Buck Reising and Bridget Condon (in for Jason Fitz) open the show with their biggest reactions and takeaways from the NFL schedule release! With the hardest schedule of any team in the league, could the Bears really end up missing the playoffs after such a strong first year under Ben Johnson? Then they discuss recent comments from Deion Sanders about Shedeur's NFL career so far. They also get into the NBA Playoffs, reacting to sweeps by the Thunder and Knicks, a series win for the Spurs, and setting the stage for game 7 of the Pistons vs. Cavs series. Plus, closing out the show reacting live to the news that Aaron Rodgers has finally signed a one-year deal with the Steelers.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome into the Fox Sports studios. We are broadcasting live
in Los Angeles, and it's just Bridget Condon and Martin here.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here's the thing. You guys know that I have been
filling in on this show for a couple of weeks now,
maybe a couple months actually, if you can find all
my fill ins. It has been my goal to get
buckin fits off the show and just have this be
my own thing. And today is the day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's just me one step closer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, I mean I know that the people this is
what they want. Nobody cares what Buck has to say,
and I hope Buck is listening. All jokes aside, we're
having a little bit of technical difficulties, so hopefully Buck
Rising will be joining us soon. But honestly, do we
really care if he joins us or no?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I mean, you know, I'm sure Wally Pitt had a
few technical difficulties that day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, and then Luke Garey accept it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And hey, look this is the beginning. This is what
these professional athletes dream of to get their chance in
the big lead. You can never predict what's going to happen.
You just have to what is it? They say, Martin, The.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Best ability is availability?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And how about this one, don't get ready stay ready?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, so I don't know, maybe we should hit up
the tattoo parlor after this to get one of those.
If you want the availability one, I think I want
don't get ready to stay ready?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, Buck neither of those two things.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So you know what the best part about working with
Buck is love him, all jokes aside, great guy. But
I hit him up yesterday like, Hey, what do you
want to think about? And now that I've worked with him,
like I said, for multiple shows, I know that I
can't hit him up on a Monday. Like I'm a
very type a person typically I want to like and
with sports, I totally understand that you can't. We don't
(01:47):
know the topics until Friday night because games are changing,
but you can have an idea of you know, NFL
schedules coming out. We knew that on Monday, NBA, you
know you're getting into game six, Game seven's on Friday night.
Probably talk about that. I know now, don't reach out
to back until Friday midday. So I was feeling a
little optimistic. Sent him a text around three pm Pacific,
(02:10):
six o'clock. What is he in Nashville? That's five o'clock, thinking,
you know, maybe he'd hit me back with like let's
hit NBA, let's hit NHL. My man hit me up
four in the morning on his way back from Broad
Street in Nashville with the rundown. Now here's the thing.
I'm both impressed and disappointed that one, you know, you
(02:34):
can have done it Friday night. Two you're coming back
and you're thinking about the show that is dedication.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, see part of the thing. It would be more
impressive if he was here to tell the story himself right.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And defend himself. I feel like you can only talk
about someone if they're in the room to defend well.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Also, it's like you can only talk about how how
hard you played hard if you're also working hard in
the pod. So it's like knows if he's a no
show for the whole time, then it's like, is he
sleeping off at four am?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh my god? Is it because he's so hung over?
And he actually it's not technical difficulties. He's just well
technically it is a bathroom trying to get his life together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That could be the case. Fuck He's been known to
do the show in the bathrobe.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So what I'm not telling tales out of school? He
tells it, and he tells it to America every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, he is such a fascinating guy. Something else that
fascinatingly happened. Is that a word? Fascinatingly?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We'll make it up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Okay, something else this week that happened that really got
my attention. Let's put it that way. Thirty two thirty
two teams came out with videos. Okay, we didn't have
thirty two pictures of schedules, No, we got thirty two videos.
(03:55):
Now do you know the term fatigue overload?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, Like there are certain influencers that are just
giving me fatigue overload. It's like, you know, people say
that about the Kelsey's, You're just being shoved down your
throat Kelsey content. And I love them. I'm not gonna
speak of course, I'm not gonna speak badly about them.
I dare I have the Swifties come after me. But
(04:20):
I just feel thirty two videos. I appreciate the videos
that were ninety seconds, but the five six, fourteen minutes
schedule release video. Who has the time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, the short list is not me. I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
There are some things Bridget that I've understood that are
four fans and I'm just not there. Like the schedule
release to me is something that is for the guy
who are also going to buy the ticket to go. Now, Okay,
I'm not that guy. If you're an Eagles fan. Okay,
Well here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, the Eagles and the Chargers two of the longest videos,
and we're talking about the NFL schedule. If I didn't
make that clear, the Eagles, I believe was the longest
fourteen minutes. Now the Chargers was six minutes twenty two seconds.
I couldn't make it past two minutes. I know that's
a hot take. Everybody thinks the Chargers are incredibly creative,
which I respect the effort it went into making the
(05:18):
Halo game. Did you see their schedule release video?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I saw people tweeting about it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, so you didn't need to watch it. It honestly
was boring. Like and maybe I'm gonna get a lot
of hate for saying that, but to me, fourteen minutes
of Jalen Hurts talking, Okay, we don't get a lot
of Jalen Hurts right, Like, he's not this big social
media guy posting videos of him selfie talking. So getting
fourteen minutes of Jalen Hurts was fine. I still think
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a little too long, little too long. If I'm an
Eagles fan, am I watching it? Probably because it's our
star quarterback? The Chargers? You didn't have any players in that.
It was Halo themed. Now, if I'm a fan who'd
never played video games, am I watching that for six
minutes and twenty two seconds?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I did play Halos even interesting that much?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, this is honestly, we have broad Street to blame
for this.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Okay, a funny schedule, release video like a handful of
years ago, and then I, oh, let's make.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here's the thing though, what the thirty one other teams
didn't realize when that happened? Less is more? They were
on the street in Broadway just asking man on the
street hilarious questions. It's not this overproduced, Let's go to Halo,
Let's go to you know, these big corporations to make
us this this entire movie. It was let's be on
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the street. I think they were at the draft for
this year asking people it was hilarious, and I will
argue to say that was the best video of this
season and did not have as much of an effort
as say the Chargers video.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I'll let you say this because you know the new
way that if you watch one video on X it
then turns into TikTok, you know, and you just it
never stops with the videos is immediate video.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Video saying like suggested videos.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And so I kept getting like the first three or
four games of the Jets schedule in their schedule release,
and they did.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They did a I didn't see theirs, so they mixed.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Paint colors and it was very much.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It was enough to keep me watching for like three
of them, and then I was like, if I really
wanted to know, you were just played Week five, Well no,
I just google Jets schedule and then look at the
list and see who plays, who would win. Okay, the
NFL has done a great job for a game for
a season in which it's only seventeen games. Most of
(07:45):
our lives sixteen, right and then now probably be eighteen
before you know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's a short order.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But ultimately for fifty two weeks out of the year eighteen,
you don't know you do the math.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's a whole lot of weeks for no football.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
They've done a great job of taking things that really
just we're literally what would have been an email or
phone call our.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Thousand percentage and making it feel like the biggest bill
of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, we've been talking about the schedule since Monday. I
think it is incredible marketing for them to release one
game a day, then you release the international games on Wednesday,
then the schedules come out on Thursday. It is incredible marketing.
And it's interesting because I get this question a lot.
I'm sure you do, as somebody in the industry. What's
the end all be all, what's the dream job, what's
(08:30):
the goal? And working in the NFL, I'm like, I
don't think that there's anything bigger than this, because the NFL,
especially in America, is king because the way that they
are able to stay in the news three hundred and
sixty five days. People aren't talking about baseball as much
as we talk about the NFL in the offseason. No, no,
people aren't talking about the NBA. Yeah, you have summer League,
(08:52):
but it's not it is just not the same as
the NFL. And also, I was talking about this with
a friend this week. The way the NBA, you have
the Finals and then three days later you have the Draft,
and then you have summer league, you don't have a
chance to breathe. The NFL does it great because you
have the Super Bowl. Then you have like three weeks
to talk about the draft. Then you have the sorry
(09:14):
to talk about the Combine. Then you have the Combine.
Then you've got about a month to talk about what
happened at the combine to talk about the draft. Then
you have the Draft. Then you have a couple of
weeks before you see these guys in person. Then you
have OTAs, you have mini camps, then you have training camp,
then you have preseason. They have done such an incredible
job of finding ways to keep fans engaged every single
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day of the year, and the schedule release is just
an added bonus.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It's like when you were in school and they would
give you a summer reading list, but it's a summer
reading list.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Was awesome? What you didn't get a summer reading list
in school.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I got a summer reading list, but I it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Like no, I'm saying, it's like if you were in
school and you got the summer reading list.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh, I thought you're saying, and it was awesome. I
was like, you're the first kid I've ever met that
like read the books. It was always like the night
before where I'm like on spark notes.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was a big reader. I'm a big reader.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You got a candle or are you more of like
a paperback guy?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I am?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I am paperback at this point, actually hardcover because if
I feel like, if I don't spend enough money on it,
it'll just sit there.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I have to invest in the book.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I know it sounds silly, but like, yeah, I might
have to spend like I want the twenty five hardcover
and you give me the real thing here.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So you're clearly not reading as many books as a
big time reader if you're buying hardcover every time, because
that would be an expensive hobby.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I have a lot of books.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, so you're calling yourself rich.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
No, I'm calling myself to have a lot of books
and moving sucks.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh you have a display at home.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I not nearly as much as i'd like to, because
I really have enough books to set up the zoom that.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Makes it look like I'm in a big library. Of books.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You know what I'm saying, I could fill up the
whole zoom window of books and like maybe like just
like put a football on one shelf here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
See what you're saying is you prepare for the moment.
I tried to You know who doesn't prepare for the moment.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, if at the moment's four I am down broad Street,
then maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I want to welcome in our guest to today's show,
Buck Rising. Did we have him?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Buck?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It's broad White, all right, yeah, i'mateur, It's Broadway, let's
get it right.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I wouldn't throw shots at the guy that has been
helping you out for the past thirteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh no, I'm gonna I you came in firing shots.
I'm coming in firing shot.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I knew you wouldn't defend yourself because you didn't have
the capability. So that was my time.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You can you can lob all the Haymakers at me
as you want. Bridget the bully is filling in for
Jason Fitz today, clearly, so we're on to a great.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Spic See today I was going to text you and
be like, hey, just FYI, I am feeling kind of
spicy but you weren't. You weren't here, so I couldn't tell.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
You no, no, no, uh correction, I was here, very much
here just trying to figure out all the different technical
maneuvers on one of these damn boards because I've never
been properly trained that way. But for some reason, the
thing that I do every time didn't work this time.
Either way, I'm happy to be here. Thank you for
being here, Bridget, and thank you Martin for filling in.
(12:19):
Thank you Ian. I was saying, thank you all, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I've decided to grace you with
my presence today.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Thanks for joining, and we hope you're feeling okay after
your trip down Broadway Street.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I feel great. No, no, it's please you. I have
played through far worse in my career. So today we've
got great morale and we've got a lot to talk about.
We've got schedule release discussion. I know you guys have
already started to work in on that, a bunch of
NBA topics to get to throughout the course of the day. Bridget,
since I was not here to participate in the initial
(12:53):
schedule release discussion, how do you how do you take
in the schedule release.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
This is something you a ditsicipate.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I know you're from the Boston area, so I don't
know how closely you're paying attention to the Patriots beyond
all the other Patriots news it's been going on here.
I'm really not all the other Patriots news, just the
one Patriots news story that's been going on for the
past month at this point in time, do you enjoy
schedule release day?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I do, but I'm a hands on learner. I don't know.
You know how we all got evaluated in school, and
so I need to see a list of the games
like I cannot when I watch the videos, it doesn't
register for me, like the big games, you know, I
need to see it in front of me on a
paper and like go week by week. That's how I
like to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What the schedule release videos do?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, no, no. They go too fast. Most of the
videos twenty minutes whatever, five minutes is just like a movie.
And then at the end it's like, here's the schedule.
I just I like the entertainment. I get it. It's
for the fans, it's not for me. I do love
the schedule release like I was waiting for Thursday to come,
just because I want to know if I'm what I'm
(14:00):
doing on Thanksgiving? Am I gonna be? Where am I
going to be?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Is it? When's my bye week? Did I take my vacation?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
What games? You get a bye week?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
You're your national obviously, so you're covering games on a
weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Do you take a bye week?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Usually our bosses are pretty good. Or like, if you
have you know, big wedding season in the fall, usually
I will try to make every wed wedding that you know,
close friends or whatever and take a walk off.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm not someone who like misses a wedding for the job.
That's one thing about me.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Every wedding.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, Like life is short, man, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
But yeah, but so are a lot of these a
lot of these marriages bridget if I'm being.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A couple of them.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Crazy. I don't know your friends are. But divorce isn't
isn't a big thing in my circles?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, yeah, I would say, I know, I know quite
a few people actually really second marriage already.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah what at our age?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well, I mean some people are on their second kids,
some people are on their second marriages to.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I mean to each their own, but like, if I'm
going to your wedding and missing a game, you can't
get divorced. Like, I'm sorry, that's a pre wreck.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
That's what I'm saying. So I'm playing the odds at
this point. I'm literally and I've been honest with my
friends about this. I'm like, if I if it is
not something I know is going to be long term,
I'm probably.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You're telling your friends who are getting married, Hey, man,
don't think you're going to be in it for the
long run. I'll catch you on the second wedding. That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Take that way. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to them.
I'm not saying that. Well, that's a conversation.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I've had to have a bunch, but I've definitely had
that conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Why are your friends getting married to people they don't
see a future with?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That is a question for the therapists, not for me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wow, this is wild. Okay, Well, it's.
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
It's not my fault that I like Bridget Conon better
as a cost.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh wow, Mike, you was talking a couple.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
No, he only said, but now I'm tired of this one.
Send this one back to the I fl bring me
back Bridget.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
He wants he wants his cutoff and played the Bridget,
so this should be nicer to him because he's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Afraid of her. Like, that's like, let's just get right
to the core of it. He said that he was
going to plant that in so that he can make
sure that he gets played.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
And then the next time she's meeting, he'll be like,
I gave you praise, Mary played it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
And then all of a sudden, I no, no, don't
make this a rejoin for when persons off that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Wow, Wow that's your strand Wow, this is all that is.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I just feel like nobody is like, no name is
in your mouth more than mine.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I think the Tennessee Titans would probably disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Can I just enjoy my saturdays when I'm not here.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
No, clearly not, because even when you're not on the show,
she's Bridget conton. For what it's worth, I'm buck rising.
You're hanging out here with us on bucking fits with
FITZI on assignment doing some more IFL work, and Bridget
is always great to fill in when Fitzy is outless
she has, you know, half marathon obligations or other things
going on in her life. No, I mean anytime you're
not on the show, somebody brings you up in some
(18:37):
former fashion like you're you're now like in this with us.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I hate to tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's a trouble. Is that what they call it?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Me?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You and Fitty? But I've never seen fifty, so I
don't know. I guess I'm the side girl. He's the
main girl.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, I uh well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Fitz would Fitzy would probably categorize me as a side
chick on depending on the situation. Either way, we know
it's messy. How we like things around here as messy
as hell. For the Minnesota Timberwolves who got bounced the
other night by the San Antonio Spurs and on a
pretty quiet night from Victor Weman Yama. They didn't really
need much more than the nineteen points that he gave.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Them in those twenty seven minutes that he played.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It was in fact Stefan Castle with thirty two points
nine one nine to eliminate the Timberwolves. You got Anthony
Edwards walking down the bench to the Spurs bench with
eight minutes left in the game because by the fourth
Quarterbridge just well in hand this game and the Spurs
get to advance with this young core of players.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But the Anthony Edwards situation, I get it. You're out
of it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There's no coming back from that deficit. And the quote
after the game was I just tipped my hat to them.
They were just the better team Anthony Edwards on the
Minnesota or excuse me, on the San Antonio Spurs. But
do we have an issue with what Anthony did in
the middle of the game, not really the middle, but
at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know. Maybe if this was a younger league, yes,
But as a professional athlete, I feel like you either
understand it or you don't like it. It is very
clear that the Spurs are the better team and they
were winning this series. I think because when we got
hur ejected, what was that game five?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It was four?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Game four. I think this went to to six games,
but I think they would have won that game if
he had played. I don't know. I just I don't
have a problem with it. I think you know, he
knew they were gonna lose, like, congrats to you, like
my teams. It kind of felt like he was like, hey, guys,
can you pick me up in the off season, Like,
hey guys, can I be a part of the club,
Like you know, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Nice to you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Antonio. I don't care what Barkley says.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, Like he's just like, all right, you know,
think about me when you're when you're thinking about next season.
