Andy Furman, Bucky Brooks, and Mike Harmon talk College Football Week 11, NFL Week 10 Preview, and So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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(00:29):
one and only Bucky Brooks. Roll out the red carpet
here he is. How are doing, Bucky Brooks?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
I'm good, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I'm good, and you know what I'm gonna say it here,
I'm gonna say it out loud to everybody. If you
were here right now with me, i'd kiss you on
the lips. That's how much I love you. Yes, that's
how much I love you, Bucket Brooks. Yes, really I
learned so much for you. People don't appreciate you, Bucky Brooks.
Really really, I turn on the TV on Sunday and

(00:56):
watch NFL football. I'm saying, look at this clown, look
at this guy. Bucket Brook could put this guy to shame.
What football knowledge. He should be doing those games. But
if you did. If you did, you wouldn't be with
me on Sunday. So it's kind of like fifty to
fifty here. Really it really is. We move on, all right.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
I aiate it.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I'm watching the games yesterday and the one thing that
came to mind was the fact that I really really
believe that, finally I'm going to admit it, that college
football to me is better and more competitive than the NFL.
You look at the NFL slate last week and this week,
it's almost like separation City. You know who the good
teams are, you know the bad teams are. You can

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predict it. College football, you have no idea what's going on.
I love it. I love college football. And if you're
going to tell me which are the greatest tournaments in
the world, I'll say the Super Bowl's number one and
the College Football Playoff is number two.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Okay, I mean, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
I do believe that there's a different energy around college
football this year because of the Playoff. Also, if you
look at the impact of the transfer portal in Io
or some would call pay for play its leveled the
playing fill a little bit. And college football has always
had a level of unpredictability that we didn't necessarily see
in the pros. But this has been a very unique year,

(02:12):
and I think a lot of people are looking forward
to seeing what the playoff bears because no one knows.
We can talk about the top teams, but no one
really knows who's gonna be the last team standing.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, and I said no respect coming into this segment
right now and back in the day, and I mean
people don't realize it, don't remember him. But if you
want to google it, Rodney Dangerfield used to be a
comic and he used to use the line I get
no respect. And I'm saying right now, Indiana football gets
no respect. Ury And you said it last week. Are
they calling them out in Indiana not Indiana? Isn't that it?
I give you the credit for that. Indiana Windana, Yes,

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and yesterday I'm watching that game. Oh they beat up
Michigan No less, It's unbelievable. And they let us talk
about Indiana for a second. The last time they were
in the Rose bul was nineteen sixty eight. They played
against O. J. Simpson and Southern cal all right, and
since then mostly Indiana has been a basketball school. They've
lost twenty nine straight to Ohio State. They're playing them
next week. They haven't beat Ohio State since nineteen eighty eight.

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But this year I look at the scores, They've won
game seventy seven to three, fifty six to seven, fifty
two to fourteen, forty seven to ten, forty two, thirteen,
forty two, twenty eight, forty one, twenty four, and thirty
one seven. They were favored by like two touchdowns. Yesterday
against Michigan they beat up on Mi Nebraska fifty six
to seven. I think they're knock on. Indiana is to
haven't played anybody, but they're winning. They're ten and zero

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for the first time in school history. It was wonderful
to see that. I was happy for him. I was.
I watched that game. Was great.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
No, they're well deserving of the kudos that they are
getting at Kirk Signeta has done a great job.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Now.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
I think people have to understand the Zude has been
doing this for a long time. He's coached a few
different places. He has success wherever he has gone. But
he was part of the coaching staff when Nick Saban
first arrived at Alabama. He was there those first two
years where they went seven to six and then they
went twelve and zero. So he understands the rebuild process

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and what he's been able to do is take some
of the finer things from that rebuilding model, that rebuilding
blueprint and put it to practice.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
And because he's had success.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Everywhere he's gone, he's very confident that he could build
a winner. When he got to Indiana, he did have
a handful of transfers come with him from his previous spot,
James Madison. He brought the entire coaching staff, so the
continuity is there, and then they really hit the transfer
portal hard. But I would say when you look at
this team, what he did is he breathed a lot
of confidence and life into this program. They're responding, they're

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winning in it. With each win they become that much
more emboldened. And so next week when Ohio State squares
off with them, the buckout's better be ready because Indiana
is not afraid of anybody. The way they took down
Michigan yesterday kind of let you know the defending national
champions had no shot. This is going to be a look,
it's gonna be fun to watch a team that we

(04:56):
was not on our radar is suddenly not only in
play for Pitcher, but they played to win their conference.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
You know, I watched the game of football, and certainly
you have to have skill to place the skill positions,
be it a running back, a receiver, or a quarterback.
I think on defense the skill level diminishes in sense,
but it's more about the will, the will to play,
the will to perform. And I watched that defense yesterday.
They had their will to win. Their defense smothered Michigan yesterday.

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That's basically what it was. They won on their defense. Yeah,
the offense was great, it really was, but the defense.
You could be an average athlete. You don't have to
be a great skilled player. But if you have that
between your head, the mental toughness, the will to win,
and you get a coach that gl that pushes you
to get Dan Campbell does that, Okay, Harvard does that,
and Signetti and Indiana he does that.

Speaker 4 (05:42):
Their will to win, yeah, I mean it certainly plays
a role in that because defense is more reactionary, so
there is some volatility when it comes to the emotional aspect.
And if you have guys that are grinders and worker
bees and blue collar guys. You can give them a
simple plan and kind of get them going. Yeah, you
certainly can have a lot of success. And the thing

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that I would say about them on defense man talking
about playing hard, the hustle, just the energy that they
played with collectively.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sometimes that can be overwhelming.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
And when you add confidence with the energy and the
discipline and all of that, yeah, you can have a
really good defense.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
What about our team? What about And I know I'm
jumping on the bandwagon, but you know I love Dion Sanders.
What about our team? Number twenty Colorado. In the preseason,
they would pick the eleventh in the Big twelve. Okay,
then all of a sudden they went even lower because
of the Week two they lost to Nebraska of all people.
Since then they came back into contention. Maybe Texas Tech
forty one to twenty seven. Yesterday there's seven and two,

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five and one in the Big twelve. They they could
win the Big Twelve. They officially moved the second place
that win the Big Twelve, behind only Brigham Young. And
they're going to go to the Big Twelve championship game.
This is unbelievable. Should door Sanders stoles for two ninety
one yesterday, three touchdowns in the win. But it was
a come from behind when he's got him playing now,
everybody was saying they were braggatocious. I will talk, they're

(07:00):
quiet now. They're doing it on the football field. You
don't hear much about Colorado and Dion talking saying things
right now, like you know, attacking various coaches and you know,
challenging guys. No, they're doing it on the football field.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, it's coming together, it's coming together quickly.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
I would say that I'm probably surprised that they're sitting
at seven and two.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
I would say a lot of people are surprised. I
don't even know.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
If you ask Dan if you'd be a little surprised
that the team is where they are right now. But
when you have a really good quarterback, it gives you hope.
But the thing that I see when I look at Colorado,
because so much is on should do and Travis Soon
and those guys deserve all the accolades and praise that
they get. But that game against textas Sex yesterday, the
defense showed up and showed up in a different way.

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They're fast, they're physical, they're playing with an edge to.

Speaker 3 (07:51):
Them that shows up now.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
They still do some silly things, and they still need
to curb some of the tawning and unsportsman like penalties
because in a big contest that's going to hurt them.
But overall, completely different Colorado squad. And yeah, there are
a lot of people that took shots at him for
his rou team building methods. They have to eat a
little crow a little bit because they are a team
that is Look, there's only one the top twenty teams

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in the country, and we'll see if they cracked the
top twelve, but there's no denying that they are suddenly
one of the top twenty programs, one top twenty teams,
and they deserve a lot of praise for quickly turn
this thing around.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
They sure did, I know. Obviously they're gonna go ahead
to hey with Brigham Young Brigham Young. This then wins
a closely last night late against Utah twenty two to
twenty one, and the athletic director of Utah went nuts,
Mark Harlan, came down in the postgame news coup which
is unheard. I mean, I don't remember that ever, and
come out that probably has happened before, but recently, I've
never seen an athletic dirt that come down there. Making

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a surprise appearance at the postgame news conference, and he
said the game was stolen from us, said Jay retz
Laf They quarterback from Brigham Young. He had two fourth
quarter scoring drives. Will Ferron kicked a forty four yard
field go with four seconds to go to keep Brigham
Young unbeaten. They're undefeated right now. But the Cougar's final
drive was extended on a defensive holding penalty on fourth down,

(09:05):
and that's what made the ad of Utah Natzi went crazy.
But you know, what are you gonna do? You yell,
you scream, your cry, nothing's going to change. That's just
the way it is.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Yeah, it's tough, man, And it's tough when games appear
to be decided by referees, influence or calls or those things. Ultimately,
you would like the players to decide, and you want
those guys to be in the shadows interpiphe.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
But sometimes it happens.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
Some games you have more calls, more bang bang plays
that require referees to step in and make very very
tough and challenging decisions.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
What you hope if you're.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
Utah, you hope that you're able to play through that
and around that. You talk to your team about being
able to take care of business. But a very very
difficult loss. I mean, just a tough loss for a
team to have to deal with. And look the emotions.
The emotions came out as the ad kind of step
to the.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Podium to believe you know what, if I'm a coach,
is heit guys, they took the game from us. But
don't ever let it get this closer. What do you
got to do? You put your foot on your throat
and just go after him. Just go after him. You
get him down, just keep him down. That's what you do.
It's tough. I know, it's tough, just just the way
it is. And you know what about me, I never
coached the game in college football. I never will, so
you know it's easy for me to say, but that's
what it is. Don't let the officiating create the outcome

(10:19):
of a ballgame. Do it yourself. It's hard to do,
but it is. Now let's talk about Old miss for
a second. I'm thinking, wait a minute, Lane Kiffin. You
know this guy has been criticized forever saying that He's
always lost big games, but yesterday unbelievable. They came back,
maybe the greatest game that he's ever coached in his career,
beat up on number three Georgia. I mean, twenty eight

(10:40):
to ten. They beat him, and they beat him good.
I mean it wasn't close. It wasn't like that Utah
game of Brigham Young. There was no doubt in this game.
I mean they just outclassed and just defeated them. I'm
seeing these kids on the goal posts after the game,
I mean hanging on the golf I did it come
down because the TV I think cut away after that.
I don't know if the goalposts filled down like they
did when Vanderbilt won earlier this year. I saw him

(11:03):
swinging on the goal post, but I don't think they
fell down.

Speaker 4 (11:07):
You look, man, I think the goal post thing is
now symbolic of like people understanding how important it is
to win big games, and how much the student body
is tied to the team winning those big games, and
how it plays out so wherever you are, particularly when
you down Old Miss and you're celebrating.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
A win over.

Speaker 4 (11:27):
Remember now, Georgia has been the new bully on the
block in the SEC like they seem like an unstoppable force.
No one had been able to knock them off outside
of Alabama. For Old Miss to beat them and thump
them in resounding fashion, Oh yeah, that's big. So you
know it's going to be a party in I mean,
let's be real. If you know anything about Old Miss,
you know anything about that they talked about them partying
any of the games in the atmosphere. It all showed

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up there. So I love it. I love seeing it.
Every week. Man, you tune in, you don't know what's
going to happen. Miami goes down to Georgia Tech. This
is just a part of it. This is a college
football landscape. And that's why anyone who thought the twelve
team playoff was going to be a bad thing.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Look, you don't know what you're talking about, because it's great.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
You can't predict on a week to week baseball, on
a week to week basis, who's going to win. How
are you going to determine who's gonna win the entire bracket?
When the parody of college football there is greater than
it's ever been.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
You know what his deal? I mean, college football in
itself is tremendous and in years past, they have the
biggest game, usually on Labor Day weekend, and if that
team loses, and they do it for TV, that team loses,
they get that one loss, They're out of it. It's gone,
the season's over. You're gonna get teams with two losses
in this twelve team field, maybe even a team with
three losses. Maybe you know it is a possibility, but

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who cares. You want to see the best team survive.
That's basically what it's all about. And you know, as
well as I do, teams get better as the season
goes on. You mentioned Miami here, they lose to Georgia
Tech of all people, twenty eight, twenty three. And here's
the thing that happens. They were undefeated going into that game,
and all of a sudden, now that pushes that ACC
championship game into somewhat of a mess because Clemson and

(12:58):
Pittsburgh are also teams that one lost in the conference.
It's unbelievable, it's great, it's topsy turvy, and I love it.
That's what it's all about. NFL. I mean, come on,
you got teams with five hundred records winning the division
right now? I mean, and it's just the balance of power.
It's kind of like heavy on one side and very
light on the other. There's four teams maybe in the
NFL that you could say they're gonna win, right, Kansas City,

(13:20):
Buffalo gonna win. Maybe Washington you throw them in there,
Detroit obviously. Other than that, it's kind of wide opening
and who cares. But in college it's just every Saturday
you gotta watch it's much see TV college football. If
there's a downside to college football, they got too many
games going on at the same time. So I don't
know what to watch. That's the problem. Really play one

(13:41):
game a day every day, that's what they should do.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
No, it's funny like because you talk about the leveling
of the league, the NFL, right, I mean, we have
what six or more teams with two and seven records,
something that we've never seen because the league, the National
Football League, is built to have everyone right in the middle, right,
everyone right around nine and a eight, nine, ten and
seven because you want to fuel hope up until week seventeen,

(14:07):
week eighteen, to keep everyone into it. We used to
think that college football would be a little bit of that,
you know, just in terms of like student athletes, and
I said that in quotes student athletes competing and you know,
the best team winning. But then it got away from that, right.
It became the haves versus the have nots. It became
the superpowers Ohio State, Alabama, any of those other teams

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that fall in that category, Georgia, it was them versus
the world. And what we're seeing with the transfer portal,
you're able to get some of those guys who are
not happy in their situations with NIL. You're willing to
pay people to not go to those big schools. Why
don't you come here where you can be a star
and make more money, Stay in school longer, don't go
to the pros after junior, stay until you were senior,

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because you're gonna make more money here than you would
if you are a six or seventh round pick.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
All of those things are impacting the game.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
And the coaches that were on the forefront of the movement,
meaning they were willing to embrace transfer portal and nial
and some of the creative ways of building a team,
they're benefiting from it.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
There's no doubt about that. And we talked about LSU yesterday.
They lose to Alabama, Alabama looked tough yesterday forty two
to thirteen, and look that loss to LSU basically knocks
them out of the playoffs. I mean they're out of
it right now. And there was a story, a side
story in this LSU You may have heard this one.
Now commit the LSU football commit. Bryce Underwood, the top
ryant quarterback in the class of twenty twenty five. He

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was set to visit baalt On Rouge this weekend against
that game against Alabama last night, and he's been verbally
pledged to play for LSU since January. He may have
ten million reasons to change his mind thanks to the
shifting landscape. Get this right now, he's been offered more money.
He's expected to link a multi year NIL package valued
above five million dollars from any school he picks. This

(15:54):
is according to the website on three. If he were
to choose Michigan, his total compensation to be closer to
double the five million. It's unbelievable. A Barstool Sports says
they would put up three million dollars by way of
an NIL deal to help Michigan, his alma mater, to
land a top quarterback. It's at a whack it's crazy.
I don't even like to read this and talk about

(16:14):
it and read about it, but you know, on the field,
I like to see what's going on. But how do
you pay a kid out of high school and you
have no idea where he's going to end up, what
he's going to do. Five million dollars, I don't get it.
I mean, God bless him. Let him get their money
and give them to a MoMA and papa of great
life down the road. But I something's got to change, bucket,

(16:34):
really is. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. Five
million dollars for a kid out of high school.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Well, see, I don't know if it's going to change.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
And because look, I'll say this like Andy, like we
have a tough time on the outside looking in and
saying like I can't believe they're paying all these players.
But this is the NCAA's fault because they spend so
much time like holding onto all of the money and
not sharing the money with some of the student athletes
and imposing all these rules where hey, guys, you can't
have a burger. If the coach gives you a burger,

(17:02):
that's a violation and all these Yeah, I mean it
really clouded the equation. Well, now everything has gone the pot.
Everything is wide open, and yeah, I would say some
of the deregulation needs to be rained in, but you're
going to have to go through this wild wild West
part of it before they're able to call college sports

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what they really are. Particularly in football and basketball. They're
minor league systems for the pros.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
And even though all these guys.

Speaker 4 (17:30):
Don't go to the pros, the system has been in
place for a long time to enrench the NBA in
the National Football League, to enrich all the administrators in
the NCAA, who's nothing more than I would say tournament directors.
Now all of the money that was coming through there
has stayed away from the kids. And now that the
kids are getting money, some schools and some teams are

(17:51):
jumping in and being like, you know what, it may
cost us some on the front end, but you got
to spend money to make money. Because the teams are
at the top, they can make more than that money
coming back.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Right.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I agree with everything you say about the thing. I
would check one remark. Then he says everything's gone to pot.
I mean I would check that out. Now. I don't
know if everything's gone to pot if you know what
I mean that have moved that out. All right, there
we go, We'll move there, thank you very much. All right,
he's Bucky Brooks. Get him on Twitter at Bucket Brooks.
Mike Harmon joins us in our number three. Get him
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(18:22):
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and their name isn't the Chiefs.

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(19:40):
the fools that we move on? By the way, Yeah, yeah,
I know, I know, I'm talking right now. That's me.
Thursday night, I think that was the best game of
the year in the National Football League. Really was Raven's
thirty five Bengals thirty four. And it run something by
you right now. Everybody said, Lamar Jackson, you know his meekers,
he couldn't pass. Hey, this guy right now. Twenty five
to thirty three in that ball game, plus for two

(20:00):
hundred and ninety plus yards, four touchdowns. And I feel
bad for Joe Burrow thirty four for fifty six for
twenty eight, four touchdowns. But what about Jamar Chase? I mean,
they could talk about receivers in the National Football League,
Tyreek Hill, I thank all these guys. I mean, what
about Jamar? Is he like the best receiver now in
the league? Is he right up there?

Speaker 3 (20:22):
Well, that's right up there.

Speaker 4 (20:23):
It's between him and his former college teammate, Justin Jefferson.
The two of them are talented. The unique Like Justin Jefferson,
I would say, is more polished, more skilled in terms
as a route runner.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
Jamar Chase is just a rugged phenomen on the outside.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Like this dude has physicality, has tough and she runs
through contact. He wins fifty fifty balls. He's terrific after
the catch, a unique playmaker.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Man.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Both of these guys are really good. But you're right,
Jamar Chase is an animal.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
He's something else.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
He's tough. Okay, So the Bengals lose that game thirty
five thirty four. Let's reset this for a second. The
Bengals go for two points with thirty eight seconds to go.
They went for a two point and here's the deal.
I mean a lot of people yelling E scum. I'm
not upset with the call. I think it was a
good call. It's a gutsy call. You gotta win, gotta
win that game. I'm upset with the play. You gotta
go with your best. Great players are there for that reason.

