Fox Football Sunday w/ Andy Furman, Bucky Brooks, & Mike Harmon!

Tune in to a new episode of FOX Football Sunday with Andy Furman, Bucky Brooks, and Mike Harmon! The guys are talking NFL Week 6, giving their picks for each game of the week and go over the biggest headlines from each team! Lastly, the guys break down the matchup in London and talk the biggest headlines coming out of college football Saturday! Tune in to hear that and so much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Without further ado, The guy, the man himself, my partner
and friend, Bucky Brooks's back. Hello, Buck? How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:34):
I'm good. I'm good, I'm good. What's going on? Andy?
How you doing? You know?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I will tell you this much. I missed you, but
I was expecting at least like a postcard you got.
A phone call was out of the question, but like
a postcard. How is the trip? How did it go?
I mean, I can't believe they had that team there
for two weeks consecutively. That's crazy, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (00:51):
It is crazy?

Speaker 3 (00:51):
But it ended up being a huge advantage for the
jacksonanth Jaguars. And when you go back and you look
and there's a lot of excitement about playing overseas, particularly
in London, because the fan base is bananas.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
I mean it was packed.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
The first week there were ninety thousand at Wimbley Stadium.
The next week Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was also sold out,
and so the design, the appetite for football is rabid.
For the Jaguars, they got a chance to be over
there for ten days. They had a chance to fully
acclimate to the time, to the environment. They had a
chance to yeah one twice. They had the chance to

(01:26):
really conduct a mini training camp where they could get
together without distractions.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
It was just the players. The families weren't there.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
So it was a very, very productive and advantageous trip
for the Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Helped them get back on track.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Okay, so it was a great trip for the job.
Was it a great trip for Bucky Brooks? What did
you do?

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I mean, like, I've been in London a million times.
It's a great city, great restaurants, a lot of you know,
taking the sites and you do all the other stuff.
And the great thing about being overseas is you have
an opportunity to kind of bounce around and go to
other countries and come back. It's always a nice time
whenever you get a chance to go overseas.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Well, I'm glad you're back. I'm glad you're safe. And
Jacksonville won twice, so that's wonderful. But I want to
talk a little college football, and yesterday may have been
one of the greatest games I've ever seen. And we're
talking about the Pac twelve, which everybody was like banging
on him. It was a great game. And I want
to get to that in a second, the Washington Oregon game.
But before that, help me out here. Why is it
when I look at college football, the first game I

(02:20):
look at this year has always been and it was
Friday night this week it was Colorado. I mean, Dion
Sanders is in my soul. I mean, and I really
hurt me that they lose that forty six to forty
three double overtime loss to Stanford, No less, on Friday night.
They're up twenty nine zip at the half. It's killing
me right now. I've become a Colorado fan and a

(02:41):
Dion fan.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah. No, it is a great game on Friday night.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Packed TV after Dark continues to be a hit, even
though the pack field is going away. Look a tailor,
two afts, a team's up twenty nine to nothing, doesn't
finish it, loses in double overtime.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Is devastating to DM and his team.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Because this was one that they probably had already written
in as a win. They should have been able to
finish it off, but they were unable to. It kind
of shed light on some of their issues. They haven't
been able to cover all year and the coverage and
the lack of pass rush has hurt them. They've been
fueled by their offense, but defensively, they weren't able to
get it done, even though it was a tremendous effort

(03:21):
by the Stanford wide receiver.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
I mean he was just unguardable.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
To have almost three hundred receiving yards is unbelievable in
a college game. But hats off to him. It's a
great game. It's a great competitive game, great resilient game
for the Stanford Cardinal.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
All Right, speaking of great games, I got to go
back to this game, yesterday's Washington Oregon game, thirty six
thirty three. Oregon falls to Washington and looked Dan Landing
the coach of Oregon right now, and he's getting a
lot of criticism, and maybe rightfully so, because he goes
for a zero for three now and fourth down possibilities,
And to me, I mean, you're either an aggressive coach,

(03:55):
you know you're roll the dice, or you're a fool.
And I have no problem with him trying to be aggressive.
It failed, and look, these two teams may meet again
in the playoffs. There's no question about that. It was
a great game. But I think it's going to hurt
one person, and not one person is gonna be bon Nicks,
because I think the Heisman race yesterday really put Michael
Pennix Junior in the lead right now, So it's Pennix,

(04:18):
maybe Nick second, and certainly Caleb at usc has fallen
big time with three interceptions against No. Tre Dame yesterday.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Yeah, now, Michael Penix.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
This was a big spotlight game for Michael Penix and
bo Nix, not only for the Heisman Trophy, but there
were a lot of NFL scouts and general managers in attendance.
We talk about this quarterback class. Potentially the twenty twenty
four quarterback class could be loaded. Pennix and bo Nicks
could be a part of that class. When you look
at Penis, the bank takeaway is just the poise to
composure and the clutch playmaking ability.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
This is a guy who has done it not only in.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
Indiana, he's done it at Washington and there are a
lot of people that are really impressed with what he
brings to the table. Not only as you know, a
guy who is really solid from the pocket, but he
also has the athleticism to escape the pocket. He has
a maturity about his game that shows up. He really
really helped himself with his performance against the Ducks yesterday.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Well, let's get back to the coach, Dan Lenning. Okay
of Oregon. He goes over three and fourth down possibilities
and that probably was the difference between the game winning
or losing for the Ducks of Oregon. Okay, he went
for twice inside the ten, once from the Washington three
right before halftime and once from the Washington eight in
the third quarter. Both times he failed, leaving Oregon eventually

(05:33):
trailing by like eleven points in that game. I mean,
what's your take as a former player and you're scratching
ahead as a player, as a coach makes these calls
from the sideline, what do you think about that?

Speaker 3 (05:45):
You know, you have this collection of young coaches or
younger coaches that are this hearing. They're leaning on analytics
to kind of mask some of these super aggressive, hyper
aggressive decisions, I think in these omens, so particularly at
the end, those things end up costing your team games,
you know, giving up short feels not doing that, not

(06:08):
being able to convert, not necessarily I won't say playing
the game the right way, but not playing the game
by the book has put some of these guys in jeopardy.
We see it every week when you watch the Chargers
and what Brandon Staley A elects to do each and
every week.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
For Dan Landing, he has to live with it. Now,
he doesn't.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
His credibility is fine with his players if they know
this is what we do. It's just tough because, man,
the one thing that as a player you want, you're
going to have the ultimate trust and confidence that the
coach knows what he's doing, he knows how to get
us to win a circle if the game is tight.
When you have these things kind of back for sometimes you.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
Can lose a little bit of that credibility in the
locker room.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
There's no doubt about that. Now, the possibility of a
rematch between these two teams is possible. They may play
in Las Vegas for the title game of the Conference
of the PAC twelve. But right now I'm going back
to the key player of the game, which I think
was a key play. It was a fourth and three
for Landing and Oregon on the wash forty five, fourth
and three on Washington's forty five, and they used all

(07:04):
the timeouts the Huskies did first time would have won
the game. Who probably won the game for him, but
they didn't. All the Ducks had to do is go
down and lean kneel down who had been all over.
But what happened was they didn't get there and that
was the end of it. They rolled the dice and
bing by a bang, by a boom, and that's what
it was. Washington scores a touchdown and that's all over.
So you know, you just you know, I don't know

(07:25):
what makes a guy do that, the gambling aspect of
the guy, I mean, just rolling the dice, I mean,
be conservative. I mean, I haven't seen a guy do
that as a coach in a game like that, all
for three on fourth downe situations. I could see the
first two, but when you're fourth and three on Washington's
forty five and the Huskies had used all their timeouts,
left first down right there would have won the game.

(07:47):
But they didn't get it done. I mean, Gee, just
punted and shove them back deep in their own territory.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
I mean it would appear to be like that, particularly
coming from a defensive minded coach.

Speaker 3 (07:57):
Guy with a defensive background, you tend to lean on
the side of the ball that you love. He elected
to go for it, gave the Huskies a short field,
really benefit them because they didn't have any timeouts. Now
you can just play your normal offense. There's no panic,
there's no pressure in terms of executing the two minute
drill because you're close enough you don't really have to
worry about the clock per se.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
But you're living.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
You learn as coaches, you make these decisions and you
learn from them, good or bad. He'll be a much
better coach from this decision. But it hurts any immediacy
because it appears that it cost this team a win.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Right, speaking of course, thing of a win, let's talk
about Caleb Willimys staying in the Pac twelve. USC loses
forty eight to twenty to Notre Dame. Caleb Williams Sow's
three interceptions probably his worst single game performance as a
Trojan right there. And look, we knew all along that
us he was a great offensive ball club and defensively
that was their achilles heel, and certainly it was exposed
yesterday by Notre Dame, of all people.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
It was exposed.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
We worried about the Trojans going in, We knew that
they were Caleb Williams and company. It was really the
Heisman Trophy winners show. He did a lot to mask
some of the deficiencies that they had. And we had
never seen Kayler Williams have a bad game, a poor
performance where he turned it over and wasn't able to
rescue the Trojans.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
This was it.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Three interceptions helped Notre Dame get off to a solid start.
They were able to play from in front, and the
things that we've always worried about with the Trojans defense, physicality, toughness.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
All those things showed up.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
And it's really highlighted when the quarterback isn't able to
mask you.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
What a brilliant showing.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
Now, I didn't forget you, Bucky Brooks. I didn't forget
you Teds Walkers back in the lineup. Now for the
for the North Carolina Tar Heels and they rolled, They
really did. They rolled over Miami of Florida forty one
thirty one yesterday and Walker had three touchdown catches in
that win. They're undefeated, your tar Heels now at perfect
six to zero in the season. We got to get

(09:57):
Mac on the phone. We got to get him on
the show. We'll get a Mac Brown maybe in the
week or so. I haven't heard fromhim. I mean, it's
really crazy. I've been sending up some notes lately. Haven't
heard back from the guy. I'm sure I will.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Though, Yeah, hopefully. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Big win for the tarho is big win for Drake
May playing Miami National primetime game. We talked about this
quarterback class. You talk about Michael Pennox and bo next
Kayleb Williams.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Had an off day.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
It allowed Drake May to maybe steal a little tension,
little spotlight. I'm telling you, when we get to April
and we have these conversations about which quarterback is QB one,
the consensus or the expectation is that it's going to
be Caleb Williams. And I'm just saying that this is
going to be a hotly contested battle for number one.

(10:40):
There are a lot of people that like Drake May.
They like him as a franchise quarterback. They like his
demeanor and his overall feel like what he gives you
when he walks into the room.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
This is gonna be tired.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
He's going to be in play as the number one
overall pick if he decides to come out after the season.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Right, Okay, you know, I'm an East Coast kind of guy.
On and bred in Brooklyn, New York. We didn't have
a lot of great college football there. Army was there.
Syracuse was kind of decent, but that's upstate New York.
So yesterday when I see the score that the Scarlet
Knights of Rutgers were trailing Michigan State twenty four to
six in the fourth quarter and they come out and
they win that game twenty seven to twenty four, I

(11:17):
was kind of happy. Not a big Rutgers fan, but
I'm an East Coast kind of guy and I'm seeing Rutgers.
What a bad year for Michigan State. That coach is gone,
all right, the team is like down on the cropper
and they lose to Rutgers. That's not good. Not a
good day. Good day for Michigan State and their fans.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Not a good day for Michigan State and their fans.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
But let's focus on Rutgers, and let's focus on the
job that Greg Sheiano has done and his second act
with the Scarlet Knights. This is a team that is
sitting at five and two. They play a physical brand
of football that gives them a chance.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
He's a.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
He's a really good college coach. I would almost call
him a great college coach based on what he's been
able to do at Rutgers. You see this Rutgers team, Man,
they're scrappy, they're resilient for them to battle back from
deficit like that in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
On special teams. About the special teams?

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Did it?

Speaker 1 (12:04):
You know?

Speaker 3 (12:04):
But yeah, I mean yeah, it speaks volumes about their toughness,
to resilience, their ability to.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Get it done.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Unbelievable, really, I mean, And what about was it? The
University of Houston beats West Virginia That that's a shocker.
I think it was their first win in the Big
Twelve right now for Houston. Right now, they've moved over
from the ACS AAC to the Big twelve. So Houston
beats up on West Virginia, which is a big upset.
And look, I was watching the locally. Cincinnati was playing

(12:31):
yesterday and they're still trying to get their first win
in the Big Twelve, and they couldn't get it done.
They lose to well Iowa stayed yesterday thirty to ten.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I think it was.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
That was a final, ugly, ugly game right there. But
you know what I'm going to tell you right now,
which I think might be the most balanced team in
college football. Tell me if I'm wrong, maybe the team
that is going to challenge for number one. They're not
going to get the number one spot this week. George
still stays number one, but they're gonna get a lot
of votes. I'm looking at the University of Michigan.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Oh Man, Michigan right now is playing the best football
of anybody in the country.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
They both sides of the ball.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, they understand who they are. They play bully ball
on both sides. They attack you, they beat you up.
They've talked about understanding their identity. They're in the butt
kicking business, and they say business is booming. They're moving
people around. And that style, that physicality, that toughness that
always travels I can't wait to see them match.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Up in the college football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Because Jim Harborough say what you will about him, and
some people don't like the personality and the quirks, you
can't dispute his ability to build a winning team, a
championship caliber team. This team is loaded, This team is
ready to go.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
They're not be any people that are destroying people. Fifty
two to seven overre Indiana yesterday, And I know the
competition has not been that strong, but I'm waiting for
that game in late November when they play Ohio State.
That's going to be a biggie. But this Michigan team,
on both sides of the ball, defensively, offensively, they might
be the best team in the country.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, we'll see what they play. I mean, yeah, it
doesn't matter what they played. Like we talk about the
eyeball test.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
The eyeball test suggested they are the best team in
the country the way they play from beginning to end.
The trick is can they maintain it? Can they continue
to play their best ball down the stretch. It's a
long season. The season is a marathon. Can they continue
to click like they're clicking now and be at their
best at the end of the season.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
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Speaker 1 (15:48):
Their pass rush is just too good. We'll explain that
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All right, Bucket Brooks, this is the time you're gonna shine.
Because I gotta ask you this. I'm going back to
Thursday night, Kansas City, the Chiefs top Denver nineteen to
eight ugly game, But even ugly was the quarterback on

(16:33):
the Denver Broncos, who were now one to five. Russell
Wilson one hundred and ninety seven yards behind the shaky performance.
What is the deal is he finished? Is it over
for Russell Wilson? I don't know. He had thirty seven
yards passing in the first half of that game, and
the only drive Wilson led past midfield ended on a
fourth down. I just don't see the guy just falling

(16:54):
down skill wise that quickly. Is it possible, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
It's possible and as possible.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Well, that's why the Seattle Yawks were willing to part
ways with Russell Wilson. John Snyder and Pete Carroll looked
like geniuses for seeing Russell Wilson at the stage that
he was at and saying, yeah, we're good. We're not
going to overpay for him. We'll start with someone else,
Geno Smith, and move forward. Russell Wilson's athleticism is no
longer what it was. He was always a guy who

(17:22):
played off the script. At his best, he was an
improvisational player, and his desire originally in Seattle to cook
to want to throw more, to want to have more
say and more control at the line of scrimmage and
throw it all over the yard. Right now, those decisions,
that insistence upon playing the game in that manner has

(17:43):
exposed him because now everyone can see that he's not
that the rhythm passer in the mold over Drew Brees.
He's a guy that needs the benefit of a run
game and movement passes to be able to play at
his best. And as a declining player, meaning he's losing
his athleticism, his mobility and those things, he's not been
able to function in Sean Payton's offense. And I'll say this,

(18:05):
Sean Payton also has tried, but he hasn't fully committed
to doing all the stuff that Russell can do.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
You said that Pete Carroll's genius, all right, and I
agree because not only that, you're gonna dump Russell Wilson,
You're gonna bring in Geno Smith, who had a tough
time at it in the New York Jets situation. And
I'll tell you what I'm gonna do for you, Bucky Brooks.
I'm gonna see Pete Carroll this afternoon because they're playing
the Bengals. I'm gonna tell him in the locker room
after the game that Buckey Brooks is your genius. I

(18:32):
will do that, all right.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
I'll see appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
All right. But it's an amazing move where you think
about it, I mean not only dumping Russell Wilson, but
the kind of like rolling the dice for Gino Smith,
who really had nothing going from. But you know, I
just think that Pete Carroll is just an underrated coach.
I think he's a tremendous coach and maybe one of
the best defensive coaches in the National Football League.

Speaker 2 (18:56):
Yeah, he's underrated.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
The success that he had at the collegiate and NFL
novels let you know how great he is and how
he understands it and building it back up.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
He's done all those things.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
This movie with Russell Wilson, though, will it be another
feather in his cap, because it looks like the Seattle
Seahawks made out like bandits in that trade.

Speaker 1 (19:15):
And more than that, I mean Sean Payton right now
trying to build up Russell Wilson prior to the season,
blaming the New York Jets offensive coaching staff and things
like that. I mean, it's too late. It's just ridiculous
right now. And I feel for the guy who's one
in five, but you know what, you got to give
him some chance. But I think they're loaded down with
this Russell Wilson contract. Certainly he's at the quarterback of

(19:36):
the future, but he's an anchor for them as far
as contractual situations are concerned.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Yes, I mean it does weigh them down. They have
to figure out a way to work around it.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
But it's not all Russell. The offensive line has played poorly.
He paid Mike mcglinchy. He hasn't been able to hold
up at right tackle. The offensive line hasn't improved much
at all, So there's a lot of blame to go around.
They have to do a better job of just making
sure that they fix the personnel problems, and the Champagne
has a good job of giving them the scheme that

(20:07):
works for what he has.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Everybody has an idea.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Of what you want to look like, but the reality
is you can only do what your player skills enable
you to do.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
He has to make sure he always stays true to that.

