Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz talk Olympics and NFL Preseason!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:26):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (00:26):
We got back to back golds in basketball? The ladies
get it done today, the men got it done yesterday.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Very nice, Right?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
The most important thing for the French is to know
you covered the spread both times. Okay, so you might
be worse than America at basketball, but you have won
your countrymen or women, don't discreaminate here, Brian some money
where joined the French the last couple of days there

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you go, Yeah, that's what a way to look at it, right,
and to be to be pleased that your countryman did
that for you. What what a what a? What are great?
Two days of basketball? Much different games, but in the
end the USA wins. And you know we are I
guess we're a basketball country. That's what we that's what

(01:16):
we are because we we don't win the the what's
the baseball version of this? Not the Olympics? They oh
the yeah World Classic? Yeah, World Baseball Classic.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
We don't win that. There's no football uh and so
you know, I don't think there's a hockey version of
this either. So you know, the sports that we care about,
we we win.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
You were very upset about the football version. The closest thing, right,
what was that where it's like I guess, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
It's under twenty Yeah, under twenty team that lost to like.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Everybody, you're not happy about that.

Speaker 4 (01:49):
I'm happy about that, but very happy to watch. I
will say, Brian the the the Steph Curry game yesterday. Wow,
I mean you what I know in the NBA finals
as like a player, as a basketball player, right, Like
that would be a moment to have a moment like that, right,

(02:13):
but imagine doing that at the Olympics. For those who
missed it, I don't know where you've been. USA and
France had a close game. France was up early. USA
came back. USA was a better team, They had better players.
I mean, we joke about it, right when you sub
Lebron for KD. Kind of nice to be able to
do that and then Steph Curry hit four three pointers

(02:36):
I think in the last five baskets for the USA.
Maybe it's a foushion in between. I mean, he sealed
the game. And not only did he seal the game, Brian,
he did it in like the most extraordinary fashion possible,
hitting a three pointer that was at least three feet
behind a three point line, being double teamed and fading away.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
I know it that last three wassational like that that.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Moment and how I mean, how cool is that for America?
But for Steph Curry, man, I mean, you know, I
think this is his first Olympic medal, right, he didn't
win one. Yeah, it was on the team last time.
And when you play thinking about this too, he's playing
with I was. My son was asking me the other day.
We're watching Serbia in the United States play. He goes, Dad,
who's the best player in the NBA? Like, actually, it's

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a guy in Serbia. So you see that big white
guy in Serbia. That's that's who the best player in
the NBA is And that's in him. And then the
USA has three of the fifteen best players of all
time on their team with Steph Jat and Lebron. But
in that moment and Lebron won MVP, whatever that meant.
But in that moment, Steph Curry was the best player
in the world. And that's gotta be the most incredible

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feeling for any athlete.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
To have, man, especially because the first four games of
the Olympic Steph Curry was really just searching for his game. Yeah,
he hadn't done very much. He wasn't making threes. And
and then the last two games, the game before yesterday
against Serbia where he went off for thirty six points,
he hit nine to three pointers. That was a dogfight

(04:09):
of a win against Serbia. He was huge in that game.
And then yesterday against France to clinch the gold. Like
you said, four threes down the stretch, the fade away
three when he's being doubled, and one of the threes
he was running down to the other end of the
court and he was yelling at his teammate Draymond Green,
don't worry about me, right, because he had been struggling

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and so for him to respond the last two games,
he was off the charts.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Man.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
That was some chef Curry to the end degree and
the world saw it. It wasn't just the NBA that
was really cool.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Yeah. Look, I think I'm not NBA player obviously, but
the Olympics is difficult for I would imagine a player
like Steph because of the minutes were right, like, you're
not getting as many minutes, and he doesn't strike me
as a player who just sort of enjoys his five

(05:08):
minutes spurts at a time. He's a rhythm player, right, yeah,
and the Olympics. You it's hard to be in a rhythm.
It's why guys like lebron do so well, right, He
is a need like to be in a rhythm. He
can do so many different things on the court, and
he can create his own when when the La train
I saw someone put this out, like the La train,
when he just runs straight down the middle of the
court and for a layup, it's like a train. You

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cannot stop him. Steph doesn't have that in his game.
He can't go to that when he's struggling. So I
think it is difficult. In that Serbia game, the last quarter,
I believe was just the five best guys and it
was lebron kd Steph Booker, and then Mbid played, which
did not play really much against France, but Embiid played

(05:51):
a lot in that fourth quarter, could get a rebound
to save his life. Thankfully, he can. He can make
some some baskets offensively, but like when he got to play,
he got in a better rhythm and we saw that
obviously end with a gold medal for Team USA. But
what a great moment for USA basketball and what a

(06:13):
great moment for Steph Man. That had to feel just
so cool.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
Yeah, I think a couple other things, and I hear
you with Steph not finding his rhythm in other games.
I think a lot of it has to do with
this is like football on hardwood. When it comes to
FEBA hoops, it is completely different than the NBA where
they get away with so much physical contact. For a

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guy like Steph, he's got great handles and he gets
to the rim quite a bit a lot more than
he's given credit for. And that helps you get your
rhythm as a shooter.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Right.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
If you're getting to the rim, you get either a
layup or you get fouled and actually go to the
free throw line instead of them just swallowing their whistles.
And he's not going to the free throw line nearly
as much, and that hurts his ability to get into rhythm.
So when he's just nailing three after three, nine against
Serbia the previous game, eight yesterday against France in the

(07:08):
gold medal game, that's what's mind blowing is it's not
the same game where it allows him to get into
a rhythm easier, and he still got into a ridiculous rhythm,
to the point where I wish I had the audio.
They took the tweet down, Jeff. Someone posted audio of
the French commentators during the game. Yeah, they're calling him

(07:29):
the devil. They're like this devil Steph Curry. My gosh,
somebody stop him.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
It was so good.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
The NBC is pretty territorial with that. Those those Olympic
clips there on the interweb, they're they're not for very long.
FOBA basketball reminds me of the thing that I used
to say when the Warriors first started their run. I'm
not anti WARDIM a Lakers fan. I like watching the
Warriors play. They play a fun brand of basketball to watch,

(07:58):
but I would always yell, like, just hit Steph Curry.
He's in the he's going for a layup. Just hit
him in the lane. Yeah, And you can't do that NBA,
but in the Olympics you can. Yeah, but then they
just randomly decided, like the women's game today, call every
found the last seven minutes. It's just like, so it's
so infuriating, right when they just decided to do that.

(08:18):
And so yeah, I mean the gameplay doesn't help Steph,
but in the end he came up the biggest for
our country and maybe my other lasting impression of the Americans. Man,
Lebron is thirty nine, buddy.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
I know, and you would never know it.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
It's looks like he barely just turned thirty.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
It is amazing. We're I know, people want to have
the goat debate. Jordan wasn't doing this at thirty nine, guys.
I don't know what to tell you. Man, I understand
the whole six six titles and whatnot. Never lost the finals.
He also never went otherwise. You know, Lebron went many
times without Scott Pippin to finals.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Who was there today, by the way for the ladies,
you see, Scott.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Yeah, they were all Yeah. I thought that was actually
pretty cool for the ladies too, that all the all
the men were there to watch them try to win
their title or their their their their gold medal. But Lebron,
I mean, dude, it's I hope that we as a
sports public have not taken him for granted because yeah,

(09:27):
there's I mean, Wemby is a freak show. Uh he
at least yeah, he's not Lebron yet. I mean, like
we're not. There's no other Lebron. There's nothing like him, man,
but anywhere ever, maybe ever again, And I hope that
we do not take him for granted because he's got
a couple of years left and that's about it. It's

(09:47):
obviously his last Olympics. But dude, it is incredible watching
him play basketball and I really enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Even if you are Team Jordan like me, you know,
the the crime in that is that there are a
lot of Team Jordan people that have not appreciated Lebron
the way they should have, because, like you said, Lebron,
I mean, look, man, if you have them as less
than Jordan, he's probably number two on your list, or

(10:15):
he's number two on a.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
Lot of people's lists. There's no crime in that.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
There's no shame in maybe not having as great of
a resume as Michael freakin' Jordan. You know, and I
think for the longest time it's been well, he's not Jordan,
he's not as great as Jordan, and that's fine.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
He's still insanely great.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
And I think there are a lot of Jordan people
that for the longest time, man, we're talking about the
bulk of Lebron's career, if not the entirety of it.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
It's like they have a scowl on.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Their face, their arms are folded and they're like, no, no,
not as good as Jordan. It's like, man, if you
haven't appreciated Lebron doing what he's done, yeah, for so long,
that's on you. Man, coward says that all the time.
That's a you problem, right, that's the bit of me
of a problem. If you haven't appreciated Lebron. He's been sensational.

Speaker 4 (11:05):
I saw a bunch of videos on like TikTok of
people saying like, it's nice to root for Steph Curry
for once. Yeah, like it's nice to you know, root
for like Lebron for once.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
We need football. That that's what Tom Brady needed, right,
We needed USA so Brady could get some love football.

Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yeah, sure, because obviously that would change the way we
feel about Tom Brady. I like greatness, man, I don't
have a problem with I know people don't like it
at times, but I've never felt that we should reject
watching the In fact, I would rather watch the best
play at times and watch the less than someone else
because of that reason. But nonetheless, really incredible basketball on

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the men's side and the women's side. Man, that was
a grind today, Brian was the only way to play.
It really was a grind. And I came away thinking,
you know, they kind of missed someone that could just
sort of make reason tostribute the ball, and who could that.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
You know, it's better having the forty two forty three
year old just in her warm up gear on the bench.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
I have to disagree with you on that one, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
You know this is the game you need, Kate, Kaitlyn.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
Clark after it's football in the lane, man, you need
and Diana can shoot threes, don't get us wrong, But
to distribute the ball to open up space, that is
what Caitlin does.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yes, she would have been better suited for that.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
The game changed today and the US women end up
winning by one point because France made a late three there.
The game changed when Sabrina Esque was finally putting the
lineup and she finally sort of got a rhythm on offense.
She had a couple turnovers and ended up kind of
getting her off the you know, back on the bench.

(12:51):
But did you notice that, like the US sort of
started moving the basketball a little bit more and started
finding some layups and some some back door cut some
more some more offense. As soon as they put someone
in that you know that guess what excels at passing
the foot, passing the football, passing, passing the basketball. Yeah,
and they just don't have that on the roster. They
haven't needed it until this one game. But that's why

(13:12):
you sort of have twelve players. You don't play all
of them, right, you keep one spot for a player
like Kaitlynd Clark.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
Well, that was the thing is before this is what
blows my mind, Jeff, is before the gold medal game
for the ladies today, team USA had assisted on eighty
nine percent of their baskets. Think about that. Eighty nine
percent of the baskets they made came from an assist,
a pass setting up the score.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
And it was just such a.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Different game today because they got away with way more.
I know, this is FOBA and I know it's way
more physical than the WNBA or on the men's side,
the NBA, but it's just officiated so inconsistently and there
are some sorry, there's so much contact it it can't
not be a foul, you know. I mean, like, I

(14:00):
know this is fee but I know there's a lot
more physicality. But that was like Goldberg doing the spear
and pro wrestling and there's no whistle like come up.
Sometimes it's just a fall and there's no two ways
about it.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
It was. It was a very physical game. And then
again the officials sort of decided like, oh, we're gonna
sort of let this go and let that go and
call that and call this, and it just wasn't consistent
down the stretch. But in the end the USA women
did it again, Buddy. They won either eighth goal in
the row, and in this win streak they've had, they

(14:36):
eve't lost as nineteen tinety two. This is the closest
win they had it, which was one point. They've had
one other game under ten points. I believe it was
four point win and they had a ten point win.
This was a barnburner, buddy. It was a very physical game.
And look in the end, the US women made enough shots.
I mean, France couldn't make a shot to save their
lives in this game and cost them, you know, the

(14:57):
ability to win in the end on their home on
the home court.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Hey, we'll circle back to this because Jeff and I
have a lot more thoughts on the basketball side, the
Olympics in general. There are a lot of takeaways. What
was your favorite moment? What's the lasting memory?

Speaker 6 (15:12):
Right?

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I think ten years from now, what are you gonna
flash back to when someone talks about the Paris Olympics.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
You know, So we'll get to.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
All that good stuff. But you know us, Jeff, ball
is on our brains. You know, we got football takeaways
as well.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
The preseason is what.

