Buck & Fitz React to Arch Manning's Rebound, Kansas City's Collapse in Brazil & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
How do you know college football's back? Cupcakes?

Speaker 3 (00:07):
Baby, that's what we have all over the landscape of
college football.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
And what does that mean?

Speaker 3 (00:13):
That means that what you see today is not something
you should overreact to. Hear me loudly, Texas football fans.
Arch is no more back today than he was failed
a week ago.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
And I'm sorry to be the beacon of bad news.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm sorry to come in and just make everything a downer,
But realistically, the only real answer any of us have
on Arch Manning today is still who knows it's fucking
fits on Fox Sports Radio, on Fox Sports Saturday, hanging
out with you, coming to you live from the Fox
Sports Radio studios.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
And look, this is just something I'm gonna be consistent
on it.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I was consistent coming into the first game for Texas saying, hey,
doesn't it make sense that the first time starter might
actually first time real starter might struggle against a real
college football defense, and there might be a process to
which we're going to watch Arch Manning get better? And
then what you say, yeah, in the week one, week zero,
if you will, he struggled against Ohio State.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
So then all of a sudden.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
What did we expect today, Well, we expected that they
would come in and absolutely throttle like this is what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
This is what we see all the time in college football.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
If you want great matchups week one, that's fine, But
what does it mean you're gonna get week two. It
means you're gonna get hot and garbage. And that's what
most of the light up is today. It's just a
bunch of trashy football games. In one of those trashy
football games, if we're being honest, is Texas beating San
Jose State thirty eight to seven. Now it's really easy

(01:41):
for us to look at it and say, well, Arch
at two hundred and ninety five yards in that game, Like,
Arch was really good. Arch had a big day. He
had a bunch of touchdown passes. Okay, cool, I don't care.
You shouldn't care. Nobody should care. Like I get it
that we are so consumed with the concept of Arch
being the first overall pick in the draft that nobody
wants to listen to any actual logic. But my god,

(02:04):
he was nineteen to thirty for four touchdowns at a
pick could have been a second pick. Nineteen to thirty
four touchdowns in a pick for two hundred and ninety
five yards, to which I say, I do not care.
He's Buck rising, I'm Jason fitz Buck. I'm just I'm
just telling you. This is the thing.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Like I want Archie to be great. I think he
can be great.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I just want us to wait, I don't know, six
or eight weeks and then decide what we think about
arch I can't stand this teeter totter thing we're doing,
seesaw and.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Back and forth every week, got ars banning.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
Oh but it's beautiful. I mean, it's the best, isn't it?
Like Y's it's the worst parts of sports media, And
you know, honestly, like you hate it for the kid,
right because it's an awful way to exist week to week.
And you you know, your receiver drops a pass early
in a game against San Jose State, all of a sudden,
you're going out of the first quarter. What did he

(02:52):
have twenty two yards passing or whatever it was before
he hit the big completion for the touchdown to get
things going, and then obviously the turnover and momentum started
to shift. But like this is he has he has
been prepared for this. His entire life fits he and
maybe there's no way to actually prepare him for this
because you don't know what it's gonna be like until
you're in the middle of it. And obviously this thing

(03:14):
just started for real. But I it's just it comes
with the territory, it comes with the last name, and
I'm not I'm not like, I don't. I don't begrudge
him or anything like that, and nor do I begrudge
people who are just like, shut up and let the
kid do something, because it's a completely understandable situation.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
The hardest part for me is that my God, like
I realize, I'm no fun.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I realized this book, like I just speculation doesn't really
do much for me. Sometimes gossip doesn't really do a
lot for me. Like, you know, I'm just not a
real housewives guy. I'm not, and so I know.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I know.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
So then I look around at this and I'm like,
all right, y'all, here's the thing. If we just apply
our logic cap, which is not nearly as much fun
for sports talk radio or life in general, this is
why you know I'm a terrible date, right, Like, if
we just apply our logic cap to this arch isn't
coming out. He's not gonna be the first overall pick.
He's gonna play a couple of years in Texas. Over
the course of that couple of years, he's gonna get
really good and we're gonna see some really good football games.

(04:10):
But to get there, we're gonna have to sit through
some you know, you know what, while he grows into
the quarterback that he's gonna be and eventually he'll go
into the NFL, Well, maybe that continues to develop in
a way that gets everybody to be really happy and
feel like he's the quarterback of the future.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Like none of this is sexy when you say.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
It that way, like I'm out here killing dreams for
children all across America. But like' if we're being honest,
like it's that's that's the real take.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
The real take is Arch might suck, he might not suck.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Arch isn't coming out right away, and over time we're
gonna find out.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Why do I just have this image? By the way,
this is a wonderful way to start our first regular
Saturday together with America, with the and with Mary. He's
a terrible date. He's gonna man explain Arch Manning and
the media narratives around arch Manning to you if you
go on a date with Jason Fitz. That was my
main take away from your whole spield. That's what I'm saying.

(05:02):
Throw the flag, Mary.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Now I can't flag. The very concept of man's planning
is so weird to me.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
It's like, okay, so I can't tell you anything, then, like,
you're right, I just won't know anything because.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
It's not that you can't tell people anything, it's your tone.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Look, when people used to tell my mom it was
their tone, she would just look at them and say,
let me speak to you slower, and then she would
spell out the f wort before she said you. So, like,
I'm just I didn't come from a family that really
cares about tone block the tone hears the right tone.
Arch Manning is fine, okay, Like but but this is
just like Saints fans are gonna suck.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
All year and they're gonna be like it's gonna be
funny because we're gonna get arched. No, you're not.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
He's not coming out all right, Like Arch isn't gonna
come out. So you're not You're gonna suck. You're not
gonna get arch and then you're gonna suck again next
year like and if you're a Texas fan, you're not back.
You're not gonna win the National Championship. Arch is gonna
be good like like this. These are people need real talk,
all right. People need somebody to come in and give
them some level of explanation to what reality is.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
Wow, that's very noble if you take on that. Cause,
my god, I.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Hate I'm automne. What happened when you let me sleep?
I slept?

Speaker 1 (06:07):
No, no, no, I'm so happy for you. God almighty,
it's just a flamethrower and my eyebrowser singed. We must
let him stay in like.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
We're really burying the lead.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
This is, by the way, the first time Buck Rising
and I have been officially We want to take second
and thank everybody because we are officially going to be
with you every Saturday from six peel when you Eastern.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
This is amazing you known each other for a long time.
It's a blast.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
I thought I saw a social media post earlier today
where you did not have your mustache, and I'm now
I see you a closer person on the FaceTime and
you've gotten rid of it. And I just you know what,
I take back everything I said. Whatever you say for
the entire two hours is right, because you finally did.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
The right thing.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
You got rid of the very mustache that should have
banned you from being within two hundred yards of a school,
definitely banned you from being in any press box, and
certainly made your friends uncomfortable, even if they weren't willing
to admit it. So let's pour one out to Bucks
Mustache and accept that the world's a little bit better
today than it was when he had that weird furry
thing on his upper lift.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Fitz we need to start, I think on Saturdays. We
just need to call you, like, we just need to
call you really early in the morning to ensure that
you don't get enough of it. Like this is insane,
You're in rare form.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
I just I'm regret I'm almost regretting. He's thanking everybody
like he's accepting the Nobel Peace Prize because they stuck
us together for two more hours to bother people on
a regular basis, for Fitzy to tell people that the
masters are overrated, and all the wonderful things that we've
been hiding in the shadows. This offseason doing before football
season got started. I think it's like it's like it's

(07:46):
it's like a child. I assume I don't have any
or you know, a pet that you just gotta let
you gotta run. You gotta run them around the yard
a couple of times before you can get on with
your day. So that's what we're gonna have to do
every morning now, Ian to make sure that we can
that we can have civil dialogue around here without him,
without him trying to fight all of America over Arch Manning,
who had a fine day against a subpar team that had.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Auto Diesel College.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
He had like National Auto Diesel College was on the
schedule today.

