Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks preview Week 1 of the NFL, College Football Transfer Portal Debate, Early Season Predictions, & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Hello, Bucky, how are you?

Speaker 4 (00:28):
I am great, Andy? What's going on? How you doing?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Everything is great?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
And we have to introduce our new executive producer, Brie.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
How are you, Bri? And welcome to our little show.
Good morning, guys, so happy to be here. Thank you
so much. Well I'll tell you well, we have a
big question to ask you. Number one.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Is this something you requested to be with us? Or
were you forced upon us? I like to know because
it means a lot to us if we know you
wanted to be here or you were told.

Speaker 2 (00:57):
To be here.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
I requested to be here. I love you guys a lot.
You guys are so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's what we wanted here, right, Thank you, thank you
very much?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You Yeah, all right, now I want to get into
a couple of things because you know, over the years
book we did this show and on Sundays we would
go from game to game, and you know, to me,
that's boring. To me, it's a waste of time. To me,
it's almost a crutch. You know, we can't predict anything.
No one could predict anything. Fortune tellers can't predict anything.

(01:28):
I think that's a turnoff. I think that we need
to get behind the curtain, some big time stories, some
interesting facts, and we're here to entertain. We're like informal, informational,
that's what we're informational and entertainment. Infotainment, that's what we are.
Little information, a lot of entertainment.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
That's what we want to do.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I don't think doing the game by game breakdown
is someone entertaining. Do you agree with me? I just
wanted to get started on the first day of football.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
I mean, I'm down with getting to it. Let's get
right to it.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Okay, okay, we're gonna get to it. We're gonna roll
the clock back to Thursday night. And it took just
six seconds into the game when an Eagle defensive lineman
Jalen Carter was ejected from the season open against the
Dallas Cowboys. Okay, and here's the thing, because he spit
on Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott. And the hero of that
whole situation was, believe it or not, believe it or not,

(02:21):
was the NBC halftime newcomer Devin mccordy. He's the only
guy who condemned, condemned him from doing that. He called
him selfish, he called him disrespectful.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
I get it.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
I get it to Mike Tarrico, Chris Collinsworth, my buddy,
they're not gonna say much because you know there, I
guess owned and operated by the National Football League. But
Devin came in there at halftime firing and he's new.
Maybe he's gonna be lectured right now, and he said, look,
this guy is selfish, he's disrespectful. He heard his teammates
and obviously here's the same guy Carter who was charged

(02:54):
with a reckless driving in a high speed crash that
killed a teammate and the university stafford back University of Georgia.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
No one mentioned that. No one mentioned that, and maybe
they shouldn't.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I just want to ask your opinion on the whole
situation that happened Thursday night. And if in fact you
as a former NFLA who played five years in the league,
have you ever seen anything like that?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Have you ever been spit upon? And have you spit
on anybody else?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
No? It's like gross.

Speaker 6 (03:20):
It's one of the most disrespectful things that you can
do to another person is to spit on him like
it shows, I mean, just a complete and utter lack
of disrespect. And for Jalen Carter to do it, regardless
of what Dak Prescott did, it really reveals a lot about.

Speaker 4 (03:35):
Him and who he is.

Speaker 6 (03:37):
And I think what players, particularly star players like Jalen Carter,
because he's the start for the team, he has to
understand that no one's bigger than the team and he
can't let a selfish incident disrupt the flow of the team.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
And that's what he did.

Speaker 6 (03:52):
And even though the Eagles were able to win, I
think they have to talk to him because like he
has to understand who he is and how he fits
to the puzzle, and by doing that, he really put
the team at risk by not having the services available
in those things, so very selfish act.

Speaker 4 (04:09):
I don't really understand. I don't really understand it.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
But it's one of those things that they said they'll
they'll talk to him about it and all that, But
to me, it was just a weird, weird incident.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
Okay, now I would have to say this that Carter
now to give him some props. He's the best player
on the Eagles defense, maybe the most important players on
the team. What do the Eagles do? How do they
adjust without him? But I gotta believe he's probably gonna
be suspended. I would think they might be suspended. A
game might be fine, whatever it may be. I got
some ideas. I'll run that by it. But how do
the Eagles adjust without Carter?

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Look, man, I think they're talented enough to be able
to move on that. He's a really, really good player
and they have to have him if they're gonna be
a title team. But it's one of those situations where
you have to have the neck got ready and Davis
was ready for them. They have enough talent where they've
kind of stocked by the talent to put themselves in

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a position to be able to win with or without them.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's just one of those things where.

Speaker 6 (05:09):
They continue to need to talk to them and make
sure that everyone's ready. Everyone's ready for their big moment.
Everyone's ready to shine. They have to be ready to
get down.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Okay, my idea is this.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
First of all, I don't know why the NFL has
waited so long to make a decision on what they're
going to do with it. But you know, finding doesn't
do anything because they make so much money. You know,
get it fine for five grand, ten grand, whatever it
may be. That's like lunch bill, it really is. I
suggest this just to you and see what you say.
I think that they should make him do a public
service message and run those commercials and someone embarrass and

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humiliate him and say I'm sorry, I shouldn't do it.
So only youngsters who watched this, all the high school
kids that watched this, that everybody who watches National Football
League games can see him knowing he made a mistake,
and someone embarrass him and make like a fifteen the
thirty second commercial saying hey, my name is Jalen Carter.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I did this.

Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm sorry, shouldn't do it? Please don't follow what I do.
It's a mistake and I'm sorry. I think that would
be even more so, more important than finding him or
suspending him.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
I mean, look, you can do all the PSAs and
all those things or whatever, but I think at the
end of the day, to impact his character, you have
to do something significant. You got to hit him in
the pocket. But like you can do all those things
and have him talk to the young people and those things,
but more importantly, like he has to live it out.
If he's truly remorseful, then we'll see it in his

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behaviors in those things. But to me, it's something that
can't happen in the league, Like you have too many
young people looking at the game. It's just unfortunate that
it took place like that, and it took place in
a prime time evann where we're supposed to be celebrating
the return of the season.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
It's marred by this silly incident.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
No doubt about that. And let's talk about that game
for just a second. Because the game ended Eastern time
about twelve fifteen in the morning. They stopped the game
like forty minutes and it didn't even rain. I didn't
even think there was any lightning. I don't know what
was going on. And to me, you stop the game
like that, you lose the momentum. I think these guys
have to warm up again. It was crazy. I'm like
watching the game with one eye open and the Cowboys

(07:13):
lose twenty four to twenty. It was a fairly good game,
pretty competitive, and I was somewhat surprised with the Dallas
Cowboys the way they played kind of rallied around the
fact that maybe they lost Micah.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
I don't know. Maybe that's why they did that.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
No, I don't think they had to be rallying around Micah.
I think coach ebra Flues and the defensive coaches believe
that they have a system in place that will allow
them to play with or without star players.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
And if you know the system, it goes.

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Back to Tony Dungee, Rod Mary Nelly. That system where
they played a look two deep five under defense Tampa two,
which was what just call everything is about all eleven
guys fitting into the pieces of the puzzle, and if
you fit into the equation correctly, then you have an
opportunity to slow down to the other team. You get

(08:02):
turnovers off tips and overthrows, but the things that you
have to do is run to the ball.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
You gotta play hard, you gotta play with great effort,
and the.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Physicality has to show up. The Cowboys did that, particularly
in the second half, and so they saw what it
could look like without Micah and so that's your bowl
well for them going forward.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
And I'm so surprised that Sakuon Barkley only rushed for
sixty yards in that ball name early was.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:27):
I mean, like, here's the thing about Saquon. You know,
they did a really good job where you focus on
two things. Whenever you go into a game, it's about
players and plays. Like you focus on the players, don't
necessarily worry about the plays. And so in focusing on
the players, who do we need to take away? Well,
for the Eagles, you got to take away the running
back twenty six, takeaway Psykwon Barkley and force Jalen Hurst

(08:48):
to pass.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Even though Jalen Hurst has played at a great level.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Still, if you go into the game and you have
to take away one thing where you know, if we
take this away, they give us our best chance. Saquon
Barkley is that best chance. That's what the Cowboys did.
And if you think about it, it's a four point game.
So they were able to play the game on their terms.
They just didn't get the result that they.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Wanted, all right, let's move to Brazil. Let's move to
Friday night in Brazil. I don't know if you watched
that game or not, because I don't even know what
the population was as far as viewership, because people had
to pay for that game.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
It was on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
But the Charges not the seven game losing streak against
the Chiefs twenty seven to twenty one. What about Justin
Herbert now? Is it he coming into his age or
is it Jim Harbough making him the quarterback that everybody
thought he would be three touchdowns through into eighteen yards?
And I tell you what, the credit is going to
Herbert right now, but I think the credit goes to
Jim Harborugh. He's going to turn this team around. He's
going to make them a competitor. And I would say this,

(09:41):
I'm going to go on a limb I say this.
I think Justin Herbert right now, with kind of neck
and neck coming out of college with Joe Burrow, there
really was I think Herbert could have a better year
than Joe Burrow this year.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
I mean it's early, but I do think the Charges
are going to be real. I think they have an
opportunity to be a really, really good team. And everyone
who is looked of them and seeing them as a
title contender. The one thing that Jim Harbard does is
he puts together a structure and the plan in place
doesn't going a lot of guys to flourish.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
They're gonna be physical enough, they're gonna.

Speaker 6 (10:09):
Play great on both sides of the ball, and they're
gonna have a belief that they can be a title contender.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
And that's what that's what has happened.