Speaker 6 (20:19):
Right.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Let's move along. Now we've got a game here. The
Ravens at the Titans today and I was shocked with
both teams lost less week. But the chakra to me
was Ravens losing to the Steelers seventeen to ten. Titans
obviously lost to the Colts. That's somewhat of a chakra,
But the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Ravens, I was shocked
with that. That was a twenty three to sixteen loss
the Titans. Titans rely on the pass, and if they

(20:40):
passed this football, they're going to win. The pass rush
obviously is pretty good, and we'll see what happens there.
But I tell you, I like the Titans in this game.
I think the Ravens right now are a little somewhat
the shovel They really are. They have to have a
different approach right now because Tennessee's going to go after
him pretty much on passing on early downs.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:01):
The big thing about the Baltimore Ravens has been a
little bit about their defense, but a lot about their offense.
Todd Munkin was expected to overhaul this offense. They wanted
to make it more of a pass versus offense, one
that was bid around Lamar Jackson's talents, and they've done
that he's on page to throw for over forty five
hundred yards. That part has been great watching him operate

(21:22):
from the pocket. He's excited, he's engaged, he's enthusiastic. But
then I look at the team in the bottom line,
and I mean, they're winning games, but they're not dominating
the action like.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
They used to.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
And I worry in the postseason, will they be able
to run the football like they've run it in the
past without getting the numb amount of reps in the
regular season punishing people with the running game In those things,
I understand that side. It's suggested everyone has to play
a certain way. I just know that toughness never goes
out of style, and I don't know if they have

(21:55):
retained some of their offensive toughness due to the scheme change.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
And they've had a lot of injuries as well. It's
a somewhat of an excuse. But I'm looking at you know,
as a defensive coordinator, you're going to stack the box
against the Titans, because obviously Derek Henry is the guy
who's their offense right now. But I believe that the
Tennessee Titans have kind of changed their offensive schemes somewhat
because they're passing a lot more on first down, kind
of relaxing that defense on the other side of the football,

(22:20):
you know, trying to open things up a little bit
because you just can't have Derrick Henry running against the
stack line. It doesn't happen, and he's having some problems. Really,
he's not the Derreck Henry that he was. I think
that you look at the guy right now, I mean,
where is kind of worn off his tires?

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, it definitely has.

Speaker 3 (22:39):
I mean, you don't play this long, and you don't
play in the league this long and not begin to
lose some of your secret powers. He's been a dominant player,
dominant runner for a long time. Can still dominate the
game if you give plenty of opportunities. This is a
game where you have to give him twenty five to
thirty touches. Twenty five of those I would prefer on

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the ground and see if you can soften up this
Ravens defense and create some big play opportunities from for
DeAndre Hopkins on the perimeter.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Look, it's different because they're really no name pass catchers,
but offensvely everything.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
Happens pass rush of the Titans will be the key
in this game. If they could pass rush and put
the Lamar Jackson on the run. I think they'll win
this bowl game. If they'll be close. I think they'll
be maybe a field goal or so, but no more
than that. But I think the Titans win this bowl
game today.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
What do you think I'm gonna I'll go the other way.
I go the other day, I go the other way.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
I'm gonna go with the I'm gonna I'm gonna go
with Baltimore. I'm gonna go to Baltimore.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
It's a little shorter trip going overseas. UH there will uh.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Look, they're will support it well represented uh in the city,
and they know they have to get back on track
because this division is super tight and competitive. They cannot
fall behind the competition. This is a must win game
for them. I think they respond to the press.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Right.

Speaker 1 (23:56):
We'll see, We'll see. He's Bucket Brooks. I'm Andy Furman,
Weak Car Fox Football, Sunning of Fox Sports reading and
by the way, coming up Mexo. Fox Sports is live
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really easy. Just stop the run and you stop this team.
That's next. But first Kevin Wired has all your sports.

Speaker 6 (24:13):
Yeah, we got some injury news in the NFL this morning.
NFL Network saying the Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson is considering
season ending surgery, so they might have to wait till
twenty twenty four to see how he really does. They're
seeing that as a possible option to help prepare his

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injured shoulder. Report from ESPN coming out saying that the
NFL is already discussing the idea of one day playing
a Super Bowl in London. That comes from Adam Schefter.
He's citing Roger Goodell in those discussions. Some other injury news,
Sauce Gardner ruled out for today's game against the Eagles.

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He's he has a concussion. Ian Rappaport's saying that Giants
tight end Darrel Waller has a growing injury listen to
as questionable, However, he is expected to play today. Brownside
end David Njoku with his burns is questionable, however, he's
expected to be on the field. T Higgins has a
fractured rib. He is expected to play today. Panthers linebacker
Brian Burns is also expected to play today against the Dolphins.

(25:18):
Hollywood Brown is questionable with an illness. However, he's expected
to be on the field for the Cardinals. And in
college football yesterday, big matchup in the Pac twelve between
number seven Washington number eight Oregon. The matchup lived up
to the hype, a back and forth game. Michael Pennix
with his fourth touchdown pass giving the Huskies a late lead.

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Ducks had a chance to come back and at least
tie it on a field goal, but the forty three
yard attempt went wide on the final play. Number twenty
one Notre Dame dominates number ten USC forty eight twenty
number eleven Alabama held on against the comeback attempt by Arkansas,
but they do win it twenty four to twenty one.
Number twelve North Carolina over number twenty five Miami forty one.

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The episode of the day he came with Pitt taking
down number fourteen Louisville thirty eight twenty one and number
fifteen Oregon State beats number eighteen UCLA thirty six to
twenty four. Back to you guys, all.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
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(26:33):
about seven eight minutes from now. The Commanders are at
the Falcons today. Commanders lost. This is amazing. It really
lost to the Bears and the lost big forty twenty
last week. But the Commanders have to run the football
and they got the guy to do it and Brian
Robinson on defense. If Washington can stop the run, then
they'll stop the Falcons, because that's all the Falcons do
is run the football. They don't pass.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
They passed on occasion every now and then. Desmert Ritter
had a sign game a week ago and it showed
what the passing game could do and how it could evolve.
With Bjehn Robinson as a centerpiece on the offense commanding
a lot of attention, you have Kyle Pitts on the outside,
Drake London. They just picked up Van Jefferson coming over
from the La Rams.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
This is a.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Team that is solid and a lot of people don't
like their style because they're running it. I would say
keep looking at the Falcons because b Jhon Robinson is amazing.
Reminds me a lot of the Hall of Famer Ladinian
Tomlinson in terms of his style and what he's able
to do as a runner and receiver. This team is
a lot better than people think. And then defensively, Jesse
Bates from right there plucked him away from the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
He has helped their defense.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
He's helped their defense with his instincts of wearing, his
ball skills, his overall playmaking ability has upgraded a unit
that struggled the season go but right now is playing
really really good football.

Speaker 1 (27:51):
Okay, has this been rid of the quarterback of the
future with the Falcons or is he just a holdover?

Speaker 3 (27:56):
I think he's just a holdover, but put a little
asteris by. If he continues to show that he can
go from being a game manager to a playmaker, it
helps him. The big thing that you need from your
quarterback is he doesn't have to do everything. He doesn't
have to be the playmaker that you count on to
make every play, but you need him to be able
to step up his game and key moments, whether it's

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the opponent taking away the running game or being able
to kind of put the team on his back when
they're struggling or coming from behind.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
He has to show some of that. And if he
has more.

Speaker 3 (28:30):
Games like he had last weekend, yeah, you feel optimistic
about his ability to be able to do it.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
All right, let's talk about this game right now. I
like the Commanders to win this game. I really do.
And maybe I'm thinking with my heart rather than my head,
because you know, I just want to see them turn
it around on the new ownership, and I love their
offensive coordinator. I hope he has a possibility of getting
ahead football job because look, they started the season up
with those two wins and everybody thought that, you know,

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everything's gonna be hunked do and now everything's great. Then
they fell a little bit. So I think the Commanders
win this game. I think the Commanders are a better
team around all around than basically the Falcas. They have
more talent. I think maybe I'm wrong on this one,
but I do like the Commanders.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
That's a tough one. Atlanta's defense is better. The Commanders,
I just don't know. I never know what I'm getting
from them, So I'm gonna go the other way. I'm
gonna go with the other guys. I'm gonna go with
the dirty birds in this one as opposed to the Commanders.
I just don't know what the Commanders are gonna show.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Each and every week. I don't know if they're gonna
show up. So I'm gonna go with the dirty birds.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
I hear you, all right, Vikings at the Bears today,
Vikings no wide receiver Justin Jefferson, he's out. That's big.
The best player on the team the Bears offense, I
mean Justin Fields. Now he's found a partner on wide
receiver DJ Moore. Bears win Vikings without their best player.
I think it's as simple as that. I think the
Bears have kind of got a little momentum right now.

(29:53):
They've turned it around, beating Washington big last week, forty
to twenty. I like the Bears in this one. I
think the Bears winning a close one. I think sometimes
a win like that a week ago, who can do wonders?
I mean, look, you played the game, you know about that.
Maybe it means nothing, but from the outside looking in,
I think it means something.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Uh, the Bears played much better. They played much better
last couple of weeks. Justin Fields has kind of figured
out some of the stuff. But I don't know how
good the team is. Man, Minnesota is a much better team.
They played competitive games. I know they're missing Justin Jefferson,
but Jordan Addison is real. Cam Akers is on the
verge of cracking the starting lineup. You may see him
run the ball. I'm still I'm going to Purple people leaders.

(30:35):
I'm I'm gonna go with the Vikings. I'm gonna go
with the Vikings in this year. I'm gonna go with
the Vikings. I mean, when you.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
Lose to Dalvin Cook before the season, the Cook has gone,
it goes to the Jets, not not they lose their
best player, which is basically Jefferson. I just don't see
how they win. I really don't. I mean, and look,
before the trade deadline's over, everybody's saying that Kirk Cousin's
gonna leave to go to the Jets. You know, why,
why would anybody want him as a rental player? You know,

(31:01):
if he goes to the Jets. He's not their quarterback
of the future because next year. I mean, Aaron Rodgers
is even talking about coming back before the end of
this season, and he's going to quarterback next year. So
why get Kirk Cousins for what reason to play seven
eight games? That's it's crazy, right.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Yeah, it is crazy. I don't see that happening.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
I will say, you know the thing about the Vikings,
there is a lot of questions and concerns about what's
going to happen next with Kirk Cousins. But I only
think Kirk Cousins has is this year. He'll be somewhere
else next year because they're not gonna pay the money
that it would take to keep him, and they've gone
about as far as they can go with him at
the Helm. That's it. He's a winning quarterback. He's been

(31:40):
able to win. They can win games with him. They
may not be a title contender, but they certainly can
win and get back into the conversation as a playoff
contender if they're able to roll off a few of them.
The big thing is, look at Brian for Flori's and
the job that he's done with the defense. The defense
was able to kind of stay tight with Kansas City
a week ago. The defense is beginning to you understand

(32:01):
how he wants them to play, and as long as
they are aggressive and knocking people around, they're gonna have
a chance to force turnovers and that will give them
a chance to win. But in this matchup, they're a
better team. They're better team to meet in the Chicago Bears.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
I think that's why they went even without Jefferson.

Speaker 3 (32:17):
Even without Jefferson, I think they're a better team the Bears.
I don't have any confidence in the Bears.

Speaker 1 (32:23):
All right, It's gonna be close, that I know, but
I think I give the the movement and I give
everything towards the Bears simply because a the big win
last week by twenty and of course the game is
in Chicago. I think that means something too.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
So we'll see. But I like the Bears to win
this one. Look, more often than not, I'm not right,
but I think the Bears do win this one. He's
Bucky Brooks. I'm Ay Firman. We are Fox Football Sunday
and Fox. But it's ready. It is time for the
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Speaker 1 (33:05):
Ask Bucky coming right up about fourteen minutes now before
the top of the hour. This is Fox Football Sunday,
Fox Bus. Right here is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman
and by the way, we'll live from the Tairaq dot
com studios. Book Are you ready? I know you've been
away for two weeks. Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (33:19):
I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
All right, let's get it done. I want to talk
a little bit about your life in London for two weeks.
All right, let's talk about the food in London and
things like that. You know, what's the difference between the
food there and here? Is it just fish and chips?
And is the beer always warm?

Speaker 3 (33:40):
Look, there's far more than just fish and chips over there.
I think the one thing about the country is they
have really a multicultural field and so whatever fits your palette,
you can do that. But in terms of their food, yeah,
fish and chips are the thing. We would call them
French fries, a little thicker, more like steak fries, a
little beer batter, fish to go with it. I am

(34:01):
not a beer drinker, but if you consume beer, they
have plenty of it available for you.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
Thank you very much. Now the talk is can the
city of London support NFL football? Was there a big
fuss over the game? Was the media going crazy with
NFL teams there for two weeks or is it just
a secondary to their football, which is soccer.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
It's secondary to their football. There's a lot of intrigue,
That's what I would say. The difference is states that
when you go to a game, normally you're gonna wear
you see jerseys of one of the two teams. So
if it's the Jaguars and the Chiefs, you'll see red,
you'll see teal. The games in London you see a
kaleidoscope of teams because people have their favorite teams, but

(34:44):
it doesn't prevent them from going and checking out the
festival that an NFL game is when it's overseas.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
All right, Now, do people even follow the NFL on
a regular basis. I'm sure there's wagering on there, because
they wager on everything in London, but do they follow
the NFL on a regular basis? Are the standings in
the press.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah, theyf they close attention to what's going on.

Speaker 3 (35:07):
You have to understand this is significant time difference though
the games that kick off the games to kick off
at one o'clock. I want to say, it's a five
to eight hour difference. So you're talking about starting there
like super duper late at night, like six or five o'clock.
And then you have the eight o'clock game, which is
the four o'clock game. I mean, it's a lot. And
so to watch the Sunday in that game it's one

(35:29):
in the morning on Monday. It's a lot to be
committed to it. But there are people that check out
those games. They want to know, they can't get enough
of it. It's a fan base that's falling in love
with the game.

Speaker 1 (35:39):
I would say, all right, here we go. Here's a
question for you now. Thanks to Mark Stoops, who is
the college football coach at the University of Kentucky, college
coaches now have a new excuse for getting humiliated by Georgia,
and they did two weeks ago George's thirty eight to
be Kentucky byt thirty eight points. Stoops ask a fan

(36:00):
and as many fans to throw money at the problem.
What do you mean by that? When a caller on
his radio show asked Stoops about Kentucky's losses against big
time teams, Stoops got real defensive. He said that George's
nil riches and he suggested that UK fans should caught
up more cash. He's blaming it on the fans for

(36:21):
being cheap. He says fans now should spend more money
and donate more money to the cause to get better players.
I thought this was nuts. But your take on.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
This, nah, I mean there's something to be said for that.
There's something to be said for the amount of money
that is required to get some of these four and
five star players.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
You have to have the money to bring them in.
You have to have the money.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Sometimes they want money to pay for recruiting trips and
those things.

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Is changed.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
The amateur feel or notion of amateurism around college football
is completely out of that. Everything is about the dollars
and you have to have big pockets, deep pockets to
be able to compete at the highest level.

Speaker 1 (37:00):
All right, I hear what you're saying. I guess that's
the way it is. And I guess if he's going
to appeal to the alums and alums have money, they
may do that. The CEO winning team, that's they're going
to do. Okay, Now, the tush push has been a
big deal now in the National Football League, and Dean
Blandino says he thinks the league is going to look
at this, and he says he'd be shocked if they

(37:20):
don't make a change. Now, I'll go back and say
that the Philadelphia Eagles have the best offensive line in football.
So Michael Parsons of the Cowboys says, it's a cheat code.
What do you think about this tush push? Could it
be stopped? Should it be stopped? And I say, look,
it's a play and if you have a problem with it,
defensively stop it.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
There are other teams that have tried to run the
play and they haven't run it successfully. As a combination
of factors, that makes it very successful for the Eagles.
You talked about the offensive line being the best in football.
They have a quarterback who is on video. You can
look it up. He squatted over six hundred pounds before
throughout his life time. You're talking about it very strong.
Wrong player playing behind are like the best offensive line

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of football.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
They can move people off the ball and because they were.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
The first one to the party, they know all the
ins and outs about how to execute not only the
tush push, but the complimentary plays that come off of this.
So you shouldn't penalize the Eagles for something today have
taken and really enhanced it and made it a viable weapon.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
All right, hear what you're saying, Okay, And I'm going
to go back to Steve Smith, a tremendous player, a
great wide receiver. Now he's an analyst, and he had
some comments about the wide receiver of the Denver Broncos.
Jerry Judy called him a jack all right, yeah, which
has basically like just another guy and did this an
NFL Networks Thursday Night football thing, And Smith attended to

(38:46):
apologize for the comment. It didn't work out. Well, what
was your take on that whole situation? I'm Jerry Judy,
let it go. I mean, gee, I mean's just much
ado about nothing, I think, but I wouldn't want to
be called a jack.

Speaker 2 (38:59):
Well, couple of ways to think about it.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
I was on the broadcast at the time we were
talking to Steve Smith when Jerry Judy was dancing or
messing around behind him, and that prompted Steve Smith to
address the situation right there, Jerry Judy is the first
round pick. He hasn't been impressive. Steve Smith is an analyst.
Steve Smith is also a guy who has Hall of
Fame credentials. He hasn't been into Hall of Fame, but
he's close and he'll eventually get into it one day.

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So his criticism comes from a place of experience and expertise.
Judy may not like it, and a lot of young
guys don't like when the quote unquote old heads get
on TV and talk about their game. But look, he
sensationalized it by calling him a jag. That's part of
what you do in TV to kind of catch the attention.
But really he was saying he's just a guy, and

(39:46):
being just a guy is just an average player, and
that is what Jerry Judy's been since his time in
the league.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
Okay, tell me I'm crazy, but I'm going to give
you my top three power ratings and the National Football
In top three teams, I'm gonna go forty nine Ers, Eagles,
and the Detroit Lions. I'm leaving the Kansas City Chiefs out.
I'm making them number four. What's your take on that.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
You know, when I think about when I think about
like all of this stuff, it's tough.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
I mean, I think the number four I think they're
I think they're solid. I think they're very good.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
Youre talking about the Kingdistry.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
Repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. The can see the Chiefs, Yeah,
the can't see the Chiefs. I think I think they're solid.
I think they're in a good place.

