FOX Sports Saturday with Kevin Figgers & Adam Auslund react to the HUGE Micah Parsons Trade, Preview Week 1 of College Football + Dan Wolken joins the show!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:03):
That's right, We're back again on Fox Sports Saturday. Kevin Figures,
Adam Allston, F and A on FSR.

Speaker 3 (00:09):
There hasn't been a four peat since like the sixties, right,
I'm thinking of Boston with Bob.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Coosey oh, when there was like four teams in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, do those rings still count?

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Depends on who you ask. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Old heads will fight to the death even though there
were just eight teams fighting to the death back in
the sixties to claim those rings, especially Boston Celtics fans
of course, because uh, I've only won like two in
the modern era over the last thirty five years.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Good southing from counting all the rings from back in
the day.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Though, Sorry, I'm starting to sound like a Laker fan here,
like I'm taking a shot at Boston, but that is
not something I would do.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Got k fig one is where you can find me
on X. Adam is that follow Adam A on X
at Fox Sports Radio as well. Got a big show
lined up for you guys for the next three hours.
We're obviously get in to Week one of college football.
At Week zero last weekend Week one, I already had
a major upset On Thursday, Boys E State going down
had a big Colorado matchup against Georgia Tech. They came

(01:06):
down to the wire. Dion saying that he wanted to
get back to the run game this year. Shocking. I
wonder why, considering who his quarterback is, not.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
He knows how to run out the clock. Yeah, how
does this look. I'm not trying to say that I'm
smarter than all these coaches that can draw off the
ex y banana plays and know where everyone's going to
be on the field. I'm not, but I'm not a
darkharmed guy. But I do feel like I could do
a better job when it comes to clock management than

(01:35):
about ninety percent of college football coaches and NFL coaches.
I cannot believe this stuff still happens all the times
where they just completely mismanaged the clock a.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Lot of times. I don't know if the game is
just moving too fast for them on the field or
what the situation is, but it happens constantly, and it
happens at the pro level too.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Andy Reid, who has won multiple Super Bowls now, but
he used to get killed for it in Philly and
in his early days in Kansas to see.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
He's still I think at times is not the best
when it comes to managing the clock, and he gets
he finds a way to manage around it. I guess
that happens when you have Patrick Mahomes and Steve Spagnolo
as a defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
But how does something that important, though, get overlooked? I
don't know how was someone's job. Don't they have a
time management guy that should be on it?

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I think most teams do now, or if they don't,
they definitely should. Time magic go should be tethered right
next to the head coach. But we digress.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I feel like Breeze, like you guys are about to
mismanage the clock here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Oh I'm sorry, Bri. I was just getting ready to
dive deep into the San Jose State game that just happened.
We had a ride, right, Do you not want me
to talk about that?

Speaker 4 (02:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No, okay, lace as we're out, fine, we will get
into some college football obviously coming up in today's show.
Coming up an hour two of the show, we'll talk
to Dan Wolkin, now of Yahoo Sports formerly of USA Today.
He will come on and talk about the big storylines
as Week one of college football kicks off this weekend.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
We also got strangerin Fiction Breeze three. It is a
fully loaded FNA on FSR show, And you know how
we like to start things off.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Coon.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's wrong, Kevin, you got some explaining to do for
your cowboys?

Speaker 2 (03:09):
What my cowboys?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Maybe we could just have to explain that I threw
you under the bus a little too fast.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
No no, no, not at all my Dallas Cowboys, but
a lot of cowboy fans obviously crime teers. These last
couple of days, after what happened with Michael Parsons on
a Thursday afternoon, I.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Would like to point out that Jerry Jones, after one
question the first question, spoke for eleven minutes straight coincidence. Michaeh.
Parsons also wears number eleven. I don't know something to
think about little numerology here, dream of conscious.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I will not say this. Some said it was just
the ramblings of an old man. I wouldn't say that.
I think that's very disrespectful to say of Jerry Jones.
But was coaching, he did have a lot of explaining
to do. Considering how this entire situation ended up playing out,
the fact that Michael Parson is now a Green Bay Packer,
seemingly out of nowhere. I mean, it went from how
we're gonna have negotiations, Yeah, it was tough. It's just
like Dak and playing hardball. We'll talk to the agent

