Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks Discuss Pete Rose's Reinstatement, Caitlin Clark Fouling Angel Reese, Players And Coaching Distractions, NFL Schedules, And More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
The timing is curious. That's coming right up. Good morning, everybody.
This is Fox Sports Sunday. I'm Andy Furman, He's Bucky Brooks.
Were broadcasting life for the Fox Sports Radio studios. I'll
tell you what it is amazing. It's beautiful. And here
he is speaking of beautiful Bucky? How you doing? What's
going on?

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Man? Life is good? I can't complain any how's yours?

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Everything is great. I tell you why. Before we do
anything else, before we do a single thing, let me
just say one thing. I understand the Jags that come
with the Cincinnati Tope in the season for the Cincinnati
Bengals home season. Will I see you in Cincinnati? That's
the key, That's the biggest story right now.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
Well, absolutely, I'm gonna be there. The Jacks are there.
I'm there, So week two, I guess we'll hook up
in connect.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
Will you stay in my home?

Speaker 3 (00:50):
I don't know. I don't know if I'm saying you out,
but I'll see you.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Sounds wonderful. Now, next thing to talk about Jack for
a second. What's the buzz going on with Travis Hunter?
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Man?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
So much buzz. Everyone just so excited about him and
what he offers. Now know, he's a great player. Everyone
understands what he brings as a two way player, but
just a great dude. And when you talk about changing
the coach in the locker room, you bring different type
dudes who have the dynamics that.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
He brings to the table. It's gonna change things.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
So there's a lot of optimism, a lot of positive
buzzs and energy down in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Okay, now, now we're gonna get started with something way
out of left field, way out of left field. Now
what it is? The WNBA. Okay, Okay, we're gonna start right.
It's true. I don't think we've ever ever started with
the WNBA because the league right now has finally found
out what it takes to sell. They finally got a villain.
The NBA had Will Chamblain for a while, the NBA

(01:49):
had Larry Bird, had magic villains and positive whatever it be,
that positive negative that got Lebron Now with somewhat of
a villain. Now the WNBA has Caitlin Clark. And if
you watch that's the game yesterday, the Indiana fever really
rolled over Chicago ninety three fifty eight. But the big
deal of that game was Clark had that flagrant foul
of Angel Reese. Okay, and really and truly was that

(02:13):
Reese was grabbed the she grab that offensive rebound. That's
her games. He had like seventeen boards yesterday. Clarked then
slapped her across the arm, knocking the ball away, hit
Reese to the floor, Reesed and jumped up, confronted Caitlin
Clark and then Aliah Boston was involved with the thing,
and it was it was something that basically everybody in

(02:33):
the world of sports loves and they're talking about. I'm
sure if you turn your TV on last night to
our sports, that was the highlight. That's what everybody wanted
to talk about. Because now all of a sudden, the
WNBA has a villain, and when you have a villain,
you sell tickets.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
Uh yeah, I mean, like part of sports entertainment is
to be able to create rivalies where there's a naturally
there's a natural big rivalry, and Caitlin Clark and Angel
Reese going all the way back to the championship game
LSU Iowa, the way that game played out, the way
that the game ended, and all of that. So coming
into the w NBA, you had, you know, a built

(03:10):
in rivalry. You had two ladies who are vying for
Rookie of the Year this year. It only escalates as
both teams that you know, showcase those ladies have upgraded
the talent around their star players.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
And so this was a big game, which is why
it was the opener.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Because you had Kaylen Clark and Angelies and both of
them playing with a new cast of characters.

Speaker 3 (03:33):
You knew it was going to be musky TV. Now.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
The hard File only added to the intrigue because what
you got is what everyone feels in senses, like there's
a competitive conflict between these ladies. I can't say they
hate each other like off the court, but on the court, yeah,
there's a healthy disdain and I'm actually okay with that.
I believe that rivalries should be a little testee, should

(03:56):
be a little contentious, and you have some of these
flareups from time to time. So to me, what took
place is kind of part of what happens when you
have two bitter rivels.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I think it's healthy, I really do. And Caitlyn Clark,
she finished up with a triple double twenty points, ten boards,
ten assist. She had a career high four blocks. Angel
at twelve points, and her game is off the boards.
She had seventeen rebounds. But take a listen to what
Caitlin how to say after the game go ahead.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Kaitlin just said that take Bowl, you know if you
either Angel gets to fight up in two points or
you know, we sent him to the brig line.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Nothing malicious about it.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
It's just a good take Bowl. Every basketball player knows that.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I don't know about that. It was a flagrant one,
there's no doubt about that. But the fact that she
kind of run the arm and then all of a sudden,
like there was a stair down, she walked away. You know,
I just didn't want to see confrontation in the sense
I didn't want to see fisticuffs. I mean that to me,
two women fighting on the basketball court, it's not my
cup of tea. I don't want to see that. You know,

(04:53):
the looks that the growls or one another, the facial
fate back and forth. That again, I can handle it,
the looks and the stairdowns, but fist the cuffs. I
don't want to see that.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Yeah, I mean, you don't want to see that, but like, look,
it was never gonna break out to that point. But
I believe one you're the Indiana Fever. You have a
brand new team and a new coach. Stephanie White took over.
She was missed basketball and Indiana also won a national
title playing for Purdue, so it was a bit of
a homecoming for her.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
She's a great coach in her own right. They have
a really good squad.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean, their squad is so good, with the people
that they've assembled and how this team has continued to grow.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I think you're trying to set kind of a tone.

Speaker 4 (05:39):
You're trying to let the rest of the WNBA know
your temperament. So when Kaylyn Clark talks about like everyone
knows no layups, look as the takefiut, we're not giving
up easy layps. You have to know you coming to
the paint, you're gonna get dealt with. That's a part
of the thing. And for some you know, they may
not like that because they kind of viewed Indiana.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
The Fever as a walk over before. Well it's a
little different.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
It's a different time, and so I understand what Caitlyn
Clark and her team the message they were trying to
send also understand the retaliation or the response from Angel
Rees and I just can't wait for these two to
square off again, because you know, given the conflict, it's
always going to kind of be like this.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
It's gonna be a battle from here on out.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Now, here's the question of the day. How surprised do you?
Because I'm sort of like my head is spinning. Really,
we're not talking about the NHL. We never talk about
the NHL. We're not talking about Major League Baseball, We're
not definitely not talking about MLS, Major League Soccer. We
open here with the WNBA. What does that mean? Does
it mean the WNBA now has leaped and bounds over

(06:45):
all these other sports it's more popular than them, or
just because of the incident that happened. I'm still confused.
I mean, you talk about popular sports, we know it's
going to be football in college football one and one
a after that. I think there's a big jump to
maybe NBA. Maybe WNBA has passed. I don't know. But
the fact that we're talking about the w NBA right now,

(07:07):
and maybe simply because of the rivalry between those two players,
I don't know, but I think it's really moved up
on the popularity chart.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, it has moved up the popularity chart.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
You are bringing in what we call more casuals to
watch the sport because of like like Kaitlyn Clark and
others have to star power that we're beginning to see
Bucker's coming in.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
She's also going to help her.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
She's playing with the Dallas team, so that is also
going to foster more eyeballs on the sport. But yeah,
like you have to have star power. Star power moves
the needle. And say what you want about Kaitlyn Clark,
like she is a star. She was an established star
at IOWA. She's been a star heading into the league.
There are people that are going to tune in to
watch her and that's only good for the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
I will say this, and I'm bullying. I'm far from
being one of the smarter guys around and you know that.
But I think there's a correlation between following an athlete
in college and watching them go up the ladder to
the pro level. And I think that increases interest, increases
ticket sales, increases TV revenue, TV eyeballs watching. For example,

(08:21):
people follow Caitlin Clark and nancyba she's played for University
of Iowa. Right after that Iowa season in late March, boom,
two months later, she's playing in the WNBA. You can't
do that with MLS. These guys are playing all over Europe.
You have no idea where they're coming from. Half the
guys who can't pronounce their names. Okay, it's number one,
number two. The NBA, to some extent, you could do that.
You follow them in college, but the portal right now,

(08:42):
you don't know what college they're at. Major League Baseball.
They're in the minor leagues for seven, eight, nine years
in the minor league, so you have no idea where
they're going. So I think that the path to the
pro level has to be followed early on for fans
to be kind of nurtured, if you will. And I
think that's what's happening with the WNBA, and it certainly
happens in college football all the way to the NFL.

(09:03):
And maybe that's why those two sports to some extent
are head and shoulders above the other sports.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
Oh yeah, I mean there may be something to that
when you talk about like being able to nurture it. Yeah,
like because in the WNBA, like ladies aren't leaving after
one season to go to the pros. You do have
an opportunity to build a stronger connection with them. You
see them for three four years, you grow with them,
and when you're along that journey, you continue to follow

(09:32):
to the next destination, the WNBA, which is seemingly turning
the corner when it comes to fandom and viewership and
those things. They do have that ready baked recipe in
there for them. And so the more we see stars
on the collegiate level make their way to the WNBA,
the more we're gonna see the fan base and the

(09:53):
viewership grow for the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
No doubt about that. Now, one of the biggest stories,
maybe one of the biggest stories in sports in the
last thirty thirty five years, the redemption of Pete Rose.
How surprised were you that, out of left field, all
of a sudden, he's back in the I guess the
good graces if you will, in Major League Baseball. I mean, look,
the Commission Rob Manford announced Pete Rose, the sports the

(10:15):
hit King really was reinstated after spending one than thirty
six years on the permanently ineligible list. Do I mean,
really and truly I'm happy for Pete's family, but I
think it's a slap in the face to what Pete
Rose has accomplished and how to wait after he passed
to do something like this.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
A few different things very play. One. The tie or.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
The growing tie between the legalization of sports betting has
kind of changed the way that we looked at it.
Like I'm being honest, growing up as a kid, when
you would throw out gambling, I would think nothing but
bad thoughts, like oh my god, it's such a bad thing,
this and that or whatever. But now those lines are
all blurred because everyone gambles, you know, like with the Emmert,

(11:02):
like the explosion of daily sports betting, the access that
you have.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Being able to bet on your phones, all of that.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
The stigma has been removed from the sport, which now
makes it easier to kind of bring Pete Rose back
based on the black cloud or the smudge that was
put on him.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
When you linked him and gambling and those other things.

Speaker 4 (11:24):
I would also say that there's been a strong push
to make sure that Pete Rose gets recognized for his
great accomplishments in the sport. I think the President certainly
talked about it has kind of fostered that and pushed that.
Others have pushed the agenda when it comes to reinstating
him so he can get the respect that he deserves

(11:45):
as a Hall of Famer. All of that was in play,
and all of that certainly worked in look in the
favor of the hit king.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yeah, it's really funny, but this Major League Baseball on
the Commission Rob Manfors said he did not directly reinstate Rows,
but get what he altered a rule in which deceased
players are removed from the permanently ineligible list. He said
these players couldnot ruin the game any further. Come, Well,
what a cop out. What Manford really did, in my mind,
was take the pressure off Major League Baseball because the

(12:13):
general public, the majority, I think, thinks that Pete belongs
to the Hall of Fame with the direct that he
had forty two fifty six hits. But it puts all
the pressure now in the Hall of Fame and the
writers and the Baseball Writers to perhaps vote Pete Rose
into the hole. So the pressure is off MLB. The
pressure is now on the Hall of Fame, the Hall
of Fame Committee, and the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Speaker 4 (12:35):
Yeah, I mean, it's all on them, and we can
continue to see them. Have to kind of deal with
these types of issues. Because I'm gonna be honest with Jandy,
the fact that Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds are not
in the Hall.

Speaker 3 (12:45):
Of Fame, that bothers me.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
It bothers me because you can't tell the story of
MLB without them, no different than Sammy Sosi and Mark
Mewarret and all those other guys. Regardless of the allegations
of the things that kind of hover around them, they
are a big part of the fabric of baseball. And
going back to that time, there was a time where
baseball wasn't being watched and it took the home run

(13:09):
race from Sammy Sosa and Mark McGuire to kind of
put it back front and center for the nation. Then
you talk about Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens and what
they were associated with in terms of winning at a
high level, the accomplishments in those things. To me, with
Pete Roles or whatever like, you can judge them, say whatever,
put to ask you about it, whatever, But I think to
not recognize them as being some of the greatest contributors

(13:31):
to the sport.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
I think you're doing the sport of disservice.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
There's no doubt you and I are on the standing
pay chip because it always seems strange to me to
have a Hall of Fame that didn't include the man
who got the most hits in history, also the man
who had the most home runs in history in Bonds,
the pitcher who won the most Syung Awards, Roger Clemens,
and the guy who broke Roger Morris's single season home
run record, Mark Maguire. I mean, these are records that
have broken. You play for records. They broke those records,

(13:56):
and whatever they did, the transgrestions they may have had
off the field, all about what you've done and accomplished
between the lines. That's it. And Pete Rose, maybe you
know he's done some things and the quote broke the rules,
he gambled, But whatever he did, that was a transgression
to him, and it's I guess his baseball or his personality.
It had no effect on the forty two to fifty

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six hits that he got while he played the game.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
No, I didn't, and so he deserved to go in
the Hall. It's long overdue.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
It's unfortunate that it's after he's passed, so he doesn't
get a chance to really celebrate with his family being
recognized for that, But better late than ever. I don't
like the way that, you know, you talked about the rule.
I don't like the that's kind of weak sauce, like
give Pete Rose or give those other people their props.
I just don't like the way that it was orchestrated
and talked about. But nonetheless, he's to have an opportunity

(14:47):
to go win. Hopefully the Baseball writers do the right thing.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
Yeah, they had a knight for him in Cincinnati this
past Wednesday, which I went to, and really it was
amazing that like forty four thousand plus people and that
had a Larkin on the field and they had the
two other reds. I believe it was I forgetting the second.
Eric Davis was there in Barry Luck, I know for sure,
and Marty brennanman the Hall of Fame announcer, was on

(15:11):
the field doing like a Q and A and it
was wonderful really, and Pete's family was there, Pete Junior
was there, and I asked Pete Jr. To be with
us this morning and chat a little bit, but he
was busy, couldn't do it. His daughter Forn was there,
but you know, she lives in Seattle, so I'm not
gonna ask her to come ont of three in the morning.
So that's another story. But they were there and it
was kind of a tear Jacob Jerker really was and

(15:32):
form was wonderful. She spoke and she said to the fans, basically,
you know you're not fans, You're an extension of our family.
And it was one. It really was a great night
and you could see the love the city of Cincinnati
has with Pete Rose. And by the way, they gave
everybody who went to the stadium that night a Pete
Rose jersey. Cincinnati reads Pete Rose Jersey. I didn't get one.

