Buck & Fitz Talk College Football Playoff, Saturday NFL Games & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. I tried. I tried
to come in with Polly Positive, because you know, Buck
Rising accuses me of coming in and trying to steal
everybody's thunder, not being happy enough when we start. Buck
Rising accuses me of not having the joy joy joy
joy down in my heart. And I thought about that
a lot, because yesterday I got ready on the couch.

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I sat back and I said, I can't wait for
the college football playoffs. I don't care what anybody says.
These are gonna be epic matches. And now we sit
here halfway through the third game, and yeah, yeah, we've
seen good finishes, but we haven't seen good football. I
get it, I understand it. I know we want expansion,
we want more, and I don't care. Like, give me

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all the college football we can possibly handle. It's my
favorite sport to cover. But right now is we're just
screaming to try and figure out who should have got
it and who shouldn't get in. I'm just screaming, can
we get a good football team? Can we get decent
football from both sides of a matchup? Because so far
we're oer for two and a half. It's bucking Fits
on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Jason Fitz, He's Buck Rising.

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Like I the excitement was real Alabama Oklahoma for playoff.
Like there is nothing better, nothing better than home field
in the college football playoff. Even the NFL playoffs don't
have that same level of one hundred thousand fans experiencing

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something they've never experienced before. It's newness, right because if
you are at your core, if you're a Bears fan, yeah,
you haven't had a home field the playoff game in
a long, long time. But you've had it before, right,
if you're Oklahoma, man, if you are today Texas, A
and m you are talking about electric environments because this
is never happened before. There's never been college football home

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playoffs for these teams to have these opportunities. Yeah, we
saw some of it last year. We got a little
taste of it last year, and last year I thought, Wow,
that's amazing. This year, I'm even more sold on the
fact that, Hell, I don't care like college football historians,
hear me loud, I do not care about the history
of the sport. I don't so I don't care where
the Rose Bowl is played. I don't care where the
Cotton Bowl has played. Frankly, I would much rather see

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the opportunity. I'd much rather get the opportunity to see
Miami take on Ohio State at Ohio State than at
the Cotton Bowl. I don't care about the Cotton Bowl. Yeah,
Alabama at Indiana at the Rose Bowl. If we care
so much about the Rose bull that making the national
championship spot. But right now, what we're seeing in college
football are electric environments, right, And so I've got all

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this hype, I've got all this excitement. We're getting big
brands with a couple of these games. We're getting big
matchups with a couple of these games. We've got some
big quarterbacks in a couple of these games. We've got
all these great storylines, and we've got home college football
playoff vibes. And what do we have to show for it?
Bad football? Oklahoma jumps out seventeen nothing, Alabama scratches and

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claws their ways back, their way back. But take your
fan hat off for a second. Did you watch an
interesting wild game or did you watch a good game?
Like today? As we watch Miami score the first touchdown
of the game, the only touchdown of the game that
was scored in the Miami Texas A and N game,
which we thought might be a bit of a defensive struggle,
it never would have imagined that was scored with a

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minute and forty four to go. A minute in forty
four remaining is the first touchdown we get. And then
A and M with this big drive back, it looks
like they're gonna have the chance to tie it third
and goal. They throw a pick in the end zone.
That's how it ends. Great ending bad game like two
things can be true at once, like we could be
watching football teams and sitting there saying, oh my God,

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and miss me with the well Notre Dame should have
been in there. Instead, Notre Dame lost to both of
the teams we saw this morning. This isn't a Notre
Dame conversation. It's just a bad football conversation. And honestly,
I think a lot of it comes from the layoff.
I think this is fixable in some ways if they
change the college football calendar, which people yell about all
the time, but if they simply got rid of the gap. Again,

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let's just acknowledge the world we're in right now. If
you want to make the Army Navy game a standalone
Saturday in college football, if it matters so much to
the entire world that it needs to be a standalone game,
then make it the first game of the season. Let
the whole pomp and circumstance of college football start with
the Army Navy game. We'll all pay attention to it.
It's a great way to honor our country. It's a
great way to honor everybody that is served in our country.

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It honors the moment, the legacy of that game. It
gets as a standalone women moment, and we're all so
starred for football we would flock to it. So you
give it to me there, and by doing that, what
you give me is the opportunity to get right into
these playoff games. Are we not seeing through the course
of all this, like Tulane is up twenty seven or
tu Lane is losing, I should say twenty seven to

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three right now to ole Miss. Ole Miss is running
away with this football game. But in the first half
things were just enough out of sync for ole Miss
that it all looked weird. And we can say, oh,
they don't have Alane Kifvin, but we can also say,
my god, the break, the gap, the amount of time
it's been since most of these guys have played football,
and you lose some of the rhythm. I think, honestly,

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we're getting bad football games right now because we haven't
had these teams play for weeks. If you take a
month off and then put everybody out there and say
let's go, what do we expect the product to look like?
The answer is bad. The answer is just bad. So
you went up with rough looking football games? Yeah, playoff games.
I'll take it. Like I said, it's better than nothing

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at all, and I take playoff expansion. I don't care.
But if today isn't this weekend isn't living, breathing, eating proof,
then we need to just get rid of conference championship games.
Get straight to it for everybody's sake. Name your conference
champion at the end of the year, give the team
the most deserving for the regular season the conference championship
for the respective conference that they're in, and then get

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right to the playoffs, just like we do in March Madness,
where we hear from selection Sunday and two days later
you're struggling to figure out how to fill out your brackets.
Right two days later, you're like, oh my god, we've
already got to play in games. But there's just an
excitement to that, there's a passion to that, there's a
oh my god, right now this is happening, and I

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can't wait for it. The build up for college football
playoffs is never going to compete with the actual games
going on that have tremendous meeting in the NFL, you're
not gonna be the same level of build up, So instead,
just get me right to it. Just get me straight
to the point where we are watching football that actually
counts because I think it'll give us better rhythm in
these games. I look, again, we got a good finish

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last night, we got a good finish today in the
first game. But did we see the best of Miami
versus the best of Texas, A and M I don't
think so. Did we see the best of Oklahoma versus
the best of Alabama? I mean, certainly, if you're in Alabama,
I'm a fan, you're going to argue that you fell
down seventeen nothing because you really didn't have a lot
of rhythm. You weren't in sync to get right out there.

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And that happens. Sometimes you wake up your yard, you
take a bunch of hits, you're down seventeen. Nothing like
that happens sometimes. I don't think it happens if you
put everybody right on the field. So here we are
with the college football Playoff, and here we are with
the games that we've had so far. They are two
big games, the two games that were supposed to be
the statement games, right, they buried college football was clever,

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and they buried the two blowouts against the NFL. They
made sure that you weren't subject to really watching what's
going to turn into a massive bloodbath between Ole Miss
and two Lane. And it's not lost on any of
us that were going to get the same thing with
JMU in the playoffs next right, like those are going
to be blood bath games they bury him against the NFL.
So the real merit of did we see what we

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hoped for has already been established That Mayri came from
Friday night, that Mayor came from Saturday afternoon. And when
you look at those two games as a whole, with
some of the biggest brands in the sport going at it,
I walked away saying, yeah, we got a couple of
good games, but man, did we really get the best
teams putting the best four to make us feel like

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they're national championship caliber football teams? Nah, we didn't. And
then on top of all of that, as I started
as saying that maybe the best thing in the world
about all of it is you get home field advantage, right,
you get this home field playoff atmosphere, this home field
playoff atmosphere that in year two of the college football
Playoff meant nothing. How wild is that? How incredible is it?

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The college football Playoff? The one thing you thought could
be a separator as well. They're going to be playing
at a and m my god, the way Miami handled
that today in a defensive battle, everybody could have gotten
tight the kickers did. The kickers were terrible. We can
just acknowledge the special teams over the course of this
weekend has been gross in college football. We can all

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be grown ups and acknowledged just how bad special teams
has looked. Sure, but when you take it all down
to that, we've seen big, big, big wins on the
road in the College Football Playoff. We've seen everything that
we possibly want to see from a storyline standpoint, we
just haven't seen great football. And my fear is that
next weekend when we get the next opportunity on this well,

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if Indiana is a little assleep at the wheel for
the first quarter, are we gonna get the best of Indiana?
If Ohio State it's a little rusty coming off of
a gap, we're going to get the best of Ohio State.
I don't know, y'all. There's something to rhythm for me.
For all the calendar conversations we're having about the transfer
portal and coaches and who goes where, maybe part of
the calendar conversation we should be having is how do

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we make sure that we help these playoff games be
the best representation of what college football looks like that
you could possibly have, Because certainly, if you're only watching
the highlights, and if you only read the article, and
if you only listen to what ESPN's going to tell
you in thirty seconds, you might walk away saying, oh man,
these games have been close, these games have been great.

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But if you actually sat down and it was your
first time all year watching college football, and you watched
the two games that we've had come to a final
so far, I don't think you've seen anywhere close to
the best of what those teams had to offer, or
anywhere close to the best of what college football has
to offer. And say it all the time, the playoffs
and championships aren't for die hards different casuals. It's the

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moment that you cement the thoughts about what your league
looks like. It's the moment that people decide the overall
state of your game just from the playoffs and the
college football in the championship. We do it in the
NBA all the time, We'll do it in the NFL,
and now we're gonna do it in college football. So
it's not just about big finishes. It's not just about
big brands, it's not just about big stars. It's also

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about making sure that the games are the best they
possibly can be. And so far, I don't think any
of the four teams that have come to a conclusion
in their playoff run so far, in their games, I
should say so far, I don't think any of them
feel like they put their best foot forward. We'll keep
putting our best foot forward. We're gonna work on some
technical issues if we can. Get Buck Rising coming in,
and we'll get you caught up on more interesting college

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football news posts, an update on the NFL game in progress.
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Speaker 1 (11:53):
I can either confirm nor deny. I believe that Buck
is actually in a Golden Corral right now, and he's
he's not able to can Mike isn't working, so he
can't correct it. So as far as we're concerned, Buck
Rising currently eating at a Golden Corral and skipping work.
That's where're gonna go.

