Buck Reising & Alex Monaco Talk Shedeur's Meltdown, Jerry Jones Lunacy & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
There are things that are important, there are things that
are interesting. Which category does Shdore Sanders meltdown in a
preseason finale against the LA Rams. Which category do they
fall into? That's what we're here to decide for you
on a Fox Sports Saturday from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
We're happy to have you.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
He's Alex Monico, I'm Buck Rising. We got Iowa Sam,
we got Ian Mary. We'll be here soon. We got
the whole gang back together because FITZI is off enjoying
a Morgan Wallen concert at Gillette Stadium. I do believe
this afternoon, and we have much to discuss.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
How we live in boys, We're living, baby, We're living Buck.
Let's call. It's a Padres Dodgers Saturday for me.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
I does not compute. No, I gooldn't.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I've never neither.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
I don't think I've watched I don't know that I've
ever watched a full MLB game start to finish in
my entire life.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Well, with the pitchclock, you are missing out, my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Well, you know what.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
I appreciate that you appreciate it, and I'm happy for you.
But in the meantime, we got preseason football to talk about.
Alex your boy Dylan Gabriel with a rebound performance, no
quotes in the postgame interview, nothing that would.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Stir the pot.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Just a poor performance by Shador Sanders, who came in
in this game nineteen to seventeen. The Browns do win
in preseason if you do care about wins in the preseason.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
But he is pretty stinky in this finale.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Ahead of roster cut down day, the deadline will be
Tuesday at four pm Eastern. How important was today's performance
by Shador Sanders for his future with the Browns?

Speaker 3 (01:50):
Tricky question, bock. They put him in third, as we know,
it didn't really have the luxury of going with anyone
that I'd like to think is going to be dancing
with Flacco. And three of six doesn't look great fourteen
yards as we know, our producer Ian shout out five
sacks for negative forty one yards. I don't love it,
but can we put it into context a little that

(02:11):
this was again kind of just a throwaway. Put him
out there, the competition was over, and Stefanski let us
know where he's at. Thankfully he didn't do what Stiken did,
don't get me riled up and said, Flacco's our guy
for the whole kitten kaboodle because Schatras a shot. But
as we know, I feel he's done enough to make

(02:33):
this roster buck. What say you? I think this to
me doesn't diminish his impact all things training camp and
in that.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Quarterback room, the impact of Shador Sanders as the fourth
or third string quarterback. I mean, here's here's my thing,
all right. You you take issue with the way that
Shane Stiken handled the Indianapolis Colts quarterback situation as we
were getting ready to talk about here in just a
few minutes.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
I assume based on your tone, oh, on.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
So many levels. Don't give me fits it in the
first a block.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
That's all right.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
We got time, baby, had time to stretch our legs
a little bit here, and we'll work our way through
these things.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
But you're right.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
They didn't commit to Joe Flacco as the starter for
the entire year. They committed to Joe Flacco for the
starter in the immediate and they left themselves the door
opened to be able to go to Shadoor Sanders or
Dylan Gabriel at some point this season. If Joe Flacco
starts to look like a forty plus year old man
on an offense that doesn't really have a lot of
juice for him to work with. My whole thing about

(03:33):
Shadoor Sanders is I mean sure, if they want to
keep him around, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
If they want to cut him, that's fine too.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
I have never in my life spent more time talking
about a guy as a fifth round draft pick who's
a fringe roster type of player and is performing largely
like a fifth round draft pick of the preseason.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
I don't get it.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
So that first stint, which oh, by the way, Miles
Carret gave us his co sign, gave us a little
costco sam of not just his work ethic, but a
little bit of what the kids are calling Aura. And
that's just Bud kissbook. I mean, I don't believe he
was a fifth round talent. I think there was a
lot that went into when he went. We'll spare that

(04:13):
for this convo. But if you don't think he belongs
in the NFL, I need to talk that out with you,
my man. I'm all the way updated on my Madden
preseason rankings. I play with every team. I'm ready to
talk all ball. Shadu to me, belongs on this roster.
I think he should be right behind Flaka.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
I think that whatever Miles Garrett has to say about
the Browns quarterback situation stop mattering. As soon as they
shoved his mouth full of as much money as humanly
possible for him to decide that he no longer wanted
to be traded away from the Cleveland Browns and said,
oh yeah, they've confided in me their quarterback, playing this,
that and the other.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Okay, shut up, you took the money. It's fine.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Just tell us you took the money, because the money matters.
A lot of people would take the money. You don't
have to have confidence in the Browns quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Qestion.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Jimmy Haslam is distancing himself from the Browns quarterback situation.
As the owner. He's saying that was not his call
to draft Shador Sanders. I mean, listen, plenty of draft
evaluators got it wrong on Shador.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
The league believes that it got it right.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
So if I'm to look at him, not even based
on draft pedigree, but the context of the preseason games
does matter. I also think that it matters far less
than the day to day minutia of what they're going
through in training camp, what they're seeing from these guys
in the meetings, all the actual important stuff instead of
the ten or fifteen twenty five snaps that we may

(05:34):
see any of these guys play in the preseason. The
guy is a fifth round pick. Fifth round picks are
not guaranteed to make the roster. He also performs like
a fifth round pick. There's nothing to me that says
inspired about Shador Sanders, and that's not, you know, crapping
on the talent of the player or diminishing his journey
to get here. There's plenty of dudes who make it

(05:54):
to this level well and don't make it past that.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
But book, let's just live in this reality. Did him
come into the Cleveland Browns at least give a little
bit of clarity as to where they may go in
the future, because I'm of the belief that Stefanski is
playing not to lose with this Flacco choice. We're gonna
sit here as a forty year old who might have

(06:19):
finished tenth out of twelfth and my twelve friends that
ran a forty yard dash to figure out our fantasy
football order. Twenty five touchdowns fifteen interceptions, and this is
what we're rolling out after the worst contract in the
history of the NFL. I can't defend it. And if
I'm a Cleveland die hard, I know what. We're not
gonna be playoff bound with a cul de sac quarterback.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
You're not doing that anyway this year. Who's getting you
to the playoffs? The Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
But God bless you for using the word clarity and
the Browns quarterback room in the same sentence.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
That's crazy.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
But we're in a real NFL where we're having July
conversations whether the man who just won Super MVP is
in even in fact a top ten quarterback.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
Completely different infrastructure. The point is the Browns have a
competent defense, a serviceable offensive line, and they've been able
to run the football the last few years. So you
would hope someone that would come in that I felt
could add a little on the field and off which
I thought could have been Gabriel, could have been Shoder,
certainly not Flacco. I just think again, there is not

(07:29):
a lot of grace and you know this very well.
In Titan's Land of rebuilding years, it seems like there's
so much pressure top to bottom in that organization, owner, management,
et cetera, to just put a competent product out there
that they just kind of had their hands tied and
went with the old guy in the room, knowing what it's.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Going to be.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
Yeah, bad organizations stay bad, Like nobody's expecting the Cleveland
Browns to.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Get better as a result of all of these things.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
And I say that as somebody who's covered an organization
that's made terrible decisions and saw in them go for
one of the contending powers of the AOC to what
the literal worst team in football last year and very
much earned that number one overall pick with cam Ward,
who has concluded his preseason as well. There's nothing to
me that says Flacco or otherwise that this team is

(08:16):
going anywhere. This is a bottom and a competent defense.
I mean, there are some things there that would show
you promise, but that defense quit down the stretch and
it would be impossible not to have given their circumstance.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
I don't blame them for that at all.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
But there's nothing about this Browns roster that says top
of the league anymore. They've been grifting off that for many,
many years. At this point, they wasted their window. They
went all in onto Deshaun Watson's contract, and since then
they fumbled the back.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
Now they're dealing with the repercussions of their actions.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
So Flacco, Sanders, Dylan Gabriel, Snoop Huntley, They're not making
the playoffs no matter who's under center.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
I'll just say this, I'm fresh off the Gambler Dallas Cowboys. Doc,
you would be shocked. Who's willing to run through a
wall for who? When there's belief internally Stefanski rolling out
a g I who was already halfway to a four
o'clock Sizzler dinner, doesn't have anyone ready to run through
a wall. Joe Flacco's from a different NFL, an entirely

(09:12):
different NFL. It's almost embarrassing that here we are, and
I buck I would accept Dylan Gabriel starting on this club,
the Flacco thing, and I may get some flak for
it pun intended here if he ends up rolling out
a three and one September I just to me, in
an odd little kind of moment where Deshaun's rehabbing, is
he coming back as he not? They had a chance

(09:34):
to try something. They're not even giving people hope. They're
just rolling out five hundred crossing our fingers and don't
fire me please. Who wants that in a town when
you have the Guardians competing in playoff ball. Not a
great year but last ten and the Cavs knocking on
the Eastern Conference finals door, and here are the Browns again,

