying premium.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
I will say this and maybe on way off base,
I go to a baseball game, I see a guy
make an arrow. They make a boot there through his
legs or or striking out whatever. I hear people in
the stands, oh, that bommy he's making. So much money.
I never hear that. I never hear that that pulled back.
In football, guy drops a pass. I never said, ah,
he's getting paid that much money. It's it's a different animal,

(14:26):
and it's a different kind of fan. Maybe I don't
know what it is. But in baseball, you go to
a baseball game, a guy screws up the picture, you
know that comes in from the bullpen and gives up
a home run. Oh, they're paying him so much money.
You can't. You never hear that in football, Buck, you
really don't. I mean, it's just a different breed of fan.
I think that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
I mean, I think you hear some of that stuff.
I think maybe now listening closely, I think I've heard
plenty of it. When you go to games or whatever,
you hear fans complain about it. You tie their performance
to how much money they make. Let's just think about
like some of the money that you know has been
shut out to quarterbacks and how they complain about it.
People that were up at arms about Jerry Goff and

(15:07):
Jerry Goff getting a contract that pays them fifty three
million annually, the same people are going to be upset
when Dak Prescott sounds a deal. They puts him at
the sixty million year mark per year. That people complain
about those things, they still associate your performance with your compensation.
Maybe you just don't hear it because they're far more

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football fans at games than baseball fans.

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well, I tell you what. The fans of America, the
schleps like myself are speaking out. We're going to get
to them. Mike and Vegas, Jared in South Dakota, Robin
and San Diego. Hold with a hold there, State, Just
wait a minute. We'll get to you in just about
a minute. We got to get rolling over here. Bucket Brooks,
you get him on Twitter or x whatever you want
to call it out. Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman FSR.

(15:51):
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Speaker 1 (16:47):
Okay, we're gonna let the people speak, Bucky, that's what
we're gonna do. He's Bucky Brooks on Ay Furvor. This
is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Already. I went
on a little rant the first segment about the pay
perview situational streaming streams there for the services will be
like almost one hundred and fifty bucks a month, and
I'm not happy about it. Okay, I'm going to do it.
I'll grip my teeth because I love the National Football League.

(17:08):
I love football, but I want to hear what the
people have to say it because I, Bucky Brooks, want
to be the voice of the fan today, the voice
of the common Schlap like myself have. I've got to
Las Vegas, Mike and Vegas. You're on what Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman? How you doing?

Speaker 4 (17:20):
I'm doing great? How about you guys? Hang beautiful, beautiful
day here in Las Vegas. And I've been trying to
organize fans as both an on air host and as
someone who's on the web with a site that is
no longer active, but it had a catching name, NAFRIUS

(17:42):
National Association for Fans Rights in All Sports. And I
had that epiphany when my Staples Center cable went from
five thousand a year to one hundred and fifty thousand
a year, and that was around two one hundred. That
was around two fifteen. But I saw it across the country,

(18:03):
whether it was regional baseball getting blacked out other places,
going to Dodger Stadium, and the prices would escalate per ale,
per picture, per day of the week. And I heard complaints.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
For opponents right for po opponent as well. You know,
with certain teams. I went with the Colorado Rockies, we're
playing the Yankees, the price of tickets went up. Of
course the Yankees were in town.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
That's what they're doing too, precisely. And this streaming vs.
With Peacock and now Netflix, you might be able to
catch some old heads like me that know how to
do it, but you're going to eliminate a lot of people,
and you're going to piss the hell out of the rest.

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And one day, you know, the saying goes, the pig
gets fat and the hog gets slotted, and that might
seem impops for the NFL, but one day it will happen.
But like I said, it is easier to put a
leash on a cat and welco them than it is

(19:10):
to organize fans hopefully hopefully, And Bucky, your points are
well taken about costs capitalism, but there has to be
a balance where, you know, the family of four doesn't

(19:31):
make a choice. Shall we defer Christmas presents or go
see like the crappitiest visiting team coming in uh and.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Pay one hundred dollars for parking?

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Bucky, one hundred dollars for parking. I mean you know that, Bucky,
I mean greed has just run a mock profit is fair? Guys.
Profit is fair, but gouging is not.

Speaker 1 (20:02):
Thank you, Mike, Mike, thanks for the call. It's going
to San Diego, Robert. You're in San Diego with Bucket
Brooks and Andy Furman. How you doing, Robert, I'm doing great.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Hey, listen, fuck you.

Speaker 6 (20:11):
I think you're wrong.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
I paid for the YouTube before it was direct TV
to get the package. Then you tell me, okay, I
gotta get Peacock. No one watches Peacock.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Well, if you want to watch football, you will.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I mean I didn't.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
I didn't last year. I'm a Dolphins fan.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
I skipped on that chief.

Speaker 1 (20:34):
But why why is Bucky wrong? I mean he makes
a great point because his business and if you are
working in the National Football as an executive, you'd feel
pretty good about this whole program, knowing that, Hey, the
fans are basically sheep. They love the game. Let's gouge him,
little bit. Let's getting their wallets. They're gonna pay, They're
gonna pay to watch us. So he's not wrong. I
don't like the whole system. I don't like what's happening.

(20:54):
But he's not wrong.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
He's not wrong.

Speaker 6 (20:57):
But but the gouging just continues. I mean, look, if
I pay to watch my team for the entire season,
then why do I have to pick up additional costs
to watch them because they put them on a different channel.
I've already made that investment.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
I'm with you. I couldn't look, I'm with you one
thousand percent. But that's just the way it is because
they know you will pay because you love your team.
That's what it is. Joe Joe in Atlanta, you're on
what Bucky Brooks and Andy from it? Hello Joey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Hey Bucky, you're arrogance brother.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
How about the sport boxing?

Speaker 4 (21:29):
Boxing? How much boxing do you watch now? Bucky? No
one watches boxing because they went to an all pay
per view model. There you go, brother, it's just going
to take time.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Well, I would say the difference is, like I don't
think anyone knows who the boxes are. You know what
I'm saying, Like, I think I think we talk about
the talent, like, I don't think it's the same as
the go to eeror But I will say everyone has choices.
I just know that the bottom line is when you
look at the rankings, when you look at the ratings,
the ratings suggests that this is about are the most

(22:00):
popular sport. Football is more popular than any other sport
that we have in the country. The fact that you
can have the NFL draft that can outrate two NBA
playoff games and anything else that's going on tells you
that this fan base is rapid about the sport. And
so if we're talking about business and we're talking about
capitalism and the owners are in it for business, they're

(22:22):
going to continue to do it and then consumers just
have to make a choice. But I don't believe that
there are enough consumers that are willing to turn off
the TV and not pay the cost of admission to
make the National Football League change. If it gets to
that point, then they will change. But there's no signs
of the sport slowing down when it comes to the
money that they're making.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Well said, I'm with you. There's the way it is.
I'm not happy about it, but that's I'm going to
be like everybody else. I'll grip my teeth and I'll
pay for the deal because I want to watch the games.
That's what it's all about. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy
firmanwee a Fox Bus suddenly a Fox bus radio. Now, look,
whatever happened to freedom of speech? That's coming up next
on Fox lifemthtyrock dot com come Studios. But first, Kevin

(23:01):
Wyatt with the Sports NBA Playoffs.

Speaker 5 (23:05):
Game six of the second round in the Western Conference
between the Dallas Mavericks Oklahoma City Thunder ended in a
thriller as PJ. Washington seeking some free throws in the
final seconds to give the Mavericks a one point lead,
one to seventeen to one sixteen to take the series
four games to two in advance to the Western Conference Finals.

(23:25):
Luka Doncic his third straight triple double, the fifth player
in NBA history with three straight playoff triple doubles. He
had twenty nine points, ten rebounds, and ten assists. Shay
gil Just Alexander did commit that foul in the final seconds,
though otherwise did everything he could to get the win
for Oklahoma City. I call him the Knight of Oklahoma City.

(23:45):
Sir Gildes Alexander fourteen to twenty five, four to five
from beyond a three point arc, also had three rebounds,
eight assists, couple of blocks, zero turnovers.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
And in the.

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Other series going on, we have two Game seven's coming
up on Sunday. The Denver Nuggets will host the Minnesota
Timberwolves in the Western Conference second round. On the Eastern
Conference side of things, Wa Knicks and the Indiana Pacers
Stanley Cup Playoffs, Edmonton staying alive. They beat the Vancouver
Connects five to one to force a game seven Monday

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evening in Vancouver WNBA. The New York Liberty over the
Indiana Fever ninety one eighty is Caitlin Clark twenty two points,
eight assists, but also at eight turnovers, so she's got
eighteen turnovers in her first two games. The Las Vegas
Aces defeat the La Sparks eighty nine to eighty two.
PGA Championships Anders schol Flay Colin Morikawa a top of

(24:41):
the leader board. They're at fifteen hundred par. Shane Lowry
is two shots back. He hit a record sixty two
on Saturday. Scottie Scheffler a third round seventy three. He
has eight shots behind the Lee. That's the first time
he shot over par since August of last year. Preakness Stakes,
the second and the Triple Crown series sees the Gray

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winning it, winning it wire to wire on a muddy
track at Pimlico Raceway, Derby winner misstic Dan finishing in
second place. So no triple crown winner this year. Major
League Baseball Padres and Braves rained down would be a
double hatter. On Monday, Orioles had a rain delay, eventually
lose to the Seattle Mariners four to three. Rangers out

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last the Angels three two and thirteen innings, Dodgers set
out the Reds for nothing. Milwaukee over the Astros four
to two, snapping Houston's six game winning streak. The Kansas
City Royals beat the A's five to three to send
Oakland to a seventh straight loss, and the Yankees have
now made it six wins in a row, beating the
White sot six to one.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Back to you guys, all right, thanks you and awa keay, okay,
let's talk about diversity of speech for a second. That's
what we're gonna do. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firmer. We
are Fox Sports, so on the and Fox Sports already,
and of course we have asked Bucky in about seven
eight minutes for now. And I think the big story
I guess off the football field this week was Harrison Bucker,
the Kansas City Chiefs kicker on the commencement speech at
Benedictine College. For those not familiar Benedictine College, I looked

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it up as an academic community sponsored by the monks
of Saint Benedict's Abbey and the Scissors a Mount Saint
Schlistia monastery. It's in Kansas, it's committed to the beliefs
and natural principles that formed the framework of Judeo Christian tradition,
and it's a Roman Catholic situation. So Harrison was there
to speak for graduation, and honestly, now the National Football

(26:24):
League Buck is distancing himself from what he had said.
And what did he say. He basically said that the
women who have been well basically a better of being mothers,
I guess than having careers. I mean, it just I
don't know. He praised his wife, saying that she'd be
the first to say her life truly started when she
began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother,

(26:47):
and people weren't crazy. They started freaking out. I don't
get it helped me out here because I don't think
Look if I say it's not that bid, they'll kill me.
But I'm saying it's not that bid, because what about
diversity of speech. He's free to say whatever he wants
to say. I want to agree with him, that's fine.
But now they're having these tweets coming out and letters
written that they want to cut from the Kansas City chiefs.