Speaker 4 (12:07):
And that's actually exactly what's happening. And he's not here
to defend himself, so exactly, I mean, yeah, one hundred percent.
And let's just for the record, like he's going.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
Back for like thirds at the Golden Corral, right, Like
we can all agree that Buck is the guy that's
like at thirds maybe fourths. Like every time he gets
the plate halfway empty, he go backs, he goes back
and overloads it, right absolutely.

Speaker 4 (12:27):
And I actually I drove by a country kitchen buffet
the other day and I realized that he probably spends
a lot of a lot of his time there as well.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh yeah, Like, he's definitely cracker barrels too good for
Buck Ros, There's no doubt about that. But I'm all
in on Buck being the Golden the King of Golden Corrals,
especially because while he is sitting in front of a microphone,
the mic doesn't work. This is the most powerful I've
ever felt in all of my career on radio. I'll
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we got two games in progress right now. You need
to know about one ole miss pulling away from two lane.

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There's no surprise there. The other side of this is
an NFL matchup. That's right. We've reached the time of
the season where they're NFL games right now. If I'm
telling you this and you didn't already know I'm sorry
for your fantasy loss, but the Washington Commanders currently not
a misspeak by me, up ten to seven over the
Philadelphia Eagles with eighteen seconds left. I want to tell
you the most shocking part of the stat sheet if

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you were to look at it right now, if you
were to log onto ESPN and pull up the stat
sheet right now, you will see that at this point,
AJ Brown has eight catches all right, on eleven targets.
DeVante Smith has four catches on five targets. That's twelve
catches on sixteen targets. Why is that significant? That is
every catch and every target for Jalen Hurts the wild

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thing we see here all the time, and we want
to make sweeping indictments about what the Eagles do, what
the Eagles don't do. They're going forward on fourth and
four right now, just outside of field goal range. We'll
see what this means for the way this game plays
out in the half. But I mean, my god, we
wanted to just suddenly turn around and make the Eagles
a fixed product last week, and I spent all week

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yelling on my Yahoo work about who they play. I
think this year, more than ever, if there's ever been
a year that you need to apply a college football
mindset to the NFL. It is this year, and that
mindset is, who did you play if your favorite team
goes out and just mollywops the Raiders or the Titans

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or the Giants. Just understand that is like just beating
up in the fat Kid and Dodgeball in fifth grade.
And I was the fat kid on dodgeball in fifth grade.
I am fully aware of what all this means. Right,
So when you beat the Raiders thirty one nothing, you
didn't do anything. You basically you'll want a preseason game.
You want a game over at Tea that simply, even

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if they tried to compete, doesn't have the talent to
compete at that level. So you didn't do anything, You
didn't fix anything, and nothing got right. I watched so
many national shows last week leading with the headlines of
are the Eagles fixed? To the Eagles get it figured out?
What's next for Philly? What's next for Philly is we're
sitting here with thirteen seconds left in the first half
and they're losing to Washington. They're losing to a commander's

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team that has absolutely nothing to play for. They're losing
to a commander's team that doesn't even have their starting quarterback.
They're losing to Marcus Mariota. That's what's happening right now.
It looks like there's a offside penalty on the myst kick.
They're gonna have a first down, they'll have the chance

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to get a little bit of the yard is done,
so we'll see what they can do in the last
thirteen seconds and the half against Washington. But come on,
we spend so much time this year overreacting to an
NFL that's really hard to read. One of the most
difficult things about this job in general is they say
this all the time. You're forced to write a book report,
but you don't get the glory of watching the entire

(16:06):
book before you write the book report. After every single chapter,
you have to decide is it a good book or
a bad book? Is the best book you've ever read? Read?
Is it the worst book you've ever read? That's what
that's what we get paid to do. But realistically, most
of the time, the NFL is consistent enough that you
can start to manage trends. That's not the case this year.
You've got teams that are beating up on nobody. You've

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got teams that we don't know that are wildly up
and down. You've got teams that we thought were going
to be good that aren't good. And it makes it
tougher and tougher to really analyze it, which is why
for me, if you want to get a real sense
of where a team is, you can't look at last week.
You got to look at three or four weeks. Group together.
Group of three. I love that group of three. So
you take three games, you look at the last three games,

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and you stack those together and you say, Okay, now,
what did I really learn about this team? If I
don't just look at last week, but I look at
the last three games. Apply that logic to the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah,
they just beat the Raiders. Thirty one nothing, huzza, okay,
thirty one nothing. They beat the Raiders. But if you
look at the last three games, then you're reminded, Oh,
they got run all over by the Bears. Then you're reminded, oh, yeah,

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the Chargers that were decimated with injuries beat them, and
then they beat the Raiders. Oh. Now, when we put
that full context around it, maybe that game doesn't mean
as much. By the way, the Eagles missed the field
goal again, so they will go into the half of
the three point deficit to the Washington Commanders. The problem
is we want to turn teams that we thought were
going to be good into what we think they should

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be instead of actually watching them the real analysis on
the Philadelphia Eagles, much like the Baltimore Ravens, at some
point it doesn't matter what we thought the Ravens were
going to look like. It doesn't who gives it him?
Who cares any more about our preseason predictions. Preseason predictions
in and of themselves are virtually impossible. And reminder, if
any of us could accurately predict anything in the preseason,

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we wouldn't work for a living. We'd own a small island.
We'd live in our gambling returns. If I genuinely knew
who was gonna win every division and who was gonna
make every playoff spot, I wouldn't need a job. I
go to Vegas every year, or in my case of Connecticut,
I go to Mohegan every year, said the sportsbook, I
just get rich. I'd sit there and I just tweet

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everybody all day, laughing at them because they have to
work preseason predictions don't matter. The problem is we get
locked to them because we want to be right. So
everybody thought that the Eagles being a defending Super Bowl champion,
we're gonna look some kind of way this year, and
then throughout the course of it, we gave the benefit
of the doubt over and over and over. Saquon's gonna

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get going, Yeah, it'll be fine. You know, they've got
those egos in the passing game, but they had that
last year. They worked around it. It'll be fine. This
is what we do. This is what we do. But
at what point do we have to correct that and say,
you know what, what I presumed is no longer correct.
We need we need more people in society, is just
in general. We need more people in the world that

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are willing to look at and say, you know what,
whatever I thought, I was wrong. I'm going to evolve
my take on this. In this world that we're in
right now, it's okay to admit that we thought the
Eagles were gonna be good. The Eagles are the defending
Super Bowl champion. We presume something of the Philadelphia Eagles,
but they are not good. The Philadelphia Eagles are not

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a great football team. This year, they're just a team.
Might they make the playoffs? Sure? Okay, cool, But they're
losing to the Commanders right now because they are philosophically
broken top to bottom. The Philadelphia Eagles are broken. I
don't know how to fix them. I don't know what
makes it right. I know that their offensive line just

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isn't as good as it was last year, and that's
changed everything in their offense. But I also know that
the faster we turn around and say, oh, yeah, the
Eagles aren't who we thought they were, the more we
avoid the just dumb ass conversations everybody's gonna want to
have in three weeks. Hell, the team you want to
avoid is the Philadelphia Eagles. Why wat's this Eagles team?

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They lost to the Cowboys, the Bears, the Chargers, and
then beat the Giants. They beat a fat kid at dodgeball, Sorry,
beat the Raiders. I don't know why I said the Giants.
They beat the Raiders. They beat my beloved Raiders thirty
one nothing. I was asked to predict the final score
of that game on Friday on one of my shows.
It's the thirty five to three Eagles. So you know
what they did? They did exactly what they should have done,

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exactly what I think anybody that watched the both of
those teams this year would expect them to do. And
it doesn't mean anything for Philadelphia. It just doesn't. The
problem is sweeping takes. The problem is we all watch
the shows that people want to just yell about something
every single week. So we all watch the shows where

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it's like, yeah, it's good barbershop talk to sit there
and say, oh, are the Eagles fixed? That's the problem
because the more time we spend focused on the Eagles,
the last time we spend on who actually matters in
the NFC, which is what I'll do next. We're gonna
figure out im gonna se if we got Buck, I'm
gonna figure out who the actual teams are that we
should be paying attention to in the NFC. But first, Mark,
why don't get this caught up on what the scoreboard
looks like right now on a wild Dale.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
Football right now, just as everybody drew it up in Philadelphia,
it's ten to seven Commanders as Jacross Jacoby krossky Merritt
crosses over the end zone for Washington's touchdown. The Eagles
missed one field goal with about twenty seconds left in
the regular in the first half that was in a penalty.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
They had another opportunity.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Jake Elliott missed another field goal to try to tie
this game going into the half. So we'll see if
they're able to come out and rebound. After what you
said just we're talking about fits that big win against
the Raiders. Big win loading for Old Miss against two
Lane as Trinidad Chandler slides down at about his fifteen
yard about his eight yard line, I should say it'll

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be first in goal for the ole Miss Rebels thirty
four to three over two Lane. John Sumrall will leave
this after Two Lane loses this game, will leave to
go take the new head coaching job at Florida. He's
already been announced. Lang Kivin did not coach this game
for ol Miss. Pete Golding looking like he'll get a
win in his first game as a head coach. Just

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happens also be the first win in the playoffs and
the Also NFL news, the Rams fire their special teams
coordinator after that Thursday night football punt return cost them
the game. Chase Blackburns would be looking for a new job.
Buccaneers activated Jason Pierre Paul Sunday's game against the Panthers.
JPP hasn't played in an NFL game since December eleventh,
twenty twenty three. But in a world where Philip Rivers

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comes back, you know what, anything is possible. Man may
beat Texas to beat the advanced to the semi finals
ten to three. The score cards are back touchdown pass
in the last minute, Bryce Fitzgerald with an interception in
the end zone.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Hurricanes now advanced his face two seed Ohio State and
the Cotton Bowl.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
Alabama advanced last night to playoffs against Oklahoma thirty four
to twenty four. They will play Big Ten champion and
once heat Indiana Fits back to you all.