(04:02):
and we'll get something resolved, and all of a sudden,
there's a report from Adam Schefter saying that, oh, now
there's negotiations between the Cowboys and a couple of other
teams about actually making a deal. In about thirty five minutes,
maybe after that, the bombshell that he is now officially
a Green Bay Packer, two first round picks and Kenny
Clark X of UCLA now our three time Pro Bowl
defensive tackle going to the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
I don't want to break my arm patting myself on
the back. And this show for the way we talked
about this situation last week, But I think we made
it pretty clear that something was different here. This wasn't
just Jerry being Jerry. This was not Dak Prescott, this
was not Cedee Lamb just waiting for the eleventh hour
to get a deal done. Do you know where the

(04:45):
tagline this time It's personal comes from?

Speaker 2 (04:49):
I don't know, but I've heard it.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
You want to take a guess because I look this up.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I have no idea.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
According to chat GPT or whatever.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Oh that's you know, truthful and you know the irreliable.
Absolutely it comes from Jaws. The revenge that would be
Jaws four. I didn't even know there was a Jaws four. Well,
I knew there was a Jaws too.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
You know why it was personal because the Jaws were
going up. Jaws was going after members of the family.
Now I see, like, just not indiscriminately killing anybody, so
he was going after particular people. I think Roy Scheider's
character was already out of it, like Michael Kaine's in it.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Okay, okay, that's redeeming quality. Then I like Michael Kane.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
He's ninety two. Now he might be the only person
older than Jerry Jones. It's still around. Like, I can't
believe it got to this point, but I also can
At the same time. Is that cognitive dissidence when you
believe two things that are contrast.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Like that, Well, you would say it's all about ego
at this point in time, that's the issue. It's it's
not even necessarily about about money because listen to what
Jerry Jones says, and I believe in some of the
reports they're off by maybe what six and a half
to seven million dollars more is exactly what the Packers
gave him over what Dallas gave him. So I'm not
saying it's not nothing when it comes to the salary

(06:01):
cat but it's certainly manageable. You can restructure one contract
of one offensive lineman and gain back seven million dollars.
I think it was just definitely the principle behind it.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
I do think Hubert's played a role. There was an
ego element to this. There was meddling maybe from the
perspective of Jerry Jones and looking at what the agent.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Was up to.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
He thought he had a deal like George Castanza did
with the squirrel, and things got squirrely in this negotiation process.
Like Jerry Jones, I think comes from a different place obviously,
where he thinks a handshake is as good as ink
on the paper.

Speaker 2 (06:40):
He's a business man, Adams. He can't believe that.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
I he seems to think before for him, Oil magn Cory.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
To Jerry, come on, all right, whatever you say, Jerry,
you know, nothing is official until you put pin to
paper and you know how this situation works. Let's can
we say take a listen to Jerry Jones and his
son Stephen Jones talking about this deal. Mark, can we
go to to cut a level and talking about how
this trade now bolsters the Dallas Cowboys and helps their
run defense.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
We need to stop the run, we really do. We
need to get the ball back.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
Kenny Clark was a big part of this, That was
a part of winning right now. And we feel like
when you look at you know, the frustration is we
hadn't been able to win the big game in the
playoffs and we think it is a direct connection to
not being able to stop the run. And we think
Kenny Clark's going to be a big piece to that.
And we felt like because of our debt on the
edge as well as the ability to be able to

(07:29):
scheme pressure, that we could make up for Micah because
obviously he's elite at rushing the passer, that we could
make up for that.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I didn't realize that the reason why you were losing
one score of playoff games to teams like the forty
nine ers at home was because Michaeh Parsons wasn't a
pulling his weight. I didn't realize that was the problem.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
The weak link all along, hiding and playing sight the
same guy who has the same amount of sacks per
year as Reggie White through his first four years in
the NFL. The numbers are gaudy, like a lot of
this stuff. When it comes to pressure rate with Micah,
Parsons says he's elite, and he is. I will say this, though, Kevin,
I think there is something defensible here from the Jones