(15:53):
I don't want one on I'm not gotting my hand down.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Why did you get when you're there in the building,
why do I get?

Speaker 2 (16:00):
You know, they asked me if I want the one,
but I'll go back next week and get back I
walk around wearing a jersey. I don't know. I just
I felt funny, So I didn't get one, but I
was there. There's just great scene the old time guys
coming back. Eric Davis he looks like he could still play.
I said, Eric, can you still play? He looked pretty good.
He says, I can still play, but I can't play
nine innings. It was kind of funny, really was. Larkin

(16:20):
was great. I see Larkin a lot there because he
does their home games on TV. But it just just
the love that this city has for Pete Rose and
the stories that they had and they were telling. I mean,
I just, you know, I just don't know of any
other athlete and another city that has to kind of love.
I mean, people were telling stories that Barry lark And

(16:40):
said when he grew up, that he he was a
Cincinnati He went to Mola High School in Cincinnati. He
said he always played baseball and slid head first because
that's what Pete Rose did, I mean think about.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
I mean I did too.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
I mean like that was a big part of whatever
I learned from watching Pete Rose, that you just sled
at first base, and so I remember being in the
little league sliding into first base like a crazy man.
All of those things like Charlie holso Les they called him,
like just all of those things that are really old
school values, like that's what you loved and Pete Rose.
I never and people won't remember, But man, you remember

(17:17):
how big the All Star Game was.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
The MLB All Star Game used to be the things.

Speaker 4 (17:23):
It was such a big deal to watch the All
Star Game because that was when you see all your
stars or whatever. And the competitiveness that Pete Rose displayed
and the All Star Game was what I thought competition
was really all about. Like everything meant something to him.
And look, he didn't inspire not only very larking me,
but a legion of other kids who were playing the

(17:45):
sport loved how he went about his business.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
It's amazing right now. But the earliest possible election for
Rose into the Hall of Fame would be in the
winter of twenty twenty seven and the decision to lift
the band to long time comings thirty six years. But
I do believe that after Pete's death is kind of
a slap in the face to he He rest in
peace and his family for sure, they're selling shirts now,
by the way in and around Cincinnati instead of rest

(18:11):
in peace Pete fourteen, hustle in peace. I mean, you know,
the story of Pete Rose has never gone away. He
probably made more money while he was alive, not being
in the Hall of Fame, signing autographs and things like that,
baseballs and ortographs and going around to various functions and
just signing because I'm not so certain how many people

(18:32):
do not have a Pete Rose autograph. He was everywhere
and anywhere, But right before his passing he was in
an autograph show in Tennessee. I mean, just just the
way he was almost every weekend, he was out there hustling,
and he did it. And I don't think he would
have made that kind of cash if he was in
the Hall of Fame. So and right now they're doing
it again. They're selling Pete Row. At the night of
the event Wednesday in Cincinnati, they were selling Pete Rose

(18:54):
little memorabilia of whatever. They were, like patches for thirty bucks,
a patch about that. Major League Baseball still making money
now they're making the money off Pete Rose. Amazing, amazing,
never stops. I wanted to see a Bucky Brooks patch.
You know, maybe they'll do that, you think, so, I
don't know about that. On the phone line, I want

(19:16):
to see what the public has to say about Pete Rose.
I mean, he he's a he's a fire plug, he
really is. I mean, he's a lightning rod. People have
an opinion with him basically pro con whatever it may be.
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We're gonna got to ask Bucky in about twelve minutes
from now, and it's amazing to me that the live
events that happened yesterday, we're talking about the day before,
the last twenty four to forty eight hours. The NBA
playoffs kind of push back now to segment two because

(21:02):
we talked about a Pete Rose and obviously the confrontation
between Angel and Caitlin and the WNBA yesterday. But we
talk about the NBA playoffs right now, let's talk about
Game seven. I don't think there's anything better in sports
than a Game seven. You talk about the Super Bowl,
sup Bowl It's great. I mean, really, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Yeah, I mean there's nothing like it to see how
people handle the pressure of it.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
Love it.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
And we got a Game seven today. The Denver Nuggets
basically fought off elimination that was on Thursday night, won
nineteen win O seven in Game six of an Oklahoma
City Thunder. But really and truly it was a win.
But they suffered a big loss of that game because
they're power forward. Aaron Gordon suffered the left hamstring strain
in that game. He may not play today. Stat is

(21:46):
still up in the air. I say, he plays, What
do you think I think he's gonna play today?

Speaker 3 (21:51):
Yeah, I think he's gonna try and give it a go.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
I just doubts that well, I mean you would, right,
I mean an athlete.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
Master of an athlete.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
But like I say that prefacing, don't know the state
of the injury, don't know what he feels like internally
with the pain in those things. But typically Game seven vibes.
You do anything and everything you can to play as
long as you're not hurting your team. You want to
at least give your best shot to get out there
and give it a go.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
No doubt now, now if you missed it. The injury
was like about two minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
which was a shame Oklahoma City. The guy who chuck Holmgren,
he took the ball away from Gordon, Gordon chased down,
He chased the ball, but Alex Caruso dove to get
possession of the ball. He tried to pass it, but
Gordon kicked the pass. That's what he did. And after
he kicked the pass, he grabbed his hamstring and he

(22:41):
looked like he was in a lot of pain. So
we'll see what happened. He stayed in the game for
about another minute or so and then he went back
to the bench about a minute left in the game.
He turned a little bit before the end of the game,
but he was limping. He just he had that giddy
up there. Didn't look good. He didn't look good though,
So we'll see what happens today if he's cleared or not.
And Isa say, I think they'll play. And I'm really

(23:02):
surprised with themver because they fired that coach with about
about three or four games up in the remains in
this season and now they're making a run here and
it's amazing to me. What's happening now in the NBA
with Cleveland being bounced out. They're a number one seed.
Oklahoma City they're on the verge of being bounced out too,
and they're a number one seed. So maybe the regular
season doesn't really mean that much.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
Yeah, I mean, it's a different game in the playoffs.
And we've seen it become a.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
Different game in the playoffs, not only in terms of
the way the game slow down, but the level of
physicality going up that changes everything.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
You have to be prepared to play that style of game.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
I'm not saying that everyone cruises through the regular season,
but it's just a drastic difference and this season's experience
will only help future teams get ready for the playoffs.
And so I think you'll see some number on scenes
in the future, play the guys maybe a little differently,
see them kind of change or tweak their style of
play to give themselves the best chance to get in

(24:00):
the playoffs. But let's be honest, the thing that is
really determining the playoffs is availability. The health of your stars,
the health of your key players. Can you have them
healthy in the postseason. Now, some would say, well that
brings about loads management But then I look at the
Knicks and the next aren't load management team. They played
their guys a ton of minutes and all of their

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guys are available. So there will be some studies done
internally by teams to kind of figure out, Hey, what's
the best course of action for us to be ready
to play and win at a championship level.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
No, you're exactly right. You talk about the Knicks, what
they did to the Boston Celtics. Another number one see
that was bounced out. It was Friday night, Madison Square Garden,
game six one, nineteen eighty one. I mean, wasn't even
a contest. However, you know, you talk about not having
your players over there with the injury factor, and Jason
Tatum didn't play head that achilles injury at the end

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of game four, and now the announcer comes out there.
Jalen Brown finished his season with the Celtics with a
partially on right meniscus. So my thing is this, I
was always against load management, but maybe it's a good thing.
Maybe they play too many games. Maybe that's the problem.
I mean, these guys are going down like flies, they
really are. I mean, Damian Lillard went down at the

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end of April. I mean, you just you play like
you play like you do, and they play hard. These guys,
they really do. They run about i'd say four or
five miles a night for eighty two nights, I mean,
and then all of a sudden, you're expected to play
the top of your game in the playoffs, and the
playoffs are too damn long. They really are. They got
to do something because you don't want to see your
best players on the bench. We're not playing at all

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when it comes to the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah, I mean, I think, look, there are a bunch
of things that will be discussed and studied in the offseason.
Teams will kind of make their decision. I don't know
if load management is a good thing or a bad thing.
I mean, we've seen the load management people get hurt.
I keep hearing these old pros, the Kevin Garandast Paul Pierces,
the Matt Barnes they used to talk about part of
the problem is going back to training camp. They're not

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having old school training camps where they're running the ton
and physically preparing themselves to get ready to play. A
lot of these guys are coming in out of shape,
so you having to work them into shape and do
all this other stuff, so you can't really get to
the ball part of it.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
I'm looking forward to seeing some of the changes, but
it's obvious that something has to change because we can't
have so many stars sitting on the sideline the key moments.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
I'm with you there, I really And the first of all,
I watched that game. It was ugly. I mean, and
you know, I like tradition. Although I'm a New Yorker
and I love the Knicks. So it was the first
time in twenty five years they make the finals. So
that's a great thing. It's great to see change. You
don't want to see a team dominate. I mean the
Celtics again. But the Celtics were their full strength. I mean,
you know, I'm not saying it's not fair. I realized

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it's part of the game. But they were smacked around
pretty good by the Knicks on Friday night. It was ugly.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
Well, they were smacked around.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
But I think everyone has to figure out what your
superpowers are and how you minimize your weaknesses. And the Knicks,
I'll say this, the Boston Celtics, on paper, we're a
better team. The Boston Celtics that played throughout the regular
season were.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
A better team.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
The Knicks only way to knock them off was to
make the Celtics play on their terms, and so that
became more of a grindhouse, you know, make it a
physical game, kind of bang them around and kind of
hug them.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
And mug them and see if they can win it
at the end. And they were able to do that.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
Partially because the Celtics were enamored and fixated on getting
as many three point shots up as if possible, and
that created some opportunities for the Knicks to claw back
in it because these scoring lulls or the droughts where
they missed eight nine ten threes in a row man
that's eight nine ten possessions for the next where they
can go down here to two and you look up

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and what was a big double digitally has now been
wooded all the way back down and you're in a
dog fight the rest of the game.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
And it looked like the Celtics were really beat up
on the boards as well. The next beat them up
on the boards for whatever the reason I mean, And
just you're right, we talked about this last week a
little bit. You know, if the Celtics are not making
the threes, why don't they changing? And you told me,
you know, point blank, that's their game. You know, they
stick with it, that's their game plan to go out
there and had threes. And you don't have a guy
like Tatum or now Brown was hurt playing with that

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meniscus tear on Friday, which he admitted, you know you're
not going to make your threes. Those year guys that
make the threes for.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
You, Yeah, I mean they just I mean they live
by the three and they die by it three. And
we can sit here and talk about they should change
it up whatever, But it's been very successful for them.
You know, you talk about a team that went to
a finals at one, they have gone back to another
deep postseason run.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Why would you change it?

Speaker 4 (28:40):
I think they can look at how they can better
preserve leads. I mean we're talking about to one of
the teams that was one of the best in the
league this year, coming off of a stretch where they
want it. I don't see they incentive to really change
a whole lot based on what they were doing.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
I got a little bit of a statistic here, and
I'm I'm not too sure what it means, but it's
just them nevertheless, which tells you something. When the Celtics
were eliminated from the players Friday night, now we could
say there's been no defending NBA champion has advanced past
the second round since the Golden State Warriors made the
finals in twenty nineteen. Okay, the lack of a repeat champion,

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you know, maybe that's because of the health factor and
the injury factor. Maybe I don't know, and maybe it's
a good thing. And you know, I don't want to see.
Back in the day when the Celtics won like nine
titles in eleven years, it was great for the people
that Boston, but I think it wasn't not healthy for
the league. But the reason why they're not repeating now
I think has a lot to do with the injury factor.