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Right, Welcome back to a Bucket Fits on Fox Sports Radio.
I'm Jason fitz I think we have Buck rising. Maybe
we'll see I don't know. He might still be hanging
out at the Golden Corral. We can't figure out whether
or not we have him. I'll just I'll defer to
Buck if he can hear me and is capable of talking,
Just chime in whenever you want. We'll keep the NFC
conversation going. Buck.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
We got you really want to try this live this way.

Speaker 7 (23:24):
Yeah, come on, I don't know. Well, I don't know
how we feel about all this.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
I got you. I can hear you. It's glorious. Can
you hear me? Is this happening? We're doing this on
live radio. This is actually happening, and you're in sync.
I can see you on my computer. I can hear
you in my ear. I feel like this is this
is the joy I needed. I feel like Santa Claus
just gave me a prison.

Speaker 6 (23:47):
Well, hopefully the rest of the world can hear us,
because Mary is trying to call me on the Fox
hotline right now. So if I need to bail in
the middle of all this, you all just let me know,
because I'm the only person I can hear right now.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
Is you okay? I love this? Since I have full
control of the world. These are the things you should know.
Number one, we established that you get at least three,
maybe four plates at the Golden Corral. We established that
you have an affinity for creamed corn that none of
us knew about. So those are the things that we
established while you were gallivanting around eating at the buffet
and not doing your work for the first thirty minutes

(24:19):
of the show. We also established that I could take
nothing away from the Philadelphia Eagles beating the Raiders because
they're losing to Washington right now, and maybe we should
shift our narrative's thoughts. Oh really, I'll let you on
creamed corn or the Philadelphia No, no.

Speaker 6 (24:32):
No, you think your slick by just glossing over the
shots fired in my inability and I have no defense.
I have no defense. That doesn't sound like an excuse.
So I'm just going to have to eat it, just
like I ate the cream corn at Golden Corral the
other day. I mean, on the Philadelphia Eagles. This is
the thing that I was confused by. Okay, so I'm
getting ready for the show. I'm watching the start of

(24:54):
the Fox broadcast for this Eagles Commander's game. And no
disrespect to Joe Davis and Greg Olsen, but they're opening
they're opening the broadcast talking about the idea that the
Eagles got a much needed win, a good win, but.

Speaker 7 (25:10):
They did it against the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 6 (25:11):
And I heard you monologuing about this, of course, and
what the quality of that win actually is. What does
it really solve about what's wrong with the Philadelphia Eagles,
which is for some reason, all of a sudden, you
don't seem to be able to trust their quarterback, and
the run game that miraculously appeared against one of the
worst teams in football maybe isn't as sustainable as one

(25:32):
week might have led us to believe. Again, they're trailing
right now at the half ten to seven, as Fitzi
said to a Washington commander's team, that isn't having to
do very much lifting. And oh, by the way, they
start the game off with a fumble that puts Washington
a position to try and capitalize there. So not only
are they not solved, the problems aren't solved offensively, but
they're still making critical errors where their margin seems as

(25:55):
thin as it's ever felt now, unlike the Chiefs. So
I'm getting ready to cover this week because they're coming
here to Nashville to play the Titans, the rare both
teams eliminated game so far this season. The Eagles are
still finding ways to win enough to keep themselves alive.
They have postseason hopes, but it's very complex right now
for Philadelphia, and I can't imagine they feel good about this.

Speaker 1 (26:17):
I mean, they're broken, no matter how we want to
parse this out again. I'll reiterate this as we hit
the half. This isn't important. Aj Brown and DeVante Smith
have a combined twelve catches on a combined seventeen targets. Okay,
that's where the offenses come from. Why is that significant?
They are the only two players in the entire Philadelphia

(26:39):
offense that even have a target from Jalen Hurts. You
cannot get so one dimensional. The NFL will let one
player beat you ninety nine percent of the time. The
NFL will let you get one dimensional because they're not
afraid of losing a game that way. And we just
watched the Rams with Puka absolutely go off in a loss. Right,

(27:00):
most teams will turn around and say, Okay, if that's
the way you want to beat us, that's fine, We'll
stay in this game. This is the Washington Commanders who
were four and ten this year, two and four at
home with Marcus Mariota as the quarterback. Right, Like, this
is not Jayden Daniels and Washington last year. This is
not a chef's kiss team. This is a team where
you know, frankly, they don't do a lot of things

(27:21):
incredibly well. They don't scare you in anything that they're
doing right now, and they're doing it with Mariota with
their backup quarterback, and they are beating the Eagles like
it's this team is just so damn broken. And to me,
all of this comes back to when a head coach
has a specialty and that specialty sucks. There's a problem.
A couple of years ago, the reason people thought siriotni

(27:43):
might be on the hot seat. Their offense just didn't
look right. Then they go to the super Bowl because
they have the right offensive coordinator in the right mind,
everything's working well. Now all of a sudden it's not
working again. You know, this is the maddening part of this.
There isn't an easy fix when your offensive minded head
coach doesn't really seem to have the key to unlock it.
Team that offensively just has no identity and no longer

(28:03):
does any one thing unstoppably.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
Well, yeah, but it's it's one of those things where
I don't want to let them off the hook, right
And certainly Philadelphia is not everybody. Everybody gets the smoke
in Philly when it comes to the success or rather
failures of the Eagles. But I mean, is what is
Nick Sirianni supposed to do about the offensive line just
not being up to snuff anymore.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
I mean, that's really what's at the crux at this issue.

Speaker 6 (28:28):
We have talked about this time and time again, FITZI,
whether it be on your your Yahoo Sports Daily show,
or whether I'm talking about the Titans on a local
show or something like that, or whether we when we
get together on Fox and we talk about this.

Speaker 7 (28:41):
On a on a wider scale.

Speaker 6 (28:42):
If you don't have successful units, if you don't have
the advantage in the trenches, you're going to lose games
more often than not. In the National Football League, and
for the for the longest that's been the Eagle superpower,
nobody's been worried about their offensive line situation.

Speaker 7 (28:58):
That's why Joe Buck.

Speaker 6 (28:58):
And Troy Aigman a couple of weeks ago, when the
Eagles were on Monday Night Football, we're joking about the
idea of have they called Jason kelcey thirty eight year
old Jason kelce because their biggest problems seem to be
on the interior of that offensive line, and that yet
they've dealt with. They've tried to navigate it as best
they can, but turns out you're mortal. If you have
something wrong with that unit, the unit that's carried you

(29:20):
literally and figuratively for as long as that one has
for them, you're just kind of banged because you're just
going to lose games that way. It's real, and especially
when you expose Jalen Hurts in a couple of different ways. Here,
we're just seeing what Jalen Hurts looks like when he's
more exposed. Now, you could say that to Mahomes in
the Super Bowl against the Eagles, where his offensive line

(29:40):
situation is in tatters and the Eagles are just banging
his head against the turf right for sixteen minutes of
a football game that didn't feel particularly close. But I
can't Philly will put it on the coaching no matter what.
I can't in good conscience say, yeah, they're a markedly
different team.

Speaker 7 (29:57):
They're a markedly different.

Speaker 6 (29:58):
Coach team when I know the that they're supposed to
be the best at just really isn't working for them.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
Yeah, And I think part of the conversation here has
to be about expectations versus what we're seeing to a
certain extent, because to be clear, Philly's nine to five right.
The only way the Eagles miss out on the playoffs
is if they lose all of their remaining games. Now again,
they're trailing right now to Washington ten to seven. Next week,
I believe they have the Bills. If I'm not, yes,

(30:24):
they have the Bills in Buffalo next week, tough game,
and then they get Washington again. The chance is that
the Philadelphia Eagles are going to lose two games in
the last three weeks to Washington. To miss out of
the playoffs feels to me to be very slim. It
would also require, in this for them to miss the playoffs,
it would also require the Dallas Cowboys to win out
and that you know, the Dallas Cowboys have lost all faith.

(30:44):
I've lost all faith in the Dallas Cowboys, I should
say so. I think it's pretty likely they're going to
make the playoffs. They're not a good team like that.
That's why we've talked about this before. There's a difference
between saying is this a playoff team or is this
a good football team? In this year's playoff? In this
year's NFC East, where the Giants are absolutely dreadful, the
Cowboys have been a wild disappointment and the Commanders suck. Yeah, yeah,

(31:07):
he was going to win the division. Awesome, that's great.
They're not a super Bowl caliber football team. So trying
to manage sort of the expectation of what does that mean,
because it needs to be a different word, Like, you
don't suck if you've won nine games, but you are
certainly not as good as anyone wants you to be.
You're not fixed, you're not right, you're not reaching your potential. However,
we want to say it when you are the way

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the Eagles look right now, they are not a super
Bowl caliber football team.

Speaker 7 (31:32):
Well, I mean, just think about it.

Speaker 6 (31:33):
Put it within this context, right Imagine they played in
the NFC South or seven and seven is good enough
to lead your division right now? Like they are basically
I know their record is nine to five and that
they are better in that situation by record than Tampa
Bay is. But you're basically talking about the same principle.
That's a division leader that has flaws, that isn't as
good as what sits at the top of the conference

(31:54):
right now, which is currently Seattle locked in to a
postseason spot after their thirsty Night Football win and right
now with a path to the one seed. Chicago, who
is going to pay play Green Bay for control of
that division later this evening in Philly. While they're the
three seed, they just that's where it stops. Right you
go Seattle Chicago, you leap frog these other two teams

(32:15):
that are division leaders. You say, the Rams in San
Francisco in Green Bay are the other three teams in
the NFC that can actually win a Super Bowl, while
the rest of them are just the best of what's left.
Right Like, that's how you contextualize the Eagles right now.
And Philadelphia is not going to want to hear that
because they constantly have championship expectations.

