Buck & Fitz Break Down the Maxx Crosby Trade, Talk College Hoops Chaos & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
After months, maybe even years of speculation, finally it happened.
After constantly hearing Max Crosby's gonna get traded, Who's Max
Crosby gonna get traded too, it finally happened. Max Crosby
is headed to the Baltimore Ravens. What's it mean for everybody?
How are we feeling about it?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Honestly? How am I feeling about it?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
As I sitting here with the Max Crosby side jersey
right behind my head.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
It's Bucket fits on Fox Sports Radio. He's buck rising up,
Jason fitz buck. I've been waiting all day for this
moment where we get to talk about it because my
buddy Max Crosby gets traded from my beloved Raiders to
the Baltimore Ravens. I'm sitting here with the Raiders jersey
behind me, realizing it is the end of an era,
and this is one of those rare moments where man

(00:50):
like I feel a million different guys' ways.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm gonna be honest, I'm sitting here saying it makes sense.
You and I've talked about why. I think it was
kind of a win win the Raiders pick up two
first round draft pick for a team that's nowhere near
ready to compete. It just stinks when you constant, really
constantly realize that your favorite team, even when they get
good players, A can't win with them and B can't

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hold on to them. It's sort of a reminder of
why certain teams have it and certain teams don't.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
And no matter how.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
We parse it out, at some point, I think Max
is a winner. He can go win some Super Bowls.
The rest of it, We're gonna have to see how
it plays out. But today is one of those tough
days for fans as they sit there and realize, man,
my favorite team is nowhere near competing, even with one
of the best players in the league, having spent several
years trying to change the culture.

Speaker 4 (01:37):
There two things.

Speaker 5 (01:40):
One, I'll put it before the court, Mary Mack being
the court, my buddy Max Crosby.

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Fine or no fine.

Speaker 5 (01:51):
I think it's important context cause I'm not asking you,
not asking you each your whatever you're eating, whatever you're
shoveling in your face, as we do live right across
the nation.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Whatever whatever it is that.

Speaker 5 (02:02):
You can't be bothered to wait until before or after
the show.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
I'm emotionally eating here Buck emotionally, I.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Went into a bar city eating.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I went into a.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Bar today and I was immediately like a buddy walked
up in the bar and said, man, I was laughing
out loud yesterday you making fun of your co host
wearing just a robe. So I don't want to hear
anything about professionalism because you barely got dressed for two
pros and a cup of Joe yesterday morning.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Just because you're wearing a shirt.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Today doesn't mean you get to call me out when
I'm trying to shovel in some good nutrition.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
I was just trying to Also, who's to say that
I have pants on today? As we do the radio
show in the world middle of.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
The afternoon, Mary Mack fine or no fine?

Speaker 3 (02:40):
She's giving no fine, no fine?

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Mary Max showing up to work in just a dude
to Bide's robe with your chest air popping out while
you're facetiming with your co host and nobody sure if
you're wearing underwear or not, but you certainly look like
you just had an all night er with.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
Somebody that you probably don't know their last name. Is
that fine or not?

Speaker 4 (03:01):
A fine?

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Mary Max completely out on the show. Mary mackis decided
she's she's done, she's done with both of us. She's
done this, Buck, this is what's happening.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
Not so now that we've determined, not a fine from
me with Max Cross. It's fine. It's a fine. Oh
I'm getting fine.

Speaker 4 (03:15):
It's not a fine me.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
I want to go put my parfae in the fridge.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
It's a fine both the Yuh, Okay, we're both fine.

Speaker 4 (03:26):
I mean, I was just giving my part in the
fridge show just started.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I'm just I'm just giving context here, Bluck. How we
How should I feel right now?

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, no, I'm not going to tell you how you
should feel. I mean, that's rich.

Speaker 5 (03:44):
I don't care how you feel. No, I of course
I care about, uh, your fragile emotional state, because again
I'm I'm just happy to see you eating food in
front of us for once, as opposed to, you know,
whatever ridiculous starvation diet you've been on these past I
don't know, two years.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
I am.

Speaker 5 (04:03):
I view this a bit, as you know, it's kind
of like a relationship type of situation where you've been
on the fence about whether or not you should break
up with this particular person, and finally there comes a
moment where you get the closure of Okay, it's just
now over. It's finally over. We can both move on.
Everybody can, you know, go their separate ways. But one

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side is going to be left in a worse situation
than the other depending on who made the decision. Now,
if you're a Raiders fan, your organization made the decision
to trade him away. Trade Max Crosby to the Baltimore Ravens.
I don't like the trade for the Ravens, though, I
don't like it much at all.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Two first round picks.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
They've never traded a first for anybody, much less two
first round picks. And I'm not down on the player
that Max Crosby is, but just objectively as a football
fan and somebody who has seen Max Crosby play in
person covered games that Max Crosby has played in. Because
of the nature of my job covering the Tennessee Titans,
I was just in Las Vegas and watching him whoop

(05:03):
some ass in a game that was really had nothing
else to be featured except for Max Crosby and Jeffrey Simmons.
I think that for Baltimore this is very uncharacteristic, and
maybe it is the thing that sets them over the top.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
But they need those first round picks. And this is
not an.

Speaker 5 (05:23):
Organization that does a move like this. Ever, they regenerate
their roster organically through the draft. They don't make big
splash moves like I mean Derek Henry.

Speaker 4 (05:34):
I guess it is a big splash move. But even
then he was a thirty year.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
Old running back that the world looked around and said,
how much longer can he keep doing this? Except Derek
is half man, half amazing. Is the fate does the
great Mike Keith once coined him. So that's a little
bit of a different scenario. I just I don't think
that this makes a lot of sense for Baltimore. If
that makes you feel any better, I think you want
the trade.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Look, I think here's the hardest part about it. When
you're treated for draft picks, the Raiders get two first rounders.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
I watched John Gruden get.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Traded from the Raiders for draft picks, and those traft
picks became nothing. I watched Khalil Mack get traded from
the Raiders and those draft picks became nothing. I've watched
multiple trades where draft picks are the incentive, And as
you and I have talked a lot about, I want
to remind you most of us listening, if your team sucks,
part of the reason they suck is because they are
inherently bad at the draft, right, So, you know, getting

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draft picks for a team that's bad because they don't
draft well doesn't feel particularly hopeful. But I do think
there is hope in this. I think sometimes the toughest
thing to do in life is to look in the
mirror and realize that things aren't where they need to be.
And to me what the Raiders are finally admitting after
years of trying all these different ways to work around rebuild,

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to work around the concept of a rebuild, to work
around this partial rebuild for everything that they always try
to do, to maintain some level of.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, commitment to excellence that I grew up hearing.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
I said, when Kubiak was hired, the one thing I
finally wanted to hear from a coach wasn't We're going
to bring back the greatness of the Raiders. It was, man,
do we have a lot of work to do? And
I think what's happened since Kubiak has been brought in.
Is that he and John Spytech, the head the general
manager of the Raiders, have finally acknowledged this team stinks.
And when you look at it through the lens of hey,

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this is a multi year rebuild. What I see as
Max as twenty nine years old, and I've told you before,
as we've talked about this, even the prospect of him
being traded, I think the Raiders acknowledge that this is
a three year rebuild at least, right, so if everything
breaks right this year, this is a five or six
win football team with the quarterback that you hope is
the answer in Fernando Mendoza. And next year you hope

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you get to eight or nine wins, and the year
after that you hope you're really in this pocket where
you are finally contending. That's a reasonable look at I
think what they're trying to build when you do that
with Max Crosby, by the time you get to the
point that you're contending, he's thirty two years old and
may or may not have as much left in the tank,
may not have I think what the Raiders did here
was they finally admitted they have looked in the mirror

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and this is a three year and once you acknowledge
three years behind rebuild, and I know that's a long
time for everybody, but once you acknowledge three years as
a rebuild, now two first round picks this year, two
first round picks next year, and a ton of cap
space to spend, you would hope on young players that
you're going to try and develop. If those exist, it
does give you some at least idea. I think the

(08:19):
organization is finally looking in the mirror and saying, man,
I'm fat, and there's nothing that's going to make me
not fat quickly. I'm just going to have to do
the right things over and over and over again for
the next couple of years to get not fat. I
think that that's a message that the Raiders are sending you,
which is, I think, honestly the right one.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Are we giving people three years to rebuild anymore?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Because it doesn't feel like that, like maybe that's something
that ownership says, But as somebody who covers a team
that likes to, you know, fire people at will basically
on and I wouldn't say quite on a whim, like
there have been reasons each time somebody in Tennessee has
gotten fired. But you know, it's just kind of just
a weird carousel of who done it type of situations.

(09:03):
Where are you to blame for the fact that we
suck or is this person to blame? And you've got
people actively working against the interest of other people within
the building, and you create a Game and Thrones type environment.
I'm already reading stuff about the Raiders from Mike Silver. Now,
you did well on two pros when we were on
yesterday morning. By the way, we will be back on
two pros and a cup of Joe on Monday morning.

Speaker 4 (09:24):
Because you just can't get enough of us around here. Apparently,
let's go. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
I think that in terms of Mark Davis, how do
you I don't know, do you trust him to commit
to it?

Speaker 4 (09:36):
Is?