I don't know. I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't love it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I mean, and maybe maybe this is just me being crotchety,
is like, why.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Are we surprised that you're disagreeing? Let me just throw
that out there.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Okay, I don't think I'm overwhelmingly disagreeable on subjects with you,
but on this subject we disagree.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I want him locked in the entire time.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I don't care if he's if he understands, as we
all do, that the Spurs were the better team, and
that he was getting ready to head to Cabo or
San Juan or wherever he's going to spend the time
in the offseason. I want if I am a fan
of the timberwol with Timberwolves, I don't want him doing
anything but being with his teammates through the end of
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the game, like you can. There will be time to
congratulate the Spurs after the game. There is no sense
to me in getting up as the game is being played,
even though you are down by an insurmountable deficit and
just being conciliatory, like I hate that. I cannot in
my mind's I imagine a situation where I would see
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a Lebron James do that or Kobe Bryant do that,
like Bridget to me, that's unthinkable.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I get it, I get what you're saying. But he's
not them, you know, and I understand it. You want
everybody to be have the same mental like aggression or whatever,
like you want to be fighting till the end you're
down thirty three points eight minutes ago. To me, it's
like I'm tired, Like he's he's like very self aware,
He's like, I'm tired let's book the flight. Good job, guys.
Can I go into the locker room for the final eight?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
And that's that is an acceptable response in almost any
other profession, not this one, you know, not when people
are talking about you potentially being the next American face
of the NBA. If I mean Lebron is forty one,
We'll see what happens there. But it's really Anthony Edwards.
If you're not talking about Victor Wemayamo, We're not gonna
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make it yokish, right. Jokic is very uninterested in doing
anything but getting through a basketball season, potentially winning a championship,
and going and enjoying the what is it, the horses
and the offseason he has horses?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What about Shay? You don't want Shay to be the face?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's not that I don't want him to.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I don't particularly enjoy his style of basketball, even as
I understand that he's a very smart player and a
very effective player.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But again, Shay is Canadian. And I don't mean to
make this.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Like a like an isolationism type of situation, but Anthony
Edwards is the American basketball face of the NBA, okay,
And so I want to see that level of mental aggression.
I want to see him fight until the end, scrap
claw the way that previous people who would carry the
mantle for professional basketball before him would do. I just
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I think that that is such It's going to be
a moment that we hyperfixate on, obviously as we're talking
about it here on national broadcast today. But for me,
that is just something that's going to stick with me
the next time I think about him, because it's going
to make me think less of him as a competitor.
Maybe that's not fair of me, but I just I
don't want to see that, especially if I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
A fan of him.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What do you want him to do?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I want him to sit on the bench and stew.
I want him to be pissed.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I don't want him to congratulate the Spurs on being
the better team until he absolutely has to.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I'd rather shake their hands on the way out the court.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I get that if they're down ten, they're down thirty
three points. What do you want him to do go
out there and risk an injury fighting back?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I would rather I don't I get what you're saying
about injury, but I'd rather see the fight.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I'm sorry, I just would.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't Why does he Why does the fight need
to come from him? Where was the rest of his teammates?
Why couldn't anybody else been fighting.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's the only one I saw congratulating people with eight
minutes left of the He's the.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Only one who did anything in this series.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I don't disagree with that either. I mean, it's not
his fault that he's the best player on the team
by a mile, and that he's had to do a
lot to carry them to this point.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
This has been one of them.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He's ready to.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Get out of there, then I would like that even
less if I was a fan. That doesn't justify it
to me. It makes sense for him, but I don't
care about that. If I'm watching that game.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What do you got with the Timberwolves?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What do I got with the Timberwolves? Yeah, I've got
no affiliation with the Timberwolves. I'm just saying if I
was a fan of that club and I saw one
of the players who still currently on my team behaving
that way, I would think less of him.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No, I would be like, you know what, let's team up.
I totally respect that he is done. Let's make some changes.
If my star player isn't happy he's quitting with eight
minutes ago. That means we need to make some changes.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Oh and I don't think. I'm not saying he's quitting
like I want to make I don't want to. I
want to make sure that I'm clear on that. I
don't think that he quit I just did not like
the optics of him while the game is still being played,
congratulating the opponent when he has the opportunity to do that.
At the end, stay in the game, stay focused, understanding
that you are.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He doesn't have the opportunity. And yet he's got to
get off the court and pack his bag. He's got
to get onto vacation. He's got to make that midnight flight.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well. I hope he enjoys it because it's going to
be a long one for.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Him and the Spurs advance and the meantime, we have
Martin to catch up, catch us up on.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The world of sports.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In Major League Baseball, the Nationals opening it up eleven
and three over the Orioles. That'll be the top of
the eighth inning when play resumes, top of the ninth inning.
Pirates haven't been able to score all day, with a
six to zero lead bottom of the ninth inning, Marlins
from behind a two to one lead over the Rays
and Red's Guardians scoreless in a bottom of the second
Earlier today we saw Dalton varshow but they go ahead
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single in the top of the tenth inning to beat
the Tigers to one.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The Tigers have walked off the first game of that series.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Cardinals Alec Burrelson at a two hit night as a
four to two win over the Royals, and the Rockies
also got a win flourid to two over the Diamondbacks
and Major League.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
In soccer he had Manchester City defeat Chelsea and the
FA Cup won nothing and that's played in Wembley Stadium.
Texas that quarterback Brendan Soresby trying to get on the
field this year.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
He was a big transfer guy for them.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
He requested expedited resolution as his eligibility reinstated immediately challenged.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Legal challenge will be eminent.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
He is eligibility fell into question after an apparent gambling
edition surface which forced him to prompted him I should
say to seek patient treatment.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
About two weeks ago report surface up, soords who was
going to go ahead and try to move forward with
his football career. Get back to Texas Tech Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I mean in the NHL Second Round Game two game,
second Round Game six, Montreal has a three to two
lead on Buffalo. The Canadians yet to lose a two
in a row this postseason, but they are one and
one and series clinching opportunities at the PGA Championship. Smally
in the league to six under. You had a gang
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of guys tied at four under right now for second Round.
Ram among them, Rory McElroy was three under. He kind
of made a big move this afternoon. Bridget and Buck
back to you.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
She's Bridget Condon. I'm Buck Rising.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Hanging out here with you on this Fox Sports Saturday.
Fits the on assignment with the IFL, keeping you up
to date on all things basketball.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The NBA playoffs.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
We got a little got a little brief pause in
the playoffs as we get ready to talk about the
teams that have been able to advance, and of course
the thunder are one of the teams that will advance.
Sweeping the Lakers Ridge. I don't see a world in
which we're not talking about Oklahoma City again, to your
point about Shay Gilles, Alexander and the dominance of he
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and his team collectively. You want to talk about a
team that's helping in that effort. Okay, see is about
as complete, if not the most complete team in professional
basketball right now. I just I think it's a foregone
conclusion that they're going to win the championship again, and
I hate that because they beat my Pacers last year.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I think the only team that has a chance is
this are the Spurs, and I think that's what makes
this round. It kind of feels similarly similarly to in
the NFL, the NFC Championship between the Seahawks and Rams.
That was a super Bowl, right, Yeah. It feels like
this is about to be the championship between the Thunder
and the Spurs. And the Spurs I believe beat the
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Thunder throughout the regular season last played in February. Obviously
different teams, but this this is to me going to
be a really interesting series and if anybody can knock
off the Thunder, it's going to be the Spurs.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Web Yama, how how he is game planned for essentially,
because you're correct, they do see each other a great
uh a great deal during the regular season, and the
Spurs did have their number in a number of different
moments right so far this season. Yeah, they were very
effective throughout the course of the regular season, and I
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know people would I know certain people might discount that
and say, well, that's the regular season. Sure, the postseason
is where things ramp up. I think there's something to that, though.
I think it's a It's a very interesting sample size
in can wembin Yama be the kind of player that
supersedes this excellent OKAC defense, because that's I'm not going
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to say that's completely their bread and butter, but they
are so well rounded as a basketball team. People they
don't it's sexy to talk about, right, especially in postseason play.
They want to people want to see three pointers, they
want to see Doug, they want to see great offensive performances.
They want to see wins by thirty points. But the
defense that OKAC plays is suffocating. And how they go
about trying to change what their plan was for wembin
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Yama during the regular season versus how they'll approach him
in the postseason, I can't wait to find out.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
It's interesting to me and I wanted to get your
take on this because this happens often in professional sports,
especially during the playoffs, the NBA playoffs, where a team
is coming off a sweep where the other team is
coming off Okay, yeah, the Spurs only had to play
six games, not seven. But now you have a team
who is tired played a lot of games versus an
OKAC team who's only played eight games in the playoffs.
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Do you what's your take on that? Do you think
that it matters? Do you get worried about a team
who has had rust off and hasn't had to play
difficult series?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, yeah, I do, depending on the depending on the team. Right,
it can't be done in a vacuum. And essentially we're
going to talk about this with the Knicks next. But
the thing that would give me confidence not to spoil
our discussion for the next segment, but the thing that
would give me confidence about OKC is that they literally
just did this right. They are now a battle tested
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roster despite their young age. So in the way that
they have approached their last performance and understanding that they
were dominant all almost the whole way through through the
Western Conference last year and then into the postseason winning
the NBA Finals, I feel if I was going to
give them an advantage over a team like the Knicks,
who will talk about here in just a second. I
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would say they have literally just been there, and so
they understand how to manage those expectations, how to take
appropriate care of their bodies and rest and recovery, making
sure that they're not rusty on a number of different fronts.
Perhaps it didn't it didn't seem like they showed any
of that last year. I'm not really that worried about them,
but if you had to cite one way for them
to at least approach it, it would it would be
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to say, yeah, they literally just did this.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
They're tested here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah. I think it's going to be interesting again. I
think this is the series to watch. I think Wemby
has kind of taken off quicker than maybe a lot
of people anticipated as one of the major stars in
the NBA, and this is going to be a defining
moment for his career, especially his young career. If he
can go in and knock off okay, see the defending champs,
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what does that do for his stardom. I mean, I
was in this chair a year ago talking about the
thunder in the NBA playoffs and SGA was not a
household name yet Yeah maybe to sports fans or like
fans of the Thunder, but people like still are trying
to figure out how to say his name. You know,
like he is not last year, He was not that
guy that he is this year. And Wemby already has
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more of an advantage I would say, at this point
in his career than maybe SGA did last year. You
know what I'm saying, Like, he's already further along. So
if he finds a way to knock off the Thunder,
what does this do for his career? And like where
he's projected in terms of fandom and stardom.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Yeah, I just think it's that that I don't want
to call it a crowning moment. He would have to
win the title right for the I think whoever moment,
But I understand what you're saying, whoever.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Wins this is winning the title.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In my opinion, agreed, I would the wholehearted that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, if you beat the Thunder and then lose to
the next, come on like that that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well we will talk about the next.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
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the next having a week off an advantage or a disadvantage?
We'll talk about it next. You're listening to Fox Sports
Radio Radio the Seattle Seahawks. I said we were going
to talk about the next. We'll get to the next
a little later in the show. But that promo from
Dan pat has inspired me.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Bridget. She's Bridget Condon.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here with you on Buck
and Fitz FITZI will be back maybe next week.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I think he is not doing IFL games next week.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
But we always enjoy Bridget being here, especially when it's
time to talk some football. And we had the schedule release,
of course, a couple of days ago. The Seahawks will
begin defense Bridget of their Super Bowl title against the
team they beat and beat soundly to win it. The
New England Patriots are going to get the Seahawks again
to end last year's season and be defeated wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
In the Super Bowl. I would not favor them again.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Against the Seahawks, understanding that both teams have undergone significant
James change. I don't know if anybody was asking for
this particular rematch, given what a dud the super Bowl
itself was, but I'd be curious to know what your
thoughts are, and certainly how Boston's feeling about this.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'm not excited about this. And let me tell you something.
Playing in Seattle, a home opener night game that's going
to be a harder environment than the Super Bowl was. Yes,
and all the attention that has been around the Patriots organization.
I mean, in one regard, okay, you get it out
of the way, you know, night one, and then you
(35:14):
can be quiet for the weekend. Sure, But in the
other regard, you play. Whatever he says on Wednesday night
is going to be played Thursday, Sunday, Monday, you know,
because it's the first game that that is going to
be talked about on all the pregame shows. You know,
whatever happened, and if this is if the Patriots do
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not win, which again, Seattle is an extremely challenging place
to play. You saw what Matthew Stafford and the Rams
weren't able to do, which is win in Seattle during
the NFC Title Game. If they do not win, how
many of the conversations Thursday, Sunday, Monday are going to be? Well,
is Mike Rabele you know, is he is his mind elsewhere?
(35:57):
Is he able to still rally his team the way
he did? You know the season before? Are the Patriots?
Is this the beginning of the end? Which you know
the beginning? Whether he did that just started again? But
come on, have you been in Boston? Like overreaction is huge.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
By way, I don't think that's overreaction given kind of
the situation.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
But I'm just saying it is going to be a
very challenging environment and post game environment and for the
rest of the week in environment and frankly until the
Patriots start winning, it is going to be challenging. And
who knows what comes out between now and then hopefully
nothing else. I don't think any of us we were
talking about fatigue overload before, like I think we are
all just fatigued and ready to move forward. But regardless
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of that happening, had that whole situation not been something
that we experienced this offseason, I don't think people would
have cared to see this. I think, you know, a
lot of people were speculating the teams that we're going
to go there for the opening night, and I know
the Chargers and the Bears were those two teams that
people predicted along with the Patriots. I would have rather
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either of those games over this one, you know, Kate
Williams and the Bears or Justin Herbert now with Mike McDaniel.
That is primetime television to me show me that I.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And I don't want to, you know, I don't want
to assume or speculate too heavily on why the Patriots
might have been selected here because I think that there
are plenty of people in the league that would push
back on this immediately.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
But I do think that there is some sense that.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Putting the Patriots and Vrabel out there in front of
everybody right out of the gate might lead to a
little extra intrigue given the entire situation that we've talked
about with Mike Rabel and the last month of Mike
Frabel coverage. But that is sure speculation, that is not
obviously any kind of reporting or anything that I've heard
(37:47):
anywhere credibly. But I would I would be more willing
to hear the idea that they're like, oh, maybe a
little extra television boost in another chapter or the first
football chapter of what has been again a thoroughly exhausting
story and something that hasn't been a football story or
was made into a football story just by proximity to
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the draft, for God's sakes. So with the Patriots, I
just I'm they're a science experiment this year to me,
because I thought that if you had to pick a
regression candidate coming into the year, even before all this
rival crap, I probably would have said in New England
the way that I said Washington heading into last year,
because just on they were so healthy. Washington was, and
then Jade Daniels obviously had as many struggles as he did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
New England the same.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
They were huge, huge beneficiaries of not just their schedule
but injury luck.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Absolutely, And I think the bigger thing is you don't
necessarily and like I would love to know when the
schedule actually gets made. I understand that Robert sorry, Roger
Goodell finalized it the night before, but yeah, the night
when was Pat McAfee. It was like Wednesday, right when
he signed off on it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Too, zero.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah. I think it was a couple of days. Yeah, anyways,
and Monday either way.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Either way, I understand, But when does this did the
they schedule Patriots Seahawks before all of this happened, because
I will say Boston is a big TV market where
if you're looking at the Chargers, that's just people don't
have the same interest as they have in the Chargers
that they do in the Patriots. But I will just
go back and say the Bears have so much interest.
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It's the third biggest TV market in the United States,
so you could have put that there. I agree with
you though in terms of regression, just because the Patriots
schedule is going to be more challenging, and you know,
like we saw with Jayden Daniels making it to the
NFC title Game, you have to have everything right, you
have to have everybody healthy. I will say the one
thing is the Patriots play in an easy division. I mean,
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the Bills are going to be the real challenge, but
the Dolphins and the Jets those are four wins right there.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
I mean the AFC East is disgusting to this coming season,
and the Patriots are one of several teams there's a
pack of them that are sitting there with very early
Super Bowl odds courtesy of DraftKings at sixteen to one.
It's them, the Eagles, the Chargers, and the Green Bay
Packers all considered sixteen to one odds to win the
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Super Bowl next year. The Rams, ironically enough, maybe not ironically,
are favorites, followed by the Ravens and Seahawks tied there
for the second best odds at winning the title. Seahawks, obviously,
people very high on them, and they do return a
fair amount, even though they lost some critical pieces Kenneth
Walker more specifically going to the Kansas City Chiefs. It's
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going to be a very very interesting schedule analysis. We'll
continue the conversation get back to the New York Knicks
and the NBA playoffs right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Bridge at Condon and Buck Rising.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
The New York Knicks an underdog story, I don't think so.
They were in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Obviously
they swept the seventy six ers, who had really nothing
for him other than that fleeting.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Moment in Game two.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
And now they've had a bunch of rest as they
get ready to advance again to the Eastern Conference Finals.
She's Bridget Connon, filling in for Jason Fitz. I'm Buck Rising.
We got the rest of the crew making it happen
in la and happy to be with you for this
final hour of the show. Bridget, we were just talking
about the Thunder in the first hour and the idea
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of rest versus rust.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I stated my case.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
For why I'm not worried about the Thunder other than
the fact that they are overwhelmingly talented and will in
all likelihood win the championship again. But if we pose
the same question about these Knicks, who if they win
a Game one in the first round of the playoffs,
New York is drunken, naked in the streets, celebrating it
like it's a championship. Is this Knicks team prepared to
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fight off that rust versus the rest?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yes, because of who their opponent will be. I think
it is a very specific, case by case situation when
rust or rest comes into play. I think in this case,
the Knicks have all the momentum going their way right now,
and I think the Calves and Pistons very back and forth.
