Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks Discuss College Recruiting, React To College Football Media Day, Kirk Cousins On Netflix's Quarterback's Show, And More!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Only the rich survive.
I will explain that in just about a minute. Good morning, everybody,
it's that time. It's Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
He's Bucky Brooks on Andy for me, and you know what,
we are broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
And away we go, and I got to introduce my guy.
He deserves a band, he deserves a red carpet.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
He's the guy.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
He has a bad bat front carrying my fat rear
end every single Sunday. He's my guy. His name is
Bucky Brooks. Hello, fuck, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm good Andy? What's going on?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Everything is great, Everything is wonderful, and uh, you know,
I get this thing here. I turned the radio one
during the week, I hear counting the day's fanfl three
weeks for the first game.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Why.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
It's a stupid question, but I'll ask you was You know,
I'm pretty stupid. Why is everybody get so excited for
the NFL? I'm thinking maybe because fantasy football and gambling.
I mean, really, I have a reason. But I want
to hear why are you telling me all these talk
show holds?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I can't wait and then when the season goes on
after the third week, they're bored. They're bored out of
their guard. They really are telling me, I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
I think it's the greatest sport.

Speaker 4 (01:13):
I think it captivates fan interest because you've seen so
many worse the first stories, everybody feels like their team
has a chance to immediately turn it around, no matter
how bad it was this previous season. They feel like,
I have opportunity to go back to the super Bowl.
And so it creates an unbelievable and sexual desire to
want to watch the game. And then when you factor

(01:33):
in fantasy football and gambling and all of those things,
I think it's the easiest sport to participate in those venues.
You know, from a fantasy football perspective, it's just easier
than baseball and basketball in terms of trying to keep
up with You have seventeen games, so you can do that,
and then the gabbling aspect, you know, prop bets and

(01:53):
all of the other things, like it is a game
that is made to bring the casuals in.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
That's there's so much interest in the sport.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Okay, And you answered the question for the sake of
the fans, the masses, okay, which I always think the
masses are asses anyway, But that's for the masses, the
big people out there.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
The fans.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
And that's a great answer, okay, my answer here. As
far as people behind the microphones who do talk show
hosts and things like that, sports guys, they can't wait
because it's easy. You know, you have all these topics
on the silver plot for you. That's basically what is.
The storylines are ridiculous. It's like a soap opera. And
right now, when I'm not going to say the sports

(02:30):
world is a little slow, I don't think it's slow,
but there's nothing really captivating. You know, it's WNBA season
now when you think about it, that's basically what it is.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Baseball. Maybe it's just too long.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Football obviously is meaningful, more meaningful because every game means
so much. But as far as the people who broadcast
and do these kind of shows, you've got to be
a little more creative. I think that you and I
are on Sundays, we really are. But other than that,
I turn the ready. I want to hear people talking
about their personal lives, which I don't really care about.
I really don't. I just don't care, you know, where
they go. Shoot, not being on the radio. I want

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to be entertained, you know, and they talk sports. But
that's another story for another day.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Now.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
I want to talk about my guy, all right, the
strange case of my guy, Jake. And I'm not talking
about Jake from State Farm. I've talked about Jake did
Jew from BYU. All right, that's the guy, Jake red Sluff.
What's going on with him? I mean, he's gonna withdraw
from BYU quarterback. He had the hell of a year,
you know, say what you want about it, but he
threw for almost three thousand yards twenty touchdowns. He's gonna

(03:29):
leave because there was a suspension because he was accused
in a lawsuit of raping a woman back in twenty
forty three, and it was dismissed and the parties jointly
agreed to dismith with the prejudice. But red Sluff's responds
said that he's gonna leave the BYU because he broke
the school on the code of no premarital sex. All right,

(03:49):
I get it. This school's got the article. But come on,
and they're gona suspend him for seven games. I mean
there are kids that do worse, worse in schools that
don't get suspend it at all. You know, the dui
is the speeding, the things like that. What and it
said it was consensual. I don't care if I mean
I get b YU. Maybe it's to a higher standard.

(04:09):
Is that it? But you know what, who play on
a bigger stage now because he's gonna transform to another school.

Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah, well, you gotta understand, b what you know how
to code is everything. And so when they make the
you know, the violation of the premarital sex thing is
as serious as any other egregious transgressions that you have
on that campus to any other campus.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
And they treated seriously.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (04:33):
You have to remember religious based school. They adhere to
the you know, the Book of Mormon and those things.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
And so.

Speaker 4 (04:40):
Look, the Latter Day says do not play around when
it comes to that. And this is not the first
incident that we've seen with b by you involved in
one of their star players. Years ago, they had one
of the best basketball teams in the country and right
before the NCAA tournament, Uh, they had to kick a
player to send suspend a player for a similar violation
like this, is what they stand on, and when you

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signed to go.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
There, you know what it is. You know what those
rules are.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
You understand the ethics and all the other stuff that
they expect you to abye by. And when you violate them,
it doesn't matter who you are, what your status is
in the program. You are going to serve a punishment
and these are the consequences that come with those actions.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
You're telling me that Jim McMahon didn't have problems when
he went to BYU. I mean, come on, really, think
I was a wild child.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
He was a wild child, and even back in the
eighties they had some issues and they talked about that,
like he was certainly wild when it came to it,
and he found a way to maybe get away with
some things that maybe he was doing. But I'm just
telling you as a scout who has been through there
on an annual basis multiple times throughout the year, like

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they stick to that, and it would sometimes you would
ask coaches like, well, how do you all attract certain kids?
How you're getting kids from LA and those things, and
the appeal there is one campus is beautiful to back
in the day and continue to be now, Like they
have a really good football program. And back then when
I was going through early two thousands or whatever, it

(06:10):
was about the passing game.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Now Sataki has done a great job.

Speaker 4 (06:14):
Colina Sataki, the head coach, has done a great job
of building it into a rough, physical football team. And
they went a lot and so you have that. Their
alumni based stretches from C to CEA and they do
a really good job of taking care of their players afterwards.
But you have to understand what they're about, and they
don't flinch when it comes to that.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
This is what they're about. This is what they've been
built on.

Speaker 4 (06:36):
No different than Liberty University in Virginia when it comes
to evangelical and that part of the religion. Whatever similar value,
similar things, they don't bend all those things.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Well, I will say this first of all. You know
you said about bringing them young. That's the school that
really has stayed the course through the years. I remember
when Leavelle Edwards was the football coach there. They always won.
They were always Okay, that's number one. Number two, you
forgot one religious school that I happened to work at,
and that was WARL. Roberts University. I was there for
two years and they had that had some codes. I mean,

(07:10):
I know we had to go to Chapel Services twice
a week and may he rest in peace to good
Reverend Or Roberts called me in his office and when
he hired because I had no idea I knew we
were on TV. When they hired me, they flew me
out there and I said, hey, got a great basketball team.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I want to work there.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
And I did.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
And he said, if you feel uncomfortable going to chapel
Services on Wednesday and Fridays, you know, you don't have
to go. But I went. You know, it's just something
I wanted to learn about. I went eleven to twelve
every Wednesday and Friday. The school shut down. You couldn't
turn the light on all the electricity was gone. So
and they had interesting guests and I never knew what
it was like to see them talking in tongues and
they brought snakes and sometimes it was it was interesting.

(07:45):
I wanted to see what it was like. And they
had they did have some rules. I mean, there was
no public display of affection. You know, you couldn't do that,
and there's no alcohol, things like that. But you know,
I don't think maybe I'm wrong. I don't think it
was enforced as heavily as today, because today, you know,
everywhere you go, everybody's got a phone and they picture,
and there's a camera and you could kind of, you know,

(08:06):
get busted on it, and you couldn't get busted back
in the day. And I'll tell you his story. That's
a true story. I didn't know about that. They didn't
really enforce it too heavily when they hired me because
I was the first and only Jew ever to work there.
And I went out one night. I was single, I
was young. I went out to one of the clubs
in Tulsa, and guess why. I bump into one of
the assistant basketball coaches. He comes over to me and

(08:26):
he says, do me a favorite. Don't tell anybody assume
me here. I said, what are you talking about? He says,
we're not supposed to be here, right. But we became
good budgs after that. We used to go out. But
I didn't know. I mean, as a matter of fact,
you know, I was a sports information guy over there
at or Roberts and I went out and we had
like these basketball calendars and they showed when the games
were I went to like every bar in Toulson put

(08:48):
those calendars in there. I didn't know that, you know,
they were very lenient to me. I think, I think
that I never really got in trouble at all Roberts.
But there were there were some rules, and I remember
there were some rules that were enforced that there was
a weight clause. I mean really and true. They yes,
they dismissed people from the school who were overweight. I mean,

(09:09):
really and truly.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
It was.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
It was crazy.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
I don't even know if you can get away with
that now, But back when I was there, you know,
if you were heavy, you know, they gave you a
warning and you had to go to the track, to
the indo a facility. It was. It was a different situation.
I'm not going to say a good, better and different,
but it was just different.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
I get that.

Speaker 1 (09:25):
But I was really shocked with this red slast thing.
Because he was so good. Sometimes he maybe break the
rules to keep a player like that.

Speaker 3 (09:34):
Oh no, no, no, no, no, you don't do that.

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Now, that's kind of like the program building one on one.
No one's bigger than the team, and you don't you
don't do that, like you don't change your rules or
started doing different things based on the talent of the player,
the level of the star player, because then what you
have is you don't have a culture that is really
about anything like it's a fly by night thing. I

(09:57):
actually can appreciate that by you stand and so firm
when it comes to their beliefs and their rules and
protocols and those things. And look, if you're gonna talk
about like we believe in X, Y and Z, and
then the first time you're a star player violates that,
you don't give them consequences, then what are you really about?

(10:18):
And so when you signed there, everyone knows you're gonna
do it. And what's gonna be interesting the basketball player?
They have the number one recruit in the country. His
name escapes me is DJ that is my or something
like number one. They paid him eight point two million
dollars to come. He's gonna be a one and done.
But it was a big deal for them to get him.

(10:40):
And how is he going to it here and comply
with the rules.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
That is the biggest.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Challenge because to my knowledge, he's not l Ees, he's
not a part of the Latter Day SAIS community, So
how is this going to work for him? Does he
have enough discipline to focus and lock in for a
year to take the money play at a high level
because they're running a pro style team to operate in

(11:07):
like a pro team. Can't he handle it? Is he
disciplined enough to do it? That's the meaning O A question?

Speaker 3 (11:14):
Interesting?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
You know, I want to I want to get a
little heavier, you know, pull a curtain back just a
little bit here, because you have someone who was not
a member of that faith or belief attending a school there,
and I wonder how that works out?

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Is it healthy?

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Is it good to say a Jew going to BYU
kind of offbeat? I remember watching him on TV where
that star at David around his neck, and I think
the kids loved him on the team. But you know,
sometimes you just feel you don't fit in. What is
it like having a white guy attending an HBCU school
a historically black college or uniform? I mean, is it healthy?

Speaker 2 (11:47):
Is it good? I'll give you an example.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
I mean, I mean.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
I love Willis Reed.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
May he rest in peace, because I did some work
with the Nicks when I was back there and Willis
was my guy.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
I loved that.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
And he went to Grambling and I applied for the
job and grambling the sports information back in the day,
and you know, I obviously didn't get it, but you know,
I'm just wondering what I have fit in there. Is
it okay to be kind of different in a sense
in the school that is going in a different direction.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Uh? Yeah, I think it is.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
If you actually look at hpc US baseball teams are
heavily populated with white and Latino players.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
You know the difference. Here's here's what I'll say.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
I would say maybe there's even more tolerance at hpcu's
than pwis when it comes to integration and minority like whatever,
the minority is, minority participation in those things.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
I don't see it as an issue.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
And as someone who does a lot with HBCUs when
it comes to covering UH football football games and All
Star games in those things, I've never seen it as
a problem. I've never seen it as an issue because
we even had white players show up in those games
and it's never been an issue.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
So I don't think it's that.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
And I think a lot of times, like on both sides,
like in terms of like the stigma that comes along
with it, I don't think it really exists. I think
in those things you can be whoever you want to be.
We've seen white coaches at HBCUs. We've seen I haven't
seen sports information director or athletic director, but for the

(13:23):
longest time, I think Charles Oakley played at Virginian Union
and they had a white coach for a long time
in basketball, and you've seen others. So I don't really
think it's as much of an issue as you would
maybe anticipate it would be at an HBCU.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
I'm glad to hear. I had no idea.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
I was just a good question I was going to
ask about are there white coaches at HBCU schools. I
didn't even know that there were, to be honest, I.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Didn't know that.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
Yeah, they absolutely are, Like absolutely, It's always been a
place of tolerance and being a acceptance in those things.
So it's never been an issue to my mind. In fact,
we've seen it. We've seen it play out. Hampton has
had white coaches in basketball before, so it's it's not
it's not been an issue. It's it's something that is uncommon,

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but it has happened, and it's happened without it.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
And I don't mean to bring this topic up because
it has nothing to do with it being a racist
individual and has something to do with, you know, staying
within your own skin. If you know what I'm saying.
I mean you you're you're an athlete and you know
what it's like and when you played football, and I'm
sure this is true, and I've seen it traveling with
sports teams more often than not. In the locker room,

(14:34):
everybody's wanted its family.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
They're friendly.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
But when the game is over, when they go out
to eat, you know, usually the blacks go out with
their group and the white squall with their group. And
that's basically it, right, isn't that the way it goes?

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Uh, there's a natural uh segregation. It's a competent that exists,
that exists within the things. So for instance, you know,
the dbs will go with the dbs and sometimes in
their room most of the dbs are black.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Well, i mean, let's be honest, like when we were.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Talking about football in specifics, football is seventy percent black minority.

Speaker 3 (15:06):
So when you go into a locker room and it's.