Speaker 5 (09:37):
What is the feeling on Mark Davis's ownership Because he
gets good marks in the player's poll that the NFLPA does,
the player report cards or the team report cards. I
guess he typically gets good marks, but so does Amy
Adam Strunk. And that doesn't mean that they're good at
their respective jobs in terms of being an NFL owner

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vision maker whose influence impacts every level of their respective organizations.
Just because you're a nice person and easy to be around.
Doesn't mean that you tend to make good decisions. He
is famous for not making good decisions.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
I think Mark Davis in this current since he really
became the owner, I think he's had a lot of
James Dolan like qualities to him. Remember James Dolan for
the Knicks seemed to be involved until he wasn't involved,
and then he hired Phil Jackson because Phil Jackson was
a big name and a legend that was going to
come in. Then he supposedly let Phil take over, but
Phil really wasn't all that into it, and maybe Dolan
was interfering, and we don't know. Like, I think Mark

(10:35):
Davis is sort of that, like he wants to have
this six degrees of separation. Not my fault, guys, I
don't really know football. I just hire people that do,
and he makes bad hires repeatedly. Here's the thing, Do
I know if it's.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Going to work? Do I trust Mark Davis to give
it time? No? But if he doesn't, does anything change?

Speaker 2 (10:53):
If they just go into this year's draft with Mark
with the things the way they've been and Max Crosby
comes out and has the greatest season of his career.
As I told you yesterday and I will remind everybody,
I watched a season a couple of years ago where
Max was one of the league leaders in sacks, Josh
Jacobs led the league in rushing, and Devonte Adams had
a thousand yards receiving. And in that same season where
they all three did that at once, the Raiders won

(11:15):
six games. So like, this team sucks, this organization sucks
every single year. The Raiders are bad. What's going to
break that? I think at some point, you gotta get
a little bit lucky. Like I don't think that the
Houston Texans finally figured out how to have smart ownership
or a smart front office. I think the Houston Texans
finally got lucky in a year where they hired somebody

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to become their head coach that aligned with a young
quarterback that had a historic rookie season, and everybody said,
oh my god, the Texans turned it around, right, Like
I think it's curious that Sean McDermott took over the Bills,
who at the time hadn't won anything in forever and
were dormant that it was McDermott brilliant. Was Josh Allen
a savior or did they get a little bit lucky
at the right time with all of it coming together.

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I think at some point you just got a look
in the mirror and say, man, we saw and so
do I trust Mark Davis to give it three years?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
But I have looked at the rookie record of every
single starting quarterback that was drafted number one overall since
two thousand and the only one that has had a
winning record in the rookie season as a starter was
Andrew Luck. Every other quarterback drafted first overall has.

Speaker 3 (12:18):
Had a.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Either eight hundred or five hundred record, I should say,
or less in their first year as a starter. So
what's that tell us? That tells us more than likely
the Raiders this year will be incredibly happy if they
win six or seven games, Like, that's more than likely
you're gonna get the six or seven wins, and next
year you hope that six or seven becomes eight or nine,
and then you like, that's just real it. Does patients exist?

Speaker 4 (12:43):
No?

Speaker 3 (12:44):
But is that the real answer? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I think I don't think there's anything the Raiders can
do at this point this season to be competitive this year.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
As someone who covers a team, that most recently drafted
the last number one overall pick in the NFL draft.
You are adorable for thinking you're going to be able
to get to close to six or seven wins. You're right,
and my guy, listen, I won all the good things
in the world for my guy.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Fri Nanda Mendoza's in Indiana, Lum.

Speaker 5 (13:12):
He has brought me the only source of sports happiness
that I think I've had basically since Christian Watford hit
the shot over Anthony Davis to knock off Number one Kentucky. Okay,
so I'm actively pulling for your Las Vegas Raiders. But Buddy,
I saw that team play and they beat the Titans
last year, which is not in a kind of Pelt

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on the wall type of situation. But my god, neither
team deserved to win that game.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
And that's why the Crosby tray continues to make sense.
I believe this is a long, multi year rebuild.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
Now, the question is what do you do with positional
value and what positions actually can turn around a team
that sucks.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
We'll answer that question for you next. He's Buck Rising.
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Speaker 3 (14:40):
Mary, by the way, let me know that she's in
on not in on screen, but she is in on
scary movie which looks hysterical.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Maybe we can drag buck to that. I we did
to see Bride yesterday, The Bride, which is the new
Maggie Jillenhole Frankenstein movie, and like, I don't think I
was smart enough for it. I'll be the first to
admit that there were times that I was very confused
watching and I was like, I'm not smart enough for
this movie.

Speaker 3 (15:03):
Very art house like film sort of deep movie. But
I gotta give him credit. We always say Hollywood doesn't
do it anything new.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Original of the Bride is very original in the way
that it's portrayed and like even though it's a Frankenstein story,
it's a very interesting, interesting movie. See there are new,
great things happening. Even though Buck won't go see the
Bucking Fits Now. Maybe you know, I'll just start giving
you my movie reviews every Saturday. I know everybody really
wants that. He's Buck rising up. Jason Fitz he doesn't

(15:31):
want that at all. With the Heart.

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Speaker 2 (15:51):
I needed to go to a movie yesterday to distract
myself from Max Crosby being traded.

Speaker 3 (15:55):
In the amount of text I was getting about it.
You raise a question.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
We were talking a little bit about sort of having
the understanding of where your team is. And this is
what gets kind of interesting to me because we talked
about this a little with two pros, and I went back.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
And looked at it.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
If you go into last season and you take a
look at the execs, coaches, and scouts that talked to
Jeremy Fowler in July of twenty twenty five, they ranked
the top ten edge rushers for twenty twenty five for
going into last season. Who was perceived to be the
top ten? Quickly, I'll run through some of these names.
Miles Garrett number one didn't make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (16:28):
TJ.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Watt number two didn't make the playoffs. Michael Parsons number
three didn't make the playoffs. Injury, I realized that Match
Crosby number four didn't make the playoffs. Nick Bosa didn't
play enough to make any impact of the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Trey Hendrickson, now going to be a
free agent, didn't make the playoffs. Aiden Hutchinson for the
Lions didn't make the playoffs. You gotta get all the

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way down to Will Anderson Junior for the Houston Texans,
who was ranked number eight coming into last year to
even find an edge rusher going into last season perceived
to be one of the best that actually made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
This is what's wild to.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
Me because I get this concept book, but if your
team sucks, you need great players. The problem is so
many great edge rushers, particularly don't actually equal win.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
So I don't know what, dude, I'm.

Speaker 2 (17:11):
Not gonna sit here and pretend the Raiders are better
without Max Crosby. I just think, did they get a
Max Crosby the entirety of his career and not win
a damn thing because one person doesn't win you football games?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
Well, it's j J.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Watt without Deshaun or after Deshaun fell off, right, that's
just kind of what it became, or all these different
you know, I mean, how many different TJ. Yates years
did we have, not Matt Cassel, who was the other one,
Matt shaub right for the Texans before. I mean, shab
had some good years, but then I think led the
set a record for like the most games with the

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most consecutive games of the pick six or something ridiculous
once towards the tail end of his career. So yeah,
I mean it is it comes back down to a
team building philosophy and can one player really make a
difference in the NFL in the scope of things.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
I mean, that's that's a player can make a difference.

Speaker 5 (18:04):
In a specific situation, But then you have to be
able to capitalize on whatever it is that player did.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Right.

Speaker 5 (18:09):
If Max Crosby stripsacks a quarterback, recovers a fumble, you
still have to be able to punch it in or
put yourself in field goal position to be able to
capitalize on that.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Otherwise you know it's.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
For not so for Max. He goes to a situation
where he has an offense. We'll see what happens with Lamar, right.
I mean, they've got some questions to answer in Baltimore
as far as are they going to be able to
get an extension done with Lamar Jackson because their cap
situation is not very favorable.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
They have a lot of.

Speaker 5 (18:38):
Different offensive line things to figure out at this point
in time, with their center Tyler Lindebaumer or their former
center set to make I don't know, only twenty two
million dollars on the open market this coming off season,
and that offensive line unit wasn't all that great to
begin with, so now you have to continue to try
and supplement that to prolong, you know, to support Lamar

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Jackson and Derek Henry is he reaches the tail end
of his career.

Speaker 4 (19:04):
I think Derek is.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
I think Derek has two more years on an extension
at this point in time. But you know, at some
point it's going to have to be it's gonna have
to be a better version of what we saw last
year because the Ravens were not right on a number
of fronts. Max Crosby satisfies a huge need for them.
As far as a top tier pass rusher. When's the
last time they've had a pass rusher like anywhere close

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to in the ballpark of Max Crosby, I can't. Suggs
was an incredible player, and I don't know if he's
Hall of Fame caliber or anything like that, but Terrell
Suggs that wasn't He's not what Max Crosby is as
a player, Right, We're talking about very different things. They
always did that in terms of how they were able
to platoon guys at the best versions of those Ravens defenses,

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and even then it was more about just suffocating you,
making you, snuffing out the run. Making the opposing offense
one dimensional and then you can pin your ears back
in pass rush as you see. But they've always done
it with like the Paul Kruegers of the world, and
pronell McFee and Courtney Upshell right, these are not like
top end guys that they've been able to make it work.
I know that those three names that I named are

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from Raven's teams long ago, but still you understand my point.
So for Vegas now there becomes the question of all right,
you've relegated yourself to the idea that this is a
long term rebuild, and by long term we mean ballpark
three years. If John Spytech gets three years, Clint Kubiak
obviously will be starting after one year of John Spytech

(20:34):
being on the job. The second part of this is
how do you support for Nando Mendoza immediately, which there's
another Raiders transaction that we haven't gotten to just yet.
FITZI and I wonder if we should save the Geno
Smith talk for after the update, because I am very
confused by their release outright release of Geno Smith at

(20:55):
thirty four years old. Understanding Geno was not good last year,
but with a number one over pick coming in a
quarterback that you have said your intentions are not to
start him right away. Why the hell would you let
a quality backup quarterback who may not think he's a
backup quarterback, but at this point in his career should
probably be thinking that way.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
Why the hell would you let Gino Smith go.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I have an answer for you.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
We'll let Martin catch you up on the scoreboard first,
and then we'll figure out what exactly they're doing at
that quarterback position and if Gino has any value, what's
going on on the score.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
So in the NBA, four minutes left in the first quarter,
the Pistons lead the Nets twenty three to seventeen. Four
minutes left the first quarter for the seventy six ers
and Hawks Philadelphia up twenty four to twenty Tyrese Maxi
with ten early points. We saw the Magic beat the
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(21:48):
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twenty seconds left in the game, Florida by the five
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by forty five to thirty three.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
We have one big.

