Dan Beyer & Kerry Rhodes Preview the NFL Season, Talk Clemson's Downward Trend & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
One week from this point, we will be more than
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until then, we have a season to look ahead to.
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is life like in the NFL A week out from
your season opener?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Man, the excitement bills you know what it really counts
now and all the work you've put in in the offseason,
the training camps, the mini camps, the ones that aren't
mandatory camps, all those.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Things are in the rearview mirror.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
It's time to go play games at count and so
the excitement is astronomical.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Through the rule You're you're gonna hear a lot about
this over this next couple of days. You're gonna hear
the phrase Christmas Day. With Thursday's game and then Sunday's
full slate of games because of everybody being so excited.
I would also say this, it is one of those

(01:16):
pinch me days. That week one of the NFL season
is a pinch me day because you've waited so long
for it, You've waited the entire offseason and it's finally here,
and hopefully for your team, there's only good days ahead.
But even if your team stinks, you can still play
fantasy football, you can still wager on games, and you

(01:37):
know a bunch of places you can have fun that way.
It is a finally it is here. And it's no
disrespect to Major League Baseball golf. I'm a fan of
Scottie Scheffler just won the Tour championship, but nothing takes
the place of the National Football League and that Sunday date,
and there's just something special about it. And that's why
I think it's a really a pinch me moment that

(01:58):
it's finally here. There's nothing better.

Speaker 3 (02:01):
And it's you know, the crazy part about it now
being out of the league for such a you know,
for such a long time now as I chuckle picking.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Out how long, but sure it's been a little while.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
It's been a little while, right, and now I'm a
fan as well. The first couple of years, I didn't
really watch much of it. I was kind of detached,
wanted to get away, clear my slate of anything football related.
Now that I'm back in this position, I'm covering it
a little bit. I you know, my brothers, they they
gamble on it sometimes. And so like all the avenues
that you just talked about the excitement that comes from that,

(02:31):
me now as a fan, I have that same type
of feeling of it's here. And it's crazy because you couldn't.
I couldn't appreciate that or see that from the fans
perspective of it, obviously, because I hadn't been one that way.
But now that I'm in that position, in that chair,
it's I'm actually amped up myself.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's cool. There's a bunch to look forward to in
twenty twenty four. But you said something there, and I'm
curious about it because I don't know why you retired.
I don't know, I don't know the reasons behind it,
and it's something that you don't want to talk about.
You can just give me the finger and we can
move on and and all is good. But the sense
that you detached yourself from it. Was it because you
were like, Okay, I can't do it anymore. Was it

(03:11):
like I can't do it, but it's just not my
thing anymore? Why did you detach?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It was a combination. So my last year in Arizona,
I was gonna rework a deal. They had a deal
on the table. I didn't take that deal, so released
testing Free Agency had Cincinnati. The Giants had all, I
mean of the teams that I could have went to
and you know, played for, But I also had I

(03:37):
was shooting a TV pilot that Monday, so I flew
into Cincinnati. They had a deal on the table for
me with the Bengals. I had to take a test,
a physical because I hurt my back my last year
in Arizona, and so they just wanted another opinion on
the doctor. And I don't think I have told the story,
so it's cool that you're saying it. And so I
had to see the doctor the next day and the

(03:59):
next day in that window, I couldn't wait because if
I stayed there again, I would not have had time
to shoot the pilot. And so I literally chose on
the spot that I'm going to be an actor on Yeah,
so it was crazy. And so then you get away
from the game and I'm watching the games a little
bit like early on, and I'm like, these dudes are
not good as me.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
I can still doing some of thing. Yeah, yeah, that
makes a lot of sense. And you chose And we've
talked about it on the show that when you search
Carrie's name now, it doesn't say all pro safety started
from day one, which is what we call him here
at Fox Sports Radio. It says American actor. Yes, and
that was the day that Carrie Rhoades chose that path.

(04:40):
I'm glad you told that story. I had no idea
about it. Jason Stewart, who is the producer of the
Doug Gottlieb Show on Fox Sports Radio that I'm a
part of and I work side by side with Jason
Monday through Friday here on Fox Sports Radio, said something
to me probably a gosh, maybe it was a month
ago already when we were talking about the upcoming NFL season,
and he mentioned the Kansas City Chiefs going for a

(05:04):
three peat and saying like he said that he was
interested in that and thought it was a huge story
entering the NFL season, and I wasn't buying it when
he said it, he said that to me, I just
there was more about the Chiefs off season and what
was happening with Rashid Rice and other moves that the

(05:25):
Chiefs made. Travis Kelcey and Taylor Swift obviously always a
part of the conversation. The Chiefs weren't on my I
don't want to say radar because it's not the right word.
It just didn't didn't make it exciting for me, like
the quest of maybe the San Francisco forty nine ers,
maybe Caleb Williams and those things in what Chicago could bring.

(05:46):
But when I really sat back, like Jason is right
on this, like the story that we have entering the
twenty twenty four season, that's kind of where we're starting
out today of what are we looking forward to? What
excites us? This won't be determined until the end or
when they're eliminated, sure, but the Kansas City Chiefs having
the opportunity to do a three peat, to me, Carrie,

(06:08):
it is we are at a teeter totter moment with
the Kansas City Chiefs because if they go on and
get the three peat, which no one's been able to
do in the NFL before that is an enormous, an
enormous achievement. And it also then tips this teeter totter
to the Patriots are in reach if you win the
Super Bowl this year and you get number four for

(06:31):
Andy Reid and Patrick mahomes Man, Yes, exactly, that's exactly
what it would be. And because you know you're knocking
these off, boom boom boom when you have three in
a row and it is, I think it has to
be the number one story. Even though I don't feel
like we're talking about the Chiefs a ton. We're talking
about more who's quarterbacking in Pittsburgh, what's new England's going

(06:51):
to do? And mentioned the rookie quarterbacks those situations. But
the Kansas City Chiefs going for the three peat this year,
I think is the biggest story in the NFL. And
I wouldn't have thought so a month ago, but a
week out, I think that's what gets this pump for
the twenty twenty four season.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know what, I haven't thought about it at all either,
And I think that's really one of the biggest problems
with our society in general.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right it's what have you done for me lately?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
And so you live in the vacuum in that world, right,
so you're not able to take a peek up and
actually appreciate the greatness. We don't appreciate greatness while it's happening.
We usually appreciate the greatness when it's all said and done,
or there's an aftermath to it, right, Yes, And that's

(07:34):
kind of what you're alluding to right here.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
And I would also say that we will jump ahead
to greatness before it's warranted. For sure, this would be
warranted conversation. I think that we were having a Patrick
Mahomes conversation a couple of years ago, and people were
just having that conversation because they wanted to be earlier.
They wanted to say that they were first, never truly
believing that Patrick Mahomes could actually track down Tom Brady

(07:58):
and win seven Super Bowls, or the Chiefs as a
franchise could win three in a row, or Andy Reid
could chase down Bill Belichick. I don't think people honestly
thought that would happen. I think they wanted to be
first in saying it, so that's when the conversation was happening.
But I don't think people realistically thought it now we're
at a point where I think that Teeter Totter is
in balance right now. And if they win it this year,

(08:20):
because there is going to be a bit of a reset,
Mahomes is going to be there, but we know Travis
Kelcey is later on in his career where that's going
to work out. We're seeing a changeover in their receiving corps. Well,
they drafted Xavier Worthy, they have or she Rice. They
brought in Hollywood Brown, so they've kind of changed that.
But this year is a big Teeter Totter spot for

(08:41):
not only the opportunity to be the first team to
three peat, but man, if you could four, yeah, five
and six, aren't it's not out of the realm of
possibility when you consider what could be ahead for Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
And what's I'm glad you said one name in this
in the name that I really I mean, obviously, Patrick
Mahomes is great, but I wouldn't celebrate Andy Reid. Before
the Chiefs and before he got his guy, we were
talking about him being one of the most disappointing coaches
of all time. He made it to the Super Bowl,
he would win NFC the division and get to the

(09:14):
NFC Championship Game multiple times and couldn't get over that hurdle,
and so people were saying, what really is Andy Reid?
Is he just an offensive guy that can score points
and get his team to a spot or ken he
actually win it all? And now we see when you
get the right guy, he can win it all. So
that's a beautiful story as well.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
The other things with Andy Reid is when you look
at just take this past decade for example, So Reid
takes the Eagles to Super Bowl thirty nine with Donovan McNabb.
They lose in the NFC Championship game, you know, in
years prior and falling short despite having the home field
advantage you know, with Carolina and with Tampa Bay prior

(09:51):
to that. But they finally get over the hump. They
finally go and go to a super Bowl and then
they lose to New England. And that's, you know, nothing,
nothing to be a shame. But to your point of
Andy Reid was thought of as the coach to never
get over the hump. The Eagles end up going to
a super Bowl and winning a Super Bowl before Andy
Reid starts this run. Yes, so you're looking at Doug

(10:13):
Peterson in Philadelphia at the time and seeing like, okay,
that's what takes. It takes you to get over the hump,
even though Andy Reid had been long gone from there,
but that success of what you had in Kansas City
still hadn't arrived at that point. And even so, it's
crazy to think that that narrative existed seven years ago,
but it did. And Andy Reid now is to the point.

(10:33):
And this was something that I realized last year and
looking ahead to their matchup against the forty nine ers
in the Super Bowl, just what is at stake for
Andy Reid? Because there was the question about retirement, There
was the question of what do you do if you're
Andy Reid? When do you think about hanging him up?
If he wins, let's just say they win twelve games

(10:54):
this year, twelve and five. I think that's reasonable. That's
not out of the realm of possibility. It puts him
at two hundred and seventy career wins. He would be
thirty two wins behind Bill Belichick in the National Football
League for all time wins. And we think Belichick is
maybe going to get back into coaching, but it's not

(11:15):
necessarily a sure thing. Maybe he loves the media's stuff
and ends up sticking with that. But so then you
look at it at thirty two wins and you're saying, Wow,
if you would coach three more seasons after that, and
you win ten games a year with Patrick Mahomes, which
is very, very reasonable, you are moving up that ladder
and you would have passed Bill Belichick for the most
wins in regular season history. So the greatness of Andy

(11:38):
Reid can even be heightened anymore. His playoff record, if
you have success and you win those games, is one
that you will you should not sneeze about it. As well.
He has an opportunity to be a legendary coach when
it comes to the postseason, despite the failures that you
just mentioned earlier with Philadelphia. So yeah, so it's all
on the table there for Kansas City, and then you

(11:59):
throw all those factors in. It's because they're always up here.
And I know you can't see this because you're listening
to us, but they drive on a higher freeway than
everyone else. So maybe they're not getting as much attention
and much talk about it, but it is they are
the story to end of the year. I thought it's
the forty nine ers. When we were talking about this
a month ago, the forty nine ers bouncing back in

(12:20):
what we feel is the last year of this window
before you have to pay brock party. I think that's
a very intriguing storyline, and there are other intriguing storylines
as well. But when we talk about the grand scheme
of the National Football League, history could be altered depending
on how this season goes. Because if they win it
this year, meaning the Kansas City Chiefs, I'm not saying
they're going to coast to two more Super Bowl wins,

(12:42):
but to be the first team to threepeat, that would
be something that we obviously had never seen before and
enough to believe that they could continue to have their
greatness ongoing.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Yeah, No, I mean, I don't think there's a such
thing as coasting to anything anything in that league, right So,
but if they were to get this fourth, even if
they don't win for four or five more years, pastorin
Mahomes will be around for a while, so you can
always retool as well, and so the importance of getting
this one wouldn't be a big factor in that.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
He's Carrier Roads. I'm Dan Pier. You want to know
how many playoff wins, Andy Reid is behind Bill Belichick
how many five? So if you were to win a
Super Bowl, and even they didn't, if they didn't get
the number one seed, like they played a wild card
round game this year, you would have four games that
you could play on your way to win in the

(13:28):
super Bowl. So if they would win it all this
year and didn't have the first round by he would
be one behind Bill Belichick for all time playoff wins.
Some of that is skewed because of the expanded playoffs,
and we've seen it throughout years and years playoffs expanding
also allowing more games earlier on for teams. But that's
also where the greatness of Andy Reid is. All of
those times and going to the playoffs and winning those games,

(13:51):
and with all those wins, we still looked at him
as a failure at one point, which is crazy to
think of. He's carry Roads. Hit him up by Kerry
twenty five Roads. You can find me at Dan Bayer
on Fox. What do you think is the most exciting
thing about the upcoming NFL season? Carry and I would
love to hear from you again at Dan Byer on
Fox and at Carrie twenty five roads Manzi Blanios this year,

(14:13):
we'll have according to Manzi coming up in about thirty
minutes or so. But coming up next, it was a
rough day for one college football program on Saturday and
what could that mean to the long term. We'll talk
about it next year on Fox Sports Radio.

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What are you doing interrupting our promo?

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Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yea, things have gone from bad to worse for one
college football team. We'll tell you who that is in
about seven minutes or so. He is Carrie Rhodes, the
All Pro and starter from day one. I'm Dan Byer.
It is a Fox Sports Sunday if you wanted, it
could be a Fox Football Sunday. Red Zone show begins

(15:37):
next week. We'll be here for the late window we
were looking ahead. It's also the two week anniversary. Do
you guys want to know what the two week anniversary
is today? Ian Roddy are executive producer. Do you have
any idea with what happened two weeks ago today? Do
you have any idea? Cannot tell you. I'll tell you
right now. It was two weeks ago today that I

(15:58):
said to carry Rhodes, Hey, you hook up Jonathan Vilma
for the show on September one for like an NFL preview,
because Jonathan Vilmo one of the analysts for Fox DV
I'll join us throughout the season. But one of Carrie's
better friends in the game. And this was actually as
we were exiting the hallway two weeks ago, and I

(16:22):
shot Carrie a text today and said, hey, Vilma, good
to join us today. Carrie's response truly one of the
greatest responses to a question of dropping the ball I've
ever heard. I don't even remember that at all. Zero
recollection of the conversation. When did it finally come to

(16:45):
you that you were like, oh, man, did you have
a flashback? Was there any deja vu? What happened? By
the way, we don't think Jonathan Vilma was going to
be joining us, but if he does, you know he's
saving Carrie's butt, So there's that. But there was there
a point of deja vu, and any of that that
was zero dejah vu. I just trusted you, Dan, that's all.