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The world's going crazy. I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
You're free from You're free to say whatever it is
you want to say, but it doesn't make you free
from consequence based on what you said, right, and so like,
he is free to say whatever he wants to say
and whatever his beliefs are in those things, but he's
also free to receive the backlash that comes with saying
whatever that he says. Anyone who speaks of anyone who

(27:31):
says anything like your issue, well within your right to
say it, but you also have to be willing to
deal with the consequences that come with that. And you know,
Harrison Buka decided that he has certain views on certain things,
not only on women in the workplace, but he talked
about other things. That was he said with a face

(27:52):
based viewpoint or argument. But some who don't see the
world in his view to confess to it, and they
also have the freedom of speech to come after him
and disagree. And so it's one of those things that
if you do decide to talk, you also have to
deal with what comes back. And so if you're going

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to be one of those guys who is active and
has decided to take a view of activism based on
a certain viewpoint, well yeah, you're gonna get the other
side of the argument.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
You know what, I hear what you're saying. We could
agree to disagree, but we don't have to be disagreeable.
That's the key. And these people right now are going
above and beyond what's out. Even the National Football they
issued a statement that they're divorcing themselves with what he
had to say. The Kansas City chief said that a
press re at least the other day saying it's not
the views of the Kansas City chiefs. You know, we
know that it's Harrison's views.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Nothing not the Kansas City chief. But but what happens
is Harrison was brought on to speak not because he
was just Harrison Buker, the civilian, but because he also
is Harrison Buker, the guy who is the kicker of
the back to back world champions and all that other stuff.
And it is no different that whenever you wear and
you represent the brand, all of those opinions that come out,

(29:08):
they have to make sure. A. You have to understand
that you stand on this island alone. You don't represent
all those other things. And what he's getting is look,
I would say this like, when he decided to voice
his opinion, he put himself in the crossairs, much like
Colin Kaepernick put himself in the crossairs when he not
only kneil, but when he said whatever he said about

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the flag and all those other things. People from different
viewpoints took Colin Kaepernick to task based on his opinion.
And so if you're going to expose your opinion, if
you're going to talk about it, then you also have
to take the other stuff that comes with it.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
You know what, I don't know what your thoughts when
you heard about it and you heard the backlash. Did
you think he was being treated fairly?

Speaker 3 (29:53):
Nah?

Speaker 2 (29:53):
I mean I didn't think he was being treated unfairly.
I felt like he offended plenty of people based on
on his viewpoint. Now I don't share the same viewpoint
that he does, I'm not as vocal, But when he
put himself out there and said, these are the things
that I believe in this and that. Like that's fine,
but everyone doesn't share your belief and so those people

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who don't share those same sentiments have a right to
voice their opinion on that. And that's just where we
are right now. Like people talk about councel culture and
those things. Hey man, when you decide to step to
the mic and utter whatever it is that you utter,
you're responsible for that. And so you have to understand
that it comes great responsibility with deciding to stand up

(30:37):
and share the world your viewpoint on the world and
politics and faith and all that other stuff. Like that's
great that you feel that way, but everyone may not
share the shame the same sentiment, and so you have
to be able to hear the reply and the response
and all the other stuff there comes with consequences with
speaking up.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
I would promise you this. If I was invited to
speak at a Benedictine college at the graduation and I
was a keynote speaker and I said the same things
he did, I'd be fired from Fox Sports Radio. Who
became I be canceled? Don't you agree the fact that
he's playing in the National Football League? I think they
give him a bit of a pass. They got some
power over there. But he said something to the effect
that how many of you, to the graduates right now,

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how many of you are sitting out there about the
cross this stage, and I'm thinking about all the promotions
and titles you're going to get in your career. Some
of you may go on to lead successful careers in
the world. But I would venture to guess he said
that the majority of you are most excited about your
marriage and the children that you'll bring in this world.
And you know, I hear that. I'm saying to myself, Yeah,

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there's a possibility someone will very well be excited to
do that. Someone will out there be lawyers and doctors
and professors, and they'll be excited about doing that. But
the point is that he said these things, and again
I go back to the diversity of speech. You're right,
he's going to get consequences for what he has to say. Hey, look,
to some extent, on a very smaller scale, you and

(31:58):
I get consequences. We just had a couple of fun
uncles and people felt that you were arrogant. You know,
when we're talking about this situation with pay per view,
you know, we could say what we want to say
and people could agree to disagree, but again not be disagreeable.
The backlash that he got to me, I couldn't believe.
I couldn't believe that the backlash that got and I

(32:18):
don't get it. And the National Football League, you would
think they'd come to his aid, but I understand also
the National Football League is trying to woo female fans,
and the fact that he kind of slapped them across
the face with some of the things he said, they're
going to defend those female fans and the female possible
fan days.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Well, it's not only that. I mean, some would say
that his viewpoint in the comments that he uttered not
only offended women, but it offended the LGBTQ big community.
They were talking about all of the other stuff. So
it's not just like, oh, he said, hey, women should
like forego working in the work force to take care

(32:58):
of kids at home. That's one thing. But some people
viewed his comments as homophobic, misogynistic, whatever you want to say,
Like that's their viewpoint, and those people also have a
right to I guess rebut issue of rebuttal of Harrison's comments,
and that's the thing when you step out there, like

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there's a lot of responsibility to step into the mic,
and he has to be willing to stand in there
and take it. That's part of it. He'll have maybe
his share of supporters that support him and his viewpoints.
The other side of the argument or the debate will
be loud and saying no, no, no, no, that is not right,
like what he says isn't quote unquote the gospel. We

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have to be able to have that debate and those discussions.
And he has to also understand when he said that,
he exposed himself to be attacked by the other side.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
I don't think he's going to be attacked, did you.
I'm not sure he made that speech he felt pretty
good about himself, and he probably did.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
And he may be able to live in that like
he feels like if he feels like that's his truth,
like that's fine, but that doesn't mean that everybody else's
version of the truth. And people are quick to tell them, no,
I don't see that. I don't agree with that. I
don't say that, And he has to be willing to
suffer the consequences. The issue that people are making about

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the National Football League is the National Football League is
open to a wide array of people, and at a
time where it appears that we don't like diversity. We
talk about diversity of thought or diversity when it comes
to gender embrace and all this other stuff. Like they're
trying to appeal to the masses, and if someone who

(34:40):
represents your brand appears to attack or demean a certain
part of the fan base, they don't want that because
those people buy tickets too, and they as a company
are trying to make a business decision which represents the
greater good for them on the bottom line. Why he

(35:00):
has to have That's why he's dealing with some of
the distancing that he's seeing from the National Football League,
because they don't want to be associated with that if
it affects their business, their business model and the bottom line.

Speaker 1 (35:12):
It's funny because you have diversity in everything except diversity
in speech, especially when the speech may hurt their business.
And he took a good shot at the LGBTQ community
when he said that he encouraged the graduates there of
Benedictate to have Catholic pride, but quote not the deadly
sin sort of pride that has an entire month dedicated
to it. So again, to me, I mean.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
That's a lot when you have you have a brand
that celebrates that, you know, a brand that is trying
to be opening and willing and inclusive that like that's
offensive to people that are in the community that the
National Football League is trying to include, you know. And
and so he decided to step out there and put

(35:56):
his opinion out there. Absolutely, he's going to get the backlash, right, and.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
He certainly did. That's for sure. See what happens. I
don't think it's going to go away soon. I really don't.
All right, we want.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Yeah, it definitely won't go away because every time he
steps into the locker room, there's over a reporter that
season and brings it up. But he made a constant
decision to take that stand, and with that comes all
this other stuff he must, like I said with Colin Kaepernick,
when you make stands, yeah, you have to be willing

(36:27):
to deal with the stuff that comes with that, particularly
when you're associated and partner it up with a huge
brand like the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
Right and the president of a college right now is
banging is heading as to Will saying why did I
invite him to speak and I'm sure he won't get
any more invitations to speak at college commencements, that's for sure,
all right, Bucky Brooks Andy Furman, Fox Sports on the
on Fox Sports Radio, we call him the answer Man.
Why ask Bucky is next? Fox Sports Radio has the
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(36:55):
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Search FSR to listen live. All right, asked Bucky. Coming
right up, that's Bucket Brooks. I'm Andy Furman wal Fox Sports,
Sony and Fox Spot's ready and we'll live from the
Ti Rock dot Com studio. Let's get it going, all right.
First question for ask Bucky Brooks. Bucky, how important is

(37:15):
it for the NCUBA to keep their athletes as amateurs
not getting paid?

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Well, it's important for them for their business model. They've
been able to do it for years and years on
end where they've been able to cash in. The profit
goes to the university's the team, the administrator, to the coaches,
not to the players. And as long as they able
to do that like they can function because the entire
budget model has been built off of that. When you
start paying the players based on them being employees. It

(37:44):
changes everything. It changes the money equation, and it changes
how they have to do business.

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Part two to that question, why would they even care?
These kids? You know, they really deserve to get paid
for the time they put in and for the exposure
they get for the university. They increase in role, they
increased merchandise sales, and they get on TV to sell
the school. I don't know why they would care.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
Everybody cares about that because no one wants to see
the players get paid because it's not the model that
they grew up in. We've been conditioned to think that
it's an amateur model and that the players should be
happy with the education that's associated with them playing the game.
And it's not that all right.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Next, how surprised are you that the Detroit Lions he
had quarterback Jared got four years, two hund to twelve mil,
making him the second highest paid quarterback.

Speaker 2 (38:32):
I'm not surprised at all. He's played really, really well.
He ras in the top four and a bunch of
different categories as a passer since he arrived in Detroit.
Since twenty twenty two, passing yards, passing, touchdowns, touchdown, the
interception ratio, He's in the top four of all NFL quarterbacks.
He's a good quarterback, and for whatever reason, people may
not like him. But when you're a former number one

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overall pick you've done what he's done and bringing Detroit back,
you're going to get paid.

Speaker 1 (38:57):
All right. The Minnesota Timberwolves taking on the Denver Nuggets
in Game seven Monday night to advance out of the West.
Denver Nuggets obviously the defending NBA champions. Is this a
shaker to you that Minnesota is taken into seven?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
No, Anyone who watched the Minnesota Timberwoods all year, you
understand and appreciate and respect the game that Aunt Edwards have,
and I think you also appreciate what Chris Finch has
done with their defense and the players that they have.
It's a really good team, and the Nuggets had not
played their best the entire series, but the timber Woods
have challenged him in Game seven is going to be

(39:34):
a very very interesting affair.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Heah, you're right about that. Okay. Your biggest surprise to
you in the NFL schedule reveal, I.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
Just think maybe Netflix getting the Christmas games and the
Christmas games being played on a Wednesday as opposed to
a Thursday, if Ida or Saturday. We just haven't seen that,
so it's just different to think about someone playing in
the middle of the week.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Right, you're right about that, but not least. Could you
name perhaps the rookie quarterbacks that you believe will start
on opening day of the NFL season.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Well, I think there's two for sure, and that would
be Jayden Daniels and Kayleb Williams. Bow Knicks is I
would say highly likely to start. The rest of the
guys I would anticipate coming off the bench and maybe
getting their opportunity in the middle of the year.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Right, and which team Which of those quarterbacks you think
of the most success.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Of the ones that are starting. Yeah, I would say
probably either Kayla Williams or Jaden Daniels. Both of them
said up really well to succeed.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Love to hear that. Okay, we move on right now.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. This is Fox Sports Sunday.
And how did your team rate? That is more right
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buying should be. As we roll along this hour or
two of a three hour extravaganza and Bucky, how you
feeling Everything good? You're looking good.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Everything's good? Can plan on a Sunday?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Did you get your work out in you today? Oh?