Speaker 2 (08:15):
Okay, let's not turn it into something like State.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean I almost called them San Diego State.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
All right, raise your hand if you really knew that
the San Jose State mascot was the Spartans.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
And if you keep your hand up that way, we
all know who the liars in the room are. Like
nobody knew.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
They're like they're playing a glorified community college of a
football program.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Let's not turn it into.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Something That's fine. It gave us a little drama on
the front end. You wanted to talk about it, and
that's what this is, right, Like the Arch Manning dialogue
is going to be fascinating to follow all season long
because we know that they are they are I think
this year national championship or bust, right, that was the
whole dialogue around them. There may not be outright pressure,

(08:57):
loud pressure around Steve Sarkisian that there would be around
Kirby Smart who has national championships and has high standards,
or what's happening to Kaitlin de boor right now in
the middle of Alabama situation.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I just have to interrupt you and tell you, while
I don't care about Arch and cupcakes, there is a
cupcake that's suddenly feasting.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Kate club Nick just threw a pick six.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Troy is up sixteen nothing, pending the extra point seven
minutes to go in the second quarter. Now there's still
seven minutes going the second quarter. The kick is up
and the cake is no good. See, I shouldn't have
said anything, So sixteen nothing. Troy is up on Clemson
right now. Like I don't know, I'm over here telling
you a cupcake suck. But every year somebody gets bitten

(09:39):
by app State, Like that's the way, Wisconsin's in the
close one with MTSU. Come on, there are some cupcake,
there's some cupcake glory out here.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Put some respect on Murphy'sboro, Tennessee's own Blue Raiders who
lost to FCS Austin p to start the Derek Mason tenure,
who I know you remember well from our time together
in Nashville, the former Vanderbilt coach. But listen, this is
why you can't when anybody tries to tell you. And
I know you do this with Caroline Fenton on Yahoo
Sports Daily, and you talk a lot of college football

(10:08):
and you're obviously involved in a lot of the college
football prep around that situation. Don't let anybody tell you
that there's a bad weekend of college football, because there
is always opportunities. Because it's not the marquee event. That
next week will be right when we get this thing
kicked up in earnest, But like there's always some fun upsets.
And not to pray on Clemson's downfall, but Miami, that

(10:29):
ACC should be pretty wide open. It's vastly more interesting
with Florida State looking like they might be in the
mix and Clemson again talking about expectations they were talked
about as as presumptive favorites for the national championship this year.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
This is what's interesting to me.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Troy, by the way, they just flashed through the graphic
to eight all time against a top ten opponent. Troy
is up sixteen to nothing at Clemson. By the way,
at Clemsons, Troy's as we always expect in these situations.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
How far into the game book.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Do you have to get as a Troy fan before
you allow yourself to get excited? Like, I don't know,
when you know that ultimately you are playing against absolutely
the big brother.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
You know you're up sixteen nothing, You're still puckered up
if you're a Troy fan in that stadium?

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Right, Oh, hell yeah? I mean it's it's basically until
a WHI right, it's the two minute warning in the
fourth quarter, and then you can start to believe, and
then you know. In college football the reason why college
is among many reasons, I think way more fun than
the NFL, even if the NFL makes more money and
gets more eyeballs that way, but not by much. I
think that there is such fun in college offenses being

(11:36):
able to be down fourteen points in this situation and
still be able to come back because of the way
that the offenses are structured and how much different it
is from the pros, and obviously the level of talent
that you're facing. So yeah, it gives you a little
opportunity for drama, but you don't start to believe until
you make it deep into the final quarter of that
football game if you're Troy, because at any point we

(11:59):
know that teams can come back the way that the
flips the script flipped on Texas and uh San Jose
State today.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, that's exactly it.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Like anybody can hold on for a few minutes, it's
holding on for the entire game.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
It makes everybody nervous. There are some upsets.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
We will keep you on alert throughout the course of
the next couple of hours.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
If you just tuned in.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
This is the first of what will now be every
single Saturday, Buck Rising, Jason Fitz hanging out with you
come hell or high water, somehow, some way, They've decided
to let us do this week from six to eight pm.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Eastern Monday, Monday through Friday, every Saturday.

Speaker 1 (12:33):
I just automatically Monday through Friday, get the hell out
of here.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Friday, you came in and just de Saturday.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
I just I got gave me an inch, I took
a hostyle takeover.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
I'm heaving.

Speaker 3 (12:42):
Now we're just we're just squatter's rights we have. We've
now squatted and h we're gonna take the rights. Okay, Uh,
We're gonna keep it going on college football. We'll keep
you updated. But in the meantime, here's the real question.
How bad does it have to get for Kansas City
before we can finally admit that maybe it's not okay
for the Chiefs. We'll talk about it next these Buck Rising.
I'm Jason fitz hanging out with you on a Fox

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Speaker 3 (13:49):
Speaking of fat people and buck Crack Sweat, we got
a score in the Clemson game Troy. Clemson actually had
settled for a field goal here, so sixteen to three.
We now have a score from Clemson. They have cut
the margin sixteen to three as a margin. There also
other upset alerts. Wisconsin just scored, so they've given themselves

(14:10):
a little bit more space between themselves in MTSU Middle
Tennessee State. We'll keep you updated on the results and
Martin will help us with just a little bit with that.
It's Bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. He's buck Rising Up.
Jason Fitz coming at you from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 1 (14:47):
Wait, what they're gonna put us on YouTube?

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Well, I don't think we're gonna get like, I don't
think we rate high enough to get on the YouTube's
you know, like, Plus, you're in a different sit where
are you. You're in Denver right now, right Because for
anyone that doesn't know, Buck covers the Titans, so he'll
be with us every Saturday from whatever city the Titans
are in. So that means we're always going to be
your Prebender show or your Midbender show.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well, it is a Prebender tonight, which is I feel
the most appropriate way to go about the first show. Now,
beyond the first show, I can't promise anything like now
that we've got it to your point, squatter's rights. I mean,
there's no rules at this point, right, especially when I'm
on the road. That's not how we operate roadtrips. But yes,
I'm here to cover week one in the NFL Number

(15:31):
one overall pick cam Ward opening up against the Denver
Broncos defense, a team that led the league in sacks
last year, number one against the run, it should be
a slaughter. We'll see what happens. But to your point
about what we were talking about in the first segment
before we get into some NFL talk, Fitsie Clemson responding
that way is going to be. It's going to be

(15:52):
what you want to see in these early games, right
You're just looking to see how these quarterbacks get tested,
how they overcome adversity. Obviously, Clemson falling to LSU in
the first week of the season is going to present
them with some additional adversity where they're already facing a
lot of pressure and almost in the same light that
we've talked about with Arch Manning as opposed to it
being individual and an individual. This is on I guess Dabbo,

(16:14):
but mostly his team at this point in time, and
I'm looking forward to seeing what the results are. Well,
you got a score update in the old Miss Kentucky
game because Lane Kiffin was not having an easy time
with Mark Stoop's defense. Before we talk about what happened
with the travesty in Brazil last night.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Yeah, it's twenty to twenty.

Speaker 3 (16:30):
That game is tied, and it should be noted Caroline
Fent you mentioned I work with Caroline every Monday through
Friday on Yaho's Sports Daily.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
It should be noted.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
She pointed out that these games are wildly close every year,
so I rolled my eyes and said, now almost will
be just fine. It is tied right now, so they're
tied to twenty a pops. So yeah, we'll keep you updated.
We've got close games all over the place. Also, I've
got my eyes on Missouri in Kansas, which right now
is a four point game. Missouri's ahead. So a lot
of action out there that we've got our eyes on.

(16:59):
But last night we had our eyes on Brazil for football.
For some reason, I hate the International series, but I
did enjoy Friday night football. We had the Chargers and
the Chiefs, and Justin Herbert had a game that is
only going to make the legend of Justin Herbert Crow
even more.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
We are going to talk all year.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
About how it looked, but I do it left me
with a question book how bad does it have to
get for Kansas City before we actually feel like our
takes will change on the Chiefs, Because like yesterday morning,
My answer was, the Chiefs are going to the super Bowl,
because they go to the Super Bowl every year. I'm
just not worried about the Chiefs going to the super Bowl.
It that's a pretty easy one. Doesn't really matter how

(17:37):
good everybody else is. The Chiefs go to the super Bowl.
And then last night we saw the offense looked pathetic.
There was no wide receiver that could really get anything done.
They didn't have a very good running game. In their
defense got just absolutely shell ACKed by Justin Herbert. So
I'm looking around and I'm like, man, this feels daunting.
And one of my buddies said, yep, Chiefs are this
is it. I'm like, nah, Chiefs to go to the

(17:58):
super Bowl. So I find myself being part of the
problem here. Like I I take any outcome and I'm like,
I'll be fine by the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
It's the Chiefs or you're a battered Raiders fan.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
I mean, that's that's there are I don't.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
Know, like hell, I mean, even the Raiders fans do
a lot of battering. If I remember the old Oakland
Stadium correctly, that in Philadelphia, walking into the stadiums given
that I cover an NFL team. Those are the only
two places where I felt a little uneasy more working
my way through the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You have not experienced in Vegas. It's much different now.
Champagne and Caviar.

Speaker 1 (18:32):
We love, we love. I deserve that kind of an
NFL experience famously. But the situation for the Chiefs is this,
okay until at least for me, and it sounds like
for you, until we see them actually lose the division,
like not even get pushed down to the wire, because
they played a tremendous amount of one score games last

(18:55):
year and got away with a tremendous amount in these
one score games last year. Now that resulted in a
franchise record win total where they look like they underachieved,
but they still win fifteen damn games. So I'm not
pulling my hair out if I'm a Chiefs fan, I
understand that. For example, things like Travis Kelcey taking out

(19:18):
Xavier Worthy on a crossing pattern in the middle of
the in the early portion of the game, not just
for the fantasy football people who were losing their minds
if you had Worthy and aj Brown for of course,
the way that he didn't really get targeted on Thursday
Night Football. No, until I see Denver Vegas or the
Chargers actually win the AFC West will I believe that

(19:39):
the Chiefs are fraught. And even then I wouldn't want
to play them as a wild card. Are you insane?