Speaker 3 (29:41):
Well, I mean, just think about it.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
You go on a deep run you're talking about into June,
you're playing basketball, and then they come back to camp
I think in October. That's not a lot of time
off in between. And if you have multiple deep postseason runs,
it's the cumulative effect of so many extra games, whether
it's you know, the postseason games that kind of lean

(30:05):
on you were on where there's physically or mentally that's
a lot to endure, and some of what you're seeing
teams faltering after having success the previous year is just
really fatigue, mental exhaustion, physical exhaustion, all of those things
preventing teams from being able to kind of finish it
out the way they want to.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Now you've seen this or you've been around, you're an athlete,
you play in the NFL, you talk to these guys.
I give a lot of credit that teams that the
teams that can repeat because they still have that burning
desire to repeat, like the Kansas City Chiefs. I see that. Okay,
But is there a factor that after you finally climb
the mountain and win it, now you say, well we've
done that, been there, done that. There's a kind of

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like you take a breath, blow out a layer, and
you know, you kind of relax a little bit because
you've done it well, you don't want to replace it.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
There is I would think, yeah, I mean there's some
complacency that comes in, like we're wired to think that, hey,
once you have an accomplishment, I deserve a treat or reward.
I want to step back take it easy rather than
scale it up to go harder to have more success
in those things. It's just natural human nature that when
you have a little success, some complacency sets in. The

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key to being able to have long sustainable success is
to be able to continue to set new goals and
maybe to bring in some fresh faces who haven't experienced
it but are hungry to experience it. Data continue to
keep the edge up so you can deal with some
of the feisty teams that are trying to come after.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
You, which gives you so much more respect for the
New England Patriots what they've accomplished. And maybe that is
more on the shoulders of Tom Brady than anything else,
because he had that I guess internal drive, like he
just wanted to do it. I mean the stories you
hear about Tom Brady, the way he dieted, the way
he ate, the way he practiced, I mean, what he did.

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And maybe because he was drafted in the sixth round
to prove that, hey, look I'm better than that. Perhaps
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (32:02):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot to it, there's a
lot of motivation to it or whatever. What I will
say is this success is tied to tom Brady, but
it's not wholly dependent upon Tom Brady. Like give him
credit for being the clutch performing those things with Bill
Belichick and that defense and a lot of playmakers around
Tom Brady helped make that happen.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
But I give Bill Belichick credit for.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Keeping the team focused and the way that he kept
the team focused. Sometimes you cut a notable star each
year in the offseason to wake them up, to make
sure everyone knows that they've got to earn everything, and
sometimes it's just being able to really get them to
buy into the one day at a time philosophy that
you hear so many coaches talking about.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I'm so happy you mentioned Bill belichick'sname of giving him credit,
because I heard a guy on the Full Letter Network.
I won't even men sure his name. I didn't want
to give him any notoriety, and he just stuck his
face in the screen and the camera kind of bad
mouthing Belichick cause what's happening right now with his girlfriend
or whatever it may be. Says Belichick accomplished nothing because

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it was all Tom Brady, the guy. I hoping he
said that for clicks, because if he said that and
he really meant that, then he's an idiot. And I'll
tell you why, because as soon as I heard that,
I said, wait a minute, So that means Vince Lombardi
was not a good coach. It was all about Bart Starr.
I mean, come on, really, I mean the coach has
to get some credit.

Speaker 3 (33:24):
The coach has to get credit.

Speaker 4 (33:25):
And I'll say this, there's never been a great coach
who hasn't benefited from having great players. You think about
Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers being great, and
how much we celebrate his acumen and his legacy, Well,
think about the hall of famers that have come from
that era when he was a coach. To be a
great coach, and not only about the ex's and o's,
it's about taking great players and finding a way to

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get them to play at their highest level. Bill Belichick
has been able to do it for a long time,
which is why he's deserving it being called to go.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
No doubt about that. And you are the goat here,
You're the goat on this show, or no doubt about that.
He's Bucket Brooks. I may Deferman And by the way,
time for all the answers to all your questions, why
ask Bucky, it is next.

Speaker 6 (34:05):
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Speaker 2 (34:18):
Right around the Corner's about twelve minutes now before the
top of the hour. This is Fox Sports Sunday on
Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Fermanaware live
from the Fox Sports Radio studios, and of course here
we go with ask Bucky. We won't make it too difficult.
Today we talked about the WNBA. First question. They open
their season this weekend. Is it time Bucky Brooks to
put the WNBA in the Big four? I'm talking about

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Major League Baseball, NFL, NHL, NBA. Does somebody get bounce
in that group of four and put the WNBA in there?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
No, But if one team is one sport is vulnerable,
I would say that would be hockey NHL.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
But right now WNBA Steele is a little bit behind.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
All right. They're pushing them. Though they're pushing them. The
NBA TV ratings took a dip during the playoffs, so
did their draft lottery show. What changes would you make
to increase NBA TV viewership.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Who it's tough because everyone's exposed of so many different things. Look,
I think the stars got to show up and play
in those primetime moments when you want to see them
and you know.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
It's just weird. You got to continue to grow your
game from a grassroots level.

Speaker 4 (35:28):
So get all your former youth basketball players to high school,
travel whatever, get back and ultimately thatta helps them prepare forward.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
All right. We talked about this a little bit regarding
the playoffs and what happened with the Boston Celtics, but
in a fifteen day span, two NBA superstars suffered season
ending Achilles tears. Damian Lillard. We mentioned that that was
back in April the twenty seventh, Jason Tatum last Monday.
Do these injuries now that they put the eighty two
regular season schedule in jeopardy and maybe there's going to

(35:57):
be a chance of maybe playing less game during the
regular season.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
You know, I wonder? I think so.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
I think you could probably tweet that up a little
bit to set it up to make it probably better
of you. So, yeah, if you can figure out a
way to kind of rework the schedule to make it
better why not.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
You know, let me kind of add an addendum to that,
if I may. You know, right now, I think that
we're overloaded with statistics, and we hear about guys breaking
records in the National Football League for rushing and passing.
There's never an asterisk next to their record because they
play more games. They play seventeen games as opposed to fourteen.

(36:36):
Or when I was a young kid, a young they
played twelve games, but no one cares about that. They
just care about numbers and they make it a record.
It's not really a record. They do that now in
the NBA, and they're doing it now. As far as
like with kareem Ola points he scored, well, there were
so many more playoff games when he played. Maybe I'm
too picky, but I'm a statistic freak and a record keeper,

(36:56):
and you gotta get the records correct. You got to
get them to such an extent that your record in
five years from now is gonna be the same as
it was five years ago. And it's not. If you're
playing more games, it's meaningless, don't you agree, guys?

Speaker 4 (37:11):
Yeah, come on, changes, It changes the sets, It changes
how you recognize them. It shouldn't, but that's American history. Like,
no one's going through every bag before they need everything.
It just kind of happens. And when you do it
like that, you have some people that get left by
the wayside.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
There's no doubt about that. It's about quarterbacks passing with
four thousand yards, were playing seventeen games. It's different. All right,
we move on. I'm sorry. Trey Hendrickson led the NFL
in socks last year. He tells us since any Bengals
he's gonna sit out have he doesn't get a new
contract yet, he has a year left on his deal
and obviously the Bengals have all the leverage with this.
What does Hendrickson really have to deal with because he's

(37:48):
not gonna sit out, There's no way he's turning down
fifteen million dollars. No way.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
Well, he has to take a hard line to say
in either he's gonna sit out or he's gonna have
to settle from when Mike Brown wants to pay him.
He doesn't have any recourse and be fine like crazy
from missing out most of the first week, and then
it's just a matter of trying to figure out how
to make it all work.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Interesting, dynamic, interesting, situation though.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
It really is. I mean, he did the same thing
last year, and it's just a funny situation. I mean,
if you don't like your contract, you should have got
thought about that way back when. However, I will say this,
you know the Jamar Chase and the t. Higgins deal,
they were rewritten and they got new deals. But again,
as you mentioned to me, and I always listened to
what you have to say, this team is built on offense.

(38:32):
They're not built on defense, and they want to pay
the offensive guys.

Speaker 4 (38:37):
Yes, it's easy to pay your stars on offense right now, right.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
And on my take is this, the defense stunk last
year even with him and he did leave the league sack.
They stunk, so why pay him. I mean maybe that's
a stupid logic, right, but they were The defense was
terrible and he and he led the league in sacks,
So what's the difference. I mean, if he's there or
not there, they were just bad. They're gonna win if
they do, and they're gonna win games like forty one

(39:01):
thirty eight pickers. They're gonna outsquare the opponent.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Well, I mean they put a lot of person on
Dre Burier Company to get it done. But this guy, look,
he's a recond ball off the edge. Don't know why
it's such an issue right now. That's probably has something
to do with the apron whatever the tax or show.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
But he needs to be there. They need to figure
out a way to get this done.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
Oh at last, but not least, we haven't had this
question before. I want to know a Bucky Brooks career
highlight besides working here you know on Sundays, But what's
your career highlight?

Speaker 4 (39:32):
Career highlight, Let's see being a part of those Factors
teams that eventually went to a super Bowl. I wasn't
on that team specifically there because I was playing in
jacks Mille, but I was there the first nine weeks.
I would say, just playing with all those legendary players,
Brett Farv, Reggie White, being able to go to Buffalo
and play with legendary players and Thermer Thomas and Andre Reid.
I think about my count I played with maybe eighteen

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or nineteen Hall of famers. I think for a kid
who just had little aspirations of playing in the league,
I think I'll always hold that near and did the Mahart.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
That's wonderful, it really is all right. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Fern. We're just getting started right here. And
by the way, all of a sudden, one NFL team
has quite a real break that and more. Aware of
Fox Sports Sunday coming up right here, stay with us next. Hey,
there's one NFL team done before the start of the season.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody.

(40:22):
This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. He's
Bucky Brooks'm Andy Fern, and we're broadcasting live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios and of course his Bucky Brooks.
As I mentioned the future Hall of Famer, you are
a hall of how many hall of fames are you in?

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Let's see how many hall of fames? School hall of
Fame right there? Maybe two?

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Yeah, the high school and there's something locally, but that's
about it.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
I never realized how many high schools have hall of Fames.
I remember, I mean my high school, I'm sure does
not have a Hall of Fame. I mean, I mean
just the way it was. I mean half the guys
in my high school graduated from in prison.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Now I mean, okay, well that's that's not great.

Speaker 4 (41:08):
But there has to be something to recognize the outstanding
contributors from your high school.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
There has to be Sandy went.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
To my high school, and there's no way but Sandy
Colfax went to my high school and there's no high
school Hall of Fame. That's the end of that.

Speaker 4 (41:22):
Start that's I mean, that's that's that's crazy. There has
to be like a trophy case or something that recognizes
some of those guys, and if not, you can start
a petition because that's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
If Sandy Cox i't recognize.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Well, I will say this. I remember in my sophomore
year at high school, they had a trophy case and
had a Sandy Colfax glove in the case. It was stolen.
So that was the end of that. I mean, it
was a tough high school. It really is the way
it was. You know, they stole this glove out of
the case. So the end of that story.

Speaker 3 (41:52):
What could I say?

Speaker 2 (41:53):
By the way, speaking the whole of things, I found
this out the other day. Are you a fan? And
maybe they don't have it in your area of White Castle?
Those little hamburgers?

Speaker 4 (42:03):
Uh, I'm okay with it. I had like White Castle,
not in North Carolina. But when I was in Kansas
City White Castle, and in fact, White Castle has a
Hall of Fame.

Speaker 6 (42:14):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I wasna mentioned. I just found that out. I just
found that I'm a big White Castle guy, all right.
And there was a White Castle right across the street
from my high school, Lafet High School in Brooklyn. I
used to go there for lunch like four times a
week really and at the time, and I want to
show my age. But the Hamburger is, now, what are
there like sixty cents, seventy cents, eighty I don't even
know what they are right now, but I know when

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I was a kid, they were twelve cents. They were
twelve cents of hamburger, you know. But now I think
they're like seventy cents whatever it might be. But I'm
hooked on them.

Speaker 3 (42:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
It's like a disease. You know. Some people are a crack.
I'm White Castle. So I'm going to try to get
myself in the White Castle Hall of Fame. That's what
I want to do. That's one of my jobs.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Oh yeah, I want to that's what you're trying to do.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
Yeah, I want to be in the White Castle Hall
of Fame. That'll be I'll be the only one from
Fox Sports Radio. I'm sure in the White Castle Hall
of Fame. That's what I'm trying to do.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
And we move on.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
See, look, you introduced me. Whatever the I don't know
where the Hall of Fame is, but I think it's
in I think it might be in Long Island, Long Island.
I don't know. I'm gonna check on that. I'm gonna
work on that, but I will say this. He called
the he called the situation a place to die. They're
one of the craziest stories I read recently. There was

(43:28):
a book just put out by Seth Wickersham had a
book called American King's Ibiography of the Quarterback, right, and
he talked about the Chicago Bears. He'd been around for
one hundred and five years in the NFL. They never
had a quarterback to throw for four thousand and more
passing yards in a year. That's an amazing stat it
really is. But the team has always been somewhat built

(43:49):
on defense, right, I mean that's why it was.

Speaker 4 (43:52):
I mean, yeah, that is what it was. It's always
been built on defense. That has been a big part
of their identity. And I mean, look, I'm Okay, okay
with all of this that stuff, But I can't wait
for you to go on where I think you're going
with Caleb Williams and all of this, yes, yes, sillingness
that we need to talk about Ryan.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Caleb Williams, the first overall pick in the twenty twenty
four NFL Draft. He wanted to get a solution to
avoid becoming a Chicago Bear because he said, it's a
place where quarterbacks die, right, And he and his and
his father and they had an attorney. They wanted to
bypass the NFL draft, and they wanted to sign with
the United Football League for a year to avoid being
chosen by the Chicago Bears. I get it, but why

(44:34):
go public with that? Now? I've always say with various
things that you do in life, you got to ask
yourself the question, what's the upside? Well, I guess the
upside here is gonna make some bunks off a book.
But how much money you going to make off a book? Really?
Why do you do this? What's the upside? To tell
the people that are paying you big money and your
teammates it's a place to die and you don't want

(44:55):
to play there, don't get it?

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (44:58):
I mean, like, look, I can understand it and summon
this as part of the player empowerment movement where we've
seen people kind of use their influence.