Speaker 6 (22:06):
Upset today with Amarquette upsetting fourth ranked Yukon sixty eight
to sixty two.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
Dan Hurley getting ejected.

Speaker 6 (22:13):
In the final second of the game after bumping into
a referee. In the NFL, the Packers have traded defensive
tackle Colby Wooden to the Colts for Zaire Franklin, the
linebacker who led the NFL in tackles.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
In twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
The forty nine Ers and kickie kicker Eddie Pinero have
agreed to a four year deal. Connor McGovern and the
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dollar contract thirty two over that guaranteed. The Brandon Aubrey
and the Cowboys not able to come to an agreement
on the long term deal.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
So that's a free agent tender.

Speaker 6 (22:44):
The team's gonna slap on the kicker for the twenty
twenty sixth league year.

Speaker 4 (22:47):
It's five point seven million one.

Speaker 6 (22:50):
If they have teams have an opportunity to offer him
a contract Cowboys can match it. If they don't, they'll
get a second round pick. And Rams cornerback Darius Williams
has retired after eight NFL seasons.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Fellas back to you.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz Buck and Fitz hanging
out with the on Fox Sports Radio The Big News.
Obviously they came in last night, Max Crossby being traded
and Buck, you just raised a question about what all
that means, because we understand that the Raiders at this
point are in a complete rebuild. They now get two
first round picks this year that they have Theirs plus Baltimore's.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
Baltimore's was fourteenth. They also will own two first round
picks in next year's draft, Theirs and whatever Baltimore ends
up having, which, if you're the Ravens, you believe is
now going to be a very low pick in the
first round because you believe Max is gonna make you
a super Bowl caliber defense. Understanding that you raised this
a good question here where Gino Smith is going to
be released by the team, and the question is why,

(23:42):
because Spytech has said that he doesn't believe a quarterbacks
should have to play right away. I don't think that
that's wrong. I just think two things here. One klik
Kobiac remember was the offensive coordinator that came into Seattle
last year and looked around and said.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Nope, we'd rather have Sam Darnold.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
So now he comes over to this offense and says, nope,
have insert name of quarterback here. The other part of
it is, I think the team understands Number one, they're
not going to be particularly good, so they're not worried
about a quarterback. They can win them games. They're worried
about quarterback, they can be mentoring. I think what we're
gonna see because the Raiders have a ton of cap
space and interesting to the minutia that people don't care about.

(24:18):
The Raiders have a ton of obligation to spend money
to hit the salary cap floor, which has factored out
every three years, so this minutia. But they are going
to have to spend money. So now they're letting Gino walk.
What are they going to spend money on. It's not
going to be a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
I think they're going to spend a ton of money
on offensive linemen that are twenty six, twenty seven and younger.
So young offensive linemen, they believe that they can get
They're gonna get them all for three year contracts. They're
going to frontload those contracts, and then they're comfortable letting
Geno go and bringing in Kirk if they can get
Kirk or really anybody like I think the Raiders are
telling you, we don't care if we start a backup
for half the season. We're not gonna win games anyway.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
We just want to get the offensive line better for
Ashton Genty and for Fernando whenever he's ready to actually
get in the game.

Speaker 5 (25:01):
Well, it's not like Gino was winning you games. I
just why, So, why is Geno Smith not mentor type?
Like everything that I've heard, I mean, since you know
that one practice squad linebacker broke his jaw with the
Jets because Geno owed him money or something like that
one hundred years ago. Everything that we've heard and seen,
And I would defer to you again because you pay
far closer attention to the Las Vegas Raiders than your

(25:24):
average person is a fan of the team. Since when
is Geno Smith not good mentor guy? Also, since when
is Geno Smith good enough to win you football games?
Given what the Raiders are doing right, now with the
number one overall pick, Like, I don't think that Geno
all of a sudden, at thirty four years old, is
going to turn it back on like we've already written
him off for once, right and with the whole you
know they wrote me off, I didn't write back type deal.

(25:44):
I'm not thinking. I just don't understand if if you
have somebody who can serve in that role, Like, isn't
it the job of the coach and the coach can
do what he wants here? Right, They're not under on
any obligation to keep Geno Smith, But it just seems
like change for the sake of change, because Clint Kubiak
doesn't think that Gino Smith.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Works for his system or whatever. I don't know.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
That's not a good excuse to me to get rid
of a quality backup quarterback. Well, I think it's figure
it out. You're the offensive genius, Fay, you figure it out.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Well.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Number one, you want to be running the same offense
for Fernando, and you're one that you'll be running for
Fernando in year two, so you don't want to have
to make a ton of adjustments to that. But number two,
I'm not sure Gino really wants to be somewhere where
he's about to be dead man walking. He still believes
he can be a high quality starting quarterback. He believes
he's going to go somewhere and get a three year deal. Right,
So I'm not sure Gino wants to be around all
of that. And if he doesn't want to be around all.

Speaker 5 (26:40):
Which is fine, by the way, Yeah, if it's if
it's what makes sense for both sides, then I'm you know,
I'm making much ado about nothing. But if like Gino
wanted to stay there for the opportunity to compete, let
Geno Smith stay there.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Yeah, And there was a at least enough of a
rub between the fans and Gino that I don't know
that like you never listen to the fans. Take it that,
But anytime you're starting quarterbacks out here flipping off the
fans at a home game, that's just a tough look
to bring back. Sometimes for a player that's about to
just hit, you know they're going to hit a wall
of not being particularly good. And I think you're Titans Camp,

(27:13):
by the way, And for anyone that doesn't know Buck
covers the Titans in Nashville, I think the Titans.

Speaker 3 (27:17):
Are a real reminder.

Speaker 2 (27:19):
I mean, for as many times as we say this,
I'll continue to echo it. Look at the teams that
are consistently bad, consistently bad. So we're talking about the Raiders,
the Titans, the Jets, the Browns, like teams that never
win football games, over and over and over again. I
think at some point you look at it and you say, man,
what's the one thing that turns all that around? And

(27:40):
the real answer, for most teams, the thing that seems
to turn you around the fastest is getting it right
at the quarterback and head coach.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
Combo, I don't think it's one or the other. I
think it's both.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
I think you gotta have the right quarterback that speaks
the right language, for the right coach that speaks the
right language, and they got to have this like eighties
wrestling tag team duo, this sinner that works together. So
if you're the Raiders, part of what you're looking at
now is we're putting everybody on the same clock. Like
you mentioned, it's year two for Spy Tech in Vegas,
which is fair, but it's year one for Kubiak and Fernando,

(28:12):
which we believe is how it's going to go at
the beginning of the draft, so it's really going to
be and this is year one of spy tech having control,
because most people will tell you Pete.

Speaker 3 (28:20):
Carroll had a lot of control last year.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
So I think what you're seeing is a year one
movement to hear towards we don't care what the past
has been, we don't care about any of the things
that have lingered over this organization.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
We're going to start fresh. I think moving Max even
is part of that.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
It's just a part of cleaning house to get some
sort of freshness in the entire building. Now, that to
me is part of why I keep stressing I think
this is a multi year like.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Look.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
The Patriots, I think are the outlier. The Patriots going
out spending a ton of money, having it work, playing
a really easy schedule with the coach that was managed.
They managed to come in and really get the pulse
of this thing right away with no learning curve and
an offensive coordinator that's not hirable.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
Anywhere else as a head coach. And now goes back
to what he did brilliantly.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Like that's all stuff that had to go on the
pot at once and come out perfectly I think most teams,
it just doesn't work that easily.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
Even Washington.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Washington had a one year turn right where they became
huge and then all of a sudden they sucked again.
Sustainable greatness, I think for most of these bad teams,
when you've had, like the Raiders have had fifteen starting
quarterbacks in the last whatever ten years, I think it
just is going to take a full reset, repush on everything.
So there is just an element of get everybody out
the door that you think in any way, shape or

(29:32):
form isn't part of your future, and just start building
for three years from now.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
No, I just watched the team that I covered do
the exact same thing. I mean, you know, save Jeffrey
Simmons basically, and that's because jeff is, I don't know,
twenty eight and coming off a year where he's the
best defensive tackle in football, And if you were to
trade jeff for draft picks, then you would have to
figure out how to replace.