(09:58):
not getting us excited yet eyeballs are on the club good.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
I'm not interested in being excited in the Browns. There's
nothing there's nothing at all that is wrong at this
point in time for them being realistic and realistic is
Joe Flacco, no matter how not sexy it is. Don't
sell me hope. Hope is not a strategy. Hope is
a wish. It's a fleeting feeling that you try and
gravitate off of or grab onto as a sports fan

(10:27):
when you don't have anything else because you don't trust
your team to get it right.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
The Browns don't deserve your trust.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
So Kevin Stefanski, the two time coach of the Year,
he's going with Joe Flacco. Joe Flacco is the best
quarterback on that roster. Bleep your hope, hope for what
you got it wrong. You are dealing with the consequences
of your actions.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
What are they going to do?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
You sell upsell you on something that has zero hope
of going anywhere and is just going to make you
look worse. If you decide to throw the young either
of them, it doesn't matter which one of them. If
you decide to throw the two young quarterbacks out there
before they're ready, because ratulations on the vanilla defenses that
you faced against twos and threes in the preseason. Let's
see what you actually look like against a defense that

(11:07):
scheme to stop you. If they break the two young
quarterbacks early and then go to Flacco, you want.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
To talk about taking hope away from a fan base.
They did this.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
The only thing, the only good thing that I will
say about the Browns organization and all of this, is
that they've handled their starting quarterback situation correctly.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
I'd rather watch Shane Falca than Joe Flacca. I'd rather
watch Keanu Reeves in a movie than Joe Flacco play
quarterback for this team. Buck, I am very disappointed. It's
not even Dylan Gabriel. I mean, Flacco was winless, winless
as a Jet two and six with the Broncos. Let's

(11:47):
call what it is he only plays competent quarterback when
he has a competent franchise and you set it out
the top. This is the castan's opposite of that. I'm
just agree to disagree. I get it. Stefanski's a coach
of the Year, but he can work with a lot
of different talent. I think Schuder was humbled when he
went in the draft, and outside of a little bit

(12:08):
here and there off the field, I think he brought
his best efforts on that thought. I'm catching the l
You're happy with it, and we got to move on.
All I hope for is nothing but else for the
Cleveland Browns, because they deserve.

Speaker 5 (12:22):
Wait, Alex, be careful with the with the Keanu Reeves slander.
Though we don't need a backhand How was a backhanded compliment?
He's he's got a little Steve Young in that movie.
I'm still lefty compliment and lefties over here.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
I think that there's a lot left to be desired
about the Cleveland brown situation.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
Anywhere.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
There are no winners in this situation, whether it's your
position or my position. Alex, It's a Fox Sports Saturday,
and we're gonna keep talking about incompetency around the quarterback position,
because for as wrong as the Cleveland Browns have got
it in the last couple of years, the Indianapolis Colts
may be worse. He's Alex Monico. I'm Buck Rising. Stay
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Speaker 2 (14:00):
If you had to pick two qualities, not only two,
that you would want in an NFL starting quarterback, what
would they be Welcome back on a Fox Sports Saturday.
He's Alex Monico holding it down. I'm Buck Rising. We
got the rest of the crew making it happen. Out
of Los Angeles, the Indianapolis Cults made a decision in

(14:21):
the twenty twenty three NFL Draft seeking obsession and accuracy.
Those were the two things that head coach Shane Steichen
and general manager Chris Ballard repeated ad nauseum about what
they were looking for in a quarterback, and with the
number four overall pick in that twenty twenty three NFL Draft,
they drafted Anthony Richardson, the Florida freak athlete, most athletic

(14:44):
thing we've ever seen at the quarterback position in the
history of combine testing. That's who they decided to go with.
And yet, heading into their third year, or his third year,
Anthony Richardson, he will no longer be the starting quarterback
for the Indianapolis Colts because he lacks obsession and accuracy.
Is there a franchise that does not get enough heat

(15:07):
more than the Indianapolis Colts Alex Monico for the way
that they have watched at every turn the most important
position in sports.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Great question. You can thank Omaha Productions for the longest
leash of all time over there, because one Peyton Manning
has just allowed the turnover at quarterback. Obviously post Andy
Luck to just be to your point, no pushback. And
I have lost sleep already because I've already aged in

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New York watching Daniel Jones, and now I'm losing sleep
over what the cults are doing because I'm not an
Anthony Richardson defender. What I am is sitting here watching
Riley Leonard yet again cook on a national stage two
day to day and at twenty four point forty four
and one buck I cannot comprehend Woody from Toy Story

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getting another shot at quarterback.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
It is so interesting to see what's going to happen
to them in the post jim Irsay era, and obviously
to lose jim irsay who was an eccentric figure in
the landscape of the National Football League and one of
the more fascinating characters that you'll ever find non Jerry
Jones division. It'll be interesting to see how that organization

(16:28):
changes now that Jim Mersay has passed on and that
his daughter, one of his daughters, is leading the charge
as the controlling owner in that situation, because I would
imagine that change is soon coming.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
If they don't.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
So you want to talk about pressure within an organization
to win. As we come off a segment just talking
about the Cleveland Browns, Indy is not a major market.
It's not covered the way that Cleveland is. But there
is not a perpetually over hyped team save the Dallas Cowboys,
more than the Indianapolis Colts. And I don't say that
just because I work in a division or in the

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AFC South covering one of the teams in the AFC
South that doesn't deserve any more credit than the Colts get.
In fact, they deserve less. But to see the way
that Chris Ballard has gotten away with this over the
course of his very very long and division title list
tenure in Indianapolis as the head of personnel there, especially

(17:24):
for the rotating cast of characters that they've had at
the quarterback position. How many of them do you think
that you can name Alex Monico since twenty nineteen, since
Andrew lux retirement, I suppose since eighteen.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh my goodness, were going all the way with it,
full trivia.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
I've got the list of names. You don't have to
do this if you don't want to live. I mean,
I can't do it.

Speaker 3 (17:44):
I was all teed up to read you a Shane
Steiken defending Daniel Jones quote, I mean, off the top
of the nogget. Obviously, Jacoby Brissette was there, My guy
Philip Rivers was there. We know Matt Ryan was there
for a quick cup of coffee. Think Carson Wentz.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
In their one maybe one of the worst interceptions trying
to throw a ball left hand to be a defender
for a pick six.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Definitely post statue. But I know Nick Foles was also
in the building for a hot second. And then I
think I got Gardner Minshew and that's it for me.
Any any others you.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
Got six of the eleven you, I'll take it.

Speaker 3 (18:21):
I'll sam Ellett, sam Ellen.

Speaker 2 (18:24):
Look at that seven, Sam Ellinger. You've got Brian Hoyer
in the mix there as well. Of course, Anthony Richardson
would also fall.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Into that category, and your boy.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Joe Fleco the Ageless Wonder In twenty twenty four, six
starts for the Indianapolis colts.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Buck can I just read this quote to you that
Stike and I want to give credit to this guy,
James Boyd who asked in the local media. He asked
Stiken why he believes Daniel Jones can win when he
was twenty four, forty four and one and oh, by
the way, three and thirteen over the last two years
and direct quotes Dyken says, buck, Well, I think that
he's proven that he's played good football in that twenty

(19:06):
twenty two season. He had a blank of a year
that year. And my thought was that one time at
band camp. Everybody knows a guy Buck that cooked one
time in the call to sack at recess. It doesn't
count in the National Football League. To me, that's such

(19:26):
an offensive coordinator quote. I can't even stand it. What
say you?

Speaker 2 (19:30):
No, you're spot on, and this is the thing just
because you're an excellent offensive coordinator and Shane stikeen was.
We've seen plenty of coordinators crash out because they can't
handle the job of NFL head coach, and I think
the chainstikeing is better than most. In fact, given the
fact that they won eight games last year in Indianapolis
with that disaster of a quarterback situation that honestly should

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be to the coaching staff's credit, and frankly, Chris Ballard
gets a little bit of credit there because the roster's
not terrible. The fact that they have manged the position,
the most important position, time in and time out in
these several years since Andrew Luck has been retired, around
reasonably good rosters in a very very very winnable division

(20:14):
is such a beyond fireable offense. Like, who do you
know that gets to be as average or below average
at their job as Chris Ballard has been and continue
to get to do their job without any meaningful results.