Speaker 4 (15:08):
Going to be a different faction of folks anyways, and
when you would separate it, a lot of times and
not being stereotypical like you would have the offensive alignment
which may be mostly white, or the quarterback rooms to
those things, and sometimes people hang with who they know
where they're at in those things, and that is not

(15:28):
I'll call racist or racism or whatever. There is a
certain comfort level or demographic and it's blended, right, So
it's not just hey, I got along with the guys
that look like me, but I'm also with the guys
that played my saying position and all of those things.
But I will say, and what's different because the locker
room is really interesting because the locker room was always

(15:51):
a place where everybody could coexist and get along, regardless
of the political belief, regardless of sexual orientation, regardless of
any things that would be the differences between us on
a team in that locker room, note of it really mattered.

(16:12):
It never really mattered, and you were able to have
conversations and debates and those things and play as a
team and treat that teammate like a brother.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
It's so different.

Speaker 4 (16:22):
Now outside of the locker room walls, but inside those
locker room walls, those issues never really became a factor,
you know.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
And it's a funny situation because the average Joe on
the street, he looks at athletes, maybe he looks down
upon them, white or black, saying that they're spoiled the
money that they make. I mean things like that. But again,
within that locker room, within the locker room walls, they
do get along so much better than people outside the

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locker room walls.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Think about that. I mean, that's what it's all about.
You just don't.

Speaker 1 (16:55):
You may have quarrels, you may have arguments regarding the game,
regarding the game, and Selvie would have been there.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I mean, you should have caught that pass. You you
run a wrong route, whatever it may be.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
But it's still more of a family inside that locker
room than the world we live in today when there's
so much hatred. And I don't want to start getting into
politics like that, but sports really is the is.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
The model, sports should be the model.

Speaker 4 (17:19):
Well, I would say the difference is even when you
do have differences, right, and you do have debates, because
we've seen teams have internal squabbles based on like political things, right,
like years ago, Malcolm Jenkins and Drew Brees and that
team had to be kind of like they had to
kind of have a healthy debate based on some stuff
that either Drew Brees said or intimated in those things.

(17:42):
But what happens normally in the locker room, you police
yourself or you're able to have those debates and eventually
squash it. But it doesn't mean that they never have
like those hard conversations or it doesn't get tense or
testy in the locker room, but it does mean that
you have enough maturity to move beyond it. And so

(18:03):
in the locker room you have that ability to debate, discuss,
and then move on. Or sometimes where we're currently at,
you really don't have that because you don't have a
willing and listening ear. You're not listening to the other side,
You're not listening to the conversation and debate, and then
you don't have the maturity to move beyond it and

(18:26):
move forward.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm with you right there.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
It's really well set and it's beautiful, and I think
that people should just take a hard look not just
at the game itself, but the people that play the
game and how they interact.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
You know, and I would.

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Told this by various players that you look at the
offensive line on a football team, it's like a chain
link fence. They come in and they intertwine one another
and like if one goes down, the whole line goes down.
That's the way it is. And that's the beauty of
sport and the beauty of football. And I think the
beauty of the friendship that is puts together with sports

(19:03):
and teams. That's I love that, you really do. They
may hate each other, but when the game is on,
you know, they know what they gotta do. They got
a job to do, and they got to do it together.
That's what it's all about. It's beautiful.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
That is that is that is what it's all about.
And that is the great thing about sports. And it's
always been the great thing about sports.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
And that's the great thing about you. And he's Bucky Brooks.

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Speaker 1 (21:29):
Was college football right around the corner and Bucket, I
know you can do this. I think maybe most of
the people who follow the sport that can name probably
the top twelve teams before the season starts. You know,
I ask you this, is that a good thing? I'm
not so certain that's a good thing, because you want
to see a little bit of a mix up. And
I'll ask you a part two of that question, why
can you name the top twelve teams. I know why

(21:51):
because those are the teams that have all the money
and they're paying these players to come there. That's how
you know Ohio State's going to be there. They paid
fifty mil for their team last year, right.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
I mean yeah, I mean it definitely is a game
that is moving towards.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
But it's always been the haves and the have nots.

Speaker 4 (22:09):
We just know above board what people are paying to
secure the players and the talent and those things. But
it has always been this and you've always been able
to know that if you follow the brand names, the
brand names more than likely are going to be in
the postseason tournament. I'm not surprised. I'm not even discouraged
by that. Like, I'm okay with all of that, because

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the one thing that we do know is in the
preseason you can't really predict what is going to happen
out over the course of the record season. Remember, last year,
Florida State was a top ten pick. Florida State had
spent a lot of money dug into transfer portal and
they were absolutely terrible. Texas A and M a few years
ago has spent more money than anybody else when it
came to the recruiting class couldn't get off the ground

(22:53):
and going.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
So just because you.

Speaker 4 (22:54):
Spend a lot of money doesn't mean that it's going
to work out in your favor. But I'd suggest, better
the talent, the better the team.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Can I make a decision here the fact that if
I could pick the top ten top twelve teams because
of the money that they spend, and these are the
same ten twelve teams that baby were there before NIL,
can I say that those are the same ten twelve
teams that were probably paying under the table take at
their players.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Is that a reason? Yes, yes, you can.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
You can't say that we can't intimate and insinuate that
that might be a practice that was going on before
it became legalized. But nothing has changed. You just know,
everyone just knows what it is.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:35):
But Deon Sanders during the Big twelve media days, he
was in pretty vocal about his views on the current
state of NIL name image and like this obviously in
college football, and he wants a salary cap similar to
the NFL. He believes obviously the current system creates and
on even playing field, with some schools obviously kind of
over significantly more money to players than others, leading to

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a situation he says, where the teams with the most
financial resources.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Dominate the sport.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I agree, And he says that disparity makes it difficult
for programs without big nil resources to compete for top talent.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
First of all, I agree.

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Secondly, why is Dion the only one speaking out like that?

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I mean, I think you've.

Speaker 4 (24:14):
Heard other coaches and stuff talk about it, you know,
talk about the craziness in terms of the money and
those things pay for play in il portal. Just the
current state of college football is a little wacky, but
you have to adapt and adjusts. And it's a fine
line because as coaches, they're leaders of young men, whether
young men are the beneficiaries of the new system so

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to get paid, So you want to say that you
support your players while also pointing out the system is
crazy and it makes it hard for me to do
my job as a coach.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
I get paid a lot of money.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
So there's some hypocrisy there when they're speaking about the
amount of money that's going because coaches and everyone else
has benefited from a loan for a long time on
the labor of those in between the lines, and at
some point it had to level up and even out,
and now we in the correction phase. This is a
market correction where the players have a lot of power.

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The players are using their power commanding big checks. At
some point it'll level out and there would be more
a quality when it comes to the pay scale and
some of those things.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
We'll see about that. Texas Tech the other day. Than
they pay five million dollars for a football player. I mean,
it's amazing to me. It's more amazing to me, not
the money that they're getting. That there are people out there.
I'm not going to say foolish, because I think they are,
but maybe they don't that they would give money to
a potential kid who may stay there for a year.
It doesn't like it doesn't like the coach, or the
coach leaves and he wants to leave too.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
I just don't.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Understand why you would write a check to get a
played to come to that school unless you're a tremendous
alum you love your school. I don't get it. I
really don't. Saint John's has one. That's why Rick Patino
was doing so well in basketball and Saint John's he's
got a guy that opens up his checkbook. That's all
you need. You can't. Recruiting is nothing. Now the coach
has to recruit a money guy, not recruit players. You

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got to recruit a money guy. That's what the kids want.
I'm sure when you go to a kid's house or school,
talk to a kids mom and dad. They they don't say,
am I gonna start? Or we're gonna be on TV?
What conference are in?

Speaker 5 (26:17):
No?

Speaker 2 (26:17):
How much am I going to get? That's what they
want to know.

Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, that is what they want to know. They want
to know how much money they're gonna get. That's part
of the plan and the process. And uh, it's different,
you know what I'm saying. It's a much different deal
when it comes to it. But you got to adapt
and adjust, and the good ones are able to adapt.
They make the adjustments based on the landscape. And look,

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if you want to compete at the highest level, you
know what you're getting into. And once you get into it,
you got to play by the rules that are there.
And so either you're in or you're out when it
comes to paying players. But if you're you're out, and
it's gonna be a hard you have a hard road
to hold when it comes to to being in the
conversation as a playoff team.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Okay, they're paying the players, and Dion says, this should
be a cat. That's number one.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Number two.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
We know the schools with the most money are probably
going to be more successful. But as of July one,
college athletes are being paid directly by the universities which
they play. But it doesn't mean that the schools are
divulging the payments on record, which is crazy because if
you want to have a salary cap, you won't know
how much these schools are paying. And I just looked
this up. You mentioned that kid from BYU to basketball
player Ajd Bansa. He's going to get like five million

(27:27):
dollars before signing with BYU. Okay, But schools do not
publicly disclose the amounts of revenue sharing deals voluntarily, and
whether they will ever be compelled to do so is
unclear according to the records. So in other words, you
can have a limit of what like.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
Dion wants to have a point of no return.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Really, but the schools don't have to announce how much
money they're paying, which is nuts.

Speaker 9 (27:53):
Really it is, Nettie.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
But here's what I will say about the revenue sharing.
The reason why you can't have like the level playing
field because everyone's not bringing in the same revenue. Right,
Big ten and SEC schools are making more money than
say you're a conference your essays or you're Mountain West,
so it's hard to.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
Balance it out.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Now, if you want to make it competitive, the salary
cap would make it competitive because you could tell everybody
you only can spend up to X amount, and even
those teams that couldn't get up to X amount, it
would limit the surplus that some of the Ohio states
would have. So rather than being able to load up
and hoard all the five stars because they're overpaying those

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guys who may not even be starters for them, well
some of them would have to go elsewhere, and that
would level the playing field a little bit. But honestly,
without regulation, and right now in college football you don't
have any regulation, right, the NCAA has been neutered, like
the course of taking a lot of their power, almost
all their power away.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
You don't have a commititioner.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
You just have I will say, a bunch of renegades
and mercenaries in terms of commissioners and presidents trying to
make these things but you don't have the Grand Pooba
who can decide on it.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
That's where it is.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
So when we talk about the state of college football,
it starts from a leadership standpoint. You got to annoint
a leader. Then you got to set the structure for
how you want this to look like. You got the
power for and others. How are we going to do it?
Are we going to leave the others out of the
party and let them create their own playoffs because they're
playing on a different landscape, because they don't have the
money to play with the big boys. I mean, there's

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so many different things that should be at play, and
hopefully at some point will make those decisions because every
school can't operate successfully under to pay for pay for
play model.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
There's no doubt about that. And you know, there's a
couple of case studies over here. I looked at Alabama.
They respelled it to a request that their quarterback Ty
Simpson and a wide receiver by the name of Ryan Williams.
People went to their contracts and they came back on
this quote. There are no public documents responsive to your
open records request. All right, this is amazing. Other schools
have different justifications Clemson. Clemson denied a request made by

(30:11):
the newspaper The Post, and Curry is stating that the
agreements are proprietary and that releasing them will put the
Tigers at a competitive disadvantage. So, in other words, they
know they obviously, but they don't want to release it
for fear of like you know in Ohio, States says, well, look,
Clemson's paying this guy this much. We're paying here. It's
not good and it's got to change. I just you know,

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I don't know how they can continue this.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I just don't know.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I mean, it's just a different deal.

Speaker 4 (30:38):
But without a commissioner, without a collective bargaining agreement, without
those things, you can't put certain practices into place. You
can't put a salary kept in the place until you
negotiate those things.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And you have to negotiate with the players.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
And the thing that college forts have always shun or
shot away from was treating players like an equal partner
in the league.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
The reason why you have.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
To deal with MLB's union, the reason why you have
to deal with the NFLPA when it comes to football,
is because you recognize that those are your employees. Because
of the model or hiding behind the amateurism model for
so long, where they kept players as amateurs but everyone
else or treated like professionals because they made money like pros.
You have this thing, and it's the facade that is

(31:25):
kind of caught up with the NCAA and college football.
Now you have to make We're coming to a crossroads
where you have to make a decision.

Speaker 3 (31:31):
Are they students student athletes? Are they employees?

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Because once you get that, and once you convince everybody, hey,
these are employees, Well, now you've got to have a union.
You have to have these conversations and negotiate these deals, and.

Speaker 3 (31:45):
Then we can level out.

Speaker 4 (31:46):
The playing field when it comes to some of the
asks that Deion Sanders and other coaches have had.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
So the bottom line is is that colleges are withholding
the revenue sharing contract deals of their athletes because they
come back and say athletes are not employees, that in fact,
will keep the deals private.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
That's what they're doing right now.

Speaker 4 (32:05):
Yeah, they're keeping the deals private because if you find
out that Clemson is paying a cornerback six hundred thousand,
it's easy for a how you State of Alabama say hey,
we'll pay you nine hundred You know like, and so
it either has to be full disclosure all across the
board or what we have now is nondisclosure and everyone
is having the guests and speculating on what you're making.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Okay, so what happens.

Speaker 1 (32:26):
Let's go back to your Brigham Young gu kid, they're
gonna get five million dollars to say, he goes to
Brigham Young and he doesn't like it over there and
he wants to go. I guess he goes in the portal.
After the first year, another school bids for his services.
Whether does that five million go with his deal to
the next school? How does that work?

Speaker 3 (32:42):
Now?