Speaker 2 (41:21):
No, no, no, no, I mean really early on the West coast.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
But this is my this is my workout really actually no,
not really, but it is somewhat of work, you know.
I want to touch on this before we get into
the National Football League and the schedule reveal. Tom Brady
came out this week on a podcast saying he regrets
how some of the jokes on the Netflix show Is
Roast affected his children. And I read this and I

(41:47):
said to myself, he's an intelligent guy. I'm a fan
of Tom Brady. I can't wait to see him on
the broadcast on Fox. Didn't he know what he was
getting into? And look, they did take some cheap shots.
And we talked about this last week that it was
kind of off course. I thought it was. You know,
I don't know why everybody laughs at the F bomb.
I don't find it funny. I'm not a prude, but
I don't find that the humorous. I mean everybody found

(42:09):
it funny. I mean, that's just the way it was.
Kevin Hart just keeps saying few every two minutes to
Tom Brady, and everybody laughed. I mean, I don't know why,
but they did. But now we say he's taking issues
with some of the jokes and hitting below the belt
with his divorce and Giselle and things like that, and
his kids. He was upset about his children, you know,
hearing this and maybe even seeing it. But you know,

(42:31):
I read it. I said, what did he expect to
praise him? That's what a roast is. I mean, I
thought it was a little below the belt. But you know,
for him to come out and say that, let it go,
it happened. I don't think anybody else would really want
to have a roast with those people. And more than that,
I'm sure they paid good money for it, but I
hadn't heard. Maybe you did. Did this roast benefit some

(42:52):
sort of a charity. I don't think it did. I
didn't hear anything like that.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, I don't know. I just know it was Tom
Brady's roast was on Netflix. It was a big deal.
It still ranks is one of the top shows on
Netflix currently in rotation. Maybe he didn't understand what a
roast is, and you know, yeah, he just didn't understand
what it was doing. And I think sometimes when you're
Tom Brady, maybe you forget how those things may impact

(43:18):
your kids. And it's unfortunately that his kids obviously had
to hear some of that stuff, particularly about their mom,
his ex and some of the jokes and the stuff
that was insinuated, the innuendo that was kind of levied
at her. That's a lot to deal with because at
the end of the day, regardless of the relationship of
the parents in terms of whether they're married or not married,

(43:39):
you still want the respect there for the mother. And
he sees probably the air in his ways after probably
hearing about it from the kids in terms of what
they had to deal with at school or on the playground,
or those things.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
You're exactly right. All right, let's leave Tom Brady alone.
Let's move along now to the NFL and the NFL
schedule reveal, which the other day, obviously it was the
number one story in sports this past week. It's Trump,
the NBA playoffs, we mentioned that and Trump basically obviously
the daily baseball stories. And you know, the question is
why why? Because the NFL is so popular. You know,

(44:13):
if Major League Baseball had a schedule reveal, nobody would watch.
They just look out the back window and close the curtains.
They really would. It's just the way it is. And
maybe we could say who the winners were. In fact,
if there were winners in the schedule, I think there were.
Don't you think there were some winners? I picked them
out here and I want to discuss them with you.
Do you think there were winners in the schedule reveal?

(44:35):
I think there were.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I mean, I think it's like speculation because we're basing
everything off last year. But guess what, every team is different.
Teams don't come back the same. You have players going out,
players coming in, coaches going out, coaches coming in. It's
just different. I think it's nice during this time of
year when everyone is looking for the hype buddy, the
team that's going to be the next great team. I

(44:57):
just think in reality, it's really hard to look at
the schedule and say, oh, this team is going to
be thirteen and four because of X, Y and Z.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
That's what fans do though, that's what we do, and
we do that. I think one of the big winners
in the schedule reveal and the anticipation would be the
Chicago Bears. It's going to be one of the most
anticipating seasons in years for the Bears because of Caleb
Williams and obviously Romeo Donze the receiver, and it's going
to be an exciting season. And more than that people

(45:23):
will forget. I think that the Bears are coming off
a finish of like five and three down the stretch
of the last eight games, so I think that's a
pretty good deal. But I looked at the schedule thing,
and look, I'm a mathematician, but they say, now the
Bears have the third easiest strength of schedule based on
their opponent's record of last year, which is a pretty
good thing. I think the stranger schedule of their opponents

(45:45):
on like forty six percent, So we'll see what happens.
I think the Bears right now are in pretty good shape. Plus,
they're playing Washington against the rookie quarterback Jaden Daniels, and
they're playing the Patriots, who may have Drake may quarterback
at that point in time. I think he will be
quarterback in the Patriots, don't you.

Speaker 2 (46:04):
I mean, I don't know. I think a lot of
depends on how well the Jacoby Brissette plays and what
kind of development does Drake may show, not only in
preseason but doing practices. He'll get every opportunity to be
the start and unseat Jacoby Brissette. But if it's seeing
plays better than anticipated, wins more game and anticipated, could
be hard for them to hand of all to Drake Mayor.

Speaker 1 (46:25):
All right, so we like the Chicago Bears, say, but
consider them maybe perhaps a winner in the schedule reveal. Also,
I think I got to throw in there the Atlanta Falcons.
What do you think about the Falcons? I would Kirk
Cousins expected to come come to a team that has
had records of seven and ten for the last three years,
So I think there's some excitement there. Obviously, he's coming

(46:46):
off that Achilles situation. But I understand he went down
with some of his players to work out the last
couple of days. So I think that he's sort of excited,
and I think that people in Atlanta are excited as well.
And plus the Falcons and Saints now they say, according
to records, you are tied for the easiest strength of
schedule this coming season based on their opponent's records from

(47:07):
last year forty five percent winning. So I will see.
But plus in the NFC South, you know, it's not
a strength of schedule thing. The NFC South is not
that big of a deal anyway.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
No, it's not a big of a deal. But the
formula is a big part in who's able to kind
of run out to fast start. So if you play
a week division and you finished near the bottom of
the division the year before, you are matched up with
opponents that, in a formulating thing, are kind of more
on par with being competitive with you. So if you

(47:39):
get kind of like the double double the weak division,
that is, you know, scheduled to play everybody within the
division and then those obously non competitive teams, well that
puts you at six to eight games right there. That's
that's significant given that we've seen teams with ten to
seven records going, teams with nine and eight records going,

(47:59):
the Dads is to ten. Can you get the ten.

Speaker 1 (48:01):
Wins right now? I would say, even though they have
the easiest strength to schedule with the New Orleans Saints,
they're going to open the season with the Steelers, Eagles
and Chiefs. That doesn't help things. It really doesn't. And
you got Michael Pennix and basically waiting in the wings.
So if Kirk Cousins either is earth or can't get
it done, I guess they're gonna throw Michael Pennix Junior

(48:22):
to the Wolves.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
No, I think we would have to be it. I
think it would have to be an injury. You're paying
Kirk Cousins the kount of money that you paid them
to be a starter for the next two years. If
something goes arrived where Michael Pennis Junior gets his chance
to play and performs, well maybe you'll stick with them.
But right now, Na, that's not the plans. It's literally
a racier year for Michael Pennis Junior.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
You know, I looked at the schedule and this is
something I had never seen. Maybe it has happened before,
but I don't remember it. Four of the first five
games for the Atlanta Falcons are at home. That's somewhat unusual,
don't you think.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
Yeah, ideally you don't want all your game at home
on the front end. You would like to have some
of those games on the back end, particularly when you're
getting down the stretch and the playoff hunt. Home field
and management matters, not only just because of the home crowd,
noise and the things that you can feed off of,
but in terms of routine, your best routine is always
going to be when you're playing at home, sleep in
your own bed or do whatever it is that you do.

(49:19):
Then you know, the last couple of nights before game
to get ready. So to me, it makes more sense
to think about, hey, let's have some of these games
at the end of the season as supposed to beginning
of the season, so we finish with the bang, right.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
But it isn't the routine and you talk about it
and you played the game, so you know, isn't a
routine to a football player Sunday one o'clock Eastern time.
Other than that, it kind of throws you off the
schedule pretty much, even for coaches in preparation. I would
think no.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Most people operate on the schedule. Football is very regimented
when it comes to the schedule, to practice, plan when
we meet all those things at all. It's a huge
part of the equation. So coaches been, I mean the
bulk of their off season putting that together, putting the
final touches together so they can give it to the
coach that the coach that can kind of plan out
how they want to attack the two and a half,

(50:10):
how they want to attack the practice, playing schedule and
all this other stuff. So now it matters. Organization matters,
and you got to have it to be able to win.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
All right, Let's talk about the Dallas Cowboys. They may
call them America's team, and basically they are America's team
because they're tied with the forty nine Ers and Jets
with the league high six primetime games. They're scheduled to
face the Giants, Steelers, the forty nine Ers, the Texans,
the Bengals, and the Tampa Bay Bucks at night, which
is a pretty big deal for them and that team.

(50:38):
Right now, there's some questions right now because there's a
lot of heat on Mike McCarthy going into the season. Why,
I don't know. I guess because you know, their owner
wants to have a Super Bowl before he kind of
packs it in, if you know what I mean. They
want to see that Super Bowl. And the America's team
right now has not been there for like some twenty
five years. So again there's some talk if McCarthy should fail,

(51:02):
Bill Belichick's winning in the wings. What have you heard
about that?

Speaker 2 (51:07):
I mean, that's a that's a viable option, and we've
seen him do it before in terms of the tree
because Bill Parcelles took over for three or four years
in Dallas to try and steady the ship. Bill Belichick
could do the same. Yeah, that's there's a lot of
pressure on my McCarthy because with Bill Belichick being out
there and Bill Belichick being able to offer his opinions
on the game of football each and every week as

(51:28):
an analyst, Yeah, you're gonna have more perspective, more insight
on who he is and what he is, and the
public is going to, I would say, develop an affinity
for him because they're gonna start respecting his knowledge. That
is going to make it easy for Jerry Jones to
slide him in and place McCarthy and him to simply say, hey,
we wanted someone who has shown and demonstrated the ability

(51:49):
to go to the big game.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Belichick, I mean to interrupt you, but did you talk
about this Dallas Cowboys team. I don't know how they pick.
I guess they look at market size and interest, and
certainly they still called the America's team. But for them
to get on TV a league high six prime time games,
plus they got five games at the four to twenty
five Eastern time shot, it's amazing to me. And they

(52:14):
got a Thanksgiving game against the Giants. That's unbelievable what
the Dallas Cowboys have got. And with the questions they
have with Mike McCarthy. Also, they got a quarterback of
Dad Prescott, his contractors coming to an end. They got
Michael Parsons and c d Land the receiver. They got
questions with their negotiations with their contracts, So a lot

(52:35):
of questions the Dallas Cowboys. And for them to be
put up there a league high six games and people
gonna watch it, you know what I mean. Look, even
if you have to pay for it, they're gonna do it.
We've gone through that exercise. There's no doubt in my mind,
but I was shocked the Dallas would get that many
primetime games.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Most controversial team in football. People love Mercht them, which
means that everyone is always going to them because you
want to see how the media punnits are going to
react On Mondays following the Cowboys loss, they are always
going to draw a big number. There still is an
expectation that they're gonna be really good because of the
head coaching, quarterback, and the head coach has performed pretty

(53:12):
well since last year. So yeah, there's a lot of
intrigue around the Cowboys and what they could be and
what they hope to be by seasons in.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
It's amazing, really And now you got Week fourteen. The buys.
In Week fourteen, six teams have the last buy of
the season, which is tied with Week twelve for the
most buys in one week. The Patriots, the Ravens, Detexans,
the Colts, the Broncos, and the Commanders look at a

(53:42):
chance to rest in early December. Obviously, I'm not going
to say it's a go to a bed because they
have no choice, but I would think that's a pretty
good advantage to have that buy at that point. In time.
Most of those teams, I don't think they're going to
make in the playoffs anyway. I don't see the Broncos, Patriots,
or Commanders going to the playoffs, so I don't think
it's it will affect them that much.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Well, I mean to Barbie falls where it falls. You
just have to plan accordingly and in a perfect world,
if I was right in the middle of the season, you
got time to kind of relax, reset, refocus, didn't get
back to the basics. If it's later, it becomes harder
because you've already kind of checked out a little bit.
It's the challenge. But that's why the coaches made the
big bucks to make it happen.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's amazing. Now, I'm not a fantasy football player. Do
you play fantasy football?

Speaker 4 (54:25):
No?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
You can, right, but you can because is gambling. Because
you associated with Danner.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
You can't do daily fantasy or whatever. You kind of
have all the blurred lines. So I just stay away
from it.