Speaker 3 (15:28):
It is, but there are a lot of things that
you can take away from it that will relate to
the regular season and beyond.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
So we will do just that. Right around the corner.
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Speaker 2 (16:23):
He's Jeff Schwartz.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
I'm Brian though, coming to your line from the tyrack
dot com studios here on Fox Sports Radio. So, Jeff,
we have a lot of preseason football still going on. Actually,
we got one game left. The Rams just kicked a
field goal if you're interested against the Cowboys. They're up
six to three. Pretty good score for your first half

(16:46):
under But I digress, right, We had a bunch of
preseason games this weekend, and the rookie quarterbacks are some
of the storyline some of the things that have caught
our attention, right, and so if you look at the
takeaways with some of the performances that we've seen so far,
they haven't been like these guys get a full half

(17:08):
or like three quarters or anything, they might get a
drive or two. But one of the things that stood
out Caleb Williams feel. You see the little screen pass
he dumped off to DeAndre Swift like that was a play.
Some guys just you can't be taught that, you know
what I mean. You either have that feel or you don't.
And Caleb Williams having the feel to dump it off

(17:31):
the way he did, it's almost like a little bit
of a no look pass, and for a rookie to
do that was pretty impressive. A lot of play action
passing I would expect from the Bears this year with
Shane Walder, and it seemed like he was on a
bootleg every other play.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Look, man, I think the takeaway is and look, it's
the preseason, right, so it's really hard sometimes to feel
and understand sort of you know how these players you know,
are gonna play. It's a sometimes it's one verse backups, right, Yeah,
we know that. But dude, I gotta say, almost every

(18:08):
rookie quarterback drafted in the first round look the part
this weekend. Look the part again. It doesn't mean that
they that they're gonna you know that that you know
that that's gonna end up being who they are. But
outside of Drake May, you only play anything like three plays, Brian.

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Everyone sort of looked like they should. And that is
really important because it's the first opportunity to get in
the NFL on an NFL field. There's a little bit
of expected nerves from that, right, You're not doing a
full game plan, you're not doing a full preparation for
the team you're playing, and you just want to look

(18:50):
like it should. That's it look like it should. And
for the most part, man, for most of the players,
it look like it should. And that to me was
it was. I was impressed, I'll put I was impressed
with how many players, even like Michael Penix is not
going to play that I do not gonna play this year,

(19:13):
how well it looked.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, and Pennix Junior got five series, got five drive.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
He's the backup. I mean that's normally a backups. They
get a good amount.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Of time, you know, I know it, and that's good.
I think that's good.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I just look at it where it's like, why is
Drake May throwing three passes and that's it?

Speaker 2 (19:31):
What what are we doing? That's yeah, I steal your line.
I've adopted your linement.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
I was surprised. What do the Patriots? I don't really,
I mean I guess because it's raining.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Okay, so it's raining and we get Drake May out.
You know, it's like what and I won't understand either.
I know we're talking about rookies here, but a second
year player in Bryce Young, like what you said, is
really important. These guys they look the part, they get
out there, they execute that had to feel good.

Speaker 2 (20:02):
That helps to grow their confidence.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Why would the Panthers not get Bryce Young out there?
A guy who was dead last and passer rating last season, who's.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Got a brand new head coach.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
Why is Michael Pennick Junior getting five series and Bryce
Young is getting zero?

Speaker 2 (20:18):
That makes no sense to me.

Speaker 4 (20:21):
Buddy, I have no idea, man, I have I have.
I am like pro playing young players. I mean, heck, man,
if Patrick Mahomes can can play, and Stroud can play
and Burrow can play, young quarterback.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yeah, Josh Allen played, you had Jordan love guy.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
I think Josh Allen played more than one series. Mahomes
just went out for the one series I saw.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Yeah, Josh Allen was out there. For at least two series.
So yeah, I just don't get it. I don't get
these teams. Listen, if it's the Rams are on right now,
like we just said, if it's never Stafford and he's older, okay, fine,
I get why you don't have him out there all
the time. But for a guy like Bryce Young who
struggled last year, I don't know why you wouldn't get

(21:08):
him out there when defenses are vanilla, yeah, or you're
facing backups. Why those are like layups for a basketball player.
Why wouldn't you let him get out there and help
him grow his confidence.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
That's just a missed opportunity to me.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Dude, I'm I agree with you. I have again. I
am pro playing these players. You know. Yes, Look, Hollywood Brown,
the Chiefs wide receiver, had kind of a ugly injury yesterday, right.
He had the clavical dislocation essentially, which is terrible. Brian,

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you know, injuries are part of the game. They're going
to miss him, it's absolutely it stinks, But like that's
one it's typically you don't get like you need these
guys to get out there and get the feel of
playing football and get the feel of getting hit the
feel of seeing things happen a lot. You mentioned something
that that's interesting about about the preseason now you said

(22:06):
it's vanilla, right, it's really not anymore. It's actually quite shocking,
like when I will not to date myself obviously, but
you know, the first preseason you used to have four
I mean, Brent, it was base four to three base defense,
see a couple line games, stunts around third down. That

(22:27):
was it. And then now we're getting we're getting pressures
everywhere now and we're getting and again it's the reason
why it's vanilla. And I agree with you and the
idea that it's not being game planned right, You're just
calling your defense. It's like what you have installed already
during training camp. But guys are blitzing from everywhere.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
Now.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
I remember my last year. By twenty sixteen, we're in
the preseason in Pittsburgh sitting a corner blitz on the
first play of the game. You're like, well, buddy, what
do you It's not how it used to be, right,
So I it has change in that way. But to
your point, you know, you use is the time to

(23:06):
build confidence in your players and build confidence in your
team where your team can be well you can be
as a player, what the identity of your team can be.
I think sometimes coaches, for whatever reason, don't view it
the way US fans do. Now it's worked out for
Sean McVay because he wants to without playing the starters.

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But I go back to what Andy Reid does and
Mike Tomlin does and what Bill Belichick did, Like, obviously
something something matters to those coaches for playing their starters
in the preseason.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Mm hmm, yeah, I'll put it this way. This might
not make any sense, it makes sense in my head.
Let me give it a shot.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
So think of this in terms of ice cream. Jeff, Okay, if.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
The regular season is like chocolate ice cream, right, starters,
game planning, we're throwing the kitchen sync right like, And
the preseason used to be vanilla ice cream, where it's
base mainly like backups for most of the time. I
would say, right now, it's it's not quite chocolate ice cream.

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Maybe it's like strawberry or like carmel or something.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
Like it's a little more than just strictly vanilla.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
That's fine, I'll meet you there.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
But you're facing a lot of backups and you're not
game planning the same way you would in the regular season,
so it's still.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
It's a soft launch if you will.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Right, Like, if you have Bryce Young out there, he's
much more likely to have success against these type of
preseason defenses than a regular season defense that is literally
game planning and sending every possible thing to confuse.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Him and get to him correct.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
That's a better way to go about it for a
guy who hadn't shown a whole lot last year.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
Not all his fault, but get him some confidence. He's
got brand new head coach, you know, get some seasoning.
You think who needs it more? Is it Mahomes and
Andy Reid? Or is it Rice Young and Dave Canalis?

Speaker 4 (25:01):
You know what I mean, You're exactly right.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's crazy, you.

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Know that that makes me wonder like whether or not
you know, they feel that maybe you know, he's just
not ready for that yet, you know. But again, that's
a that's pretty bad sign, right if you feel comfortable
that he's that he's ready to do that or not.
But look, man, if you're a bow Knicks fan, you
got to feel great about what you saw today. Yeah,

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you know, there's there's just a lot of in these quarterbacks.
Brian again, preseason, So take it with always preseason guys,
a little bit of a grain of salt. Right, it's
not regular season. You're not game planning very much. But
I gotta say, I mean, you gotta be pretty pumped.
If you're a Broncos family, you saw a quarterback play

(25:48):
you have not seen a couple of years. If you
are the Bears, I mean, Katle Williams made a throw
that you have not seen since Sid Luckman, I mean,
how long has it been since he? So you had
a big there's where I roll out and hit someone
like on the run like that.

Speaker 2 (26:04):
I hope there's some footage somewhere of Sid doing that,
you know, I mean it.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
You have to be excited. Jadon Daniels, Right, he audible
to that deep ye completion. Supposed he called off a
screen and what saw man and man coverage and and
email man and man is great to run screens against.
He took and threw it deep. You have all these examples.
This weekend Panics had a couple of deep throws as well,
where you have to be excited from what you saw
from these young guys and as they move forward. Bow

(26:30):
Nick's now going to start game two for Denver. You know,
we'll get to game two when more teams game plan
and we'll see because now obviously it's on film, and
you know, they know, you know, if you play, you
go back to bow Nicks like they ran the ball
a bunch today right with him. So whoever they're playing
game two is going to sort of game plan now
for the quarterback the Broncos being able to move move

(26:51):
with his legs a little bit more.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Well, you know someone who moves with his legs is
our guy, Martin Weiss.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
You know him? Have you seen him on the basketball
court before?

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Jeff Schwartz?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
I haven't either, But I'm just I'm guessing you know
this dude quite impressive.

Speaker 9 (27:09):
Yeah, maybe fifteen years ago, maybe fifteen years ago. Man,
I took a boxing class yesterday. I'm looking down on
my knees and my ankles. Was like, man, where did
all this rough come from? What's going on here? Why
are they were screaming back at me?

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Please stop?

Speaker 8 (27:27):
Well?

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Yeah, it was a tough scene at box Way.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Martin.

Speaker 9 (27:30):
What was your Where were you at box Union?

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (27:35):
Okay, all right, what was your main sport?

Speaker 6 (27:37):
I played? I played basketball? And a little track and field.

Speaker 9 (27:40):
I was a high jumper, really, no kidding, yep, I
was up pretty good.

Speaker 6 (27:44):
I at least in junior high it was pretty good.

Speaker 9 (27:47):
Got to high school and I was about probably average,
which is why I went proing something other than sports.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I liked her throw Anna Hall in the high jump,
and I think she's at the Cathleen.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
I don't know where she finished, but no, good looking.

Speaker 9 (28:01):
I was finished better than me. If she could do
ten things at once, I know, right, yeah, no kidding,
that's a.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
Pretty remarkable physical feat, right, to be able to do
ten different events, that is, and like the obviously you
have some of your best at but the fact that
you're training for ten.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Events, yeah, not the easiest thing to do right there.

Speaker 9 (28:19):
Yeah, it's pretty wild right now watching the opening I
mean closing rather ceremonies.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
They're still going on.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Listen, man, this.

Speaker 9 (28:26):
Thing has been longer, longer, longer than the flight it
took for Americaren Bass of Los Angeles to get to Paris,
it feels like. But she's on the stage right now.
Her and the singer her are now doing I think
putting the final touches on the final touches of the Olympics.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yes, she's great that it's a good guitarist.

Speaker 5 (28:45):
She is.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
Yeah, there's only problems with her name. It's like you know,
singer her her, you know, it's like, yeah, who her?
Who's on first Dallas Cowboys and the Los Angeles Rams.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Right now?

Speaker 9 (28:57):
In a preseason game, you guys were talking about aching starters.

Speaker 6 (29:00):
How about this, Matthew Stafford is not playing.

Speaker 9 (29:03):
Also number two quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo was not playing, So
that leaves Stetson Bennett.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Oh it's back, I know right.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Eight for thirteen, seventy five yards in an interception so
far for Stetson one rush five yards as well, Trey
Lance getting the lion's share of work right now.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
Cooper Rush got the start only through three passes.

Speaker 9 (29:23):
Trey Lance fourteen attempts so far, seven completes to sixty
four yards, no touchdowns, no interceptions, one impressive run for
nineteen yards six to six to score there five minutes
left before the half. You were talking about bon Nicks
and if you're a Bodex fan, you gotta like what
you see here. Fifteen for twenty one, one hundred and
twenty five yards a touchdown.

Speaker 6 (29:42):
He played most of the second some of the third quarter.

Speaker 9 (29:44):
There Jared Stidham getting the start, Zach Wilson and clean
up duty went ten for thirteen for one hundred and
seventeen yards. But he looks like squarely the third string quarterback,
as he was in all of the fourth quarter for
the Broncos. Indianapolis played five quarterbacks in this game, Anthony's Richardson.
He got to start after being injured and missing most
of last season. Two completions on four attempts twenty five yards.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Passion comeback player of the Year.

Speaker 9 (30:09):
Joe Flacco came off the bench here three for five
for twenty eight yards, so he got a little preseason
work in as well. Major League Baseball scores going on
right now. The Braves lead the Rockies seven to two,
the Tigers over the Giants five to two, Diamondbacks with
a five to two lead over the Phillies in the
bottom of the fifth, and the Dodgers and Pirates Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 (30:30):
Leading four to two in the bottom of the fifth.

Speaker 9 (30:33):
Earlier today we saw the Angels beat the National six
to four, Astros beat the Red Sox ten to two,
Yankee squeezed by the Rangers eight to seven, Athletics doubled
up the Blue Jays eight to four, Rays over the
Orioles two to one, Marlin seven, Padres six. Controversial call
there as what probably should have been a home run
was ruled a ground rule double for the Padres, Reds

(30:55):
over four to three over the Brewers, and the Guardians
five to three over the Twins. And earlier today, team
USA women's basketball won the Olympics gold medal. They rallied
from a ten point third quarter deficit, beating France seventy
seven to seventy six. Team USA women's national team has
now won sixty six straight games at the Olympics. Back

(31:18):
to you, guys, and I think Tom Cruise is about
the skydive. I'm tell you, this closing ceremony's got it all.
He just jumped off the room. He just jumped off
the roof at the closing ceremony.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
All right, Jeff and Brian, Back to you.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
It's like reminds me of WCW Right, as Scott Hall
used to say, where they'd have sting in the rafters
and they'd be like, it's sting, we gotta go. That's
what I feel like. Martin just pulled on us, right,
now I know, Yeah, that was awesome. I love that.

