Dan Beyer and George Wrighster talk Trey Lance vs Dak Prescott and more!

Dan Beyer and George Wrighster break down the Cowboys acquiring Trey Lance, and react to Dak Prescott’s comments about the newest member of Dallas’ QB room. The guys talk El Segundo winning the Little League World Series, Viktor Hovland’s victory at the FedEx Cup and so much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
I know there are a lot of unofficial ends to summer.
George and I get in together to talk three hours
of football basically, sure feels like an unofficial end of summer.
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(00:30):
And two weeks from right now, I have a feeling
we'll be talking George about the craziness that has happened
in Week one. But with the preseason wrapping up tonight
with the final preseason game between the Saints and the Texans, Yeah,
we're getting close to real football in the NFL. By this.

(00:52):
What up, George? Sorry? What what's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
No?

Speaker 4 (00:56):
I was saying, are you excited by this pre seas
in action that we're watching right now?

Speaker 2 (01:02):
No? I am not. I have not. I am excited
to be back with you. It's it's a great time.
It was the summer successful, a summer success, summer of George.
Was it everything you wished it was? And more it was.
It was solid.

Speaker 5 (01:21):
It was a eight and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Summer could have been a ten, but uh yeah, yeah,
it was a solid eight and eight and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It'll do all right, Okay, how about your fall is
going real well though? Also, yeah, your unofficial end of
summer probably happened like a couple of weeks ago already.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
Right, yeah we are, we are two high school football
games in al righty, things going in the right directions.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
So everything's good, all right, good good. How would you rate,
on the scale of one to ten, Trey Lance's tenure
with the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I would rate it for Trey Lance a two mm
hmm actually yeah, yeah, two out of ten because the
only way it could have been worse is if he
had had a career ending injury. Like that's literally the
only way it could have gone worse. But for the

(02:14):
forty nine ers, I would give it a. I would
give it an eight and a half. They made it
to the NFC Championship Game and they without them and
they you know, we're in the NFCS well yes, back
to back, so yeah, so it's going well for them.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
So you're you think you're of the of the ILK
that Trey Lance failed the forty nine ers in the
forty nine no milk new new, new, new, new new.

Speaker 4 (02:41):
I am of the ILK that like that the forty
nine ers are fine. It that even if Trey Lance
were playing well for them, they likely wouldn't be in
a better position.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Than they are right now. Yep, that's fair.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
The issue though, is I do hate, though, how the
forty nine ers have handled this situation. You draft a
quarterback who's twenty years old, who hasn't played a lot
of football, He gets hurt his rookie year, comes back
second year, you name him the starter, the unquestioned starter.

(03:18):
He plays one game in the worst conditions that you
could possibly play in last season, and the game is
the Chicago right Yes, and then the beginning of the
second game he breaks his leg. So you have no
idea how this would have worked. And Kyle Shanahan said
we were going to build an offense around him. So

(03:40):
then you get Brock Party starting right. And then over
the offseason, who do you think they were building who
do you think they were building the offense around.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
This past offseason? Yes, probably Brock Party exactly.

Speaker 4 (03:57):
So when Kyle Shanahan said, and then he hold on
itself when he said we were building an offense around
trade Trey lance, that means playing the trade strengths, helping
him be successful early, knowing that he hadn't played a ton,
letting him grow as the season went went along. So
if that's the case, like why this Debbie downer, Oh,

(04:21):
he's just not looking of course he's not looking good.
It's not in an offense that's conducive to him. I
guarantee you that during the off season there weren't very
many quarterback runs or getting a quarterback on the edge,
or or using run pass ability that that that you

(04:43):
would would have had if they were building the offense
for him. Look at Lamar Jackson with Greg Roman his
first few years. Imagine trying to put Lamar Jackson in
Todd Munkin's system that he's running right now, which by
all accounts he's running extremely successfully. Imagine trying to put
him in that his first couple of years in the

(05:06):
league when he needed to grow and was leaning on
his athleticism.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
More when't worked exactly.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
So that's why when people are like, oh, Trey's a bum.
He can't put dude, Rock Perdy and Sam Darnold have
thrown seventeen hundred passes a piece in games since twenty eighteen,
and Trey Lance has thrown four hundred and twenty and
he hasn't even been able to practice because he's been

(05:32):
hurt his rookie in his second year, So the development
is a little bit behind where you would expect him
to be, and you're not the tailoring and offense around him,
So of course there's a lack of success.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
See you said something off the top that I think
is what makes this show such a unique situation. It's
because the forty nine ers are a winning team, They
are a successful franchise, they have been winning. But the
way this situation seemingly has been handled and and to
the point of just cutting your losses from Trey Lance

(06:09):
and making it a bad pick, I think that's one thing.
This seems to be a bigger deal, right, because not
only is it a mistreating of Trey Lance, there's also
this weird Jimmy garoppolo story that has been around the
franchise for you know, for for the last couple of years,
and them speaking candidly about Jimmy g being traded and

(06:30):
not being there and then him actually coming back, and
really Rock Party honestly falls in their laps.

Speaker 4 (06:37):
Like notice that they haven't really liked the quarterback like
that noon Like Jimmy was supposed to be the guy.
I don't know, Trade, I don't know, and Nick Mullins
and everybody else in between.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Ah, I don't know. They're gonna They're gonna fall out of.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Love with with with with Rock Party too.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
That's the That's the funny thing about Mullins though, and CJ.
Bethard because Bethard is drafted. They traded up to get
him in twenty seventeen in the third round. Of course,
in the twenty seventeen draft, you know, you have Patrick
Mahomes and Deshaun Watson top quarterbacks. But Kyle Shanahan loved CJ. Bethard,
And obviously we know about the rumors of him wanting

(07:18):
Mac Jones or favoring mac Jones over Trey Lance in
the twenty twenty one draft. But they had Nick Mullins
for a while as well. And this is two or
three years ago, George, the teams were calling Nick Mullins
and I haven't read a piece of Michael Lombardi. You know,
the former NFL GM that does a lot of media.
I said a few years ago that multiple teams were
calling on the Niners for Nick Mullins and they were like, uh, oh,

(07:42):
we're gonna keep them. And to me, it's weird because
it seems like they play favorites. Like there's like Jimmy
Garoppolo came in one of his first five starts for
the Niners, like it was off and running, then blows
out his knee and it seemingly as downhill overthrows, you know,
Emmanuel Sanders in the Super Bowl, everything that came with it.

Speaker 6 (08:04):
Rende will turn on you quick, yes, yes, And that
is what that is the part that sticks with me.
So like when we're talking about like who failed who
I think, I think you're right in the in the
fact of yeah, the Niners are fine, they're winning, but
are they really taking care of their players? And and
did Trey Lance get to get a fair shot, because

(08:25):
all of the information that I've heard.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Is yeah, Trey Lance wasn't doing this. Trey Lance is
just not getting it. Well, where do you think that
information is coming from? Exacting that information out there? And
that's the problem that I have with this whole thing.
Is Listen, you're right, You're one hundred percent correct. Trey
Lance probably never really had a chance considering his injuries.
And if the Niners wanted to cut bait, that's fine.

(08:48):
You know what, take your medicine. You're one of the
best teams in the NFL. You can win a Super
Bowl this year. I'm not worried about the collateral and
the damage of blowing the third overall pick in the NFL.
It's not what it was, you know, ten fifteen years ago.
But yeah, just of what you're saying, of trying to
put a guy into a system that you know, maybe
didn't necessarily work and then having these leaks and out,

(09:09):
it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And like,
when it comes down to it, I'm like the forty
nine Ers failed Trey Lance, just like they failed Jimmy
Garoppolo and needed him to kind of save their season
for a little while last year. And that's a problem.
And I feel that the Niners could so much love
because they're winning games and oh, Kyle Shanahan's this, and
Kyle Shanahan's that, he's so great. Look at this track record,

(09:30):
and I don't see this in a lot of other
teams this. I don't know if dysfunctioning the right word.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
George, but no, no, you are one hundred percent right there.
You don't see this like like, if you look at
what the Jets are doing with with Zach Wilson, probably
twenty percent of the reason why they brought Aaron Rodgers
in is to is so he can teach Zach Wilson.

(09:55):
Like that was twenty percent of the reason because they realized,
oh wait, we failed him in the big not by
not having even one single quarterback in the room that
had thrown an NFL pass or knew how to prepare,
knew how to show him, how to lead, knew anything
and now and everything last year. Oh you even after
he wasn't starting. You haven't seen the last Zach Wilson.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
You haven't.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
You have it, You have it and that and that's
why you see Aaron Rodgers actually taking this kid under
his wing, because there's something there.

Speaker 5 (10:26):
And when you look at the.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
At the Niners and this team that's revolving door at quarterback.
And I said this earlier this this week, Dan about
that rock party. He had a good seven games. He
had one three hundred yard game and that was in
the playoffs. But a large part of his success is

(10:51):
due to that smothering defense and the fact that you know,
they run the ball extremely well. So that helps a
young quarterback be successful. But you have to remember that
NFL coordinators they get the book on you and then
they try to make you play left handed. Two years ago, Dan,

(11:14):
do you remember when Patrick Mahomes was having quote unquote
his worst season of all time at forty eight hundred
yards and thirty seven touchdown, Yeah, fifteen picks because he
couldn't throw it deep because everybody was going to force
him to dink and dunk.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
And you know what he did.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
He adjusted same thing with Tom Brady when he was
getting pressured more and all this stuff to get the
ball out quick. And we will see through the first
six games if Rock Party can play left handed, because
they are going to attack him at the things that
they that he seemingly does poorly or doesn't do as well.

(11:51):
So then that's how we're going to see if Rock
Purty is that or they may be in a quarterback
conundrum again and trying to lean on Sam Darnold.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
Which is okay, good luck, buddy, it is it is
such great pr as well to be like, oh, we're
the ones who fixed Sam Darnold, right, you know the
Jets couldn't do it, Panthers had had trouble doing it.
We're the ones we did as the forty nine ers,
And I think forty nine ers defenders would also say, well, hey, yeah,

(12:20):
Trey Lance didn't work out, but brock Purty did. And
that's what Kyle Shanahan does. And the only thing I
would say that that was, if that was the case,
then why wasn't brock Purty the number two when Trey
Lance went down? That you needed to bring Jimmy Garoppolo bit.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Exactly look at look at what's his name at the
same thing Shanahan did with RG three and Kirk Cousins.
Maybe it's that he just likes a particular type of
quarterback and doesn't really know how to play to the
strengths of somebody liking RG And granted, I know our
RG three's leg fell off, but and that caused a.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Clear situation in his career.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
But there may be something about Kyege Shanahan not knowing
how to play or how to you know, deal with
a quarterback like that.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
It reminds me when Danny Ains is getting so much
praise in Boston as the GM and they couldn't win
all the deals that they were doing, George, all the
trades and ye, you know, like he's a genius. Yeah,
look at these deals.

Speaker 5 (13:27):
Nobody can make these deals.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
He flees everybody to the same spot that everybody else
was at.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yes, Yes, And I get that sense with the forty
nine ers, like we think they're going to be in it,
We think they're going to be a top team in
the NFC and have a legitimate chance at winning Super
Bowl fifty eight. But I feel like we look away
from this, you know, from from the bad stuff, and
this stuff just isn't happening to other teams. And that's
what makes it such a It makes it such a

(13:53):
juicy topic as well, because I do think people take sides,
and I just I don't know if Trey Lance is
going to be a great quarterback. I have no idea.
I just don't feel for especially for what he had
under his belt collegiately, which wasn't much. George, I mean,
you used the Lamar Jackson. At least we knew Lamar
Jackson won a Heisman. You know, played played at Louisville

(14:15):
had a Heisman Trophy season, like with Trey Lance, who
was so much on speculation and possibility that we still
don't even know really what is there. And I just
I don't think that he got a fair shake in
San Francisco. Doesn't matter for the forty nine ers because
they're a contender, but I think the conversation is juicy
because of all the different elements that fall into him.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
Yes, and I hope the young man. I know he's
going to start out at the number three in Dallas,
but I hope that learning from Dak or whatever comes
of this, that he gets a chance to grow and
then gets a legitimate shot. Because if he gets a
legitimate shot, I couldn't be any more happy. And then

(14:57):
you let the chips fall where they may.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
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We beg.