Speaker 3 (40:32):
Even though the offense isn't what it is defensively, they're
loaded and so they're just playing a different style.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
They're good enough to go again.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
All right, sounds good. Now, by the way, he's like
seven to eleven. He's always open. We'll tell you who
he is next. Hey, guess who this running back is
now tied with. We'll tell you that in just about
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stay there with the Jacksonville Jaguars. And I just heard
Kevin Wyatt's report that the NFL is considering the super
Bowl in London. Look, I get it, you want to

(41:24):
have an international flavor with your sport, with your league.
But I've always thought, and maybe on way of space,
if I'm a season ticket older, all right, and they're
taking a game away, a home game away, going to
Jacksonville instead of playing there, they're going to London, I'm
being screwed, okay, And now to have the super Bowl
in London, it's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong. It's wrong,

(41:45):
and I'll fight it to my last breath.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
I don't think it's wrong.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
I actually think what the super Bowl has become is
a big corporate party, and so if you put it
over in London, it's not much different than playing the
game in New York. Yeah, you're just dealing with incleming conditions,
but it would have a big feel to it. The
part that the NFL has always gotten to right about
the super Bowl. The super Bowl needs to feel big.
It needs to feel like it's on a big stage.
It needs to feel like all odds are on the game,

(42:12):
and in London. It would be like that because when
you have these regular games in London, it feels like
a Pro Bowl, it feels like a mini super Bowl
because of the vast interest to different people that are
tuning in. The people in the stands are not necessarily
the rabbit fan base for the teams, but there are
a bunch of interested observers. So to me, it wouldn't

(42:32):
be a major difference. It would be an opportunity though
for it to be a cash cow because it's different.
I mean, to have everybody come over there, the parties
and all the other stuff. It would be a completely
different feel. That's why the league should explore that possibility.

Speaker 1 (42:46):
Well, Kevin Wyrett said they're exploring, and shayshe or executive producer,
basically said if they're saying they're exploring it, it's probably
a done deal. So in the next three to five
years they'll have the super Bowl in London. But if
I'm a season ticket holder of TEENA and they take
away one of my games and they take it to London,
I'm upset. You know, I want to see you know,
a seventeen game schedule, so I'm going to see at

(43:08):
least eight games at home. So now they're taken that
one away, and I think it's wrong. I mean, maybe
I'm crazy. I know everything's there for the cabbage, for
the green cabbage, for the guilt. That's all about money.
I get it. But still, in all the Fu'm a
season ticket holder. I feel that I've been raped of
a game because they're taking it away and taking it
to London.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
A little bit. But I think it depends on the
fan base.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
And if you're a fan base that traditionally always sells
it out, yeah I can.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
See being upset about it. But if you're a fan.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Based asks how to cold a little lukewarm ownership has
an opportunity to get a sellout. So for instance, we'll
use the Jaguars. The first game was put on by
the Jaguars. It wasn't an NFL London game. The Jaguars
shot kind of committed to playing at least one game
overseas each year. He's worked over the last ten years

(43:56):
to build up that fan base for the Jags. He
takes on all the risk and liability by putting on
the game. He puns it, he pays for it. He
does that, but then he's able to reap all the profits.
He sees it directly because all the money that came
from the ninety thousand and the tenants, all that goes
back to the Jaguars. He doesn't have to share that
with ownership. So as he compares what that one game

(44:18):
does compared to what his home games are, he may
see the benefit of going over and doing those things.
And so that might be the case there. Other teams
may not have the same advantage, Like green Bay always
sells out, Pittsburgh always sells out. They won't they don't
want to give up a home game for those things.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
Well, he basically has a home in London. I think
that's why he wants to, you know, coddle London and
maybe move there eventually. But you could tell me honestly,
because you know, for a fact, what is the season
ticket base in Jacksonville? Do they sell out? What do
they usually average a game?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Well, I mean it hasn't been like complete selloffs. It's
been you know, the team hasn't been great. So that
also makes a difference. When the team isn't great, it
makes it hard to completely sell out and get everything
that you want out of it. It is coming, it's improving,
but it's not necessarily where they want it to be
in time, though, it'll be there. It's just a matter
of trying to figure out who you are and what

(45:12):
you're about.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
When you're the Jaguars.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
It's coming though, and when the team is good, it
makes it a lot easier in a bunch of different aspects.

Speaker 1 (45:19):
All Right, It's going to be sold out today at
pay Court Stadium in Cincinnati is the Bengals host the Seahawks.
Seahawks three and one the Bengals two and three, and
it's a big one because you know, right now, even
after five games, we have seen some separation now in
the National Football League, which honestly, I'm somewhat shocked. Forty
nine ers well head and shoulders above everybody else done.

(45:40):
The Eagles are right there, Lion's got to be there, Chiefs,
and then it falls off, I think to the Dolphins, Bills,
and maybe the Jags, even Cowboys down the road and
maybe stealers. But there's basically a big separation right now,
and right now the Bengals got to turn it around,
and Jamar Chase is going to be the guy. I
think he and Joe Burrow have combined last week Chase

(46:01):
had fifteen catches for a new team record, three touchdowns,
one hundred and ninety two yards, and they beat the
Cards thirty four to twenty. I don't know what you
learn from that game was the Cardinals are really not
that great of a football team. This could be a
good game and the Bengals basically are giving up two
and a half on this one. But I think it's
all about Joe Burrow. If he's healthy, and he appears

(46:22):
to be healthy, and he stays upright, I think he'll
pick apart the Seattle Seahawks downfield.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Yeah, this is a good one. This is a good
one to talk about. The Bengals are beginning to find
their stride. Jamar Chase is open.

Speaker 3 (46:36):
He very forcefully told everyone that he was opening, and
then he backed it up. This would be a tough
one for the Seattle Seahawks to match up with on
the perimeter. The thing about it, the Seahawks are good.
They can run it, they have balance when it comes
to the explosive passing game, Geno Smith and those things.
I'm gonna lean towards the Seahawks, even though I recognize
that the Bengals are coming and they're improving rapidly as

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we talk about them.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
Oh, I'll tell you this much. I'm with you. I'm
a Bengal fan. I live in the area. But I
don't know if the Bengals defense can stop there running
back Kenneth Walker the third because the Bengals defense because
until they go over one hundred and fifty yards a game,
and he's a hell of a running back, he really is.
So that's the key right there. I mean to talk
about Joe Borrow all you want, but I think the
key right there. Can they stop Kenneth Walker on defense?

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That's the key.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Yeah, that's a tough I mean it's a tough one.
Kenneth Walker and Zach Charmoney, they've been running the football well,
they're running effectively.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
When they able to run it, it.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
Changes how you have to defend them. This is this one,
I mean, I'm really looking forward to just because there
are two teams that were expecting to be playoff teams.
The Bengals got off to a slow Starbard Burrow has
gotten better as he's gotten healthier. I expect this one
to be a fourth quarter fair to be decided to
get nit the game.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
I'm with you right there. Forty nine ers at the
Browns today. I know Deshaun Watson for the Browns. I mean,
you got to believe that the ownership of the Cleveland
Browns are going crazy. Last year's suspension, didn't miss the
missed most of the season. Now PJ. Walker is going
to be the quarterback. Browns are two and two and
basically their running game the Browns has disappeared after Nick

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Chubb got hurt. So this Browns team right now is
in disarray, it really is. And he's playing the forty
nine ers. I mean, you better be healthy to play.
This team goes there head and shoulders above everybody else
in the National Football League.

Speaker 3 (48:22):
Yeah, I'm sure it's disappointing that Deshaun Watson is unavailable
to play. Injuries happen and you don't want Look, you
hate seeing that for anybody. You want your best players
to be available. You want to be able to kind
of get it done with him. He hasn't been available,
he hasn't played the way that everybody wanted him to play.
But we'll see if he can turn it around. This
is one with the Browns without Washington, man, it's tough.

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It's a tough road to get a gun. So I'm
gonna go the other way. Can be the Browns today.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
I gotta get some pressure. They will. I think the
Browns defense in front will get some pressure on Brock Party.
But I don't think I'll make a difference because they
got so much talent, they got so much personnel. You know,
they're running bout Christian McCaffrey. He has now scored a
touchdown in fourteen consecutive games. He's tied now with Hall
of Famer EMITTT. Smith for a fourth longest streak in
league history. And there's a three touchdown shy of Lenny

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Moore's record. Forty nine is best team in the league.
And you know, here's the question I have. This brock
Party situation is an amazing story. He really is. Would
he be as good if he was on any other
team or if he had any other coach besides Kyle Shanahan?
Is it the system? Is it the coaching? Is it
the personnel? Say you put this guy on the Jets,

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you know, with Zach Wilson instead of him, he put
brock Party there. What do you have that kind of
success there?

Speaker 3 (49:42):
I would say that he's a really good player. I
think he's a franchise player. I wrote about it this week.
He has some tools. It obviously helps that he's in
the system, but eighty five percent in the league are
system players. I'm talking about every position. You got to
be in the right system to enhance your talents. He
is one of those. He certainly helped by the fact
that the Niners have a great team. They have a

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great supporting cast. Best offensive tackle in football, maybe best
running back in Christian McCaffrey, maybe best play caller and
all those things. But answer me this, they had other
quarterbacks Trey Lance included, that had opportunity to run that
offense and couldn't run it to the level that Brock
Purdy has.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
So you have to give him credit.

Speaker 3 (50:21):
There's something about him that's different than the others, because
if it was just anybody could do it, then they
would have had success with CJ. Bethart and Nick Mullins
and some of those other guys that have been playing
quarterback for him.

Speaker 1 (50:33):
You know, it's amazing with the Trey Lance story. I mean, really,
I mean, here's a guy, but he had not much
experience playing college football, didn't play a lot of games,
came in there, but he was touted as a big
time guy, as a possible quarterback of the future. What
went wrong the fact that he didn't play enough to
have enough for reps under his belt. I mean, what

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went wrong? Would you look at a guy like Brock Purdy,
last guy picked in the drift, No one expected anything
out of this guy, and coming back after shoulder injury
in the playoffs a year ago, he's actually playing better
now than he did a year ago.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Yeah, I'll say a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
And the difference in Trey Lance and brought pretty Trey
Lance only played, maybe he only played one year at
North Dakota State, maybe only had like sixteen seventeen starts.
Brock Party, by comparison, had forty seven collegiate starts. You
think about the amount of repetitions, what he've seen, game
like action coverage, blitz pressures, being in scenarios. All those
things worked in his favor. And then even though he

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was lightly regarded as a prospect, we watched him. I
watched him at the East West Rine game. There was
none that necessarily stood out. He's a grinder, and so
you have to know the personality and so that experience,
that expertise that that grittiness that he has it is
paid off for him. He has a chip on his
shoulder with something to prove, and he is being able
to do it while being thrust in the system that

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really works for his game. It's a perfect storm for
the forty nine. Is that worked for Purity and for
Trey Lance. No matter the talent man, there's something to
be said for the repetitions.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
You got to get the reps so you can develop
your game.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
And he simply has not had enough enough games to
figure out what he does well, what he doesn't do
well to play at a high level. He hasn't done that.
And the only way you can do it is you
got to drop him in. You got to throw him
in there, and you got to hope that he stays
healthy enough that he can learn from the opportunities.

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Well, here's the big question. But you did some scouting.
I mean, you have the eye of the tiger. You
know what a talent is. You know what not talent is.
If you have two players, you know, vying for a position,
like like the Trey Lances of the world and the
brock Parties, and there's somewhat even all right, would you
lean to the player who basically played at a bigger

(52:45):
college because he played against better competition.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
I am a big school fan. I typically go for
big school guys. This is something that is not my thing,
but it's something that Ron Wolf used to always talk about.
I want to see the guy who have played in
the big house Michigan versus Ohio State. I want to
see the guys that have played in the biggest games
in college because the guys that play in those games,
they're playing against guys that are more than likely going

(53:10):
to end up in the pros. It's not one hundred
percent for certain, but they're playing against light competition. When
you're playing at a smaller school, yeah, you dominate the competition.
I just think there's a bigger margin for era when
it comes to projecting how one of those guys is
going to play at the next level versus someone that.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Has played high level football.

Speaker 3 (53:31):
Doesn't mean that you can't come from there. But if
we're talking about the scouting part of it and mitigating risks,
trying to play the odds with the odds tell you
that the majority of football players in the National Football
League play at big schools. I'm gonna spend my time
worrying about where the odds are in my favor as
opposed to trying to find a hidden gymp elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
I wouldn't you think it's more than talent? What do
I mean by that? You mentioned playing in the big house.
You get a kid that's playing in front of one
hundred thousand plus people on a Saturday afternoon, goes to
the National Foot League, he could handle it. You get
a kid that goes to North Dakota State. They're playing
in front of maybe forty five hundred people, and he
sees one hundred thousand, ninety thousand in a football game
on a Sunday. He may wilt on that stage.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
Yeah, he maybe, And we've seen it happen. We talk
about the game being too big for certain people. Sometimes
the game can be too big for you when you
come from a smaller school.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Just speed, the game, the intensity.

Speaker 3 (54:23):
The level, the pageantry, everything that goes around it, you're
not able to kind of quiet your mind and do it.
And for some when you're used to playing in those
big games, it's not as daunting. It's still different going
from college to pro and it doesn't matter like where
you played your collegeball.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
Look at Bryce Young.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Bryce Young has been a little bit overwhelmed at times
going from Alabama to Carolina. But to think about going
and playing in front of twenty five hundred people to
now playing in front of a packed seventy five thousand
in you know what I'm saying, like Buffalo Stadium.

Speaker 2 (54:56):
Or anything like that. It's different, and so it takes time.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
So what you're trying to do is you're try trying
to cut the acclimation period down, and you're trying to
from an evaluation standpoint, you're trying to really narrow the
projection to something that is realistic, like, Okay, he played here,
I can project it. He'll do that. It's not one
hundred percent for certain, but you're trying to give yourself
the best chance to get a player that's going to
play more like you saw on tape at the next level.

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one NFL quarterback has the best string to start a
career in the NFL history. Really, we'll tell you who
he is next, Welcome back. I was their first home
win in fifty one weeks. That's coming right up, all right.
He is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox
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And now we got the Saints at the Texans and
Texans rookie quarterback CJ. Stroud has thrown one hundred and

(56:49):
eighty six passes without an I int the best string
to start a career in league history. I am shocked.
What about you, Buck?

Speaker 2 (57:00):
I mean, I'm shocked by the numbers. I'm not shocked
that he's playing well. Though. I thought he was a
really good player.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
I felt like during the pre draft process he was
a guy unfairly picked on despite having better accolades than
some of the other guys that were talked about. This
guy played at a high level at Ohio State. He
showed improved what he could do when he played against
the Georgia Bulldogs in the College Football Playoff, and I
thought that would be more like he would play in
the pros. He's been exact exactly what he showed on tape.

(57:26):
And people who bought into the sto testing and the
controversy that came out of that and the prickly personality
or whatever was talked about with him, they missed the mark.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
This is a good kid.

Speaker 3 (57:38):
You can see the way that his teammates talked about him,
and how Brevin Jordan and some.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
Of the other players will come out and we got
it right.

Speaker 3 (57:46):
We got it right. Because he's a franchise quarterback. He's
been able to play with He played against the Jaguars,
he was missing four of his five starting linemen. He's
playing with backup wide receivers on the perimeter, and he
not only played well, but he led them to a win.
Franchise quarterbacks do that. They elevate the performance of everyone
around them. Right now, he was the best quarterback in

(58:06):
the draft, and he's playing like he was the best
quarterback in the draft, and so it's undisputed right now.

Speaker 1 (58:11):
You know, it's funny you have these offensive and defensive coordinators.
They stay up to the weee hours in the morning
trying to plan these games, and certainly at backfires. I'm
looking at the Saints right now and to me, if
someone to ask me what I got to do, I
want to keep this offense two dimensional. What do I
mean by that? You got to get the football to
the running back Alvin Kamara. He's got to get the football.
Otherwise you have one dimensional offense. It is gonna be

(58:32):
all passing. And it's not that difficult. It really isn't.
And the running game has not been productive for Houston
Robert Woods is the option right there. So right now
I'm looking at the Texans. I like the Texas, I
really do. I think the Texans win this game over
the Saints. Hmm.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
That's a tough one. That'd be a big win for them.
I'm gonna go to Saints. The veteran defense should be
able to give C. J. Stroud a little some more problems.
They competitor to scrap you though, to the scrapper. I'm
just gonna take the Saints in this.

Speaker 1 (59:02):
And you're right, is this Saints so more experienced, either
more experienced, but basically in personnel and in coaching and
maybe in game management. But I think that the offensive
line is getting better week by week for the Texans,
and I think that's gonna help their run game. So
I think they're gonna win. I think the Texans win
this game. Obviously, the game is in Texas. I'm looking
at your team, the Colts of the Jags today. Two

(59:23):
wins in London, as you mentioned, over Atlanta and Buffalo,
but nineteen penalties in that Buffalo game that was kind
of ugly. Jags. They've gotten healthy, they're getting good. Why
is that? Why do receive a Calvin Ridley. He's the
really big plus on the offensive side of the ball. However,
these two teams met way back in week number one.
The Jags won that one thirty one twenty one. The

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Colts beat Tennessee last week twenty three to sixteen. Zach
MOS's two touchdowns one hundred and ninety five total yards
Colts first home win. That was in fifty one weeks.
Jonathan Taylor was there, made his debut. He gains thirty
four yards and seven to However, I like your Jags
this week. I like them to win big.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
I don't know if they win big, but I like
them to win. I think they've won eight straight games
against the Colts down in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (01:00:13):
This is always a tough matchup. Is a tough matchup because.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
Of the way that Gus Bradley coaches the defense to
bend but on break and then they gonna get a
little emotional boost because Garner Minshew is playing against his
former team. You know, whenever you have an opportunity to
play against your former team, you typically bring your a game.
This is one where the Jaguars are the better team.
They just got to play better. I think they win.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
It might be a little closer than most suspect.

Speaker 1 (01:00:34):
Though, tell me a little bit more about the Jags
and their offensive side of the football, because you know Lawrence,
I mean Trevor Lawrence right now. Is he developing the
way they want him to develop. He's only got five touchdowns,
but two I NT's. You know, there are guys, as
you mentioned CJ. Stroud come into league is having more
success basically than Trevor Lawrence is at.

Speaker 3 (01:00:56):
A little bit, but I think it's different. I would
say Lawrence is coming into his own. This offense has
a lot of weapons. He's trying to figure out how
to play with so many guys around him and trying
not to play he roball. There's a difference in playing
championship caliber football, winning football and trying to play he
roball where you're trying to do too much all by yourself.
He has to understand when to insert himself as a superhero,

(01:01:19):
but when to really just trust the system and trust
the people around him.

Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
He's doing that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
He's only third year player in I would say obviously,
of the young quarterbacks of late, he's been one of
the best ones. He's on the verge of being the
top five player in the league. He needs more consistency
and he needs more, I would say, better decisions and
key moments to kind of solidify the talent is there. Now,

(01:01:45):
it's about understanding how to play the game, how to
manage the game, and how to get this team to
another level. This team is good, but for them to
be great, it has to be number sixteen making it happen.

Speaker 1 (01:01:55):
Well, I tell you what, there's one thing that we
kind of just missed up on, and I'll bring it
to the forefront right now. Kevin Wyre mentioned that Anthony Richardson,
the quarterback for the Colts, he may be gone for
the entire season now because he's got that ailing ac
joint sprain. They said he may be out for a while,
and Kevin said in the report he may be gone
for the entire season. So I guess that means Garda
Minshew will be quarterback. And that's a big loss because

(01:02:17):
I think Anthony Richardson brings another dimension to the offense
for the Indianapolis and that's the running game.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
He does bring another dimension to that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
But he's been banged up in three of the four
or five games that he played, and so this is
part of the narrative around him as part of the
narrative he had in high school and in college, like
it's hard for him to stay up, So when we
look at him physically, he leads us to believe, hey man,
he can do this running.

Speaker 2 (01:02:41):
He can be Cam Newton. He can do this.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
Here's a difference between Anthony Richardson and the Cam Newton.
Cam Newton was always available until he tore up his shoulder.
Cam Newton was always there. Talk about the mountain of
a man who physically understood and embraced what he was
doing as a running quarterback. Anthony Richardson has been banged
up from the jump, and so if you're the Indianapolis coach,
you got to reevaluate how are you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Going to play with him?

Speaker 3 (01:03:02):
Because if he's a guy that goes to the sideline
for every nick and ding, it's hard to be a
franchise quarterback when you're not available.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
He needs to be available. Some of that is on
the team, a lot of that is on him.

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
He has to make sure that his body and his
mental is at a place where he understands what the
expectation is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
He's able to play to the expectation.

Speaker 1 (01:03:23):
How frustrating is that. I mean, Jonathan Taylor stays out,
holds out. He comes back last week at seven touches.
He'll be back today. So he's back, and Anthony Richardson's gone.
I mean, the two of them got to mesh together.
I'd love to see them play together. I think we'll
make Indianapolis a real tough ball club. But that's not
going to happen. It may not even happen this entire season.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
It may not happen. And it's one of the things
as a coach man, you have to be ready to
play the next the next man up, and Garna Minshew
is the next man up. Goarna Minshew's played a bunch
of games in the league. He's had some success. He
will kind of keep this offense rolling, but he has
his limitations. He doesn't have the running element that you
would have Anthony Bridgison. But you played differently because the
thing that you did discover is Zach Moss is a

(01:04:04):
pretty good running back. Maybe you go all in on
this running game with Zach Moss and Jonathan Taylor. Maybe
you try and push it up to a we want
to get thirty five to forty rushing attempts, so we
can impose our will on our opponents. They're different ways,
and that's what's so great about the league. Coaches figure
it out. We'll see how Shanny Sticking comes up with
the plan to help them be successful.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
The only thing Gardner Mischeu has is a good mustache.
That's the only thing he has. Other than that, forget
it really and right now, what you know, Look, if
you got to rely on him, I'm sure the coaching
staff and the fan base they're not real happy about
the whole situation. But as you say, that's life in
the National Football League. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Furman.

(01:04:45):
We are Fox Football Sunday on Fox. Butt's ready and
this team will win a game in twenty twenty three,
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Kevin Wyatt with the update yeah NFL news.

Speaker 6 (01:05:00):
This morning, Adam Schefter will report out for ESPN, saying
that the NFL, as they are only a couple hours
away from playing their third straight game in London, has
already discussed the idea of one day playing a Super
Bowl in the British capital. That's according to Commissioner Roger Goodell.
At least that's what was named in the report. Injury
news this morning, Anthony Richardson very well could have season

(01:05:24):
ending surgery. That is an option being considered. That's according
to Ian Rappaport. That means they will have to wait
till twenty twenty four to see exactly what Anthony Richardson
can bring to the team. Other injury news for today's
slated games, Darren Waller expected to play questionable with a
groin injury, but he is expected to be out there.

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David Djoku, who suffered burns to his hands and face
are is also expected to be on the field today.
Wide receiver t Higgins toughing it out with a cracked rib,
listed as questionable but is expected to play. Panthers linebacker
Brian Burns his question with an ankle injury. He is
expected to play against the Dolphins. Hollywood Brown dealing with

(01:06:06):
an illness, however, he will likely be on the field today.
Sakuon Barkley there is hope and optimism. That's the quote
from Adam Schefter that he will play Sunday night after
missing the past three games. And Texans wide receiver Tank
Dell Listen as questionable after spending this week in concussion protocol,
not expected to play against the Saints. Texans wide receiver

(01:06:29):
Robert Woods is also questionable due to a rib injury. However,
he is expected to suit up against the Saints. Back
to you guys, all.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Right, thanks, Keefsee in an hour and I'll believe the
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dot com. Okay, now we have the Panthers at the
Dolphins today. Panthers quarterback Bryce Young seven point fifteen the yardage,
five touchdowns, four ionts. They're running back as Miles Sanders
one hundred and ninety yards on sixty one carries. But
Miami has the best record in the league. But there's
a turnover problem basically with these Dolphins. Tua had two

(01:07:20):
ants last week against the Giants, and that could have
turned that ball game around. Although I do look at
this game and I say, look, obviously, I think the
Dolphins are a better team. As I said coming into
the segment, this team, the Panthers will win a game
this season, but they won't be winning it today. Dolphins
go five and one, Panthers go on six.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Yeah, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Yeah, it won't happen today. It won't happen today as
much as it's just too good on the other side won't.

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
How depressing is it to play on a team that's
on and five going to be owen six. I mean
you're you're a ballplayer. I mean you played the game.
I mean, what is it like in that locker room?
Is the attention? Is the depression? Is that finger pointing?
Or you're still playing for your life because you know
you're going to be on tape and even if your
team is bad and losing, there's a chance you could
be going to another team if some coach looks at

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your tape.

Speaker 3 (01:08:13):
You're always playing on tape, so you always got to
play for your personal livelihood. But it's depressing, it's de moralizing.
You put a lot into the game. No one enjoys losing.
People talk about the money and all that other stuff,
but it's hard when you're taking als week.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
After week after week.

Speaker 3 (01:08:27):
What you hope for, though, is that you're close, and
you hope that the coaching staff gives you an opportunity
to make up for a meaning they're able to point
out where the flaws are. They able to say, hey, guys,
if we just take care of this, we can get
a win. And then you need a ball to bounce
your way, because once you get that first win, it
gives you confidence that you can get others. Right now,
you just need evidence that the plans that the coaches

(01:08:49):
are putting out that they can be successful.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
And the more you lose, the more you begin.

Speaker 3 (01:08:54):
To lose a little belief that the coaches are putting you, guys,
in putting the team in the right position to win all.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Are you talking about the Miami Donvelins. Obviously four to one,
best record in the league, but they do have some problems.
One of them is turnover. It's no doubt about that,
and the turnovers have been on offense and number two
on defense. They let these guys get behind them on
defense and they have big plays against them. You got
to stop the big plays on defense and stop the
turnovers on offense. As easy as that. That's how you

(01:09:20):
do it.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
I mean, look, we talked about don't beat yourselves and
the number the top two things on there are turnovers
and big plays allowed. If you don't turn the ball
over and if you don't allow explosive plays, it's hard
for opponents to beat you. And the emphasis has to
be on that. And as a play caller, as a leader,
you have to drill that into the heads of your players.
Take care of the football, we don't give the ball away.

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And then defensive we don't let the ball fly over
your head, don't let it get on the outside of
the perimeter. Make people drive the length of the field
without our assistance. And the final part is penalties. If
you eliminate the penalties, the stupid penalties, the pre stap penalties,
the things that you can control. If you take care
of the ball, don't get plays, take care of the penalty,
you can win a lot of games in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
All right.

Speaker 1 (01:10:03):
Because the Patriots at the Raiders today, I can't believe it.
The Patriots one and four Raiders two and three Patriots
one and four record is the worst record through five
games since Bill Belichick, the head coach of the Patriots
first season in the year two thousand. Patriots. Now, this
is sad, it really is. They have lost their last
two games by a total of seventy two to three.

(01:10:26):
And you wrote, Bucky in NFL dot Com, you'll write
it for them. You wrote about the possible divorce between
coach Belichick and New England. Cannot really happen. How can
they do that to coach Bill Belichick in New England.
I don't see that happening.

Speaker 3 (01:10:41):
Yeah, they can do it. They absolutely can do it.
They did it to Andy Reid in Philadelphia. So if
they did it to Andy Reid in Philadelphia, they absolutely
can do it to Bill Belichick. And one of the
reasons why is sometimes, man, it just goes still. When
you don't have the franchise quarterback. You can't get it going.
You can't put the genie back into the bottle. You're
trying to figure it out, but it's just not working,

(01:11:03):
and maybe for everyone it might be better for them
to part ways. Bill Belichick hasn't been able to not
only get Mac Jones to play at a high level.
But he hasn't been able to stockpile the roster with
enough talent for this team to compete. They're not a
team that has a splashy free agents and things that
they can attract like the Charges have done, like the
Dolphins have done. They haven't been a homegrown program where

(01:11:25):
they're drafted and developing their own players and having success
like Look the kan City Chiefs, the Buffalo Bills, even
the Jaguars for a matter, they haven't been able to
do that, and so they're at the bottom of the
pile in the AFC. And I don't know, do you
feel good about Bill Belichick being able to draft and
develop your team to get out of that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
The four years since Tom Brady left, they haven't been
able to do it. So what's going to be the change.
It reminds me a lot of Greg Popovich with the
San Antonio Spurs. Man Tim Dunkan goes away, those Hall
of famers, going Man, Genobli, Tony Park, they go away.
The Spurs are absolutely poop. You get Victor with me
on it, and Winby comes over. Man the Spurs all

(01:12:08):
of a sudden look good. Maybe it's always a player's game,
but great coaches need great players to be great. He
needs to find a great player if he's gonna be
able to stay on in New England. And I don't
know if he's the guy that can draft that player.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
Though you know, he's won six Super Bowls, he's won
seventeen division titles, one of the greatest runs in NFL history,
second winning his coach ever, and according to what Bucky
Brooks rights at NFL dot Com, he could be headed
to the unemployment line at the end of this season,
which you look, that's the way it is. It's a business.
It is tough, and Robert Kref puts something to that

(01:12:41):
effect in August. He said, like, you know, we need
to win. Maybe they keep them on his coach and
take away the general manager's title from.

Speaker 3 (01:12:48):
Him, But maybe this is also an opportunity for him
to be like Andy Reid. I think people forget Andy
Reid was dumped by the Eagles. The can City Chiefs
pick him up and it's been his Maybe you just
need to change the scenery to start it over from scratch,
you know, kind of rebuild the coach and be energized
by the fact that you've been dismissed just because just no,

(01:13:11):
somebody will snap Bill Belichick up in a heartbeat as
a head coach, Like no matter what we talk about,
oh Tom Brady, someone will snap him up, pay him
what he wants, and he'll be able to bring it
back from scratch. So this to me is very reminiscent
of Andy Reid and Popovich in both aspects.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Okay, so you talk about the game today, that playing
the Raiders in Vegas, and I think the good news
for Bill Belichick, who was a defensive coach, he knows
the offense of the Raider is probably better than anyone else.
If they're spending some time with the Vegas head coach
Josh McDaniels, that could possibly help. But again, if you
don't have the personnel to stop it, it doesn't do
any good. And this mac Jones guy is dreadful, he

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really is. I don't know if he's going to go
with him again today. A Zapi's gonna quote about that,
I don't know. But honestly, last week they only had
one first down against the Saints.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
It was.

Speaker 1 (01:14:01):
It was ugly, it really was. They never even reached
the red zone last week against the Saints.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Yeah, it was ugly. It wasn't pretty. It has been pretty,
has been pretty a lot for the Patriots.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
But what you're doing is you're holding on to the
fact that Bill Belichick has done this before.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
He's a great game day coach.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
He understands as a tactician how to take away what
you do really well.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
He'll do that. He'll make sure that it is hard
for DeVante Adams to get loose.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
He'll make it hard on Josh Jacobs, and he'll try
and find a way to put the game on Jimmy Garoppolo,
who he knows this would be a tight game. In fact,
I'm gonna say I'm gonna go the other way. I'm
say the Patriots find a way to win this game
because the teacher versus versus pupil, he has a few
tricks up his sleeve. He'll come up with a few
different things that will throw off Josh McDaniels and lead

(01:14:49):
the Patriots to the second one.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
Yeah, I'm with the Patriots with you today, but I
think with my heart on this one. But I do
think that the fact that he knows what McDaniels is
going to do, that's gonna help. I think the defense
wins today. I think the Patriots do win. He's Bucky Brooks,
our many Firmerwe have Fox Football Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
I'll put your brain to sleep betting.

Speaker 1 (01:15:51):
Yeah, Shay Shaye take it away. And what happened last
week with our man Jason Fitz filling in for Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 7 (01:15:57):
Well, welcome back, Bucky, bye, h appreciate it. I just
want to give you a little rundown. So the last
two weeks, Jason was able to win one for you
and lose one for you. So Jason did win last week,
so I wouldn't be too upset with that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
Okay, he's five hundred if I can hold it down.

Speaker 7 (01:16:14):
Yeah, all right, all right, So let's get this going.
So in the Woman's Handball European Championship.

Speaker 1 (01:16:20):
You love that, Come on, get off this already. Oh no,
I love the.

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
Czech Republic table tennis Legua pro. That's that's my go to.
Don't worry. We'll get to that one later. But let
me finish with this one. So Ukraine is taking on
Slovakia today at seven am Pacific Standard time. Ukraine is
even while Slovakia is plus one ten. What you guys got,
deal with the buck.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Let it go first, But give me two team names again.

Speaker 7 (01:16:45):
So it's Slovakia versus Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
Oh, let's go with Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
Normally, normally I go against Buckyproks, and normally I go
against the other guy because I think it's just a
way to go. But I'm going with Ukraine. You know,
go with Ukraine. I'm a Ukraine kind of guy. You know.
I heard the blue and gold flag that they that
they have. It's a beautiful flag.

Speaker 7 (01:17:09):
Women's handball is elite over there, all right, go ahead.
In the European Darts Tour, Robert Cross is taken on
Michael Smith at seven thirty am Pacific Standard time two day.
Robert Cross is plus one fifteen while Michael Smith is
minus one fifty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Bucky. Oh, I'll go with Michael Smith.

Speaker 1 (01:17:31):
I'm going Robert Cross because I don't think that's his
real name. No one's no one's name is Michael Smith
and it's a fake name. How about Robert Cross? All right?

Speaker 7 (01:17:39):
Cross?

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
Yeah, but as much as Michael Smith, Michael Smith is
more fake, don't you agree? Come on, really, that's the
kind of name you using, you son into a motel
when you're cheating on your wife, Michael Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
I don't know. Yes.

Speaker 7 (01:17:55):
In the Halo World Championship twenty twenty three, I don't
know if any of you guys have played Halo. Be
for Phase Clan. It's taken on Sentinels at twelve thirty
pm Pacific Standard time today. The Sentinels are plus one
eighty while Phase Clan is minus two forty.

Speaker 2 (01:18:10):
You guys got buckie uh face Clan is interesting. Let's
go at face clan.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Do you play? Do you play Halo?

Speaker 7 (01:18:19):
Yeah? I grew up playing Halo.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Not you bucket like way back. That's way, way, way back.
It's an older game.

Speaker 6 (01:18:25):
Go with the.

Speaker 1 (01:18:25):
Centennials once for the Centennial Racetrack, the Late Centennial Racetrack
in Littleton, Colorado. It's no longer there, but I'll go
with centennials.

Speaker 7 (01:18:35):
So onto. The twenty twenty three Rugby World Cup France
is taken on South Africa today at twelve pm Pacific
Standard time. France is plus one thirty six while South
Africa is plus one thirty and a draw is plus
two twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Where's the game at? Where's the rugby match at?

Speaker 7 (01:18:53):
South Africa is at France?

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
I believe, Oh, Francy, that makes a difference, But I
took French in sixth grade because of the romance language.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
I'm gonna go with France.

Speaker 7 (01:19:04):
Okay, okay. If you guys want to take a draw, though,
which is plus twenty two hundred, I'll give you an
extra point if it ends up being a drama.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
I did take France. I did take French in junior
high school and in high school, and I hated the
missus foreman. I'll never forget it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:20):
She was.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
She must have waited about she must have waited about
three fifty. I couldn't stand there, you know, just make mentioning.
I can't, I know what because of her. I don't
need French fries. How's that? Really? And I don't put
French dressing on my salad either. I can't stand it.
But I will take France in this one.

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Okay. So in the Czech Republic Table tennis Liga Pro,
Jan Kanara is taking on Thomas Turk at eight a
M Pacific standard time. Yan is minus one forty eight,
while Thomas is even.

Speaker 2 (01:19:56):
Let's go with Yan.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
I got Tuomas? No it is that his name? Does
he have a first name? Is just Thomas? Okay, too much,
I'll go with Thomas. I'll go with you. Got anything else?

Speaker 7 (01:20:08):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
That's it.

Speaker 7 (01:20:09):
You guys went through it quick, really well.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
It's good. Unclip Buckey's back. We'll see what happens. I mean, uh,
And honestly, could you like make it a little more
of a buffet of sports because this handbull get a
little tired of the handball. I tell you, I don't
know with you, it's all handball.

Speaker 7 (01:20:25):
It's the European ship Wallionship.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
I'll do it. I don't care what it is. I
don't want to hear it anymore anyway. Mike Harmon joins us.
Sticks right here Fox.

