Buck Reising & Alex Monaco Weigh in on the Browns Quarterback Race, Question the Lack of Cam Ward Hype & More!

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

Speaker 2 (00:04):
There's nothing worse than drama around a quarterback situation. Ideally,
it would be pretty routine, pretty boring. Nothing to see here.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Kids.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Just keep it moving, go through practice, go through training camp,
go through the preseason, get the regular season underway. Try
to play to the best of your abilities. But that
is anything but the Cleveland Browns formula. It's a Fox
Sports Saturday. He's Alex Monico filling in for Jason Fitz.
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out in Nashville. We're happy to

(00:38):
have you for the next couple of hours. Preseason football
is upon us.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
It's all over the place.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
There's no escape from exhibition games, and god knows, there's
no escape from the Cleveland Browns. And today we start
with Dylan Gabriel, whose name is usually only evoked when
talking about Shador Sanders. But Door Sanders did not play today.
Alex dealing with an oblique injury that he sustained during

(01:05):
the joint training camp practices that they were having with
the Philadelphia Eagles. So Dylan Gabriel gets the opportunity to play,
and it was a fine performance, nothing special. Thirteen of
eighteen one forty three, no touchdowns, a pick and a
rating of seventy two point two. But that's not the
thing that people are talking about, because of course there.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Is drama around the Browns.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
In a sideline interview that Dylan Gabriel did, what's happening, Buddy, Buck?

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Absolutely fired up to be with you. I watched the
first half live and then I saw the interview live,
and I couldn't believe it because my immediate thought is,
if you want to win this job in Cleveland, you
got to be buttoned up across the board and you
go out there, Buck, and thirteen of eighteen, as you mentioned, pedestrian,

(01:55):
not terrible, not incredible. The pick six didn't help. But
you go right into talking about another man, let alone,
a guy on the depth chart to me, not Quarterbaco
at all, not a leader of men.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
And can I throw it back to you?

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Is Shader live in Manhattan, rent free and this guy's nogging?
How are you sitting there making a comment like that,
knowing what the internet's gonna do on a very slow Saturday.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, I think that they are blissfully unaware, or at
least they try to be blissfully unaware. And maybe you
know some players delete social media once the season begins
because they're cognizant of the fact that it's just poison
out there more often than not, but especially when you
are the Cleveland Browns, and you know the circus that's
surrounding the Cleveland Browns at this point in time. Let's

(02:44):
hear the aforementioned Dylan Gabriel interview that has Alex Monico
questioning if Dylan Gabriel is in fact a leader of men.

Speaker 6 (02:53):
You know, there's entertainers and there's competitors, and I totally
understand that, and my job is to compete, and that's
what I'm focused on doing.

Speaker 7 (03:01):
Of course, we're.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Doing this nig game, but you know it's something that
I'll get used to doing. Just want to be the
best team that I can and create an environment where
we can all go do our best work. That's all
we want to do.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So that is Dylan Gabriel during the Browns preseason broadcast
today talking about not wanting to be an entertainer. He
wants to be a competitor. Now this audio as you
fired up, Yes.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Buck, he had an opportunity after thirteen of eighteen.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
I mean I saw him going old school.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Brady banging helmets with his offensive line, which I love
to see. But what I would have preferred is, here's
a guy that's played at multiple huge college programs and
competed and outperformed on a quarterback hierarchy numerous men on
a number of occasions. Why don't you give us a

(03:54):
SoundBite like that. This is competition. I'm not only compan
in it, Buck, I thrive in it. I don't worry
about anyone else on the depth chart. I just focus
on what I can control, and what I can control
was a very good first half in his first showing
up and showing out. Instead, we're not even talking about

(04:17):
his performance. We're talking about this and to me, if
we're Stefanski and we're looking for someone close to Flacco
than a distraction, I don't like the comment.

Speaker 5 (04:27):
I don't.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, there's nothing to like about the comment.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Now Here's the thing that's got me pissed off about
it is because not only is this something that's going
to add additional fuel to the flame that is the
Cleveland Browns, and god knows they're on fired at a
given point, not in a good way, it's the fact
that the NFL is also leaning into it. Because this
made the rounds courtesy of the NFL's official Twitter account

(04:51):
about two hours ago. And the thing that's got me pissed,
Alex is not even the comment itself, even though I
think the comment, frankly is a bit childish and for
somebody who's what is he a twenty five year old,
twenty four year old rookie, you would think that he
would know better than that by now, as you've pointed out.
But the thing that bothers me the most is the
fact that the NFL did not include the question to

(05:13):
Dylan Gabriel, which was how Gabriel and the other quarterbacks
are trying to make sure that the outside noise doesn't
infiltrate what's going on internally, which then gets aggregated by
everybody under the sun, and it gives the masses what
they want, which is drama and cleveland And oh is
Dylan Gabriel even against Shador Sanders and feeding the ridiculous

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things that are being said out there by completely respectable
football people. I've got a lot of love for Lewis
Riddick over at ESPN. I am very very impressed with
the way that he brings knowledge to the audience as
far as the personnel scouting process goes. But the fact

(05:57):
that somebody like Lewis Riddick was comfortable about the idea
of Shador Sanders being set up to fail and breeding
more of this tinfoil hat conspiracy nonsense around a guy
that's squarely fifth on a quarterback depth charter. I suppose
fourth now with Snowpuntley, although I don't know watch out
for pro bowler Snowpuntley.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
You never know, I am.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
I'm bothered by the fact that the NFL, whoever is
running their social media account, is also going to push
this further than it actually needed to be pushed.

Speaker 5 (06:28):
Why hear you?

Speaker 4 (06:29):
And obviously you watch something like the Buffalo Bill's har
Knocks program and it's all business and it's no fluff. Meanwhile,
the circus that is the Cleveland Browns where it's almost football. Second,
they know that there's a little WWE drama going on
here Buck and throwing it in this kind of context.

(06:50):
There's gotta be a fan favorite, which is a Shadeur,
and there's gotta be a heel, And it is not
a good look for DG to rot up a Chadur
fan base knowing he's gonna poke the bear, and in
my opinion, with a Flacco true professional in the building.
Knowing Shaudur has done a couple of things off the field,

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not helping his case for QB one, you would think,
to your point earlier, Gabriel would have the wherewithal to realize,
I'm just gonna do my job and not add any
other reason to talk about me outside of between the hashes.
And you mentioned these twenty four to twenty five, the
Van Wilder coming out of college next to bow Nicks

(07:34):
Van Wilder and honestly for the millennials out there, and
we can't we can't do anything but talk about this.
Do you see what I'm saying with this ww E element.
There's no reason in preseason ball here where we wouldn't
take the bait on a social media Saturday when this
is the most riveting competition for a lot of these

(07:54):
quarterback ones otherwise locked in here.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Yeah, it's it's complet and total nonsense.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
And you know, I bet the worst part of it,
Alex is I bet he thought it was a good
line that he's a competitor and not an entertainer like
I bet. I bet that's something he had sitting in
the back of his head for a minute there.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
I thought he cooked.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
He thought he cook he he thought he had something
going there. He's like, I'm gonna show them. I'm gonna
really say it with my chest. God knows he did.
And now he stepped in and he's having to clarify
at postgame press conferences preseason postgame press conference. That should
really just be God knows, I've done enough of them.
I've suffered through two fold Tennessee Titans preseason games. Just

(08:35):
got back from Atlanta this morning, because that's the team
that I cover on a day to day basis, and
you should be talking about depth chart, safeties who had
to pick six in a third quarter, trying to make
make make the roster cuts by way of special teams,
and things like that. That's the kind of discourse that really,
I mean, whether you think it matters or not, does

(08:55):
actually matter to the construct and the success and the
the the process of putting together a football team ahead
of the regular season, not this clown show man. And
it's it's worse because it's always the browns Alex, It's.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
It's always the brown Let me throw this out there,
because I'm a big hike guy. Now I'm five ten
with piano posture. I'm in the six foot club.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Only with the fro.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
But when you're looking at the quarterback position and you're
talking about an under six foot man, you want the
Baker Mayfield dog.

Speaker 5 (09:28):
You want the chip on your shoulder.

Speaker 4 (09:30):
You want a little bit of what Doan gave you
banging helmets with your offensive line. What you don't want
when you're undersized is a guy thinking about another guy.