(08:11):
family in this case. As much as I want to say,
Jerry Jones is the grift that keeps on grifting, and
he is giving us a lot of content here. As
much as I want to say he doesn't care about
Super Bowls, he cares about controversy. He's like a rod
kissing himself in the mirror. But he does that when
he's watching himself on TV. With all these reports and

(08:32):
with all these pressers. I do think there's some logic
to this. Do I think it was still botched? Yes,
because of the timing of it, because they put themselves
in a corner where they couldn't get as much as
they should have if they were going to move Micah Parsons.
They could have done it back when free agency opened originally,
when teams had all the money in the world.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
And how preface. I think, I know what direction you're
going here. The price tag would not have been as
high on Micah had they done this four months ago
as opposed to now.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
Not the first time people have complained about this with
Dak Prescott, get the deal done earlier. You know what
the guy is worth, or you know what his value
is to this team. Same with Cedee Lamb. Why are
you waiting so long and then you get taken for
a ride by their agent. But I do think when
you're talking about impact on wins, I have a problem

(09:24):
with paying a guy this much money for this particular
Dallas Cowboys team because they won seven games last year.
Micah Parsons can get all the quarterback hurries and pressures
he wants, he can get his twelve sacks, they still
gave up twenty eight points per game the Dallas Cowboys defense.
They were still miserable on that end. If I can't

(09:45):
pay a guy two hundred million to fix that problem,
and it was there last year with Micah Parsons, I
don't know if it's worth doing for a team that
doesn't have lofty expectations. He's not taking them over the top.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
So I'll say this a big part of the reason
why they struggled last year. As much as we talked
about Dak Prescott, whether or not he's overrated, he only
played in eight games. So a big reason why they
struggled as a team is the fact that their star quarterback,
regardless of what you think of him, he's an above
average at worst starting quarterback. That's a big issue. Fair
and I will speak to someone who who bore witness

(10:20):
to this as a Raider fan. This happened not that
long ago with someone named Khalil Macke. The Raiders had
a twelve and four season. Derek Carr was in the
MVP race before he ended up breaking his leg against
the Indianapolis Colts. Their defense was not good, but guess
who was the defensive player of the year that year.
It was Khalil Mack. Khalil Mack won like three or
four games by himself that year. I can remember a

(10:40):
game specifically against your Carolina Panthers. He had a stripsack
against Cam Newton on the final drive, recovered the ball.

Speaker 3 (10:47):
Oh Cam obviously is not going to try to recover
it himself.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
We see it or not do that in the Super Bowl,
there is more inherent value. I know you can look
at the DVO way and all the extended stats from
the defense as a whole, but there's a player who
can make it an impact, even if it's one or
two plays a game. We know how thin the margin
is in this league. Sure, one or two plays is
all the difference it can make. You can run up
and down the field on a particular defense, but if

(11:10):
your offense gets a lead, which the Dallas Cowboys when
they're at their best in the regular season at the
very least, is what they do, get up on teams
and allow guy like Michael Parsons to go in there
and be a game wrecker. That makes a difference. I
think it's worth paying. I forget the old saying or
who said this, but you can't overpay for great. You
can overpay good, you can't overpay great. Michael Parsons right now,

(11:31):
if he stays on this trajectory is a Hall of
Fame player. You can't overpay someone like that. The impact
that he could make as an individual player. I think
even with the defense being as bad as it is.
He's the person who can make that one or two
or three defensive plays in a singular game that can
completely shift the momentum.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
You're not wrong, but I do disagree in this case.
In this respect, Aaron Donald was playing his position at
defensive tackle better than anybody else was playing their position
in the NFL. He was better at his job than
anybody else was at THEIRS. But the amount that he
can impact a game is still limited, or was when

(12:09):
he was playing. Otherwise they would have won every season
because Aaron Donald was far and away the best football
player for a good five years.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh, you're always gonna need help. No one literally does
it by themselves. Look at Joe Burrow. He's a phenomenal quarterback.
He can't even do it by himself.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
But he has a minuscule amount of influence compared to
the quarterback position. My point in all of this is,
really it's not about Micah Parsons. It's not about Jerry Jones.
This is about Dak Prescott. I don't think they're in
a position where there are Micah Parsons away from winning it.
I think they're in a spot and maybe they've realized
it where they know where their ceiling is. With Dak

(12:45):
Prescott wild Card, winning one game in the playoffs, maybe
winning two, they're not winning a super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
So you're taking half measures now because what you're doing
now is taking away a ginormous one of the best
players in the entire league, regardless of the position, for
two draft picks. Who who the hell knows what those
are going to turn into. I like Kenney Clark, He's
a very good player. Is he an impact player like
Michael Parsons is?