Speaker 3 (20:27):
Yeah, that's a strong AFC South really statement there. I'm
not pushing back on it at all. You know this division.
All I have to say is, my friend, you can
pencil in two cam Ward w's for your Titans thanks
to Chris Ballard and this decision. This isn't just a
Joe Flacco decision. In Cleveland, he said he's rocket with

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him for the year. Can we please visit this man
during Halloween to check in on him? Because Riley Leonard
just went fifteen for twenty for a buck eighty nine
a tug and a high how are you on as
Fox boards Saturday, as you would say, and he already
dug himself into a season long decision for a guy
who's lost two times for as many wins in this league.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You saw the level of indecision last year when they
pulled Richardson for I mean, I don't know, is it
too strong to say loafing when he decided that he
was too tired on that third down play and needed
to come out of the game in a way that
you've never seen really any quarterback do. So they took
punitive measures with him and didn't stick with it, understanding
that the thing that's played Anthony Richardson the most is

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that he just hasn't played very much football. And I
understand you're going to take your lumps, and I understand
that he is neither accurate or obsessed with the position
the way that the two of them, Stiching and Ballard
stated during their pre combined lead up before they drafted
this guy with the fourth overall pick. He is neither
of those qualities, and we have discovered that over the

(21:59):
course of time. But then they flip flopped with the
Flacco Richardson thing. You see the kind of cracks. And
I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do, but
I'm saying it will weed you out so fast in
the NFL. And Shane Steichen, who has promised who can
coordinate an offense, who can put a quarterback in a
position to succeed, has now tied himself to Daniel Jones,

(22:22):
at least verbally. Because to your point, as we work
our way through this year, as the regular season gets
ready to begin in just what less than two weeks
from now, are you still going to be having that
conversation come mid October around Daniel Jones is still your guy,
come hell or high water of coach?

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Of course you're not.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Of course you're not Buck And it just shows this
is a man not that used to this kind of pressure.
It was an excellent thought. He very much is a
poised and versatile play caller. But to sit there and
wrap your arms around this guy who's got New York
in absolute peril because of what he what he did,

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I mean, he pushed this Giants team backwards and they
gave him so many chances. And this is a guy
in Dabel who we know gave Josh Allen his best
season by way of OC and he couldn't figure it out.
So now Stichen is going to figure this out. He
better pray Quinton Nelson and that top five per rank

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PFF offensive line shows up and shows out. Because if
it's Danny Dimes on the run, oh my goodness, he's
going to lose his job and it's going to be
before intermission. I just want to throw it to you.
How do you even make a statement so grandiose like
this is our guy for the year, who in their
right mind would put such pressure on themselves behind a

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guy named Daniel Jones.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
The guy who's been coaching Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 3 (23:55):
This So this is a fight or flight decision, you're saying,
because I'm over here going you know this division? Is
this a Chris Ballard potential? Here? Read what's on the
prompter and don't Ron Burgundy dev eight. If you break
what's on the prompter, we're smoked. And I typed it
for you. Daniel Jones is our guy for the year,
because I would be hard press to think that Riley

(24:17):
Leonard could not find a way to move up this
depth chart if it's not Anthony Richardson but Steichen already
told us he's hitching his wagon the den. It's unfathomable.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Buck Well, I think on the more backup quarterback syndrome
than anything else, just because I mean, we've seen Riley
Leonard in the preseason that's not actual football, Like it
looks as close to actual football as humanly possible. And
thank god college football is back on our televisions. I'm
sure you were excited to see that Iowa State case
state kickoff at eleven am Central time today, getting back

(24:48):
into our lives. I hope everybody wins all of their
bets all football season long. But I think that when
you talk about the situation in Annapolis, they've already painted
themselves into a corner with the situation, and I think
that this decision was made. This decision was made as
soon as they signed Daniel Jones. I've witnessed a situation
like this because Marcus Mariota was a number two overall
draft pick and John Robbinson, the GM at the time,

(25:10):
traded for Ryan Tannehill because they were prepared or trying
to prepare themselves for the inevitable Mariota crash out. And
when Marcus did, God love him and he gave it
his best, but his body broke down and they couldn't
sustain with a team that would end up going to
the AFC Championship Game that year and losing to Patrick
Mahomes en route to his first Super Bowl. Still, they
prepared themselves to always have to make that decision at

(25:33):
whatever point they had to make that decision. But the
difference being they gave Mariota a chance. Anthony Richardson, They're saying, no,
you've had enough chances. We've seen enough here. Let's go
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Speaker 9 (26:11):
Five college football games to open the season today, including
in the rain at Dublin. Iowa State beat Kansas State
in a top twenty five matchup twenty four to twenty one.
About to start on Fox TV. It's Fresno State at Kansas.
That's quarterback EJ. Warner of Fresno against Kansas and Jalen
Daniels Idaho State has just scored to tie it up
at UNLV twenty four all late third quarter coming up

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in the next hour. Sam Houston at Western Kentucky, Stanford
at Hawaii. Plenty of NFL exhibitions to finish up the preseason.
S late at Green Bay, the Packers lead now twenty
to seven over Seattle. Early in the fourth quarter. Jalen
Milroe has just thrown a touchdown pass. He's over one
hundred yards passing now. Today it was Ravens thirty to
three winners at Washington. Brown's with a late field goal,

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beat the Rams nineteen seventeen Shoote Sanders second half was
sacked five times. Baseball, the Blue Jays are holding on
four to three at the Marlins in the bottom of
the eighth. Earlier, Boston beat the Yankees twelve one. In
New York, the Red Sox scored seven times in the
top of the ninth. Winning pitcher Garrett Crochet with eleven
strikeouts in seven innings. He's fourteen to five this year.

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By the way, for Toronto Star first baseman Vladimir Guerrero
Junior is out again with hamstring inflammation. The Rockies are
about to start up at Pittsburgh, Colorado's record thirty seven
and ninety two this year. Phillies have started up scoreless
bottom of the second against the Nationals. Philly Star pitcher
Zach Wheeler will miss six to eight months. He's due
for a second shoulder surgery. As for the late night games,

(27:38):
Dodgers at Padres on FS one eight forty Eastern time,
Padres have won four in a row to tie La
for first in the NL West. At the Little League
World Series, Las Vegas won the US title, beating Connecticut
eight to two. Nevada will now face Taiwan for the
championship on Sunday, and the PGA's Tour Championship is in
Atlanta this weekend. Patrick Late in the third round, is

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tied Tommy Fleetwood for the lead. Keegan Bradley is two
shots back, Scottie Scheffler four strokes behind. Again, all these
golfers are on their last hole or two for the day.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
He's Alex Monico on Buck Rising here with you on
Fox Sports Radio. So the Colts, they've got themselves in
a quarterback blender, but no franchise has been as big
a quarterback blender as the Chicago Bears. Now, the over
under on twenty twenty five season wins is eight and
a half for the Chicago Bears. Alex Monico, what say you?

(28:39):
Is there anything that they can do to hit the
over after their head coaches calling them sloppy following their
preseason finale.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Absolutely? In fact, this is one of my favorite non
playoff teams to make the playoffs in the entire NFL,
not just the NFC. I love what the Chicago Bears
roster top to bottom, the big pushback and obviously drama
with Ben Johnson's maybe perfectionist style, so it seemed with
Caleb's ability to improvise his athleticism, it's just much different

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than Jared Goff. But it seems like, I mean that
thirty eight nothing ch lacking of the Buffalo Bills team
hard knocks over there and Caleb Williams going six for
ten with one oh seven one tug in that game
was massive to me. That was everything we needed to
see that first play buck, the play action and the
nice checkdown for essentially a serviceable run. But it was

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a pass. That's what I wanted to see, making sure
Ben Johnson wasn't so rigid with what he wanted to
see at quarterback. Instead of maybe creating an infrastructure and
play calling catering to his quarterback, I think that side
of the ball takes care of things. We know what
this opportunistic Chicago Bears defense has been over the last

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couple of seasons. I think they finally put it all together.
It's a step in the right direction. I got him
as a wild card team ten and seven. Maybe what
say you?

Speaker 1 (30:01):
Interesting? So who are you fading?

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Then?