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Joe Burrow is throwing the ball to Tanner Hudson, of
all people, you gotta go to Jamar Chase. Chase was open.
I looked at that tape again. He was opening the
end zone. What do you do. I'm not a great
play caller. I never the next play I called, but
my first I go with Jamar Chase would have faded.
He was open. Jamar Chase would have caught the ball.
He would have a two point conversion by the being
by a bang that Bengals would have win the game.

(21:35):
Tanna Hudson, are you kidding? Why do you agree with that?
Or you weren't happy with the two point call for
the conversion.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Call, I'm probably with a two point call.

Speaker 4 (21:44):
I think in those instances, for everything, when it comes
to to sports, it is about.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Players, not plays.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
I think the job as a coach is to make
sure how can I get the ball to my best
player in these moments? What can I design to make
sure that my best player is the one that ultimately
disc the fate of the team.

Speaker 3 (22:01):
Because if you.

Speaker 4 (22:02):
Lose with your best player doing it, and no one
can be mad at that. Everyone knows that A whoever
it is, Jamar Chase is the best player. I got
the ball in the hands of Joe Burrow. I'm gonna
let him be the decision maker to make it happen.
We can live with that. But what you don't want is,
I would say, an unheroded player to decide your fate.
That's when it's really really tough. That's when it doesn't

(22:22):
resonate with your squad.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
That's great, Okay, let's do this now. Coming up next,
Coming up next, Idea on Fox Life, FORTHETIRAQ dot Com Studios.
It's unbelievable. The magic disappears today for one NFL team.
We're gonna explain that. But first, here's the real magic man,
Kevin Wyatt, with your sports.

Speaker 5 (22:38):
Yeah, a lot of magic in college football, at least
a lot of chaos. I don't know if the fans
of the teams I lost on Saturday would call it magic,
but Georgia and Miami, two teams in the top five,
losing on Saturday that very well could shake up the
college football playoff rankings as the Bulldogs go on the
road to all miss and the Rebels when it's twenty

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eight to ten, Carson Beck struggling taking care of the
football a touchdown in interception sacked five times. Miami suffering
their first loss of the season at the hands of
Georgia Tech twenty eight twenty three, despite a great performance
from cam Ward who had three d and forty eight
passing yards and three touchdowns. The top two teams, Oregon

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and Ohio State with easy wins.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
On Saturday.

Speaker 5 (23:21):
Texas blows out Florida forty nine to seventeen behind five
touchdown passes from m quinn you Wers Tennessee also winning,
so the Longhorns and Volunteers leap frogging Georgia a top
of the SEC standings.

Speaker 6 (23:35):
Number eight.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Indiana for the first time in school history is ten.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
And oh after they gave it might get by Michigan
twenty to fifteen. Down in Death Valley, a huge matchup
Alabama and LSCU. The Crimson Tide roll to a forty
two to thirteen victory, as Jalen Milroe had twelve carries
one hundred and eighty five yards and four touchdowns. Number

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twelve Boise he stakets by Nevada twenty eight, twenty one
Ashton genty thirty four carries two hundred and nine yards
and in the professional ranks, we've two and a half
hours or so from kicking off the first game of
the full Sunday of action that we've got going on.
Ian Rappaport with several updates overnight regarding injuries and for

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the forty nine ers, Deebo Samuel expected it to play today.
He is questionable because of rib and oblique injuries. Jaguars
wide receivers Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas are questionable and
expected to play. Texans wide receiver Tank Dell is expected
to play. He's been dealing with a back injury. Nico
Collins is considered a game time decision. Know Zadarius Smith

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expected for the Lions. He was just acquired in a
trade on Tuesday, but with him just getting to Detroit day,
don't think he's quite ready to see the field quite yet.
Falcons wide receiver Drake London is dealing with the hip.
Pointer is expected to be able to play today, is
officially listed as questionable. Adam Schefter saying that newly acquired

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Steelers Mike Williams and Preston Smith are expected to make
their debuts today against the Washington Commanders. Christian McCaffrey is
slated to make his twenty twenty four season debut, as
Chefter saying that the forty nine Ers believe the McCaffrey
I could have actually played last week. And Deebo Samuel

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Checkter confirming Rappaport's update, saying that he is a questionable
expectator to play.

Speaker 2 (25:43):
Back to you guys, all right, Ken, thanks so much. Hey,
this team loves London. We'll get to that in a minute.
He is Bucky Brooks and Andy Furmanoh knows what we
have asked Bucky in about seven eight minutes from now.
You talk about a city that's morning right now. If
that that Bengals loss on Thursday night Friday Day were
morning on the other's Saturday. Yesterday, University of Cincinnati loses
to West Virginia in football. They could have got Bowl

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eligible yesterday at the sixth win. They didn't do that.
And the soccer team at MLS FC Cincinnati, they lose
to New York so they're out of this playoffs and
they're finished. So it's been dark. It's been dark in
the city of Cincinnati. And we move on. Let's talk
about Giants Panthers. Why. I don't know. This is a
way I'd rather see the replay of the Indiana football
game than watch the Giants Panthers. Really, both teams are

(26:26):
two and seven. But get this, this may be good
for betters. I don't know why, but it might be.
The Giants are undefeated in games overseas, including London, and
they beat the Packers two years ago in London, so
maybe that means something. I don't know when they got
this rookie running back Tyrone Tracy Junior, he's kind of
coming of age right now. Other than that, I don't
know why anybody would watch this game really, except the

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fact that you're betting on it and there's nothing else on.
There's nothing else on at that hour. Really, they got
the prime time in the morning. That's it. I don't know,
what do you think I mean?

Speaker 4 (26:59):
There may be something to that in terms of why
is anyone watching it, but it's next football.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Like there's always a rooting interest, whether it's.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Betting, as you say, fantasy football, or just for the
love of the game. Yeah, you want to tune in
to see For me, I'm gonna tune in just because
I want to see the what are the Panthers going
to do with the former number one overall pick Bryce Young?
Like what is happening? Like we are so like we're
quicker to jump off of players these days, and I

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just kind of want to see what is it.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
What are we doing, how we developing? Are we developing him?

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Or are we completely out on the Bryce Young experiment?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
So I just kind of want to see what that
looks like. But outside of that, there's not a lot.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Really, will you let us go? I probably won't watch it.
Oh you let us know, all right, Broncos Chiefs, you will,
It'll be on.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
It'll be on.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
I know Broncos Chiefs, believe it or not. I mean,
these two teams split last year. I mean really and
truly they did. Broncos are five and one when they
allowed fewer than twenty points, but they gave up forty
one last week against the Ravens. You know you can't
go against the Chiefs. I mean, I know that Patrick
Mahomes is one of the league leaders in the deceptions,
but Travis Kelsey had six career one hundred yard games

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against the Broncos in his career means something as well.
So I think this is a no brainer. I think
they keep on rolling and Kansas City goes I'm undefeated again,
no big deal.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
The Yeah, I mean, Kancity just finds a way, right,
It's team to find a way, So I'm I'm gonna
go with them. They always win. They have become in
a weird way. They've become like the version of the
Patriots that we hated, but here we are. You know,
they just kind of find ways to do it. They
continue to do it, and they'll continue to do it today.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yes, you're right now. It's one of the better games
of the day. The Steelers Commanders both Commander's a seven
and two, Steelers a six and two, and the Steelers
what they have to do, obviously in this game is
stopped the Commander's running game, because in each of the
Commanders losses this year, they're running backs to struggle and
the Steelers allow four yards to carry against the run.
Russell Willson now has found a favorite in George Pickens,

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so we'll see what happens. And the Steels obviously had
a bye week, so that if somewhat rested. I still
think the Steelers win this one. I think be close,
but I think just the Steelers are a better team,
better coach team too. I think that coach, I mean
Mike Toma. He gets no respect about respect me. It's
a great coach, first ballot Hall of FAMI. He's a
tremendous coach. And I think Steelers win this game.

Speaker 4 (29:25):
Man, this is a tough one though. Jade Daniels and
Crews tough. Dan Quinn got him playing.

Speaker 3 (29:31):
Let me go to the other side.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I'm going with Jade Daniels, Jaye Daniels playing at the
MVP level. The race should be between both of the
guys in the d MVUH to get it. So Lamarch
is Lamar Jackson and then you have Jayde and Daniels
vying for it. But this could be a statement win
for the Commanders. Everyone likes to think that it's a
it's a feel good story right now, but can they
really win it? Even you were kind of skeptical, you

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don't really believe in the Commanders. But I'm telling you, man,
this is a team that has they got some they
got some interesting stuff.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
Now the you're right, you know, interesting team.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
And it's funny you mentioned the team the two players
that are vying for MVP. You you wrote about that
at the top of the hour. We're gonna get into that.
At NFL dot Com. You had the NFL Awards at midseason,
and I got one guy that you just I want
to push him. And maybe I'm a bit of a homer.
You know where I'm going I'm at, But we're gonna
get into that. I want to know why you just
kind of bypassed him. I know the team is not
doing well, but his stats are really tremendous. So we'll

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get into that. Talk about your team right now, the Jags,
the Jaguars, they're playing the Vikings at home. And now
here's the thing. I mean, can you a defense in
Jacksonville keep up with Justin Jefferson. That's the name of
the game. He's their offense right now. And can that happen?
Because he could go nuts today?

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Ah man, it's gonna be tough. It is me tough
because when you talk about the Jags. When you talk
about a team that's really really struggling when it comes
to just doing the little things on defense, I mean,
team is uh. I saw this stat and I hate
to do it because you know it's my team, But Andy,
right now to pass the right and the out is
one thirteen point four teams playing against the Jacks. Do
you know that if it finishes like that, it would

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be the second worst passer rating in NFL history since
the nineteen seventy who are on the Saints. We like,
think about all the ball that has been played, that's
how bad it would be.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
So yeah, that's that's a huge, huge issue. And so
we talked about coaching Jefferson coming to town.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yeah, I'm worried coaching changing.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't know. I don't know if that's going.

Speaker 4 (31:27):
I don't know if that's gonna happen, but I look,
I can tell you it's not great, particularly coming on
the heels of a season where you were eight and
three and collapsed and finish what nine and eight?

Speaker 3 (31:39):
Not great?

Speaker 2 (31:41):
And the ownership and then he say at the beginning
of the just the best Jaguars team he's had. I mean,
he did say it.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Was in printed that's bad too. So now so now
everyone is set up for failure. So now you talk
about personnel staff who evaluated players to make that statement,
they obviously passed that on to the owner coaching staff
who ownership believe they have the best players available.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Why aren't you getting results?

Speaker 4 (32:04):
So everyone is in jeopardy when you don't have a
high level of success and just because look invested in
the quarterback, you're sitting at two and seven.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
It just makes it a very challenging situation right now.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
No, you talk about players that basically, I hate to
use the term give up, but they know it's over
and maybe they don't want to get hurt, so they're
not playing as hard as they could. What about coaches,
I mean, do they, like you know, you hit the
stories that beginning to see this, they sleep in their office,
they're doing players, they're doing the play sheet for the
next game, looking at tape. Do they kind of back

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it off a little bit, say, look, you know it's
over with two and said we're not going anywhere. Do
you see that happening too that.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
You can't man?

Speaker 4 (32:41):
No, you keep playing, you keep coaching, because you're just
hoping as long as you have a game on the schedule,
you're hoping that you can turn it around, you can
get it going. And because there's so many I would
say games left.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
You still like, hey, guys, look we get on the roll.
We could.

Speaker 4 (32:58):
You're always optimist, if you're a coach, you're always optimistic
that the next game could be the game to kind
of spark your team like wildfire, and you just keep
coaching them hard. You keep hoping that the things that
you're doing eventually will work out. But yeah, it's I mean, look,
it's a tough situation.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Well, the magic number I think's got to be ten,
maybe nine. Look at gain in the playoffs, so you
got to win you know, eight, seven or eight more games.
That's that's tough. I mean, they played nine already. It's
tough to do that. I mean, I look at their schedule.
They got Detroit next week. I mean, come on, really,
at Detroit, I don't think there's a chance there. Then
the Texans, but then maybe they got Tennessee that's a possibility,

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the Jets, a possibility, Vegas, Tennessee again, and Indies. So
they could go on a roll with one, two, three, four, five.
They could win the last five ball games, and that
may save the coach's job going into next year.

Speaker 3 (33:48):
No, it might be it might be out.

Speaker 4 (33:50):
You might be out of it by then, and like
like you might be out of it by then, like
last five games.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
That that's not.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Gonna be enough for me to feel good about what's
going on, if anything, Because you got to remember, man,
there's so much tied into so much tied into it, right,
you got season ticket renewals, you have a bunch of
different things that are coming up that will drive it.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
It.

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Look, I think it would be very difficult to say
that's that's the way that you want to go.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
I just think it would be very challenging to to
to kind of make that happen and to be like, yeah,
we feel good about where we are. If we're what
six and eleven going into next year on the heels
of a collapse, that's a lot of losses that you've
had in the last year and a half.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Let me leave you with this, all right, I know
you're close to the situation. You're part of the team.
What kind of heat is Trevor Lawrence getting if any?

Speaker 4 (34:47):
I mean, naturally, everyone wants them to play better. You
know like you certainly want them to play better. You
want them to be the player that you know. Look,
you paid a lot of money for to get I
mean you you paid a lot of money to get
him in the mix and to keep him a secure him,
so you want him to play better. But I mean,

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I think that the heat is more on the coaching
staff than on the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (35:12):
Right now.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
You know, the quarterback was giving them money because everyone
viewed him as a franchise player. I don't think those
thoughts have changed. Everyone is just more so trying to
figure out why the team's not winning.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
Well, they better find it out quickly. All right. The
questions are tough, but he always has the answers. Ask Bucky,
is next. You're listening to Fox Sports. Here we go,
asked Bucky. Right around the corner. It's been eleven minutes
now before the top of the hour. This is Fox
Football Sunday and Fox But it's righty, here's Bucky Brooks
and Andy Freming his time for as Bucky. Let's get

(35:47):
it going now. Question number one, Bucky Brooks, Justin Jefferson
or Jamar Chase, take your pick which one?

Speaker 4 (35:57):
MM I'm gonna go with Justin Jefferson just speak because
his polish, his overall running polish, makes it where he's
more likely to get open against anybody even though they
are neck and neck when it comes to the level
of play.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
Uh huh, yeah, I'm gonna run that by the problem
I have and I agree with you there because I
think Justin Jefferson gets it done with almost any quarterback.
Jamar Chase is getting it done with a great quarterback
and elite quarterback, and Joe Burrow. I don't know if
he'd get it done. Maybe with his Sam Donald. I
don't know. Is that a good answer possibility? M m.

Speaker 4 (36:29):
Look, I think he could get it done with anybody.
But I understand what you're saying for sure.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Thank you. A lot of people don't understand what I
say all right now. In the Ravens Lust Thursday, Joe
Joe Burrow was hit and held several times with no calls.
His coach Zach Taylor said after the game, he needs
to defend Joe Moore. What exactly does that mean? How
is that going to work? That Zach Taylor wants to
defend Joe Burrow More.

Speaker 4 (36:54):
It means he needs to whine and cry a little
bit more to get the officials attention. And that I
mean that's what happens. Like sometimes what they call it,
the did squeaky Will gets to grease. Yeah, sometimes he
needs to be a little squeaky, you know, make sure
that his guy's protected.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Oh so, I guess that works. We'll see. Okay, Kirk Cousins,
quarterback of the Falcons, come back player of the Year,
Yes or no?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Oh, he's in that conversation for sure. He should be.
This is a team that is rolling. Yeah, let's put
him in there.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Thank you. Okay, yeah, Okay, Next, Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson.
You're a pick.

Speaker 3 (37:36):
Ooh oh with.

Speaker 4 (37:41):
Let's go with Patrick Mahomes because Patrick Mahomes knows how
to win.

Speaker 3 (37:45):
But man, that's a tough one. That's why Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
You know what you say, he knows how to win.
I mean, are you are you insinuating that Lamar Jackson
doesn't know how to win? Is that what you're saying.

Speaker 4 (37:57):
I'm just basically saying that Patrick mahone wins with people,
without people whatever. At the end of the day, their
team is always crossing the finish line as the champ.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
That's what I'm.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Saying, okay, all right now speaking of the Kansas City Chiefs,
are the Chiefs the new America's team, Go away, Dallas.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
I don't know if they're a New America's team, but
I think they're the most polarizing team now. You think
about just the fact that people hate winning, the fact
that Pat Mahomes and the people around Pat Mahomes draw
the ire of people one way or the other. You
think about Travis Kelsey Taylor's were up the headlines and
the overexposure that that couples had. Yeah, there's a lot

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of people that I guess you could say they're America's
team because you love to hate them.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
So yeah, just throw them out there. They are the
new America's team.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
You know. It's funny you mentioned that because I think
that after a while, people get bored. I mean, the
NFL is built on one team should not dominate because
if you win, you get the less draft pick, and
you build when you lose because you get draft picks.
And it's not happening right now in Kansas City for
whatever the reason. I mean, is it great scouting, is
it luck? Is it coaching? How are they winning every

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year and still in all they're getting like the last
picks in the draft.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
It's a combination.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
It's a combination of I have a great quarterback, I
have a great coach, two that are destined to be
Hall of famers.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
I have other great players.

Speaker 4 (39:27):
But I have a personnel staff that does a really
good job of finding players at all levels. So whether
it's the draft picks where there's trade acquisition like they
just got New Hopkins, and then you have a coaching
staff that understands how to maximize all of the collective talents, they've.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Just done a really good job.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
They have it going together, and every time you win,
it gets more confident. So they're a very confident team
in terms of building a champion.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Okay, quickly, the last one whose seat is Hotter Doug Peterson,
not even Flus or Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
I was They probably met iber Fluse just in terms
of he was already kind of questionable coming back, but
the way they lost to the Commanders, didn't get blown
out the week after that, Yes, he just will.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Know time for midseason awards at Bucky Brooks. We're gonna
feel next right here on Fox and the winners are here.
That's coming right out. Good morning. This is Fox Football
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He is Bucky Brooks. I'm
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Brooks has that wonderful column analysis on NFL dot Com
usually late Friday, early Saturday, and this week the NFL
Awards at mid season picks for the MVP, Defensive Player
of the Year, Coach of the Year, and so much more.
It's wonderful you have a moment doth NFL dot com.
But my question is this, how hard was it for

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you to go through these selections and how did you
pick them?