(17:06):
You don't remember standing by the door where we have
our first aid kit and you're saying, oh, what is
that September one? Okay, I'm gonna hit him up. That's
because I was gone last week playing golf, right, and
you said, okay, yeah, let me hit him up. I said,
NFL preview show because it's going to be the last one.
That's right. I don't even remember that at all.

Speaker 8 (17:25):
I think it shows Carrie just picks and chooses what
he actually listens to.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Good job.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
That might be accurate because when Dan said it, I
did remember it. I mean, obviously it jogged my memory.
But two weeks is a little early. And then Dan
disappeared for a week. There was no mention of it. Yeah,
I got I'm a busy man.

Speaker 2 (17:48):
What it tells me is that Carry only listens to
me between five and eight o'clock Eastern time on Sundays,
and any time past eight o'clock Eastern he will just
tune me out. And that was that was the case.
What are you looking forward to in the NFL season?
Maybe we take the Kansas City Chiefs. What excites you
about the upcoming season?

Speaker 7 (18:08):
You know what?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
I think it's I think it's it's a couple of things.
I think year two for c J. Strout, I think
the step that he takes, you know, me having connections
with that team. You know, the head coach for the
Texans was my high school teammate, Demico Ryan.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
So I want to see him do well. I want
to see c J.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Stroud, you know, continue to blossom and see if he
can go out and win an MVP this year. I
think that's I think that's his silling, and so I
want to see that. But also the Ravens finally getting
over the hump. That's a big deal for me as well.
I mean, those guys have been so successful during the
regular season, piles up a lot of wins throughout the year,
but can't get it done in the playoffs. Can this
be the year they finally get it done?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Ian Roddy is the executive producer. Since we just heard
from you, what excites you, mister Jets fan?

Speaker 8 (18:50):
H So the Jets fan is the key word. I
actually have two R words for you. It's Rogers and rookies.
So I'm excited to see it.

Speaker 2 (18:58):
Yeah, R and R. There you got it.

Speaker 8 (19:01):
I'm actually very excited to finally see Aaron Rodgers because again,
we only got to see four snaps of it last year,
so obviously that's just an obvious one. But then rookies
across the NFL, not just Jets. I'm a super big
NFL draft nerd, So I'm just really excited to see
how guys like Malik Neighbors and Marvin Harrison Junior translate
to the NFL because I love them coming out of college.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
So yeah, I love your kindness and diplomacy as well,
But it's about the rookie quarterbacks, like it truly is,
like it's Caleb Williams is such a story, Jaydon Daniels
can be such a story. Bo Nicks is starting in
den course some r and are there Chris proffetor technical producer?
Is it all Lions all the time?

Speaker 6 (19:41):
No, it's not all Lions. I love the entire NFL.
I mean, if I wanted to say just Lions, it
would be like, you know, being able to see this
run back. But I think, I think if it's a
brand new age for Lions fans, I don't even know
how to feel about it, but I will say what
I'm looking for the most the season is just the
release of stress. There is so much much, so many

(20:01):
questions that go into what the season is so much about, Oh,
this team could do this, this team could do that,
this player is this, this player is that. And I
just to finally put all of that offseason talk to bed,
to put all of the prognostications about free agents, drafts, picks, moves, drama,
all of that to bed and just play.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
The dang games. How much is what I'm here for?
How much is off your shoulders? Knowing that the Giants
are keeping Tommy DeVito and you have that DeVito Jersey.

Speaker 6 (20:31):
I would keep it even if they sent him home
and had him and he starts like a cooking channel
on YouTube, that would still be up there. That is
a moment in time I will keep forever.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
Wow, a moment in time forever. It's Giants Jersey. How
many games did he actually play? He beat the Packers?
He did? They did? Yeah, I can can't dispute that.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
But you got to understand for a Lions fan, anyone
who beats up on the Packers or the Bears like
they get so many Brownie points.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
You're gonna be on Instagram posts in six or seven
years if you ever wear that to a concert or
a game, it's gonna be I saw a tom.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yeah, I know it's It's one of those. It's like
a Cory schleshing your jersey.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Wow, mancis what's got you pumped for the upcoming year?

Speaker 9 (21:17):
I feel like I have a ton of things that
have me pumped for this. Okay, Okay, I'll try.

Speaker 10 (21:23):
I do want to see what happens with Aaron Rodgers
and the Jets, I do. I want to see what
Breeze Hall does this year. I want to see what
happens with the Bills and Josh Allen because I feel.

Speaker 9 (21:31):
Like it's do or die for him.

Speaker 10 (21:33):
And then I want to see what happens with Joe
Burrow coming off his jury in the Bengals.

Speaker 9 (21:36):
I want to see if the Chiefs are going to
three bet. I want to see the Chargers are going
to make the playoffs as a wildcard team. There's so
much I want to see.

Speaker 10 (21:44):
If they don't you dare carry Rhodes, don't you can
you hit him?

Speaker 9 (21:48):
I want to see what the.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
Eagles do, and it's gonna end real well. Yeah, I'm
the one that started the fight with carry out.

Speaker 7 (21:55):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 10 (21:57):
I feel like there's actually a lot of interesting stuff
aside from the obvious of the rookie quarterbacks like you mentioned, yes,
Caleb Williams and all that. I want to see what
the Eagles do because I think there's like a little
bit of toxic energy going on in that locker room
between the coach.

Speaker 9 (22:11):
And the team and I, you know, I just there's
a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
I am not trying to be anti to that. I
can't stand Eagles talk, Like I'm so done with Eagles
talk and everything that goes around the Eagles, Like, I'm
just so done with them. I don't even enjoy watching
them play there. They're no fun. I am. I'm so
done with the Eagles. I actually agree with you on that.
And I don't like Sirianni either.

Speaker 4 (22:33):
Something.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
Oh I think that's part of it. Yeah, yeah, Vic
Fangio now running the defense and Kellen Moore and the offense.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
We all know Big Dom's gonna be give us our
first security guard to NFL head coach pipeline.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Did you all forget the Mike McDonald the are all
beginning in Seattle? Is that what you all forgot about? Sure?

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Sure we forgot, just like Harry forgot about booking.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
The guest, right, what about Jim Thompson?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
No, no, no, no interest in that either. I want
this on a plaque in here. I don't even remember
that at all. Quotes Dash Harry Road.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
Carry there it is. I want it put it up
there somewhere. They've got to find a space.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
Make one of those good Twitter graphics. Maybe a picture
of carry and is playing.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Nice? You know, Sarah fun to are you again?

Speaker 7 (23:26):
Oh man?

Speaker 2 (23:27):
What a what a shot I was again. We're going
to have a great show. We'd love it. If Jonathan
Willma joined us. But in his defense, he had no
idea about this up until like two hours ago.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
Then the other thing that would have topped at is
if I would have put who's this texting me?

Speaker 2 (23:43):
Like a question that it's true. Apparently I have to
take booking guests like thunderstorm warnings. I only have to
tell Carrie, like about an hour before it's gonna, you know,
hit our area. Two weeks in advance is just way
too much, way too much planning. All right, let's get
to the news desk giving us all the latest of
what is happening today. There's some college football later on,

(24:06):
some boops, some golf, and obviously baseball.

Speaker 9 (24:08):
What's going on, Yes, college football later on.

Speaker 10 (24:10):
I think everyone's excited to see a little lsu USC
But that's a little later. There is some positive news
out of the NFL yesterday, rookie wide receiver of the
forty nine ers, Ricky Pearcell was shot in the chest
and an attempted robbery.

Speaker 9 (24:23):
But a G.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
Did you guys see him walking away to the ambulance
after he was shot and like talking.

Speaker 9 (24:29):
Holding a towel. I mean, if that's not a G,
then I don't know what.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
I thought it went. Did they say that it exit?

Speaker 10 (24:35):
He did, so the mom today posted on social media
that had exited right out. It didn't hit any vital
parts of his body. So he has officially been released
from the hospital.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
So all good there.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
And you know that the person that shot him with
only set seventeen years old.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's it seems similar to the Brian Robinson situation years ago.
Ye shot him back though, Yes.

Speaker 10 (24:57):
That's what I saw too, that he took gunsight kind
of it exactly ensued. Yeah, No, seriously, I wonder how
many people are gonna buy his jersey now, if you're
buying Tommy DeVito's jersey, Ricky Pearsol's jersey, one hundred percent
is one that you are purchasing, no doubt about it.

Speaker 9 (25:13):
Scotty Scheffler another one.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
He wins the Tour Championship thirty under par overall Colin Morricawa.

Speaker 9 (25:18):
And did four shots back.

Speaker 10 (25:20):
At the US Open, American and twelve seed Taylor Fritz
defeated eight seed Casper Root in the round of sixteen
and four sets.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
He is onto the quarterfinals.

Speaker 10 (25:27):
Fritz is the first American man to reach three major
quarterfinals in a year since Andy Roddick did it back
in two thousand and seven. Now third seed on the
women's side, Coco Goff facing fellow American in thirteen seed
Emminavarrow in their fourth round match.

Speaker 9 (25:39):
Navarro did win the first set six to three.

Speaker 10 (25:41):
They're currently in their second set right now, and of
course I'm on a commercial trying to get this score,
so I'm doing great. They are tied in the second set,
No they're not. Emminavarrow four games to three against Coco
Goff in this one. Again, this is their fourth round
match as well. Let's go to the WNBA. The Fever
are losing to the Wings. They're about to start the
fourth quarter. Dallas up seventy four to seventy. Caitlin Clark

(26:03):
the three of eight from the three point line. She
does have twenty one points, seven assists and three rebounds.
Angel Reese has officially broken the record for the most
rebounds in a single season in the WNBA. The Links
did beat the Sky though seventy nine to seventy four.
Reese ended with seventeen points and nineteen rebounds.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
I thought she broke the back forward with shot. That
was just a joke.

Speaker 7 (26:24):
That was just a joke.

Speaker 9 (26:26):
I was trying to do the math because the final
number I can't find, but I think she's at four
hundred and fifteen rebounds.

Speaker 10 (26:32):
The record was originally at four hundred and four. I
think she's at four fifteen right now.

Speaker 9 (26:36):
We do have some baseball going on, the A's and
the Rangers. Does anyone care? Maybe, but the A's are
up four to three.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
Bottom of the tenth inning, tie game between the Marlins
and the Giants four to four bottom of the fifth,
the Mariners beating the Angels two to one bottom of
the fifth as well, and the Diamondbacks have exploded against
the Dodgers nine to one in Arizona, bottom of the
fifth inning.

Speaker 9 (26:55):
Earlier today, the Mets beat the White Sox two zero.

Speaker 10 (26:58):
New York is now one and a half game out
of the final Waldcart spot in the National League, behind
the Braves. The Tigers outscored the Red Sox four to one,
so the Red Sox moved now four games back at
the final Waldcard spot in the AL, and the Yankees
ended up losing after coming back against the cardinal Saint
Louis wins at fourteen to seven.

Speaker 9 (27:17):
Back to you guys, thank.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
You very much. Manzi, she'll be back with us in
about twelve minutes or so with according to Manzi, one
of the staples that unfortunately it goes by the wayside
during the NFL season, but will it will return loud
and proud in twenty twenty five. But your final twenty
twenty four edition coming up in about twelve minutes or so.
He is Carrie Rhoads. I'm Dan Buyer, Fine Manzi at

(27:39):
Monzy Belangos. You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox,
and you can find Carrie at Carrie twenty five Roads.
I traveled back to southern California yesterday, so I didn't
see the full slate of college football. I'm going to
tell you something that I really, really, really really liked
about college football, and I feel like I'm in the
minority of this. Those Doctor Pepper commercials, I've always loved them.