Speaker 4 (32:43):
Those contracts now and you're seeing more teams having to
write up contracts with various stipulations and those things about
the moneies and how it's paid and do you have
to pay some of these things back and all of
this other stuff. But you also as you're creating a
pro system, you are creating things punishments, consequences where not

(33:04):
only you jumping into porter where you have to pay
that money back, but if you're on the team, certain
things have to be met for you to get the money,
whether it's community service attendance policy, are you on time.
Are you where you need to be when you need
to be there, whether it's class or workouts and those things.
There are a bunch of different things that you're baking in.
And every time I hear it when I talk to

(33:25):
my coaching buddies, sounds a whole lot. They're like they're
running a pro team because of the things and stuff
that they're dealing with now that didn't exist before.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Well with blows me away.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Buck is the fact that this kid of Texas Tech
in five million a year, he's making more than shoot
do Or Sands is going to make with the Cleveland
Browns doesn't make any sense to me.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
It's crazy, right, doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
I mean it's crazy, but it's a multi year deal
and some of those other things exist. But also Texas
Tech has wanted to get into the game, not only
in football, but remember Texas Tech. You know they made
it to the College World Series first time ever. You
know they paid the pitcher we'll play it to you
one yeah, software for one million dollars. They proached her
from Stanford. She came and pitch. She's obviously a hell

(34:09):
of a player. She guided them to the World Series. Well,
I would say that was a nice return on investment.
And that's what you're hoping when you put that kind
of money into your programs, you're hoping that it produces
a lot of wins and a lot of notoriety because
it not only helps the athletic department, but now it
helps the school because it puts the school on the map.

Speaker 1 (34:31):
There you go, all right, he's Bucky Brooks. He's put
this show on the map of Andy Firman. We have
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(34:52):
And it's Bucky right around the corner. He's Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman Aware Alive from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
About twelve minutes before the top of the hour, it
is time, I asked, Bucky, Patty, are you ready?

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Oh yeah, let's go old little dumb.

Speaker 5 (35:07):
That's right, it's your produced ld in here right now.

Speaker 9 (35:11):
Let's go a little dumper report for duty.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Hey, I just went with that on the fly for
Buck's Oh my goodness, well it's time for ass Bucky.
And you know what, Buck, I do got a one
for you here. So this one's kind of a fun one,
a little who would you rather? So to speak? So,
Bucky it is now you know. MLB All Star Week

(35:35):
is upon us here. You know obviously we have the
game and we have the home run Derby. So my
question to you is what would you rather do? Would
you rather be the home run Derby champion book or
would you rather be the All Star Game VP amidst
all those other stars?

Speaker 3 (35:51):
Oh, I'd rather be All Star MVP.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
Had missed all the other stars amid all the other stars,
I was the brightest star.

Speaker 3 (35:58):
And so that's more bang for my buck.

Speaker 4 (36:00):
As I'm trying to make a case to be in
the Hall of Fame, people care about that more so
than a home home run Derby chap. I would get
more notoriety and recognition for All Star Game MVP.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Good call, all right, I got one for your buck.
Charges running back Naji Harris. He sustained an eye injury
after a fireworks mishap at a July fourth event. He's expected,
though the good news to be ready for the upcoming
NFL season. But Buck, I ask you, do NFL players
have danger clauses like no skiing or no skydiving or
even roller skating in the off season.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yes, they have all of those things.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
And you know, one of the things that is disappointed
about nase situation, and hopefully it's not serious, is years
ago we saw the thing with Jason Pierre Paul and
every team before they break at the end of camp,
they tell guys they be smart, be careful, fourth of July,
make sure you're doing the right stuff. And unfortunately, man

(36:56):
too often we're hearing about these incidents with fireworks and
silly stuff right before we're about to return to camp.
Is one of the reasons why I don't like the
way the calendar is set, where NFL teams lose supervision
of their players for six weeks before they come back
to camp.

Speaker 3 (37:11):
It doesn't make sense to.

Speaker 1 (37:12):
Me leave the fireworks for the professionals. Really, that's what
it's all about. I love fireworks, but dho, no, Betty,
you know again not you didn't even know what happened,
you know, Pierre Paul lost a couple of fingers. I mean,
come on, this is your life as your profession. Stop
it really all right? Next, I'm just curious about this.
Do NFL players call their coaches coach or that they

(37:32):
called them by their first name?

Speaker 2 (37:33):
But I just wanted to know about that.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
Uh, I think everyone calls them coach. It's not casual.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
No, I don't know even if the players older than
the coach.

Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah, I still don't think we're at a first name basis. Like,
I think there's a level of respect that still has
to exist in those things.

Speaker 3 (37:50):
And I know in some places in.

Speaker 4 (37:51):
Schools like middle schools and the elements, they called the
teacher by the first name and instead of Miss Taylor's Susannah. No,
We're like, you need to have that proto call, and
coaches have to establish that right away. It doesn't have
to be a yes sir no sir situation, but it
certainly has to be a yes coach, no coach.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
When I hear about that, that is, I think about
the late Bobby Knight when he grabbed that kid's arm
in blooming To when he was coaching Indiana and the
kid went by me, Hey Night, how you doing. It
wasn't miss denied, It wasn't high coach. You called hey
Night and Bobby allegedly when Nats he grabbed his arm
and that was the end of Bobby Knight. But you know,
you gotta have respect. That's what it's all about. Now

(38:30):
we move on the NFL injury factor. More practice, obviously,
I would think there be less injuries. So do we
need a longer preseason? You think that might help maybe
cut down the number.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Of injuries in the NFL or the NBA took me
in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
NFL, yeah, NFL.

Speaker 4 (38:47):
I think the a few different things at play. You
don't have his nuts practice time united, But to do
what you used to do old school, you got to
get your body prepared for contact. And you know players
wanted more time off, more time away, But I would
say that that's not the greatest thing. The only way
that you can prepare for the sport is you got
to grind it out. You have to do it, and

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they're training away from the facility. I think you actually
need more time with the supervision of professionals that are
devoted to the team to prepare the players.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
That's where it's coming from.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
You got too many breaks in the schedule, too many things, disruptions,
in the schedule where you're not able to get a
consistent rhythm and groove, just like I talked about with
the summer Huh.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
All right, all coaches no matter what the sport, but
let's just say the basketball and football stick to that.
They all claim that they could change a team's culture.
How could they change the culture? And by the way,
what the hell is culture?

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Anyway?

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Culture is having a group of people to have shared
beliefs and a vision for how the team should operate,
and coaches can change it. But it's very, very difficult
and hard because you got to be consistent and you
got to manage the culture every day, meaning that you
can't let some things go harp on other things. If
you say this is what we believe in, this is

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a core value, these are the rules, then you got
to enforce them each and every day and you can't
relent off of that.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
That's the only way you get people.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
To follow the vision and adhere to the protocol that
you want for your team to establish and play at
a high level.

Speaker 1 (40:16):
Okay, let me run this by because the culture right
now with the Colorado Rockies is pretty damn bad.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
I mean, I don't even know if you use the
term culture. They stink.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
They they're the worst team in baseball, so they're gonna
look for a manager. Obviously, the new guy comes in,
he thinks he could change things. How would you change
You got to get better players, right, That's what you
gotta do. That's the culture.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
That's a part of the culture. You gotta have good players.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
Like at the end of the day, man, my dad
just said, you can't win to Kentucky Derby with a
pack mule. You gotta have some throbberds to be able
to win. But you also got to have a shared.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
Alignment and vision with the people at the top.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
So from top to bottom, everyone has to believe in
the same stuff and every decision that you make has
to be in line with their vision.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
There we go.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
He's Bucket Brooks and Andy Firman.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
By the way, Kobe call one quarterback the but Chris
thatnmore next right here on Fox he wants to be
left alone. We'll get to that in just about a minute.
Good morning, everybody, this is Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (41:13):
Ready.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman.

Speaker 1 (41:15):
I We're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports Radio studios
and away we go, and once again, my partner, my friend,
the one and only, Bucky Brooks, the man of stage, screen, Hollywood, coaching,
whatever it may be, He's the man.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Fuck, how you doing, I'm great, man.

Speaker 4 (41:30):
I can't complain Anyhow's everything on your Everything's good?

Speaker 1 (41:33):
I can't complain either with nobody would listen. But we
move on, and Uh, I want to ask, have you
been watching The Quarterbacks on Netflix?

Speaker 5 (41:42):
Uh?

Speaker 4 (41:43):
I have not had a chance to watch it, but
I've heard a lot about the conversations that are coming
about one Jerry Golf talking about the disappointing being traded,
Kirk Cousins feeling like he was blindsided, misled as he said,
when it came to the quarterback situation. Yeah, I've heard
about the quarterback and I have strong opinions on quarterbacks
and how they feel.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
And we'll talk about that right now. Because I've been
watching it eight part series, I've gone through four of
them already, and the three such different personalities. He got
Kurt Cousins, who is a bit of a geek. I mean,
I love him. I love the guy. I mean, and
he's a family man. I love the guy, kind of
like a little bit naive you know what the Atlanta

(42:24):
Falcon thing. He didn't realize they were going to draft
the quarterback so high, but it seems to be.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Do you know Kirk Cousins at all? I think he's
a wonderful man.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
I love him.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
I mean I would, I would.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
I mean I can't. Yeah, I don't know. I don't
know him well enough. I scouted him. I remember when
he was coming out of Michigan State and those things.
I know people that know him and talk highly about
who he is and his character in those things, but
I don't know him personally. And we used to say
there's similar representation his agents and stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
So yeah, I mean I know him fairly well. I
know of him fairly well.

Speaker 1 (42:55):
I would be shocked, very shocked if a cusswork ever
came out of his mouth.

Speaker 2 (42:59):
Really, thats the kind of guy I think he is.

Speaker 1 (43:01):
He gets his haircut at great clips, which I mean
these other guys have, like professional bobbers and things like that.
So he said one and after one of the games
he and his brother. His brother came to one of
the ball games in through a game when he was
the Falcons.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
He went through a drive through.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
He ordered a Burger and like, I think the girl
who took the order said how did the Falcons do today?
And he said they lost? And the girl said good
because I'm a New Orleans Saints fan. She didn't even
know who he was.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
It was great. I mean, I just just a good guy. Okay.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
You got Jared Goff, who basically kind kind of a
you know, family guy, got a good looking wife and
a model. But you know, you like to see what
the guy has done because he thought he had a
raw deal being traded, you know, traded from La going
to Detroit and turned it around. And he's got a
coach in Detroit with the Lions who just loves him
to death. That's great. Then you got Joe Burrow. All right,

(43:52):
this guy, Joe Burrow thinks he's like the next Joe
Namath Okay, the second Coming. And I want to talk
about that for a second with you. Because he, as
you know, last year, his house is broken into lest December,
says he wants a private life. I get it. I mean,
I think it's very difficult for an athlete to have
a private life. So I asked, how come Kirk Cousins

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has a private life. Jeff Goff to some extent has
a private life. But when you wear a backless suit
and you're in Vogue magazine and you're in Paris, You're
not going to have much of a private life really, right.
That's the difference with Joe Burrow and the other two.
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (44:31):
I mean, I hear what you're saying in terms of that.

Speaker 4 (44:33):
But like Joe Burrow is, he does have some of
that modern day Joe Namath feel to him, like he's
a man's man.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
He has a superstar.

Speaker 4 (44:43):
He has some swag to him that people gravitate towards
and really like it's a lot. But I can't say
this just because I'm a star on the football field
doesn't mean that I'm not entitled to privacy away from it.
You know, I would like to have my private moments.
I would like to be able to go through a
certain part of life unbothered. Now, sometimes when you're like that,

(45:06):
you have to pay for the privacy. Joe Burrow has
to pay for it, give like with the way that
he moves and where he like transportation in terms of
like maybe has to five private if he doesn't want
to be bothered at the airport, maybe has to stay
at different hotels, higher end hotels that everyone can get to,
because he doesn't want to be bothered in those things.

(45:26):
But you know that privacy kind of can come with
a cost.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
What is this deal now going into the locker and
going into the ballpark, going into the stadium the day
of the game, wearing these outfits. Right now, he has
a guy that picks out his clothes, Joe Burrow. I
don't think Kirk Cousins does. Kirk Cousins probably wears a
hoodie to the game. Right Joe Burrow is wearing like
these outfits with the shades and whatever. I'm not against it,
but the point is when you do things like that.

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And they had a segment of a guy who basically
dresses him against his clothing, which I you know, I do.
Do many athletes have that.

Speaker 2 (45:59):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (46:00):
I haven't seen that before. And I thought, you they're
supposed to talk about a private life. I think Michael
Jordan to some extent had a private life, Kareem had
a private life. I think Patrick Mahomes to some extent
has somewhat of a private life.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
I really do.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
You can have one if you want one.

Speaker 4 (46:15):
You have to like you have to pay for it,
and you have to know how to move around what
you're talking about as it relates to clothe ers and
tailors and those things. That's a part of the professional life,
particularly these days now, but it's also it's always been
a part of it. When I was a player, there
would be everyone had a suit guy or gale that
would come through. They would fit you up during training

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camp or doing the off season programs so they could
then deliver those suits right before the regular season, so
every Sunday you could be fitted up, dressed to the nines,
having a little bit of a fashion show when you
walked in. Now, what's gone to the next level because
these dudes have a serious interest?

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Did you have one? Did you have one?

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Not like that?

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Like I always wanted to look good, like even on TV,
you want to look good, But I didn't have aspirations
are going to uh Fashion Week in Paris, Like these
guys are showing up. I didn't want to uh get
into avant garde stuff and and and look different. This
is what uh the younger generation they're they're into. They're
really into clothes, They're into being different, they're into being edgy,

(47:20):
and those things. And to do that, it takes a
stylus and a clothier Taylor to make these things, these
visions that you have for yourself come to life.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
I would go on step further. I'll make a bit
of a U turn right here. Not only are the
NFL guys doing it, the w NBA girls are doing it,
and I'm seeing it everywhere the game.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
Right did the stylist coming down there?

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'm seeing Angel Reese dressing to the nines before a
game wearing high heels, and she doesn't even know how
to wear high heel She'll break an ankles wearing them.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
Really, I mean.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
Being disrespectful, but she was.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
I saw.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Say this.

Speaker 4 (47:55):
I would say this, Andy. One of the things we
used to talk about in college. We used to have
the athletic banquet, and the one thing that would make
us smirking giggle would be watching the women's basketball team
or the women's soccer team, or field hockey or whatever
have to put on heels because it's not necessarily the
thing that they're doing. But here's what I will say
about the WNBA and how things are changing.