Speaker 3 (41:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (41:23):
So, what we were trying to do is we were
trying to look at who it played really really well
during the first half of the season and then also
identify a player that should be on everyone's radar, not
necessarily the person that is sitting in second, but someone
who could catch fire down the stretch to put them
into conversation to swipe the award from the front runner.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
At that position.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
And so we want to make sure we had notable names.
We want to make sure we had some dark horse
candidates and then just kind.

Speaker 3 (41:49):
Of go from there.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Okay, Now I love this pick because when you talk
about the most viable player, you know you got to
change it. It's really the most valuable quarterback, just like
the Heisman Trophy, real and truly. You know, Travis Hunter
should probably get it, but it's gonna be a quarterback.
It's the best quarterback, right, you agree with that, Right,
So we're gonna go with the quarterl Okay, most valuable player.

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You have Lamar Jackson. All right, you can't argue because
he's having a tremendous year. He's got a perfect rating.
I mean, now he's passing. He was like a danger
as a runner. Now he's a danger as a passer
as well. But here's the deal. I mean, obviously you
got Jared Goff, and I think that Goff they may
give it to him. Simply because Lamar is one or twice.
But what about my guy, Joe Burrow? Now do you

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have to right the I really from the Cincinnati Beats.
Look at it, No, look at his stats. I mean
if you want to. I mean, I get it. The
team is like under five hundred to four and six.
But are you gonna blame the team's poor performance, specifically
on the defensive end of the ball, to hold him
back for an MVP possibility? I mean, he's He's right

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there with stats, he really is. Maybe it'll level out
as the season goes on. But the point is this,
The fact that the team is losing is no fault
of his.

Speaker 4 (43:08):
It may not be a fault of his, but what
it does it puts him in a different category. He
cannot win the Heisman Trophy because his team isn't good enough.
But maybe he can win the Davy O'Brien Award. He
can win Offensive Player of the Year because he can
put up sensational stats and winning isn't his tie to
Offensive Player of the Year performance as opposed to the
most valuable player. Most valuable player, you think about the

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guy who is the best player on the best team.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
More times than not Yeah, he can't. He can't go there.
Five hundred. Joe Burrow can't be there.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
Okay, So if he's the best player on the best team,
and I had the vote, you know what, I'm voting for,
Sae Kwon Barkley. How's that?

Speaker 3 (43:47):
Okay? I got that. Look. Look, I think you can
make that. Yeah, I think you can make that.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
Look, you can make that discussion, you can make that
argument that he should and.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Could be in there. That's it.

Speaker 4 (44:00):
I mean, he's gonna have to deal with Derrick Henry
because when we're talk about running backs, Derick Henry is
having a better year statistically than that. But Sakwon bark
as the Philadelphia Eagles find their stride, he can make
some compelling arguments.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
All right, let's go back to this most Valuable Player situation. Okay,
I'm with you the two time MVP Lamar Jackson. I
get that he leaves the NFL with a one twenty
three point two quarterback rating in a twenty four to
two touchdown to interception ratio. That's great, But you'd say
the best player on the best team. I think right now,
the best team in the NFL, and you may argue,

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is the Detroit Lions. I mean they're rolling over people.
They are the best team in the NFL. Right, and
maybe number two is Buffalo. Maybe number two is Buffalo,
and I put Kansas City three.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
No, no, no, the Kansasity Chiefs have won twelve, maybe
thirteen regular season games in a row.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
But I look at the win. I'm looking at the wing.

Speaker 4 (44:54):
But they keep but they keep winning, and they've won
every game this season. Buffalo has lost two games this year, Right,
two losses be better than the team that's undefeated.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
But the way they play, I just watched the way
they play.

Speaker 4 (45:05):
My eyes. It's the infamous it's the Andy Furman eyeball test.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Right, which follows except me?

Speaker 4 (45:12):
But that's okay, No, no, I just got it's your eyes.
I just wanted to make sure that I was on
that correct.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
But let's stick with Jared Goff. I mean, if they're
the best team, I don't know if in fact, he's
the best player on that team, Jared Goff, because I
think they have the best one two running pat punch
in the National Football League and that's really helped them
much so. But Jared Goff, you got to give him
some love. I mean, the NFL that's seventy four point
nine completion rate. I mean, come on, he's had a

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passer writing of one O nine or better. And as
you mentioned, six straight games, do you think he'll I
think he's gonna get it if they continue.

Speaker 4 (45:48):
Well, here's what I say, that are prevented from getting
every He needs to be spectacular like he's been in
these primetime games. Can be hard to give it to
somebody else. The Lions right now are media darlings. Though
everyone loves the store. They love the toughness and how
they've kind of risen from their ashes to do it.
Jared Goff's story is also unique and impressive because he
was cast off. You know, Hollywood didn't deem him to

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be sexy enough. They go and get Matthew Stafford in
a swap from Detroit. They drop him off in Detroit
and expect him to be kind of left for dead.
He resurrects of his career, comes back plays at a
Pro Bowl level. It helps the franchise become one of
the top teams. You said, like in the Andy Ferman Pole,
the best team in National League Football? Why wouldn't you

(46:32):
put the Lions QB one there? Particularly when he has
the stats to match. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see
how this goes down the stretch. Jared golf is Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
You know, you hit on something very interesting right there.
But when all is said and done, he took about
legacies of players. Jared Goff ma have a better legacy
at the end of the day than Matthew Stafford. Think
about that, right, he made very well.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
He's gonna have to win a Super Bowl right now
to be able to even it up. He hasn't won
a Super Bowl. Matthew Stafford holds that over him. So
people are talking about the talent and how they upgrade
it when you know they get rid of him. But yeah,
he's gonna have an interesting It's gonna be a compelling
argument for sure.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
All right, let's move along to your Offensive Player of
the Year, which I mean it's kind of a dumb
award because wouldn't the MVP, which is usually the quarterback.
Wouldn't that be the authensive player of the year anyway,
I mean, there's just too many awards I think.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
I mean, it can be a bit redundant based on
how we normally go about the formerly in the process,
I understand what you're saying, but let's just say that
we find a different a different path someone who has
put up a terrific individual offensive performance. That's where you
got Joe Burrow would be because we won't tie the
winning to him. We'll just put you know, individual performers

(47:44):
who's playing well.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
So that's where.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
He can jump into the mix. It opens it up
a little bit for some of those guys.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
So Joe Burrow could win the Offensive Player of the
year a will, but right now he probably won't because
Derrick Henry has already topped one thousand yards rushing this
year in just ten games like that, you know. And
that's funny because I remember when they when the league
played what sixteen games, fourteen games, twelve games, it was
always the thousand yards was the magic number. You run

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a thousand yards and seventeen games, it's still an accomplishment,
but it's not like when Jimmy Brown did it back
in the day and Cleveland when they played like fourteen games,
that was big, all right, But now a thousand yards
still it should not be the benchmark, don't you agree?
But make it up the fourteen hundred yards in there.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
I mean, yeah, if you're paying attention.

Speaker 4 (48:31):
Like a thousand yard season in seventeen games, it's middling production.
It's not good enough to really stand out. I think
you're talking about twelve to thirteen hundred should be the
new gold standard for running backs.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
Over the cross of a seventeen.

Speaker 4 (48:44):
Game season, you had Derrick Henry go over a thousand
yards and teen games. That's more like what dominant performance
should look like because it puts them at almost one
hundred yards a game. You know, like it put him
at over one hundred yards a game. That's kind of
what we expect from our dominant play. That means the
standard would be sixteen to seventeen hundred when we're talking

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about a great year. That's kind of what we kind
of have to raise the bar on what we expect
from our heroes.

Speaker 2 (49:10):
Okay, I still think that Seikon Barkley is probably gonna
win that word. I'll tell you why. Saquon Barkley's got
it worth thousands yards from scrimmage with eight touchdowns, and
I will say this. I think at the end of
the year and when all of a sudden done and shaysha,
if you want to write this down, if you want
to make me eat my words. At the end of
the year, that's fine with me. But at the end
of the year, when all of said and done, Saquon
Barkley will have more yards gained than Derrick Henry. Several

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reasons why. Number One, I think Baltimore wants to rest
him for the playoffs. Number Two, they have the rest
because of his age. I mean, let's face it, the
tires of the little warrants within the amount of I
see it now. Thursday night, he rush the ball sixteen times.
I mean, they're holding them back and rushing where the
Eagles need him. And you look at Saquon. Saquon's only

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twenty seven years old. So I think Saquon's going to
have more rushing attempts and then with more yards than
Derrick Henry.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
Maybe, But you know what, I thought it were working
reverse for the Baltimore Ravens. I thought the Ravens would
rest him early, grind him late as the weather changes,
as it becomes more of the physical game, as people
become more conservative down the Strets trying to win playoff games.
I thought that would create a path for him to
be more of the bell cow for that team. They've
opted to use him early. He's had a lot of

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success early. I just wondered the cultive effect does he
wear down?

Speaker 3 (50:32):
Does he wear down here?

Speaker 2 (50:33):
Yeah? Could be mts. Just hope either one of them
don't get injured. That's the key right there. Although I
don't see Derek Henry getting injured. I mean, he's going
to be one tough son of a gun to bring
down and tackle, don't you think. I mean, how tough
would he be?

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Who would want?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
You would know that? Who's the toughest guy you had
to tackle when you play.

Speaker 4 (50:53):
I just remember, like Derrick Henry reminds me of when
Eddie George was playing with the Oilers and I was
with the Jackson Jaguar at the time, and they would
just always leave the corner unblocked because they would say, hey,
we'll take our chances on a cornerback being able to
hit Eddie George, and we don't think a corner would
want to hit him for four quarters, And they're right,
nobody wants to hit a big player like that over

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and over and over again. So Derrick Henry being able
to get into the secondary is a huge advantage for
the Baltimore Ravens When he has the ball in his hands.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
How do you practice that? I mean, when we were
playing a practice during the week with your guys, you know,
in the scrimmaging, there's no one that could be like
him in practice? How do you And you don't hit
that hard anyway? In practice? Mostly tell you practice without pad.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Yeah, you do. But they have these contraptions.

Speaker 4 (51:38):
I just remember, they have these these these movable heavy
bags where you can hit the button on the machine
and the bag and kind of fly into you. That's
the only thing that can kind of simulate the level
of force that you're going to have to have when
you're dealing with Derrick Henry. But the other thing is,
regardless of the impact, you got to be courageous enough
to want to do it. We can practice it and

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all that, but when it's the moment of truth, you're
one on one squad up in the hole and he's
coming down with his shoulders over his past, he's.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Running behind his paths.

Speaker 4 (52:06):
As they like to say, you have to make a
conscious decision that I'm gonna stick up. I'm stick my
nose up here, and even though it's going to hurt
uh temporarily, I'm willing to do it. And I have
to be willing to do it over and over and
over again. I mean, that's a lot, man.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
You have to be a different animal to want to
take that on.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
When I think of Derek Henry, you know what I
think of. I think of that insurance commercial on TV
when he's pulling a refrigerator. That's what I think of, really,
and I don't want that guy hitting me like that.
I just don't want it. Really, I don't really know
it's a refrigerator full of ided it, I don't think so.
But still in all it's tough. I see him doing
that and he's pulling a couch. It's unbelievable, it really is.

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I mean, the guy, the guy's a bull.

Speaker 3 (52:48):
He is.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
We move on, all right, Let's do the offensive rookie.
He is, oh Man, Offensive Rookie of the Year. That's
a no brainer. Jayden Daniels, he gets you easy, all right,
easy work.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
J Daniel's doing everything that you expect the Washington Commanders
to get from the number two overall pick.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
He has surpassed what we thought we were gonna get
from KYLEB. Williams.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
All right, two more, I want to do the comeback
Player of the Year. We talked about Kirk Cousins, and
you see he's in the conversation. I think he's the guy.
I don't. I don't think anybody else is in the conversation.
Is there comeback player of the year. Although you said
that Joe Burrows to watching that one comeback, it could be,
you know, he may get.

Speaker 4 (53:28):
You guy has a couple he has a couple of
categories that he can think in there with winning isn't
a big part of it.

Speaker 2 (53:33):
No, you're right, offensive player, come back. You know that
he'll probably get the comeback Player of the year because
he missed. But it's six seven games last year, so
that's a possibility. May very well be that's that's not there.
And last but not least, you got Dan Quinn as
coach of the year. What about Dan Campbell?

Speaker 4 (53:51):
Right, he can be there, but I feel like I
feel like we kind of have already celebrated him in
the job that he's done. What the Lions are doing
this year isn't surprised to anybody. What the Commanders are
doing is more of a surprise. We didn't think that
this team was going to be any good.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
We worried about dan Quinn.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
We didn't even know if dan Quinn was a good coach,
even though he had led the Falcons to the Super Bowl.
All we can remember is twenty eight to three and
they lost it, and then a couple of years later
he's gone. After that, this has been really I'll say,
it's been really impressive for him. It's been an opportunity
for him to kind of get some of that stink
off his name. And he's really done a great job
of creating a culture in an environment where people want

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to go to the commanders.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
How can I get some stink off my name? Really,
I like to do that because there's a lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (54:33):
You got to just continue to deliver. You got to
continue to deliver exceptional performance. After a while, the stinch
will go over off.

Speaker 2 (54:40):
Okay, I'm really happy in this category you put my
guy Mike Tomlin in there because I said early on
today that he gets no respect. I mean, all he
does is win. He got him in the playoffs this year,
which is like a mono miracle. Really, I mean, I'm
telling you right now, if he was coaching Cincinnati Bengals,
they would not be four and six. I promise you
that that. I promised you he's winning with two Journey
even quarterbacks right now.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
He is and he has been able to do it,
and we love to see it. Uh the way that
is being done. He just continues to impress. And look,
I just think the Stealers our team that it's not
always pretty, but the results are exactly what you want.
It should be a lot of fun to continue to
watch all of these things, particularly the AFC North, to
see how that plays out, because we're talking about a

(55:24):
m VP and Lamar Jackson, We're talking about a team
that is kind of.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Gritty and gutsy and the Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (55:29):
Steellers and maybe I don't even know if I can
include him in the Comeback Player the Year? Can we
put Russell Wilson in the Comeback Player of the Year
award even though he wasn't hurt? Can we put him
as a Comeback Player of the Year, but he would
he would be I.

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Don't think hurt to be there. I don't think you
have to be hurt. Just do you have a great
year after a bid year. That's that's what you do.
All right, Let's squeeze in one here, we squeeze in
one game Falcon Saints because it doesn't deserve a lot
more talk than that. The Saints have dropped seven straight games.
They got a new coach right now. It's not going
to make the difference. You know, changing coaches in midstream
doesn't doesn't do anything except you know what it does.

(56:00):
It appeases the fans and the media because they want
the coaches head old. That's all it does. As you
mentioned earlier on, it probably helps ticket sales next year.
There's got like a new life, but a new coach.
Mitch Stream doesn't do it. A dann thing doesn't do
anything at all. It really does.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
Nah, No, it doesn't. The only thing that it does.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
It gives you an opportunity if there's someone that you're
intrigued by on your staff, and give you an opportunity
to hand them the keys to the franchise for a
few weeks to see how they handle the responsibility. It
allows you to get a jump start on the competition
when it comes to canvassing the landscape to see if
you have.

Speaker 3 (56:33):
Head coaching candidates that you like.

Speaker 4 (56:36):
It gives you an opportunity to begin the process of
resetting and rebooting the franchise, changing the messaging, making sure
the fans know that you're doing everything in your power
to make this team a winner. So part of it
is more I would say esthetics cosmetic reasons as opposed
to true functional reasons for changing because you're not go

(56:56):
changing anything because the same coach, the same program. You
can tweak the practice schedule a little bit, but it
look it's a temporary emotional lift, but then at the
end of the day, you can be the same team
that you've been. Look at what the Jets we're doing. Look,
they had that emotional stuff like, oh, that's been more
for the diffriend and then they came right out and
kept dropping games. Then they got one most recently. But

(57:17):
it's still the same. The same issues exist, and so
until you're able to attack the issues, doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (57:22):
When you before the.

Speaker 2 (57:22):
Plug, it's a band aid. That's what it is, all right.
As far as the Saints are concerned, their offense basically
is Alva Kamara that that's basically what it is. And well,
all of the Falcons have to do is put the
ball in the belly of Robinson. But Jean Robinson, he'll run.
They can't stop the run. They drop seven straight there
right now, two and seven. The Falcons is six and three.
I'm happy for Kirk Cousins this game, really and truly.

(57:45):
If you got leaves to rake, rake your leaves today,
that's what you gotta do today. This game is another
one of those.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
You just have to watch. And here's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (57:52):
Tune in for the first half because what you'll see
is the Saints play with a little more emotion than
they've had in the past. Typically after the coach gets fired,
it's galvanizing for a moment. So you got to hit
that team. You get to hit the team in the mouth,
and then they'll go back to being the team that
they were. But if you let them hang around, they'll
play and they'll make it a very difficult day for you.
So it's one of those things that you gotta be
mindful of, but you gotta get after it.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
No, I'm gonna watch the first hip because you said so,
I will, all right, get Bucket Brooks at Bucket Brooks.
Our number three will have Mike harmony iss who's at
Swollen Dome on Twitter at Andy Furman fisod I bet
he had eighty seven to seven ninety nine on Fox.
That translates to eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine now bottom barrel betting on this album.
Mike Carmon has mentioned our number three now questions surround

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both of these NFL teams. That's next, Hi, The offense
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We'll get to that in just about a minute. That
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(59:18):
nine ers at the Buccaneers today Tampa Bay, and both
teams in my mind, are somewhat disappointing. Forty nine ers
were preseason Super Bowl picked. Now they're four and four.
They got injuries, they did decimated with injuries. I think
I heard that Christian McCaffrey may play today. Is that true? Buck?

Speaker 3 (59:33):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (59:34):
That's pretty good.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
He was ready to play last week, but he may
be ready to rock.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
They need him, they need it's about tying. The forty
nine ers are averaging over five yards per rush. This kid,
Jordan Mason's getting it done. They've got over six hundred
and eighty yards and rushing. But the Buccaneers just too
many turnovers and they lost their last two. They started
like a house on fire, but they lost their list
two Baltimore, Atlanta, two good ball clubs. They need this one,
they really do. They really lots of Kansas City too.

(01:00:01):
By the way, they need this San Francisco game because
after this it gets a little easier with the Giants,
Carolina and Vegas. So they got three there coming in
for three wins, so that they need this one bad.
And I don't think they're going to get it. You
don't know, No, I think forty is just a better team.

(01:00:22):
I really do. I think they're better and I think
they'll win today. M tell me I'm wrong, Hm, what
you've done before?

Speaker 4 (01:00:30):
I mean, I mean, I don't mind telling you that
you're wrong. Yeah, look, I think Mike Evans is questionable today.
I think he's questionable. It may not be available, so
that might be an issue. I mean, I go with
the Niners in this. I just I've seen the Bucks
kind of give people problems with their their defense, but
they may not have enough fire party available, So let's

(01:00:50):
go to.