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(16:56):
League Baseball, the NFL, college football, and basketball. Those are
the four topics that we have covered in easy As one,
two three four. One of the topics we're gonna talk
about right now is college football. Awful morning for Arizona
State football players finding out, Oh my god, finding that's

(17:19):
where George. I don't know that's George the player, but
it sure feels like it's George the former player comes out.
The Arizona State football team was notified this morning that
they were self imposing a bowl ban for the twenty
twenty three season. That is the season that for them
starts Thursday night when they take on Southern Utah, So

(17:40):
there is no postseason no bowl possibilities for Arizona State,
all because of the possible sanctions coming down from infractions
caused when Herm Edwards was the head coach. The bowl
ban for the twenty twenty three season really hurts the
twenty or so seniors that are on the squad. And

(18:01):
that's the conversation that I'm hearing a lot about is
these twenty players that maybe had an opportunity to go
elsewhere they wanted in the off season, a player, you know, transfer,
do whatever. Now they won't be able to participate in
a bowl game. If Arizona State was going to be
able to play in a bowl game, new head coach
Kenny Dillingham is there. The program under Dillingham, I think

(18:25):
a lot of people believe is in the it's going
to be a good program with him at the helm.
But they got to pay the piper. Now bullband in
twenty twenty three. George, where do I start with this? Dan?
So it's with Herm. You want to start with the
decision by the start with the NC double A.

Speaker 4 (18:44):
So this bowl band is to preempt whatever n C
double A punishment is coming now. Arizona State broke the
rules during COVID just like you know, Jim Jim Harbaugh,
other people did. They were kind of flagrant with some
of the stuff that they did with flights and stuff

(19:05):
like that. But here's the issue them, the NCAA, which
wants you to believe that amateurism is real, and that
while my gosh, if these players start getting money, it's
gonna just ruin college sports, even though it's a even
though it's professional sports for everybody else involved except for

(19:25):
the people who are actually.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Driving the revenue.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
And then well, it's an exchange for a scholarship for
an education. Well how about when North Carolina and other
schools weren't educating those players and putting him in sham
classes and forcing him.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
To do it?

Speaker 5 (19:41):
Oh or Baylor, the things that happened at Baylor.

Speaker 4 (19:44):
Oh, you don't have any power to do anything there, right,
something of actual substance. But Jim Harbaugh, the recruit getting
a meal that he shouldn't get.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Dude, stop it.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
It is gross, it is lame, it is weak.

Speaker 4 (20:01):
And then the n CUBA is going was going to
or is going to level some levee some punishment at
some point in time.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
And all of the people who were.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Involved with the the the players that were involved in either.

Speaker 5 (20:15):
Are chef transferred or don't go there. The head coach
is gone.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
The only people that are there are the president of
the school and the athletic director Ray Anderson, who presided
over all of this. Everybody else is gone, Dan, and
then you're gonna levy a bowl band.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
This is like when they vacate wins.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
It is stupid. It is stupid.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
And then Arizona State's trying to preempt that now on
on their on their end though they're actually doing a
smart thing because.

Speaker 5 (20:47):
Dan, they weren't going to.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
No bowl game, no way, sure this team wasn't going
to no bowl game. So so they're they're they're self
imposing a punishment in a in a year where they
know they weren't going to a ball game and be
a miracle if they made a bowl game.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
But it's still weak. I it stinks for the for
those seniors, it does. There's there's nothing that can be
done about that.

Speaker 4 (21:09):
It's the timing though, it is, but they know the
play next Saturday, and then the wind just gets taken
out of your sales, Like, oh, if we turn out
to even though nobody expects us to make a bowl game.
If we turn out to make a bowl game, bro,
it doesn't even meant.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
But you know, you know what, I blame for the
timing of it. And it's awful that it's this week,
and it's awful that it happened this morning. I think
what they, you know, wanted to do, is they want
to you know, if they lose to Southern Utah on
Thursday night, it's easy to throw something up there as
a sacrificial lamb if you will, Well, obviously it's not
gonna be our season, so we'll impose it now. I

(21:49):
think they wanted to get in front of it. But
I also think George, they needed to get this out
of the way before joining the Big Twelve. And that's
the part of it where it's like, because of everything
that is transpired this summer and really in the last
what month or six weeks that we've we've had of
conference realignment, I think that's a problem with this. So like,

(22:10):
if you're Arizona State in the heck, if you're the
Big Twelve and you're opening your arms to the school
and welcome, welcoming them in the last thing you want
is an institution that's under NCAA investigation and may not
have a bowl, you know, to play in their first
season in the league. So I think that they felt like,
all right, let's get this out of the way now
to your point in a season that we probably aren't

(22:32):
going to make a bowl game, and the twenty people,
the seniors on the team, of the ones who are
gonna have to pay the price. The tough part about
it is Tennessee got an eight million dollar fine for
their infractions. There was no postseason band the way happened.

Speaker 4 (22:46):
Paying they were paying players in McDonald's bags like they
were actually handing out money.

Speaker 5 (22:54):
And whatever whatever as you did.

Speaker 4 (22:57):
And I have been privy to some private conference conversations
about what actually went on. It ain't worse than what
went on in Tennessee, I'm telling you that.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
And I thought when that when that fine was handed out, George,
I said, you know what, that actually makes some sense
because of what you talked about the coaches not being there,
you know, maybe players, recruits, you know, assistant coaches, nobody's
there to take the penalty. That the fine would be
on the institution that employed them, and that that to

(23:27):
me makes a lot more sense. I kind of thought
after the Tennessee ban, that there would be no you know,
there wouldn't be this postseason ban anymore. It'd be better
to hit the pocketbook than it would be to penalize
the current team or the current members of the team.
But I just wonder if Arizona State saying, like, all right,
this is the lesser of the two evils. Really sorry

(23:47):
twenty seniors, but we're not going to give a eight
million dollars first season. That wasn't gonna mount to much anyway.
For Dillingham by all accounts, it's part of his contract
that he now gets another year extended on that, so
he's not hurting.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
It was like, hell yeah, buddy, gotty yatty.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
So it stinks, it really does. And I just I
saw outrage so much on social media today, and I
get it on the surface, but I think when you
dig into what's happening at Arizona State, what's ahead of
Arizona State, what could be happening, it really stinks for
those twenty seniors. But in the end, it was probably
the best scenario for them to lay down such a

(24:33):
substantial punishment that you said was likely unattainable with the
team that they had this season anyway, So I actually think.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
That, but stranger things happen. Stranger things happen, don't expect
them to be I would be highly surprised. I mean, like,
on a scale from one to ten college football surprised.
I would be an eight and a half or nine
if they made a bowl game. But things like this happened.

(25:03):
You you like sneak a couple of close wins, and
you end up in a in a place where your
freshman quarterback Jaden Rashata, who's starting this year as a
true freshman, and and if you remember he was, he
was a kid that was going to Florida, had the

(25:24):
nil deal and then that whole thing blew up. That's
him and now he's starting over there. And when you
look at their schedule, they got Northern Arizona and Eastern
Michigan in the non conference, so those should be wins.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Then they got at Oklahoma State.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
If they can mess around and sneak Arizona State Oklahoma State.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
Now you got a chance at six wins.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Now, I mean it's gonna be uphill sledding with Utah
usc Uh. They do avoid Oregon though, but that uh,
And then Washington and back to back to back games.
Then they got Stanford Colorado. Those are winnable games.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
But we're talking about missing on on the Jimmy Kimble Ball.
That's what we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (26:10):
Yeah, but it's a good experience for the kids.

Speaker 8 (26:16):
Was that I didn't think that was such a that
was such a bad shot. I thought that that was
that was a shot that was that was but it was.
But like that's George.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
If they had that magical season next year where let's
just say, I don't know, they get into the top twelve,
you know, like you're you're looking at Dan, this is
college football.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
This is not a golf where like you can run
up a good tournament as like an amateur or something. No, No,
there comes a point where you know, it's like it's
like Wisconsin playing against Michigan or Ohio State. At some
point in time, you just run out of talent.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
But wouldn't it but when the play and I'm not
I'm just saying you take of all the scenarios we're
talking about missing out on the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl here,
and even if they just exceeded expectations have a nine
win season, Vegas, maybe you know, like maybe the Vegas Bowl,
but when the playoff expands to twelve, you don't want

(27:19):
to be sitting there being like, man, you know the
year that Ohio State when when they imposed their bowl
band and they went undefeated, they should have done it
the year before when Trussell got fired and Luke Fickle
at the contact interm. You should have did it exactly.
So then you have this unbeaten season that you know
culminates with nothing at the end of it. Like, that's
the thing that Arizona State is I think at least

(27:41):
preventing in this case. Check this out.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
I am not taking any punishment prior to the NCAA
Levy Levy it it could it could be years.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
We could fight it.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
They by the by the tom nacksy come to a punishment.
The damn nc like football may not even be well
in reality, the football Championship is not even governed under
the nc double A, so like they really don't even
have any power. And look at the way Kansas basketball,

(28:16):
LSU basketball, and Arizona all thumbed their nose up despite
their coaches being caught on tape. Bro I'm not giving
in to that. There is nothing that they could say
to me that would that would be you know, scary
to me.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
It's not like when I was in college.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Dan we ended up under investigation and with the NC
double A and I had to sit in one of
them scary meetings where are like, we will take your
eligibility away, but you know, you stand up, you don't fold,
You'll be all right.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Interesting. I'd love to hear more about that. Can you
can you shed us some light on what that's all about?
Oh man, yes, okay, yes, yes, let's do it. After
that was a long time ago, so that's a yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 9 (29:17):
Hi, guys reunited and it feels so good.

Speaker 10 (29:23):
It's been a while, it's been a yeah, there we go.
That's right, guys.

Speaker 9 (29:29):
We've got some baseball happening right now and an exciting
game between the Rangers and the Twins.

Speaker 10 (29:33):
They're tied to five apiece.

Speaker 9 (29:35):
It's the bottom of the eleventh inning, and there's been
two Grand slams in this game. I mean, that's how
you do it. First it was Jonah him of the Rangers.
Then it was Royce Lewis of the Twins. Still tied again,
bottom of the eleventh inning. Twins have a man on
first space.

Speaker 10 (29:49):
They're about to start the bottom of the of the
eleventh thinning.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Does I ever tell you about the night that I
had three Grand slams?

Speaker 10 (29:54):
Is that a drink?

Speaker 2 (29:55):
No, it's an at Denny's. Ye in college, three am.

Speaker 10 (30:03):
That was the place to go. That really was a
grand I've never had a Grand Slam, to be honest
with you.

Speaker 11 (30:09):
What is it?

Speaker 10 (30:10):
Breakfast?

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (30:11):
Oh no, no, thank you? No goods. Yes, I'm not
a big fan of breakfast food anyway. Anyway, you guys
can crucify me later.

Speaker 9 (30:16):
All that.

Speaker 7 (30:16):
I know.

Speaker 10 (30:17):
I'm not a big fan of breakfast food, like eggs
and all that. I just not so much.

Speaker 9 (30:21):
The Reds and the Diamondbacks are tied at what apiece
top of the sixth inning, and the Mariners are blanking
the Royals at home, three zero, Julio Rodriguez with a
two run homer. It is the bottom of the six inning.
Earlier today, the Dodgers beat the Red Sox. That's right,
seven four Mookie bets homers everywhere, even over the Green Monster.

Speaker 10 (30:38):
The Freddie Freeman doubled twice in.

Speaker 9 (30:40):
The game, so now he's officially the Dodgers single season
franchise leader in doubles with fifty and I don't even
think it's September yet, guys, so he's probably gonna.

Speaker 10 (30:50):
Break that even more. The Rays held on to beat
the Yankee seven to four, but don't worry. The bench
is cleared twice in the game, first after.

Speaker 9 (30:57):
Randy Atrosatina was hit by a pitch, and then literally
a few minutes later after he stole second and third base.
What are the umpires doing. You can't call balls and
strikes and you can't stop fights.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 9 (31:07):
The bench is cleared twice in a matter of minutes,
and the Rocky snaff the Oriels four game winning streak,
coming out on top four to three. The Tour Championship
had a brief weather delay or earlier today. Victor Hovlin,
though is still in the lead. He's been in the
lead twenty four under par overall, Xander Schoffle is five
strokes back.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
He was six Now he's five strokes back in second place.

Speaker 9 (31:30):
In the NFL, it was announced earlier today that the
Miami Dolphins and defensive lineman Zach Steeler have agreed on
a three year extension worth up to thirty eight million dollars,
with twenty million guaranteed. The NFL Network reports that the
Dolphins and defensive tackle Christian Wilkins were unable to come
to terms on a new deal, and then enter Miami
announced that Leonella Messi is gonna miss at least three

(31:52):
games this season because of national team duties.

Speaker 10 (31:55):
But they don't know what games. Actually, they do know,
but they won't tell you.

Speaker 9 (31:59):
He could miss l a f c's game here guys,
and it just sucks because he a game.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
I can. I can tell you that they go, they go.