Speaker 1 (54:36):
Yeah, I stay away. I don't have the time for that.
But if you are a fantasy football player, you may
want to kind of not stock up on these teams
that I just mentioned because you may have a must
win in that regular season finale game, and it's going
to be a by situation over there. So maybe if
you're a fantasy player, I wouldn't stock up on those
players at that point in time. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm

(54:58):
not a fantasy expert, but I would think that's the
way to go. All right, let's talk about the Kansas
City Chiefs for a second, two time defending champs. They
entered the season with five prime time games. Dallas has
more prime time games in Kansas City that I don't
get maybe because to the market size, right, because Dallas
is a bigger TV market to Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
I can't say it's Marcus. Sometimes it's just the appeal
of the matchups. You can't get the right matchups in place,
either through where they sit in terms of the competitive
championship formulat or the division that they're faced. They may
just not have a good slate of i'll say elite
players to kind of come through. So it's just changed

(55:39):
the deal. Look, they're struggling at wide receiver in those things,
but normally they'll get the boost because of the Travis
Kelce Taylor Swift angle, the Pat Mahomes angle. Yeah, you
want those teams in Marquee. I mean, it's not like
you're defending world championship. You have two primetime games. If

(56:00):
you have five, you just didn't get the six one.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Well, they got five prime time games, so I give
them a kind of a check next to their name
over there. But I take away that check in a
sense because they open the season with two tough ballgames,
which I was shocked they got the Ravens and Bengals.
That's the bad news. The good news is they're both
at home. But I was shocked that the NFL just
threw them to the Wolves. But they did it last
year when they played Detroit opening night on that Thursday
and they lost to the Lions. I remember.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
I mean yeah, I mean like, it's gonna be challenging.
The more you win, the hardest gonna get. So you
have to deal with all this stuff. And it's not
the first time, it won't be the last time. The
defending champs have to make a look a run against
a very tough slate of opponents.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Last but not leads the teams that I guess we
could say are somewhat winners in the schedule revealed, believe
it or not, The Washington Commanders. Can you believe it?
I'll tell you why. According to a website bookies dot com,
which I don't frequent that. I'm just gonna tell you.
I happen to see it bookies dot com, they say
the Washington Commanders travel a lead low ten five hundred

(57:02):
and fifty miles. All right. Twelve teams in the league
are traveling at least twice that many miles on road trips.
So I guess that's a positive. We don't have to
travel that much. And the question I have for you,
because you played the game, you were in the league,
I know you travel basically by charter. Can you rack
up frequent flyer miles as a player.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
No, it's a charter. It's all done. It's done for
you don't get those miles. Don't get the hotel points either.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Okay. I just want to know because I thought, well,
if you were flying commercial like this, you could, right
because you get that ticket stub.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
Oh yeah you would. You would trying to sneak over
to the count and asks take a punch from them, man.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
But not now, not with the charter. But is that
an advantage? I mean I looked at that, I said, well,
they're only you know, traveling ten thousand plus miles, but
still in all I mean, if you're playing on a
Sunday afternoon and you leave, if it's at one o'clock
Sunday game on the East Coast normally teams lead like
three to four in the afternoon on a Saturday, I
don't think it's that big of a deal, do you
in the miles? I don't think so really, if you know.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
It all comes down to your body clock and the rhythms.
Like a lot of the Fort Science people will try
and keep you on the same rhythm that you're on
when you're in your home city. So that made mean
changing the times that you fly out, change times that
you go in to wake up, calls, all of that stuff.
So it does matter from that point because if you
have a lot of West Coast game life can be

(58:26):
tough and miserable for some of the people involved.

Speaker 1 (58:30):
No doubt. And if you're playing for the Dolphins, you
play in Seattle, that that's a whole. That's a trip.
I don't care. Even if it's a Sunday one o'clock
and you're leaving Saturday, that's that's rough. You know, Miami
to Seattle, Miami to uh to San Francisco, La, even Arizona.
Those are trips. Those are big trips.

Speaker 2 (58:46):
Yeah, huge trips. And you have to play in accordingly.
You got to get there early. You don't want to
deal in traffic. You don't want to have your team
in traffic. It's it's a lot. They're allowed to coordinate.

Speaker 1 (58:54):
There you go, all right, thank you bucket for your
for your input, big because I always appreciate that we
got more. We got so much more today. He's Bucky Brooks.
Get him on Twitter at Bucky Brooks, at Indy Furman
FSR Betty Yet eight seven seven ninety ninndred Fox. That
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sixty nine bottom barrel betting in this hour and of
course hour number three, they're blame game. But right now,

(59:15):
right now, if you root for these teams, oh my goodness, sorry,
you're a loser. That's coming up next live from the
tyraq dot com studios. Sorry to break this news to you.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. He
is Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman, and we are Fox
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we get off the air. Now let's get into this NFL. Well,
I say these guys are losers because they got some
problems with this schedule. Let's talk about the Jets for
a second. You know, a lot of anticipation because what
happened Aaron Rodgers coming back, you know, a suit to
be forty year old quarterback coming off an achilles. I'm
not so certain, you know, it's the greatest thing in
the world to look forward to. But they did beef

(01:00:19):
up their offensive line to protect them. But your thoughts
on this Jets situation with Aaron Rodgers coming back, and
obviously six of their first eleven games are in prime
time because of Aaron Rodgers, I would think, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
I mean, what it is is a clear sign of
the respect that the league has for Aaron Rodgers. But
it's a huge gamble. It is a gamble all around.
The New York Jets are basically a house of cards
given the amount of older players that are taking chances
on you know, Tymern Smith has dealt with injuries, Mike
Williams dealing with injuries. You have Morgan Moses, who's an

(01:00:54):
older player trying to make his way back to play
and at a high level, rolling the dice on a
bunch of different things. And I don't know, like how
often you can kind of roll dice and have it
come up the way that you want. But they're willing
to take that chance.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
And see, yeah, let's talk about how an athlete recovers
from a Monday night game and play again on Sunday.
Doesn't make that much of a difference in playing on
Sunday to Sunday. That extra day doesn't make that much
of a difference.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
I mean, yeah, it does make a difference because if
you're talk to most players, they tell you they don't
feel right until Wednesday or Thursday, really Thursday, so that
you know you lose the day. You lose a part
of the recovery process to help you fill at your
best on Sunday. But you just get used to doing it,
you know, you jap, you adjust, and you kind of
figure it out, and you hope that you're conditioning your

(01:01:45):
off season work. All the stuff that you've done puts
you in a position where it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
You know why I bring them up because you're looking
at the Jets schedule. They have a Monday Sunday stretch
with the Bills and the stealers. That's not healthy, it
really isn't. Then they got a Sunday Thursday deal with
the Patriots and the Texans from weeks six to nine,
and they open with three games, three games in eleven days.
That's a lot, including a road trip against the forty

(01:02:09):
nine ers and the Titans. That's three games in eleven days.
Isn't that a pretty big deal for football player to do.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
Yeah, I mean it's tough. I mean it's tough, but
you know what, like, no one cares, so you've got
to get through it right just you know, and coaches
have to tell the teams that, hey man, no one cares.
I know, it's a tough moment right now, but we
got to figure it out. And they'll ultimately have to
figure that part out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:32):
Now. The Bills, the Browns, the Bears, and the Vikings.
They are playing three road games in three weeks. That's
kind of strange. And the Bills, I look over here
on the schedule from weeks four to six, they play
the Ravens, Texans, and Jets, and they also visit the
Dolphins on Week two. It's pretty tough for the Buffalo Bills,
which I think that if you were to graph that team,

(01:02:54):
and maybe I'm mistaken, I think the graph is facing
down somewhat over years past.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
Yeah, yeah, I would say that, Like, it doesn't appear
that they don't look on paper to be a better
team given the losses that they've had. But that's what's
great about national football. Do you get a chance to
see it up and see their season. Will hande on
Josh Allen being able to elevate those around him, Josh
Allen being able to do Patrick Mahomes like stuff. Have
a lesser receiving corps in terms of talent, but more

(01:03:24):
production because of the performance of the quarterback. That's what
they're banking on. If they get that, that's gonna be
a really good chance that the Buffalo Bills exceed expectations.

Speaker 1 (01:03:33):
Let's talk about the San Francisco forty nine Ers in
their schedule for a second. They're gonna play the Bills,
the Chiefs, and the Cowboys and the Seahawks when all
those teams are coming off their buys. What kind of
an advantage that those teams have now against the forty
nineers because they're going to play him after a bye week.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Well, the team can reinvent itself over the course of
the bad week. You know, they can take those practice
days and that's that's what they did well, what they
didn't do well, and figure out a way to put
a more comprehensive game plan that features more winners than losers.
They do that like that, that can be problematic because
it just kind of changes everything. We'll see though, I

(01:04:12):
Mean a lot of it comes down to you can
know everything and do everything and write it all out,
but can your players execute it? Execute? And Trump's everything.

Speaker 1 (01:04:20):
And then no surprise over here to Carolina Panthers, the
only team in the league without a primetime game. They
don't deserve one. I mean, they were the worst team
in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
I mean, they're the worst team in football, and there
isn't the same buzz about them that exists over some
other teams when they make moves, they haven't made the
splash moves to kind of command that kind of attention.

Speaker 1 (01:04:38):
Yeah, and I think one of the major problems I'm
going to go back to the streaming situation right now.
You've got so many games out there, it's going to
be very difficult. Least it's difficult for me because I'm
not that smart to find out what game is on
what streaming platform. You know. I know when I watch
the Antaa Basketball deal and they say this game is
on True TV, I go nuts. I miss half the
game because I never watched True TV, and I gotta

(01:04:59):
find now either because I have Spectrum and I also
have Direct TV, I don't know where they are. I
sometimes have to call the provider to find out what
channel it's on, really what number it is, to defind them.
So I think you're gonna have that problem again with
the NFL because these guys, these games are on so
many different streaming devices, different platforms. Yeah, I mean, maybe

(01:05:21):
maybe I'm a stupid No.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
It's a lot to keep up with. But that's why
you gotta have a little calendar in color code to
calendar so you can get your favorite teams in and
figure out when they're playing and what channel they're playing on.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
All Right, Now, we have a Wednesday game week number seventeen,
Chief Stealers. That'll be a pretty big one. Ravens Texans,
that'll be a big one as well. So that's gonna
be a Wednesday game on the week number seventeen, And
each team is going to play Saturday in week sixteen
before the Wednesday game and Week seventeen. Now that's gonna
be tough, and that's gonna be three games and eleven

(01:05:52):
days for all those teams, all four teams. So they
got playing a Saturday game in week sixteen, coming back
for Christmas deal on week seventeen. So you're playing Saturday
and you're playing Wednesday again. But I would think if
some of those teams have already clinched the playoff berth,
they may hold back some of their starters.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
You think, I mean maybe, but I can't say it's
gonna be a lead wide. Everyone will take that last week.
They'll approach it differently, because the main thing when you
get into the late stages of the season, if your
team that's in contention, you want to be playing your
best ball. Going into the tournament. So I think it's
all all gas, no breaks.

Speaker 1 (01:06:28):
There we go. I think we kind of did a
pretty good job dissecting the schedule, some of the teams
that we looked at as winners and some losers. We
will do that and we continue there. But he is
Bucky Brooks on Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday
on Fox Sports Radio, and we say this, now sports
are color blind? Really? Or are they? I don't know.

(01:06:49):
We'll explain that right around the corner. But first, live
from the tiraq dot com studio, the one and only
Kevin Wyer with your.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
Sports NBA Playoffs Honest. Saturday saw the Dallas Mavericks advance
to the Western Conference Finals, finishing off the Oklahoma City
Thunder in Game six one to seventeen to one sixteen
to claim that series four games to two. Luka Dancic
his third straight triple double twenty nine points, ten rebounds,
ten assists, and he's the fifth player in NBA history

(01:07:15):
to have three straight playoff triple doubles.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
PJ.