Speaker 6 (01:00:51):
Nix, right.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
I will say this, if you're looking for an enjoyable game,
this may be one of the more enjoyable games of
the year of the Sea of the Day, not the
Year of the Day, because I think it's gonna be
a high scoring game. Be a lot of offense in
this game today, agreed. I think they will be a
lot of points.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
Yeah, I mean I think points points that we put
up for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Yes, I don't know what the over under is, but
you know I would take the over. That's what I
would do. All right, Let's let's just squeeze in the
bills of the Colts today. Can Jonathan Taylor bust out?
Can he have a bust out game for the Colts today?
Because he didn't do much against the Vikings last week,
and I'm not really surprised they got a pretty good
defense the Vikings, but the Colts need him. They really
do need Jonathan Taylors to get it to Taylor to

(01:01:30):
get it done. And the Bills give up almost five
yards per carry. So it's almost like a match made
in heaven. If Taylor could run and he got a
team he could run against, this could happen. But you know,
as I say, the Bills are really good. The Bills
are going to win this game. And Josh Allen, he's
been sacked only eleven times this year, and this is
a Colts defense that relies on the rush. They ain't
going to get Josh Allen today and they're not going

(01:01:51):
to beat the Bills today. So the Bills win this one. Agreed,
that one. You got to agree.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
Agree, Agree, Buffalo Bills are they begin to play well,
they begin to play bess. I did not the second
best team in the league, but they're playing better for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Who is Kansas City?

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
Kansasity's one detroits two.

Speaker 4 (01:02:08):
Okay, I mean, look, Andy, I'm gonna have to You're
gonna have to start looking at the Power rankings, my
power my Top ten that shows up on Fox Sports
every week. It shows up Tuesday. You can see the graphic. Monday,
I give you a little thing Tuesday. We put it
out there for the world to consume. Yeah, it's out
there like Kansas City one, Detroit two.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
I will do that. That, I promise, I will do that. Okay,
Now he's a leader at a stat that you'd rather
not be included in. That's next. But first, Kevin Wyert,
he's always a leader. He got your.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
Sports leading your way with NFL injury news for this morning,
and we got a game set to get going a
little bit after nine o'clock Eastern time over in Germany
between the Panthers and the New York Giants, and NFL
Networks saying just a few minutes ago that no Jonathan
Brooks for the Panthers, so he'll make his after their

(01:03:02):
bye week. Other injury updates Ian Rappaport saying that Jaguars
quarterback Trevor Lawrence not only is he not playing today,
but his immediate future is uncertain as he deals with
a significant ac joint spraying and in any instance, it's
Mac Jones getting the start today for Jacksonville. Wide receiver

(01:03:25):
Deebo Samuel for the forty nine ers, he's questionable with
ribb and oblique injuries, but is expected to play. Jaguars
wide receivers Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas also expected to
play today. Texans wide receiver Tank Dell also supposed to
be on the field today for the Texans, but Nico
Collins considered a game time decisions. Falcons wide receiver Drake

(01:03:48):
London expected to play. He's been dealing with a hit
pointer and line pass rushers A Darius Smith not dealing
with an injury. He's just has just been acquired in
a trade, so they don't expect him to be able
to play today for the Detroit Lions as he's not
quite up to speed yet with the team's defensive a playbook.

(01:04:09):
Adam Shefter with a couple of updates. Christian McCaffrey, listed
as questionable with his achilles injury, will make his twenty
twenty four season debut against Tampa. So he does believe
that McCaffrey could have played last week. The forty nine
Ers actually believed that McCaffrey could have played last week.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Jody Bucky Bucky believed it too. Put that in so
the Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
And wide receiver Mike Williams and President Smith two guys
the Steelers have just acquired are expected to make their
debuts today for Pittsburgh. And in the college ranks, we
had some shakeup in the playoff rankings. Georgia losing Ole
Miss on the road twenty eight to ten as Carson
bec struggled with an interception in a fumble, also took

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five sacks. Miami losing to Georgia Tech twenty eight twenty
three in spite of a great performance by cam Ward
three touchdown pass This is three hundred and forty eight yards.
A couple other big matchups and we're eleven. Alabama going
down to death Valley to beat number fifteen LSU forty
two thirteen Jalen Millroll one hundred and eighty five yards

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and four touchdowns off just twelve carries. Number twelve Boise Stake.
It's by Nevada twenty eight twenty one is Ashton Gent
twenty four carries two hundred and nine yards and three touchdowns.
Both the top teams Oregon and Ohio State winning handily
on Saturday. Quin yours five touchdown passes for Texas, says

(01:05:33):
the Longhorns blood Florida forty nine to seventeen in Indiana
for the first time in their history is ten and
oher Hoosiers beating Michigan twenty to fifteen.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Bet you guys, it's Windiana. Remember Bucket said it's win
not Indiana. It's Windiana. All right, So that's right there
we go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:50):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Now, this team shows the will of its coach. That's
right around the corner. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman.
This is Fox Football, sonnya Fox Boots Radio, bon and
Barrel betting coming up at about six minutes for now.
And I heard that Mac Jones is quarterbacking for Jacksonville.
And I hate to put you on the spot, Bucket Brooks,
but I will. Now, this team is two and seven.
Trevor Lawrence is out, and you know, God bless him.
He probably just have a serious injury. However, I would say,

(01:06:13):
if the team is seven and two he played, maybe
I'm wrong. That's just the way I am. If there
were seven and two Trevor Lawrence plays today, there are
two and seven, he says. You know, when I got
this injury, I don't want to make it any worse.
I'm not going to play. Let Mac Jones play. And
I know I'm not gonna know.

Speaker 3 (01:06:28):
No, no, no, here's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:06:29):
I say the injury is significant, and I give him
credit for going back in the game against the Phillia
for Eagles and finishing the game out. But I mean
you're talking about a significant injury that could require surgery.
What Trevor has to balance is like every franchise quarterback
wants to be available for the team. That's part of
what comes with being a franchise quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:06:49):
But you also have to weigh the short term risks.

Speaker 4 (01:06:54):
I mean, the short term benefits against the long term
risk and if it's something that can impact this careering forward, yeah,
you got to certainly look at the landscape, look at
where we are, and is it worth it is the
jew's worth of squeeze And if it's not, then what
you do is you play it out and you just wait,
you know, and see if he gets better in a
week or two. And if the team is out of it, man,

(01:07:15):
look you have the surgery. Get him back ready, uh,
and allow him to be available for everything that you
have going in the offseason program.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
All right, sounds good. By the way, we're lifingthtire rack
dot Com Studios and uh, we get this. Pats and
Bears Okay, Patriots against the bearstay in Chicago, and if
that Hail Mary shocking loss two weeks ago at Washington,
the Bears is like they're still in the state of shock.
They can't win. And you mentioned even earlier and I
agree with you, Matt eberth Flisch. He's on the hot seat.
He's he's gone. If they pack you, I hope he's

(01:07:44):
renting and doesn't own I hope he's renting his house,
not owning it because he's out of Chicago. He's gone.
And the New England offense, I mean, it's a one
it's a one man offense, and he's not even doing
that much. Stevenson, Ramond Dre Stevenson and the Bears run defense.
You know he could run against them because they're run
defense is somewhat poorous. Okay, but here's the deal in
this game and why we're even talking about it, it's

(01:08:06):
beyond me. But the Patriots need to pressure Kayleb Williams.
Why Caleb Williams one of the most sat quarterbacks in
the league, which tells me the Patriots. The Bears don't
have much of an offensive line there. They really don't,
and the Bears probably could take some pressure off Williams.
How with DeAndre Swift their running back. So we'll see
what happens there. But in this game, I still have
to go.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
With the Bears.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
I still have to go with the Bears. They come
out of their shock syndrome today and they beat a
real bad Patriots team and then Boston they're saying, now,
bring back Belichick. That's what they're saying. I beg, what
do you think.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
No, I don't think they're saying that. I think they're
saying they found a quarterback and Drake May. They want
to find a way to build around him. They want
to see if the team can get better, can they
play harder? And and he liked these games we talked about. Man,
you suit him up, you got to play him. Just
don't assume that the Patriots are going to lay down
and wear one. Don't assume that. I think you're making

(01:09:01):
it making a mistake. You make a mistake when you
just assume that they're just gonna they're gonna just show
up and get whooped. And particularly with the Bears, they're
looking at the Bears that the Bears are vulnerable. They
just saw the Bears lose to Arizona. They saw them
give up a Hail Mary to Washington. You're the Patriots.
You feel like you can get this one. This is
one that you can get.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
So all right, get off the fence. Are you taking
the pay? You think the Patriots win this one?

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Oh yeah, I got the Patriots in this one.

Speaker 2 (01:09:27):
Really. Well, all right, we'll see all right, Titans at the.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Sell his house. You just told them to sell his house.
Have confidence? And the guy that you're told to put
his house on the market.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Well, not today, I mean after the season's over. You
know when what they have the so called Black Monday, right,
that's the day everybody gets fired. I'm supreme. No, it's funny.
I'm surprised they're firing coaches in midseason. I mean, that's unusual.
It really isn't to me, as you mentioned early on,
doesn't mean anything. It doesn't do anything except you know,
it makes fans and media happy. I mean, these guys
in the media pumping their I said, ah, I said,

(01:10:01):
I called first firing, and they listened to me. Come on, really,
it doesn't work that way, It really doesn't. All right,
Titans are charges, Chargers are playing like that coach? What
does that mean, they're aggressive. You know the charges. In
years past, it used to be like they play well
and they fade down the stretch and they choke in
the fourth quarter. You don't see that anymore. They're winning

(01:10:22):
that they're five and three and they're doing well, and
they've got their running game going. The Titans have the
Tony Pollard running. But it won't be enough that Calvin
Ridley just won't be enough. And they're building. I give
them credit, they're building. Give them, give them time, give
them time. But you know what ain't gonna happen today,
Charge is gonna win. And right, I mean, and the
Charge there, they're the edge defender Khalil Mack. He could

(01:10:44):
be a game changer, So we see what happens. I
don't know. I like the charges. I like Harbor.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
I like the charges.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
Yeah, I like the charges because I'm all I'm all
about Harbor. I'm all about the toughness, I'm all about
being worker bees and all that other stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
So I'm with that.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
I believe in what you're saying regards Harbaugh and how
they get down.

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
So yeah, I'm with them.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
Do you think that Harbor knew that Michigan was going
to be a flop this year in football. Do you
think he knew? Is that why he got out of Dodge.

Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
I think he knew it would be a little bit
of a reset.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
But in his mind he probably if he was there,
he would feel like they would be better. He would
find a way to kind of tap the right button
to get.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
This team playing. Sharon Moore is making an adjustment.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
Going from being like the look man then the second
chair to the first year is different and it doesn't
seem like moving over six inches would be a lot,
but it's significant. Every decision runs by you. You're now
solely responsible for the plights of the program. You don't
have the ability to lean on Harbor and bounce things
back and forth. And that necessarily showed her a plan.

(01:11:49):
It's a learning experience as a transition, and what you
want to do is do the best that you can
while you're there and then figure it out. But for Harbor, yeah,
they would be better.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Okay. My question is this isn't hard to believe and
I scratched my head with that. Jim Harbaugh has been
away from the NFL I he's something like eleven years
and he came back in right now It's like he
never was gone. I mean, you would think there be
some sort of a learning period. I mean, he just
came right back. And I know coaching is coaching, but
I think the NFL is a lot different than coaching
in college. It really is, you know that. I mean,

(01:12:22):
And for him to come in and just take over
like nothing happened, I mean, that's I think it's somewhat amazing.

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
Uh. You know, I'm not surprised because I think, just
like we talked about earlier with Signetti at Indiana, when
you've done it once or twice, you know how to
do it again. You know how to put it together.
So he look, he's done this every step of the way.
I watched him do it at the University of San Diego.
I watched him do it when he went to Stanford.

(01:12:49):
He did it with the Niners. He did it again
in Michigan. Man, you don't think he's confident that he
can put a plan in place. It may take him
a little while to figure out the new landscape where
he's stepping into, but ow is the recipe may need
to tweak it a little bit, but he knows it
and that's why he's so confident that he can pull
it off.

Speaker 2 (01:13:07):
But I don't think it's the game itself. I get it,
you know, you know the game. I think it's dealing
with going from kids to men. That's the difference, isn't it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Nah? I don't, man.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
I tell people all the time, like, whatever you think
about high school kids, pros are the same. They're just
a little older. They have money in their pocket. But
the way that you treat them, the way that you
talk to them, the way that you build your team,
you have to build it the same. Everybody that plays
at the highest level wants structure. They want discipline, they

(01:13:37):
want organization, they want transparency and accountability from the coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
Those same things that they crave in high school. It
never changes.

Speaker 4 (01:13:46):
And the mistake some people make is treating them differently.
N you hold them accountable, you create firm, hard rules.
They don't apply and they don't respect the rules, then
you get rid of them. Everyone wants to know where
the boundaries are, and so Jim Harbough understands that, and
he also builds his team on things that stand the

(01:14:07):
test of time. Toughness, physicality, run game. All of those
things always last. They never go out of scale. No
matter how trendy the game comes, those things are always hard,
always hardmarks on the championship squads.

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this game is no pushover. We call it bottom barrel betting,
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bend at bout eleven minutes now before the top of
the hour. He's Bucky Brooks, Andy Furman. We have Fox
Football Sunday on Fox Bust right now. We'll live from

(01:15:04):
the tiraq dot com studios. But we got a game
to play. Let's play, Yes, says you know, I say
it's a game. It's not a it's a war. It's
a war. It's me against Bucky Brooks. It's like take
ten paces face the other way. All right, here we go,
Shay shake, get it going because I'm ready today. I'm ready.
What's the score? What happened last week? What's the totals?

Speaker 7 (01:15:22):
How are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
Guys?

Speaker 7 (01:15:23):
Welcome back to another week of bottom Baro.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
Bettles, Stop with the goodies, stop with the coodie.

Speaker 8 (01:15:28):
It is the game where I give Bucky and Andy
games from across the world and they tell me who
they think will win from different betting websites. So, Andy,
you want to know, Yeah I do, Yes, I do.
It was one to four Bucky, what hey, you can't
win them all? You won last week. Yeah, it's a
it's a turnaround, you know, right, it's all right. So

(01:15:50):
that leaves the score to be Andy seventeen Bucky twenty
four in the lead. As always, you guys ready for
this week. Let's get right into it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
We only have seven weeks left and we've start to
do something else.

Speaker 8 (01:16:00):
Yeah, we got seven more weeks and then we'll figure
out what we do. But well we'll be teasing that soon.
But we'll get we'll get right into this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:16:07):
The NCAA Hockey Maine is taking on Boston College today
at ten am Pacific Standard time. Maine is plus one
sixty five. All Boston College is minus two forty. Let's
go to the champ Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
Okay, so give give any teams again.

Speaker 8 (01:16:23):
Maine, Boston College, and then Maine is plus one sixty
five while Boston College is minus two forty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
Oh, we got to go with Boston College to Eagles.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Remember the main, the plot Bears of Maine in Orno,
orn Old, Maine. I've been up there orn Oll, Maine.
Remember the main.

Speaker 8 (01:16:41):
It is the Grand Slam of Darts. Are you guys ready?
Rob Cross is taking on Martin Lukeman today at six
forty five a m. Pacific Standard time. Rob Cross is
minus two hundred while Martin is plus one fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:16:54):
Andy, Oh, I go give me Criss Cross. I'll take Chris.

Speaker 7 (01:16:57):
Cross, Rob Cross.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Oh, Chris go, Yeah, same.

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
Thing, Chris Gross. All right, that makes it easy. When
every and he goes one way, I'm gonna go the
other way.

Speaker 7 (01:17:04):
Martin Luther.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
Lukeman, He's play the game.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
He may be one of my guys, maybe a member
of the tribe.

Speaker 8 (01:17:14):
In the Snuocker Champions of Champions tournament. Gary Wilson is
taking on Jack Jones tomorrow Monday at six am Pacific
Standard time. Gary Wilson is minus one thirty while Jack
Jones Jack is spelled JK.

Speaker 7 (01:17:27):
Do with what you want with that information?

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Is even Wilson Wilson, Give me Wilson.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
And uh Jack Jones? Wasn't he a singer? Jack Jones?
Oh no? Does j A c K?

Speaker 3 (01:17:42):
Mary Jones?

Speaker 2 (01:17:42):
Yeah? I like this city, little cocky s places named JAK.
I'll go with Jack Jones JJ.

Speaker 8 (01:17:49):
You're thinking another guy that sings the Carrius George song?
I think? Is that it?

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, always just singing.

Speaker 7 (01:17:54):
We'll play it. Please do.

Speaker 8 (01:17:57):
The Dominican Republic l I D O M. It's basically
just a baseball league. Leonis del Skulgido is taking on
Gigantis del Cibao today at twelve Why would you get
a Leons is minus two hundred while Gigantis is plus
one fifty. You can say that Andy leonis Gigantis.

Speaker 2 (01:18:17):
Leonis Gigantis.

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
You did it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
Leonis?

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
There you go?

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Since I could say it, I'll take it.

Speaker 7 (01:18:24):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (01:18:25):
Well that's those are two teams, so you gotta do
sweet Bucky.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Well, I know these teams could have played last week.
I have no idea.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
These might not even be teams.

Speaker 2 (01:18:42):
Who knows you're making them up?

Speaker 3 (01:18:45):
Bucky, Please save us.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
I'm just so nail distracted and confused. Gigantis. Yeah, I'm
going I'm going to Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:59):
Okay, you said the other day.

Speaker 7 (01:19:00):
Yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
And before this game is, before the seasons off, you're
going to be busted for cheating. You will be.

Speaker 7 (01:19:08):
You got seven weeks, man, you got you?

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:19:11):
You I don't know how you got to catch me soon.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Man, I don't know how you sleep at night.

Speaker 8 (01:19:14):
Really, you should look up the game sometimes. Yeah right,
you could look up the games for me next time.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
Tali the scores I'm not doing. I still lose here.

Speaker 7 (01:19:23):
Maybe you'll get this one. You play table tennis right Sometimes.

Speaker 8 (01:19:26):
In the Czech Republic League of Pro, which is a
table tennis league, Ivo Palmy is taking on Thomas Navrot.
Ivo is minus one seventy and Thomas is plus one
to twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Do I go, Andy?

Speaker 7 (01:19:40):
You want to go?

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
So I want Island?

Speaker 7 (01:19:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
Isaac Lowan Kron he's playing tennis, playing ping Pong.