Speaker 6 (10:15):
They become that and it's one of the things that
you need to be scared if you're in the agency.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
This team is coming. They're coming on quickly.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
And look, Herbert's getting a lot of kudos and so
was the coach, Jim Harbot.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Let's not forget the defense.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
The defense was tremendous as far as the Charges were concerned,
they really were.

Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah, No, I mean, Mentor has done a really good
job putting everybody in place, putting in position to win,
and it's just a matter of trying to figure out
a way if they can continue to sustain it.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Okay, let's talk about the Charges. As far as the kid,
that's kid Johnston. Okay, the Chargers drafted this guy, and
I know he wasn't much in twenty twenty three, twenty
twenty four. I think he was like kind of looked
at the guy who's dropping passes all the time, and
he got two touchdowns on Friday night. Could it be
that he's come into his own? Does it take that
long for a guy to catch a football to get

(11:04):
used to the play of the National Football League?

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I really understand that this guy all of a sudden
now is coming into his own. I know it's one game,
I know it's early, but still, in aill this guy
could make a big difference for the LA Chargers.

Speaker 6 (11:19):
This is typical when you think about it, Like normally
it does take two or three years for a player
to kind of settle in. And we also where they
picked in those things, we want them to have a
greater impact, but you never know what the transition is
going to be like going from college to the National
Football League.

Speaker 4 (11:34):
Johnson has been around for a long time.

Speaker 6 (11:36):
First round pick, he finally he's getting his opportunity. More importantly,
he finally is showing the confidence in his game to
be able to take it to the next level.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
And I apologize because his first name is Quentin Quentin Johnston.
I'm sorry, Sorry, Quenton, I didn't mean to fall your name,
but that's just the way it is.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:52):
You know the story. Obviously, the Charge is winning. But
I think there's a bigger story right here. Okay, let's
talk about the Chiefs. They got some firepower on off.
But what's the problem. What's the deal? I mean, I
think that you look at Travis Kelcey. He's thirty six
right now, and honestly, if you were to watch the
game from a scout point of view, like you are,
you'd have to say he looked thirty six.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
He looked a little old, didn't he.

Speaker 6 (12:14):
I mean, he looked a little old with us not
a major deal, Like, it's the thing where I mean
he's been old. I mean he's been old thirty six,
Like he's going to have an impact when it.

Speaker 4 (12:26):
Comes down to that.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
What I like about what he's able to do is
he still commands a lot of attention. Now, isn't coming
upon the other guys to step up and show that
they are ready to handle the responsibilities of being viable
contributors and that stuff. And what we haven't seen from
the Chiefs consistently enough is that they had that ability.

Speaker 4 (12:48):
They haven't shown the capacity to be able to do that.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
Okay, if I were to break down this game on
Friday and talk about the Chiefs and right now people
are saying, oh woe, he's me.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
They're not going to repeat.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He's the deal as far as the offense is concerned,
and Xavier Worthy, Rashie Rice Rice is suspended for five
more games.

Speaker 4 (13:04):
That hurt.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
So on the offensive side of the football, you know,
they got some problems. They got some lean, lean meat
on the offensive side of the game. The running game,
I say it, but Cheiko twenty five yards and five carries,
five yards to carry, but not enough. You gotta give
them the ball, shove it in his belly a little
more so. Offensively, they're a little short and they're hurting

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because they're missing a guy by the name of Rashi Rice,
because he's gonna help them. I mean, obviously they got
some firepower on the offensive side of the football. They're
not all together yet. I wouldn't want I wouldn't count
them out yet.

Speaker 4 (13:39):
No, I mean it's earily they're always going to be there.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
And as long as they have number fifteen Pat Mahomes,
that gives them a chance. They are going to be
in the mix. They're gonna be a team that you
have to worry about. The main thing with the Chiefs
is can they muster enough offense to be able to
swot the defense this see it looks pretty salty.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
It's just a matter of but.

Speaker 6 (14:00):
Isaiah Pacheco or a consistent running game.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
I mean, it makes it really really hard.

Speaker 6 (14:05):
It makes it very difficult to be able to play
the kind of ball that they want to play. You
have to have the running game to get people to
force opponents out of these two high defensive looks that
they're showing against the Chiefs. And the reason why is
because that takes away the big play element. When you're
facing the two high looks and they park in the
safeties in the parking lot, you can't throw the long ball,

(14:26):
and then you force to play a denc and dunk game,
and the odds suggests that you can't drive the left
of the field on denc and dunk plays. You just
have to be able to run the football. And so
that's why Isaiah Pachecko or someone is going to have
to emerge as a viable threat in the backfield.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
You know what, the next game I coach in the
National Football League will be my first. And you hit
it right on the head, and I think that you'll
agree with what I say. You're right about the running
the football. It's a very important part of the game,
and it runs the clock down. If you have the lead,
it just forces the defense to kind of tighten up
and then you can throw the bomb. But the Kansas
City Chiefs should not be having Patrick Mahomes as a

(15:04):
leading rusher. He rushed with fifty seven yards a Friday night.
He rushed for a touchdown on six carries. You don't
want Patrick Mahomes to be the leading Russia And basically
I'm watching the game, most of those rushes run scrambles,
you know, not really design runs. I don't think so
you don't want Mahomes to be the leading Russier, now
you do know what.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I'm scrambling for his life. That's the problem.

Speaker 6 (15:24):
I mean, that is the problem. And I will say
the thing about Pat Mahomes. He's always been a guy
that can pick and choose when he's gonna run, and
he actually is most effective when he runs like he
ran against the Chargers on scrambles.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Impromptu extended plays.

Speaker 6 (15:43):
He is not someone that's gonna run the quarterback power
like Josh Allen. He is not going to run Reid
option and do those things like Lamar Jackson. He finds
his success on the ground. When the coverage wins down
the field, he's able to find a crease or a
crack and he either extends the play looking for the
scrambling to uncover as the receiver's kind of break off

(16:03):
their routes and move towards him, or he just takes off.
And it's a problem because what you're relying on is
you need the front four to take care of Pat
Mahomes so the back seven can handle the coverage, and
it's a cat and mouse game.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
Did they play right?

Speaker 3 (16:18):
So now all of a sudden, people are scrambling around
sing Kansas City's finished. I mean, I mean, and that's great.
I mean, it's a conversation. I don't think, I mean,
it's anything after the first week. But we'll see what
happens in twenty four hours. Right now, because there's a
couple of big time questions out there on the schedule
for the National Football League today and before we you know,

(16:38):
move on, I'm just going to ask you looking at
the schedule today, what do you think is perhaps not
only the biggest game, but maybe the most important game
for several teams. My take is, obviously, I'm going to
stay local. I'm going to say the Bengals at the
Browns because the Bengals I think something like oho to
eleven on opening Day under the tutelage of Zach Taylor,

(16:58):
their coach. They got How they get started, that's the
big question mark right now. Can they get a fast
up because if they can't beat the Browns, they're gonna
go into what I call murderer's role when they play
the divisional teams that are tough, like Baltimore and things
like that. So they got to get started, they got
to get it going. That's a big game.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
I look at some other games right there, like the
Steelers Jets.

Speaker 3 (17:19):
You know, you know there's a storyline there obviously that
Aaron Rodgers was there last year in New York now
the Steelers. But other than that, are there any games
right now of really big interest today that kind of
are winning your tongue?

Speaker 4 (17:33):
I would say the biggest.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Games for me to watch Green Bay Packs versus the
Detroit Lions There's a lot of conversation about the Michael
Parsons trade.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
What he means to this team.

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Did he push his team into legitimate not only title content,
but maybe their favorite or co favorite with the Phildelphia Eagles.
I want to see how he fits in to Jeff
Afflee's defense.

Speaker 4 (17:52):
This is a sea ball getball defense.

Speaker 6 (17:54):
They thrive on turnovers, and to create turnovers you need
pass rush because consistent pass rush forces the quarterback into
bad decisions and aaron throws and if you're playing in
the back end, you're looking to take passes off tips
and overthrows.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
I want to see what that looks like.

Speaker 6 (18:13):
Then, offensively, for the Packers, Matthew Gold the first time
they drafted a wide receiver in the first round since
Javon Walker. So how does he fit in? Is he
a true number one? Does he change the offense at all?
Because if you put him in and he is able
to force teams to play more attention to him, does

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that create more opportunities for Josh Jacobs to get loose?
So Packers Lions, the Lions. I want to see what
the new coordinators do. This is a team that has
been dominant. They bully their way to the top. Well,
then you got two leaders and big respective meeting rooms,
meaning the offensive and defensive coordinator. Do they change the
identity of the Lions through their play call?

Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah, I'm really glad you brought that game up because
the Smichael parts of things really is bigger than life
right now because they say he may not play today.
Was with the back situation? I mean, is he doubtfully
is he going to play? And more than that, you know,
how do they approve that trade? Don't they check them
out medically? Didn't the Packers know that he had a
lower back problem or he kept that?

Speaker 2 (19:12):
I mean, how does that happen?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
I mean all of a sudden as soon as he
went to Green Bay, then he has lower back problems.

Speaker 6 (19:19):
Like he was having obviously issues because he didn't practice
at Dallas, and people kim blame it on the holdout
or holding in or whatever it was.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
But there was something that he had to have that
he was nursing.

Speaker 6 (19:30):
And remember he got a second opinion on something right
before he was traded away, So maybe this was part
of a lingering issue something that he had for the
entire time at Dallas and they just want to check
it out and be sure. I just know, having played
in Green Bay, having played for that staff, and the
doctors that I played for still there.