(28:01):
I actually find the people I think think they're dumb.
I think they're stupid. But when if you have not
seen the Quinn Eewers Doctor Pepper Fansville, it is. It
is amazing of the Texas quarterback with Brian Bosworth, very
very well done. On a day yesterday where there wasn't
much happening in college football. That was a highlight. I

(28:22):
know it's Week one and you're saying, how is not
a lot happening? Well, there wasn't anything that shook the earth,
but Georgia shook down Clemson, and I think that is
something that we need to talk about here, Not on
the Georgia end of things, because I think that we
expected that, But man, things are going from bad to
worse for Clemson. Dabbles Sweeney. I know someone that you
have a bit of a relationship with, at least going

(28:44):
back a few years, is a guy who is not
adapted to the transfer portal. Clemson has not enjoying the
success that they did prior, and what is this new
world of college football? It was a rough day for
the ACC outside of Miami's victory that they had against Florida,
or rough start to the season for the ACC. But
if you're Clemson right now and you're getting throttled by

(29:05):
a you know, a Georgia team in the second half,
I understand it. It was closer in the first half,
but still this is not the Clemson team of all.
This is not the Clemson team with Deshaun Watson and
Trevor Lawrence. It seems like it's bad times for Dabbo
Sweeney because he's just not keeping up with the times.
In Week one, reflected that you've got to be adaptable.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
When you're stuck in your old ways, you know, the
maximum results that came from that old way, it's going
to be set in stone as is and as such
right when times move and things advanced and people start
to do different things to be successful, there's a level
of I know Dabbo talks about it a lot. It's
a family. He likes to develop homegrown talent. That's all

(29:48):
good in Dandy, and I think you can still do
that to a certain degree. But when there are positions
that you aren't up to par with the rest of
the nation, you got to go out and get those
to keep up, keep up with the Joneses. And I
think for them that's the problem. They're still strong up front,
they're still strong on the offensive line, defensive line. Their

(30:08):
skill position players are lacking and that wasn't the thing
for them in the you know, the previous I guess
the previous ten years. But right now that they don't
have the advantage no anymore, so.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
You have to adapt. DeAndre Hopkins one of those former
play makers that I think that you're talking about as well,
and there are a lot of them that we could
we could mention called for a change. He says that
they have a bunch of playmakers, but only three points.
But his point was something has to change. And I
don't know if that's offensive coordinator Garrett Riley or if
it's just Dabo Sweeney himself or Dabo Sweeney's mindset, but

(30:44):
it's fine and dandy if you and I are talking
about this, and Moncei and Steve Hartman are talking about
it on Saturdays. When your former players and your fan
base and your boosters are talking like this, then you
know it's then it's something for DeAndre Hopkins to go
to social media and say this in a game where
they were outgained by more than two hundred and fifty

(31:06):
yards by Georgia, there's something wrong. And I know it's
just week one, and I have was saying September does
not matter in college football, but that only deals with
the college Football Playoff, and now with an expanded playoff,
I'm not even sure October matters for by and large,
depending on how things play out. But if you're On
the other end, if you're losing, it does matter. And

(31:27):
for Dabosweeney to start the season like this, Listen, no
shame in losing the number one Georgia basically in their
backyard in Atlanta. But Clemson's not that far are we
away either? It's a car drive to Atlanta, so you're
gonna have fans there. But it's the fact of how
it played out, how the game played out, and the
way that Dabo is. They've taken in two transfers. I

(31:49):
believe during his time there they lost twelve alone players leaving.
Over the last year. Since twenty twenty, they've had forty
seven players transfer. He still wants to do the old
school way of things, and that's just it doesn't work
in college football now because now let's say, what have
you done for me lately? Because of how things change.
It's just the old way of college football right now

(32:10):
is just not working. Clemson could be one of the
haves if their head coach would have it that way,
but right now it feels like they're one of the
have nots.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
And the other thing about that, I actually watched quite
a bit of that game, and their offense is very predictable.
And so if your offense is going to be predictable,
you got to have outstanding talent to overcome that. And
I think that's what's been you know, sure their I
guess signature about their program they had better athletes at

(32:37):
this point is not the case. So now you have
to evolve as a coach and as a play caller
because now you've got to put these guys in the
best position to succeed, and they're not doing that right now.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
These Carrier Roads, I'm Dan Byer. It is a Fox
Sports Sunday hit them up at Carrie twenty five Roads.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. We
are a live from the tire Ac dot Com studios.
According to Monty you fill in the blank that's next
year on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Fox Sports Sunday. I'm Dan py Or he's the NFL VET,
the All Pro The started from day one Carrie Rhodes
at Carry twenty five Roads again a week out from
the start of the NFL season. It all starts on
Thursday with your Ravens and Chiefs and on Friday. Don't
forget Packers and Eagles playing in Brazil and then your

(33:29):
first full slate of games on Sunday. I love the
Thursday game. The Friday is going to be different, Carrie,
But there is something about that Sunday Week one when
everything is going and the day just flies by and by.
At the end of the Sunday night game in week one,
you're just like, all right, what just happened? It was
nine hours of a pure football frenzy. But it was

(33:53):
so great. It's so funny.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I'm looking at everybody's faces as you say that, MASSI smiling,
you know, like it's a real film. It's one of
those things where, like I said, now, being on this
side of it, the excitement is real, you know, like
we're so it's so personal while you're on the field
and when you're going through it, through that process as
a player, right, so you're hyper focused on yours and

(34:15):
you're not really worried about the landscape at all.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
It's just we got whoever we got that week.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
But as a fan you get to see it all
and consume it all and have no real I mean
obviously the teams you root for, but having no real no,
I guess interest in no, i't want to say interest
no real dog in the fight here, so to speak.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
It's just bring it on. Bring it all on, baby.
It's time to bring on, according to Manci, and now.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
It's time for absolutely.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
According to Monsie, I love it season finale.

Speaker 9 (34:50):
Season finale stopping. I'm gonna emotional.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
To MONSI can't just undo things because you feel like
you can't.

Speaker 9 (35:03):
Just don't do things because you feel like it. This
happened this week, and it really is grinding my gears.

Speaker 10 (35:08):
And I feel like nobody's really talking about it, so
I feel like I'm alone in an island here. Earlier
this week, it was announced that Giants' rookie Malik Neighbors
is going to be wearing number one.

Speaker 9 (35:19):
It's absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 10 (35:20):
This number is not only retired by the Giants, it
is the first number ever retired in the NFL. Ray
Flaherty Hall of Famer, first number retired, and now you
can just unretire.

Speaker 9 (35:34):
It because you feel like it.

Speaker 10 (35:36):
So apparently the Giants told Malik Neighbors that he could
ask the family, and the family okate it. I am
bothered that the Giants even said this in the first place.

Speaker 9 (35:45):
You look soft New York.

Speaker 10 (35:47):
Giants soft, as af because what.

Speaker 9 (35:50):
Are you doing?

Speaker 10 (35:51):
Milite Neighbors didn't even wear number one at LSU. I
don't understand the point of this, and it has nothing
to do with Malik Neighbors.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
It's not him. He is not the problem here.

Speaker 10 (36:01):
You just can't undo this because you feel like it
has Baseball given Armando Galleraga that perfect game, even though
we all know he earned and deserved it.

Speaker 9 (36:10):
No, because this is a slippery slope. You can't just
change history because you want to do it.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
Like, well, honestly, guys, if we're unretiring the first ever
number in the NFL that was retired, then what's the point.

Speaker 9 (36:22):
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
Aaron Rodgers didn't take number twelve for the Jets because
of Joe Namath. To your point, I don't think that
if you're not the first overall pick you shouldn't get
to wear number one. I don't care if you're a
first run it.

Speaker 9 (36:35):
Doesn't matter, right, It's just like, what what have you
done for me lately? Nothing yet, and it's like we
don't know what you're capable of. So again, this is
not against Malik Neighbors.

Speaker 10 (36:43):
Honestly, this my problem is with the Giants that they
even said, Hey, if you get the okay, go ahead,
we'll give you number one.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Shut up.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
I just did a little research on Ray Flaherty Quick
played football at Gonzaga.

Speaker 9 (36:56):
Gonzaga, I know he was the first ever retire like
in the thirties, nineteen thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
He's from Spokane where Gonzaga is. Also played for the
Los Angeles Wildcats in nineteen twenty.

Speaker 9 (37:09):
Six, nineteen twenty six, so you're.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Likely asking Gray Flaarity's grandchildren.

Speaker 10 (37:13):
Exactly, and it's like, you know, people in the comments
are like, yeah, Molik, neighbors offered money obviously, but it's
like if you're this this guy's grandchild, and then all
of a sudden it's like, no, my.

Speaker 9 (37:23):
Grandfather's number used to be retired until that guy took it.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Months. It's hard times in this economy.

Speaker 9 (37:28):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (37:28):
It was gonna say that like he probably was making
like twenty dollars.

Speaker 2 (37:32):
A game back.

Speaker 9 (37:33):
I don't care. I don't care.

Speaker 2 (37:34):
I was doing a show with Ray Flaherty. I'd call
him and seven time All Pro Ray Flairty when it
was first All Pro seventeen seven times times.

Speaker 9 (37:42):
Seven times. But no, let's unretire his jersey stupid.

Speaker 1 (37:46):
According to Monsey.

Speaker 2 (37:48):
We don't need to overload on O time.

Speaker 9 (37:51):
Okay, we really do not. I know this is gonna
sound shocking to you guys.

Speaker 10 (37:54):
We know he's amazing, he's breaking records, but we don't
need to know, like every single time now that he
hits a home run and steals it. We heard it
when he broke the record first guy to do forty
three and forty three. I swear if I here first
got to do forty four forty four, first got.

Speaker 9 (38:08):
To do forty five and forty five, I am going
to lose it. We do not need to know. Tell
me when he gets to fifty to fifty, which we
know he's gonna do, because there's also a lot of
other stuff happening in baseball. And I'm not even talking
about Aaron.

Speaker 10 (38:19):
Judge possibly breaking his own record. He's on track to
do that, but there's other stuff too. We are Did
you guys know that Tarik Scooball, the Tiger's pitcher, is
on pace to win the Triple Crown in pitching?

Speaker 4 (38:29):
Hell?

Speaker 10 (38:29):
Yeah yeah, you do sixteen wins, two point five one ERA,
two hundred and one strikeouts, and I think he's gonna
do it.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
That's for the National League and the Ale Chris Sale
or that was in the AL. In the NL, Chris
Sale is on pace to do it as well.

Speaker 10 (38:42):
So two pitchers right now could be doing the triple
crown and pitching. Let's not, you know, squeeze all of
the juice out of OTAWNI.

Speaker 9 (38:49):
Right now, we're cool. Let me know when he gets
to fifty and fifty. I swear if I hear forty five,
forty five, forty six, forty six, I'm going to lose it.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I can see it.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
I sense that the one thing about o't thing about Otani,
which is because I'm a Yankee fan, I'm I'm pro
judge in that sure, and the best player in baseball thing.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
But oh Tani is so good?

Speaker 9 (39:10):
Right, But do you want to hear every time forty
four and forty four?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
No one's got to do it first.

Speaker 9 (39:13):
Got to do no.

Speaker 2 (39:15):
I we got those graphics people.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
Yeah, according to Monsey, According to Manci, stop being disgusting
in public, guys.

Speaker 9 (39:22):
I'm not asking for much.

Speaker 10 (39:23):
But if I'm at a bar and there's people around,
and we're drinking or whatever, and you're a couple of tables.

Speaker 9 (39:27):
Away from me and you burp and I hear it.
That is not okay. You literally just farted through your
mouth in public. I do not understand how we thought
that was okay. There is literally a rushroom at a
bar where you can go be disgusting and relieve your
gas privately. Why are we doing this in public? This
guy literally just was playing Junga and burped, and I

(39:49):
was like, great, you just farted in front of all
of us through your mouth. Stop be discussing in public.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
So we orally crop dust that.

Speaker 9 (39:55):
That's what I'm saying this, I'll say.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
I don't know if we could say any of this really.
My grandma used to say, saves the wear and tear.
On the other end, yes, oh man, Yeah, I'm not
down with the.

Speaker 11 (40:09):
No ever privately where no one can see you. Please,
I know the difference. This may be a series finale
of the Many. The way that this thing.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
Is going, I like to go out with the bank.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
There you go, according to jeez, great job, great job.
It is Fox Sports Sunday. Hit her up at Moncey Belangos.
He's Carrie Rhodes, I'm Dan Bayer. The Caitlyn Clark story
just gets better and better. That's next.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, there's a lot of football talk going on, but
we are also talking about the story that continues to
develop in the world of basketball and the w n
b A and Caitlyn Clark. He is Carrie Rhoads. I'm
Dan Byer. Carrie already with the quote of the year
from Carry Rhoads when he completely forgot to book his

(41:06):
good friend Jonathan Viillma for the show. I didn't even
remember that at all. It may not be the best
quote of the show. MONTI just dropped out a drop day.
You're basically farting out of your mouth. That was her
quote that we've got and we have two hours left
to go, so this is going to be something here
on Fox Sports Radio. Adam Kaplan's gonna walk into this

(41:28):
world win in about twenty minutes or so, giving us
the latest. Of course, we've got an easy as one, two, three,
four season finale for that one, because that goes on
hiatus during the NFL season, and coming up at seven
o'clock Eastern time, four Pacific, it's our NFL preview, AFC
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(41:53):
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just told us that the Indiana Fever have a lead
on the Dallas Wings, the Dallas team that has won

(42:13):
just nine games this season. About a minute and a half,
she said, left in that game with the Fever up four,
with Kaitlyn Clark twenty eight points twelve assists in this contest.
We had the conversation a couple of weeks ago about
popularity with Caitlyn Clark versus Aaron Judge. We had it

(42:34):
on the show that we filled during the week. We'd
continue that conversation. We're not continuing that conversation. What I
do think happened carry is we have moved on from
something else, and I think it's the Caitlin Clark Angel
Reese rivalry. Like I feel that the way that how
this is all taken on and how this has gone

(42:56):
on organically, and I think this is what is so
important about When we talk about Caitlin Clark and we
talk about her stature and where she is in the game,
both when she was at Iowa and now in the WNBA,
these things just kind of naturally happen. And I feel
like their win that they had against the Sky just
a couple of days ago, where Clark was magnificent in

(43:19):
that game, Angel Reese, I don't mind leaning into it
wearing the Dennis Rodman jersey, but you have a Dennis
Rodman stat line when you only score five points like
or what you know, the ten points which you had
in getting the garbage time of it. Like, there is
something too that I felt that that game kind of
put things to rest in terms of this Clark Reefe's

(43:39):
rivalry for at least the time being, because it sure
seems that Caitlyn Clark has been on this rocket ship
out of this other stratosphere into the top echelon players
of the WNBA ever since they came back from that
Olympic break, since.

Speaker 3 (43:53):
The All Star break, the Olympic break, she's been phenomenal.
And you talk about putting it putt into the Angel
Reese and Caitlyn Clark discussion. You know, even there were
times when people were saying they were co Rookies of
the Year, there's no question about who that is now.
I think that's it's not even thinking, I know that's

(44:14):
Kaitlyn Clark. But also now the way she's playing at
the moment, this doesn't she may be the best player
in the WNBA at this point in time. And so
you're I mean, outside of Agia Wilson, let me let
me not disrespect Asia. Asia is I think still still
still the best player. But since the All Star Break,
she's writing the same comp and that on that same level,
in that same conversation as being one of the best

(44:38):
two three players in the WNBA. So she's skyrocketed for sure.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
That's the That's the unique thing about all of this
when you look at how good Caitlyn Clark has been
in the reason that I say organically and I felt
that that Olympic break that they had did did miles
of goodness for Caitlyn Clark. I was getting Kitlyn Clark
fatigue and I'm just listening to it or talking about it.