Speaker 7 (01:19:45):
Is it Ilo Ivo? But I loove's close love we could.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I've got Ivan Isaac Lowan Kran his brother Ivan Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Can you give me the opposite geat I love give
me the other game?

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Dom joins us right here on Fox Next.

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
Greetings and welcome in another beautiful Fox Football Sunday.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
We'll get it started early today.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
Desured the update from Kevin wirartt Yeah game in Germany
to get things started.

Speaker 6 (01:20:17):
Point did we export a big one? Unless we didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:20:21):
But they're all part of our glorious two hundred and
seventy two game tapestry that is the regular season.

Speaker 6 (01:20:26):
So we'll celebrate it just.

Speaker 5 (01:20:27):
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(01:21:10):
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Brooks gentlemen, another big slate of NFL games. I'm tapped
for us today, But be remiss if we didn't do
a little bit of a rewind as to the delicious
theater that is college football.

Speaker 6 (01:21:27):
How are we doing this morning?

Speaker 2 (01:21:29):
I'm doing great. I just have one wish. I one wish.
You know what that is. I wish that the Giants
and Panthers stay in Germany. Don't bring him back. Don't
bring let him stay there. I'm a long time because
a kid. I love the Giants. It's embarrassing. Really, stay
in Germany until you get a football team. Don't come back. Please, Really,
that's all I gotta say.

Speaker 6 (01:21:50):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
He's now exporting multiple billions millions of dollars. Look what
he did helping the global economy. Bucky Brooks, we.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Won't even have a tariff on the way back.

Speaker 4 (01:22:03):
Yeah, we see how those terriffs eventually work out for everybody. Yeah,
it's I think it's interesting, like football is football, as great,
football as ernest we talk about college football, all the
things that are I know, for you as a Northwestern guy,
watching Indiana just kind of not only rise to prominence
but become a dominant college football superpower has to be

(01:22:25):
a little baffling when you think of all the things
that Indian football has not been over the past I
don't know, sixty years maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:22:32):
Well, yeah, we kind of love it.

Speaker 5 (01:22:36):
Yeah, I mean we did it at Northwestern thirty five
years ago or thirty years ago or whatever that is
at this point a long time ago. It means I
was young. I was a young man when you go
back to the rise up of Gary Barnett and into
Pat Fitzgerald coach Randy Walker in between there and all
the success that they had. And now I watched the
Wildcats each week, fellas, and and I wring my hands

(01:22:58):
a little bit at some of the play calling and
decision making. And the university as a whole has its
own issues that we won't traverse here. We'll save that
for our news desk over at KFI and our other
news stations in terms of some of the policy and
procedures that they've had over the last couple of years.
But for Indiana football, it becomes the well, in a

(01:23:21):
new day and age, you get the right coach the
right time, everything swirling across the college football world, and
the opportunity jumped up. Now their schedule has not been
lined with world beaters up and down, but hey, you
play us on the schedule and if things come together right,
you're able to take advantage of it. And that's what
they've done here. You had a narrow victory over the

(01:23:44):
Michigan Wolverines who are struggling. And sometimes you wonder what
the strategy was in the post Harbaugh era, particularly at
the quarterback position, because now there's just the active desperation
of well, there's a commit over here, LSU, but we
think we might be able to flip them, saying you
couldn't recruit somebody else. These guys are like, I get it,

(01:24:06):
that's part of the game, but all your eggs should
not be in the basket up. Well, if we get
this guy, maybe it goes right, and if not, it
goes to hell and by the way, you know. The
other is situational football. Moore's had some head scratchers throughout
the year, including yesterday, but twenty to fifteen a victory,
and so as we get closer to the playoff, this

(01:24:27):
next iteration of rankings with a bunch of upsets and
losses from big squads. I don't know about you, guys,
but I thought the twelve team playoff was a great idea.
I'm already for sixteen. Let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:24:39):
I'll tell you what I'm with you, and I'll tell
you why it's a great idea because I looked at
the rankings this past week. I wasn't watching the draw
because I was watching the election returns. But the number
twelve team Boise State. They're in a great spot because
if they're gone by the old system, they wouldn't be
there at all. It's great. You're gonna get a true
champion right now. It's a true tournament for teams. They're
not gonna have the guy who is fifth knocking on

(01:25:02):
the on the plate glass with his nose against the window, saying,
how come I'm not in? Now you're in. Let's see
what you could do. I love it. Boise States in
BYU is a fourth seed. They're in there right now
and as of last week, and it's going to change.
Obviously this week Indiana would play the Indiana was a
ninth seed, They'll play Tennessee. I think it's great. And
the winner of that game plays Oregon, and they know

(01:25:22):
who's gonna argue against Oregon. They got to be number one,
hands down.

Speaker 3 (01:25:28):
Love got to be number one.

Speaker 2 (01:25:30):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:31):
Look, I think this is everything that everyone who's been
around the sport and looked at the lower levels has wanted.
How can you have playoffs at the uh, let's just
go one double A Division II level, but not want
to have playoffs at the upper levels. It never made
sense that at the highest level we couldn't get it done.
And I think you've seen the excitement about it. You

(01:25:51):
will only continue to see the excitement grow regarding the game.
And look, man, it's too Look it's mussy. When you
combine the expanded playoff with what they're doing when it
comes to NIL and the transfer portal and opening up
the floodgates to kind of build your squad, you have
to be excited about what we're seeing.

Speaker 5 (01:26:12):
Yeah, as long as you have an organization and now
we're we call them that we bridge to the professional
side of things, when when you look at the academic
institutions to where you're playing in that nil field and
can go out into the marketplace and position yourself as
best you can, and you've got a coach who's in
line with whoever is handling the purse strings and those

(01:26:35):
procedures right because it can't overwhelm them.

Speaker 6 (01:26:37):
They have to be.

Speaker 5 (01:26:38):
Part of it, but certainly not the guy running it,
because we've certainly seen battles of that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:42):
Let's just go back and look at UNLV. But one
of the.

Speaker 5 (01:26:46):
Big complaints about it fellas was that, you know, it
would may render a lot of these November games moved.
And even as it was coming into fruitional'm like, well,
didn't we as much as people might have done their
gripping and handwringing over Major League Baseball and the expand
expanded wild Card, the NFL adding another playoff team, haven't

(01:27:08):
we seen that that's better? Because the final month of
the season, you still have a bunch of teams that
have to try for competitive sake that you're still playing
meaningful football games, and some of those you know, rivalry
games that we've always loved still have their meaning, and
that one loss isn't a death sentence in September eight.
So if you play one of those marquee games and

(01:27:29):
you lose, it's not well, season's over. Now we're playing
for an also Ran Bowl. No, now you're actually still playing.
You just can't slip up a second time. And in
some cases, brand.

Speaker 4 (01:27:40):
I think, yeah, I think, actually you get two. I
think they built in, they baked in two mulligans. You
get too off to tea.

Speaker 6 (01:27:48):
Well, you remember golfing with me, Bucky any more than that? Andy?
It was not pretty, and I would.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
Like look year five that Ben Mallard, we can never golf.
We've been malord again. Ben Mallard did stuff on the
golf course that I cannot even. I can't even. It
should never be spoken about it again. But we can.
We can go with Mike Harmon. Mike Harmon can play
with me any day, but at Ben Mallard. Yeah, that
is a wrap for that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:16):
But now you're right, like just just being able to
just being able to see how this plays, see how
it changes. Look man, because you should schedule tough teams
early to see where your team is.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
It doesn't hurt you like it used to hurt you before,
where you ducked and dodged.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
I actually like the way the landscape is, and it'd
be interesting to see how how this goes, particularly when
we're seeing some of the teams like Army and Navy
and some of these other teams get into the conversation.
You have to like that because there's still a path
for the little guy to get into the conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:28:45):
I'll go and step further. Expand the basket. Talking about
spending the basketball. Why not?

Speaker 3 (01:28:49):
You know what? That's more of it?

Speaker 2 (01:28:53):
Do it? Ninety six teams in let them?

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
Oh my god, yes, what are we doing? Be given out?
You know what?

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
They do it now?

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:29:03):
They do it now. When you're in a basketball conference,
they have the conference tournament and you go to the NCLA.
It's the same thing. So just have the umbrella cover that.
I let him go to the tournament. More basketball, more football.
I love it. Look, I told you this earlier today.
The two best events in the country right now with
a Super Bowl and now the twelve team college tournament.
Other than that, forget it. These are the two greatest

(01:29:25):
sporting events that we have on the face of the earth.

Speaker 3 (01:29:30):
Do you know how long you have to stay in Vegas?

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
If I'm gonna go to Vegas to Western and now
you're going to expand it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:36):
Do you know you've now created like.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
A five day thing for Vegas just to get through
the preliminary game.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
They asked the commission the thing I know, they asked
thea commission. He said, there's a chance they're going to
expand it. They are.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
It always comes back to doesn't make everybody enough money?
And in this age of we drifted into and this
is where the shifting landscape. Everybody is a professional now,
right and the guys of amateur athletics it's italicized or
maybe it's in one of those erasing fonds altogether at times.

(01:30:10):
So I think everything's on the table. If if the
the pie is bigger, particularly in the fractionalized world of
cable and who's fighting for rights, right, you can get in.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
Well, they can't go deep Masters because the Masters on TV.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
Yes, because because the Masters is bigger than college basketball.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
Come on, because have the rights they have the CBS
rights for the Master.

Speaker 5 (01:30:32):
Yah. Yeah, but that's what I mean, Like I'd love
to see those contracts and where the outs are or
where they can parse things off and still get their
taste well, because I would argue most people Andy that
are watching the Masters, I would be very curious of
that crossover, Bucky, And I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
With you there. I mean, I'd rather see the basketball,
But I think the Masters may have preference because I
think they buy the time. And as you know, there's
no commercials in the Masters, and I think they have
the deal with the CBS, so they have to work
about that. College bass have to squeeze the dates in
before the Masters, I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (01:31:03):
Now one story I wanted to get to really quick.
We had a bunch of upsets.

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
We had some poor performances in the college slate Carson
Beck and Georgia and all of those things.

Speaker 6 (01:31:12):
But one that folks might have missed.

Speaker 5 (01:31:14):
Because it happened a little later last night and you're
out and about maybe early parties or getting together Dwally
for those that celebrate right, all of those things going
on is the BYU Utah finish and BYU comes back
and stuns Utah. Late twenty two twenty one, Final Drive

(01:31:37):
starts at their own nine. Looks like it's over, but
there's a holding penalteon well play where the quarterback was sacked,
and we go to the Bruder film and everybody wants
to argue, and it goes back to I think some
of the Thursday Night Football where maybe the referees just
seemed tired of throwing flags in that final Bengals drive

(01:31:58):
and so many others in standalone games where officiating becomes
a big deal. But this one takes on a whole
other level because now you've got the Utah A d
getting in the mix.

Speaker 6 (01:32:11):
I love it. Do we have the audio of the
Utah A D Or.

Speaker 5 (01:32:15):
We're not gonna use him? I guess we're not gonna
use him. So he basically said flat out that they
stole the game from me. He was called for an
unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after the final whistle. Quote, this game
was absolutely stolen from us. We were excited about being
in the Big twelve, but tonight I am not. We

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won this game, but someone stole it from us.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
So what happens to this guys? Mark Mark Harlan is
the ad he was down at the news conference in
the postgame news conference and he says, quote, I'm disgusted
by the professionalism of the officiating crew tonight he's gotta
be slap with something.

Speaker 6 (01:32:51):
Well, yes, really in multiple ways.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
I mean, because you're not only calling out the integrity
of the game, you're berating official officials on on the field.
And look, everybody's done that to a degree in any
part of sports that you're in.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
But he's an embarrassment to an educational institution. He is,
he really is, well and suck it up.

Speaker 6 (01:33:11):
But again, suck cup, suck it up. But it goes
back to what we were just talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:33:15):
Is that now you're talking about, uh, the transition from
you know, somebody think of the children into this is
now professional football in a very large way. And the loss,
while they're not vying for playoff standing, is still crushing
to the larger goals of his administration and what they're doing. No,

(01:33:39):
I would say, better play foot play better football in
the second half.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Yeah, you want to the way you go to a
little league game and the guy, some lunatic comes out
of the stands and punches the umpire. It starts for
the top, like a guy like Mark Harlan. It starts
from there and it trickles down. It does. Look you
suck it up. He made the call. He ain't gonna
change it. Bad call perhaps, but he made it. You
were embarrassed for the University of Utah. You embarrassed the
University of Utah.

Speaker 3 (01:34:04):
He did, I mean, he did, and I would like to.
I would say this about an ad.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
Ad has to be above it all, even if you're
disappointed in the outcome and all those things. You always
got to take the higher road. What he should have
done is calm down for a minute. He should make
a statement on a Monday after cooler heads that prevailed
and he's able to, I would say, articulately, fully articulate
his problems with the thing, not an emotional response, but

(01:34:32):
being able to cite real hardcore examples after he's watched
the tape or had the coaches watched the tape.

Speaker 3 (01:34:38):
And all that other stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:34:39):
That's all just handling it a little different, because right
now it's kind of like sour grapes.

Speaker 3 (01:34:42):
But I understand the frustration and losing a game like that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
No, certainly, But it goes back to in the final
minutes of games. You know, do we want the flags
to be that much harder to come by or are
they supposed to be called like the other fifty nine
minutes plus, right, And that's the age old debate that
we have in these games. Like we go back to
Thursday Night, which you guys, I mean Andy, and I
know you know beat you being there, uh and watching

(01:35:07):
the bangles as closely as you did, I'm sure you
might have pulled out a couple of hairs.

Speaker 2 (01:35:12):
No, I mean, it's just the way it is. First
of all, you don't want the officiating to ever you know,
the outcome of your game, to leave it to the
judges of course, right, you put your foot on the
throat and you just choke of the death. Look all,
I say this, Let's go back to Marrow Hall on
the d at Utah for a second. I understand that
CBD is legal in Utah. Go get some CBD and
cool down, just cool deest, relax, really just just calm down, really,

(01:35:36):
just really, it's legal. It's legal in Utah. Get a hit,
calm down, smoke one. Yes, how about that?

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
Come on, man, dooby doobie brothers.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
It's legal, it's legal.

Speaker 6 (01:35:52):
Got that, man. I did not see that coming. But
I'm actually trying to look this up there, you.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
Three.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
I would never lie. I would never lie to you Buckets. Yes,
I would know.

Speaker 4 (01:36:08):
I'm just I'm just a little surprised given the religious slant.

Speaker 3 (01:36:12):
And you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:14):
Need to relax too. They need to relax.

Speaker 5 (01:36:18):
And Andy furmans Car you find him on Twitter. Find
Bucky over at Bucky Brooks. Uh yeah, I mean the
chill out period is supposed to be there. How how
you go through that fifteen minutes? Andy has some.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
Thoughts you have preference.

Speaker 5 (01:36:32):
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(01:36:56):
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(01:37:18):
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Speaker 6 (01:37:37):
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How about that. I'm a cultured man, all right, try
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(01:38:10):
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As we go through the morning, if you have any
fantasy questions, happy to answer him there. The sit starts

(01:38:30):
a lot of chaos.

Speaker 6 (01:38:31):
Including this first game.

Speaker 5 (01:38:33):
We're gonna break down, fellas, because not exactly the quarterback
battle we were hoping for.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
Eagles at Cowboys.

Speaker 6 (01:38:39):
Yeah, here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:38:40):
It's looking like it's Kenny Pickett going up against Cooper Rush.
It is not the game that you anticipated all those
weeks ago as you were setting up and building your
rosters fantasy wise or maybe getting your viewing plans together.

Speaker 6 (01:38:55):
But we look at these squads.

Speaker 5 (01:38:57):
Micah Parsons look like he's gonna be back for the Cowboys.

Speaker 6 (01:39:01):
Yay.

Speaker 5 (01:39:02):
Remember he was part of that team that gave up
all sorts of points when we thought the Saints were
gonna be good.

Speaker 6 (01:39:07):
And what they do. They fired their coach.

Speaker 5 (01:39:09):
This week in case you missed it along the way,
So we get this one. It is a seven point line, Philadelphia,
the road favorite.

Speaker 6 (01:39:17):
Forty four is your total.

Speaker 5 (01:39:20):
Even with Micah Beck, they're giving up nearly one hundred
and fifty rushing yards per game, thirteen rushing touchdowns thus
far at Ceedee Lamb, and a bunch of question marks.
Cavante Turpin in the return game, great Aubrey Great as
a kicker. So you're winning special teams? Is that really
a third well debate it just kidding, But we're looking
at all of this to say, I had an ad

(01:39:42):
as I was prepping this game last night, Fellas that
suddenly appeared saying thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:39:47):
Days to get shredded.

Speaker 5 (01:39:48):
I thought it was a mock ad to mock the
Dallas defense and the Cowboys for the fall from Grace.
On the other side, Saquon Barkley has a bunch of
high schoolers getting hurt trying to emulate that backside first
dive over the defender last week. I don't know if
you saw the videos of guys that would have been
an old ESPN jacked up montage for sure, Eagles heavy favorites.

(01:40:13):
We'll start with you, Andy Furman. Did the Dallas Cowboys
have a chance?

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
The Dallas Cowboys right now are a mess. They're a mess. Okay,
not only on the defense but on the offensive side
of them. On both sides of the ball. You got
a team that has sae Quon Barkley. You got a
team that has a j Brown receiver Devonte Smith. They're
gonna do whatever they want against the Cowboys today, big win.
They put some good points today, Eagles, and they're in
a roll. They're rolling right now. There's Philadelphia Eagles. I say,

(01:40:39):
they put up thirty plus today and they beat the Cowboys,
and Jerry's not gonna be happy. He may pull a
Utah a d move. Today.

Speaker 5 (01:40:50):
We're at the point of sad, a sad Jerry Bucky
it's pitiful.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Oh yes, a rap it's a rap man.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
They're not coming back like Dak Prescott opting for a
season in the surgery. He know, like, why I subject
himself to that? So I'm saying the Eagles. The only
thing about like picking the Eagles is it's not the talent,
it's the coaching. I just worry about Nick Siriani keeping
the Cowboys in there by doing some of this raggadocious, silly,
arrogant stuff that he does.

Speaker 3 (01:41:16):
The Eagles win.

Speaker 4 (01:41:17):
The Eagles win, but I can't confidently say that they're
gonna cover the spread or go well above the spread
because their coach like to play coast games because he
likes to play with his food.