Speaker 4 (19:50):
They are very precautious.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
They are very into making sure that the players.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Are set up for success long term.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
This may be a long term play for the Packers, like, hey,
we would love to have you week one, but if
it's better for us down the road to sit you
this week, we'll sit you because we want to be
the best version of ourselves down the Strets. They want
to be playing the best ball down the Strets.

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twelve minutes for now. And now a little college news
right now, some news on the table. The NCAA votes
for a single football transfer portal window. Okay, and I
think that Buck, they should vote for maybe one transfer
per player.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
But that's another story. Okay.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Presently college football players could transfer before the college playoffs
and again in the spring. Okay, Now this is a
bad move. If you remember Marshall had a fourth for
the bowl game last year. Why they are no players,
They're wetting the portal, good or bad. But now the
lone transfer portal window will be a ten day period
that opens on the second of January twenty twenty six,

(21:54):
one day after the College Football PLAYFF quarterfinals are completed. Now,
if you're a football player and they go to spring
practice and you check the depth chart in the spring
and you see you're on the thirteen, you.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
Can't get in the portal.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
I don't think that's such a good deal, right, So
maybe they're gonna go back.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
What do you think about this?

Speaker 3 (22:11):
I mean, I never was a big fan of the
portal anyway. But now if you have a kid who
wants to maybe play, and he goes to spring practice
and he says, wait a minute, I'm like, I'm the
fourth guy in the death chart quarterback.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Let me out of here. I want to go to
another school. He can't do it. There's only one window
right now, that's January.

Speaker 4 (22:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (22:31):
I mean, but it puts everybody risk because everyone always
thinks about it from the players, right, Like the players
are holding these coaches hostage, and oh my god, they're
leaving at the last minute, and coaches can't shape the roster,
and poor coaches. The coaches are asking players to go
into the portal. They may not directly ask them, hey, man,

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you need to jump in the portal, but they say, hey,
I don't think you're gonna play here.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
You may not play here, man, you're too good.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
Maybe you should go look and see if there's someone
else where you could play.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
I know you really want to play. YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
And then these kids jump in the portal and it
creates another spot for the coaches.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
So what this is going to make everybody do?

Speaker 6 (23:11):
Everyone is going to have to pause because the players
that you take in the portal during that one period,
you're now stuck with them, and so you can't make
a decision.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Then in the spring, after watching them in spring.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Practice, say oh, I want to move on from this
player because he doesn't fit the vision that I have
for the team. So it's just as much on the
coaches as it is the players in terms of this
is the roster that we have in January, This is
the team that I need to roll with going into
the fall.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Are you a fan of the portal in general? Are
you a fan of that?

Speaker 4 (23:43):
Yeah, I'm a fan of player movement.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Players having the opportunity to move because coaches can move
whenever they want. Watching players be stuck for five years
and not be given the opportunity to move around.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
Yes they should, And I hear what you're saying. You know,
a coach is supposed to make a commitment and he
moves around. Okay, well he's fired whoever it may be.
But a player going to school and maybe I'm taking
too much into consideration on the academic side. I don't
understand how you could go from school A to school
be and still graduate. Don't you lose credit? I mean
you're close to these kids, I mean you talk to them.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
How does it work? I know when I was in college.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
If I want them to transfer to another school, I
would lose some credit hours. I have to take some
courses to make up for that. Or maybe they don't care.
They just go there for their football eligibility and after.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
That they leave.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
I don't get it, but I really don't.

Speaker 6 (24:30):
Let's be real, right, because we've been we've been hiding
up under this sham that every coach really cares about
the academic well being of their players. That's not true,
that every school cares about the academic will being and
that everyone is going to be on track.

Speaker 4 (24:43):
To graduate with a meaningful degree.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
A lot of these schools and coaches will shuttle guys
into programs where they may graduate, but degreed doesn't have
any weight when it comes to the real world once
they finish. So that's a part of it. The second
part of it is, look, when you move around, when
you transfer, yeah, you lose credit hours, and the more
you transfer, the more it's unlikely that you're going to

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graduate from any institution. I'm not a fan of bouncing
around or whatever, but I'm also not a fan of
everyone pointing to the players and pointing to the players
getting paid and nil and revenue sharing or whatever that
it's all the players fought for this.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
This could have been.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
Resolved decades ago if the NCAA would have just given
a small piece of the pie to the players. But
because they didn't, the court system had to come in
and overhaul how college football is doing business. And right
now a lot of traditionalists don't like it because the
power used to always be but the coaches and the
university and now the players are empowered to move around

(25:45):
and it's uncomfortable. Yeah, there needs to be some guardrails.
They need to kind of rein it in and figure
out a system to not only protect the players and
the coaches and create competitive balance, but the overreaction right
now all on the players are making too much money.

Speaker 4 (26:00):
They shouldn't be bounced around.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
That's unfair because for years, when college football and college
sports could have made it right, they didn't.

Speaker 4 (26:07):
So this is what you get.

Speaker 3 (26:09):
Well, now I'll ask you this question and we'll get
to some scores and some games in a minute. But
you know, when you played at North Carolina, was there
and if they had the portal situation, do you think
you have gone into the portal to have a better.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
I mean you could, you could have transferred, and but yeah,
they said you had to sit out a year.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
But like I mean, people still transferred. It wasn't obviously as.

Speaker 6 (26:32):
Common as it is now. But yeah, like you had
to sit and wait, here's what I will say.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
I will say this or whatever.

Speaker 6 (26:40):
As much as I love the players having the freedoms
in those things, I do think players are sometimes running
away from a little competition, some adversity that will make
them better not only as players down the road, but
will make them better as people.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Having to go through some stuff, having.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
To earn your job, having to earn your playing time,
and the things that you want, Like, it's okay to
make people struggle for that. However, I get it, and
I know where we're at when it comes to free enterprise.
I just want you and the listeners to know that
some of the jumping into the portal is not by
guys willingly doing cannonballs into the portal. Sometimes they're being

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pushed into the portal by coaches. And if you're going
to make the system fair, then you have to make
it fair on both sides. So the student athlete that
truly comes to the school because this is the school
that I want to go to school and play at.
I get there and maybe I'm not as good as
the coaches thought. I should have the right to continue

(27:38):
to play and pursue my degree and the field.

Speaker 4 (27:41):
That I want.

Speaker 6 (27:42):
Some of these players aren't getting that chance because coaches
are saying I need that roster spot and they give
them some cockamamie excuse to get them into the portal.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
So then get that spot. Pack.

Speaker 3 (27:53):
Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned that, because I think the
average Joe watches college football is there's all these guys
that are going left and right. When Deontas go over
at Colorado, he turned over the entire roster. Kabelachick got
seventy new players in North Carolina, so I'm sure there
are certain players that he called in the office say look,
you better get your ass in the portal because you're
not going to play here. And that's basically what they do.
They push them out. It's just like the pros. It

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really is.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
You get cut. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
And as far as college football is concerned, I got
to say that yesterday.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
I called yesterday payday.

Speaker 3 (28:23):
You know, at the Sacrificial Lambs, they take the schools
that maybe need money for their athletic department and they
go out there for a loss. That's basically what they do.
They go out there. They got a big check the
last week. Lu Long Island University of Brooklyn, New York,
lost fifty five zip to Florida last week, but they
go away five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars richer

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and that's probably going to cover their entire athletic department budget.
That's basically what they do. I don't know if that's
a good thing or a bad thing. University of Cincinnati
played Nebraska or we can go Thursday, Opening night in
Kansas City, they got a couple of mill So they
sacrifice a loss for a couple of million dollars which
they could use for their budget and maybe to pay
for players.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I mean, is that the way it is right now?

Speaker 4 (29:06):
Yeah, I mean that's always been a big part of
it for.

Speaker 6 (29:11):
Schools, right like small schools like they'll take on they
call them money games. They'll take on an opponent that
has clearly superior to them, but they'll take it on
because the money is significant enough to set the budget
for the rest of the year for not only that sport,
but for the other sports that are playing in the
athletic department. So you take on some of those games.

(29:31):
The problem that you have when you take on those
money games. One is your team able to withstand the
pounding and punishment from a superior opponent. Two, mentally, can
they handle from a confidence standpoint, getting whooped seventy to zero,
seventy five zero, whatever their score is, and bounce back
and be competitive the following weeks. So you have to

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know your team, know your program and the players that
are within the program before you take that on. But
a lot of these schools do it because it's a
win fall it's a financial win fall for them to
take on these opponents.

Speaker 4 (30:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
And the one rank game yesterday how to be the
Michigan game against Oklahoma and Norman Oklahoma. Oklahoma wins twenty
four to thirteen, which I was shocked because they're turning
it around right now.

Speaker 2 (30:13):
A lot of pressure I guess on their coach right now.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
When John Matteer, their quarterback, was outstanding twenty one for
thirty four to two hundred seven yards passing touchdown, did have
an IONT and he had nineteen carries for seventy four yards.
So Oklahoma could be on the way back at Michigan
right now.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
I was surprised.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
That's a bad loss for Michigan and that really was
the truly only ranked game of interest yesterday.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
Yeah, I mean, not a great performance from Michigan.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
Michigan plan with a freshman quarterback, there could be some
bumps in the road along the way.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
I felt like it was a very even game.

Speaker 6 (30:45):
You looked at the ranks, I think it was fifteen
versus eighteen, so you knew it could go either way.
Playing at Oklahoma, sometimes the home field tilts the field
in that team's favor.