Speaker 5 (01:07:19):
Washington, though some clutch points late in that game, including
some free throws he got after being fouled with just
seconds to go. By Shay Gilgess Alexander as he helped
with the Mavericks in the lead to win the game
and the series, although Alexander before that foul had himself
an outstanding game thirty six points off fourteen to twenty five,
shooting four or five from beyond the three point arc,

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three rebounds, eight assists, a couple of blocks, zero turnovers,
a couple of Game sevens coming up later on Sunday
as it'll be the Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves, and in
the Eastern Conference portion of things will be the New
York Knicks hosting the Indiana Pacers in the Western Conference

(01:08:01):
second round, Edmondton forcing a game seven Monday night in
Vancouver after we beat the Canucks on Saturday five to one.
WNBA action the New York Liberty beating the Indiana Fever
ninety one to eighty is Caitlin Clark twenty two points
and eight assists the Vegas Aces over the La Sparks
eighty nine to eighty two. PGA Championships Xander show Flake

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Colin Morikawa tied at the top of the leader board
at fifteen under par Shan Lowery, two shots back of
the lead. He had a record at sixty two. On Saturday,
Top Rank Golf of Oscotti Scheffler a third round seventy three.
He's eight shots behind the lead, and that's the first
time he has shot around over par since August of

(01:08:45):
last year. Preakness Stakes at Pimlico sees the Gray winning it,
leading a wire to wire on a muddy track as
Derby winner misstic Dan finished a second no triple Crown
winner this year. Major League Baseball padres and rained out
will be a double Ladder on Monday. Orioles weren't a
rain delay. Had to wait three hours for that one

(01:09:05):
before the Mariners do win it four to three. Rangers
out last the Angels in thirteen innings three to two.
Dodgers sent out the Reds for nothing. Brewers over the
Astros four to two. That snaps houston six game winning streak.
The Royals send the A's to their seventh straight loss
five to three. Yankees make it six wins in a row.
They beat the White Sox six to one. Back to

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you guys, thanks keV.

Speaker 1 (01:09:27):
Seeing it now now? Is it a black and white issue?
We'll talk about that in just about a minute. He's
Bucky Brooks I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sonning
on Fox Sports Ready with Bob and Barrel, Betty coming
up at about six seven minutes for now. And there
was a story in y'ahoo's Sports the other day. They
got who wrote it, but talk about Caitlin Clark comparing
Clark now to the NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird

(01:09:47):
about forty forty five years ago. There was discussion about
race and the transition to professional basketball. And I read
this stuff. I scratched my head because I always thought
that sports would call a blind Maybe I'm stupid. I
guess that's not the pain. They're not the case. Well
maybe people are just looking to write about things. I
don't know. But cat and Clark, to her credit, has
not said a thing to fuel this stuff, this black

(01:10:09):
white narrative, which is great, and there's some talk about
a double standard. So I kept on reading it. Next day,
I know, I see a quote from Asia Wilson from
the Las Vegas Aces and the WNBA and she says,
I think it's a big thing. I think it's a
huge thing about race. I think a lot of people
may say it's not about black and white, but to me,
she says it is okay. When she was asking about

(01:10:30):
the race element with Caton Clark and how comes she's
so popular, she says, quote, it doesn't matter what we
all do as black women, We're still going to be
swept underneath the rug. That's why it boils my blood
when people say it's not about race, because it is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:43):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I read this and I said, wait a minute, Wow?
Is she jealous? Is it envy? Is she correct? I
don't know. Does America want a white hero? Is that
the deal? I can't answer that question. I don't know,
because I'm not black. Really, that's the honest to god answer.
I can't answer that. And maybe she feels that way.
Maybe it's true. I don't know. Maybe you could help

(01:11:05):
me with this, Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Look, it's a very nuanced conversation. But what has always
happened in terms of like sports media, in the sports
world is we love to celebrate our heroes and annoying
heroes and create villains. And what has happened and this
happened before this preceded uh Kaylyn Clark arriving in the WNBA,

(01:11:28):
but she was placed as like a hero the hearing
in the story arc that we have and we create
in you know, in games. And look, I love Kaylyn Clark.
I think her game is amazing. I've been watching in
the last two years to watch her dominate the college
game like she did. You love that. But then what

(01:11:49):
happens is, I would say, when the casuals come in,
they jump in and make it more than what it was.
Much like you used to get annoyed with the conversation
of her surpassing pistol Pete Mary for those things. They
built her up to be a superhero when her game
should speak for itself. And sometimes when you build her up,

(01:12:10):
you do it at the spense of others. Where it became,
you know, there was an article in the La Times
where they talked unfavorably about the ladies from LSU, you know,
and they've talked about South Carolina's girls and the ladies
that played for South Carolina under Dawn Staley. And so
when it became Iowa South Carolina, Iowa was depicted as

(01:12:32):
the villain. It coincided with them being predominantly black and brown,
and so you just have these undertones that surround her
and it's not Kaitlyn Clark's fought obviously she just talked
about like her heroes and how she goes about it.
She doesn't kind of feed into it, but everyone around

(01:12:52):
it does. And as much as I would love to
say that sports a color blind, it's not like you
can't avoid race in those conversations. There's a part of it.
There's this out, this underbelly, this undertone where old stereotypes
and tropes are thrown out there, maybe subconsciously because they've

(01:13:15):
been associated with games for so long. And for Kaitlyn Clark,
she's certainly kind of caught up in that because right
now everyone is talking about her in the w NBA
and how she's faring and those other things, and with her,
she's almost untouchable when it comes to criticism, and so
just all these weird things that are wrapped along Kaylyn Clark,

(01:13:36):
as opposed to just enjoying her and watching her go
through this journey along with so many of these other
talented ladies that are making their way into.

Speaker 1 (01:13:43):
W Well, I will say this, I think it takes
a lot of guts for Asia Wilson to come out
and say that it is about black and white, because
I think it's a gut you know, she's stuck ahead
above the water to take people going to take shots
at her. So I think it's gutsy that she said that.
Do I believe it? I'm not so certain when I
say sports is colorblind. The other day they had like
a show Hea tany knife for the Dodgers with pup bubblehead.

(01:14:06):
Now fifty two thousand people there. Maybe that came out for.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
The bubble that's also yeah, but that's also different. Right.
So when we think about La, right, so because I
live in La, like La is a multicultural, multi ethnic city,
like that team, the Dodgers is multicultural, multi ethnic where
there's been the embrace of that. In other parts of
the country it hasn't been as open. And so this

(01:14:31):
is where sports and politics and all this stuff intertwines.
At the same time, when we're talking about diversity and
diversity of thought, diversity on the field, you also have
a rash of things that happened around the country to
crush the diversity, equity, and inclusion. And so we can't
talk about, oh, it's colorblind without also acknowledging those factors.

(01:14:56):
And when it comes to like college sports in particular,
you have okay, we have these diverse teams on the field,
on the hardwood, but we don't want diverse thought, diverse
like viewpoints, diverse backgrounds in like classrooms or in administration
or those things. And because it's clouded and oh, in

(01:15:20):
one vein we think it's a meritocracy, but in another thing,
when we see people in certain positions, we don't think
it's on merit All of that leaks into how we've
used sports and it's unfortunate, but that's where we're at.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
Well, you're exactly right, and I just feel bitf Asian
Wilson is saying that she takes a lot of guts
what she said. But I think she's going to get
some heat for that because people are going to say
that she's either envious or jealous of of Kaitlyn.

Speaker 4 (01:15:44):
I but.

Speaker 1 (01:15:47):
What a two time MVP.

Speaker 2 (01:15:48):
I think, right, you're a very accomplished player. And there's
been some of that, right, So there's been some of
that part. And let me also say this because this
is is fair to Caitlyn Clark. So when Calen Clark
Sanders signature shoe deal with Nike, uh, initially there was
some blowback that Nike got because at the time it
appeared that all of the signatures, the signature shoes that

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they put out were represented by white women on the court,
and a lot of the backlash came from, well, wait
a minute, like, there are all these talented people in
the w n B A, how can it just be
that only white women have signature shoes. Nike later came
and they just released Asia Wilson's shoe and they talked
about it. But there's all to.

Speaker 1 (01:16:32):
Do it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah, there's shoes, right, but there are all of these
things that are doing it. But it was part of
a bigger campaign that Nike was was working on to
really build it up so when they dropped, it becomes
a spectacular drop. But so there are a lot of
people that I and the reason I call them casuals
because they're not hardcore. And people are beginning to tie
with sports their own political agendas and those things with sports.

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So that's why everything is so clouded when we talk
about it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:00):
There you go, he's Bucky Brooks, Well sit, I mean, Defirman.
We are Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sport's ready. It's
the game that will break your heart. Bottom barrel betting,
It's freaking next, all right, Bottom barrel betting coming right up.
This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready about
nine minutes before the top of the hour. He's Bucky Brooks,
I mean the firman went live from the tie rack
dot com studios. We got a gate to play. Let's play,

(01:17:24):
Yes it is, and the man to play it and
get it going is the one and only.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Shay Shay Shay.

Speaker 7 (01:17:30):
How are we doing, guys?

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
How are we doing? All right? Man?

Speaker 7 (01:17:34):
So, Andy, I think you used your luck up when
you uh, when you guess the horse right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
But it's okay.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
You can't get them all I know. So Bucky won, Bucky,
Bucky did what Bucky won?

Speaker 7 (01:17:48):
It was uh, it was close, three to two, three
to two, not bad, not bad. But this puts the
overall score to Bucky has broken. So Bucky is currently
at forty one and Andy is sitting at just under
thirty at twenty nine with the overall score. All right, guys,

(01:18:09):
you're ready for this next one. Let's see if Andy
can make up for it. In the Darts Premier League,
Luke Little is taking on Michael Smith Thursday May twenty third.
At eleven fifteen am, Luke Little is minus two to
twenty five, while Michael Smith is plus one seventy Andy,
let's start with you.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
I'm gonna go with Michael Smith because he's probably really good,
and he uses a fake name that's not a real name.
He uses a fake name because everybody's like after him,
WoT the grabs or whatever it may be. So I'm
going with Michael Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:18:38):
Well, I'll just go to counter. I'll just take that
little luke.

Speaker 7 (01:18:42):
Little sounds big too, though, they really take little all right. Well,
let's go to the bad, bad badminton women's doubles Slovenia open. Sorry,
a little bit of a mouthful with that one. The
duo of Chen and Son is taking on the duo
of Dent and Lie right now. Chen and Sner minus
two fifty five while Denton Lie are plus one seventy five.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Oh, Chin and Son, Chin and Son. That's easy, no
brainer all day.

Speaker 1 (01:19:11):
You know what, I'm gonna go with Denton Lie. I
like the lie. I like a liar. I really do
like lie. Dent't lie. There we go.

Speaker 7 (01:19:19):
In the Australian Ice Hockey League, the Brisbane Lightning are
taking on the Sydney Bears at twelve am Pacific Standard tomorrow.
The Lightning are plus four fifty while the Bears are
minus seven to twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:19:31):
I don't care what the things are, minus plus or
maybe I'm going with the Bears, the Sydney Bears because
they like the Chicago Bears. They gotta win this year.

Speaker 2 (01:19:40):
I don't think the Bears are gonna win as much
as people think, so I'm gonna take the lighting I'm good.

Speaker 7 (01:19:46):
So onto the Gaelic Games. The contestants are taking place
in hurling in the Munster Senior Championship.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
I was hurling last night.

Speaker 8 (01:19:54):
By the way, the spread is minus three point five
and for Claire and plus three point five for Waterford.

Speaker 7 (01:20:06):
They are both minus one twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Who's up, Who's up?

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
And Who's up?

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
I'll go water for Waterford is a nice uh. I
guess jewelry is in water for jewelry of whatever it
may be. I'll go water for that's expensive stuff. Go
with the water.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
Okay, what a little water for christer where clairev had
a store right here. So I'm gonna go with Claire.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
And that's it. I guess, right, yeah, yeah, I go
all right. Hey, by the way, he's one NFL team
and quarterback worth of dough. That's next, Fox staying here
all right, Super fifty nine could have a west in
touch that's coming right up. Good morning, everybody. This is
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He is Bucky Brooks.

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I'm Andy Furman, and we are broadcasting live from the
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the time is gone. We're an hour number three already,
we're rocking and rolling. We could probably do three more.

(01:21:10):
What do you think?