Speaker 5 (09:42):
And that's what he showed you.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
And I almost there's almost a part of me that
doesn't blame him, because God knows, everybody's asking Dylan Gabriel
about Shador Sanders more than Dylan Gabriel's probably being asked
about his day to day performance. So that has to
be in the back of his head somewhere. But that
doesn't mean you have to let it be known to
the public. That doesn't mean you have to say the
quiet part out loud. That's like Jerry Jones on the

(10:06):
Netflix Red Carpet the other day talking about, Yeah, if
it gets too quiet around the Cowboys, I'd just like
to stir it up a little bit. That's good for business,
which we've known about the Cowboys for one hundred years.
But Jesus Jerry, don't say it. So with this particular situation,
the actual consequence of it, I think is a non
factor because Joe Flacco is going to be their Week

(10:29):
one starting quarterback. No matter how good these two perform,
or how well these two hold up in preseason action
or training camp practices, or how well they study in
the meeting room, and how well they galvanize the rest
of the team around them. But the fact that we
are talking about even the idea, even if it's not
a divisive locker room or a divisive issue in the

(10:50):
locker room, because the locker room's just trying.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
I mean, these are grown men for the most part.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
Especially where you've got guys in there, you know, in
their late twenties, early thirties. Many of them have families.
They're trying to just get through without injury. They're trying
to mentally work their way through the dog days of
training camp, as is always the case. Right now, not
concerned with the the TMZ elements of it, and yet
the TMZ elements of it getting dragged into the discussion

(11:16):
now by the third round quarterback who has picked two
rounds before the guy that has the last I mean
the closest thing to t BO media that I've seen
in quite some time around.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Him one hundred percent, and also thinking out loud here,
I know you're a flock Oh guy, I get it.
But if QB two is still up for conversation here
with the picket injury and him kind of helping as
much as he can in the booth, which is what
he was doing with Gabriel today, this for Dylan did

(11:47):
not help him because not only did he not outperform
Shadur today, Shadur had the better rollout performance, but he
also didn't do any favors by this because this is
now a distraction. Now the Mary Kates O the world.
Everyone knows this is going to get headlines and attention.
And what is Stefanski not want, Barry not want. They

(12:11):
don't want distractions. It's why you believe Flacco's gonna be
QB one. What's interesting here is if Shader can use
this as more momentum for his case and just lay
out and continue to play ball, this bodes well for him.
But again, all this is only prevalent because we're in
the preseason, but it is top shelf Entertainment.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
To Dylan Gabriel's point, ironically.

Speaker 2 (12:37):
The WWE elements are impossible to ignore. It's a Fox
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(12:58):
I suppose a backup, backup battle is what we're looking
at right now as we broadcast live on this Fox
Sports Saturday from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Now, this
is the complete opposite experience, Alex of what I am
currently covering with Cameron Ward, the least type number one
pick in recent memory.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
We'll talk about it next. Hi, this is Jay.

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Speaker 2 (14:01):
There's press a few reasons to watch preseason football unless
you're a sicko.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
Now, it might be gambling. It might be that you're
just that invested.

Speaker 2 (14:10):
It might be that you want to know who the
seventh wide receiver battling it out to make your roster
is if you're a fan. But one of the best reasons,
or really one of the only reasons to pay attention
to preseason football casually, is that of the rookie quarterback. Now,
we've just talked about Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
It's a Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
He's Alex Monico, I'm Buck Rising hanging out with you.
We got the rest of the crew, Ian and Mary
Mack making it happen in LA. We've talked a little
bit about the brown situation because the Browns are the
TMZ element of it. But the thing that I love
about this year's number one overall pick is not just
that he's in the city that I live in and

(14:53):
playing for the team that I cover, Because God knows,
I'm tired of watching terrible, terrible football Alex. That is
as bad a football season as I have ever been
a part of in twenty twenty four. But because, for
lack of a better term, he's just made of the
right stuff.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
Now.

Speaker 2 (15:09):
It was not a sexy performance for Cameron Ward in
Atlanta last night. I just got back this morning from
covering that game. We've been on a ten day road
trip with the Tennessee Titans, two preseason games, two weeks
of joint training camp practices, and all good opportunities for
Cameron Ward, who was two of seven for forty two

(15:30):
yards and a fifty two point something rating last night
in Mercedes Benz Stadium. But the conversation around Cameron Ward
has been not about the player, but about the hype.
And I wonder how he strikes you as an outside perspective,
but also what you make of that dialogue around Cameron

(15:52):
Ward to begin with.

Speaker 4 (15:53):
In the first place, Well, Buck, you know this team
better than anyone. And the that you led with us
that's brilliant is he is the Costanza opposite to everything
going on in Cleveland Browns quarterback camp. In fact, they
takes me back to that sound bite wish Shadur where
they were working out together and he illustriously said, all

(16:15):
I want to be known for is a football player.
And you think about Tennessee Titans culture, right, really, from
two thousand on my millennial life, the most successful Titans
teams were ball first, ball, second, ball third. We have
to remind ourselves not a great win loss year last year,
but the Titans were second in yards against, they were

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top two pasty to Philly in both of those categories.
And you bring in a guy like this who's old business,
and the first two weeks I'm watching it, I'm not
so much worried about the Falcons box score. I loved
what I saw in the Tampa game as well, huge
drop yesterday. As you know, Buck maybe had other people
look differently, but I just love what he's about. And

(16:57):
you think about coming off a Vrabel team that was
very locked in with an identity, and you think about
Callahan and what kind of locker room this is gonna
be It kind of has a trickle down effect.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
What say you on just who Cameron.

Speaker 4 (17:13):
Ward is, which is exactly what Titans successful football has
been over the last couple of decades. Let's just focus
on football and let the rest take care of itself.
And you can already see his favorite target blossoming. The
chemistry is there within Ridley and I love to see it.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Thus far, Van Jefferson would be cut on any other
NFL roster, except this one is particularly stinky, and so
they have.

Speaker 7 (17:38):
To have out at your tweet yesterday about it.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Oh my God, got him yesterday. The respect and respectfully
Van Van is a nice guy and a local guy
and not had a terribly bad training camp.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
But brother, you got to make that catch on a.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Football team like this one, you got to lay out
and make that catch. It is one of the most
egregious things I've seen. And it is preseason football, so
there are egregious mistakes made every down, it seems, across
the NFL. But to your point, Alex, he's he's simply
he's simply focused on football. He doesn't have a social life,

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and this is juxtaposed with what last year was, respectfully,
to Will Levis, who is also just a genuinely good
human being, but a generational run of bad decisions leading
up to his first opportunity to be a full time
NFL starting quarterback, where you had the decision to agree
to a nationally televised mayonnaise campaign based on TikTok behavior

(18:39):
going back to his college days that continued to run
six damn weeks after he was benched, to the hacking
of the snapchat that led to the you know, the
not safe for work images around him being put out
there on the Internet, which is an unfortunate thing for
him and I'm sure embarrassing for him and the woman involved,
but nonetheless, and then there's videos of him on life

(19:00):
Lower Broadway, Alex. I don't know if you've ever been
to Nashville, Tennessee, but Lower Broadway is our party strip,
right This is where they bust the bachelorette's in from
all over the country and they come down here and they,
you know, they have a big time. And we have
a barstool bar on Lower Broadway and Will Levis is
standing outside the barstool bar and it appears that he's
had a cocktail or seven and he's asked, He's asked

(19:22):
a question about, you know, how the Titan's going to
be this year, and he says, you know, Titans to
the super Bowl or something something to that effect.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
And one, what are you doing out there too?

Speaker 2 (19:33):
Why even mention that in the same breath when you
have no idea what you're up against. And then all
the different things that transpired after the fact, which was
nobody knows what will Levis did last year except for
the fact that he was memed on every game that
he played last year. Cameron Ward is the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
He is as.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Unsexy of a personality type is humanly possible, and that
is ah Chef's kiss beautiful to the football people who
drafted him to course correct an organization that lacks identity,
that lacks that lacks the nebulous word of culture. That
was just a nuclear disaster last year. You bring up

(20:19):
the pass defense, don't let them off the hook.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
They were god awful too.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
They had a historically bad special teams unit that would
give up eighty yard returns with regularity or get punts
blocked with regularity. And the only reason that the Titans
pass defense looked worth a dam in twenty twenty four
is because you just didn't have to go that far
to score on the Titans their red zone. You look
at their red zone numbers versus their actual pass defense. No, no, no,

(20:44):
frauds is what I will tell you right now. And
they know that. And I'd spend three hours a day
on the local show here in Nashville talking about that
exact same thing.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
Will, Can I throw this to you way?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (20:55):
I'm on a tangent to stop all good ears on
the street.

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Though.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Does the Nashville community like a guy that's all business buttoned?

Speaker 5 (21:06):
I'm trying to think of quarterbacks over the years.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
He's kind of closer to Tannehill of course, you know,
stylistically as a person than he is.

Speaker 5 (21:15):
A Will Levice.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Does Nashville like maybe an introvert that's really only an
extrovert with his play? Or do they want because it
is such a decorated city, music and a ton of action?
Do they want bravado at the quarterback position? Or is
this the perfect personality for the perfect fit for the
kind of town you live.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Oh, You'll never made a thirstier fan base than the
Tennessee Titans fan base. I mean, they just want people
to notice them. They just want to please, please, God,
look at me. Somebody care about the football team that
plays out on the east back of the Cumberland River.
So there there's you know, there is a portion of
the population in Nashville, Tennessee that is, you know, with

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that kind of mentality that just you know, but ball mentality,
and that's what they need. They need to eat their vegetables.
They had a sugar rush of a free agency period
last year that it did include Calvin Ridley and Lloyd
Cushionberry the center and guys who are going to matter
for them moving forward, and that will look at Cameron
Ward will lean upon in twenty twenty five to try

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and have as successful a rookie season as humanly possible.
But I would say it's a bit divided because one,
they're frustrated that nobody cares about them or their quarterback,
or that the only discussion around them is is he
the least hyped number one overall pick in recent memory, which,
by the way, I love, let him earn it, Leo.