Speaker 3 (19:45):
Yeah, that's I think that's part of the hard part
of it is that you see, you know, the building blocks,
the building blocks are all there no matter what happens.
To your point, like Kelsey last year, it felt like
was on a pitch count most of the year and
then in the playoffs suddenly unleashed what was remaining of
his turbo button. It works just fine. Like that seems
to be part of the approach. And I'm kind of
with you on this, Like, even if it looks ugly,

(20:05):
even if the one score games normalize and just regress
back to the means, if this team wins ten games
and go to the play goes to the playoffs, we're
all gonna be sitting there and saying, Okay, you got
Andy Reid for a playoff game. Like it's just hard
for me. And this is why, again, the fair and
fair and reasonable logical mind that I have right now says,
that's why I don't love early season fantasy football.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
It's why I don't bet on the.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
First month of the NFL season, because there is too
much that is being worked out.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
Like, do we really believe.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
That aj Brown is not gonna get a target until
the fourth quartermost games?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
No?

Speaker 3 (20:39):
Do I really believe that Patrick Mahomes isn't gonna figure out.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
A way to get better productivity?

Speaker 4 (20:44):
No?

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Do I think that these things happen?

Speaker 3 (20:46):
And what was essentially glorified preseason games for both of
these teams, Yes, Like you are going to sit through
ugly football tomorrow because the Titans are not ready in
Week one to take on the Broncos defense. And if
for some reason it all apart, I'm not going to
turn around and say, see, the Titans are going to
the playoffs and the Broncos suck. I'm going to turn
around and say it's Week one. Weird things happen in

(21:08):
week one. Like that's the real, honest answer. Weird things
happen in week one.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah. I mean that's and the NFL is more prone
to that than any other sport, except, as you've pointed
out correctly, not when we get into the postseason, and
really in the super Bowl, the favorite usually ends up
winning or at least participating that way. I am I
am curious to see how they try to manifest a
better deep deep passing game.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
Right.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
That was something that they came in talking about a
great deal. It was not something that they were adept
at last year or or they were surviving the way
that they needed to survive, which, to their credit was
good for fifteen regular season wins and another appearance in
the Super Bowl. He is having Mahomes is having too
much to try and put on superhero performances. And yes

(21:51):
he is a superhero, like he absolutely is, but to
ask that of him week after week, year after year
at this point where he has had what is it.
It's something like eleven different left tackles so far in
his career and they're starting a rookie last night. And
I'm not saying that he won't end up being a
good player in Josh Simmons, but it's just gonna take

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some time. And they have let this roster, they have
gotten away with it around Mahomes for too long, and
the rest of the league is just going to catch
up eventually, because there are good players everywhere and it
cannot just be asked of one individual. Each and every week,
but I know we have to get updated and everything
else in the world of sports.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
Yeah, like Litten, I've you made a perfect analogy.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
We'll continue this chiefs conversation on why Mahomes is Superman
and why that actually applies to right now.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
But first, Martin Wis.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
Let's get caught up on all of the action as
it happens right now.

Speaker 6 (22:43):
Well as it happens right now.

Speaker 8 (22:44):
Ninety seconds left in the first half and Clemson trailing
Troy sixteen to three. This game got through like five
minutes in the first quarter and had a massive weather delay,
so it was a little disjointed kind of what was
that the football game on Thursday night?

Speaker 6 (23:01):
Troy just got a first down.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
They have the ball and driving down the field again,
just over a minute left in the half.

Speaker 6 (23:09):
Here sixteen to three.

Speaker 8 (23:10):
Clemson in the lead in the sec right now, Georgia
with a twenty one to six lead with just under
six minutes left in the third quarter. This game was
also winning, whether to like Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss
just scored a touchdown to go up seven twenty seven
to twenty seven to twenty As the third quarter winds down,
Kentucky the ball fourth and eight. They're punting now to

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old miss Tennessee's and a laugh rover East Tennessee State.
They leave right now by fifty five points. Kansas just
scored a touch. I'm saying sixty five to ten. I
think we could seem to end there, like I think,
do we need more?

Speaker 1 (23:46):
They ask if they want to running clock in the
second half of a lot of these Tennessee games, and
a lot of these coaches just they don't want to
go down that way.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
Listen.

Speaker 8 (23:54):
I mean, I know we got to sell the commercials.
But lord, thirty one to twenty eight. Kansas leads Missouri
back of fourth, gave their nine minutes left in the
fourth quarter. Florida in a tight oney six nine to six.
The lead for the Gators over South Florida eight thirty
seven left in the third quarter, and in the big

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ten Ohio State up sixty.

Speaker 6 (24:16):
Three on Grambling Oregon.

Speaker 8 (24:18):
They had the back and forth in the media, Mike
Gundy and Dan Lanning talking about the money.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Well, is sixty nine to three is the score.

Speaker 8 (24:29):
I don't know what the nil budget dis bared, he is,
but sixty nine to.

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Three is the score.

Speaker 8 (24:36):
Oregon has not had a quarter in which they have
scored less than twenty points. It is now the fourth
quarter with fourteen minutes left, Wisconsint pulling away a bit
from Middle Tennessee twenty one to ten with under three
minutes left in the third quarter, and Rutgers leads Miami
of Ohio twenty four to ten twelve minutes left in
the third.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Back to you guys, he's Buck rising on Jason Fitzit's
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always pop up at the top of your screen. Buck,
you said a second ago that Mahomes is Superman, and
I think that's actually an apropos statement here, because look,

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I'm not a big I'm not a big superhero movie.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Guy, that's not like something I go see a lot of.

Speaker 3 (25:41):
But I was really intrigued by the most recent trailer
for the most recent Superman movie. So I went, and
I haven't seen a Superman movie since the first one,
like when I was a little kid. Like, it's just
not something that's part of my lexicut. So all of
the people on Twitter and ext that we're complaining about
and just endlessly how the movie was terrible and blah
blah blah, didn't catch any of that. I really enjoyed it.

(26:02):
But the thing that's interesting when you said it's the
Superman comp I kept thinking about in that movie. Part
of the reason that it was traumatic is you watched
the whole movie. Superman got his ass kicked, like over
and over and over again. He was just being thrown
around everywhere, and then all of a sudden, when he
needed to be Superman, he was. And at the end,
the good guys win, the bad guys lose, and things

(26:22):
blow up. That's what makes all of these movies so
much fun, right, Like that's the Kansas City Chiefs. I
really don't care at this point if Superman gets thrown
around the whole movie I'm not going to bet that
in the end somebody finds his kryptonite. That's I think
it's a perfect sort of statement by you, because I
feel pretty good that this all works out in a
way that he ends up being gloriously happy at the

(26:43):
end and he still maintains his Superman crown.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
I picked Baltimore to go to the Super Bowl this
year on the AFC side, and I just you know,
I over I mean, I don't think that's in any
kind of a like a kind of a strong position.
I think I think Jackson's the best quarterback in football,
though for the problems that he poses, and while Mahomes
still has a lot of these different things, I think

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that when you look at him, he has limitations in
the same way that every other player has limitations, Like
he is not so far and above beyond and above
the rest of the field. To me, maybe you feel differently.
He has the championships to his credit. He's outlasted the
other three that we usually talk about, and if you

(27:31):
want to consider Hurts, he's gotten one win over Hurts
and now Hurts has a Super Bowl ring himself. But
people don't typically talk about Jalen Hurts in the category
of Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, and Patrick Mahomes.
I just think that we're seeing that they have as
a team and as a coaching staff, found ways to

(27:51):
win within the margins, and that has helped him across
the course of his career, where he also has the
super Bowl or Superhero capa bill here. But I just
think that he's not quite Superman in the way that
I think people want to make him, because there are
other players who are as talented as him, they just

(28:12):
haven't had quite the luck or team surrounding them that
he had early on in his season in his career.
And that's not to denigrate him at all. Like I
have seen him work magic in playoff games. I was
there in the AFC Championship Game in twenty nineteen watching
the Titans take a ten to nothing lead at Arrowhead
and then to see him skirt away with a shoe

(28:34):
string tackle that Rashaan Evans missed and go into the
half with a touchdown and a lead, and just see
that the tsunami that comes after that. They have done
that too great success, but I do think that everybody
else is catching up to them. And so if the Chargers,
a good football team who we also expect to be contending,
pushed them last night and it still ends in a

(28:54):
one score game, I'm not overwhelmingly concerned about them. They're
just closer to the pack than I think most people think.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
I think I don't think that there's been a huge
delineation over the last few years between where the Chiefs
lie and where the rest of the.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
AFC good teams lie.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
The thing of it is, to your point you said,
he's made they've made a career out of like winning
in the margins. That's just when you get to the
best of the best in a playoff situation, it's all
about the margins, right, So what happens in the regular
season is fine. Like I don't think if you just
take the body of work of the entirety of the
regular season, the Chiefs haven't been necessarily that much better

(29:31):
than the Bills or the Ravens, if at all, over
the course of the last couple of years. But when
it comes down to needing that weird way to win,
they just they find a way to do it.