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padres are red hot. I know Martin was talking about
the weird call and they lost to the Marlins today
seven to six, chef, but they've won something like what
was it, thirteen of fifteen. I hate even saying this
our trusted producer Bo Benson. Sometimes he doesn't even say

(32:50):
hi to me. Like when I pop on to do
a show, he'll be like, watch out for the Padres.
You know he's at Dodgers guy, He's like, watch out
for the Padre. Here come to Padres and they're just
five hundred. This is a real charge. Now, you know
it's not just a tongue in cheek joke anymore. The
Padre has been playing some baseball.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
This is purely a gambling thing. You know, when you
gamble on baseball, Brian, and you lose, you always look
at the box score, right the every time you lose.
The team that you bet on, what one for nine
with rugeron squore position. Yeah, And as part of my
I paded two teams, right, and one of them is
three of them. One of the three is the Marlins,

(33:31):
and they've covered the run line. Now I think in like, uh,
well so I think that not today, but the previous
three games they the team they were playing, the Reds
and the Padres. I'm being generous, they were probably three
for thirty with runners of scoring position, and then in
the tenth inning they just came alive. That happened three

(33:52):
straight games. It almost happened today. The call that got
called back the home run was a good call. I
thought I hit the pad bounced in off the outfit
of Cleve, and went back over for a home run.
But that it's not a home run? Is I don't
think so? I was. Uh, I've been impressed with with
the Padres, and look, the Giants are making a little
bit of run. Everyone sort of said the Giants might

(34:13):
be a team to watch out for that they've been
winning a lot of games lately. But I feel like,
doctor fans, can't you have to mock the Padres when
you lost the series to them and recently, right, like,
you can't mock the Padres if you do that.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
Yeah, I hear you, right, Yeah, you got to take
care of business on your eyes.

Speaker 4 (34:31):
I will mock the Padres for the rest of my life.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
Dores. Dodgers could go winless from here on out. Yeah,
I think you.

Speaker 6 (34:37):
I thought it was.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Isn't it like the regular season doesn't matter, so why
should they be happy about that?

Speaker 4 (34:41):
It doesn't matter. They mus have a third of a
championship in the last forty years. I'm not sure you
can talk about.

Speaker 6 (34:47):
H that's still more than there.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
It's fair they are.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Yeah, yeah, hey man, it's funny too. Baseball is so weird.
This does hopefully, but Bo doesn't hate me for this.
But it reminds me a little bit of the Cardinals.
You know me, Jeff, I'm a Cardinals guy. It was
a few years ago. They were just a five hundred
team for a long, long stretch of the season, well

(35:14):
over one hundred games or just five hundred all year,
and then they just kicked it into overdrive and won
a bunch of games, made it into the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
I wonder if we're seeing that from San Diego.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Aren't the Cardinals one of the teams aren't that are
not playing word on a Sunday today? Why is that?

Speaker 2 (35:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (35:32):
Cubs and White Sox aren't playing either. It's a Sunday.
Everyone plays on Sunday.

Speaker 2 (35:36):
Yeah, that's strange. I don't know why. I don't know.
I don't know what the reason would be.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Maybe there was some weird like doubleheader makeup game and
that they flip flopped, you know, like days off. Maybe
I don't know, I don't want what The other real
explanation is, Yeah, all right, he's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian
no coming up next. What do you make of these
comments that are pretty odd? Keep it locked right here.

(36:00):
We're live from the TIREC dot Com studios on Fox
Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz.
I'm Brian no Man, Jeff. So there's deflecting, and then
there's what Colorado head coach Dion Sanders did in a
recent press conference.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
What do you make of this?

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Check this out. The back and forth with the reporter
is quite interesting.

Speaker 8 (36:27):
You've bolstered your offensive line here in this second season.

Speaker 4 (36:30):
What does bolster mean?

Speaker 8 (36:32):
You beaked it up? Because I mean, you know, I
don't know all that bolstered stuff. I never used it
in a sentence of moment. All right, you beefed up
your offensive line in the south season.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
How do you sort of micro improved?

Speaker 4 (36:43):
Chemistry?

Speaker 8 (36:44):
Improved? How about improved? Let's say that we've improved off
in tonight? Okay, how do you how do you get that?
Everybody talks about that?

Speaker 9 (36:53):
So you know, the five have to work in unison
and the chemistry is such an important.

Speaker 4 (36:59):
Thing, kim Is you guys use it all the time?
What is it? Yeah?

Speaker 8 (37:09):
You guys work together. You don't like each other, most
of you. You love each other, you know you don't.
You definitely don't love the guy back there, okay, okay,
standing him, but you're still working together.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
You get the job done.

Speaker 8 (37:22):
We generally have a love and admiration for one another,
We really do.

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Whether you throw the word.

Speaker 8 (37:30):
Chemistry out or that you everybody keep throwing the word out.
Some of you don't even have chemistry at home, but
you go.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
There every day.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Huh so a little odd, right, what do you make
of that?

Speaker 4 (37:40):
Well? A while that press conference was rather interesting. That
was like the tamest of the comments. Right, he would
take a question from CBS Sports. I think because they
wrote about his son's court case. I believe that that
was about I don't think it was about the rankings
that ranked him. I think fifteen or sixteen of a
big big twelve coaches. There's a reporter of the Denver
Post that doesn't write flying things about Colorado. He called

(38:03):
him out. You know, he's trying to control I think,
the narrative of his program. But the way you control
the narrative program is you gotta win football games, right, Like,
that's what you have to do. And you can get
up there and say all these different things like I
don't know what you're talking about, I don't know this

(38:24):
and that. But the way to get the questions to
stop is win football games. And you want your program
to have attention, but only in the way that you
want them to have attention. It doesn't work that way.
It's not the way that it works in the media.
And Demon has done a fabulous job of creating attention
for his program. Now that's going to turn into wins.

(38:45):
And I think I think they go six and six
this year. I don't I don't know if they're much
better than that, but the questions will keep coming for
him if they don't win football games. You've put a
target on your back with the attention that you have
asked for. You have gone that attention, and now people
are going to keep pestering you until you win the

(39:07):
football games for the attention that you asked for. Yeah,
way it works, Brian.

Speaker 3 (39:11):
It reminds me. I'll take in the hot tub time
machine for a second. Jeff I was in Fresno, California,
did radio there for about three years and Pat Hill
was the head coach at the time. This is between
like six and o nine is when I was there,
and Pat Hill was a little bit like Dion where
he was competitive and didn't take kindly to critical comments

(39:35):
or negative comments toward his football team. I get that,
but I always used to say at the time, Jeff,
I was like, there was a local paper called the
Fresno B And I'm like, it's not called the Fresno
State B.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Like, there's gonna be some criticism, There's going to be
some negativity out there. You can't control all of that.
And yeah, that's what it seems like. It seems like
Dion has a hit list like kill Bill that's a
mile long, right of all these reporters, all these outlets
that have said unflattering things. But hey, bro win more
than four games and they're not going to be around

(40:09):
as much.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
There's a pecking order on sort of how this works.
And you know a lot of times you have to
win more games to sort of a cost reporters and
go after them. Yeah, in the in the.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Interview room, Yeah no, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
All right, coming up next, does Dion have something in
common with international hoops? What could that be? We will
tell you right around the corner. What does Dion Sanders
have to do with international hoops? Maybe nothing, depending on
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You know, Jeff, you look at Team USA on the
men's and the women's side, both win gold, but it
was not easy whatsoever. The women won today by one point.

(41:12):
The men beat France, but that was a three point
game against France. Yesterday late and Steph went crazy and
they pulled away the game against Serbia.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Goodness.

Speaker 3 (41:22):
We were texting each other, were like, Team US A
gonna lose this thing. Like they were down thirteen heading
into the fourth quarter. Right, So the question is has
the rest of the world caught up with Team USA?

Speaker 10 (41:35):
Now?

Speaker 3 (41:35):
Remember when Dion Sanders is the first game of the
year last season against TCU, and before the game they
showed him in the locker room and he said to
his guys, He's like, we're not coming, We're here, right,
is that what we've seen internationally in basketball. Has the
rest of the world caught up with Team USA? Maybe

(41:58):
not to the point where they're as good or they're
capable of beating them. Let's not forget the women have
won what is it, sixty one straight games dating all
the way back to nineteen ninety two. The international hoops
scene is way better than it's been. Think about that
original dream team in ninety two. On the men's side,
night and day different. But have they caught up? Are

(42:20):
you willing to go that far that the international game
is caught up with the US.

Speaker 4 (42:26):
Not on the women's side. I don't think. And I
think I was listening to the I might have got this.
I was listening to the game on the airplane. I
was flying home today and the women's game was on,
and I think I heard the announcer, the play guy
mentioned that one of the members of the French national team, right,
one of the ladies there like for like four, you know,

(42:51):
like left her WNBA team and play with the French
national team to basically become a member of that team.
They were going to I guess just like show up
and play. And I feel a lot of these teams,
Brian just play more together more often than we do.

(43:15):
And a lot of times it comes down to the chemistry.
And we saw this before with the year before the
redeem team, right, wasn't part of the reason that they
struggled was the other teams. That's so the chemistry of
those teams was so much. Even going back to watching
I remember watching like the the the Voti Divots and
co Coach and that thirty for thirty and those guys

(43:37):
played their entire childhoods together and we just sort of
get together in the summer and play, you know. I
know there's I know there's some you know, some practice
in the summer and went on year before, but we
just sort of we just sort of show up. And
that I think is a big part this sometimes is

(44:00):
we just sort of how many teams would love to
have Jason Tatum play twenty seven minutes or Hollyburn I mean,
you just it's just a lot of guys trying to
get minutes and figure out where they go. And I
think other teams have more chemistry than we do. It's
nothing wrong with that, but that's what comes down to
and our players are so good that sometimes they's somebody.

(44:23):
They don't. They don't play as our as they need to.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Yeah, I think that the international hoop scene is way better.
That doesn't mean it's caught up, correct.

Speaker 2 (44:32):
No, that's the thing. I'm just looking through.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
Team USA's games on the women's side, and it's like, Okay,
before the one point win against France, they beat Australia
by twenty one, they beat Nigeria by fourteen, they beat
Germany by nineteen.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
You could go on and on and on double digit.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Wins and it's like, Okay, they played a tight one
against France. Does that mean that international hoops has caught
up with Team USA, who's one on sixty one straight
games dating back to ninety two. Like, I don't think
that's catching up. They've gotten better, they've made great strides.
But catching up, No, I think that goes too far.

Speaker 4 (45:12):
I think it does too. I think there's I just
don't think that there's that. They one game like it
was today where the US did not shoot well, the
US women did not shoot well. You know, I think
that the team, as good as they are, it's hard

(45:33):
to say this right, like they lack sort of like
the run a better term the Caitlin Clark right, like
a slashing and Sabrina could do this, I guess right,
Like they just sort of don't have that spark plug.
Asia Wilson is incredible basketball player, her commencements are amazing.
But centers typically are not like the things are going bad,

(45:57):
they need to make plays for us type of players, right,
That's not what it's center typically is. And in this
game it was Sabrina sort of came in and did that.
Kelsey Plumb made a bunch of big threes. Cooper was
the one who did it right, Like she's the one
in the fourth quarter? Was Cooper right, and in the
fourth quarter who became the star of that period? And
so it just feels like the USA is going to

(46:18):
be fine, just they ran up against a French team
that played that style of game they're not used to
him didn't and USA didn't have really the pieces to
maybe be best equipped to be the French, but against
everyone else, didn't matter.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Yeah, that's a good point too.

Speaker 3 (46:30):
If you're asking the question as international hoops caught up
with Team USA, it's like, well, there's this girl Caitlin
Clark who's pretty freaking good, who wasn't on the team
that that could have made a big difference stylistically, right,
It is just a different style. And when it becomes
football on hardwood and the officials literally just swallow their

(46:51):
whistles and they're like, go ahead, just bump and bang
all you want.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
It becomes a much different game.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
This also reminds me the question about has the international
hoops scene caught up? It reminds me of college basketball.
Think about March madness, Jeff Right, where you see this
with mid majors. Maybe some mid majors have some seniors
or some upper classmen who've been playing together for a while,
and they'll they'll beat a team that maybe has a

(47:19):
couple of one and don's oh.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Yeah, and it's all they got to chemistry.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
They okay, but how about those teams with chemistry the
upper classmen, how far did they actually go? Many times
it's they get to the sweet sixteen, yes, or they're
one and done.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (47:35):
Right?

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (47:36):
Yeah, no, no, that happens again. It looks when when
when you have a tournament like this and like March madness,
to me, that doesn't always give us the best team.

(47:56):
Now you can his deception, right, they're the best team
but a lot of times it's just a team that
gets hot at the end and the team that gets
rolling at the end. And maybe it is a team
that's older, right, not a mid major older, but like
Baylor was an older team right a couple years ago.
There's an older team, older physical team. They don't mean
they're the best team. And just because France kept the

(48:18):
game close does not mean that they played one hundred
more times this game would be close. That just happened.
It happened to be today. By the way, I have
the Braves on the run line today. Oh, they just
allowed seven runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Oh and they're losing nine to eight.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Now that's not good.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
It's just take that the Rockies. Who's who?