Speaker 3 (48:16):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
That now women and guys are showing people their personality
and the way that they dress coming to the game.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
The WNBA in particular, like one of the things.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
That is happening. And I will say that this is
a byproduct of the NFL. You know, it's only been
within the last five or six years that you've seen
guys get out of the car and walk into the
locker room.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
Right. They call that the runway walk in TV, and.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
So we're now beginning to capture those moments because everyone
is interested in what you're wearing. And in fact, in Jacksonville,
you walk the teal carpet from your car into the thing.

Speaker 3 (48:56):
Because it's such.

Speaker 4 (48:57):
A runway experience, everyone knows that people are looking, so
they dress for the occasion. I appreciate Angel Reese and
Sophie Cunneham and Cameron Burke and all the other ladies
who are dressing up because it does show that look
there's a person behind the girl and the ponytail.

Speaker 3 (49:15):
And the women's basketball unit.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
I agree with you ten thousand.

Speaker 1 (49:18):
I just don't want to see Sophie breaking an ankle
wearing they did the high heels and there.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
They can play fine.

Speaker 3 (49:23):
They can be fine. They just have to practice, just
like you practice. Your left hand layup.

Speaker 4 (49:27):
You got to practice walking in the heels so they
can do it like they're they're fine.

Speaker 3 (49:30):
There is something to it, like I I can appreciate.
I can appreciate the glamazons that are walking through.

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Thank you very much. I do agree with you.

Speaker 1 (49:39):
But you know when I saw that one time before again,
they had Angel Reese.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
And she was wobbling.

Speaker 1 (49:44):
And I know she wasn't drunk, believe me, she just
couldn't walk with the heels on. That's fine, but we
move on.

Speaker 4 (49:49):
I want sometimes sometimes the floor is slick, andy, and
look slick your dress shoes didn't and I scuffed up.

Speaker 3 (49:56):
Yet you gotta scuff up your heels right your brand
new shoes.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Maybe, I I don't know who knows, But I want
to talk about foundations, Okay. I know foundations are somewhat
tax shelters for athletes.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (50:06):
And Joe Burrow has a foundation, and good for him.
He wants to help the people in his area where
he grew up in Ohio. I think it's Adams County
up there, and it's not a great it's kind of
a you know, a county where that could use some help. Okay,
you know, food wise, housing wise, whatever it might be.
So if he really wanted a care for the people

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in his hometown with food and shelter, you know, why
would he go public and say he wants to buy
a batmobile. This is what he said, and it went national.
But he said this on the Netflix show he wants
to buy a Batman. An eight year old kid would
go with mommy and daddy say Mommy, buy me, Daddy,
buy me a batmobile, and the parents abobably say, you know, son,

(50:50):
we really can't full one right now. You don't need one.
I will tell you this much. I don't know how
much a batmobile costs. I don't know what you need
it for. But you bring that downtown Cincinnati, it would
less than He'll never see it again. Really, it will
be stripped. It'll be ripped.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
I don't know what why Joe Burrow would need a babbel.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
You know what he needs. He needs what Kurt Cousins
and Jared Goff have. He needs a wife and he
needs a family. You know, don't grow up. I love
him as a player, but grow up with babbelbile.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
I don't want to hear that.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
We're twenty five twenty six years old.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
You have more money than you can shake a stickcat,
and you have a chance to make some of your
tuhood dreams come to life.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Maybe, just maybe.

Speaker 4 (51:34):
Joe Burrow as a kid was fascinated with the Batmobile.
You know, I used to love Superman and Superman is
coming out? Should be in theaters surely, Like.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
That was my thing.

Speaker 4 (51:43):
I would fly from the couch with the tower wrapped
around my neck like I was Superman.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
I believe I could fly all of this stuff.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
So he has an opportunity to live out some of
those things. And you probably don't want to publicize it
because it does put you out there. Cincinnati is a
different city where those cars will stand out. It's different
than being in a Miami or in l a or
even a New York for that matter. So it's a

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little different.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
But what do you garage that thing? I mean, what
do you park it?

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I mean, I think Cincinnati would be very short on
the other city. I mean, you bring that car down
town Miami, you know, and you're going for a restaurant
to come out, the car won't be there.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
I'm sure, what do you do?

Speaker 3 (52:26):
Vallet in the car?

Speaker 1 (52:28):
You know what your ballet. I'm driving that I think
about the ballet.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
I mean, you're laying and you're open that he's not
going for a joy ride beach in it. But no.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
But here's I think the bigger concern would be in Cincinnati,
because you guys do get inclement weather. I wouldn't want
the batmobile dealing with snow and salt and that stuff.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to deal with it. But
that's where he is.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
And so like I get it, childhood fantasies, childhood fantasies.

Speaker 1 (52:59):
Well, you know, it's great to hear this from you
because you played the game, all right. I watched the game.
I was close to the game, but I never played
the game. So the mindset's a little different. And look,
I like Joe Burrow. I like to see him do well.
I feel bad that he led the league in so
many categories as a pair so last year and he
didn't make the playoffs. That's gotta eat your heart out, really,

(53:22):
you know, he and Jamar Chase, I mean, probably the
best one two offensive combination in the game of football
today and they didn't make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
That to me distincts.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
It's do it you know, if you would have told
somebody I just showed them the stats after the season,
you would have thought that that team certainly was a
playoff team.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
But you know, it didn't happen. So Joe.

Speaker 1 (53:42):
I wish Joe the best, but I just think some
of the things that he says and does, you know,
can be analyzed a little bit and questioned, because it's just,
you know, get get back on the main road of
the highway, not on the side road.

Speaker 2 (53:55):
That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
You on the main road the highway. Yes, yes, get
in the center lane. You're right, You're right, You're absolutely right.

Speaker 4 (54:07):
When it goes to that, like he needs to kinderstand
his lane, and if he stays in his lane, good
things have happened.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
So I understand, I understand where you're at right now.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
I want to get back to your guy, Dion Sanders.
We touched them a little earlier today and a couple
of things. We talked about the nil he wants to
salary cat that's fine, but he says he wants to
see some standards now for college uniforms. We talk about
what Joe Burrow wears when he's not warning uniform the
back of suit. But Deon Sanders he wants to see
some standards out there, and he says, there are guys
out there in biker shorts, all right, he said, it

(54:38):
makes him sit because I'm a football guy. I played
the game at a high level. I have so much
respect for the game. How can we allow guys out
there and biker shorts, no knee piss? What the hell
is he talking about. I don't think I've never seen shorts.

Speaker 4 (54:50):
No, no, no, no, they have been like so, what has happened?
When I was playing, let's say nineties to the two
thousands era, you're pants, your uniform pants had to come
toward certain depth. They had to come, they would say,
below the knee. And then they've started to come above
the knee. And now guys are taking it where they

(55:12):
literally almost mid thigh. And what Dion wants is it's
funny knowing him. He wants uniformity because he wants professionalism.
What you have is you have all these different guys
that are wearing the uniform and it doesn't look right.
The NFL does not go for that at all. If

(55:33):
you look at the NFL, the NFL has on you
about your socks. Your socks have to come all the
way up to your knee. Your uniform pants have to
go to the knee. There's a uniformity when you look
at an NFL team, Every team looks alike when it
comes to what they allow.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
College. You don't have that.

Speaker 4 (55:51):
And if you're talking about selling the sport, even from
a professional standpoint, broadcast to whatever uniformity is right.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
Like think about the military.

Speaker 4 (56:00):
There's a reason why the armed forces they wear they
wear uniforms and they're distinguishing. There's a professionalism and an
aura that comes with it. DM wants that for the
guys in the sport. He wants a certain cachete that
comes with being in uniform.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
You know, you make a great point then, you know,
for those that aren't familiar with that. My good buddy
David Fulchen, who played for the Cincinnati Bengals, he's part
of the court uniform police. He would stand on the
sidelines of Cincinnati Bengal games at home and fine, you know,
right up the guys who didn't have their socks, I guess,
whatever it may be, the uniform, you.

Speaker 4 (56:35):
Don't have your socks up, you don't have your your jersey,
then yeah, one hundred percent, you don't have. Yeah, your socks,
not pulled up, pants, not pulled over the knees, you
don't have.

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (56:47):
You put extra alterations to your helmet and things that
are not in there. When you walk into an NFL
locker room, there's a big poster on the wall that
shows this is how you should be properly attired, and
it goes through it and anything that you do that
is different from that picture, you're subject to a fine
and the finds are significant. So when Dion talks about

(57:10):
being a pro and coming from the pro game, he
wants that because he seeks comfort in the uniformity that
his team should have. If you know, Deanna, if you
watch anything behind the scenes, he's very particularly about what
color socks his guys wear. If he says everyone wears
black socks and someone wears white socks, he throws them
out the weight room. You know, like, that's about being

(57:32):
a part of the team. And when you do those things,
you're being an individual. You're not being a good teammate,
you're not being a part of a team. And I
know we're in a me me me phase of life,
but it has to be bigger than you. It has
to be about the team.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
And it's funny because I love that about the NFL,
and he wants to have that in college. But when
I watch the NBA, I guess everybody's got different sneaker
deals and sometimes I see guys with different colored shoes,
not even different.

Speaker 4 (58:00):
It drives me crazy. It drives me crazy. It drives
me crazy.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
I'm not crazy. I'm not a fan me either.

Speaker 1 (58:07):
And back in the day when the Boston Celtics were
all black high top Converse, that that was.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
You know, do you ever see that anymore? Really?

Speaker 1 (58:14):
And I once read up on that scene. You know
why did the Boston Celtics always wear black Converse? They said,
because the white ones got dirty and then didn't have
enough money to buy them new shoes, so they bought
they were black. That's why they were black Converse high top.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
That's smart, you know, yeah, but that's the way it was.
And you're right, it's funny that you brought up the
Boston Celtics because that was a big part of the thing.
But let's go back, because you're in Cincinnati. Let's think
about the big Red machine. And I know, we're taking
everybody into wayback machine. But the Cincinnati Reds used to
wear black shoes. I remember Johnny Bench and those guys.

(58:49):
Like even the logo whatever, the little baseball the running
baseball man that they used to have as the logo
had black shoes on. That was a big part of
who they are. The A's were different because they were
one of the only teams that wore white shoes.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Right, that's right.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
The uniformity of everything, you know, and I think people
appreciate that and the Yankees and the traditions. No matter
what we say, I think the overwhelming majority of the
public appreciates tradition and they like seeing the uniform and
all those things. Because if we didn't believe in the uniform,
why with so many workplaces required that you have a uniform.

Speaker 3 (59:27):
That's who we are inherently, right.

Speaker 1 (59:30):
That's why kids go to Catholic school because they wear
a uniform. Really, I mean, because everybody's the same, no
one's different, no one's better than anybody else.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
The old ways.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
Uniforms in the Catholic high schools, right, that's what they do. Right, last,
but not least with this thing at DeAnza and I
kind of like this if in fact, the college football game,
at least on the Division IE level, you know, at
the highest level, college football is kind of a training
ground for the NFL. He'd like to see the rules
in college where two feet in bounds in order for
a cash to be counted, not the one foot that

(59:59):
the college and I don't understand why they don't do that.
I think they should, don't you think if it's almost
like a training ground for the NFL.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
It is, you know, it's it's funny that they don't.
They don't have that, they don't have the uniformity, like
the rules are still different. I think in the college
getting the reason why you have the one foot is
you're trying to increase scoring.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
You try to make it a better product.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
So putting one foot down lessons the degree of difficulty
on the pass catcher. That's what it comes down to.
It's about increasing scoring. A lot of those rules are
designed for that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Interesting.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
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You always have instant access to a Fox Sports Radio
videos on YouTube. You know, Bucky, I just heard Stevie
Wonder one of my favorite It really is. And this
sounds crazy, I know, but I gotta tell you because
you'd appreciate this. August the seventh, I believe August seventh
or eighth, that's a Thursday night. The Four Tops and
Temptations are coming to Cincinnati, and I can't wait because

(01:02:11):
the Four Tops, to me, my favorite group. We're Levi Stubbs,
the late Levi Stubbs, and you know I was a
kid and they performed in Brooklyn on Flatbush Avenue. I'll
never forget. I want what a couple of buddies. It
was five bucks to get in to see him and
you got two drinks. That's how long ago this was.
And I love the Fourth Tops. I want to see them.
So this is what I did. I know, it sounds

(01:02:32):
real stupid. There's a guy and you know, and we
talked about a Mason from Detroit. He's on in the
mornings on Sirius XM and I listened to him, and
on Saturdays he does a show with Levi Stubbs Son
and from the Rock and Roll from from the Motown
Museum in Detroit. So I wrote to Mason, I write,
and Mason never wrote me back, but I wrote Mason wrote,

(01:02:52):
and I said, you got to help me out because
I want to see the Fourth Tops, and and I went,
maybe he thought there was something wrong with me. Not
only do I want to meet them and see them,
I want to go on stage and sing a song
with them. That's what I want them to do. So
maybe he'll still write me back or not. But I'm
going to see them and I want to see them.
But if I do sing with the Tops, I will

(01:03:13):
let you know. I'll let you know, Buck, Okay, I'll.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
Let you sing with the Tops, Bernadette.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
That's what I want to sing.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
With them, So we'll see. Then we move on. All right, Yeah,
you or Nate coming up in about ten minutes. All right,
you probably think I'm nuts. I know you're stunned. Now
you're not even mentioning a word, You're not saying a thing.

Speaker 4 (01:03:31):
I mean, I don't know what to say. I mean
a little thing about you went on the way back.
We see you talking about the Four Tops, So I
was just letting you have your moment.