Speaker 1 (30:04):
The Packers, the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
The Lions definitely fade the Vikings. They take a step back,
and I think this is going to be my Interestingly enough,
it's the Packers at nine and a half wins. I
think they finished right at nine to eight. I think
this is a very competitive division. Might not be anyone
under five hundred. Maybe a Vikings eight and nine season.
I got the Bear second at ten and seven.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
Chicago opens at home on Monday Night Football with this
new look Vikings team with JJ McCarthy that they're very,
very excited about, but nobody else in the world has
any idea whether they can play or whether he can
play quarterback at Detroit home for Dallas on the road
at Vegas before one.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
Of these very very early week five byes.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
I hate a week five bye. I had one last year,
just the absolute worst. They're not even into football season
before they put the season on ice for at least
a week. So as if you look at the things
about Ben Johnson in the work marriage with Caleb Williams,
you like the way that he's supported with the offensive
line moves that they made to acquire a professionally legitimate

(31:12):
offensive line in front of a young quarterback who's just
trying to improve, and how they tailor things to his
strengths remains to be seen. I'm always curious with coaches
who are doing this job, head coaches who are doing
this job for the first time, especially if they want
to give themselves play calling duties as is they're right,
as is the reason why most of these organizations want

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to hire them on the offensive side of the ball.
They're tired of losing offensive coordinators to actual head coaching jobs,
and so on. The cycle goes, but he seems to
be taking a more authoritarian tact Ben Johnson does with
a player we know to have a little bit of,
for lack of a better term, personality, quirks.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
That's not always a seamless fit.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
But I wonder if it's not the right kind of
guidance that Caleb William's needs, understanding that he was coming
into a situation last year where everybody in the world
knew that his incumbent head coach and Matt Eberflus should
have been fired before the draft pick was made.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
Absolutely, and all of those last season kind of concerns.
You mentioned the offensive line too, I mean this was
no small feat. Obviously, Joe Toney's there, Drew Dollman, we
know about Jonah Jackson, Darnold right already in the building.
PFF has them as a top ten offensive line. They
were already top ten in turnover differential last year Caleb
was running for his life. I just think the main

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element of Chicago Bears football really for at least the
last half a decade has just been a lack of
structure and really raining it in and where are we
going with our game plans? Just we remember what it
was trefsman Er, so they didn't even know how much
time was left down the stretch in the last twenty
seconds of the game. I mean, these are unfathomable decision

(32:52):
making things. But Ben Johnson, if there's one thing we
saw with that offense in Detroit, they knew their personnel,
They always knew what they were doing, and it just
seems like that's what Chicago Bears offensive football has been
lacking for so long. I don't see a lot of
holes in this roster, buck, I mean, the defensive side

(33:13):
is nasty, also very opportunistic if you think about last year. Honestly,
this is a team I think you don't have the
luxury like in years past. You come in not buttoned.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Up against and that's the hope, right They're trying to
make sure that they can maximize that because it's tough
to sustain that year over year, specifically on defense. It's
crazy how quickly that falls off. But if you've got
a particular physical defense and the longevity of that over
the course of a seventeen game regular season schedule, it'll
just wear you down. So it's tough to carry that
over a year over year. What is not tough to

(33:46):
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You're ready for a little buy or sell. Let's go, baby,
let's do it. Ian is gonna throw us some questions.
We'll tell you if we're buying or selling on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
It's very dramatic music for buyer sell. We're happy to
be back with you on a Fox Sports Saturday. He's
Alex Monico. I'm Buck Rising. We got college football. It's
FCS college football on right now, Alex. But I'm delighted
by watching Tarlton State smack around Portland State twenty one
to nothing. I'm a I'm like a drug addict. I've
been waiting for my fix for so long.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
The best is you can see all the soccer field
lines on the football field too. I fcs that it's finest.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's so pure. I can't wait for our first action
of the year. But in the mean, we got to
do a little buy or so we got four uscon.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
All right, changing up the music a little bit for
buy yourself. Thank you Mary. Let's jump right in.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
So last week we did quarterbacks, but this week it's
kind of just everyone else, all the other supporting cast
members throughout the league. So let's start with this one.
A Marvin Harrison bounce back season. He had a little
bit of an underwhelming rookie year. You guys buying in
or selling a Marvin Harrison bounce back Alex, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna buy it. I think
this is a guy. Look what his numbers at OSU
back to back was so hard to equate to in
this first year. Now they got a little bit of help,
a little bit of momentum. Is it a little bit
of a hot seat year for K one. I think
we get the best version of Kyler. I'll buy here

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you by heart.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Cell No, thank you on the Kyler Murray experience. He
has been in the league for so damn long. I
still have no idea, what the hell he actually is
as a starting NFL quarterback. It's crazy that you can
be in the league for six years and nobody still
be able to figure out you in a positive way
or in a negative way, and Marvin Harrison is relying
upon that player.

Speaker 5 (36:11):
All right, next up, this is one I think we'd
all like to work out. But it's just a matter
if you think it will. Travis Hunter succeeding as a
two way NFL player in becoming football's Otani Buck Oh
buying or selling hard sell, hard sell?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
No, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
I mean, listen, I know, I know, Mary, I'm a
wet blanket today and buy or sell. But I just
I cannot believe that somebody is just going to be
able to breeze through every level of football the.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Way that Travis Hunter has the degree of difficulty.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
If he was playing part time wide receiver and more
full time corner, I might be down.

Speaker 1 (36:45):
But this is just a weird combination.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Alex, I'm going to cause I'm in San Diego's son optimistically,
by I'm not saying he's going to be a household
name on both sides. Can he be buck maybe a
nickel corner in situations and be a slot receiver. I'm
gonna buy it just because it's one of the lowest
self esteem franchises in the NFL, in the Jacks.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
AFC South Baby.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
All right, Next up Ashton Genty, the Heisman runner up
to Travis Hunter. Do you think he hits a thousand
rushing yards as a rookie? Buying or selling Alex? What
do you think?

Speaker 3 (37:18):
Thousand? All? Buy it again?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
He is.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
I hate to be all bye bye bye, but he
is a thousand. That's achievable. We see where he's going.
I live in fantasy football land. I mean last running
back like this to Goo first round last year. I Beijon.
I can't hit a thousand. He should hit a thousand.
Be Carroll two positive guy like the program turnaround this year.
I'm gonna take a dip on it. Light sprinkle though.

Speaker 2 (37:42):
I am going to align myself with Alex on this.
I'll buy Chip Kelly. He wants to run a football.

Speaker 10 (37:47):
Well.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
We know this about him.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Whether he's at Ohio State or is the former head
coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, where he inexplicably both paid
to Marco Murray and former Chargers running back Ryan Matthews
huge contracts, only to sell one of them away before
that season even began. He's got a commitment to running
the football. He's got a very unique back. He's got
a back that likes to punish dudes with contact. The
way that we've seen so far in the preseason, I

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think that he's more than capable.

Speaker 3 (38:13):
Great call out, Ryan Matthews, all right, broback baby, Next up,
Mike Evans keeping his one thousand yard streak alive.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
If you guys remember, it came down to like one
of the last drives, maybe even the last drive of
the season last year.

Speaker 3 (38:25):
So do you think he keeps it alive this year?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Buck?

Speaker 3 (38:27):
What do you think by yourself?

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Hell?

Speaker 2 (38:29):
Yes, the man is an ageless wonder. I did joint
training camp practices down in Tampa with the Titans and
the Bucks here a couple of weeks ago, and he's
still the best.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Player on the field at thirty two. I think he's
got it.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
Alex squad ride and I'm by and you gotta love it. Also,
Godwin coming in hurt. It's not exactly going to be
a rolled out normal Bucks offense, So a lot of
looks for the trustworthy Mike Evans in the first month
of the season to make up and keep that streak alive.

Speaker 5 (38:55):
All right, Another aging receiver here, but still somewhat in
his prime, arguably Davonte Adams now with the Rams. Do
you guys buy or sell him having a thousand yard
season at age thirty two?

Speaker 3 (39:06):
Might I add, Alex, what do you think?

Speaker 8 (39:07):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I am buying and I am double Costanza Dippin. This
is going to be again. You go from the Raiders
to the Jets. You forget what da is. He has rejuvenated.
Do not understate what the LA positivity lifestyle will be
year round sunny weather for him. And McVeigh, Oh my
goodness with Pooka now one in one A I love it.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
Isn't his quarterbacks back not working stats it.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
Benn, It is a real player. Wait on it, Jimmy
G's there too.

Speaker 1 (39:40):
O Kamy. That inspires confidence. I'm gonna sell.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
It's been a nice run to Vante Adams and I'm
happy that you get the LA positivity, but that will
not translate to the football field.

Speaker 5 (39:49):
Hard sell, Are you guys both bought on rookie Ashton
genty hitting a thousand yards? What about rookie o'mari and
Hampton for the Chargers, Alex, your Chargers hitting a thousand
rushing yards as a rookie.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Definitely selling, Definitely selling. Sorry, jump in there. I'm gonna
be negative here real quick. It's a two two horse
race back there with Naji Harris, who also got paid
to be there. I gotta sell.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Yeah, i'd probably sell to. I mean, I know Naji
Harris has had you know, fireworks to the dome and
stuff like that that he's been working through, but it
seems like they're pretty confident about splitting that workload. I'd
love to see him get some volume there because I
think he's a really special player.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
All right, very crush for time here, one more quick
one Roma Dunes a bounce back season.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
All right, we'll keep it with Jerry and the Cowboys. Next.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio, things are not great
between the Dallas Cowboys and star edged player Mike Parsons.
That's because it's a day that ends in Why he's
Alex Monico, I'm Buck Rising. We got the rest of
the crew hanging out in La making it happen on
this Fox Sports Saturday. The two sides, Alex, we know

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they've been trying to find middle ground on a deal
for quite some time. But we've got images of Micah
Parsons hanging out during the Cowboys preseason finale against the
Atlanta Falcons. Appear to be napping on a training table,
crushing some nachos. In the mix of all of these things,
all of the activities, none of which involve a contract

(41:27):
resolution for arguably the best young defensive player in the sport.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
This is not good, Buck, This is not good, especially
on the debut roll out week of the Dallas Cowboys
riveting Netflix Stock, which has me a millennial completely looking
at Jerry Jones in a whole nother light. Where is
the Jerry negotiator of that era in this conversation?