Speaker 3 (45:06):
Remember Eli Manning is Archie Manning.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
They used the power of influence to get him out
of the situation that he didn't want to be in
in San Diego and get him to New York, which
is more favorable when it came to the organizational structure
of the New York Giants. So he's not the first
one to have talked about kind of flexing and using
this power.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
But I think what it does.

Speaker 4 (45:28):
Is it creates a very awkward situation now where he
is a Chicago Bear, he is a part of the
franchise and part of the team. Those words and the
commentary that happened before the draft, that's one thing, but
it taints how fans and even some of his teammates
who view him, you know going forward, like the city
is not going to be quick to fall in love

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with someone who really didn't want to be there. And
so what was already going to be a pressure pack
year for Kayleb Williams, he just added more pressure because
this team and him, he's expected to be a sport star.
This team's expected to do big things because they've upgraded
a sportingcast around him. If he does not play like that, man,
the boobirds are gonna be out quickly in Chicago because

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this dude hasn't shown that he really wants to embrace
the city.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
If I was Caleb Williams, or I was his manager
or his PR guy, and he had any inkling of
saying what he said that it's a place for quarterbacks
to die, I would take him over and say, you know,
this is what you need to do. You need to
call a news conference and say I looked at the
history of this ball club. I love the history. I
love the great players that played for the Chicago Bears.

(46:37):
They had some great players here, had some great teams.
The refrigerated Perry's, you name him, they were here. I
want to be the first quarterback to throw for four
thousand yards. That's what I would have said. Instead of
a place to die, say I want to go in
the Chicago Bears record book with all these great players
that have played here, all right, and be the first
quarterback to throw for four thousand plus yards. That's what

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he should have said.

Speaker 3 (47:00):
I mean that's what he should have said.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Now that he didn't say, they got to go right
back and figure out how to make how to make
this better, because this is a problem. It's really a
problem like Andy, like this dude is viewed as the
face of the franchise, but the face of the franchise
doesn't want to be.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
A part of the franchise.

Speaker 4 (47:16):
We know that. Now that comes out in a book.
That's a major thing to me. On Monday, first day
they get back to workouts, he has to stand in
front of the press and he has to knock this
out head on. He has to talk about whatever he said.
The context provide all of it. Because you have a
fan base that is so excited about what this team
could be under Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams. To hear

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that your QB one didn't like the franchise, may not
have wanted to be there. There was talks about him
going to the UFL and re entering like that's a
lot of stuff to deal with. If you're a fan,
it's very hurtful because you love your team. So to
hear that wo better better.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
Kind of kind of find a way to kind of
eliminate this real.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
Quick well, last year he threw for thirty five hundred
plus yards. He had twenty touchdowns only six picks. Okay,
I will say this. You know, I didn't realize books
create that much of a problem. What do I mean
by that Bill Belichick wrote a book and the fact
that his fiance or his girlfriend or his significant other,
Jordan basically interrupted during the CBS Sunday Morning interview. That's

(48:24):
getting like tons tons of pushback and North Carolina they
said she was banned. Whatever it may be. We'll get
into that. But this is worse. This is worse. I mean,
what did Bill Belichick do. He's got a girlfriend. I mean,
what's the big deal? She's helping out and then everybody
went crazy and she's just trying to protect them and
she's kind of handling the social media aspects that she

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could relate to that probably more so than Bill Belichick can.
And they're making a big deal about that. This thing
is going to explode. I think this is worse. I
think what Caleb Williams did is worse.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
Yeah, I think it is worse.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
And they're gonna have to navigate this because this potentially
is a pr disaster just in terms of like how
the fans could react to him if this skill, if
this story really really blows up on a major scale.
What people have done is they've taken parts of what
came out about this and not so much him not
wanting to be there, but how they feel like he

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was ill prepared to play, that the Bears didn't do
enough to prepare him to play.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Some of those things will kind of.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
Look allow it allow them to focus on the team
and the team's dysfunction as opposed to the quarterback. But
I think the astute evaluators, the people around the team,
the guys that are looking at the chemistry and connectivity
of the team, they gonna play close attention to him
to see one how he's fitting into the team too,
Who does he have with him that's fitting in with him,

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who is best sees in those things?

Speaker 3 (49:57):
All of that matters.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I had never realized that there were players. I guess
some players are looking at various teams that they think
they could fit in and want to be part of.
But honestly, on draft night, are you just tickle pink
that you drafted? I mean, really, I mean, are there
that many players that you have mom for the years
that say I never want them to be here. I

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never want them to be on this team.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
Yeah, I mean like, yeah, like people are complaining privately,
but that that's not for public discourse.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
You never want to.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
Put that out there, like, oh, you're selected by the
Buffalo Bills. Man, I hate the Bills. No, hey, you
know what, love the tradition, YadA, YadA YadA. Then you
may hang you the phone. I'm like, man, this a
tough one, not where I was hoping to but we'll
make it work.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (50:43):
No, there's some of that that goes on it. But
you know, every fan base want to feel like they're
the best fan base and that every player on the
team wants to be there.

Speaker 3 (50:52):
Well about that at least the discord.

Speaker 2 (50:55):
Right, But let's talk about another quarter. Like cam Ward.
He was drafted number one by Tennessee. He knew going
in that he's probably gonna be the number one pick.
And you also know when you're the number one pick,
you're going to go to the worst team. So I
think that you look at that as a challenge, saying
I think I'm the guy A they want me, and
B they want me to turn the franchise around. I
think it's a positive, don't you.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yeah, I mean I think it's a positive.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
They want you to turn the franchise around and those things.
I think all of it can be true at once.
They can fully be behind you in those scenes, but
they also want the other stuff.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
I will tell you this much. If I'm cam Ward,
I'm tickled pink right now. Obviously, Tennessee not a major market,
so you're not hearing much about it. But he got
to thank sh Door saying this because no one's talking
about him more often than not. The first pick in
the draft, and normally a quarterback, they follow him. They
follow him into the shower, into the toilet, wherever it is.
They're right about him every single day. I haven't heard
a peep about cam Ward, have you?

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Not a lot? Not a lot. And let's be honest.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
Coming in in the quarterback class, like kim Ward may
have been viewed as the best, Shuder Sanders was viewed
as the star. I mean, let's just be honest. I mean,
it is what it is. He's a fifth round pick
and all that. But when we talk about star quality,
star player, the kind of intrigue that can catapult you
in the superstardom, Shuder Sanders has that.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Part of that is due to his last.

Speaker 4 (52:17):
Name just being the Santa coach Prime, playing all of
those major games at Colorado and even on a lesser
scale like at Jackson State.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
Like he's had enough.

Speaker 4 (52:26):
Remember we talked about the WNBA and how the WNBA
has benefited from college basketball building up their stars, and
so there's a collection of people that come with the
stars from women's college basketball to the WNBA. Well, Shudur
Sanders has done that because people have seen it, they
fell in love with the well either fell in love
or hate with the brand, and so they want to

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see it. And so the NFL has been able to
sell him easy because he wasn't a Johnny Come. Lately,
there's been a lot of recognition around sim where kem
Ward was a bit of an unknown. He goes to Miami,
and Miami is the only place where the people heard
him pop, but it was late in the process. That's
why we haven't heard so much about him. He's not
an established star where Shoulder Sanders is already started despite

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his status as a fifth round pick.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah, and let's move over to you guy, Travis Hunter.
For a second, Did I not hear or see a
story that he was on a plane and he did
a nice gestion too. I mean, that's that's amazing, and
that story. You got to relay that story because that
to me was he was on a planet that he
gave up a seat for a woman. What exactly how
I forgot the entire story.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
Well, he just had a great interaction with a woman,
be it whether it's giving up his seat or talking
to him.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
But just very but you always hope.

Speaker 4 (53:39):
For when it comes to like people talking about like
your players, taking about your family. Just just a gentleman
in every sense of the way. The way he handled himself,
very polite in those things. And then when you find
out he's a second overall, it just speaks to his character.
Just a really good dude. And for me, I'm excited

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obviously being affiliate with the Jacksonville Jaguars, just knowing that
man they got this kind of dude here, and how
infectious his personality, his work ethic, how that's going to
kind of blend in and change the dynamics of the team.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
What upset me with that story and this You're going
to think I'm crazy when I tell you this, but
I love the fact that he didn't say at first
what he did or what he was, and woman said, oh,
who are you what? And he said, I a professional
football player. He played for Jacksonville. The woman went crazy,
and he was just a total gentleman. What upset me
is the fact that the way the story was presented

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is like, Wow, an athlete could be nice. That's the
way I took it. Am I mistaken on that?

Speaker 3 (54:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (54:41):
No, I just I think at a time when you
see someone who is as big as he is, right,
take the time to still remember his manners and all
that other stuff like, nah, that's refreshing in this time,
and for someone who still has reverence and respect for adults, elders, man,
you love all of that. So to me, it's not

(55:03):
necessarily that, oh, an athlete can be nice, but it's wow,
this applaud the behavior that we want to see replicated. Uh,
you don't always see these people act nice just because
of it. And so given his status number two overall
Star Hosman Trophy winner, to have a positive interaction like
that celebrated, Oh you want to continue to talk about.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
That, No doubt about that. Yeah. I just think that
there was some broadcasters that said, oh, wow, and athlete
did something good. I mean, rather than the dui or
wife beating whoever it may be. But I'll tell you
right now, for that act alone, he should get that
Gail Staeres Award just for that act alone. And they
get the Player of the Year one whatever it may be,
a Citizen of the Year, the Gail Shaers thing. I

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think that's the award, isn't it. I mean, you know
all about those awards in the National Football.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
I mean, it's few different things, waltch Payton Man of
the Year different.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
You have different things where you can be recognized for
who you are and what you are, what you're bring.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
To the table. There you go.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
All right, I'm gonna talk about the the NFL schedule
which was released the other day, and when they hype
it up and promote it, and again the NFL is
unbelievable at that day, the best the thought about it
is a joke. But the TV ratings for the NFL
schedule probably beat the NBA playoffs. I haven't checked, but
it's an amazing situation. I don't know of any other sport,

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any other sport, maybe maybe college football, maybe that could
attract an audience on TV. For a schedule release, and
more often than not, you know half the teams. The
teams play anyway because they're division games. It's an amazing thing.
Is it the gambling what attracts people to tune in

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to the TV to watch a schedule release?

Speaker 4 (56:47):
I don't get it, man, It's selling dreams. Is your
opportunity to sail the dream? This is how my team
can come back to. One thing that we do know
about the NFL is they've made it very competitive. We
can go from worse to first quickly and have championship
aspirations looking no further than to Washington Commanders and what they.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Were able to do with Jayden Daniels.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
Because of that, everyone wants to see a we knowed,
listened to the opponents, but how are we going to
take them down? It looks as fun, it's fascinating, but
it says the table for a bunch of other things,
including fantasy football, because you have to talk about one
to talk about the other.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
It's amazing right now. Okay, they had the thing in Indianapolis, Dude,
the combine, they have the draft, what's next? The schedule release?
What's because they have this thing kind of like scripted
right up to I guess practice, now what's going on.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
We'll have mini camp weekends and those things, but then
the next big ten pole event will be back to
football weekend. It'll be the beginning of training camp. Everyone's
going back and you'll see the league put cameras and
people at every one of the training camp so we
can begin to talk about coming back and building the appetite.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
For fans. That's that's what it's about.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
It's about setting the table and just letting them lustily
look at all the.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Teams and wanted to play and all that other stuff.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
So it's just that's June, right, It's great first.

Speaker 4 (58:17):
I mean that mini camps and stuff would be June,
so there'd be that, and then there would be inside
training camp. Oh, that stuff starts at the beginning of
the summer work like not to bend into summer workouts,
beginning training camp, when training camp starts to the end
of July.

Speaker 2 (58:32):
It really and truly it's here. It's like right around
the corner. It really is. It never stops. So you
got you gotta feel sorry for the UFL. You're not
a football league because people, I mean, you could just
pray people on the street either a they have never
heard of it, or be the kid named two teams
in that league and it's amazing because it's the same sport,
isn't it true? I mean, I don't get it. I
guess those people, the guys that play in that league

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are either also rants that never made the NFL or
hopefuls that want to try to make the NFL.

Speaker 4 (59:01):
Yeah, I mean, like, look there guys that are hopeful.
You're hoping to develop a handful of players that can
make it in that league. And it's something to do
all over the weekend when you are look, you need
to get your fix on football. You can tune over,
tune over and watch that, watch some of those games.
Some people are betting on those games.

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (59:20):
You get a chance to kind of look at it
a little differently. So I understand the opportunity, understand cashing
in on it.

Speaker 3 (59:26):
But Spring League, no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (59:29):
I tell you what We're going to get into the schedule. Okay,
I know everybody talks about the schedule. We're going to
take a look at some schedule highlights and what teams
are winners in the schedule, what team's maybe got a break.
But what teams are really hurting. So we'll get to that,
but right now I want to mention the fact that
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to our Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube. All right, now,
let's get into the schedule situation if we can be,
because I'm looking at the San Francisco forty nine ers
in twenty twenty four that were hit very, very hard
with injuries and this season, believe it or not, they
have the easiest strength of schedule in the league based
on the opponent's twenty percentage from last year. Last season,

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they finished with the hardest schedule twenty percentage of fifty
six percent against them last year. So right now, it's
all right there for the Niners to bounce back in
a big way. If you're a non offen, you kind of,
like you say, you look at the schedule and you
kind of looks wishes and hopes and dreams big way
for the Niners to come back and bounce back in
twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Yeah, I mean it's a big way for them to
bounce back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
One.