Speaker 1 (01:03:38):
Thank you very much. I mean, you know what, I
don't want to be one of those guys that you know,
just talks about back then.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
But you know they were great. I mean you talk
about the Fourth Tops.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
I mean to me, I think they are, you know,
iconic really, I mean every if you know music, you
know the Fourth Tops, you know Stevie Wonder, These these
are the groups I grew up with.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
I love them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
So what can I tell you? Earth Wind and Fire
all those books. We move on, but we talk about
what you do. And you write about NFL dot com
and you did a good one this week. And I
got to ask talk about the training camps opening about
about fifteen sixteen days now, and you talk about guys
that are going to jump from the role player to
a key contributor. Now, he is my question bigger. You're

(01:04:20):
so smart doing this kind of stuff. And I don't
know how you do it. But anybody who's drafted, I
would believe, would think they are quote a key contributor,
and it probably hurts them dearly that when they are drafted,
they become a role player, Am I correct? I mean
you don't want to be a role player, you want
to be a key contributor.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
I mean you never really want to be a role
player per se, Like you want to be able to
jump in there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
But we all have to play a role.

Speaker 4 (01:04:47):
I think the thing is the best guys start in
their roles like they have a way of being able
to make their mark, make an impact in whatever that
role is. So going from being a lesser ran to
a guy that you can count on their production, a
guy that you can count on to be in the
mix and always not only they're and available, but in

(01:05:10):
the mix and able to contribute at a high level.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
That's the next step.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
And normally people make the biggest jump from their first
to second year in the league because now you've been
in the league, you had a taste of you know,
the speed of the game is, You're not to prepare
or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
The second year, you should be able to play and
play at a high level. So that's the expectation with
a lot of these guys.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
All right now, how do you know who's going to
make that jump? And you said that there were a
couple of players last year that you kind of were
right on spot on that they did make that jump.
Who were the ones from last year that you picked
that would make the jump from roll to key a
year ago?

Speaker 4 (01:05:48):
Jackson Smith and Jigbu was a guy that you know,
I thought that he would have more opportunities and would
have a chance to play well. I thought Bryce Young
would eventually get a turn in the right direction, and
we saw at the end of the year he started
to warm well and make some contributions. A lot of
times if you're looking at their situation and circumstance, and
did the team clear a path for those players to

(01:06:11):
be able to play, meaning did they create opportunities where
they removed a veteran, they opened up the starting position,
they said, we're committed to putting the gawn in the
field and we're gonna let him play, come hell of
high water. Sometimes you need that clear pathway to be
able to get on the field to help you become
the player that you want to be.

Speaker 1 (01:06:30):
All right, let's talk about some of the players that
you think will be key players this year. And let's
go with the quarterback position, because everybody loves quarterbacks and
probably the most important position not only in the NFL,
but in all sports. And you looked at I think
it was Michael Pennox junior for the Atlanta Falcons, and
you know he got.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
A break last year.

Speaker 1 (01:06:49):
And I'm saying, go back to that Netflix thing with quarterbacks.
Kirk Cousins had that Atlanta team at six and three.
I mean he was on a roll. I mean everybody
caused bad mouthing Kirk Cousins, thirty six, He's finished, no,
And then he played the New Orleans Saints and it
got hit in the shoulder and now is the end
of it. He even admitted after the game that he
couldn't even lift his elbow up. And then he started
throwing the I on t's like candy canes.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
He really was. It was great.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
And then they went down the cropper. So Michael Penni's
got a break when Kirk Cousins got hurt. But to me,
does Kirk Cousins automatically lose his starting job because of that?

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
Yes, it's over. Is Michael Pennix era.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
And if they could get rid of Kirk Cousins, they
would get rid of him. But it's the Michael pennis ere.
They drafted him because they believed that he had the
potential to really do great things in there, and I
think when you look at the weapons around him at
Drake London, Darnielle Mooney, did two running backs, b Jhon Robinson,
Tyler jer Kyle Pitts, who they put a top five

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pick in as a tight end. They have a lot
of firepower around him. He doesn't need to be perfect.
He just needs to be precise in the things that
they're asking him to do.

Speaker 3 (01:07:56):
And if he's.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
Proficient throwing the ball and doing those things, the numbers
that come out, expect the numbers to come in and
bunches this year.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
Though, Well, look, I would say this, I would not
be surprised if Kirk Cousins comes off the bench then
because this guy and I don't wish him any harm.
But Pennix only started three games. Is a small sample size.
I really believe that, and who knows what's gonna happen.
He does have tremendous people around him with Drake London
and Kyle Pitch, no doubt, and a good running game

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in Robinson. But I'm not sold. I'm not sold on
Michael Pennix Junior yet. And remember he's not a kid.
He's a twenty five or twenty six, isn't he? So
I'm not sold on him. And I'm a Kirk Cousins guy.
You know, the more I see Kirk Cousins on TV
with these shows like HBO, Hard Knocks and the Netflix deal,
I'm in love with the guy. I'm pulling for Kirk Cousins,

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and I think he's a hell of a teammate. And
if he doesn't start, I think he'll do everything possible
to help Michael Pennock Junior. Now, last year they lost
the game. I think they lost to Tampa and after
the game, he went over and he just congratulated the
players on Tampa. You don't see that. I mean, I
just think he's got a hell of a heart. I

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love Kirk Cousins, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
I think you've fall in for the story. I think
he's done a really good job.

Speaker 4 (01:09:08):
I think that's why Netflix has those things, so you
fall in love with the narrative in the story and
Kirk Cousin. Yeah, Kirk Cousins has lured you in with
his personality and he's such a good guy whatever. But Andy,
he's not been great. He didn't play well. He had
that stretch. We had one touchdown and nine interceptions. He
had to go sit on the pine. You get to
sit down. You should have told people that he rather

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put that up, because yeah, like he has to do it.
He's trying to play through it and he's terrible and
they're losing games because of that. So in a way
it's a selfish move. But he didn't play well. He's
coming off to Achilles. And you talked about Michael Pennis
being twenty five. Kirk Cousins is thirty seven. He's an
old man. He's an old man trying to play and

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without his athleticism or anything like, it becomes a much
harder job when you have a statue in the pocket.

Speaker 1 (01:10:02):
Can I change the tobough for us? Say you tell
me about old men. I went to a minor league
baseball game last night in Florence, Kentucky, the Florence Yawls,
all right, and they got a thirty six year old
guy who are playing in the minor leagues for thirteen
years and his name is Craig Massey and he got
his one thousandth career hit last night. Is at thirteen
years in the minor leagues. So I'm gonna do a

(01:10:25):
little piece on him, a story on him. I asked
him the question. I said, here's a question for you.
Would you rather get a thousand hits after thirteen years
in the minors or would you rather get one hit in.

Speaker 2 (01:10:36):
Major League baseball?

Speaker 9 (01:10:37):
And boom?

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
What did he say?

Speaker 1 (01:10:38):
I want to I thought to be in the majors
to get one hit. That's because the right, of course, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:10:44):
What you want to do. But the dreams.

Speaker 1 (01:10:46):
He's thirty six years old still playing minor league baseball.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (01:10:51):
That's the dream is the dream.

Speaker 4 (01:10:54):
The dream is to go out there and to be
able to play and compete at a high level.

Speaker 3 (01:10:58):
That's the dream. So I understand it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:00):
Crazy, All right, back, we got the quarterback. You got
Michael PENNOCKX. I'm circling Michael Pennockx's name. You say he's
gonna be a role player right now? All right? Not
a role player, key player? Okay, what about the running
back position? What do you got going on there?

Speaker 5 (01:11:15):
Well?

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Running back, I mean you have Tyrone Tracy from the
Giant Giant who yes, yeah, I mean he stepped up.
He had eight and rushing yards last year. Look, he
had big shoes to field. Saquon Barkley is a monster,
and he had to step in for Saquon. Now he
can't give them what Saquon gave them, particularly when Saquon
Barkley's going nuts around the way in Philadelphia. But look,
this is a really good player. This is someone everyone

(01:11:36):
has to understand. He was a former wide receiver turned
running back and he didn't make that conversion until right
before his last year going to produce. So this is
someone who's still learning the position. So think about that
two years in the game. You've played the position for
those two years, but you've already almost close to get
a thousand yards rushing. There's a lot that he can

(01:11:57):
that he can do, and in the passing he should
be able to help Russell Wilson should be able to
find him early and often targeting the running back out
of the backfield. A lot of attention on my Leiku neighbors,
but this guy, Tyn Tracy should be able to impact
the game as a runner end receiver.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Do you honestly think the Giants can make some noise
this year with Russell Wilson? Could they do anything that?

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
I mean?

Speaker 4 (01:12:20):
I think if they are able to play a certain way,
and the way they have to play is the way
the Giants have traditionally played. Great defense, fron the ball,
some efficient play from the quarterback. Defensively, they got some
talent where they can get after it Ken Shane Bowen
and unlock it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:37):
That's the key. And then Brian day.

Speaker 4 (01:12:39):
Ball, what we're gonna do at quarterback with Russell Wilson
and eventually Jackson Dark. What are we gonna do, How
we gonna get him going, How we're gonna get this
offense to move the ball consistently?

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
That's the meaning other question.

Speaker 1 (01:12:50):
Yeah, and Russell Wilson, you know, I think his better
days are behind him.

Speaker 2 (01:12:54):
Number one.

Speaker 1 (01:12:55):
You know, he was always able to elude the rush,
but I think that's caught up to him right now
because he's not a kid. And I just don't think
you build a team with a Russell Wilson. You don't
build a team with an Aaron Rodgers. I just don't think,
Like in the NBA, you're not going to build a
team with Lebron You don't build a team around the
guy who's forty one years of age.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
You just don't m m m, Yeah, I mean, I mean,
I mean I don't think he can do it.

Speaker 4 (01:13:19):
I think he gives them maybe some solid ability to
do some limitations, but it depends on how Brian day
Ball runs the team in terms of like, how are
they managing the game to win the game? Can they
play defense, can they run it? Can they be ball
control at the possession centric on offense and then find

(01:13:41):
a way to get it done. If they can do that,
they can win some games. There'd be a bunch of
close games, but they can do it. In fact, it's
really the blueprint and formula that he used with Daniel
Jones when they went to the postseason.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
His first year. Very conservative.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
They did some creative things in the run game to
move the ball, but they leaned on the defense. They
didn't turn it over, and they won a bunch of games.
Uh at the end of games by being able to
close it out in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Maybe they can get back to that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Well, let's hope. So I think New York needs a
decent football team. The Jets stink and the Giants haven't
done anything. So we'll see what happens. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Firming. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports ready to go upward, down, left or right, yay
ornay And it's next yay ornay coming right up. He's

(01:14:27):
Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firmer. We have Fox Sports Sunday,
and Fox Sport's already about thirteen minutes before the top
of the hour. We're lying on the Fox Sports radio
studios and away we go. It's time for yay or nay.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Okay, let's get rack those brains, gentlemen.

Speaker 9 (01:14:42):
These stories needed ask I think we need a ruling
on this yay or nay?

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Who's that laugh? And what was that?

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Who was that was that?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
You know that?

Speaker 9 (01:14:52):
Actually part of that that one, I don't know what
that is. That wasn't me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
It wasn't me. That's all right, pata.

Speaker 5 (01:14:59):
Yeah, going alrighty well, d little dumper report for duty.
Let's go. So with that said, guys, it's time for
yay or nay. I got one for us. So we
remember the Adrian Peterson remember he kind of got new
a fight with the at a poker game.

Speaker 9 (01:15:15):
What was it, maybe about a month ago? Well, I
have an update to this and it's a yay or
nay for this.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
So Adrian Peterson actually signed for a celebrity boxing match
just recently with whom the guy he fought over the
poker game.

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
His name's Joe Cassenata.

Speaker 5 (01:15:34):
He signed he's gonna have a celebrity boxing match with
the guy he fought over a poker game.

Speaker 9 (01:15:38):
Yay or nay on this, Andy Furman, I.

Speaker 1 (01:15:41):
Think it's yay because now he's got a recent to fight.
It's gonna be great. I just hope it's on TV.
I want to see this on TV. But I do
hope Joe beats still live in daylights out of him
because Adrian Peterson beat.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
Up on his kids with a stick and that was wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Great football player, but that was you don't come on, really,
you just don't do that. So I don't really, I
don't forget that he had to stick deal with his kid.
So that's the end of that.

Speaker 4 (01:16:03):
Oh well, yeah, I'm mentioned to see like agent Pieters
to fight, but I think he's already been in the
ring before. And if I'm not mistaken, I think he
got dropped. I think he dropped maybe for Levy and
Bell or something like that. But like I think we've
seen we've seen these things before.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
You know who puts on TV?

Speaker 9 (01:16:21):
Though, that would be fun. I would I would watch
that too.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Speaking of watching this, we got MLB guy, so MB
plans to use automated calls for calls for a balls
and strikes and this year's All Star Game.

Speaker 9 (01:16:38):
Yay or nay on this, Bucky Brooks, I'm not a fan.

Speaker 4 (01:16:42):
I like the human element in things. I'm not really
trying to have robots do everything. So I give it
double thumbs down.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
I give it a name because I don't want to
see people lose their jobs. And the umpires are going
to lose their job, so that's a big time nay.
And I'm good friends with a neighbor. Randy Marshall's right
in here and be form an NL Major League umpire
loose not far from me.

Speaker 5 (01:17:03):
All right, Well, we're gonna move off from baseball. We're
gonna go to the WNBA. So there are some Kaylin
Clark rookie cards that are up for auction over let's see,
let's do the math on this. Wow, one hundred and
seventy thousand Jay or nay?

Speaker 9 (01:17:22):
Andy Furman, you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:23):
Gotta be out of your freaking mind? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (01:17:26):
I wouldn't spend seven dollars, let alone one hundred and
seventy thousand. I mean, why why, I want to see
who's doing that. I want to see you get your
head examined. It's crazy. Nay, it's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:17:38):
I mean good for them, if they're paying it, I
wouldn't fair, but like great, I like guys who are
collectors and they have hobbies.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:48):
A little too rich for my taste, but great, great
for them, unbelievable, wow.