Speaker 4 (30:57):
Look, but it was the only I would say, quote Marquee.

Speaker 6 (31:01):
Game to watch, and so you had a chance to
see those two teams, and those two teams that continue
to be in the conversation as playoff participants. But those
two teams play, and so it's a good performance for Oklahoma.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
They can build upon it.

Speaker 6 (31:12):
Ever, Brent Vinnables, he needed that, man, because the heat
is getting warm. It's getting warm out there in Norman.
Then I used to being what they've been in the
last few years.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Now you're talking about a team going to get a paycheck.

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Ohio University that Bob Katch and athletes Ohio they played,
they hosted. I can't believe West Virginia went to Athens
and West Virginia lost seventeen to ten. That was not
expected by the Mountaineers really. And then again Florida. What
happened to Florida a home game? They lose to South
Florida eighteen sixteen. Two big losses right there for those
two teams. And I tell you what, West Virginia losing

(31:45):
to Ohio and the MAC. I tell you if I'm
a coach and I want to have one of those
sacrificial land games, I don't think I want to play
against the MAC team, they're pretty tough.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
They going to the radar, but they're tough teams to play.

Speaker 6 (31:57):
Yeah, they're tough teams playing. They've always had a reputation
being tough like that. The min American Conference is one
of the best conferences in football when it comes to
being like that non powerful level and what you're seeing
when you see those teams from the MAC, they do
a good job of getting down like in terms of
the way they play, the way they get after it.
Sometimes they play a little funky style of ball that
makes it hard for big schools to catch up with.

(32:19):
But the MAC has created a nice little niche for themselves,
not only style of play, but when they play playing
on those alternate days, you know, the Tuesdays and Wednesdays
or whatever days they play, where they get a lot
of attention on the conference.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
And their ball.

Speaker 6 (32:35):
It allows them to attract recruits because the recruits will
know that if I go to the.

Speaker 4 (32:39):
MAC, I am going to have an opportunity to.

Speaker 6 (32:41):
Play on a big stage, whether playing big teams or
playing on TV at major times, I'm having an opportunity
to be seen in showcase.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Last, but not least, I do this for you because
I do love you, but I'm doing it because I
love the coach of this school as well, Bill Belichick.
North Carolina picked up his first win. They beat Charlotte
twenty to three. And why I bring this up right
now is because all I hear and I'm talking about
my contemporaries, my people here at Fox, my co workers,
they know who they are. I turned the radio one

(33:10):
bashing Bill Belichick, saying it's all about him, saying that
he's an egomaniac, saying he should stop it.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
Back off.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
The guy got six freaking rings in the National Football League.
The guy could coach, and yet it is all about him.
It was all about Nick Saban too. It's all about
the coach in college football. Believe me, That's basically what
it is. It's all about the coach. So back off, Bill,
and he won and he will continue to win because
just just the way he is. And Geo Lopez had
a pretty good game yesterday, seventeen for twenty five for

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one to fifty five.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
And I love Belichick.

Speaker 3 (33:42):
I love North Carolina right now, and I think they're
gonna win seven or eight games this year.

Speaker 6 (33:47):
Yeah, I mean that's about right. I think that's a
reasonable expectation. I think what happened was lost in the
Hollywood story of Bill Belichick going to college is what
are realistic expectations for North Carolina going this year? And
I think if you put into the year that the
goal is eight or nine wins, that's realistic for them.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
They played Charlotte, the game was solid for them.

Speaker 6 (34:11):
I think if you ask them degrade it, they would
probably say B B minus in terms of their performance. Ultimately,
they were able to get a win, they were able
to improve upon some of the things that plagued them
the week before. But there's still a lot of work
to go, a lot of work to be done, a
lot of improvements to be made before they can be
the team that they want to be. Next week they

(34:31):
have an opportunity against Richmond to continue to get better
before they play Central Florida. This is and I really
have to remember how the Patriots won. The Patriots didn't
blow everybody out when they were winning. And now when
they had those superior teams with Tom Brady, Randy mosson
west Walk and those guys, they were lighting up scoreboards.

Speaker 4 (34:48):
But the Patriots, through most of his tenure.

Speaker 6 (34:52):
Were grinded out when ugly type outfit. We have to
get used to Carolina being a team that no matter
who they play, it's gonna be a grinded out, ugly
type game.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Here we go. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Ferman.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
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your screen. Of course, there are some tough questions out
there that gotta be answered by someone with the smarts.
He is as Bucky is next. Ask Bucky coming right up.
It's about ten minutes before the top of the hour.
This is Fox Football son the on Fox Sports Radio.
He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Ferman and we are live
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Speaker 2 (35:47):
Go ahead, ask Bucky anything you like, Oh boy, okay,
I'm Bucky. How short of a leash is.

Speaker 5 (35:55):
Quarterback Russell Wilson on in New York before they consider
throwing in Jackson dark In there to take over.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
I think Jackson dark Is. Look, they want to keep
him on the show for a while, so Russell Willis
won't get a long leash. But ultimately the record will
determine when Jackson Darkets an opportunity to play. It's the
Giants are successful in winning, Russell Wilson stays in, but
if they have a long stretch, a long stretch of losing,
you will see Jackson Darket on the field.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
All right, great, Bucky, tell us where can someone get
a job spinning on people that pays a million dollars?

Speaker 6 (36:30):
I don't know, Like maybe there's a spitting championship or
something like that, but I certainly don't know.

Speaker 4 (36:36):
It's gross. I definitely don't want to see that ever again.

Speaker 3 (36:39):
All Right, moving on, tell us why the Kansas City
Chiefs will not win the AFC this year?

Speaker 4 (36:47):
It's time.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
I mean, when you've been on top for as long
as they've been, the window tends to close. They've been
on top with five Super Bowl appearances or whatever they have.
Like I mean, at some point you're going to have
an opportunity to have to redo it and someone else
will emerge. But no one is going to take over
from the Kansas City Chiefs until they take the crown
from them.

Speaker 4 (37:07):
The King City Chiefs have won so much that they
know how to win those big games.

Speaker 6 (37:11):
Teams have to be ready and prepared to beat Kansas City,
not in the regular season, but in the postseason.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
Okay, you have done such a great job at NFL
dot com and foxsports dot Com with teams and also
players and what they've done and things like that. I
thought I would maybe get some information from you on
various awards this year. The Offensive Player, no lessar, the MVP,
the NFL MVP.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
Who might that be this year?

Speaker 4 (37:36):
I think the MVP this year is going to be
not La Mare Jackson.

Speaker 6 (37:42):
Look, I think it's gonna be somebody from the Green
Bay Packers or the Packers are gonna win, so it
may be Jordan love Josh Ja because I think Jordan
Lovey end up being the MVP.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
Really, all right, brig, could you do me a favor
keep tabs on this so we could see if Bucky's
right on, because I think Joe Burrow is going to
be the MVP.

Speaker 2 (37:57):
But maybe I'm a homer. You know what I'm saying.
I sound like a homer, do I really? Okay, it's
not gonna be Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
Then we move on, all right, the offensive player the
Offensive Player of the Year.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
Uh, now that could be an award where Joe Burrow
wins because of the numbers that he puts up.

Speaker 4 (38:15):
So I'm okay with Joe Burrow being Offensive Player of
the Year.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
What about Jamar Chase won the Triple Crown last year?

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Yeah, but that was last year. We're talking about this year.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Wow, all right, we move on. Let's go to the
defensive player of the year.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
Defensive Player of the Year is always tricky because the
last couple of years you talk about Miles Garrett, TJ.

Speaker 4 (38:35):
Watt. It's gonna have to be someone from that side.

Speaker 6 (38:37):
But I'm gonna go Pittsburg and I'm gonna go with
Jaylen Ramsey being a defensive Player of the Year.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
You know, I was thinking of putting down Aiden Hutchinson
because he's but I think he'd rather probably win the comeback.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Player of the Year.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
I don't think he's gonna be a defensive Player of
the Year. What do you think could be the company?

Speaker 4 (38:54):
That could be possible?

Speaker 6 (38:55):
A lot of it depends on what their defense looks
like new coordinator.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
There you go off, Rookie of the Year. I think
this is an easy one. Maybe maybe I'm wrong. I'll
tell you who I have.

Speaker 6 (39:06):
I mean asking Jens for the Raiders will have the
most opportunities to be able to win and something go him.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
I'm gonna say Cameron Ward from the Titans quarterback because
they'll be looking at him big time. Right, No, you
think I think it depended upon what the Titans do.
I mean, if he has great stats and the team
really only wins four games, he's not gonna get it.
But if they win seven, eight games and his stats

(39:32):
are decent, he'll win it. Taken a look at the
team effort as well.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
I think yeah right, I mean, okay.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Defensive rookie of the year, and you mentioned him last week.

Speaker 4 (39:44):
That's why I wrote him down Defensive Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
I'm gonna go, yeah, baby, that's what I got, all right.
I love that. We'll continue, Okay, we'll do that. He's
Bucky Brooks, I.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
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let's roll into this. I saw a statement yesterday Bucky
Brooks that Lane Kiffin apologized to the Old Miss fans

(41:32):
and betters after Kentucky had a late field goal to
cover the spread. I know, look, I understand gambling is
taking over everywhere you look. I mean that's basically what is.
It started with fantasy football and now you can make
a bet on your phone.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
People are doing it all the time.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
But to have a coach and after the game Old
Miss coach Lane Kiffin said, he said he's always aware
of the spread. He gave a knowing apology to Old
Miss betters that had laid it with the Rebels, closing
his post game into the yesterday by saying sorry to
a lot of gamble. Is there at the end? I
mean the score was thirty twenty three. After losing loop,
they were behind ten nothing early on to Kentucky and

(42:08):
they came back to a thirty twenty three win. But
is that the right thing to do for a coach
to say that even acknowledge the gambling aspect.