Speaker 3 (22:34):
What's wrong with earning it? God knows.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Shador Standers and Dylan Gabriel haven't done anything other that
exists then there's all this dialogue around them. You want
to be a part of that media cycle? Absolutely not.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
Well, Vegas always gives a little bit of a tip
on where they're leaning with teams pre flop on the season.
And this over under win total of five and a
half for your Tennessee Titans, buck.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
That's juiced in the top three category. Don't make the
mind bills. It's the Browns and it's the Titans.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
To lay one p fifty for those listening, one hundred
and fifty down to win one hundred back on the over.
That tells you that Cameron Ward and this club is
headed in the right direction as far as Vegas season,
and as we know, they're not very wrong very often.
Do you feel like five and a half wins is

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right where their pay grade is this year?

Speaker 5 (23:27):
Can you see them maybe shock in the world. No,
I can't see them shocking anybody.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
The roster is horrendous and they're going to take It's
going to take some time to dig themselves out of it.
Though they did go out and get a professional offensive
line that will help Cameron a great deal.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
I I you.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Know, there's just too many flaws on this football team
for me. To have any confidence in them until we
see such that they deserve being talked about. But you know,
it is it is good to see that the guy
who's going to be tasked with leading the charge here
has his head or has a good head on his
show and he's just about the right things. It's like
listening to a forty three year old give a press conference,

(24:04):
Cam Morden. I mean, that's it's really it's it's it's
funny to watch him up there.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Especially.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
I don't know if you caught the thing about him
being away from his dog for ten days and how's
the dog's been tearing up things at the house, and
how the dog was gonna get an as whipon? Would
he get to help some old head type stuff? You
know what I'm saying, Like this dude was a forty
three year old man in a twenty three year old's body.

Speaker 4 (24:23):
But I think we're talking about a guy that's gonna work,
and if he works, Buck, I just want to be
ahead of the curve, and with you knowing this team
so well, I just want to throw it out there
that this guy looks I mean, everything about him is
what is what you want in a franchise quarterback. And
that's even his poise. His poise, ironically on the podium

(24:47):
and off the field, is just ironically as symbolic as
he is going through his progressions in the pocket. I
think this is a guy that might shock a lot
of people. I'm I again, I'm an optimist, might because
I'm in some San Diego sun right here, Buck. But
we're talking about top two on defense in a couple

(25:08):
of categories.

Speaker 5 (25:09):
I think is something to build off.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
Of, and a guy that we are digging to find
something outside of his game to talk about and we
can't because he's all ball all the time. It reminds
me a lot about Justin Herbert coming in. You never
heard anything about him off the field. He lived right
around the corner from the facility, wanted it that way,
didn't want anyone to know anything about him. And here

(25:31):
we are a couple of years later and people got
him in their top ten already. I think your boy
as an opportunity shock the world year one.

Speaker 2 (25:40):
Oh you're sweet summer child. He surrounded by Van Jefferson's.
But that's all well and good. We'll talk about Justin
Herbert here in just a second. But first to Chris
with a breaking news update.

Speaker 10 (25:52):
I got I gotta say something about the Titans here,
and this is mostly as having friends on down in Texas.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
I think you guys need to.

Speaker 3 (26:01):
You've invited the juju on you.

Speaker 5 (26:03):
You know that.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
The Titans, the Titans, they've invited the juju on.

Speaker 10 (26:08):
Them by holding onto the oiler's name, by holding onto
an identity that is no longer their own, by and
then wearing that against the Texans saying they're cursed. I'm
saying I believe dearly in curses. I I am a
scholar in the Curse of Colonel Sanders, which is a
real curse. And I I've that is it that that name,

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everything is so dear to the people of Houston that
I've never been able to look at the Titans straight.
As soon as I saw them make the decision to
wear those while playing the the Houston Texans.

Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well that's dumb. They can polding up the cash to
buy it back if I want them.

Speaker 10 (26:45):
Hey, you know what, as long as it keeps going down,
I'm very good at curses. This this kind of stuff
all trickles on down. You can watch it, but.

Speaker 3 (26:53):
Not in an sec safe environment. Chris, what you got,
all right.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
Let's move on here. So speaking of absolutely the Mets,
who are two and sixteen and trying to seek two
out of their last sixteen excuse me, trying to seek
that win. Currently up three runs on the Mariners right
now in the eighth inning. A little bit more baseball
before we get to the rest of the NFL NFL preseason.

(27:17):
Here Trevor Story with a three run home run as
the Red Sox at tacking on the Marlins seven to
two right now, and now over to the NFL where
let's start. Let's start with the game in progress right now,
currently tied sixteen a piece between the Raiders and forty
nine Ers. Interesting line for Ashton Genty, who got to
play a little bit here. Seven carries thirty three yards,

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one touchdown for the Raiders first round pick, mostly Mac
Jones against Aidan O'Connell early on in that game. Excuse
me your news out from the Panthers, their second round
line pick. Their linebacker Nick Scourton, is now week to
week after apparently suffering a collapsed lung in Thursday practice.
The Panthers just revealed as datus on Saturday. Those Panthers

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went twenty to three against the Texans in the preseason
and a bit of a big goose egg from Bryce
Young in passing yards two rushing yards that all done
on two drives in the game.

Speaker 9 (28:14):
There.

Speaker 10 (28:14):
The NFL determined that Cowboys wide receiver CD Lamb will
not be fine for the penalty and contact he drew
last week versus the Rams on the sideline when he
was plowed down by an official barreling into him. And
some news out of college football, The Big Ten is
considering the idea of a massive expansion of the college
football playoffs that would grow the postseason to twenty eight
or twenty four teams. The idea is still very early

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and as stages. The proposal would also eliminate conference title
games from the picture and offer a large number of
automatic bids for all power for leagues.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Back to you, guys, to Chris on this Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
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Speaker 2 (29:21):
Alex, you invoked the name of Justin Herbert, and that
is an interesting comparison to Cameron Ward, who we were
just discussing. But given your background, or at least your
knowledge of the betting odds and Vegas and what Vegas
thinks of these teams, I do think it's an interesting
conversation heading into the twenty twenty five season. Who does
Vegas favor between the Chargers or the Rams? Who's the

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best team in LA according to the people in the Desert.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Buckets, As if they want us to have a little
rock paper scissors shout out here, because Vegas has it
at BETMGM nine and a half total wins for both
of the teams.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
You gotta love it now.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Rams are a little more juiced than the Chargers, but
Vegas expects either ten and seven or nine and eight
for both clubs.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Man, given the divisions that they both play in.

Speaker 5 (30:13):
And maybe the NFC West doesn't.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Quite have the teeth that it did a couple of
years ago, where the Niners look a.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Little more fraud than they did.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Maybe that's just recency bias coming off a year where
they sustained injury after injury after injury.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
And of course, Herbert.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
Exists in the same division as Patrick Mahomes, who had
a down year and still won fifteen games and made
it to the Super Bowl, which, by the way, I
had no idea that Wasn't that a record for the
Chiefs to win fifteen games. For all the hand ringing
that was done about Kansas City last year, I think
that's crazy crazy to me. I my belief is that

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Justin Herbert and I'm not going to do the whole
Emmanuelacho social media quarterback bit because I thought that was
a bit silly. But I do think that there is
something about him in the regular season versus the postseason
that I simply cannot trust. And while Matt Stafford may
be hanging on by a thread as far as his
physical durability goes him and Sean McVeigh and a defense

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that is young and inexpensive, there's just something about the
Los Angeles Rams that makes me more of a believer.
Even though I think what Jim Harbaugh did last year
with Justin Herbert was pretty impressive.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
Well, three Chargers sweatshirts total in the whole city of
La two three thousand rams. Doesn't help perspective here with
objects and mirror, not assea pier. But can we just
play this world where Harbaugh year two doesn't matter if
it's down the street where I am with the USD
Terreros could be Andy Luck in the Stanford Cardinal. Obviously

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we know what he's done in Michigan year two. In
Jim Harbaugh's program, after he builds inside out, first thing
he did was bring in Joe Alt first round draft pick.
Now obviously huge injury on the offensive line. But this team,
now Harbaugh has his I would say, sleeves rolled up
and exactly the kind of team he wants. And now

(32:09):
buck we have offseason talk in the AFC West like
this Chargers team who only lost two games by double digits,
by the way last two games, because the Chargers are
gonna Charger are prime for to me a deep playoff run.
And it's just really stylistically follow the blueprint of what

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Harbaugh's team did in Big ten Land, ground and pound
twin the trenches on both sides, don't turn the rock
over and let other teams fall into the trap.