Speaker 9 (01:17:54):
Oh great, great for them? Well what else is great?

Speaker 5 (01:17:57):
Here? We have ncublea so na says March madness. Expansion
may balloon to seventy two or even seventy six teams,
yeah or there in this Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Not a fan. Too many teams already making I'm not
a fan. It's just going water down to product because
like I don't know we're doing. We're just gonna let
every team go.

Speaker 1 (01:18:18):
Like no, I'm not a fan, I say, Nay, less
is more stop than already seventy six teams. What's the
point of having conference tournaments? I mean, really and truly
even that's a joke. I mean you could win your conference,
like in a smaller conference and not even go if
you lose the conference tournament. I've sort of a couple
of years ago north of Kentucky University. I think they

(01:18:38):
won their conference. In the conference tournament, they lost at
University of Milwaukee with a losing record, went to the
NC DOUBLEA. Come on, really, you know one time, buck,
this was a tournament that proved the best team in
college basketball. Now it's not. It's just a postseason tournament.
But basically the best team doesn't normally win or usually
Winny Big Time Day.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like it. I'm not a fan.
Boo boo boo.

Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
All right, well this one. Bear with me on this one.
It's a bit of a long one, but I'll get
us there, all right. So the Kelsey Brothers, we know them.
They have a giveaway, but it's only open to US
residents only.

Speaker 9 (01:19:14):
So what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:19:15):
It is a beer bed, which is it's kind of
like a waterbed, only better. Comes with a standard queen
size frame, a Casper mattress, and a cake that hooks
up to the custom headboard. Customers can enter to win
now through July fifteenth by leaving a comment on the
apparently the beer Bed's Instagram post or by retweeting the

(01:19:37):
announcement on x SO that said yay or nay on this,
Andy Furman.

Speaker 1 (01:19:42):
Yay baby yay. Anything good for the Kelsey Brother's good
for me. And I would love to have a beer bed.
I'd sleep on it outside. But I guess you have
to change the beer every now and again because it
make it stale and stink.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
I don't know how it works, but you know, I
would like to have a beer bed and try it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Especially. I don't like this. Yeah like it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
Yeah, I'm not a beer fan. I don't like beer
smells nasty, so I'm good.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
I don't like it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:06):
You know what, beer does smell nasty the next day
if you go to like a ballpark or some place
that's congested, you know, not only do you stick to
the floor, but has that smell. Sometimes you go to
a baseball stadium after a night game. The next day,
Oh man, it smells, it really does. But why you're
drinking beer during the moment? It doesn't really smell, it

(01:20:28):
smell it's pretty good. I think, are you a beer drinker?

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
There?

Speaker 9 (01:20:31):
A ld No, I'm with Bucky on this. I'm not
a beer guy either.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Drink beer?

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
No? If I if I had a beer bed, I'd
probably have to hold that next to my like Wizenator
and all it's up to. That's just another collection, just
another collection in my to my house.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
Was there a lot of beer in the locker rooms
in in the NFL when you play Buck?

Speaker 3 (01:20:54):
Yeah, lots, lots and lots and lots.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
All right, Well, quarterback says he was misled. We got
that next right here on Fox. All right, it's all
part of the business. We'll explain that in just about
a minute. Welcome to Fox Sports Sunday at Fox Sports Radio.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Indy FIRMANI were procrasting live from
the Fox Sports Radio studios in Areas. My partner, my friend,

(01:21:17):
the one and only Bucky Brooks. How are you Buck?
Our number three we're rolling today. We certainly are.

Speaker 3 (01:21:24):
Yeah, we certainly are. Man excited to be on, Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:21:28):
You know, I understand why there's some animosity and jealousy
in sports, all right. I'm not one of those guys
that jealous of anything. I mean, life is handed to
people in certain ways. And you know, you were an
athlete and I was a loser.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
I get it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:44):
That's the way it is, you know. But I was
lucky enough to get involved in sports, but.

Speaker 2 (01:21:48):
I didn't play. That's the number one thing. But number two.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
I could see that because when we introduce the show
every single week on the top of the hour, it's
always five times NFL player Bucky Brooks and by the way,
Andy Furman. You know, there's there's nothing attached to my
name because basically I didn't do anything. If that's what
it's all right, that's what That's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
What I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:22:14):
No serious, I mean when you're listening to the show,
you're driving around in your car listening at the home
and say, Wow, Bucky Brooks playing in the NFL five
years and no, who's that who's that schmuck with him?
And Andy Furman? Yeah, here's the guy that cleans up
the studio after the show's over.

Speaker 3 (01:22:28):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:22:28):
But that's you know, there's nothing attached to my name.
But that's okay. But I bring that up not because
of jealousy or envy. By bringing up as an example
to show you that in the NFL there could be
or in any sport there could be that jealousy and envy.
I see it with Caitlin Clark. There's some envy. I
could see it maybe where someone has a locker. I

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remember when King Griffy Junior played for the Cincinnati Reds,
he had two lockers in the corner. And I think
there are other players were a little p old, like,
why does he get two lockers well with a refrigerator
in it. That's the way it is. You know, certain
people are blesseding, certain people are not. And I guess
I'm not. I'm just saying I'm not jealous. I promise
you I'm not all right, but now I'm legend.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
I'm legend. I'm glad. Jealousy is not a big part
of who you are.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
No, No, I wasn't born that way. I'm not jealous.
I'll tell you what I find it. I think it's
a treat and an honor to be working with you
who played in the NFL, because I learned a lot
from you. Really, I don't think you learn anything from me,
but I don't think you have to. I mean, you
know everything, and I learn from you. You're the teacher.
I'm the student here, right.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
That's the way it is. Yes, Okay, now we move on.

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Speaker 2 (01:24:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Was I wrong criticizing that announce? I know who he is,
but still an all it's far enough there music come on?

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
Really, I mean, I mean it's good enough.

Speaker 4 (01:24:48):
I mean it's great to provide feedback, and that feedback
is welcome because I didn't even think about it like
him not doing it.

Speaker 3 (01:24:55):
But you are right. Radio is a theater of the mind.
You have the tzy imagination.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
I grew up listening to basketball games in North Carolina
listening to Woody Durham uh talking about gu tar heels,
and a lot of what I learned about the game
came from the radio announcer being able to really, uh
give this vivid imagery on what was taking place on
the court, and it made me want to get involved
in the game because it's that. So, yeah, you're right,
he does need to provide context and perspective and give

(01:25:23):
us more because I don't have the luxury of being
able to watch the TV or assume that I don't
have the luxury of being able to see what you're saying.

Speaker 3 (01:25:30):
So you got to paint the picture for me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
There you go, beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:25:32):
And maybe that's why he's with the trosh Ryland Radio
networking that with Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
Perhaps I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:38):
I mean, I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna I'm not
gonna criticize the guy. I don't kill them.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
He's learning maybe that's a different deal.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
Yeah, that's a that's a different deal. You're taking shots
at him.

Speaker 1 (01:25:50):
Right, But the point is this, I don't think, you know,
and it's not necessarily the radio announcers full I don't
think there's a lot of producers and or director's teaching
people or people how to how to do their job.
And now in this day and age, I really believe that.
And I think for fear of you know, feedback, you know,
leave me alone. Look, I'll give you examples. I watched

(01:26:12):
the evening news, the local evening news on TV. I
don't know if you do that as well, and some
of these women come out there like they're half naked.
Really if they really.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Are, I don't, right, I mean, doesn't bother me out,
that makes me more.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
But you don't see the national women do that, right
the local ones.

Speaker 4 (01:26:30):
I mean sometimes, I mean sometimes you see it on
like when it comes to sports or whatever. There's no
doubt that like sex cenesses teased and may be encouraged
on some networks as opposed to others.

Speaker 3 (01:26:42):
For sure.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Right the local news, I'm saying right now, if I
was the news director, I would say, could you just
you know, bring it in a little bit. I mean,
we don't you look like you're going to the club,
not delivering news in my living room. I just don't
think it's proper. And maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm approved,
maybe an old guy.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
I don't know. The point is this.

Speaker 1 (01:27:01):
I think that you have to look professional, and when
I look at the national news that comes on after,
I don't see those women dressed like that. That's all
I'm saying. I just don't And I think that in
this day and age, you have to you know, even
students going to school. You know, I think wearing a
T shirt to school which says the name of a
beer company on it is not the proper way to

(01:27:23):
go to school. You know, I just don't think it is.

Speaker 3 (01:27:26):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
I know when I went to school, I had to
wear a college shirt. I had to wear a shirt
and tie until about eighth or ninth grade. You know,
I think it's a great way to learn. You get
dressed knowing you're going to go there for a purpose.
But you know, on the same token, some of these
teachers are wearing jeans and T shirts too, So you know,
the environment has to change if you want the results

(01:27:46):
to change. That's all I'm saying right, and I think
you will.

Speaker 3 (01:27:49):
Agree, and yeah, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 4 (01:27:52):
You're right. The environment has to change. If you're going
to the circumstances to change, you have to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:58):
All right, we move on that. I'm not here the lecture.
I'm just I'm just noticing things and.

Speaker 3 (01:28:02):
Just I mean a little bit. It's fine, it's fine,
it's okay, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
We criticized, we criticized the broadcast and for not give
a perspective, we now have have taken the people to
task for being inappropriately dressed on our local news channel.
I'm sure you give more more advice today. You just
trying to teach you the next generation how they should perform.

Speaker 1 (01:28:23):
And if people are upset with that, I mean, well
you gotta do is just google marve al, but google delate.
Marty Glickman, this guy did New York Nick basketball and radio,
and he would tell you exactly. He's at the top
of the key, he goes to the left. God, he
key paints the picture. You could close your eyes and
see the game. That's what it's all about. And that's
that separates the good guys and the great guys. Marty

(01:28:44):
Glickman was great, Marv Albert was great, Spencer Ross. These
are the guys I grew up with. These guys were
great announcers, and there's a handful of guys that just
do it. But they're not in the same class as
those guys. That's all I'm saying. And I say this,
nothing's guaranteed. Nothing in life is guaranteed, even in the NFL.
Maybe it actually in the NFL or all of sports.
Someone needs to tell that to Kurk Cousins. Okay, let's

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listen to what he had to say on that Netflix right. Really,
it's like a Kirk Cousins love fest today. But let's
see what Kirk Cousins had to say on quarterbacks on Netflix.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Go ahead, Kirk.

Speaker 6 (01:29:15):
I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback so high.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
At the time.

Speaker 6 (01:29:19):
It felt like I had been a little bit misled,
or certainly if I had the information around freegency, it
certainly would have affected my decision. I had no reason
to leave Minnesota with how much we loved it there
if both teams are going to be drafting a quarterback high.
But I've also learned in twelve years in this league
that if you're not entitled anything. It's all about being
able to earn your spot and prove yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Well, he was small enough to realize that you're not
entitled to anything.

Speaker 1 (01:29:45):
That was a Kurt on the Quarterbacks series on Netflix,
and he said he might have resigned with the Vikings
if he knew the ful because we draft the quarterback
in the first round.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
Why the hell would they draft the quarterback of the
first round?

Speaker 7 (01:29:55):
Buck?

Speaker 1 (01:29:55):
A quarterback eight was available number two, He's thirty six
years of age, three's coming off Achilles surgery.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Why wouldn't they draft the quarterback? Really?

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
Well, I mean you said all those things, but also
maybe they viewed him as a descending player, meaning the
declining player, a player who's not gonna get back to
the heights that he wants was able to get to.
And let's be honest, Kirk Cousins has done a lot
of great individual things. He hasn't done anything spectacular as
a team leader. I mean they haven't won significant games,
they haven't won the big win in Minnesota or any
other previous spots. He hasn't led a team to a

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super Bowl run or even a championship run. So I
understand individually, Kirk Cousins has done a lot of terrific stuff,
solid career, Pro Bowl career, But I do understand if
you're a team that wants championship aspirations, you're always looking
for the guy that can compete with the likes of
Josh Allen and Pat Mahomes and some of the great quarterbacks,

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and at this stage of his career, Kirk Cousins can't
do that unless he has a super team behind him.

Speaker 1 (01:30:55):
I'm gonna say a couple of things about Kirk Cousins.
You know how much I love the guy. I love
him as a person, as a family, whatever it may be.
Number One, Statistically, he's almost on par with Dak Prescott.
If you check out the stats, he and Dak press
Pat almost side by side with stats. All Right, that's
number one. So he's not a bad quarterback. He's a
good NFL quarterback, a functionable quarterback where you could win

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with the guy you can and the Minnesota did win
with the guy that's number one. Number Two, Over the years,
I've learned maybe one thing, and maybe you can help
me out with this. Statistically and skill wise, you know,
you got to have the skill to be a quarterback,
but more than that, you have to have the personality.
And I don't think he's a leader. I think he's
more of a geek. To be honest with you, I

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think he's a geek, and I've seen him on TV,
even in the locker room. He comes across as a geek.
The players love him. He tries to dance with them,
and it doesn't Kurt, don't do the dancing. Please, it's
not you. You can't dance. Really, I can't dance, I
admit it. Don't dance in the locker room with the guy.
You look like a fool. But that's the point that
I'm trying to bring out. He's not a leader, you know.

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As much as I can criticized Joe Burrow, he's a leader.
He'll get in that whole. I think these guys respect him. Okay,
Josh Allen a leader, Patrick Mahomes a leader. These guys
are leader. Lamar Jackson, Oh my goodness, that guy's a leader.
I don't think Kirk Cousins is a leader, and I
think that's a big, a big part of his quarterbacking.
I guess picture that's not fulfilled and that's why he

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hasn't taken his teams maybe to the next level because
he's had great player, he said, Jefferson on the team,
and he's got great players around him, but he never
was able to get out of that shell. Maybe because
he wasn't a great leader.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
Could that be.

Speaker 3 (01:32:35):
I mean it could be.