Speaker 1 (41:54):
Yeah, well this thing.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
And listen, I got no problem with Jerry j producing
something or being a part of the production of something.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
That's very pro Jerry.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
But Jerry is intending to paint himself in a favorable light.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
And listen, I'm sure if either.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
One of us were in a room with Jerry Jones
in some form or fashion, we probably enjoy the holy
hell out of him. But oh, he his right. Like
there are people who you find problematic for lack of
a better term, and in how they make their decisions,
and it's easy to secondhand criticize.

Speaker 1 (42:28):
I'm not saying that the owner of.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
The Dallas Cowboys has an easy job necessarily, but doesn't
he just seem to make things so much harder than
they feel they need to be.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
It's the ultimate breaking wedding crashers rule number six and
drawing attention to himself in a negative way. Draw attention yourself,
but on your own time. How many times can he
break that in one offseason?

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Well as many times as they'll put a microphone in
front of him, as was the case most recently. Here
is Jerry Jones speaking about the ongoing contract situation with
Michael part.

Speaker 10 (43:00):
Not doing the old mother dad deal. How many times
have you seen the little rascal so clever going there
and Mama told him you're not going to get it
and goes into Daddy, who only sees him that after
five and a half none wants to love him, and says,
you can have it, son, you can have that before dinner.
And he goes back in and says, Mama, Daddy said

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I could have it. That's old Mom and Dad had
been around since the beginning of the time.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
I'm not gonna go for that year. That's what's happening.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
It's completely bat bleep in satan. But I can't help
but love him.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
I mean, boss, that's got parenting in there, that's got
a splash of therapy. I don't we have enough time
to deliberate on that sound.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
BikeE Guys on Jason Smith Show last night, we were
trying to determine what exactly he meant here, because who's
who in the analogy he's talking.

Speaker 1 (43:53):
About, like.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
The mom?

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Yeah, what do you guys think? I feel like the
agent is the dad. That's what I took it to mean.
The agent told him, yes, you can have all these
guarantees that Jerry the mom just told him, no, you can't.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
I guess mother, Jerry World.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
I'm fascinated with the history of Jerry Jones and Micah's
agent is this is there carryover from a previous negotiation
to where Jerry because Jerry has been really out spoken
about not wanting to negotiate with the agent or as
little as possible if I'm reading correctly.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
But apparently this is how he does all of it.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Like him and Belichick are the only people in the
history of football to get away with something like this,
and now Jerry's dealing with a I mean, and it's
not like he hasn't dealt with power players before who
have stronger than average representation. But the do you know
who the agent for Michael Parsons is, Alex?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Yeah, it's David. I don't wan to mispronounce his last name.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
Yes, Mullagata, David mullag Athletes First, Athletes person.

Speaker 3 (44:58):
I'm not mistaken, YEP.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Athletes First to just and this is inside baseball talk
in terms of the football world, but who makes the
decisions that impact your football teams the most, or who
have a say in the decisions that impact your football
teams the most. Tory Dandy is another all star agent
that just went to join Athletes First under David Mullagedtta.
He is the person responsible for talking the Browns into

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Deshaun Watson's fully guaranteed deal.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
He is an individual.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Who has excelled at this with many many high profile
clients and done so in a way that has maximized
his client's.

Speaker 1 (45:40):
Leverage at every turn.

Speaker 2 (45:41):
And also it's important to note increases the percentage that
David Mulligeda makes on all of these deals, as is
customary with any kind of representation situation, and Jerry, given
all the different things, and this is pure speculation on
my part, but given that mullagedta upset the apple cart
for so many different NFL ownership groups as far as the.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
Fully guaranteed money goes, I'm.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Sure that Jerry is looking at this, this person in
particular and saying, I'm not giving an inch on anything
you may have gotten Jimmy HASLM. But Jimmy Haslm's not me,
not the most powerful owner in the most powerful league
in American sports. You're not going to get one over
on me. And this is the kind of problem. This
is the kind of problem that sees general managers who

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may on aggregate be good at this cost themselves their
jobs in the long term. And Jerry's obviously the owner,
so he's at less rest less at risk of this
than most. But when you so fixate on winning the
negotiation as opposed to finding a deal that is most
equitable for both sides, that's where you get into trouble.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
It's a well said observation there, Buck, And it's interesting
because obviously we know Cleveland to be one of the lower,
if not the lowest self esteem franchise in the entire game,
So they would buy on that nibble from David. But
as far as Jerry Jones, and this is interesting now
that you're adding, because it seems almost like there might
be two battles going on, because anytime the NFL and

(47:06):
its entirety has their boat rocked in a way that
doesn't sound good to the owners, who's top of the
list to make sure they step in and interject Jerry Jones,
is that potentially something going on here? We're talking about
another guaranteed money request that Jerry simply not going to
Game of Thrones bend the.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
Knee for I mean, that has to be. It's it's
awest about the guaranteed money. It's always, always, always about
the guaranteed money. And so Ian, I think you're spot
on with your articulation of whose mother and whose daddy
and Jerry Jones scenario. Jerry told Micah Parsons that he
can't have his dessert until he eats his Brussels sprouts,

(47:47):
and the agent is telling him, no, it's okay. You're
you're my favorite, You're my number one boy, You're my
number one son.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Straight out of succession.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
You can have your key lime pie before your Russell
Sprout's son, Go get it.

Speaker 3 (48:02):
If Micah Parsons, though, is the kid here, how do
you reverse psychology your parent. If we're gonna go with
that analogy all the way to its entirety, how do
we win here? Because the reality is stats wise, in
his first four seasons, he's only one of five guys
to ink twelve sacks in his first four and the
other four are Hall of famers. I'm sure David's using

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that to his entirety. But we've already seen Jerry Jones
come out on the Limon Speak on Micah's health. So
really reading through the lines here, it's the hell thing
with the guaranteed money and where do you find the
middle ground? This is going on way longer than I
think Dallas Cowboys Nation was comfortable with.

Speaker 1 (48:43):
Oh they're miserable, They're absolutely miserable.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
I mean it has to be miserable to be a
Cowboys fan, because not only Alex he's Alex Monico, I'm
Buck Rising hanging out here with your own Fox Sports Radio.
Not only are they miserable, but the reaching laughter that
you just lobbed in their direction about their misery. The
rest of the country is pointing and laughing at them,

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because of course everybody knows that they're miserable. Jerry Jones
runs the franchise and it's the end all be all.
Like no, there is no firing or hiring of a
coach or a general manager in the situation of the
Dallas Cowboys that does not one directly result from a
Jerry Jones decision or two come with Jerry Jones commentary
around it, it's not all its insult to injury at

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every turn for a very proud fan base that has
gone thirty plus years without winning of anything anything of consequence. Alex,
in my entire adult life, that franchise has not mattered.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
I'm telling you, and I'm fresh off the documentary this week.
I got my whole household watching this, the Golden Doodles
watching this. I can't even believe how good he was
at coaching up all of his personnel, from Jimmy Johnson
all the way down the players. This though, in real time,
has Dak on the podium, has CD tweeting out, and

(50:04):
we already know Weser led Brian Schottenheimer, nice guy closer
to a coordinator that head coach in this league not
doing any favors for the turnover at the head coaching position.
Is this to you, though, have like a Chris Jones payoff?
Does Mica show up first week as I believe Middlkoff
mentioned on the Herd and kind of watched the Cowboys

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from the press box or excuse me, from the owner's box,
and then then they make a deal. I mean, how
does this end? Because we got ball coming up here
in just a matter of sleeps.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
There's no way he's not on the field in week one.
I mean, they're just they're gonna Miles Garrett it. They're
just gonna drag their feet the entire time. Everybody's gonna
spend the entire time talking about the Dallas Cowboys the
way that Jerry so desperately thirst for, which is crazy
because he's already got the entire attention economy at heel
in this way, but he's still comfortable talking about it

(50:59):
on the carpet of his Netflix documentary special on him
and the Dallas Cowboys, about how when things get slow,
he'll just say some stuff to stir the pot. At
a certain point, you have to come to terms with
this is a Dallas Cowboys player or coach, or an
executive or a scout, somebody who's working really really hard
to get the Cowboys away from the stigma that we

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all associate them with, which is that they are just
attention grabbers.

Speaker 1 (51:24):
They're not a team to be feared. Who fears the
Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
You fear the San Francisco forty nine ers and Kyle
Shanahan's offense. You fear Dan Campbell's Detroit Lions because they're
going to bite you in the kneecaps and take take
you apart, limb from lim from lim, even at their
own expense, because they're practicing too hard.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
Because the coach is a psychopath.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
There are not or there is nothing, absolutely nothing to
be feared about this franchise, which is a crazy thing
to say because they have so many talented players on it.