Speaker 7 (42:16):
And the line. I don't get it. No, he shouldn't,
thank you, He shouldn't. He should acknowledge it, like he
shouldn't be U. I understand why he's talking about it,
but he shouldn't.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
He shouldn't acknowledge it. He really shouldn't even be.

Speaker 6 (42:30):
Paying attention to the line unless it's a motivational tactic
for your team.

Speaker 4 (42:33):
But uhlank even shouldn't acknowledge that. That's that's a no, no,
it's certainly.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
I mean, I don't know if he's going to get
reprimanded by that, but I mean, honestly, I mean, at
least maybe ify his athletic or there's somebody. I mean,
just stay away from the gambling and the line stuff.
Because if he's conscious of that and something happens and
he puts in a player, a third stringer, you know,
at the end of the game, and something happens and
the line changes, then all of a sudden, he's going
to be quizzed. He'll be quiz by people. Especially right now,

(43:01):
because we talked about this last week.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
A lot of these.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Colleges right now are selling the opportunity to attend postgame
news conferences. You know, for X amount of dollars, you
can go there and watch the postgame news conference, and
there's gonna be some clown at that conference gonna raise
his hand or scream out, hey, coach, you didn't cover.
I mean, it's not good. I mean, I'm not sold
on it. I'm not a gambler. I mean, so I

(43:25):
don't believe in it. Then there are people that live
and die with this stuff. And I know you don't.
You can because you work for an NFL team, But
there are people right now that just live for this stuff.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
You know.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
Maybe that's why so many people are excited when the
football season starts, because it's the best game for wagering.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
It really is.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
Hockey and baseball are not great wagering ball game, basketball is,
and football is the best.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:49):
No, It's interesting to see this world that we live
in because for so long we always give sports and
gambling separate and a poor and now it's blended into everything.
It first started, I would say our initial taste of
it was fantasy football.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
When you allow fantasy football.

Speaker 6 (44:07):
To come in in a way, you're beginning to bring
us closer to gambling because people are winning and losing
based on the participation of individual players and a sports
so you're more inclined to do whatever. And we heard
players talk about their dms being blown up with people saying,
you're on my fantasy team, you're on this. And then
when they really allowed it to become legal where guys

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could bet above board on games one, then you open
up Pandora's box and so then it is open like
who knows where it goes.

Speaker 4 (44:38):
It's a part of the culture now. Before when Jimmy the.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
Greek and those guys will put the lines and who's
the favorite and what you thought or whatever, it was
all fun, right, it was all hey, just trying to
figure out watching this game, which team is expected to
be the favorite, who's the underdog?

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Who am I going to root for?

Speaker 6 (44:53):
Whenever there's serious implications in that because people are taking
everything that you say and they're willing to run to
the bookie or the sportsbook different.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
It's funny, it really is.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
And the difference to me as far as between college
football and the NFL, the NFL coaches they seek to have.
It's a brotherhood of the fraternity. You don't see one
dumping on another one, at least not publicly. In college,
it's all the time. And I want to bring this
up because LSU. LSU's Brian Kelly, he was questioning Dabbo
Sweeney the grading system last week. LSU beat up on

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Clemson seventeen ten, and Dabo came up and he said
the fact that I'm going to grade them they made
a sixty five, we made a fifty eight, and Brian
Kelly wasn't happy about that. I love the fact that
they give and take that back and forth. But what
the heck was Sweeney doing? I mean, what kind of
a grade is that? You know, they made sixty five,

(45:44):
we made fifty. You lost the game, You lost the
freaking game. You gave him a sixty five? What is
that a loll about? We're just trying to get on
Brian Kelly skin. I understand.

Speaker 2 (45:52):
I don't know why these.

Speaker 3 (45:53):
Coaches do that, but it's great fodder for guys like us,
That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (45:58):
I mean, like the whole thing was overblown.

Speaker 6 (46:00):
I don't know why Brian Kelly cares about what dabos
when he said about the game he won the game,
like this should be on and whether you use the
grading system analogy or not, like I don't like the
postgame tough guy stuff or whatever. Like your team won it,
don't need to do all this other stuff and made
it I don't even say made it a bigger issue,
just it just allow us to see the silliness play

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out in front of us. I wasn't a big fan
of that. I thought that was stupid. In terms of Dabbo,
I think what Dabbo said had some merrior. It wasn't
the greatest game that I've ever seen. I mean, it
was a snoozer for most of it, right, two teams
that couldn't find the way, both quarterbacks were up and
down throughout the course of the game, and then LSU
made some plays the second half to win the game.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
But it wasn't a classic.

Speaker 6 (46:43):
It wasn't one where if they replay it on TV,
I'm gonna go back and watch it over and over
and over again.

Speaker 4 (46:48):
It was fine. So I think Brian Kelly needs to
calm down. Maybe Dabbo needs to get some new material
when it comes to.

Speaker 6 (46:55):
Given analogies, but like the whole thing was just kind
of stupid from beginning.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
No doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Now I would say this, I'm a little happy here
because last week my team from Brooklyn, New York LU
got clawberd fifty five nothing by Florida. Yesterday, Florida loses
to South Florida eighteen sixteen. And I just want to
run this by you because look again, I never coached,
I don't want to coach.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
I never had a desire to coach. I hung around
with a lot of coaches.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
But Florida got the ball with about three minutes to
go in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
All I needed to do was run the clock.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
Run the clock, Brilly Napier, right now, call two passes
in three plays, turn the ball over on downs with
about twenty seven seconds, South Florida against the ball back.
How do you like that by a being by a bang?
They dried like eighty seven yards down the field, game
winning field goal. Florida loses eighteen sixteen to South Florida.
Brilli Napier. And if the seat was hot, now the

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seat is burning right.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Now, oh without question.

Speaker 6 (47:51):
I mean, I mean, you just can't have dead laws
just in State, Right, isn't that so much?

Speaker 4 (47:56):
Like?

Speaker 6 (47:56):
I feel like Florida has become a better team. They're
getting back to being kind of like the Florida that
we're accustomed to seeing.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
South Florida is good.

Speaker 6 (48:04):
South Florida's coming off a win last week where they
knocked off Boyds State kind of pommel boys he staate,
and then this week, I mean, look, you're playing in
the N state rival. They're the little engine that could.
You had an opportunity to knock off someone that to
give your program to notoriety.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
So they're playing on ten.

Speaker 6 (48:21):
So I mean it's one of those things that when
you're Florida, you know, particularly when you're playing an en
state school, directional school, you can get their best game
because a lot of those players on South Florida truly
believe that they should be playing at the University of Florida.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
So there's a little extra.

Speaker 6 (48:35):
In their game and you got to knock that out.
You can't give them the confidence to think that they
can be on the field with you.

Speaker 3 (48:44):
Okay, could you tell me what's going on with my
gundy at Oklahoma State before we move on to anything else.
I mean, they didn't win a game last year in conference,
they lose yesterday, they got clawb rid yesterday. What's happening
to Oklahoma State and football or going to put up
well like seven points something like that against him?

Speaker 2 (49:01):
Yesterday's sixty nine points.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
I mean they gave up five hundred yards forty one
points in the first half. What has happened to the
once powerful Oklahoma State Cowboys?

Speaker 6 (49:13):
They go through these cycles and sometimes we're in school
like that, you're gonna have some of these cycles where
you have a couple of bad classes in a row,
either not intentional like in terms of recruiting classes, but
sometimes you have a couple of classes that don't grade
out the way that you think that they would. And
it appears that that's what has happened at Oklahoma a

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couple of bad recruiting classes.

Speaker 4 (49:35):
They lost some of their.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
Verbs, lost some of their mojo, and let's be clear,
they lost one of the best defensive coordinators in ball.
A few years ago, Jim Knows was at Oklahoma State.
He left Oklahoma State to go to Ohio State. Two
years Ohio State WINNSDA Natty now is a Penn State. Well,
what has been the fallout Oklahoma State has falling off
a cliff and that defense was the catalyt for their

(50:00):
success and all of that.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
But I'm gonna say this about Mike Gundy, hey man,
when you.

Speaker 6 (50:04):
Go out there talking like you the wildest cowboy and
saying some of the stuff that he said, blending all
these views and stuff, you're gonna get some of this.
And so some of this is his own doing. Like
in terms of recruiting, he's to turn some people off
with the way that he goes about doing the stuff.

Speaker 4 (50:22):
That he does on and off the field. So I'm
not surprised.

Speaker 2 (50:25):
Now.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
You know, you talk about losing coordinators and losing players,
are not going to have a good crop now in
this day and age, you could maybe point the figure
in saying they're not spending enough money for players.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Could that be?

Speaker 3 (50:36):
They've been outscored one hundred and twenty one to three
in their last two games. They gave up fifty two
and sixty six points. And it's unbelievable what's happened in
Oklahoma State. They were a powerhouse really in college football.
I mean, Gundy's got he took a pay cut this year.
He took some money off his salary after this year
he's going to be out the door, and he's a

(50:57):
favorite son.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
He's been there for twenty years.