(45:03):
It just we needed a break from it. And I
don't think being on that Olympic team would have probably
served her in the best way possible. It may have
helped the Olympics a little bit for those two weeks.
I know that people look back on it and say
that this is now Caitlin Clark telling the US Olympic team,

(45:23):
you know, you should have picked me, And I don't
think that that's the case. I don't know what kind
of role she has, but she seems to be shooting
the basketball better than she did as she was heading
into into that Olympic break. And now this is taken on, it's,
you know, a world of its own. As you said,
she's playing some of the best basketball in the WNBA.
Asia Wilson, we feel as the best player in the league.

(45:45):
But if you're talking about the others that are stepping up,
Caitlyn Clark is one of them. And it's all done
with her play. It hasn't been hyped. I even said
to you guys today, I said, can we get the
game up on one of your TV our TVs here?
And Ian responded, do we have a Fubo account? You know? So?
So we didn't. By the way, I don't know, I

(46:09):
don't know if it's free or not. I'm not sure,
but like we did, we didn't We didn't have that
ability to bring it up. So, but this is all organically,
this is how it's all happening. So this is this
is the big thing.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
And that's the crazy part about it that the go ahead, Masi,
you got something. Yeah, But the thing about what's what
you just said, the organic part of it is that's
why the fatigue was happening for me as well. The
play wasn't warranted to what the talk was about at
that time. And so for her to be you know,
people saying she needs to be at the Olympics or
you know, she needs her respect or whatever the case is.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
No, you have to earn your respect.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
She's earned her respect and right now since the All
Star Break, it's showing who she is. She is one
of the best players in the WNBA and we can
actually see that and we know that's a real thing.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
Mancy Belano said the news desk.

Speaker 9 (46:57):
Oh yeah, I just want to tell you guys, the
game was on NBA TV, was on.

Speaker 2 (47:00):
NBA Team NA, it was now Roddie what the heck
scores on in there? Google didn't tell me that. Weole
said do you have Fubo or YouTube TV?

Speaker 9 (47:10):
Plus they they did not do a good job about
advertising it because most of the games have been on
ion and so that's where I went looking for it,
and then I found it after the fact.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
And we do have an Indiana Fever schedule posted in
our studio, so we know where the games are. And
they used to have that little icon, and I don't
know what icon they had next to it, but so
we could have had. So is the game still is it?

Speaker 9 (47:33):
So it's officially over and the Fever have won. They
came back. They were down one hundred to ninety one
was the final score.

Speaker 2 (47:39):
They had a soccer ball next to the next to
the that game like the football fall. No they didn't,
Okay they didn't. The organic portion of this that that
I really want to dive into, is it's all been
about her play. Yes, it hasn't been about who's been
giving her a flagrant foul. Apparently it's pretty much the

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Chicago sky with the numbers ended up pointing out one
more thing.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
When you said the flagrant file thing, they just put
out a tweet or a poll I think last night
about that such thing. So she's out Of all the
flagrant files in WNBA, seventeen percent of them have been
accounted to being on Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
So there is a poll for that dan and they
were like eighty percent of those who are committed by
the Chicago Sky. Was that correct? Probably don't quote me
on those numbers, but I think that it was a lot.
This is what I love about the organic portion of this.
And we're as guilty as anybody. And when I say
I also put Fox Sports as a part of this.

(48:41):
One of the great things about the Caitlin Clark story
was how it just built on its own. Caitlin Clark
has been a topic of conversation pretty much ever since
she was launching threes at Iowa, but she didn't become
a part of the national conversation until their final two
years in Iowa City and the final season, which is
this past year that we had. It was everywhere and

(49:03):
Fox Sports was putting games of Iowa on network TV,
something that you did not see quite often, and she
was drawing numbers. And the organic portion of it of
when she becomes the all time leading scorer in women's basketball,
when she ended up passing Kelsey Plumb, that was organic.

(49:23):
You know what wasn't organic? Announcing that she beat Pete Maravich.
No one ever talked about that. That was just another
way to try to squeeze more juice out of the
Caitlin Clark orange, to try to make people more interested.
And it just to me it was fake and that
didn't seem real. It did not seem organic. This is

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just developing it. Just like she developed in college and
rose to the top of the sport and became the
headliner in the sport. This is the same thing that
we are now seeing in the WNBA. It isn't about
her proving people wrong. It's now about guess what, She's
leading the Indiana Fever to the w NBA playoffs. We

(50:05):
did an exercise two weeks ago where I said, if
they make the playoffs and they play on the Sunday
of Week three in the NFL season, who would you
watch of the early window six of the seven games,
you would rather watch the w NBA than the NFL. Right,
And so that's and that's all. This is all organic stuff.
Today they're win against Dallas that granted we couldn't figure
it out on our TV. That'll it'll be all changed

(50:27):
in time. But it's they rally come back from a
victory and now trying to close in on the five
spot because they were able to move past the Phoenix
Mercury for the for the sixth spot in the in
the you know, in the w NBA standings. But all
of this is just done on the court, and all
this is done on the play. It's not somebody cheap
shining her. It's not somebody you know, talking trash to
her doing the you can't see anything. It's her doing

(50:50):
her play and playing better. And that's what makes this
so interesting.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
And the organic part of it, that's one hundred percent right,
and it's it's it's a very brilliant and take in
the sense of, yes, we know the hype, we knew
who she was, we knew what she was coming in,
or we thought we did. We saw the first half
of the season where it was like, you know, it's
ups and down. There's a rookie that's authentic as well,

(51:14):
there's a rookie curve that happens, right like, you go
through the process, you get better, you get tough. But
also for her, she was trying to be a point
guard so much early on in the season, I think
it was affecting her shot, where now she's just playing basketball,
and it's authentic, is organic. It's the way that she
rose to fame in college. She's being a scorer first,

(51:35):
but the score in part for her is allowing her
for her game to flourish because now she can get
the pass there a little bit easier because of her
threat of her shot going in.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
Kelsey Mitchell, I know, wasn't available to the Fever earlier
on in the season when things were just starting out.
She had thirty six points today. So now we talked
to this one two punch of them having Eliah Boston
and Caitlyn Clark, Yeah, because they were both number one
overall picks overlooking Kelsey Mitchell. But that also really helps.
And it also helps that her teammates probably are adjusted

(52:05):
to her playing now they have something to play for it.
Maybe it felt like early on that you're just playing
to prove that Caitlin Clark deserve to be the number
one overall pick in the WNBA and deserve to be
talked about with the likes of, you know, of a
Kelsey plomb of an Asia Wilson. That's maybe what the
first two seasons, the first two three weeks, two three

(52:27):
months of the season. Maybe we're in the WNBA. But
now like for the Indiana Fever players, like you're playing
for your playoffs. You're playing to make the postseason something
that you know, you chures heck didn't do last year,
which allowed you to have the number one overall picking
back to back seasons. Yeah, in the year prior. So
there's something for them to play for that is much
bigger than that and the popularity that we talked to.

(52:47):
Just to bring it back to the judge conversation, I
am curious to see on how it continues if she
continues this level of play, if she is a top one,
two or three player in the NBA in whatever order,
if she passes Asian Wilson at some point or even
just stays behind her, how that attention continues as something
that is more of the long term game. But right now,
for what we've seen in the past, you know what month,

(53:11):
maybe since the you know, since the two or three
weeks actually since the WNBA season resumed, has been nothing
but greatness. And it's all just because of been what's
happening on the court. Yep, he's carry Rhoads. I'm Dan Byer.
It is a Fox Sports Sunday Live forth Tirach dot
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NFL with our insider Adam Kaplan. What was the ultimate

(53:33):
decision for the Steelers to go with Russell Wilson and
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(53:56):
USC in Las Vegas. And then on Thursday night, the
NFL gets going Week one. Ravens and Chiefs here to
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Sports Radio NFL insider you can hear on the Inside
the Birds podcast and also here on the Pro Football Network.
Adam Kaplan's going to be joining us. You could find
him on x at Kaplin NFL. We'll catch up with

(54:19):
Adam in just a minute or so, talking all things NFL.
That minute is up fastest minute ever that was. That
was you want to talk about fast time flowers when
you're having fun, Adam Kaplan right. You know, it's funny
because Carrie Rhodes and I earlier on the program, we
were starting to do it's kind of our NFL preview show,
and we'll get heavy into it next hour. But I

(54:41):
kind of get sick of watching the Eagles, and you know,
you're you're, you know, based in the Philadelphia area. Inside
the Birds podcast, Carrie kind of agreed with me. Can
you can you understand that as a as someone who
I don't want to see you cover the team twenty
four seven, but you know as much about them as anybody.
Could you understand people would kind of get tired of
the Eagle.

Speaker 7 (55:01):
I think, all right, so I'll give you something interesting.

Speaker 12 (55:04):
So talking to other teams and coaches, they're not sure
what to make of Nick Sirianni, the head coach, who
kind of boisterous, very animated, you know. The team security
director gets it a little bit of a brewjaja with
the forty nine ers players. Ridiculous dom Desandra, their security
director is actually celebrity here, believe or not sure, I mean,

(55:25):
it's crazy. So, yeah, they're Look, they're a public team,
they're a national team. When you talk to the networks,
this is a team when they're good, the networks want
because they're a national team. There, they're in a top
five media market, maybe top three. But yeah, I mean, look,
they've been good for a long long time. They did
when the when the ring in twenty seventeen, they also
want it. I mean they'd made it five years later

(55:46):
in twenty twenty two. But what I'm always looking for.
We've talked about those INFSR for years. What's that next team?
Is it the Texans who came out of nowhere last season?
The odds makers gave him a five and a half
win total. Two years ago it was the same division
AMC South. Who is going to be that team that
nobody's talking about?

Speaker 1 (56:04):
Where we go?

Speaker 9 (56:04):
Wow?

Speaker 7 (56:05):
I didn't see that coming.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
Mmmmmm.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
You know it's funny you said something about the Texans.
I brought them up earlier. And one of the things
I'm interested in singing this year and seeing the year
or two with the Miko o'ryans and c J. Strile
that tandem. Right, Is there any world where you can
see them taking the step back? Or do you just
think it's fool speed ahead with that team.

Speaker 12 (56:26):
That's a great question because a lot of us who
have to turn in I have to in two polls.
I have to actually they have to be and by
tomorrow you have to turn an MVP, Offensive Player of
the Year, Coach of the Year, and you have to
give your one through seven UH in each conference. And
I've got Carrie. I've got the Texans winning the division again.

(56:48):
It's largely because they've kept all their key players. They
also add Denil Hunter, an outstanding pass rusher UH who's
just really, really good. They've got some issues in their secondary,
which are small, it's a small concern, but you know
up the middle, they're going with two kind of journeyman
d tackles. That's a little bit of a concern. Offensive line,
which was terrible for years, it's really really good mixture

(57:10):
of veterans and high draft picks.

Speaker 7 (57:13):
They're super deep at receiver.

Speaker 12 (57:14):
They brought in Joe Mixon, who's an upgrade over Devin
Singletary running back into courts Stroud. I mean, it's really
interesting when you talk to personnel people, no one really
saw what he did last year. They just didn't see it.
It's really it's really great when when people get it wrong,
when NFL people get it wrong, and he is he's

(57:35):
so far ahead of schedule. He's super confident. I know
in they're building he carries an air like a first
round quarterback.

Speaker 7 (57:43):
Should he super confident?

Speaker 12 (57:45):
And Kerry, you know as a former player, when your
quarterback is super confident and he plays like it, you're
probably ready.

Speaker 7 (57:51):
To take the next step. Right.

Speaker 3 (57:53):
And the one thing that out of all that you
just said, Adam, the one thing that for me could
throw a wrench in. And I'm not here to talk
about you know, players being infestations or whatever, but you
didn't even mention Stefan Digs in that in that locker room.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Will how will that situation play out?

Speaker 3 (58:11):
And do you see the I guess from the top right,
Demico and and CJ are so it seems even keelled
will that throw or rent in that at all?

Speaker 2 (58:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (58:21):
Definitely, especially Dimiko being around him a little bit. Yeah,
he's definitely right in the middle there. But you know
what's interesting about the Texans This might surprise for people.
I put this out when at the time of the trade,
so they were the ones who pursued this. They in fact,
they were calling around getting background information on Digs from

(58:42):
people who Digs have played with before.

Speaker 7 (58:44):
Any coaches or front office people or players that.

Speaker 12 (58:46):
They were really digging into his background and what happened
with him in Buffalo. So yeah, Now I just found
it interesting because they already had Nico Collins, you know,
they would extend his contract, tanked out a great rookie season,
Robert Woods, John metchi on fourtually you know, with his
due to his illness, hasn't contributed very much. And Noah Brown,
who they recently cut. I mean they were super deeper receiver. Anyway,

(59:08):
they didn't really need to do this, but what it
tells me carry is they want to take the next step.
Now I've talked to people work with Diggs. He's super competitive.
Sometimes he doesn't have a channel his emotions and it
can be a just lightly distraction, but he's so competitive.
It's kind of like you like having them around, but

(59:29):
you also have people. You have to have people who
know how to handle him. And now CJ. Stroud has
never been anywhere it has never been around him before
Josh Allen. If you look at Josh Allen's comments after
the trade, they were cut of mix. To be honest
with it, we can all look at them and say, wow, Okay,
that's interesting. He wasn't like, wow, I'm crutch that they
traded him and this is a mistake.

Speaker 7 (59:50):
He didn't.

Speaker 12 (59:51):
He did say anywhere close to that. He appreciated his
time there. Let's put it this way. The Bills were
done with them and he was done with them.

Speaker 7 (59:59):
But it really the Texans who really pushed for this trade.

Speaker 12 (01:00:02):
So, guys, that tells me they clearly think they're ready
to take a big step in the AFC.

Speaker 2 (01:00:06):
Adam kaplan our Fox Sports Radio, NFL. Inseidter joining us
here on Fox Sports Radio. He's carrier Roads. I'm Dan Beyer.
A couple of quarterback decisions that were made this past
week now leading up to the regular season beginning. Not
surprised at what happened in Pittsburgh with Russell Wilson being
named starter. And I'm not surprised on what happened in
New England with Jacoby Brissett getting the not over Drake

(01:00:28):
may But why is New England going with the veteran
over the first round pick?