Speaker 3 (13:07):
No?

Speaker 2 (13:08):
No, So what do you say? What are you selling
your fans on Dak Prescott? Ceedee lamb. These guys are
gonna go out and score forty five points a game,
but we're gonna win a bunch of shootouts. Because if
it's a rebuilt, then it's a rebuild. This is not
herschel Walker. First of all, you sucked when you had
hershe Walker, So you trade him away, you get a
bunch of picks, you suck for a couple of more
years as you accumulate draft picks and you progressively get better.

(13:29):
That's not the case here. You trade him to a franchise,
the Packers, who are already kind of a middling team
towards the top of the favorites list. As far as
the NFC being a Super Bowl contender, now you kind
of vault them towards the top of being a Super
Bowl consenter. So even if you get those those first
round picks, they're gonna be in the twenties at best.
So I know Dallas does have a decent track record

(13:50):
of drafting well, but really outside of the Herschel.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
Trade, which is forty years ago now, and he should
not have brought that up at the press conference.

Speaker 6 (13:57):
Ye.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Well, that is setting your fan base up with expectations
that you're never going to meet because that was an
all time win fall. It's not happening.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Happening again, those don't age well, there are history is
littered with deals. I just mentioned Khalil Mack. You know,
Laramie Tunsel, there was a big hall for him, Deshaun Watson.
We mentioned that all these guys who garner all these
draft picks. That's great and it sounds good on paper,
but the likelihood of you hitting on all these picks
is very, very slim. It's the reason why we always

(14:25):
go back to Hershel Walker as the last time this
has really worked because generally speaking, when you trade an
all time player for a Hall of picks, it doesn't
end up working out in your favor. And if you're
the Dallas Cowboys, if you're selling me on a rebuild,
cool trade deck and trade CD and start from the bottom.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
Here's the problem.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
You're not gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
They made mistakes with those guys. You could say, well,
we got to go all in. He just he said
in the press conference. We believe in Dak. Now he
has to say that. But I think they know Dak
is limited. He's two and five in the playoffs. It's
not all on him. He's good. He's not a top
quarterback in the league, and he's thirty two. We have

(15:03):
a real good idea who Dak Prescott is Ceedee Lamb
is all world. But the quarterback position has the biggest
influence by far, maybe in all of sports, in team sports,
to affect the outcome of a game. And they have
a guy that is not gonna be able to take
you to the promised Land. I don't care if you
have Micah Parsons or not. Now, the argument of they

(15:25):
didn't get enough, I agree. The real way they botched
this is they should have handled it earlier and not
put themselves in a position where they gave him up
for so little because green Bay is going to be
really good. See the opposite of what's going on in
Dallas is I think Green Bay might be a Micah
Parsons away from being that good. Now they have the
six best odds to win the Super Bowl because of

(15:48):
this move, it makes sense for them. I don't think
it makes sense for Dallas to pay a guy one
hundred and eighty eight million that either way, I'm picking
them third in their division with or worthy out Micah Parsis.
So why am I paying that guy that much money?
That's my question. Yo, that's certainly a valid question to ask.