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Yeah, we probably could do three more. I think I
wouldn't have a voice left, but we could do three more.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
You probably could. I don't know if I want to
do three more. We probably could, though. Look, I want
to commend you because you always have that thing on
the NFL dot Com. You write that column every Friday.
You're a great player. You are a great player, great coach,
author scout and now rider NFL dot com. And this
week I guess the shocker of the week, I guess
for many in the Managed to Football League was Detroit

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Lions quarterback Jared Goff. Four years, two hundred twelve million
dollars and his fifty three million dollar annual average puts
him behind Joe Burrow. It's fifty five mil. And the
head of three other players you write making fifty million
plus per year will be Justin Herbert Lamar Jackson and
Jalen Hurts. This is according to Over the Cap, and

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I got to ask a couple of question. Let's get
into this a little bit. Why is he making so much?
And is he worth it? You had some thoughts on that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
No, you're absolutely is worth it. One, he has a pedigree,
all right, So when he's a former number one overall pick,
that comes with some cachet. The fact that the Lions
went from being I think three thirteen and one to
then three and thirteen to nine and eight to twelve

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and whatever last year, they have become like a top team,
and it's coincided with his return to prominence and his
rise as an NFL quarterback. I already spit out the
stats where he's in the top four in passing yards,
pass touchdowns, interception testdown and interception ratio since twenty twelve

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at twenty two. So he's up there when it comes
to putting up the numbers. The team is getting the wins,
and when he comes time to pay the quarterback, if
the quarterback is winning, he's putting up numbers. Individually, you
have to pay him market value. And so that's why
he's just behind Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
Yeah, it amazes me because you were right about the
thing that there's a lot of naysayers that have talked
about Jared Goff. They told him that they called him
a cast off. He's just a glorified game manager. And
I go back and remember back in twenty sixteen he
was the number one pick. All right, then you come
back with these stats. Unbelievable. He has passed four in
three years. He's passed four in Detroit, two hundred and

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fifty eight yards, seventy eight touchdowns and only twenty seven
i nts and over the past two years, and remember
he's only twenty nine years old. Over the past two years,
he's ranked in the top four in the NFL in
several categories including passing yards, passing, touchdowns and touchdowns to
interception ratio is pretty good. Plus, as you mentioned again,

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the Detroit Lions under him as quarterback gone from three
thirteen to one to nine and eight and last year
twelve and five. So if the quarterback, in fact, there
is the most important position in the National Footballleague football,
and this Detroit Lions team has made such a jump
and he's the quarterback, you got to pay the guy.
I guess you got to pay what the market is
bearing and market value. That's basically it. Yeah, it's a

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lot of money, but that's what they're paying them.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
It is a lot of money, but that's what they're
paying and they have to pay because what's their alternative.
You don't have an alternative, And why would you want
to have an alternative when everything is trending in the
right direction. This is a team that has legitimate Super
Bowl aspiration. You don't want to miss with the quarterback
position in that moment.

Speaker 1 (01:24:30):
I don't know why people and I mentioned this earlier,
that people really don't get too upset about the money.
I you go to a baseball game, a guy strikes us,
there's the guys are bumm. He's making all that money
in football. I think there's a reasoning why they make
the money. I don't see fans getting that upset because
they know football is a big money pie. Of players

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get a portion of that pie. Quarterbacks the most important position,
and that's basically the going rate. If you want to
become a salesman, you're not going to to get, you know,
two hundred and twelve million dollars, you're going to get
maybe paid by commission. You know, every job that you
perform in life has I guess they have boundaries. If

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I may, you know, you can make x amount and
not make this much and make this much. So you
go into a profession I guess in life knowing that
I like what I do, but I'm not going to
make a hell of a lot of money because that's
basically with the boundaries of this this job and the
National Football League. If you're a quarterback, I guess the
boundaries to some extent are endless. That's it, right, yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (01:25:35):
There's so a few of them that can play at
an an elite level. When you have one, you have
to pay the going rate for one. And the thing
is when you're evaluating, because Dak Prescott will fall into
this category later, how do you view the quarterback and
what are you willing to pay him in relation to
what you can't pick up. So when you pay Jared

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Goff and they also elected to pay Amama Saint Brown
and Penny Sewel as their foundational pieces, well you're gonna
count on Amama Ras Saint Brown and those guys to
play at a high level, But you really count on
Jerry Goff to elevate the play of everyone around him.
Can he do that? And that's the determination that you
have to make when you write a big check. These

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other young guys that are in the hopper that are
in line for extensions to talk about Loa is one,
Trevor Lawrence is another. Are you willing to pay them
that amount? And when you pay them, it changed the
way that you have to construct your team. So you
have to be very very confident that they can elevate
their games to go from being maybe game managers to

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game changers, playmakers that the like. If not, you now
begin to have the conversation, Okay, what is the ceiling
in terms of what we can do with him? And
are we willing to move on from him or will
we just kind of have a budget in mind in
terms of the bottom line number.

Speaker 1 (01:26:55):
Okay, now here's the big question of the day, at
least in my mind. So quarter getting paid because a
the position that they play and be their value, not
necessarily how good they are. What do I mean by that?
I look at Daniel Jones, he got a big time
contract with the Giants. I don't see what he has done.
I don't see what he's done for the Giants. Sae

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Kwon Barkley is no longer with them, and he was
like sixty percent of their offense. They're running back. So basically,
you're getting paid because of the slotting, the position that
you play, and that's why these guys are getting big
time money. So when you talk about Dak Prescott coming
up with a contract, you know, you may argue that
his stats are basically almost mirror image of Kirk Cousins.

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Does that mean that he's going to the kind of
deal that Kirk Cousins got. I mean, but again, what
has he done in Dallas? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
Here get a big one. People will say what has
he done in Dallas? And I will say, here's the
deal with Dak Prescott in relation to Kirk Cousins. He's
had more success than Kirk Cousins team and individually when
it comes to putting it together, and that right there
puts him in that category where Kirk got whatever he
got from the Atlanta Falcons. Dak Prescott is still younger.

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Dak Prescott is as accomplished, but maybe he's had more
team success. And no matter what you think about him,
but everything about Kirk Cousins, if you're willing to write
to check for Kirk Cousins, you have to be willing
to write to check for Dak Prescott. I would think
that some of the issues that the Cowboys were running
to how comfortable are they within me in fifty five

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sixty million a year? Are you okay with that? Because
if you're not okay with it, then you probably should
have made plans to move on from him and have
another quarterback in play so he can enter free agency,
or you could have traded him. But now that you
haven't done that, he has all the leverage, especially if
he comes back on a solid year, a year where

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he's four thousand yards, a bunch of touchdowns, this team
wins double digit games. Now you're up against him and
you're gonna have to pay him closer to sixty million
dollars then you anticipated or you would have had to pay,
You would have a given if you had sign him
before this season.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
Now, now would you agree that maybe talent is not
the highest thing on the picking order when they're looking
at a contract. And why do I say that? Because
I think one of the major questions that people who
signed the contracts with these players are. The major question
is well, if we don't sign them, who do we
have without them? That's the major question. I mean, Dallas

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may be stuck giving big money to Dak Prescott because
what do they do if they don't have Dak Prescott?
And Kirk Cousins was lucky in the position in Atlanta
because they didn't have anybody. Really they were hurting for
a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Yeah, but that's the thing. And if you are Jerry Jones,
those are the things that you're supposed to think about
ahead of time. You're supposed to have a plan, a
secession plan for Okay, if we're going to move up
with Dak, move on from Dak a year ago, two
years ago, Let's have a quarterback in here learning the
system developing under us, and he will be ready when

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it's time to call his number. They didn't do that.
That's why they're stuck, because the poor planning has put
them in a bad situation.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
Yeah, I guess you could say that Giants have poor
planning as well, but although they did they did draft
world waterback.

Speaker 2 (01:30:19):
Well yeah, not only not that. So I think for
the Giants, the difference is ownership may believe in the
quarterback more than maybe the coaching staff, and ownership paid
him at a level where they thought he was gonna
be really, really good. Maybe ownership is more invested in
Daniel Jones than the pieces around him. Daniel Jones has

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to show people that he can deliver. He got paid
after having only fifteen touchdowns and five interceptions. Those modest
numbers are Look, those are super modest numbers for a
forty million dollars quarterback. And this was a team that
didn't want to pay Saquon Barkley and it created a
bit of an an issue. So you just have to

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have these things planned out, thought out, plot it out,
thinking one or two years in advance, while also building
the team up right now that can win any immedia future.

Speaker 1 (01:31:13):
It amazes me. I mean, with that position right now,
you know, back in the day, you know, if you
were a parent, you'd want your kid to go to
Little League baseball and become a pitcher. Now if you're
a parent, you want the kid to be a quarterback.
I think that's the way to go if you look
up for a big time money in professional athletics, right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
I mean, yeah, I mean that's the way to go.
But there's so few of them that can do it.
I can't tell you the amount of quarterbacks or aspiring quarterbacks,
and we see they can't. I play, everyone understand, and
everyone chases the bag, and the bag is given not
necessarily on performance and production, but a lot on projection
and potential. And as we're looking at these quarterback deals

(01:31:54):
and Jered Goffer some of the other guys, what's the
potential for them to kind of hit that mark over again,
Because you know lead that they can hit that mark again,
then you're willing to pay him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:32:04):
I want to talk about Justin Herbert for a secent
was I think coming out of college, this guy was
the big news. Justin Herbert was the big news. He
hasn't had I'll have to say, much successive at all,
you know, coming into the National Football League. But I
think right now with his new coach, Harbaugh. Jim Harborugh
right now is going to really focus on the offense.
He's an offensive minded guy. He's had quarterbacks that he

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toutored both in college and when he coached in the
NFL prior to this. I think you're going to see
an explosion with Justin Herbert this year. Do you agree.

Speaker 2 (01:32:35):
I don't think you'll see an explosion in terms of
the production because he's been a four thousand year quarterback before.
He's been a guy that has kind of been celebrated
and hailed as the terrific talent that doesn't necessarily have
the team around him to maximize his potential. Jim Harbaugh
is going to make the game easier for him by
operating under a less is more approach, fewer passes, more production.

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We're gonna run the football, We're gonna be a physical team,
dominate in the trenches, and when we throw, we're gonna
throw our play action. We're going to push it down
the field to win our one on one matchups. I
think this would be a more productive year for Justin
Herbert in terms of the team's success. I don't think
the numbers will match the numbers that he's put up
in the past because the offense from a philosophical standpoint,

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has gone in a different direction.

Speaker 1 (01:33:19):
Right. You know, when you look at quarterbacks in the
National Football League and how much they get paid, I'm
sure as a form of player, you shake your head
right now. And I got to ask. I mean, let's
not talk about rating the quarterbacks by how much they make.
But in your mind, who do you think the top
three quarterbacks are talent wise? Figured about how much they make,

(01:33:40):
But the top three talent wise, if in fact they
were on a different team, would maybe more talents surrounding them,
they would shine better. But who are the top three
you think, top.

Speaker 2 (01:33:51):
Three quarterbacks in the league? Who was shining or just
in jump talent wise? Yeah, okay, talent tellent wise, Pat
Mahomes would be one.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
So you're telling me he'd be great and any team
he's there, he would make people around him better.

Speaker 2 (01:34:04):
I think so. I think the last couple of years
he's proven that he could make people better. I would say, now,
he certainly has to have a system, but he is
the most talented, so I would put him in that
category and everybody, all these quarterbacks, you have to have
the right system. You have to have the right things
in place. But I would say the top three would
be Look, Joe Burrow would fall in that category, and

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then Josh Allen would be in that conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:34:29):
Josh, we'll see what We'll see what happens this year
Without Stefan Diggs in Buffalo. That may hurt him, although
he could make them make the team better.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
Yeah, it will hurt him. I believe it hurt him
in some way or capacity. But Josh Allen Lamar Jackson
is an interesting debate. Lamar Jackson, by most accounts, should
be right up on the Pat Mahomes as a two
time MVP winner. Compared to Joe Burrow. I think Joe
Burrow could exist because you could always spread the formation out.
I think Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson are acquired tastes.