Speaker 7 (01:00:32):
Yeah, so here's what happened there.

Speaker 12 (01:00:33):
Dron Mayo, to his credit, their first year head coach,
said about oh, three weeks ago, Look, yes, Jacoby's taking
all the ones, but it was really that preseason game
against the Eagles.

Speaker 7 (01:00:46):
The numbers don't show it. There were at least two drops.

Speaker 12 (01:00:49):
One would have been a big play downfield, and after
that he left the door.

Speaker 7 (01:00:56):
But he said, look, if he plays lights out.

Speaker 12 (01:00:59):
Were talking about Drake May great in practice, great and
great in the rest of the rest of the preseason
in training camp, that it'll make us a tougher decision.
And by the way, it wound up being really tough.
But May's kind of like came on late. We're set
sort of the default setting, the guy that has been there,
done that. We know what he did when Andrew Luck
suddenly retired out of the blue. He's he's a perfect

(01:01:22):
guy to mentor Drake May, who needs a lot of work.

Speaker 7 (01:01:25):
See May was this is interesting.

Speaker 12 (01:01:27):
Talking to quarterback coaches and personnel people before the draft,
May was seen as all of the top, like the
top five or six quarterbacks, the farthest away from being ready.
And when you hear stuff like that, you kind of
know he's really raw. He's athletic, but great arm, good size,
but done process of real well, wants to do things

(01:01:50):
out of structure, does things on his own, and that
to me, spells, you know what, let this guy develop
take the long route, and that's what they're doing.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Yeah, I mean I don't I don't see a problem
that at all.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
I think it would be a positive thing for most
of these rookie guys to take a seat and learn
to learn the NFL game for a little bit. But
I think to kind of go back to what Dan
was saying in this question earlier about the Pittsburgh situation,
that quarterback. For me, I look at that team. They're
in a division where it's so top heavy. You have

(01:02:20):
three teams that you can probably you can close to
penciling into making the playoffs, and so they would be
one of those teams that's on the outside. Why not
put justin Fields in there to see what they have
if there is some big thing that happens where he
becomes really, really really good, and then you can actually

(01:02:41):
see that rather than going to Russell Wilson route where
they're probably going to just be in the middle of
the road, still.

Speaker 12 (01:02:45):
Right out in Kattacus Fields is more upside. So they
actually have a package of plays where he comes in
maybe inside the ten. Sort of a change up quarterback,
just a change of pace and Fields. I got being
there and training camp with the stealer for two days.
It was right when Russell came back from his calf injury,
and he looked fine. By the way his weights down.

(01:03:08):
You just see the way that Fields throws it. He waits,
he waits, he waits that he throws. He's not a
timing based quarterback, and that's the thing you're gonna struggle with.

Speaker 7 (01:03:17):
But you know, the arm strength he can move.

Speaker 12 (01:03:21):
I think this offense is actually Arthur Smith's offense, which
is sort of old school run defense, run offense, which
coming from ownership, which is what the Ronnies want and
Mike Tomlin wants.

Speaker 7 (01:03:32):
I think this will help Russell settle down a little bit.
He's got to play with instructure, you know what.

Speaker 12 (01:03:37):
But one thing I do want to say is I
would be concerned about their offensive line. They're gonna have
a rookie center in Zach Frazier. Fatano may not be
ready to right tackle that he has an MCL sprain.
Their left guard, say, Mil's going to miss two to
three weeks at least with a petrol strain. Broderick Jones
had a very bad second preseason game. I'm very worried

(01:03:57):
about that. And by the way, they like they would
have gotten Brandon and I okay if Ayuk would have
changed his mind. They got George Pickens and Sean Jefferson's son,
Van Jefferson. It's going to start opposite Pickens. I'm told calvolate,
I'm told of Roman Wilson's got a high angles spring.
He won't be He probably won't be ready week one.
So they're gonna they're gonna struggle, I think out the gate.
That's a very tough matchup, by the way, in the

(01:04:17):
Arthur Smith ball against the Falcons.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
Yeah, that's what I'm calling it. Like, I like that
you mentioned Brandon Ayuk and that's where I did want
to go. Are there any long lasting ramifications around the
league on how this negotiation went and the reports in
just in terms of are you apparently accepted the deal
that was there for for two weeks? Is that a
concern to any other wide receivers that that may have

(01:04:41):
the you know the same sort of problems though, are
you cat or not?

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Well?

Speaker 12 (01:04:45):
The other guy's left is Jamar Chase, and boy, the
Bengals really want to wait. That's the thing with Jamar
Chase is Remember now he was in the twenty one class,
not the twenty class, so they actually have more time left.
This is the final vers deal plus a fifth year option.
Don't really have to do anything that they could have.
They have tags. They're not what we call dan a
cass cash rich team, sure, and that that plays into this.

(01:05:09):
They've they've done some other extensions either kicker, which is
kind of funny. Who's it was pretty good? But yeah,
that I don't ramifications. But here's the thing. Jamar Chase
is a true number one NFL receiver where Ayuk if
he had been with let's say the Bills, he'd be
a number one.

Speaker 7 (01:05:26):
He's not.

Speaker 12 (01:05:27):
He's a He's kind of DeVante Smith. And by the way,
the offer that the the opener for the Niners was
was just above I'm told DeVante Smith's offer a contract
which he got twenty five MILLIONAR for the Eagles, and
I do give the Niners credit. Boy, they really changed
their structure. They paid him way more than he won.
I give also Ayuk's agent, Ryan Willims, credit for pushing

(01:05:50):
this thing. Now here's the one thing and Kyrie could
relate to this. The one thing that does worry me
is that yes, he was with them and he was
able to work out there, but he never practiced with
them in training camp. We have no idea what is
sort of game shape will be and timing with Rock Purdy,
there's no way to know that, and I can't see
him being.

Speaker 7 (01:06:10):
Like really sharp early on.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
I think that you're exactly right. And I wasn't putting
him in the in the one A wide receiver group
like we do with Lamb or Chase or Justin Jefferson
of those guys. But what is so interesting is even
though he's not a one A because of what the
forty nine Ers have at stake this season, with Purdy's
contract now coming up on the horizon, you know, there's

(01:06:32):
just it was just all these things that are that
come into this universe that maybe other teams wouldn't have
to deal with, but the forty nine Ers did. I
just wondered if it was if you were a one
B receiver, could you pull this off? Or was the
situation just so unique with San Francisco because of how
good they are because of Purdy and everything else that surrounds.

Speaker 12 (01:06:50):
Now And honestly, Dan agents will know this. The smart
agents will know that the Niners wind up giving him
more than they really wanted to. And you know, here's
the thing on your point, Dan, they've Diebo Samuel, who
showed up in the best shape of his career. He
knows what his contract looks like. There's no more guaranteed
money after the season. This is a Kyle Shanahan player,

(01:07:11):
Deebo Samuel. And then you got the rookie Pearshall situation. Thankfully,
he's going to be okay, yeah, from the gunshot wound,
but he's if everything okay is okay with him physically.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
Next year, the guy's a first round pick. He's got
to play.

Speaker 12 (01:07:23):
And they're not what we call a heavy eleven personnel
team three receivers. They're more twelve personnels carry someone's gonna
have to go. You can't keep everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Yeah. Crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:07:32):
Part about what we're saying about Brendan, now you here
to me is when you start to compare these guys
to being one A guys league league wide, they're still
tiers to that. So Jamar Jays is definitely above, Ceedee
Lamb's definitely above, but for San Francisco he is one
A and so you have to get him as that guy.

(01:07:53):
I think he's the best route runner on that team.
And when you talk about Deebo Samuels, obviously he's a
dual threat guy, he can move around, he's important. But
Brendan Ayuk is the best receiver on that team.

Speaker 7 (01:08:03):
As far as I agree, I agree.

Speaker 12 (01:08:05):
I saw it in training camp, fact that one of
the coaches said to me, this is a great story.
Let's go back two years ago and I see the
guy come off the field.

Speaker 7 (01:08:13):
I go, wow, what a practice he had did He.

Speaker 12 (01:08:15):
Goes he does this every single day to us, they
can't cover him. But you know what's interesting, guys, it
wasn't always like that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:22):
Uh.

Speaker 12 (01:08:22):
There was a point where they were so frustrated with
Ayuk in his second season that it was during a byeway.
Shanahan and I met and Kyle laid into him and he,
you know, Iku was kind of like a quiet to
himself guy, and he wasn't bringing the energy to practice.
And ever since then, he's been a stud. He is
so gifted. It's just he's again I give both sides credit.

(01:08:44):
And now they got to deal with the Trent Williams situation.
As Dan brought up, this is a lot to deal with. Man,
This is a lot to deal with heading into week one.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
He's Adam Kappa and our Fox Sports Radio NFL insider.
I know your picks are coming to my else and
we won't ask any here. Well, we'll let the surprise
happen then.

Speaker 7 (01:08:59):
Maybe next net suned. Well, of course we'll have played games.

Speaker 2 (01:09:02):
But sure, and that'll change everything. Yeah, an injury could
an injury?

Speaker 7 (01:09:06):
Yeah that too?

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Yeah, yeah, thanks Adam, We appreciate it. Hit him out
back kapitolin NFL. We're gonna hit Moncy Bolanos up for
the latest of what is happening on this Sunday, the
final Sunday before the NFL season kicks in. What's going on?

Speaker 10 (01:09:19):
Mancy Major upset at the US Open, Fellas thirteen seed
Eminavarro has knocked out the raining US Open champ third
seed Cocoa Golf in three sets. It was rough there
for Coco at the end she could not serve.

Speaker 9 (01:09:33):
She missed. I think if you hit the net once,
it doesn't count.

Speaker 10 (01:09:37):
Right like you No, no, no, because in Vollymoo, if you
hit the net and it goes over, you play.

Speaker 9 (01:09:41):
If it hits the net and it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Goes over, it is it just like the fault.

Speaker 9 (01:09:44):
But does it count against her or does she can
she keep going? If it hits the net and over.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
No, she you gotta, you gotta do it over.

Speaker 9 (01:09:52):
So she only gets two, no matter what.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
No, No, it has to land in. No, if it
hits the net and goes over, it's a let. It's not.

Speaker 9 (01:09:58):
It's a let. So she can she has Yeah, as
many she could do that as.

Speaker 2 (01:10:01):
Many times, right, not as many times?

Speaker 9 (01:10:03):
No, she doesn't. There is a cap at that. Yes, okay,
because she had hit.

Speaker 10 (01:10:07):
A couple in the net, but then she had a
couple that hit the net and over and she just
it just seemed like the net. She couldn't not touch
the net at the end there for her. So I
was like, I think, when it hits the net and over,
it's not what you said.

Speaker 9 (01:10:18):
It's a lett. It is a let. Look at you
and your tennis knowledge.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
If it lands out, if it lands in, then yes,
yes yes.

Speaker 9 (01:10:27):
But if it hits the net over and out, that's fault.
That's fault.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
Yes.

Speaker 10 (01:10:30):
Wow, former all pro actor and now it's tennis.

Speaker 9 (01:10:35):
Oh wow, Okay, the more you know, thank you so much.
But yes, Cocoa Golf has been eliminated from the US.

Speaker 10 (01:10:41):
Open, while Navaro was headed to the quarterfinals along with
American and twelve seed Taylor Fritz. On the men's side,
he defeated eight seed Casper Rude in the round of sixteen.
quarterfinals in one year in a year since Andy Roddick
did it back in two thousand and seven. Scotti Scheffler
won the Tour Championship at thirty under par overall and

(01:11:02):
secures the FedEx Cup.

Speaker 9 (01:11:04):
Which comes with twenty five million dollars. Congratulations Scottie Scheffler.

Speaker 10 (01:11:08):
In the WNBA, Caitlin Clark dropped twenty eight points, twelve assists,
four rebounds, and the Fever came back to beat the
Wings one hundred to ninety three, but Kelsey Mitchell was
the leading scorer of the game. She ended with thirty
six points. The Lynx took down the Sky seventy nine
to seventy four. Angel Rease seventeen points and nineteen rebounds,
but she did set the WNBA record for the most
rebounds in a single season and she currently has four hundred.

Speaker 9 (01:11:30):
And eighteen rebounds.

Speaker 10 (01:11:32):
In baseball, a rough start for the Dodgers and Justin Robleski.
He is no longer in the game, but the Diamondbacks
have taken full advantage. They are up thirteen to three
in Arizona against the Dodgers bottom of the eighth inning.
Earlier today in baseball, the Cardinals defeated the Yankees fourteen
to seven, and the Orioles beat the Rockies six to one,
So New York's lead on Baltimore is down to a

(01:11:53):
half game for the top spot in the Al East,
while the Mets beat the White Sox two zero.

Speaker 9 (01:11:59):
That New York is no.

Speaker 10 (01:12:00):
One and a half games out of the final Walkkart
spot in the National League behind the Braves.