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Their quarterback is gonna be happy. He doesn't have an uncertainty,
so he should be able to play better. To the schedule,
gives them a bit of a break when it comes
to us. I think we look, they're gonna be a
good team. I think this is to bounce back. They're
committed to resetting. They bring Robert Solid back to fix
the defense. All signs of points and them kind of
re emerging as a team to be in the division.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Okay, and they're playing the Chicago Bears, the Giants and
the Cleveland Browns. You got to leave. Those are three
wins right there. So they were in pretty much shape.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:02:07):
We just count counted the chickens. Count the chickens before
the hats are already. We see so many PEPs.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
We just we just say, hey, no, that that we
got this. We're good. That's what we're feeling.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
Well, you know what's funny, I'll ask you this question.
I mean the San Francisco forty nine is the players
as a group. I'm sure some of them have seen that.
Do they feel the same way. Do they look at
the schedule that they play, say wow, we should do
rather well this year. Is it a confidence booster or
they just poop poo it? What do they do when
they see the schedule like that?

Speaker 4 (01:02:39):
I mean sometimes you look at it and you'd be
a confidence booster, but you always know that no, Look,
it's never the same. What was last year doesn't mean
it's going to be this year. So you can't take
it light. But yeah, you feel like there's a path
early for you to have a lot of success if
you take care of your business.

Speaker 2 (01:02:55):
Well, I tell you right right now, we talked about
the Giants that got the most difficult schedule. The difficult
strength is schedule based on their opponent's twinny percentage almost
fifty eight percent from last year. But they open, get this,
The Giants open with road games against the Commanders and
the Cowboys. All right, oh, and two home openers for
division rivals. Not good. Then they host the Chiefs and

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the Charges own four, own four for the Giants, okay,
Which means I would think that Russell Wilson or Jamis
Winston they're gonna start a quarterback because the schedule is
so tough and they're gonna gotta ease in Jackson Dart
their rookie at quarterback, when they're about you know, one
in five or three and seven. Then Jackson gets to start.
What do you think.

Speaker 4 (01:03:39):
That's kind of soon? To get them to start right
like we're gonna start them right away?

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
I mean, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:45):
And see, this is what was so compelling about the
Giants and their pick and what they were gonna do.
Is normally if you take a quarterback like that, like
people say, like, oh, are you taking them to say
the franchise and those things like, I mean kind of
but not really like these guys are I won't to
say not in lamed up status, but they potentially could

(01:04:07):
be out of there after this season. So how do
you develop a young quarterback when you have that kind
of pressure on the coaches to make it happen right away?
To me, I think that's a very very difficult deal
when it comes to it. Like what you're talking about,
what you're asking and expecting them to be able to
pull off.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
Yeah, I agree with you, And you know what, I
want to be a little positive. I've come across a
little negative right now with the Giants, and obviously we're
a little positive with that you don't like them, but
you don't like it, I do. I love the Giants.
It kills me. I grew up with the Giants. That
was my team. Are you kidding with the with the
running back of Tucker Frederickson and Ernie Koy, you know,

(01:04:45):
the baby Bulls. I remember the baby I was a kid,
the baby Bulls, Ernie Koy and Tucker fredericson in the backfield.
Are you kidding me? I love them. They'll Shoffling number
eighty five, Aaron Thomas, eighty eight, the tight end. Those
are the guys I grew up with. I love the
New York Football Giants. Really, what's not happening anymore? It
really isn't. But I will I'll be a little positive
right now. Of there's six teams with the hardest strength

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of schedule entering the season last year, get this, five
made the playoffs. That's not bad, really, I mean, it
shows how good they were. Although the Bills were the
only team to advance to the conference championship. Now, the
other three conference finalists were the Eagles, Chiefs, and Commanders.
They had schedules ranked in the middle of the pack.
But it's not bad, not bad, pretty positive.

Speaker 3 (01:05:28):
No, I mean no, it's not bad.

Speaker 4 (01:05:30):
I mean like you kind of want some of that,
you like to do it, and you try not to overreact.
Like the main thing that you're looking for when you
open up the schedule, when is the baid week winn
at the primetime games? Are there any unusual situations where
three straight games on the road?

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
Do you have your West Coast trips?

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
All of that that you have to deal with logistically,
You're trying to figure out those things, and then you
honestly you want to see who am I closing with
the last four games to the season. The league is
a thing where we talked about let's just get to
the end of November just kind of being in the conversation,
let's get into December playing our best ball so we
can roll through the tournament. Based on how they fence

(01:06:11):
last year, doesn't sound like, you know, they're ready to
take that next.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Step, all right, And look, we were looking at the
schedule in a different fashion than others. Look at it.
I'm looking at the Los Angeles Chargers charges travel thirty
seven thousand plus miles next year, leading the league in
distance travel for the second year in a row. Is
that good? Bed is it heard there. It's no big whoop.
Last year they only charged twenty six thousand.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
It's fine, they're good, they can figure me anything doesn't
mean it doesn't mean anything. They'll be fun, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
And the Chiefs they're going to be opening up in
Brazil against the charges. I mean, I don't know. I mean,
I just the fact that I just don't like the country.
I never pick to Brazil. I don't know. I don't
I'm going to Brazil, but I just think that sleeping
in a different hotel, in a different bed, different food,
I think that's a factor, don't you a different country.

(01:07:06):
How tough is it for these guys to get acclimated.
I mean, they've got to get their early different time.
I just I don't know. I don't the leagues.

Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
You know, what the league's trying to do is trying
to try to expand and make sure that everyone understands
the brand. You know, the brand is big, you know,
and I mean it's it's a huge brand, and they're
trying to the globalization of the game has been good
and it's gonna pay huge benefits because you're just talking
about just being able to I mean literally just being

(01:07:37):
able to expand, it expose the game to a different
fan base and in those things, to me, I think
it's terrific.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
You know, and I understand they're trying to do I
mean global, you know, they're playing in Germany, play in Mexico,
playing in Brazil, playing in London. I get it, but
I don't think there's as many kids playing football globally
as they play basketball. And basketball can't seem to get
it done as good as football. That I don't understand.
They're going to Wembley Stadium for a game every year
in England, they're packed the joint, even if they put

(01:08:06):
the two worst teams in there. They're packed the joint
because it's just football. But is it the betting? What
is it? And you know as well as I do,
there's more basketball being played worldwide than football. But basketball
can't get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:08:19):
Basketball can't get it done because everybody can play it.

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Remember it's a novelty when the NFL goes to those countries.
There's nothing that their countries can do to replicate our
version of the NFL. Basketball is basketball wherever you play it,
so whether you're playing in Greece, Brazil, China, Tokyo, wherever
basketball is the same, football is not the same. When
you play football overseas, there's a stark contrast between the

(01:08:43):
way it looks over there and the way it looks here.
In the NFL. Because of that, and because of the
fascination with it, man, it's easy for the NFL to
go intoe any foreign country and say, hey, we're going
to put a game. Put on a game here, and
it'll sell out quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:08:57):
I knew you'd have the answer. How did I know that?
I knew? Who do you have the answer to that?
I'm trying to figure that out, okay. And also, speaking
of answers at NFL dot com, you with that I
didn't forget you wrote about this week and you said
that the biggest wildcard of twenty twenty five. I can't
believe you said JJ McCarthy. Tell me, explain, Explain your
logic why JJ McCarthy will be the NFL's biggest wildcard

(01:09:19):
in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
But in Minnesota, Vikings quarterback steps into a lineup that
look the team finished fourteen and three last year. On
the Sam Donald the team is notably better than it
was last season. Aaron Jones is more comfortable. Jordan Addison
is a year older. Justin Jefferson's always gonna be all
pro wide out. TG Hockinson should be healthy and ready
to go Pro Bowl caliber, tied end. New offensive line

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Beefyer Donovan Jackson comes over. Look, they're just good on
offense defensively. Look, this is a team that is upgraded.
They added Jonathan Allen to the mix. Urevon Hargrave joins
the team. Brian Flores gets more comfortable with better person there.
We saw what he was able to do with Andrew
van Ginkel, Jonathan Gernard, those guys coming over.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
So this is a more talented team.

Speaker 4 (01:10:08):
And JJ McCarthy, what you have as a guy who
is a winner, And I think people have to understand
what I mean by winner in college twenty seven to
one at Michigan, won a national title, has all the
intangible qualities that you look for. So even though his
inexperience no pro starts, twenty eight starts, is not.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
A ton in college.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
But even though his inexperience would appear to be a
hindrance to his success, I believe it's actually his poise,
his demeanor, and his athleticism that is going to allow
him to be really, really successful in Minnesota early on.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Okay, by you writing that you have put tons of
pressure on JJ McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
Eight, He doesn't care about what I think.

Speaker 4 (01:10:49):
JJ McCarthy is sitting in a up on a goal
post somewhere, sitting with his legs criss cross apple sauce, meditating,
focused on what he can control.

Speaker 3 (01:10:59):
He doesn't worry about the outside noise.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Okay, but fans read that and they're gonna put additional
pressure on him simply because, as you mentioned, this team
was a good team last a real good team last year.
Players are good and even better now and now all
of a sudden they got a new quarterback leading them.
He better lead them. I mean, he knows, he knows
the pressures on him, right, He's got to lead them
because they don't win as many games or more than

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last year. It's on him. It's on him unless someone
goes down at a big time injury.

Speaker 4 (01:11:30):
Yeah, I mean, people are gonna associate that with him,
but let's be honest. He's the first round pick. They
were gonna put that on him anyway. I mean, so
he should. He should welcome the expectations. He should welcome
the opportunity to prove to people that he is the one,
he is the guy that can get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
I think it's a good thing, not a bad thing.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
All Right. You know what, you really put the pressure
on it because you had like these five sneaky good games.
What does that mean? Sneaky good? I mean a lot
of people don't think they're good, but you said sneaky
good games.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
So what I wanted to do is not all the
games that everyone's gonna talk about, right, the games like
the kan City Chiefs and the Dallas Cowboys, the Marquee teams,
the primetime games and all that, But let's dig deeper
and see some underrated storylines that may not be getting
a lot of attention, but they're gonna have huge implications
for the season, potentially the postseason as well.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
Okay, and you picked up Monday, September the eighth, you
had JJ McCarthey at the Minnesota Vikings playing the Chicago Bears,
and obviously that's his debut. We want to see what
happens JJ McCarthy, what he does, and obviously with Chicago Bears,
they got the yeah Kayla offensive thing going on, right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:39):
Yeah, I want to see I want to see how
Kayla Williams does now that he knows how to watch
film evidently because evidently the Bears didn't teach him how
to watch film, and everyone is like, oh my god,
the Bears didn't prepare him to play. And I'm like, hey, dude,
you're the number one overall pick. You're a quarterback. You
should know how to watch tape. And if you don't
know how to watch raise your hand and ass like

(01:13:04):
it's ridiculous. The fact that he's talking about no one
showed him how to watch tape. To me, it's not
only an indictment in Chicago, Well what do.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
You do with usc, dude? Like you went the HEDD Trophy?
Like what, you just grabbed a ball and just went
out there and played.

Speaker 4 (01:13:17):
To me, I'm telling you, man, like he drives me
a little crazy as a franchise quarterback. And it was
one of the things that I worried about when he
was coming in, the immaturity or the I can't even
call it like a professionalism. I would just say, like
maybe the competitive immaturity sometimes it shows up and his
body language, the stuff that he says and all that. Yeah,

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so this is a huge game for him because everyone
expects the Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
To make a major jump.

Speaker 4 (01:13:44):
All of the Caleb Williams fans that believed that he
was a transcendent talent on part with Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
They want to see the jump.

Speaker 4 (01:13:52):
So this is major because we'll get a chance to
see how much he's improved from year one of year two.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
I got one more sneaky good a Bucket Brooks sneaky
good game. And that has to do with coaches more
so than the players. Monday, September the fifteenth, you got
the Charges Raiders because it's a coaches battle, right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:10):
Oh yeah, Pete Carroll Jim Harbaugh don't like each other.
They play nice now, but I remember no, no, no, no,
no no.

Speaker 4 (01:14:17):
I remember Pete Carroll wagging his finger in Jim Harbaugh's
face when Jim Harbaugh put it on him as a
significant underdog at Stanford, they beat the breaks off of
sc and in fact, I think that might have been
the game where they ran power like an old school
running play eighteen times in a row because they were
just beating them up.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
I can't wait for this to restart. To see those
guys go.

Speaker 4 (01:14:40):
We saw what it was like is very contentious when
Seattle and San Francisco would battle when they were both
manning the Niners and Seahawks, respectively.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
To now take it to the Charges and Raiders. Oh
this is good. This is salcy. I like this one.

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
There we go, sneaky good with Bucky Brooks. There we go.
He is Bucky Brooks on Andy Freeman, by the way,
thumbs up, thumbs down.

Speaker 1 (01:15:00):
We call it yay n a.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
You know what it's next, yay n a coming right
up e eleven minutes now before the top of the hour.
He is Bucky Brokes up Andy Furman, and we are
Fox Sports Sunday of Fox Sports Radio Life for the
Fox Sports Radio Studios. All right, Patty, are you ready? Okay,
let rock those brains, gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (01:15:21):
These stories need an answer.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
I think we need a ruling on this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
It's yay or nay. Oh I am ready.

Speaker 6 (01:15:29):
Andy.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
It is time to play.

Speaker 7 (01:15:31):
What about Bucky? What about Bucky? Buddy of course too.
It is the morning, guys, It is the morning gentlemen,
Bucky Andy, we are ready to rock and roll. It's
time to play the ya's and hear it for the nays.
All right, it's time to go.