Speaker 6 (01:20:39):
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He's back Stateside, getting his body acclimated to the sleep schedule.
To saw him the other night as part of the
Amazon coverage for that boring Thursday night game. We celebrate

(01:21:24):
all two seventy two guys, but that one left me
wanting at Bucky Brooks on X Slash Twitter. He's a
man about TOWNNFL dot Com, NFL network here obviously with
us at Fox Sports Radio and working for those Jaguars.
We'll get into them a little later on in the show. Gentlemen,
Shot out of a Can in week six is already here?

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
Where'd the time go? That's why going to school in
the full semester was always great. When it went faster
because of NFL football. I don't know why, but it did.
It's true, really, when you're going to school in the fall,
it just zooms by because week by week you have
schooling is basically based on the NFL. Maybe an't crazy,
but it always was that way. Now when you go

(01:22:07):
to school in the spring semester, it like never ends.
It's like a never ending semester.

Speaker 6 (01:22:12):
That makes sense, fucky. I mean, you know you played
in college, so I mean maybe those days felt long.
Is it kind of like raising your kids where you know,
the days feel long but the years feel short.

Speaker 2 (01:22:24):
Yes, I would say that is a great way to
do it. The days feel long but the years feel short,
because it is a blur, a blur.

Speaker 6 (01:22:31):
I wait for that memoir with all of those fond memories.
Welcome back in. It's good to have you back. A
couple of weeks. We had Jason fitz in. We thank
him for hanging out with Andy and I the last
couple of weeks. But you know, lots of learnings, lots
of leanings, and we got the injury reports from Kevin
Wire to get things pop in here this morning, Fellas,
and overall we're at that point in the season where

(01:22:54):
we get in a lot of trade rumor conjecture speculation,
and I have to be the one guy that just
keep shouting with a megaphone reminding folks Kirk Cousins has
no trade con clause in his contract. He earned it,
he can execute it. And you can talk about the
Vikings wanting to go any which way till Sunday. I mean,
they were part of the large contingent to watch Caleb

(01:23:16):
Williams stink on Saturday night. Right, the Vikings were there,
The Bears were there. It was like a Hollywood red
carpet event. The way they were covering. It's like, look,
and there's representatives over there, and there's representatives over there,
and then they were terrible and people that kept trying
to sell. And this is where I get on my
soapbox to start a day since the Bears to play

(01:23:36):
the Vikings.

Speaker 1 (01:23:37):
Everybody could have been in Seattle, Washington. That's what it
should have been.

Speaker 6 (01:23:40):
Well, it was a much better game, much more entertaining,
and two quarterbacks that I'm excited to talk about. Right,
bo Nicks, he got felled by his coach and some
poor decision making there. But Pennix Junior look, I like
any guy in this day and age where I can
look at his rushing totals and going into the game. Guys,

(01:24:00):
he had eight carries for nine yards. He's throwing the ball.
See Bucky. Old school still rules at some places. But
with the Caleb Williams stuff, everybody kept trying to do this.
All right, he can bring Lincoln Riley along with him,
and I'll ask you, as the talent evaluator not only
of players, but the way things go around the league,

(01:24:22):
I don't want Lincoln Riley anywhere near my pro football squad.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
Oh this is I.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
Feel the emotion coming out because right now you're sizing
up the Bears having picks one and two, and you
like the probability of Caleb Williams being a Bear.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
It really hurts you.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
Because now you're thinking, oh, we can get kayn Williams
and Lincoln Riley, We're gonna play all offense, no defense,
and the futility may continue. I'll say this, I'll say
it's actually great that Kayler Williams put on the performance
that he put on in front of the executives, because
as an executive, I want to see him at his worst. Sure,
so I can figure out where the floor is and

(01:25:02):
not the ceiling, but the floor. And so how does
he respond? How did he handle his teammates? What was
his demeanor like after throwing three interceptions? Did he change
his game where he became risk adverse? Did he sulk
and power? Did he continue to fight when his team
didn't really have a chance to win? All of those
things that information far more valuable than him going up

(01:25:23):
and lighting up Notre Dame uh and and seeing him
at his best. I think this actually will either sell
him or discourage teams from dealing with not necessarily because
of the performance, but because of how he handled or
what he showed while handling the performance.

Speaker 1 (01:25:40):
That's a great point. Really, I don't think a lot
of people would think that's a tremendous point, Bucky, it
really is.

Speaker 2 (01:25:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:25:45):
I mean, look, in the end, it's the old you
only sing when you're winning, right, You got to have
some highs and lows mixed in. How many quarterbacks have
we seen, Andy, you and I have been doing in
a long time on the on these airwaves here at
Fox Sports Radio and beyond, Like, how many quarterbacks kind
of breeze through their collegiate careers, big numbers come into

(01:26:05):
the pros and all of a sudden it gets hard.
I heard you guys talking a little bit before Lance
Purdy competition. Whatever one thing that brock Purty always had
to do, he didn't have the necessarily the elite athletes
at wide receiver to throw to that were open. Right
for Caleb Williams, He's had a lot of top notch guys,
and it's saying nothing about him, just talking about the
larger quarterback position where you know where we had guys

(01:26:28):
from Florida or Florida State, whatever, big time program. Those
guys are running free and clear, where's the window? Where's
that need to be precision and precise with your passing?
And that's something brock Purty had to do in Iowa State.

Speaker 1 (01:26:43):
Okay, but let's get that to Caleb Williams right now,
because you know the performacy. ID Yes, today you know
he was twenty three to thirty seven. He through for
almost doing to the yards, but he had the three
I iNTS. But that does not mean he will not
be a great quarterback at the next level, not seing
that at all. Right, And I will say this that
if if I had a choice between Kaylee Williams or
Sam Hartman on the draft board and those are theother
two quarterbacks left, I'm still going with Caleb Williams.

Speaker 6 (01:27:06):
No, sure, I mean one one game isn't going to
define it, Caleb Williams, you know, for this particular game.
Like and this was more me saying in Chicago, there's
a lot of folks putting up pictures of Lincoln Riley,
like it's just me a package deal. I'm like, in
terms of toughness and defense and whatever else, I need
a guy that's concerned with running a whole ship. That

(01:27:27):
guy is not can seem concerned, because that's the whole
question in coaching at every level, Bucky. Right, as much
as you may, you know, not be involved day to
day with each group, you can't ignore the other group
as they've done defensively and on the offensive line. I
mean Caleb Williams, you know, has been the the bomb

(01:27:47):
that you put on after you have a sunburn. He's
the bottle of alavera to write whatever else might be
wrong going on there right, and his athleticism and his
individual talents have kind of a shadowed and made us
not think about where the wards are. And then you
get a team like Notre Dame and that comes up
and smash you in the mouth, and you know, it's

(01:28:08):
all all finding good week to week where you escape
with wins because in the end, as much as it
can be ugly, you're you're still seeing a w And
you know, you bring.

Speaker 1 (01:28:18):
Up an interesting point that they say you can't ignore
one starte of the football. I'll say this. I think
Bill Belichick has ignored the offensive side of the football
on the Patriots over the last three years, especially hiring
the defensive coordinator who was an offensive coordinator several years ago.
I just think that that happens, and I think that
you see a trend in the National Football thinggue it
is almost a copycat league when they start going to

(01:28:40):
offensive guys, as head coach Zach Taylor, who was an
offensive guy. So they bring him into Cincinnati because he
came from that tree in Los Angeles, you know, which
was basically an offensive tree. So they bring him in
there and everybody's kind of going in that direction of
offensive coaches. Then it's going to change the defensive coaches
as head coaches. That's just the way it is.

Speaker 6 (01:29:00):
All that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
Yeah, here's what I'll say. It's funny about the thing
about Matt Patricia. Matt Patricia's offense has been more affected
than Bill O'Brien's offense, right. You know, you look at
the numbers. Matt Patricia had them running the football effectively
and those things, and we all thought that Bill o'brown
was gonna come and wave his magic wine and fixed
mac Jones, and they have been absolutely terrible.

Speaker 1 (01:29:25):
Personnel George is not an NFL quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Yeah, I mean a lot of it is personnel driven.

Speaker 3 (01:29:31):
I mean, there's not a great coach who hasn't had
great players. There's not a Hall of Fame coach that
doesn't have Hall of famers that are standing right beside
him in the hallow Halls and ken It's just one
of the things.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
As much we like to romanticize it as.

Speaker 3 (01:29:46):
This coach who took these like these Hoosiers took these
unheralded guys and made them and sprinkle pixie dust on them,
and they became champs.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
It's great in the Disney films. It's not reality.

Speaker 6 (01:29:57):
See, we just celebrated the anniversary the release of Little
Giants with Rick moranis and and O'Neill, so we can
get that in while we're at at it. But while
we're on New England, right, Bucky, I mean, as you've
watched it, and certainly Andy, you and I have talked
about it for years. You know we love I love
Belichick the coach, and even last year I thought might

(01:30:18):
have been one of his finest coaching jobs. But he
was basically build a GM and put one arm behind
his back and evaluating wide receivers. Even this week, it
became a big talking point about Jacoby Myers right leading
up to this game against the Raiders today, the guy
that you didn't sign, didn't show respect. Whatever the reality

(01:30:39):
of that is. To bring in Juju Smith Schuster, who
from day one people were saying, well, the report's on
his knees, that it could blow up at any time.
So and just on down the line wide receivers, Julian
Edelman was on the Collins couch the other day talking
about missus and he chose his words carefully. Obviously you
don't want to mess up where you eat and where

(01:31:01):
your history is. But you know, he went into the
misses that they've made on that side of the ball
time and again. And I ask you this, as talent
evaluator Mac Jones, is he as bad as the poison
Pens have right now? Or is it you know a
little bit more deeper into the offensive line woes they've

(01:31:22):
had and those wide receiver misses.

Speaker 2 (01:31:24):
Timing again, it's a little bit of I mean, it's
all of it right as some of it is.

Speaker 3 (01:31:31):
You missed on the players. I mean it took Nikio
Harry in the first round. Yeah, as a big time
wide receiver to beat the number one. He never panned out.
They haven't been able to nail those positions. And when
you miss at the top, and what we'll say is
at the top of the draft, first and second round,
you've got to make those and really you want to
hit them the top three.

Speaker 2 (01:31:50):
Everything else is gravy, but.

Speaker 3 (01:31:52):
Your first and second rounders are your starters, your probable starters,
your guys that are expected to start immediately and make
and when you miss on those guys, it sets you
back for so long because you thought you'd address the
one situation with a draft pick, and then you got
to go in free agency and get a Juju Smith
Schuster who also didn't address the issue. You know, it

(01:32:16):
leads you to make these other moves that you don't
necessarily want to make. It really stop and hinder the
team building process. Bill Belichick should get all the outrage,
all the criticism, not only before their record on the field,
but look, his personnel stuff did not pan out. And
if you're Robert Craft, you're looking at and you're trying

(01:32:38):
to contemplate, can this guy build us?

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
Can he get us out of this rut?

Speaker 3 (01:32:42):
The odds will say no because the drafting the last
few years has not been great.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
But let us not forget all the years that they
finished so high up in the standings that the drafting
was really almost really there was nothing left in the draft. Really,
they couldn't build from the draft. This is exactly with
the NFL once really, I mean, they want people who
are on the top to basically level out and then
people on the bottom to move to the top. That's
what the draft is all about. So when they were

(01:33:09):
drafting so high, basically high picks, because they finished so
high in the standings, they couldn't build a crop of
players to be I guess competitive. And again when Tom
Brady left, that was the end of everything. But even
when Tom Brady played, who were the Hall of Famous
his teammates, they're a Hall of Famous on that team.

Speaker 6 (01:33:31):
Really well, that would again go back to the acumen
of drafting, though, Andy, it's not a matter of hey,
you got to go find mister irrelevant to Bucky's born.
I think it's more of the yet guys that are
you know, first round picks, even if they're pick thirty two,
that's still pick thirty two out of you know, almost
three hundred. So you've got to hit on more of

(01:33:51):
those than miss. And we've got an awful lot of
sales on those.

Speaker 3 (01:33:55):
Huh, yeah they're missing. And the other thing we talked about,
you don't have to hit home run. Look, see a
bunch of doubles, Yeah, that'll qualify. But when you completely
miss and those guys aren't with your team after two
or three years you missed on them, you're acknowledging we
completely missed. We flubbed on this. We messed that one
up to have a series of those, not only in

(01:34:18):
the first round, but throughout the draft. So where does
your young talent come from? You see, because you need
to hit in the draft young cheap talent, so then
you could pay your big time players. When you're missing
all that, it just completely disrupts the team.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
Been in process. Now you're you're short, You're out of luck.

Speaker 6 (01:34:34):
It doesn't work and we have what happens here, eventually
the division starts to rise up. Report coming from Ian
Rappaport this morning, gentlemen that Mac Jones is reportedly on
a quote unquote short leash, which means Will Greer, the
former Panthers quarterback. Maybe yeah, and you saw the three
year deal they gave Malik Cunningham, who's shown a little

(01:34:55):
bit in the preseason curiosity a guy that basically I
want to play football. So he's a guy that may
be able to come in and deploy not only as
a quarterback, but maybe it get a little bit involved
in the run game, the past game and get a
little creative.

Speaker 1 (01:35:13):
You know who's going to bed against the world right now,
Colin Kaepernick. Really, I mean Colin Kaepernick should take a plane.
I'm knock on the door of Bill Belichick's off say, look, give.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
Me a shot.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
That is may we talk about dog years like he
hasn't played in so long, Like that's that's two dog lifetimes.

Speaker 1 (01:35:30):
Could he be any worse than that? Jones?

Speaker 3 (01:35:32):
No, I mean it's a rap. I mean he's mid thirties.
Like remember he's the same a same classes. I think
Russell Wilson and that stuff like, yeah, it's yeah, and
we see how Russ's has fallen off the cliff. And
to think about not playing man, think about Deshaun Watson
missed a year and some change, and look at how
hard it's been for him to come back. So you
can imagine you missed five years or more. Yeah, unfortunately,

(01:35:57):
that's that's done. But I will say, you talked about Kaepernick.
Maybe Malie Cunningham can be to Bill Belichick what Lamar
Jackson was to John Harbaugh. Remember John Harbaugh's career was
hanging the joys. When he made the move to Lamar
Jackson Placco, they completely changed their offense and did all

(01:36:18):
that other stuff. Maybe Bill Belichick is like, well, if
I'm going down, we can go down with somebody who
can run around and maybe make some plays and we
can kind of figure this out to buy some time.

Speaker 2 (01:36:28):
Maybe yes, maybe that's to move.

Speaker 6 (01:36:29):
So now I gotta go change that gift. There's one
of Elmo in front of a wall of fire. I'm
gonna do that gift with Bill Belichick, arms raised if
I'm going down, and then we'll play Blaze of Glory
from John bon Jovie over the top of it. That's
Andy Furman. That's the laugh, the unmistakable laugh of Bucky Brooks.
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(01:37:33):
week six. Wherever you are, however you're listening, thanks for
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Let's build that big community as we flow. All right,
we got a few games to get to for Week six,

(01:37:55):
and perhaps none bigger than to see how one team
responds to the well the throttling they got a week ago.

Speaker 1 (01:38:02):
Cowboys and Chargers.

Speaker 6 (01:38:04):
Cowboys one and a half for two point favorites on
the road at so far, they'll do the quick turnaround
because the Rams play a home game today, Chargers tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
Vander Rash is out digs.

Speaker 6 (01:38:16):
We know already out the return of Austin Eckler, But
I got to ask you, Andy Furman, psychologically, where are
they They're talking about George Kittle's T shirt more than
about why they got their butts kicked by Brock Pirdy
and the forty nine Ers.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
Well, you know what, the Cowboys right now, this game
at the Charges could be the game of the week,
could be a high powered offensive ball game, and obviously
the Chargers have a rest for that bye week. I
like the Charges in this game, and the Cowboys need
to have the balance approach on offense. And how do
they do that? That got to give Tony Pollo the ball.
He's one of the most efficient players in the league
at that position. He's averaging almost four and a half

(01:38:54):
US per carry. Give him the ball, put the ball
in his belly and maybe maybe they could do some
good about that big because the past defense of the
Charges right now is one of the worst in the league.
They average almost three hundred yards of games. So if
they could have a balanced offense, I think the Cowboys
could come back. But honestly, if you had to ask
me today, who's going to win this ball game? I
like the Charges. I like the Charges win this game today.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
Oh and he's going with smart already coach, the coach
that knows the game better than anybody else.

Speaker 1 (01:39:22):
I can't wait to see here. Buy Yeah, I can't.

Speaker 3 (01:39:26):
Wait to see what kind of epic decision he makes
to go forward from his own fifteen yard line because
he has Justin Herbert.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
And he's a dude.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
Look, the Chargers should win. The Chargers have advantages in
those things. But I'm gonna going to Cowboys. I think
the Cowboys somehow found a way to get up off
the mat after getting absolutely beat down molly wopped, and
they're smarting from that and that gives them just enough
incentive to get it done in orrow. So remember, this
is the Mike McCarthy Kellen Moore squad. Is one guy

(01:39:55):
being the play call of one guy feeling like they
held one back.

Speaker 2 (01:39:58):
So we'll see.

Speaker 3 (01:39:58):
I think Mike McCarthy had be in his back because
he has to show and prove that he was a
better play caller because people are looking at what the
Charge are doing offensively.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
And they're saying, we like that looks a lot different
than what's going on in Dallas.

Speaker 1 (01:40:09):
BO say, I have a question with Austin Eckle was
the key? I mean, what's the status with him? I mean,
is he's gonna play? Yeah, but he's a hundred.

Speaker 6 (01:40:17):
That's he's under at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:40:19):
I'm not We're not buy is Bucky just got back
from London.

Speaker 6 (01:40:24):
He's still foggy.

Speaker 2 (01:40:26):
Yeah, everybody, everybody's foggy. We just we're just holding on
by a threat.

Speaker 6 (01:40:30):
Well, I was hoping we're a little better than that,
punky dire circumstance. He's here a lot of Fox Football Sunday.
I was feeling pretty good. I got a nice cup
of coffee. Guys that are having a couple of laughs.
I had them playing Paul Haymon quotes in the break,
deciding whether we went full w W E this morning

(01:40:50):
or not. But you know, for the for the Cowboys,
I mean that really is it? How do you get
back up off the mat against the forty nine ers?

Speaker 1 (01:40:59):
Right cycle?