Speaker 7 (32:35):
But that's just not what it is this year.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yeah, it's interesting you just mentioned the Seahawks. I want
to get to that when we come back. Seattle had
the biggest win of the year on Thursday Night Football.
I still don't know what to make of the wildest game,
the wildest finish, and what to make of a team
that has looked so bad at times but then figured
out how to win. We'll break down what to make
of the Rams and the Seahawks in the NFC as

(32:58):
a hole when we come back. He's Buck Rise. I'm
Jason Fitz bucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. You're listening
to Fox Sports Radio Radio, Chris Think. I'm Jason Fitz
hanging out with you, coming at you live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios. Right now, the second half just underway,
Washington is beating the Eagles ten to seven Philly with

(33:19):
the ball first in the second half. We'll see what
they can make of it. Also, Ole miss to nobody's surprise,
forty one to three is right now the score over
two lane, James Madison walking off the bus. Let's see
if their team can keep up with their social media
team hype for that game coming up next. We'll keep
you updated on all that. Buck, I'm trying to figure
out what to make of the Seahawks, Like they get

(33:41):
the win, they get to win over the Rams in
a game that just you know, I found myself. I
was texting somebodies in the first half as we were
getting ready for the show the next day that I
had it was all, oh, my god, the story tomorrow
is going to be Sam Donald, look at this, my God,
Like this is just Sam Donald is melting it down again,
and this is only going to continue to create more
conversation about what he's incapable of all of these things.

(34:03):
And then we see a fourth quarter, a sixteen point
deficit erased in the last nine minutes of a football game,
and then an overtime and two point conversion win, and
I look at all of this, I'm genuinely lost. I
want to sit here and make this proclamation that it
means Seattle's a great team. But my god, like, they've
played terrible both times they've played the Rams, and they
could have won both games. What do you make of that?

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Oh, we're real easy.

Speaker 6 (34:28):
Don't over complicate it, don't don't let it turn you sideways.
In that pretty sweet, simple little ahead of yours. It's
gonna be okay, Okay, it is pretty. It is pretty.
I can confirm, as we sit here on FaceTime, I
am comfortable making a proclamation about the Seattle Seahawks. I
think they're a great football team because they're good enough
to survive all of that, right, They're good enough to survive.

Speaker 7 (34:51):
Against the best team in the league.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Despite all of the things that went down in that game,
despite the performance by Sam Darnold in the early on,
because frankly, he was pretty awesome down the stretch in
that moment, and that's just the kind of performance that
you need to give yourselfself a chance to win.

Speaker 7 (35:09):
They did it against the best.

Speaker 6 (35:10):
Team in the sport, right now, we can all agree,
right the Rams are the best team in football. Okay,
So they did it against the best team in the sport,
which means if they get to a final game in
I mean, I don't even know if there is an
AFC comp right now to the Los Angeles Rams, So
you could say that Seattle is as good as anybody
in the AFC right now. So if Seattle were to
end up in the Super Bowl, they're good enough to

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get by these teams in a single elimination tournament.

Speaker 7 (35:35):
May they come up short.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
In one of these circumstances, sure, because the margin for
error is that kind of thin, But they are good
enough to advance against a team like the Rams, which
means to me, they're good enough to win the Super Bowl,
as simple as that.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
I mean, that's fair. It's fair the way you're saying it,
and it's fair. It's just to that point. I feel
like one day, one game, I would be equally I
wouldn't be surprised to see Seattle out in the first
time that they play in the playoffs, because I just
don't know if that meltdown is real. But I also
wouldn't be surprised to see them go on an epic run,
Like I just I don't know, And you're right, like

(36:11):
they did that against the Rams, but they did that
against the Rams when there was no DeVante Adams, Right.
But then, if I'm looking at the Rams side of it,
I'm like, how do the Rams keep melting down against
the Seahawks? Like, remember the Rams won that first game
where Darnold had four picks and the Rams won it,
but the Seahawks had a sixty three yard try at
the end to try and win that game, So like,
the Rams have a Seahawks problem. So maybe the real

(36:33):
answer is that these two teams are clearly the best
two teams in the conference, clearly the best two teams
in the NFL, and they're just gonna get to do
this a third time in the NFC Championship. Okay, maybe
it's that simple. I just I want to come away.
I do. I like proclamations as much as I like
to tear them down. I want to come away and say, oh,
Seattle clearly number one, and I look at it instead.

(36:53):
I'm like, I don't know, if they played that game
ten times, the Rams should have won that exact game.
Nine of those ten times. They just didn't.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
Sure, I mean to your point, because that's not a meltdown, right,
Matt Stafford had a god tier game. He was excellent.
Pookin and' CooA was awesome to your point. And you know,
despite his tweets about the officials and all of it.
I mean, he started the week off with an anti
semitic signal on a Twitch stream or something like that,
so hot start.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
For pookin' accua.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
He comes in on Thursday night football balls the hell out,
tweets about the refs and a conspiracy theory after the fact.
I mean, they had a good game on the ground,
like they they played a very balanced game. It came
down to a controversial call at the end, which gave
us the drama that we like in those kinds of situations,
just as an NFL viewing experience, because they were two
teams that duped it out back and forth and you

(37:37):
got it. While Sam Darnold wasn't special. I think this
is also a larger theme which if we want to
talk about in the second hour, we can Fitzie. These
two teams show a clear and obvious commitment to their
ground game, no matter what the circumstances, which gives because
they can have success. Kenth Murray or excuse me, Kenneth
Walker was awesome in this game. You still give yourself
a chance for the for the for the quarterback, Acx,

(38:00):
Sam Donald, Matt Stafford, whomever in these circumstances. Is what's
as big a problem wrong with the Eagles, as we
talked about early as anything else. You just take the
pressure off the quarterback that way, so you can run
the ball with success and give yourself more time or
give yourself more chances for your quarterback to play an
imperfect game.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
You are a thousand percent right about that. Like the
method to the madness, the method to the madness for
the Seattle Seahawks is to take the ball out of
San Donald's hands. Like look, look, I know we all
love Jackson Smith and Jigba and that story. In and
of itself, he's become one of, if not the best,
in the NFL. I love all of this, but I mean,
let's be honest that the real key here is to
make sure that you get that two headed monster going

(38:38):
in the running attack, and it is wild to be
sitting here to say, like, we're not even including the
forty nine ers in this conversation. I think maybe this
is just about the fact that the Rams and the
Seahawks have separated so much, and this is a year
where there's very little that I trust across the board.
I went into that Thursday night football matchup saying the
one thing I can trust is the Rams, and with

(38:59):
that that trust, it just feels like it breaks in
those moments because they have found a weird way. Each
of their loss has just been a weird way to lose,
and I don't know what to make of the weird
ways to lose. I do know what to make here.
We are still sitting at ten to seven. Washington is
ahead of the Eagles. Important Marcus Mariota was set it
back into the tunnel. So whatever is happening right now

(39:21):
at the quarterback position, try to get an update for you,
and we may have.

Speaker 7 (39:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
I think we just got a trash time touchdown for
two lanes, so they get their first touchdown of the game.
They were down forty one to three. Now it's gonna
be forty one nine pending the extra points, So we'll
keep you updated on what all of that means. There's
gonna be some loud conversations coming in college football about
who should and shouldn't get into the playoffs after we

(39:46):
watch these group of five games. Eagles with the ball
and driving a lot to get you updated on. We're
just now wrapping up our number one hour number two
of Buck and Fits coming up next to these Buck
Rising I'm Jason Fitz. We'll keep you updated on the games,
keep you updated on the breaking news next you're listening
to Fox Sports. Really, there's no such thing as tough

(40:06):
divisional wins against bad teams this late in the season.
If you're the Philadelphia Eagles. Even if they're able to
scrape this game out, the question is what's it mean
for Philly as they are sitting right now down three
points to Washington and what is turning into an unexpected
upset of the day? Bucking Fits, he's Buck Rising up,
Jason Fitz hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.

(40:28):
Should be noted twice in this game, there has been
a goal to go situation on the goal line in
tush push formation, and the Eagles have been called for
the false start. So, just like we've been talking about
everything else that is caught up to the Philadelphia Eagles,
it looks like the officials that may be finally caught
up without a best officiate this play. And for all

(40:50):
of the crying about it all year illegal from all
the cowards that simply couldn't figure out how to stop it,
it feels like the NFL has got a handle on
officiating it and it's coming back to bite the Eagles
in this game with two different penalties. That being said,
they just converted a third and long, a third and
goal situation into a touchdown. I don't care, book, I
don't care if they win this game. The Eagles are broken.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
I mean, listen, they beating the Commanders will not be
their saving grace. Yes, like they're just they're in a
situation where they are going to have to take advantage
of that. They are just simply more talented and healthier
than the Washington Commanders are.

Speaker 7 (41:29):
I mean, Marcus Mariota is going to return to this game.