Speaker 10 (32:09):
He goes out in La So let me tell you.

Speaker 9 (32:11):
So, Argentina plays Ecuadora on September seventh, right that La
f C game is on September third. Then the Argentina
plays Bolivia on September twelfth, and then Interer Miami plays
Kansas City on September ninth and Atlanta United on September sixteenth.
Those are the games that seem to be affected, but
they won't say officially which ones.

Speaker 10 (32:31):
I would be so mad if I tickets to any
of these games. Anyway, back to you guys, private Jets work.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
Man, Monzi just did that to flex on the Argentina
and Ecuador pronunciation. That's why that story was put into place.

Speaker 11 (32:48):
That is mad.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
It's it's so great. Yah hit her up at Manci Bolagio.
So I think on all platforms basically, right, yes, yes, yes,
Oh we're live for the Tirech dot Com studios. All right, George,
I do want to get this story about what it's
like a probation. Can we do it a little bit
later on in the show because Mons has got a
lot on her mind. Yeah. According to Monci, he's George Reister.

(33:16):
I'm Dan Byer. It's next year on Fox Sports Sunday,
two weeks away from the start of the NFL regular season.
Heck less than that. If you want to count Thursday
Night football, wellcame man, It's Fox Sports Sunday. He's George Reister,
I'm Dan Bayer. Our NFL in senter. Adam Kaplan joins
US approximately six twenty Eastern, three twenty Pacific. Here on
Fox Sports Radio, we are live for the Tirek dot

(33:37):
Com studios. Hit George up at George Reister. You can
find me Dan Bayer at Dan Byer on Fox and uh,
it's that time of the week.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
And now it's time for absolutely. According to Monsey, I
love it.

Speaker 10 (33:55):
Sam and I were just dancing. That's fine. We got
we got distracted, we were dancing.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I missed this. I've missed this quite a bit.

Speaker 10 (34:05):
I know you've missed out in a lot of hot takes.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Ah. According to Manzi, maybe the relationship between sho heyo
Otani and the Angels isn't a severed as people think.

Speaker 9 (34:17):
Obviously, it was terrible to hear the show Heyo Tani
has a torn ucale for the second time in his
career and that he's not going to.

Speaker 10 (34:23):
Pitch the rest of the season.

Speaker 9 (34:24):
I was one of the very few people that thought
Arti Moreno should hold.

Speaker 10 (34:27):
On to Otani and not trade him. Nobody agreed with me,
but that's what I thought.

Speaker 9 (34:31):
After this injury, several people went on to attack and
crucify the Angels organization for like letting the greatest player
you know, basically get hurt like this, And I don't
think that we should be doing this to the Angels.
The Angels offered Otani and Mri, his team declined it
because they didn't think it was necessary.

Speaker 10 (34:49):
I think the Angels have done everything right by Otani.

Speaker 9 (34:52):
They're obviously listening to him, they're trusting him, They're letting
him be a two way player however he wants. Otani
is still hitting for the Angels. He played today even
though the Angels lost. That tells me that Otani and
his people don't have any bad blood with the Angels.
If they thought the Angels were at fault, why would Otani,

(35:12):
Why would his people, why would his agent let him play?

Speaker 10 (35:16):
Right now?

Speaker 9 (35:16):
There is no point for Otani to play. They would
have benched him and that would have been it. But
it's clear that maybe things aren't as fractured as maybe
some people think. Obviously, Otani has the Mamba mentality. He's
not gonna take time off just to take time off.
He knows the fans want.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
To see him.

Speaker 9 (35:35):
I just think that this would have been a very
clear sign if he wouldn't have played the rest of
the season, that he and the Angels were on a
different page and maybe they're not.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
No, Manzi, he did.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
He would he talking about what do you mean? I
still think he.

Speaker 9 (35:55):
Would be given the MVP if he didn't finish out
this what month of games?

Speaker 10 (35:58):
That don't matter?

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Nah, you need I sided with the Mancy on this.
I actually do like it that there's something to you.
There's something to that. If they would have traded him,
which I did think was possible anyway, I don't know
what you would give up that right my whole point,
but for him to continue playing. Yeah. Also, if they
trade him, there's no way he's coming.

Speaker 10 (36:17):
Back, correct, there's anyway. I don't know, man, this is true.
This gives them and I'm just saying, why is he playing?

Speaker 9 (36:24):
There's no reason for him to play a side that
he wants to And there's no bad blood here.

Speaker 1 (36:28):
I'm just saying who According to Moncey.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
According to Moncy, she doesn't know who was worse this week,
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones or Oriole's owner John Angelo.

Speaker 9 (36:44):
Yeah, so we all know Cowboys acquired quarterback Tree Lanceman
the forty nine ers.

Speaker 10 (36:48):
I understand that this is a business.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
I get all that, but Jerry Jones really did Dak
Prescott dirty buy doing this and not really telling him
about it. Jones is thinking of the team's future. I
get that, I really do. That's fine, but Prescott is
the face of your team right now. You could have
easily had this conversation with him, kind of just told him, hey,
we're gonna do this.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
It's not that we don't trust you. Instead, he just
pulled the rug from under him. And I don't see
how this doesn't.

Speaker 9 (37:17):
Negatively affect Dak's.

Speaker 10 (37:19):
Mental state going into the season. I just like, I
don't want to know what you're doing. Jerry Jones.

Speaker 9 (37:24):
I understand it's a business, but you easily could have
handled this a lot better.

Speaker 10 (37:28):
And right now I feel bad for Dak now.

Speaker 9 (37:30):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
If Trey Lance is any threat to Dak Prescott this season,
then Dak Scott major and I.

Speaker 9 (37:37):
Right, I just think Jerry Jones sucked in how he
handled this, that's all. You make an excellent point. I
just when you hear Dak saying I had no idea,
like I was, I didn't know why. Just have a conversation.
You're supposed to be, you know, the general manager. You
should have a good relationship. You don't want to have
a bad relationship with your quarterback.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
I don't patience Jack Wade.

Speaker 10 (37:57):
Okay, shut up, Jerry.

Speaker 9 (38:00):
Then there's John Angelo's who told the New York The
New York Times earlier this week how cheap they are. No,
I mean, I mean he said it was gonna be
difficult to extend their young stars and blah blah blah.

Speaker 10 (38:10):
We're a small market.

Speaker 9 (38:11):
The numbers, la la la, We're gonna have to raise
prices dramatically. That will for REALM If I were an
Orioles fan, I would be so mad to hear my
ownership say this out loud. Fans are not stupid, obviously,
they know if you hold onto these stars, prices are
gonna go up. Don't say you're not gonna do it.

Speaker 10 (38:27):
That's so stupid.

Speaker 5 (38:28):
The timing you are one right right, It just takes
all the wind out of the door.

Speaker 10 (38:33):
Yeah, what are you doing, especially like you have such
a good team right now? Stop?

Speaker 1 (38:38):
According to Moncey.

Speaker 10 (38:41):
According to Moncy, all teams should do what the Orioles
are trying to do. I don't know if you guys
know what they're trying to do. They are trying to
get a club house dog.

Speaker 9 (38:50):
Every team should do this. Dogs are better than humans.
They instantly make you feel better. Apparently, the a's ground
keeper has a dog that hangs around the clubhouse, and
the Orioles fell in love when they went.

Speaker 10 (39:00):
To play them. Her name was Reba.

Speaker 9 (39:03):
So picture Cole Irvin is leading the quest to get
a dog at Camden Yards.

Speaker 10 (39:07):
They want to adopt the dog and name it Canden. Guys,
I like this.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I love this.

Speaker 9 (39:12):
I imagine like you lose a tough game and you
go into your clubhouse and you see this little furry
dog wagging its tail at you and coms and like
sits on your lap.

Speaker 10 (39:20):
All of a sudden, Oh you're gonna feel better, BONI.
What if someone's deathly allergic to dogs, Well, that sucks,
trade them go to another team.

Speaker 9 (39:26):
I'm just saying this will automatically like boostsmart.

Speaker 10 (39:32):
It doesn't matter. It was Candon, you better clean it up.
It was Canden. Okay, I think is I I great idea? Great, great,
great idea. I hope they're able to pull it off.

Speaker 9 (39:42):
There's just logistics that they say they have to figure out,
like when they're away, who's gonna take care of the dog.

Speaker 10 (39:47):
But I think all teams should consider doing something like this.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
Really can a dog here? Yeah? It really helped those
rough stretches.

Speaker 10 (39:55):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. That's your best dad joke of the day. Yes,
sounds good. Seriously, Oh there it is.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
It's urning the manci well.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
Dog, you running around after you've lost here all of
a sudden, not mad, all of a sudden.

Speaker 10 (40:10):
You're like, oh man, that was a tough loss. Come here,
camdon stop it. I'm gonna bring a dog to the stage.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Owes that work with the Jaguars locker room, George better
than the axe and stump.

Speaker 4 (40:21):
Yes, yeah, well Jack Jack, Jack would have taken the
dog back after we had.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
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want to bring back something that happened last hour. If

(41:06):
you missed it, you could always go after the show
Foxsports Radio dot com, click on podcasts and find Fox
Sports Radio weekends. But we were talking about this story
where Arizona State ended up self imposing a bowl ban
earlier today. Not many people were in on the loop,
especially the twenty seniors on the team. So that I'll
play their final season in Tempe with no hope of
going to a bowl game. That stinks. I think everything

(41:29):
else considered, it was probably the right move for Arizona State.
George made a comment about the NC made a lot
of comments by the NC DOUBLEA. But also, George, you
referenced the time where you had to speak with the
NC DOUBLEA. I'll let you shed more light on that,
just to set the scene of what it was like
to be questioned about a possible NC DOUBLEA investigation.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Yeah, they were investigating us up at Oregon because it
was over an allegation that a booster about whether some
jerseys had been sold to a booster. And so now
that actually changed how Oregon handles their uniforms because at

(42:14):
the end of the season they would give you your uniforms,
but now they wait for you to graduate to give
you your uniforms. So they give you like thirty uniforms
when you when you graduate, and and and to make
and to make it even worse, to make you pay
for them, like a hundred bucks, which is I mean,

(42:35):
it's it's much less than what they would cost. And
now they and now with the new nil rules and
and all of that, like scholarships being above the cost
of attendance, they.

Speaker 2 (42:44):
Can give them to them.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
But the idea though that like it's your jersey, right,
so why can't you sell your jersey? Why can't you
sell your shoes? Why can't you sell your bowl ring?
If it if it belongs to you, and so and so.
So anyways, they call us in, they interview me, Sammy
Parker and Tero Smith.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
And they're like, oh, yo, how did this guy get.

Speaker 4 (43:11):
Get a here there's a phone number that was like, bro,
I don't know what y'all talking about. I don't even
know this person, this, this and this, which was all
true and yeah, so I can't speak for anything anybody
else did, or or anybody from any other colleges or
anything like that. But the NCAA they show up and

(43:33):
then they say, if we find out that that you
had any part in this, or that you didn't tell us,
then you will be ineligible. You will never play college
football again. And it's like over a jersey, though over
a jersey.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Sure.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
So I was like, listen, I know, I know nothing.

Speaker 4 (43:54):
I have no I have no recollection of the events
in question, don't know what y'all a talking about, and
don't even care to know.

Speaker 2 (44:03):
They're like, oh, can you ask around?

Speaker 5 (44:04):
No, I can't ask.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Around because I don't want to ask around. And it's
just a big and they probably interviewed me. It was
like an interrogation in the movies like where were you
on the night at the fifteenth? Type type action. Yes,
you in a room, two people across from a table.

(44:27):
Nothing else was in the room and they're just talking
to you. And it probably lasted three four hours.

Speaker 2 (44:35):
This is and I'm sitting there thinking to myself, Okay, college,
you know, football player is usually the big man on campus,
but you're still what nineteen twenty years old? You know,
in a situation like that. Yes, it was scary. Yeah,
it was scary as hell. Yeah, they put the fear,
They put the fear in you. In the end, they
definitely do Yeah what I mean, what was the outcome?

(44:59):
I mean, was there anything that transpired from it? Nope? Nope.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
All they all they did is is is makes them
alloy make some allegations and say, oh man, where uh
you know that that this better not happen and we're
gonna continue to invest investigate, But nope, nothing came.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Out of it. Well, this again on the heels of
the Arizona State story that that broke this morning, and
one of the reasons why I felt that Arizona State
imposed this bull ban is they kind of wanted to
go into the Big twelve next season with a clean slate,
and what the Big twelve was gonna look like actually
was up in the air over the last forty eight
hours or so. Within the last hour or two, there

(45:43):
now seems to be momentum of reports saying, which was
something that we had we had heard of previously, George,
but of cal Stanford SMU possibly joining the ACC Callen
Stanford would not get full revenue shares get about thirty percent,
I think was the report from Ross Tellinger of Yahoo Sports.