(16:08):
But my thing is I would try my best to
try to supplement around him, knowing that if you have
one of the best players at his position in the
entire league, why not try to fortify and build around him.
You've you've scouted well, you've drafted well, and look, I
understand the argument of well, if you pay him all
this guaranteed money, now you're taking up forty eight to
fifty percent of the salary cap on he Ceedee Lamb

(16:29):
and Dak Prescott and it's hard to build that way,
and it is, but you can always go back and
renegotiate contracts.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Team do this. Teams do this all the time. There's
a way to navigate around it. This is not something
that's wholly unique to the Cowboys will be the only
team who's ever done something like this. It's doable, but
to trade away an all time defensive player like this
right on the eve of training camp, to your point
at him, the problem is if you think that you're
a better team now, and you are going to be
a better team anyway without Michael Parsons, why do we

(16:55):
go through the song and dance to begin with, why
didn't you trade him right after last season ended. That's
the part that doesn't make sense in congruous to make
that statement.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
They're not better in the short term. They could be
better in the long term because they need to build
just a better infrastructure all around. With Dallas, they got
a lot of different holes going on there, and maybe
if you spread that money around, like look at it
this way, they can lose Michah Parsons and make this
trade today and you can say it was for Kenny
Clark and for two first round picks but really down

(17:25):
the line, if they end up paying Darren Bland or Tyler. Wait,
if they end up paying some of these guys, they
wouldn't be able to pay if they paid Michaeh Parsons.
It's like, Okay, that's part of the equation as well,
and that makes sense to me. But I still think
the problem is under center. And if you are a
Micah Parsons away because you have a guy that you

(17:48):
think is capable in Green Bay of leading you to
the promised Land, I'm all for it. For the Packers,
I think they're going to be great. It's a bad
fit though for Dallas. Did they still screw things up?
Because they should have got more and done this earlier,
made the trade earlier. Yes, this might have been the
best they could get right now, a week before the
season starts, but obviously this wasn't their plan A no no.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
And if it was their plan A, if you thought
this was going to make you a better team, again,
you would have done this well before training chemp started
and you would have had an actual bidding war as
opposed to just settling for the best deal you could
possibly get in the eleventh hour. That's the problem that
I have. If this was their line of thinking for
the very beginning, Again, they never would have negotiated with
them to begin with. So that obviously tells you that
they did that value value him highly. And I think

(18:36):
because the money, again from what Green Bay gave him
versus what Dallas reportedly offered him was not that great,
that tells me that Jerry Jones, it was strictly an
ego play. I'm tired of you jerking me around. This
is my franchise, go somewhere else, and for me, just
based on the facts of how I'm viewing this thing,
That's how this worked out. It was all based on
Jerry's ego and had less to do really had less
to do about the actual team itself and more about that.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
I definitely think that's a big part of it. I
also just think this is just my philosophy. Hey, Miles
Garrett's Great brown still gave up twenty six points per
game last season, like Max Crosby's Great Raiders gave up
twenty six points per game. Trey Hendrickson is great. Since
these defense is terrible, it's gonna take more than one guy.
They have more issues than just fixing things with Micah Parsons,

(19:20):
to me, a guy that position is like an amplifier,
Like you better already have the stereo, and it can't
be sanyo because the amplifier guy is gonna make everything
work better and enhance it all, which is what's gonna
happen with the Green Bay Packers. But I don't know
if he can carry you at that position. Yeah, when
you're already missing so many guys across the board like

(19:44):
they are in Dallas.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, I guess we're at an impass on this because
for me, there's a reason why after quarterback, left tackle,
pass rusher is the next important position that every single
team values the highest in the league. And you have
one of those guys that could be a game record.
Regardless of how bad the defense as a whole can be,
those guys can make an impact. Speaking of making an impact,
we have a huge weekend of college football that began
on Thursday, and some are calling this the best weekend

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Speaker 3 (21:45):
Anything better than that?

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Very few things.

Speaker 7 (21:48):
Now.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
When we first got together on this show, I don't
know a good ten twelve years ago, you said your
favorite sport football, college football specifically college football specifically. Has
anything changed.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Well about the sport itself? A lot for the sport?

Speaker 3 (22:04):
Absolutely not, okay, So as it's gotten a little bit
more of a controlled chaos with it being more uniform,
with more balanced schedules and super conferences, it hasn't taken
away from the charm of college football for you.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
Uh slightly. I'm not a huge fan of the transfer portal,
at least the way that it's currently constituted, where guys
can literally up and leave and go to five different
schools in three and three years or whatever it is,
or even one year. I wish that was kind of
him did in a little bit. But I also understand
the argument of, well, if coaches can up and leave
whenever they want white camp players, but I do think
there has to be regulation in here somehow. So the

(22:41):
idea that you can't really determine or know who's playing
for what team on a weekend, week out basis because
guys are transferring in left and right. That makes it
really really difficult to track. So that's the one aspect
of the new era of college football that I'm not
the biggest fan of. But the nil aspect of it
I'm all for.