Speaker 5 (01:15:45):
Here's let's go here, guys, the WNBA commissioners say Cayten
Clark is the most popular athlete in America?

Speaker 1 (01:15:54):
Yay or nay? Andy Furman, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
That's a difficult question. Shit, maybe the most uh pop?
Maybe the most unpopular.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
I'm gonna say Nay. I don't think she's the most popular.
I just cannot believe that she's the most. Obviously, the
wib A commission's going to say that, I don't think
she's the most popular athlete in Americans Nay.

Speaker 3 (01:16:15):
I don't know, man, I think she might be the
most popular athlete in America. I'm being honest with you, like.

Speaker 4 (01:16:20):
Just the Midwestern love, how she built up de fan
them from I and how they continue to follow her.
I man, it's hard to find someone who has a
following like that. You look at the NBA.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
Who's the player? Yeah, I think Caitlyn Clark might be
that ship.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah the wait, wait, just let's stick with this for
a second. Let's think about different sports right now. Who's
popular in football? I can't even think of who might
be the most popular guy in football?

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
Really, Mahomes, I mean Mahomes, I don't know, you think maybe, Yeah,
maybe Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
I was gonna say, Brock Purty the last guy, the
last guy drafted, and he's kind of done well.

Speaker 4 (01:16:56):
He's not popular like like Caitlyn.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
I mean, okay, called NBA. Who's who's the NBA popular?
I don't know, lebron and.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
And man, but not not universally celebrated base Moon.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
You got any funny show?

Speaker 3 (01:17:14):
Hey show name show?

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:17:16):
Otani can't speak English?

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
How could it be popular? I mean really, I.

Speaker 3 (01:17:20):
Mean, I like he's popular even though he can't.

Speaker 4 (01:17:23):
Maybe I'm a little jaded because I'm here in La,
but I mean, he has a lot of popularity.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
Other than that, Maybe you're right, maybe it is Kaitlin Clark.
I can't believe it, though I have to believe.

Speaker 5 (01:17:34):
I'm kind of with Caitlin Clark being the most facular.

Speaker 2 (01:17:37):
I'm with it. Of course you won't. You know what,
of course you have no hackydomphings. Take a stand, take
a stand, data stand. I'd say, yay, all right, guys.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
So the NFL is considering, at least for twenty twenty six,
a new playoff format where teams would be seated in
playoffs based on their winning percentages.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
Yeah, your nay, Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:18:00):
Explain to me based on their winning percentages, like instead
of just doing the divisional rounds, the divisional title means nothing. Yeah,
I think that's stupid. I think that's dumb. There has
to be something for the division winner. And if you
don't win your division, so be it be a wildcard
team improved the best that you're great. It happened last
year when in Minnesota Vikings they're fourteen and three, too bad,

(01:18:21):
too sad win the division. So I think there has
to be a way that you reward division winners.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
Well, I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say nay, because
I would still say what is the division has to matter.
It still matters because it will guarantee a team of
spot in the playoffs, but it just doesn't guarantee a
team a home playoff game.

Speaker 6 (01:18:39):
Maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Oh my gosh, like what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Like have some hanky down, some hanky down?

Speaker 5 (01:18:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
And oh boy?

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Okay, okay, go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
All right, next, all right?

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
Speaking of playoffs, guys, it seems the NBA playoffs have
been going on from can we decide the eight best
teams then and kind of go to and have a
go too many teams dilute the playoffs in all sports.

Speaker 1 (01:19:09):
Yay or nay, Andy, Yay? Too many.

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
This NBA playoff thing has been going on this last summer.
It's unbelievable. That never ends. I mean, you take a breath.
All of a sudden, the Knicks win. They're playing Indiana.
Now another step? That's enough for ready? Really? You playing
eighty two games? Doesn't that prove something? I remember back
in the day, sixteen teams Major League Baseball eight and eight.
They got a winner, one in the American winner and

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the other the national play for the World Series, and.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
Away we go.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
It's crazy. It's all about the money. It's all about
the money.

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
Now it is all about the money. But no, I
think the more teams the better. I like having to
Brenda Gauntlet to be able to get to the champion.
You got to earn the right to be the titleist.
And so I'm okay with them bringing more teams. It
gives everybody a chance.

Speaker 5 (01:19:55):
All right, final Final one Final Yeah or nay? With
well North Carolina under Bill Belichick's rule, gain a bull
status next season, Yeah or nay, Bucky.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Yes, Yes, yes, yes they're making it, Yes, yes they
will and you know what, you never get a guess
who took a shot at the goat that that's so
much more. Next up, all right, here we go, someone
took a shot at the ghost at the go And
by the way, what exactly is a distraction? We'll get
to that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody.

(01:20:28):
This is Fox Sports Sunday at Fox Sports Radio. He's
Bucky Brooks and Mandy Firmanent. We're broadcasting live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, and away we go. Bucky, there's
a lot of problems, questions, controversy, all this going on
on the campus of your school, your proud alma mater,
the University of North Carolina. Are you shocked, are you upset,

(01:20:50):
are you disappointed? Or do you not care at all?

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:55):
I think there's a lot of noise on the outside
just because it's the off season. What I do know is, look,
they've completely flipped a roster. You have one of the
greatest coaches that we've ever seen in the NFL making
his way down to the collegiate game, and I trust
that he's going to figure it out. The stuff that
is being discussed about his girlfriend look, part of it

(01:21:15):
is the age disparity between Bill Belichick and that. The
other part of it is Bill Belichick is Bill Belichick,
and we're seeing him in a light that we haven't
seen him in. He's been more open, more out there.
See certainly he has made him edgy in terms of
pushing the envelope in terms of him being out. We've
seen the pictures of them at Halloween, the Mermaid, the yoga,

(01:21:37):
the other stuff. But a lot of stuff that is
being talked about with her. I think if you really
explore and talk to a lot of people about their coaches,
like their significant others play a major role in what
they do, whether it's helping them organize their affairs, putting
things together, having ideas to contribute to the program, those

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things are commonplace. I just believe because of his profile
and because of the age difference between him and her,
it has really got a lot of attention, and I
understand why he squatches it in interviews.

Speaker 3 (01:22:10):
In those things, it doesn't have to discuss it.

Speaker 4 (01:22:13):
You don't hear other people other coaches discussing their wives
on a daily basis. When it comes to the interview,
I just think it's look part of the Bill Belichick thing.
Everyone is making it a bigger dealer, and it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:27):
I think it's ridiculous, I really do. I think it's
much ado about nothing. And I hope he shuts them
all up. I hope. I would love to have seen
Bill say, you know what, leave me alone or stick it.
But whatever. I mean, he's gonna win. And if they
doesn't win, blame me, and I know he will. But
if he doesn't win, they're gonna blame it on Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
They will.

Speaker 2 (01:22:43):
They'll say, well, he spent too much time, right, that's
the way life is. I mean, get off his back.
What's is stupid? But I'm gonna say this. We hear
the term distraction all the time. A player is a distraction. Okay.
Last year in Cincinnati, the losing, the media type said
the losing was the result Jamar Chase's lack of a
new deal. He's stood on the sidelines not in his

(01:23:04):
uniform during practice because he didn't want to get fined.
But he went to practice in civi's and that was
a distraction. All I know is this. They're gonna blame
it this year if they lose on Trey Hendrickson. I
say bull bull, it's ridigulous. Players I think don't care
they play. And distraction as it were used for those
that never played the game, I think, I think maybe

(01:23:26):
I'm wrong. I say this because Cam Newton called Bill
Belichick and his galfriend Jordan Hudson are distraction to the
North Carolina football program. What do you think about this
term distraction? I think it's much ado about nothing, as
the term media people to use. I don't hear many
athletes use the term. The media people use it, or
the team lots a distraction, they don't care, they don't care.

Speaker 4 (01:23:49):
Well, I mean, I think it depends on the maturity
of the team because everyone can't handle things being chaotic
away from the field and still concentrate on being able
to get it done on the field. That is a
real thing, and in a perfect world, you would like
to be able to go about your business without having
to deal with distractions because now you can one hundred
percent lock in and focus on the task at hand.

(01:24:11):
I would say that the distraction part of it doesn't
necessarily relate to the players because I haven't heard North
Carolina players being asked about the situation where their coach
and his girlfriend. The only person who could be distracted
would be Bill Belichick himself, and he has far more
experience than enough skin in the game to kind of

(01:24:32):
know how to deal with all the stuff. Because remember
while with the Patriots they had to deal with spygate,
the flake gate, They've had to deal with the cutting
of several prominent players in the middle of the season
but continue to win and those things. If anyone can
deal with all the outside noise, it'd be Bill Belichick.
But Cam Newton is right, like, it could potentially be

(01:24:53):
a distraction if it impacts the players that are actually
going to be on the field right now, they're not
playing games. There's nothing that they're doing where it could
be a major thing to distract from their focus.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
But something that you certainly have to monitor.

Speaker 2 (01:25:07):
Okay, you played the game, have you seen anything like that?
And all the teams you played for that you could
use distraction or some sort of an incident that created
losing on the team.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
I mean, everybody goes through something. When I was in.

Speaker 4 (01:25:27):
Green Bay, I want to say it was either right
after the first Super Bowl or the second Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
You remember when.

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
Brett Favre and they had like the painkiller thing and
maybe you went to rehab and those things. But that
was an off season thing that kind of came up,
but it was very hush hushed, quiet about what it was,
what he was doing, how he's away or whatever like
that potentially could cause a bit of a distraction, but
the team was so.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Mature and older that it didn't really matter. But like,
that's the biggest thing that I can think of.

Speaker 4 (01:26:02):
There was a bit controversial in the midst of the season,
Like we have some things in Kansas City with the team,
Derek Thomas and Marty and those things, like little things
that might have been maybe local distractions, but nothing that
was major that really impacted us on the field because ultimately, man,
when you get to the field, you got to lock

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in and play. And there are a lot of people,
a lot of players who've always been able to kind
of juggle and handle multiple things going on. They've been
able to find kind of piece amid the chaos. It
just depends on the emotional maturity of the player and
the really the collective of the team.

Speaker 3 (01:26:39):
If they're mature, they can handle anything that comes their way.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
Okay, you talked about the potential of distractions when you
were a player. I was the pr guy of the
Ford Lord of Dale Strikers in the North American Soccer League,
and we had one of the greatest players in the world.
May he rest in peace, George Best. George Best liked
to drink and he'd go on binges and for days
no knew where he was. I don't think he recalled.

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I don't think he ever missed the game, but there
were times I used to go I'll never forget this.
Craig Barnes covered our team from the Fort lorda Dale News.
I'd go out with Craig driving around the neighborhood to
find out where George was. Couldn't find them. He just
was never around. He was hungover, he was on a binge,
all right. I never saw that as a distraction for

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the team. We did well, we made the playoffs, but
I never saw George's lack of being there because I
think the players either just continue with their business where
they said, well, that's George being George. He'll be here,
he'll show up, and he did. He showed up for
the game, doubt, no doubt about it.

Speaker 6 (01:27:38):
He did.

Speaker 2 (01:27:39):
So I think it's overused. It's a term that media
people use who never ever experienced being around the team,
playing the game, or working with a team, with traveling
with a team. They don't know. It's an easy term
to throw out there. Oh, well, Jamar Chase wants a contract.
Team loss. Oh it's hurting the team.

Speaker 6 (01:27:58):
No it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:27:59):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
They'd love to see Jamar play, but they have their
own business to worry about, right, That's what it is.
So I asked you the question, exactly what is a
distraction in sports? What may cause one an arrest? Maybe
I don't know what's a distraction.

Speaker 4 (01:28:14):
I would say anything that really seriously disrupts the schedule,
anything that requires the team to spend more time on
the issue rather than game planning and preparing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:27):
Anything that that that that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:29):
Just kind of I would say, just disrupts the rhythm
and the flow of the culture of the environment.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
That would be a distraction.

Speaker 4 (01:28:36):
Now, there have been several teams that have been able
to handle any disruption without it being an issue. The
best coaches prepare their teams to deal with the disruptions
that may have that may come along the way. You
talk to your team like, hey man, it's not always
going to be peaches and cream. We're gonna have to
be able to deal with some tough stuff. And then
when the tough stuff happens, they don't put an an

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order amount of tension on it. They address it and
then they move on, and it has to be that
they don't dwell on it. They say like, hey, this
is what it is. We have to deal with this situation,
but that will not stop us from winning. They don't
give the players an easy way out when it comes
to that. And I think you have to have a
great relationship with your players, but you have to be

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tough and stern and very focused to be able to
get them to play through some of those things that
could be term distractions.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
All right. Colin Cowherder's on Fox Sports Ready at Noon
here on many of these Fox Sports readio affiliates. He
taught to Julian Ellman the other day and Julian Edelmann
told him what he thought a distraction was. Julian, go
tell him.

Speaker 1 (01:29:40):
Yeah, it is a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:29:42):
The number one thing we used to talk about all
the time in New England was distractions.

Speaker 2 (01:29:48):
Let's not make distractions.

Speaker 8 (01:29:50):
The game's already as hard as it is to prepare
for to play, to coach, and you know, regardless of
what her role is. Jordan, Yeah, I thought he got
an unfair public opinion on the whole thing, because that
happens all the time. Sure, time we're doing behind the
scenes this that you got someone who represents you, they're

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going to jump in.

Speaker 1 (01:30:12):
But now that it's gained in snowballed to what it's.

Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
Become right now where we're talking about it three weeks later,
it's becoming a distraction.