Speaker 6 (41:32):
He was evaluated for concussion and was cleared, so at
least in that situation, who is even the Commander's third
string quarterback right now? Can anybody in the class tell me.
I would not be able to guess, but I mean, yeah,
it's just like beating the Raiders. Does it fix the Eagles?
Probably not. Does it allow them to survive for an
additional week? Absolutely so. The rest of their schedule and

(41:53):
how they navigate it is going to be a challenge
because they're now out of the driver's seat. They don't
quite control all their own destiny as far as the
one seed goes. They need some things to happen with
Seattle at the top, with that huge win over the
Rams at this point in time.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
So I struggle with what to actually do with them.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
FITZI, other than to say, yeah, this is this is
the end of it, Like this is. They're not going
to repeat a Super Bowl champions They, like the Seahawks,
are not able to win in a single elimination sample size,
and if you put them up against a better team,
they're gonna lose. Right now, they're not up against a
better team. They should be able to outlast, outlast Washington.
Even if you do apply the any given Sunday sensibilities

(42:33):
to what this NFL game actually is.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
Looking it up the backup quarterback, your thirty nine year
old Josh Johnson for the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
So thirty Wait, how old?

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Thirty nine year old Josh Johnson.

Speaker 7 (42:45):
No, he is not thirty nine years old? Stuff.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've got to hear. He was the
drafted in the fifth round of the two thousand and
eight NFL Draft. Eight.

Speaker 8 (42:55):
He's been on pretty much every NFL Absolutely insane.

Speaker 7 (42:58):
I've seen Josh Johnson play.

Speaker 6 (43:00):
Hell, he almost He came to Nashville as the quarterback
for the Commanders when Adrian Peterson was the running back
and almost beat the Titans. I cannot believe that he's
still out here with an NFL career, but good on him.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Yeah, good for him. And this just comes back to
a reminder for everybody that the NFL has sold you
Bill Goods. I've said this before about parody that doesn't exist.
I just want to remind everybody when you're trying to
figure out which of your teams are good and which
of your teams are bad, that who you play matters,
because right now, as we sit today, with still three
games left to play, for most NFL teams, there are

(43:32):
already already as we stand there are nine teams that
have lost double digit games. There are nine teams in
the NFL that are four and ten or worse. And
then depending on what's going to happen over the next
few weeks, for teams like Miami, Kansas City, Minnesota, Dallas, Baltimore,
even I don't think, but we'll see Carolina, like you

(43:52):
could end up with twelve or thirteen teams that have
double digit losses by the end of this season. The
bottom of the NFL is the worst to ever been.
And that's the thing that I just want to keep
hammering home because when you look at at any of
these teams to try and figure out who's any good
and who's not any good, you have to put into
context the college football mentality. Who you played matters.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
Oh yeah, I mean, and that's that's just the nature
of the situation. Moving forward.

Speaker 6 (44:18):
Now, let's go through this thought exercise on both sides
of the brackets as you talk about and we can
get back into the college football playoff stuff a little
later if you want, But as you sit here talking
about the teams in the NFC that you trust the most,
and again for people listening at home, just to get
you updated before we really get into the rest of
week sixteen, the AFC and the NFC right now, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, Tampa.

(44:41):
Those are your divisional leaders, the Rams, the Niners, and
Green Bay again pending tonight, huge game with implications tonight
for both.

Speaker 7 (44:50):
The Bears and the Packers.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
They'll go head to head for this What is this
the second time in three weeks? I think for which
is a weird scheduling qirk, But whatever it makes for
it may for an interesting game. In the AFC, it's Denver,
New England, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh. The Patriots go to Baltimore, which
is an interesting game. Baltimore is way down at the
nine seed right now, behind Indianapolis, You've got the Chargers,

(45:14):
the Bills, the Texans as the wild card. If I
said do you trust do you trust three AFC teams
the way that you trust probably five.

Speaker 7 (45:24):
Teams in the NFC?

Speaker 6 (45:27):
Could you make an argument for three AFC teams that
you think definitively can win a championship this year?

Speaker 1 (45:32):
God? No, No, I mean, look, I don't three. Okay,
so the Denver Broncos I trust. I don't trust bon Nicks,
but I trust so much of the improvement in Bonocks
play combined with the fact that he's with Sean Payton,
who I trust immensely, combined with the defense, it's incredible.
I will remind everybody. Did the Broncos have two losses

(45:53):
that both came on the last play the game? The
Broncos are two plays away from being fourteen in Like,
that's how good the Broncos have been this year. I
trust the Denver Broncos. I I don't know if I
trust anybody else in the AFC. Like the Patriots, much
like the Bills have beat up on bad teams, and
the Bills would look wildly inconsistent at times. Plus, I've
never seen Drake May in the situation of the playoffs

(46:14):
to know how he's going to handle it. I have
seen Mike Rabel melt down with the one seed before,
so I mean, if I'm being.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
Fairhell melt down with one seed before.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
My god, that's that is fair. The Jags. I don't
trust Trevor Lawrence. The Steelers suck. I don't care if
they've won eight games that the Steelers suck. The Chargers
are decimated by injuries. The Bills have been as Heckel
and Giede Heckel and Jakol and hide heckland Gide wow
as Jacquelin Hyde. As you start, I don't care.

Speaker 7 (46:43):
Yeah, there we go.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
What about the Texans? Where you are the Texans?

Speaker 7 (46:46):
All right?

Speaker 1 (46:46):
Because the Texans defense might be the best single unit
in the entire NFL this year. I love their defense.
I still think their offense is really inconsistent. So I
love what CJ. Straut is supposed to be on paper.
The video game version of that offense looks great, but
the actual Texans offense I think has been a little
hit and miss this year.

Speaker 7 (47:05):
Well, if you're asking, I mean, you're right. If you're asking.

Speaker 6 (47:07):
About the Texans, it's really a question about the Jaguars,
right because the Jags, you know, they've They've gone five
to zero in the last couple of weeks. They've got
a huge game this weekend at Denver, where, if I'm
not mistaken, Denver has yet to lose a home game
in the middle of this incredible run that they've been
on at the top of the AFC, Jacksonville has, I mean,

(47:28):
the offense looks totally different. Fincy, I don't know if
you expected Jacoby Myers to be as big a trade
piece for a team in the NFL this year as
he has been.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
But it's the game of three year.

Speaker 6 (47:39):
I think it's sixty million dollars deal earlier this week,
and rightfully so. He's made Brian Thomas Junior a better
version of himself.

Speaker 7 (47:47):
I think they were.

Speaker 6 (47:47):
Trending that way away from Brian Thomas Juniors their number
one wide receiver when Travis Hunter was healthy. Anyway, So
the question is not can not do you trust the Texans?
But do you think that the Texans are a better
team than the Jaguars right now?

Speaker 7 (48:00):
At least That's how I.

Speaker 6 (48:01):
Kind of process it, and I just can't. I can't
objectively say that they are now. Could Trevor Lawrence come
back to Earth? And when, instead of playing the Jets
defense that does not have a single interception this year,
you go up against the Broncos, who is leading the
league in sacks.

Speaker 7 (48:15):
Again, they don't turn the ball over a great.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
Deal, but they will suffocate you in that moment and
give the the Texans a little bit of breathing room.
Texans play who this weekend, as a matter of fact,
they play Oh, they play the Raiders, your beloved Las
Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 7 (48:31):
Yes, it's go be ugly yes.

Speaker 6 (48:33):
An opportunity. Poor Gino, nobody, poor Gino, poor Genti. That
offensive line, Fitzy, my god.

Speaker 7 (48:38):
What do you do with that?

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Here's the thing with the Jag zone. So, yeah, you're right.
They won five straight against the Chargers team that is
just absolutely decimated by injuries, and I'm not convinced is
actually good. Against the Cardinals team that sucks, against the
Titans team that sucks. In the game the Daniel Jones
went out an injury, they were already ahead. I'll give
them credit for that. And then against the Jets, Like,
the last true quality team that the Jags played was

(49:04):
the Texans, and the Texans beat them. So I just
want to see this moment over the next few weeks too.
The Jags are gonna get the Broncos, then the Colts
without you know, at this point, let's see if Philip
Rivers is like it gets a walker to get on
the field by that point, and then against the Titans, Like,
I think there's a very real chance that the Jacks,
who sit at ten and four right now, they lose

(49:24):
this weekend, they sit at ten and five, They're gonna
get to twelve and five. I just don't think they're great.
I don't trust Trevor Lawrence yet in this offense. So
I actually trust the Texans more than I trust the Jags.
Even if the Texans going as a wildcard and the
Jacks go in as the division champs. I just I
trust that defense. I think the Broncos and the Texans
defenses are the two defenses that scare me the most

(49:47):
in the NFL.

Speaker 7 (49:48):
Right now.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
Yeah, but I mean that that should be a that
should be an argument in favor of Jacksonville, because you don't.
I mean, it's not a matter of I mean it
is right. The quarterback can make or break you, as
we've seen with Sam Darnold Minnesota. I suppose we'll find
out at a certain point with Sam Darnold and Seattle
this year. Right that was the thing that broke them
as a one and done team last year. Despite Minnesota

(50:09):
feeling really good all year along the side beyond Sam
Darnold playing the best football of his career to date
in Minnesota last year, they just.

Speaker 7 (50:19):
They came up short because the quarterback.

Speaker 6 (50:21):
In a huge game with the division on the line
at the end of the season, malfunctioned, and then the
Rams pass rush ate him. Alive in the postseason, and
that's just was what it was. So in this scenario
where Jacksonville, I guess the question is do you trust
c J.

Speaker 7 (50:38):
Stroud more than you trust Trevor Lawrence?

Speaker 6 (50:41):
And I don't know how in good conscience you could
say that you do. And Stroud has had plenty of
these scary moments in year three as we work our
way through. I mean, Davis Mills was the better quarterback.
He was the more efficient quarterback for a period of time,
not the more talented player, but he was just operating
the offense at a better level than we've seen. And
because the defense is a cheat code, I think you

(51:03):
could drop a great many quarterbacks in that situation and
they would still be a nine win football team, if
not better.

Speaker 7 (51:10):
But I can't say that c. J.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
Stroud is playing the quarterback position at a better level
than Trevor Lawrence is consistently. And while the Texans are
the best defense across the board fitsy, the Jags defense
is damn good too.

Speaker 7 (51:23):
I mean the.