Speaker 5 (01:41:25):
Well, and that's just it. When you've got a guy
who's super tow. Yes, we'll bring our seventies and eighties
toys back in once again in Aubrey. If the game's close,
guess what, they don't need to drive, have a big
sustained drive for him to have an opportunity to gut you.
So there you go, which would be a big deal
because you know, at home they've been absolutely atrocious. They've

(01:41:46):
been terrible altogether, but in front of the home crowd,
you know when they go sprinting in because of those
party deck seats. Now you're really getting into the bag
a little bit earlier. Maybe, as Andy suggested before Bucky,
maybe you try to find yourself something that's gonna take
off a little bit of the edge even earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
Moved to Utah. Hey, you know, I tell you what
I think with the Is there a thing I asked
you guys? Can you be too aggressive? I think that
Nick Siriannis maybe too aggressive. He lets teams come back
in the game with bad decisions. He missed a couple
of two point attempts lest we didn't have to go there.
He didn't go to two point tempts after a touchdown.
I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (01:42:23):
It's like that ninety nine cent blackjack card you can
buy before you sit down at a table in Vegas.
I always said this with the you know, the brilliance
of National League managers, with the with the the swap
right where we talked about the Hey, we're gonna bring
in the picture. We're gonna do all this with the
bad No, no, no, it was a blackjack card. What's
the game situation? When's when's the picture gonna bat? All

(01:42:45):
of those things? Same thing here, two point conversion. We've
been talking about it for years. Here's your situations. You
want to be gutsy, that's fine, but recognize if you're
working on the edge, as the Eagles are so often
with sirianni Uh, sometimes you're gonna you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
Roll this Inna Zeth Taylor went to his school.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
I think.

Speaker 6 (01:43:05):
They need to finish.

Speaker 5 (01:43:06):
They've got a bunch of other issues to work through,
you know, like not giving away weeks one and two
to where every game becomes the super Bowl. Thereafter there
you go to Zach Taylor world. As it is, we've
got three more games to preview as we roll through,
it's week ten of your National Football League season. But
before we do that, we're gonna step over to our guy,

(01:43:27):
Kevin Weyer, who's got an update on some of the
injury news and notes and some of.

Speaker 6 (01:43:31):
The results that may be a miss from last night's
College Slate.

Speaker 5 (01:43:34):
What's going on, Kevin, Yeah, we're less than an hour
away from kicking off the first game of the day
over in Germany, Giants and Panthers and Roger Goodell speaking
earlier this morning, saying that the league plans on playing
up to eight international games per year beginning with next season,
so this is gonna be far from the last game

(01:43:54):
we see in Germany, if Goodell is to be believed
from what he said today. As for the injuries on
the field, Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence, according to Ian Rapaport,
there's concerned by the team about his immediate future, as
he's dealing with a significant.

Speaker 6 (01:44:10):
Ac joint sprain.

Speaker 5 (01:44:12):
In any instance, it's Mac Jones getting the start, but
they're not exactly sure when exactly Trevor.

Speaker 6 (01:44:18):
Lawrence will be able to come back.

Speaker 5 (01:44:19):
Not all bad news though for the Jags, as Gabe
Davis Brian Thomas are expected to play today. According to Rapaport,
Texans wide receiver Tank Dell is dealing with the back
injury but is expected to play today. Nico Collins considered
a game time decision. He did practice once this week.
Falcons wide receiver Drake London is dealing with a hip

(01:44:42):
pointer is expected to play. Lions pass rusher Zadarius Smith
he's not dealing with an injury, but was just acquired
in a trade on a Tuesday, so the team feels
he is not quite yet up to speed, so he
is not expected to play for the Lions tonight. Adam
Schefter with a couple of updates. Christian McCaffrey is listed

(01:45:02):
as questionable with his achilles but will make his twenty
twenty four season debut Sunday, and the team believes that
McCaffrey could have played last week. A couple other notes
from Adam Schefter earlier this morning listening the inactives. Jonathan
Brooks among the players inactive for the Carolina Panthers. The

(01:45:27):
Giants really nothing to a notable in Varius Slayton that
was expected to be out, so he is officially listed
as inactive for the new York Giants in the college ranks.
Last night, we had a couple of upsets in the
top five, so we should see a change in the
college football playoff rankings. Number sixteen All miss over Number

(01:45:48):
three Georgia twenty eight to ten. Carson bec struggling a
interception of fumble, taking five sacks.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
For the Bulldogs.

Speaker 5 (01:45:56):
As they now have lost their second game both overall
in and sec pay They've been leadroged by both Texas
and Tennessee. The Longhorns getting five touchdown passes from quinn
Ewers to beat Florida forty nine to seventeen. The falls
over Mississippi State thirty three to fourteen. Number four Miami
had their perfect season come to an end at the
hands of Georgia Tech twenty eight twenty three, despite a

(01:46:17):
great game by cam Ward three and forty eight yards
and three touchdowns. The top two teams Oregon Ohio State
both winning handily on Saturday, and number eight Indiana for
the first time in school history ten and oh after
the get bye Michigan twenty to fifteen, and number eleven
Alabama going into Death Valley to beat number fifteen LSU
easily forty two to thirteen as Jaln Milroe twelve carries

(01:46:42):
one hundred and eighty five yards four touchdowns. Back to you, guys,
thanks so much, Kevin. Kevin Wyrett with us at the
news desk this morning. I'll by carbon alongside me, Bucky
Brooks and Andy Furman. Reminders shortly after the show. Podcast
is going up. You missed Eddie Today's show. Look for
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(01:47:02):
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Speaker 6 (01:47:14):
Again?

Speaker 5 (01:47:15):
Search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts. You'll
see this show posted right after we get off the air.
You know, there's a line of hats that I'd buy.

Speaker 6 (01:47:23):
You know, they have a.

Speaker 5 (01:47:23):
Fedora line, but they have this thing where they do
these limited drops and it's got the funny I got
an animal patch and then it'll have like a funny
word with it. This week they finished a Carousel version, guys,
and the word was blow hard. I was walking my
dog and had bad cell reception. It sold out before
I could get it. So I'm doing my best to

(01:47:45):
make sure we can all procure a copy of that hat,
because I would wear it proudly and I hope you
would too.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Yes, here we are Fox Sports. I got a quickie
if I met I think Kevin wy are talking about
the Commissioner wants to have eight international games next year.
And if I'm a season ticket holder, I am p
o big time because I live for this. I live
to see my seven or eight home games. You're gonna
take one away from me. Now. Now I understand that
Jacksonville always goes over to London. There's another team that
just stayed over there on the pond. They really should

(01:48:14):
And I don't think the season ticket holders you're exporting
Bucket Brooks Now, we'll just take you out of the country.
He could live in London. Bucket live that little house
in London, a little shanty. Okay. But here's the thing.
You know, there are certain season ticket holders that don't
really care. I don't think the season ticket holders and

(01:48:34):
jackson could care if they if they miss a home game,
all right, But the point is this, you buy a package,
you live all year long. You want to see your
team play? Why do that? Why do you? Little by little,
they're eating away the backbone of the National Football League.
They're charging more and more for streaming. I get it,
this money, I get it. But they're doing it and
some people are really p oed and now have taken
away some home games. I don't think it's good. You're

(01:48:56):
gonna kill a goose that laid the golden egg.

Speaker 6 (01:49:01):
M Bucky. You want to respond first to being exported
and in London.

Speaker 3 (01:49:07):
I think I would live a great life in London.

Speaker 4 (01:49:08):
I would say if I was exported there, if you
can make me an expat and put me over in
London for a duration to be with the Jaguars, Like,
I'm okay, we're part of that.

Speaker 2 (01:49:17):
My grandfather has a house.

Speaker 4 (01:49:19):
However, like I think there's a part of North Florida
that still appreciates the Jacks in spite of their struggles,
and so I don't think we need to.

Speaker 3 (01:49:28):
Wipe them off the face of the earth and just
to keep them out of.

Speaker 4 (01:49:33):
But look, there's going to be some of that Andy
because as the Jaguars are beginning to do the renovations,
they are going to play more games in London h
during that. I think they may play up to three
games per year. I mean, like, I mean, it's not
a bad place to live. So it's one of those things.
But the International Games are big because it's a revenue driver.

(01:49:54):
It's a revenue stream for the thirty two greedy little owners.
They get their pause on some more money. So that's
are you're going to continue to see the expansion of
the International Series.

Speaker 5 (01:50:03):
I think, team by team and again to back the
Jaguars faithful. I mean, look, as a guy who cheers
for the White Sox, it's a small but passionate group
of fans. I mean, for years we could have said
they could have exported the Bengals. Right now, it's just
because the Jaguars gave up a couple of games. Look,
once upon a time we only got to see three

(01:50:25):
or four games a week. I think we're all spoiled
because of how many games and the accessibility whatever. See
old Kevin Durant. You don't like it, don't watch and
guess what not everybody can afford everything. Now when teams
do lose a home game, I'd like to see the
teams do some sort of make good of with your
season ticket holders of hey, come meet the squad, come

(01:50:46):
run around the field, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
Like a cupon for concessions. Maybe when you do go
to a game.

Speaker 5 (01:50:52):
Yeah, something like that. Here's a couple of Yeah, make
you feel better about yourself. Go to the Arthur Blank
model one game a year, you know, where hot dogs
are two bucks and coch or a dollar fifty. Like
you're at Costco or whatever the case may be. But
it's you know, as we talked about the college football
landscape and building the business, Roger goodellis charged with finding

(01:51:12):
as much money as he can and the players, whether
they like it or not, they're getting fifty percent of
the dollars. So like unless they want to push back
fully and say no, we don't want that extra money.
But who the hell's doing that?

Speaker 2 (01:51:26):
You know, you had to do something really upset me.
Now you had to mention Costco. You know, I went
there the other day. They stopped me. I couldn't get in.
They thought I had a phony card. They looked at
my ID with the picture.

Speaker 6 (01:51:35):
This really oh it was.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
My card. It was my credit card. I got a
Costco card. My pictures in a card and the guy,
the guy said, this doesn't look like you. They took
me to the security guard and all of a sudden
they said, oh, yeah, you're the guy. You're the radio guy.
Yeah you could go with that's you. But was everybody
the whole place stopped and looked at me like they
thought I was like shoplifting or something. And Costco know that?
Are you kidding me? Are you freaking hitting me? Stop

(01:52:01):
the Costco?

Speaker 3 (01:52:02):
Jeez, it's all it's all in the eyes, Andy.

Speaker 6 (01:52:05):
I mean, they do sell a lot of big ticket
items now, Bucky. I mean they were selling a Ruth
Merrits ball, Ruth and Ruth Gerrick ball, a couple of
weeks and toilet paper.

Speaker 2 (01:52:16):
That's all I needed.

Speaker 5 (01:52:17):
Hey, once upon a time, a couple of years ago,
that was gold. I know, I don't not too far
in the rear view now. I want security footage. If
you're in the Greater Cincinnati in Kentucky area.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
It's in the Florence, Kentucky Costco. You could call them
up and get it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:32):
Bucky, I think we need to do this for show purposes,
to see they stopped me.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
I think it was Thursday. I think it was Thursday, Yeah, Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:52:41):
I think it was they stopped you. They stopped me.

Speaker 2 (01:52:44):
Wait stop, I flashed my car. Wait, you don't flash anymore.
They're going to have a machine you scan it. No, well,
but you just scan it. Yeah, I scan it, And
they said, wait a minute, come here. It's like a
lot of you.

Speaker 5 (01:52:54):
I've always wondered if I'm supposed to have, you know,
and I pay for a membership or me to any
of those things. At some point they should actually check
that my membership is valid before I go start stealing
eighteen rounds of cheese from the samples game.

Speaker 2 (01:53:07):
My membership's good. It was the pitchure that didn't like
said didn't match me.

Speaker 6 (01:53:10):
You know what I mean, Bucky? I mean, how many
people wander into a costco because me anyway?

Speaker 2 (01:53:16):
Got that radio fit.

Speaker 5 (01:53:17):
You're a powerful and attractive man. What are you talking about,
Andy Furman? The Road to SWOL twenty twenty four continues.
He's Andy Ferman, that's Bucky Brooks. I'm Mike Carmen. All right,
we still have three games to go, and we'll do
them on the other side here. As we continue on
Fox Football Sunday, Cruise of the Long Hair, It's Fox

(01:53:37):
Football Sunday, Fox Sports Radio at the time, really does
fly so fast. We're hearing the tire rack dot Com,
Fox Sports Radio Studios Mike Harmon alongside Andy Furman Bucky
Brooks guys. Three more games on the slate to get through,
including one. Has a team been resurrected? Jet said, Cardinals.
All right, Jet's a narrow road favorite. One and a

(01:53:58):
half the latest total. As you look at the big
board today, coming off of their best effort since Week three,
that's right. The win over Houston, a couple of touchdowns
for Wilson, spectacular grabs. Adams gets in the mix, snapping
that five game losing streak, and you saw for Aaron
Rodgers a sixty nine percent completion rate, again by far

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his best since Week three. Breisee Hall hasn't been able
to get on track with regularity, just three games of
at least seventy four rushing yards on the season coming
in here, You've got Arizona, the twenty second ranked squad
in terms of rushing yards allowed at about one hundred

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and thirty three game. On the other side, that's where
you can get the Jets. Jets given up about the
same thus far, three straight wins, winners of four or five,
Connor just four one hundred yard games. The bigger stat
that stands out despite their early season success fellas Kyler
Murray only over two hundred yards four times this year.
Bucky Brooks will start with you, can the Cardinals keep

(01:55:02):
pace in the NFC West.

Speaker 3 (01:55:06):
Yes, I'm all about the Cardinals in this game. I
know it is an excitement because the Jets finally won
on a Thursday night. That is temporary. I don't think
it's sustainable.

Speaker 4 (01:55:15):
I'm the Cardinals because they're playing great, complimentary football.

Speaker 3 (01:55:19):
Offense, defense, special teams are all working together.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
Caller Murray's numbers aren't great, but because they have the
running game, it's able to work together. Their defense. Not
a lot of names on that side of the ball,
but they're playing pretty well. Johnathan Ganna has this team
playing I would say punching above their weight. I still
think they punch above their weight and not got the
Jets today.

Speaker 2 (01:55:38):
H I'll tell you what. The Cardinals right now are
really playing good football at a running game, going against
you a Bears last week twenty nine to nine. Yeah,
And I think the best thing about this game today
is going to be the matchup between Marvin Harrison junior
and Sauce Gardner on the Jets. But I still like
the Cardinals and the close one with the Cardinals win
this one.

Speaker 6 (01:55:55):
There you go a run game fantasy.

Speaker 5 (01:55:56):
If you need a little sleeper action for your daily
how about a little Trey Benson, the rookie, to get
in the mix as well, because they're going to run
the ball effectively. Next Lions at Texas Sunday Night Football.
The high Flying Lines one of those teams vying for
the new role of America's team. Thirty two point three
points per game, first in the National Football League, seventh

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in yardage at three seventy per tied for first in
the league, with a plus eleven turnover differential golf seventy
five percent, fourteen touchdowns, four picks. We know about the
dynamic running duo a Jamier Gibbs, maybe on the metal
stand of running backs this year. On the other side, Houston,
all sorts of issues protecting CJ.

Speaker 6 (01:56:40):
Stroud.

Speaker 5 (01:56:40):
Maybe he's holding the ball a little longer because he
doesn't have the wide receivers to break containment chicken egg
kind of thing. Thirty one sacks already allowed, tied for eighth.
There's still plus four on the turnover differential. Will Anderson
is going to miss this one, though Nico Collins looks
like he may be back game time, and Tank Dell
was on the injury report with a back see about
his availability. Uh, but we look at the spread for

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this one. Another one of a close game in terms
of the Oddsmaker's Lions a three point road favorite at
Houston forty nine.

Speaker 6 (01:57:13):
The total. We'll start with you, Andy all.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
Right in the city of Detroit. The letters GM is
not General Motors anymore. It's Gibbs A. Montgomery. This this
combo right now are averaging one hundred and fifty three
rushing lots of game and then the hottest team in
the National Football League. I loved that Detroit Lions. Love
Dank Campbell, and I love that they're gonna win today.

Speaker 6 (01:57:32):
Look at you, just bank bank banks all for the
line run.

Speaker 2 (01:57:37):
But the clock is ticking. That's why I'm doing this.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
That was good is ticking. And so the clock is ticking.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
I'm saying, is winding down a little bit on the
cinder of the story of the Detroit Lions.

Speaker 3 (01:57:47):
Give me the Houston Texas today to knock off the lines.
This is a perfect time for an upset special. I'll
bet laugh now, fear me later.

Speaker 6 (01:57:58):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
I bet you a shot at to you at Bucky Brooks?

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
Oh what kind of shot?

Speaker 6 (01:58:03):
Yeah? We go in top shelf?

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
What do we do? Cool? We're going big? I mean I.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
So, yeah, we can come out and meet you Christmas time.

Speaker 6 (01:58:13):
How about that? I like this?

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:58:15):
How about that Santa Andy on his slate coming around
with the goodies for the boys and girls. Here you go,
and tequila shots for Bucky Brooks evidently alright. Next Dolphins
and Rams Monday Night Football. The Rams two point favorites
against the Dolphins. Dolphins the thirty first rank squad in
terms of offensive output just fifteen point five points per

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game total on this one. A robust forty nine Tyreek
Hills on the injury report, So for fantasy purposes, he
was already a guy that you were going should I
or shouldn't I? Wondering when the big game was gonna happen?
And now you gotta wait on the injury report a
couple of cornerbacks returning for the Miami defense.

Speaker 6 (01:58:56):
On the other side, Kyron Williams only three point seven.

Speaker 5 (01:58:59):
Yards per carry, but touchdowns Matthew Stafford with a variety
of targets. I don't think Pooka Nakua gets himself thrown
out again. We'll start with you, Bucky.

Speaker 6 (01:59:08):
What do you think.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
Kind of like what the Rams have going? So I'm
going to Rams, Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 4 (01:59:15):
Sean McVay effect, Pooka does a good job staying in
these days in Cooper Cup season.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
I like the offense, give me the Rams.

Speaker 2 (01:59:22):
Okay, all you gotta know in this game, and I
like the Dolphins. Will tell you why. Last week they
played the Buffalo Bills. That game was tied with fifty
four seconds to go in the game and they had
a helmet the helmet personal foul and that gave the
game away. The Dolphins have no one to play with themselves,
and that loss to the Buffalo Bills, they played them
pretty tough, and they're gonna play them tough today. Of
the Rams. They're gonna beat the Rams. Dolphins win today.

Speaker 5 (01:59:40):
Look at that put up twenty seven points back to
back weeks. We'll see if two in company can really
get that offense motor and and nothing else.

Speaker 6 (01:59:47):
Eight Chan is back in the good graces. That's my guy.

Speaker 5 (01:59:50):
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have done wherever you get your audio, but we continue
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Bucky Brooks where you find him, NFL dot Com, where
you read them, you see him everywhere working with the
Jaguars and Bucky. They've got one of the big headlines
of the week with Trevor Lawrence and now this shoulder
injury that sidelines him today perhaps for a longer period

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in the future. So Mac Jones, we had a couple
of weeks ago the jokes from Doug Peterson saying coaching
some of the habits of the Patriots out of him,
and well, it looks like we're going to see that
on full display today.