Speaker 4 (29:55):
Maybe you your first round pick that you get back
for Jeffrey.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Could eventually become two thirds of the player that Jeffrey
Simmons is. Right now, I'm not saying that Max Crosby
isn't the same caliber of player. But I do think
that there's at least some logic to try and to
cash in on it. If somebody offered the Titans two
first round picks for Jeff, I have to imagine that
they would have at least had to think about it

(30:18):
a little harder. No matter how much the player continues
to bang the drum on, No, I want to be here.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
I want to be here for the turnaround.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
I want to help build this place back up after
I've you know, I was good, and they were good
for a period of time and then they've fallen on
hard times basically for the last four seasons. There is
some level of how difficult is each individual player that
we're talking about here to replace where there's just on
a roster with not that many good football players, whether

(30:47):
you're talking about the Raiders of the Titans or any
of these teams who are in this situation.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
And that's why, like the honest rebuild answer for most
teams is just you got to hit it right in
the draft over and over, Like when's the last time
you saw the Titans and you finished the draft coverage
that we all have to do right, You finished the
draft coverage and you said, my god, what a home
run draft for the.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
Titans twenty nineteen. Okay, and Jeffers Simmons, AJ Brown. They
drafted a guard that ended up starting for them in
the third round of money Hooker's starting safety still here.
Like they hit on every pick but one. He was
a pass rusher out of Georgia and I can't remember
his name.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
Right when it's been that many years now, we have
such a like that's the realist indicator of why the
Titans suck, if you just start stacking, like, look, the
Browns last year had an epic draft. The Browns had
a Hall of It. This's what I constantly tell people.
A former GM told me years.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Ago that a home run Hall of Fame caliber draft
is getting five or six quality news starters on your team.
Five or six that's a oh my god offseason, as
off season a whole, not a draft and an off season.
So between the free agency and the draft, five or
six high quality starters is a Hall of Fame offseason.

(32:02):
Now ask yourself, like, look at your favorite team and
ask yourself, how many players starting from my favorite team
would actually start on a playoff team.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
I do this exercise all the time. If you look
at the Raiders as a Raiders fan, if I had
to ask myself how many of these players would actually.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
Start on an elite football team, the answer to that
now is maybe Ashton gent Brock, Powers, maybe Colton Miller
maybe so like three, three at the most. So that
means my favorite team needs nineteen new starters. If six
new starters is a Hall of Fame level offseason, that
tells you that my front office of my favorite team

(32:39):
would have to put together three straight Hall of Fame
level off seasons just to make my team competitive.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
That's why most teams that suck continually suck, because it's
just a long process of getting everything right over and
over and over again, and nobody can no It's.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
It's completely fair. I think. I think that you have
the right mindset.

Speaker 5 (33:00):
You have come you have come to terms with the
situation that your favorite football team is getting ready to
put you through yet again. I just hated for Raiders
fans because it feels like they are doing this, you know,
with regular ready basically the last two decades.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
This is the bad teams in the NFL do this
all the time, all right, from the from the from
the drama on the field, do the drama off the field.
Somebody got hacked and Instagram may never be the same.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
Because of it. We'll tell you about it next. He's
Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz, Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
Bucking Fits hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. We'll get you updated
on some big college basketball going down in just a
few minutes. But, uh, we got hacking? Do we we
have hacking? Maybe we have some interesting social media going on, Buck.
And this one comes in the form of, like, let
us all be this lucky. Let us all be so

(34:00):
lucky in our lives that if we're ever unlucky enough
to get hacked, that when we get hacked, it's absolutely
going to be the best, nicest, most glowing moment you've
ever seen. Because Rashaun Kerry NFL player went to social media,
at least it appeared on Instagram for a very thoughtful
What appeared on Instagram, Like I had a picture of
him as a player and his goodbye statement to the Packers,

(34:22):
like it was a beautifully written I'm out, thank you
for my time statement that went to Instagram and then
was deleted shortly after, only to then have Rashan turn
around and tell.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
Everybody he was hacked.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Like buck I cannot imagine that I finally get the
pass code to hock it and to hack it to
Buck Rising's Instagram account, and what I do is I
go to it and I don't, like, I don't slide
into anybody's DMS.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I don't go out there.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
I don't, you know, photoshop you in a robe and
put it out there for the world to see.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
No, insteadir e fact.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Instead no, I write a heartfelt thank you and put
up a glowing picture of you, like what a.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Way to be.

Speaker 5 (35:01):
Well the last I mean, there have obviously been situations
where an athlete or somebody of some level of import
has said they've been hacked when something on their social
media has gone awry. But the last one that I remember,
like at least in the world of the NFL, of note,
was Laramie Tunsel. You remember how crazy that was on

(35:23):
Draft night where somebody posted a picture of him in
that weed gas mask on Draft night and then, if
I'm not mistaken, also posted text conversations between I want
to say it was his father in Hugh Freeze about
you know, some at the time before name, image and
likeness was put into place, some improper benefits type of

(35:46):
situation like actively trying to undermine this person, and that
you know that was of a very nefarious nature and
did cause him to drop on draft night. But Rashan
Gary's situation, there was some reason to believe that the
Packers could do it because if my math is right,
they could save eleven million dollars if they were to

(36:08):
move on from Rashaun Gary.

Speaker 4 (36:10):
And he's twenty eight years old.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
He's been the subject of trade talks for a while
according to a lot of the league insiders, and there
would be a sizable amount of dead money if they
were to move him at this point in time. But like,
this is a good player. Was I think a lot
of people were surprised to see the news. In fact,
we were talking about it on the local show and
again to remind people that I covered the Tennessee Titans

(36:34):
who were in need of a pass rusher this offseason,
I said, he immediately jumps to the top of my
list in terms of free agent players that I would want.
And how much better does the free agency pool look
after some of these cap casualties than it did after
we got through the first round of franchise tag stuff
and things of that nature. Right that it raised the
profile of the players that were going to be available immediately,

(36:57):
and I thought that Rashan Gary should.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
Be at the top of many teams lists.

Speaker 5 (37:00):
And then for that it was leaked or not leaked,
but given to a lot of different people, both Green
Bay media and national insiders that his instagram was hacked.
But like, who is going to take the time to
come up with a thoughtful goodbye post from Rashan Gary
on his own Instagram? That's what I'm saying. Like it was,

(37:20):
there was nothing inflammatory about it. There was nothing you know,
that would do something to to troll or cause harm
to the reputation or the image of Rashon Gary.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
No, it's just a it's a good bipost. So he
had one. I don't we we don't have like a sound.

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Or imaging to connote reckless speculation on my part, But
let me just say that I'm going to recklessly speculate
and say that he fired off a post that he
then was informed No, this is not the direction that
we're heading with you bud, you may want to take
that down.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
And then instead of saying yeah, my bad, my bad, guys,
that one's on.

Speaker 5 (37:57):
Me, little little little trigger happy there, he decided to
go with the narrative that even if you did get hacked,
nobody's gonna believe you, right, Like, we've had too many
people cry wolf on the hacked thing at this point
to actually buy off on somebody getting hacked.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Like, if somebody's gonna get hacked, I would think it
would look a lot more like Ryan Rossilo's Instagram looked
a few weeks ago. Then it would with Rashan coming
into it, like and and I don't even know if
Racillo got hacked, Like I think when I think, when
I think hacked, I think something just eye opening where
you look at it, You're like, IM, that's I'm just saying,

(38:36):
like a thoughtful, well worded thank you to the city
that drafted you with an on to my next adventure
sort of thing. To me, I immediately read as the
team told his agent, Hey, if we can't get this reworked,
if we can't figure out some money stuff, we're gonna
cut you or we're gonna trade you. And then he
puts that out and all of a sudden, then the
phone start ringing. They're like, well, wait a minute, don't

(38:57):
don't cut him.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
We can give you some trade value, like if he
gets traded over the course of the next several days.
It still screams to me that he was telling us
all what the plan was before the plan was.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Actually the plan, right, Like it's just what a dreamy
situation to be in Buck, where it's like, oh, I.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Got hacked, but you know what, it's okay.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I got hacked by somebody that wanted to make sure
I look like just a great overall dude.

Speaker 3 (39:20):
Like I love the idea of Buck going into my
Instagram to hack it and then be like, you know
what I want to do.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I want to make sure he looks like he's an
awesome guy that has his stuff together all the right things.
That's never never ever gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (39:35):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
All right, it's a big day in college basketball for
two teams, and one coach will tell you about it.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
Next. Buck Rising Jason fitzbucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Usually when we're sitting on our day like today where
you have Duke North Carolina it's all anybody's thinking about.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
It's all anybody's talking about. You spend a.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Week hearing about the matchup, you spend a week hearing
about rivalry, reminded that it's the greatest rivalry in college
basketball and one of the greatest rivalries in sports.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
And now, even as we sit here with the.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
Game going on, Duke ranked number one North Carolina, a
top twenty team trying to sweep the Blue Devils, it
just feels like some of the magic maybe isn't there.
Bucking Fitz, Buck Rising, Jason fitz hanging out with you
on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (40:23):
And Buck, I don't know what it is because you
and I talk a lot about the fact that we
love college basketball.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
This has been a big Saturday. We'll get to Hurley
in just a second. This has been a big Saturday
for college basketball in general, and seeding is just going
to be wild. There is actually something on the line
in this Duke North Carolina game above beyond just the
bragging rights of Duke North North Carolina. Duke is trying
to secure the number one overall seed in a year
the tournament that looks wild. They're the number one team

(40:50):
in the land and it's a weirdly quiet number one
for Duke, and they're taking on a North Carolina team
that certainly wants to try and play their way up
into the three seed four seed range and not find
themselves in the five seed range.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
So, like there's a lot on the line.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
For this and I just don't feel like it has
the same level of sizzle if I lost my mind.

Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 5 (41:12):
I mean, if you talk to anybody who's following college
basketball even since the NFL season ended, right, Duke North
Carolina is always going to have some level of hatred.
And maybe it's just because there are a lot of
Duke and North Carolina basketball fans just in the general populace,

(41:33):
whether they're from or went to either of these institutions, Like,
there are enough people that have a rooting interest in
this game. Whether you consider that to be you know,
real fandom or not. You know, that's a different conversation
for another day.

Speaker 4 (41:45):
I feel like in my part of the world, here.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
In the Southeast, I feel like there's been plenty of dialogue,
plenty of interest about this game, especially to see how
North Carolina continues to try and do this without Caleb Wilson.
So to prior to today's game. Tonight's game, he had
missed the previous six. He's now been ruled out for
the season. Their star freshman, he's going to have surgery

(42:08):
on Or has already had the surgery on a broken
right thumb that he has sustained during a practice. So
they have been without him since February tenth. They are
going to try and put up a fight at Cameron Indoor.
Are putting up a fight against Duke at Cameron Indoor. Duke,
I mean, you can't beat Michigan the way that they
did on a neutral court in Washington a couple of

(42:29):
weekends ago and be a quiet.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
One seed fits. I'm just going to disagree with you there.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
It's maybe it's just because not one.

Speaker 4 (42:36):
Seed but number one overall team.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
Maybe it's because I'm so used to just the vitual
that comes to Duke and between the players. Understanding the
players don't play for four years anymore, so the ability
to fall in hate instead of fall in love with
guys like Christian Laitner or JJ Reddick seems it seems
a little different right now. I think maybe it's just
because I'm used to people having such fiery opinion about

(43:00):
duke one way or the other. And this duke team
is I think you and I have discussed a little bit,
is almost likable. Like John Shire's ability to just step
in and take over for Coach K has taken some
of the edge of hatred, it feels like for some
people off And maybe that's in fairness because I'm living,
you know, twenty minutes from Yukon, which has become the
new villain in college basketball, and Danny Hurley certainly didn't

(43:21):
do anything to help himself in that conversation today. So
maybe because I feel the sort of way that Hurley
is perceived in Yukon is perceived, maybe it feels like I'm.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
In that bubble.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
I just feel like usually when we start talking about
duke number one duke, there is just such a loud
conversation about it, and you know, I don't know if
it's a sports calendar. I don't know if it's if
it's all these things combined. Maybe it's just maybe I'm
just lost on it. I just feel like a Coach
K team that had your usual duke villains, that was
number one in the land taking on Yukon would have

(43:53):
been just this explosive. It'd be this explosive thing that
we're talking about going into the tournament. And certainly even
when took down Michigan whatever that was last week, watching
that game, it felt like most people believed Michigan would
win that game. There wasn't this big like Duke moment,
even for them ascending to number one.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
There wasn't a man, we all got it wrong with Duke.

Speaker 2 (44:13):
Like, it just feels like Duke is just a normal
basketball team this year, which is fine for any of
the brand.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
This is not what I'm used to for Duke.

Speaker 4 (44:22):
Yeah, but you and I touched on this on Monday.

Speaker 5 (44:24):
For people who didn't hear it on two Pros and
a Cupature when Fitzy and I were filling in, well,
I guess that was just yesterday morning, and then we'll
be back on on Monday morning for those of you
who want to hang out with us again for a
couple hours in the morning and you drive. I think
that in the absence like not every Duke team has
had a villain player, right, so when they did not

(44:45):
have villain players, who was the villain? Ssski? Well, there's
plenty of people who don't like Czski. No matter, especially
when you when you win at the rate that Duke
and Coach K did. When you have the level of success,
it's hard for you to be viewed favorably. And then
you know, Coach K has some personality stuff that rubs
people the wrong way in certain moments, especially North Carolina fans.

(45:07):
Shire hasn't really had that. I think there was among them.
There was a disgruntled North Carolina fan in our building
on Friday that brought up to me the different ways
that he has found to hate John Shire, which I
think to be you know, kind of difficult and trying
to manifest things. I guess there was a court storming situation.
There was a court storming situation.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
In North Carolina. His coach got punched, right.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Yeah, yeah, and people are looking for you know, there's
cameras everywhere, right, there's phones everywhere, phones with high quality
cameras and things like that. Nobody can find evidence, apparently,
according to the North the disgruntled North Carolina fan of
this thing actually happening. So it's just he's just sitting there,
you know, huffing and puffing on. John Shire's just making
us up this cent and again it's like, okay, now
you guys are just looking for things to try and

(45:49):
hate this, and I'm fine with it because I think
hate is good in sports. I love when there is hatred,
legitimate hatred and rivalries. Obviously not advocating for like or
that kind of that kind of stuff, but you know,
I hate Perdue, I hate Kentucky. Those are Indiana basketballs,
I mean, theoretically greatest rivals, but Indiana basketball hasn't been

(46:10):
good enough to have rivalries against either of those programs
in the last couple of years. So you know, you
get to a certain point with those kind of teams
where those rivalries lose juice if one side of the
rivalry isn't doing their job. But in this particular case,
if Duke wins the national championship next year and John
Shire and all these different players that you're talking about,

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Boozer and people that you know, people that are looked
at differently than previous years in the history of this program,
if they win the national championship, people will be gunning
for People will find ways to hate them. John Shiro
will continue to be covered heavily. Not like there's a
lack of media coverage for Duke basketball at any point
and no matter who the coaches. But yeah, I mean,

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if they're in the spotlight long enough, people will start
to hate them. They just haven't really been in the
spotlight like that just yet. This is their moment. Now
we all just sit around and wait for their villain
turn at some point.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Yeah, I mean, you're right about that, that every moment
of greatness is met with the villain turn, which Yukon
has felt.

Speaker 3 (47:08):
We mentioned Dan Hurley. He was ejected with less.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Than a second left. They then put a second back
on the clock in a loss. Huskies lose sixty eight
sixty two to Marquette. Now a little context here. It
was a one bucket game. It was right down to
the wire. There was an opportunity for Yukon to tie it.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
There was a drive to the lane. No foul was called,
and Hurley hated it. Hurley absolutely, he believed that Silas
Tamari was fouled. He hated it, and he got right
in the official's face. And at least it looked like
on the review that he bumped into the official.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
He says he never bumped into him. The replay seemed
to be a little bit questionable. It looks like he
bumped into him from some of the screenshots. Hurley, of course,
responding to that, said quote, you could screenshot whatever you
want a screenshot.

Speaker 3 (47:58):
I don't feel like I made any con with John.
I don't believe I did. This is the usual, Like
I mean, you will talk about heros in villains. There's
no doubt that Hurley obviously loves being the villain for Yukon.
It's exhausting. It just wears me out. I'm so tired
of it. It didn't help his team.

Speaker 2 (48:13):
A technical was called on him in that process that
obviously they were going to lose the game either way.
But I love that even in that moment afterwards, there
wasn't I need to be better, I need to control
my temper better.

Speaker 4 (48:23):
No.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
His first thing to say is, you can screenshot whatever
you wants screenshot. I don't make any contact with John.
Like he's just curly being the petulant child that he is.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
I enjoy it, I really do.

Speaker 5 (48:38):
Like. I love the way that he goes at refs.
I love the way that he you know, I enjoy
the sideline antics. Now if he was doing it in
a game against the team that I root for, maybe
I would feel a little less and obviously if he's
doing it's it's far easier to look at him and
say petulant child when he's losing as a higher seed
where Marquette upsets them as the number four seed in

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the Big East regular season.

Speaker 4 (49:01):
Finale, So uh they are?

Speaker 5 (49:04):
I keep saying seed ranked team number four ranked, Yukon.
Not a great way to end the season heading into
conference tournament play, which is gonna be a lot of
fun in a couple of different conferences. I don't know
what it's gonna look like down here in Nashville for
the SEC tournament. I'm gonna be doing my show locally
here from that all through I guess Wednesday through Friday,

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in the middle of free agency. It's going to be
a bit chaotic. But I don't know. I mean, Hurley,
do you do you want him to be?

Speaker 4 (49:32):
Do we want people to be conciliatory? Conciliatory? Like?

Speaker 5 (49:35):
What do you as a fan gain from seeing a
humbled and you know, hat in hand if he wore
hats Danny Hurley, Like, I don't. I don't think that
that's that's who you want that guy to be?

Speaker 4 (49:50):
Right?

Speaker 5 (49:50):
There have to be villains in sports, don't There for
the for for there to be the kind of emotion
that's required. It can't all be happy, feel good, sportsmanship,
all these different things. And I'm not saying the lack
sportsmanship or anything like that. I don't think this is
a moment that lacks sportsmanship. I think he probably I mean,
in an honest moment. If if after he cools down
a little bit, does he think, you know, differently of

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the situation after the factor, Maybe somebody shows him something
that it's a different angle than what he thinks in
real time, and maybe he changes his tune the next
time he's in front.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
Of the media. I don't know. Maybe he doesn't. I don't.

Speaker 5 (50:22):
I don't really want him humble. I don't want to
humble Danny Hurley like that. That sucks. I want him loud,
I want him petulant. I want him screaming at people.
I want somebody in sports that gives it a little
extra juice. And he does that. He fills that role.
He plays that role as well as anybody on any
sideline in America, regardless of sports.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Oh my god, Fine, but then don't act like you
are just the victim. This man acts like he is
the one.