Speaker 3 (50:59):
I think he's like the second longest tenured college football
coach in the country.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
But you know, he's been there for a long time.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Maybe too long, Maybe it get too comfortable, I don't know,
but maybe they're not spending enough of players.

Speaker 4 (51:12):
You can't throw money at all of your problems.

Speaker 6 (51:14):
Like it helps that you have a robust spending budget,
but you still have to identify the right players, develop
the right players, and then put them in a system
that works for their talents. So no matter how much
cash you have, you can have all the cash in
the world, if you spend it inappropriately, you're not going
to win. And for Oklahoma State one, they have to
understand who they are and where they are. They can

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be kind of like they can be Oklahoma's little brother
forever to you in a different conference, so you have
to build your team to win your conference. That conference
is hard because of the way that they play. So
many spread teams, so many wide open teams, a lot
of balls flying all over the yard. Do you have
those kind of athletes? Can you get those kind of athletes?
What's your recruiting base. Is it Dallas, Texas? Like where

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you're going to get your players? And do you have
a coach that can connect with the players so he
can get the best out of the players because of
their connection.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
That's where it comes down to. I don't know if
my gun is still connected with this team. I don't know.
We'll see.

Speaker 6 (52:11):
But the question that you have to ask, if you're
Oklahoma State, if we move on from him, who who's
the person that can come and write this.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
Who's out there? You gotta start looking, Well.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
There'll always be someone out there, you know.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
There's always gonna be someone who thinks they could could
do better than the previous guy.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
They could turn it around. You know.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
With the mantra of a coach on any level, is
that have that father Flannagan figure in their in their psyche.
They think that they could do better than the guy
before them. And I gotta believe and this is I've
always thought this. I'm gonna run this by in the name,
and I really believe this that when a coach gets
canned and he sees his replacement, he's not rooting for

(52:52):
that got to do well.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
I really that is not true. I mean a living public.

Speaker 4 (52:56):
But whoever does that?

Speaker 6 (52:58):
No one ever wants that wants to see someone do
better than them at a place that you just were at.

Speaker 4 (53:07):
No one wants to see that, like come on.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
In any sport. I mean, just just the way it is,
Like I told you.

Speaker 6 (53:15):
So, Typically in life, no one wants to be happy
for somebody. It has read that you find someone that
is happy for whatever, like an ex or an old
friend or friend that you had to fall out with,
like you, tend to not want them to do as
well the better than they.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Were when they were with you around you.

Speaker 6 (53:34):
So if you're a coach and you've been fired dumped
by a team, you certainly don't want that team to go.
And I have a bunch of success in regardless of
your fond memories, you think that you were a big
part of that and that they would have a tough
time replacing you. We all like to think that were irreplaceable, right.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
You don't think Nick Saban's chuckling right now at home
telling his wife, ha I left, Look what happened to Alabama?

Speaker 2 (53:57):
But since I'm gone?

Speaker 3 (53:58):
Don't you think he's saying that to maybe as close
friends even I'm sure he is well.

Speaker 6 (54:03):
I'm sure he's saying that, but I'm sure he's making observations,
you know, Like, here's the funny thing, right, players, and
I say those players are like his players like to
flow to the path of least resistance. So you had
a very structured and hardened program under Nick Saban, one
that was very big on attention to detail and those things.

(54:23):
And what you're seeing is a team that has lost
their way. They're not the same team because they don't
have the same structure in the same edge. We talked
about it. Oh man, they just throw money and get
some good players.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
That's cool.

Speaker 6 (54:36):
You can get all the players that you want, but
if you don't have structured discipline and detail, you're not
gonna win consistently.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
And that's what they don't have, and it's run them up.

Speaker 6 (54:45):
And for certain places, there's certain formulas and things that
you have to have in place to always win. If
you go back and look at Alabama want under Bear Bryant,
then under Nick Saban, when they've enjoyed their greatest successes,
they not only had great play, but they had great
players playing within a very organized, structured, extremely disciplined, in

(55:05):
detailed program. They don't have that now. So if you're Alabama,
you're the boosters or whatever. You have to get back
to it being what it's been when it's been good.
And that would be the blueprint for me if I'm
at Alabama.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Okay, you're a ta heel, you play for North Carolina.
I watched the opening game a week ago Monday night.
They didn't even show Matt Brown in the stands. I
don't know if Matt Brown, your coach.

Speaker 4 (55:26):
Wasn't there.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
Okay, man, I don't blame him. I don't blame because
he was taken away some of the line line. But
you know that he was chuckling that they lost.

Speaker 6 (55:34):
Really well, yeah, now I can say that the two
things can be true. I look, I love coach Brown,
I do, and I feel like he was wrong the
way that they removes him.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
I agree, But they were saying it was a younger guy,
Bella Chucks's oldest head.

Speaker 6 (55:50):
Well no, what they were saying they coach has lost
his way. They had kind of been stuck in mediocrity
in those things. So I understand that, and I felt
like for a guy who's a Hall of Fame, the
way that.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
They moved on from.

Speaker 6 (56:04):
Him was not the best way, and it's not necessarily
the way that embodies how Carolina typically operates.

Speaker 4 (56:11):
That's it. It was ugly.

Speaker 6 (56:14):
They lost to James Madison last year and gave hup
seventy plus points.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
That's hard for people to get by that.

Speaker 6 (56:20):
Now for Bill Belichick, Bill Belichick coming in, there's no
way that Coach Brown is gonna sit there and watch
Bill Belichick come in as someone older, someone who has
some other stuff around him.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Right, the controversy with the girlfriend of fiance and all
of that.

Speaker 6 (56:36):
Coach Brown prided himself on being classy, in first class
the whole way, never taking attention for the program.

Speaker 4 (56:42):
Always doing that.

Speaker 6 (56:43):
So it's gonna be hard for him to sit in
that when people talk so poorly about him leaving.

Speaker 4 (56:48):
So he went back to Texas.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
Where he's revered, even though they fired him too, but
he's revered there, so there's a different thing.

Speaker 4 (56:55):
So no, he's not. It's too soon.

Speaker 6 (56:57):
I don't know if you ever go back to be
honest to Carolina just the way that it ended.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
But look time he was all woes.

Speaker 2 (57:02):
There you go, you're exactly right.

Speaker 6 (57:04):
Now.

Speaker 2 (57:04):
Now we move to center stage.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Bucket Brooks right out of a TV star, the writer,
the coach, the former player, Fox sports dot Com, Radio,
NFL dot Com. I got to ask you before we
get involved with this, now, how do you do it all?
How do you manage to do that all? And scouting
as well? How do you do it?

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Look?

Speaker 6 (57:22):
It all works out. I'm not saying any of the same.
I've been doing it for so long. You kind of
have a cadence and a rhythm to the way that
the workweek goes and it flows, and typically you write
about what you talk about, so you're not doing double work.
So if I'm gonna talk about whatever it is all proteins,
I'm gonna talk about the week and guys that I'm
excited to see their big debuts, and most of what

(57:44):
my time spent talking is going to be about that subject.

Speaker 4 (57:47):
I try not to do double work.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
Okay, and this week you're just like Martin Luther King
you had a dream? Okay?

Speaker 3 (57:53):
How did you decide which stars this season will shine
the briders? Because you did that, I think it was
on NFL dot com, was an NFL at Fox Sports?

Speaker 4 (58:01):
I forget so I did. I did a preseason All
Pro team for Fox.

Speaker 6 (58:06):
I did five ten guys that I'm excited to see
their debuts for NFL dot Com.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
All right, what we're gonna do. We'll hold that.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
I want to get into that, and the next segment
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dream that he had with the basically team of all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
I mean, these are the guys that will shine the bridess.
Is that correct? Like you picked?

Speaker 4 (01:00:05):
Yeah, I mean there are guys. I think they're gonna
be the best and the best this week.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
Really, Okay, let's don't want to do offense. I just
do a little offense with you. Who did you pick
a quarterback offensively the best of the best on your
dream team?

Speaker 4 (01:00:18):
I said, Jaden Daniels.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
No, janis no, But come on, really, why?

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
Because Jaden Daniels is poors in the second year to
be a guy that can take over the league.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
He played really well last year.

Speaker 6 (01:00:30):
And he has a better team around him this season.
I don't believe there's gonna be a sophomore slump for him.
He's gonna hit the ground, runn He had the same
coordinator and everything. To me, I think it just gets
better and better for the Washington Banders because Jayden Daniels
is the real deal.

Speaker 3 (01:00:43):
Okay, I know he was the offensive rookie of the
Year a year ago, but you're talking about even Justin Herbin,
Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson. I mean, come on, really, Josh Allen,
are you taking Jaydon Daniels Bree our executive producer write
this down because we're gonna have to mock him at
the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
I don't get it. I really don't. Jayden did.

Speaker 3 (01:01:01):
I mean, I'm not taking anything away from him, but
I don't think he's in that same league yet. I
really don't think he's in the Lamar Jackson Joe Burrow
league yet or Josh Allen.

Speaker 6 (01:01:11):
You don't he was top five. He's right there with
him last year as a rookie. Why wouldn't he be
there this year?

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
We'll see, I mean he's in the.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Hes, in the mix.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
I mean, okay, I will see your running back? Is
it Sakwon Barkley? Who's your running back?

Speaker 4 (01:01:29):
Running back is Josh Jacobs.

Speaker 6 (01:01:31):
I don't think squanid be able to duplicate what he
did this season. We saw Thursday night he only had
sixty yards. People are don't really gear up to slow
him down. They're gonna try and make it where Look,
he's not gonna be the factor. And also the wearing tear.
Sometimes coming back off for a heavy touch season where
you had a big workload, it's hard to continue to
operate in that same manner.