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I mean, we can get into that later on why.
I don't believe either of those teams will live up
to what the Knicks and Jalen Brunson have been able
to do during these playoffs. I think the extra rest,
the extra prep time, the fresh legs, not having the
stress of a game seven, that is all going to
play in the knicks favor. They're very much a rhythm team, right.
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They play with emotion edge, They have that crowd New
York energy. Even when they were in Philly, it felt
like a home game for the Knicks, right because.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
You had Embiid telling Philly fans don't sell your tickets.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
They did anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
You know, Embiid is a whole other topic we can
get into. Anyways.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I just think that dismissiveness in your voice.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I told you I was feeling spicy today. I don't
know what it is. I've been in a bad mood
all week. Oh God. Anyways, I think I think that
this is good for the Knicks. I don't see them
coming out flat. It's just not a New York Knicks thing.
I mean, the Knicks have been wanting to be in
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this position for so long. They aren't going to blow it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
That's a ton of pressure, though.
Speaker 5 (43:27):
I mean, for all the reasons that you just laid out,
that is a ton of pressure. And I might say,
and it's probably quantifiable in numbers that I don't have
in front of me right now, that Jalen Brunson is
as clutch a player as we have in pro basketball
right now.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I'm a huge, huge fan.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Finishes the job, right, He's he's kind of what I'm
you know, And I understand that he's undersized, and I
think that I think that kind of plays into the
New York war around him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Right, tips on my shoulder, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
All this stuff, you know, And and that's fine, It's
it is a real thing. He's an incredibly effective player
despite some of the physical limitations that you might assign
to him.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
But that is a tremendous amount of pressure.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
And I we don't know obviously who they will face
ship between the calves they're going to for the Pistons,
it feels that way, But I don't know, bridget Man,
the calves.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Have been so damn pesky.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Iss going to show up or not? That's the question.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Well, I think historically you would say, yeah, I would
probably fade James Harden in a game seven or fade
James Harden's team in a Game seven, because even in
this series against the Pistons, which again has been one
of the more competitive series, it's between the Wolves and
the Spurs, because the second round was just a bust
for the NBA as far as I'm concerned, like you
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may you may still get fireworks in the conference finals
and in the NBA Finals. God knows, the league office
would love to see New York, oh hell in the
NBA Finals. But I just I have been I have
been in pressed with the fight that the Calves have
shown they are the lesser team years.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Have you watched the game? Was the last name?
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Not that just through the series, though not specifically the
most recent game.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Hmm, I'm going to disagree with you. I think you're
welcome to me.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
I just know you have been all that.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
God, yeah, I won't, I won't say anything. Further, I
think you don't lose by what do they lose by
thirty in a game where you could have ended the series.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
The thing with the Pistons, Kay Cunningham is just so
overwhelmingly great, like this feels like his moment to be
able to take take this series, to advance to kind
of set him set himself apart. I know he's been
obviously building something. They've been building something in Detroit. Piston's
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fans very excited about it. But Kay Cunningham really has
the opportunity to do something to put himself on a
different plane. It feels a little bit, maybe not quite
to this extent, but we talked about SGA's ascension.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Yeah, I was thinking when you were saying last.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
Year's postseason, I think he could also describe a similar path, right,
similar parallels to what Kad Cunningham is experiencing.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
With the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah. I think the Pistons what they were supposed to
be a year away right this year, like people thought,
you know, they had more time, and I think they've
out played and out competed the expectations of the outside world.
At least I don't know what people in Detroit are saying.
Kid Cunningham has been really funny, sorry not funny, really
fun really fun to watch, and Detroit isn't scared. I
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think for them to go to Cleveland and it was
twenty one points that they won by was really impressive.
And that's why I think in Detroit for Game seven,
they have the advantage absolutely, and James Harden just doesn't
show up in big moments. I don't understand whether he
wants to. Here's the thing, if I'm him, and if
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I'm one of these veteran guys, if I'm Lebron, if
I've been a guy around the league, either we're going
to lose in the first round or we're playing in
the finals. What is with this like middle middle rounds?
To me, it's like you already made it to the
second round. Work your butt off to get to the finals.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Yeah, And and to your point, the Pistons just have
this don't quit mentality to them, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
I don't want to say that.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
I like, in my head, I have this image of
James Harden quitter because that's not that's not that's the
image I have. But quitter, quitter is strong, right, Like he's.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Not quitter maybe just like, uh, what's the word? When
you don't show up? Like just like get cold in the.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
He fades in in chokes, critical moments, chokes jokes I
think is better than quits. Yes, because I you know,
I have such a hard time maybe maybe you feel differently.
I have a really hard time with criticizing effort of
pro athletes, Uh not fully understanding.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
You know, what are they going through physically? What are
they going through mentally?
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Like I think I do think that there's and maybe
that's you know, a little too granola for some people
when you get into sports talk conversation. But I think
that some of that is fair With harden Man. There's
just such a track record of this guy vanishing in
critical moments where any of his teams could.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Really use him.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
And then he has a game like what was game
was a Game two where he kind of screwed around
for the vast majority of that game that all of
a sudden he's got nineteen points in the fourth order
and he's helping pull it off. It's insane to me.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
I would love to go inside his brain. What is it?
What is what drives him? And like why do we
see this?
Speaker 3 (48:39):
It's just so strip clubs.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Okay, all right, okay, all right, end of the sentence.
All right, I don't have anything to say that.
Speaker 5 (48:50):
So the question becomes, can the Pistons pull this off?
I feel like we're in agreement.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, I'm sorry Cavs. I'm sorry, James harden
Maybe your year is next year with Lebron.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
You know, for me, the Knicks in particular og Ananobi
and not just because he played for Indiana and I
have great bias and he's probably been one of the
better pro players from Indiana. Him dealing with that hamstring
injury in the series against the seventy six Ers, and
he's been quoted as saying bridge that he doesn't feel
as bad as the past when it happened, but just
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the fact that it is a player who has had
recurring hamstring injuries. He gets hurt late in that victory
over the seventy six ers. I believe that was game
two before they would go on to sweep the seventy
six ers, and they had ruled him questionable in both
games before ultimately ruling him out.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
He practiced today as.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
A matter of fact, based on the latest reporting from
the Knicks, and I think he's just such a critical
component to whomever they end up playing almost matchup regardless.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
They need him on both ends of the court.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
And I think that's where you see ress versus rust
come in Knicks favor in a time like this to
get some of those guys healthy. And whether he plays
or not in this next series, having the what he
missed two games and now having you know, the essentially
week off to just rest. I'm sure's you couldn't do
that if he was game seven, you know. So I
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think it's gonna work out in their favor. And again,
I just think the moment is New York right now,
and it's gonna be tough for Detroit to go in
there and take two games in New York. And we're
talking like they already beat the Calves because they did.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
It would be a significant suprise.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
If the Calves beat the Pistons, New York is sweeping them.
Speaker 5 (50:42):
You think that the Knicks would sweep the Eastern Conference
finals against the Calves.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Put it on the record.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
I mean, it's all on the record. Rejoin is this recorded?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
It does tend to. It does tend to, you know,
end up in a number of different places.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Should be a little more it comes out of my mouth.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
No, that's not how this medium works whatsoever. In fact,
you should be quite the opposite.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Ian. Are you a Knicks fan? No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (51:10):
I'm a Warriors fan.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Actually weird jet, but you're a Jets Yeah, you had
a jet sleccher on.
Speaker 8 (51:17):
I always feel like such a scumbag when I have
to explain this, but it makes sense. Like I was
born in New York and my family moved to the
Bay Area, California when I was ten, and I was
really always into football, so big Jets fan growing up,
and I was never into basketball as a kid, And
then we moved and I started getting into basketball back
when Montellis was on the Warriors, and then they just
happened to start getting really really good just a few
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years later, So it worked out well for me. I
deserve I deserve that. I deserve that Warriors dynasty. With
being a Jets fan.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
You know what, I might be willing to grant him
that bridget because as hell, Like, if you were.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
A Giants and a Warriors fan, I'd be like, no, yeah,
but okay, I just feel like this is so weird
because I'm from Boston and I don't even know if
I can claim that anymore because I haven't lived there
like fully since I don't know, twenty fifteen. But I
just there's something about the Knicks that I'm like, I
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want to be a part of this. Isn't that weird
being from Boston. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
Okay, being from Boston for sure, because you win all
the time. Like you you are the Bruins, the Patriots,
the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
You win literally all the time.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
We're having a rough go right now.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Okay, oh please get out of here. We're having a
rough go. You are unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
I think that if you are any other any other market,
I think it's acceptable to say, yeah, it'd be fun
to be out in the streets in New York or
be at the garden or all these different things right
to be able to take part in the celebration, just
specifically from Boston.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Okay, let me just be clear. With them winning, I
remember being a Red Sox fan in two thousand and four.
There is nothing better than being a fan of a
losing team who starts to win. When you're a fan
of a winning team, sure it's nice, but it's just
expected and you feel happy all the time. When you
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come up from losing, there's no greater feeling and the
joy in the excitement and the camaraderie you have and
we're finally winning. That feeling, I would argue to say,
is better than being a fan of a team that
never loses.
Speaker 5 (53:26):
Oh no, we have had this conversation not you and I,
but Fitzy and me in previous iterations of the show.
Because for people who don't know I went to Indiana,
I never went to a football game in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
Okay, nobody did.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
I didn't know you went to Indiana.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yes, I'm an alumni I and you know none of us.
Speaker 8 (53:44):
No, nobody goes, huh, you're an alumnus singular.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
So they clearly didn't have a good journalism pro Yes.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
You're a Jets Warriors fan and I wasn't in the
journalism was cool for what it's worth. Us is all
a very happy accident, but it ended up this way.
But I had never been to an Indiana football game.
In four years of college. I had never been to
an Indiana football game, certainly after I graduated college.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
And all of a sudden, they're the best team in
the sport. And I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
It was a two year ascension, right, didn't completely happen overnight.
But like in a scale of sports stories, you don't
find a bigger turnaround. Bridget They were the most losing
college football program in history until they went undefeated this
year and then schlept that on down to Northwestern. Who
gets to hold that proud mantle after Indiana has been
just god forsaken For my entire life. The only two
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IU football games I'd ever been to were the semi
final in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, and then I
went to the National Championship in Miami. I was like,
this is sick. Why have we not.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Those Those are moments that you're going to remember for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
If you were I'll never get that feeling back. That's
why I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
If you're a fan, let me just say it, because
I grew up a Patriots fan. By like the third
Super Bowl, I was like, all right, you know, like
you know, yeah, you're happy, but you're just like, all right,
you know, I'm gonna go to bed in the fourth quarter.
Tom's got this. I'm not saying I ever did that,
but you know it's if someone did that, you'd be like, okay,
all right.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
I think it's completely fair because like there is one
when you win at that rate, like that's a very
specific things.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's I also think it is so hard to win
the Super Bowl for any other sport, which is another
debate we could get into.
Speaker 5 (55:27):
Agrede, which is why it's insane that they made it
as routine as they did. But to your point, like
the Knicks, the Knicks are not Indiana Football, right, The
Knicks have had success, They're not the kind of success
that you think talking about the Celtics of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
They're not the Cleveland Calves either. They are the New
York Do you know how big the New York market is? Yes,
it's massive, and it would be like if the Cowboys
made it to the NFC Title Game or the Super Bowl.
I would say, I think even bigger. I think, honestly
even bigger. If the New York make it to the
NBA Finals, it would be bigger than if the Cowboys
made it to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Well, and then now I almost feel I almost feel
halfheartedly asking our Jets and Warriors fan resident Jets and
Warriors fan ian about this, But like the next feel
like the one team that the entirety of New York
rallies around, right, Like nobody's nobody's really a Nets fan,
are they?
Speaker 2 (56:23):
I hate to break it to you, but he just
ran ran out. But I would say.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yes, but just generally right, like you've got the Jets
and the Giants. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (56:31):
I don't know what the split is, but I would
imagine it's moored pretty close to even. Yeah, Yankees are
going to have more than Mets, but still the Mets
have a strong contingent.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
Like the New York Knicks are New York entirely.
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Yeah, I mean the Brooklyn Nets. It's like most people
don't even know Brooklyn's in New York.
Speaker 5 (56:47):
No, I still think about them as the New Jersey Nets.
I know that's been one hundred years ago, but.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Still, Oh, that's like people who say Oklahoma or Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 5 (56:57):
Listen, every once in a while, you'll still catch me
saying San Diego Chargers.
Speaker 8 (57:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (57:01):
I know, it's just the worst. I know, but at
some point.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
They should move back to San Diego. Though that's a
whole nother conversation.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
Well, we can continue to have conversations. Speaking of the NFL.
Let's get into a little NFL discussion. Five teams, one
of them being the Jets do not have a single
primetime game this year. We'll talk about that on the
NFL's schedule release. She's Bridget Continent, I'm Buck Rising, It's
Fox Sports Radio, Blessed, I love trying to cash but
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the Tennessee Titans every time they score a touchdown, which
is not very often, they played them. What's worse, hemorrhoids,
are not having a primetime game in twenty twenty six.
The NFL is treating five teams like they've got a
case of the hemorrhoids. The Jets, the Raiders, the Dolphins,
the Titans here in Tennessee where I am, and the
Arizona Cardinals all without a primetime game when the NFL
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schedule was released this ass Thursday.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
She's Bridget Cotton.
Speaker 5 (58:02):
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here with you on Fox
Sports Radio, Fitsie on assignment with the IFL doing some
games with Nate Tice today.
Speaker 3 (58:11):
So were you surprised that so many of.
Speaker 5 (58:14):
These teams, Bridget, were left out of primetime here in Tennessee?
I did not expect the Titans to ever primetime game
since they changed the format to where you are no
longer mandated to appear on Thursday Night Football because Amazon
is paying i don't know, like eighty million dollars a
game and they don't want to pay for a Titans
Jags game in Week three.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
So since they changed the rules on that.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
I was like, I don't think anybody's gonna want to
put them on TV here in Tennessee. I am stunned
to see the Jets and the Dolphins, even though they're
probably going to be worst football teams.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
In twenty twenty six, not be on primetime television once.
Speaker 2 (58:49):
So we're getting a lot of mixed signals from what
they want in primetime. Yes, I need somebody to tell
me directly, what do the Cowboys have over the NFL.
The Cowboys have six primetime games. The only team in
the league with more primetime games this season are the
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Los Angeles Rams with seven. The Cowboys have six games,
along with the Packers, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Seahawks. Okay,
this is my issue. I understand that the Cowboys are
America's team. They are one of the biggest I'll argue
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to say the biggest in terms of marketing, right in
terms of fandom, I would argue to say that New
York is a bigger media market. Even we can't even
throw in the Raiders along with the Dolphins in that
conversation of teams who get a big viewing if it
was played national. So you can't tell me that these
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primetime games are earned, not given. But then you give
the Cowboys who have not been to an NFC Championship
game since nineteen ninety five. Nineteen ninety five, Okay, were
you even born then? Yes, we're you, Yes, but I
was too.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
We're the same age.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Okay, all right, but seriously we were two years old.
That's almost three decades. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
I know I've never I've never really bought into the
America's team thing because they've never been I mean, they
had a couple of moments obviously with Romo and Dak
that we've evolved and here's my yeah, whatever not in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Here's my thing. If you want somebody to become a
fan of something, you put it in primetime. There are
I mean the Raiders alone have great stories with Fernando,
with Kirk. I think just the you know, Max Crosby
is coming back and they have a new coach and
they have Tom Brady of it all. I think that
would definitely get a lot of attention. Why don't the
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Raiders have a primetime game? Why don't the Jets? I
understand the Jets have been terrible, but people are still
going to watch, especially if it's an earlier game where
I don't know things are positive. And then the Dolphins, Yeah,
I get it. They don't have anybody, they have a
new coach, they have a new system, they have all
these new things. But there are still tons of Dolphin fans. Yes,
So the Titans and the Cardinals, I completely understand, and
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I apologize to those teams that I'm not here defending
them right now. Maybe another year I will.
Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
You should not.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I just don't understand how you're going to say it
is earned, not given. But we're going to give six
games to the Cowboys. Now, Look, let me be very clear.
I am not saying that the Cowboys should not be
in primetime. They absolutely should be in primetime. But six
times when.
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
An outsize number. Yeah, when the.
Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Most a team is in primetime is seven, well, and.
Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
That's a historically hot right.
Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
I think it ties a historic high as far as
how times a single team will appear in primetime in
a single season. I want to continue this conversation if
we could, but first we'll let Martin catch us up
on what's happening in the world.
Speaker 4 (01:01:56):
Alex Morley first right now, and at PGA Tours plays
complete a round three. He's sixth sunder. Aaron Raye was
first for most of the day. He dropped the four
under and ty for second place. John Rahm among with
him at four under. Roy McElroy's Anders, Schofflin Patrick Greed
at three under, Justin Rose sitting at two under. Major
League Baseball top of the fifth inning, the Guardians lead
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the Reds two to nothing. Going to the bottom of
the second inning, the White Sox with a three to
nothing lead over the Cubs. Bottom of the second, Brewers
and Twins both scoreless. Astros have a two to nothing
lead over Texas in the top of the second. Also
top of the second, the Braves with a one to
nothing lead over the Red Sox. Yankees met scoreless, same
for the parent Padres and Mariners. That one's on Fox,
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Blue Jays and ten innings beat the Tigers two to one,
Cardinals with a four to two win over the Royals
Diamondbacks I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
Rockies beat the Diamondbacks four to two.