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Have the Rockies caught up with the Braves now? After
the Rockies a game.

Speaker 4 (48:48):
By the way, the Rockies are forty three and seventy
five and they cover the run line most nights. It
is that's quite remarkable. It's hard to explain, like how
a team like like the White Sox, for example, are terrible.
I won a lot of money betting against the White Sox.
But for some reason, the Rockies like just they either

(49:09):
win the game or lose by one. I can't explain.
I can't explain this phenomenon.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
That is that's pretty wild, right there, no doubt but
the same thing, right, I get it. This is the
gold medal game today against the US and France.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
But it is a game. And I like what you said.

Speaker 3 (49:29):
If these teams are playing you fifty one hundred times,
how many times does France win? How many times does
France lose by just one? Like just doing that is
an accomplishment. By the way, how about the end? This
is the final call as Gabby Williams hits the shot
at the buzzer, but you'll hear the call from Noah
Eagle on NBC.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Check this out.

Speaker 9 (49:52):
Kaliah Copper has been Kaliah gold today. No timeouts here,
Johanna's up ahead.

Speaker 6 (49:57):
It's Williams.

Speaker 9 (49:59):
Don't get a a two ball and the United States
is gonna claim gold for the eighth consecutive Olympics.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
You want to finish Williams with her foot.

Speaker 5 (50:14):
On the line.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
The ball is invalid. Here catches it and you're absolutely right.
Two points but not enough.

Speaker 10 (50:29):
Man.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
Gabby Williams was fantastic down the stretch. But I know
that last little sequence was chaotic. That wasn't close to
a three, Jeff Like, oh no, it was.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
Both feet were much way over the Yeah, but it's how.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
Does that happen? How does it happen? Where she made it?

Speaker 3 (50:47):
Probably would have been better for her to miss it,
I know, right, Like, it's even more disappointing that it
went in, but it wasn't a three. I think you
just have to know where you're at on the court
and be behind that three point line. You gotta give
yourself at least a chance to tie it. That's your
only hope.

Speaker 4 (51:03):
I mean, there were three and a half seconds left,
I think, right, I mean they were just just trying
to make some magic and just end up being low.
I mean, look, it was a running three pointer that
banked in. I mean, the the difficulty level was pretty
hard on that, I would imagine.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
I know it's insane, but you would have been better
throwing it three quarters court, you know, trying to luck
in a three? Uh, do you have a better chance
than anywhere be like in front of the arc, Like
any two point shot, unless it's an end one, you're cooked.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
I knew as soon as she shot it. I'm like
it doesn't matter if it goes in or not.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Well, I guess I didn't see her feet immediately, But no,
you're you're exactly right or not? Yes? It, yes, I
mean it did it felt that way?

Speaker 8 (51:48):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (51:49):
How about uh Noah Eagle, who I thought did an
amazing job during the Olympics. But how long had he
been working on copper has been gold today?

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Well?

Speaker 2 (51:59):
Right before that?

Speaker 4 (52:00):
And I thought that yesterday the gold dagger? Was he
in the call yesterday to stuff that was gold dagger?
It was awesome?

Speaker 6 (52:06):
Yeah, that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
We've got that here. Check this out, Noah Eagle on NBC.
Here you go, Duran doctor Curry dancing up a tomb team.

Speaker 6 (52:20):
It's a golden dagger. Curry unconscious of the floor.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Yeah. Now that seems to be just off the top
of his head.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
I don't know if he worked on golden dagger before,
but that seemed to be like improd like copper has
been gold today.

Speaker 2 (52:40):
I don't think that just came to him in the moment.
I don't think so.

Speaker 4 (52:43):
I mean golden dagger. He probably was waiting to say.
At some point, you think I will oh, yeah, yeah,
I will say though that I mean, that would have
been a mic bring double bang for like his sixth
of all time, just a bang bang you had to.
I mean that. I can't get over, Brian, how incredible
that I've watched on a hundred times today. It's unbelievably cool.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
The double bang shot or the No Something dagger, It's
just unbelievable. It was an insane shot. Man, I don't
know how he hit.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
That, Like there are heat checks and then there are
heat checks.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
I still wish I would have grabbed the French audio
of them calling him the devil. You know, I didn't
realize there was a shelf life on that thing, and
you know the suits would take it down because it's
not NBC related. Oh who knows why, right, but a
restriction type thing right there. Unfortunate, very unfortunate. I feel
like this too, though Jeff is real fast. The late

(53:38):
great Al Davis said it the best. He said, just
win baby, And there are a lot of Americans that
will look at the men and the women not winning
by more. Hey, it was a dogfight against Serbia for
the men even before the gold medal game. It was
a dogfight for the women today against France. They only
won by one point and Some will.

Speaker 2 (53:57):
Look at that and be like, what the hell is this? Look, man,
it's not easy to win. I don't care how much
talent you have. France came to play today.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
You know, Serbia came to play a couple of days
ago against the men and they were red hot from three,
and all of a sudden, you're down by thirteen in
the fourth quarter. It's Foba basketball. It's super physical. Like,
I don't I'm not one of these people that it's like, oh,
they didn't win by seventeen to cover. I mean, if
I had bet on him to cover sixteen and a half, maybe,
but I wouldn't lose sight of the fact that they won.

(54:28):
It's all about winning, and I give them credit for
doing that.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
Some don't I do.

Speaker 4 (54:34):
You're also playing a road game.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Sure, yeah, it's a good point in France.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Look it's a road game. Like it's a tough a
tough amos for a tough environment. I'm not surprised that,
you know, maybe it was a little it was tough
for these players take you to sort of, you know,
deal with crowd noise for the first time this entire tournament,
and the pres sure of knowing that you're supposed to win.

Speaker 2 (55:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
You know, it's funny you said that because Lebron and
Steph both talked about that, because that venue holds like
twenty seven thousand people, and they mentioned before one of
the first games in the Olympics, they were like, man,
we were nervous, and like, some people are gonna roll
their eyes at that. But I think the point that
you're making makes sense. This is like March Madness on steroids.

(55:28):
You know, Team USA is the overwhelming favorite. Just like
in March Madness, the crowd starts rooting for the underdog.
You're like, oh man, we got a double digit seed
trying to take down one of the blue bloods.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Let's go little guys, you know. And so on top
of that, you had France in both gold medal games,
the home nation, right, So yeah, that you're definitely in
the lions den right there. I don't know, I just
look at it's hard to win, and when there's that
much on the line and these other countries are coming

(56:03):
for you, I get why you don't cover by seventeen.
You know, I'm not one of these where it's like
that's not good enough. They won gold.

Speaker 2 (56:11):
I mean, you're not even gonna remember how much they
won by years from now. It's gonna be a foot now.

Speaker 4 (56:16):
No, no, no, no, you will not remember that, No,
absolutely not.

Speaker 2 (56:19):
Yeah, all right, we got a lot to get to
coming up next.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
This, Jeff, it sounds like a made up story, but
it is absolutely real and it's completely unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
We'll get to that.

Speaker 3 (56:32):
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian know from the tire rack
dot Com studios. We're live here on Fox Sports Radio.
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian No,
We're live from the tire rack dot com studios. Is
that the block party version of Drey and Snoop right there?
It sounds a little different.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Mary Mack, what's going on with just the instrumental? The instrumental?
Is that the karaoke instrumental version LA twenty eight? Looking
forward to it.

Speaker 4 (57:04):
Man, he's like the ambassador for the Olympics now after
after the what he did, it's pretty wild, right, I mean.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
He tapped market for something I know.

Speaker 4 (57:11):
Right, it's great he's getting paid like five hundred K
a day or someone saying right like that. I mean,
that's what I make to do this show. But it is,
it is.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
It's pretty cool. Hey want to welcome in Adam Kaplan
FSR NFL Insider Inside the Birds podcast, joining us here
on Fox Sports Radio. Good evening, cap. You know, we've
been talking about these rookie quarterbacks in preseason action. Have
you been impressed with anybody? Or do you look at say,
it's the preseason. It is a bit basic, vanilla. How

(57:37):
do you come out on the rookie qbs so far?

Speaker 5 (57:40):
No? I usually wait till like there's they played a
couple games to really form an opinion. You don't know
because just the first action, what you're looking for from
a coaching standpoint is just for them to get the
bother hands. Don't kick a sack, you know, you know
if they can, don't turn it over. Just just get
through the first game, the build on it. That's a
coach's voice, tell you that first game, you just want

(58:01):
them to get through it. But I could tell you
this though.

Speaker 6 (58:06):
I think Kaylen.

Speaker 5 (58:07):
Williams in terms of what's around him, He's has got
so much talent around him to get off to a
good start. I know that the offense is different from
what he's played in before in his career, there's gonna
be some growing pains, but that front office of the Bears,
Ryan Paul's a general manager and his group, I mean
with Dj Moore, Donza by the way, another first run

(58:29):
pick Keenan Allen. I know they're very higher on Tyler
Scott number ten, who will probably the fourth receiver, cole Kment,
Yerald Everett who played for Chain Walder and their offense
coordinator before when the two were in Seattle. So they're
absolutely loaded, and that is one quarterback guys that will
have a realistic chance to get off a pretty good start.

Speaker 4 (58:48):
So there's been a trend in recent preseasons to not
play the starters as much. But you look in this
first week and you know Josh Allen is playing, Patrick
Mahomes saw a Drive Stroud play a little bit. The
Steelers played their starters, and the list goes on and on.
Are we moving toward the kind of the opposite direction
now where more the starters are seeing action in the preseason.

Speaker 5 (59:10):
Guys, I cannot hear you, you know what. Let's let
me let me rejoin you in a minute. It's the
sound I just cannot hear you. I'll call you right
back here.

Speaker 6 (59:17):
Thank Yeah, no problem.

Speaker 4 (59:18):
My question was just good.

Speaker 2 (59:20):
You didn't know what to say it was, that was
it was a mic drop question.

Speaker 4 (59:24):
You know, we have to see more starters play.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
You know.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
The trend we talked about this was, you know, to
not to not play your starters in the preseason. That
sort of was especially with young coaches, right, That's was
a young coaches were not playing starters. And it seems
like that has flipped a little bit where we're seeing
more of these guys at least look at least dress right.
You know, they're not always you know, getting many many drives,

(59:49):
but they're on the field and the starters are playing
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
Yeah, uh, Cap is back with us, Jeff. If you
throw the question back at them, you know, hopefully he
hears you.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
We've seen the trend of playing less and less starters
in the preseason. However, I felt like this weekend we
saw a lot of starters at least for a drive, right, Chiefs, Bills,
Stroud played a little bit. Are we moving toward starter
seymore action in the preseason?

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
Yeah, I can hear you a little bit here. So
basically I think you could talk about the trend this
year from talking to coaches more and more of them.
I talk they plan to play their starters normally when
they wouldn't. It's lack of practice time, and especially if
you're not having a joint practice, you're probably going to
play your starters. I could tell you a story. I
remember asking Andy Reid many years ago why he wouldn't

(01:00:41):
play his starters. Is when he was in Philly. So
it was my job, Jeff, to get my starters to
the regular season. Well, Andy doesn't believe that anymore. He
threw that out the window. My homes play last night. Unfortunately,
Hollywood Brown got an injury to four to six week
week injury with that shoulder problem, I'm told. So I
think it's kind of changed losing that one game. And

(01:01:02):
you know, here's Sean McDermot talk about it on the
NFL radio. McDermott said, look, we just don't and then
by the way, they're not having any joint practices. Actually
they may have one. I think they actually have one
with Steelers. But what he said was, we just need
to get what We've got so many changes on both
sides of the football. They've got younger yeys. You know

(01:01:23):
that Bill's had a ton of personnel changes a ton,
they lost coaches, a lot of players, and McDermott said, like,
they've got to get used to playing with each other.
I think it, Jeff, it's moore. If you had a
lot of changes, or if you don't have a joint
practice and you change your schemes, or you brought new
coaches in, you feel like you got to get these
guys out there for a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
He's Adam Kaplan FSR NFL insider joining us here cap
you look at old Jerry Jones. The original message with
CD Lamb is no sense of urgency to get them
signed to a new contract extension. Now, he said today
on the team's pre game show, You're missed, right, So
a change of tune in terms of Jerry to Cede Lamb.

(01:02:05):
What do you make of the Cowboys and Jerry? How
they've dragged this out. He's one of the top receivers.
Why is this taken so long to pay him?

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
All?

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
Right?