Speaker 6 (51:24):
Turnovers, they're not turning it over in bunches the way
that they were at the start of the season. They're
still the best defense against the run. In football, like
they'll make you one dimensional and they don't get after
the passer the way that the Texans do what the
Broncos do, but it's still enough to cause you problems.

Speaker 7 (51:36):
It's a very interesting question.

Speaker 1 (51:38):
Yeah, I'm willing to admit that, I think because the
best of what I've seen from CJ. Stroud makes me
think that it's just bottled up there and it's going
I give CJ. Stroud more benefit of the doubt because
of the last three years, the best of what I've
seen from c J. Strout, But you're right, like this year,
particularly over the last few months since the trade, and
I did think, frankly, the Jacobe Meyers trade was going
to be a good one, just like I thought the

(51:59):
DeVante Adam's acquisition was a good one, because so often,
I think in a red zone world where you see
very little clips of most guys from bad teams, or
in a fantasy football world where you see production somewhere,
you don't necessarily see how often somebody's opened. Shobe Myers
was able to accomplish tremendous success with the Raiders over
the last few years, and I do mean tremendous, not

(52:19):
just from the Box sport Score. But when your quarterbacks
are eight and O'Connell and Gardner Minshew one year and
your quarterback the next is you know, Gino having just
an absolute meltdown. Any production you get him with Trevor Lawrence.
I mean that's just a massive difference. And Liam Cohen
has done a beautiful job. All Right, we'll get you updated.
There's an injury. Mario Toa is out on the game

(52:41):
at this point for Washington, which has led to just
terrible quarterback play. That game's going to get out of control.
Plus I got to figure it out now that the
game is complete, Now that the game is final, do
we need to change the college football playoff system. We'll
get bucks thoughts on it. Next, bucking Fits on Fox
Sports Radio. It's true he is a naughty, naughty l
if he's Buck Rising, I'm Jason fitz bucking Fits on

(53:03):
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the air. I'll be honest. There's a Spirit Christmas now

(53:24):
that it is opening Connecticut.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (53:26):
I went and checked it out, and like I thought
long and hard about it. They had like this five
hundred dollars massive, like fifteen foot yetti inflatable snowman. Oh
I thought long and hard about it, but I didn't.
I just I'm gonna wait see if it goes on,
Like if it goes half off after after Christmas, maybe
buy it for next year. Maybe get that the fifteen
foot yetti abominable snowman. Where do you.

Speaker 7 (53:48):
Even put a fifteen foot creature.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
In your yard?

Speaker 7 (53:51):
Like, surely you do not.

Speaker 6 (53:53):
You're not living on like a like a twenty five
acre premises that you can just have these giant things
strewn about your prop you.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Know, I'm on like just just under half an acre
in Connecticut. Like, I just pop it right in front
of the front door. Let them neighbors be aware of
the greatness. Like that's a statement. You gotta make the statement, Buck,
you can't be afraid of Christmas. Miss, I mean best
thing is to do is just spread Christmas cheer. You
can't fear this.

Speaker 6 (54:17):
No, the best thing to do was to call you
hoa and be like that guy, go after that guy,
like just.

Speaker 8 (54:22):
A fe with you.

Speaker 7 (54:23):
By the way, there there was a good.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Reason why I have never bought and will never bought
buy a house in an hoa like. I love the
concept far more than I love anybody telling me whether
or not I had to. I went home, Depot has
this one that it's an inside one because he's flocked
right like he's like he's the from the like the
old the Year without of Santa Claus, like those Island
of Misfits toys thing they've yet he got there. I looked,

(54:46):
oh man, he was like four hundred bucks. I was like,
you know what, Happy Christmas to me? Right, I looked
at it. I came home. I measured, I don't have
any ceilings tall enough for him to be inside, because
he was just over ten foot and I don't. I
don't have tall enough ceilings.

Speaker 6 (54:59):
This feels like it has the potential to become the
next rejoint. Because Mary was in my ear during that
last one, being like, you're such a grunch and I
was like, yeah, but you need one. You need one
to be able to curb all of this nonsense. You
need somebody. You need me on that wall. Okay, listen
to me. I am the kind of person who looked
up the other day how to start my own hoa

(55:20):
to patrol the neighborhood, to police other people, to stop
people like you from putting up a seventeen foot tall
skeleton in their yard, leaving it their year round and
just dressing it seasonally the way that one of my
neighbors in my neighborhood does the thing. If I was
a worse person, and I'm pretty close, but if I
was a worse person, I would take the chainsaw. It's

(55:42):
honestly the only power tool that I know how to operate.
I would take the chainsaw and I would just go
at the legs of this skeleton if I was a
bad person, instead of just you know, plotting this neighbor
of mine's demise secretly with secret hoas and things like that.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
Which is why we are truly two opposite els on
this show. Because I if I have one particular if
I had to rank all of my fatal flaws, I
think one of the highest ranked fatal flaws for me
is I have a problem with people pretending to have
authority that don't. That's just at my core. So to
tie it back to Christmas years ago, we had a

(56:18):
group of friends then we went to we were flash
mobbing all over the place. I've told you this, we
flash mobbed, right, but one of the places we flashed
flash mobbed just we just started saying we need little
Christmas right in the middle of the mall. We're right
in the middle of the mall, and a mall cop
came up to me like he was going to do
something about it, and that my nature in that moment
is like, Okay, what authority do you What exactly do

(56:39):
you think you're going to do? Like I am that type.
I've always been that type of person in some respect,
mad face. Oh yeah, Look, I would eat his lunch
because I would like, I would just sit there and say, okay, okay, fatty,
what do you think what authority? Big boy? Do you
think you have to actually stop anything?

Speaker 4 (56:57):
That's so reductive, that's completely completely hypothetical.

Speaker 8 (57:00):
Argument with Paul Blard happening, Oh.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
Man, oh I would I would just absolutely house it me.
He would have nothing and The funny thing is, yeah,
like as we get older, the number of times there's
conflict and somebody. Every time I see it on a
social media video where somebody's in somebody's face like I'm
gonna kick your ass, it's like, okay, let's play this out.
How do you think this is gonna go? What do
you think is gonna happen? That's how I'm natured. If
you came up within h o A, you know what

(57:22):
I do. The next day, I go buy every single
neighbor a bigger skeleton, and I'd buy outfits for each
holiday just to come on. And then I get one
from mine that's a sign. And the sign would just
have a big old buck, a massive buck on it,
and it would just say buck and then the letter
you after it, and it would be just for you.
So every time you drove by it, you could see buck.
You from my twelve foot giant skeleton. Only because you

(57:45):
told me I couldn't have one.

Speaker 7 (57:48):
I've I've just been Paul.

Speaker 6 (57:50):
I've just I've just had my because it's you know thet.

Speaker 9 (57:56):
Yeah, oh no, I've got I just got okay.

Speaker 6 (58:07):
The commanders are currently getting blarted by the eagles at
this point in time, Josh Johnson is one for four
for twenty yards and a pick. He's not been in
long enough to throw an interception. Apparently already has an interception.
It's just bad thirty nine year.

Speaker 1 (58:20):
Old Josh Johnson out there doing the thing. Marcus Mariota
had to leave the game. This game is twenty one
to ten. It was ten to seven at the half,
but the Eagles are pulling away in the second half.
That's that's fine. We're about to get to kick off
of another slaughter, Like right where I think we can
all slaughter and I'm sorry, blaunting. Is that what we
want to call it? James Madison, that's the game I

(58:41):
was talking about jmu versus Organ.

Speaker 7 (58:43):
You're talking about the Packers and the Bears. I was like,
what are you talking about?

Speaker 1 (58:46):
Yeah, let's go to the Packers and the Bears because
jmu organ is going to be an absolute bloodbath. Who
cares Packers Bears? Who you got? Why I'm taking the
Bears again? I don't know, genuinely excited about that?

Speaker 6 (59:01):
Okay, why did you did you want to fight? Did you?

Speaker 7 (59:03):
Well?

Speaker 1 (59:04):
I love this take from you. I want to hear more.
I was excited you're taking the Bears.

Speaker 6 (59:09):
I don't feel great about Caleb Williams, but the beauty
of the Bears is kind of what we've talked about
with the Seahawks and kind of what we'd mentioned with
the Rams, is that I don't have to I don't
have to feel great about Kayleb Williams because they run
the absolute hell out of the football like they're just
a very good offense. They're good enough around a quarterback
that's still got a learning curve to get the job done,

(59:29):
and they've got a defensive coordinator in Dennis Allen who's
getting the most out of them.

Speaker 7 (59:34):
They're turning the ball over at an exorbitant rate.

Speaker 6 (59:36):
I haven't checked the interception leaders lately, but Titans legend
Kevin Byrd still getting the job done at an advanced
age makes me very, very happy in Chicago.

Speaker 7 (59:45):
No, I think the Bears got it. I'm with what.

Speaker 6 (59:48):
The Packers have and I was watching the Fox pregame.
At this point in time, they're going to come into
this game with a limited amount of weapons that they've had,
and they've they've done a good job. I think Matt
Lafleur deserves a lot of credit for getting as much
out of this unit as I think that any reasonable
coach would be able to do with a lot of
I mean, what do you do, how would you describe

(01:00:10):
the collection of Packers' skill position players like wide receivers
and let's just keep it to wide receivers. Okay, So
the tight end Tucker Craft, he's hurt. They're a different
offense without him. Josh Jacobs a good running back, he
makes a big difference for them, But just the wide receivers, Like,
I feel like people assume, because of the draft capital
that's been spent on the lot of them, that they

(01:00:30):
are a better group of wide receivers, a more consistent
group of wide receivers than they actually are, when in reality,
I think I'm very disappointed if I'm a Packers fan
with the way that a lot of those young players
have panned out, because you just don't trust them down in, down,
out now.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
Well, and that's why Christian Watson is such a huge
part of that offense, right, Like, I think he's the
one wide receiver I do trust, and the minute he's
on the field, the entire every time they say all
the offense looks different with him on the field. My
answer to that, to your point is because he's a
competent wide receiver. I mean in the downfall of the
Packers right now is in part I think at times
they're inconsistency comes from Watson can't stay on the field.