Speaker 2 (29:40):
Some people say it's luck. I say it's just part
of the identity of who they are.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
You're right, Like, if we were sitting here talking about, well,
you know, I want to pick the best throwing quarterback
in the NFL, I would take.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
Burrow over Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
You know, if I want to take the best athlete
a quarterback, I would take Lamar over Mahomes. But also,
if we were walking in today and we were just
suddenly in a fantasy draft and your favorite team, you
get the chance two minutes to go, you could pick
any quarterback in the league with two minutes to go
to get you down the field, that pick is clearly Mahomes.
So that's there's nothing changes that. So knowing that the

(30:15):
AFC Championship game is likely going to come down to
the last two minutes, I still give the advantage to Mahomes.
Knowing that a divisional playoff game in Buffalo would still
likely come down to the last two minutes, I still
give the advantage.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
And part of that is the coaching.

Speaker 3 (30:30):
Part of that is the confidence I think that comes
with having done it before. I do believe that there's
a calm that comes from just hey, we've been in
this situation. We know how to manage this situation. We
know how to win in this situation, and I think
there is something too. You know, the years of just
finding weird ways to lose gets in your mind if
you're Buffalo, so part of it is just having a
clear mind in it. But Buck, I think all of

(30:51):
this speaks to the fact that, yeah, the Chargers won
last night. That's a big win for the Chargers. That's
a big win for a team that should be in
the playoff hunt this year. I just don't think it's
necessarily a significant loss for the Chiefs because I'm not
going to buy that the Chiefs are out of playoff
contention until they have eight or nine losses, like all
the way up until then.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
And if they're in the.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
Playoffs, I want to see them die before I call
them dead. You know.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
It's Michael Myers.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Like, I want to actually see somebody take an acts
in one Michael Myers movie and behead him. Just cut
the head off for everybody to see, and then hold
it up and be like, Hank coming back. Now, I
got his head. And then he put it over in
like an Annabelle sort of like a little like cabinet
on the side, and you displayed You're like, here's Michael
Myers's head until I see the Chiefs just decapitated on

(31:35):
the side wall.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
In a trophy room.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
I'm not going to metaphor.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
Metaphora.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
You just want to get again. Hello America, We're happy
to be here with you Saturday, every Saturday five to
seven Central time, that you have just painted a picture
for the country of the bow Nick or Sean Payton
holding a headless Patrick mahomes up in their living room

(32:04):
as a trophy and route to winning the AFC West.
But I mean, it.

Speaker 2 (32:08):
Could have been Andy Reid. It could have been it
could have been any I mean, any of them.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
It could be the chief.

Speaker 2 (32:13):
Just off.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I have I almost went with some dark humor there
about last night's YouTube broadcast with the Instagram or TikTok
influencers displayed all over. Did you see this?

Speaker 2 (32:27):
Don't you hate it so much?

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Why did?

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Okay?

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Here's Buck Rising sent a group text out last night saying,
I can't wait to destroy this broadcast.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
We'll do that next night.

Speaker 3 (32:37):
Like for whatever reason, Buck decided last night that fun
should not exist in his football. We'll tell you why,
and we'll figure out if he's absolutely lost his mind.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
It's the debut of the weekly tradition now known as
Bucking Fits. A beacon of light in a dark, dark world,
coming at you on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 9 (32:53):
Yeah, no, Fox Sports Radio, it's fucking Fits on Fox
Sports Radio on a Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Coming at your live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz. He's actually live in
Denver as he prepares to cover the Tennessee Titans. I'm
just sitting down here watching college football on eighty seven
screens right now, realizing how much better life is when
we have football, and has me thinking Buck, because like,
I'll be honest everywhere I go right now.

Speaker 2 (33:31):
I could be on a vacation, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm gonna have a phone out with football long because
I have waited so long to have actual, meaningful football
games on the TV.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
It just feels right. It feels right.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
Hearing weird background noise from a game I don't care
about makes me happy on Saturday, Like, I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
So I was a little surprised whenever the let's say
hard to please.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
Buck Rising sends out a group text last night and says,
I can't wait to destroy this broadcast. Asked, what did
you not like about mister Beast being involved with our
football people being thrown out of Cannon's.

Speaker 1 (34:08):
Are you familiar with the comedian Shane Gillis?

Speaker 3 (34:11):
Now very yeah. Are you buddies with Shane Gillis? If
you tell me your friends with Shane Gillis, I'm gonna
be so mad right now.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
No, but I do think that we have fines to
kind of work through between the two of us, and
and some recent travel and experiences and things like that
that I'm just too self involved to not share at
some point with the audience. I know, but I have
been at Taylor Lawan's Beer Olympics with Shang Gillis. But
that's not the point you. That's probably you're fine.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
No.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
I tried to get the invite to Taylor Lawan's Bear
Olympics this year and then found out they weren't having it.
Like I was gonna play the anthem for him this
year and couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
This is a good to tell you. Maybe that's just
something that they told you so you wouldn't show up.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
I thought that's that is awkward anyway, has a joke
about how you just get a little more Republican as
you get older and how that impacts your taste on
media and things like that.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
And I felt that way watching the YouTube broadcast last night,
because I swear to God fits I am thirty two
years old. I am not an old man. Maybe I
have curmudgeon tendencies just generally, but beyond my age. But
like watching bad Ai Come On Ride the float commercials,
did you see any of this crap? Because it was

(35:28):
put out on their social channels? I know you were
doing you were at a concert last night. Looked like
having a big time.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
I'm having a big old time last night.

Speaker 3 (35:36):
I recorded it and rewatched it like as they replayed
it on YouTube TV. On YouTube TV played the YouTube broadcast,
so which.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
And that's a big part of this because it's me
let me say the pros before I rip it to shreds.
It's the most accessible the NFL's ever been. Now it's free,
and it's not on YouTube TV right, It's on YouTube
It was on YouTube live stream last night, and like
I had no issue with the delivery of the product.
The streaming didn't crash like the Mike Tyson Netflix fight.
Like all the different things that the NFL has to

(36:05):
take into consideration when They're going to have conversations with YouTube,
I'm sure further on, like hey, can we give you
more games? Can you handle more games so that we
can get more money for our product from different companies
that way. So from that standpoint, like the delivery of
the football itself, the thing that I care about was fine,
but FITZI like they're doing it on YouTube. They're trying

(36:25):
to get younger. And I understand that I'm going to
phase out at some point in my life. But I
don't need the mister beasts pregame and I don't need
you going to destroying on the sideline where I'm having
to look up at my age, my ancient age of
thirty two years old. Who the hell I show speed
is that I can have a YouTube watch along, Like,
I don't want the viral Chargers fan in the middle

(36:48):
of everything that's going on with the broadcast. I just
want the football and the fact that God lovege Eisen
and Kurt Warner who do a fine job. And Rich
Island was funny last night, even though I know he
got some names wrong and was getting some heat for
that on social media. Throughout the course of the broadcast,
it was fine, Like everything was fine, except they kept
referencing the damn content creators. And I know that's kind

(37:09):
of stupid for me to talk about, seeing as we
are sitting here creating content in real time.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
But I don't care.

Speaker 1 (37:16):
Like it was a Larry David No I could give
a bleep type of moment watching that last night, and
it just it infuriated me. And then I felt like
the people that didn't like the Kendrick Lamar halftime show,
and I just wanted to I wanted to weep a
little bit because it's the death of my youth.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
I So here's where I am with all of these things.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
I really enjoy all broadcasts in general until it's a
team or game I actually give a damn about, Like
that's the most important. Like I would never, ever, ever
in my life watch a Manning cast broadcast of a
Raiders game because I actually care about.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
The Raiders and that's what I want, Like, I want
to hear.

Speaker 3 (37:54):
About my team. I want to see my team. I
want to be like enveloped with the game experience, right
like so in my mind because I'm not I'm neither
a Chargers nor a Chiefs fan. When I rewatched the broadcast, today,
I was like, ah, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Like you hate them both, you want them both to lose.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
I root for them both to loose. My team isn't
good enough for me to care enough about hating them.
I think I would hate the Chiefs, the Chargers, and
the Broncos more. If I genuinely believe that the Raiders
were in like eleven twelve win territory every year, then
I will my hate will be rekindled right now, like
it just feels pointless to hate them because like I mean,

(38:30):
like I'm a I'm a pimple on the ass of
the Kansas City Chiefs at this point, Like that is
that is what my team is. And I acknowledge that.
And unlike most, unlike most Raiders fans or sportsmans in
general that want to like scream about getting credit for
their team blah blah blah blah blah, I'm like earn it.
Right Like, when the Raiders become an actual peer to
these playoff teams, then I will talk my talk and

(38:52):
I will feel some kind of way about it, But right.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Now, like what am I gonna say?

Speaker 7 (38:55):
So?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
But that being said, I think the all broadcasts really
have a place at a home they're it's right. They
serve a particular audience that doesn't care as much about
the game, and that's like I found myself even watching
when I was watching Baseball, I found myself in the
World Series talking about some of the things I really liked,
and my buddy that was a diehard Dodgers fan, was like,
how can you like this? This entire broadcast sucks. I
think it's just about where my diehard fandom lies.