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
So a couple of things here, Brian. So what happened
here is Jerry Jones was aware of the comments that
he made. He knew he had to do a mea culport,
do something to change the tune because he's taken a
lot of heat. He said the same thing. I mean,
he basically said, look, they want to sign him. Stephen Jones,
his son, president of the team, did in media this

(01:02:33):
past week made it very clear they're not trading him.
They want to get a deal done. I'm telling you
there's no way he does a deal CD LAMB for
less than thirty five million year. Just I mean, you're
just justin. Jefferson got it also got a very good
structure that the Vikings have told changed the structure that
they typically do to get the deal done. So the
Cowboys are Look, they know they're going to have to

(01:02:55):
do this deal that they've they've waited. See, this is
the problem with this guy, Jerry Jones, and wait to wait.
And agents love Jerry because they know he's going to
want it, paying more than he wanted once to and
the fact that they didn't get this deal done. Not
like before the Jefferson deal got done, there are deals
getting done last year at this time when he could
have gotten a deal done. Pay a little bit more

(01:03:17):
maybe than the other receivers. Well, now you're paying, you're
basically thirty five million a year is right up there
with some of the highest paid defensive players in the
National Football League. Not it's Jerry Fallty. He's waited. Then
you've got you've got the Prescott situation. You've got the
Micael Parsons situation as well.

Speaker 4 (01:03:34):
What is a deal with Brenda Ayek right now? Adam?
Is he a Steeler? Is he a Niner? Are they
doing a long term deal? He keeps turning down what
feels like contracts that he would like to sign. What's
a what's the way to story with him?

Speaker 5 (01:03:47):
Jeff, here's the situation. Okay, let me you know, I'll
give you a Clothknes version. We'll boil it down about
a minute and a half. So with Ayuk, they're not
going to get there where he wants to. I mean, look,
they've they've talked, they've exchanged proposals. They're unwilling to go
up to thirty two million, which is what aj Brown
got that that is the fairest deal for the kind

(01:04:08):
of player that I who's been. He's been terrific. But
the problem is they have so many pass targets to
make happy. He's never going to be that guy, that
number one receiver. Now if you put them on another team,
he would be, but for them he's not. And the Niners,
I'm told they just have a problem justifying a market deal,
and that's for it's clear that that's not trouble with him.

(01:04:30):
And then the other thing is he has control of
his future here. He's turned down the opportunity to be
trayed elsewhere he wants to go. Actually with the Steelers,
I know how much they that the Steels would love
to have Ayuk. It's not a secret to anyone in
the National Football League and anyone close to the team.
The Steelers, by the way, are super light at receiver
opposite George Pickens that they couldn't tell you who their

(01:04:52):
starter would be opposite Pickens right now. They do like
Roman Wilson, but he's got an echo injury. He won't
be ready for a couple more weeks. The ROOKIEUT Michigan
to suffer an ankle injury after the first week the
training camp, where I'm told he's really good, So they
have a problem lining up at receiver right now. So
they clearly have to do something. But when it comes
to them, let's get it back to Nis and Ayuk.

(01:05:12):
They're not close now, as I've learned over the years
when we get closer to the season, if he's not traded,
you would have to figure to get him happy, to
get him actually practicing. This is another problem, Jeff. You know,
as a former player, when you're not practicing with your
team and he needs to, there's just your time's going

(01:05:32):
to be off. You can't have it. By the way.
We saw that last year. We saw that last year
with Josh Jacobs. He was not the same player after
holding out.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
That's an interesting one. Yeah, So what's the tour looking
like for you?

Speaker 1 (01:05:45):
Cap?

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
You're out and about what's going on in your world
as you go to training camp here.

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:05:50):
So I'm with the Steelers today. I just was at practice.
I'll be with them tomorrow. I will be in Nashville, Tennessee,
Wednesday and Thursday for the Titans hosting the Seahawks. Now,
why is that important? The Seahawks have never had a
joint practice. Didn't believe in them. He talked about how
their fights and can't have that. Andy Reid doesn't do them.

(01:06:11):
It's just different. And now they're doing it under Mike McDonald.
They're going to do two of them here. They'll be
doing two in Nashville this week, and this is a
team that's sort of in transition with a new coaching staff,
new offensive defensive schemes. It's I'm really looking forward to
seeing the Seahawks because it's just not Pee Carroll. It's
going to be completely different. And I'm really looking forard
to seeing the Seahawks this week.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Maybe dk metcalf will swing his helmet at a Titans
player instead of a Seahawks player, right, Yeah, And that
was that's not good to.

Speaker 5 (01:06:39):
Have that in practice, to be doing that that, that's
not good. But by the way the rules are, the
club would have to find them. But in a joint
practice they believe could get involved as they did this week.
And by the way, I was at that proud they
did it. I was at the first joint practice with
the Giants and Lions and there were four fights that day.

(01:07:00):
It's by the way, before we get out, Jeff, if
you had to be involved in or practice every year,
I'm assuming no.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
I only did one and it was my final year.
We were was with the Lions that we were in Pittsburgh,
and it was very respectable because Tomlin Caldwell you were
coaches that they said don't fight and and no one fought. Otherwise,
Coffin didn't do them. Andy Reid didn't do them. We
didn't do it with John Fox, and we had double
we had double days like we just I was in

(01:07:26):
the era of double days. We just didn't do them
that much. And that was the one time I did.
It was like no fights because those coaches said no
fights and no one fought.

Speaker 6 (01:07:35):
M gotcha.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Wow, how about that, which is laying down the lot
players listening to coaches? What happened?

Speaker 4 (01:07:41):
Man?

Speaker 8 (01:07:43):
It was?

Speaker 4 (01:07:44):
What of it is? We just like they told us
not to fight, and we respected them and we just
didn't do it. The helmet swinging, Adam is really really
frustrating me. I don't know when that become became a
thing that like players do now it seems to happen
way too often, and uh, it's it's it's troubling, like
those are those weapons, man, Like that's a legit. You
can't be swarting I think players, and somehow that became acceptible.

(01:08:06):
I don't know why.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
And by the way, I've been at practices when you
talk about I think you're breaking up a little bit,
But when you're top of twing helmets, I've actually seen
this before. I've seen it before, and I was at
a practice like seven or eight years ago where players
slung his helmet came very close to hitting his teammate
and the side of the head. You gotta be careful,
that's yeah. It's then we know what happened with Aaron

(01:08:28):
Donald a couple years. You gotta be careful with that stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Get really hurt, no doubt about it. All right, cap man,
enjoy your time on the road. We'll catch you soon.
Thanks for the time, you buddy. Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Yeah, there he is Adam Kaplan FSR NFL insider. Of
course we have to mention Miles Garrett right hitting us
lucky to.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Hit Rudolph with his own helmet.

Speaker 4 (01:08:50):
He's lucky to hit the other side of you use
the other side of the helmet. I don't get this,
man like this used to not be a thing like
this has become a thing recently. I don't know why
players are so angry they gotta throw helmets. Fights happen,
man like, this is part of football. I've been right,
We've all been in fights. You're throwing. I mean that
used me something that was like as a as a
young player, you learn like that's a melily off limits.

(01:09:11):
We don't. We're not throwing helmet we're not taking each
other's helmets off and bashing each other in ahead with them.
It's practice, man. You can fight at practice and still
practice and still be friends and still not be that
angry during a fight where you're taking a weapon and
hitting someone on the top of the head with it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
No, I hear you, man, I got you on that.
Aren't our guy?

Speaker 3 (01:09:31):
Martin Weiss is with us, and I'll tell you it's
gonna be hard to outdo his live play by play
of Tom Cruise at the closing ceremony. I don't know
if there is anywhere to go but down from that thing, Martin,
because you crushed it last hour.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
What do you have for us, buddy?

Speaker 6 (01:09:45):
I appreciate it. You're right.

Speaker 9 (01:09:46):
I got nothing like that, nothing at all. Just I
got baseball scores, a little preseason football. That's about it.
That's about all I.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
Got going right now. Baseball games that are live right now.

Speaker 9 (01:09:57):
The Tigers and the Giants five to four, Detroit, mid
of the eighth inning, right there, the Diamondbacks creeping up
the NL wild card standings right there.

Speaker 6 (01:10:05):
Brian al must have been on the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Oh see, now that's uncalled for right there. I don't
think I had any baseball bets today.

Speaker 9 (01:10:15):
I bet on my brave so that didn't go very well.
You can make fun of me today, Oh Jeff, that's
a brutal loss. Atlanta was winning that entire game until
like they weren't. That's stinks as they dropped to the
Rockies at nine to eight.

Speaker 6 (01:10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
I had Team USA Women's hoops on the money line. Thankfully.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
I thought about laying like the I don't know at
the time, that two and a half or something. Yeah,
I went live and just took him on the money line.
You know, when like France got out, they got out
to a ten ozer lead to start the second half.

Speaker 4 (01:10:43):
Yeah, it was still a minus five hundred. Though I
looked at the.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Same No, no, not at not at that for me
unless we're on maybe I saw.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
Maybe I saw, I saw. I looked at that too,
but I saw some outrageous number. I couldn't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:56):
What number did you get, Brian, Let me look, Let
me verify, because it was I would guess maybe like
minus one seventy five something like this.

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
I was saying, sorry, I probably.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Would go up to like minus two fifty if it was.
That's probably what I feel comfortable with.

Speaker 6 (01:11:10):
Don't you love sweating? Minus one seventy five? Favorite?

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Oh, it's the best, isn't it? Martin?

Speaker 6 (01:11:14):
It's so good?

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Like I only went about half of what I bet,
It's awesome.

Speaker 9 (01:11:20):
Asrian Wilson led the team, she had twenty one points
and thirteen rebounds as Brian No sweated out the gold
medal eighth straight for Team USA Women's basketball sixty seven
to sixty six.

Speaker 6 (01:11:34):
That's sixty six times in a row.

Speaker 9 (01:11:36):
Now that Team USA has won a game at the Olympics,
like won every game they've played so far, sixty six
consecutive in the Olympic Tournament. Let's see preseason football going
off Stetton Bennett wishing it wasn't He's got three interceptions
right now, fourteen for twenty four, one hundred and thirty
three yards, and in what I feel like this is

(01:11:56):
just is this not his first NFL action since playing
it Georgia?

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
I think he played last year before he went on
the disappeared, right or did he not? I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:12:07):
Yeah, I know he was on the roster for Los Angeles,
but I can't remember seeing him actually get on the
field either way, He's not having a great day so far.

Speaker 6 (01:12:16):
Three interceptions.

Speaker 9 (01:12:17):
Like I said, Trey Lance performing much better on the
other side of the things, seventeen for twenty eight one
hundred and twenty two yards through the air.

Speaker 6 (01:12:23):
He's been sacked one time.

Speaker 9 (01:12:24):
He's rushed four times for just under forty yards thirty
nine yards, so at nine point eight per carry for
Trey Lance with a long of nineteen. We saw bo
Nicks make his NFL debut earlier today, fifteen for twenty one,
one hundred and twenty five fasting yards and a touchdown.
Anthony Richardson came back from injury. He started for the
Colts to a four for twenty five yards. Joe Flacco

(01:12:48):
came in in relief and combined they threw nine passes total.
We saw a lot of different quarterbacks out there for
Indianapolis in a game that Denver eventually won thirty four
to thirty.

Speaker 6 (01:12:57):
The score in that Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 9 (01:13:00):
And Los Angeles Rams game is six to six at
the start of the fourth quarter. Other baseball games of note,
besides the ones that Jeff just lost horribly, that one
hacked hurt.

Speaker 6 (01:13:12):
Problem.

Speaker 4 (01:13:13):
I'm here.

Speaker 9 (01:13:14):
I'm here to help the Orioles and the Yankees now
tied to top the AL East after Tampa Bay beat
Baltimore two to one and New York hung on to
beat the Rangers eight to seven. The AL Central leading
Guardians beat the Twins five to three. Astro still atop
the Als after pounding the Red Sox ten to two.
We'll see what the Mariners have to do with that.
They have the Mets coming up later tonight. Jeff and

(01:13:37):
Brian back to you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Hey, So, Martin and Jeff, the official line was minus
one ninety five.

Speaker 2 (01:13:43):
That's what's what it was.

Speaker 6 (01:13:44):
So, yeah, you gotta love betting ten to win three
and a half and sweating all of it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
It's more like betting ten to win a little more
than five, you know. Yeah, right, but yeah, not the
greatest not but they got there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
So is a win. You know, it's a cash.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Oh I look, I would have taken the Braves get
there today too. Win is a win, man.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Isn't it crazy watching Trey Lance right now? It's like
you forget he's a former number three overall pop.

Speaker 4 (01:14:13):
I'm not happy for him that he's he's you know,
seems to found at least a home. He's a backup
in Dallas.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
I hope so. But dude, he's not even a backup.
He's third string. He's behind Cooper Rush.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Oh well, jeez, I didn't realize that. Yeah, you know,
I used to watch a lot of preseason Brian, and
then I stopped knowing who all the third stringers were. Yeah,
and I watched like that. I watched a film of
a lot of this because I want to see, like
I have the Steelers film pulled up to watch, and

(01:14:43):
I mean, I like watching some specific players, like I
want to watch Jack Frasier and UHTMU play. But I
it's hard for sometime unless I have money on it
to wager on some of these to watch these games.
I will say, Buddy, our friend, our pal Bill Krackenberger,
who is back next week altogether, Yeah, he is heading
out winners left and right in the preseason, Buddy, I

(01:15:03):
don't know. I don't know how he does it. I
don't know how he does it, but he is six
and two in text messages. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
It's crazy because some of these games are so random.

Speaker 3 (01:15:18):
He'll be like Tampa plus six do it and my
first thought is like, but why, and then your next
thought has to be like, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
There's some reason why. I'll never know why, but I
don't ask. It's probably the right side.