Speaker 3 (51:55):
It's absolutely true. Here's the thing I think, just talking
out loud Ian feel free away in here because is
the documentary and the press tour he's on reminding him
of who he used to be. I guess we'll call
it and that's that's kind of bucking this conversation and

(52:15):
negotiation with Muligantta because he was always making sure he
at least in his noggin, won the negotiation. Well, now
the Netflix thing rolls out, and like you said, Buck,
I mean, he's doing a tour but has no problem
talking about the parsisy. It's almost a talking point for
reminding everyone what he is on the doc and not

(52:38):
to get dodgeball with it. But who makes Jerry Jones
bleed his own blood? I don't have an answer.

Speaker 1 (52:44):
Nobody. Nobody makes Jerry Jones bleed his own blood. And
that's what Jerry Jones wants to remind you of it.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
He wants to remind you that he hit that oil, well,
that he married one hundred and fifty million dollars, and
he knew he was gonna buy the Dallas Cowboys right away.
And it's every bit the Disney Store that he wants
you to think that it is, except that's not reality.
If Disney stories were real, then Shador Sanders would be
the started quarterback of the Cleveland Browns. And if Disney
stories were real, then Xavier Restreppa would make an active

(53:12):
roster with cam Ward out of Miami. Not because he
ran a four eight point forty or wasn't good enough
to be drafted by NFL.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
Teams, but because he's just a good guy.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Like those kind of things, that's not life in the
National Football League.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
You can try and paint.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Things as many different ways as you want to for
the sake of your legacy, or at least what you
perceive to be your legacy, but at the end of
the day, the results on the field are your legacy
as a franchise, and Jerry Jones has failed remarkably in
that department.

Speaker 3 (53:40):
He better not pull the opposite of what he pulled
off in the nineties, taking Charles Haley from the Niners
and give Michael Parsons to anybody, even in the conference,
ship them to a whole nother stratosphere. If this isn't
going to work out, because if he comes back around
and smokes his cowboys, going to be ugly. It's going

(54:01):
to be ugly.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Buck, Come on down, Michael. It's lovely here in Nashville.
Not really. It feels like a swamp, but that's beside
the point.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
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We reference the Disney Channel story that is Shador Sanders. Well,
it didn't have a very nice preseason ending to it anyway,
and Alex Monico's pissed about it. We'll talk about it
next on Fox Sports Radio. The Browns they're likely to

(54:50):
keep four quarterbacks on their regular season roster, or at
least on the initial as we get closer and closer
to roster cutdown day in the NFL. In fact, the
transactions have already started flying. But for many teams, most teams,
the preseason has come to a conclusion. That was the
case for the Browns against the Los Angeles Rams earlier today,

(55:14):
nineteen to seventeen. Preseason score doesn't matter. What does matter
is Shador Sanders and his thoughts on some of the
usage of him in this game. He's Alex Monico on
Buck Rising It's a Fox Sports Saturday from the Fox
Sports Radio studios, Alex. We have stated our positions in
the first hour about how we feel the Cleveland Browns

(55:36):
have or have not correctly handled the quarterback situation. But
I wonder what you made specifically before we hear from
Shador on him not being given the opportunity to go
back in for a two minute drill situation, where these
situations in these preseason games are the most important learning
opportunities for any young player trying to find those valuable reps.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yeah, I'm very upset. I also am Gray's in Twitter
over here and the Shader slanders out of control. I
just saw him break two tackles. His offensive line didn't
break for me. He throws a seed to a guy
who doesn't have a Madden cover photo, drops a cupcake ball,
he has a hurt oh blak, and everyone's just eviscerating him.

(56:19):
I won't stand for it, Buck, I simply won't.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
Well, I suppose we could hear from the young quarterback himself.
Shador Sanders was asked about the lack of situational impact
he was allowed to have based on the deployment or
lack thereof of him in the game.

Speaker 11 (56:37):
Yeah, I didn't know I was out. Okay, Yeah, I
didn't know I was You know, I was on a bike.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
I was powering up.

Speaker 11 (56:43):
You know, I was powering up for that two minute
drive because you know, that's just a situation every quarterback
dreams for. That's many situations I've been in before. And
I thought I was in, So they he told me
I wasn't in, and I was like, okay.

Speaker 2 (56:56):
So that Shador Sanders in the postgame Cleveland Brown's locker,
and then the obvious question from I believe Bridget Condent
of the NFL Network, who also does some stuff around
here on Fox Sports Radio, was asked about whether Shadoor
thought he was going to make the Cleveland Browns roster three.

Speaker 3 (57:12):
Days until roster cutdowns. How do you feel about that?
Do you feel like you have a you belong here
on this team?

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Obviously?

Speaker 11 (57:20):
I think I think overall, as a player, I feel
like I put into work. I feel like everything I do,
you know, I try to do it to my best
and that's all I asked for. So I feel like
everybody feels like, you know, they should be on the team.
If you ask anybody on the team would they feel
like they belong they belong in they own so I

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feel like I do.

Speaker 1 (57:41):
But I'm own player, you know.

Speaker 11 (57:42):
I think about myself in a high regard.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
So that Shador Sanders when asked about his approach or
his headspace ahead of roster cut down day with the
Browns still expected to keep those four quarterbacks into at
least the initial fifty three man roster, Alex.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
Yeah, Buck, it seems like a very quarterback. He old response. Oh,
by the way, handled the Dylan Gabriel comment that was
absolutely about him and another very quarterback he a way
I think outside Obviously, I think he got a speeding ticket.
He had no other reason football aside for anyone to
come down on him, and this fifth round stuff, I
just I won't hear for it. I know obviously came

(58:25):
from a program where he didn't put up unbelievable numbers.
But let's not forget he led the country and is
leaving a stat behind in college football. The most accurate
completion percentage quarterback in the FBS and the fourteen for
twenty three two touchdown no mistake one oh six QBR
rating against the Panthers is chop Liver. Now when he

(58:48):
was throwing to who salknella an extra? And Goodfellas too?

Speaker 2 (58:56):
Honestly, honestly, it is chop though because it's preseason, it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (59:03):
Listen, I just think he's going to be on. If
he's not on this roster, I'm gonna walk to New
York from San Diego next week, I'm walking.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
What are you, Paul Pierce? I mean, listen, Pierce delivered. Okay,
you want to you want to put that out there
into the universe. The show holds people accountable. We damn
sure we'll follow through on that. But I don't think
that's I don't think you're risking much there. I believe
that he's going to be on the roster. The question
is is he viable on the roster?

Speaker 1 (59:34):
Now?

Speaker 2 (59:34):
I suppose if you are talking about the idea of
keeping backup quarterbacks, and the backup quarterback by nature, and
I know he's a third string, but the backup quarterback
by nature of the position has to be viable as
an NFL player. But in this particular bizarro world reality
that the Browns have created for themselves, I just don't
think that they are going to put anybody in a

(59:56):
position to succeed. The best thing that they can do
for either of these two players, as we talked about
in the first hour Alex, is to keep them off
the field for the immediate if the sink is in fact,
if the ship, excuse me, is in fact sinking around
Joe Flacco, who's a bit like you know, a bit
like a freight, a coal freighter at this point in

(01:00:19):
his career, just getting you to and fro as best
he can and moving at about five miles an hour.
Five miles an hour might be generous for Joe Flacco
at this point in his career, but I think for Shador,
the best chance to succeed is for him to not
have to play right away, no matter how appealing or
tantalizing the preseason results might be. Because the preseason results

(01:00:40):
may be the least important sample size of any of
the things that they're using to evaluate these players.

Speaker 3 (01:00:45):
I'll take that and I'll completely wrap my arms around it,
because that's obviously what's gonna happen. He's going to have
to ride the pine for a little bit here. It's
I guess it begs the question where with the rehabble, Watson,
where are they even going in the second half of
the year. But when you bring in Huntley, who's obviously
a competent backup from a Suder lens Buck, I imagine

(01:01:06):
that would be a good thing, because if there's one
thing we know about snow Puntley, it's that he is
a staple backup in this league. Just ask Chase Daniel.
You can't have a whole career doing that. But I
think you make a great point because when you watch
Baker Mayfield go inc another division title, not in the
illustrious Cleveland Browns building, we know how bad they can

(01:01:29):
bottle the quarterback position. What's difficult for me to just
accept is they had an opportunity to try to turn
the page and they went back with Father Time, which
is still undefeated last time I checked. I'm just bothered
by that because if you are the Browns with no
expectations to begin with, why not just try to throw

(01:01:49):
something against the wall. They instead are going backwards. That
is my pushback here. And we don't even know what
Sanders is yet, and we don't don't even know what
Gabriel could be, and we won't ever know. We're just
gonna watch Joe Flacco again like a statue play coldesach
father at three football, and they're gonna win six games.