Speaker 4 (01:02:49):
Nationals smacked the Orioles thirteen to three, Christopher Sanchez at
thirteen strikeouts as Phillies beat the Pirates six to nothing,
and in ten innings, the Marlins doubled up the He's
ten to five. Elsewhere, Brendan Soordsby, Texas Tech Transfer Portal
quarterback is trying to get back eligible. His lawyers have
requested from the NCAA an expedited resolution to his attempt.
Speaker 3 (01:03:12):
They said a legal challenge is quote emminent.
Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Swordsby status fell into uncertainty over an apparent gambling addiction
that prompted him to seek impatient treatment. Two weeks ago,
reports surface that Swordsby had hired an attorney to assists
with his efforts to get back.
Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Onto the football field.
Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
In soccer, Manchester City defeated Chelsea in the FA Cup Final,
won nothing at Wembley Stadium and NHL's Eastern Conference Round
two Game six about half an hour until the puck
drops there in Montreal with a three to two lead
on Buffalo. The Canadians have yet to lose two in
a row this postseason, but there are one to one
in series clinching games. Bridget and Buck back to you.
Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
She is Bridge of Condon. I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here.
We're with you on this Fox Sports Saturday. Just kind
of catching up on the NFL schedule, some of the
quirks about it and one such quirk, as we have
been talking about, is that five teams will not appear
in primetime again, the Jets, Raiders, Dolphins, Titans, and Cardinals.
It is for what it's worth, bridget here in Tennessee,
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because you are correct that the Cardinals of the Titans,
I mean Tennessee last year and they were god forsaken.
They have been for some time, but they could not
even get on television in Memphis and in Knoxville on
the opposite entire state because nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
About the Titans in Memphis and in Knoxville.
Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
So Memphis has always been more of a cowboys market,
and East Tennessee could not give a single solitary damn
about the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
That is college football country through and through, so in.
Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
The entirety of the state, Tennessee's the Titans really just
have Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
That's the list.
Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
But it's the second straight season and this has only
happened one other time in the franchise's history. It's a
second straight season they have not been on primetime at all.
Cam Ward will not see a national television game as
a number one overall pick at quarterback unless and there's
always the possibility that one of these teams could get
flexed in, and there are some opportunities.
Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
It's a weird division in the AFC.
Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
South, but in a world where I think covering them
every day that the Titans are more likely to finish
again in fourth place than they are to win the division.
Cam Ward is going to be a third year player
before they even consider putting him on national television. We're
talking about Mendoza, this year's number one pick, cam Ward's
last year's number one pick. We understand that the Jets
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are dealing with a situation where Gino is returned, Miami's
got Maleak, and Arizona's doing whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I get very confused, but.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Still just hearing the Jets in this conversation the New.
Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
York Jets insane.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
You're telling me you're not putting the New York to
if you don't want to put the Jets versus the Titans,
or the Jets versus the Raiders or whatever. Sure, but
you're telling me you can't put the Jets versus I
don't know any other team that they put the Bills.
You can't do the Bills Jets in prime time.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
The the Jets, Like if we were looking at this
obviously on Thursday on the local show in the lead up, like, okay,
where could the Titans if they were going to get
a primetime game where.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Let's move on from the Titans. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
No, But it's relating to the Jets because Sala obviously
I listen and you'll never hear more agreement from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Not to be a Titans hater. I'm just saying, like
that argument I can understand, but with the Jets, I can't.
My brain can't comprehend it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
Like the Jet they had a they had a layup
opportunity because Week one is what it's Titans, Jets, it's
Sala and Aaron Glenn. Sala is now the coach of
the Titans, so there was the opportunity made.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
But one week one games. I get what you're saying,
but if you take the Titans out of it, I
mean Jets, Bears, Jets Raiders, I mean again, jetsailing.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
It's New York, your chargers charge.
Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
You not have to get humiliated onational television. Though, if
I'm the Jets, like h it's great, to watch your
team on national television.
Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
But where's the hope being there's.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Not, there's nothing. They've squashed it all out of me
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
What's the hope you look at this Patriots fan trolling you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
I mean, come on, there's always a chance.
Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
No, no, no, there's not. Not if you're the Jets of
the Dolphins, of the Titans.
Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
What about Jets Packers week too?
Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (01:07:22):
I actually I agree that it is kind of crazy
that they don't have one. All I'm saying is, as
a fan, I'm good with sitting a year out, just
with how the amount of embarrassments that.
Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
People are still going to know that you suck whether
you play it, absolutely, it just won't be in front
of all of our No.
Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
But he's right, I mean, it's it has been so visceral, right,
it's Aaron Rodgers four snaps in after the American flag
thing like it has been.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
You're taking it here as a recovery.
Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Yeah, not just not just like the losing, but it
is like the most humiliating situations you could come up
with that they have experienced many times.
Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Well three minutes in or whatever it was Achilles, yes, yes, yes, sorry, God,
way worse.
Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
And that's their Super Bowl window, right they go. I
mean they were just seven and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
I remember I was in the studio for that game
and I was like, wait, is this real? That was
straight out of a movie. You could not you could
not come up on nine to eleven. He's carrying the flag.
Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Yes, he's coming.
Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
He's coming out to a to a celebration of patriotism
and all these different things. Aaron Rodgers right, uniter of
us all with the American flag for that one moment
until fourth naps in. You know what Ian's point, I
think they deserve a year to kind of lick their
wounds in the in the darkness and then come back.
Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
All right, But you know what, if we're going to
play that, then if the Cowboys lose all of their
six primetime games, can they not be in primetime next year?
Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
No, because they've still got the biggest fan base in
the country.
Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
But do they have the most viewership?
Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
I consistently, yes, consist they are worth your ad spend
if you're Amazon Prime, more than any New York team.
I wouldn't I wouldn't know the exact divide on that,
but I would still give them more juice than your
average New York team because the Cowboys are I mean,
I understand they're I mean they're No, they're international, like
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the Cowboys are an international brand.
Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
The Jets, I mean, do they.
Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Ever play internationally?
Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Though?
Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Cowboys do not very often? Yeah, by the league, Jerry's
got Jerry's got them in a vice grip.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
But I feel like there are many other I just
know a lot of international fans because I've done some
work over at Sky Sports, and sure not a lot
of people say Cowboys when they're fans. Like you hear Jags,
you hear Patriots, you hear Lions, you hear a.
Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Lot of Jets and Niners when I do a London game.
Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
So where are you getting that the Cowboys are big internationally?
Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Oh? They are internationally viewed.
Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
They're a huge part of this streaming play that the
NFL is getting into.
Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Okay, I guess I need to do some research in
that department.
Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
No, I mean, it's just it's one of those things
like and me and Fitzy talk about this a lot
because FITZI used to get like the actual metrics from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, I would love to get the numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
The numbers are the numbers are so slanted towards the Cowboys,
even against the New York Markets Giants or Chance, it's
outrageous just in terms of total footprint. Right, You're talking
about so many different elements of the marketing.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Here's my question. Do when they are playing bad or
losing on primetime, does that hurt the brand? Or you
think the brand is so solidified it's been thirty years,
nobody cares whether they're good or bad. They're going to
tune in.
Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
I think as long as they don't bottom out, like,
as long as there's not outright three and fourteen type
of apathy that that the rage that the Cowboys being
middling fomens is almost as good as them winning it.
Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
What do you think would happen with a Cowboys Bills
Super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
Cowboys Bills? I think the world would implode, right Buffalo.
I think Cowboys fans would be scared of Bills fans personally.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
But I just think that there be in your opinion,
that is the most watched super Bowl, Right, Like, what
are what other two teams would bring in the draw?
Cowboys Bills? Would?
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
I really think that Cowboys Patriots would have some juice.
Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
If I had, But.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Again, the Patriots have been there, done that, sure.
Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
But they're still like that.
Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
If if the Patriots, if the Cowboys have.
Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
More fans than the Bills, like I want to know, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
I think a lot. It's not even that. I think
it's the opposite.
Speaker 5 (01:11:28):
I think there are so many people who are heavily
invested in watching the Patriots lose Bridge.
Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Oh oh okay, right, yes, yes, totally totally.
Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
If the Cowboys are America's team, then the Patriots or
Darth Vader.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yes, yes, so you think Cowboys Patriots would be the.
Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Most you would want the Bills to going to prey
on the Bills.
Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Down most viewed Super Bowl? What two teams?
Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
It's probably Bills because that that would be the intrigue
of Josh Allen finally breaking through, Right, he's finally beaten
Mahomes and Burrow and whatever to get now the pressure
of the Chiefs. Cowboys would be up there for sure,
But I do think the Bills are a bigger draw
at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
We've seen the Chiefs, right, yeah, yeah, it would be
for Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Think like what would be Bill's Lions?
Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
I think that Detroit is obviously a great story, but Cowboys, no,
it's there is not a second. There's really not a
close second.
Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Because the Cowboys have not been to the Super Bowl.
When was their last Super Bowl win?
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
It's in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah, so social media, none of the what was it
ninety five they won in yeah, ninety five seasons. Nothing
that we have today existed back then, and the fans,
I understand. And for people who are listening who don't know,
which maybe not everyone knows. The reason why people are
huge Cowboys fans, especially on the East Coast, is because
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in certain areas, teams didn't exist and the Cowboys just
played on the cable when you had like two channels.
I don't know what that was like, but they say,
like you could only just flip one or two. But
they say, they say, my great great grandparents tell me.
And so people became fans of the Cowboys because that's
what you could get, especially like in the DC and
the Carolina Panthers like areas.
Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Oh here, half of them are Steelers fans.
Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah, with Steelers and Cowboys, Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I
just wonder what a Cowboys Super Bowl would do in
twenty twenty seven, when I think I think.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
It would be a rocket ship. I think it would
be a monster.
Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
And you know how they put out the viewership after
a Super Bowl, and you know it's always trending up.
It has been in the past couple of years, I believe,
just because more people are becoming fans. How much of
a jump do you think that number would take. Do
you think it would be normal, like just from last
year to the year before, just the same level of
increment increase, or do you think it would be like
a massive.
Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Like we're talking about something again.
Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
To your point, generations have not seen right, but they
still have that They've been indoctrinated into this fan base
for reasons that if you're like, if you're seventeen, you're
trying to figure out why the hell are we Cowboys fans?
Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Like this is not fun.
Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
But if they were to do it one, it would
further grow that fan base into something astronomical, and it
would only I think it would be the biggest jump
you've seen year over year in the Super Bowl in
this in this century.
Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I'm kind of like, there's I'm split with how I feel.
Part of me is like I hope it never happens
because I'm so annoyed that this brand has received so
much recognition and tension for not doing anything. But the
other part of me is like, let's see it, like,
let's see how insane.
Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
I want to see it because if they lose, oh
my god, it would be do you.
Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Think that it would be that bad? If they lose, though,
because they made it there and they won the NFC title.
Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
People would melt down because then it would be yea,
oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
You don't think the Cowboy fans would be like, well
we made it back.
Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Context matters.
Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
But if if they came up short in a close game,
I think they would get killed. I think they would
be the talking point for you know, the six months
after anyway, we you got to get to Wood you' rather?
Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
We've gone way too long. She's Bridge of Condon on.
Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Cowboys or the Cowboys, because we're talking about him for
twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
Go so normally at the end of the show we
play a little game it's called would you rather? But
we're not going to do that today because we've got
breaking news. Bridge of Condon is in for Jason Fitz.
I'm buck Rising wrapping it up here with you. You
can continue to listen to Fox Sports Radio to talk
about said breaking news, and the breaking news is cour
(01:15:29):
to see if Tom Pelasero first on it. Four time
NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers agreed to terms
on a one year deal. He tweets sources to NFL network,
though I don't think that's technically true anymore. Now entering his.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
CFL network, Okay, we're just NFL network on ESPN.
Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Oh okay, well, yes, NFL network very good anyway, Now
entering his twenty second NFL season, which again is crazy,
Rogers reunites with Mike McCarthy for one more run in Pittsburgh. Bridget,
are you happy that Aaron Rodgers watch has concluded?
Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yes, I'm happy. But you know what's interesting. I was
listening to The Herd and Colin was talking about how
he didn't think that Rogers and McCarthy had this relationship
that's being portrayed, which I agree with, and so I
started thinking, literally just this morning, that maybe he's gonna
go to Arizona, maybe he's gonna go somewhere else. So
(01:16:25):
Wolf though, yeah, yeah, well, I'm actually thinking we're going
to get a lot of good drama. Because he was
talking about, you know, some of the huddles that people
remember being in when Aaron Rodgers would get a play
call from Mike McCarthy and would be very annoyed by it. Now,
I think, from the outside world, this is exciting. The
(01:16:47):
Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. Amazing, amazing, amazing.
I gotta feel like it's about to be an implosion.
Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
In what sense?
Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
Because I think of I think of it as neither.
I think of it as part I think of it
as being stuck in the mud. I think of it
as being just a nothing truly, Like if they win
the division, okay, it's because the Ravens screwed something up
at the end, like they did this past year with
that field goal miss. Right, the Steelers were not a
playoff team. They did not win that division outright. They
got lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Absolutely, I mean it was the Ravens Division. What do
I mean by implosion. I think they're gonna win a
lot of games. Early. They opened with the Falcons. I
think they beat the Falcons. I think they beat the Patriots.
The Bengals. You can't convince me that the Bengals are
good because I always buy into the Bengals, and I
always get I always am in trouble because they never
(01:17:40):
I think they're gonna start strong, and I think there's
gonna be a lot of hope in Pittsburgh's one of
those markets like New York, where the fans are crazy,
and I think something's gonna happen, and there's gonna be
like an expose or something that comes out about the
real actual relationship with between these two and it's just
going to be a downfall. And I think retirements should
have happened a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
He is going to play here in Nashville. It's their
week seventeen game. It's the last last game at the
old Titan Stadium before they shut it down for the
new thing.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Maybe that's tom Titans can win.
Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I'm much less in
on them than I would be the Steelers. This is
a This is a real conundrum, I think for Steelers
fans because the Mike McCarthy thing from Mike Tomlin to
Mike McCarthy does not feel like a significant upgrade right
from running it back with Aaron Rodgers at forty two,
(01:18:36):
does not feel like a difference. Making the difference that
the Steelers need is an organizational reset that they don't
seem to one energy. Yes, and they this is the definition.
I mean, he's literally a Graybeard. It's not just Team Graybeard.
He's literally a Graybeard at forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I think the one who gets the led laugh is
Mike Tomlin sitting back like, all right, you guys think
this is going to work enjoy.
Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
With a raise and a very comfortable television set, not
you know, out there in the wind and elements of Pittsburgh. Yes,
so that is the news that has just dropped on
us at the very end of the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
But how look, Steelers, Cowboys, Aaron Rodgers, I.
Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Think Bills are still better.
Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I think it's still the Bills' I really, bridget I
think you hit it on the head the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Don't overthink it, I know, but I just think if
Aaron Rodgers is going to keep playing, I want to
see success just for like, I don't know, for entertainment purposes,
you know, like you're.
Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Against him by any stretch of the imagination. I want
him to be good.
Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, you just don't believe it, and I'm with you,
but I think they're going to start out good.
Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
Well, it's going to be a fascinating science experiment. We
appreciate you guys hanging out here with us on Fox
Sports Radio
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Welcome into the Fox Sports studios. We are broadcasting live
in Los Angeles, and it's just Bridget Condon and Martin here.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Buck.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Here's the thing. You guys know that I have been
filling in on this show for a couple of weeks now,
maybe a couple months actually, if you can find all
my fill ins. It has been my goal to get
buckin fits off the show and just have this be
my own thing. And today is the day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's just me one step closer.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, I mean I know that the people this is
what they want. Nobody cares what Buck has to say,
and I hope Buck is listening. All jokes aside, we're
having a little bit of technical difficulties, so hopefully Buck
Rising will be joining us soon. But honestly, do we
really care if he joins us or no?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
I mean, you know, I'm sure Wally Pitt had a
few technical difficulties that day.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, and then Luke Garey accept it.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
And hey, look this is the beginning. This is what
these professional athletes dream of to get their chance in
the big lead. You can never predict what's going to happen.
You just have to what is it? They say, Martin, The.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Best ability is availability?
Speaker 2 (01:11):
And how about this one, don't get ready stay ready?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Yeah, so I don't know, maybe we should hit up
the tattoo parlor after this to get one of those.
If you want the availability one, I think I want
don't get ready to stay ready?
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Well, Buck neither of those two things.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So you know what the best part about working with
Buck is love him, all jokes aside, great guy. But
I hit him up yesterday like, Hey, what do you
want to think about? And now that I've worked with him,
like I said, for multiple shows, I know that I
can't hit him up on a Monday. Like I'm a
very type a person typically I want to like and
with sports, I totally understand that you can't. We don't
(01:47):
know the topics until Friday night because games are changing,
but you can have an idea of you know, NFL
schedules coming out. We knew that on Monday, NBA, you
know you're getting into game six, Game seven's on Friday night.