Speaker 5 (50:52):
He is in the middle of it, in the heat
of the moment, though, like when all of these things happen,
I hate postgame immediate post press conferences. Okay, and you
know NFL is different than in college basketball, is different
than NBA whatever, But like I hate postgame press conferences
as somebody who regularly does postgame press conferences, because I'm
asking a coach about stuff they haven't seen or stuff

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they don't have access to when I have seven thousand
different angles of things and much better perspective on it,
and they don't have those perspectives or those different points
of view until the Monday when we do the recap
press conference. Like, the postgame press conference is one of
the most fundamentally useless things in the world. Other than
there's there does tend to be a little bit more
raw emotion if he thinks that something happened in game

(51:35):
or didn't happen in game, that you know, after the fact,
he realizes, oh, yeah, I was just caught up. There's
a million things flying around me at that point in time,
and I did the thing that I said I didn't do.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
I'm not mad at Danny Hurley about that, no.

Speaker 2 (51:48):
But the next time I hear Danny Hurley issue an
apology in front of a microphone will be the first
time I've heard Danny Hurley issue an apology in front
of a microphone. And even in this instance, when they
were asked if he expected to be suspended, he said no,
he didn't make contact, and then said, I've been ejected before.
I've I've been back out there. It's not my first rodeo.
That's the problem. Like, no matter how many times they
eject him, no matter how many things he screams, no

(52:10):
matter how much he cries over and over and over
again to everybody that will possibly listen, he just keeps
coming back and doing it, and we let him get
away with the The man makes eight point three million dollars
per year. He is the highest paid educator in the
state of Connecticut. We can argue all day long how
much educating he's actually doing. All I'm saying is that
if you stand up in front of a team of

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college athletes and tell them that they need to act
a certain way because they have Yukon on their chest,
then you need to do the same damn thing when
you are the head coach of that basketball team. And
I'm saying that knowing full well that we are on
in Hartford. One of our affiliates is on in Hartford.
I live twenty minutes from this. Every time I say
something about Yukon, somebody tweets me with you don't really understand.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
Now.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
I understand better than everybody because I listen to this
jackass over and over and over again every single week
act exactly like this. It's exhausting. The whole world doesn't
have it out for you, and if they do, you
might want to look in the mirror and figure out
why you're part of the problem, because you are part
of the problem. Like I get it. Heroes and villains

(53:13):
are good for sports, and it's good for what we do.
It's just exhausting listening to It's like listening to my
passive aggressive mom every time she wants to be passive aggressive.
Just say we do damn chest Pam, Just say it,
we do chest Hurley all right, like and say it
once and then move on.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Good God, Like the guy just wears me out.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
I love Yukon basketball. Living in this neighborhood, it's great.
Hurley is just too much. He's buck rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Now that I've equated a very successful basketball coach to
might not so successful Mom, Yes, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
Buck Well.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
I was just going to say, I don't know how
many more comedically better names you could have used than Pam.
And what I will tell you with my chest is
that the best pregame show every weekend is on Fox
Sports Radio. They're Countdown presented by Bett MGM every Saturday
and say morning from nine am to noon Eastern six
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(54:06):
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Speaker 2 (54:16):
We spent so much time talking about the Max Crosby trade,
but there have been two other very significant trades this
weekend so far in the NFL. In the last couple
of days. We'll break down what they actually mean for
Super Bowl contenders when we come back. Bucking Fits on
Fox Sports Radio. Still haven't talked him into frozen grapes.
Frozen grapes are delicious? Why are we being fined? How

(54:39):
am I possibly being fine?

Speaker 4 (54:40):
Uh? Not way, sweetheart, That's all.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Mine being fined for? What am I being fined for?
Frozen marriage?

Speaker 4 (54:45):
Tell him what you just told me before you turned
on microphones.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Let's go.

Speaker 6 (54:50):
My thing is, every time I hear these rejoins, I
just hear something new to hate on.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
And I finally caught the Porsche controlled part. I don't
know why I never heard that part till now. Yeah,
portion control, because I'm not a monster here. I'm measure
my macros. I measure my macros here. No it's not
I'm disciplined. I am disciplined. I am trying to get
my abs to have abs.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
I can't just go willy nilly when I've got you know,
twenty milligrams and edibles in my system. If I don't
have these Porscha controlled, I'm gonna eat the entire bag
of grapes the next day.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Porsa controlled.

Speaker 4 (55:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Yeah, I pre measure my grapes, pre measure my grapes,
put them in a little baggies, pre measured when I
freeze them.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
That is that way. I just go in, I pull
out a little baggy, pull out a little.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Baggy of snacks, and I know that I will not
over indulge, like I know right now that I have
one hundred and twenty seven.

Speaker 3 (55:33):
Calories left for the day.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
I'm going to enjoy those with a rice crispy treat
and a few frozen grapes.

Speaker 3 (55:39):
That's That's what that's called. Discipline. People.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
My fat ass just got up in the middle of
that commercial break, walk to the vending machine and got
a snickers.

Speaker 4 (55:48):
Oh my god, what kind of you know?

Speaker 5 (55:52):
The beautiful part of this is I will let you
get to whatever you want to get to here in
just a second, FITZI I uh am supposed to be
the show. Okay, like this is, and it's not just
not supposed to be. I am okay like that is
a title that I've had my entire life. I'm a snob.
I'm the latest, and I'm good with it. Like self
awareness is key. The best advice I've ever been given

(56:14):
in any in any facet of life is the sooner
that you could admit you're a d bag, the easier
life becomes.

Speaker 4 (56:22):
And I know that I am okay and it's freeing.
I love it.

Speaker 5 (56:25):
It makes me very very happy, and I'm happy to
tell anybody that I come across, Yes, I'm that guy,
except when I sit across from you. Okay, because you
you are under some kind of impression that you are
not equally as snooty as I am. But the person

(56:45):
who talks publicly about counting their macros and how many
calories they have for the rest of the day and
portion controlled and all these things, it's okay to do them.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
We don't have to hear about it. It's okay.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
Also, how many you you say abs on top of
your wraps, how many abs you have?

Speaker 4 (56:59):
Right?

Speaker 3 (57:00):
I got one? I've got one?

Speaker 4 (57:01):
App is like a weird growth.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
I mean, that's the funny thing.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Is like, like, I've worked my ass off tiressly for
two years at this point, almost two years. May seventeenth
will be two years of absolute dedication and work.

Speaker 3 (57:15):
And if we if Buck and I walked in together,
nobody would.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Be like, oh yeah, one of these guys is a sacrificing
and the other guy isn't.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Like I completely acknowledge this. I am trying so hard.
But when you get you know, I mean, come on, man,
like I'm gonna be for what it's worth. I'm gonna
be forty nine in a couple of months. I gets
tougher at my age, am to just to cut these things.
I know I look good for my age. I'm not
gonna lie about that.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
But like it gets tougher and tougher as you get
to this pot to see and like I keep thinking
that I'm gonna be happy with wherever I end up,
and then.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Wherever I end up, I don't quite have the apps
and want yet. No, I'm just done. I set out
for a goal.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
I'm very goal oriented book, so if my goal is
to get ABS, I refuse to stop short of that.
But I may at some point soon have to give up.
I may just have to decide that God looked at
me and said, not you've that, Jesus, you don't get
the apps, like I will say, though, I saw I
saw somebodies from ESPN the other day at a minor
league hockey game, and I haven't seen some of them

(58:09):
in several years.

Speaker 3 (58:10):
And the first thing that a couple of them said is,
oh my god, you got Jack, dude. This is the
best thing you could tell me.

Speaker 2 (58:15):
Is because at least like people notice some small difference
when I haven't seen them in a minute.

Speaker 3 (58:19):
But I'm telling you buck, like I really do. Like
it's it's a nightmare. If I walk into a room
and I see people haven't seen for years, and nobody says, wow, God,
have you been in the gym? Like at this point,
if that doesn't happen, I might as well just crawl
into my bed and sleep for three days because I'm
just sad.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
When's the last time you and I have been in
the same place in person? Was that Super Bowl? Two
super bowls ago in New Orleans?

Speaker 3 (58:40):
New Orleans?

Speaker 4 (58:41):
Was last year?

Speaker 3 (58:42):
Not this super Bowl? But yeah, yeah super bowls A.

Speaker 5 (58:44):
Yeah, yes, okay, So the when when we all get
together as a show in LA, because I'm going to
be in LA at whatever point the NFL puts out
the schedule for the year. The Titans will play at
Los Angeles this year. So we're gonna make FITZI schlept
from Connecticut to Los Angeles so we can all be together.
We have to the three of us, Ian and Mary

(59:05):
and myself. We all have to commit to the bit
that none of us will compliment Jackson fits on his
physical appearance.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
You know what, here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
By the time, now that I have that date, like
my guy Jeff always asked me to give him important
dates on the calendar, Like I just gave him a
birthday is an important date like dates I want to
look good right Like for me, I'm gonna circle that
date and I'm gonna tell him, look, I don't care
what you have to do.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
I don't care what kind of shape you have to
put me in.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
And then you're not gonna have a choice put to
say anything, because I ain't gonna wear a shirt like
I'm gonna walk.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
In and there will be no shirt at all.

Speaker 2 (59:33):
And let me tell you something, I'm gonna be waxed,
like you'll be able to eat putting off of me
and not get a hair like. It's gonna make make
sure that literally every portion of upper body as far
as you there will not be in out. There will
be no hair anywhere, like if I got to get
a lasered off. I'm gonna make sure that every app
has the chance to ripple through.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
And all you're gonna think.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
The whole time is God, that's a lot of nipple,
Like there's just no there will.

Speaker 3 (59:56):
Be no hair. What is happening right now?

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
The first thing I'm gonna say to you is you
look like a forty nine year old naked mole.