Speaker 1 (39:17):
No, it's I'm with that, and I understand that not
everything has to be for everybody. And it was hugely distributed,
so that makes it worth the NFL's while, and it
was seamlessly done. So it's just, you know, I feel
like I'm going to have more of these moments because
people care less about the actual sport and they're just
trying to keep young people's attention instead of dipping their
nose back into their phones and following highlights on Twitter.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Well, at the end of the day, you've got to
continue to push to be relevant to a new generation.
Otherwise eventually you wake up one day and you are
baseball and that's not where the NFL is ever going
to allow itself to be. So obviously we weren't the
target audience for it, but I'm glad that they did it.
You know, I like trying more of these things. We'll
see what it means for YouTube moving forward. We'll get
you updated on the college football matchup you do not

(40:00):
I want to miss it.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio, Hanging out with You
on a Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah, it's been a day full of cupcakes.

Speaker 3 (40:12):
I'm not gonna lie about that, and I'm not gonna
try and put lips to gun a pig.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
There's been a lot of weird.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
Football games with a lot of teams that you don't
even care about. But that's about to change in the
next thirty minutes because we're getting the matchup of the
night with Michigan taking on Oklahoma for only the second
time ever and for the first time in the regular season,
two teams, two brands that matter.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
Will we must see TV tonight.

Speaker 3 (40:37):
He's Buck Rising on Jason Fitz's Bucking Fits Hanging out
with You. If you've just tuned in, we will be
with you every single Saturday on Fox Sports Radio from
six to eight pm Eastern somehow, some way, we got
the keys and we're gonna try and not drive this
thing off the road. And Buck, look, it's been a day.
It's been a day in college football, right, it's been

(40:57):
a weird Deatroy right now beating Clemson, as you just heard,
although Clemson is driving and looks like they could be
on the vergeon of scoring. It's been what cupcakes usually are.
And this happens all the time. Like we see a
cupcake race out to a lead and then we're reminded
that the bigger, deeper, faster, stronger team usually finds a
way to come back rail off a bunch of points
and what seems like at one point it's you know, oh,
we're down ten nothing before you know it, final score

(41:19):
seven hundred and thirty two to ten. Like this is
what happens on college football, particularly this week, because so
many teams schedule cupcakes. But tonight we're a game that
has a lot of consequence, like Oklahoma Michigan.

Speaker 2 (41:31):
Just we're talking about two fan bases that want to
get excited, and I think that's just a big part
of it.

Speaker 3 (41:37):
Like you know, this cover in sec football so much
that sometimes what you want is just you want to
walk into the season feeling like you have a shot
at doing something special, and not every team has that,
Like Wisconsin doesn't have that, Michigan State doesn't have that.
There are plenty of teams in the SEC that just
wake up and they're like, Hey, we're gonna go get
our money and we're gonna get to a bowl game,

(41:59):
Like Auburn doesn't have a shot at a national championship
this year. Right, So you just go up and down
the list and say, there's some teams that are just
in a different category. If you are an Oklahoma fan
or a Michigan fan, tonight is the night that suddenly
everything changes. If you win this game for either of
these programs, all of a sudden, your fan base is
fired up and things that you have a shot at
doing something special, and I think they have the right

(42:21):
to be fired up. This is a really big moment
for both of these teams.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Well, and especially because of how and you tell me,
are you in a situation with Michigan coming off of
all the infractions, all the violations, all the show causes
and everything that we all knew happen. But now finally,
a couple of years after the fact, as we've talked
about before, the NCAA finally comes out with some level

(42:47):
of punishment for them like Michigan, and how they're viewed
this season is fascinating because this true freshman quarterback is special.
I was out of the country last weekend, so I
didn't get to see him play live, but having the
opportunity to watch back some of the throws that he
was able to make and how routine it looks for

(43:09):
a player who just arrived at this level, and I
get that he's playing, you know, not the toughest competition
competition in week one, and that in at Oklahoma, in
that stadium, in a night game atmosphere where they are.
They have some level of expectation on Brent Venables in

(43:32):
a program that has been able to really have a
level of dominance prior to arriving in the sec that
they've become accustomed to. Now they're playing in the biggest
conference in college football. Now they see what expectations are
realistic or what they have to strive to to achieve
at the level of the best college football programs in

(43:54):
the country, which of course are in the Southeast. And
then you have these these situations that arise throughout the
course of it. It's a fascinating storyline game. It's a
fascinating matchup. I don't know what really to expect, just
kind of understanding or what we understand about these teams
right now. I know you've talked a great deal about
the former Washington State quarterback John Mattier, who's going to

(44:17):
be talked about as long as he continues on this
trajectory as a Heisman Trophy candidate, if not a favorite,
depending on where you look, it's it's going to be
a fascinating game. Again, there is no bad weeks, no
bad slates in college football because there's always at least
one of these games with huge steaks.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
Well, John Matier is somebody you know, this game is
about polar opposites and decisions on how to build a program.
Right because you mentioned Bryce Underwood is the quarterback the
phenom from Michigan, and according to some reports, depending on
who you believe, he's getting anywhere from twelve to fourteen
million dollars a year to play at Michigan. So you
talk about somebody that's coming in with immediate expectations to

(44:57):
be great, and there were some questions about hey, you know,
would you have even won that? What would the job
look like if the money wasn't attached to it. Well,
now you've got a freshman and pet I'm keeping them
calling him a rookie because he's you know, at this point,
he's a grown ass businessman taking on John Mattier, who's
a Washington State transfer that's played like eighty three hundred
and twenty two years of college football.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
So this is the great What do you do?

Speaker 4 (45:20):
Like?

Speaker 3 (45:20):
I have become a fan in the modern landscape of
college football. I love the concept of going for somebody
that's seen a lot of football as my quarterback. I
think for me personally, the best way to get myself
at contention every year is to build a roster that's very,
very good and then pluck every year a quarterback that
I can get one or two years out of Max
that has already been developed somewhere else, that has seen

(45:42):
a lot of college football, that I can come in
and not have to spend time trying to figure out
how to teach scale like that. That is to me,
I think the method that works and makes a ton
of sense, But it's much like the college basketball equivalent
of the one and done right, like the college basketball
won and done risk is that every year you're rebuilding
and this might be the year that you got it.
So this game is about a freshman taking on Bret Vinnables.

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Who remember Brent Vinables got his job at Oklahoma because
of his calling card being a great defensive coordinator. So
now you've got a great defensive mind taking on a
kid that six months ago was worried about a proposal.
And then on the other side of it, you've got
a quarterback that has seen a lot of college football
going after a Michigan defense that looks like it's pretty good.

(46:25):
So I do think that this is a real statement
game about how you build a program like both of
these teams, Like, let's not get it twisted. Even if
you and I know that this is probably a still
part of a rebuild process for Michigan post national championship,
even if you and I know that, even if you
and I know that Oklahoma probably isn't in that same

(46:45):
echelon as teams like Georgia, right, even if you and
I know that their fans don't, right, So this is
a real moment for each of these teams to sort
of cement where they belong in the conversation this year.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
They might know it, but they don't care because because
that is the kind of expectation that you should have
at championship caliber programs like That's you know, I won't
justify every kind of behavior that fans sometimes have, and
I'm not here to fan explain to anybody about how
to behave in certain situations. But the thing that I
do respect most about fan bases like that is, even

(47:19):
when they are outrageously irrational, they have standards like those
are the kind of things that you're talking about, and
I find that so not admirable is the wrong word refreshing,
because like FITSI and you probably feel this a little
bit as a Raiders fan, with how downtrodden your favorite
franchise has been. I cover an organization in the Tennessee

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Titans that you know aspires to greater things, and maybe
they'll get it right around cam Ward. But I think
there's always a percentage of any fan base anywhere that
will defend their programs to the death or their franchises
to the death, even when they know or are trying
to ignore the fact that they're not really living up
to the expectation that you should hold championship caliber programs too,

(48:05):
And so that's why I like the way that Michigan
fans and Oklahoma fans are currently handling this that it's
an interesting thing that you bring up though, about how
this game will at least be a part of the
discussion on how to build a program in the modern
age of college football, because I just I wonder if
there's if there is currently in the environment where the

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ground is still moving underneath our feet year over year.
It feels like if there is any one set way
to do this sustainably or if you just have to
adapt year over year, because that's the nature of current
roster building in college football free agency every year with
the transfer portal, and I know guardrails will start to

(48:50):
pop up as we move forward in this thing, but
I just don't think that we exist in a current
time where there is any one set way to build
the program for a successful college football season.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
The football gods have decided to stop playing with Clemson.
By the way, an interception deep in Troy touchdown Clemson.
Now Clemson is about to take the lead. They've tied
the game sixteen sixteen, penning the extra point. I will say,
the interception one of the best I've seen in a
long time. It actually bounced off of players back, which
kept it from touching the ball the ground, and then

(49:26):
bounced into the arms of another Clemson defender. So the
football gods have decided they no longer like Troy To
your point, Buck Rising, Jason Fits hanging out with you,
Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio, there is an element
for me to what you just said that I think
we have to remember makes college football for the next
several years more difficult than the NFL. Like, if you
want to know why, I don't think Bill Belichick is

(49:48):
gonna work out in college football at all. Right, Like
Bill Belichick is not gonna work out at all because
in the NFL he can sign guys to three year
contracts and then just like.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
Hey, this is it.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
You want a job, this is the way it's gonna
go at some point. In the NFL, you get to
pick the players. At the college level, the players get
to pick you, and the fact that you're going back
in front of the judge, jury, and executioner every single
year just makes this so difficult. I don't think wild
West is enough of a statement to how strange the

(50:20):
college football landscape is now because to your point book,
every single year you are reinventing the entirety. Now, that's
tough enough. Like I said, in college basketball, we're used
to if you build your team with one and douns
and then we start to see it not have success,
we mock those schools, like, that's what you get for
not developing talent. I can't always rely on one and dons.