Speaker 1 (01:30:20):
So that's what I'm sure, that's what we all think
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:30:24):
This is becoming a distraction. We gotta practice what we
preach here. Interesting Julian Edelman talking to Colin Coward here
on Fox What's Radio earlier this week. Now getting back
to Cam Newton, and I don't even know why he's
getting into the mix yere, but he says, you're talking
more about on his TikTok, he said, we're talking more
about Jordan Hudson. They're talking about who is the starting
quarterback in North Carolina. You can't name me three players

(01:30:46):
in North Carolina's roster right now besides Jordan Huston. Look,
you can't name three players on Miami of Florida's roster
right now. I mean it's ridiculous. You know, it's something
to talk about during a time of the year when
news is so much slow. Let's face it, it's somewhat
slow right now. And look, Jordan's twenty four and Bill
is what seventy three? What if Bill had a seventy

(01:31:08):
year old woman, would that be a distraction? I don't
think so. Why the hell is Jordan a distraction? I
don't get it. I mean, are people jealous? I mean,
guy's got a life. Let him live his life, all right.
She's helping the program. I read stories right now that
North Carolina has to hire a PR firm for her.
I mean, she's handling the social media. He wants her

(01:31:31):
to be involved. I think she can help recruit players
because he's not maybe adapt at social media as much
as she is. She could relate to the kids at
that age. Maybe I'm crazy, I mean nuts about that, really.

Speaker 3 (01:31:45):
I mean, look, I think there are a lot of
things at play with it. Right.

Speaker 4 (01:31:51):
I'm telling you the age thing is whatever, because some
people will find it creepy, right, seventy three, twenty four,
whatever it is whenever they met or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
We've seen it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:59):
But we've seen We've seen very successful men at that
age have young women that are their girlfriends or wives
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
But it's just different because.

Speaker 1 (01:32:09):
Share so much.

Speaker 2 (01:32:10):
Your boyfriend right doesn't share have one?

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Yeah, yeah, but I want to make it what about.

Speaker 4 (01:32:15):
I would say that we have seen more men kind
of engage and that kind of relationship than women, but
it happens. I think the big part of it is
Bill Belichick has been so closed off, so show private
about so much of who he is and what he's about,
think about the small short answers that he gives, and
so when people have seen this side of him, he

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is different in terms of what he shared.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
But part of that difference is he wasn't coaching last year,
so we've seen more of him.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
More of this is out there. They're prominently out there.
She has some sassiness to her. We saw the poses
with the rings, and so she's kind of brought him
out of his shell a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
So it's different. And I mean, let's be honest.

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
I mean, we live in a hot take society where
everyone can weigh in on opinions, and sometimes your partner
is subject to be weighed in on and right now
he has given the football world and the outside gossip
world a lot of fodder to chew on just because
of the age and the fact that she ran for
Miss Maine. There's just a lot of stuff around it,

(01:33:18):
and because people perceive her to be I would determin
it strong in terms of injecting herself into certain things.

Speaker 3 (01:33:26):
Some people don't like that.

Speaker 4 (01:33:28):
Some people prefer to have it, prefer to see the
woman in a very quiet, subservient role.

Speaker 3 (01:33:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:33:35):
I think look, I don't think this is any different
really than some of the stuff that we've heard from
other coaches. Miss Terry was very involved with the Alabama
program with Nick Saban and not saying that they're the same,
but like there have been people who've had their significant
other player a major role in what they do.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Interesting. Now, Cam Newton comes back and says on according, now,
now you have that same situation with this sixteen year
old that you're trying to recruit and you got to
talk to his mama, and he says, it's not a
good look. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?
I mean, you know what the good look is. Belichick's
gona open up his wallet. That's the good look. If
a kid get money is gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:34:14):
Go I mean, but there is something to that because
here's what you also got to remember. Down in the South,
North Carolina is in the heart of the Bible Belt, right,
and so people will talk about values and family values.
There will be some that will be turned off by
that because you're talking about a fifty year age gap
between man and woman. There would be some people that
it's a little cringe cringey in terms of, like, I

(01:34:38):
don't know, it's a little creepy. So that might turn
some people off. It's not gonna turn to everybody off,
but it may turn some people off. So to be
a handful of families that might be turned off by
that relationship because that coach is still.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Gonna be viewed as a mentor to the kid.

Speaker 4 (01:34:51):
And so as they evaluate Bill Belichick's quote unquote character,
some may not see him as being like the right
fit for their kid. But look, it's going to be
a part of the conversation for some, but for others,
they'll worry about more, how can he help my son
get to the next level as a player as a person.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
Okay, question, now you played for North Carolina. Let's put
you and your family in this situation, Bill Belichick's to
coach situation, you still got Jordan coming to your house?
Would that affect you? Would that affect would your parents
tell you, son, I don't think you had to go
there with him as coach.

Speaker 4 (01:35:27):
No, because I think verse one of the university would
have been like he in terms of like the academ reputation,
those things. But also I'll say this, like the fact
that he's been an a time Super Bowl winner six
times as a head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:35:41):
He knows the NFL game. If you have.

Speaker 4 (01:35:43):
NFL aspirations, why would you not want to play from
someone who knows it like that? Look, that was a
big calling card for Nick Saban in terms of knowing
how to get you to play at the next level.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
Why wouldn't you do the same?

Speaker 4 (01:35:56):
To me, I see this as a situation where like
North Carolina is trying to follow the Alabama blueprint that
was established by Nick Saban, who had said he learned
a lot of what he did at Alabama from his
time at Bill Belichick.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
So to me, I'm excited to see what it looks like.

Speaker 4 (01:36:13):
All of this is just conversation until we get to
the real part of it, which is when the ball
starts at the end of August, let's see what the
team looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
I'll tell you what's worse. And maybe I'm crazy. When
Urban mine was coaching Jacksonville and the team played and
he remained and he went to some bar after and
he was like, you know, schmoozing around there. I'm not
going to go in particulars. That to me was worse
than what Bill Belichick is doing. Right now, you remember that, right, I.

Speaker 4 (01:36:38):
Do remember that, And look the whole thing with Urban
or whatever, and I'm not going to be a hypocrite
and say like, oh, what Urban did was wrong and
what Belichick doing is right, like all of it. The
only thing that I would say when it came to Urban,
where Urban's mistake was was one the lack of acknowledgement
when the team. When he got pressed on it, She's
just say like, hey man, look here's what I did.

(01:36:59):
But the bigger mistake was in the pros, you got
to travel with your team. The captain has to go
down with the ship. So if he is going to
eventually go back to Cincinnati and hang out with whatever
he's doing, like he has to fly with the team.
Then the next morning. He can get on the first flight,
smoke and to go back. But what you can't do
is let the plane leave. The team goes on its own.

(01:37:22):
You tell them one thing and then you're hanging back.

Speaker 3 (01:37:25):
You can't do that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:27):
Look, the team is the team, and everyone understands that
there are different types of players and personalities and character
types on the team. But as a team, you got
to rock with the team and then on your own time,
you do whatever you do on your own time. That's
how professional sports operates. He made a mistake when he
didn't go with the team, and then when he failed
to acknowledge whatever the transgressions were or whatever however people

(01:37:50):
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with the squad, and so that's where he lost some
credibility from the team. Outside of that, I won't say
who cares who gears.

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and we are live right now from the Fox Sports
Radio studios. We're going to have the Blame game coming
up about twelve minutes or so from now. Now. I
want to get back to these games that you talked
about that are sneaky good to watch. All right, I'm
gonna go back to I think it was week seven
you had to Rams and you're Jacksonville Jacks. All right,

(01:40:02):
tell me about why that's a game that I shouldn't
miss a week seven.

Speaker 4 (01:40:07):
Well, it's a game that you don't want to miss
for a few different reasons. Anytime you have kind of
like the teacher pupil situation, you always want to see
how that is going to turn out. Does the pupil
learn from the teacher and become a better version of
the teacher. And so with Sean McVay and Liam Kahn,
that's the dynamic that you have Shammy Vay being the
head coach, being an office of wizard, Liam Khan served

(01:40:30):
a few different roles up under him, So you have
that dynamic how is it going to play out on
the field, but it's also off the field.

Speaker 3 (01:40:36):
Less Need being the general manager.

Speaker 4 (01:40:38):
James Gladstone, general manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars, worked hand
in hand with less Need to build that roster.

Speaker 3 (01:40:45):
So how do they basically create rams East and what
does that look like.

Speaker 4 (01:40:49):
Well, right around the middle of the season, we'll begin
to see how that's beginning to crystallize. And it's a
measuring stick game for the Jaguars as they're looking at
who they want to be compaired to a team that
will be used as their muse the team that they
want to emulate.

Speaker 3 (01:41:04):
In those things.

Speaker 4 (01:41:05):
And then the final thing is by about week seven,
Travis Hunter, the experience should be fully vetted out.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Now we have an opportunity to know what he is
as a.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
Two way player. He's probably playing more on each side
of the ball, and what kind of impact. So there
are a lot of different things in play where you
have an opportunity to kind of see this as a
checkpoint for the Jaguars, but also as the Rams, who
should be one of the best teams in the NFL
next year.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
All right, I hear what you're saying. You know, you
got your list. I'm going to go back to your
list momentarily. But I got some teams that I think
should have been maybe highlighted more so in prime time
and see if you agree. One of those teams I
think is the Washington command Is when you got a
guy like Jayden Daniels, an up and coming star in
the National Football League, I think the Washington Commanders should

(01:41:52):
be on Prime Time a lot more than they are.
I think they're only on once. I think they're only
on I haven't checked, but I gotta believe Washington should
have been on there two or three times just because
of Jade and Daniels. You know, you got to look
at the future of the league and these are the
guys that are going to carry the league down the road.

Speaker 4 (01:42:10):
Look, you're right, and you do want to see them
show j Dames because Jade Dames is a stud and
we talked about star quarterbacks and star driven league. He
has all the makings to be a potential superstar at
that level. So you would like to see him have
more opportunities to kind of showcase this stuff and do that.

(01:42:30):
Maybe we will get that. It's a matter of time.
It's a matter of time. Doesn't matter of time. Like
everyone loves him and can acknowledge how good he is.
It's just a matter of letting us see him more.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
All right. You did mention this team early on saying
that JJ McCarthy is going to be like the sleeper,
the guy to watch. With the Minnesota Vikings coming this year,
they need to be on primetime. Will this year you
want to see that. That's the question that has to
be answered. And I think they're going to be following
JJ McCarthy all year long. There are a lot of
scrutiny almost week to week to see what the Vikings do.

(01:43:05):
It's gonna be all on his shoulders. I mean quarterbacks says,
you know, get pressure, tons of pressure. But the point
is he may beginning even more so a coming off
an injury, be what they did last year.

Speaker 3 (01:43:17):
Yeah, I mean there's gonna be a lot of that.
There's gonna be some of that under pressure. How does
he how does he get this done? How does he
handle it?

Speaker 4 (01:43:25):
Uh? Does he does he show the improvement quickly as
a first time starter. And remember he is someone who
hasn't played a lot, but he was.

Speaker 3 (01:43:35):
Picked in the first round.

Speaker 4 (01:43:36):
There were a lot of people that are like, whoa,
they're gonna take him early. That's kind of early to
take him that kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:43:42):
So we'll see how it goes. But I'm excited to
come to see it all play out. All right.

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Uh, you mentioned Week two. I think they're playing the Texans.
I'm talking about the Chicago Bears. Maybe talk about the Bears.
I mean, they got a tremendous brand, and I hate
to use that term, but it's true. People notice the Bears.
You know, they got a good brand, but they got
bad football. And I do believe they need to be
on TV more because there's gonna be a soap opera

(01:44:09):
this year. There's gonna be the arrival of number one pick,
which I have from twenty twenty four. Caleb Williams, what
he did, what he said with that book situation. I
think that he's gonna be in Sunday Night Football Week
two against the Texas. But they need to be on
more because what he did, what he said, what is
that going to do to the makeup of the team
this year. I'd like to see the Chicago Bears more

(01:44:29):
so on primetime.

Speaker 4 (01:44:33):
M I mean, I think there's a lot of attention
around the Bears, and I think they everyone is excited
not only about Kayleb Williams and the growth that he
can make under Ben Johnson, but how quickly is this
team gonna be up to formed.

Speaker 3 (01:44:50):
They are people that believe the Bears are gonna be right.

Speaker 4 (01:44:53):
There challenging the Detroit Lions and those things. Look, it's
gonna be fun to watch it all play out because
everyone will acknowledge that the NFL is better when the
Bears are good. Well, this is a chance we need
to be really, really good on a coach that is
really talented.

Speaker 2 (01:45:09):
Uh huh. Now you're going to say, what am I
talking about? But I do believe that even though this
team is going to be on Week three on Thursday
Night Football against the New York Jets, I think the
New England Patriots need to be on primetime a little
bit more. Want to see what's going on. I want
to see the growth of this team right now new
coach Mike vrabel. I think that the Patriots right now
need to be kind of highlighted a little more. I

(01:45:31):
think that primetime football should not only be for the
big names that Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo,
things like that. They need to have teams that are
up and comers to people could get a view. We
see what's happening, what are they doing. Maybe I'm wrong.
I understand that people who worked on the TV business
they want eyeballs attached to the game. But I think

(01:45:53):
that anytime you put a primetime game on, and there
have been some terrible games over the years on Thursday
Night with Amazon, people still watch. They really do well.
Amazon's a different animal because you had to pay for it.
But other than that, if they're free and it's prime time,
people are gonna watch.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
It one hundred percent.