Speaker 4 (01:00:08):
Rat Martin, give.

Speaker 9 (01:00:09):
Us some updates, all right, McDuffie trade, Oh yeah, oh yeah,
my amend you disgust me?

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
My god, that really though, Martin, If you want to
give us the scores, you can.

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
I mean, I just got to say the score right now,
buck one fits none a man, I mean, what are
we doing?

Speaker 4 (01:00:34):
A man?

Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
Go all right?

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
And that's and that's all. That's an all time score,
like all time quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:00:39):
That's that's it.

Speaker 5 (01:00:40):
I'm all time undefeated. LeVar Ball never lost a right,
you definitely took the dub in that segment.

Speaker 3 (01:00:46):
I'm getting so much waxing done before we see each
other in the falls.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Nobody wants to eat a bathroom body works candle. It's
gonna be all waxed.

Speaker 10 (01:00:53):
Drop to drop, all right, Nobody wants to eat pudding
off you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
We're just gonna pull that audio. It's ago you region.
You sure don't want to eat putting off me, nobody.
There's somebody out there. It's ready for body pudding. I'm
telling you. Are you so listening? Are you as that
was going on here? Are you right now? Spernero is going.

Speaker 5 (01:01:17):
To text us and say you're never getting in front
of microphones ever again?

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
Good thing? This is radio. I mean this was he
had to blur this out on TV.

Speaker 6 (01:01:25):
I said, forty five left in the third quarter of
the Pistons lead the Nets sixty seven to forty eight,
the seventy six and Hawks and a tight one Atlanta
with seventy nine to seventy seven lead Tyrese Maxie with
twenty two points, Jalen Johnson matching him with twenty two himself.
The Magic Lead beat the Timberwolves one, nineteen to ninety two,
Palo Bancaro with twenty five points and fifteen rebounds. Anthony

(01:01:48):
Edwards had thirty four points, and college basketball had a
major upset. Marquette beat the fourth length Yukon Husky's sixty
eight to sixty two, Dan Hurley getting ejected in the
final second of the game for bumping into an official.
The Ravens have resigned backup quarterback Tyler Huntley, Packers trading
defensive tackle Kolby Wooden to the Colster Ziar Franklin, a

(01:02:09):
linebacker forty nine Ers and kicker Eddie Pinero agree to
a four year contract. The Eagles make defensive tackle j
Jordan Davis the highest paid no tackle in the league,
on a three year extension. Connor McGovern and the Bills
have agreed to a new four year contract extension to
keep the middle of their offensive line intact. Rams cornerback
Darius Williams retired after eight seasons, and Cowboys have not

(01:02:31):
been able to come to an agreement with a long
term contract extension for Brandon Aubrey, so the team has
moved to a restricted free agent tender worth five point
seven million, and that if the team can match it,
and Cowboys have opportunity to match that, and if they don't,
they'll get a second round pick. And you know, I
was trying to come up with a joke, but I

(01:02:53):
got nothing. I really got nothing. I really am I
don't know. I was host to host show in a
half an hour. I'm totally distracted right now.

Speaker 3 (01:03:04):
I've got to be sitting there wide eyed.

Speaker 4 (01:03:06):
I got to recap thinking about body pudding.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
It's going to be all for the rest of it.
I'm not in my life contemplated this before. And now
I have so many questions, none of which I should
ask back to you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
Nilla wafers are always the answer. He's buck Rising. I'm
Jason fitz Bucket Fish Human.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
Sports. Welcome to the Last ever bucket fits on. I
got scared there for a thank you so much, thank you,
thank you so so much.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
All Right, So I've had an epiphany, not about body pudding,
but about the NFL. Uh And I can't believe I've
had this epiphany, but it finally hit me. I said
something to you a couple of days ago that I
think applies to more than just quarterbacks. We were talking
about whether quarterbacks need to lift up talent or talent
needs to lift up quarterbacks, and I mentioned at the
time it's a little like a teeter totter or a seesaw,

(01:03:57):
depending on where you grew up. Like in the beginning,
I think you have to surround a bunch of a
bunch of talent around that young quarterback, and that talent
is really the weight, and then over the years, the
quarterback becomes the weight and they lift everybody else up.
I feel like that's the same thing with draft picks,
because earlier I said, how do you get great You
nail it with the draft over and over and over again.

(01:04:18):
And if you nail it with the draft, and I'm
not talking just about first rounders, I'm talking about second, third, fourth, fifth,
If you just consistently nail it with the draft and
development and depth. Then it provides the opportunity eventually when
you're really good, to say f them picks. And so
often what we see, like the Raiders get two first
rounders for back Scrosby. Well, in theory, you know, hopefully

(01:04:41):
they don't blow it with these first rounders. It could
be a real opportunity to reset, but realistically most teams
suck don't do well with those. The opposite of it
is the Rams have drafted so well as an organization,
not just at the first round they've traded their draft pick,
notine in the last ten years, right, but the rest
of the draft they've nailed. They've nailed so much of
how to put together their and then they continually aggressively

(01:05:03):
trade high draft picks for young talent they can still
get a few years out of that they still believe in.
So Trent McDuffie gets traded to the Rams, and the
whole time I just keep thinking, well, of course, this
makes sense because they are at a spot where the
majority of their fifty three is good. Like the same
exercise we talked about earlier, if you ask yourself, how
many of these.

Speaker 3 (01:05:21):
Players would start on a playoff caliber football team. The
answer for the Rams buck is a bunch, and when
that's the answer, then you can be more aggressive. Like
part of the reason you didn't love the Ravens trade
was they have a lot of holes. The Rams don't
have a lot of holes. So while they're in a
Super Bowl now window, saying FM picks is actually a
really smart strategy because of where they are in their
window and where they are with their total roster today.

Speaker 5 (01:05:44):
Well, this was a fact. It's not a stat but
a fact that was given to me on the local show.
I guess at some point within the last two weeks.
I can't remember if it was while we were a
combiner or this past week with all the information flying around,
I guess it would have been this week because we
were talking about the McDuffie trade. It happened while we
were live on the air here in Nashville. Do you
know who has made the most draft picks of any

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team in the last ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
I'm going to guess, because you're asking me, the Rams
are going to be the.

Speaker 4 (01:06:12):
End, it's the Rams. It's the Rams.

Speaker 5 (01:06:14):
Shout out Robert Walsh for finding that fact. They are
not actually a bleep them picks team. They are a
bleep them first round picks team. They are eating feasting
in fact less Need and his staff in the bulk
of the draft. On Day two and Day three, they
are hitting on cost effective, starting caliber players across the board. Now, listen,

(01:06:39):
everything is cyclical, especially in an inexact science like the draft.
So is that a sustainable way for them to continue
to operate For them, it seems to be with a
decade of a sample size.

Speaker 4 (01:06:50):
The idea that they've made more picks than.

Speaker 5 (01:06:52):
Any other NFL team in the last decade, despite everybody
thinking that they just trade picks away at will, is
one of the easiest things.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
It was mind blowing for me to hear that earlier
this week.

Speaker 5 (01:07:03):
So to their credit, they have enough confidence in the
rest of their system and their staff and their process.
However you want to describe this to make sure that, yeah,
the first round pick is the thing that shiny and
bright and everybody thinks is going to be the thing
that changes the.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Entire future of your team in the draft. But instead
of leaving that up to fate.

Speaker 5 (01:07:23):
And using our high variance risk situation on a first
round draft pick that may be a good player. It
may not be a good player depending on what the
hit rate, the average first round hit rate is for
NFL teams. We're going to use those first round picks
to buy essentially quality, proven starters in the NFL and

(01:07:44):
then just bank on the fact that we know what we're.

Speaker 4 (01:07:47):
Doing better than just about any other team.

Speaker 5 (01:07:49):
You might debate the merits of that, but I think
their track record speaks for itself that we're going to
be able to get this done on Day two and
Day three, and the first round pick isn't anything, but
you know, a shiny where you do have more opportunities
to take chances on an Anthony Richardson type situation.

Speaker 4 (01:08:06):
I know that's an extreme example of that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:08):
Not everybody's drafting, Like Taylor Green is not going to
be a first round draft pick, the Arkansas quarterback who
has some of the freaky athletic characteristics at least as
far as the combine testing goes, as Anthony Richardson did.
But still, you understand my point. They don't need the
first round picks because they're using them in more viable ways,
in a more exact way than just about any other
team in the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Yeah, and That's the interesting part about it is that
so often we talk about the coaches, and we talk
about the quarterbacks. But to me, there are a handful
of gms or team runners, whatever that might be, that
are just better than everybody. A few years ago, field
Yates tweeted out when the Chiefs were in their second

(01:08:50):
second straight when they won their second straight Super Bowl,
field Yates tweeted out the success of the Kansas City
Draft in second, third, fourth, and fifth round picks over
the course of a five year period, and all but
one player at the time from those drafts that was
picked second, third, fourth, and fifth was on the Chiefs roster.
That buck speaks to what you're talking about. Like Les's
need is a cheat code, Howie Roseman is a cheat code,

(01:09:11):
not just for the way that they acquire players, but
for the way that they utilize the draft. It's one
of the craziest things to me that in a sport,
in a league where there is no cap for how
much you can pay a front office person, I genuinely
don't understand. Like, if Mark Davis really wanted to turn
around my beloved Raiders, the first thing he could have
done years ago was just gone to Howie Roseman and said,
I'll give you a hundred million dollars, like there's got

(01:09:31):
to everybody has a price.