(50:41):
That's what every single college football is doing. A program
is doing with what eighty ninety guys like, I mean,
there are seventy new players on North Carolina, my god, Like,
there is just no way to keep up with the
transfer portal the way it works right now. So every
year it's all the more reason. Look, SMU lost today.
SMU lost in overtime, which is going to kill their
player chances. Likely a team that went to the playoffs

(51:02):
last year Boise State lost lais Yeah, and so what
does that teach us? That reminds us that for everybody, boy,
enjoy the season you have, take advantage of the season
you have. Don't ever presume that you're just going to
pick it up next year and be in the same spot.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
Well, and I again, I run a lot of these
things through a local prism FITSI, but there are a
lot of big examples of this here in the state
of Tennessee. Here recently Nico Yamaliava, the now UCLA quarterback,
and everything that's unfolded there. Tennessee one of these aforementioned
playoff teams from last season with a fan base that

(51:39):
has been dormant and thirsty for you know, it feels
like almost twenty years since they've been spiraling from the
Lane Kiffin situation. As we watch ole Miss maintain a
very narrow seven point lead over Kentucky right now, a
game that Olemiss needs to win to make sure that
they have playoff chances moving forward. Feels like after a

(52:01):
playoff appearance, and it was a disheartening one right Ohio
State waxed them, But Ohio State would have gotten a
lot of teams. I feel like in that situation and
route to a national championship a year ago, what Tennessee
went through was, oh, the quarterback wants a raise, and
we have to decide whether or not to put our
foot down or while dealing with two other situations. One

(52:23):
another player named bou Carter who was who was a
five star recruit who was being well compensated but also
wanted more money, Mike Matthews, a stud wide receiver who
is considering the transfer portal prior to the offseason program beginning,
and they were able to keep like you're having to
deal with these situations every year on a daily basis,
a daily basis, and so all of a sudden you

(52:45):
have the rug pulled out from under you. And in
the case of Tennessee, not just because they slaughtered Eastern
or East Tennessee State today, but Joey Aguilar against Syracuse
looks like a better collegiate fit for Josh Heipel's offense
than Niko Yamalaiava, who goes to a t arrible situation
in UCLA, who gets waxed last week by Utah, who
is playing in a half empty stadium instead of the

(53:06):
biggest conference and one of the most raucous and important
environments in college football, Like there are going to be
examples of how to do this and learned lessons. Unfortunately
along the way for a lot of kids involved with this,
even though they are eighteen and technically adults and responsible
for their own decisions, it's messy. It has never been
harder to last in the collegiate game as a coach

(53:29):
or frankly a player as it is right now, even
though there's a lot more money than there's ever been
on the other side, for the for the labor.

Speaker 3 (53:36):
Here and all that microwaving of what we want from
success also leads to microwaving of development, which is why, again,
to go back to the game we're gonna see in
just a few minutes tonight.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
You know, if we're in a.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Situation where Bryce Underwood struggles a little bit, it's not
gonna be well, you know what, true freshman only a
second game taking on a great defensive coordinator. No, it's
not gonna be any of that's gonna He's gonna have
to be better. Like it's it's a wild college football
world that we live in. Speaking of wild, one of
the wildest things we've seen in the NFL in a
long time has already taken place in the opening weekend.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
We'll break down the aftermath of it next.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
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Speaker 2 (54:46):
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Speaker 3 (54:48):
Buck, I've moved on from grapes, although grapes are still
a huge part of my frozen grapes are still a
huge part of my life. I have really become part
of the nation of honeydew supporters. Honeydew. Honeydew is an
elite melon. It does what every other melon wishes it
could do. Cantilope is trash, watermelon's overrated. Honeydew is an

(55:08):
abst perfection. And then, like I'm gonna be honest, like
if for years, if I got a like some sort
of a fruit salad and there was honeydew in it,
I always took the honeydew pieces and kept them for myself.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
Like nobody else loves the honeydew.

Speaker 3 (55:19):
But I'm telling you, especially boy, like after this show
and when you know, I'm sitting back with my pen
and multiple ledibles into the night, like I don't need
ice cream, I don't need I don't need.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Any of that.

Speaker 3 (55:31):
Just give me a massive by the other night, you know,
because this is me, Like, I get the honeydew, and
the first thing I do when I get home from
the grocery store with all of my vegetables and fruits
is I clean them and cut them and I put
them in storage containers so that I'm more likely to
use them.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
So I dice the onion in the pepper. The day
that I get it right, I diced the I cut.

Speaker 3 (55:49):
Up the honeydew into pieces, manageable pieces, into a massive container.
I woke up the next day and I realized I'd
eat the entire honeydew like I ate an entire honeydew
when I was a little stone. So I'm just saying, like,
honeydew is.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
It to like?

Speaker 4 (56:01):
Is it frozen honeydew or just just straight honeydew.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
I haven't thought about freezing it until you just said that.
And now I think I think that might be what
I do.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
We'll just see. We were on the topic of frozen grapes.
That's why I was wondering, Well, frozen grapes are better
than regular grapes. It's a texture thing, and that's like
a known thing frozen grapes. I don't know about frozen melon.
But let me know how that is.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
But honeydew itself like not like, by the way, use
its proper name. Don't just call it a melon. Okay,
that's like that's like call it a supermodel, just you know,
a girl. Like no, no, I mean, a melony's a
my mistake, right, my mistake. A melon is elite. And
like it's the just flat out juiciness of that melon
that is just oh, like it's just a little explosive.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Why do you have to dietary habits of a five
year old?

Speaker 3 (56:42):
You are?

Speaker 1 (56:42):
You are? The only thing that you're lacking is a
uh some kind of parental figure in your life, chopping
your fruit up for you, putting it in a bowl,
letting you have your literal gummies, and sitting in front
of the television.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
It's not a bad life. Like there we go.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
It's just fine. I mean, you know, I'm shocked to
see you still living this way in your forties.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
Well that's why I look good though, Like honey duders
are good. That honey canon dude is good for you, buddy.
Like I'm on here, eating healthy stuff could have been
a box of Mike and Ikes. That's what it would
have been in my twenties.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Now it's are disgusting.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Okay, Mike and I are elite.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Mike and I you who's who's off? Who's muttering off
microphone about whatever? That opinion just was that.

Speaker 6 (57:26):
That's not off, that's on the fire.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
I don't even like candy, but there.

Speaker 1 (57:30):
Fire I strong disagree. I I just don't think that
there's anything anyway, there's there's too many, there's too many
criticisms that I have of you for us that you're
trying to throw. You're trying to throw fireworks to distract
from the fact that you don't want to talk about
spitgate anymore.

Speaker 3 (57:49):
No here, here's here's what. You know what really just
yanks my chain about Spitgate. You know what absolutely just
is the swift kick in the no no places about
spigate that I just I hate. You know what really
just makes me despise pickgate. It's not even the action
of Jaalen Carter spitting on somebody. I'm gona be honest
with you, buck, Like in my twenties, I was on

(58:10):
Lower Broad in Nashville one night. Car came up and
UH said some things I didn't like. I chased the
car down. I rolled down his window said what are
you gonna do about it? In my twenties, I went
spit right in the dude's face. Four guys came just
flying out of that car. I am so thankful that
there was just a mountain of police that happened to
be on the corner. Because I was young and drunk

(58:32):
and like aggressive like that. That was an old version
of me. Like I've grown up from it. I look
at it and I think it's a disgusting thing to do,
and you shouldn't have done it.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
But you know what else just ticks me off in
real time though it did. Man, I'm gonna tell you
something like just spitting in some of his faces. There's
it's a rush. It's a rush, all right.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
See. I am so anti sportsmanship. I am the wrong
person to have this conversation with because like, but not
what bothers me.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Isn't even the sportsmanship. It's the fans to turn around
and say, well, Dak spit first. I don't When did
we become he did it first?

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Mom? Like, if you if you would have been like,
look at at least my mom would have popped me
on the butt the minute I came, like, why did
you do that?

Speaker 2 (59:13):
Well, he did it first. That's just you are begging
to get beat in my house.

Speaker 3 (59:17):
If I say that as a kid, you are begging
when did we become a society full of eight year
old whiny children that think that they can act like
their infants?

Speaker 2 (59:25):
Like this whole argument, well he did it first, Like,
it doesn't excuse anything. It doesn't. It just doesn't.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
It's no different than for me as a Raiders fan
when people sit here and say, with John Gruden's emails.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
Being leaked, they're like, yeah, well who else should have
had their emails leaked? I don't care. It doesn't change
what Gruden said in the like, deplorable is deplorable.