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
Logically, Michaeh Parson's given so much time to the George
Kittle T shirt, which he eventually got fined for. By
the way, the fighting system in the NFL is the
dumbest thing in the world, right he TJ Watt punches
a dude in the face and only gets fined eleven.
Grand Zack Boss tries to dunk a football over the goalpost,
gets fined six.

Speaker 1 (01:41:19):
Tell me how that makes sense. They spin the wheel
and it was thirteen thousand dollars for the T shirt.
I kind of love the T shirt. I think they're
probably selling them right now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
Do you think if not, I will pay Yeah, yeah
there in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 (01:41:31):
Yeah, thirteen grand for that T shirt.

Speaker 2 (01:41:33):
How do you like that?

Speaker 3 (01:41:34):
I mean yeah, I mean and look it's worth it
because of the reaction. Michael Parsons still talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:41:39):
Yeah, you're in their heads now, and then he's you know,
basically threatening them in WrestleMania forty because George Kittle is
a big WWE fan. So that all plays together. Let's
get another game in before we go to Cavin.

Speaker 5 (01:41:51):
Lions said Buccaneers.

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
All right, here we go the Lions. Everybody's favorite. Everybody
loves them. Some Lions three point favorite on the road.
The Buccaneers coming off the bye week and wearing the creamsicles.
That crowd is gonna be in a frenzy as Bucko
Bruce comes back for one night Head one night only,
Branches out, Gibbs is out, Laporta has got a calf injury,

(01:42:15):
tight end University there in Iowa, Mosley out in the
secondary cornerback missing for the Buccaneers. A couple of guys
on the injury injury list, but they are returning. Kansey
Neil and Dean and then Mike Evans is cleared to go.
So that's the key too. Teams at on defensively getting
after it. Tampa giving up just seventeen points per game.

(01:42:38):
What about Baker Mayfield? Can he get it done against
the Lions and outshine Jared Goffbucky?

Speaker 3 (01:42:44):
This is a good one. This is when we have
a chance to see if the Buccaneers are legit. I'm
all about the Lions. The Lions are kind of like
the Baby Niners to me in terms of their physicality, toughness.
They beat you up both sides of the ball at
the line of scrimmage. Yeah, let's go with the Lions
in this one.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
You know what I would say this, The Buccaneers aren't
in the same league as the Lions. There's no doubt
about that. You know who's going to be distructive today
the defensive and Aiden Hutchinson of the Lions. He's gonna
have a day and a half today. He really will Lions.
And look, they got a great offense, They got a
Saint Brown, they got Jamison's back for the long ball.
I just think the Lions winning. The Lions right now

(01:43:22):
are on a roll. They got confidence They're just a
great team on both sides of the ball. I mean
the Lions. Right now, if you went to grade the
teams in the NFL, they're in the top three. It's
forming on his Eagles and Lions.

Speaker 6 (01:43:34):
There we go. We've got Andy's metal stand mixed therein.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
They're bronze bronze, bronze medalists over there.

Speaker 1 (01:43:41):
I'm moving, I'm moving up.

Speaker 6 (01:43:43):
See it's a fluid situation here in week six. I
see everybody does top fives and top you know, I
like the metal stand. I like that Andy that I've
actually registered the metalstand dot com. I have some ideas
for it, but I usually like ranking the teams that stink.
So give me the bottom five. Who are the worst teams?
Because now we really have to parse out.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
Right now the Panthers, the Patriots, the Giants, and the Cardinals.

Speaker 6 (01:44:09):
See the Bears don't even get on the metal stand anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:44:12):
After two games. Look at that? Look at that.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
It's beautiful, all right. So that game, I'm going creamsicles
coming off the buy. I'll take the field goal home Dogs,
just feeling it that night. I may or may not
have a creamskull shirt waiting for me for postgame. I
really don't, but it'd be a good look, no question
about it. That's Andy Furman over there, Bucky Brooks, I'll
buy carmens. Fox Football Sunday, Fox Sports Radio. A couple

(01:44:38):
more games to get into, but first we've got Kevin Wired,
who's gonna give us a quick rundown of everything trending
in our sporting universe this morning.

Speaker 1 (01:44:46):
What's up, KDB.

Speaker 6 (01:44:47):
Yeah, we're about an hour away from the third consecutive
game being played in London, and we have a report
from Adam Schefter and ESPN saying that the league is
actually considering and has had discussions of, about playing a
Super Bowl in London in the next few years. That
comes straight from Roger Goodell. Injury news in the NFL,

(01:45:10):
Colts quarterback Anthony Richardson. He and the team are discussing
possibly having season ending surgery, so his return to the
team would very well be pushed back to twenty twenty four.
They're thinking that might very well be the best way
to repair his injured shoulder. Ian Rapaport with some injury
update tweets overnight. Giants tight end Darren Waller has a

(01:45:33):
growing injury listened as questionable However, he is expected to play.
Brown's tight end David Njoku, who has suffered burns to
his hands and face, is also expected to play today.
Bengals wide receiver Te Higgins gonna tough it out with
a cracked rib and make it onto the field. Panthers
linebacker Brian Burns has an ankle injury. He is expected
to go against the Dolphins. Hollywood Brown has an illness, However,

(01:45:56):
he's expected to be able to overcome that to play today.
In Saquon Barkley, He's been out for three weeks with
the high ankle sprain. There is optimism that he will
be able to play tonight. And in college ranks, yesterday,
we just had a big top ten matchup in the
PAC twelve number seven Washington over number eight Oregon thirty six,
thirty three, number twenty one, notre name dominates number ten,

(01:46:18):
USC forty eight, twenty number eleven Alabama over Arkansas twenty
four to twenty one, twelfth thrick, North Carolina beats twenty
fifth RIC Miami forty one thirty one and pit upsetting
number fourteen Louisville thirty eight twenty one. Back to you guys,
thanks so much Kevin. Yeah, kicker's got to kick the
ball out of the end zone. You make it thirty
one twenty and then the guy runs it back ninety
nine yards for a score. Bad job by them. Hey,

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That is the small part of me, guys that is
still the South side Chicago and for a long time
in my life, and I'm shut fling it off as

(01:47:01):
I get older. Is you know, the adopted college mentality,
all the folks that were not to name fans, and
it's like, oh you.

Speaker 1 (01:47:08):
Go, you went, No family went. Now what's the connection
we just do?

Speaker 6 (01:47:15):
I went to mass on Easter? Okay, you know, so
those kind of things. That was an opportunity there for
USC to get back in the game, but went aside
very quickly. All right back into the NFL Week six,
three more games to get to Eagles and Jets. It
seems like they decided, all right, we're gonna rule one
cornerback out all right now, it's your turn you rule

(01:47:38):
a defensive player out. No, Jalen Carter on the defensive
front for Philadelphia. Evans is out in the secondary, and
Darius Slay is out for the Jets. They're down four cornerbacks. Hello, everybody.
Red Sauce Gardner is out. Sauce was on Twitter yesterday going, yeah,
I feel fine, guys, Okay, because earlier in the week

(01:48:01):
it was an illness and then all of a sudden
it was revealed as a concussion. Wonder if there's a
little bit of a let's raise our hand and talk
about the injury protocol as it were. The Eagles twenty
eight point two points per game, tenth and passing second
in rushing over one hundred and sixty yards per game.
The Jets have been hanging their hat on the defense.
The problem is none of those hats are going to

(01:48:22):
be available for him this week.

Speaker 5 (01:48:24):
Andy.

Speaker 1 (01:48:25):
You know, it's amazing because if the Eagles are looking
at the tape, they see how the Broncos got the
Zach Wilson last week. The Eagles have a lot more firepower,
a little more talent than on the defensive line that
the Broncos do, and the injury factor on the Jets
is not going to help. I mean, look, the Higgs
is just a bit of team, you know, offensively and defensively,
and you know what, it could get real ugly today.

(01:48:46):
So I think it's a double digit loss for the
Jets today and you know there'll be two and four
and the Eagles go to six and zero.

Speaker 6 (01:48:51):
Just the curiosity before you answer, Bucky, the Eagles are
on the road as six and a half or a
seven point favorite. I raised my eyebrow given the level
of injuries in that secondary.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
Yeah, I mean it's it's a little bit of a
march dumbas still go with the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:49:08):
They didn't played great. We have played their a game.
They've just been winning games. They haven't found their their
rhythm or their stride. W Yeah, they will continue to
find a way to win. And with the Jets, we
always talk about this defense being still This defense is
not put up the numbers that would make you think
that they're still a group. So if they're going to
win without a Rodgers, defense has to play even better

(01:49:30):
without Sauce Gardener, it becomes a difficult challenge.

Speaker 6 (01:49:33):
Lost in the sauce, aj Brown and DeVante Smith should
have themselves some days, and I want to see who's
going to try to check Dallas Goddard, another guy who
can have himself a monster day, creeping through the secondary
like a kid in a flower field in the spring.
There you go. I just put that imagery in your
head because it's gonna start getting cold. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:49:53):
It would have been a nice.

Speaker 1 (01:49:54):
Matchup with the sauce gardner on the with Devonte Smith. No,
that's just it right.

Speaker 6 (01:49:59):
That would have been a nice little one on one,
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to go, Cardinals and Rams. Yay, Josh Doobbs has been efficient.
We get all sorts of videos about his accuracy, which
is good. So you've got that rolling for you. They
are seven point road underdogs coming in, the Rams, starting

(01:50:45):
to get healthy, starting to get their guys back. You
heard in Kevin's update Hollywood Brown illness questionable tag also
one of those guys that you'd love to be showcasing
for potential trade partners or at least getting some supercuts
of everything he's done together. Jalen Thompson out of the
secondary with a hamstring injury. The Rams in their back seven.

(01:51:06):
They've got a couple of guys listed as questionable but
expected to go, But last week he got Cooper Cup
back in the mix. He and Nikua nice targets there
for Matthew Stafford. Kyron Williams only averaging three point nine
yards per carry, but he's been efficient in the red
zone scenarios. These teams matching up, the Rams giving up
twenty one point six points per game.

Speaker 1 (01:51:28):
How about that?

Speaker 6 (01:51:28):
That's what Arizona scores per game.

Speaker 1 (01:51:31):
Rams?

Speaker 6 (01:51:32):
Can they be dangerous? Is this a spot where they
can start to build Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:51:38):
Yeah, the Rams can't be dangerous, taking me dangerous because
their two guys, Pooka and Cooper Cup give people issues.
They get missues because of the size and the trust
fact that that they have with Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
I like what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:51:50):
They got rid of Van Jefferson so they could create
more room for Pooka to get on the field with
Cooper Cup.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
So I'm gonna go with the Rams.

Speaker 3 (01:51:57):
Finding a way to steal another win is what I
saw from this team. But they're playing in Inspire Brandon Football.
They're paying much better than anyone anticipated.

Speaker 1 (01:52:07):
Here's the deal on this game. I watched the Cardinals
play the Bengals last week. The Cardinals could not stop
Jamar Chase. Last week they allowed them fifteen pass catches,
one hundred and ninety two yards, three touchdowns. They couldn't
stop Jamar Chase. How they gonna stop Cooper Cup today? Really,
Rams win. Rams win by a touchdown by about twenty seven,

(01:52:28):
twenty seven, eighteen, something like that. So the Rams are
on their way right now. They're finding themselves and the
Cardinals are not that good because on offense, they just
can't turn the ball over like they've been doing. Last
week Joshua Dobbs turned with two interceptions. They lost to
fumble last week against the Bengals.

Speaker 6 (01:52:46):
Yeah, the big thing here is neither Cooper Cup nor
Pooka Nakua has to go into the press to complain
about getting the ball right.

Speaker 1 (01:52:53):
I love Jamar Chase. That was just highly seven to eleven.
He's always open necessary.

Speaker 6 (01:53:01):
But you know what, if you can keep Joe Burrow
upright and in theory getting healthier by the week, they're interesting.
They've got a big game today as well that I
think gets the attention of a lot of folks. With
Seattle coming to town, no question about it. With James
Connor out, you've got the for fantasy purposes, Ingram is
number one on the depth chart. I know you all

(01:53:23):
spent your free agent acquisition budget on Denmarcando, but you
probably want to go look and see if Caante Ingram
is available because he's at least split in the workload there.
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(01:53:44):
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Speaker 1 (01:53:59):
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(01:54:23):
little later on today. The greatness of Minshew Mania against
Trevor Lawrence. I still like that Andy's Room thing, Bucky.
We talked about it a lot. That was one of
my favorite ways to see a game, particularly with Travis
ETN Juke and guys and b John Robinson, Juke and guys.
I don't know that you can replicate that. It's better

(01:54:44):
than anything they've done on Madden.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
You liked that, so you liked I did like playing
Andy's Room, little toy story. We'll see how I see
how I go.

Speaker 6 (01:54:53):
I'm all about wrapping everybody in a big hug and
finding fans wherever I can. So we'll see if there's
another star power on Sunday Night football to maybe, you know,
come over the top of what could be a dog game.
Giant said Bills. Now yeah, the Bills. The look the
spreads ballooned all the way out to sixteen in some books.

(01:55:16):
At this point, we've got the report. They're optimistic quote
unquote that Saquon Barkley can go, but Daniel Jones will not.
It's the Tarad Taylor Show. Thomas and Schmidt's out once
again on the offensive line. Waller's banged up, expected to
give it the old college try. Oh, Jilari McFadden, Wondale Robinson,

(01:55:37):
you want me to keep going? I can do this
and run out the clock. With the number of injuries
for Buffalo, it's a short list. Kincaid and knocks their
tight ends. Does Hailey Steinfeld measure enough for you guys
to get the Taylor Swift treatment to get you excitable?
She was in Pitch Perfect, she's dating Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 (01:55:57):
Does that work?

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:55:59):
I mean you guys have no idea who she is.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
It doesn't really work for me.

Speaker 6 (01:56:03):
Come on, Pop Culcher Sports Entertainment, Come on, no, I
really tried to make that thing work. She was in
Hawkeye for crying out loud. She's part of the Marvels
cinematic universe. All right, what makes me want to watch
this game, Bucky Brooks, other than I love Josh Allen
and Stupon Diggs.

Speaker 2 (01:56:23):
You want to see if they can get back on track.

Speaker 7 (01:56:25):
They were off, they were terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:56:27):
They were off, they were off, they were off to mark.
You want to see if they can get back on track.
You want to see if they can win a winnable game.
And I mean for the Giants, we just want to
see what it looks like without the mighty Daniel Jones,
Like if he doesn't play like.

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
Well, we still would have looked like with him.

Speaker 6 (01:56:42):
I mean, come on, it wasn't much then, come on,
he was running for his life like Shia la Buff
was after him in that parody Songgsting. You guys need
to watch that if you haven't seen it. But I mean, look,
he's either sacked or hit on pretty much what fifty
percent of his dropbacks at this point. He's no better
than a punching bag. No, I mean it really was

(01:57:06):
so for the Bills, right, Von Miller was back last week,
missed part of the game. To your point, Bucky, how
much of it was travels, schedule versus just the Jaguars
handling their business, Because I mean that was never really
a game.

Speaker 2 (01:57:22):
No, And I'm really surprised that it was. It was
like that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:25):
I mean, the Bills were coming off that big beatdown
of the Miami Dolphins and they never really got it together.

Speaker 2 (01:57:32):
They couldn't get it going. Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:34):
The bigger thing that's troubling for the Buffalo Bills more injuries,
Louise Matt Mulano. Yeah, you're trying to figure out what
you're going to eventually get from uh Von Miller because
you don't have a pass for us.

Speaker 2 (01:57:44):
A great or So wasn't out.

Speaker 3 (01:57:45):
So they have a bunch of little injuries that could
really change the way they performed to Davis White is
out for the year. This is a big win for them,
a big game for them. They got to play well.
They need to get their confidence back.

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Yeah, it's a big game for the Giants because should
they lose today, they're out of the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:57:59):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:58:00):
Out of my mind, it'll be one in five. But
you know, I think what the Giants could try to
do what maybe a planning to do. I don't know
if they can do it. Can you exploit the weaknesses
of Josh Allen, which is the fact that he is
a turnover machine at times? Can they do that to him?
I don't think they can, and I think it's gonna
be a big day for Josh Allen today. But in
other words, if you want to win this game, you

(01:58:20):
have to try to exploit his weakness, and that's basically it.

Speaker 6 (01:58:23):
Well, you have to hope that you can force the
situation whereby he's just throwing it up for grabs, you know,
the old street ball punt check, and either my guy
gets it or it's a forty yard completion to the
opponent as if it were a punt, which we've seen
Josh Allen do on occasion. Problem is the Giants right
now rudderless toothless as a team. I had pretty big

(01:58:44):
expectations for on our sheets, trying to can they.

Speaker 1 (01:58:46):
Get a team in New York in any sport that
could win. The only team that I thought had a
shot with the New York Liberty maybe maybe in the WNBA.

Speaker 6 (01:58:54):
Well, happily the Bills actually playing New York, so it'll
help us well, I mean the other team's playing New
Jersey for crying.

Speaker 1 (01:59:02):
Out louds so, but they got the New York name. Yeah,
and then we can.

Speaker 6 (01:59:06):
Get into the Mets and Yankees at another time and
laugh at them as we go. Baseball continues again today,
so that'll be exciting.

Speaker 1 (01:59:13):
Andy.

Speaker 6 (01:59:14):
What game has your rapt attention besides your well, your
Bengals and Seahawks.

Speaker 1 (01:59:18):
Seattle and the Bengals, and you know, I gotta go
see coach the coaching staff after the Seattle victory to
take what Seattle's gonna win and tell him that Bucket
brook says, there are a bunch of geniuses what they
do with Russell Wilson and Gino Smith. He said that,
So I told him I would do not go up
to the locker room after it's fun it's funny, but Bucky,

(01:59:38):
you know, we joke Smith and I. We want to
rename our show aheaded the Curve for some of the things,
you know, like in the Crystal Ball. The Russell Wilson
thing was about three years coming between you and me
on these airwaves.

Speaker 2 (01:59:50):
Yeah, it was coming. Uh, that's said. The game that
I'm most into, I want to see the Philadelphia Eagles
are gonna play great definitdly against the New York jest.

Speaker 3 (01:59:58):
We haven't seen him play Gatlet's see if they can
get go on, let's see if they can begin to
play like one of the top teams in the league.