Speaker 3 (22:57):
So are you back in the Clemson then? Because they're
anti all this stuff, all these changes.

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Kind of you know, there's there's something to be said
for harkening back. And I saw an interview with Dabo
Sweeney earlier this week where you know, he's lauding, and
you could you can say that he's just you know,
making this up and just trying to make his program
sound good, but I do think he's genuine when he says,
like it's important that we bring in guys and cultivate
our own talent, that our graduation rates are high, that
we prioritize, yes, winning football games, but also making sure

(23:22):
that a lot of these guys who are not going
to turn pro have an actual future outside of football,
and that we're there, they're well taken care of. I
do think he's genuine and saying that. And as college
football has turned into more of a business, into a
quasi NFL, I do think it's refreshing. And look, he
took his lumps a little bit and now, granted the
struggles of Clemson quot unquote, they're still winning, winning ten

(23:43):
games and going to a SEC championship games, going to
the playoff last.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Year world Smalls Violin.

Speaker 2 (23:47):
Yeah, so they were there, but people were saying, like, oh,
Doabbo's gonna fall off and he can't win in this
new environment. And it's like, all right, well, yeah, he
had won a national championship in a little bit, but
he's still there. He hadn't fallen off, fallen off of
a cliff.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
They made the playoff.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, And so now a lot of people believe that
Clemson is kind of right up there with a lot
of the other teams. The other blue bloods who have
embraced the transfer portal, and he's had I believe he's
had a total of five transfers ever since the portal
era has begun. And now this is his highest ranking
and his best chance to act. They compete for a
national championship with a roster full of guys that he
cultivated and brought up through his program.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
In the same way. That's admirable. I like the fact
that arch Manning didn't transfer out, even knowing it would
take this long. I respect it for somebody this talented
to really get their shot. He's played some, of course,
but now biggest game of his life happening in nine

(24:41):
and a half hours from now, and he waited his turn.
I like that.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
Yeah, you don't get that a lot nowadays. Everybody wants
to play immediately.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
It's impulsiveness.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
It is so. And look, if Arch who's one of
the you know, I don't know if I'd say he's
one of the great talents we've seen in a long time.
I do think he's pumped up a little bit by
his last name.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
We'll find out.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Uh, well, we'll see. And look, he's obviously talented. He
showed that in a couple of games last year. I'm
not saying that he's some total hack, but I also
don't think that, you know, he's the second coming of
Cam Newton or Andrew Lucker or anything the way that
some people are talking him up.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
He took out Louisiana, Monroe and Mississippi State, and really
he's had one good under pressure throw. It was a
touchdown right before they half ended against Mississippi State. Outside that,
I'm looking at all his tape and it's like these
guys are running wide open and that's not happening against
Ohio State like this.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Yeah. Well, and a big criticism of his for people
who have followed him for a long period of time
is every time he has stepped up in competition, he struggled.
So now, granted to a certain degree that happens, there's
an adjustment period. There's a certain number of unicorns who
just come out and just dominated every level from day one,
h and he's but he certainly has not been that.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
You think he's gonna be more Eli or more Peyton Peyton,
the more cerebral, methodical, most prepared quarterback ever, or fly
by the seat of his pants like Eli Manning, which
sometimes works in big moments, as it did for him
in two Super Bowls, like or is it gonna be Cooper?

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Is it gonna be a dad?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
I didn't realize this doing more research on Cooper Manning.
He was a stud in high school. He and Peyton
Manning dominated together when he was a senior. In Peyton
Manning was a sophomore and he was going on to
look like the next Ed McCaffery or something like that.
In the NFL. He had a strange, a very rare

(26:31):
condition where he got nerve damage in his fingers in
his toes at a very young age. He couldn't hold
on to the football anymore, but he was this isn't
somebody that was one of these things? Is not like
the others. You got Eli, you got Peyton.