Speaker 4 (01:15:32):
Yeah, it's I never asked, and I didn't do a lot.
I missed the best number, didn't even matter. It went
out right.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
That's crazy, man. I don't I don't know. I don't
know what his approach is. But he's right more times
than he's wrong. I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
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gymnastics controversy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
So United States jymnist Jordan Chiles, she's got to return
her bronze medal after a scoring change. This is such
a clown show, Jeff. So the story is, initially there
was an appeal filed by child's coach. Correct, Okay, so
there's a review. The judges added point one to her score,

(01:17:22):
so that moved Chiles from fifth place to third. Boom,
she's got a bronze medal.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
Great, awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
However, there's something called the Court of Arbitration for Sport
otherwise known as c AS, and they found that the
coach filed the appeal four seconds after the deadline, and
they say too late, the original finishing order has to
be restored, give us back the bronze medal. Jordan Chiles.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
How lame is that? I don't even know the right word.

Speaker 4 (01:17:57):
It's super lame. And they also said today that they
have video footage of the coach committing their request for
change of score like forty seven seconds, you know, into
into the time that they had allotted, so in fact
they should be able to get the bronze medal back.

(01:18:22):
It feels like a bad.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
Process at terrible process.

Speaker 5 (01:18:25):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
That's the thing is, you gotta be on the same page,
you know what I mean. Like it's a crime, really
it is on the sports level to give her the
bronze medal and then say psych actually no, you don't
get it. You can't have it like that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:42):
You gotta have your ducks in a row where the
initial ruling is correct, where you don't have to revoke anything.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
That's just a shame.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
But also shouldn't you get the score right though? If
her actual score includes the point zero one, that should
be the correct score. So you're telling me that she
actually deserves a better score. Because the coach didn't do
it in times, she doesn't get the better score now,
but that seems silly to me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
They're failing all over the place.

Speaker 4 (01:19:11):
Yes, even though it seems like the coach did get
in in time. Yeah, the drama of that. I'm following
that as well as are you? Are you? USA is
the most medals, but we also, I think, have the
most participants. China tied US for gold medals. Does it
matter to you whether or not we win gold or

(01:19:32):
win overall or both.

Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Well, I would love to win everything, you know, I
would love to have the most gold medals. I think
that matters the most. It's cool that they have the
most medals by a landslide, but I just I just
say in my head, like China's probably doping, you know,
And that's how.

Speaker 4 (01:19:51):
I mean, You're probably not wrong, like every three years
after the Olympics are done, like, actually, guys, one, let
you guys know, Yeah, we're taking everything away from.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Yeah, right there you go, all right, come it up next.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Man, things are really confusing now, man, thanks have gotten
a lot more confusing.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
That is on the way.

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Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Overall, I'm cool with it. I'd rather have.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Kickoff returns than a bunch of touchbacks. But there are
some Yeah, there are some moving parts over here, and
it's not as easy as Yeah, the kicking team starts downfield,
they can't move until the ball is caught or touches
the ground and that's it. There's a lot more to
it than just that, as we found out in the

(01:20:56):
Chiefs Jags game yesterday when there was a safety on
a kick off.

Speaker 4 (01:21:00):
Yes, I guess this is basically uncovered, right because the
old system that was the touchback, and it seems like
that this just wasn't covered in the rule book, like
one of the things where they just maybe forgot about
this specific instance that they had to make sure that
this rule was written in place for this moment to happen.
But this is what the preseason is for, right is

(01:21:21):
You're going to have some of these moments and then
you hope that you know that by the time you
get the regular season, these are fixed with a new kickoff.
I think, well, it is weird. It looks different. We're
getting more action. I know they call it dynamic. They
call it dynamic kickoff. I don't know if it's dynamic yet.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
I would say different. It's a different kickoff.

Speaker 4 (01:21:44):
But we're getting more returns, which is the point of this, right.
Returns are happening. Jacksonville had a long return early in
the Chiefs game on the new kickoff. But this is
the thing about this. It's one week now. We're going
to get coaches that are just watching film for the
first time of it in live action. They're gonna change
a lot of things between now and the time that
we get to even a week one or even a

(01:22:04):
week seven or Super Bowl. There'll be a lot of
iterations of this, and the smart coach will figure out
how to do it correctly and and they'll adapt. Look
the sport it's about adapting. Man. We got players wearing
these Guardian caps right, that's adapting to the new and look.
Sam Schwartzeen does a great job of Amazon. He's actually
the one at the XFL that did the rule book
and invented this exact kickoff. He tweeted out a while

(01:22:26):
ago that you know that that the Guardian caps are
not really that much different and maybe not even better
than wearing some of the helmets. But players disagree, and
there's research that shows that there's new every year. We'll
get used to it. I think we'll be fine as
a football watching culture that we'll get used to the

(01:22:47):
new Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Yeah, real fast. The Guardian caps.

Speaker 3 (01:22:50):
It's just for the people that are like what It's
just an extra little layer of padding for your helmet.
A lot of the players are wearing it in training camp.
I think they're required by certain positional groups in training camp,
and you have the options. Yeah, yeah, you have the
option to wear it in real games. I saw a
couple of Colts players today.

Speaker 4 (01:23:09):
Taylor's Taylor's wearing it. There's a Steelers off its alignment
that was wearing it as well. So I'm curious to
see how many players end up doing it, and you know,
whether it helps reduce the they concussion rate for those
players you know.

Speaker 2 (01:23:23):
Who needs to wear ones.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
Right away, there's one play dk metcalf so when he
takes his helmet off and throws it it's just a
guardian cap, you know what I mean, It's not it's
not going to do as much damage, right there, Jeff,
we get helmet stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:23:38):
I'm telling you. It's it's it's it's surprising.

Speaker 5 (01:23:41):
I I just.

Speaker 4 (01:23:43):
That was a no, no, man like that was that
just was never done.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
You know, we fought and you just fight, and yes,
that's like kicking someone in the man's zone right there.

Speaker 4 (01:23:54):
You know, you just deal with it and you move
on and you hope that you know that against the
point I've seen. I saw one player raise a helmet
one time, and they fortunately did not throw you know,
they did not hammer the helmet home. But that's the way,
you know, an old guy, that's what he used to be.
He just fought and dealt with it. But that's that's
what you did, right You just fought and you dealt

(01:24:14):
with it. And now obviously players are it's the point
where they're so intense about it that they got to
go ahead and hit someone the helmet.

Speaker 8 (01:24:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:23):
Okay, so we're talking about a lot of change going on.
Let's go back to the kickoff rule, right, We'll call
it the different kickoff instead of the dynamic kickoff. I
think we need to coin that phrase. But the different
kickoff rule. In this Chiefs game against Jacksonville, there was
a touchback. Mkole Hardman recovered the ball while he was
in the end zone. Now listen to what the official

(01:24:45):
said the official announcement. They reviewed it and then they
changed the initial ruling to a safety. This is what
the official said while making the announcement.

Speaker 4 (01:24:55):
After the kickers touched in the feel of the receiver,
wains of the a zone on is all and broiled
the ball back and down in here.

Speaker 2 (01:25:05):
Okay, pretty weird, right, Jeff Flake, I don't know it.

Speaker 4 (01:25:09):
So he touched them, he picked the ball up, went
in the end zone, then dropped the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
No, so the ball went into the end zone right,
It hit just in't.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
Barely automatically automatically touchback.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
Not anymore. So it bounced from the end zone to
like the one yard line.

Speaker 4 (01:25:28):
Oh yes, okay, yeah, I'm talking. I was just making
sure I wasn't confused. Okay, I did see it right then.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
Okay, And so McCole Hardman, he went into the end zone.

Speaker 3 (01:25:37):
He was kneeling down and then he touched the ball
at the one and then he grabbed the ball and
tucked it and they were like safety and I'm like safety,
what that That doesn't make sense to me.

Speaker 4 (01:25:52):
Old rules touch back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:54):
Yeah, I don't get why that would still be a
safety because think of a punt. Maybe this is the
wrong way to think of it, but if in the NFL,
if you are in the end zone and you down
the punt at the one, it's still a touchback. So
maybe that's why it's a safety.

Speaker 6 (01:26:11):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:26:11):
I'm all sorts of confused, but this is Listen to this.
This is the Jacksonville TV Network, the Jags TV Network.

Speaker 2 (01:26:19):
Listen to them.

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Bucky Brooks, who works here at Fox Sports Radio at
times I filled in with Bucky. Awesome dude, he's doing
color on this. Listen to Bucky and the play by
play guy start to talk about the safety that just
happened in this Chiefs Jags game, and we're trying to
sort through this and beats it together.

Speaker 2 (01:26:38):
Check it out.

Speaker 6 (01:26:39):
Good job by Jeck Peterson being able to check that out.

Speaker 10 (01:26:41):
Because the ball bounced over the Indian zone, it comes
out into the field of play. Miko Harmon kind of
touches it all the way back into the zeon but
then he reaches into the field of play to pull
it back into the end zone, and so when we
talk about it, we'll see you there.

Speaker 11 (01:26:57):
So the ball is in the field of playwipe. Yeah,
but remember his hand tesses down in the field of play.
So you just wonder how did they consider that. Obviously
they exited a live ball. He's in possession of it,
he takes to me, he's down in the end zone.

Speaker 2 (01:27:10):
Well, they must have decided that his hand didn't touch
it as he went by it.

Speaker 11 (01:27:14):
Yeah, it would have been down at the one they're
saying his hand went over the top of it and
he didn't make contact.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
With it until he was in the end zone.

Speaker 6 (01:27:23):
And brought it back here.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
What I was even more confused about the whole thing.

Speaker 4 (01:27:28):
So what I love about the preseason, Brian, is that
the telecasts, for the most part, are the home telecasts
that we get.

Speaker 2 (01:27:36):
To listen to.

Speaker 4 (01:27:37):
Ye there there are every now and there nfon network games,
so you get kind of a different you know lens
for you know, for these games, it's kind of fun
to hear other people talk about their teams and how
they viewed the team you might be watching. It makes
for fun watch interesting watch different type of watch.

Speaker 2 (01:27:55):
Yeah, no doubt about it.

Speaker 3 (01:27:56):
And that's the thing, man, I'm I'm for the different
kickoff rule, you know, not dynamic, but I'm for it.
But it's gonna take a little while to truly understand
what's what because some of the confusing parts of it.
You don't just tell a friend where it's like, whoa
what are they doing? If they saw this for the
first time and you say, Okay, the kicking team they

(01:28:18):
line up at the opponent's forty yard line and they
can't move until the ball is touched or hits the ground.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
That's not the only layer to it, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:28:26):
It's like, if the ball goes into the end zone
on the fly and there's a touchback, it gets spotted
at the thirty yard line. If the ball trickles into
the end zone and then it's a touch back, it
comes out to the twenty yard line. Like they are
all these random layers to it. There's a lot to understand.

Speaker 4 (01:28:47):
Yeah, And I do wonder again if they start simplifying
some of this just because you don't want your players
to just be confused, right, Like, that's not what you
want your players. You want to play fast and be
into it and just not have to worry about the
these you know, kind of very regimented rules. I again,
this is the preseason and we know this, like even officiating,

(01:29:09):
like they will change things on the fly and officiating
like from the preseason the regular This feels like a
situation where they're just going to be able to change
things pretty quickly if they want to.

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
Yeah, I think you got to simplify it a little
bit because there are a lot of moving parts. The
other thing was right after that safety, So the free
kick is also different. I hadn't even thought about that.
So you kick off from your own twenty following a safety. Yeah, right,
And so the kicking team they're spotted downfield at the

(01:29:43):
opposing team's forty.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Yard line, just like the new kickoff. Yeah that's different too.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
So it's like, oh, shoot, I didn't even think about
the free kick after the safety being different. They're all
these layers that are different now, just based on one change.

Speaker 4 (01:29:58):
Are you gonna be okay? I feel like this is
gon really are you gonna be able to like to
process this?

Speaker 3 (01:30:04):
I'm okay, Yeah, I'm gonna make it. I think things
will be just fine. I'm not worried about it.

Speaker 4 (01:30:09):
How I change your gambling on games? You have you
figured that out yet?

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
You know? I'll tell you this, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
We talked about the V word earlier in preseason, which
is vanilla that a lot of people are out on
the kickoff rule. It's as vanilla as it's gonna be,
Like none of these special teams coaches are busting out
these dazzle dazzle. Oh no, it's as basic as can be.
So just wait a little bit. As a gambler, you

(01:30:36):
mentioned that, Jeff. You know, I think that some of
these games can trickle over because you're gonna get more
returns and you're gonna get better field positions. So it's
something to keep in mind if you're thinking about an
over bet or an under bet, like you might if
you're on the under, you might suffer a bad beat
or two because of this new kickoff.

Speaker 4 (01:30:55):
Yeah, I think it's I think right now it's probably
just hard to really tell what this is gonna be.
And again we're gonna have to see. We've got many
weeks of it, right, We got more and more precents
coming up. I I man, I tell you what the
the itch of watching football every day. This for the
last like four days, Dock buddy, Like, I just the
idea have no football till is it gonna be Thursday

(01:31:15):
this week? I haven't looked when the next when the
next game is? All right, I am already kind of
bummed out that we're gonna be without live football now
for a couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Man, they have been stacking these games.