Probably talk about that. I know now, don't reach out
to back until Friday midday. So I was feeling a
little optimistic. Sent him a text around three pm Pacific,
(02:10):
six o'clock. What is he in Nashville? That's five o'clock, thinking,
you know, maybe he'd hit me back with like let's
hit NBA, let's hit NHL. My man hit me up
four in the morning on his way back from Broad
Street in Nashville with the rundown. Now here's the thing.
I'm both impressed and disappointed that one, you know, you
(02:34):
can have done it Friday night. Two you're coming back
and you're thinking about the show that is dedication.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Well, see part of the thing. It would be more
impressive if he was here to tell the story himself right.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
And defend himself. I feel like you can only talk
about someone if they're in the room to defend well.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Also, it's like you can only talk about how how
hard you played hard if you're also working hard in
the pod. So it's like knows if he's a no
show for the whole time, then it's like, is he
sleeping off at four am?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh my god? Is it because he's so hung over?
And he actually it's not technical difficulties. He's just well
technically it is a bathroom trying to get his life together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
That could be the case. Fuck He's been known to
do the show in the bathrobe.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
So what I'm not telling tales out of school? He
tells it, and he tells it to America every Saturday.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Oh, he is such a fascinating guy. Something else that
fascinatingly happened. Is that a word? Fascinatingly?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
We'll make it up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Okay, something else this week that happened that really got
my attention. Let's put it that way. Thirty two thirty
two teams came out with videos. Okay, we didn't have
thirty two pictures of schedules, No, we got thirty two videos.
(03:55):
Now do you know the term fatigue overload?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:58):
I've been there.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, yeah, Like there are certain influencers that are just
giving me fatigue overload. It's like, you know, people say
that about the Kelsey's, You're just being shoved down your
throat Kelsey content. And I love them. I'm not gonna
speak of course, I'm not gonna speak badly about them.
I dare I have the Swifties come after me. But
(04:20):
I just feel thirty two videos. I appreciate the videos
that were ninety seconds, but the five six, fourteen minutes
schedule release video. Who has the time.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, the short list is not me. I didn't see.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
There are some things Bridget that I've understood that are
four fans and I'm just not there. Like the schedule
release to me is something that is for the guy
who are also going to buy the ticket to go. Now, Okay,
I'm not that guy. If you're an Eagles fan. Okay,
Well here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Okay, the Eagles and the Chargers two of the longest videos,
and we're talking about the NFL schedule. If I didn't
make that clear, the Eagles, I believe was the longest
fourteen minutes. Now the Chargers was six minutes twenty two seconds.
I couldn't make it past two minutes. I know that's
a hot take. Everybody thinks the Chargers are incredibly creative,
which I respect the effort it went into making the
(05:18):
Halo game. Did you see their schedule release video?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
I saw people tweeting about it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, so you didn't need to watch it. It honestly
was boring. Like and maybe I'm gonna get a lot
of hate for saying that, but to me, fourteen minutes
of Jalen Hurts talking, Okay, we don't get a lot
of Jalen Hurts right, Like, he's not this big social
media guy posting videos of him selfie talking. So getting
fourteen minutes of Jalen Hurts was fine. I still think
(05:45):
a little too long, little too long. If I'm an
Eagles fan, am I watching it? Probably because it's our
star quarterback? The Chargers? You didn't have any players in that.
It was Halo themed. Now, if I'm a fan who'd
never played video games, am I watching that for six
minutes and twenty two seconds?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I did play Halos even interesting that much?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
No, this is honestly, we have broad Street to blame
for this.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Okay, a funny schedule, release video like a handful of
years ago, and then I, oh, let's make.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
It a thing.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Here's the thing though, what the thirty one other teams
didn't realize when that happened? Less is more? They were
on the street in Broadway just asking man on the
street hilarious questions. It's not this overproduced, Let's go to Halo,
Let's go to you know, these big corporations to make
us this this entire movie. It was let's be on
(06:44):
the street. I think they were at the draft for
this year asking people it was hilarious, and I will
argue to say that was the best video of this
season and did not have as much of an effort
as say the Chargers video.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I'll let you say this because you know the new
way that if you watch one video on X it
then turns into TikTok, you know, and you just it
never stops with the videos is immediate video.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Video saying like suggested videos.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
And so I kept getting like the first three or
four games of the Jets schedule in their schedule release,
and they did.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
They did a I didn't see theirs, so they mixed.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Paint colors and it was very much.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
It was enough to keep me watching for like three
of them, and then I was like, if I really
wanted to know, you were just played Week five, Well no,
I just google Jets schedule and then look at the
list and see who plays, who would win. Okay, the
NFL has done a great job for a game for
a season in which it's only seventeen games. Most of
(07:45):
our lives sixteen, right and then now probably be eighteen
before you know.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
It's a short order.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
But ultimately for fifty two weeks out of the year eighteen,
you don't know you do the math.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
There's a whole lot of weeks for no football.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
They've done a great job of taking things that really
just we're literally what would have been an email or
phone call our.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Thousand percentage and making it feel like the biggest bill
of all time.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well, we've been talking about the schedule since Monday. I
think it is incredible marketing for them to release one
game a day, then you release the international games on Wednesday,
then the schedules come out on Thursday. It is incredible marketing.
And it's interesting because I get this question a lot.
I'm sure you do, as somebody in the industry. What's
the end all be all, what's the dream job, what's
(08:30):
the goal? And working in the NFL, I'm like, I
don't think that there's anything bigger than this, because the NFL,
especially in America, is king because the way that they
are able to stay in the news three hundred and
sixty five days. People aren't talking about baseball as much
as we talk about the NFL in the offseason. No, no,
people aren't talking about the NBA. Yeah, you have summer League,
(08:52):
but it's not it is just not the same as
the NFL. And also, I was talking about this with
a friend this week. The way the NBA, you have
the Finals and then three days later you have the Draft,
and then you have summer league, you don't have a
chance to breathe. The NFL does it great because you
have the Super Bowl. Then you have like three weeks
to talk about the draft. Then you have the sorry
(09:14):
to talk about the Combine. Then you have the Combine.
Then you've got about a month to talk about what
happened at the combine to talk about the draft. Then
you have the Draft. Then you have a couple of
weeks before you see these guys in person. Then you
have OTAs, you have mini camps, then you have training camp,
then you have preseason. They have done such an incredible
job of finding ways to keep fans engaged every single
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day of the year, and the schedule release is just
an added bonus.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
It's like when you were in school and they would
give you a summer reading list, but it's a summer
reading list.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Was awesome? What you didn't get a summer reading list
in school.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
I got a summer reading list, but I it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Like no, I'm saying, it's like if you were in
school and you got the summer reading list.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
But it was awesome.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Oh, I thought you're saying, and it was awesome. I
was like, you're the first kid I've ever met that
like read the books. It was always like the night
before where I'm like on spark notes.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I was a big reader. I'm a big reader.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
You got a candle or are you more of like
a paperback guy?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I am?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
I am paperback at this point, actually hardcover because if
I feel like, if I don't spend enough money on it,
it'll just sit there.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I have to invest in the book.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I know it sounds silly, but like, yeah, I might
have to spend like I want the twenty five hardcover
and you give me the real thing here.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So you're clearly not reading as many books as a
big time reader if you're buying hardcover every time, because
that would be an expensive hobby.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
I have a lot of books.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
Okay, so you're calling yourself rich.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
No, I'm calling myself to have a lot of books
and moving sucks.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh you have a display at home.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
I not nearly as much as i'd like to, because
I really have enough books to set up the zoom that.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Makes it look like I'm in a big library. Of books.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
You know what I'm saying, I could fill up the
whole zoom window of books and like maybe like just
like put a football on one shelf here.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
See what you're saying is you prepare for the moment.
I tried to You know who doesn't prepare for the moment.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Well, if at the moment's four I am down broad Street,
then maybe.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
I want to welcome in our guest to today's show,
Buck Rising. Did we have him?
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Buck?
Speaker 5 (11:20):
It's broad White, all right, yeah, i'mateur, It's Broadway, let's
get it right.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
I wouldn't throw shots at the guy that has been
helping you out for the past thirteen minutes.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Oh no, I'm gonna I you came in firing shots.
I'm coming in firing shot.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I knew you wouldn't defend yourself because you didn't have
the capability. So that was my time.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
That's fine.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
You can you can lob all the Haymakers at me
as you want. Bridget the bully is filling in for
Jason Fitz today, clearly, so we're on to a great.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Spic See today I was going to text you and
be like, hey, just FYI, I am feeling kind of
spicy but you weren't. You weren't here, so I couldn't tell.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
You no, no, no, uh correction, I was here, very much
here just trying to figure out all the different technical
maneuvers on one of these damn boards because I've never
been properly trained that way. But for some reason, the
thing that I do every time didn't work this time.
Either way, I'm happy to be here. Thank you for
being here, Bridget, and thank you Martin for filling in.
(12:19):
Thank you Ian. I was saying, thank you all, thank you,
thank you, thank you. I've decided to grace you with
my presence today.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Thanks for joining, and we hope you're feeling okay after
your trip down Broadway Street.
Speaker 5 (12:30):
I feel great. No, no, it's please you. I have
played through far worse in my career. So today we've
got great morale and we've got a lot to talk about.
We've got schedule release discussion. I know you guys have
already started to work in on that, a bunch of
NBA topics to get to throughout the course of the day. Bridget,
since I was not here to participate in the initial
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schedule release discussion, how do you how do you take
in the schedule release.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
This is something you a ditsicipate.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I know you're from the Boston area, so I don't
know how closely you're paying attention to the Patriots beyond
all the other Patriots news it's been going on here.
I'm really not all the other Patriots news, just the
one Patriots news story that's been going on for the
past month at this point in time, do you enjoy
schedule release day?
Speaker 2 (13:17):
I do, but I'm a hands on learner. I don't know.
You know how we all got evaluated in school, and
so I need to see a list of the games
like I cannot when I watch the videos, it doesn't
register for me, like the big games, you know, I
need to see it in front of me on a
paper and like go week by week. That's how I
like to do it.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What the schedule release videos do?
Speaker 2 (13:39):
No, no, no. They go too fast. Most of the
videos twenty minutes whatever, five minutes is just like a movie.
And then at the end it's like, here's the schedule.
I just I like the entertainment. I get it. It's
for the fans, it's not for me. I do love
the schedule release like I was waiting for Thursday to come,
just because I want to know if I'm what I'm
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doing on Thanksgiving? Am I gonna be? Where am I
going to be?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Is it? When's my bye week? Did I take my vacation?
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Like?
Speaker 3 (14:07):
What games? You get a bye week?
Speaker 5 (14:09):
You're your national obviously, so you're covering games on a
weekly basis.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Do you take a bye week?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Usually our bosses are pretty good. Or like, if you
have you know, big wedding season in the fall, usually
I will try to make every wed wedding that you know,
close friends or whatever and take a walk off.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I'm not someone who like misses a wedding for the job.
That's one thing about me.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Every wedding.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
No, Like life is short, man, you know.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
But yeah, but so are a lot of these a
lot of these marriages bridget if I'm being.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A couple of them.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Crazy. I don't know your friends are. But divorce isn't
isn't a big thing in my circles?
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (14:52):
Well, yeah, I would say, I know, I know quite
a few people actually really second marriage already.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Yeah what at our age?
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Well, I mean some people are on their second kids,
some people are on their second marriages to.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I mean to each their own, but like, if I'm
going to your wedding and missing a game, you can't
get divorced. Like, I'm sorry, that's a pre wreck.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
That's what I'm saying. So I'm playing the odds at
this point. I'm literally and I've been honest with my
friends about this. I'm like, if I if it is
not something I know is going to be long term,
I'm probably.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Not going to be there.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
You're telling your friends who are getting married, Hey, man,
don't think you're going to be in it for the
long run. I'll catch you on the second wedding. That's
what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Take that way. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie to them.
I'm not saying that. Well, that's a conversation.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I've had to have a bunch, but I've definitely had
that conversation.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
Are you serious?
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Hell?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Why are your friends getting married to people they don't
see a future with?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
That is a question for the therapists, not for me.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wow, this is wild. Okay, Well, it's.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
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Speaker 5 (17:20):
It's not my fault that I like Bridget Conon better
as a cost.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Oh wow, Mike, you was talking a couple.
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
No, he only said, but now I'm tired of this one.
Send this one back to the I fl bring me
back Bridget.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
He wants he wants his cutoff and played the Bridget,
so this should be nicer to him because he's.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Afraid of her. Like, that's like, let's just get right
to the core of it. He said that he was
going to plant that in so that he can make
sure that he gets played.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
And then the next time she's meeting, he'll be like,
I gave you praise, Mary played it.
Speaker 5 (17:49):
And then all of a sudden, I no, no, don't
make this a rejoin for when persons off that.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Wow, Wow that's your strand Wow, this is all that is.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
I just feel like nobody is like, no name is
in your mouth more than mine.
Speaker 5 (18:10):
I think the Tennessee Titans would probably disagree with that.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Can I just enjoy my saturdays when I'm not here.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
No, clearly not, because even when you're not on the show,
she's Bridget conton. For what it's worth, I'm buck rising.
You're hanging out here with us on bucking fits with
FITZI on assignment doing some more IFL work, and Bridget
is always great to fill in when Fitzy is outless
she has, you know, half marathon obligations or other things
going on in her life. No, I mean anytime you're
not on the show, somebody brings you up in some
(18:37):
former fashion like you're you're now like in this with us.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
I hate to tell you.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
It's a trouble. Is that what they call it?
Speaker 5 (18:44):
Me?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You and Fitty? But I've never seen fifty, so I
don't know. I guess I'm the side girl. He's the
main girl.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Yeah, I uh well, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
Fitz would Fitzy would probably categorize me as a side
chick on depending on the situation. Either way, we know
it's messy. How we like things around here as messy
as hell. For the Minnesota Timberwolves who got bounced the
other night by the San Antonio Spurs and on a
pretty quiet night from Victor Weman Yama. They didn't really
need much more than the nineteen points that he gave.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Them in those twenty seven minutes that he played.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
It was in fact Stefan Castle with thirty two points
nine one nine to eliminate the Timberwolves. You got Anthony
Edwards walking down the bench to the Spurs bench with
eight minutes left in the game because by the fourth
Quarterbridge just well in hand this game and the Spurs
get to advance with this young core of players.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
But the Anthony Edwards situation, I get it. You're out
of it.
Speaker 5 (19:41):
There's no coming back from that deficit. And the quote
after the game was I just tipped my hat to them.
They were just the better team Anthony Edwards on the
Minnesota or excuse me, on the San Antonio Spurs. But
do we have an issue with what Anthony did in
the middle of the game, not really the middle, but
at the end of the game.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I don't know. Maybe if this was a younger league, yes,
But as a professional athlete, I feel like you either
understand it or you don't like it. It is very
clear that the Spurs are the better team and they
were winning this series. I think because when we got
hur ejected, what was that game five?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
It was four?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Game four. I think this went to to six games,
but I think they would have won that game if
he had played. I don't know. I just I don't
have a problem with it. I think you know, he
knew they were gonna lose, like, congrats to you, like
my teams. It kind of felt like he was like, hey, guys,
can you pick me up in the off season, Like,
hey guys, can I be a part of the club,
Like you know, I'm gonna be.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
Nice to you.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
Antonio. I don't care what Barkley says.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, yeah, Like he's just like, all right, you know,
think about me when you're when you're thinking about next season.
I don't know. I don't have a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I don't love it.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
I mean, and maybe maybe this is just me being crotchety,
is like, why.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
Are we surprised that you're disagreeing? Let me just throw
that out there.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Okay, I don't think I'm overwhelmingly disagreeable on subjects with you,
but on this subject we disagree.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
I want him locked in the entire time.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
I don't care if he's if he understands, as we
all do, that the Spurs were the better team, and
that he was getting ready to head to Cabo or
San Juan or wherever he's going to spend the time
in the offseason. I want if I am a fan
of the timberwol with Timberwolves, I don't want him doing
anything but being with his teammates through the end of
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the game, like you can. There will be time to
congratulate the Spurs after the game. There is no sense
to me in getting up as the game is being played,
even though you are down by an insurmountable deficit and
just being conciliatory, like I hate that. I cannot in
my mind's I imagine a situation where I would see
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a Lebron James do that or Kobe Bryant do that,
like Bridget to me, that's unthinkable.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I get it, I get what you're saying. But he's
not them, you know, and I understand it. You want
everybody to be have the same mental like aggression or whatever,
like you want to be fighting till the end you're
down thirty three points eight minutes ago. To me, it's
like I'm tired, Like he's he's like very self aware,
He's like, I'm tired let's book the flight. Good job, guys.
Can I go into the locker room for the final eight?
Speaker 5 (22:20):
And that's that is an acceptable response in almost any
other profession, not this one, you know, not when people
are talking about you potentially being the next American face
of the NBA. If I mean Lebron is forty one,
We'll see what happens there. But it's really Anthony Edwards.
If you're not talking about Victor Wemayamo, We're not gonna
(22:41):
make it yokish, right. Jokic is very uninterested in doing
anything but getting through a basketball season, potentially winning a championship,
and going and enjoying the what is it, the horses
and the offseason he has horses?
Speaker 2 (22:52):
What about Shay? You don't want Shay to be the face?