Speaker 3 (01:09:32):
Million dollar man, straight up, I'll give you whatever it takes.
If I'm a team that sucks, I'm going to less
need and I'm saying, hey, how much you want, what's
the dream?

Speaker 2 (01:09:41):
I'll pay you more than we pay anybody in the
history of this organization. I'll make you the part owner
if I have to.

Speaker 3 (01:09:47):
I want you to come on to this team and
do with this team, to this team that you've done
with the Rams, because certainly the Rams are in a
window right now with Stafford, and let's see how it
looks when they don't have Stafford.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
They're going to have to figure out their quarterback future.
But I love the way they're handling all of this,
and it's about being strategically aggressive. Like we're going to
question for a long time whether or not the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Were correctly strategically aggressive in acquiring Sauce Gardner because we
don't really know if Daniel Jones is the quarterback for
the future. I'm not sure if this season goes off
the rails they don't get something worked out positive with
Daniel Jones and they suck. Is stichen gonna be one
foot out to do? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
There's so many stability questions with them, it doesn't necessarily
make sense right now to know if they were being aggressive.

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
The Rams don't have any of those stability questions. The
Eagles don't have any of those stability questions.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
So like we all understand where stability comes in those organizations,
and that gives you the opportunity to be particularly aggressive.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
Speaking of things that are unstable. If you missed any
of today's show, you'll want to.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Catch the podcast.

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Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast
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it's probably not in our best interest to have this
stuff documented what we've done for the last little under
two hours. Be sure to follow the podcast right of
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you are so inclined.

Speaker 4 (01:11:05):
We do love your reviews.

Speaker 5 (01:11:07):
Again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast,
and you'll find today's full show posted right after we
get off the air. Unless what happens last week happens
this week and you get an hour of Karm and
Alex in our podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:11:21):
It's fine. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm just lashing
out recklessly.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
I mean, at the end of the day, if that,
if that protects us from our own nill away for
content that's probably not the mighty better. I mean, that
might be better at this point. He might just be
my making smart career decisions. From the first time hearing
of this, Oh oh yeah, oh oh Mary, how's that
not a fine? He went to a microphone to call
out the producer without saying anything to the producer first.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
That seems like that's a bad teammate. Fine, who are you?
I'm trying to question your authority in here. I'm the
body pudding man.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
All right, you know what, it's time for the single
greatest game show in the history of sports talcer God,
would you rather coming up next to Bucking Fits? Bucks
still getting fined somehow someway? Would you rather coming up
next on Fox Sports Radio? Nope, it's Bucking Fits hanging
out with you on Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising.

(01:12:19):
I'm Jason Fitz. Saturday night. We'll be back with you,
by the way, Monday morning. We're in for two pros
and a cup of Joe the two of us will
be hanging out getting your morning set.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
So don't forget.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
NFL Free Agent Legal Tampering starts at noon on Monday,
so we'll have plenty of time to break that down.
What you think we're not going to get invited after after,
you know, body putting, I.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Think that would be wise.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
I think I think Brady and Levarr and Jonas would
be like, you know, maybe maybe maybe think about something again.

Speaker 3 (01:12:46):
I'm going to call an audible on this one.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
Let me have someone else in.

Speaker 5 (01:12:48):
There, like you know what, Like, no, I'm not going
to be dragged down by you and your body pudding. Okay, Like,
let me let me do this and then you we will.
This may be the part where we this may be
the point where we part ways, you and ire.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
I mean, here's the thing, like like Brady is too
pretty for body pudding, LeVar is too cool for body pudding.
So then it would have to definitely go to Jonas,
Like Jonas is gonna be the sorry buddy, like Jonas
is in, Jonas.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
Is gonna be the body putting. Like that's it. That's it,
That's where that's where we are. We'll be in for
the three of them. And uh, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Like, I can't guarantee you I can't guarantee you that
I won't bring body pudding, and I can't guarantee you
that Buck will actually wear clothes because it gets.

Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
Really weird when he's up that early. That's what happened.
So that's a dangerous combination.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
It's time for the single greatest gape show in the
history of sports talk radio.

Speaker 3 (01:13:35):
Though it is time right now for what you rather there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:45):
Guys, don't think I have to or fix it.

Speaker 3 (01:13:52):
I meany We got there eventually, Yeah, it was.

Speaker 10 (01:13:55):
It was all right the second two words. We're in line,
but it's always you just need that first word to
kind of like established things.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Blondond, I'm sorry, who's running the show? Back there? You two? Okay?

Speaker 3 (01:14:09):
What does that say about you? How about?

Speaker 4 (01:14:11):
How does it feel to be attached to all this? Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:14:13):
Wow, I can't look at that. You need to talk
to your therapist about displacement. Go ahead, go ahead, give
us a give us what you got here.

Speaker 4 (01:14:26):
You talked about therapists.

Speaker 10 (01:14:29):
Okay, So would you rather be locked in an empty
room without any windows, clocks, or human contact for an
entire year? But you get one hundred million dollars at
the end of it, or would.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
You rather not do that?

Speaker 4 (01:14:44):
I'd rather not do that. That sounds awful.

Speaker 3 (01:14:47):
Okay. Is there a price tag?

Speaker 4 (01:14:48):
Though?

Speaker 1 (01:14:48):
Like?

Speaker 10 (01:14:49):
Is there? Because I struggled with how much money the
prize should be? The like, if it was a trillion dollars,
would you do it?

Speaker 1 (01:14:56):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
I don't think I would. That sounds like like the
hell you would be ever warped. I mean a year
in total isolation, you would be a totally different person.
On the other side of that. What good would the
money be? But you would you would? Yeah, Okay, it's
what that is. One of the perfect encapsulations of money
does not buy happiness, all right, Like, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:15:19):
Maybe I'm stubborn.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Maybe people would think I'm insane for saying no to
any amount of money. But there is not an amount
of money you could put in front of me to
make me want.

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
To do that.

Speaker 3 (01:15:28):
I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take
one hundred million.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
I mean, associopath look like.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
So it's funny because, especially when you first start in Abandon,
you have to do West coastuff. You just have to
ride in the tour bus. The whole time. So sometimes
you're on the bus for twenty four hours to day
four or five days in a row, and everybody ever
toured with always got so antsy by day three or
four of Like I can't move off this bus, and
I'm like, what are we complaining about? Like, I just
I don't I sit still fine in those situations when

(01:15:55):
I know that there's an end game towards all of it,
Like I'd need to be able to shower and shave
and things like that, so why I still feel human
during the process.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
But yeah, like and ideally if you gave me some books,
that'd be nice. But yeah, if one hundred million dollars
at the end of three hundred and sixty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:09):
Five days, I'm disciplined, baby, I'll take that one hundred
million dollars crazy or not, I'll lop some of that
off for the therapy I'll need afterwards, and then boom.
I mean, I'm gonna go to Abtha and take all
the pills I'm in one hundred percent, one hundred million dollars. Woo, No, Marcus,
rustle the hell out of it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:23):
But come on, what I mean, I'm just saying, I'm
gonna party my way through one hundred million dollars afterwards,
So yeah, I'll take all the money, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Yes, we knew if he was unhanded, if the last
hour of the show did not already.

Speaker 10 (01:16:37):
Tell us this, okay, would you rather be okay? Another
another thing about being trapped? Would you rather be trapped
in a spacious capsule way out and outer space or
at the.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Bottom of the ocean spaces capsule and outer space?

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
Because at least then I feel like I feel like
the whole time, I'd be thinking that the ocean's going
to collapse. Whatever I'm in in the ocean, then I'm
gonna drown to death. And that sounds so scary.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
Are you watching? Are you on like a prison movie
kick or something like that? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:17:05):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Ian? What are we working through here?

Speaker 4 (01:17:07):
Buddy?

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
I don't even know. I don't even know. These just
came to me today again concerns.

Speaker 10 (01:17:13):
You use a good mixture of chat, GPT and just
like brain power here, this was a brain power.

Speaker 5 (01:17:20):
One, not something that I would claim is brain power.
But I will also take the I will take the
Martian experience. You can send me to the spacious capsule
and out of space, I don't know. There is something
specifically claustrophobic about the ocean and the darkness of the
depths of the ocean.

Speaker 4 (01:17:38):
I don't want that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Oh, I got news for you about space. It's dark. Yeah,
but I'm in a cap if I'm in the big
I'm in a capsule. Do I have lights in the capsule?
Like maybe a lava lamp? Yeah, you can have a
lava lamp. Okay, and I'm good. You want to get
us another one?

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
That's all he only needs.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
Oh, that's all. That's all. That's all I wanted.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
Was it was?

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
It was the lava lap gives one more.

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
Wheel? Was buffering?

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
All right?

Speaker 10 (01:18:06):
Would you rather be able to get your energy through
photosynthesis instead of eating, or be able to get eight
hours worth of rest and recharge in just a five
minute nap?

Speaker 4 (01:18:16):
Oh? That the ladder? I because I'm a terrible sleeper anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:18:20):
Like, if I can get five consecutive hours of sleep
in any one night, I'm having a good day. So
if I could, if I could feel like I got
eight hours and five minutes photosynthesis. You have to have sun.
Like FITZI hasn't seen the sun in six months. He
lives in Connecticut. It sounds awful.

Speaker 3 (01:18:35):
You know what they say? What are they? Ain't no
rest for a wicked well that is. I think I
would take the I don't I love the idea having
that much time. I'd have twenty three hours, I'd have
almost twenty four hours, So I'm in for that. That's
more time than i can have body putting. Check us
out Monday morning. We'll be back with this tickm with
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