Speaker 5 (32:46):
I look at what.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
They did in the offseason, and you cannot understate the
Keenan Allen acquisition.

Speaker 5 (32:51):
Back, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
By the way, Matthew Berry went on Fallon, and Fallon
asked him one guy in fantasy to look out for,
and he said, Omarion he Empton. Who Oh, by the way,
is gonna swoop Nasei Harris's starting browle. This is gonna
be such smash mouth football that it's gonna be hard
for people to comprehend when everyone switches up and realizes
Harbaugh and year two doesn't matter where he is is

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prime for again an AFC West shocker. No one wants
to talk about the Chargers because they're not the flashy toy.
Right now on Christmas in the AFC West, you got bubble.

Speaker 5 (33:28):
Gum chewing Pete Carroll back in the mix.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Everyone's on bow knicks like he didn't play for nine
teams in college. I mean, let's just get it over
with the Chargers to me can steal the division.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Buck and I do think they're the better team in town.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
And Sean Payton is talking about Super Bowl aspirations in Denver.

Speaker 3 (33:45):
It's gonna be a fun year in the AFC West.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
And to your point about the blueprint, they want to
run the football and we're not good at it down
the stretch. I think people got caught up early. If
you were still watching the Chargers late in the year,
they were not nearly as effective as a running football
team as people like to imagine them in their minds.
And to your point about Amar and Hampton, I cover
Cameron Ward. And if I was allowed to bet on
the NFL, which unfortunately I am not because I'm a

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part of a team's radio game day broadcast, I would
bet Omari and Hampton for NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Speaker 3 (34:17):
It's going to be a really really.

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sell for us, we will react to alex Monico Buck
Rising here with you on a Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 1 (34:57):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
There's things that get overrated, there's things that get underrated
at this time of year, and we are all trying
to figure out just who's going to live up to
the hype or lack thereof in the NFL. Now, the
preseason is a liar. Training camp is a liar. Welcome
back the Fox Sports Saturday. He's Alex Monico sitting in
for Jason Fitz. I'm Buck Rising. We got the rest

(35:21):
of the crew hanging out back at Los Angeles making
it all go Ian, How how do you want to
execute this buy or sell? Is there stock market imaging?
Are we prepared? Are we going to do some crappy
radio sound here?

Speaker 3 (35:35):
What are we gonna do?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (35:36):
Combination of all of them.

Speaker 11 (35:37):
I guess let's just turn on some NFL music and
just kind of love the middle there.

Speaker 7 (35:40):
Let's go all right. I like it.

Speaker 11 (35:42):
So I'm gonna name off these quarterbacks for you guys
heading into the year. You're going to tell me whether
you're buying or selling them? And a little bit.

Speaker 7 (35:50):
As to why. So we'll start with JJ McCarthy. Buck.
Are you buying or selling McCarthy heading into this year?

Speaker 2 (35:56):
I'm buying McCarthy, and maybe I shouldn't be, but that's
because I've got friends that scout for the Minnesota Vikings
and everything that I hear from the people that I
talk to in Minnesota. Not like I'm any kind of
NFL wide insider. I just cover the one team. But
you got friends around the league and they are incredibly
high on JJ McCarthy. Ironically enough, he's going to be

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playing here in Nashville on Friday night for the final
exhibition game at Nissan Stadium. I don't know how much
we're going to be able to see from him, but
if to hear the people in Minnesota tell it, they
can't get enough.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
For the young quarterback, I'm buying too. I got a
co sign.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
You don't move off of a fourteen win quarterback that
finally proved himself and then roll out at dud. This
might be an understudy, but he's primed for a run.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
I gotta buy, all.

Speaker 11 (36:43):
Right, an interesting one here another second year quarterback, Michael Pennix.
Start with you this time Alex, are you buying or
selling Penix heading into this year?

Speaker 4 (36:50):
Oh, I'm buying Baby, same thought. Here he steals a
spot from Cousins. I think he's got a big, grown
man armed couple of weapons. This could be the year
for fantasy goers e in where Kyle Pitts finally shows
up and shows out.

Speaker 5 (37:04):
I'm also a lefty. I gotta support lefties. I'll buy too.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
I hate that, you know, for the sake of intrigue
that we're aligned on all of these so far. But
I just saw Michael PENNICKX up close and personal. I
also saw Kirk Cousins, who was absolutely washed at this
point in time, So I don't know if he stole
anything from Kirk Cousins as opposed to Kirk Cousins just being.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
At the end of his rope.

Speaker 11 (37:24):
All right, Next up, bon Knicks. What do you think
Bucky buying or selling Bonix heading end of this year?

Speaker 3 (37:29):
I'm selling Bonnicks.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
I think that there is a lot of stuff that
Sean Payton can mask with the offense that they run.
I think they throw a lot of passes at or
behind the line of scrimmage. I think that offense is
catered to him and tailored to him. But year two
is going to be a hell of a lot more
difficult than year one was.

Speaker 4 (37:46):
We are cross country lockstep AFC Wes bias Ian.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
I am selling bon Knicks.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
Go out and do it again because it's hard by
year two in the AFC West baby selling all right.

Speaker 11 (38:00):
Another one from the same draft class, Drake May, Alex.
Are you buying or selling Drake May.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
I'm gonna buy. I think it's a phenomenal coach in Vrabel.
It's the perfect guy to take care of one side
of football and grown man coach up a gunslinger like May.
He's got the athleticism. They did a ton in the offseason.
I think it could be May day and move the
Dolphins down your AFC East deep chart.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
They may finish last.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Well, the Dolphins are paper tigers anyway. They're doing that
for themselves.

Speaker 2 (38:30):
But I would tell you that I am selling Drake May,
and it's not because of Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
I had Mike for six years.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I know him well, but I don't It's not about
Drake May or Mike Vrabel.

Speaker 3 (38:40):
It's about Josh.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
McDaniels and how convoluted and complicated that offense is to
run based on everybody that you've heard have experience with
Josh McDaniels. So less about Drake May than it is
about the play caller who has yet to prove himself
anything without Tom Brady.

Speaker 11 (38:56):
All Right, this one's pretty decisive. But what do you
guys think about Bryce Young buying or selling?

Speaker 7 (39:01):
Fuck? Start with you.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
I'm sneaking in on Bryce Young.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
It looked better than it should, probably have looked down
the stretching Carolina, more optimistic than it should down the
stretch in Carolina. And I think Dave Canalis has worked
wonders before. Now He's got a bit of a diminutive
quarterback and not a lot to work with. But the
offensive line seems to be playing well. Whether the quarterback
can see over the offensive line has yet.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
To be determined. But I'll I'll go ahead and buy
on Bryce Young.

Speaker 5 (39:27):
I'm gonna sell boys.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
I hate to be a five to ten man, Hay,
not another five to ten man. But I need, again,
like bow Knicks to see it. A lot of cozy
time over there in Carolina to get it right, a
lot of pressure with Pennix too coming out in the
NFC South.

Speaker 5 (39:44):
I'm selling Bryce Young. I'm sorry, I'm off it.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Short Kings unite. Look at that the five ken.

Speaker 11 (39:50):
Or the opposite that don't unite aither one? All right? Anyway,
Sam Donald, what do we think Alex buying or selling
Sam Darnald on the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (39:59):
I'm gonna bye.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
I like Sam two point oh. I like the weapons
up there, he's playing with some zest. I like the
confidence Sammy two point oh out of socow.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Baby, Now I'm gonna sell that hard. Seahawks offensive line
was got awful. Sam Darnold is probably going to be
a sitting duck, and especially without DK metcalf Man. That's
that's asking for treble. We're speaking asking for treble the
Michigan Wolverines. We're going to talk about it next on
Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
Cheaters never prosper unless you're the Michigan Wolverines. On Friday,
the NC double A levied a significant penalty against the
Michigan football program relating to the sign stealing scandal that
dates back two years ago, not one year ago.

Speaker 3 (40:56):
Two years ago.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
It took the NC DOUBLEA to figure this situation out,
But does it actually hurt Michigan the way that it
needs to hurt Michigan. It's a Fox Sports Saturday. He's
Alex Monaco sitting in for Jason Fitz. I'm Buck Rising
hanging out here with you. We got the rest of
the Crewey and Mary Mac holding it down in La Alex.

(41:18):
I love college football. It's my favorite sport. Even though
I'm an NFL reporter, I just get so much joy,
maybe because the NFL's my job. In college football Saturdays
are's still a blessed reprieve where I can sit on
a couch and watch football like everybody else gets to
sit on a couch and watch football. But I am
mostly disappointed in the situation because I just wish that

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my football program was as good as cheating good at
cheating as the Michigan Wolverine seem to be because they
won a national championship. You can't take that away from him,
no matter how much money you want to find him.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
One hundred percent, Buck, I mean to be honest looking
at this kind of objective, I'm deeply bothered by the
slap on the wrist, and it immediately as I was
talking to Ian off air about it makes me think
if I'm like an Ohio State Buckeye die hard.