Speaker 3 (01:01:50):
Okay, And look, he was a rushing champion before, so
he could get another rushing championship title.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
There.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
Wide receiver, I want to hear this one.

Speaker 4 (01:01:59):
Wide receiver March just and Brian Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Okay, I got you here, tight end. I think this
is a no brainer.

Speaker 6 (01:02:07):
Here Raiders Titian block Bowers right and goes like, look,
he said all the records last year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Is a ricky tackle offensive tackle?

Speaker 6 (01:02:18):
Offensive tackle? I had Tristan Worf's and hold on. Look
Tristan Worths and Penel okay, center, create Humphrey from Kansas City.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Jeeves okay, offensive guard.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
Let's go Quinn Nelson and Tyler Smith.

Speaker 6 (01:02:36):
Quinn Nelson the coolest Talas Smiths and the Cowboys and tackle.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Uh, that would be Pane Suel on the right side.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Okay, I'm not gonna do defense because everybody likes points,
so we'll still forget that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:47):
All right, let's do that now we move on.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Okay, I want to talk about as I mentioned, Uh,
this NFL quarterback got everything he asked for, Okay, and
I think he's gonna put a lot of pressure on
the quarterback I'm talking about is Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
He got Jamar.

Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
Chase, he got him signed, He got t Higgins signed,
and he asked and he got defensive end Trey Hendrickson signed.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
So what he didn't get the last two years?

Speaker 3 (01:03:09):
He didn't get into the playoffs, all right, the past
two years. So how much pressure is on him today
in Cleveland when they opened the season his Cincinnati Bengals,
and also not only on Joe Burrow, but there coach
Zach Taylor, who is O and eleven and the season openness.
How much pressure because he really was the guy. He's
the impetus that got Jamar Chase and t Higgins signed

(01:03:31):
for this ball club.

Speaker 6 (01:03:35):
Look, man, there's a lot of pressure on this team
in general to be better than what they've been. I mean,
it's the team that has gone to the Super Bowl
in recent years. Joe Burrow wants to get back to that.
He knows that offensively they have to play at a
high level. Defensively, they got to figure it out with
what they have how to play credible defense. But offensively
they have to play at an aid level each and
every week. So the pressure is on Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase,

(01:03:57):
t Higgins to bring it now.

Speaker 4 (01:03:59):
The thing that I would say is the running game.

Speaker 6 (01:04:01):
Is the running game good enough for them to do
it and the reason why we canna have all those
fancy weapons on the outside, But for the Bengals to
win and win consistently, they.

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
Have to be able to run the ball.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
They have to run the ball to control it so
they can play keep away from the opponent so their
defense doesn't have to be exposed. To me, the biggest
thing is who emerges as a steady ady running back
for them? And can they be a team that runs
it consistently, particularly.

Speaker 4 (01:04:26):
Late in games when they need to run it to win.
Can they do it?

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
You know, it's funny you mentioned that because I tell
people here and where I live, they say, all the
Bengals they gonna do well. But I say, here's the deal.
Joe Burrow is great, and there's two receivers are tremendous,
and Jamar Chase is amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
He really is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
But the funny thing is with the Bengals. They'll score,
and they'll score a lot, but they score quickly. They
strike fast. They'll have thirty five forty yard plays, forty
yard strikes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
You got to run the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:04:52):
You got to keep their defense off the field because
their defense is horrendous. I don't see a better defense
this year then a year ago. Maybe Al Golden, who's
now the new defensive coordinator coming from note your dame,
who is a former Bengal staffer years ago. Maybe he
has something up his sleeve. But I don't see the
personnel any better than a year ago. So if you

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have a running game, you could run that clock and
keep your defense off the field. And that's the key
right there. Not Joe Burrow and certainly got to keep
him up right, but not Joe Burrow as much as
getting a good running game.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
I mean, yeah, the running game matters, man, The running
game matters because it's a big part of what you
need to have to be able to win.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
And control is everything. I mean, there's just so many
things that you have to be able to do to
win the game.

Speaker 6 (01:05:41):
And controlling the game, knowing when I need to possess
the ball, when I need to play faster, when we
need these toughyrds. The running game gives you allowed to
have better control of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
Okay, and you talk about pressure, I think pressure right
now is on the corner back of the Cleveland Browns.
Greg knew him the second because look, I think Emerson
was basically the guy who's playing in that position. He
had an achilles tear in training camp. So now the
pressures on Greg Newsom right there to kind of put
some pressure on those Bengal receivers. I don't know if
they can, we'll see.

Speaker 6 (01:06:14):
I mean, look, you can talk about all the other
stuff with that, like it's a game that I know
you have vested interest in. But yeah, there are a
lot of questions about both teams going into it, like
the Browns the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Who's going to be what we'll see?

Speaker 6 (01:06:31):
I think for the Bengals, though they've invested a lot
in this, he's completely overhauled the way that he believes
in the preseason because everyone was on him about the
Bengals slow starts. Well, they played their players, dude, they
played better early in the season now that they play
their players.

Speaker 3 (01:06:46):
All right, I want to move on to this game now,
not really an important game, but maybe it is to
certain people. But I'm talking about the Raiders are playing
the Patriots, So why do they bring that game up there?
Because wide receiver Amari Cooper, five time Pro Bowl selection,
told the Vegas Raiders he's going to retire. And he
did this just days before the team opened the season
this year at New England Today, Why he knew he

(01:07:09):
was going to retire, What does that do to the offense?
I mean, come on, what kind of a message does
that send? You talk about not being a team player.
Come on, really, you knew that early on. Now, how
do they bounce back for this? What does that do
for the redist offense?

Speaker 6 (01:07:25):
I mean, like he wasn't gonna be a major contributor.
It wasn't like it was DeMar that they drafted right
out of Alabama.

Speaker 4 (01:07:32):
I think I'll say this, It doesn't do anything.

Speaker 6 (01:07:37):
It puts a younger guy up to go play, and
it puts more pressure on them to figure out whatever
they're gonna do with Jacobi Meyers. But in terms of
like Amari Cooper and those things like that, they.

Speaker 4 (01:07:50):
Did didn't count on They weren't counting on him.

Speaker 6 (01:07:52):
And for him, maybe he didn't know that the love
wasn't there until he got out there and was like, yeah,
I don't feel like practicing. I don't feel like doing
all the stuff that they're gonna ask me to do
to be a great player.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
You know, it's funny because if I'm Will Campbell the
tackle on the Patriots, gotta face Max Crosby on the Raiders.
I mean, you know, if I was that guy, I
mean I would stay up at night worrying.

Speaker 2 (01:08:17):
I really would.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Now you played the game and I have a different
mindset because I never played the game, but were there
players or maybe even yourself, did you just focus on
someone that you know you are going to face that
week and just it ate you up alive, I mean
inside your stomach with churn, knowing you've got to play
this guy and face this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
Max Crosby, to me, is one of those guys.

Speaker 4 (01:08:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:08:40):
Max Crosby's energy is something that you have to worry
about because he is such a relentless competitor that he
can be a problem. And when we talk about being
a problem, he can be a problem because he.

Speaker 4 (01:08:57):
Gives you.

Speaker 6 (01:09:00):
Relentless effort, non start pursuit, physical as all get out,
like he's gonna make all the.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
Plays that it did to be made. So yeah, he's problematic.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
Now I'm moving to the game that probably is the
game of the day. Lions are the Packers, and you
got Michael Parsons now wearing a different uniform.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
He's a Green Bay.

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Packer, and he came back this week and he said,
I've never been in the locker room with guys like this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
This is what he said.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
I came in this past tuesday for treatment, and I
saw almost every guy in the locker room. I said,
this is the first time I've ever seen this, and
that shows just how much these guys want to be here. Now,
wait a minute, that's kind of a slap in the
face to his former team. And you told me when
you play for the Green Bay Packers, it's a different
aura going into that. They talk about the past, the Lombardies,
the championships, the trophies, the signatures on the wall, everything

(01:09:48):
like that. Going to Green Bay is like I would think,
and I've never been there, as I go into a
football shrine.

Speaker 6 (01:09:55):
Yeah, and they treated as such and you're expected to
come apply to the demands of the program because that's
how they expect their players to perform. They expect them
to operate at a high level. They expect him to
be ready to play and you got to be able
to get it going. And Michael Parsons, what I would
say is what he saw is he saw a championship culture,

(01:10:19):
because that's how you have to operate if you want
to win at the highest level. There are no days off.
The extra is the ordinary. You know, you put extraordinary
work in to being great. Those guys being around the
program consistently, that is what it should be so. If anything,
it's an indictment on what the Cowboys are and how

(01:10:41):
they carry themselves that they don't have guys that feel
like they need to be in there all the time.
That's a problem to me. That's what it revealed to me.
They're not serious. Everyone talks about winning, but they're not
serious or not fully committed to the process of winning
because they don't do the little things that you have
to do.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
To win consistently.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Who do you like in that game?

Speaker 4 (01:11:02):
I mean, I'm going to Packers. I mean I think I.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
Think the package.