Speaker 7 (22:56):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
It's not that I don't want him to.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
I don't particularly enjoy his style of basketball, even as
I understand that he's a very smart player and a
very effective player.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
But again, Shay is Canadian. And I don't mean to
make this.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Like a like an isolationism type of situation, but Anthony
Edwards is the American basketball face of the NBA, okay,
And so I want to see that level of mental aggression.
I want to see him fight until the end, scrap
claw the way that previous people who would carry the
mantle for professional basketball before him would do. I just
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I think that that is such It's going to be
a moment that we hyperfixate on, obviously as we're talking
about it here on national broadcast today. But for me,
that is just something that's going to stick with me
the next time I think about him, because it's going
to make me think less of him as a competitor.
Maybe that's not fair of me, but I just I
don't want to see that, especially if I'm.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
A fan of him.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
What do you want him to do?
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I want him to sit on the bench and stew.
I want him to be pissed.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
I don't want him to congratulate the Spurs on being
the better team until he absolutely has to.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I'd rather shake their hands on the way out the court.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
I get that if they're down ten, they're down thirty
three points. What do you want him to do go
out there and risk an injury fighting back?
Speaker 5 (24:13):
I would rather I don't I get what you're saying
about injury, but I'd rather see the fight.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I'm sorry, I just would.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
I don't Why does he Why does the fight need
to come from him? Where was the rest of his teammates?
Why couldn't anybody else been fighting.
Speaker 5 (24:25):
He's the only one I saw congratulating people with eight
minutes left of the He's the.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Only one who did anything in this series.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
I don't disagree with that either. I mean, it's not
his fault that he's the best player on the team
by a mile, and that he's had to do a
lot to carry them to this point.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
This has been one of them.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He's ready to.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
Get out of there, then I would like that even
less if I was a fan. That doesn't justify it
to me. It makes sense for him, but I don't
care about that. If I'm watching that game.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
What do you got with the Timberwolves?
Speaker 5 (24:52):
What do I got with the Timberwolves? Yeah, I've got
no affiliation with the Timberwolves. I'm just saying if I
was a fan of that club and I saw one
of the players who still currently on my team behaving
that way, I would think less of him.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
No, I would be like, you know what, let's team up.
I totally respect that he is done. Let's make some changes.
If my star player isn't happy he's quitting with eight
minutes ago. That means we need to make some changes.
Speaker 5 (25:15):
Oh and I don't think. I'm not saying he's quitting
like I want to make I don't want to. I
want to make sure that I'm clear on that. I
don't think that he quit I just did not like
the optics of him while the game is still being played,
congratulating the opponent when he has the opportunity to do that.
At the end, stay in the game, stay focused, understanding
that you are.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
He doesn't have the opportunity. And yet he's got to
get off the court and pack his bag. He's got
to get onto vacation. He's got to make that midnight flight.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Well. I hope he enjoys it because it's going to
be a long one for.
Speaker 5 (25:43):
Him and the Spurs advance and the meantime, we have
Martin to catch up, catch us up on.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
The world of sports.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
In Major League Baseball, the Nationals opening it up eleven
and three over the Orioles. That'll be the top of
the eighth inning when play resumes, top of the ninth inning.
Pirates haven't been able to score all day, with a
six to zero lead bottom of the ninth inning, Marlins
from behind a two to one lead over the Rays
and Red's Guardians scoreless in a bottom of the second
Earlier today we saw Dalton varshow but they go ahead
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single in the top of the tenth inning to beat
the Tigers to one.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
The Tigers have walked off the first game of that series.
Speaker 4 (26:18):
Cardinals Alec Burrelson at a two hit night as a
four to two win over the Royals, and the Rockies
also got a win flourid to two over the Diamondbacks
and Major League.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
In soccer he had Manchester City defeat Chelsea and the
FA Cup won nothing and that's played in Wembley Stadium.
Texas that quarterback Brendan Soresby trying to get on the
field this year.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
He was a big transfer guy for them.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
He requested expedited resolution as his eligibility reinstated immediately challenged.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
Legal challenge will be eminent.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
He is eligibility fell into question after an apparent gambling
edition surface which forced him to prompted him I should
say to seek patient treatment.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
About two weeks ago report surface up, soords who was
going to go ahead and try to move forward with
his football career. Get back to Texas Tech Eastern Conference.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
I mean in the NHL Second Round Game two game,
second Round Game six, Montreal has a three to two
lead on Buffalo. The Canadians yet to lose a two
in a row this postseason, but they are one and
one and series clinching opportunities at the PGA Championship. Smally
in the league to six under. You had a gang
(27:29):
of guys tied at four under right now for second Round.
Ram among them, Rory McElroy was three under. He kind
of made a big move this afternoon. Bridget and Buck
back to you.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
She's Bridget Condon. I'm Buck Rising.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Hanging out here with you on this Fox Sports Saturday.
Fits the on assignment with the IFL, keeping you up
to date on all things basketball.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
The NBA playoffs.
Speaker 5 (27:53):
We got a little got a little brief pause in
the playoffs as we get ready to talk about the
teams that have been able to advance, and of course
the thunder are one of the teams that will advance.
Sweeping the Lakers Ridge. I don't see a world in
which we're not talking about Oklahoma City again, to your
point about Shay Gilles, Alexander and the dominance of he
(28:14):
and his team collectively. You want to talk about a
team that's helping in that effort. Okay, see is about
as complete, if not the most complete team in professional
basketball right now. I just I think it's a foregone
conclusion that they're going to win the championship again, and
I hate that because they beat my Pacers last year.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
I think the only team that has a chance is
this are the Spurs, and I think that's what makes
this round. It kind of feels similarly similarly to in
the NFL, the NFC Championship between the Seahawks and Rams.
That was a super Bowl, right, Yeah. It feels like
this is about to be the championship between the Thunder
and the Spurs. And the Spurs I believe beat the
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Thunder throughout the regular season last played in February. Obviously
different teams, but this this is to me going to
be a really interesting series and if anybody can knock
off the Thunder, it's going to be the Spurs.
Speaker 5 (29:08):
Web Yama, how how he is game planned for essentially,
because you're correct, they do see each other a great
uh a great deal during the regular season, and the
Spurs did have their number in a number of different
moments right so far this season. Yeah, they were very
effective throughout the course of the regular season, and I
(29:28):
know people would I know certain people might discount that
and say, well, that's the regular season. Sure, the postseason
is where things ramp up. I think there's something to that, though.
I think it's a It's a very interesting sample size
in can wembin Yama be the kind of player that
supersedes this excellent OKAC defense, because that's I'm not going
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to say that's completely their bread and butter, but they
are so well rounded as a basketball team. People they
don't it's sexy to talk about, right, especially in postseason play.
They want to people want to see three pointers, they
want to see Doug, they want to see great offensive performances.
They want to see wins by thirty points. But the
defense that OKAC plays is suffocating. And how they go
about trying to change what their plan was for wembin
(30:10):
Yama during the regular season versus how they'll approach him
in the postseason, I can't wait to find out.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
It's interesting to me and I wanted to get your
take on this because this happens often in professional sports,
especially during the playoffs, the NBA playoffs, where a team
is coming off a sweep where the other team is
coming off Okay, yeah, the Spurs only had to play
six games, not seven. But now you have a team
who is tired played a lot of games versus an
OKAC team who's only played eight games in the playoffs.
(30:39):
Do you what's your take on that? Do you think
that it matters? Do you get worried about a team
who has had rust off and hasn't had to play
difficult series?
Speaker 5 (30:50):
Well, yeah, I do, depending on the depending on the team. Right,
it can't be done in a vacuum. And essentially we're
going to talk about this with the Knicks next. But
the thing that would give me confidence not to spoil
our discussion for the next segment, but the thing that
would give me confidence about OKC is that they literally
just did this right. They are now a battle tested
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roster despite their young age. So in the way that
they have approached their last performance and understanding that they
were dominant all almost the whole way through through the
Western Conference last year and then into the postseason winning
the NBA Finals, I feel if I was going to
give them an advantage over a team like the Knicks,
who will talk about here in just a second. I
(31:32):
would say they have literally just been there, and so
they understand how to manage those expectations, how to take
appropriate care of their bodies and rest and recovery, making
sure that they're not rusty on a number of different fronts.
Perhaps it didn't it didn't seem like they showed any
of that last year. I'm not really that worried about them,
but if you had to cite one way for them
to at least approach it, it would it would be
(31:54):
to say, yeah, they literally just did this.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
They're tested here.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Yeah. I think it's going to be interesting again. I
think this is the series to watch. I think Wemby
has kind of taken off quicker than maybe a lot
of people anticipated as one of the major stars in
the NBA, and this is going to be a defining
moment for his career, especially his young career. If he
can go in and knock off okay, see the defending champs,
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what does that do for his stardom. I mean, I
was in this chair a year ago talking about the
thunder in the NBA playoffs and SGA was not a
household name yet Yeah maybe to sports fans or like
fans of the Thunder, but people like still are trying
to figure out how to say his name. You know,
like he is not last year, He was not that
guy that he is this year. And Wemby already has
(32:42):
more of an advantage I would say, at this point
in his career than maybe SGA did last year. You
know what I'm saying, Like, he's already further along. So
if he finds a way to knock off the Thunder,
what does this do for his career? And like where
he's projected in terms of fandom and stardom.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Yeah, I just think it's that that I don't want
to call it a crowning moment. He would have to
win the title right for the I think whoever moment,
But I understand what you're saying, whoever.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Wins this is winning the title.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
In my opinion, agreed, I would the wholehearted that.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Yeah, if you beat the Thunder and then lose to
the next, come on like that that's a joke.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well we will talk about the next.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
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Speaker 3 (34:01):
Bridget. She's Bridget Condon.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here with you on Buck
and Fitz FITZI will be back maybe next week.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
I think he is not doing IFL games next week.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
But we always enjoy Bridget being here, especially when it's
time to talk some football. And we had the schedule release,
of course, a couple of days ago. The Seahawks will
begin defense Bridget of their Super Bowl title against the
team they beat and beat soundly to win it. The
New England Patriots are going to get the Seahawks again
to end last year's season and be defeated wholeheartedly.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
In the Super Bowl. I would not favor them again.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Against the Seahawks, understanding that both teams have undergone significant
James change. I don't know if anybody was asking for
this particular rematch, given what a dud the super Bowl
itself was, but I'd be curious to know what your
thoughts are, and certainly how Boston's feeling about this.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'm not excited about this. And let me tell you something.
Playing in Seattle, a home opener night game that's going
to be a harder environment than the Super Bowl was. Yes,
and all the attention that has been around the Patriots organization.
I mean, in one regard, okay, you get it out
of the way, you know, night one, and then you
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can be quiet for the weekend. Sure, But in the
other regard, you play. Whatever he says on Wednesday night
is going to be played Thursday, Sunday, Monday, you know,
because it's the first game that that is going to
be talked about on all the pregame shows. You know,
whatever happened, and if this is if the Patriots do
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not win, which again, Seattle is an extremely challenging place
to play. You saw what Matthew Stafford and the Rams
weren't able to do, which is win in Seattle during
the NFC Title Game. If they do not win, how
many of the conversations Thursday, Sunday, Monday are going to be? Well,
is Mike Rabele you know, is he is his mind elsewhere?
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Is he able to still rally his team the way
he did? You know the season before? Are the Patriots?
Is this the beginning of the end? Which you know
the beginning? Whether he did that just started again? But
come on, have you been in Boston? Like overreaction is huge.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
By way, I don't think that's overreaction given kind of
the situation.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
But I'm just saying it is going to be a
very challenging environment and post game environment and for the
rest of the week in environment and frankly until the
Patriots start winning, it is going to be challenging. And
who knows what comes out between now and then hopefully
nothing else. I don't think any of us we were
talking about fatigue overload before, like I think we are
all just fatigued and ready to move forward. But regardless
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of that happening, had that whole situation not been something
that we experienced this offseason, I don't think people would
have cared to see this. I think, you know, a
lot of people were speculating the teams that we're going
to go there for the opening night, and I know
the Chargers and the Bears were those two teams that
people predicted along with the Patriots. I would have rather
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either of those games over this one, you know, Kate
Williams and the Bears or Justin Herbert now with Mike McDaniel.
That is primetime television to me show me that I.
Speaker 5 (37:09):
And I don't want to, you know, I don't want
to assume or speculate too heavily on why the Patriots
might have been selected here because I think that there
are plenty of people in the league that would push
back on this immediately.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
But I do think that there is some sense that.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Putting the Patriots and Vrabel out there in front of
everybody right out of the gate might lead to a
little extra intrigue given the entire situation that we've talked
about with Mike Rabel and the last month of Mike
Frabel coverage. But that is sure speculation, that is not
obviously any kind of reporting or anything that I've heard
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anywhere credibly. But I would I would be more willing
to hear the idea that they're like, oh, maybe a
little extra television boost in another chapter or the first
football chapter of what has been again a thoroughly exhausting
story and something that hasn't been a football story or
was made into a football story just by proximity to
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the draft, for God's sakes. So with the Patriots, I
just I'm they're a science experiment this year to me,
because I thought that if you had to pick a
regression candidate coming into the year, even before all this
rival crap, I probably would have said in New England
the way that I said Washington heading into last year,
because just on they were so healthy. Washington was, and
then Jade Daniels obviously had as many struggles as he did.
Speaker 3 (38:31):
New England the same.
Speaker 5 (38:32):
They were huge, huge beneficiaries of not just their schedule
but injury luck.
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Absolutely, And I think the bigger thing is you don't
necessarily and like I would love to know when the
schedule actually gets made. I understand that Robert sorry, Roger
Goodell finalized it the night before, but yeah, the night
when was Pat McAfee. It was like Wednesday, right when
he signed off on it.
Speaker 1 (38:57):
Too, zero.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
Yeah. I think it was a couple of days. Yeah, anyways,
and Monday either way.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Either way, I understand, But when does this did the
they schedule Patriots Seahawks before all of this happened, because
I will say Boston is a big TV market where
if you're looking at the Chargers, that's just people don't
have the same interest as they have in the Chargers
that they do in the Patriots. But I will just
go back and say the Bears have so much interest.
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It's the third biggest TV market in the United States,
so you could have put that there. I agree with
you though in terms of regression, just because the Patriots
schedule is going to be more challenging, and you know,
like we saw with Jayden Daniels making it to the
NFC title Game, you have to have everything right, you
have to have everybody healthy. I will say the one
thing is the Patriots play in an easy division. I mean,
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the Bills are going to be the real challenge, but
the Dolphins and the Jets those are four wins right there.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (39:50):
I mean the AFC East is disgusting to this coming season,
and the Patriots are one of several teams there's a
pack of them that are sitting there with very early
Super Bowl odds courtesy of DraftKings at sixteen to one.
It's them, the Eagles, the Chargers, and the Green Bay
Packers all considered sixteen to one odds to win the
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Super Bowl next year. The Rams, ironically enough, maybe not ironically,
are favorites, followed by the Ravens and Seahawks tied there
for the second best odds at winning the title. Seahawks, obviously,
people very high on them, and they do return a
fair amount, even though they lost some critical pieces Kenneth
Walker more specifically going to the Kansas City Chiefs. It's
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going to be a very very interesting schedule analysis. We'll
continue the conversation get back to the New York Knicks
and the NBA playoffs right here on Fox Sports Radio.
Bridge at Condon and Buck Rising.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:50):
The New York Knicks an underdog story, I don't think so.
They were in the Eastern Conference Finals last year. Obviously
they swept the seventy six ers, who had really nothing
for him other than that fleeting.
Speaker 3 (41:05):
Moment in Game two.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
And now they've had a bunch of rest as they
get ready to advance again to the Eastern Conference Finals.
She's Bridget Connon, filling in for Jason Fitz. I'm Buck Rising.
We got the rest of the crew making it happen
in la and happy to be with you for this
final hour of the show. Bridget, we were just talking
about the Thunder in the first hour and the idea
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of rest versus rust.
Speaker 3 (41:31):
I stated my case.
Speaker 5 (41:32):
For why I'm not worried about the Thunder other than
the fact that they are overwhelmingly talented and will in
all likelihood win the championship again. But if we pose
the same question about these Knicks, who if they win
a Game one in the first round of the playoffs,
New York is drunken, naked in the streets, celebrating it
like it's a championship. Is this Knicks team prepared to
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fight off that rust versus the rest?
Speaker 2 (41:59):
Yes, because of who their opponent will be. I think
it is a very specific, case by case situation when
rust or rest comes into play. I think in this case,
the Knicks have all the momentum going their way right now,
and I think the Calves and Pistons very back and forth.
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I mean, we can get into that later on why.
I don't believe either of those teams will live up
to what the Knicks and Jalen Brunson have been able
to do during these playoffs. I think the extra rest,
the extra prep time, the fresh legs, not having the
stress of a game seven, that is all going to
play in the knicks favor. They're very much a rhythm team, right.
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They play with emotion edge, They have that crowd New
York energy. Even when they were in Philly, it felt
like a home game for the Knicks, right because.
Speaker 5 (42:48):
You had Embiid telling Philly fans don't sell your tickets.