Speaker 5 (42:12):
This is like a.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Celebrity getting in way less trouble than they should because.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
They're a celebrity.

Speaker 5 (42:18):
What are we doing poking the bear here?

Speaker 9 (42:20):
Later?

Speaker 5 (42:21):
It's enough in my opinion, what say you.

Speaker 4 (42:25):
To feel like Michigan was guilty, But let's not actually
give them real repercussions to where the program's actually gonna
be de reeled.

Speaker 5 (42:33):
And then if you start to go.

Speaker 4 (42:34):
A little old school Sherlock with it, oh Harbaugh leaves
out the perfect time, then you have the Netflix stock
YadA YadA.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
This kind of riles me up. When I was kind
of over it, buck Well, that's the thing. We were
all over it. We knew what they did.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Everybody, I mean, Conner Stallions to your point, is doing
a Netflix documentary and denying it the whole way through,
except now that we know he was blatantly lying, even
though we all knew at the time that he was
blatantly lying. So here is the full list of penalties
for the program, specifically four years of probation financial penalties
that include fifty thousand dollars in fines plus ten percent

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of the budget for the football program.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Which is no small thing at the University of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
A fine equivalent to the anticipated loss of all postseason
competition revenue sharing associated with the twenty twenty five and
twenty twenty six football postseasons, a fine equivalent to the
cost of ten percent of the scholarships awarded in Michigan's
football program for the twenty twenty five and twenty twenty
six academic year. A twenty five percent reduction in football

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official visits during the twenty twenty five and twenty twenty.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
Six season, even though that didn't.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Make any damn sense because official visits.

Speaker 3 (43:46):
Are now unlimited, so what do they care?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
And a fourteen week I had parenthetically at a fourteen
week prohibition on recruiting communications in the football program during
the probation period. Now, obviously there are a show cause
for Harbaugh, two year show cause order for Sharon Moore,
who will be suspended for his game at the game
against his alma mater, Oklahoma, which is their Week one opponent,

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because they had self imposed two games that he was
going to miss, which were two cupcakes on their schedule,
And then of course an eight year show cause order
for Connor Stallions, the man in the central Michigan had.

Speaker 5 (44:22):
I mean, the whole thing is fugezy.

Speaker 6 (44:24):
To me.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
It's such nonsense because not like they don't have the
coffers to survive this kind of situation. Michigan football is
very very well financed. And no matter how much they
try to hit him in a pocketbook, if people are
still using the phrase pocketbook in twenty twenty five, this
is not really going to make them feeling. God knows
Jim Harbaugh and carries the coach of the Chargers. He's

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not coming back to college football, even though I guess
technically he's what Harbaugh is sixty one sixty two. He
could Pete carrollt And if you had to pick somebody
to pete Carroll, it would be Jim Harbaugh continue to
coach into his early in mid seventies.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
So potentially, I suppose.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
If it goes poorly in LA, he could dip his
toe back into the college game at the end of
this show cause thing. But this is this is inconsequential,
And the thing that you hit on the most, the
thing that you are most correct about, is we'd all
we'd all put it to bed.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
We don't put it to bed.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
In the NC DOUBLEA comes out.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Like they've done something here again, garbage organization, the ncublea
unserious organization, the nc DOUBLEA.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
And yet again they prove exactly why.

Speaker 5 (45:28):
Buck, I'm deep in the weeds here.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
The NCUBA confirmed at least fifty six instances of this
kind of behavior across fifty two games. And you're giving
a parking ticket to a multi millionaire. That's essentially what
this is. Now I'm gonna need a Netflix Part two.
Now I'm all the way in Now I got no

(45:51):
horse in this race, and I'm upset for a buck
guy's nation because this almost proves like Ian said, Ian,
feel free to hop.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
This makes me feel like Buck.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
They're guilty, and they're trying to find a happy medium
between appeasing people that know within the infrastructure of NCAA
football that they are guilty. But oh, we're not gonna
do anything that actually disrupts anything moving forward except for
these for these little, rinking, dank things. I mean you
you even so a Portnoy said, what do you call it?

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Called it?

Speaker 4 (46:24):
Ashtray money ors. This is literally doing nothing but riling people.
Uh that felt like Michigan was in the wrong. And
then now resurfacing it all for us who moved off
of You have thoughts here.

Speaker 11 (46:40):
I mean, I we were talking about this off air.
It does just kind of feel like if you're gonna
punish them at all, then you're showing that you found
that they did it or they're guilty of something there.
And if they are guilty of what they're said to
be guilty of, which is sign stealing, which is very serious,
then it should be a little more than this, whether
it's actually vacating the national tipe or something, but even

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like a postseason ban for a season or two, but
they don't even have that. It's like, okay, you know,
financial penalty, which doesn't actually affect the college football fan.
It only affects the program itself, so obviously that'll hurt
them from the inside.

Speaker 7 (47:14):
But fans that doesn't, you know, do much for us.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
And then just the.

Speaker 11 (47:19):
Game suspension for Sharon Moore, which he also did to himself,
which I thought was weird. You know, also the two
game ban and now they're adding one or something. Is
the NCAA just found okay two wasn't enough.

Speaker 4 (47:30):
Well, well, if we were dep chart in this buck,
if you were ranking let's say we got the Patriots
to flake gate, maybe the Houston Astro sign stealing and
this who's the first.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Who's QB one, who's QB two?

Speaker 4 (47:42):
And who's a practice squad for inciting incidents of those
three things?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I mean, it would be Michigan. To me, this is
far more egregious then. I know that the Astros won
a championship and got away with it in real time.
But they like the thing here is they're not vacating wins,
are they There's nothing in there about vacating wins exactly.

Speaker 5 (48:04):
That's this is not real Patino. They're not coming after
him that way.

Speaker 4 (48:08):
I don't know how you result this because you just
you just reopened this entire case. Now I have questions.
Now I'm sitting here doing that. Where is this in
the ranking of teams that won real hardware and they
actually just cheated the system?

Speaker 5 (48:25):
Does anyone want to come out and say that.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
I'm waiting for some big dogs on national stages to
go out and say because it was a very likable team.
McCarthy was likable, Khaki's Harbaugh was likable.

Speaker 5 (48:37):
It was a lot to like about Michigan. Let's just
call what it is.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
If I am triple checking my astigmatism bucket fifty six
instances over fifty two games. Take the hardware off the
mantle until we go to court.

Speaker 3 (48:52):
But even then it doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (48:53):
It's like what they did with Patino, Like they took
away the national championship ironically over Michigan and that Louisville
uh Hooker situation where Rick Patino had his vacated wins,
had the national championship vacated even though they got to
experience the National Championship like that that you can't take
away the memory.

Speaker 5 (49:12):
Of the experience.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
You can't take the tattoo, the Michigan m tattoo off
of hardball, can you?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
I mean, I supposed to can.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Ian possible to call Martin on his honeymoon as a
Michigan alum and get his two cents here real quick.

Speaker 5 (49:24):
I need someone from Michigan weighing in here.

Speaker 7 (49:26):
Well, I think we're gonna need to dial them in
right now.

Speaker 5 (49:30):
He's only nine hours ahead. It's only the middle of
the night.

Speaker 7 (49:33):
I'll be breakfast, I guess well.

Speaker 2 (49:35):
And and the whole thing, the whole thing that adds
additional insult to additional injury. They're appealing it the news
came out yesterday that they're appealing it.

Speaker 5 (49:46):
I thinking, out Buck, you would probably have to.

Speaker 4 (49:48):
This is a real case, right, prosecutor defense, I guess
that's your only chess move, because now everyone like us
is sitting here going, okay, I need I need more
details of what really happened. I need the other side
of the Connors Stallion story.

Speaker 5 (50:04):
I do.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
But Michigan plainet like this almost plays into the hand
of oh, well they have to because this is just
again a slap on the wrist and does nothing but
rile us all up.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
But yeah, they're just popping themselves up though, go ahead
of you.

Speaker 1 (50:18):
They were.

Speaker 11 (50:19):
This self imposed ban is the weird part to me,
Like they it's like saying, you know, mom and dad,
I'm gonna ground myself because I did this. It's weird
to me that they did that self imposed ban and
now they're tacking on another one.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
And outside of the eight year show cause for Stallions
and the ten year for Jim Harball, which by the
way doesn't start until twenty twenty eight, which is hilarious
because of the show cause order he was currently having
to work through. The penalties are mostly financial. I can't
think of a less impactful way to go after a
program that just blatantly cheated. And the worst part was

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how uncooperative Harball was the the whole way through. He
wouldn't interview like I assume that the two of you
have read enough of the details on this story and
specifically how unwilling Harball was to any kind of questioning
on this situation, any kind of interview process on this
Like he's above it, Jim. I appreciate the stick. I

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enjoy him thoroughly. I love his press conferences. He's a
good football coach beyond the cheating. But don't act like
you're above this, Bud. Yeah, you are as guilty as anybody.
Bill Belichick is going to carry around the stigma of
the flight gate with him for the rest of his life.
Rick Patino is going to carry around the stigma of
what happened to him at Louisville for the rest of

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his life. Jim Harball just gonna get off scott free
here because he jumps ship to the NFL and was
a viable commodity to jump ship to the NFL and
just happen to win a national championship on the way out.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
The door bleep off.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
See it's so interesting, Buck, because you bring up a
very interesting thought. It is almost how they're perceived if
you do take to Belichick Patriots, Nobody liked them when
they were winning except for Patriots Nation. Now you look
at Michigan as a whole, they're kind of one of
these media darling college football overall likable clubs. If you
don't have a horse in the race, and I'm sitting

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here now thinking about it in real time, how much
is the likability component to just whatever big business is
going on involved in this whole investigation. Now, let's protect
Michigan because it's a real stain on all of college football.