(01:01:07):
He's been hurt. You're right, Craft is hurt. Josh Jacobs
has been hurt. It's a wonder that he's been playing
week in and week out. And so then you have
Jordan Love who I think is a little inconsistent sometimes
with accuracy, so he gets on heaters, but then sometimes
he forces balls. He doesn't need to force that everything
gets a little crazy. But also he doesn't have a
ton of help from the wide receiver position, so that
makes it all more difficult for me. Like the Packers

(01:01:30):
are I think should be a better team, but I
don't know. I can't decide what the Bears because certainly
the narrative has been that they're lucky, and I think
that's probably fair to a certain degree, but they've also
put themselves in this situation week in and week out,
and there was no luck in the way they beat Philly.
Like when the Bears start running the ball the way
they ran the ball against Philly. There's literally no luck involved.

(01:01:52):
That's all scale. We'll keep breaking it down because this
game is so significant tonight. First we're gonna get Martin's update.
What's going on right now?

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
Brother, So if you searched Marcus Mariota on on X.

Speaker 6 (01:02:06):
All Mariota Mariota, damn it, Mario tah.

Speaker 5 (01:02:13):
No, but you get a whole bunch of void it
or I switched to this other sportsbook. Void this void
that Marioda got heart, void this void that I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:02:22):
Trying to find out what the injury actually was.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
Adam Schefter said about seven minutes ago, he's questionable to
return with a right hand injurie, adding that Mariota was
and evaluated for a concussion.

Speaker 7 (01:02:34):
But was cleared of that.

Speaker 5 (01:02:35):
But when we saw the last play that he played
in this game, he ran off the field with the limp.
So I had no head, you know, shoulders, needs and
toes for Marcus Mariota right now. But Josh Johnson out
there Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
Actually, I believe the last.

Speaker 5 (01:02:51):
Time I saw Josh Johnson play a game of note
was against the Philadelphia Eagles in the Energy Championship Game
many years ago. But the Eagles right now, twenty one
to ten over the Commanders with about nine minutes left in.

Speaker 1 (01:03:02):
The fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 (01:03:03):
Getting ready for that Bears Packers kickoff in a couple hours.
Like the boys were talking about Old Miss and two
lane thirty one point margin for Old Miss and Pete
Golding's first ever coach, first ever game as a college
football head coach, he gets a Old Miss's first ever
college football playoff win. Trindad Chamberliss had twenty eighty two
yards passing. We saw both quarterbacks playing this game. He

(01:03:25):
had a passing touchdown and two rushing touchdowns. Keiwan and
Lacey had at eighty seven on the ground with a
rushing touchdown as well. John Summrall now on the way
to Florida after losing this game. He was two lanes
head coach up until taking the head coaching job at
Florida earlier. Today, we saw Miami be Texas A and
M to advance the semi finals ten to three. The

(01:03:46):
score not much scoring until the final minute when Malachai
Tony got to the end zone off of Carson beck pass.
Alabama beat Oklahoma yesterday thirty four to twenty four. They'll
see the Big ten champ and once Indiana Hurricane will
face two seed Ohio State and the Cotton Ball on
New Year's Eve. And college basketball, right now, eighth seed
I mean eighth ranked Houston within an eighty seven to

(01:04:08):
sixty five lead over fourteenth ranked Arkansas had wins earlier
today for ninth thrank Michigan State, eleventh ranc Louisville, twelfth
ranked at North Carolina, and Kentucky upset twenty second rank
Saint John's fourth to eight for the Eagles, punting back
to the commanders, back to you boys.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
He's buck rising. I'm Jason Fitz's bucket fits on Fox
Sports Radio. He goes up twenty one to ten. We're
good there. I'm trying to figure out from this game tonight.
You know, when you think about home field advantage, and
I know it's early, we got three weeks left, and
there's so much chaos in the NFC, particularly, but what
I keep thinking about is this particular game and what
it means, like just for that standing portion of it.

(01:04:47):
Because as we sit right now at ten and four,
the Bears are a game back of the Seahawks for
home field advantage throughout the entire playoff, Like just think
about how you know, obviously, with a few weeks have
to go the Bears Packers match, it was huge not
just for the division, but it's also huge because the
other teams that we've talked about in the NFC buck

(01:05:08):
like we've talked about the Rams, We've talked about the Seahawks,
the forty nine Ers are in there. Those are all
West Coast teams. This Bears Packers forcing any of those
West Coast teams were forcing the Lions should they get
into the playoffs, to go to Green Bay or Chicago
is such a massive advantage. It's just one of the
layers of why I think this game tonight is so
wildly important.

Speaker 6 (01:05:26):
It's an awesome setup, and I'm so happy, you know,
I'm grateful that we get to do this show on
a regular basis, and not for not for any reasons
but selfish reasons. Because I have not covered Fitzy a
playoff game since twenty twenty two January of twenty twenty two,
when the Titans were the number one overall seed. I
have wished this football season away so badly, to the

(01:05:47):
point where I'm counting down the weeks until the Tennessee
Titans mercifully come to an end, because that's the team
that I cover on a local basis to be able
to talk on this show about games with stakes and
teams who are jockeying for position and all these things.
I'll never playoff football for granted, ever again, I swear
to God I won't because I miss it so so badly.

Speaker 7 (01:06:06):
But as we sit here, I miss doing.

Speaker 6 (01:06:09):
Playoff football games obviously, and still watch the playoffs at
home like a like a like a civilian on the
couch if I want to.

Speaker 7 (01:06:15):
But it just doesn't hit the same you.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Just like being in the press box with the elite
to Is the press brox spread different in a playoff game?

Speaker 7 (01:06:23):
Oh yes, of course it's uh you know, well, it
depends on where you are.

Speaker 6 (01:06:26):
If if a game is hosted in Chicago, I will
say that the Bears Soldier Field. While it is historic
and it is nicely located esthetically pleasing where it sits
on the lake there, it is the worst press box
food in America. And that is a one percent or
problem that only I will care about. But it's shameful.

(01:06:47):
Shame on you Bears. Do better anyway for the game
of consequence, for the games of consequence moving forward here.

Speaker 7 (01:06:54):
It's just it's such a testament.

Speaker 6 (01:06:56):
To how you how you need to have patients around
a certain situation, because even for as badly as the
Bear's got it, think about how far the Bears have
come since firing Matt Eberflus knowing knowing we.

Speaker 7 (01:07:09):
All knew, everybody in the world.

Speaker 6 (01:07:11):
Knew that they shouldn't have brought him back last year,
and they did it anyway. I just covered a team
shouldn't have brought Brian Callahan back at the start of
this year. They did it anyway, just to fire him
six games in, right, So you really weren't that confident
in that coach, which means just screwed it up. And
you've got the number one overall pick at quarterback who
you're screwing it up around, but with the right kind
of approach, with the kind of patience, with the kind

(01:07:32):
of diligence that it takes to get it correct, and
with an attractive prospected quarterback to lure a coach like
Ben Johnson.

Speaker 7 (01:07:39):
In who turned down interviews elsewhere.

Speaker 6 (01:07:42):
I know that because he turned down the Tennessee Titans
in the interview process prior to cam Ward being here.
I don't know if Cam Woard would have made a difference,
but that's besides the point. You see how much the
right person can totally flip this thing around. Even as
it is the most important or the greatest example of
teams sports anywhere we're one person. It is so difficult

(01:08:03):
for one person to actually affect the outcome in a
football game, unless you're Ryan Tannehill in a playoff game
and you throw three interceptions, one on the first play
of the game, one on the last play of the game,
one on a goal line in between. Right, if you
go for the trifecta, then your banged. Then you've individually
impacted the game. But for a coach who can come
in with the right pieces and parts and just treat
it the way that it needs to be run, actually

(01:08:24):
have the skills to be both CEO and in this case,
play caller at the same time, it's a very very
difficult thing to do. And I think that Ben Johnson
is going to get a lot more people hired and
a lot more people fired for teams who are looking
for their version of Ben Johnson.

Speaker 7 (01:08:37):
I know because I just covered a team that did it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:39):
Yeah, you're a thousand percent right at some point this
chase and that's what everybody's going to be chasing this offseason,
like who is the person who's the next Ben Johnson
in this moment, also trying to figure out where the
line is between some success and sustainable sets. I mean,
are we not seeing a bit of a warning sign
from this Washington season right because a year ago, right now,

(01:09:01):
it was, oh my god, the Commanders. They've won a
lot of close games, but Jayden Daniels is so good,
and this defense is ahead of schedule. With Dan Quinn
as their head coach now and Cliff King's very such
an innovative offensive coordinator. The Commanders are back, baby, And
now the Commanders are back in the top ten of
the draft. I realize Jaden being hurt at parts of
this year is a large part of that, but man,
that's not all of that, right, So it is funny

(01:09:24):
that we fall in love with these one year changeovers.
I think the difference is when you have to me
the biggest key to it to a franchise is do
you have that tag team? Do you have a head
coach and a quarterback that feel like they are old
eighties wrestling like they are together in a tag team.
They speak the same language, they do the same things,
They are on the same page. Do you have that?
And I feel like part of the reason the Bears

(01:09:44):
can have hope is that they truly have that level
of you know, innovative play caller miss match together with
young quarterback. Feels like it's a successful pairing. Well.

Speaker 6 (01:09:54):
And we haven't talked a lot about the college football
playoff the games today other.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
Than the Miami and M game, and it wasn't a
very good game.