Speaker 3 (42:51):
They did anyway, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
You know, Embiid is a whole other topic we can
get into. Anyways.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
I just think that dismissiveness in your voice.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
I told you I was feeling spicy today. I don't
know what it is. I've been in a bad mood
all week. Oh God. Anyways, I think I think that
this is good for the Knicks. I don't see them
coming out flat. It's just not a New York Knicks thing.
I mean, the Knicks have been wanting to be in
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this position for so long. They aren't going to blow it.
Speaker 3 (43:25):
That's a ton of pressure, though.
Speaker 5 (43:27):
I mean, for all the reasons that you just laid out,
that is a ton of pressure. And I might say,
and it's probably quantifiable in numbers that I don't have
in front of me right now, that Jalen Brunson is
as clutch a player as we have in pro basketball
right now.
Speaker 2 (43:46):
I'm a huge, huge fan.
Speaker 5 (43:47):
Finishes the job, right, He's he's kind of what I'm
you know, And I understand that he's undersized, and I
think that I think that kind of plays into the
New York war around him a little bit.
Speaker 2 (43:57):
Right, tips on my shoulder, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (44:00):
All this stuff, you know, And and that's fine, It's
it is a real thing. He's an incredibly effective player
despite some of the physical limitations that you might assign
to him.
Speaker 3 (44:10):
But that is a tremendous amount of pressure.
Speaker 2 (44:12):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (44:13):
And I we don't know obviously who they will face
ship between the calves they're going to for the Pistons,
it feels that way, But I don't know, bridget Man,
the calves.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
Have been so damn pesky.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Iss going to show up or not? That's the question.
Speaker 5 (44:27):
Well, I think historically you would say, yeah, I would
probably fade James Harden in a game seven or fade
James Harden's team in a Game seven, because even in
this series against the Pistons, which again has been one
of the more competitive series, it's between the Wolves and
the Spurs, because the second round was just a bust
for the NBA as far as I'm concerned, like you
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may you may still get fireworks in the conference finals
and in the NBA Finals. God knows, the league office
would love to see New York, oh hell in the
NBA Finals. But I just I have been I have
been in pressed with the fight that the Calves have
shown they are the lesser team years.
Speaker 2 (45:04):
Have you watched the game? Was the last name?
Speaker 5 (45:07):
Not that just through the series, though not specifically the
most recent game.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Hmm, I'm going to disagree with you. I think you're
welcome to me.
Speaker 3 (45:16):
I just know you have been all that.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
God, yeah, I won't, I won't say anything. Further, I
think you don't lose by what do they lose by
thirty in a game where you could have ended the series.
Speaker 5 (45:31):
The thing with the Pistons, Kay Cunningham is just so
overwhelmingly great, like this feels like his moment to be
able to take take this series, to advance to kind
of set him set himself apart. I know he's been
obviously building something. They've been building something in Detroit. Piston's
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fans very excited about it. But Kay Cunningham really has
the opportunity to do something to put himself on a
different plane. It feels a little bit, maybe not quite
to this extent, but we talked about SGA's ascension.
Speaker 2 (46:03):
Yeah, I was thinking when you were saying last.
Speaker 5 (46:05):
Year's postseason, I think he could also describe a similar path, right,
similar parallels to what Kad Cunningham is experiencing.
Speaker 3 (46:13):
With the Pistons.
Speaker 2 (46:15):
Yeah. I think the Pistons what they were supposed to
be a year away right this year, like people thought,
you know, they had more time, and I think they've
out played and out competed the expectations of the outside world.
At least I don't know what people in Detroit are saying.
Kid Cunningham has been really funny, sorry not funny, really
fun really fun to watch, and Detroit isn't scared. I
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think for them to go to Cleveland and it was
twenty one points that they won by was really impressive.
And that's why I think in Detroit for Game seven,
they have the advantage absolutely, and James Harden just doesn't
show up in big moments. I don't understand whether he
wants to. Here's the thing, if I'm him, and if
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I'm one of these veteran guys, if I'm Lebron, if
I've been a guy around the league, either we're going
to lose in the first round or we're playing in
the finals. What is with this like middle middle rounds?
To me, it's like you already made it to the
second round. Work your butt off to get to the finals.
Speaker 5 (47:15):
Yeah, And and to your point, the Pistons just have
this don't quit mentality to them, and I don't.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
I don't want to say that.
Speaker 5 (47:23):
I like, in my head, I have this image of
James Harden quitter because that's not that's not that's the
image I have. But quitter, quitter is strong, right, Like he's.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
Not quitter maybe just like, uh, what's the word? When
you don't show up? Like just like get cold in the.
Speaker 5 (47:41):
He fades in in chokes, critical moments, chokes jokes I
think is better than quits. Yes, because I you know,
I have such a hard time maybe maybe you feel differently.
I have a really hard time with criticizing effort of
pro athletes, Uh not fully understanding.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
You know, what are they going through physically? What are
they going through mentally?
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Like I think I do think that there's and maybe
that's you know, a little too granola for some people
when you get into sports talk conversation. But I think
that some of that is fair With harden Man. There's
just such a track record of this guy vanishing in
critical moments where any of his teams could.
Speaker 3 (48:19):
Really use him.
Speaker 5 (48:20):
And then he has a game like what was game
was a Game two where he kind of screwed around
for the vast majority of that game that all of
a sudden he's got nineteen points in the fourth order
and he's helping pull it off. It's insane to me.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
I would love to go inside his brain. What is it?
What is what drives him? And like why do we
see this?
Speaker 3 (48:39):
It's just so strip clubs.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Okay, all right, okay, all right, end of the sentence.
All right, I don't have anything to say that.
Speaker 5 (48:50):
So the question becomes, can the Pistons pull this off?
I feel like we're in agreement.
Speaker 2 (48:55):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, I'm sorry Cavs. I'm sorry, James harden
Maybe your year is next year with Lebron.
Speaker 5 (49:02):
You know, for me, the Knicks in particular og Ananobi
and not just because he played for Indiana and I
have great bias and he's probably been one of the
better pro players from Indiana. Him dealing with that hamstring
injury in the series against the seventy six Ers, and
he's been quoted as saying bridge that he doesn't feel
as bad as the past when it happened, but just
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the fact that it is a player who has had
recurring hamstring injuries. He gets hurt late in that victory
over the seventy six ers. I believe that was game
two before they would go on to sweep the seventy
six ers, and they had ruled him questionable in both
games before ultimately ruling him out.
Speaker 3 (49:41):
He practiced today as.
Speaker 5 (49:43):
A matter of fact, based on the latest reporting from
the Knicks, and I think he's just such a critical
component to whomever they end up playing almost matchup regardless.
Speaker 3 (49:54):
They need him on both ends of the court.
Speaker 2 (49:56):
And I think that's where you see ress versus rust
come in Knicks favor in a time like this to
get some of those guys healthy. And whether he plays
or not in this next series, having the what he
missed two games and now having you know, the essentially
week off to just rest. I'm sure's you couldn't do
that if he was game seven, you know. So I
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think it's gonna work out in their favor. And again,
I just think the moment is New York right now,
and it's gonna be tough for Detroit to go in
there and take two games in New York. And we're
talking like they already beat the Calves because they did.
Speaker 3 (50:34):
It would be a significant suprise.
Speaker 2 (50:37):
If the Calves beat the Pistons, New York is sweeping them.
Speaker 5 (50:42):
You think that the Knicks would sweep the Eastern Conference
finals against the Calves.
Speaker 2 (50:46):
Put it on the record.
Speaker 3 (50:48):
I mean, it's all on the record. Rejoin is this recorded?
Speaker 5 (50:55):
It does tend to. It does tend to, you know,
end up in a number of different places.
Speaker 2 (51:01):
Should be a little more it comes out of my mouth.
Speaker 5 (51:03):
No, that's not how this medium works whatsoever. In fact,
you should be quite the opposite.
Speaker 3 (51:08):
Ian. Are you a Knicks fan? No, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (51:10):
I'm a Warriors fan.
Speaker 2 (51:11):
Actually weird jet, but you're a Jets Yeah, you had
a jet sleccher on.
Speaker 8 (51:17):
I always feel like such a scumbag when I have
to explain this, but it makes sense. Like I was
born in New York and my family moved to the
Bay Area, California when I was ten, and I was
really always into football, so big Jets fan growing up,
and I was never into basketball as a kid, And
then we moved and I started getting into basketball back
when Montellis was on the Warriors, and then they just
happened to start getting really really good just a few
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years later, So it worked out well for me. I
deserve I deserve that. I deserve that Warriors dynasty. With
being a Jets fan.
Speaker 5 (51:44):
You know what, I might be willing to grant him
that bridget because as hell, Like, if you were.
Speaker 2 (51:51):
A Giants and a Warriors fan, I'd be like, no, yeah,
but okay, I just feel like this is so weird
because I'm from Boston and I don't even know if
I can claim that anymore because I haven't lived there
like fully since I don't know, twenty fifteen. But I
just there's something about the Knicks that I'm like, I
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want to be a part of this. Isn't that weird
being from Boston. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 5 (52:15):
Okay, being from Boston for sure, because you win all
the time. Like you you are the Bruins, the Patriots,
the Celtics.
Speaker 3 (52:23):
You win literally all the time.
Speaker 2 (52:25):
We're having a rough go right now.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
Okay, oh please get out of here. We're having a
rough go. You are unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (52:31):
I think that if you are any other any other market,
I think it's acceptable to say, yeah, it'd be fun
to be out in the streets in New York or
be at the garden or all these different things right
to be able to take part in the celebration, just
specifically from Boston.
Speaker 2 (52:48):
Okay, let me just be clear. With them winning, I
remember being a Red Sox fan in two thousand and four.
There is nothing better than being a fan of a
losing team who starts to win. When you're a fan
of a winning team, sure it's nice, but it's just
expected and you feel happy all the time. When you
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come up from losing, there's no greater feeling and the
joy in the excitement and the camaraderie you have and
we're finally winning. That feeling, I would argue to say,
is better than being a fan of a team that
never loses.
Speaker 5 (53:26):
Oh no, we have had this conversation not you and I,
but Fitzy and me in previous iterations of the show.
Because for people who don't know I went to Indiana,
I never went to a football game in Indiana.
Speaker 3 (53:37):
Okay, nobody did.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
I didn't know you went to Indiana.
Speaker 3 (53:40):
Yes, I'm an alumni I and you know none of us.
Speaker 8 (53:44):
No, nobody goes, huh, you're an alumnus singular.
Speaker 2 (53:48):
So they clearly didn't have a good journalism pro Yes.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
You're a Jets Warriors fan and I wasn't in the
journalism was cool for what it's worth. Us is all
a very happy accident, but it ended up this way.
But I had never been to an Indiana football game.
In four years of college. I had never been to
an Indiana football game, certainly after I graduated college.
Speaker 3 (54:07):
And all of a sudden, they're the best team in
the sport. And I mean it was.
Speaker 5 (54:11):
It was a two year ascension, right, didn't completely happen overnight.
But like in a scale of sports stories, you don't
find a bigger turnaround. Bridget They were the most losing
college football program in history until they went undefeated this
year and then schlept that on down to Northwestern. Who
gets to hold that proud mantle after Indiana has been
just god forsaken For my entire life. The only two
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IU football games I'd ever been to were the semi
final in the Peach Bowl in Atlanta, and then I
went to the National Championship in Miami. I was like,
this is sick. Why have we not.
Speaker 2 (54:43):
Those Those are moments that you're going to remember for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 5 (54:48):
If you were I'll never get that feeling back. That's
why I think you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (54:51):
If you're a fan, let me just say it, because
I grew up a Patriots fan. By like the third
Super Bowl, I was like, all right, you know, like
you know, yeah, you're happy, but you're just like, all right,
you know, I'm gonna go to bed in the fourth quarter.
Tom's got this. I'm not saying I ever did that,
but you know it's if someone did that, you'd be like, okay,
all right.
Speaker 5 (55:12):
I think it's completely fair because like there is one
when you win at that rate, like that's a very
specific things.
Speaker 2 (55:19):
That's I also think it is so hard to win
the Super Bowl for any other sport, which is another
debate we could get into.
Speaker 5 (55:27):
Agrede, which is why it's insane that they made it
as routine as they did. But to your point, like
the Knicks, the Knicks are not Indiana Football, right, The
Knicks have had success, They're not the kind of success
that you think talking about the Celtics of the Lakers.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
They're not the Cleveland Calves either. They are the New
York Do you know how big the New York market is? Yes,
it's massive, and it would be like if the Cowboys
made it to the NFC Title Game or the Super Bowl.
I would say, I think even bigger. I think, honestly
even bigger. If the New York make it to the
NBA Finals, it would be bigger than if the Cowboys
made it to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Well, and then now I almost feel I almost feel
halfheartedly asking our Jets and Warriors fan resident Jets and
Warriors fan ian about this, But like the next feel
like the one team that the entirety of New York
rallies around, right, Like nobody's nobody's really a Nets fan,
are they?
Speaker 2 (56:23):
I hate to break it to you, but he just
ran ran out. But I would say.
Speaker 3 (56:28):
Yes, but just generally right, like you've got the Jets
and the Giants. I wouldn't.
Speaker 5 (56:31):
I don't know what the split is, but I would
imagine it's moored pretty close to even. Yeah, Yankees are
going to have more than Mets, but still the Mets
have a strong contingent.
Speaker 3 (56:39):
Like the New York Knicks are New York entirely.
Speaker 2 (56:42):
Yeah, I mean the Brooklyn Nets. It's like most people
don't even know Brooklyn's in New York.
Speaker 5 (56:47):
No, I still think about them as the New Jersey Nets.
I know that's been one hundred years ago, but.
Speaker 2 (56:50):
Still, Oh, that's like people who say Oklahoma or Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 5 (56:57):
Listen, every once in a while, you'll still catch me
saying San Diego Chargers.
Speaker 8 (57:00):
No.
Speaker 5 (57:01):
I know, it's just the worst. I know, but at
some point.
Speaker 2 (57:06):
They should move back to San Diego. Though that's a
whole nother conversation.
Speaker 5 (57:10):
Well, we can continue to have conversations. Speaking of the NFL.
Let's get into a little NFL discussion. Five teams, one
of them being the Jets do not have a single
primetime game this year. We'll talk about that on the
NFL's schedule release. She's Bridget Continent, I'm Buck Rising, It's
Fox Sports Radio, Blessed, I love trying to cash but
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the Tennessee Titans every time they score a touchdown, which
is not very often, they played them. What's worse, hemorrhoids,
are not having a primetime game in twenty twenty six.
The NFL is treating five teams like they've got a
case of the hemorrhoids. The Jets, the Raiders, the Dolphins,
the Titans here in Tennessee where I am, and the
Arizona Cardinals all without a primetime game when the NFL
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schedule was released this ass Thursday.
Speaker 3 (58:01):
She's Bridget Cotton.
Speaker 5 (58:02):
I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here with you on Fox
Sports Radio, Fitsie on assignment with the IFL doing some
games with Nate Tice today.
Speaker 3 (58:11):
So were you surprised that so many of.
Speaker 5 (58:14):
These teams, Bridget, were left out of primetime here in Tennessee?
I did not expect the Titans to ever primetime game
since they changed the format to where you are no
longer mandated to appear on Thursday Night Football because Amazon
is paying i don't know, like eighty million dollars a
game and they don't want to pay for a Titans
Jags game in Week three.
Speaker 3 (58:34):
So since they changed the rules on that.
Speaker 5 (58:36):
I was like, I don't think anybody's gonna want to
put them on TV here in Tennessee. I am stunned
to see the Jets and the Dolphins, even though they're
probably going to be worst football teams.
Speaker 3 (58:45):
In twenty twenty six, not be on primetime television once.
Speaker 2 (58:49):
So we're getting a lot of mixed signals from what
they want in primetime. Yes, I need somebody to tell
me directly, what do the Cowboys have over the NFL.
The Cowboys have six primetime games. The only team in
the league with more primetime games this season are the
(59:11):
Los Angeles Rams with seven. The Cowboys have six games,
along with the Packers, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Seahawks. Okay,
this is my issue. I understand that the Cowboys are
America's team. They are one of the biggest I'll argue
(59:31):
to say the biggest in terms of marketing, right in
terms of fandom, I would argue to say that New
York is a bigger media market. Even we can't even
throw in the Raiders along with the Dolphins in that
conversation of teams who get a big viewing if it
was played national. So you can't tell me that these
(59:55):
primetime games are earned, not given. But then you give
the Cowboys who have not been to an NFC Championship
game since nineteen ninety five. Nineteen ninety five, Okay, were
you even born then? Yes, we're you, Yes, but I
was too.
Speaker 3 (01:00:11):
We're the same age.
Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Okay, all right, but seriously we were two years old.
That's almost three decades. Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:00:16):
I know I've never I've never really bought into the
America's team thing because they've never been I mean, they
had a couple of moments obviously with Romo and Dak
that we've evolved and here's my yeah, whatever not in
the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Here's my thing. If you want somebody to become a
fan of something, you put it in primetime. There are
I mean the Raiders alone have great stories with Fernando,
with Kirk. I think just the you know, Max Crosby
is coming back and they have a new coach and
they have Tom Brady of it all. I think that
would definitely get a lot of attention. Why don't the
(01:00:49):
Raiders have a primetime game? Why don't the Jets? I
understand the Jets have been terrible, but people are still
going to watch, especially if it's an earlier game where
I don't know things are positive. And then the Dolphins, Yeah,
I get it. They don't have anybody, they have a
new coach, they have a new system, they have all
these new things. But there are still tons of Dolphin fans. Yes,
So the Titans and the Cardinals, I completely understand, and
(01:01:13):
I apologize to those teams that I'm not here defending
them right now. Maybe another year I will.