Speaker 9 (01:12:04):
The Cubs did crush the Nationals fourteen to one. Cubs
are three and a half games out of the final
walkcart spot in the National League. And positive news coming
out of the NFL. The San Francisco forty nine ers
did announce that their rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearcell, who
was shot in the chest yesterday during attempt at robbery,
was released from the hospital. So good news there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
All right, thank you very much, Monty. Monty be available
as a lifeline for Carrie Rhoads. In the Fox Sports
Sunday season finale of Easy As one, two, three four.
Put on your NFL cap carry Yes, all right, I
think a perfect score of ten is in reach. You'll
also have Ian Roddy and Mary Mack as lifelines for
the game. It's coming up next live from the diirec

(01:12:45):
dot Com studios. He's carry Rhodes. I'm Dan Bayer. That's
next year on Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. He's
Carry Rhodes, the all pro and starter from day one.
I'm Dan Bayer. It's not going to stop. You told
me that you were a starter from day one. I
think that sounds better than all pro. It does sound
pretty cool. But as long as you saying I'll be fine,

(01:13:07):
we'll be fine. It is a Sunday, our final Sunday
before the NFL completely takes over our lives. It also
is the final Sunday of Easy As one, two, three
four in this twenty twenty four series of shows. So
let's get right to it, Carrie Rhoades, your goal is
a perfect score of ten over under today in this

(01:13:28):
fully NFL themed episode eight and a half. I think
you can work through this. You have lifelines, Manci Belanios.
This year she has no excuse. She had a Taylor
Swift question two weeks ago and we still we didn't
even get that one right. L Yes, it was perfect,
that was set up for her. That hurt me, hurt
my heart. Ian Roddy, our executive producer, is here and

(01:13:51):
Mary Mack, our technical producer. They are all there at
your service, Carrie. If you need any help or need
to workshop any of these questions, are you ready to go?
Let's do it. I give Carrie a topic he needs
to give me, not all of the correct answers, just
some of them. His goal is a perfect score of ten.
Let's play the game. Carry Rhoads name one of two
NFL teams to have appeared in a super Bowl five

(01:14:15):
times in the same decade. So one of two NFL
teams to appear in a super Bowl five times in
the same decade. The Kansas City Chiefs, if they make
it to the super Bowl this year, would be the
fourth time in the twenty twenties they've appeared in a
Super Bowl. But I want to know there are two
franchises throughout the history of the Super Bowl that have

(01:14:37):
appeared in the super Bowl five times in the same decade.
Give me one of two, one of two. Okay, I'll
go Stealers the Steelers. Is that your final answer? Five
times five? Same decade? I mean the Patriots as well.
Let me go safe and go Patriots. Show me the
New England Patriots.

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
That is ya.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
The other was not the Pittsburgh Steelers. They won four.
They didn't go to any others. Wait the other one.
The other would have been Patriots, the Patriots in the
twenty teams. Yes, they have. The Dallas Cowboys. Cowboys nineteen seventies.
The Cowboys made it to five Super Bowls during that decade,

(01:15:22):
Chiefs closing in for the twenty twenties. All right, one
point four? Carry roads off and running. Here named two
of three countries since the year two thousand outside of
the United States that have hosted the most NFL regular
season games. Country since two thousand outside of the United

(01:15:43):
States that have hosted the most NFL games. I need
two of three. Two or three? We got We got England. Okay,
you want a lifeline, I'm gonna go Ian for the
second one. Here, I'm thinking Germany. Has it been that
long though, that they been doing games in Germany? You're
giving me is a no, no I don't know, No, no,

(01:16:03):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:16:03):
I know England for sure, but I'm just thinking where
they played last year because they played in Munich, they
played in London.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Oh, Mazi or Mary mack MASI you got anything?

Speaker 9 (01:16:19):
Okay, So I'm with you on what'd you say? London? Well, England, Yes, Mexico.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
I thought of Mexico as well, but I'm not sure.
I'm not sure.

Speaker 10 (01:16:29):
Geographically, Mexico is the closest I would say, yeah, you
said Germany, but I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:16:34):
Maybe I would go Mexico, but I also didn know
Taylor Swift.

Speaker 13 (01:16:39):
So don't follow me, Dan, look at look out, look out.
He's not even looking at me right now. All right,
final answer is what England?

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
And what England and.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
Mexico makes the most sense.

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
All right, we'll go to Mexico. Show me England that
is correct, Show me Mexico that is correct. Five games.
And it was a good thing you didn't say Germany
because there have only been this idea was that there
have been games played in Germany. There will be a
fourth coming up. You guys forgot about this, But the

(01:17:19):
Buffalo Bills played a game in Toronto, Canada for five
straight years yes, they stopped doing it about a decade ago,
but they were playing games because the Bills were pre
Josh Allen days, trying to expand your market. Then fans
stopped showing up to the Toronto games, so they went
just played back to all playing the game.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
I actually played there enough, and he did not think
of it. Yes, we played at the Rogers Center. Yes, yes, yes,
that's I'm playing against t O. Wow, my mind is
going okay, But any way, we got it though.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
That would have been the other answer. There was also
a preseason game they played in Winnipeg with the Packers
and Raiders, and there was a problem with the feel
They can only play like in an eighty yard field.
It was just an absolute mess. Yeah all right. Three
of three so far name three of four carry NFL
teams with the longest current playoff droughts in the league,

(01:18:14):
the longest playoff droughts. I hate you did this to me.
The Jets is one. We know one of the Jets
is one. You said three or four? Mary Mack is
there for a lifeline? Are you insane?

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
I didn't.

Speaker 9 (01:18:33):
Give me the Taylor Swift question.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
All right, let's see, okay, let me I got it.
I'm trying to scan through my head really quickly. The teams.

Speaker 14 (01:18:41):
Okay, so inn FC, so we go, we go, Jets,
we go, Bears. Okay, are the lifelines good with that?

Speaker 10 (01:18:54):
Trying to give you a w for maybe the commanders
for the Washington command I made the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Yeah, yeah, then you should give her an l give
her an lan what you got. I got Jets and Bears,
so for sure, I know the Giants just made it,
just made it up. I'm just trying to think about it.
I don't think about the playoff droughts in the NFL.

Speaker 8 (01:19:20):
It's got to be l oh, you know, I'm thinking Carolina,
NFC Carolina potentially were they in it recently?

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Not recently?

Speaker 3 (01:19:28):
No, but no, the had c mc and Olsen and
O's team, so I would think they would have made
it somewhere.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
There were in the super Bowl. And actually, one of
my favorite questions and then I've done before here is
giving you another.

Speaker 9 (01:19:43):
I'm guessing I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Broncos, all right, we're gonna need we're gonna need an answer. Jets,
Bears and uh Goroos. No, they made No, they made
the playoffs. But that's whoever. Okay, Roddy, who did you say?
Who did you say? Okay, show me the Jets, show

(01:20:06):
me the Panthers and is it the Bears? Oh, Jets
haven't made it for thirteen years. Broncos, it's been eight seasons,
the Panthers six seasons and the Falcons a six season. Yeah,
we got one question left plus our NFL preview. He's
Carry Roads, I'm Dan Byer. That's next year on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:28):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
And a game we'll be kicking off within the hour.
College football LSU and USC from Las Vegas, Kim. That's
actually been talked about for for quite a while. Happening tonight,
fulfilling our football fix today of Florida State's in action tomorrow,
and then focusing on the NFL, which is what Carry

(01:20:51):
and I will do coming up right here on Fox
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You have one more question and easy as one, two, three, four.
Your deliberations have caused us to go over time and
determining if it was Jets, Bears, Panthers or Broncos. Carrie, Truly,

(01:21:40):
when Ian says Panthers and Manty is saying Broncos and
you go with Bears, do you feel bad at all?
Like when you hear their answers come up and then
Manzi's you know, giving you the DX chop in your face,
Oh and Ian's whooping it up?

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Does that that make you feel bad at all? Absolutely not?
You know, like you know, sometimes you you're just you
make a bad decision in life. I didn't trust my
compadres here and I paid the price for it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Well, that's very very stand up ish of you. Yes,
you've got one more question. I don't I don't know
if you'll need the Lifeline's help, but I think you
should fare pretty well in this one. All right, you're ready,
And this is only because this is only because I
find that this question is just very unique. Okay, you're

(01:22:29):
ready for this. Name four of the five active quarterbacks
with a Super Bowl ring as a starting quarterback in
the NFL, so you had to be the starting quarterback
of the Super Bowl. How many? Name four of the
five quarterbacks? Wait?

Speaker 12 (01:22:47):
Wait?

Speaker 7 (01:22:47):
Can I be a lifeline? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:22:51):
Let me say two first before you go, Rogers and Mahomes. Okay, okay,
not really gonna say. I'm sorry, sorry, but Mary, by
the way, a week or two ago, rock to Chris
Jackie Jersey. Yes, Chris Jackie Jersey here at Fox Sports Radio,
and I was one of the few who knew what
that jersey was. Wow, Yes, thank you very much, old

(01:23:13):
kicker at the Green Bay Packers. You got Mahomes and Rogers.
You said four, right, four of the five? Four of
the five active? I mean I'm thinking Russ Yes, Russell
Wilson yep. Okay, Russell Wilson, YEP.

Speaker 9 (01:23:31):
What's the question? Is it again?

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Active? You said four of the five? Yes, active quarterbacks
with a Super Bowl ring as a starter as a starter.
So if you were a backup quarterback in a Super Bowl,
you would to account.

Speaker 9 (01:23:43):
Okay, Joe Flacco.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
He's not a starter though, but he's current. Well, it
wouldn't it's not starting quarterback for the current team, but
you had to start a a super Bowl. The point
being is you wouldn't have a backup quarterback the Super Bowl.
And I'm trying to think, like, uh gosh, David Carr,
Like David Carr backed up Eli Man, he wouldn't have

(01:24:08):
been considered because he was a backup quarterback. Eli would
have been the appropriate answer. Definitely Joe Flacco. All right,
those are your final answers. Yes, for sure. All right,
show me Patrick Mahomes, Show me Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 7 (01:24:27):
And it wasn't. I was like, what the heck?

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
I'm literally pressing at Okay, show me Aaron Rodgers, show
me Russell Wilson. We're getting blown out of the car
with these sound effects. Show me Joe Flacco.

Speaker 7 (01:24:41):
There it is.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
Do you know who you guys missed? We miss Matthew
Stafford four man. But you think about that, there are
only five quarterbacks in the NFL with Super Bowl rings,
and Mahomes has got three of them. Yes, so you
had to go back to Super Bowl forty sive with Flacco.
Super Bowl forty five with Rogers, Super Bowl forty eight

(01:25:04):
with Wilson, and then it's just like Brady Brady, Brady,
body my homes Brady, you know, like it's exactly yeah,
it's it's crazy. That's that's what you've got with quarterbacks.
That's nine of ten or Carrie Rhodes easy as one, two, three, four,
not bad. Geez geez. Speaking of Aaron Rodgers, I don't

(01:25:26):
want to start there, but I'm going to start there
because I want to start with our AFC preview. YEP.
I think they win the division. I think the Jets
win the AFC East this year. I picked them last year,
and we could completely we could take New England out
of this. New England is not going to be a factor.

(01:25:48):
It's obviously between Buffalo Miami and the New York Jets.
And when you look at those teams as a whole,
the Jets have the better defense I think by far
than those other two teams. And when you talk about offensively,
I do really like Buffalo without Stefan Diggs. I actually

(01:26:10):
think it's addition by subtraction in that scenario. But if
you have Rogers play at any sort of capability with
the backfield that they have. Their offensive line could not
get any worse. I feel that the Jets offense it
may not match what the Dolphins do, but they don't
have to because they have a defense. And you want
to play in concert with that. You want to talk

(01:26:31):
about balance on a team. They're the most balanced team
in the AFC East and it's why I like the
Jets to win that division.

Speaker 3 (01:26:38):
I second, Dad Noson, the Jets are going to win
the AFC East, and it's they have a top five
roster talent wise and the whole NFL, I believe, And
so when you talk about that division alone, I think
they are head and shoulders above that the rest of
that division as far as talent goes.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
But it all depends.

Speaker 3 (01:26:58):
And the other thing about this team this year is
not going to all just fall on Aaron Rodgers if
he is to miss a little time. They actually have
Tyrod Taylor, who I think can win some game for him.
So I think they're set there. You're a big Tyrod
Taylor fan, I am.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
Yeah. I think actually Braylen Allen, the backup to the
Beast Hall, is going to be a beast for them
as well if need be Jets fans are hoping that
it doesn't end up coming to that. You have Mike
Williams as well, But Mike Williams has been insured, so
you can count him for about four games this year.
Just joking, but let's be real, he'll be their game one,

(01:27:32):
I said. But you know it obviously all rests on
the shoulders of Rogers. But when you look at how
that division plays out, I also wanted to start there
because if Carrie said that the Jets are going to
win the division, it would completely water down me saying
the Jets are going to win the division and him
being a former Jet, I knew where we were going
with that AFC North. You just talked about it with

(01:27:52):
Adam Kaplan. It sounds like you think it's a three
team race between Baltimore, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. Who do you
think wins the AFC North yet AFC Nor.

Speaker 3 (01:28:00):
It's the toughest pick out of all of these picks
as far as division goes.

Speaker 7 (01:28:03):
I believe.

Speaker 3 (01:28:06):
I can see if you're going either way with those
top three, But my choice for that division and winning
that division will be the Baltimore Ravens. I think I
just think they're the better team. Throughout. I think they
have the MVP that came back this year is going
to be better in Hungary and even more hungry, and

(01:28:26):
it's going to be a closed second with Cleveland there.
But I think Baltimore is gonna win that division. There
is a changeover when you see teams in the NFL.
We talk about who went from worse to first in
the years prior. It doesn't happen as often as you
would think that it happens, but it does happen from
time to time. It's more of the what three teams
don't make the playoffs and what new three teams come in.