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
Like people are going to watch it like if you
put it on for free, like they I mean, they're
gonna find a way to get it done. I just
think it's a matter of, like the exposure. How can
you generate the exposure, How can you put it all
out there so everyone can get what they want from it.

Speaker 3 (01:46:27):
Look, the game is great.

Speaker 4 (01:46:29):
Having opportunities to see the game is even better on
multiple platforms. So I'm excited for all of it, and
I think there are a lot of people they're excited
to see it expand.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
All right, last year, the Carolina Panthers were the only
team that didn't make the cut for a primetime game.
All right, I guess the only time they were on
it maybe was it last year? Was they play the Giants?
Was that in Berlin? They may have been. I don't
think they were on. No, they didn't make it. I

(01:47:00):
do believe though, with Bryce Young, I think people again
want to see the growth of Bryce Young. I think
Carolina needs to be on primetime. I really believe that.
I think they got screwed. I just don't want to
see the same teams week in and week out. And
you know, the Jets are on. They're on prime time
so because I think it's the New York market, not
so much because they're good, because they're not good. But
I think the Jets are on there. I get it

(01:47:21):
when they were on last year or two years ago. Now,
really when Brett Farb was the quarterback and then it
got hurt. I think that was a storyline. But other
than that, the only reason the Jets are on because
of the ratings and the new York market. That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:35):
I mean there is a lot to that, right, There's
a lot to the marketplace, and what commands a lot
of attention. Those cities certainly are the biggest markets, and
so they're going to draw big numbers when their teams
are playing. And if you're banking on the Jets or
whatever being good, that's why you want to put them

(01:47:55):
on there. Let the world see. Let the big Apple
right kind of have its moment. And right now we're
seeing with the Knicks. The Knicks are exciting and mgg's
going crazy and all this stuff. And so we know
when New York is good, they come out. And even
the obnoxious nature of some New Yorkers, like, we appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
It plays out.

Speaker 2 (01:48:14):
We back off a little bit, back off a little bit.

Speaker 5 (01:48:17):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:48:17):
I'm just saying, like New York, I mean, y'all kind
of think everything is invented in creating revolves around New York.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
Like that's that's all well.

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Speaking of that, speaking of the obnoxious I watched the
news last night, some of the news reports, and after
the celebration was going on in the streets, they showed
some video of people on top of lamp posts would you,
in your right mind, sober or not ever climb on
top of a lamp post. I would never, even if
I was off of a bet. Two things I would
never do. You know, if I was in a baseball

(01:48:47):
game and someone dared me to go out, maybe if
even for a thousand dollars to streak on the field,
which no one does anymore, I would never do that.
And number two, I would never climb on a lamp
post or maybe even go on a goalpost at a
football game. And so libration. Those are the things I
would not do. Why people do that? You know, everybody
beats to a different drummer. I just would not do it.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
I mean, yeah, I mean it's certainly a different approach
to everything. Like if that's how you're gonna get down,
not my approach, not my tack. But look, I find
it funny just when people, like when people go and
tear down the goal posts and all that other stuff
like that wouldn't be my flavor. But some people, when
they win, they kind of associate winning with destruction. Hey,

(01:49:31):
we won, let's tear some stuff up. It's kind of
a part of that's kind of part of the deal,
all right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
The last game that I think should be shown on
the network. And it's on the NFL network, so this
is a big one. A. I think it's primetime. Yet
it's a Sunday night, your Jacksonville Jags. I think they're
playing in London that night against the Rams, and I
think it's like a teacher pupil game with the coaching staff,
I mean the coaches. I mean, is that a big

(01:50:00):
drawing factor? I think when fans watch the games, I
don't think they even know. I mean they watched the play.
I'm watching this game because I want to see Travis Hunter.
I want to see how many snaps he takes playing
both ways? And have you heard anything about that? Because
you're involved, you're on the inside with Jacksonville. You know,
is it his call, the coach's call, or maybe they
don't want to risk injury. They're not going to make

(01:50:22):
him play both ways? How's that going to work?

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:50:25):
He absolutely is playing both ways. And what they're doing
is they're slowly trying to introduce him to both sides.
So for instance, that Rickie Minni caamp Be spent all
of his time on offense, and then as they got
to the regular workouts, they begin to use him on defense,
and they have a plan in place for how to
utilize him on both sides, and that might require him

(01:50:46):
to spend a few days on offense at practice a
day or two on defense at practice, so we can
understand both parts of the game plan. But there is
no world in which I can envision the Jaguars just
putting him on one side of the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:50:57):
And saying, hey, this is all you're doing. Talented to.

Speaker 4 (01:51:03):
He has too many big play qualities to not allow
him to kind of play both. It's just a matter
of how do you set it, how do you kind
of plan it out so he doesn't wear himself out
over the course of the season.

Speaker 2 (01:51:16):
And that Sunday game, October the nineteenth will be in London, England,
NFL Network, nine thirty am Eastern Times. So right after
I get off the air here, I'll be able. I guess,
Will you be doing the show with me that Sunday?
I'm sure you will, right and then from there to
go right to you'll be in London, Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:51:33):
No, yeah, I'll be in London. I don't know. We
have to figure that out.

Speaker 4 (01:51:36):
Like I think we can use some of the stuff
that we used, like remotely over there, like got to come. Yeah,
we got to figure that one out. I think we
can do it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
Great. That will be wonderful. I mean you'll be in
London in the game and with the game will be
kicking off for a half hour right after we go
off the air. That'll be tremendous. But I'll bid would
it be if Travis Hunter pulls a pick six as
you write against Matthew Stafford that day on National TV?

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
That needed to be great? Can can't get much better
than that. I'll be excited about that.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
Okay, I want to do this now. I want to
start some uh yeah, some trouble. That's what I don't
let's use the term trouble because when I when I
see the media in the greatest Cincinnati area and they
go through the schedule, I think it's stupid. I'm not
doing that with you because I think it's dumb. They
see how many games are You don't like predicting, you

(01:52:23):
don't like it's a stupid It's a waste of time.
Two things in talk radio are a waste of time
and a crutch. Number one lists have picking schedules. It's
stupid because injury whatever it doesn't work out and nobody
remembers it. It's a time killer. And the second thing,
which is a crutch our telephone calls. Really, people come
in off the street, they don't know what to talk about.

(01:52:44):
They give their phone number. And I've always said this,
I've told this the program directors. I hear guys that
are behind the microphone say, hey, how you doing. My
name is Joe Schmoe, and here's the number the call.
And I always tell a program director and they agree
with me. They say, why would a guy called there's
no reason to call? You say something that It really
gets under my crawl that you don't agree with dn call,
but just don't give out the number. But that story

(01:53:05):
for another day, all right, So they give out the
phone number, they're doing the schedule thing. I don't go
for that, I really don't. But you know, I look
at what's happening right now in the National Football League.
I think things are things are hot and heavy. There
really are. So that's what they do, all right? Do
you agree? You agree with that?

Speaker 5 (01:53:25):
Right?

Speaker 4 (01:53:26):
I mean I kind of agree with you on some
of it, but I mean it's somewhere It is fun though,
have a little fun there'll be a stick in the mud.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
I mean, come on, is what does it do a
pick up the schedule? Who's gonna win?

Speaker 4 (01:53:36):
I mean, like, come on, like it just provides us
with what else are we gonna talk about? Andy gives
us a chance to like burn some time, talk about it, speculate.
It's no different than everyone who obsesses over mock.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
Drafts, right, I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:53:50):
Okay, okay, And like.

Speaker 4 (01:53:52):
We're already doing mock drafts in twenty twenty six when
we haven't played a down of twenty twenty five. We
don't even have an idea of who potentially could hold
the number one overall pick.

Speaker 3 (01:54:06):
But that won't stop us from clicking in to see
what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:54:10):
But you know some of that is okay, But let
me let me drop the bomb. Right now, here's the bomb.
I say, I want to start some trouble. So the
media in the greatest Cincinnati area are going through the
schedule and then look at the Bengal schedule and they
look at the home openers, Ah, Jacksonville, that's a win,
all right. I want to start the problem. Right, it's
not a win. It's not going to be a win.

Speaker 3 (01:54:29):
Maybe you never know, you never know, maybe like so yeah,
you count.

Speaker 4 (01:54:34):
Everybody does that though, Like I look, I'll admit I've
gone through there and be like, okay, like chuck this
one up if you I just.

Speaker 2 (01:54:40):
Want to get to pass the info down to the
folks down to Jacksonville that the media in Cincinnati's already
keep putting up the trucking up on the left side
of the ledger. It's a win against Jacksonville when they
come to Cincinnati, all right. I don't think it's going
to be that easy.

Speaker 4 (01:54:53):
Well, I mean they might not. I mean it may
not be easy. Maybe some challenges or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
Like who knows the same team to New England this year, Yeah,
but that was last year. Different team, all right, we'll
see different teams. They might be better.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
Yeah, look at you so positive. I love you for that.
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Speaker 1 (01:55:38):
It's all your fault. It's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:55:41):
What's is all your fault? Maybe it's everyone's fault, the liar.

Speaker 1 (01:55:49):
That's there's the blame game, the blame game. Let's figure
out who to blame blame.

Speaker 2 (01:55:54):
I'm blaming you, he's all.

Speaker 5 (01:55:56):
I blame you today, Andy Lord, Well, you know what,
let's get into the blame game, guys. So let's take
it to the Colts here, guys. So the Colts attempt
at a little levity has gotten into a no laughing matter.
They compiled a video of number ten, Tyreek Hill on
the Miami Dolphins, who was swimming along before he stopped

(01:56:20):
by the coast guards. It was on their little schedule
released a little Minecraft walk and Tyreek Hill was the
dolphin actually on there. So they was stopped by the
coast guard in their little video. It was it was
involved in a little controversial incident with with Miami deputies
last September. That's what they're alluding to.

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
Who do you play, Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
You know what, It's amazing because the guy who did
it is not even going to guy blame. No one
knows who he is. Some clown who's at the social
media director of the Miami Dolphins. That guy should be hung.
He should be fired. It's embarrassing. You don't make fun
of somebody. I mean really, I mean the Colts. Excuse me.
You're not gonna know who he is because he's a
guy who probably works in the back room somewhere. Get

(01:57:03):
him out of it. It's embarrassing he did that. You
just don't do that to people at their expense. Make
fun of him, although I do that all the time.
But it's his fault. It's his fault.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
Dawn came down. It was fun like, like, why is
everyone so serious? It was a dolphin messed up by
the coast guard. I chuckled.

Speaker 3 (01:57:27):
Tyreek Keel said, hey, he didn't take any offense. Come down, it's.

Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
Fine, agreed. Tyreek was funny.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
Come on, yeah a little bit, Yeah, I will.

Speaker 1 (01:57:38):
All right.

Speaker 5 (01:57:39):
Well, guys, it's been thirty six years and Major League
Baseball finally reinstates Pete Rose after his death.

Speaker 1 (01:57:47):
Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 4 (01:57:50):
I blame the archaic ways that baseball thinks, particularly the writers,
in terms of who they put in and who they
keep out of the Hall of Fame. Look, he should
have been in the Hall of Fame long time ago
on his marriage. Glad they lifted this so he could
have an opportunity to get in. But you never know, though,
though those virtuous writers may not let him in as
a hit king.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
You know, you gotta blame the commissioners prior to Rob
manfor at least Manford had to hang it downs to
let him in, to reinstate him. Not that he's gonna
be in the Hall of Fame, but it's it's a start.
It's a start. He's at the starting line right now.
So I blame everybody who preceded preceded Rob Manford, including
the late Barchia Maddi.

Speaker 5 (01:58:27):
All Right, well, if the NFL is such a quarterback
driven league, guys, why isn't cam Ward in the Tennessee
Titans on any primetime TV games next season?

Speaker 1 (01:58:37):
Who do you blame, Mandy?

Speaker 2 (01:58:39):
Oh? Probably TV networks. They're too stupid to figure that
out there. Everybody wants to see what the first the
first pick of the draft was. But obviously Tennessee's a
small market and Tennessee's a bad football team, so they
figured no one's gonna watch. They're wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:58:52):
Who but I mean, they don't have any buzz about
the man.

Speaker 4 (01:58:55):
As much as cam Ward was celebrated as the number
one quarterback in the thing, he wasn't the star of
the class, all of the star power when with Shuduer Sanders,
if the Tennessee Titans had taken Shaduur Sanders for the
first overall pick, we can guarantee that it would have
been on This is about star power, not about necessarily
playing style or playing ability, and so that's why they're
not on prime time.

Speaker 2 (01:59:16):
That's why people listen to this show. We got star power,
Bucky Brooks, we got star power.

Speaker 1 (01:59:21):
Star power.

Speaker 5 (01:59:22):
Indeed, yes, game's overseas guys, so London, Brazil, Germany and Mexico.
Without any regard for the hometown fans who may miss
a home game in the NFL season for this coming
up this coming season, Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 4 (01:59:37):
Look, give me, I think it's fine. I think I
blamed the fans because they talked about how they couldn't
afford it.

Speaker 3 (01:59:41):
The tickets are so high.

Speaker 4 (01:59:42):
So what the NFL did is they took them overseas,
and when they sell those tickets, those stadiums sell out
in thirty minutes.

Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
That's why it's the complainers.

Speaker 2 (01:59:52):
Give me a break. I'm not complaining about that. You
know what, by season tickets, I'm gonna lose a home
game because of the pigs, the capitalists, the capitalistic society
that I want to expand and have the NFL worldwide global.
It's wrong. I buy a season ticket, I want to
see seven or eight games, or even nine games every year.
All right, countdowns next right here, Fox, stick with them

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