Speaker 3 (02:01:31):
Yeah, this would be interesting because.

Speaker 4 (02:01:34):
The Jaguars made a considered effort to go and upgrade
the backup quarterback situation after losing Trevor Lawrence last year.
Trevor Lawrence is out today. You made a trading off
season to get Mac Jones. Mac Jones, former first round pick,
playing in his hometown, gives a chance to make his
first start. The hope is that you got a better
product as your number two quarterback, so you can do
more things. Your playbook isn't as limited as it may

(02:01:56):
have been when you had guys at a journeyman backups
or guys that have a big talent. Disparity between you know,
their talent and the ability of Trevor Lawrence is with
Mac Jones.

Speaker 3 (02:02:06):
Hopefully you can run your whole playbook.

Speaker 4 (02:02:08):
You can do some different things to accommodate his skills,
but what it should allow you to do is to
play as you've been playing.

Speaker 3 (02:02:14):
It has to play better.

Speaker 4 (02:02:15):
But this would be a huge opportunity for Mac Jones
to not only kind of bring some attention to his
game as he's setting himself up maybe to hit the
free agent market as season's.

Speaker 5 (02:02:24):
In at Bucky Brooks where you find him in the
Twitter verse. Yeah, I mean it's an interesting slate in
the in Last Hour kind of the tongue in cheek.
There was some question about Jalen Hurts brought up because
of an ankle injury. You know, Sirianni has his questions
when he's in the in the coach's box on Sundays,
but certainly in front of a microphone is not where

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maybe we share some things like that. There's no need
to if he's practicing, you don't need to disclose any
of those things. I get it to the injury report
being a big deal, but for a moment, it's like
we can have some Kenny Pickett action too. Are going
into Week ten quarterbacks, and it was starting to look
like an interesting who's who out there if that were going.

Speaker 6 (02:03:06):
To be the case.

Speaker 5 (02:03:07):
But it looks like Hurts will be available as we
still have a seven point Eagles favorite spot on the
road at Dallas, which is just a monumental kind of
thing as we're looking at it. But nine teams sitting
at two wins as we go to Week ten, I
like parody. I like the how do we try to

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encapsulate where we're at in the NFL when we've got
that many teams falling to the.

Speaker 4 (02:03:32):
Back, you know, the haves and have nots, is so
crazy when you look at it. But that many teams
down at the bottom, that's not like how That's not
how the league was designed. The league was designed for
everyone to be right in the middle, right right around
nine and eight, ten and seven, seven and ten, because
that keeps the interest through the end of the season.
Two and seven you already have pretty much put it

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kind of throwing it cast it in. Yeah, you know
that the odds of your team making the playoffs from
a two and seven mark is man slim to none.
I mean, you talk about a remarkable run that would
need to take place, plus a lot of things we
have to fall in your favor. It's not exactly what
you're looking for in your challenge to figure out what's
the common denominator between all those teams.

Speaker 3 (02:04:14):
As much as I wish I could say injury and
those things, that's not it. It's just bad play.

Speaker 4 (02:04:18):
You're just seeing bad play from a bunch of teams
who look they may not have the best players, but
you expect them to play better.

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
They just have not performed up to the standard.

Speaker 5 (02:04:28):
Yeah, I think that's the curiosity though, Right, is in
a league that is designed to be to a degree
idiot proof in terms of roster building, et cetera. You
have a salary cap, you have all these protections and
guardrails in place that you have right at the middle
of the season. Right, we're still in a nice meaty

(02:04:48):
part of the season. You had on NFL dot Com.
I heard you and Andy chopping it up a little
bit as I was driving in this morning to the
Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Speaker 6 (02:04:58):
You can find the podcast of all of this audio.

Speaker 5 (02:05:00):
But to encapsulate it mid season Awards and kind of
looking at where we're at as we get into week
ten in earnest and that we have that many teams
where they're already punting and looking ahead. We've got Schador
Sanders and folks monitoring his timeline for every time there's
a Raiders loss, how quickly does he post about it?
Mark Davis has made his love and admiration of Shador

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Sanders and all that he could be for a Raiders
organization very self evident when given the opportunity. But the
fact that we're a week ten and we're already at
that space for so many teams, to where are we
even going.

Speaker 6 (02:05:37):
To put out?

Speaker 5 (02:05:37):
Try to put out a product that's a winning product
at this point. And I get it from the player perspective,
you got to put on tape for your next job.
From the coaches, you don't want that to be the case.
But how hard does that get between management ownership down
to the coaching staff of all, right, what are our
goals for the second half?

Speaker 4 (02:06:00):
You know one, you still want to approach it the
same way, depending on where you are in your tenure
as a coach, you want to lock in and you
want to try and create habits that are eventually what
we call championship habits that lead to greater success. So
you focus on one week at a time, one game
at a time, and you go back to your fundamentals.
A lot of times, when you've had a losing streak,
the best thing to do is to simplify everything that

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you're doing and try to get little wins that may
not be seen on the scoreboard. Let's see if we
can play a game without turnovers. Let's see if we
can minimize the number of penalties we have. Can we
hit certain metrics when it comes to offensive and defensive production.
You start to build on those things and eventually the
wins will come. It takes a patient coach. It takes
a coach that can maintain a positive demeanor in the

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midst of a ton of adversity to work through some
of these tough situations.

Speaker 3 (02:06:49):
But the kad coach has always got to be the leader.

Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
He has to be, I would say, the guy who
exhibits all of the characteristics that he eventually wants to
see from his team.

Speaker 5 (02:06:58):
Yeah, I can certainly when we talk about the National
Football League, you got very few coaches that can go
week to week and operate as if a nothing can
touch me, because that is the case. Right We've seen
breakneck decisions so many times across the NFL, and even
just this last week. Think about the era that you
had that was very short lived.

Speaker 6 (02:07:19):
In New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (02:07:20):
Wow, they're two to zero, They're running all over the people.
This is great, and then all of a sudden they
lose seven straight. Dennis Allen, who was one of the
leaders in the clubhouse coming into the year as a
likely first fired walks the plank. You saw what the
Raiders did where they gout the infrastructure and bring back
Norvell Turner, which I thought was a very interesting move

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right there. I mean, when you saw that hit the wires,
what was the first thing that went through your head?

Speaker 6 (02:07:48):
There?

Speaker 4 (02:07:50):
One is weird for a former head coach to come
back to the same organization as a coordinator or as
a helper.

Speaker 3 (02:07:57):
Two north.

Speaker 4 (02:07:58):
Turner might have signed on for that because his son,
Scott Turner's on the staff, and maybe Scott is being
elevated to a role and he wants to help and
assist his son dads and sons tend to like to
do those things. But I would guess say, like maybe
a little bit of dysfunction of the organization. If you
didn't feel if you felt strong enough to fire Luke
Getzi after nine games, he probably wasn't the right higher

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in the office.

Speaker 6 (02:08:23):
Well yeah, I mean, coming out of Chicago, a lot of.

Speaker 4 (02:08:26):
Questions there should have been some questions that have been
like are we sure this is who we want running
our offense, particularly coming off of the things that happened
in Chicago with Justin Fields and those things. But they
made the decision, they pulled a plug. And then you
have North Turner trying to bring in some of that
nineties ball to help the Raiders get back on track.

Speaker 3 (02:08:45):
We'll see what it looks like.

Speaker 5 (02:08:47):
Curiosity, no question about it. As we go here, it's
week ten of your National Football League season. As you know,
fantasy lineups, you need to get those last minute things set.
I don't know how many Giants are or Carolina Panthers
players you've got in. Maybe because of bye weeks Cleveland,
Green Bay, the aforementioned Raiders, and the Seattle Seahawks on

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their bye weeks that maybe you're looking for a diamond
in the rough on the team defense, and you're looking
at the Giants and thinking, well, they've been pretty good
at points, so maybe they can get after Bryce Young
a bit. Giants six and a half point favorites here
in Germany, Bucky forty and a half the total. This
will be the last time people have to complain about

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getting up to change lineups, make picks, gamble, or just
watch football in general.

Speaker 4 (02:09:34):
Yeah, Giants Panthers, interesting that you know both teams have played.

Speaker 3 (02:09:39):
I would say better.

Speaker 4 (02:09:39):
The Giants have actually paid better than their their record indicase,
even though you are what your record is, they've played
in a number tough games. To me, they're the favorite
in this game. When I look at Eli Manning, who
is in battle, people are calling for his head when
it comes to being the quarterback.

Speaker 6 (02:09:53):
You mean Daniel Jones, Now that's what I mean.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
Daniel Jones.

Speaker 6 (02:09:57):
Well, I mean every once in a while he's got
a little in the regular season. Eli.

Speaker 3 (02:10:02):
Anyway, Yeah, same thing, Daniel Jones.

Speaker 4 (02:10:05):
People calling for his head, But they played well enough
on defense to keep games close, and if he makes
a player too, they can get it done.

Speaker 3 (02:10:11):
I'm looking to see if.

Speaker 4 (02:10:12):
Malik neighbors can find a way to get a handful
of balls and make an impact on the game. I'm
just gonna lean with the Giants. I think their defense,
the better defense, gives the Panthers problems.

Speaker 5 (02:10:21):
Now let me go to the Carolina side of things
as we talk business of sport, and look, you know me,
I'm very very much pro player. Get what you can right.
It's a short especially in the NFL. It's a short slate,
short careers, and you know the old line of retirement
is long. The signing of Chewba Hubbard and I've been
a Chuba Hubbard backer. You can go into or I

(02:10:43):
watch your flex podcast Buyer, and I do all the
yelling at do with Smith and everything we've done here
that I like him as a player. You already signed
Miles Sanders, you drafted Jonathan Brooks coming off injury. Not
gonna be up for this one. It doesn't look like today,
But that contract for Chewba Hubbard thirty two million dollars
as you're looking into a complete rebuild and restructuring of

(02:11:05):
your squad moving forward. For Dave Canalis seemed a bit odd.

Speaker 3 (02:11:10):
We got to pay somebody, got to pay somebody to somebody.

Speaker 6 (02:11:14):
You don't get penalized if you don't spend the money, though,
do you.

Speaker 4 (02:11:17):
You don't get penalized. But you want to pay some guys.
And you feel like he's a good locker room guy.
You feel like he can be a face of the
franchise type. You're willing to do it, and haven't had
many good players of late. They haven't had many good
players that you could try it out to the fans
and say, hey, we really believe in che Behove, but
he has the opportunity to.

Speaker 3 (02:11:36):
Be a top ten back. And maybe he does, but
the team is so bad that.

Speaker 4 (02:11:40):
You do on the outside wonder what do they see
in chew Behove or to make them make that kind
of financial commitment.

Speaker 3 (02:11:47):
But man, you have to pay somebody. That's the best
way to see it.

Speaker 5 (02:11:51):
Harm Yeah, five yards can carry right top ten in
the league rushing first downs, he's he's in the top
ten and it's fifteen rushing yards with six sixty five.

Speaker 6 (02:12:00):
I mean he's a good back. I don't say say
you know push it at all?

Speaker 3 (02:12:05):
You know me?

Speaker 6 (02:12:05):
I love the run game. So twenty twenty four and
seeing running backs in headlines and leading segments Barkley, Henry
Gibbs and Montgomery and all of that is exciting as
hell for me.

Speaker 3 (02:12:18):
The devaluation what happened to that, the devaluation of the
running back.

Speaker 5 (02:12:22):
I think it's something you and I have talked about
a bit, with the idea that you're making each possession
matter a little differently than maybe you did in the past,
and going back to ground control and getting yourself into
a you know, makeable field goal position where all these
guys kick from fifty plus that the run game comes
back in the fore right. You can grind clock, keep

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the guy on the sideline.

Speaker 3 (02:12:45):
Be it.

Speaker 5 (02:12:46):
See, we'll do the cage tiger like they had at LSU.
I might as well let the tiger play the way
LSH hit him out. But like Joe Burrow, you want
him on the sideline. You don't want him on the
on the field of viscerating you.

Speaker 6 (02:12:59):
Same thing here.

Speaker 5 (02:12:59):
If you've got a good run game, long protracted drive
and drives, get the play action working and make the
life a little easier for your quarterback.

Speaker 6 (02:13:07):
Where we're talking.

Speaker 5 (02:13:07):
About development on a whole other level, Bucky, that you
know the run game comes back to the forefront.

Speaker 3 (02:13:15):
Yeah, it's you know, it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (02:13:17):
So you're talking about all these guys coming and what
we're seeing with the quarterback position and the development or
lack thereof, we are seeing we're asking these young quarterbacks
to be superheroes right out the gate, before they came
in master their superpowers. We're asking them to deliver the
results of a season. Vet it's not fair of the them,
and the only ones that are really able to survive
are either uniquely talented and special. So we think about

(02:13:39):
how uniquely talented Jaden Daniels is and how he's been
able to handle it. But he's also an older player
because he spent five plus years in college playing a
bunch of snaps and that experience matters. But also, how
do you set them up for success? Do you have
a running game? Do you have older receivers that they
can rely on? How about that offensive line? It takes
a village to get young quarterback to play at a

(02:14:01):
high level, and we're seeing that more and more. I
think on the outside, us, the fans, the public, we
have to exhibit more patients in these quarterbacks. We're trying
to make snap judgments right away and it just doesn't
happen like that.

Speaker 5 (02:14:15):
Well, and it goes back to you know, Tepper, you
got to play pay somebody you'll want to face the franchise.
And right now Bryce Young still fighting to be that guy,
but certainly far from what they envision as a number
one pick. But I've always wondered about the quarterback position,
going going back to like Green Bay when they drafted
Jordan Love argued for a million reasons that it was right.

Speaker 6 (02:14:38):
Whether he's any good or not doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 (02:14:40):
It's the philosophical point of Eventually you've got to draft
a guy is to replace the aging veteran, especially when
he becomes a malcontent and keeps threatening to retire. Jordan
Love doesn't take care of the football. We can talk
about that later, but when it comes down to forcing
these guys onto the field, I get you want immediate returns.

Speaker 6 (02:14:59):
If you're the fans right, you're selling hope. That's part
of the big thing we sell every year at the draft.
But I've always hoped, and hope being a dangerous word.
As we know from Shawshank that the idea of a quarterback,
if he's not ready, we're not putting him out there
just because because we drafted him first, right, which is

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why when you know Anthony Richardson is the guy in
Indy and they go and they add Joe Flacco, It's like,
all right, now, you're telling me that you think you
have a contending team, so you bring in Joe Flacco.
So if Anthony Richardson during the preseason isn't.

Speaker 5 (02:15:36):
Ready, he ain't ready, let him, let him incubate a
little bit more and let Flacco go to work. And
again not saying he's a world beater, because clearly last
week that flamed out in a big way, but just philosophically,
if you put money into a backup and you try
to shore up that position, you're telling me, you know,
at least I'm reading the tea leaves that you don't

(02:15:58):
think you're guys ready for prime time. So why put
him in a position to potentially flame out altogether instead
of maybe learning behind the veteran that you brought in.

Speaker 3 (02:16:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:16:09):
Interesting when it comes to the young quarterbacks or quarterbacks
in general, what it appeared to happen with Anthony Richardson
not only the results being poor, but the immaturity not
understanding the magnitude of the moment being the face of
the franchise, there's an expectation that comes along with it,
supposed to show up every day, show up and be

(02:16:30):
the guy that goes down with the ship.

Speaker 3 (02:16:32):
As if it's the Titanic. You know, you have to
captin the ship. You have to be there. There's an
expectation that no matter what you show up, you continue
to take the ball. You don't tap out.

Speaker 4 (02:16:41):
And ultimately the tap out situation that forced Nick, that
forced Shane stike In's hand. He had to pull them
at that point because there's no other player on the
position that can tap out like that. Because when we
think about the quarterback and how hard it can be
to play every down, you know who doesn't get a
chance to take a break. Offensive lineman offenser lineman don't
get subbed out when they're tired. They're getting beat on,

(02:17:04):
you know, for sixty five to seventy four plays. They
don't get to tap the head and say, you know what, coach,
I need one.

Speaker 3 (02:17:09):
They'd have to show up for the quarterback to do that.

Speaker 4 (02:17:13):
It's a sign of disrespect and just I just feel
like there was a level of arrogance or maybe navite
where he just didn't know what he's been given and
he won't know until he sits on the side and
kind of earns an appreciation for it. But what they've
done is they've created a situation. Do we have to
talk about the Colts now being back in the quarterback
market in twenty twenty five because they don't have a

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young one and Anthony rich is in that you feel
good about Joe Flacco's too old. Maybe that's the spot
that the guy that I miscalled Eli Manning. Maybe that's
the spot that Daniel Jones ends up where he can
repair and resurrect his career.

Speaker 5 (02:17:51):
He's Bucky Brooks at Bucky Brooks. Where you find him
in the Twitter verse, Find me over at Swollen Home.
We'll continue talking a little bit on the quarterback, but
we mentioned the running backs and the juice that you're
trying to find at the position. One team trying to
get themselves back into championship form and it begins today
with a huge return. We'll break it all down next year.

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Speaker 6 (02:18:56):
Right here Fox Sports.

Speaker 5 (02:18:58):
Radio, the iHeartRadio app the in game Wagering no doubt,
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You don't have to love it, you don't have to watch,
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Speaker 3 (02:19:19):
I appreciate the pub the service announcement. Let everyone know
what's going on. What do you expect?

Speaker 5 (02:19:23):
Well, it just did, right, We say we don't like this,
we don't like that, and you know we consume it.
You know, you can have the opportunity to decide with
your remote control flipping finger to decide whether you want
to watch this game or not. See Bryce Young getting
after it against Daniel Jones and all the work that

(02:19:43):
goes between Giants defense, Chuba Hubbard and then well hope
from there, a little bit of the run game, perhaps
maybe a little Wandee Robinson with the number of PPR
options he and Malik Neighbors, Guys you get into your
fantasy lineups, but talking about the running back position a
little bit earlier and celebrating the rise up once again

(02:20:04):
where we're showing highlights and talking about the impact that
players like Henry and even go deeper into Kyn Williams
and players like that for the Rams in terms of
stabilizing their squads. Christian McCaffrey finally making his return for
the San Francisco forty nine ers today, Bucky. Despite his
absence through eight games, they still are a top ten

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team at twenty six point three points per game scored.
And that's what Deebo missing time. That's with Ayu commissing time.
Kittle's been the steady as she goes kind of thing,
which given his history, age, all those things, trying to
get him through a seventeen game slate has been a question.
You've had other issues at the running back Mason has

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been great at times, but he's missed parts of games,
so Guarendo has stepped in, so all of that mixing
and matching as they go. When we look at the
strength of schedule for the remaining slate, the the forty
nine ers are sixth composite record at fifty six percent

(02:21:07):
winning percentage for teams that they still have on the slate.
You've got two leaders in the Lions and the Bills,
and then you've got the Packers and the Bears and
the Cardinals and the Rams, and you can decide what
you like and don't like about those squads. The quote
easy opponents because every day is a new day are
the Dolphins, the Buccaneers, and the Seahawks. But for McCaffrey,

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I mean, what are your expectations coming off with this injury.
I don't know that I expected to see him again.