Speaker 3 (01:11:05):
I agree they're a super Bowl team, they really are
right there. And I think the Lions. I think if
you're a Lions fan, I think that you've tasted the
best of the best the last two years. I think
it's you've reached the pinnacle. I think you're on the
downward slope now. Maybe I'm wrong, but that's my feeling.
The last two years or the two years you had
the window didn't happen for whatever the reason. You know,

(01:11:26):
Hutchinson was heard, whatever, and it didn't happen. I think
that it's not going to happen now. So you know,
you might be disappointed at the year's end, because I
think there are teams coming and you know what another
team I think is going to be and fans be disappointed.
You're not going to see the same results In Minnesota.
I don't think the Viking is going to be as
good as they were last year.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
Why.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
I just think the change in personnel, changeing quarterback right there.
I just think it's gonna be a different ball claim
it because the first year starting quarterback JJ McCarthy. I
just think it's a different, different operation. I know the
coach is great, it's a great offensive mind, but you know,
it's all about personnel.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
I just think it would be a lot different.

Speaker 6 (01:12:05):
Yeah, I mean, I think they're actually better than they
were last year. I think they're better on defense. I
think the moves they made on defense make them better.
Jonathan Allen coming over, Javon Hargrove's coming over. They're better
upfront on defense than they were. They moved on from
Harrison Filis, who's a good player. But these other guys
having open to be significantly better. When I think about

(01:12:26):
Adam Thielen coming back, even though he's coming back to
replace Shortan Addison early, he gives them another vet in
the room, and the younger the quarterback, the more experience
you wanted the perimeter. And JJ McCarthy, everyone goes crazy
about Sam Donald. What's the l Sam Donald plays away
from Kevin O'Connell. But Kevin O'Connell is a masterful quarterback,
developer and whisper. JJ McCarthy played. Look, he played really

(01:12:47):
good football at Michigan. Despite the numbers where the numbers
like he didn't throw it enough. He understands how to
manage the game and get the team to the winner circle.
To me, the Minnesota Vikings are right there where they
should be. Somebody's gonna tumble in the I don't think
it's going to be the Vikings that are one of
the teams to talk No.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
And I hear what you're saying, okay, and I agree
with you saying, But I would say there's a factor
there that you didn't mention.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
And maybe I'm off based on this.

Speaker 3 (01:13:12):
JJ McCarthy coming from winning program means a lot, no
doubt about that. The fact that he didn't play list year,
the injury. I just think that sometimes mentally you're afraid
to give it all when you have that kind of
an injury At least coming back for that first year.
Maybe I'm wrong. I mean coming back from that injury.
It's a serious injury, and I think sometimes you have
those second thoughts in your mind when you come back

(01:13:32):
from an injury like that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Sometimes. I mean, you're not wrong. It's something that you
have to deal with.

Speaker 6 (01:13:39):
You have to be ready for when it comes to
mentally bouncing back from an injury. How do you perform
coming off of that? In those things, it's a challenge
that he'll have to take on. He'll have to show
that he's tough enough to handle it and continue to
do it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
I understand the TV situation and they want to put
these games on for ratings purposes, whatever it may be.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
But I just don't want to.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
See the really good teams playing early because I don't
think they're really in full strength at that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Point in time.

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
When I mentioned I say tomorrow night or tonight, I
think it's Ravens at Bills and it's a great game,
but I think it would be a better game if
they played this in late October. Maybe I'm wrong, but
to play them on the opening night, I just did
not there yet, right, And then I'm looking at tape
from other games. I'd just rather have seen that game.
Push back, agree on that.

Speaker 6 (01:14:30):
No, I'm going to really good games throughout. Yeah, Like
what are we saving everything for? What if injuries take place?
Like this is a Marquee matchup two quarterbacks, the MVP
and maybe the so called should have been MVP, Lamar Jackson, Joshyall.

Speaker 4 (01:14:43):
I want to see that right out the gate.

Speaker 6 (01:14:44):
I want the NFL has done a great job of
getting capturing your interest right away, and the best way
to do it is put those Markeee games on from
the jump.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Well, I would say this.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
I would say the offense is probably ahead of the
defense at this stage in time, but I rather have
seen when they were.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
At full string.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
But maybe you're right because maybe in October there would
have been some injuries, so you wouldn't have them at
full strength, So you could be right on that.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
So we'll see. I'll watch that game. It's gonna be
a goodie, all right. He's Bucky Brooks. I may Defirman.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
We have Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready, don't
hold back. It's time to point fingers. Why the blame
game is freaking next? The blame game coming right up
right here on Fox Football Sunday. We're live from the
Foxmorts Radio studios. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Ay Firman. And
of course the blame game is here top of the hour,
eight o'clock East and Mike Harmon and Gret Cosel.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
But right now it's time for the blame game. You
ruin me. It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.
What is all your fault? Maybe it's everyone's fault. Who
see the liar? That's why there's the blame game. The
blame game. Let's figure out who to have blamed. Who's

(01:15:54):
to blame? Bree? Who we're gonna blame Bree?

Speaker 5 (01:15:56):
Okay, I blame you because the segment's so short, Just kidding.
With a new head coach and Ben Johnson, Who do
you blame when the Bears stumble the woman?

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
Is it me?

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
Do I go first?

Speaker 5 (01:16:07):
I'm gonna go Bucky first.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
I'm blame Ben Johnson and Caleb Williams.

Speaker 6 (01:16:12):
I believe kayleb Williams was look a lot of overhype
coming out of college, a lot of stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:16:17):
From now, it's on him if they don't win, it's
on him.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Well, I will tell you this much.

Speaker 3 (01:16:20):
I'm gonna blame the schedule because they open up against
the Vikings, the Lions, and in October I think they
played the Commanders and the Ravens. Okay, I will tell
you right now, if they don't get injured, they're gonna
have a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
Of losses right there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
And if you look at the preseason game, the last
game they had, they gained just twenty two yards in
their first quarter drive.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
So there's a lot of problems in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
And probably I hate to use the word culture, but
if they got to get some stuff going on because
they don't believe in themselves, I really say that they
really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:16:47):
All right, Go okay, Andy.

Speaker 5 (01:16:50):
Who will you blame for the shake east of the
Detroit Lions this season?

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Well, again, I'm gonna look at their schedule.

Speaker 3 (01:16:57):
They got road games against the Packers, Bengals, Chiefs and
that's not good, okay, and a four game schedule stretch.
I got the Buccaneers, Vikings and Commanders and the Eagles. Look,
I just don't think that the fans in Detroit could
really look forward to another fifteen wins season. I don't
think they can. It's gonna be tough.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
It really is.

Speaker 4 (01:17:19):
Yeah, I look, it's the new coordinators.

Speaker 6 (01:17:20):
The two new coordinators have all the pressures, so if
they don't win, it's because of them.

Speaker 5 (01:17:25):
Okay, Florida and Clemson should be members of the SEC.
Why not? Who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Bucky?

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
You say Florida and Clemson? You mean Florida State and.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Clemton Florida say yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
And Clemson. Uh yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:17:39):
I don't like this because I'm ACC guy. I don't
think they should go there. I don't think they need
the SEC to validate who they are as programs.

Speaker 4 (01:17:45):
The SEC will welcome them and make them a super conference.

Speaker 6 (01:17:47):
But I think Clemson in Florida State have a path
at least resistance staying in the AEC.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
Yeah, and they wanted to go in last year, but
I think the story was that I think the commissioners
said that Florida's and Clemson don't bring value to the SEC.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
I mean really, I mean, what games are you watching? Really?

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
But it would definitely kill the ACC. But I think
it'll be wonderful if they went to the SEC. Then
you really have a super conference. And I think it's
eventually going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
I really do.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
Okay, and the last one at president of the NFL
will see a record of sixteen black quarterbacks. Leading up
to the Super Bowl fifty seven, two black quarterbacks were
set to start Super Bowl for the first time ever.
Who do you blame, Andy Well, I.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Think it's the good old boys system, right and I
think right now. I think back in the day, they
didn't think quarterbacks who are black. I mean, black people
could play quarterback. But right now that they've been proven
wrong time and time again, I think it's great. I mean,
but I do think it's bad that this has to
be brought to the forefront. I mean, really, they don't
talk about blacks playing this position or that position.

Speaker 2 (01:18:51):
Only quarterback. I get I get it. It's the most
important position in sports.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
But you know, things would be better if we didn't
compare white whatever we do in life. Okay, they're playing it,
they deserve to play it, and they've done a damn
good job on the center.

Speaker 2 (01:19:07):
Just look at Lamar Jackson. That's what you gotta do.

Speaker 6 (01:19:10):
Yeah, the reason it's a significant thing is because blacks
weren't allowed to play it for so long.

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
I think you're.

Speaker 6 (01:19:15):
Highlighting it because you can't say the NFL is now
a level playing field when it comes to playing in
their position. Sixteen quarterbacks mean that it's fifty to fifty
when it comes to black to others playing the position.
That's why they want to highlight it. It just shows
the progress that has been made in the National Football
League where on a game where things are meritocracy, there
have been black quarterbacks that are proven they're good enough

(01:19:35):
to play the position, which is why more have been
able to play.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
You know, let me stay on that a little bit. Buck,
I'm gonna ask you this question.

Speaker 3 (01:19:42):
Don't you think that the fact that the media makes
it a real big deal about race. You know, this
guy's black and he does this. Forget it, they're players.
I mean, if everybody is created equal, we shouldn't be
writing about who's black, who's white and what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
And he's the first black, the first white to do this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:00):
If that went away, I think we'd have a lot
less problems, don't you think.

Speaker 2 (01:20:04):
I mean, it's the top of mind when we do that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:20:08):
Really, if you don't know your history, then you're doing
to repeat it. So that's why you have to talk
about it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
All right. I hear what you're saying. Mike harm and
gret Co sell Next on Fox.

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