Speaker 3 (01:01:17):
You should not.
Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
I just don't understand how you're going to say it
is earned, not given. But we're going to give six
games to the Cowboys. Now, Look, let me be very clear.
I am not saying that the Cowboys should not be
in primetime. They absolutely should be in primetime. But six
times when.
Speaker 3 (01:01:33):
An outsize number. Yeah, when the.
Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Most a team is in primetime is seven, well, and.
Speaker 3 (01:01:39):
That's a historically hot right.
Speaker 5 (01:01:41):
I think it ties a historic high as far as
how times a single team will appear in primetime in
a single season. I want to continue this conversation if
we could, but first we'll let Martin catch us up
on what's happening in the world.
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Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Onto the football field.
Speaker 4 (01:03:30):
In soccer, Manchester City defeated Chelsea in the FA Cup Final,
won nothing at Wembley Stadium and NHL's Eastern Conference Round
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Speaker 5 (01:03:53):
She is Bridge of Condon. I'm Buck Rising, hanging out here.
We're with you on this Fox Sports Saturday. Just kind
of catching up on the NFL schedule, some of the
quirks about it and one such quirk, as we have
been talking about, is that five teams will not appear
in primetime again, the Jets, Raiders, Dolphins, Titans, and Cardinals.
It is for what it's worth, bridget here in Tennessee,
(01:04:14):
because you are correct that the Cardinals of the Titans,
I mean Tennessee last year and they were god forsaken.
They have been for some time, but they could not
even get on television in Memphis and in Knoxville on
the opposite entire state because nobody cares.
Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
About the Titans in Memphis and in Knoxville.
Speaker 5 (01:04:30):
So Memphis has always been more of a cowboys market,
and East Tennessee could not give a single solitary damn
about the NFL.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
That is college football country through and through, so in.
Speaker 5 (01:04:42):
The entirety of the state, Tennessee's the Titans really just
have Middle Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
That's the list.
Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
But it's the second straight season and this has only
happened one other time in the franchise's history. It's a
second straight season they have not been on primetime at all.
Cam Ward will not see a national television game as
a number one overall pick at quarterback unless and there's
always the possibility that one of these teams could get
flexed in, and there are some opportunities.
Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
It's a weird division in the AFC.
Speaker 5 (01:05:09):
South, but in a world where I think covering them
every day that the Titans are more likely to finish
again in fourth place than they are to win the division.
Cam Ward is going to be a third year player
before they even consider putting him on national television. We're
talking about Mendoza, this year's number one pick, cam Ward's
last year's number one pick. We understand that the Jets
(01:05:32):
are dealing with a situation where Gino is returned, Miami's
got Maleak, and Arizona's doing whatever the hell they want.
Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
I get very confused, but.
Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Still just hearing the Jets in this conversation the New.
Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
York Jets insane.
Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
You're telling me you're not putting the New York to
if you don't want to put the Jets versus the Titans,
or the Jets versus the Raiders or whatever. Sure, but
you're telling me you can't put the Jets versus I
don't know any other team that they put the Bills.
You can't do the Bills Jets in prime time.
Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
That's the thing.
Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
The the Jets, Like if we were looking at this
obviously on Thursday on the local show in the lead up, like, okay,
where could the Titans if they were going to get
a primetime game where.
Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
Let's move on from the Titans. It's not going to happen.
Speaker 5 (01:06:13):
No, But it's relating to the Jets because Sala obviously
I listen and you'll never hear more agreement from anybody.
Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
Not to be a Titans hater. I'm just saying, like
that argument I can understand, but with the Jets, I can't.
My brain can't comprehend it.
Speaker 3 (01:06:29):
But that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:06:30):
Like the Jet they had a they had a layup
opportunity because Week one is what it's Titans, Jets, it's
Sala and Aaron Glenn. Sala is now the coach of
the Titans, so there was the opportunity made.
Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
But one week one games. I get what you're saying,
but if you take the Titans out of it, I
mean Jets, Bears, Jets Raiders, I mean again, jetsailing.
Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
It's New York, your chargers charge.
Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
You not have to get humiliated onational television. Though, if
I'm the Jets, like h it's great, to watch your
team on national television.
Speaker 2 (01:07:06):
But where's the hope being there's.
Speaker 1 (01:07:08):
Not, there's nothing. They've squashed it all out of me
years ago.
Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
What's the hope you look at this Patriots fan trolling you.
Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
I mean, come on, there's always a chance.
Speaker 5 (01:07:17):
No, no, no, there's not. Not if you're the Jets of
the Dolphins, of the Titans.
Speaker 2 (01:07:20):
What about Jets Packers week too?
Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
No?
Speaker 8 (01:07:22):
I actually I agree that it is kind of crazy
that they don't have one. All I'm saying is, as
a fan, I'm good with sitting a year out, just
with how the amount of embarrassments that.
Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
People are still going to know that you suck whether
you play it, absolutely, it just won't be in front
of all of our No.
Speaker 5 (01:07:37):
But he's right, I mean, it's it has been so visceral, right,
it's Aaron Rodgers four snaps in after the American flag
thing like it has been.
Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
You're taking it here as a recovery.
Speaker 5 (01:07:48):
Yeah, not just not just like the losing, but it
is like the most humiliating situations you could come up
with that they have experienced many times.
Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Well three minutes in or whatever it was Achilles, yes, yes, yes, sorry, God,
way worse.
Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
And that's their Super Bowl window, right they go. I
mean they were just seven and ten.
Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
I remember I was in the studio for that game
and I was like, wait, is this real? That was
straight out of a movie. You could not you could
not come up on nine to eleven. He's carrying the flag.
Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
Yes, he's coming.
Speaker 5 (01:08:21):
He's coming out to a to a celebration of patriotism
and all these different things. Aaron Rodgers right, uniter of
us all with the American flag for that one moment
until fourth naps in. You know what Ian's point, I
think they deserve a year to kind of lick their
wounds in the in the darkness and then come back.
Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
All right, But you know what, if we're going to
play that, then if the Cowboys lose all of their
six primetime games, can they not be in primetime next year?
Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
No, because they've still got the biggest fan base in
the country.
Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
But do they have the most viewership?
Speaker 5 (01:08:57):
I consistently, yes, consist they are worth your ad spend
if you're Amazon Prime, more than any New York team.
I wouldn't I wouldn't know the exact divide on that,
but I would still give them more juice than your
average New York team because the Cowboys are I mean,
I understand they're I mean they're No, they're international, like
(01:09:18):
the Cowboys are an international brand.
Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
The Jets, I mean, do they.
Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
Ever play internationally?
Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
Though?
Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Where are they?
Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
Cowboys do not very often? Yeah, by the league, Jerry's
got Jerry's got them in a vice grip.
Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
But I feel like there are many other I just
know a lot of international fans because I've done some
work over at Sky Sports, and sure not a lot
of people say Cowboys when they're fans. Like you hear Jags,
you hear Patriots, you hear Lions, you hear a.
Speaker 3 (01:09:43):
Lot of Jets and Niners when I do a London game.
Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
So where are you getting that the Cowboys are big internationally?
Speaker 3 (01:09:48):
Oh? They are internationally viewed.
Speaker 5 (01:09:50):
They're a huge part of this streaming play that the
NFL is getting into.
Speaker 2 (01:09:55):
Okay, I guess I need to do some research in
that department.
Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
No, I mean, it's just it's one of those things
like and me and Fitzy talk about this a lot
because FITZI used to get like the actual metrics from ESPN.
Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, I would love to get the numbers.
Speaker 5 (01:10:07):
The numbers are the numbers are so slanted towards the Cowboys,
even against the New York Markets Giants or Chance, it's
outrageous just in terms of total footprint. Right, You're talking
about so many different elements of the marketing.
Speaker 2 (01:10:20):
Here's my question. Do when they are playing bad or
losing on primetime, does that hurt the brand? Or you
think the brand is so solidified it's been thirty years,
nobody cares whether they're good or bad. They're going to
tune in.
Speaker 5 (01:10:34):
I think as long as they don't bottom out, like,
as long as there's not outright three and fourteen type
of apathy that that the rage that the Cowboys being
middling fomens is almost as good as them winning it.
Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
What do you think would happen with a Cowboys Bills
Super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
Cowboys Bills? I think the world would implode, right Buffalo.
I think Cowboys fans would be scared of Bills fans personally.
Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
But I just think that there be in your opinion,
that is the most watched super Bowl, Right, Like, what
are what other two teams would bring in the draw?
Cowboys Bills? Would?
Speaker 5 (01:11:09):
I really think that Cowboys Patriots would have some juice.
Speaker 3 (01:11:14):
If I had, But.
Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Again, the Patriots have been there, done that, sure.
Speaker 3 (01:11:19):
But they're still like that.
Speaker 5 (01:11:20):
If if the Patriots, if the Cowboys have.
Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
More fans than the Bills, like I want to know, No, no, no.
Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
I think a lot. It's not even that. I think
it's the opposite.
Speaker 5 (01:11:28):
I think there are so many people who are heavily
invested in watching the Patriots lose Bridge.
Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
Oh oh okay, right, yes, yes, totally totally.
Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (01:11:39):
If the Cowboys are America's team, then the Patriots or
Darth Vader.
Speaker 2 (01:11:44):
Yes, yes, so you think Cowboys Patriots would be the.
Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Most you would want the Bills to going to prey
on the Bills.
Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Down most viewed Super Bowl? What two teams?
Speaker 5 (01:11:56):
It's probably Bills because that that would be the intrigue
of Josh Allen finally breaking through, Right, he's finally beaten
Mahomes and Burrow and whatever to get now the pressure
of the Chiefs. Cowboys would be up there for sure,
But I do think the Bills are a bigger draw
at this point.
Speaker 3 (01:12:10):
We've seen the Chiefs, right, yeah, yeah, it would be
for Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Think like what would be Bill's Lions?
Speaker 5 (01:12:18):
I think that Detroit is obviously a great story, but Cowboys, no,
it's there is not a second. There's really not a
close second.
Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Because the Cowboys have not been to the Super Bowl.
When was their last Super Bowl win?
Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
It's in the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
Yeah, so social media, none of the what was it
ninety five they won in yeah, ninety five seasons. Nothing
that we have today existed back then, and the fans,
I understand. And for people who are listening who don't know,
which maybe not everyone knows. The reason why people are
huge Cowboys fans, especially on the East Coast, is because
(01:12:55):
in certain areas, teams didn't exist and the Cowboys just
played on the cable when you had like two channels.
I don't know what that was like, but they say,
like you could only just flip one or two. But
they say, they say, my great great grandparents tell me.
And so people became fans of the Cowboys because that's
what you could get, especially like in the DC and
the Carolina Panthers like areas.
Speaker 3 (01:13:15):
Oh here, half of them are Steelers fans.
Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah, with Steelers and Cowboys, Yeah, yeah, exactly. So I
just wonder what a Cowboys Super Bowl would do in
twenty twenty seven, when I think I think.
Speaker 3 (01:13:27):
It would be a rocket ship. I think it would
be a monster.
Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
And you know how they put out the viewership after
a Super Bowl, and you know it's always trending up.
It has been in the past couple of years, I believe,
just because more people are becoming fans. How much of
a jump do you think that number would take. Do
you think it would be normal, like just from last
year to the year before, just the same level of
increment increase, or do you think it would be like
a massive.
Speaker 3 (01:13:50):
Like we're talking about something again.
Speaker 5 (01:13:53):
To your point, generations have not seen right, but they
still have that They've been indoctrinated into this fan base
for reasons that if you're like, if you're seventeen, you're
trying to figure out why the hell are we Cowboys fans?
Speaker 1 (01:14:03):
Again?
Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Like this is not fun.
Speaker 5 (01:14:05):
But if they were to do it one, it would
further grow that fan base into something astronomical, and it
would only I think it would be the biggest jump
you've seen year over year in the Super Bowl in
this in this century.
Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
I'm kind of like, there's I'm split with how I feel.
Part of me is like I hope it never happens
because I'm so annoyed that this brand has received so
much recognition and tension for not doing anything. But the
other part of me is like, let's see it, like,
let's see how insane.
Speaker 5 (01:14:36):
I want to see it because if they lose, oh
my god, it would be do you.
Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Think that it would be that bad? If they lose, though,
because they made it there and they won the NFC title.
Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
People would melt down because then it would be yea,
oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
You don't think the Cowboy fans would be like, well
we made it back.
Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
Context matters.
Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
But if if they came up short in a close game,
I think they would get killed. I think they would
be the talking point for you know, the six months
after anyway, we you got to get to Wood you' rather?
Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
We've gone way too long. She's Bridge of Condon on.
Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
Cowboys or the Cowboys, because we're talking about him for
twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (01:15:06):
Go so normally at the end of the show we
play a little game it's called would you rather? But
we're not going to do that today because we've got
breaking news. Bridge of Condon is in for Jason Fitz.
I'm buck Rising wrapping it up here with you. You
can continue to listen to Fox Sports Radio to talk
about said breaking news, and the breaking news is cour
(01:15:29):
to see if Tom Pelasero first on it. Four time
NFL MVP Aaron Rodgers and the Steelers agreed to terms
on a one year deal. He tweets sources to NFL network,
though I don't think that's technically true anymore. Now entering his.
Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
CFL network, Okay, we're just NFL network on ESPN.
Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
Oh okay, well, yes, NFL network very good anyway, Now
entering his twenty second NFL season, which again is crazy,
Rogers reunites with Mike McCarthy for one more run in Pittsburgh. Bridget,
are you happy that Aaron Rodgers watch has concluded?
Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Yes, I'm happy. But you know what's interesting. I was
listening to The Herd and Colin was talking about how
he didn't think that Rogers and McCarthy had this relationship
that's being portrayed, which I agree with, and so I
started thinking, literally just this morning, that maybe he's gonna
go to Arizona, maybe he's gonna go somewhere else. So
(01:16:25):
Wolf though, yeah, yeah, well, I'm actually thinking we're going
to get a lot of good drama. Because he was
talking about, you know, some of the huddles that people
remember being in when Aaron Rodgers would get a play
call from Mike McCarthy and would be very annoyed by it. Now,
I think, from the outside world, this is exciting. The
(01:16:47):
Steelers are going to the Super Bowl. Amazing, amazing, amazing.
I gotta feel like it's about to be an implosion.
Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
In what sense?
Speaker 5 (01:16:56):
Because I think of I think of it as neither.
I think of it as part I think of it
as being stuck in the mud. I think of it
as being just a nothing truly, Like if they win
the division, okay, it's because the Ravens screwed something up
at the end, like they did this past year with
that field goal miss. Right, the Steelers were not a
playoff team. They did not win that division outright. They
got lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Absolutely, I mean it was the Ravens Division. What do
I mean by implosion. I think they're gonna win a
lot of games. Early. They opened with the Falcons. I
think they beat the Falcons. I think they beat the Patriots.
The Bengals. You can't convince me that the Bengals are
good because I always buy into the Bengals, and I
always get I always am in trouble because they never
(01:17:40):
I think they're gonna start strong, and I think there's
gonna be a lot of hope in Pittsburgh's one of
those markets like New York, where the fans are crazy,
and I think something's gonna happen, and there's gonna be
like an expose or something that comes out about the
real actual relationship with between these two and it's just
going to be a downfall. And I think retirements should
have happened a couple of years ago.
Speaker 5 (01:18:01):
He is going to play here in Nashville. It's their
week seventeen game. It's the last last game at the
old Titan Stadium before they shut it down for the
new thing.
Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Maybe that's tom Titans can win.
Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
Yeah, I don't know. We'll see. I'm much less in
on them than I would be the Steelers. This is
a This is a real conundrum, I think for Steelers
fans because the Mike McCarthy thing from Mike Tomlin to
Mike McCarthy does not feel like a significant upgrade right
from running it back with Aaron Rodgers at forty two,
(01:18:36):
does not feel like a difference. Making the difference that
the Steelers need is an organizational reset that they don't
seem to one energy. Yes, and they this is the definition.
I mean, he's literally a Graybeard. It's not just Team Graybeard.
He's literally a Graybeard at forty two years old.
Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
I think the one who gets the led laugh is
Mike Tomlin sitting back like, all right, you guys think
this is going to work enjoy.
Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
With a raise and a very comfortable television set, not
you know, out there in the wind and elements of Pittsburgh. Yes,
so that is the news that has just dropped on
us at the very end of the show.
Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
But how look, Steelers, Cowboys, Aaron Rodgers, I.
Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Think Bills are still better.
Speaker 5 (01:19:22):
I think it's still the Bills' I really, bridget I
think you hit it on the head the first time.
Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Don't overthink it, I know, but I just think if
Aaron Rodgers is going to keep playing, I want to
see success just for like, I don't know, for entertainment purposes,
you know, like you're.
Speaker 3 (01:19:35):
Against him by any stretch of the imagination. I want
him to be good.
Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, you just don't believe it, and I'm with you,
but I think they're going to start out good.
Speaker 5 (01:19:42):
Well, it's going to be a fascinating science experiment. We
appreciate you guys hanging out here with us on Fox
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