Speaker 4 (02:21:36):
I would expect him to be the same Christ McCaffrey
that we've always seen, even though he's missed a lot
of time, normally, whenever he comes back, he comes back
like the same guy that we've always recognized. He's very
meticulous about his preparation and when it comes to his body,
and that system is perfectly suited for him. I wouldn't
be surprised if he pops one hundred yard game right

(02:21:58):
out the gate if they play him. He's that good,
and he's that good within their system. We saw what
this streak was when he came from Carolina and joined
the team, and how many straight games he had with
a touchdown and over a hundred scrimmage yards and all
those things.

Speaker 3 (02:22:10):
He jumps right back in and it's like he's never
been gone.

Speaker 5 (02:22:13):
Forty nine or six and a half point road favorites.
That's a theme of today's NFL slate, a lot of
road favorites along the board. Fifty is you're over on.
We've certainly seen opposing passing games have their way with
the Buccaneers of late Bucky Winfield doing his best flying
around the field. But he's not the one man gang

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of WWF fame back in the day. See there, how
about that for a little bit of a game anybody
can give you Andre the Giant and holkogin No No,
no here you can you get the one man game,
one man gang aw A, gotcha.

Speaker 4 (02:22:49):
The macho man, Savage Ted w as Men all the
man like, whatever he does.

Speaker 3 (02:22:54):
We can go deep in the thing, well all the
way down. We got so many there you can go.

Speaker 5 (02:22:59):
We can get into the Brooklyn Brawler and stuff like
that if you need to the deep reservoir of knowledge
of such trivial things. But the curiosity, though, is like
when he was first announced that he was gonna miss time,
sounded like the most dire of circumstance, like, all right,
those legs are eventually gonna go. This is the type

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of injury part of that's the internet doctoring that we've had,
for sure. I mean, obviously we're not examining him and
we don't see the scans or whatever else. But the
way it was described was like, all right, this is
the end of our Christian McCaffrey runs. So to see
him coming back here at week ten, and that they
held him out precautionary measures for week nine is actually

(02:23:41):
highly encouraging if you're a forty nine er fan as
you watch this division really become cannibalized. Seattle's still good
enough to be dangerous on a week to week basis.
You've got the Cardinals, which we previewed last hour, but
for those that missed it, they're not doing anything brilliantly,
but it's the component parts are adding up to, you know,

(02:24:03):
a bigger sum. Right Because Kyler Murray is not lighting
up the scoreboard averaging thirty eight rushing yards per game,
fantasy owners say thank you because he's gone for two
hundred or fewer yards. He's only best did two hundred
yards four times this year. James Connor has been great.
You're working in Trey Benson a little bit. Marvin Harrison's

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welcome to the NFL. I think the completion rate is
at like forty four percent or forty six percent or
something like that. Murray trying to get hooked up with
Harrison to date. But all of that to say, between
them and the Rams, you know, forty nine ers have
some work to do. And even if a couple of
these teams slough off in terms of their strength to

(02:24:45):
schedule going forward, there's still a lot to be done,
not only for the division, but as we look at
the NFC as a whole.

Speaker 4 (02:24:54):
Yeah, a lot to be done, and the NFC is
still right there for as much as we raved in
the early hours about you know, the Detroit Lions and
the Minnesota Vikings are up there. All those teams can
be got and can be real back in. You have
the Washington Commanders that are sitting at seven and two.
Philly is in the mix and all that. But the

(02:25:14):
thing that we'll say is there's not a true jug
or not when we look at any of those teams.
I would say Detroit is probably the closest because I
feel like they're one of the rare teams that can
win with force or for us. They can run it
down your throat, they can play smash mouthball, but they
also have the weapons and fireparor and quarterback to allow
them to throw it around the yard.

Speaker 3 (02:25:34):
Most teams aren't constructed like that.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
Philly would be in that conversation if not for their
coach who likes to trick off.

Speaker 3 (02:25:40):
Games with this silliness and the shenanigans. But they're good
enough to be a team.

Speaker 4 (02:25:46):
That if they lock in, if I'm gonna say I'm
not they if Nick Siriani locks in, this team could
be the best team in the NFC, but it's right
there for everybody. So when we talk about the Niners,
in any of those teams in the West, they all
can climb back in the race, make it.

Speaker 3 (02:26:02):
Make a run.

Speaker 5 (02:26:03):
Yeah, that's the curiosity for the Rams coming back and
getting healthy. Only a couple of guys down today, one
on the offensive line, one on the defensive line. Otherwise
you've seen guys coming back. And Stafford weathered the storm
with both Kopa Cup and Hohoka Nakua out, whether it
was at Well or Robinson or looking at the tight

(02:26:24):
end position in Parkinson a little bit that they found
themselves players to step up and make some magic. And
Kyraen Williams, even at three point seven yards per carry,
they've been effective because they've been consistently committing to running
the football, which again goes back to the larger philosophy
of twenty twenty four NFL me loving the three yards

(02:26:46):
and the cloud of the dust. Maybe the casuals that
came in over the last decade, see what I did there,
maybe not so much.

Speaker 3 (02:27:00):
You know, it's so tricky that all these teams.

Speaker 2 (02:27:02):
Are so.

Speaker 6 (02:27:05):
You know, that's a good way describing I'm like, oh,
they just.

Speaker 3 (02:27:09):
They drive me.

Speaker 4 (02:27:10):
They drive me nuts because like one week you're on them,
the next week you're not. And I'm seeing this because
doing these top tens right every week for Fox, like
so you're like, all right, this is my number one,
my number two or whatever, and then they lose you, Like, man,
I don't even want you in my top ten anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:27:23):
But challenging and difficult.

Speaker 5 (02:27:25):
Right picking games straight up right, I've actually got a
better record against the spread this year than I do
straight up, which is just acidine. But Brian McCarthy at
NFLPR guy, he posted this a couple of days ago,
and of course I had to do a snapshot so
I could bring it to you, Bucky Brooks, to discuss
this state in the NFL, owing exactly to that you

(02:27:48):
doing top ten lists, power rankings as we do. I
know Colin does his has Heard hierarchy that you hear
each week twenty twenty four season, and this was before
the bangles and even's got after it. Seventy five games
thus far decided by seven or fewer points, sixty five
by six or fewer.

Speaker 6 (02:28:09):
That's the most jeez in NFL history.

Speaker 4 (02:28:14):
So you know, it's so crazy about that, right, So
that'stat tells you the games have never been closer in
NFL history, Yet we have nine teams that are sitting
at two and seven.

Speaker 6 (02:28:24):
It's crazy, right.

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
That doesn't typically job right because it seems like when
you have nine teams over a quarter of the league
is well below the line, you would think that the
games would be blowouts because it's such a lopsided talent.

Speaker 3 (02:28:38):
Advantage or whatever you want to call it. But it's
not that.

Speaker 4 (02:28:41):
So what is the thing that are making the bad
teams bad? And what is separating the good teams? And
I will say the good teams and looking at the
Ken City Chiefs, the Detroit Lions, the teams that are winning, winning, winning,
they don't beat themselves like, they don't commit the.

Speaker 3 (02:28:55):
Egregious mistakes that lead to losses.

Speaker 4 (02:28:58):
So even with Pat mahonmee in the Kancie Chiefs, who
are more pedestrianal offense than they've ever been, they're not
necessarily turning the ball over at an alarming rate. He
has more turnovers than you would like to see from him.
But they're playing good defense. They're not letting the ball
for over the top they're not doing the silly stuff,
and ultimately the other team just falls apart. It's almost
like watching when Roger Federer was at the top of

(02:29:21):
his game in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (02:29:22):
He just wouldn't beat himself. The other team, the other
guy would just implode. Hit the ball into the net,
hit it out or whatever.

Speaker 4 (02:29:28):
I feel like if you can build a team like
that in the NFL, where hey, we're just not gonna
make mistakes, We're gonna wait for the other team to implode,
they ultimately implode in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (02:29:36):
Well, because we talk about it all the time, you
know two minute drills, you know final four minute drives,
and some of the asinine decision making again going to
the old blackjack card of where you're going for it,
down distance, timeout usage or lack there up bears things
of those cutting natures that come into play and not

(02:29:58):
beating yourself.

Speaker 6 (02:29:58):
Right.

Speaker 5 (02:29:59):
The obvious fell comparison one to one would be the
old Patriots of just in the end. Bill Belichick's little
dog eared rule book and their attention to detail was
gonna get you.

Speaker 2 (02:30:12):
Come on.

Speaker 5 (02:30:13):
The little book that he carried around. It was like
Bob Costas and his Mickey Mantle baseball card and his wallet.
Those are the two things you always had. Like if
I wanted anything memorabiliaized from Bill Belichick, Yeah, you want
to cut off hoodie to put on a wall, that's great.
I want his copy of the rule book, like finding
a first edition of like some classic novel.

Speaker 3 (02:30:37):
Yeah, I mean it is something to behold.

Speaker 4 (02:30:40):
It's something to watch and see when you have guys
that are are like that, that are able to kind
of almost say master to basics. But that's basically what
you're doing, understanding the fundamentals of how to win games
and the league that's crazy competitive, and Bill Belichick say
you will whether you like him or not, you can't
dispute his ability to win games at a high level,
which is why he will be back in the league.

(02:31:01):
And the more that you see him on TV and
the more you hear him talk, there's a common sense
nature to their approach and his approach, and some teams
could benefit from that because I'm telling you when I
sit there and I'm at the game with the Philadelphia
Eels and they're messing around with the Jaguars when they're
clearly better than them, and it's a game that should
have been a forty burger to a small number. But

(02:31:22):
because they do dumb stuff, they've allowed the team to
hang around and almost win the game. In the end,
that's where the coaching matters, and we'll see how it goes. Yeah,
I argue you pretty sure the same uttering uttering your
frustrations over the Chicago Bears, because I will contend that
the Chicago Bears missing out on that Hail Mary may

(02:31:42):
have completely wrecked their season, not just because they lost
that game, but now the players lost confidence in the coach,
and you've seen it in the way they're acting.

Speaker 5 (02:31:50):
Out residual effects. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about
the trade deadline and the good, the bad, the ugly
that came out of that difference makers, perhaps maybe even
looking over at Pittsburgh and what's going on with Russell
Wilson as he adds another weapon. But first we got
to go over to Isaac Lohancron, at Isaac Lohankron, all
the goodness that he does from the news desk.

Speaker 6 (02:32:09):
What's going on?

Speaker 9 (02:32:10):
I love good morning, Mike and Bucky, And don't worry, America.
I'm watching the Carolina Panthers and the New York Giants.

Speaker 2 (02:32:18):
So you don't have to.

Speaker 6 (02:32:19):
What a hero.

Speaker 7 (02:32:20):
You're welcome.

Speaker 6 (02:32:21):
That's a candidacy platform for whenever.

Speaker 2 (02:32:25):
You're welcome America.

Speaker 9 (02:32:27):
Three minutes and twelve seconds into the game, nobody scored
and it's been some of the silliest football ever created.
Carolina got the opening kickoff, went three and out, including
a sack of Bryce Young for eighty yards. Giants got
the football and unleashed a forty three yard bananza because

(02:32:48):
of a past interference penalty. Oh good, and Carolina was
offside on the same play, so they had two penalties
on that play. And after that forty three yard burst,
they fall it up by going three and out. Giants
and Panthers scoreless three minutes and twelve seconds in, and again,
don't worry, America. I'll watch it so you don't have to,

(02:33:11):
despite the severe toll it will take on my physical,
gastro intestinal, and emotional health elsewhere. NFL Media reports Jaguars
quarterback Trevor Lawrence will not play today against the Vikings
due to a significant ac joint spring in his throwing shoulder.
College Football Saturday Night ninth rank BYU wanted Utah twenty

(02:33:32):
two to twenty one. Will Farren the game winning forty
four yard field goal with four seconds to play. But
after the game, Utah Athletic director Mark Harland took the
press conference microphone to denounce the officiating.

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
Listen closely to what he had to say.

Speaker 7 (02:33:48):
Again, listen closely.

Speaker 3 (02:33:50):
This game was absolutely stolen from us.

Speaker 6 (02:33:52):
We were excited about being in Big twelve, but tonight
I am not we won this game.

Speaker 3 (02:33:59):
Someone else stole it. Very disappointed. I will talk to
the commissioner. This was not fair to our team.

Speaker 4 (02:34:07):
I'm disgusted by the professionalism of the officiating crew side.

Speaker 2 (02:34:13):
Thank you, no, Mark, thank you that.

Speaker 9 (02:34:16):
Audio courtesy of Steve bartele of KSL twelve rank Boise
State beaten evat of twenty eight to twenty one. Ashton
genty ran for two o nine with three touchdowns. NBA
Saturday ninth, Cleveland improved to eleven a zero with a
one oh five to one one hundred win over the
Brooklyn Nets.

Speaker 2 (02:34:32):
By the way, Carolina's offense back on the field.

Speaker 9 (02:34:34):
Oh my gosh, Bryce Young completed a pass for twenty
three yards.

Speaker 2 (02:34:38):
There's hope yet.

Speaker 6 (02:34:39):
Back to you, guys, thanks so much. I love Mike
carbon fucking Brooks with you. It's Fox Football Sunday from
the Tirac dot com studios. We close up shop. Uh yeah,
we'll we'll check in on this game.

Speaker 5 (02:34:50):
But back to the trade deadline, the yinsers and my
suffering people in Chicago. We'll do that all next as
we continue to have Fox Football Sunday. Hey, welcome back
in Fox Football Sunday. Fox Sports Radio Live from the
tyrack dot com studios, coming up in ten minutes' countdown
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Speaker 6 (02:35:10):
Everything you need for your Sunday slate.

Speaker 5 (02:35:12):
A little recap of the good, the bad, the ugly
in the wagering world from the college football slate. As
a number of top twenty five battles got a little
bit sideways, what did that mean? On the totals and
in your betting options, they'll have all that for you.
Join Brian, Bill and Jeff coming up in ten minutes.
It's Mike Harmon and Bucky Brooks as we complete our

(02:35:33):
run here, we've got Chris and Shay and Isaac making
us sound so pretty appreciate the guys for the work
they do. Bucky Tease the trade deadline, just wanted to
hit it really quick. Anything that really moved the needle
for you. I mean, I'm curious to see Mike Williams,
you know, go and catch moon balls from Russell Wilson.

Speaker 6 (02:35:51):
That'll be fun.

Speaker 5 (02:35:52):
And the fact that the Washington Commanders, a year after
trading away Chase Young and Montese Sweat saying let's go
bol our defense by bringing in Lattimore because our fortunes
have changed.

Speaker 4 (02:36:05):
Yeah, that's interesting. Mike Gams going to the Stillers is
an interesting one. But you're right, the one that you name,
Marshaun Lattimore, that's the big one. That's the Commander's saying
that they are all in and trying to chase this thing.
Getting an elite cornerback even though he's oft injured, but
an elite cornerback to be able to lock up and
blanket some of the premier wide receivers that they could
potentially face down the stretch and in the postseason. To me,

(02:36:28):
it is about Dan Quinn and Adam Peters saying, Hey,
we're going for it. We feel the vibe and the
energy with this team. We got a quarterback who always
gives us hope. Now let's make sure we have the
stuff around him to help him succeed. What's the stuff
around him. Make sure we got pass catches and playmakers.
Make sure the offensive line is good, but less heavy
defense that can specialize in giving the offense the ball back,

(02:36:49):
take away splash plays, in those things. They're quietly putting
it together in the nation's capital.

Speaker 5 (02:36:57):
It is interesting to watch we go towards the second
half of the season. By the way, Chewba Hubbard making
good on the Hey, I got a big contract and
I'm gonna hurn it sixty two yards on the drive
that ends with a Bryce Young to Davian Sanders touchdown pass.
Not a great throw, but it got there. Seven to
noth in Carolina and c Cuba. Hubbard looks like he

(02:37:20):
could run for two hundred. Daniel Jones, on the other hand,
the last possession, as we had ilo on the update,
he missed a wide open Molik Neighbors on what could
have been a big splash play as well. But you
know who had to play Bryce Young because of an
injury at the super flex position this week? This guy,
this guy, and I got my touchdown pass. Bucky Brooks.

(02:37:42):
Never thought I'd be starting Bryce Young in a Week
ten game. Kirk Cousins is QB one Dak Prescott obviously
done for the year, so Bryce Young gets activated. All right, Lastly,
we go back to the you mentioned the Bears. You
mock the Bears said, it's all going downhill, basically calling
it out as my brother gets ready to watch the

(02:38:04):
Patriots in town. Bears the remaining strength the schedule the
worst as in the hardest schedule in the National Football League,
sixty three percent win percentage for remaining opponents. They're down
a couple of offensive linemen. The smacks of a I
think run game on both sides, right DeAndre Swift against
the Patriots defense that's been switched cheese from the run,

(02:38:27):
as well as trying to limit the opportunities for bad
plays out of the pass game, which is I think
goes back to the rise of the running back again, Bucky.
As we were talking about, is hey, if we run
the football, that puts the ball in harms way fewer
times for these inexperienced quarterbacks. It all plays together.

Speaker 3 (02:38:48):
It makes sense, right. It's kind of funny how that is.

Speaker 4 (02:38:50):
But yeah, if you run the football, it allows you
to control the game, assess your quarterback up for success
because now you can throw in play action passes bigger windows,
bigger lanes and all of that. As we get to it,
I think more coaches and more France has it going
realize that they have to do a different thing when
it comes to developing quarterback. The run a game has
to be first and foremost has to be prioritized.

Speaker 5 (02:39:10):
Well, the other part to that is correct me if
I'm wrong. I was always taught that a given their brothers,
guys would much rather be run blocking than dancing Bears.
So and no, not making fun of the Bears. They're
just talking in general in terms of trying to stop
a Miles Garrett or TJ. Watt off the edge.

Speaker 4 (02:39:33):
Yeah, I mean you want to go forward, you want
to have the physicality, the physical part of it. That's
what most offensive line we want to That's what your
team wants to do. They want to play a contact,
combative spill.

Speaker 5 (02:39:43):
There you go, Good luck today and the Mac Jones Arrow.
We'll break it down next week. Count Down to kick
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