(46:06):
SMU wouldn't be taking any shares of that early aspiration.
That is desperation, but it's also yeah, you try to fight,
you know, find a way to survive, figure out out.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
But I'm not mad because they want to be SMU
was going to be fine in in the UH, in
the AAC and everything, but they don't want to be
in the AAC. They want to be in the UH,
in in the Big Boys club. They want to be
in the Power five club. So that's why all of

(46:39):
this has taken place. And you got to remember SMU
is like Texas A and M. Everybody think that Texas
got that money, but SMU got that money money too.
Whereas Texas, TEXA, A and M has the biggest endowment
of any what like non Ivy League school.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
They got serious money.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
And SMU like, yeah, we we have some oil money,
some donors that are going to pick up this thirty
fifty million dollars a year until we can get get right.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
But you know what we are going to do.

Speaker 4 (47:11):
We're coming back from this death penalty and we're coming
back in a major way. That's why I actually wanted
when the PAC twelve was talking about expanding, I was like,
bring SMU.

Speaker 5 (47:20):
They will turn into a real good team real fast.
They're out of Dallas.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
They will They have.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Enough money and support, but behind them kind of like
Houston with Tilman, Fertita.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
And George Klafkoff was seen at SMU games college basketball
games last season. I know he was in terms of,
you know, looking at that school.

Speaker 4 (47:42):
Wow, we're not even going to talk about George and
Larry Michael Scott.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
But this this begs the question again, and it's been
my issue with the ACC and I hope it don't
sound like a broken record, but the four schools that
ended up voting against admitting Call and Stanford as members recently,
you still need one of those four and it's North Carolina,
NC State, Clemson, and Florida State. Obviously because Florida State's

(48:12):
made a lot of noise about not being happy with
their standing in the conference and the revenue that they get.
Now you have these schools coming in, and the question
that's up for debate is the money that you would
get with the additional revenue from those schools. It wouldn't
be evenly distributed. Amongst the fifteen members of the ACC,

(48:35):
Florida State, Clemson, North Carolina, and NC State are going
to want to be taken care of. And that's the
part where George not only doesn't it not make sense
geographically to be able to have those schools compete in football,
men's basketball, and women's basketball, but I just don't understand

(48:56):
why the ACC doesn't. Maybe it's their only way they
think they can take care of Florida State and Clemson
in North Carolina and NC State, but to me, it
just seems like they're focusing on those three schools who
weren't wanted by other leagues. By the way, they.

Speaker 4 (49:15):
Florida State, Clemson, and and I'm North Carolina, Virginia, they're
all wanted.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
By No, I'm not talking about them, they absolutely are.
And I think North Carolina is the apple of the
SEC and the Big Ten side. I'm talking about Callen Stanford,
Oh oh yeah. You know. It's like, why why would
the SEC feel like there's value in adding those teams
unless the only way that they feel that there's value
is their money is then given to those four schools.

Speaker 4 (49:44):
That's why is that is that they are trying to
so ESPN has a pro a pro rated clause in
there that if the conference expands, then the money goes up.
Fox does not have that as part of their contract. Well,
well that's.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
With the Big twelve.

Speaker 4 (50:04):
But like but the but with the ESPN and the ACC,
the money goes up as you add teams. So the
ACC is trying to find money because they're locked into
that that terrible contract which doesn't end till twenty thirty six.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
I don't think bro.

Speaker 4 (50:23):
They're locked in for a long long time, and it
doesn't put them in a position where they can be
successful find or keep up with the Joneses successfully.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So this was a way to get a few more.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
Dollars, you know, five six, eight million more dollars a year,
which is gonna make everybody a little bit more happy.
And they're hoping that the because their granted rights is
so tight, that they're gonna be able to find another way.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
But I don't know.

Speaker 5 (50:54):
I don't know if there's a way forward with Florida State,
who wants out?

Speaker 2 (50:58):
Are you with me that it's just a matter of time,
like there could be a countdown clock to the ACC's days.

Speaker 4 (51:05):
Yes, yeah, And if Florida State secures, this this uh,
this private equity money for this three hundred million dollars
bro It's it is just dude, they will be out
with the with the jiffiness. But I find all of
this is funny, right, because you had people talking about

(51:26):
all these conferences. They don't they don't want to expand
anymore after USC and UCLA. That was always foolery. They
always had an attention. They just didn't want to break
up the conference the way they did break up the
PAC twelve and face lawsuits or whatever.

Speaker 5 (51:43):
So they broke up the.

Speaker 4 (51:44):
Most important piece, didn't offer competitive money intentionally that way,
and then paid way more than what they would have
offered than what they offered these schools in the PAC twelve.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
They paid more outside of that. So it's it's it's craziness.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
This was a media contract situation, media company situation.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
They wanted ownership PAC twelve wouldn't.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
Give it up, and now the acc that if they
get in the way of what the powers want, they
will go down to I know.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
The Big twelve had their expansion, but over the last
forty eight hours, I know Mike Silver for the San
Francisco Chronicle and Ballet Sports had reported that that there
was an option for Call and Stanford and then maybe
Oregon State and Washington State to join the Big Twelve.
Now it seems like the ACC plan is the one
that would bring in cal in Stanford and leave Oregon

(52:40):
State and Washington State. But to me, that, yeah, that
does and I would have loved to have seen I
would at least have loved to have seen Washington State
in Oregon State taking taken care of in that scenario.
And I think it would have worked with the Big Twelve.
I mean, it just it would have just been as

(53:01):
natural as you can without those schools having their rivals,
you know, but at least you would have the you know,
the Utah and Arizona and Arizona State and obviously Colorado
made the move, but there would have been ways to
make it work. And then with b well, you already
in the league. I think that would have been that
would have been really good. And now, you know, Wazuo
and Oregon State are seemingly from the latest of what's happened,

(53:23):
and it could change the next two hours as well,
and maybe the ACC schools, you know, the dissenters still
go against this plan as well, but it seems like
Washington State and Oregon State are going to be left
out again. Yep, tough tough times in the ever changing
world of college athletics. It's crazy and as we talked
about with Arizona State even a little bit earlier, we're

(53:45):
not even talking about like what the college football season,
which kicked off yesterday is going to be, like final
year of the four school playoff. It almost seems like
it's a transition year in college sports with everything just
because whatever is happening this year, George is just going
to be completely different when we get things going next year.
Just kind of a weird feeling. Yes, that's a one fact.

(54:09):
And uh, I don't like Week zero. I'm not a
huge fan of it. I didn't love yesterday. I know
a lot of people wanted that first taste of football.
I know you were griping about the Pac twelve networks.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
Oh my gosh, dude, it is so frustrating, like like
how like how is the Heisman Trophy winner winning quarterback?
We we can see in prime time everybody except for him?
And then so so my my aunt subscribed to Pac

(54:43):
twelve network and I had.

Speaker 2 (54:45):
Always, you know, used used hers.

Speaker 4 (54:48):
Dude, and then she changed her cable subscriber and that
changed everything. That changed everything. So like so then at
gay at game time, I realized that I called her.
I'm like, yo, did you switch up? She's like yeah, oh,
and then she says, okay, she switched it. So then
I'm saying, all right, here, here's what I'm gonna do.

(55:11):
I'll just I'll just bite the bullet and get Spectrum
because there are a lot of Dodger games and Laker
games that I want to watch anyway, so you know,
so I'll just bite it, even though I'm a cord cutter.
So I'm just getting it just to watch back twelve
network because they don't have an option where you can
just subscribe to the PAC twelve network all by like

(55:35):
I can pay ten bucks a month. No, you have
to subscribe to a whole lass cables provider to be
able to get it. And then I call Spectrum. Actually,
I log into my Spectrum app to do it. Try
to log in, ain't working.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Have to call them.

Speaker 4 (55:52):
They're like, oh, sometimes it takes up to twenty four
hours for it to work, and you know, for your
log in, So turns out in having to watch it
on MyPad, and I can't stream it to my television
because if you put it in airplay mode, it won't
then play because if you're watching a certain feet of it.
I was two through twenty twenty three. Can I get

(56:15):
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(57:06):
coming up in about twelve minutes or so, joining us
as he always does. At this time, was just one
preseason game remaining on the schedule, Saints Texans tonight. You
hear them on the Inside the Birds Podcast. Find him
on social media. Kaplan NFL Adam Kaplan joins this year

(57:26):
on Fox Sports. Ready, what's going on? Adam God, It's
good to talk to him.

Speaker 11 (57:30):
Finally back from my four week tour and Dan, we've
got the bye week coming up. It's so weird. I
don't know about George as a former NFL player, what
he thinks about that, but I know what to do
with myself. I actually might have two hours of free
time this coming.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
Week, maybe a little tennis maybe maybe. H Yeah, do
that for sure.

Speaker 11 (57:47):
And the weather here back in Philly is great. But
it's just good to be home. But yeah, look, it's
been Look, it's been an interesting preseason. He had some
trades come about, we had some extensions get done, and
then we've got a lot of positivity where the national
Football Ay, we'll see what's real and what's not.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
I am curious about that because George and I are
going to touch on that coming up next hour. Who
were kind of bullish on in the NFL. I'm curious
of your thoughts. You mentioned trades though, Were you surprised
that the Cowboys won the Trade Lance sweepstakes.

Speaker 11 (58:17):
Yeah, that's not what they thought. They didn't think he
was going there. In fact, had the Cowboys not called,
if they would want up trading Lance, who would be
probably six or seventh round pick, and they got incredibly
got a fourth. But obviously it doesn't recoup what they
gave up to go up and trade for him, swapping
of ones, two future ones in a three. But as
I wrote for Pro Football Network this week, before the trade,

(58:40):
you'd have to really go back to that leading up
to that draft for twenty one, and I talked to
some personal people who were at the twenty one pro
DA for Trede Lance. He was seen as a guy
who was a total project. As one high ranking NFL
executive from an NFC team told me, if he had
his team drafted him, plan would have been for him

(59:01):
not to play for the first years. He'd be the
three the first year, the two the second year, and
then be the starter of the third year. Well that's
not what the Niners did. The Niners, as you know, guys, Yes,
Lance sat the first year, but he was their starting
quarterback this time last year he was their starter. We
know he would get hurt very early. They smartly the
Niners didn't trade Garoppolo. They were trying to, but wind
up not trading him. There hedid his contract and then

(59:25):
Garoppolo gets hurt and then the Brock pretty minia is born.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Now, Adam is everybody around the league sold on Brock
party because it's only been seven games, one three hundred
yard passing game, and teams haven't really exposed whatever the
book is on him for him to make adjustments.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
Yet.

Speaker 11 (59:49):
No, that's the thing, George, when you look at it,
I mean, I have a good friend who's in scouting
with a team, and he knows what his team's grade
was on on not draftable. He's won to change just mine.
But now you want to see it, George as an
NFL player for a full season, and he hasn't done
that yet. It's now been for half a season where
he's brilliant and was shocking, was undefeated for any game

(01:00:11):
that he started, finished. But let me go back to
brock perty for a second before we move on to
the next player. In next situation. Talking to the forty
nine ers after they lost that game in Philly, I
had this conversation with someone with him and I said, hey,
so you're looking forward to the competition when Brock's ready, goes,
what competition. I'm like, well, Brock's gonna have to compete
for the starting job. He goes, no, he's not. He's

(01:00:31):
our guy. I go, what about Lances?

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Like that?

Speaker 11 (01:00:33):
You know he'll be the two You know they didn't
know about Darnold?

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
Then sure.

Speaker 11 (01:00:37):
I mean they're so stepped in and here are the
four reasons leadership with purty, decisiveness, presence, and accuracy, which
doesn't really add up for the last pick overall for
the last year's draft, but it is what it is.
Now we'll see if they're going to be right. I'm
a skeptic like most people, but I'm willing to change

(01:00:59):
my mind on it. It's really incredible. And let's not
forget he was benched multiple time for at Iowa State
and yet he does brilliantly. But he's not started a
full season in the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
Yeah, three of a kind. I think we all kind
of think the same here. Adam Kaplan joining us here
on Fox Sports Sunday. I want to stay in the division.
You mentioned you were on your tour and wondering your
first stops was out here on the left coast, West coast,
and that's the Rams. They finished oh to three, only
scored thirty four points. I know it's preseason, yeah, but
the sense when we were at Rams camp for Fox

(01:01:31):
Sports Radio, they kept on telling us, you know, thirty
five to forty rookies. Thirty five to forty rookies. Is
this a sign of things to come for the Rams?
A little over a year removed from winning the Super Bowl.