Speaker 4 (01:32:36):
I mean he could be some of that. Some of
that is like the leadership part. Some of it is
also like just being able to perform under pressure.

Speaker 5 (01:32:42):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:32:43):
You remember there was this thing for the longest time
about him in playoff games and how he didn't perform
well and that playoff games, but primetime games, Monday night,
Sunday night, those things like he would wilt under.

Speaker 3 (01:32:56):
The pressure in the spotlight.

Speaker 4 (01:32:58):
And maybe some of that still exists, because I will
tell you that in the postseason, whatever you think Monday
night and Sunday Night are is tenfold in the postseason
when it comes to the pressure and what you feel
he hasn't performed well in those moments.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
Well, I mean, then you could go, Lamar Jackson has
to perform well in the playoffs. Really, I mean, but
you know that's what but that's what media people do.
They say he hasn't perform well in the prime, in
the big lights with the big that's bull.

Speaker 2 (01:33:24):
You know what, he won. He lost the game.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
He performs well, his team didn't perform well, and the
other team performed better. It's a game, all right, Lamar
Jackson did not choke under the bright lights. I promise
you that it just happened to work out that way.

Speaker 2 (01:33:36):
He lost.

Speaker 6 (01:33:37):
But right, but.

Speaker 5 (01:33:39):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:33:39):
But what we have to do is like we got
to be we got to call a spade of spade,
and so when it doesn't go right, we have to
talk about those things. Like when it doesn't go right,
if you don't perform well, like we have to talk
about it. We have to talk about, hey, why didn't
he go right? Why doesn't he play at the same level.
And we can provide context and perspective, but at the
end of the day, you judge by how you perform

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in those moments. Quarterback or not. That's what it is,
team game or not. The quarterback is the most important
player on the team. We give him the ball every play,
We pay him significantly more than everybody else, so he
has to carry the burden of being able to lead
the team to the promised land.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
And when you don't, we talk about you.

Speaker 1 (01:34:22):
Well, I would say this there are some players that
just don't perform well in big time situations, and I'll
get one of them. Clayton Kershaw. You're a Dodger fan,
you know when it comes to the postseason.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Is it bad luck? He hasn't performed well? It just
happened that way? Is he a bad player?

Speaker 5 (01:34:40):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:34:40):
I mean three thousand strikeouts. I mean may be the
less left hander to ever do that, because no one's
going to play as long as as he will, or
others just don't play that long. Why the money's great
and you have a short career, injury, whatever it may be.
But some players don't play well under the bright lights,
just as the way it is, which tells me what
takes me to this situation.

Speaker 2 (01:35:00):
You're recruiting. You're a college recruiter right now. You're going
after a kid.

Speaker 1 (01:35:05):
Kid plays in high school and all of a sudden,
you go into a high school game where it's taken
maybe three hundred people in the stands on a Friday night,
and you're going to take them to Michigan when there's
one hundred and four thousand people. He may not be
able to perform. He may have the skill set, but
he may not be able to perform under the bright
lights under one hundred four thousand people.

Speaker 2 (01:35:22):
I'm sure you've seen that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:23):
I'm sure you've seen guys that played in college situations
and going to the NFL and they kind of cringed
under the big crowds. That happens, right, You can't practice that.
It just you throw them out there for the first
time they look around, they go nuts.

Speaker 4 (01:35:40):
Yeah, I mean, there's definitely that element to it, like
where you don't get what you need from them, and
everyone can have the pressure. There are a lot of
people who want to be given all of the accolades
and do all that other stuff, but they're not ready.
They're not ready for it, and so you have to
talk about you have to call him out on it, like,

(01:36:00):
hey man, your guy can't hand the press.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
He doesn't do it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
And you have to understand who those people are. And
you have to try and make the game as simple
as you can form.

Speaker 3 (01:36:08):
But every night, everybody's not built to be a prime
time performer.

Speaker 1 (01:36:14):
See, I'm amazed. And you may remember this guy. I
remember John Brockington who played for Ohio State. I do remember, okay, yeah,
I remember he played for Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn,
John the Rock Brockington, all right, when they high school
football in New York City is an anthrothelit I mean,
there's nothing really that comes out of New York. Every

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once in a while they got a great player, and
Brockington was a great player, all right. And they don't
play at night like you know in Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio
they played Friday a big deal on Friday nights. Right
in New York City they played ten o'clock Saturday morning
in front of like thirty five people. Right, So I
was shocked that Brockington A was even recruited by Ohio
State and b goes to Ohio State where I have

(01:36:57):
eighty ninety thousand people of the game, and he performed.
He didn't wilt under the pressure. So there are certain
people that could do that, but others can't. And if
I'm a college coach, one of the first questions I
have to say, look, you perform really well here under
the talent or lack thereof in New York City high
school football, can you perform at that level that we

(01:37:18):
play at at Ohio State and also in front of
the big crowds.

Speaker 3 (01:37:21):
And he did.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
That's a question. I think you have to ask these players, right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:27):
Yeah, I mean you got to ask him. I mean
you have to.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
I mean you have to kind of gauge the temperature.
You have to see all of these different things about
them and check mental, maker performance, all that other stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:37:40):
And you try and do it in a bunch of
different ways.

Speaker 4 (01:37:42):
But ultimately, and we can talk about all the stuff
on the intake process, you're judged by your performance and
how you play. Like, ultimately it comes down to performance
and production in those moments. And you got to produce
in those moments.

Speaker 1 (01:37:54):
Okay, what was it like with you? I mean in
your high school? Did they play at Friday nights or
big crowds Friday football?

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
Loved it?

Speaker 4 (01:38:02):
Like for me, I've always I've always loved the bigger
the crowd, the bigger the game for me, the better
I performed. I fed off of the energy good or bad,
either being the evil empire, who the person who's in things,
who's hated, or being celebrated. Like I loved all of
that part of it, Like it got me excited. There's

(01:38:24):
nothing more that I miss now and football is man,
I missed a few different things.

Speaker 3 (01:38:29):
I miss Sunday night games.

Speaker 4 (01:38:31):
I miss Monday night games and I missed playoff games
because that's when the entire world is watching. That's when
the pressure is at its highest. And to me, that's
when you see who's who and what's what. That's when
you separate the good from from the greats in those moments.
And I loved that part of it. I still love

(01:38:52):
seeing how people performing that in any sport. I love
watching playoff baseball, hockey, basketball, because to me, that brings
out the best in you if you can perform in
those moments.

Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
And I bet that you have seen some people that
have wilted in.

Speaker 1 (01:39:05):
Those situations too, right, like people people do it, you
don't perform like you don't always need one.

Speaker 4 (01:39:13):
Namely, all make mistakes. Remember it's a team game where
we all make mistakes. But yeah, the pressure, the pressure
can be a lot, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Honestly, you could say the same thing for our business.
You could see someone who knows a lot about sports
is a good, good talker, a good could communicate, but
but you can play on the microphone, he wilts. Right,
I'm sure you've seen that too, maybe right? I mean
in the NFL network, nice that were really talented and
know their stuff, and when the light goes on, they
just start to schitz and they sweat and they can't

(01:39:45):
get it done.

Speaker 4 (01:39:48):
Yeah, I mean like yeah, sometimes the light you can
read light comes on, the red light goes on, and
can you give me one name?

Speaker 3 (01:39:55):
No, I don't have anything. I don't have anything. I'll
get it out of it, like the red light light.

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(01:40:44):
Brooks and many firmanent. We're live from the Fox Sports
radio studios and we're gonna have the blame game in
about ten twelve minutes from now, so don't go anywhere, really,
And uh, I got a couple of items I want
to clear up here with you, uh mister Brooks, And
one of them was getting back to Kurt Cousins. He
said he was aware the Falcons might draft a quarterback,

(01:41:05):
but definitely not that high. Okay, or we get that
he's kind of like in his own little world there,
but he says he wasn't informed about the Pennix pick
until a phone call by offensive courd that Zach Robinson
while Atlanta was on the clock. They don't owe him anything, right,
I mean, they don't have to tell him're gonna draft
the quarterback. I mean, maybe his agents should have been
smart enough to say, hey, Kurt, they may be drafted
a quarterback pretty high.

Speaker 4 (01:41:28):
I mean, I think they did their part in terms
of giving them the common courtesy of the phone call
before they took him. That's all the team is obligated.
Hey man, just want to let you know before you
see it scroll across the screen. We're gonna take Michael
Pennis as a quarterback. YadA, YadA, YadA. He can be uncomfortable,
he can be happy, But you've told him that's what
you asked for. You asked, Hey, just tell me, just

(01:41:49):
let me know so I can deal with the regardless.
They can make a decision that they want to make,
but just let me know so I'm not blindsided. So
they gave him that, they gave him the Curtisy call.
He can't complain about it. The end of the day,
is a team and the team is supposed to do
what's best for the team. And I know we have
kind of put quarterbacks on a pedestal where we believe

(01:42:10):
it's a partnership between the quarterback and the team.

Speaker 3 (01:42:13):
How it runs, it doesn't operate like that. There's no
other position that is like that. It's not one.

Speaker 4 (01:42:18):
And in the twenty one other guys, every other player,
we've all had to deal with them drafting somebody at
our position, and it becomes a competition. Quarterbacks have to
get out of this thing where we expect them to
run through their entire career without being challenged. This support
of the big boy league.

Speaker 1 (01:42:35):
That's what you do, right, and the quarterbacks I gotta
believe have a lot of power. I mean, at least
the media has said that about Joe Burrow. They said
that Joe Burrow basically has control over the front over
cit of Cincinnati Bengals. I doubt I don't think he does,
but I gotta believe that he had some input on
the drafting of Jim R. Chase.

Speaker 2 (01:42:55):
Was that played together at LSU he wanted Jim ar
Chase and they got him?

Speaker 4 (01:43:00):
Or maybe I wouldn't say like necessarily that he went
out and said, hey, I wanted to mar Chase. More
likely that the team went to Joe Burron was like, hey,
tell us about Ja Marchase, Like we're thinking about him.
It's between him and Penney Sewell, if we got him,
how would he interact as he fed our culture?

Speaker 3 (01:43:15):
Like what do you think about him?

Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
And they get that perspective, but they still make the
decision on their own, not necessarily because Joe Burrow wanted him,
but if he advocates for him, it certainly is good.
But you still don't make decisions because of players. And
I'll say this as a former player, like there has
to be a level of divide coaches, coach, scout scout
players play like. You can ask that, but at the

(01:43:39):
end of the day, there has to be a pecking order,
a hierarchy in the organization because when you take someone
that a player recommends and it doesn't go right, guess
who's going to get the blame and the fallout.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
The scouts and the team.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
And so the player can say whatever, but you take
that in, but it better be something that you you
want to do as a front office otherwise you have
to answer for it. The player never has to answer
for it. And that goes, I mean in so many
different circles and so many different cycles.

Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
You know, it's funny because the media has brought into
this Joe Burrow basically could do no wrong and look,
he's great, He's done wonder for this football team. Although
when you say wonders, what have they done? They haven't
made the playoffs last two years. However, you know when
the holdout with the t Higgins and Jamar Chase, he
was very vocal, Joe, Joe was very, very vocal, and

(01:44:31):
the media kind of brought in saying that, well, when
Joe spoke the front office jump, I don't believe that.
You know, Mike Brown, who owns the Cincinnati Bengals has
been a staunch defender of his beliefs for years. And
I remember, you know, not signing contracts for players and
letting him walk, and Carson Palmer got rid of him

(01:44:54):
when Carson want to be here. I mean it's happened.
I mean Andrew Whitworth let him go. I mean things
like that happen. So I can't believe that Mike Brown
has changed since Joe Burrow has opened his mouth at
various news conferences saying you better sign Jamar Chase and
t Higgins. They signed them because these guys are valuable,

(01:45:14):
and that was it. I don't think they signed it
because Joe Burrow said, let's.

Speaker 4 (01:45:17):
Sign them, right, I would say that it helps the
all right, So it helps to have the endorsement of
the franchise quarterback. You are when you're building your offense,
you are building it with the quarterback in mind, and
you're building it with what are the things that will
help the quarterback play at his best? As Joe Burrow
gains stature and influence or whatever like, he voices his opinion. Now,

(01:45:42):
there is a partnership to some level in the league
where offensive coordinator head coach or whatever you do, take
the opinion of the hit. The quarterback has a little
more weight, and so you're making decisions. You're like, look,
he really likes both of these wide receivers, the kind
of make it go okay. If we tell them, hey,

(01:46:02):
if we do this, we can't have this left tackle whatever,
are you okay with it? And he says, hey, put
it on me, I'll get the ball out my hands quicker. Well,
then you can trust him depending on what his track
record has been. So yeah, he has some heavily influenced
and it is a bit of a partnership. But still
the team better be okay resigning and paying the players
that they pay pay because the criticisms falls to the team,

(01:46:25):
right and.

Speaker 1 (01:46:26):
Correct me if I'm mistaken. But all the years that
Tom Brady has had success in New England, I never
heard him go public saying that the New England Patriots
sign a player a certain player, did you? And he
never really had the talent and wide receiver that Joe
Burrow has right now, never really did, no.

Speaker 4 (01:46:46):
But what he also had was a defense that was
lights out opposite him, Like the Patriots always played great
defense and they were a team that operated a different
they had they could get into a bunch of different
systems and ways to play. When they had Randy Moss
and Wes Welkin, those guys, they'd light them up. They
were average, like thirty plus points and do it. When

(01:47:07):
they didn't have those guys, they had the David Pattens
and the Troy Browns and the Dion Branches of the world. Like,
they did different things short intermediate control, passing game. They
could more if they could do a bunch of different
things to have success.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
So I understand it. I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:24):
But yeah, it's that fine line between you want your
players and your quarterback to be an advocate. But he
can't hijack the franchise with his his thoughts right, and.