Speaker 2 (52:28):
If this really goes off the rails, well, and that's
kind of like the conversation around the Rishie Rice appeal
right with the NFL and the optics of it coming
out at the same time as Jordan Addison, where the
Chiefs are appealing that situation coming off of his legal
incident and Jordan Addison receiving his suspension at the same
time where the Chiefs are going to be able to
fight this thing off for four games while they go

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through the appeals processed through an independent arbiter which again,
I don't think that the NFL is colluding to make
the Chiefs more viable or to benefit the Chiefs, just
the way that it.

Speaker 5 (53:00):
Looks so true.

Speaker 4 (53:02):
It's like I don't want to believe Santa Claus is
it real or WWE is scripted?

Speaker 5 (53:08):
I don't want to, but.

Speaker 4 (53:09):
At some point, at thirteen years old, I had to
realize it wasn't real. It's almost like, oh, do we
want to admit that this beloved media darling top ten
Juggernaut program did this and did this over how many games?
Not good for business, not good for pr not good
for anyone wearing khakis.

Speaker 3 (53:29):
Fuck. I hope there.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Were parents driving around with their children somewhere that quickly
were able to put earmuffs around them when you docked
Santa Claus like that.

Speaker 5 (53:39):
I didn't even think about that.

Speaker 3 (53:43):
It's okay, it's only a national now.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
A lot of commercial break for Alex over here.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Now I'm sweating.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Well, it's gonna be an even longer process for the
Michigan wolve Raine. It's a rare enough thing when you
make the Ohio State Buckeyes look likable and favorable in
this particular, but which young quarterbacks will look likable and
will look favorable or need to look favorable in this
coming twenty twenty five NFL season because of the amount
of pressure that they're under. We'll discuss next on Fox

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Sports Radio. Who's not ready for the twenty twenty five season.
There's a lot of quarterbacks under the age of twenty
five who are going to be starting meaningful snaps, if
not the out right season for their respective teams. It's
Fox Sports Saturday here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
He's Alex Monico.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out with you, Mary Mack and
Ian holding it down in Los Angeles. So if I'm
not mistaken, and you guys can fact check me on
this if you want. But counting Anthony Richardson, who is
not officially a starting quarterback and may well not be
a starting quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, guys, I have
ten quarterbacks twenty five or under that will be or

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project to be starting quarterbacks in the NFL this year.
Can you tell me the division in which all four
projected starting quarterbacks are twenty five or younger.

Speaker 4 (55:12):
That's an all time shout out the late stump the
Schwab question right there, Buck, I'm going through it here,
I'd have to go NFC.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Now seeking I was gonna go OUTC South.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Incorrect, It's the other South division. It's the AFC South.
It's the one which I exist in and has seen terrible,
terrible football and many high draft picks.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
So a lot of at least aspiring.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Young talented quarterbacks existing with the Cults, the Texans, the Titans,
and the Jags.

Speaker 3 (55:42):
Trevor Lawrence still twenty five, which is crazy.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
To think about for as long as he's been in
professional football. But if I asked you, Alex Monica, which
young quarterback under the age of twenty five or twenty
five or younger rather is under the most pressure in
twenty twenty five, whom might you select?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
I was all in on Tua in the commercial break,
but he's twenty seven, so that won't roll with this.

Speaker 5 (56:07):
I gotta go with Tela Buck. This is a.

Speaker 4 (56:09):
Guy who, and how many in the history of the sport,
are number one out of high school, first overall, red
carpet rolled out for him the whole kin kaboodle, and
outside of the Chargers third worst loss in postseason history,
he doesn't have anything to hang his head on except
for excellent lettuce on top of his noggin that makes

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him look like a quarterback. But the turnover a head
coach we know about obviously, t Hunter coming into the
fold a ton of pressure on what I thought, as
nick Wright called him the Prince that was promised, would be.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
Already pro bowls plural at this point, and now we're
just praying for nine to eight because it's CJ.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Stroud's division to lose, and your boy Buck Cameron Ward
is coming for Tila.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
It has to be Lawrence. Man.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
I couldn't disagree more because he plays in such an
anonymous division like the AFC South is the.

Speaker 5 (57:07):
Which is why he should have been dominating it.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
Yeah, that's true, I mean, and that that to me.
If you want to talk about intriguing storylines from one
division to the next, like Trevor Lawrence could upset the
apple Cart, that becomes a vastly more interesting race in
the AFC South if Trevor Lawrence looks like anything close
to what we as as you mentioned, nick Wright called
him the Prince that was promised. What an excellent turn

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of phrase there to.

Speaker 5 (57:32):
Describe Buck, the guy who's got so much hype.

Speaker 4 (57:34):
He's making fifty five million dollars a battle of two
fifty million dollar men in that postseason game a couple
of years ago, and since then, no one's done Bud Kiss.
He's gone backwards in the AFC South, A ton of
pressure on him. Honestly, you give him that much money,
he owes you a serious.

Speaker 5 (57:54):
Ten and seven run and at least a wildcar win.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
To me, I would agree with you, especially given the
hype around Liam Cohen. Right, this is the whole quarterback
fixer thing. I mentioned the name Will Levis in the
first hour, and Liam Cohen is the only one who's
made Will Levis look like a viable starting quarterback during
their time together at Kentucky before the actual year that

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Will Levis was drafted, or following the season that Will
Levis was drafted, where it kind of fell off a
cliff after Liam Cohen took his talents back to the NFL,
and he's bounced around a bit now and finally got
a job where he's got, as you know, as close
as close to a sports car.

Speaker 5 (58:35):
As you could have.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
But this one's been sitting on cinder blocks in Jacksonville
for quite some time. I don't know how much time
you've spent alex Monico in the city of Jacksonville. I've
spent many, many long days in the city of Jacksonville.
It's a terrible place, and it's probably where you might
find a maserati sitting on cinder blocks.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
But to me, it's a conversation between two.

Speaker 2 (58:56):
And I don't mean to cop out by taking two,
but I am conflict here, and you tell me which
one is more appealing to you, and I'll take whichever
direction you point me in. I'm between Jaden Daniels and
Drake may Wow.

Speaker 4 (59:12):
Jade Daniels just because of the pressure of the world
to repeat what he did.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
It's near impossible to be able to have the kind
of success that Jaden Daniels just had, especially for a
franchise that has been for so long.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
So God forsaken.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
Way more interested to talk out Jade Daniels with you.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Okay, we will talk out Jaden Daniels. Then it's the
Eagles Division. They're the defending Super Bowl champion, but they
are in their version of a rebuilding year, which means
that theoretically the NFC East is there for the taking.
They are what I love about the way that the
Eagles at least under Howie Roseman, who is just I

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would never pick.

Speaker 5 (59:51):
Up my phone if Howie Roseman was on the other end.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
And that's not just because I covered a fire general
manager that traded away AJ Brown at one time to
the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl champion. Shout out John Robinson
wherever he is certainly not working in football right now.
But as you look at the way that the Eagles
rebuild Alex, they are they are content to be competitive.

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But they have drafted a lot of young players to
fill in the holes on the defensive side of the
ball where free agency picked them off.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
And that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:00:23):
That's how the Ravens have stayed competitive as long as
they have. They've played the compensatory pick formula very very well.
Philadelphia was content to let guys like Josh Sweat and
Milton Williams go elsewhere on big money contracts to be
more full time players than they were in Philadelphia for
the successful platoon deployment of their front line that had
Patrick Mahomes and a pretzel for the better part of

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four quarters in the most recent Super Bowl. So I'm
looking at a quarterback in Jalen Hurts who is a
winner at every level to his credit, but still has
some deficiencies that he has to overcome. He's on as
talented and offense as could be found anywhere in the NFL.
But you just got the top one percent. I wouldn't
even say one percent pointoo one percent season out of

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Saquon Barkley, where he did the thing that Saquon Barkley
has almost never been able to do. He was healthy
all the way through, healthy all the way through. The
offensive line was healthy almost all the way through. And
you've got you've got DeVante Smith and you've got aj
Brown on the outside. You've got some things to buffer
you if you slip up a little bit. So these
are all reasons to think that, Okay, maybe Philly's competing

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for a wild card this year as opposed to winning
the division outright. And we know how hard it is
near impossible to repeat as Super Bowl contenders.