Speaker 3 (59:44):
If Jalen Carter spit on somebody because he was spit
on first, it doesn't change the fact that he spit
on somebody, and he should still be punished for spitting
on some I like, this whole concept just blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Now, normally your comparisons are spot on, which is about
the nicest thing that I'll say about you, Nikd. But
the Gruden thing is a bad example because I do
absolutely want to know who's on the other side of
these emails, like it is what was going on with
the Washington Commanders franchise at the time, and that it
was very conveniently left out on who was on the

(01:00:14):
other I see what you're saying about the egregious nature
of Gruden, but in that specific case, I do want
to know what's on the other side of that. Because
Gruden just filed a lawsuit over it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:23):
I want to know what's on the other side of it.
I don't think it changes my opinion of what John
Gruden said. Oh sure, I want if Dak Prescott is
punished because they find footage of him spitting directly on
Jalen Carter, and I think, if I've seen enough of
the slow mo videos, it looks like.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
I can't tell if he spin on. But fine if
you didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Fine if the league wants to punish Dak Prescott for
spitting on Jalen Carter.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Perfose in front of him in his direction, whole stop.

Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
That doesn't change what Jalen Carter did, And that, to
me is the biggest part, like the fact that we
as a society are so busy trying to defend somebody's
actions by turning around and saying, well, he need tea.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
Like I just want to punch you in the face.
If your answer is he did it too, I want
to punch you in the face too.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
It wasn't like that was like a spray, like you know,
Carter went right up to him and almost spit down
his collar.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
Well again, as somebody that's done the spinning in this situation, I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:01:16):
Telling you you your mind knows your mind your your
mind stops and says I'm about to spin on it, man,
and I gets just so then yeah, you do your
like you're you're going because if you're going for it,
if you're at that level. Again, I had a lot
of drugs and alcohol in my system that night, and
this was also pre anger management.

Speaker 2 (01:01:33):
I was a much different person back then.

Speaker 3 (01:01:36):
But I will just say, like, you do make this
conscious decision, like I'm going for it, Like I mean,
of course, it was a look.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Jalen knew what he was doing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
I just think that the most revelatory part of the
segment is that we've discovered that Jason Fitz is the
first Hawk to a well.

Speaker 2 (01:01:51):
I didn't make any money off of it.

Speaker 1 (01:01:52):
That's that's the opportunity by you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
That's the real well.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Well I had to do it, spit on that thing
after the fact, you could have been a.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
Millionaire when I when I again, I did it in
my my early to mit to get him, that dude,
and spent.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
All that night here.

Speaker 1 (01:02:10):
She said, you get me. I love broadways so much
I am.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
I am so thankful that the social media didn't real
I don't remember what year Twitter was invented.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
But in my early Twitter was not around during this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Thank thank god that Twitter wasn't around during my forays
into the Lower Broadway in my early twenties. Martin Wiss,
save us from talking about anybody spinning on anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
Give us actual football. There are scores going on to
help us.

Speaker 8 (01:02:37):
My friend, Yeah, Buck, I forget the term you used earlier.
I think it was an actual term. But you said,
you can't worry about these, these these close matchups, these
close games until a certain point in the game, like
the danger zone or so on, like I forget exactly
what it was.

Speaker 6 (01:02:54):
But I'm wondering, now are we there yet?

Speaker 8 (01:02:56):
Because South Florida has all four thirty left and the
fourth quarter, trailing by one point in Florida territory right now,
how are we there yet?

Speaker 1 (01:03:06):
We're there, We're there, especially with Billy Napier, who's under
the gun a little bit in with Florida this year,
it's that we are there.

Speaker 8 (01:03:14):
Florida just got a sacks, all good news for the Gators,
but with four minutes left, third and ten right now,
sixteen to fifteen, the score thirteen to three team in
the nation, kind of on the ropes here. Speaking of
on the ropes again this game now, Clemson scored seventeen
on answer so far in the second half, but Troy
trailing by four to the Clemson Tigers, the eight three

(01:03:36):
team in the nation, twenty to sixteen. They do have
the balls third and ten for the Troy Trojans. In
college football, Bryce Underwood in Michigan about the face off
against John Mattier and Oklahoma.

Speaker 6 (01:03:48):
In a game that I cannot wait to watch. I'm
so excited to watch Bryce Underwood play in this matchup.
That's the only ranked.

Speaker 8 (01:03:55):
Matchup of today, and I am a Michigan fan, so
that is the reason why.

Speaker 6 (01:03:59):
Just to give you guys knowledge, I know.

Speaker 8 (01:04:01):
This is your first time, first official show here, so
i'ctually my bad welcome to Fox Sports Radio not a
minute ago as I just completely hijack your update. But
Dune Cookman, right now they are getting the thanks for
coming out treatment by Miami fourteen and nothing right now.
Carson Beck seven for seven, one hundred and six yards,
one touchdown, two forty three left in the first quarter

(01:04:23):
for the fifth ranked team in the nation, South.

Speaker 6 (01:04:26):
Carolina in the rain delay.

Speaker 8 (01:04:27):
It's been bad weather everywhere and I just this one
I'll never get over because Mike Gundhi was talking about
the nil money sixty nine to three. How much nil
money would Mike Gundy have needed to lose the game
by thirty points instead of sixty six points?

Speaker 6 (01:04:45):
The questions that we'd love to have answered. And also.

Speaker 8 (01:04:49):
Everybody with the fan duel account is furious that Lane
Kevin call time out. But thirty to twenty three the
final score as the Old Miss Rebels, twenty three team
in the nation hold off the Kentucky Wildcats in Lexington.

Speaker 3 (01:05:02):
Back to you, guys, we actually have controversy right now.
I've turned on that Florida game, and amazingly, it looks
like there's just a shot for USF to take the lead.
They the field goal was short, and amazingly, it looks
like their coach was trying to call time out and
clearly did, but the refs didn't see it. So we

(01:05:23):
tried to call time out, did not get the time
out called in time, and now all of a sudden,
the kicks short and Florida has the ball back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
So Florida up by one with two fifty two to go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
They're talking about something here, so we'll keep you updated
on it, because this is a Florida Gators fans got
to be feeling just a little bit puckered up right now.
This is what you are, right Buck, You've turned over
the course of the hour and a half, you've turned
me around. It was I came into it saying cupcake
day full of junkie matchups, and now we're sitting here
watching drama unfold at the end of an SEC matchup,

(01:05:55):
and all of a sudden are an SEC team being
impacted and all of a sudden, you've changed my mind.

Speaker 1 (01:06:00):
I feel that I do that once a show, and
that's because I'm right and you're wrong, or.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
It's because I'm evolved enough to actually let my mind
be changed, as opposed to my most people.

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Okay, I'm right, Okay, I just I just I want
you could stop that sentence after you were right, Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
Uh. That's the hardest thing anyone that's ever been in
a relationship to be like they're right and then just
let it go. In the whole time, in your mind,
you're thinking of everything else you want to say, but
you're just like, you're right or I was wrong, I'm sorry,
and then you just stop it there, and even especially
when you know you're not sorry, but that's just what
you have to say. So then you inevitably there's a

(01:06:37):
follow up question and you're like, I wasn't ready for
the follow up question.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
I'm already apologizing.

Speaker 1 (01:06:43):
It seems like we're both some trauma here thing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
So he's buck rising up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:48):
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iHeart App. How you feeling You're gonna be covering? Really
the game of the day. I think it's the one
most people are excited for. People will stop, they will
show up at bars, They're going to flock to the
streets to watch the Titans take on the Procos. There's
gonna be a weekly tradition. You covered very nice. I

(01:07:29):
get to make fun of it. How we feel it,
How we feeling.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Oh, I mean listen, I think the Titans are gonna
get slaughtered out here in Denver. I'm here to cover
the week one game. For people that don't know, I'm
a part of their Titans Radio network broadcast. I do
a local showback in Nashville. I'm a beat reporter by
trade and just a loud mouth with bad opinions, which
is why they've stuck me with Fitzie to help try

(01:07:55):
and keep me in check, though it seems to be
the other way around most days. And you know, it's
minus eight and a half here in Denver. It's an
afternoon kickoff, so the crowd is going to have time
to get ramped up. Sean Payton is publicly talking about
Super Bowl expectations. The Chiefs lost, so there's blood in
the water already with AFC West fans, right the Chargers

(01:08:18):
doing the job in Brazil last night, Denver being a
really good football team. Like I know, people have skepticisms
about bo Nicks, but I mean FITZI. If I was
allowed to bet on professional football, which unfortunately because of
my job responsibilities, i am not, I would absolutely take
the Broncos to cover any You know how rarely rookie

(01:08:41):
quarterbacks number one overall picks have won their first NFL start,
their first regular season start. It's happened once in the
last twenty three years. Do you know when that was, No,
it was last year. It was Caleb Williams because will
Levis pooped himself in Chicago, threw a pick six. The
Titans had a punt block. They had a seventeen to

(01:09:01):
nothing lead at the half, and Tennessee, en route to
being the worst team in football last year, imploded in
ways that you have seen very rarely, So much so
that Levis was on the field at Soldier Field Surrender
kobring with his knees on the turf and his hands
above his head as he watched the Bears defensive back
return a score for the game winning touchdown. It was