Speaker 5 (01:31:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
I like the layout. It was Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

Speaker 4 (01:31:32):
So I used to never be this way. It used
to just you would just you play, everyone play on
one day, maybe maybe one national game a week, and
that was about it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:39):
And the NFL is like, why why aren't we getting
more value out of this? You know, space this bad
boy out. They space the draft out, space the preseason out.
They're like, hell, they'll watch it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
We don't know why for whatever they're gambling on it, fine, whatever,
but they're tuning into this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:31:55):
You know, it's always gonna dude. Ball being back is
just it's the best. I mean, yeah, Thursday, the Eagles
Patriots Thursday, and then we have game Saturday and Sunday.
So the kind of more uniform this week.

Speaker 3 (01:32:06):
Yeah, that's great, that's awesome. All Right, We got a
lot to do right around the corner. Did he change
his tune or just doubled down?

Speaker 6 (01:32:16):
That is on the way.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
We are live from the tyrack dot com studios right
here on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio.
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian know we're live from the
tirack dot com studios. So, Jeff, I don't know if
Jerry Jones changed his tune or just doubled down. Right. So,
the whole contract situation with wide receiver CD lamb, he's

(01:32:43):
looking for a huge contract extension, right, And so a
couple of days ago, Jerry Jones said, ah, there's no
urgency to sign him. And then he had a statement today.
It was on a Cowboys show and he said, now
I understand completely the angst that's happening when you're anxious

(01:33:03):
and someone says something about whether you're missed or not. Well, CD,
you're missed, okay, but you're not missed out here competing
and it doesn't put any pressure any place on us.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
That to me is just doubling down. Jeff, that's not
a change of his tune.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
It's not a change of his tune and look, here's
the deal Jerry Jones in changing for nobody all right,
like CD, like it's just not gonna happen, and we
were Adam Kaplan like these. It's interesting about wide receiver position.
It feels like we're't anything else. For a lot of teams,
is they sort of draw the line at a certain

(01:33:45):
number they're willing to pay it to pay a player
and no more than that. And I it doesn't feel
that way quite everywhere else, But it doesn't feel that
way with wide receivers, like we're paying you this and
that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
It certainly feels like that with I.

Speaker 4 (01:34:00):
Yeah, but even with like LAMB, like they're like, look,
we're not paying you thirty five a years, but sorry, buddy,
we're not winning super Bowls with you right now. Why
are we gonna pay you that much money moving forward?
It does feel like teams are at that point where
they're they're talking like that. I. In the end, they
might pay him because they might have to to get

(01:34:22):
him to come back for the season. But teams of
Brian have sort of made drawn. The Chiefs did this
with with Tyreek Hill. Obviously, the phill Niners are doing
this now, The Cowboys are doing this now now again.
Jerry Jones is sort of always he's right like late
like a just like it was late to the party
and ended up having to pay more when you're late
to the party. But that's where this is at right now.

(01:34:44):
Is Jerry's not going to change. But also he's also
not as much in charge of this process anymore with
his son in charge and and and Will. I think
it's Will McLay who's in charge of the of the
sort of player personnel. So Jerry saying a lot of things,
but it's not actually he's not actually in charge, if

(01:35:10):
that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (01:35:11):
Yeah, there are other layers around him. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
it's weird, right, I think you're right. I think the
Justin Jefferson contract made life more miserable for the Cowboys
and the forty nine ers.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Oh everyone. Yeah, it's not a wide receiver contract. It's
a it's a it's the highest overall non quarterback. Yeah, right,
so it's a lot different situation.

Speaker 3 (01:35:33):
Yeah, I Yuk is looking at it and saying, hey,
I want thirty five MILLI year or Ced Lamb is
looking at it like, yo, is he that much better
than me, did you see my numbers?

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Last season? Ceedee Lamb's numbers were off the charts. We're
talking one.

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
Hundred and five catches, about seventeen fifty in receiving twelve touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
His numbers are ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:35:54):
So I don't know what is exact asking price is,
but I would guess it's right in the Neighborho go
to Justin Jefferson, and both the Cowboys and the Niners
are like, no, we're not doing that. I think especially
the Niners within that offense. Brandon Ayuk is not putting
up ceed Lamb numbers, you know, so within that franchise

(01:36:16):
and with all those other players that they have to pay,
I can absolutely see why the Niners are not budgeting.

Speaker 4 (01:36:23):
Yeah, you know the Niners again, I've made this point
many times. You know, they have a lot of contracts
like parties coming up, God do Trent Williams. They have
a lot of older players on second contracts, and they're like, look, man,
we're just not paying it more than we want to. Yeah, Brian,
we're seeing in the draft it is the position outside

(01:36:45):
of quarterback, and I think quarterback's not easy per se.
We've got to like a lot of young players play
well is wide receiver. Wide receiver teams are finding these
guys all over the draft. I know they're just like Brandon,
we're not going to pay him someone else for cheaper. Yeah,
and in our offense, this is, you know, the arrogance
of a coach. But like, I don't think it's the

(01:37:06):
wrong way to look at it. In our offense, we don't.
We don't need a Brent eyk We can just insertain nameless,
faceless player. We'll be fine. That's the way the Nunners
think as well.

Speaker 3 (01:37:18):
Yeah, and I think there are certain teams with either
a certain system or enough talent where you're not gonna
have to have a Justin Jefferson to make it go.
Obviously that would help, that'd be great, but you don't
have to pay that premium to have that make your
offense go. And I'm surprised. I'm surprised more teams haven't

(01:37:40):
played hardball with wide receivers as much. We're seeing it
now with Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Ayyuk. But we're seeing
deep talented drafts when it comes to the wide receiver position.
And yet you saw the Vikings be like here's thirty
five MILLI year, like, okay, all right, you know it's uh.
It's an interesting dynamic with the salary cap and with

(01:38:04):
wide receiver contracts getting as high as they are, it
seems to be down to two teams Jeff for Ayuk,
either the Niners or the Steelers. And look, man, you
saw justin Fields out there the other night and yikes,
shaky performance doesn't do it justice. We're talking about two
fumbled snaps. Fumbled snaps the center quarterback exchange Jeff, and

(01:38:29):
he got sacked twice. Was holding onto the ball too long?
I know he's probably he's QB two right now. It's
probably gonna be Russell Wilson's show. But if you're a Yuk,
would you rather stay with the forty nine Ers? And
you and I have our view on Purdy, who's good,
not great, But Brandon Ayuk has put up numbers.

Speaker 2 (01:38:46):
It's a very very talented supporting cast. You're going, you're
a Super Bowl contender year in year out with the Niners.
Is the money gonna be that much better with the
Steelers with more questionable quarterback play, questionable offense, It's like
you're better staying with the Niners.

Speaker 4 (01:39:01):
There, I think he is. But look, man, players are
little cocky, well I a little confident as they should be,
and they think they could do it without the team structure.
One thing that I have really sort of noticed in
watching NFL film again for the preseason, there is something

(01:39:24):
we talk about. It's not anything sort of new in
our in our discussion about sports, but in football, man,
the fit of your skill set to the offense or
defense you're in is so important to success. Bryan Yeah
and Brenda Ayuk and he's an incredibly talented player and
he might go somewhere else get a hundred and you

(01:39:45):
get a hundred catch year. He's not doing that in
Pittsburgh where they already have, Uh, George Pickens. So are
you going because you want a there's a better, better
offense for you to be in? Like what, what's the
reason you want to go there? Because Arthur Smith, the're
off coordinator, is a He is someone who calls dude

(01:40:06):
a ton of runs like he He is not a
guy who is going to help you schematically with his offense.
So you're going there just you want to get out
of scale? Like what I want? I want to know
the reason why he thinks Pittsburgh is the place, right
because the money. Look people reported right, Brian, the money
is better elsewhere. So if you're doing this, why.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
Well, and that's the thing too, is look at Tyreek Hill,
who you brought up. I mean, it's it's one thing
to go from the Chiefs and Mahomes. You're not competing
for Super Bowls yet hopefully this is the year my
fins turned the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
Jeff, I'd be a big fan of that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
But at least he's putting up nasty numbers in that
Mike McDaniel offense. To your point, what is he doing
statistically if he's not competing for a Super Bowl with
an Arthur Smith led offense, he's not putting up big
numbers in that offense.

Speaker 4 (01:40:58):
Yeah, correct, And and you know the again, the ability
tyreek Kill is a good example of obviously when it
goes well right, because you end up having a situation
where you leave a Hall of Fame situation and a
lot of times those players, when they go to the

(01:41:18):
wrong place, they fall off at Hall of Fame train, right.
Not Tyree Kill obviously is not doing that like that
that he sort of wins in this you know, in
this situation but a lot of players like Brenda, I'm
not saying it's gonna happen to him, end up sort
of falling off the train they're on. And the winning

(01:41:38):
is a lot less. Your accomplishments are a lot less,
and the ability to achieve what you want turned into
something much different.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
Yeah, no, it's well said.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
Hey, someone else who says a lot of well said stuff,
Martin Weiss, who's got the latest over here? You know, Martin,
I do have a bad beat story that I've not
laid out there. I might have scifically waited until after
the third hour updates.

Speaker 2 (01:42:03):
You know what I mean. He can't needle me.

Speaker 9 (01:42:07):
You know what, I'm not mad at you, Josh. Look,
Jeff's Rockies loss was was special.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Enough for today?

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
Oh man, that was crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:42:14):
That was brutal as the Rockies beat the Braves nine
to eight. I think at one point the lead was
what was it, Jeff, seven to one, eight to two
eighty two?

Speaker 4 (01:42:23):
Thanks Bud.

Speaker 6 (01:42:24):
That stinks. Also with stinks if it helps.

Speaker 9 (01:42:26):
This preseason game between the Cowboys and the Rams, it's
been low scoring. I saw one of the Cowboys beat
Riders that I followed. I like my football with touchdowns.
I don't think we've seen one today. Stetson Bennett twenty
three for thirty six. He's the only quarterback that has
seen action today for the Rams and four interceptions, is
you know.

Speaker 6 (01:42:47):
I would have thought he might have got benched.

Speaker 9 (01:42:48):
But with Matthew Stafford not playing, not dressing in this game,
Jimmy Garoppolo also down for the preseason, I think it's
Stetson Bennett's job to potentially lose. Trey Lant's twenty five
for forty one, one hundred and eighty eight yards passing
six carries forty four yards for the former number three
overall pick on the San Francisco forty nine Ers. He

(01:43:10):
obviously now on the Dallas practice squad. Cooper Rush got
the start only through three passes, as this game mercilessly
will be coming to an end in just a moment
eleven seconds left the Cowboys twelve Rams six. Earlier today,
we saw bow Knicks make his NFL debut. I'll be
it in the preseason. He was fifteen for twenty one,
one hundred and twenty five yards, passing a one touchdown

(01:43:34):
Anthony Richardson after he missed most of last season due
to injury for his sophomores campaign.

Speaker 6 (01:43:40):
Got the start today two.

Speaker 9 (01:43:42):
For four twenty five yards passing Joe Flacco, last year's
comeback player of the Year, three for five twenty eight
yards passing Indianapolis. And they're playing five quarterbacks. Sam Allender,
Jason Being and Keaton Slovas all getting work. In that
preseason game that was Broncos thirty four Colts thirty. This
goes as a baseball scores of note. The Orioles and

(01:44:02):
the Yankees now tied the top the AL East after
Tampa Bay by Baltimore two to one. New York hung
on to be Texas eight to seven. The AL Central
leading Guardians beat the Twins five to three. Astro still
a top to AL West after prowning the Red Sox.
But we'll see what the Mariners do. They got the
Mets and just a bit right now and extra innings.
The Pirates and the Dodgers tied five to five. In

(01:44:23):
the bottom of the tenth inning, two out, two on
for the Dodgers, with the Oscar Hernandez up.

Speaker 6 (01:44:28):
To bat, he flies that when that's a foul ball.

Speaker 9 (01:44:31):
We'll see if that game ends on this next one,
you know, obviously, in this frame here, Ryan Brian, I'm
gonna guess you had the Yankees minus one and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
No, no baseball bets today I did have goodness. I
had an in game under eighteen and a half in
this epic Cowboys Rams game, and Stetson Bennett bought time
and side armed a touchdown in the final seconds to
hit the over. That's sickening right there.

Speaker 6 (01:45:00):
That is wait was it a touchdown?

Speaker 4 (01:45:02):
Art?

Speaker 6 (01:45:02):
I think they just kicked a field goal?

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
No, no, right there, right there, I was blowing it
side arm.

Speaker 9 (01:45:10):
Stet's and Bennett one touchdown, four interceptions. My bad stets
and I missed that one. It just came through on
fourth down.

Speaker 6 (01:45:21):
That is brutal. That's way worse.

Speaker 9 (01:45:23):
That's way worse than Jeff Brian, No, congratulations on the
day that the Olympics eremonies closed. I'm Martin Weiss. This
the soul IOC judge here give you the gold medal.
Thanks for bad beats, Jeff, congratulations on your sover Back
to you guys, I.