Speaker 11 (01:01:43):
Dan, I could tie you for talk to them privately.
They kind of embraced the newness. They're getting Matthew Stafford back.

Speaker 2 (01:01:50):
That's great.

Speaker 11 (01:01:50):
He's healthy, very excited about Van Jefferson. Shawn. Jefferson's son, Shawn,
a former NFL player, is one of the best receivers
coaches I saw Sean I think with the Panthers, but
they're excited about it now. Being with them for a
couple of days at UC Irvine. They won't ever, They
definitely will not say rebuild. They don't look at it

(01:02:12):
that way. It's more of a retooling of the roster.
But they probably will not be very good, and they're
pretty much not only they're probably locked in its Stafford's
contract unless they traded through twenty four. That's another thing.
And I know they like Stetsan Bennett, who was not
pretty last night, but he's sort of a game manager,
a little bit of an athlete, scrambling quarterback. I don't

(01:02:32):
know if he's the future quarterback for this football team.
But the problem that you have is, comparatively when they
were really good, very few what we call blue chip players, Dan,
when you asked that when you bring this up, they
just don't have that. Other than Aaron Donald obviously with
Stafford and Cup has come back from yet another injury.
It's at thirty. They just don't have a lot of blue.

Speaker 4 (01:02:50):
Chip players, Adam, I have not heard anybody talking about
this since since the begin when Burrow got hurt a
couple days into camp and they said several weeks, and
we talked about how many several was going to be.

(01:03:10):
It is several at this point in time. Is he
scheduled to be ready for week one, and the most
more pressing issue is what's up with this contract.

Speaker 11 (01:03:21):
Well, let's get to the contract. First of all, I
fully expect this to get done. He's got an agent,
Brian A. Rold, who did a great job on the
Ryan Tannehill deal. He got really to me, it was
an above market deal. This is not going to be
easy because the Bengals are not used to paying top
dollar and they go with a certain structure of the contracts.

(01:03:41):
It's I still think it's between fifty three and fifty
five million a year. The guarantees that's signing going to
be the challenge. Now, he was actually running about two
weeks ago and he was throwing on the side. I
don't from everything I've heard which suggests that he's going
to be okay for Week one, but they need to
get him back to practice. Remember this is their bye week,
so we'll see they're going to practice. This is the

(01:04:03):
bye week for all teams, but they all practice this week.
As long as he starts working later this week, I
fully expect him to go in week one. Now that
this is a team, by the way, and the Bengals
right now I see it like this. The ABC North
is the strongest division the National Football League. Cleven's improved.
I was with the Steelers for a bit. They've improved

(01:04:26):
Brown's rosters better. I cannot wait to see Lamar Jackson
and Todd Monkin's offense is going to be completely different
from what we've seen since Lamar was drafted in twenty eighteen.
So that's a tough thing. I don't The Bengals might
be the favorite, but I probably will not pick him
to win it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Will he play without a contract?

Speaker 11 (01:04:45):
I have a hard time believing that he will. Okay,
that's a great question. I don't see him doing it
based he would have to see He would have to say, no,
it's his call, it it's his decision, it's his contract
in his career. Typically these things get done because at
the at the twelve hours, something has to give and

(01:05:06):
they find a compromise. Dan My senses that he wouldn't
play without it. Ye. No, obviously he's got a lot
more time left on it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:14):
You might get tender again.

Speaker 11 (01:05:17):
Well, no, but again he's got a lot of time left.
They've got also tags. From a club standpoint, they don't
need to do it. But if you're Burrow and his agent,
you don't want to deal with this thing, and you
want this over with. You just don't want this hanging
over you. And by the way, most most clubs have
a deadline of like the week of the regular first
week of the regular season, and Steelers will not negotiate,

(01:05:38):
by the way, during the season, once the season starts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
He's George Reister. I'm Dan Byern. That's the voice of
Adam Kaplan, our NFL insider joining us here on Fox
Sports Radio. You were just talking about the Bengals and
Joe Burrow's deal. I think we expect a lot from Cincinnati.
Who are you bullish on? What's a team or a
player that heading into this season that you're like, yeah,
I got good vibes coming from there.

Speaker 11 (01:05:59):
I have to say they're two teams the Detroit Lions,
who I picked basically after the draft to win this division.
I still feel that way the NC North.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
So that's it.

Speaker 11 (01:06:10):
I know team people are talking about them, there's no doubt.
And every time I bring this team up, I wound
up being wrong. But I spend two days with the Chargers.
I am so bullish on Kellen Moore's a play caller,
he's so aggressive, he's completely different from Joe Lombardi. He's
more conservatives back with He's now back with Sean Payton

(01:06:30):
with the Broncos. But and I'm expecting Brandon Staley now
he got what he wanted. He's he's asked the front
office for more help on defense. He got that with
Michael Kendricks at inside linebacker.

Speaker 2 (01:06:43):
He got j C.

Speaker 11 (01:06:44):
Jackson back from his touring to tell attendant he's actually
doing pretty well. I'm told this defense, this is now
our never for this defense. Taley's got to do a
better job than defense inside of the football. But offensively,
they're gonna be great. Now we know they blew that
huge lead at Jacksonville. They will definitely be a playoff
team of mine in the AFC, and I do believe
they'll have a chance to win a playoff game.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Is Adam Gaplin our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider. Hit
him up at Kaplan NFL and maybe watch him on
a tennis court near you. Adam, We appreciate it, love
chatting with you. I can't wait to do it next week, man,
Thanks so much. Thanks Inside the Birds podcast, Yeah, take
a listen as well. Let's jump over to the news
desk as we're lying from the Tirek dot com studios.
Manzi Blaanio is giving us the latest, and then we

(01:07:26):
dive into a little easy as one, two, three, four.
What's happened in Manzi?

Speaker 10 (01:07:29):
Oh, guys, it went down to the wire.

Speaker 9 (01:07:32):
Thirteen innings later, the Twins walk it off on a
walk against the Rangers.

Speaker 10 (01:07:39):
Oh, the worst way the word yeah, game over. Luckily
it was a ball.

Speaker 9 (01:07:46):
Luckily it wasn't a terrible call by the umpire and
it was a ball. But the Twins held on to
beat the Rangers with that walk off walk, seven to
six and thirteen innings. Going into today's games, the AL
West is very very close, and the Mariners were tied
at the top. The Astros were a half game back,
so the Mariners edged the Royals three to two. The

(01:08:07):
Twins walked it off against the Rangers, and the Astros
dominated the Tigers seventeen to four, meaning the Mariners right
now are in sole possession of the AL West. That's
how it is, guys. I know, very exciting. How that's
gonna that division's gonna end. And of course I mentioned
it earlier or with my highlight migul Cabrera. Even though
the Tigers loss. Did hit career home run five hundred

(01:08:30):
and ten, So the farewell tour continues for Miguel Cabrera.
Right now, we do have one game going on. It's
the Diamondbacks who have extended their lead over the Reds.
It's four to two bottom of the eighth inning. But
their rookie, Corbyn Carroll, stole second base. So he's a
second player in Diamondbacks history and the fourth rookie in
MLB history to record a twenty home run forty stolen

(01:08:53):
base season. And it's not even September, but he just
stole second base. And it was actually the scoring run
that took the lead for the Diamondbacks. Earlier today, it
took eleven innings, but the Guardians stopped the Blue Jays
ten to seven. So Toronto is three games out of
the final Waldcart spot in the AL. Dodgers beat the
Red Sox seven to four. Mookie Bets homers everywhere, even

(01:09:14):
over the Green Monster. Boston five games out of the
final Waldcart spot in the AL. The Phillies they blank
the Cardinals three zero, three zero. Kyle Schwarber with home
run number thirty five on the season. You go, now,
let's move on to this tour championship because I was like, Victor.

Speaker 10 (01:09:29):
Hoblin is in the lead. He's been in us right, Yeah,
And then Chaffle was like, what does she say? What
did that girl from Fox Sports Radio say?

Speaker 9 (01:09:37):
I'm gonna prove her that slow and steady wins the race.
He is still in second place, but only down by
three strokes. So Victor Hoblin twenty four under par. Xander
Schaffle a twenty one under par overall for the day.
He is seven under through fourteen holes, so he is
definitely proving me wrong.

Speaker 10 (01:09:55):
And I don't mind it. I don't mind it at all.

Speaker 9 (01:09:57):
Earlier today, NFL Network reported that an MRI confirmed that
Cleveland Brown's receiver and returner Jaquim Grant ruptured his pateeller
tendon in yesterday's preseason game at Kansas City, so he's
out for the season. Grant missed last season with a
ruptured achilles tendon. Did you guys see that NASCAR driver
Ryan Priests the crash that rules like a dozen times?

Speaker 5 (01:10:20):
Well, I don't even know if it was a dozen,
it was like thirty five. Yeah, I mean that was
one of.

Speaker 4 (01:10:25):
The most intense, yes acts of science that I've seen
because it was rolling one way, hit the ground and
then turned the other way and then gained more energy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:37):
I needs like a.

Speaker 5 (01:10:38):
Whole like documentary, like how on the physics of this?

Speaker 9 (01:10:45):
Yeah, I couldn't believe that. I was like, this isn't real.
This is an action movie, right, this is fast and
furious twenty seven. I couldn't believe. And he walked away,
and he got out. He climbed out of it, he
walked out. He was discharged from the hospital today. He's
headed home after the crash. Tweet did quote, if you
want to be a race car driver, you better be tough.

Speaker 10 (01:11:03):
I'm coming back end quote. That is tough. I would
be like, I'm never getting in a car again. Thank you.
Back to me day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:11):
Right now.

Speaker 10 (01:11:12):
Yeah, no, I'm never getting in a car. I'm not driving.
I'm not no, no, never see.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
I would have said I'm getting back in the car,
and then I would have had to fight the wife.

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
You're like, you're never.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
Getting back in there.

Speaker 10 (01:11:22):
Yeah, no, that's scary. That is so scary. But again
he's okay, Yes, no, he's fine. He's climbed out of
it himself himself.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
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(01:11:53):
mornings right here on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.
Manzi's not going anywhere. She's gonna be a lifeline to
George Reis as he is in the hot seat for
the return of Easy As one, two, three, four. I'm
Dan Byer. It's all next live from the Tireck dot
Com studios here on Fox Sports Sunday. It's Fox Sports Sunday.
I'm Dan Byer. He's George Reister, the NFL VET hit

(01:12:14):
him up at George Reister. You can find me at
Dan Byer on Fox. What are the Cowboys gonna do
with Trey Lance now that they have him in the fold?
We'll talk about that at the top of the hour,
plus some other NFL stuff. There's a golf thing that
I'm very curious on what George thinks, because it's this
thing that you see a lot in social media. I'll
explain later in about thirty minutes. But now it's the

(01:12:36):
return of easy As one, two, three, four. George Reister
in the hot seat, looking for a perfect score of ten.
He has three lifelines that will be available to him
if he needs at any point during this four question quiz,
I give George a topic. He doesn't have to give
me all of the correct answers to some of them.

(01:12:58):
The goal is to get a perfect score of ten
over under set today eight and a half, eight and
a half. We're setting it high. George. You've got Iowa Sam,
You've got Mazi Blanos, You've got Brandon Truffa. Those are
your lifelines. Are you ready to play easy as? One, two,
three four? Almost? Brandon, what are you good at?

Speaker 9 (01:13:21):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
What do you know? Like?

Speaker 10 (01:13:24):
Oh, I'm pretty good at cooking. I'm also uh, I
don't know. My sports are kind of like baseball and hockey.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
I would say, all right, okay, so the baseball is
one of the categories during half halfway useless. All right, Hey, hey, Brandon,
I think is going to come and come through in
the clutch for you. Okay, that's that's what I need. George.
Name one of two Major League Baseball teams entering today

(01:13:53):
that have won eighty or more games this season. So
that's entering today. Okay, there were two teams. I just
need one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:14:02):
Yeah, that is easy work, buddy, easy work. That is
the Atlanta Braves Baltimore Orioles.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
All right, you just need one answer. You want to say, Brace.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
Said, I'm an overachiever.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
Yes, yes, looking for that extra credit. Show me the
Atlanta Braves best record in baseball eighty four wins. You're right.
The other on was the Orioles, the Diamondbacks, excuse me,
the Dodgers and the Dodgers. Yeah, so did the Rays.
So that's why it was entering today. It was just
one of the two. George often running with one point,

(01:14:37):
George Rodgers, I wasn't going to fall for Dale Pipe, Buddy.
Name two of the three NFL teams that went a
perfect three and oh this preseason. Now, the Saints and
Texans played tonight. Saints are two and oh, so they
wouldn't be eligible for this question, because I want to
know two of the three NFL teams that went a
perfect three and oh this preseason all right.