Speaker 6 (02:00:03):
I enjoy winning ugly, and then eventually you do have
to put on your Sunday best Andy.

Speaker 1 (02:00:08):
It's been a.

Speaker 6 (02:00:09):
Pleasure as always, Fast hour with you, Bucky will continue
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Speaker 1 (02:00:40):
Welcome in.

Speaker 6 (02:00:41):
Mike Harmon alongside my guy Bucky Brooks, back from London,
already did the Thursday night game, got himself reacclimated hopefully
hyperbaric chamber, got himself some sleep and back on schedule
as we get ready for another week of fun and
exciting NFL action. A half hour from now, we've got
the Evans and Titans getting after it. A lot of

(02:01:03):
questions surrounding both those teams, but I ask you first,
my guy Bucky Brooks, first, welcome back. How's the body respond?
Did you enjoy your time there? Did you find a
place that you ate pretty much every day because you
came to trust it. How does that routine go?

Speaker 3 (02:01:19):
No, I feel pretty good. I've traveled so much that
you just kind of jump into the routine. I try
not to deviate too far from West Coast time, which
is kind of crazy because it's an eight hour time difference,
but coming back and forth, like you kind of jump
into it to me a day to kind of get back,
and now I feel good. Like London is always a
great place because of all the cities, like you don't

(02:01:39):
have the language barrier when it comes to like getting
around and asking communicating. It's multicultural, so whatever your palette desires,
you can find a spot to kind of meet that.
Anian food is great over there, jamaking food, like just
so many different things.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
So it's nice to be over but it's also certainly
nice to be back in the States.

Speaker 6 (02:01:58):
At Bucky Brooks, where you find them on Twitter saw
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The columns are up NFL Network, of course, sitting on
the couch, part of our coverage on Big Fox, and
then of course here at Fox Sports Radio and in
addition to the myriad other things that you do. Welcome back.
It's good to have you back in the chair. Hey,

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going to try to find out what the Ravens are
and how they respond. Because we talked about the Cowboys
last hour with our guy Andy Furman, Bucky another team
that had a loss that let's just call it what
it is, self inflicted and you left it out there
for Mike Tomlin to come get you in the thirty
for thirty fourth thirty fourth game between Harbaugh and Tomlin.

Speaker 3 (02:03:04):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (02:03:04):
But the Steelers go and we talk about a winning
doesn't have to be pretty. I was wearing a nineteen
eighty three White Sox winning ugly shirt yesterday. They don't
have to be pretty. But the style points for the Ravens,
you know, with the number of drop passes seven or
eight depending on how you're counting them. I mean that
that's got to become really frustrating when you're trying to
install and execute a new offensive system.

Speaker 2 (02:03:28):
Oh, you didn't like the Baltimore Ravens volleyball team, so that's.

Speaker 1 (02:03:31):
What you tell pretty much they.

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
You didn't like.

Speaker 6 (02:03:38):
The normal sure handed guys, like when even Mark Andrews
has got balls bouncing off his hands. You're running around
going what are we doing? Not to mention, you've also
played all your Road Division games by week five, which
is just terrible NFL scheduling. Bad job by them. But
I'll continue on that soapbox another time. For the Ravens
Monkins offense seems to be working, you know, if they

(02:03:59):
actually execute on the other end of Lamar Jackson's arm.

Speaker 2 (02:04:04):
Yeah, it's a different style offense.

Speaker 3 (02:04:05):
I just wonder how long they can go this route,
because I mean, Lamar Jackson's on a career hot paced
in terms of number of yards, forty five hundred yards
and those things. But are they gonna be able to
control the game when they need to control it? Sure,
the fact that they lost to the Pittsburgh still is
I'm a little concerned. Pittsburgh couldn't muster any offense, but
was able to win a game without any offense one play,

(02:04:26):
George Pickens, Can I mean, can the Ravens continue to
win like that without kind of having what used to
be that advantage, that powerful run game where they can
control it where you down beach in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (02:04:37):
I just worry about it.

Speaker 3 (02:04:38):
And I don't know if I won't say the offense
is ill fitting for their personnel. They went out and
got a bunch of wide receivers. I don't know how
good those wide receivers are. Yeah, and I wonder if
they're taking away from maybe the strength of their team
by trying to throw so much. We'll see. It's five
games into the year. But they got to get a win.
They got to get this one. This is a huge
win for them against the Titans. The Titans have notoriously
played them very very well. They've given Lamar Jackson problems

(02:05:02):
in the past. Big game overseas yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:05:06):
I mean when we look at this matchup, I mean
the Titans, I mean they're not sexy, but they'll ugly
it up for you. I mean, Tannehill's good enough to
give you a game now. And again, look at this point,
averaging two ten and only has two touchdown passes. But
Dereck Henry and Spears, you've got that little snap count split.
But for Derrick Henry, you know, he had that one

(02:05:28):
big week two weeks ago and you know, augmented by
the jump pass touchdown. Otherwise he's been dar iu. Steve
Smith's term a jag at this point through five weeks
of the season. If they can't get him going, it's
awful lot placed on Vrabel's defense to just keep them
in games.

Speaker 2 (02:05:47):
A lot a lot placed on their defense to keep
them in games. It'll be hard.

Speaker 3 (02:05:51):
It'd be hard for them to stay in it if
they can't get anything from either Derrick Henry doing it
or finding a way for DeAndre Hopkins or somebody in
the passing game to give them a burke a boost.
Just so easy to see what they're going to do,
and if they're not running the ball effectively, it.

Speaker 2 (02:06:04):
Just man, the thing is like watching paint drop. Yeah,
you know painted that.

Speaker 6 (02:06:09):
It's very difficult one to send you overseas right now,
at least on one side of the ball, Henry just
at three point eight yards per Carrie, no trail on
Burkes again, Fantasy owners were expecting him at least to
be on the field and give you a chance. Well,
we've got none of that. Later on today. That game
starts at about twenty five minutes from now, but we're

(02:06:32):
already hitting that point, you know, talking about guys like Tannehill.
We talked a little about Captain Kirk Cousins folks forgetting
the whole idea of a no trade clause and how
it gets executed, and teams can't just force him to
sign on the dotted line and leave as much as
they'd like him to. But we're already at that point
with a bunch of teams with quarterback conundrums and obviously

(02:06:56):
a very rich college class. We joked about it a
little bit last with the love and hype for Caleb
Williams and everybody tanking for Williams. No, sometimes through five
weeks your team.

Speaker 1 (02:07:06):
Is just bad, all right.

Speaker 6 (02:07:08):
Tanking I don't think happens in the first third of
a season. I think you're still actually going out and
trying to execute. You may know it's a tall order,
but operations shut down. I mean you've been in locker rooms.
I mean, nobody's going in there going, hey, we're gonna
lose this one.

Speaker 1 (02:07:23):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:07:25):
No, nobody's going in like that. You're trying to, not
without saying it, you're trying to use some of these
games as measuring sticks. You're trying to have some more
victories that you can take. Okay, let's take a little
depositive out of this game and build some momentum going
into the next game, and those things. You want to
keep it process oriented as opposed to results orient it.

(02:07:45):
But it can be hard sometimes when the scoreboard isn't
going in your favor.

Speaker 6 (02:07:48):
It starts to go south. And we see these quarterback situations, injuries.
We talked about Daniel Jones, the Deshaun Watson one I
think bears a little more discussion, you know, and not
because we've talked about his layoff and everything else. What
transpired last week is one that you know, if you're
a beat reporter in Cleveland or just covering the NFL

(02:08:10):
at all, you're raising your hand trying to figure out
what the difference is between medically cleared and really being
able to play, because Deshaun Watson all the report and
even Stefanski because that's that's where it really got ugly,
is where he basically said, well, Deshaun didn't feel he
could go and didn't have his back at all, right,
I mean, so obviously some discord and then with.

Speaker 3 (02:08:33):
Some discord, Yeah, there's definitely some discord. There's something there.
There's a level of frustration. Either the coach expected the
quarterback to be ready to play by a certain date
and was either led to believe that by the medical staff,
and then Deshaun is like, hey, I don't feel good,
I can't throw.

Speaker 2 (02:08:51):
There's something bothering me. And that here's what I do know.

Speaker 3 (02:08:54):
Whenever Deshaun Watson walks into the field, regardless of what
we say about the injuries those things, he's going to
be judged on the performance that he puts out there.

Speaker 1 (02:09:03):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
He's well aware of all the noise and all the
other stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
He hasn't played great since getting there, So the last
thing you want to go out there is a step
on the field and you expect them to throw heaters
and you're throwing knuckleballs, and those knuckleballs are being picked
up because it's only going to raise the volume of
noise around him. And so if you're a player and
you can't go, and you know that, you're a performance
no matter what, no matter how much we talk about

(02:09:27):
the John Wayne thing so heroic, at the end of
the day, you're judged by what happens when you step
on the field if you don't if you can't go,
you can't go, Like that's just what it is. And
coaches and everyone has to has to understand that. But
for Sefanski to put him out there like that, there's
some kind of disconnect between the quarterback and the play call.

Speaker 6 (02:09:45):
Yeah, because you know, you and I have talked about
it for as long as we've been working together here
at Fox Sports Radio, Like once you get in between
the white lines, what I'm going to excuse you? You know,
because you were under perform Well, you know, he was battlings,
Like no, he got on the field, he felt good
enough to go, and he the player, the team, everybody
got on board. And for Sean Watson, he knows the

(02:10:07):
poison pens are already out there. The curiosity is the discord,
right us versus them, coaches versus players and front offices
and all of those kind of things. I mean, that's
that's a guaranteed deal. And you know, we start talking
about contracts and trying to trade guys right between Captain
Kirk some folks. And I had to argue with Smith

(02:10:28):
about this the other day as we watched Russell Wilson
flail about against the Chiefs defense. Oh, that's probably getting
Frank Clark back now because Denver's now just giving everybody away,
which is also an interesting development. Sean Payton's doing everything
they can to say.

Speaker 1 (02:10:45):
It's not me. Look, it's all of this.

Speaker 6 (02:10:48):
I had no chance at all, But I mean, Russell Wilson,
who's taking on that contract to Shaun Watson? Is Haslam
really going to eat multiple years of forty plus million
dollars salary cap? But nobody's taking that on, right, So
you're between the rock and the hard place there.

Speaker 3 (02:11:08):
And not only that, no one taking it on. Who's
going to be the quarterback? Because you still got to
have a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (02:11:14):
Now you got some jay Walker.

Speaker 6 (02:11:16):
You decided Dorian Thompson Robinson, the guy that everybody loved
in the preseason. Nope, here's a guy that got cut
by the Bears. He got cut by the Bears.

Speaker 3 (02:11:28):
Yeah, I mean, and so what you have to figure
out is one, is he fixable Deshaun Watson?

Speaker 2 (02:11:36):
Two?

Speaker 3 (02:11:37):
If he's not fixable, what is my option? And what
are we what are we going to do when he
can't when he can't play? I mean, that's a that's
a big part.

Speaker 2 (02:11:46):
Of the thing. You have to have someone who can
feel that that spot.

Speaker 3 (02:11:51):
And if it's not Deshaun Watson, then whom Because if
I'm Jimmy Haslin, that's the question I'm asking. Okay, cool,
I'll eat it. But who's playing quarterback? And how are
we going to get that person to play well? And
for Kevin Stefanski, he has to be careful because what
did he say when they got out from up under
Bacon Mayfield?

Speaker 2 (02:12:09):
Did he tell them I just need a guy.

Speaker 3 (02:12:11):
You give me a guy to get me a gay
working Yeah. So, because ownership has to listen. Hey man, hey,
you've had a number one overall pick and a high
end a top five player when we traded for him.

Speaker 2 (02:12:23):
Didn't know all the other stuff. At some points you
not them. So he has to work on it.

Speaker 6 (02:12:29):
The heat is on definitely there in Cleveland.

Speaker 1 (02:12:31):
You know, PJ.

Speaker 6 (02:12:32):
Walker is the thirty sixth quarterback to start a game
for the brown since they moved back or since they
were created.

Speaker 2 (02:12:40):
I guess that's at a lot of quarterback.

Speaker 6 (02:12:43):
Yeah, that's that's even more than my team and several
others who have been a turnstyle for quarterbacks through the years. Bucky,
I mean, that's some special stuff right there. As we
continue here Fox Sports Radio, Fox Football Sunday, we got
the Battle of whatever. I can't call it a coaching

(02:13:03):
tree because it's little branches when we talk about what's
going on between New England and Bill Belichick coaches that
leave for quote unquote greener pastures. But that Patriots Raiders
game has a bunch of legs to it. We'll get
into that as we continue here on Fox Sports Radio.
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(02:13:48):
with us this beautiful morning. It's a day to go
one and oh, whatever you're doing, get out there, make
the best of another chance at greatness. We'll see games
later on today in the National Football League. Coming off
a huge college football Saturday, we've got Major League Baseball.
We move into the league Championship Series. And Bucky, I

(02:14:10):
know you came home from London to find that the
Dodgers were eliminated again. How are you handling it?

Speaker 2 (02:14:16):
Not great? Not great?

Speaker 3 (02:14:19):
And I won't be one of the ones that complain
about the baseball format. I just find it odd that
all the best teams in the regular season are all
sitting at home. You're got a curious right, Yeah, they
just find their ways home. The Orioles, the Braves, the
Dodgers all won over one hundred games.

Speaker 2 (02:14:34):
And they're sitting home. I would say for the Dodgers
it comes back to.

Speaker 3 (02:14:37):
What it always comes down to in playoff baseball, pitching,
superior pitching beats hitting all day, every day, and if
you don't have an a level pitching staff, it's gonna
be hard to win and advance far in the postseason. Yes,
you need your big bats to step up, but we're
talking about games that.

Speaker 2 (02:14:57):
You're losing four homers in an inning.

Speaker 1 (02:15:00):
Crazy state man historic stuff right there.

Speaker 3 (02:15:04):
You know you got Kershaw who underperformed in the postseason again,
might be done. Yeah, I mean these things are not surprised.
Is this old school baseball all day? You got to
figure out a way to win it.

Speaker 6 (02:15:15):
Yeah, we went down the road again. And I think
it's a monologue that Smith and I and a discussion
that we've had going on in many a year that
Clayton Kershaw, sorry, Dodgers fans, is your equivalent of what
Peyton Manning and Drew Brees and guys were in the NFL.
You get a couple of good runs, but for the
most part, five hundred guys when it came to the playoffs,

(02:15:36):
regular season brilliant, and then you know, some some hiccups
along the way.

Speaker 3 (02:15:41):
Yeah, because it just becomes very, very difficult to win
when your best players don't play great Mookie bets, Freddy
Freeman going one for whatever, fifteen, one for nineteen whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:15:52):
It was well between them one for twenty one, and
then you had Akunya and the other series goes two
for fourteen.

Speaker 3 (02:15:58):
So best players, the best players have got to perform
in the postseason as much as we love, like who's
the hero that comes out of nowhere?

Speaker 2 (02:16:06):
Typically in championship game, championship series, you're riding your best players.
Your best players have to show up.

Speaker 6 (02:16:11):
I was all salty with the Orioles early exit. I
do stuff in Baltimore, and they decided they needed me
on the bandwagon. They sent me a hat that hadn't
even a ride before they were eliminated, like get out
board the playoff run.

Speaker 1 (02:16:23):
I'm like, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:16:26):
Quick, and I mean, I discovered this. I know my
brother may or may not be listening today, but I
grew up in North Carolina. So North Carolina sits right
between the Baltimore Orioles Market and Atlanta Braves Market. I
found out this year, at age forty seven, forty eight,
that my brother is a lifelong Orioles face.

Speaker 8 (02:16:44):
Not that, but the plastic baseball that we had when
I didn't notice. I never remember penance and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (02:16:58):
Hanging in the room. But evidently he's.

Speaker 3 (02:17:00):
An oreos fan, so I know he's deeply troubled that
they were quickly booted out of the postseas.

Speaker 6 (02:17:06):
Wait out there emulating Eddie Murray's batting stance today.

Speaker 3 (02:17:10):
Yes, when we had to play, when we played woffleball
in the backyard, whoever you said you were, you had
to get into stands.

Speaker 1 (02:17:16):
We did the best to do that stands.

Speaker 2 (02:17:18):
Yeah, absolutely, right handed, left handed, whatever.

Speaker 6 (02:17:23):
Chicago buddy, Because you know I used to attend I
was Carlton Fisk, which meant it was like four minutes
between each pitch because I had to keep adjusting myself.

Speaker 2 (02:17:32):
Gotta get ready, gotta get ready. There we go.

Speaker 1 (02:17:35):
We got some whiffleball.

Speaker 6 (02:17:36):
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(02:17:58):
conversation we had a little bit like last hour, and
I know you and Andy got into it earlier. Staunch
defender of the career of Bill Belichick, which has been
under attack the last couple of weeks, and people now
putting halos on Tom Brady at this point that it was,
you know, an angelic touch to make everything happen. Takes

(02:18:18):
away and I think some of what they did with
that defense, I think folks forget how important and how
good that defense was in the early years of that relationship.
But the point being, we're at a point with Bill
Belichick the talent evaluator, and look what we're seeing on
the field doesn't pass that this is one time where

(02:18:39):
you might actually start making arguments about college players being
able to dominate them in some sense is because picking
these wide receivers and spending the money they did on
tight ends and Hunter Henry solid in the red zone
in between the twenty pops up now and again you
bought the reclamation projects from what Miami moved down from.

(02:19:01):
But now we're hearing talk you're going straight past Bailey
Zappi to where Will Greer, who came in is now
part of the mix. Malie Cunningham comes up from the
practice squad, gets an extension that he suddenly might be
a game changer again. Another preseason hero that we talked
about going back before we got things kicked off this year, Bucky.

(02:19:23):
But for Belichick and company, it's now the talk of
all right, can you just take the power of the
old picking the groceries away or does it have to
be a clean split? If and when that happens.

Speaker 2 (02:19:37):
I think this is splits feel.

Speaker 3 (02:19:40):
I think this is Andy Reid in Philadelphia post Donovan McNabb.
When you go back and you look after Andy Reid
moved on from Donovan McNabb, he never was able to
get back to that high level of success in Philadelphia.
Is very similar to Bill Belichick post Tom Brady. Not
saying that Donovan McNabb and Tom Brady have the same player,

(02:20:00):
but I'm saying that any we had a lot of
success with a marquee franchise quarterback, also a guy.