(01:02:12):
It'd be more than they won last year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
Bud, I guess, Buck, I guess listen, brother, I covered
a three win football team last year too. It's no
small thing to win six games. I don't take it
for granted anymore. I don't take Steve Desaga for granted either.
It's time to see what's going on in the world sports.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
Let's start with college football.

Speaker 9 (01:02:33):
There was a top twenty five game to begin the
season in Dublin, Ireland in the rain. It was Iowa
State over Kansas State twenty four to twenty one. About
to start Stanford at Hawaii on Fox TV. Right now,
Kansas at home in the reconstructed stadium is a fourteen
to seven over Fresno State early second quarter, and a
couple minutes left at UNLV Rebels thirty eight to thirty

(01:02:54):
one over Idaho State. There are four more NFL exhibitions tonight,
the last four of the season. Jaguars at Dolphins, scoreless
in the first quarter. Earlier today, we had a Ravens
thirty to three win at Washington and the Browns kicked
a field goal on the final play to edge the
Rams backups nineteen to seventeen. In the second half, Rookie
quarterback Shudeur Sanders of Cleveland was sacked five times. Top

(01:03:18):
of the twelfth inning. The Blue Jays are tied at
Miami six to six. Earlier today, Boston beat the Yankees
twelve to one in New York. Yanks have lost eighth
straight to the Red Sox head to head. Blue Jays
first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Junior is out again with hamstring inflammation.
Phillies pitcher Zach Wheeler will miss six to eight months.
He's due for a second shoulder surgery. The Phillies are

(01:03:40):
leading five to one over the Nationals. In the bottom
of the fifth inning, the Pirates are shutting out the
Rockies four to nothing. Top of the fourth. Rockies currently
with a record of thirty seven and ninety two. Houston
with three early homers, up five to three. Bottom of
the first at Baltimore, Giants at Brewers, scoreless in the second,
met scoreless in the second at Atlanta, and on FS one.

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In an hour, it's Dodgers at Padres. They're tied for
first in the NL West Bet. Thirty games left in
the season and at the Little League World Series. Las
Vegas won the US title today beating Connecticut eight to two.
So Nevada will face Taiwan for the championship on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (01:04:18):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
He's Alex Monico on Buck Rising hanging out here with
you on a Fox Sports Saturday. So we'll table the
door discussion for now because it's just, you know, it's
a never ending cycle. What is coming to an end
in the very near future is Matt Stafford's professional football career.
Stafford has been dealing with a back injury that has

(01:04:46):
kept him off the practice field for a considerable amount
of time, but now he has been cleared good to go,
expected to start Week one at this point in time,
How far, though, could the Los Angeles Rams make it
with out him should he experience some level of setback,
Because again, this is a player who has had neck injuries.
He's been dealing with back issues backspasms to be specific.

(01:05:09):
We understand that mobility is not a part of his
game ever at any point in his career, much less
now at an advanced age. How far can the Los
Angeles Rams make it if there are setbacks.

Speaker 1 (01:05:21):
To Matt Stafford.

Speaker 2 (01:05:22):
Understanding that Jimmy Garoppolo and your boy Stetson Bennett are
behind him.

Speaker 3 (01:05:27):
It's a fascinating question. I don't know if they go
very far. This is a obviously win now division and
a well coached division for that matter, at the moment,
and I don't know if you're a believer in Stetson Bennett.
I like what he's showing up and showing out within
the preseason. Again, as you've alluded to preseasons different than
the regular season. Jimmy G. We know what he is.

(01:05:49):
I mean, look, they can put together wins. They're not
going anywhere though without their emotional leader at quarterback at
thirty seven, though with a back issue, it's to take
really serious and get ahead of which is why they
have backups plural and competent ones. But honestly, Buck, I mean,
are they going anywhere with Jimmy G. Maybe they can

(01:06:10):
win nine or ten games. I don't think they can
go on a playoff rount.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
No, not at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
There may have been a time in Garoppolo's career, especially
with Kyle Shanahan, where he was capable of that, but that's.

Speaker 1 (01:06:22):
Not who Jimmy G.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Is of his own volition, and it just feels like
though things are hanging by such a tenuous threat. This
calls back to something that I remember hearing, and many
people reported on this, so it wasn't anything I don't
want to act like it was something that.

Speaker 1 (01:06:38):
Exclusively I was hearing.

Speaker 2 (01:06:39):
But the league at the NFL Combine was talking about
the New York Giants and their interest in acquiring Matt Stafford,
and that the Rams were not interested in moving him,
would not entertain the price points that were being met
above and beyond what Los Angeles was asking for, instead
opting to go with the thirty.

Speaker 1 (01:06:58):
Seven year old quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
The Giants all, so, we're trying to make a godfather
offer to move up to the number one overall draft pick,
as we heard Adam Schefter report on draft night, to
come up and select cam Ward, who ultimately ended up
going to the Tennessee Titans, who declined that draft packete.
So New York trying to take flyers in all different
directions to try and get somebody that they actually believe
in it quarterback. The Rams, though turning down a trade offer,

(01:07:22):
not willing to reset the board just yet with draft assets.
Bleep them picks all those things that less Nita said
and instead hinging themselves on. I don't want to say
he's oft injured, but he is at this point in
his career suspect from a health standpoint, Matt Stafford.

Speaker 1 (01:07:39):
It seems like they have pushed their chips in.

Speaker 12 (01:07:42):
On something that is not very stable, not at all,
And it does give you a little bit of a
glimpse into how fast this overall RAMS team can quickly
put the pieces together.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
I guess when you look at what they were youth
wise last year, Fisk Verse, the FSU Boys, Kobe Turner,
there's a lot to be excited about on the defensive
side of the ball, which is why I don't think
they're cooked. If Stafford is in to go, I guess
Buyer's remore, sellers remoor, excuse me if such a thing? Buck,

(01:08:16):
I mean, I guess would they take that I imagine
they take that meeting with the Giants today today, given
the offseason that they've had here training camp. I should say,
what say you on that?

Speaker 7 (01:08:28):
Man?

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
I don't know, you win a super Bowl with a dude.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
There's a level of loyalty that's difficult to describe.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
And McVeigh is not a fool, lest Nate is not
a fool.

Speaker 2 (01:08:37):
They're obviously huge, hugely successful at what it is that
they've accomplished together, and also with Matt Stafford helping them
get over the hump that Jared Goff, at least in
his previous iteration could not. And I'm sure McVeigh would
like some takebacks as far as how things went around golf,
understanding that Goff has turned into one of the best
quarterbacks in football at this point in time, even even

(01:08:58):
if he's on a hugely successful roster. I would be
surprised if the Rams did the seller's remorse type of situation.
But maybe I'm putting too much emotion into something that
should be pretty emotionless.

Speaker 3 (01:09:13):
Now, if it wasn't Stafford, how much stock are we
putting in this? Stets In Bennett the fourth over Jimmy g.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
All right, so.

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
It's not the exact same thing as Jalen Hurts for
obvious reasons. But at every turn Jalen Hurts has been doubted,
and at every turn Jalen Hurts has been a winner.
At every turn, Stetson Bennett has been doubted.

Speaker 1 (01:09:41):
Oh we love it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
In his collegiate career, he has been a winner at
the highest level. Facilitator or not, they are not the
same player. I'm not comparing their abilities. I understand that
Jalen Hurts has a significantly higher talent ceiling than does
Stetson Bennett. But there is something intangible there but I
cannot describe. And despite his off field behavior that has

(01:10:03):
delayed the start of his NFL career. And we don't
have to get into the details of that necessarily because
the Rams have honestly kept a good deal of it
covered up as far as what actually happened there that
kept stets and Bennett away from the team for that
period of time early in his career when he was
drafted by them. But there is something about Stetson Bennett
that is constantly doubted and he constantly overcomes. It seems

(01:10:26):
we have seen Jimmy Garoppolo, we have not seen Stetson Bennett.

Speaker 1 (01:10:30):
So I guess it's just kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
A trafficking in backup quarterback syndrome that I'm doing here,
even though that's a national champion twice over, and there's
something to be said about that.

Speaker 5 (01:10:42):
If you guys, if you guys were the Rams and
Sean McVay. Would you entertain the possibility of maybe doing
some sort of load load management type thing with Stafford,
like sit them out certain games if you're playing I
mean I have right now. But if you're playing against
one of the worst teams in the NFL and you
know his back's been hurting a little bit for the
past week, do you maybe sit them or something. I mean,

(01:11:04):
I don't want to invoke that into the NFL, which
is obvios.