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You have to have a plan for how you're going
to maximize both of their guys. So that's why I
will put them as three A, three B when it
comes to it. But it's a really Look, it's a
really difficult debate when it comes to the top five
and quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (01:35:15):
I hear what you're saying. I mean, it is difficult
and I'm sure that the people who sign the paychecks
are looking at that as well, saying, you know, I'm
giving this guy big money, but is he as good
as you know? This guy? Don't they go that route
or they just say, look, we got to pay it
because that's just a going rate.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Now that they understand what the going rate is, and
you have to know what the going rate is, you
have to know what you're getting in return and what
you paid the player. The compensation has to line up
with what the production is going to be, and you
get into trouble when the compensation by market value is
significantly greater than the production that the player can produce.

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That's when it does. In thelign so, I talked about
Daniel Jones being a forty million dollar quarterback with only
fifteen touchdown passes. That typically doesn't align. Forty million dollars
quarterback is normally hot twenties. Really, thirty plus touchdowns just
a difference. It's just a difference in expectation.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
Interesting, all right, Looking to continue with this boost. I
got some more that you have written on NFL dot com.
We'll do that. He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman. We
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(01:37:16):
Bucky Brooks, you made a Bowl prediction NFL dot Com.
Every Friday, it says NFL Riders. Scroll down you see
his beautiful face. It's Bucky Brooks running about it. And
you said this Friday, and I love it because we're
going to get into it right now. That Los Angeles
could become the NFL's most interesting city in twenty twenty four.

(01:37:36):
In fact, by the end of the season, they could
emerge as the new football mecca. What do you mean
by that? What's going on in Los Angeles that we
should know?

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Oh? This is this is it. LA is the place
you're looking at good football, You're looking at championship caliber football.
LA is going to be the place that you want
to keep your eyes on. And that's talking about the
Rams and the Chargers emerging and as sleeper candidates to
represent the AFC and the NFC respectively in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (01:38:06):
Now wait just a minute. As far as I concern,
when I think of the Chargers, I think of a
team that can't close. I think of a team that
blows it in the fourth quarter every game, and they've
done so in the last several years. So all of
a sudden, Now why the turnaround? Basically the same personnel
but a different coach.

Speaker 2 (01:38:21):
Oh, the coaching matters. Coaching matters in this league. You
think about what they had been able to accomplish on
the Brandon Staling Brendazeta didn't stick to his guns. He
didn't stay with the aggressive, super analytical approach. We're going
to be on the edge. We're gonna push the envelope
in those things. As soon as he got a little criticism,
he changed his ways. Jim Harbar is not gonna do that. Also,

(01:38:44):
we have a history, a proven history that we can
look at and talk about Jim Harbard turning around programs
and quickly making them the bully on the block. He
did it first at USD Universe at San Diego. Then
he goes to Stanford using the same blueprint beat USC
takes over Pete Carroll and make Stanford the bully in
the PAC twelve. He goes to the San Francisco forty

(01:39:06):
nine as quickly knocks off the Seattle Seahawks and they
become the new team that we're talking about in the
NFC West, goes to Michigan. Michigan can't get over the hump,
can't beat Ohio State. They knock them off. Then they
go to the playoffs back to back years and eventually
win the national title. He's gonna use the same blueprint
to get the Charges up and running. They're gonna be
a physical team, They're gonna run the football. They're gonna

(01:39:27):
have a great quarterback. The quarterbacks going to be selective
in his usage, but when they use him, he's gonna
be very effective. And then he's gonna build up the
overall toughness of the program. I don't know if you
had a chance to listen to the strength coach from
the Chargers talking about we're gonna make our team where
they're unbreakable, and so that is about the physicality and
toughness that they're going to do, and I think you'll

(01:39:49):
see a quick improvement from the Chargers, And the same
will be said for the La Rams who made it
this postseason. But they're all in on the running game,
even though they have Matthew Stafford. Look, their style of
player is going to get both teams an opportunity to
be one of the last team standing when we get
to the tournament.

Speaker 1 (01:40:06):
I'm not so certain it's great to have two West
Coast teams from the same city facing each other in
the Super Bowl because it takes away the entire East
Coast rooting interest. Whatever it may be. But you know,
I'm listening to what you say, and you may be right.
I'm going to hold you to this when we get
down to the Super Bowl. But I'm a big fan
of Jim Harbaugh, and there's no doubt in my mind
he's turned things around. He's got quarterbacks like Andrew Luck

(01:40:26):
when he coached at Stanford, Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, j
C Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:40:31):
Josh Johnson, who's been in the league for a long time.
He was his quarterback at University of San Diego. Yeah,
he knows what he's doing when it comes to quarterbacks,
how to protect and build up the quarterback, all of
those things. I mean, if I'm a gamble on somebody,
I'm certainly gambling on his ability to build a winning
program and to make sure that the quarterback plays really,
really well.

Speaker 1 (01:40:50):
Okay, So my question to you has to be a
what makes Jim Harbaugh such a good coach where others
have failed and he succeeded. What does he have? What
right does he have to build a winner and all
these problems. It's not a coincidence. Wherever he's been he's won.
You know, Michigan now owns Ohio State. We'll see what
happens now without him, but now they have owned Ohio

(01:41:12):
State and football.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
He has the ability to retain the old school values
and traditions that have always worked well in the national
in football. Toughness, physicality, running the football, using the running
game to protect the quarterback. That always works. He does
a really good job of finding defensive coordinators who can

(01:41:36):
build up elite defenses. So now, if you can run
the ball, play great defense, and you have a great quarterback,
that is going to give you a chance to always
be in that conversation. He does that, and he somehow
has a rare ability to build confidence in his players.
He is able to tell them, hey, if you follow
this blueprint, you follow this plan, we can be anybody.

(01:41:57):
And ultimately he's a competitor. He doesn't blink, he doesn't
shot away from competition. He loves it. He goes after it.
He's going to put a target on the back of
the biggest bully in the AFC, and right now that's
in his division, the can City Chiefs, and he is
going to go after him, much like he's done at
every other place. He just has a blueprint and the format.
It works with him, and it also fits his personality

(01:42:20):
he is what those values are that he preaches each
and every week.

Speaker 1 (01:42:25):
I like what you wrote an NFL dot com, he
said Jim Hobart Tom reporters at the annual league meetings
in watching on courting what you wrote. Now, if I
ask you the question of like, what position group depends
on no other position group to be good, but every
other position group depends on them to be good. What
position group is that offensive line? Offensive line? And look,

(01:42:47):
but then they pick up the tackle Joe alt So,
I mean, he's bolt, He's protecting his quarterback. Quarterback's important,
but you've got to protect the quarterback, and that's what
he's doing. You know, you may be onto something here
that it could be all in LA super Bowl. I
don't think I want to see that, but it could
very well be in LA super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:43:06):
It looked it could be down the line. And look,
we're being a little bold when I talk about it
being the football mecca, but that's what you're doing. I
think all eyes will be on the city of LA
because they are two very intriguing programs. You have the
charges everyone's excited about Jim Harbaugh. You've heard the buzz,
you feel the buzz Obviously you saw him at Michigan.
The buzz out in LA is crazy over him, and

(01:43:28):
then the Sean McVay and what Sean McVay has done
with the Rams. The Rams got into the postseason tournament
last year, the Rams became a really physical run team.
They went from me in a zone base blocking team
to a gap scheme where they're pulling and kicking guy.
Our guys up front, they're doing that and then they
double down. Karen Williams was one of the top rushes
in the league. They now backstop him with Blake korm

(01:43:48):
from Michigan, who is a touchdown machine and one of
the best running backs in my estimation, might have been
the best running back in the draft. Now that he's
fully removed from the knee injury, they kind of slowed
him down season. If he ain't, Karen Williams become that
one two punch that they've been looking for. Look out,
because you can't stop the running game and outside with
Pooka Nakua and Cooper Cup, you're gonna have a difficult

(01:44:10):
time also slowing them down in the passing game.

Speaker 1 (01:44:12):
Now you're scaring me because not only you predicting both
LA teams. You're getting excited about it. I mean, right now,
if I want to ask you, are you basically telling
me here right now that you're going to see the
Chargers and the Rams in the Super Bowl. I mean,
you're really glowing with these two teams. You're excited. I
mean you think it's really going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Oh, I mean I think it potentially could happen for sure.
And what I will say this, because everyone is going
to be the naye ear is how can the Rams
be in that conversation when they lose Aaron Donald. I
don't know if people have been paying attention, but less
need has left the door open for Aaron Donald to
return for a potential postseason run. They did it a
couple of years ago with Eric. Eric Weddle joined the
team right before the postseason, played in the postseason helped

(01:44:53):
that team win the Super Bowl. If Aaron Donald wants
to sit out training camp and most of the regular
season but gets the itch to come back as this
team is rolling, he absolutely will come back. So I'm
not as worried about them on defense because they have
young guys that and Kobe Turner Brian Young. They drafted
two guys from Florida Stay dread Verse and Brandon Fitz respectively.

(01:45:14):
They're gonna be okay, but offensively they can dictate the
terms and make the game really really challenge him for
people to have to face him.

Speaker 1 (01:45:22):
Interesting. I'm running this down and when Super Bowl rolls around,
we'll see what happens, because I will treat you to
a dinner any restaurant in LA you want. If in fact,
the Rams and Charges play together in the Super Bowl.
How's that? How's that?

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
I mean, it's good. I like it.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
Well, I mean I don't think it's gonna happen. You know,
I'm hoping the Bengals come back, you know, really and truly.
I mean there's a lot of expectations for the Bengals.
Joe Burrows healthy now he's coming back. But here's a
guy who's injury prone. That scares me. But when he's
bolt up a lot. So we'll see what happens there.
But more than that, you're talking about the team and
even make the playoffs. Last year again he wasn't playing.

(01:46:00):
But still in all you know, the last several years
he has not played, you know, one of them has
not been dec tom Me. So I can't blame that
on football injury, but the wrist has so many things
with the knee. I mean, I just I worry about
him completing the season. Is that a fair assessment to
worry about him because he's injury prone?

Speaker 2 (01:46:19):
I mean, yeah, it's a fair assessment. Anytime someone has injuries,
you worry about it. But it happens because sometimes, as
much as we'd like to say injuries are predictive, they're random.
They're random occurrences that occasionally play got best players, but
you can't. You have to make sure that you're still
great to play and give the player his due based
on the potential that he flashes. And with the injury

(01:46:41):
history or whatever, it's still doesn't matter. Fact that he's
a really good player and you can do like if
they have their pieces in place, this is a really
talented team.

Speaker 1 (01:46:50):
All right, there we go. We'll see what happens. Bucky
Brooks write it down La versus LA in the Super Bowl.
Bunky Brooks, Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
Overpaid or overrated? That's coming up next line from the
tyrack dot Com studios. But first, our guy who's never overrated,
Kevin Wyatt with All Your Sports.

Speaker 5 (01:47:11):
The Dallas Mavericks advancing to the Western Conference Finals after
they take down the Oklahoma City Thunder in Game six
of their second round series one to seventeen to one
to sixteen to take the series four games to two,
as Luka Dancic his third straight triple double twenty nine points,
ten rebounds, ten assists. He's the fifth player in NBA
history to have a three straight playoff triple doubles. PJ

(01:47:34):
Washington though some clutch points down the stretch, including those
free throws to give Dallas the lead at the end
after he was fouled in the final seconds by Shay
Gilgess Alexander as He helped put the Dallas Mavericks in
the lead for good as they take that series two
game sevens on Sunday. The first game will be the
Knicks and Pacers, the Night Captain Nuggets and in Minnesota

(01:47:56):
Timberwolves Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Edmonton Oilers forcing a Game
seven against the Vancouver Canucks wing at five to one
on Saturday, so they'll play that winner take all contest
Monday evening in a Vancouver WNBA action Liberty over the
Indian Nafever ninety one to eighty Caitlin Clark twenty two
points and eight assists. The Las Vegas Aces beat the

(01:48:18):
La Sparks eighty nine to eighty two. PGA Championship Xanders
show Flay Colin Morikawa enter the final day of play
tie the top of the leaderboard by one stroke at
fifteen under par. Shane Lowie has two shots back after
he had a record TYN sixty two round on Saturday,
and Scottie Scheffler shot a third round seventy three. He's

(01:48:39):
eight shots behind the lead, and he shot his first
round over par since August of last year. Brickness Stakes
at Pimlico sees the Gray winning it, leading at wire
to wire on a muddy track, so no triple crown
winner as Kentucky Derby winner Misstick Dan have finished in
a second place. In Major League Bay Fall, the Padres

(01:49:01):
and Braves rained out, so it'll be a doubleheader on Monday.
The Oriols game was delayed by three hours. Eventually, though
Baltimore does fall to the Seattle Mariners four to three,
Rangers out last the Angels three to two and thirteen innings.
Dodgers shout the Reds for nothing. The Brewers beat the
Astros four to two, stapping houston six game winning streak.