Speaker 4 (01:15:01):
So I was just talking about them yesterday because Mike
Tomlin is doing a phenomenal job, and I was like, damn,
they're three and oh. And then the other team that
I was surprised at because I watched their game the
other night two and I am so bullish on their quarterback,

(01:15:24):
Sam Howe, Lord have mercy. I don't know whether I've
had this much irrational excitement since Marcus Mariota, but I'm
hoping that it turns out better.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
And that's Washington and Pittsburgh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
All right. Show me the Pittsburgh Steelers absolutely correct a
perfect three and oh, doing so an impressive fashion, a
point differential of forty six in those three games. And
show me the Commanders. Their point differential was five. But hey,
they're three and oh. All that matters is how you
geting those w's Georgia three for three. George's old team,

(01:16:02):
the Jaguars, also three and all this offseason, so that
would have been another acceptable answer. Yay, yay, George are
perfect three for three and you have not used a lifeline. Iowa,
Sam Monsey, and Brandon all still available for you. George.

Speaker 5 (01:16:17):
Names when I need them.

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
This is our basketball question. Name three of the four
countries that make up Group C in the twenty twenty
three peep A World Cup. Oh, I got okay, all
right now, Now I don't try this, you know, I
don't play dirty pool. I'm not trying to stump you.

(01:16:40):
You kind of gotta workshop it through, figure it out,
you know. Maybe. But uh, but the four countries, I
need three of them that make up Group C in
the Febo World Cup. Okay, just out of.

Speaker 4 (01:16:54):
Just out of like I don't know, just just hoping
that and it's just not a complete just jerk. I'm
gonna go with the United States, and I think I'm
gonna call on Moncey because wait, wait, it already started,

(01:17:15):
so Moncy probably would have talked about who they played.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
So Mancy, I'm gonna try you.

Speaker 9 (01:17:21):
Okay, So if it I don't know Group C, but
if it isn't the same group as the US, they
definitely are in the.

Speaker 10 (01:17:28):
Same group as New Zealand. This is I don't know
if it's Group C, but they're definitely no, no, no.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
If they played them already, then then they're in the
same thing. There you go, Okay, and then who do
they play next.

Speaker 10 (01:17:40):
I have no idea. No, I just know New Zealand
is in the group, but I don't know anybody else.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:17:47):
All right, let's drop Brandon.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Brandon truef Our, executive producer.

Speaker 5 (01:17:54):
Would you just so have happened to see this? Nope,
I don't want.

Speaker 11 (01:18:00):
I don't want to see it at all.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
Okay, cool, All right, well I wouldn't even begin to.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
I just want to make a gas on the on
the third country. Sure I guess? Or is George guessing?
Let Brendon, your work is done, You are good, You're
off the clock.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
I mean it's either got to be Luca or like
Yannis or somebody. I forgot what it's not slow so
Slovenia or I don't.

Speaker 10 (01:18:34):
Think it's Slovenia.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
Okay, then I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
Let's go with Greece then, okay, get to see Gianni's
all right, we gotta speed through this.

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
Show me us a correct, Show me New Zealand the
team the Americans beat ninety nine to seventy two. Show
me Greece. What? Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:18:53):
Nice?

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
The country they played? Guess Jordan? Not Michael Jordan, but
just the country of Jordan. Was the other answer. There
all right, final one. George, name four of the five
schools in the preseason AP Top twenty five College Football poll.

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
Wait name four to top five teams. Yep, oh easy, Alabama?
Wait Ohio State, Georgia, Michigan.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
And Alabama. I think this top four? Yeah, show me
Georgia Bulldogs, two time defending national champs, number.

Speaker 5 (01:19:34):
One, Show me Michigan and the LSUS five.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
All right, show me Ohio State. Your extra credit is
no good here. This is going to determine if George
Reister has got a perfect score of ten. Show me Alabama. Oh,
you can't wait on college? Get that, bro, I'm tough.

(01:19:59):
You know, there is the.

Speaker 5 (01:20:00):
Reason at the deep cuts if you go go call
it college football.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
There's a reason the over under was eight and a half.
You know. I felt it was a very doable board today.
So we hit all the hit a lot of the
major groups, and good work shopping on the group. See
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We say farewell to the NFL's preseason, Saints and Texans
playing the final game of the preseason tonight. We said

(01:20:56):
farewell to the Little league season. Did you see how
that ended today? George a walk off home run run?

Speaker 5 (01:21:03):
Yep, walk off home run by El Segundo.

Speaker 2 (01:21:06):
And I think it was a twenty three year old
man who wit the home run. Did you see how
big he was?

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Dude, Old Danny al Monte inertificate.

Speaker 2 (01:21:19):
Oh, it's so magnified too, because you know, there's not
you know, the catcher's probably five to one. You know,
it's just it is, But yeah, drama wad about it? Run?

Speaker 7 (01:21:32):
Was?

Speaker 5 (01:21:33):
The setup was that the catcher set up outside, so
they were going to try to pitch away from him.
Mm hmm, and he missed middle middle.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
He threw a cookie right down the center at the
of the of home plate middle middle waist high and
he was like thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
You know, growing up, I felt like the US never won,
like they were always losing in the championship game. And
then the Trumble Connecticut team in nineteen eighty nine was
the one that kind of shocked the world, if you will,
and won the Little League World Series title. But I
feel like like the American squad's gotten the best of

(01:22:12):
the international clubs this year. The international finalists is from Kurasau.
But I feel like the American teams have gotten the
better of the international squads and happened again today at Williamsport,
but not without some drama in the bottom of the
sixth inning. This is some good stuff to put a
bow on the summer, putting a bow on the preseason

(01:22:32):
getting ready for the NFL's regular season. There are two
parts of the Trey Lance discussion. George and I earlier
talked about this forty nine ers angle and what is
happening with San Francisco, and just on how unique of
a situation is. You don't hear this much noise usually
coming from an NFL team, and when you usually hear
that much noise, things aren't good. But here the forty

(01:22:53):
nine ers are a Super Bowl contender, could be on
their way to winning a Super Bowl this season, but
still there was drama throughout the off season. And now
Trey Lance is forty nine or no more. That goes
to another team we love to talk about, and that's
the Dallas Cowboys who acquired Trey Lance. Now Dak Prescott.
Hopefully we'll get some sound of him later in how
he responded to the news of the team bringing in

(01:23:15):
Trey Lance. But do you have any problem, George, with
the Dallas Cowboys giving up a fourth round pick to
San Francisco for Trey Lance's services. No, but it does
give me.

Speaker 4 (01:23:25):
It does leave me with a lot of questions, right
because what has Jerry been talking for the last month
or so about about Dak About telling me the contract? Yeah,
about about a new contract. Oh, we got to get
Dak re re signed.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
All of this.

Speaker 4 (01:23:45):
So the question is is that if you trade for
Trey Lance in year three, that means you very well
intend on picking up his fifth year option because you're
bringing him in at this point, so he's going to
be the number three quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
He's going to be the number.

Speaker 4 (01:24:04):
Three So then so then the question is So if
he's going to be the number three, then what goes?
Then you're for sure picking up his fifty year extension
because you traded a fourth round pick for him. And
what does that mean for Dak's contract? Like are you

(01:24:25):
planning on trading Deck?

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Like?

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
Like, like what is your plan? Because their plan can't
just be to to just bring him in as a
third this year and then a backup quarterback. That makes
no sense. This is some kind of way competition or
to see and this could be this could spell the
end of Deck. You really think that this I don't

(01:24:51):
think that that's the likely outcome. But I'm saying they
they ain't trade for him. They ain't trade a fourth
round pick just for a backup quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
No, no, But I do you think that Trey Lance
is is different than maybe another trade that you would
have made. I don't think that he is necessarily How
do I put this? If you're the Cowboys eight? The
Niners came out and said, hey, we were surprised that
we had even gotten you know, we got the offer

(01:25:22):
that we got. Adam Kaplan was honest you know with
us just a little while ago and said, hey, Niners
were looking for a sixth or seventh rounder for Trey Lance,
and here Cowboys come calling with a fourth rounder. I
understand all of that that they may maybe misjudged the
market a little bit, but I also don't you know,
like Sam Donald was traded by the Jets to the

(01:25:45):
Carolina Panthers, so there's a second rounder a fourth rounder
that were a part of that deal. That's pretty big value,
especially because you know Donald's going to come in and
play for you, so there's value there. I don't think
it's as much of a risk for the Cowboys, and
I don't think that it is as much of an

(01:26:05):
indictment on Dak George. I just think it gives the
Cowboys options and it gives them the opportunity to keep
Dak on his toes a little bit, and that's I
don't think that there's anything wrong with that. I mean,
if there's any quarterback that's in the microscope in this
NFL season, especially after how they played their last game,

(01:26:26):
it's probably Dak Prescott, and it should be Dak Prescott
because there's a lot on the line. Heck, you've gotten
a new offensive coordinator in now you're head coach's calling plays.
You know, you didn't want to bring back Zeke Elliott,
You've added more weapons. Brandon Cooks is now in Dallas,
like there's there's a lot there and so if it
doesn't get done now, yeah, I think that it could

(01:26:48):
play in But in terms of the long term aspect,
I just think it's a lot to think that Trey
Lance could challenge from the job. I almost look at
it as like it allows the Cowboy's ability to keep
Trey Lance off of a different roster and allows them
to maybe see what his progression would have been, if
it would have been a better situation than it was

(01:27:09):
in San Francisco, where they could maybe take him through
give him the time instead of rushing him through the
car wash like the Niners did. Maybe maybe the fourth
is a little bit rich, but I just I don't
I don't think it's a long term deal when it
comes to two daks. I actually liked that the Cowboys
are actually almost proactive in a way of thinking.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
If you can get a good player and kick the
tires on him, Hey, bro, you never know what you
might find in there. Another man's trash is another man's
Drew Brees.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
There's yeah, absolutely right, Yeah, could work out swimmingly.

Speaker 5 (01:27:49):
In the end, the trash is another man's Curt Warner.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Yeah, could that would be quite the deal, you know,
to go on and win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (01:27:57):
On's another trash is another man's brand.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
Far m interesting. There's a lot of examples of it. Now,
granted that that's a long way from being a Hall
of Famer, but uh, but you know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
He could still have some success. I think it's I
think it shows trust in the guys that Jerry Jones employees,
meaning is coaching staff, to be like, all right, I
want to I want to bring him in. Let's see
what our staff can do with him. Let's see how
we can work with him. And I know Dak, do

(01:28:34):
we have the Dak audio? And if we don't, guys,
it's it's totally totally fine. I think we're gonna get
it in a couple of minutes. You know, I have
no problem with Dak or with with Jerry Jones bringing
that in. I don't you know, Dak has got his
feelings hurt a little bit about this and makes comments
for that's life in the National Football League. And again,

(01:28:55):
if we're if stuff like this is worrying you, then
I think we have a bigger problem on our hands
than anything else. If if the acquisition of a fourth
round pick in Trey Lance, who by the way, is
off injured. For as much as we said we didn't
get a chance, we did talk about how he was
injured a lot. George is gonna threaten Dack. I just

(01:29:16):
didn't then then maybe it's then maybe it's not for you.
Maybe that's telling you more. Maybe that's why those contract
conversations haven't been happening well well, And and.

Speaker 4 (01:29:26):
Then you have to think about you can't get that
mad about a fourth round pick. You can't, especially when
you look at the forty nine ers like draft history
and where they are, because ordinarily, if you miss out
on a bunch of first round picks, things don't go well.

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
So you got.

Speaker 4 (01:29:48):
Trey Lance, obviously, you have Javon Kinlaw, their defensive tackle
they took in twenty twenty. He's played twenty four games
but hasn't really on a ton. Nick Bosa worked. You
have Solomon Solomon Thomas didn't didn't work, Ruben Foster, Joshua

(01:30:13):
Garnett like it. It hasn't really been uh, you know,
just just clean sled and over there with them first
round picks.