Speaker 5 (01:01:40):
So this should be Washington's for the taking right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:43):
Into Yeah, two trends a thought here for you, Buck.
This is the longest streak, by the way, and any division,
did you know the longest it's twenty years now. Streak
of non back to back winners in division is the
NFC East.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
That's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Also, you got seven one score wins for the Commanders.
Does the pendulum swing from last year to this year?
Not to mention the tape on Daniels interesting where you're
going with it. I could sort of buy into it.
I think he's a superstar though, oh.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
No, we could not be more in agreement there. He's special.

Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
In fact, it's quite infuriating to deal with it on
a local level because now Tennessee Titans fans who just
drafted Cameron Ward number one overall, have expectations that he
should be able to do with Jade and Daniels like turnaround,
and I think it's the best season from a rookie
quarterback that, at least in my thirty two years of life,
I have ever seen.

Speaker 5 (01:02:37):
I'm with you on that.

Speaker 4 (01:02:38):
It's fascinating because he came out I don't say he
came out of nowhere, but because of the team he
went to and everything you pointed out that I don't
need to repeat.

Speaker 5 (01:02:48):
It was a shock to the football system.

Speaker 4 (01:02:52):
But now all eyes are on him and it is
going to be fascinating to see, especially with the Terry
McLaren situation, how this all shaped.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Just activated today, speaking of what's fascinating to see, Let's
see what's trending, Chris, what you got?

Speaker 10 (01:03:07):
All right? So we got some NFL preseason going on
right now. A quick touchdown for the Giants thanks to
an eighty yard throw from Russell Wilson to wide receiver
Bo Collins. Meanwhile, Cowboys and Ravens Baltimore with a safety
to start this game, with Joe Milton sacked in the
end zone. We did see Dak Prescot warm up for

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the Cowboys, but no action from him so far in
this game. Elsewhere in the world of the NFL, the
Raiders and forty nine Ers earlier that one looked like
he was heading for a tie, but a interception from
Cam Miller set up Jake Moody for the winning field
goal twenty two to nineteen the finals score there Raiders
rookie Ashton genty seven carries for thirty three yards and

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a touchdown in that game, Brown's defeat the Eagles twenty
two to thirteen. Cleveland quarterback Dylan Gabriel with a thirteen
of eighteen, one hundred and forty three yard day. Meanwhile,
in the world of basketball, Luka Doncic was diagnosed with
a right knee contusion while playing for Slovenia's national team.
According to reports, however, it does not appear to be serious,

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with something to keep an eye on, and Lakers fans
to hold their breath just a little bit. Their baseball scoreboard,
the Brewers with a one run lead over the Reds
right now bottom of the fourth top of the second inning,
scoreless between the Braves and the Guardians, Tigers with a
one run lead over the Twins. The Mets, who have
lost fourteen at their last sixteen, finally add one as

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they defeat the Mariners three to one, Blue Jays crust
the Rangers fourteen to two. And in the world of
college football, the Big Ten has been considering the idea
of a massive expansion to the college football playoffs that
would either grow the postseason, grow to twenty four or
twenty eight teams, and do away with the idea of
conference title games.

Speaker 7 (01:04:55):
Back to you, guys, Hey.

Speaker 2 (01:04:58):
Good, Chris, it's a Fox Sports sad here on Fox
Sports Radio, Lakers fans certainly holding their breath, and for
no other reason, Alex, they hope that that knee intusion
doesn't allow Luka Doncic the excuse to maybe get a
little chubby again at that point in time, after showcasing
his brand new physique that Dallas did not believe that
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iHeartRadio app. So we talked about young quarterbacks under pressure. Now,
something interesting that was pointed out to me as I
was spending the last ten days in Tampa Bay in Atlanta,
following around the Tennessee Titans for joint training camp practices
and preseason games.

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
Like very nice to be home for the first time
at ten.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Days, I might say.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
But something that was pointed out to me, Alex, do
you know how many quarterbacks, let's just say, in the.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
Last ten drafts.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
We won't count this most recent one, but we know
that Cameron wore the number one overall pick in the
twenty twenty five draft to the Tennessee Titans. Do you
know how many quarterbacks have been selected number one overall
in the ten previous drafts?

Speaker 5 (01:06:20):
Wow, I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with six.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
The number is eight, going back to Jameis Winston, but
close Jamis Winston. A few Miles Garrett is thrown in there.
Who's that Jags defensive lineman who's underwhelmed spectacularly?

Speaker 5 (01:06:38):
Is the number one overall pick in the drafter? Trevor
Lunch Trayvon Walker?

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
Yes, how many people would have forgotten that he was
a number one overall pick?

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
Ridiculous?

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
Aid Hutchinson so much of a better player either way.
Of those quarterbacks who were draft I'm gonna ask you
another one of those quarterbacks who were drafted number one
overall with a coach who was on staff at the
time that those quarterbacks were drafted, how many did not
make it to the second year as a head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
Oh, that's a fun one. I'm gonna go four. I'll
go half.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
So not quite it's three, but and it's a lot
more recent. You know what, I screwed up my own
stat It is in fact four. So Jamis Winston.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
You nailed it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
Well done by you. Jamis Winston had Lovely Smith his
rookie year and then went on to have Dirt Cutter.
Then more recently you had Trevor Lawrence and of course
the Uncle urban Meyer situation that did not go to plan.
You've got Caleb Williams who had Matt Eberflus fired in season.
Can you tell me the coach of the Carolina Panthers

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when Bryce Young was drafted number one overall?

Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Oh my gosh, I dead air?

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Here?

Speaker 4 (01:07:52):
Was it? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:07:53):
Matt Rule? No, the coach or the quarterback?

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
The coach? Ian?

Speaker 5 (01:07:57):
Who's the coach?

Speaker 7 (01:07:59):
It wasn't?

Speaker 5 (01:07:59):
Oh Frank Raig Franklin right, was right?

Speaker 4 (01:08:02):
Geez, They've got turnover over there in Carolina more times
than I can count.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
Yeah, it turns out bad organizations stay bad. So that's
an interesting trend because you know, obviously I'm covering a
number one overall pick here in Tennessee now, and Brian
Callahan just came off a three and fourteen record, So
things are a bit fraught here. So as we talk
about young quarterbacks under pressure, Alex, I'll pose yet another
question to you. Do you believe there is one NFL

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head coach under more pressure than the rest.

Speaker 3 (01:08:31):
Do you believe or who do you believe.

Speaker 5 (01:08:33):
Will be the first NFL head coach fired this season?

Speaker 4 (01:08:36):
Honestly, Buck, I think it's an easy answer. I think
mister Mike McDaniel is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:43):
Under really so all.

Speaker 4 (01:08:45):
He's not only under a ton of pressure, he's the
worst head coach in the division.

Speaker 5 (01:08:51):
And one of them hasn't even rolled out in a
real game yet.

Speaker 4 (01:08:54):
Aaron Glenn, honestly, you're under five hundred, are bottom five
and turnover perential everywhere you turn.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
They're not focused.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
You saw cowhertz incredible monologue this week about it's very
difficult to be loose and then gets strict rather than
come in flores strict and get loose. He is the
opposite of what I would want in a head coach.

Speaker 5 (01:09:17):
This is a fun dude who.

Speaker 4 (01:09:20):
Honestly stay a fun uncle and maybe think twice about
being a father, because you can't always be a good
fun guy in the locker room when you're eight and nine,
when you're not buttoned up. Oh, by the way, is
two of the guy because quinn Ewers is humming right now.
On a preseason Saturday, two Tugs against the Lions. D

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All that to say they're prime for another flop. They
are going in the wrong direction. Buck and I don't
know how and laces out Dan three.

Speaker 5 (01:09:53):
Oh five, Miami. Do you run it out with this
guy for another year?

Speaker 11 (01:09:57):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:09:57):
He's absolutely a play calling I don't think he's in
charge of fifty three men the way you want to
see a vrabel A Glen And obviously obviously we know
Sean over there at the top of the AFCs.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
See.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
It's an interesting thing because you have an owner on
record coming out and talking about that patience is wearing thin.
With the New York Giants, John Marra has said that
about Brian Daball and Joe Shane. Now, I also think
that they would not do the thing which most people
in New York might expect them to do, which is
fire a coach in season, especially given Jackson Dart's presence

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on the roster. I may have to go with the
coach that I cover. I may have to go with
Brian Callahan here.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
Oh wow.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
Now, I don't know, because I know you pay attention
to the gambling elements of this more closely than most.
But you mentioned the win total for the Tennessee Titans.
There's not that many games that they're favored in. One
such game that they are very much not favored in
is Week seven. Week seven Mike Vrabel and the New
England Patriots come to town. Mike Vrabel was fired unceremoniously here,

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firing in which I had parenthetically that I disagreed with
at the time, and nothing against Brian. I think he's
a very very smart football mind. But that job is
more than next as the O's. And what people don't
know because they don't pay attention to an organization like
the Tennessee Titans, is that they are highly unstable. Their owner,
Amy Adams Trunk has fired three different dignitaries Titans dignitaries

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in the last three offseasons, from John Robinson in season
after the AJ Brown trade, to Mike Rabel after that
because he couldn't win with a bad roster that John
Robinson put together. To Ran Carthon after that because they
spent two hundred and twenty eight million dollars drafted Will
Levis and built around that nightmare scenario. So now Brian
Callahan is coming off a year as the worst team

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in football, with the worst record in football because Joe
Milton bailed or really kind of banged Patriots fans on
that winning a game at the end of the year,
the now Dallas Cowboys backup quarterback, but Vrabel coming to
Tennessee and of a revenge game type of situation for
an ownership group that doesn't like to be embarrassed? Does

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it like losing to the Houston Texans in those Houston
Oilers uniforms that Chris brought up earlier. Week seven is
circled in my mind as a date to keep an
eye on, if not the date that Brian Callahan or
after Brian Callahan may lose his job, but something that
may inform a firing down the line.