Speaker 2 (01:28:47):
There's more of a consistent change over there. This may
be cheating a little bit for a team that won
nine games last year, but they were technically in last
place in the AFC North. I like the Bengals just
basically on the health of Joe Burrow, who I am
completely high on for this season. There's obviously the Jamar
Chase situation that is still playing out, but even if

(01:29:09):
you don't have a Jamar Chase for week one or
he's not available week one, I think that they'll be fine.
I have questions about Deshaun Watson at quarterback in Cleveland.
Nick Chubb is a ways away from returning to Cleveland,
but Jerome Ford is still a viable option there. I
know they've upgraded their wide receivers, Cleveland's traditionally had a

(01:29:32):
great offensive line, but it all comes down to Watson,
and I just don't believe in it anymore. So I
can't go with Cleveland, and the reason I didn't pick Baltimore.
I don't know how it's going to work with Derrick Henry.
I think that we just assume that it's going to
be awesome because it's Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson and
I've got this unbelievable rushing team. But I wonder how

(01:29:55):
much last year took out of them getting so close,
and I I do wonder how much Derrick Henry does
have left in the tank. So we shall see. Yeah,
I think the.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
Thing about Derreck Henry and that team, they're not going
to have to be so dependent on Derrick Henry, where
he's gotten a lot of the load in Tennessee and
had to be that guy and had to be a
perennial in the conversation of being MVP in the league.
Obviously didn't win it. But being in that conversation, that's
not what's needed of him in Baltimore. I think the
balance and I think the threat of him being back

(01:30:28):
there will help Lamar a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:30:30):
Healthy Mark Andrews as they likely maybe stepping up with
more of a role as well will be interesting to see.
I like Baltimore to make the playoffs. There are one
of my three wild card teams in the AFC, but
I'm picking the Bengals to win the division. I believe
we are in lockstep in the AFC South. Who do
you have winning the AFC South.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
Yeah, the AFC South is definitely the Texans. I don't
see them taking a step back. I know their coach,
I know their situation, I know their quarterback and how
he operates, and I don't see him getting that big
head mentality or being over confident over to cocky of
a guy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:06):
I don't see that happening. I see them getting better.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
They added pieces, they added more weapons around, not just
offensively but defensively as well, and so I'm excited to
see what they can do in year two.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
So definitely the Texans. It's not out of the realm
of possibility that they're playing for the number one overall
seed as well. When you look at the rest of
we just talked about, you like the Ravens and the
AFC North. I like Cincinnati. Either way, I don't think
we think either of those teams are going thirteen and
four fourteen and three where you could get that number
one overall seed, maybe more of an eleven and six

(01:31:38):
sort of win, or maybe twelve and five. But if
you look at what Houston granted now, they're going to
play a first place schedule this year. However, that division,
I think they're better than all the teams. I think
Tennessee will be different in the fact of it's completely
without Derrick Henry. Now Brian Callahan comes in, you got
a completely different backfield. I know DeAndre Hopkins is hurt,

(01:31:59):
but you've added Calvin Ridley as well. They're going to
be a completely different team than what we had seen prior.

Speaker 7 (01:32:06):
I just.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
Still still young on the offensive line, Bill Callahan taking
over that portion of it, so they should be improved there.
Jeffrey Simmons on the defensive front, but I don't know
if they're overwhelming and getting after the quarterback. It's all
Anthony Richardson dependent. I think with the Colt Well, you
know what, I'm going to take that back. It's not
all Anthony richards In dependent because of the guy that

(01:32:29):
we just mentioned earlier with Joe Flacco waiting in the wings.
But I don't know if there's enough there. Maybe it's
more Jonathan Taylor dependent for the Colts to have a
running game to support whatever quarterback, if it is Anthony Richardson,
if he can stay healthy enough than just the four
games he played last year, and with Jacksonville, I about

(01:32:50):
to say said anything about Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
What they are.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
I think they're good ish, but they haven't done anything
in big moments, except ally against the Chargers, who were
just as much of a mess as they were.

Speaker 3 (01:33:03):
Right, So, yeah, that that division. Yeah, I mean it's
it's the Texans to lose. But I'm not going to
count out the cults here. I think the Colts. The
Colts are going to be very respectable. Obviously, it does
fall a lot on Anthony Richardson and I think his
development in year two. But as of right now, I
mean when you look at it on paper and you
were to pick like we're picking right now, I mean,

(01:33:24):
it's definitely the Texans.

Speaker 2 (01:33:25):
And then in the AFC West, are we both Kansas City?
Of course, Yeah, yeah, I don't think we needed to
spend any time any of the other three Raiders Broncos.
Are Chargers making a push, No, I don't think so.

Speaker 3 (01:33:38):
I mean, I know a lot a lot of people
are high on Denver and them Bo Nicks and you know,
obviously then the Seawan Peyton stands are thinking he'll get
some wins here going. But I just don't see them
doing being able to really make any noise here.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
I I think the Chargers make the playoffs, do you Yes?
Based off what Dan what they have on that roster.
They don't have much, but they do have two really
good tackles if they stay healthy. They have Justin Herbert,
and I think they'll play a style of football that
other teams are not going to want to play against,

(01:34:13):
just like the Baltimore Ravens were at that point. But
I also think that they're they're a better coach team
than they were previously, and they will be able to
max out in the bar to get in. Remember a
Mason Rudolph led Pittsburgh Steelers team made the playoffs last year.
That's that's that's where the bar is right now to

(01:34:35):
make it into the the playoffs in the AFC. So
it's more of maybe leapfrogging a Ravens or Bengals team,
you know, for for a wild card, or sliding in
past the Bills and Dolphins team. But if those other
divisions are beating up on each other, they could allow
a team in the AFC West to slide in. And
I'm going to give it to Harball and the Chargers.

(01:34:56):
I don't have the Dolphins making the playoffs. I don't
know the Dolphins make the playoffs. My three wild cards
are the Ravens as I mentioned, Buffalo makes the playoffs,
and the Chargers make the playoffs for me in the AFC. Yes, okay,
there you have it. Our AFC picture is clear. We
have an NFC picture to get to plus Manzie Millennial,
So give us the letters to what's happening and then

(01:35:18):
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(01:36:01):
Dan Byer. He's Carrie Rhodes. We will resume our NFL
preview in just a minute. But there is a developing
story going on in the world of sports, and it
is a much bigger story than sports. Disney and DirecTV
have not come to terms on an agreement for DirecTV

(01:36:23):
to carry Disney's channels, so that includes all of the
ESPN channels and ABC, and about fifteen minutes before kickoff
of tonight's LSU USC game, this was the broadcasts of
those networks were taken off all of DirecTV's units. Mante

(01:36:44):
you said you've been watching throughout, so this is affecting
not only college football, but Hennis, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (01:36:50):
No, but I had both on like ABC and ESPN
throughout the day, and they decided right now, right now,
and we're gonna have LSU USC and when the Phillies
we're gonna take on the.

Speaker 7 (01:37:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:37:02):
And this is a Direct TV move. Not trying to
take sides in any of this, but what Mancy is
saying is that DirecTV chowse at that point to say,
all right, you'll no longer carry these programs, as if
there was a deadline of September first of a negotiation,
which I am not aware of. Granted I've been in

(01:37:22):
Gulf World for the past week, but the fact of
the matter is there are probably a lot of angry
USC fans in here in southern California, and we know
that they're angry in the Bayou. If you have DirecTV
and you were sitting down to watch USC and LSU
and all of a sudden this pops up fifteen minutes,
which actually really helps ESPN because I think that a
lot of people would probably jump to their streaming subscription

(01:37:46):
and end up trying to watch the game through that avenue.
Where if you were to say, if I were to city,
you carry and I don't know how much of the
subscription is. But hey, we've got a bunch of people
over for the season opening LSU game. Would you pay
twenty bucks to play it on a TV? Yeah, you
wouldn't think twice about it. I don't know what the
streaming cost is and maybe less. I think it's less,
but maybe more. I'm not sure. The point is that

(01:38:12):
this is a tough one for Direct TV to win.
I just especially with all of the different options and
where this is, this is gone, So this is this
is dirty pool by Direct TV's part to have all
these people waiting for this game and now unable to
watch it, and this, this is gonna affect this Tomanci's point.
This isn't just college football, this is tennis, This is

(01:38:35):
ABC News, this is Good Morning America. If you're in that,
I believe all of the channels are out, so any
local ABC affiliate, if you have it on direct TV,
you will not be having is that correct? Manci?

Speaker 9 (01:38:48):
Yes? Bachelorette Dancing with the Stars, What are we doing?
What are we doing? Guys?

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
Disney a Disney Plus subscription or Disney sub I do
feel all.

Speaker 9 (01:39:01):
Under the umbrella. I do think if you do want
it all comes together.

Speaker 2 (01:39:05):
Yeah, there's a little bundle.

Speaker 9 (01:39:06):
Yes, yeah, there is a fly in here.

Speaker 10 (01:39:08):
If you see me swinging, I'm not swinging because I'm
upset about DirecTV.

Speaker 9 (01:39:12):
I'm swinging at this fly, just like you guys. I'm
not swinging at DirecTV. I'm swinging at the fly.

Speaker 2 (01:39:16):
That's all right, Okay, there was a cockroach earlier today.

Speaker 9 (01:39:19):
Now there's a fly and MVP he took it and
it was on its back, still moving legs. And Dan Grabtonah,
he's a real MVP.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
He tasted all right, all right, all right, all right,
let's get to our NFC predictions here. But this is
the drama going on. I feel bad for the LSU
and USC fans go to the timing of it. So yeah,
two blue blood fan base. That stinks. Yeah, but I
think one's a little more. Yeah. By all accounts, it's

(01:39:48):
seventy thirty inside Allegiant Stadium for LSU fans over USC fans. Yes,
and it's like la people will find any excuse to
go to Vegas for a weekend and then it's Labor
Day weekend and then they're out numbered by LSU fans,
oh for sure. So yeah, that would It's quite quite
the showing, but not necessarily surprised. Are you gonna be

(01:40:11):
surprised with my pick to win the NFC East? Will
you be surprised with Kerry Spick to win the NFC East.
Let's find out out who do you have winning that division?
I doubt they'll be surprised. But maybe the Eagles are
gonna win the NFC East. You know, obviously the Cowboys
we don't know. I don't well personally, I don't know
what they're what they're gonna achieve this year. They're gonna

(01:40:33):
take a step back from what they did last year.
They have enough to make the playoffs, I think, but
as of now, the Eagles are head and shoulders above
the rest of that division. I agree with that, and
I would also say that I actually think that the
the toughest competitor ready for this for the Eagles will
be the command Eager. Yeah. Yeah, I don't think there's

(01:40:54):
Dallas is just all over the map, and I just
don't see Dak and Ceedee Lamb having the the seasons
that they had a year ago for a lot of
different reasons. Even though I still believe in Dak, I
just don't think that they're set up for great success.
I like the Eagles to also win the NFC East, gotcha,
NFC North.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
NFC North may surprise a few people here with this pick,
but I'm gonna take the upstart Packers and Jordan Love
to win that division.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Continuing to climb, continuing the climb. I like their team,
I like their continuity. I actually liked Lafleur as a
coach as well, and what he was able to get
out of Jordan Love down the stretch of that season
last year was pretty pretty remarkable. So I'm going to
take the Packers to win that division. I think there
are times where Green Bay's defense has let them down.
Now Jeff Halfley is in as their defensive coordinator, they

(01:41:44):
have a lot of pieces on defense, and I think
that if you look at what that offense has done
that you talked about, and you carry that over to
the next year, and if you get the most out
of your defensive pieces. Rashan Gary Day Year Alexander, Yeah, Yeah,
there's a lot of good guys on that defense. You
can if Green Bay gets something from their defense, I

(01:42:07):
think that's a fair pick. I am all in about
the Lions and you want to know why I'm all
in about the Lions is because I'm not hearing a
peep from Detroit. Yeah, we have talked about the forty
nine ers all preseason with Brandon Anyutk and Trent Williams
and their conversations. We have the Bears on hard knocks.

(01:42:27):
I think the Jordan Love led Packers are a team
that up and coming, as you said, but also grab
some attention. But the Detroit Lions just go about their business,
and I think that's a good thing. I think that
the Lions end up winning the division for the second
straight year, claiming the NFC North. All right, at the

(01:42:49):
NFC South, I'd be surprised if we differ on this one,
just because of process of elimination. I don't think the
Panthers are going to be so good that they make
a push to the top from worse to first. And
I don't have much belief in the New Orleans Saints.

(01:43:11):
Am I correct so far? You are correct so far?
So then it's down to the Bucks and Falcons. I
went with Atlanta. Who'd you go with? I went with
the Falcons? Yes, I you know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:20):
They they have a team that the guy weapons all around.
They have a quarterback now, if he's healthy, that we
know can divvy the ball out, make the right decisions
and get them in the right play and make them
make some make some big time throws. So I'm gonna
take the Falcons to win that division. Tampa Bay is
going to be right there down the stretch fighting them forward, obviously,

(01:43:41):
but I like what the Falcons have, so I'll go Atlanta.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
You know, I told you I like the Chargers and
the AFC A is one of the wild cards. Chargers
have one of the easiest schedules based on winning percentage
from teams the previous season doesn't tell the whole story,
but even a lot of times first place teams, because
you're gonna have to play other first place teams, they
are gonna have a different difficult schedule. The NFC South
this year is going to have the easiest schedule of

(01:44:06):
any of those teams. So you're seeing the Panthers and
Falcons and Buccaneers and all those teams lower on the
strength of schedule rating that you would have for the
for the season, mainly because they play the AFC West
and so you have the Chiefs on top, but Chargers,

(01:44:26):
Raiders and Broncos not the greatest of years last year,
so that helps out in terms of the strength of schedule.
But Atlanta actually has the easiest strength of schedule of
any team in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
Tied with the New Orleans Saints, all right, and then
in the NFC West. NFC West, it's going to be
tighter than most people think. I think everybody believe San
Francisco is going to win that division. I have the
Rams being right there with them with the chance to
win that division as well. I'm going to take San
fran just because I I think their roster is a

(01:45:01):
little better than the Rams, but I wouldn't be surprised
to see the Rams win.

Speaker 2 (01:45:04):
At the vision, you have to take San Francisco. I listen,
I love what Arizona's done. Yeah. I actually think last year,
the first year under Jonathan Gannon, there was a lot
of criticism for him and just how he appeared and
meeting Kyler Murray and other things, but that team played hard.
When Kyler Murray came back, it did give them a
different dimension. Now you've added Marvin Harrison Junior, but yet

(01:45:28):
not enough to me to knock off the San Francisco
forty nine ers who have everything to play for this season.
I think that the forty nine ers are the no brainer.
I do think Seattle is going to be improved because
their defensive line is going to be improved. I don't
know how good their offensive line is going to be.
That's a different question. But I feel that the offense
will be better with Ryan Grubb their new offensive coordinator.