Speaker 2 (01:30:21):
They well, and that's what and that's with the San
Francisco forty nine ers the Cowboys. The Cowboys have a
capable backup in Cooper Rush. We've seen him, you know,
put into put into action over these last couple of
seasons and be able to perform, and that just yeah,
a fourth round pick. I also think there's there's a
part of me, George that also feels that. And and

(01:30:44):
I feel like I defend Bill Belichick more now than
it did previously. But I also it's kind of like
the Danny Inge stuff that was brought up earlier, Like
if Belichick does the deal, it would have been like, oh,
Patriots do it again. You know, they they get the
they get there, they get their guy. And maybe, you know,
if the if the Eagles made this trade, maybe we

(01:31:05):
would say, Howie Roseman, you know, doing his magic again.
If they would have given up the same exact draft capital,
they'd be like, oh wow, Trey Lance down Philadelphia with
you know, with Nick Sirianni and and that crew man.
What a steal for the Eagles. But because it's the
Cowboys and Jerry Jones, we think like, here's you know,
crazy Jerry doing it again, overpaying. But it's to your

(01:31:28):
point of it's I know, fourth round picks have value,
but they're not as valuable.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Yes they do, Dan, Yes they do. If anybody knows
the fourth round picks have value, I know, yes, you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:41):
Were a fourth round pick, right, yes, yes, But it's
not like you're you're selling your soul to bring in
Trey Lance, right. I mean maybe maybe they maybe they
missed by a round. Like that's that's the point. Like
if they if the Niners thought they were only going
to get a sixth of their seventh, the cow could
have got him for a fifth. Maybe there were other

(01:32:02):
teams AFC teams that were offering a sixth round pick
to the Niners, and they would say, you know what,
we'd rather not have them in our conference, so we're
going to trade him to, you know, to that team
instead of Dallas because they offered us a sixth. So
Dallas maybe for them, best case scenario, they would have
had to offer a fifth to get Trey Lance. They
gave up before they missed by a round. That's what

(01:32:23):
that's that's what it is. I feel like we we
look at anything that Jerry Jones does and immediately criticize
when I'm just not sure of the true risk that
Dallas is really taking in this scenario. I'm totally fine,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:32:38):
I think the risk is much lower than a lot
of people want to say. Yeah, I mean, then they
really want to admit.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
It's it's it's heck, it's it's buying a it's buying
a house, George. You know, like if you're you know,
if you're if you're looking at a house and just
use round numbers, you know, the the asking price is,
you know, nine hundred thousand dollars, and you're like, you
know what I'm gonna I'm gonna ask for. I'm gonna
put a million on it. You know, that's that's that's
gonna be my offer. Well, the next offer was like

(01:33:12):
nine to fifty, you know, like, all right, so you
overshot it by fifty thousand dollars, but you're still, you know,
on the books for that nine hundred and fifty thousand,
no matter what. So there would have been some draft
capital given up by the Cowboys. Anyway, I think that
Jerry Jones just ends up being an easy target. Whether
Dak Prescott's an easy target, I'll let you decide. This

(01:33:32):
was his reaction to the news that Trey Lance was
acquired by the Cowboys by the forty nine ers.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
I mean, I can't say that I necessarily expected it. No,
I understand that that's business. I understand that they're probably
on the timeline. They need to get something done, and
as I said, he felt like that strengthen this team.
To be honest with you, I'm not surprised by anything anymore.
You've been in this league eight years, been on this team.
It's hard to say that I was surprised, to be
honest with you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
And Dak also alluding to the fact that Jerry Jones
did not give him a heads up. Is that a
big deal to you? That Jerry Jones didn't call him?
It was a big deal for Aaron Rodgers when the
Packers were drafting Jordan Love, acquiring Jordan excuse me, acquiring
Trey Lance. Is that a big deal? Should Dak have
known about that deal?

Speaker 11 (01:34:18):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (01:34:20):
No, no, because that was a non threatening deal. Like
he's they're bringing him in to be number three. That's
not something that we're going to talk to you about.
If we draft a quarterback in the first or second round,
then yet that's something we need to give you a
heads up.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
About Yeah, I'm with you, I'm in lockstep. I think
it's a much ado about nothing. If it works out
for the Cowboys, great, If it doesn't, you still have
the fallback, and you know, Pete, if Dak's gonna be
your guy. Otherwise you don't look somewhere else. I don't
think it has any effect on Dak Prescott. I don't,
except apparently emotionally, because nothing, nothing surprises him. He could

(01:34:59):
have said that to Joe looking way to George, like,
you know what, nothing surprises me in this league anymore.
But it did. It did feel a little bit heavy
the way that he said it, that there is he
was letting him know, like yeah, yes, yes, and the
Cowboys are like jn't wonder, yeah, don't throw two interceptions
in a playoff game. Then then we would let you know,

(01:35:19):
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All right. The unofficial summer end of summer for some

(01:36:22):
next week Labor Day weekend, you know, their last chance
to get away. I know schools starting a bunch of
places across the summer have started for the last couple
of weeks here in southern California. I know back where
I'm from in the Midwest, some schools don't start until
after Labor Day. So there's that mix that you've got.
But depending where you are, summer maybe coming to an end.
Also the football season of the preseason wrapping up and

(01:36:45):
the regular season being on the horizon is another way
to look at it. And at this time of year,
I know, all thirty two teams, even if it's a
slight chance George, have a little glimmer of hope. And
maybe those bad teams are hoping that they can get
the number one over pick and get Caleb Williams in
the drafts come late April of next year. Either way,

(01:37:06):
most football fans are looking forward to the upcoming season.
And so I figured, right now still.

Speaker 5 (01:37:12):
Hope season, Yes, yeah, absolutely hope in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
And I make you know preseason predictions, and I know
you do as well, and you look at you know
MVPs and who's going to be the coach of the year,
are is there a certain player? Is there a certain team?
Right now? We got Adam Kaplan's opinion. He had the
Lions and the Chargers is the two teams that he's
kind of bullish on heading into the upcoming season. Are

(01:37:40):
there any teams or players that you're looking at saying like, yeah,
I kind of like what they've got coming into this year. Yeah,
one of the teams.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
And I know that it's probably gonna sound lame because
one of the teams made the playoffs last year, but
it's the Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
Dude, Like that.

Speaker 4 (01:37:59):
Team to me, I'm looking at it and I'm just saying,
how do they not like be a legitimate contender to
go to the AFC Championship? This team is for real, dude,
Like they have enough pieces, they have a competent coach,

(01:38:20):
good with offense. We saw Trevor Lawrence be gritty in
the playoffs. This team feels like a team that's headed
by far in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:38:27):
Is it the addition of Calvin Ridley? Is that what
puts you over to be like, man, this team's got
so many weapons?

Speaker 4 (01:38:36):
Because yes, Ridley, But honestly, it's more about Trevor Lawrence.
Bro Like, it's about his growth and maturation because good
quarterbacks like that they're hard to come by, and so
far as he.

Speaker 5 (01:38:52):
Goes, would that team go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
They've got and they still have a lot of young
talent on defense. Obviously, Ron Walker was the number one
overall pick last year, but he's in year two. Devin
Lloyd was, you know, young pick. He's a member of
that defense as well. So there's pieces that Jacksonville has.
And then when you look at that division also, there

(01:39:17):
really is no competition. Tennessee doesn't seem to be trending upwards.
I feel that they are falling back. The Colts obviously
with Anthony Richardson all work in progress, and who knows
how that Jonathan Taylor scenario works out. I'm curious with
Houston and Demigo Ryans. We'll see them tonight against the

(01:39:37):
Saints in a little bit with c. J. Stroud. But
just the fact of that division, George, I mean, Jacksonville
is good. Go ahead, who else do you have? Yeah?
The other team was.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
The Washington Commanders. I want to see what Eric the
enemy can do. Like I could not be any more
intrigued by Eric being to me his first time being
a solo off as a coordinator. And Sam Howe, Dude,
Sam's looked really good and efficient in the in the preseason.

Speaker 2 (01:40:10):
I couldn't be any more excited about him. I do
I do worry. I know it's gonna be in the
rearview mirror, but just the whole.

Speaker 4 (01:40:19):
I don't think they're gonna win ten games or anything,
but I think that they could be a major problem
and maybe backdoor into a playoffs with like a seventh seed.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
There's that that division is is tough, and it allows
me to open the door. I think that people expect
the Giants to take a step back, and I think
the Giants can win the division. I you know, so
you had Jacksonville, a team that made the playoffs last
year and that you you know, like on on the

(01:40:51):
up and up. I'm the same of the Giants, who also,
like the Jaguars, won a playoff game, made it to
the second weekend of the playoffs. But I don't feel
I feel like everybody loves the Eagles roster and just
feels that Philadelphia can do no wrong, and I don't
believe that's gonna happen. I do think that Dallas has issues.
And listen, the Giants cleaned up the Saquon situation a

(01:41:14):
lot earlier than the Raiders did the Josh Jacobs. They
signed Andrew Thomas to a long term deal. Daniel Jones
obviously his hints contract, but you get another season of
your boy Keeveon Thibodeau. Their defensive line is good. I
like the Giants, and I know there's questions about the
what they may have at wide receiver, but you also

(01:41:34):
had Darren Waller in the offseason. I really like the
Giants this year. I don't know how far they could go,
but I think that they will challenge Philadelphia for the
NFC East title. So along like those lines of the
Jaguars of a team that you like, I expect more
from from the Giants thisptoming season, even though they may

(01:41:54):
actually not. You're not a fan.

Speaker 4 (01:41:56):
I am in one of those They are going to
miss the playoffs you were looking at, and not because
they won't be better, right, is that I think that
you can be better and miss the playoffs in the
position that they were in, that that Daniel Jones can
be better, schedule, be a little tougher and you know,

(01:42:17):
and you not be able to and you not take
people off guard like you did in the beginning of
the season when they were Remember I said that they
were the worst six and one team of all time. Yeah,
like you're not gonna sneak up on people, and there's
a little bit of in fighting in the locker room
and stuff like that. And there have to be seven
new playoff teams every single every single year, so you know,

(01:42:42):
that's that that's what the NFL has historically done. So
somebody's got to go. And Kansas City and the Eagles
are not even options if their quarterbacks are healthy, like
they're one going to the playoffs if their quarterbacks start
and finish the season. So I think that's that's the
thing that makes it crazy is that there's and then

(01:43:05):
if San Francisco's quarterback situation is okay, then you can
put them in the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (01:43:10):
But everybody else is fair game, and.

Speaker 2 (01:43:14):
That may be the Giants opportunity. I just I like
him more. I like the second year of Brian Dabole
and him in his system. I just think we think
they're gonna fall off, like I think everybody's predicting the
Viking stuff kind of fall to falter from what they
did last year. And you're right. The Giants, you know,
got off to that great start and I don't know

(01:43:35):
if they floundered down the stretch, but they did enough
to get into the postseason. I just I like their
young pieces coming together and if you can if you
can maximize Saquon Barkley if he's healthy, I think that
Daniel Jones is gonna be fine. I think Darren Waller
is gonna do you know, a world of wonder for them?

Speaker 4 (01:43:56):
So do you see a world where they can get
technique that you feel like, damn, this team got better,
but then they missed the playoffs and then are legitimate
contenders the next season.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
That's kind of the way I see them. Sure, sure,
I you know, it's the the way that the NFC
is is because there are so few great teams that
we think, like, I have questions about Philadelphia, but because
it is so top heavy, I think it's going to
be very difficult for Philadelphia to miss the playoffs. To
your point, but outside of San Francisco and Philadelphia, I

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don't know who we're pointing to to be like, you know,
that's that's the next team in the NFC, the AFC.
You know, the Chargers could have another great year and
miss out on the playoffs because of the great teams
and you know in that conference, and that very much
could end up happening. I'm also I'm high on the
Steelers as well. I think a lot of people are

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high on the Steelers and then they go out and
go three and oh, and there could be a trendy pick.
But I think there is something with Kenny Pickett. I
still just remember Mike Tomlin in that game against Baltimore
doing the Kenny Blee picket after you know, you let
them on the scoring drive near the end of that game,
and I think that there's something there. I don't know
if Kenny Pickett's going to be a Hall of Famer,

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but TJ. Watt's healthy. When you look at the pieces
they have on defense, they should be a lot better.
So I jump along on the bandwagon of Pittsburgh being better.
I think Pittsburgh's getting a lot of love this offseason.

Speaker 4 (01:45:23):
So yes, they are as they as they should. I
am bullish on the Steelers right now.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
Yeah, they're getting a lot of love. Let's give Manzi
Blanios a lot of love as we're a lot from
the tireq dot com studios as she gives us the
latest NFL Wise, Manzi, any anybody that you're loving right
now as you give us what's happening today.

Speaker 9 (01:45:45):
I did already have to do a fantasy draft, which
I don't know why we did it while preseason is happening,
but whatever, that's a separate conversation. I'm hoping that the
Steelers are are onto something.

Speaker 10 (01:45:58):
I did take George Pickens, and I'm hoping that he
pulls something out, you know for me late.