Speaker 4 (01:12:22):
Oh, I already wrote down hammer the new England Patriots
and small.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
The number whatever it is.

Speaker 4 (01:12:29):
We love a beer pong rebuttal and a Mike Frabel
smash spot.

Speaker 5 (01:12:34):
That's a great thought. There No grace soo for Callahan?
How that much.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
Pressure to come in and show up and show out
year one, year one across the board?

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
No, no grace. They you can't they can't be trusted.
I mean they said they she can't be trusted. She's
she's been hugely irrational with her decision making of lateness
is kind. This is obviously a conversation I have regularly
for three hours a day on the local show, and
the Titans organization doesn't love that because I'm on the
Titans flagship station talking about it as I sit here

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in Nashville, Tennessee right now. But what evidence to the
contrary do I have? They don't stick to the plan,
and right now they're selling a plan publicly which is
patients over panic around cam Ward. Cam Ward was asked
about trying to buck this trend for lack of a
better term, and keeping Brian Callahan playing for Callahan's job
because Cameron Ward understands the importance of continuity for a

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young quarterback, the churn and burn that we see at
that position so often in the league, where we have
rehabilitation cases at the quarterback position all over the place
because the organizations failed them. But I just don't know
how anybody who was actually paying attention to this particular
organization could trust them to get it right this time.
When they have, they have s. They have cratered themselves.

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They were a perpetual AFC contender, They were a number
one overall seed, Mike Rabele was the coach of the
Year in the AFC, an AFC that had Lamar Jackson,
Patrick Mahoe Holmes, Joe Burrow and the like wandering out there,
these fire breathing dragon quarterbacks, and they did it. Anyway,
they have sandbag themselves spectacularly in the three years since,

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and I just don't know how stable the ground is
under Brian Callahan. Even though I would disagree with the
firing outright if they did it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
I do like the train of thought now because Vegas
has you at bet MGM and over under five and
a half wins juice to the over two trains of
thought here. If you hit six wins, is that enough
for you to want to keep Callahan? If you're a
Titans fan or on air covering all these things titaned. Secondarily,
is there a signature win or two even if they

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go five and twelve or under that number that would
make you hang in there for one more Callahan?

Speaker 5 (01:14:46):
Ward one?

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Two?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Oh yeah, I mean, because it's a pride thing for ownership.
It's a game against the Texans, and it's the Patriots game.

Speaker 3 (01:14:53):
She wants to be proven, right.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:14:57):
Well, nothing like going three stra eight. Thanks goodell, road
games before you come back to Nashville, almost on the
road as long as you were in the last ten days.
Here will be the Titans Week four, five and six,
that's Texans Cardinals Raiders. And then back to host what
you think is the biggest game of the year for
Titans fans and I completely co signed.

Speaker 2 (01:15:19):
It would be interesting to see. All right, Ian, are
we ready for America's favorite game show? Are we ready
to do this? It's gonna be weird to do it
without FITZI, but we'll try.

Speaker 7 (01:15:27):
Let's let's wheel the Let's bring the wheel in, Bring.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
The wheel in.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Alex Monico doesn't know what's in store for him. It's
would you rather on Fox Sports Radio?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
Coming up next? One more segment.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
For us here on Fox Sports Radio. He's Alex Monico.
I'm Buck Rising hanging out with you now. Alex, we
play a game at the end of every show when
it's me and Jason Fitz. But you've been kind to
step in, and you've done so admirably. I might even
say that you're ten times the co host that Jason
Fitz is.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
And that's only because I love fits.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
I like to give them a hard time, but also
it's been a lot of fun hanging out with you, Bud,
but we're not quite done yet.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
A lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Buck.

Speaker 5 (01:16:05):
Let's go all right, Well, you got it, and let's
do it.

Speaker 7 (01:16:08):
Okay, it's our weekly would you Rather?

Speaker 11 (01:16:11):
Segment. We're gonna jump right into it here, Alex. This
is your first time doing it, so I have to
warn you. These are some weird would you rather?

Speaker 5 (01:16:18):
Questions?

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
But answer to the best of your ability.

Speaker 11 (01:16:21):
And we have a wheel here in studio that helps
us decide which question we're gonna do, So we're gonna
spin it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
I lie in that thing.

Speaker 7 (01:16:33):
Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:16:33):
Would you rather have the ability to read minds but
only in a foreign language you don't understand or have
the ability to communicate perfectly with animals, but never be
able to talk to humans.

Speaker 3 (01:16:44):
Again, I seed the floor to the rookie. Go ahead, Alex, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:16:47):
Gonna go with the animals. I think that would be fascinating.
What am I gonna do unless I'm going model United Nations?
I'm a cancer. I like to stay at home. I
like to stay in America. I think I'd go with
the animal one, but it would be tough not to
talk sports with Buck anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I'm sure you could find much smarter dialogue with the animals.
For certain, I also have very little things to say
to humankind. At this point in my life. I am
much more favorable to animals. I would go that direction.

Speaker 7 (01:17:20):
All right, let's spin the wheel again. Okay.

Speaker 11 (01:17:29):
So would you rather uncontrollably laugh every time someone says
your name or compulsively sing your thoughts in the tune
of Happy Birthday?

Speaker 3 (01:17:37):
Oh no, I think it might.

Speaker 5 (01:17:39):
Well.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
Does it have to be the one happy Birthday song?
Or can I work some variations of the Happy Birthday song?

Speaker 11 (01:17:45):
Actually a good question? Like would like the Beatles? The
Beatles Happy Birthday song? They say it to your birthday?

Speaker 3 (01:17:51):
You know, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
So I think I got I got a little more
variety there. So I'm probably going to have to sing
all of my thoughts in some variation of Happy Birthday,
assuming that I get the variations. But it's going to
be annoying either way. Like nothing, nothing's worse than the
people that overlaugh. That drives me insane.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Yeah, I don't have the pipes the Frank Sinatra tone
that Buck has.

Speaker 5 (01:18:13):
I'm gonna go with laughing at my name. You know,
I grew up with eleven.

Speaker 4 (01:18:16):
Alex's where I grew up, So that's a lot of lols.
Little Alexander, you know, motle fun with it. Yeah, off
some chuckles.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
All right, I don't do that to him. He's not common.

Speaker 11 (01:18:29):
Monico is not a common name. So give you that,
all right, spin the wheel again?

Speaker 9 (01:18:39):
All right?

Speaker 11 (01:18:39):
Would you rather your shadow reenact scenes from random soap
operas or your reflection wink at you once every ten minutes?

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
Shadow all day, all day. That's that's a blast. Now.

Speaker 4 (01:18:54):
As much as I could take or leave that animal question,
I got to.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
Take that with conviction. I'm not a wink guy either.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
I've seen the Seinfeld episode with the grapefruit and Costanza
give me the shadow.

Speaker 2 (01:19:05):
Am I a freak because I've never actually seen an
episode of Seinfeld?

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
Like, I know, let me put you on, let me
put you on.

Speaker 4 (01:19:13):
You got some Titan scenarios over there, very curb ask
and Seinfeld.

Speaker 7 (01:19:16):
Oh yeah, have you ever seen like a scene from
it book?

Speaker 1 (01:19:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
I mean I've seen stuff on social media and stuff
like that, but like I've never actually sat through an
episode of Seinfeld. Wow, I'll probably go with the winking.
I'm a bit of a narcissist anyway. God knows, I
probably wink at myself in a mirror when I'm ready
to go out or do what I need to do,
or dressing, getting dressed on a game there, or something
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
So yeah, nothing wrong with a little extra wink.

Speaker 11 (01:19:38):
All right, I got time for one more here, it's
spin the wheel, spin it. Oh, I like this one,
all right? So would you rather be required to salute
every dog you see? Or Curtsey whenever you hear the
word banana?

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
I mean, I salute every dog I see? Now, noble
creatures salute.

Speaker 4 (01:20:00):
Oh, I'm Tompkins Square Park South the Girlfriend. We do
a lap and we salute dogs all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
I'm with Buck Keep in Lockdown, Fox Sports Radio Next.

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