Speaker 6 (02:20:04):
That's very underappreciated for what he did appreciated.

Speaker 3 (02:20:07):
They went to five Yeah, win the five championship games,
and I know they only went to one Super Bowl,
But to go to five championship games, man, you've got
to be in it before you can win it, and
they were in it. He Uh so for Bill Belichick,
maybe it's gotten a little still.

Speaker 2 (02:20:23):
In New England. I don't know if you can bring
it back.

Speaker 3 (02:20:26):
You just look at just how they perform him, and
they're just not playing well like a team that has
always prided itself in being like the smart football team.

Speaker 2 (02:20:35):
They're not playing smart football.

Speaker 3 (02:20:36):
Turnovers, penalties, all the other stuff that they've really prided
themselves in for a long time, stuff that leads to
two wins.

Speaker 2 (02:20:43):
They just haven't been able to get it done. Yeah.
I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't know
how they fix it. Yes, it's it's tough. I don't
know how they fix it.

Speaker 6 (02:20:51):
And I got plenty of fans, you know, friends that
are fans of the Patriots, and they're starting to realize
what it's like to be, uh well, a fan almost
any other NFL team, because they had two decades of ah,
we're gonna be there at the end. So literally, you
could check out in September or October if you wanted to,
because your team was playing meaningful football in December, and

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now all of a sudden, you're looking up at the scoreboard,
going wow, what happened? And then maybe you go back
and watch some of those games and like why is
this even being out here and what kind of product
are they selling me? It's like, yeah, welcome to the
other half. Talked about it before Cleveland with their thirty
six quarterbacks in twenty five years of football. That's just right.

Speaker 3 (02:21:33):
Yeah, it is frighting, but it says you how hard
it is to identify and find guys at a position,
franchise players at the position. It was easy when you
had everything in place. You were able to develop Tom Brady.
Tom Brady went from being the game manager to the playmaker.

Speaker 2 (02:21:51):
And those things.

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
You had to reinvent yourself in terms of how you
built the team around him as he became the Tom
Brady that everyone calls to goat mag Jones has not
been that you didn't have. I mean, I mean, you go,
you go back, and you're really honest. They were a
better team when they had Cam Newton in terms of
how competitive they were in those things. Now this this team,

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I mean, I never thought I would see a Pages
team in back to back weekends get absolutely clobbered, right they.

Speaker 6 (02:22:18):
Were in those games.

Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
I mean, like not even in the game to the
point like it's it's almost like a laugher, like a
homecoming game for the New Orleans Saints.

Speaker 2 (02:22:28):
I don't know, man, because that's the game.

Speaker 6 (02:22:30):
Like, look, we could go and parse through their schedule
and disappointing sequences. The Saints team, they're not good. The
defense is pretty strong, but I mean offensively, and now
you get Kamara back and maybe that opens things up.
But you know, we've talked about Derek Carr a lot.
I mean, he's your A to B guy. Is he

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getting into the finish line?

Speaker 1 (02:22:52):
No?

Speaker 6 (02:22:53):
Olave is a world class talent. You've gotten more out
of Michael Thomas than you thought you would, so I
guess congratulations there. But they're no world beaters. And that
game was a one point spread to show you what
the odds makers thought because they looked at it and said,
we don't trust either of these teams.

Speaker 3 (02:23:11):
Yeah, yeah, you wanted to be a toss up and
they get moleywop. Yeah, you just don't know how good
they are. And that's that's really hard, man. It's hard
because I don't know how good the Saints are, but
I know if the Saints are like a mystery man,
I don't know what to call the Patriots.

Speaker 6 (02:23:30):
Well, I mean, look, we know what they are. They're bad, right,
you can't you know, hope is long extinguished. We get
excited week one, don't know what you're gonna get you
and wrap some new goodies. And remember before the season
people picking justin fields for MVP honors, and then two
weeks in it's the That schedule is not bad either,

(02:23:51):
Like I was actually just talking without that. We'll talk
about that in a moment. First, let's go get an
update from our guy. And look, he's the sharpest dressed
man around these Fox Sports radio hallways. You know why,
Bucky Brooks. He's got an angel City FC game today
and then he's got Chargers football tomorrow. That's right, he's
gonna get me one of those gift bags that they're
handing out to it's our guy, Isaac Low and crin.

Speaker 9 (02:24:12):
Oh, yes, you should be looking forward to that gift bag.
I'll get you more than one if I can, if
I can see, Yeah, that's my gay.

Speaker 6 (02:24:20):
Yeah, I at least need you know, I need the
poster like I saw the promo. Oh okay, you got
a season ending poster that you know is rolling up there.
See what I did there. I'm just begging for stuff now.

Speaker 1 (02:24:30):
It's as good as done.

Speaker 9 (02:24:31):
Yeah, people who work in our line of work begging
for stuff that's never happened before around these well I normally.

Speaker 1 (02:24:37):
Don't do that.

Speaker 6 (02:24:38):
You know you are daughter as a soccer fan. You
know we've gone to a bunch of games.

Speaker 9 (02:24:43):
Absolutely best, that's all, you know what. That's right. There
is a difference between that and the typical sports radio
merchandise free pursuit in our line of work, and also
free food by the way, that's right, and also another
quirk of our of our industry where.

Speaker 6 (02:24:58):
People normally walk up and give it a sniff. If
it still smells reasonable, they'll eat it. Spoken like a
true Fox Sports Radio veteran. That is the story of
our lives here in this studio, the mystery timetable of
the food on that blue table right by the door
onto the NFL, and we've got kickoff coming up.

Speaker 9 (02:25:20):
In fact, it just happened. Lamar Jackson of the Baltimore
Ravens setting up shop in London, beginning their first possession
from their twenty seven yard line. They're three and two.
The Tennessee Titans two and three. First play from scrimmage
is unfolding and it's a short pass that gains them
about three yards out to the thirty yard line. So
Ravens and Titans just underway in London and college football

(02:25:43):
on Saturday Night, number twenty one Notre Dame defeated tenth
ranked USC forty eight to twenty. USC's first loss. They
committed five turnovers, including three Caleb Williams interceptions. Arizona forty
four to six victory at number nineteen, Washington State twelfth
throwing North Carolina off number twenty five Miami forty one
to thirty one. Fifteenth ranked Oregon State over number eighteen

(02:26:05):
UCLA thirty six to twenty four. Finally fellas in news
I'm being forced to talk about by my producers and
most notably my wife. Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis
Kelcey Yeah, and music superstar Taylor Swift made it p
DA official. Yes night, as the kids say, as they

(02:26:29):
were photographed holding hands while entering a New York City
restaurant No Boo, before later making separate cameos on Saturday
Night Live.

Speaker 1 (02:26:40):
So how's that for a date night?

Speaker 2 (02:26:43):
No Boo?

Speaker 9 (02:26:44):
And then separate cameos on Saturday Night Live while me
and my wife just hang out at the Sizzler.

Speaker 6 (02:26:49):
Back to you guys, well, I mean, look seems like
I'd go to something that's specifically New York. I mean,
there's no boos in multiple big cities, so I mean,
and GA's very good point.

Speaker 1 (02:27:01):
Exclusive the other thing.

Speaker 6 (02:27:03):
I mean, Taylor Swift did introduce Ice Spice on the
Who's doing the Duncan commercials with Ben Affleck for those
that you know are trying to relate who she is.
Did the she introduced her as the musical guest, and
then Kelsey ended up on the back end of a
skit they did with Pete Davidson as a sideline reporter
wearing his pink cowboy hat and complaining that Taylor didn't

(02:27:25):
show up at an Eagles game. Pretty good bit, and
then Kelsey just shows up for about what two and
a half seconds before they go to commercial break. But
it got folks excited, and certainly I'm sure the numbers
of the West Coast viewing after that went out went
live on the East Coast, and they do show it
live here on the West Coast. I don't think people

(02:27:47):
understand that NBC changed their programming a couple of years
ago to just say you'll you'll see it twice, realizing
that Saturday Night why pay for the production of other shows,
Let's just show this live as well.

Speaker 1 (02:28:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 6 (02:28:01):
It's gone viral and you can see those clips. It'll
take you all of about eight seconds of your time.
They did keenan, Keenan Thompson, though Bucky did a big
skit with as Dion Sanders just kept saying look at me,
look at me.

Speaker 1 (02:28:16):
Come on, Colin, look at me, look at me.

Speaker 6 (02:28:18):
And then you know, talking about the brilliance of Colorado
and he's like, well, it's not like there's a bunch
of undefeated teams, and then they list off as they go, okay, yeah,
him too. It is pretty good bit tough loss for
them on Friday night, but yeah, the hilarity of Saturday
Night Live returns, no question about it as well. Not hilarity,

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Back into that Bears conversation briefly here Bucky still wondering
what happened to the defensive coordinator. At some point there
has to be an answer. I don't even know where
the guy is at this point. But you had the

(02:29:21):
game you gave away to Denver game you should have won.
Absolute collapse, a couple of play calls that leave you curious.
But look, if you leave the football, you drop your
loaf of bread. You deserve to have it taken and
run back. See how even get some Limz and Jean Valjean.
And that's how talented I am. A happy belated birthday,
Hugh Jackman. You got Minnesota at home today, then you

(02:29:45):
got Vegas at home next week on the road they
come out here to play the Chargers on the road
at New Orleans and then Carolina at home before a
November nineteenth date at Detroit. That's five games, all of
which you look at and say you should at least
be in them. If not, we're able to get a

(02:30:09):
little bit of a streak together. Do I expect, you know,
to run the table out there. No, but you're gonna
be competitive, And all of a sudden you're back into
the muddled mix, you know, in the deep seated wild
card world of our NFL. So for the Bears, you know,
you found that connection with DJ Moore. You've got Cole
Comet playing some better football, took some shots with darn

(02:30:31):
Al Mooney. He's on my sleeper list for this week
going up against Minnesota's secondary because they're in a weird
transitional phase at this point. You got Captain Kirk saying,
I'm not doing the no trade. I'm not even talking
about that stuff now. But losing Justin Jefferson, your run
game has been suspect. Talk of trading Daniil Hunter here,

(02:30:51):
who they've had some contract issues with the last couple
of years and his health for that matter. That you know,
today's another winnable game. That's suddenly you raise an eyebrow.
And if Justin Fields pushed together another game like he
has the last two weeks, perhaps a lot of the
hey throw it all in the you know, the Chicago
river for Caleb Williams goes out the window a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:31:15):
Maybe I think this is a huge stretch of games
for Matt Eberflus.

Speaker 3 (02:31:19):
This will give us an opportunity to evaluate him as
a not only as a head coach, but as a
defensive play caller. Is is salvageable because he can do
the Bill Belichick thing in the past where he can
X and O's overshadow the Jimmies and Joe's and they're
able to get some wins. Because he talked about kind
of filling alive since being able to get back to

(02:31:39):
call and plays and putting his feet in the grass
and being more involved in those things.

Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
Secondly, for Justin Fields, this is critical.

Speaker 3 (02:31:46):
He has to show not only to the front office
and ownership, but to the fan base that Justin Fields
year three, year four is better than the mystery quarterback
behind door number one. Because it come down to Justin
Fields versus Kayleb Williams, Justin Fields versus Drake May, Justin
Fields versus Michael Pennants, which one gives you the better

(02:32:09):
chance to build a franchise that you want to be
based on where that number is gonna because if justin
Field stays at some point, you're gonna have to re
sign them, versus turning and resetting the clock with a
young quarterback. So it's a lot riding on the head
coach and the quarterback. Because if they win, they can
they can spare themselves. If not, I think you go shopping,

(02:32:30):
you go looking for others.

Speaker 6 (02:32:32):
Yeah, because it's a curious place. Also with the Bears
is they don't generally fire coaches, and I mean by generally,
I mean they don't know fire coaches.

Speaker 2 (02:32:43):
So that you don't want to pay the money. No,
it's a moment. It's a mom and pop shot. And
it's not just the head coaches money. It's all those
little assistants you see running around on the sideline. You
got to account for all of that.

Speaker 3 (02:32:55):
That's a lot of cash that you have to dole
out if you decide to make a change. That's why
they want to get mett Ebraflus every opportunity to turn
this around.

Speaker 6 (02:33:05):
Also the reason why they want their own facility. All
the money they're not making that their competitors in the
league are to be able to make those kind of decisions, right,
you want to make big boy decisions and change how
you're operating and get out from under mistakes. You got
to get away from the Park District of Chicago, right.
Taylor Swift sells out three days at Soldier Field. You

(02:33:27):
ain't seeing a dime. They have a bunch of events,
monster truck races, you name it, everything that shows up
at Soldier Field, concerts galore. They don't see any money
of it. They get their gait from where they're there,
and that's it. So yeah, and look, it's not a
pittance right when you start breaking down the TV contracts
and whatever else. But when you say why does this

(02:33:49):
team shuffle up, Well, because they've got the cash to
do it. Either that or just grossly impatient. Somewhere in
between those two things meet. But certainly for the Bears,
part of it is yeah, very much. The family organization
run like a family business. Of all right, we're gonna
give you enough time and let the clock run out.
You know, we'll fix the glitch Office Space style rather

(02:34:12):
than actually fire someone and pay them to go away.

Speaker 2 (02:34:16):
New world or is yeah, new world order.

Speaker 3 (02:34:19):
But when you have teams like that like the Bears,
the Bengals, mom and pop teams.

Speaker 2 (02:34:24):
This is how you operate. I mean, you know, you
operate where the business is the business. The football team
is the business.

Speaker 3 (02:34:30):
There's no influx of cash coming from another thing like
my Amazon money would just pay for it and make
it go away.

Speaker 2 (02:34:37):
No, we have to make this work. And for the Bears,
that's why they're so invested.

Speaker 3 (02:34:41):
In Ebra flu is getting this right and that's why
he I mean, he's gonna get another year. I would
think unless it absolutely just craters, he'll get another opportunity
to do it.

Speaker 6 (02:34:51):
Yeah. I think it would absolutely have to create her
and people would have to do the go fundme process
to get that for by five million, yeah, plus all
those assistants. Right, someone comes up with a giant check
to make it go away. Maybe they can pull that off. Hey,
stranger things have happened in our sporting universe, particularly in

(02:35:12):
the last twelve months. I think we can all stipulate
to that. He's Bucky Brooks on Mike Harmen. It's Fox
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Speaker 1 (02:35:22):
Coming up. We'll go rapid fire on the last couple.

Speaker 6 (02:35:24):
Of games of the day gives Really the slate has
some real dogs on it. We'll try to pick out
the fleas and go back to the good boy as
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(02:36:08):
and your bar bets and all your conversations about Week
six in the National Football League, as well as some
live betting opportunities. I'm sure regarding this Ravens and Titans game.
Ravens get out to a three to nothing lead six
straight games. Bucky that they scored on their opening possession.
That's good for business. Want to cash in for some sevens,

(02:36:29):
but four for four forty five yards off the jump.
No drops yet for the Ravens, So big advancement midway
through the first.

Speaker 3 (02:36:39):
Yeah, no drops. That's that's a big that's a big thing.
So maybe they can get on track. Maybe they can
execute the game plan the time monk and once and
they can get that done. I like what I'm seeing
from Lamar Jackson in terms of de throwing. You just
want to see the consistency from the offense, and ultimately
you want to see score points. You gotta score points
in this league to win, So maybe they'll get this
offense on track.

Speaker 6 (02:37:00):
A good job defensively, like you said, a bunch of
wide receivers, and we saw the shotgun approach from a
number of these teams right going back to New England
and some of these others going for quantity of players
and not really finding that guy Titans thought they did
and finding DeAndre Hopkins getting him out of Arizona hasn't
quite worked the same way. But they're two and three

(02:37:23):
in a division that you know, you haven't seen any
of any runaway and hide just yet. I mean it's
only five weeks in, so you're not getting great separation
in most of these races. But I've got to ask you,
you're Jacksonville Jaguar sitting there at three and two. You
got a date with the Colts later on today. Gardner Minshew,
Josh Downs has been a nice surprise for them alongside

(02:37:45):
Michael Pittman. Now with Taylor back signing that deal, that
was one of the surprises I guess last week that
finally broke through whatever those discussions were. You know it
was supposed to not be Bridge. No, it's always busy
and it's never personal, especially when forty two million dollars
is involved. But they've got a good thing going with

(02:38:05):
Moss and now with Taylor coming back. How did the
Jaguars respond defensively to slow that down today?

Speaker 3 (02:38:13):
You got to make sure first and foremost, you got
to stop the running game. This has to be a
game where if you're the Jaguars, you put it on Garnermentshew.
You want Garnermentshew to have to throw it thirty to
thirty five times to have to beat you, because you're
counting on him making a mistake, the game getting too
big for him, kind of not being able to keep
the magic for four quarters. But this is a good
team they've knocked off some big teams. They found a

(02:38:36):
way to win. They have a recipe for doing it,
and so it takes patients and it takes discipline. If
they're patient and they're disciplined, the Jaguars end up winning.

Speaker 6 (02:38:44):
Saw an interesting stat that was posted forget which of
the betting side sites it was, so I'm sorry enough
to cite it directly, but it was the stat that
teams that came back from the overseas games and then
didn't have a bye week in tween. Uh, it's eleven
straight games where they've either been tied or losing going

(02:39:05):
into the fourth quarter. Wow, that's crazy, right, So competitive games? Yeah,
so we'll see how both. I mean, the Bills have
the what should be in theory a laughfer. But in
this day and age in the NFL, you never know, Bucky.
But you're a Jaguars, you know, a team that I have,
you know, projected to do great things. They really need
to show up for me today.

Speaker 2 (02:39:29):
No, they got to get it done. We'll we'll see
what it looks like.

Speaker 6 (02:39:32):
So off the games today, is there one that stands
out in terms of a make or break With the
trade deadline two weeks from now, you know, like.

Speaker 3 (02:39:42):
The trade dead Yeah, the trade deadline. I don't know
if that's gonna be majorly in play. The game that
is currently on right now to me is make a
break for the Baltimore Ravens. They can't afford to give
one away, So I'm gonna say that's the game.

Speaker 6 (02:39:53):
Certainly not after last week. Count died to kickoff next
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