Speaker 7 (01:46:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:46:06):
So I'm I had him last year like late in.

Speaker 9 (01:46:08):
The season because somebody I had got hurt, and he
was pretty good, like late in the season, got me,
you know, like twelve points, which is more than I
was expecting every game he played.

Speaker 10 (01:46:16):
So I'm hoping that the hype is real for the Steelers, you.

Speaker 9 (01:46:21):
Know, crossed for your fantasy team, thank you, thank you,
my my. My number one pick was Christian McCaffrey. So
my team name is Christian Mingle.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
El well done you it was I was like, what
am I?

Speaker 7 (01:46:38):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:46:38):
And then it just popped in it Christian Mingle.

Speaker 9 (01:46:40):
Anyway, guys, Victor Hovelin ended with back to back to
back birdies to win the Tour championship, which my understanding, Dan,
he is the FedEx Cup champion.

Speaker 10 (01:46:50):
Yes, so he's taking an eighteen million dollar bonus. Oh
my godness, for real?

Speaker 9 (01:46:57):
He is also right, He ended twenty seven under par overall,
Xander Schaffilet still secured that second place. Twenty two under
was his final score, but good for him. In the NFL,
the final preseason game does kickoff tonight eight pm Eastern
Time as the Texans take on the Saints, and you
can catch all the action on Fox. Earlier today was

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reported that the Dolphins and defensive tackle Christian Wilkins were
unable to come to terms on a new deal, so
the Dolphins and defensive lineman Zach Sealer agreed on a
three year extension worth up to thirty eight million dollars
with twenty million guaranteed.

Speaker 10 (01:47:32):
And the Dolphins also announced good news.

Speaker 9 (01:47:33):
Because receiver Daywood Davis was released from the hospital today
after being injured in last night's preseason game at Jacksonville,
and he's headed back to Miami, so all good there.
In Major League Baseball, one game going on. The Giants
have scored first against the Hot Braves. It's one zero
in San Francisco, bottom of the second inning. The Giants
are two games out of the final wildcard spot right now.

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In the National League, the Diamondbacks they beat the Reds
five to two. Cincinnati now is one and a half
games out of the final Walcart spot in the National League.

Speaker 10 (01:48:04):
While the Dodgers beat the Red Sox seven to four.

Speaker 9 (01:48:06):
Mookie Betts with the two run homer number thirty five
on the season, just like Coyle Schwarber of the Phillies.
He hit home run number thirty five today as the
Phillies blanked the Cardinals three zero. The Cubs dominated the
Pirates ten to one. The Brewers completed a sweep of
San Diego, beating the Padres ten to six.

Speaker 10 (01:48:22):
They have won eight in a row.

Speaker 9 (01:48:24):
They scored seven runs in the sixth inning to take
the lead and they never looked back. It took eleven innings,
but the Guardians top the Blue Jays ten to seven.
Toronto three games out of the final Walcart spot in
the AL. The Mariners are in sole possession of the
AL West, which is a crazy division. They edged the
Royals today three to two a home run from Julio Rodriguez.
The Twins walked it off on a walk against the

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Rangers seven to six. Two grand slams in that game
Jonaheim of the Rangers and Royce Lewis of the Twins,
and then the Astros dominated the Tigers seventeen to four.
Houston had twenty five hits in the victory. Miguel Cabrera
did hit career.

Speaker 10 (01:49:00):
Home run number five hundred and ten in the loss.

Speaker 9 (01:49:03):
While the Marlins edged the Nationals two to one, The
Rocky snapped the Oriols four game winning streak, coming out
on top four to three, and the Rays.

Speaker 10 (01:49:10):
Held on to beat the Yankees seven to four. White
Sox defeated the A's of Anyone care six to one
in the Mets.

Speaker 9 (01:49:16):
They walked it off against the Angels three to two
as well, and Arizona State is expected well no, they
are self imposing a one year bowl band for the
twenty twenty three football season. This decision stems from the
ongoing NCAA investigation for alleged violations that occurred under former
coach erm Edwards. That sucks for all the seniors.

Speaker 10 (01:49:35):
That sucks.

Speaker 9 (01:49:37):
I would hate to be at Arizona State as a
senior on the football team.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
Back to you guys, thank you very much, Manty, And
it's a good thing that you aren't. You're we with uts.

Speaker 9 (01:49:46):
Yeah no, but I read that story and they were
like it was devastating when they told the seniors.

Speaker 2 (01:49:51):
And I was like, yeah, man, that sucks again, that
Jimmy Kimmel bole.

Speaker 5 (01:49:55):
Yah yeah, how like how you trying to play him
like that?

Speaker 11 (01:50:02):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
Come on, what's wrong with that? That's you know, you
don't even think they're gonna make a bowl game.

Speaker 4 (01:50:07):
They're not going to a bowl game. But but but
you but you just sold their entire season. You were like,
all right, the best they can do is the Jimmy
Kimble Bowl. Oh cold blooded.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
I'm just I'm saying, what's realistic for? Like, it's that
that they love to hear about your real realistic. They
are still in hope time. Hey, hey, I tried to
bring up the twelve team playoff if they were to
do it next year, and you told me I was ridiculous.

Speaker 5 (01:50:38):
So they they they're ways away from making the playoff playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:50:46):
I was just trying. I was trying to think of
what the lower you know, a lower tier bowl. They
would have a tie into the Pac twelve and so
the La Bawl, which was the Jimmy Kimble Bowle. I
don't know if it is again this year. That's what
came in in my head. That's why I thought about it.
So but there will be no Arizona State in anyone's
Bowl game projections. All right, he's George Reister. I'm Dan Byer.

(01:51:08):
Hit Monsey up at Moncey Belanos, Moncey and I tomorrow
in for Doug Gottlieb on Fox Sports Radio. That's right. Three.

Speaker 10 (01:51:17):
Yeah, yeah, that's my Flex. That's Flex Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Yeah. Yes, So we got you for two hours, so
we're gonna we're gonna have some fun on a Monday afternoon.
Hit George up at George Reister. You can find me
on social media at Dan Byer on Fox. That's at
Twitter dot com or as they call it now, George X. Okay, mamma,
name him Clay. I'm gonna call him Clay. Find your

(01:51:43):
name Twitter, I'm gonna call him Twitter. All right, hit
him up on Twitter then at George Reister. We're a
live forth Tirech dot Com Studios. Monci just mentioned Victor
Hoblin won the tour Championship. Victor Hoblin turned me on
to the metalcore band Parkway Drive years back when I
did an interview with him, and I'm like, oh, let
me check it out, check it out, liked a few songs,
wasn't too bad. It was a thank Victor Hoblind for that.

(01:52:06):
It was when he won the US Amateur in twenty
eighteen at Pebble Beat. So I have Victor Hobland to
thank for that. We're gonna talk some more golf, George,
because I want to get your your thoughts on a dilemma.
I'm going to propose if there was one thing that
you could cure from your golf swing, and if you're
driving around or your golf game and you play the

(01:52:27):
sport of golf, I want you to think about this
as well. There's one thing you could eliminate and would
never be a problem again. What would it be? We'll
bring that question in so much more to you next
here on Fox Sports Radio. He does it again series Chance.

Speaker 10 (01:52:57):
Hold Run.

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Courtesy of ABC Carl Ravitch on the call as California

(01:53:23):
West Region US. However, you want to put it, wins
the Little League World Series with the walkoff home run
against Curasau. Talk about a memory for your uh, for
the rest of your life, that man, George, we lost.
This was thirty five years ago about we lost in

(01:53:45):
the second round game when my buddy let a ground
ball go through his legs and right field and go
all the way to the fence and we lost the
game three to two. Like I still remember that, so
I can't imagine what it would be like. Unfortunately for
the young kid who gave up the home run, but
also for the kid from Elsiganda who hit the home run.
My goodness, I mean, what what a memory to walk

(01:54:06):
it off when you can win it all on Network
TV pretty much? Yeah, oh yeah, that's that's something that
goes on the highlight reel. Dude.

Speaker 5 (01:54:13):
And that kid's a tank, bros.

Speaker 4 (01:54:16):
He's high school age or he's high school size already
Checkin's birth certificate.

Speaker 2 (01:54:21):
Now you've you've obviously played multiple years in the NFL.
You are a standout at or again you know, top
recruit going in as a duck. You've played at the
highest of levels. Is there a moment that you remember
from like little league football or baseball or basketball that
like still to this day seems like yesterday. Absolutely, yeah,

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it was more like high school.

Speaker 4 (01:54:52):
We're just playing on Friday nights and all of that.
But yeah, but it's actually been even more with my
with my kids.

Speaker 5 (01:54:59):
Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
The reason the reason I ask is because your resume
is just so much longer than the common person like
myself or any any guy driving around, Like you know,
a lot of us are. Our athletic careers ended in
high school and maybe even before that, so you remember
stuff in you know, sixth grade, or stuff that happened
maybe in eighth grade. And I just wondered for someone

(01:55:24):
like you who played at the absolute highest level in
the National Football League and did so for years that
I didn't know if there was maybe like a you know,
a ten year old George Western.

Speaker 4 (01:55:33):
A ton of I played. I didn't play a ton
of organized sports when I was a little kid. I
played baseball for a little bit and then one season
of tackle football. But it was for me when I
got to high school that I really started to step
stuff up and started training and practicing and all that

(01:55:54):
stuff and that was like life changing.

Speaker 2 (01:55:56):
Bro. Yeah, I can't even imagine.

Speaker 5 (01:56:00):
Out going through this with my kids is crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:56:04):
That's got to be like nine million times more stressful.
Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (01:56:09):
Yes, because you can't go help them and you know
so much more than them, Like my like my son
is a senior in high school now and going to
go and he plays quarterback and going to go watch
his games.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
You're like, whoa, it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:27):
Is pretty cool and it's pretty exciting.

Speaker 4 (01:56:28):
But then when you understand how many high leverage moments
that he's that he's played in, it's pretty dope.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Sure sure, well that's awesome. Well memory memories, Uh, the
last Lifetime today and williamsporting the walk off home run
just happens to be our progressive play of the day.
I wanted to wrap up with this because I know, George,
you like to play little golf. Ay, I love to
play the game. And there are things that are on
social media sometimes that are just their clickbait or they

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just want you to interact so their numbers go up.
You see it. A lot of you know, fill out
this NBA roster with fifteen dollars, you know, and you
have the five dollar line and the four dollar line,
and they suck you in with stuff like this. But
I saw one courtesy of Golf Digest today and it's
about your golf game, and it says for your next

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round that you would play eighteen holes. You can only
choose one of these, okay, but you would have this
for the eighteen hole round, George, you can either never
miss a fairway, never be out driven, never hit into
a bunker, or never three put so on your next round,

(01:57:38):
if you were to play, which one of those four
would you take? Because the responses that I saw on
this post were shocking to me, but they would be
never miss a fairway, never be out driven, never hit
it into a bunker, or never three putt. Which one
would you take?

Speaker 4 (01:57:58):
There are only two options for me, and those two
options are either never three put because that means that
no matter where you end up on the on the green,
you're getting in in maximum two. Yes, So like that's
gonna help the score out tremendously, So like now you're

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not even worried about location as much. And then with
you and then the only other tenable option to me is.

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
Is hit every fairway.

Speaker 4 (01:58:32):
But hit every fairway doesn't mean that you hit the
fairway at a reasonable distance. It just means that you
hit the fairway. So then I will go with three
putt never three putt.

Speaker 2 (01:58:47):
The the responses to this of never hit a fairway
that was the most popular one, that was the and
but then your point, like those that that contrasted or
you know, went against it brought up the point that
you did. I would go with either the never three
putt or never hit into a bunker because my sand

(01:59:08):
game right now is completely atrocious. Mind to the I
stay away from all bunkers. Yeah, like it would. It
would save me, It would save me. I played earlier
this week, you know, left two in the bunker on
like two you know, separate occasions. Or it's just like
my goodness, and listen, I'm gonna three putt at some point,

(01:59:29):
but maybe one time I'll get I'll get lucky. I
would take the never hit into a bunker. I'll figure
out everything else some way. But it was it was
the bunker or the three putt to me. And I
think your three putt reasoning is very good where your
your score is likely to be the most affected because
of that. So so we're kind of on the same train,
but keep me out of the sand. I don't need it.

(01:59:52):
I don't need it this summer, and I don't need
it another golf course, that's for sure, a little bit,
all right. So he's George Reister. I'm Dan bierraping things
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Com studios, and next week, George, we will have a
full slate of college football to react to and an

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NFL season. We'll talk to you then on Fox Sports Radio.