(01:49:22):
The Royals over the A's six five to three, as
Oakland has now lost seven straight. The Yankees beat the
White Sox six one. They've won six straight games. Back
you guys, Thanks, keV.

Speaker 1 (01:49:33):
Have a great day. Thanks for all you do for us. Okay,
now is a talk out of control. We'll explain that
in just a minute. He's Bucky Brooks, I mean Deferman.
We on Fox Sports Sunday on Fox What's ready? And
the talk, obviously is Caitlin Clark. Are you tired of
it already? I mean, that's all I hear. A good
bit indifferent. You know, they said the first game she
scored twenty, but she had ten turnovers. Yesterday scored twenty two.

(01:49:55):
Let me just clear up this mess for a second.
Number one, this Indiana Fever team, she's not oneing three.
They're not a good team. And over the last four
years they've only had double digit wins once. They won
thirteen games. I believe last year or two years ago
they've won five to three. Whatever it may have been.
They don't win. There's a reason why they drafted first.
They're just a bad team. So to lump her in

(01:50:17):
there and say she's not gonna do well, she's not
doing well, she's not successful. It's crazy. You know. It
takes time, Bucky. You know as well as anybody else
an athlete making the jump from college to the pros
in any sport, you have to adapt. It takes time.
And she's on a bad team. And that team has
to gell and worked together. And I wasn't too happy

(01:50:38):
when they lost yesterday and the coach said they're gotta
be tougher. They're gonna be mentally tougher. No, they got
to play well together. Has something to do with mental toughness.
Got to play well together. And obviously I don't think
that coach should have gone public with that remark. Maybe
I'm wrong. When the coach goes public and says he's
got to play tough, right, I don't think it's good.
And that coach is not going to last the season.
I don't think she will, So I.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
Would say this. They were a team that has struggling
in the past. They did have the number one overall pick,
which is why they were able to get Kaitlyn Clark.
Because they've been so bad she comes over. I believe
she has made some strong points about Kaitlyn Clark's game
and where she needs to improve and get better and
Kaitlyn Clark and people got mad at Diana Tarossi when

(01:51:24):
she said this, and she said, she's going to have
to learn a lot of stuff before she's able to
kind of dominate and play the way that many of
us expected her to play right away. Now, it's telling
that she has hit I think twenty points in back
to back games. She has a nice shot, but it's
been a struggle for her, and like most young players,
they struggle with the increased speed of the game, the

(01:51:45):
new physicality that happens when you go to the pros.
But she's look, she's a great player. She'll figure it out.
I don't know if she'll be the quote unquote transcendent
star that some build her up to be in a WNBA,
But she's a really, really good player. He's figured it out.
But she also has a target on her back, much
like Lebron James had a target on his back when
he entered the league. That's a part of it, and

(01:52:08):
I think the bigger thing has been maybe the people
that are just tuning into women's basketball and the WNBA.
Maybe they didn't give enough credit to the women who
were already there in terms of how good they were,
and she is having to adapt to that. But the
conversation is always going to be about Kaitlyn Clark, much
like the NBA is always about Lebron James, because she's

(01:52:29):
a megastar. She was a star before she got to
the league, and she'll continue to be a star just
because of what she did it. I went, how she
built up herself and her brand. Yeah, coming to the WNBA,
it's going to be a conversation all the time.

Speaker 1 (01:52:43):
Help me out here, I mean, in the mindset of
an athlete, and you could answer this question better than anybody.
You have someone who's really hyped, like Caitlin Clark was
in college coming to the pros. You know, we saw
the Asia the Las Vegas Aces. Wasn't too Hobby said
that she's getting all this bigle some skin color, and
there's gotta be some I'm not gonna say hatred, but

(01:53:04):
at least some jealousy, right, Uh? Do the players basically
want to go out there and play even maybe a
little harder against her and show her up and and more.
I guess they're they're out together that they want to
see a fail. I mean, if she's if she's successful,
you got to believe it's good for the league. It's
good for the league as she does well. But the

(01:53:25):
point is there's a lot of players out there that
are going to give up, play a little harder against her, fouler,
a little harder just because of what she has done
and the name she's got. I know, everybody's talking about her.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
I mean, that's that's the nature of the beast. That's
I mean, that's any sportus that's that's where there's high
school going all the way up. Everyone wants to use
the quote unquote best player as the measuring stick, and
everyone wants to make the name off the player that
is very prominent. So yeah, like with a league full
of uh alpha females who are super competitive, who love competition,

(01:54:03):
they absolutely relished opportunity to play against her. And you
saw very early they played two of the best defensive
teams in the league, two of the best defensive players
were matched on her, and man, they bumped her at
every turn. They made life miserable for her. They challenged her.
They did that. That's a part of it. Now what
I'm looking at as a high intense competitor, how does

(01:54:24):
Kaitlyn Clark respond? How does she take her game up
a notch to deal with the physicality and those things
that's part of being the superhero. How do you handle
the adversity and come back even bigger, better, stronger. That's
where we're at right now looking at Caaitland Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:54:41):
And the question has to be asked. And we said
this going to the segment, is she overrated or is
she overpaid? And Jason Whitlock, I love Jason Whitlock, and
he wrote that she thinks she's overpaid. And so this guy,
Matt Walsh, he said that she's overpaid because the NBA
basically is keeping the WNBA afloat and there's not much
viewer interest on TV. That's why she's basically overpaid.

Speaker 4 (01:55:03):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:55:03):
But I don't think this. I don't think that's I
don't think that's fair to her, and I don't think
that's fair to the w NBA. Right And here's here's
why the w NBA. I think they're going into their
twenty sixth year of existence, and like anything, if you
go back and look at the NBA when it was
twenty five years in existence, I would say that, like,
it's probably about doing what the WNBA was doing at

(01:55:27):
this point. I'm a kid of the seventies. I remember
when they used to tape delay the seven game Championship
series on the East Coast, so I couldn't even see
the games live. When the Celtsias were playing commercial didn't
they didn't, They didn't have that. And then the explosion
and Michael Jordan comes like magic and bird set the table,

(01:55:48):
but Michael Jordan took it to another level where it
became box office. This might be the time where the WNBA,
with the influx of new stars Kaitlin Clark andrel Reese
some of the other ladies that have made their way
from the college game, maybe they elevate it and becomes
more of a thing. I think we're seeing that based
on the sponsorships and some of that other stuff. I
just think people are being a little too harsh on

(01:56:10):
a WNBA where it is and where it's been.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
I certainly agree with you and that I really do
let him play, Let him play, and just like back off,
just to drop back off. That's what you gotta do,
Bucky Brooks Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, take a deep breath, then let it go.
Why the blame game, It's freaking next, all right, the
blame game. Right around the corner. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm

(01:56:34):
Andy Furman. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports
Radio Live for the tiraq dot Com studios. And of
course top of the hour, nine o'clock on the East couture,
you have Mike Harmon the Swollen Dome and Ryan Hollins.
Harmon and Hollins coming up at the top of the hour,
And of course we want to thank our great staff,
Mark on the controls Kevin with our updates, and of
course Chase Shape. But right now, let's play the playing game. Yeah, Shay,

(01:56:58):
Shay take it away?

Speaker 2 (01:57:00):
All right, guys.

Speaker 7 (01:57:00):
After twenty four years, as I was, had, women's coach
Lisa Blooter has retired.

Speaker 1 (01:57:05):
Who do you blame? Who's up? Who's up?

Speaker 8 (01:57:08):
End of year?

Speaker 1 (01:57:09):
App All right? You know I blame Caitlyn Clark, but
she knows, Lisa, No, she can't win without Caitlyn Clark.
And why she waits so long? I mean, if you're
going to retire and do it right after the season,
Why are you doing it now rolling into the month
of June. That's crazy? So you know what, Lisa, You're week.
You can't get it done without Caitlyn Clark and you
knew it. So that's why I'm blaming Caitlyn. Sorry, Caitlin,

(01:57:31):
you know I love you, But I tell you why.
It's your fault that she's quitting.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
No, I have a different take on it. I blame
the assistant coach that took over as the head coach.
The reason why the coach stayed on so long is
because by waiting till almost June, she made it impossible
for aoua to go outside of the family to hire somebody.
It was smart for the coach to wait a little
bit before she decided to retire.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
I like that angle, Yeah, yes, why you're smarter than me. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:57:58):
Next, the famous the famous napkin that linked a young
Lionel Messi to Barcelona sold for nine hundred and sixty
five thousand on Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:58:06):
Who do you blame? Fuck?

Speaker 2 (01:58:08):
I blame Messi. Messi's popular, like you're talking about, like,
that's why they blame I blame Messy Messi's too popular,
he's too big, he's blockbuster, and so because of that,
that's why the line went for what it went for.

Speaker 1 (01:58:21):
Ninely sixty five thousand. You know, I blame I blame
the idiot who paid that kind of money. Really, and
I tell you what, you didn't have the guts to
put your name out there. I want to find out
what fool spend nine undred sixty five thousand freaking dollars
for a napkin. You gotta be out of your freaking mind,
you know what. Put that money to charity. Give it
to a hospital. Yeah, do something good worthy in life.
What are you gonna do with a napkins? You're not
gonna blow your nose in it, that's for sure. It's ridiculous. Nuts.

Speaker 7 (01:58:46):
The Oakland A's are averaging six four hundred and ten
fans per game in their final season in Oakland. It
would be the lowest home attendance figure for an MLTV
team in forty five years.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
Who do you blame? I blame the ownership right now,
because they said they're gonna move, and that very knows
them moving, So nobody went down those They got a
bad team, got a bad team, bad ownership. No one's going.
You know what, There's more people in Kroger shopping in
my neighborhood than there are in a baseball game in Oakland,
which is embarrassing. It's the worst of tendance like in
forty five years in Major League baseball. Let him in free,

(01:59:18):
let him in free, just to just to fill the
stand But Mannigan's up in the stands. It looks terrible.
Six thousand people in the game's nuts.

Speaker 2 (01:59:25):
I blame ownership because he ruined the great franchise. He
ruined the great thing that was in Oakland. Having lived
in Oakland, knowing how much the aid's been to the community,
he wrecked that. He wrecked that because they had competitive players,
but he refused to put those players on the major
league team they didn't want to win. He's just in
it for the profit. He's not in it for the
fans and for trying to really win at a major level.

Speaker 7 (01:59:47):
Flavor Flavor Flavor pledges support for US women's water polo team.
Who do you blame.

Speaker 2 (01:59:53):
Flavor Flavor Flavor blame him because he decreated? Is that
a controversy. I'm glad he threw a support behind him,
but I blame him. He's too big. You know.

Speaker 1 (02:00:00):
I'm kind of happy he's doing that. I think he's
doing because his daughter plays on that water polo team,
so good for him. Not only is he backing it,
I mean, he's supporting it, you know, big time. You know,
you could be a parent and do that, but he's
doing that, and I'm happy for him. All Right, great show,
Thank you guys. Stay tuned. Harmon and Hollis coming up
next right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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