Speaker 4 (01:45:42):
Mean, who lost more money?

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
Yeah, you can appeal it though, Jeff, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:45:46):
Okay, good, yeah, yeah, well you have to peel it
within the right amount of time.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
Though, that's right, you have done that yet No, you're
four seconds over.

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
Sorry, I'm not get my money back.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:57):
Stet's and Bennett breaking my betting heart right there. That
is unfortunate. This is also I you know what I've
learned this, Jeff. I need to talk about my wins,
but no one good story.

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
It's right, it's dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
The losses that's the entertainment right there.

Speaker 4 (01:46:15):
Absolutely because the wins, like I have made this point before,
you know, the the losses, the money you lose to
me is worse than the money that you'll win, Like
I I the loss has hurt me so much more,
yes than anything else.

Speaker 3 (01:46:36):
Yeah, it just hurts bad against my better judgment. I'm
going to tell you a story that occurred during this
Chief's Jags game the other night.

Speaker 2 (01:46:47):
Okay, Jeff, this isn't a bad beat. I don't even
know how to categorize this. This is a bad cash
out beat. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:46:56):
So the Jags and Chiefs, they get off to a
hot start. There are ten points immediately scored in the game,
and so I'm like, all right, this is aggressive, but
I'm gonna go over twenty seven and a half in
the first half. I knew it was aggressive. I didn't
go large. So I've got an over twenty seven and

(01:47:16):
a half first half bet.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
It hits a lull, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
Okay, it's ten to three early in the second quarter,
and it is not trending toward points being scored. Okay,
And so I'm like, instead of you taking all of
my money on this bet, I'm gonna cash out for
pennies on the dollar.

Speaker 4 (01:47:36):
All right, you know better than cash I know, I know.

Speaker 3 (01:47:40):
But it's ten to three with two minutes to go, Jeff.
They gotta get four. They gotta go over fourteen and
a half points at that spot. How are they gonna
go over fourteen and a half with two minutes to go? Well,
Jacksonville scores a touch?

Speaker 2 (01:47:58):
Are sorry?

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
The Chiefs score a touch. Now it's ten to ten. Okay,
we're at twenty points. There are, Jeff, thirty three seconds
left in the half. Okay, Jacksonville has the ball at
the Chiefs thirty five. How in the world are they
going to score at least eight points in thirty three seconds?

Speaker 5 (01:48:17):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
Well, this is the first part of it on JAG's
TV network. Blick is coming turns and he launches in
the direction of de Ernest Johnson. That's Devin Duberne. Good
job by CJ. Bether putting the ball.

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
Out and up.

Speaker 3 (01:48:35):
Okay, so they scored a touchdown, right, big deal. How
how are they going to score two more points at
least and hit the over? There's like thirty seconds to go. Well,
this is the second part of it, Jeff.

Speaker 4 (01:48:48):
Ru in the past fix, we'll fair four, we go
for a two point five. Therefore they're courseing of beret
peroners go from the two to the one yard.

Speaker 3 (01:48:57):
Ah, yes, roughing the quarterback. We're going to go for two,
you know. And of course you know how this ends, right,
you know before it happens.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
And here's the inside handoff on the two point conversion,
and it's good Piernist Johnson.

Speaker 6 (01:49:10):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (01:49:11):
So that got him to twenty eight combined points at
the half, and then right after it was that weird
McCole hardman's safety on the kickoff, just for like sprinkles
on your Sunday right there, rubbing it in that. It
definitely went over the twenty seven and a half for
the first half, but I cashed out early for pennies
on the dollar and ended up losing a bet I

(01:49:32):
would have won had I not cashed out.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
How pathetic is that?

Speaker 4 (01:49:36):
Look, the the the lesson here. We all know guys
do not cash out. That's the lesson. Don't cash out.
Don't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
I know you have done this, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
You have done it where you know your bet is wrong,
your bet is going to be a loss, and you
will cash out for a few bucks just so it's
not a complete loss.

Speaker 4 (01:50:01):
I did it. I've done it one time and it
was I got like one dollar back to say that
it was a future bet. I have not done this
for like any wager outside of that one. I think
it's I just think it's I tried you. I will
say I have tried other times to do this. I

(01:50:21):
tried the other night when I had a baseball wager.
I'm like, I just don't trust this wager. I just
give me back to even money and I'm good. I'll
take you. I'll just take the It's never it's never
happened though I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:50:30):
It didn't let you, it wouldn't go through or something.

Speaker 4 (01:50:33):
No, it never got back to like even odds.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
Oh, I see, I gotcha. Yeah, it's uh either.

Speaker 3 (01:50:38):
The moral of the story is Uh, be very very
wise about not cashing out or just you know, don't
bet that'd be the other lesson is not wagering.

Speaker 4 (01:50:49):
It's also one way to do it. Yeah, it's just
it's it's a you feel a little bit better about yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:50:56):
Yeah, that might be the case. All right, Jeff, we're
gonna end with a grand finale over here.

Speaker 4 (01:51:01):
He love.

Speaker 2 (01:51:01):
All right, we got a lot to get to.

Speaker 3 (01:51:03):
There is an epic quote I want to throw your way,
and we've got some top shelf audio as well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
We'll have some fun with that. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm
Brian though.

Speaker 3 (01:51:13):
We're live from the Tirack dot com studios here on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:51:17):
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian.

Speaker 3 (01:51:21):
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on with h I always forget this Freakingarin Man by
Josh Turner. Your man, how I don't know what it is?
A month, bro, I know you will not sync in. Jeff,

(01:52:07):
do you have this on your playlist yet?

Speaker 5 (01:52:09):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (01:52:09):
I'm sorry, No, I'm putting it on my playlist immediately.

Speaker 4 (01:52:13):
And you don't forget anymore, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:52:16):
Gosh, we got an epic quote. I love this from
Victor Wembin Yama.

Speaker 4 (01:52:21):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
France lost to the US yesterday in the gold medal
game Men's Olympic basketball, and Wemby, uh he said after
winning silver, he said, I'm learning and I'm worried for
the opponents in a couple of years. And the follow
up question was you mean in Foeba or in the NBA.

(01:52:42):
What does Wemby say everywhere? Oh, that's a quote right everywhere. Yeah,
that's beautiful.

Speaker 5 (01:52:50):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:51):
Okay, that's like the next chapter of the Nike commercial.
I love that Nike commercial. Winning isn't for everyone.

Speaker 4 (01:52:59):
I mean he hit like a big three at the
end of that game and he's eight feet tall. I mean,
it shouldn't be allowed to be that good at that size.
I know he is coming for the rest of the NBA,
like he's the next best superstar. It's just maybe a
couple of years away. But like it's it shouldn't he
shouldn't be able to shoot like that that size.

Speaker 3 (01:53:19):
I know, it's insane what he's able to do. Man,
He's so skilled and so tall. It's it's wild with
what he's doing over there.

Speaker 2 (01:53:29):
This was cool. Shout out to Spencer.

Speaker 3 (01:53:31):
He checked in on Twitter and said USA men's basketball
reminded me of the Chiefs. For whatever reason. They won't
blow teams out, but they always get it done in
the end. And I thought that was a pretty decent comparison,
where yeah, okay, you could get into the weeds and yeah,
Team USA has had some blowout wins, but the last

(01:53:52):
couple against Serbia, against France, those were close games. And
the Chiefs in the playoffs, right, they don't have a
lot of blowout wins, so but they get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:54:02):
They win it all.

Speaker 4 (01:54:02):
The playoffs is probably not the right example for the Chiefs.
It's more like a Week nine game against the Panthers,
We're just like win by a field goal, you know, ye, yeah,
you was. The difference is like you want to say,
would get like the twenty a twenty point lead, like, oh,
they're gonna cover this game and then win by eight. Yeah,
the Chiefs don't do that. They just stint the whole game.
It's like they're it's like they're covering insto the one

(01:54:24):
team and then just failed to cover. They just they
just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:54:30):
I spa.

Speaker 4 (01:54:31):
I spent last break adding up or looking at the
crack wagers he gave us for the NFL preseason. Yeah,
win loss, win loss, win win win win. That doesn't
include the one he gave us that I didn't get
in time. They got the worst number. So that's seven

(01:54:52):
and two.

Speaker 2 (01:54:52):
I believe seven and two in preseason football. I don't
know what he looks for.

Speaker 6 (01:55:02):
I don't know what.

Speaker 4 (01:55:03):
It's his group, man, that's why, it's why, it's why
he is doing that and we're doing this.

Speaker 2 (01:55:09):
I'll tell you what. I don't think he was on
the under eighteen and a half in game.

Speaker 3 (01:55:14):
You know, Cowboys Rams and Stet's invent Stet's embedded delivers
a side arm touchdown throw on fourth down.

Speaker 2 (01:55:22):
In the final seconds. I just know in my gut
he was not on that side.

Speaker 4 (01:55:27):
Okay, would you have wager on that game if you
were not sitting in front of it? Because that feels
like a wajor that's just made because we were watching
you know, you're watching sports as we're doing this, which
is something that we helped me. I have eight screens
going right now, that's right. There are people that do
radio that can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:55:49):
I have to have some like I gotta have something
going on.

Speaker 4 (01:55:53):
Huh, don't you? Are you just cool just like looking
at nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:55:58):
No, I'm cool with because there's so much going on.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
It's like, uh, you know, all right, we're gonna do
this topic next, and I gotta remember to do this,
and oh I gotta grab this sound.

Speaker 2 (01:56:07):
There's so much going on. I'm totally fine.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
Well, when I take it about when I'm the lead chair,
I watch less sports because you're part like you have
to you have things you have to do reads, and
you got things you got to hint and everything like that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:24):
But when you're riding shotgun, you're just letting fly.

Speaker 5 (01:56:27):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
I'm like, I'm like, I got the baseball, I got
the Olympic just whatever you want, just just making sports
wagers for the rest of the week. I'm addicted. I need,
I need, I need my paces and wagers for next
weekend already.

Speaker 3 (01:56:42):
All right, so we've got this. Also, I mentioned some
top shelf audio. So this is Joel Embiid right. He
was not a fan freight favorite over there with the
France home crowd. He has citizenship in France, so he
could have played for Team for he chose not to.
He chose to play for Team USA. So he was

(01:57:04):
booed throughout the entire basketball tournament.

Speaker 4 (01:57:07):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
This was on NBC Sports the gold medal ceremony. You'll
hear a loud reign of booze when Joel gets his
gold medal.

Speaker 2 (01:57:16):
Check this out.

Speaker 6 (01:57:25):
And has heard it from the crowd.

Speaker 11 (01:57:28):
That's taught the conversation, many conversations that he would be
part of this French team in the lead up to
the games of last year plus and the crowds for not.

Speaker 6 (01:57:37):
Doing that throughout.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
Yeah, man, I give him credit. They were booing before
his name was announced. They knew he was up next,
and they they started booing before the announcement. That's a
proactive booing crowd right there.

Speaker 4 (01:57:52):
I don't really find, you know, the French to be
like I don't really find them to be that like angry,
Like they're like angry boors.

Speaker 3 (01:58:03):
Yeah, well they proved us wrong, right, I don't think
of them like that either. They seem very happy. They
always show them in the crowd. They're just channing things,
you know, their faces are painted like very happy, except
when it comes to Joel and.

Speaker 4 (01:58:16):
B and that pole Vaulter is a national hero.

Speaker 6 (01:58:18):
Now that's.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Is that what you'll remember most from the Olympics. But
I will remember most.

Speaker 4 (01:58:24):
I went on a Buddy show the next day on
Monday in Salt Lake City, and I said to him,
we've come an Olympics. I go, Buddy, I know you
have a new show. You're in Salt Lake City. Can
we talk about the polevoy No? No, no, no, we
may not, but I just want to make sure I
know you're in conservative a little different show we used

(01:58:46):
to have together. I want to make sure like, Nope, nope,
can't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:58:51):
Don't bring it up.

Speaker 4 (01:58:52):
So I hope Mary spent her time researching this, because
last week she was way too negative to.

Speaker 3 (01:58:59):
It's She's an awesome person, so down on this stop it.
I mean, there's a reason why Gilbert Arenas called her out, Jeff,
But that's a different story for a different day.

Speaker 8 (01:59:10):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
Oh well, buddy, we're working again in about eight hours.
I want to hear the story.

Speaker 2 (01:59:15):
Yes, yeah, no, I'm kidding around, but uh yeah and everything.

Speaker 11 (01:59:20):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
I was very surprised Mary was down on the pole
vaulting story. That was an epic story.

Speaker 11 (01:59:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59:27):
I'll remember the Olympics for the basketball finals and Noah
Lyle's one hundred meter dash final.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Yeah, I'll remember the the Quincy Hall four hundred.

Speaker 5 (01:59:40):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:59:41):
He tweeted out he had to go to school in
like a week.

Speaker 1 (01:59:45):
I don't know how he won.

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
The piano was on his back and he somehow just
trucked his way to the gold. That was awesome. That
was really good.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
All right, Yeah, Jeff, and I will be back at
you in the morning, six am Eastern sharp two pros

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