(01:09:26):
the stuff of nightmares. But that's the only number one
pick at quarterback that's won his first start in twenty
three years prior to that. It's insane. So kim Ward
can end up having a fine NFL career, but he
is not. As we talked about earlier with Mahomes losing
last night, you cannot have one player solve all of

(01:09:47):
your problems in professional football. This is an organization that
was the worst in the league last year. They have
a lot of questions to answer, and if they go
out there and get slacked or shelled because Vance Joseph
sees a rookie quarterback across from him and takes advantage
to throw some crazy stuff at him that they're going
to do all year long because they've got the league

(01:10:07):
leading sack defense. They were number one against the rush
last year in terms of DVA. Patzer Tan is the
raiding defensive player of the year. Like it should be
an ass kicking if you're Denver. If it's not a
double digit win, as a Broncos fan, you're probably disappointed.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
I think this is one of the reasons that this game,
to me, is we're talking about is because it's a
reminder that we are quarterback obsessed and everything we do,
the success or failure of the Broncos will not be
quarterback defined. I mean, Bonnicks can't be terrible, sure, but
Bonnicks doesn't have to be a world beater for the
Broncos to reach what they're going to reach. And we

(01:10:43):
all want our favorite team to have an amazing quarterback
because the concept is that at least puts you in
the realm where you have a chance.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
But you said something earlier that we have to go
back to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:53):
Like, part of the reason that Mahomes has been Mahomes
is because of everything that's been around him in Kansas City,
from coaching, to some of the players, to the defense
the way it played of late, all of this is
like just a reminder that the only real way to
truly become a Super Bowl a regular every single year,
Like this is the great debate is every fan base
goes into Week one, do you want your favorite team

(01:11:15):
to be a playoff team or do you want your
favorite team to be good? There's a substantial difference between
those two answers because good is it means building blocks.
Good means roster getting to the point that it can
compete at the highest level. Good means all of the
little things that are being taken care of across twenty
two players, Like the Broncos were not just a playoff

(01:11:35):
team last year.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
The Broncos were good and they can build off of that.

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
I've seen two Raiders playoff games in the last what
twenty years, and both times they were outliers. Why because
the team wasn't good. They just made the playoffs set
here and you knew that they were surviving. And that's fun,
it's special, but it's not sustainable. And so like part
of this problem for everybody is that we have to
answer the question coming into the seasons, do you want
your favorite team to be good or to be a

(01:11:59):
playoff team? Because it's a much different thing.

Speaker 1 (01:12:01):
No, it's completely fair, and that I think is, you know,
the Steelers and the Jets Tomorrow is going to be
a fascinating game because the Steelers feel like they've kind
of been in that space where they've been a playoff team.
But how much do you fear the last couple of
Pittsburgh Steelers teams to get into the playoffs who end
up losing in the wild card weekend because they're just

(01:12:22):
they're outmatched in a couple of different ways, but they
win enough games. It's what I think is makes Pittsburgh
fans crazy. You talk about having championship standards. Very few
fan bases could turn their nose up at the idea
of Mike Tomlin continuing to run their organization given how
much success he is given that place. But Steelers fans

(01:12:43):
are one of the fan bases that can do that
because they do have a long history of success. They're
not the Cowboys, right. They don't grift off of Super
Bowl wins that they had thirty years ago and hope
that everybody continues to pay attention because they make a
lot of news. No, they actually won a matter in
the landscape of the NFL. If you're that fan base,
and I think that's that's a hard thing for a

(01:13:04):
lot of fan bases to grapple with because we just
want microwave results.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
South Florida University of South Florida has the football back.
Let's talk about two point fifteen left, down by one,
but a lot of field ahead of them.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
They will. We will keep you updated on that.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
But coming up next, the single greatest game show in
the history of sports talk radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
Would you rather comes next? On Bucking Fits.

Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz together like Vultro on
or a bad eighties wrestling tag team. I don't know
what which were Bucking Fits hanging out with you on
Fox Sports Radio on a Fox Sports Saturday. As we
speak right now, there is a minute and forty five
seconds left in Florida versus South Florida USF with the
ball in Florida territory down by one. We will keep

(01:13:52):
you updated on the drama as it all unfolds, mostly
because I just wanted to sing the word drama. But
first book, it is time.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
No, that's not a fun that, it's not a foul,
it's a fine, that's a fun.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
No, no, no, no, I get paid to sing. I
don't pay.

Speaker 6 (01:14:10):
Another fine.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
Hell, I'm going troll mode, laundry fest.

Speaker 3 (01:14:16):
I am made troll all right, let's uh, let's it's time, book.
We've made people wait long enough.

Speaker 2 (01:14:21):
They're ready for it. Everybody anticipates it. The world knows
about it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
It's time for the single greatest game show in the
history of sports talk radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
Buck, it is time for Woould you rather?

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Nailed it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:14:36):
The first official would you Rather? Games with you know
bucking fits now in a permanent home on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Here.

Speaker 4 (01:14:45):
It's exciting, guys. I mean, it was a tough debut
for the the would you rather? And stink there?

Speaker 2 (01:14:51):
No, we did intro. I don't even know what to
call it. We nailed it. It was perfect. It's sounding enough.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
What do you give standards?

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
This is not We have heard better from you guys.
That's okay though, that's okay though perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
We do have the wheel right, and wheel are go ahead.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
We do have the wheel ready with some good would
you rather? Question, so we'll go ahead and spin it
to help us decide the first question. Now, this is
actually fitting because FITZI did just sing in an opera voice,
so would you rather only be able to sing your
food order in full opera voice, or only be able

(01:15:30):
to whisper it like a movie villain.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
When you whisper anything, it's creepy.

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
So if I walk up to Buck and I say
I'm really god, I'm really glad you got rid of
your mustache, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
But if I walk up to Buck and I say.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
I'm really glad you got ready your mustache.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Everybody's uncomfortable. Oh yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
And frankly, if you really nail it at the restaurant,
you're gonna get that free free food.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Somebody's gonna give it to you for free. No, I'm
not going to sing it now. I only sing for money.

Speaker 1 (01:15:57):
Buck, what, Yeah, that's a fine. I can't sing like
I would like to be able to sing. I don't
want to whisper in people's ear. Although I don't really
whisper like I can't. It just sounds like I'm like
growling at somebody. If I try to whisper in my voice,
it's not really that effective, which is also uncomfy. I

(01:16:20):
think generally, now I will I could attempt to sing
in a restaurant. That'd probably be my preferred method. I
would not receive applause.

Speaker 2 (01:16:27):
We just learned that nobody wants pillow talk with Buck rising.
That's all I'm saying, Like, no naughty.

Speaker 3 (01:16:32):
Talk from Buck growling. Yeah, well look on his face
there after? Ian save us for myself.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
I know I was ready for it. You got scared.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
I did. Actually, I want to have a sad shot.

Speaker 4 (01:16:50):
Okay, would you rather have a dramatic movie trailer voice
narrate your thoughts out loud or cartoon buoying and slide
whistle sounds every.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Time you move?

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
I want the narration because.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
Already sounds like that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
No, but it's just you're narrating my inner thoughts, right,
it's not narrating.

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
Good point.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
Yeah, So like it's like I would be. I would
be perfectly fine with somebody narrating my thoughts for me,
because I feel like my facial expressions are effective enough
at communicating messages, especially distaste or displeasure. But if I
could have somebody else that's not me saying what's in
my head that I actually think about people, One, I

(01:17:32):
would not have any friends whatsoever, But two, I think
that would be a very effective way of not having
to deal with the people that I don't want to
deal with, which makes me happy.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
I just I kind of like the idea of the
movie voice narrating it, because then I don't have to
tell people I have to tinkle, like they'll just know,
like the voice would be. Like in a world we're
one man in the back seat needs you to pull
over so he can tinkle, like I want this.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
I think that's cool. He ain't give us another one
we got.

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
He's he's tinkling while eating melon melon out of a
chopped up melon out of a bowl.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
Melon tinkle, great band name, Go ahead, melon tinkle, not
honeydew tinkle, though.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Honeydew tinkle feels a little too soft.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Okay, all right, to soft melon tinkle?

Speaker 4 (01:18:20):
Would you rather, all right? Would you rather be followed
by a faint smell of pickles wherever you go? Or
leave a tiny trail of glitter behind every time you walk?

Speaker 1 (01:18:30):
Glitter? No, nothing, nothing worse than people that have a sense.

Speaker 6 (01:18:34):
Loves these glitter?

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Would you rather.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Sneeze chat chpt loves the glitter? Like like, I don't
even have an account, I'm complete, I'm not even logged in,
and this is.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Just I'll take the glitter. Also, whatever I like the
idea glitter. By the way, only seconds remain us f
is it the two yard line. If they have called
their last time out with three seconds remaining, they will
attempt the game winning field goal in a matter of seconds.

(01:19:04):
Fox Sports Radio will keep you updated. We will be
here every single Saturday. Thanks to Mary Mcendeen for hanging
out with us. He's buck rising up, Jason Fitz. Enjoy
your weekend.

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