Speaker 6 (01:10:00):
It was disgusting. It was delightfully disgusting. I enjoyed every
moment of it. For punishment too. I mean, I just
I wanted a weird, gross game. I got that. I
got it last night. I got it today during the
Miami A and M game as well, Miami in advances.
Josh Pate came on to the local show this week,
Fitz here in Nashville, and he looked at me in
Indiana Lum and said directly to me, Indiana winning a

(01:10:22):
national championship would be as bad a thing to happen
to college football as anything that could possibly happen this
year in the sport, because you just can't find another
Kurt Signetti like, he's not replicable, right, It's going to
put people in a situation where the Tennessees of the
world who have been clamoring for championship expectations and the
right kind of higher and the right kind of coach

(01:10:43):
to come turn their program around. It's going to put
them in a blender when Kurt Signetti at Indiana of
all places, has them as the number one seed and
potentially vying for a national championship. They'll host Alabama and
the Rose Bowl. We'll see how that goes. I'm Indiana
open is at least I saw it as a six
and a half point favorite this morning, which I thought

(01:11:04):
was huge, and I don't know that.

Speaker 7 (01:11:05):
It's not correct. We'll see if it gets bet down.

Speaker 6 (01:11:07):
But still, that's the kind of thing that we're talking
about here in the NFL, where yes, ownership will chase
and there's much, there's much.

Speaker 7 (01:11:14):
Honestly, there's a more.

Speaker 6 (01:11:17):
Fertile breeding ground for a Kurt Signetti in the world
of college football than there is to replicate a Sean
McVay in the NFL because of some of the lack
of guardrails that you have in college. It just it
still doesn't mean that you can find another Kurt Signetti
or even if you're Vanderbilt, another Diego Pavia right got
they got a five star recruit for the first time
at quarterback in the history of the program.

Speaker 7 (01:11:39):
Bader built it. And I don't know how much better
that's going to be.

Speaker 6 (01:11:42):
Because you're just going to drop a true freshman in
there and hope to have that kind of that same
kind of success that Diego Pavia just gave you. It's
going to be very, very difficult for a lot of
these programs, a lot of these teams who are trying
to chase to do exactly what they think is they've
they've convinced themselves that they too are capable, when in reality,
the environment, the the Petrie dish to create that kind

(01:12:05):
of a situation really only exists in a few specific places.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
By the way, to your point. Right now, as it stands,
the Indiana Alabama line is Indiana minus seven and also
glearing insane. Miami Ohio state line has already been set
Ohio state favored by nine and a half. So very likely,
at least according to Vegas, we're going to get two

(01:12:31):
mismatches going forward, and that it will be wild to see.
All right, we've got to kick off in the last
of the first round playoff games. James Madison University has
kicked off against Oregon. The score is zero zero. We
are five seconds in, just letting you know that there's
still hope as we sit right now and the Eagles
are pulling away. Coming up next, we'll get to the
single greatest game show in the history of sports talk radio.

(01:12:53):
It's time for Wood You rather will do it next
on Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. Oh theme song,
Bucket fits over heel.

Speaker 7 (01:13:05):
You're as cuddly as a cactus. You're as slimy as
an eel.

Speaker 8 (01:13:09):
Mister Grid sounds like he's one who sang the song.

Speaker 7 (01:13:14):
It's actually like I just black pee o. You do
a cover with the song, please.

Speaker 1 (01:13:21):
I'll stream it like we need to karaoke night. Honestly,
buck sings this.

Speaker 4 (01:13:27):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
I can see his face right now. He's swaggy too.
He's like, yep, nailed it. He's got that whole Vince
McMahon like walking down the hall sort of flare going
right now. Bucket fits on Fox Sports Radio. Bucket is
the Grinch only a few days before Christmas, so even
wearing green like, which I respect. I have a pair
of Grinch rebox that are pumps that like the firs

(01:13:50):
coming out of Like there's the pumps. Yeah, they're like
the you know, the rebox pumps, but they first out
of them. My favorite Christmas shoes? Have you are your rebook?

Speaker 7 (01:14:01):
Yes?

Speaker 6 (01:14:01):
Absolutely, you wear your Rebok pumps to uh to karaoke
at Miss kelly Is the next time you're in town
here in Nashville, and I will dazzle you with my
rendition of the Grinch, and then I will sing my
go to karaoke song, which is Toby Keith, how do
you like Me now?

Speaker 7 (01:14:16):
And it will make me very happy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Shouldn't we go to Santa's Pub though, instead of like
Santa's Pub because it's Christmas Carrier, It's Christmas.

Speaker 7 (01:14:23):
Ok, Christmas Santa died.

Speaker 1 (01:14:25):
Christmas Santa died. I didn't even know. No, no, no, no, no,
Santa is publish clarity clic clarity. That was a mistake
from to Nashville and sorry for everyone listening. Santa's Pub
is a very famous karaoke bar. God please God, no,
no no, that's a that's just a mistake. That's a mispeak.

(01:14:48):
I apologize for everybody listening. Truly sorry for any confusion
on that. Don't not at all santa Is Publishing.

Speaker 4 (01:14:55):
Listening to Fox Sports Radio or crying right now, that's
all your fault.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
I find myself. Uh. Santa's Pub is a famous karaoke
bar in Nashville, only takes cash and like celebs go
there all the time. And so I obviously haven't been
in Nashville in a bit, but it has always been
the the sort of go to, Like you want to
walk into a place and see Matthew McConaughey singing karaoke
in the same night. To Kelly Clarkson, is Santas Pub
has always been the place that you can go to

(01:15:20):
and do that. That's what we were referencing. So he
was speaking about the owner of Santas Pop. Just total
clarity from a mistake by us.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
Have been that wheel Berby.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
Yeah, let's play, let's play. Would you rather know?

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
God, it's easy, guys, don't think too hard.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
Would you rather bucket it's no good? Or fix it
all right? Would you rather are we ready?

Speaker 7 (01:15:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
We're ready?

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
Okay, this one could be applicable to one of you,
but I'm not gonna say who would you rather be
the ugliest person in the wheel and the world or
smell the worst?

Speaker 7 (01:16:02):
Oh? This is this is a shot right across my bow.

Speaker 8 (01:16:08):
Well I didn't say who.

Speaker 7 (01:16:09):
Yeah, I understand.

Speaker 6 (01:16:11):
I M I think I could get away with it
if I was pretty, but I also smelled bad. I
think I could get away with it. I don't like
that choice. I don't like it at all, But it
feels like that's a more overcomeable circumstance than to be hideous.

Speaker 1 (01:16:27):
Are perc like, look, if you are hot enough, the
fact that you stink doesn't really matter. And I will
always go back to years ago when I was in Nashville,
there was a a one of those like loft places
where everybody, a bunch of my buddies lived and we
were all doing workouts in that we were doing insanity
at the time, right, and so they shout out right

(01:16:50):
percent we were all doing insanity, but we were doing
it on the road. So when we were home, we
didn't want to lose our reps, so we went we
went to one of my buddy's places, and it happened
to be at the time that the Chris Martin, lead
singer of Coldplay, had just done a workout in the
same room. I don't know why he was there, but
he had done the workout in the gym. Apparently he's
not a shower guy. And I'm telling you, like, the
smell was otherworldly, and nobody like, nobody cared. Nobody cared

(01:17:14):
if you If you are famous enough or hot enough
and you stink, people are fine. So I'll take I
don't want to be the ugliest person in the world.
I will take being the stinkiest person in the world.

Speaker 7 (01:17:24):
What's the.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
Chris Martin did stend to thanky?

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
Would you rather be able to run on your hands
or write with your feet?

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
Oh? I want to write with my feet. Oh that'd
be such a good party trick. I'd be like, I'll
sit back in my chair and be like, hey, somebody
throw me a pen, and then all of a sudden,
like a rock heet boom goes in the air. Catch
the pen with my with my foot and the poom
down and I'm like false gore and seven years like,
I'm only gonna write. No, I'm gonna it's all gonna
be very beautiful like calligraphy, and it's only gonna be

(01:17:59):
truly important documents. So my casual stuff. I write with
my hands, truly important thing. Boom, feet up in the air.

Speaker 6 (01:18:06):
You can take the fans for that, Yeah, absolutely, I
because I don't want to see your feet.

Speaker 7 (01:18:11):
I will take running on your hands.

Speaker 4 (01:18:14):
Thank you, Buck, thank you for not exposing us to
either of your guys's feet.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
I got cute feet.

Speaker 7 (01:18:20):
Okay, you say, but they look like chicken nuggets.

Speaker 1 (01:18:24):
Sufficiently average feet, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:18:27):
Would you rather spend the day wearing wet socks or
spend the day with a popcorn kernel stuck in your teeth?

Speaker 8 (01:18:32):
No, No, to are rejoined.

Speaker 7 (01:18:36):
No, it's the wet socks. I can't do the popcorn kernel.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
I can't.

Speaker 7 (01:18:39):
It makes me insane.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
I'm literally like, I look like I'm on drugs when
I have a popcorn kernel stuck in my teeth, Like
I'm like digging in my mouth, as if I'm addicted
to meth or something like that.

Speaker 7 (01:18:50):
Now give me the socks.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
You didn't need the back half of that SENTD just said,
I look like I'm addicted to drugs. Oh okay, Look
I don't want the I don't want this.

Speaker 7 (01:18:58):
It's not an addiction that's a happen all right.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
It's a half ball. I don't want the socks. The
socks are gonna make my feet cold, like you if
you get cold, and then you're gonna get blisters on
your feet. Nobody wants blisters on your feet. Plis, it's
gonna rub it all wrong. That is the wrong way
to go. The right way to go is to stick
with Fox Sports Radio. More coming up. He's buck rising up.
Jason Fitz thanks for hanging out with us all night.
Mary Christmas. Yeah,

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