Speaker 1 (01:47:36):
They lost so many games defensively last year. I don't
see him advocating for the signing of Trey Hendrickson. You know,
he was asked several times, and I think one of
his answers was like, you know, well, last year we
had two This year we only have one meeting. Last
year he had Chase and Higgins dadd I could sign
and they did. Now it's only Hendrickson, So I would

(01:47:58):
think that he wanted to get Hendricks signed because again,
they were terrible on defense last year and he was
sort of the only bright spot.

Speaker 2 (01:48:06):
He led the league in sacks.

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
Yeah, but it's different though, right, So, so there are
a few different ways to look at it, and you
can look at it. What's the best way for us
to be great on one side of the ball, because
we can either be great on one side of the ball, we.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
Could be average on both sides of the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:48:24):
Well, I would rather have a team that is great
in one area and oh me in the other area,
because then you put the pressure on the great side
of the team the offense.

Speaker 3 (01:48:36):
Hey man, every week, y'all got to.

Speaker 4 (01:48:38):
Put twenty eight on the board, Like, if you don't
get twenty eight, then it's on you. We've built the
team under the assumption that the offense is always going
to get us twenty eight points. So I can't expect
the defense to be a lockdown defense when I haven't
committed those resources. The onus is on the offense to
carry us. That's what happens. That's the conversation. Then the

(01:48:58):
media everyone will be like defense is so weak, But
I would say it should be different if they're losing
games and the offense isn't hitting a certain number, you
got to blame Joe Burron company because they are where
the resources are, that's where the money is, that's where
the greatness should be. If they don't play great each week,
they get the criticism more so than the defense.

Speaker 1 (01:49:19):
So what the Bengals have to do this year is
just score more points than the opposition.

Speaker 2 (01:49:22):
I mean, it's kind of.

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
An easy out because that's what you got to do
to win any game.

Speaker 2 (01:49:27):
But they really have to score points big time. They're
gonna win games like thirty four to thirty one this year.

Speaker 3 (01:49:32):
Yeah, that's that's that's how the team is built.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
And I would say this, I want you to think
about the Peyton Manning Indianapolis Colts and how they were constructed. Right,
they were designed to jump out to a lead and
then defensively hold on with the pass rushers and the
coverage weighing you out in the fourth quarter. That would
lead you to belief that why haven't they signed Tree Inderson.

(01:49:56):
I don't know why they haven't sign Trey Henderson because
typically if you're going to operate the way the Bengals
operate high end offense, the only people that get paid
on that defense are the two pass rushers. Everybody else
is draft and develop expendable guy, and they were trying
to do that with Hendrickson Denshamar Stewart, who didn't have
the production but is the prototypical guy when it comes

(01:50:18):
to the tools. You would like to have those two
guys in the fold so you can win because the
pass rushers can close the game out and salt away
a thirty one to twenty seven win in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Let me throw something out there, and maybe this is
way out of left field, but could it be perhaps
there's a new defensive coordinator with Al Golden coming in.
Maybe he doesn't want hendricks And I doubt that's kind
of a foolish thing to say, but I'm just grabbing
its straws right now. Maybe why he hasn't been signed
because Al Golden maybe doesn't believe in him because of
his age. He's thirty one, and he'd rather develop player.
I don't know, is that a possibility.

Speaker 4 (01:50:53):
I would say that it's more likely not that Al
Golden likes him, but more so that they don't want
to pay him the length of the deal that he wants.
Maybe he wants five years with more security in this
and we'll give you two, maybe three, but we're not
giving you that. I'm more likely to believe as the
structure of the deal more so than the cash, because

(01:51:17):
I think they like him enough to give him the
cash that he wants.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
Maybe I'm wrong. I think there's enough.

Speaker 1 (01:51:24):
I think that thirty one years of age, you're not
going to give a guy a three year deal, maybe
maybe two with best Maybe wanted an option something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
We'll see.

Speaker 1 (01:51:33):
By the way, I want to go back to my
Kirk cousins if I may, because he's on my mind now.

Speaker 2 (01:51:38):
I just can't start.

Speaker 1 (01:51:39):
As I said, he was six and three last year,
and then as I mentioned, I want to defend them
because everybody said, oh he was terrible. Look he got
hit in the right arm against the Saints that game.
I think it was defensive end Peyton Turner. And there
was Week ten and then I was watching that quarterback
thing on Netflix. He even said he knew something was
wrong right then and there, immediately when he was hit
and he said he felt ain't in his shoulder. And

(01:52:01):
as soon as that happened, boom, the Falcons were right
down the cropper.

Speaker 7 (01:52:06):
They did.

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
They benched him in week sixteen and they didn't make
the playoffs. And then your guy Pennix came in there
and say, you a guy because you said he's gonna
be one of those guys going from like an old
soon rant to a star. They were one and two
and they didn't go to the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (01:52:20):
Yeah, but I would say that they were gonna judge
Cousins off his record. I would say, well, what did
he do individually to help those wins? The paper was
suggest that yeah he did that, but man, he had
I think eighteen and sixteen sixteen intercept. Just to me
blindly off the top of the head, he might have
led the league at interceptions. The one thing that we
do know the number one deciding factor in football turnovers,

(01:52:46):
And if the quarterback is turning the ball over, it's
a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:52:50):
And he's turning the.

Speaker 4 (01:52:51):
Ball over while not giving them any production or the
performance that matches his salary. Because we took again in
the first round, we might as well hand the ball
to him if we if we're gonna turn it over
and then we're gonna start losing, I'm going to go
down with the young player because I need to see
what I have so I can figure out how to
build the team with him in mind.

Speaker 1 (01:53:11):
I hear what you're saying. I got a couple of
quarterback questions for you, who quickies?

Speaker 2 (01:53:15):
Are you ready? Who gets who gets more wins this year?
Aaron Rodgers or Justin Fields?

Speaker 4 (01:53:22):
Oh, Aaron Rodgers or Justin Fields? Who gets more wins?
I'm gonna say Pittsburgh gets.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
More wins just because of the brand. I just think
the brand.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Yeah, I think, I think.

Speaker 3 (01:53:32):
I think. I just think the brand is whatever. I
don't know, Like it's such a weird team and a dynamic.

Speaker 4 (01:53:38):
They got a lot of personalities now though, Like yeah,
Aaron Rodgers, DK Metcalf, Jalen Ramsey. I mean, you got
a lot of personalities that you're managing and dealing with
right now, all at one time. TJ whte hasn't been
in I mean, that's a lot to navigate, just a
lot a lot to manage, right.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
I think they make the playoffs. I really, I think
there are a playoff TAM this year. We'll see what happens. Okay,
I got another quarterback question for you, JJ McCarthy. Is
he's going to be an upgrade over Sam Donald for
the Vikings this year.

Speaker 4 (01:54:09):
Yes, he is JJ McCarthy's talented. He is athletic and
mobile and people are sleeping on him because of the
role that he played at Michigan. He was more of
the game manager, the kaltaker. He wasn't the playmaker. But man,
when you look at his game in big moments when
they needed to throw it and let and be led
by the quarterback, he made those plays.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
I'm just a believer in him, man.

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
I think his talent is superior to that of Sam Donald,
and he's a better player. I just think he's a
better player than Sam Donald is and will be and
will be for the Vikings.

Speaker 1 (01:54:44):
This could be an interesting story to follow though, see
what happens over there with Minnesota. But with that, he
is Bucky Brooks on Ady Fermer. We have Fox Sports
Sunny of Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
And it's that time. You know we never do it,
isn't it?

Speaker 7 (01:54:55):
We never do it?

Speaker 2 (01:54:56):
No someone else does. Why it's the blame gaming.

Speaker 1 (01:54:59):
You know what it's freaking next, Oh, the blame game
right around the band coming right up. He's Bucky Brooks
and Andy Firmer with Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:55:08):
We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

Speaker 1 (01:55:10):
And of course, in about twelve minutes from now, which
will be nine am on the East Coast Countdown count
Down with my guy Brian No, Jeff Schwartz and Bill
Krakenberger right here on Fox Sports Radio and about twelve minutes.
Don't go anywhere but right now, Patty, let's do it.
It's blame game time with me. It's all your fault. No,

(01:55:30):
it's your fault, all your fault. Maybe it's everyone's fault.

Speaker 7 (01:55:38):
Who knows the liar.

Speaker 9 (01:55:39):
That's why there's the blame game, the blame game. Let's
figure out who to blame.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
It's your fault, Patty, the playing game.

Speaker 5 (01:55:47):
All right, fine, it's my fault. Well, you know it's
LD's fault today everybody. Well with that, let's see who
else is that fault? Well, I got one for us, guys.
So earlier in the weekend, it was reported that Lakers
and Lebron James, then you know that little seemed to
be heading toward divorce right. Well, earlier it was reported
that apparently when the Lakers had sold to a Marc

(01:56:10):
to the Dodgers, guy forget his name, Mark Clayton, I
think is what it is either.

Speaker 9 (01:56:13):
Way when they sold it to him.

Speaker 5 (01:56:15):
So the Lakers told Fredford, having told Luca, hey, this
is what's gonna happen. We just want to keep you
in the no great. Apparently Lebron James did not get
that same memo and they did not tell him prior
to that happening.

Speaker 9 (01:56:29):
So with that said, who do you a blame Andy.

Speaker 1 (01:56:34):
Well, probably some stupid office clerk didn't send it to Lebron.
But why should the blunt have to know?

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
Anyway?

Speaker 1 (01:56:39):
Well, what is it going to affect him? Who buys
the team? Are they can not buy the team? What's
the big deal? Why is everybody getting bent out of shape?
You know, Kirk Cusins got bet out of shape he
didn't know the Falcons were drafting a quarterback Lebron Jamess
bent out of shape because he didn't know the team
was sold. What does he He's getting his money, he's
getting his kid.

Speaker 3 (01:56:56):
Who cares?

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
Who cares?

Speaker 7 (01:56:58):
Jeeves?

Speaker 3 (01:57:01):
I say.

Speaker 4 (01:57:01):
The reason why it becomes an issue is because if
you've into what they proceed to be a partnership and
you don't tell your partner about a major move, then
it's a problem. And that's why it's problematic. They haven't
told him about a major move that is on the horizon.
That's why it's problematic. They should have told him.

Speaker 9 (01:57:19):
Speaking of major that's true, speaking of major moves, guys.

Speaker 5 (01:57:24):
So Chicago's Sky's Angel Reese says, w NBA officiating has
to be fixed.

Speaker 9 (01:57:32):
Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 4 (01:57:36):
I mean, I think, look, officiating is a hard job
in every level. So I'm blame to w n B A.
Make sure that you have the best and the brightest
on the floor, hold them accountable to see if we
can have the best product on the thing. But don't
bring in the automated stuff. No AI on the on
the court, don't want to see that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
I blame the commissioner of the w That's truly, Angel Heart.
She's weak, she's she's just a I don't know what
she is.

Speaker 5 (01:58:01):
I know was this.

Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
She had a forty five minute speech the other day
and she was saying how great the league was with
expansion and they're getting first class flights. Never once mentioned
Caitlyn Clark. Are you out of your freaking mind? How
do you know that Cayton Clark made you your name known? Really?
Come on, get rid of her. She's been it starts
for the top, and she's weak at the top.

Speaker 5 (01:58:22):
Julian Engelhart, Well, we're gonna stick around with the WNBA
for this next one. So with that said, so the
WNBA plans to push their schedule to November as league expands.

Speaker 1 (01:58:35):
Who do you blame Andy again? The commissioner was, you
know what's gonna happen. No one's gonna know who's playing
in the championship game because this NFL season. I mean,
come on, do you know you learn your lesson from
the NBA. They lost Christmas Day, You're gonna lose Thanksgiving?
Forget it forget push it back, push it back.

Speaker 5 (01:58:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:58:56):
I think you just had to be careful making sure
that you don't go too deep into it because you
gonna lose viewership as football begins to escalate and ramp up.
Just make sure you have a solid ending date where
you can maximize your exposure.

Speaker 3 (01:59:07):
You don't want to go too long in the football season.

Speaker 5 (01:59:10):
All right, Well, speaking of going too long into games here, guys,
So the MLB is actually planning to use automation for
balls and strikes in this year's All Star Game.

Speaker 9 (01:59:19):
I mentioned that earlier. Well, we're back on here. We're
back on this here. So with that said, who do
you blame for that one? Bucky?

Speaker 4 (01:59:29):
Well, I blame all the complaining, everyone crying. So I
blame the managers and the players about crime. But what
they're gonna find out is that the human element is
going to be a lot more forgiving to them than
the computer.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
So stop crying, Come on, bucking, stop crying, you please, Really,
I tell you what I blame. I blame the fact
that Major League Baseball is too stupid to realize that
part of the great game of baseball, and it's great,
it really is, is when guys would argument the little
Panela's of the world, but Earl Weaver would matter arguing
with the umpire. That's gonna be gone now. Not only

(02:00:02):
that the empire's jobs will be gone. That's bad, they
lose their jobs, but part of the game when the
umpire would run out and go nuts and kick dirt
on the home plate where the umpire was there, that's
part of the mystique of baseball.

Speaker 2 (02:00:13):
It's gonna be gone.

Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
Stop crying, he's a towel, Bucky, Please, I'm come on now, really, geez.

Speaker 5 (02:00:23):
All right, Well, fine, O F I don't blame guys.
So Dave Parker never lived to see his plaque in
Cooper's town. He passed two weeks ago and the Hall
of Fame ceremonies later this month. If that's in change,
why wouldn't the Hall vote.

Speaker 9 (02:00:36):
Him in sooner? Knowing time was not on his side?
Who do you blame? Bucky?

Speaker 4 (02:00:42):
The guy just blamed the Hall of Fame committee and
all the different things that are related to that. Like,
it's just silly when you think about like Dave park
And not being able to go in to wait that
he should go in all those things there fault.

Speaker 1 (02:00:53):
I second that I said, Mage, Rest in peace, Dave
fark the day you goo? All right? Count down next
right here, See you next WEEKOX Sports Radio

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