Speaker 2 (01:11:06):
We've seen that since Peyton Manning and Austinite we haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
So that's the thing is.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
But if they are on this thin of a thin
ice with their quarterback, where it's the difference between being
able to win a Super Bowl and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:16):
Not, is there some value in it? I don't know.
I mean, that's interesting. I'm on to what Buck just
said about Stetson. Ben I'm a fan, And what do
we speak on last week about under six foot quarterbacks
that this man absolutely has, which is dog, which is
hood spot, which is leadership in tangibles? Buck, you said
it two time champ twenty eight for forty three toty

(01:11:39):
seventy percent completion percentage and a W against the Chargers.
That's not nothing a couple of weeks ago for a
Chargers team that beat the Preaks on a Hall of
Fame game off the week Brier against the Lions. We
know Harbaugh cares about everything, so I think, to Ian's thought,
it would be worth a look because if there's one

(01:12:00):
thing we know about Stafford, there is no drama around
us here, are guys he not? And I am fresh
off the Troy Aikman and Steve Berline situation where he
got banged up. Berlin went in, caught some w's and
then ended up Jimmy Timpson going with him. I don't
know why, though, this system, which is a system first,
could not eke out some w's in October or November.

(01:12:21):
I mean, what say you, Buck? I certainly don't hate
the thought to keep the Rams in the running for
the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Their schedule is horrendous, opening home against the Texans, the Titans,
a winnable game that's on the road at Philly home,
Colts home, Niners at Ravens before they get a break
theoretically with the Jags on Oh, is that a London game?
They have to go to London this year. I believe
eight thirty am kick it.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Must be oh hm, maybe wait, Let the young kid
hop into London. Let the jet last, you know, well,
Jet bloom pot here for Stafford, Jet, let him relax.

Speaker 2 (01:12:55):
A Jet two holiday for Matt Stafford, let him go
on vacation, and let's stetson Bennett handle.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
It sounds like a would you rather?

Speaker 2 (01:13:01):
We might as well table it until the next segment,
the last segment that Alex Monico and I are going
to do together with you on this Fox Sports Saturday.
Would you rather America's favorite game show coming up next?

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
Welcome back on this Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Been a lot of fun hanging out with Alex Monico. Alex,
I appreciate you doing this. Man's good to bounce some
things off. You see where see some different perspectives on
how me and FITZI usually work our way through these things.
I end up yelling at both of you, So I
suppose it's about a fitting role. But it's been a fun.

Speaker 1 (01:13:37):
Ride with you the last couple of weeks, my friend.

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
Been a lot of fun. Buck fired up to be
wrapping it up with you and Ian. Great ride.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
We got Mary, we got Ian making it happen in
la and it's time now.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
For America's favorite game show. It's would you Rather? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
Today's edition of Would you Rather? We have our big
shiny wheel back to help us make our election for
the question, so let's go ahead and spin it. Okay, So, first, fellows,
would you rather have a voice that randomly switches accents
mid sentence or hair that changes color daily based on
your mood even if you don't know how you feel.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
I'm gonna have to go with the hair that changes
color daily based on your mood. I feel like I
should give people warning when I'm feeling certain type of ways,
and I feel like that's the best way to gently
do it, because otherwise I'll just, you know, make a
face or yell at him or say something.

Speaker 1 (01:14:31):
The accents think that I probably regret. Accent.

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
I mean, the accent thing is tough for a radio
host too, you know, like, I'll take the accent all day,
and I'll take it. I'll take it for two hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:14:40):
I love it. What a way to talk sports too,
All kinds of versatile.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Mary, what's your best accent?

Speaker 10 (01:14:48):
Go?

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
Probably London. It's actually not that hard to do it
on my land from my friends. You actually live in
South and east, and then I also actually visited.

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
The use of the word actually there is pro by you.
I see what you're doing, well done.

Speaker 3 (01:15:01):
But I can also talking like an Australian accent as well.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
We're borderline on offensive accents for as badly as that
Australian accent went.

Speaker 5 (01:15:10):
All right, it's been the wheel again, sorry, Barry.

Speaker 7 (01:15:15):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Would you rather only be able to use said?

Speaker 1 (01:15:18):
We can acknowledge it's the same accent you just did, right.

Speaker 5 (01:15:20):
Yes, yes, yes, okay, the British and Australian were identical.

Speaker 3 (01:15:23):
All right?

Speaker 5 (01:15:23):
Would you rather only be able to use puns to
communicate during important conversations or have to sing everything you
say in public like it's a musical.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
Alex will start with you this time. I guess I'll
take dad puns here. I mean, I got one pitch.
It's Frank Sinatra tone and it's for no one to
hear but maybe my girlfriend if I'm in a good
mood after a parlay. Other than that, No, shot the
other one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:48):
You stigging when you win bets.

Speaker 3 (01:15:52):
It's been a hard career, buck, not a lot of parley.

Speaker 1 (01:15:56):
W's I love that for you?

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
I mean, so what was my other option, I'd have
to do what now?

Speaker 5 (01:16:02):
So it's uh puns to communicate during important conversations, or
have to sing everything you say in public.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
I would rather sing. I would rather. I would rather sing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
I feel like singing is a cool party trick to
be able to pull out, unless you're being obnoxious about it, which,
of course this would be obnoxious. I hate dad jokes.
I hate dad puns. They make me insane. I hate
when I see them on social media. Noted, Oh, well,
I mean it's I'm sure it's the gods. This was
an easy one for him. No, not not singing, baby,

(01:16:32):
I'm just good enough to be a bad singer.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
I would love to see Buck rising out of karaoke
near you.

Speaker 1 (01:16:37):
Well, I still do that. That doesn't mean I'm good
at it.

Speaker 5 (01:16:40):
All right, it's been the wheel again, okay. Would you
rather instantly forget the punchline to every joke you try
to tell or laugh uncontrollably anytime someone says something.

Speaker 1 (01:16:50):
Serious, No, I gotta laugh on.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
I do that now. I don't know how to handle
funeral talk. I don't know how to handle like serious
conversations that way, so I feel like it's defaulting to
something that I already do because I'm uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:17:04):
That's a much easier way to exist, though. Yeah, for
a guy who's done an open mic or three before,
I think I'm gonna go with the former, nothing but
uh leaving the tag punchline for others to fill in
and be in ten second Tom from fifty first States
and completely forgetting what I just said.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
No, that's a nightmare. How many times have you bombed
in your uh open my career?

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
Let's just say I'm on the mic with you now.
I actually do all that I got. I got a
hot ten, I grew up with three religions and two parents.
We got atle we got a couple of pitches to
work with on the mount.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
Okay, I feel like I would be terrible in a
situation like That's brave of you to test your metal that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:39):
Way, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Yeah, I'd be awful with that. Anyway.

Speaker 5 (01:17:41):
Let's spend the wheel again. We know you don't think
I didn't notice that, we know there.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
Would you rather have.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
A probably a Pro Bowl quarterback alight that I didn't
know if you guys heard that. Yeah, he did technically
make a Pro Bowl, all right? Would you rather have
a pet lama that thinks it's a detective even constantly
tries to solve your personal life, or a parrot that
accurately imitates your inner thoughts out loud.

Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
I gotta go with the lama. That would be a
sitcom in another universe, A parent talking bat. I mean
my inner thoughts to a sixty minute football game. Buck,
you don't want to know.

Speaker 1 (01:18:19):
Oh, give me the parrot? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
My inner thoughts during the fourth quarter of that preseason
game that I covered last night until one am. I
I want everybody in the stands to know what I'm thinking.
I want everybody in a press box to know what
I'm thinking. But if I can do it through the
parrot and blame the parrot, that's great.

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
All right, spinning again? Oh this is a good one.

Speaker 5 (01:18:39):
Would you rather be required to high five everyone you meet,
no exceptions, or do finger guns every time someone makes
eye contact with you?

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Oh, finger guns. It's a lot more frequent finger guns.

Speaker 2 (01:18:52):
So many awkward eye contact situations that would be made
ten times worse by the finger guns.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
Again the whole way through, I'll get high five. I
could be a raw, raw high five guy.

Speaker 5 (01:19:02):
See The issue there is if it's like you're in
an important job interview or something and you're meeting like
the head of the company and he reaches out to
shake your hand and you go for the high five.

Speaker 3 (01:19:12):
I'm a morale guy. I'm a vibes guy. Everyone needs
a vibe guy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
In is it more awkward to high five or the
finger guns? I feel like the finger guns is equally
as all good point too, there's no escapeing it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:26):
All right. That wraps up this week's edition of Would
You Rather?

Speaker 5 (01:19:29):
Those were some pretty uncomfortable options there, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Guys are wait, wait, they've been way more uncomfortable.

Speaker 3 (01:19:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
He had like scenarios where we're talking out of our
belly buttons and stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:19:41):
If a lama or a parrot pops up in either
of our dreams, we're blaming. Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (01:19:47):
Well, you can blame us for the last two hours.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
But already span here and Mark Whillard got the rest
of your way on Fox Sports Radio.

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