(01:45:49):
But you now have Leonard Williams for a whole season.
He used a first round pick on Byron Murphy. They
should be better. Jonathan Hankins also there. They should be
better on defense, specifically up front. So I think that
puts Seattle more in the conversation. Maybe not winning the division,
but I have a feeling they'll beat San Francisco once

(01:46:10):
this year. At least one time. They'll beat San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
Yeah, San friend, I'm worried about only because they start.
They start slow sometimes throughout the year, and I think
the Rams are going to come out pretty much from
the start. It's going to be interesting, I tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
I think Aaron Donald's absence is a much bigger absence
than people realize. I'd love I trust Stafford the whole deal,
but their offensive line was much better than it was
the prior year. If you have consistency there, then I
think he can have success. But he's higher on the Rams.
Who are your wildcard teams in the NFC. The wildcard

(01:46:51):
is the Lions, the Rams and Tampa Bay. All right, Uh,
we have different because we have different WINFC. I had
Green Bay as a wild card. I actually have the
Bears as a wildcards. I think that their defense is outstanding.
And if you just have Caleb Williams, he doesn't have
to even meet the expectations, even if he's just somewhat

(01:47:12):
near it, they're gonna be fine. And I think the
Seahawks sneak out. Of course, you call me a homer,
call me a homer. But the Mike McDonald era starts
with a playoff berth in Seattle. Let's go to the
fly infested room where Manzie Millennials is, where she's giving
us the latest.

Speaker 9 (01:47:31):
I don't know what is the latest because I don't
have access to it. Dan, I'm just reading comments about
how people are mad. I give you an update on that.
Give me that money. Stop paying Pat McAfee. Oh jeez,
whoa Literally, I'm just reading comments, you guys. People are
mad Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:47:49):
People are mad, and it's who should you be mad at?

Speaker 1 (01:47:52):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
We could be mad at both sides, but in this
ever changing landscape of consumers and being DirecTV choosing to
not air these programs right at that specific time, that
was actually thing. Yeah, Like to your point, I think,
I think that's where you need to be mad at
right now.

Speaker 10 (01:48:13):
Right now, I am upset because if you would have
just had this on all day, then we wouldn't be
so surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Yeah, And the other thing is is what do you
do to solve the problem if this if you're in
the home, and again, if you have twenty LSU fans
or twenty USC fans sitting around watching this, what are
you gonna do. You're gonna go and just buy the
streaming service and that's where you're gonna watch it. And
guess what, now you've done ESPNA favor and if you're DirecTV,
it doesn't work out for you. So that's why I

(01:48:41):
just I don't necessarily see how this could be a
good move for DirecTV.

Speaker 9 (01:48:44):
That's what I'm feeling in myself. I understand that they're
both to blame in some way because everyone's saying that
ESPN is being greedy.

Speaker 10 (01:48:51):
But it's like DirecTV, how did you do this last minute?
You kind of pulled the rug from under us. People
are like, I literally have a party and for this
and this is different.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
Than the game is going to be on Peacock, But
you've always know like that, you've built up to it.
You can understand. You can be mad at NBC about it,
like why would you put that game on Peacock, but
at least you knew about it. This feels like a
fast one was being pulled on at the expense of you, right,
and that's that That doesn't that doesn't fly with the consumer, right.

Speaker 10 (01:49:21):
Directivity is trying to prove that ESPN is greedy here,
but the consumer isn't necessarily feeling that.

Speaker 9 (01:49:26):
Right now, we feel like you just pulled.

Speaker 10 (01:49:29):
The rug from under us because I literally had been
watching your channels up until right now, which seems like
a decision on purpose.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
Yeah, and you can't they don't have to prove that
we know that are right, right, Like, this isn't something we.

Speaker 10 (01:49:41):
Didn't know, This is not new brand, right, right, So
I can tell you that the Braves and the Phillies
are scoreless in the bottom of the second inning, based
on the Internet, not on TV because I can't watch it.
What happened earlier today that I was able to watch
in baseball, where the Diamondbacks crushing the Dodgers fourteen to three,
while Padres edged the Rays four to three.

Speaker 9 (01:50:02):
LA still is a five.

Speaker 10 (01:50:03):
Game lead on Arizona and San Diego for the top
spot in the NL West. The Cardinals defeated the Yankees
fourteen to seven, and the Orioles outscored the Rockies six
six to one, so New York's lead on Baltimore is
down to a half game for the top spot in
the AL East. The Mets did beat the White Sox
two to zero. That New York is now one and
a half games out of the final Waldcard spot in

(01:50:24):
the National League, behind the Braves, who right now are
playing the Phillies and we can't watch it.

Speaker 9 (01:50:29):
They are scoreless.

Speaker 10 (01:50:30):
The Cobs three and a half games out of the
final Waldcard spot in the National League. They did crush
the Nationals fourteen to one in the WNBA Caitlin Clark
twenty eight points, twelve assists, four rebounds. The Fever came
back to beat the Wings one hundred to ninety three.
That's back to back games for the Fever with one
hundred or more points. Kelsey Mitchell was the leading scorer
though for the game, she ended with thirty six points.
Angel Rees another double double, seventeen points nineteen rebounds. The Links,

(01:50:53):
though beat the Sky seventy nine to seventy four. Angel
Rees did set the WNBA record for the most rebounds
in a single season. She has four hundred and eighteen
and counteen. At the US Open, which you can't watch anymore.

Speaker 9 (01:51:05):
There was already an upset.

Speaker 2 (01:51:07):
Listen to us. We will tell you what happened.

Speaker 9 (01:51:09):
We will ye, We'll tell you exactly.

Speaker 10 (01:51:13):
The raining US Open, champ Cocoa Golf was defeated knocked
out by thirteen seed Emma Nvarro in their fourth round match.
She also beat Golf at Wimbledon earlier in July, so she'
sad it to the quarterfinals.

Speaker 9 (01:51:24):
American on the men's side in twelve seed Taylor Fritz
has defeated eight seed Casper Rout in the round of
sixteen as well. He's set it to the quarterfinals.

Speaker 10 (01:51:32):
quarterfinals in a year since Andy Roddick did it back
in two thousand and seven, and Scottie Scheffler did win
the Tour Championship at thirty under par overall to secure
the fed Ex Cup along with twenty five million dollars,
went a nice chunk of change.

Speaker 2 (01:51:49):
Now, if I know, Steve Hartman, you guys did Super
Bowl picks yesterday?

Speaker 8 (01:51:52):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:51:52):
We did today?

Speaker 1 (01:51:54):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Today?

Speaker 9 (01:51:55):
Today?

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
I know you did it today. I thought maybe you
guys did it yesterday.

Speaker 9 (01:51:58):
No, we did it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Who is your Super Bowl pick?

Speaker 9 (01:52:00):
I picked the Chiefs beating the Lions in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:52:06):
And he picked the Cowboys.

Speaker 9 (01:52:07):
Did you pick the Cowboys?

Speaker 2 (01:52:10):
Johnson getting predictions? That's an attention getter. That is Steve Hartman.
It's finest, you know, and.

Speaker 9 (01:52:20):
I actually think he believes it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:21):
Look at me, I'm Steve Hartman. I picked the Cowboys.
That's what it is. Although I do commend Steve. I
think it was four or five years ago when it
was Super Bowl fifty four he picked a Chiefs Viking
Super Bowl in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of Chiefs
Vikings in Super Bowl four and he ended up getting
half of it, right, because the Chiefs ended up making it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:44):
But well, he's the only one that would have known
that fifty fifty years difference in games as well.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
Remember watching it on the TV, Wen Dawson smugging a cigarettes.
All right, Manzi, you've had, You've had quite the day.

Speaker 9 (01:53:00):
The day. Yes, they're still flying here.

Speaker 2 (01:53:02):
You deserve a labor day off. Thank you, thank you
very much. Hit her up at Manzi Belanos. It is
Fox Sports Sunday. You heard Manzi. Super Bowl pick Carrie
Rhoads and myself will give you ours how we feel
things will end up at Super Bowl fifty nine in
New Orleans in February. Hit him up by Kerry twenty
five Roads. Find me at Dan Byer on Fox. That's

(01:53:23):
next year on Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. He's
carry Roads. I'm Dan Buyer. It is that time something
you thought weeks for months for Carrie, and I will
be with you week after week, Sunday afternoons into the evening,

(01:53:45):
covering the late game window of each week of the
NFL season in our own version of Red Zone Radio.
And now it's our time to give our forecast of
who we feel will play in Super Bowl fifth fifty nine.
In who we think the league's most valuable player will be.
Let's start with the MVP National Football League Most Valuable

(01:54:09):
Player for twenty twenty four. If you had to put
your ballot in right now, and who you think is
going to be the Associated Press Most Valuable Player? Carrie Rhoades.
Who is it gonna be for the upcoming NFL season?

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
Oh my god, that's it's really hard. I'm gonna say,
I'm gonna go with the upstart. I'm gonna go with
c J.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Stroud.

Speaker 3 (01:54:32):
I'm gonna say c J. Stroud will win the MVP.
He's in the division dats. He can put up really
good numbers against those teams, not a hard schedule. You
said they probably would be buying for the top spot
in AFC. So if that's the case, I can say
I win a NATAL.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
That automatically puts him in the conversation if you're the
number one scene in the AFC, which I think is
really possible for the Houston Texans. It is there the
only drawback and I don't even I don't even know
if it's a drawback carry But because he was so
good last season and for how strong he came on

(01:55:10):
the scene, you're kind of like, all right, what are
you gonna do for your second act, Yeah, what is
the encore? And that would be the only thing that
if it was a more modest season and maybe he
kind of came out of nowhere, I think that then
we would really almost take notice and say, hey, but
I think he fits the bill. I think it's good

(01:55:32):
for the long term aspect of it. There are guys
who play well, but you just like that person can't
be the MVP. And you look at CJ. Stroud and
you say, Okay, yeah, that can be the MVP. I
think that's a very very solid pick. Who were the
others that you were debating just out of curiosity?

Speaker 10 (01:55:50):
Me?

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
Patrick Mahons.

Speaker 3 (01:55:51):
Of course, he's always going to be there, Patrick Mahone,
Now Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 2 (01:55:55):
I wasn't gonna throw Lamar in. Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:56:00):
It was one of those things where I could see
again Aaron Rodgers having a really great year as well,
so and they're gonna win some games, so he could
be in the mix as well.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
I considered c J. Stroud in my conversation. I told
you I like the Chargers to make the playoffs. I
don't know if it's gonna be enough for them to
actually have great success. What Justin Herbert, I think would
be in the conversation if they're playing winning football. But
I had to go with the division winner, and I

(01:56:29):
had to go to the quarterback. So it's either Jalen Hurts,
Jared Goff, Brock Purdy, or Kirk Cousins from the NFC,
and none of those are candidates. Sorry, not the case.
So it's an AFC. So it's Mahomes, Stroud, Rogers or
Joe Burrow. Same, okay, and I went Joe Burrow. He

(01:56:49):
went Joe Burrow. I am gonna pick Joe Burrow every
single year until he wins an MVP. Okay, that is
gonna be my That is gonna be my quest. This
is good for twenty twenty five, this is good for
twenty twenty six. If he doesn't do it, it's good
for twenty twenty seven. I am just going to pick
him every single year until he wins an MVP because
of a lot of it is what I was just
saying to you. He looks the part of an MVP

(01:57:11):
and even the you know the success that they the
Bengals kind of had last year when he ended up
going down and Jake Browning ended up taking over. Still
he's different. He's cool Joe if he can stay healthy.
I think he shows no Joe Mixon there anymore. They
brought in Zach Moss. Chase Brown is going to have
a role. Here's your opportunity, Jamar Chase t Higgins. Who

(01:57:33):
knows how long? Well, we think Jamar Chase is gonna
be with the team for a little while longer, but
who knows about t Higgins's feature. The time is now.
I like Joe Burrow as the league's MVP. Super Bowl
fifty nine. Who do you have meeting in New Orleans
in the Mercedes Benz Supernome on February ninth of twenty

(01:57:53):
twenty five, And who do you have winning Kerry Roads?

Speaker 7 (01:57:56):
Wow?

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
I'm going to break it down like this first so did.
In the AFC Time Game, I have the Jets versus
the Ravens, And in the NFC Championship Game, I have
San Fan versus Green Bay. Okay, And when it gets
to that, I say the winners heading to the Super Bowl,
the Ravens versus the forty nine ers.

Speaker 2 (01:58:20):
Those are my picks. And I have.

Speaker 3 (01:58:24):
San Francisco finally getting it done. It's been years in
the making. I think they're going to struggle to start
the season. I think it's going to be a slow start,
but they're going to pick up like they always do,
and once they get the ball rolling, it's pretty hard
to stop them.

Speaker 2 (01:58:37):
So you know, you know what I like about your
pick is history repeats itself in a way it does.
Ravens and forty nine Ers played in Super Bowl forty
seven and the Ravens won it. And where did they play?
In New Orleans at the Superdome in a game where
San Francisco rallied after the lights went out? That's right.

(01:58:57):
I was in attendance. It was a little scary at first,
were you there? Yeah? Oh wow, Yeah, you're wonder like,
how in the world could the lights go out into
Super Bowl? But to that point, the Ravens ended up prevailing.
You like, the forty nine Ers coming out on top
for their first Super Bowl, by the way, which would
be in thirty years? Yes? Is it thirty yeah? Two
thousand and four, the Super Bowl ninety nine? Ninety Yes,

(01:59:22):
that's right, that was the last one. All right. Time
For my pick, I've titled it you ready, yep, it's
Motown versus Snowtown. You gotta sit on that. I got it.
I need my music. I need my music. I'm choked
up here. See the Lions take on the Buffalo Bills

(01:59:44):
super Bowl fifty nine. The Bills last year, I was like,
I don't want the Lions and Bills to make it
because I loved the story of both of them trying
to make it. I'm saying screw that. I'm throwing caution
into the wind, and the Detroit Lions got that in
Super Bowl fifty nine, giving more heartbreak to the Buffalo Bills.

(02:00:05):
That's what's gonna happen on February night. We'll talk to
you in a week.

Speaker 6 (02:00:08):
One.

Speaker 2 (02:00:08):
Carry Roads.

Speaker 1 (02:00:09):
Let's do it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:09):
Dan, He's Carry Roads. I'm Dan Byer. It's Fox Sports Sunday,

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