Speaker 5 (26:46):
He know.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's the meme of the three different dragons and two
of them look fierce and menacing, and one looks like, yeah,
that's not who Cooper was. And I love if you
listen to him on Dan Patrick's show show he might
be more media savvy, shockingly than his two brothers. Like
he's so self deprecating, he's funny, he's humorous, and I

(27:09):
wonder if the fact that he had to go through
what he did, watching his brothers go on to have
all this success and fading into the background, did he
tell arch like, hey man, wait your turn. It's all right.
You can be patient, trust me. I was patient. Never
got my shot because of injury. You'll get yours.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
Maybe, But I mean, considering the influence of his grandfather,
who was a I think I can call Archie a
great NFL quarterback despite the fact that his team had
no success.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
Maybe that's who arch is because he can run.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
I mean, he's yet more so than Peyton or Eli
for sure. So and obviously the influence of his uncle
has certainly helped with that too. So you have the
influence of all of those guys who you knew, and
you mentioned Cooper's physical setback. All those guys could play,
So I have no Obviously you can't take any issue
with his pedigree. Is just looking at him play. From
the people who evaluate these sorts of things, he might
be a little bit overhyped. Doesn't mean I'm not looking

(28:01):
forward to this game against Ohio State coming up, But
I think it's going to be a phenomenal matchup between
two really good young quarterbacks. Julian Saye, a freshman that
a lot of people aren't talking about. And there are
some people and I do want to ask Dan Wilkin
about this next hour when he comes on. There are
people who believe that Julian Sane is actually a better
quarterback than Manning is. But because his last name is
at Manning, he's kind of getting overshadowed here.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
I worry about Texas. Everywhere else really ars. Manning's going
into a situation where the offensive line has a lot
of turnover, a defensive deprievers. Defense is good, but it's
not like he's just joining a team and everybody else
is still there from last season on the offensive side
and he can just take over.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Yeah, they're going to probably be a little bit conservative offensively,
and I think they can afford to be because they're
going to be so good on defense and Ohio State
as talented as they are, And I question this. We
had no Ego on with us on this show a
couple of weeks ago, and he was touting about how
talent Ohio State is and they just reload and it's true,
but that's a lot of an experience on that side
of the ball. There's a lot of five stars who

(28:57):
have not played on a big stage quite yet. Doesn't
mean they win, doesn't mean they won't make the playoff,
doesn't mean they're not great. But I can't sit here
necessarily loud Ohio State and say that they're gonna come
in and dominate arch Manning in the Texas offense when
I just don't know. There's question marks. A lot of
teams are talented. USC is talented every year, they still
get run over at half the time by all these
big ten teams.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
USC has I say the bar for themselves by being
so bad now for so long compared to where their
standard was forever.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yeah, And I will say just the weekend in general,
I mean, this is the first time in a long time,
I believe, the first time ever we've had three top
ten matchups in one weekend. Yeah, Texas Ohio State is
one in three, number nine LSU versus Clemson, Tiger on
Tiger Death Valley versus Death Valley, and the number six
Notre Dame versus Miami, the Old Catholics versus Convicts. It's
pretty amazing to have these sorts of matchups. And I

(29:45):
know a lot of times these matches are set up
years in advance. You know, it's hard to predict who's
gonna be a great win. But I do think one
thing that the playoff, and specifically the new rule that
the Playoff instituted a couple of weeks ago, where they're
gonna give you credit for scheduling boldly against the power
opponent even if you lose, because before, the reason why
the SEC didn't want to go to non conference games

(30:06):
and they stuck with eight and they used to schedule
creampuffs is because wins is all that matter. So we
give ourselves an extra win. We have one fewer conference loss.
That's just going to bump us up on the standings.

Speaker 3 (30:17):
Well, and everybody back then when it was the BCS,
it was like you have to go undefeated, right, minimum
one loss unless you're LSU. You could have two or
three and somehow end up winning the whole damn thing.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Yeah. So yeah, basically you baked in an additional victory
on your schedule. Well, now they're going to hold it
against you if you schedule an FCS opponent as opposed
to a Power four opponent, which is how it should
have been the entire time, And they're not going to
necessarily ding you if you lose to a Power four opponent,
which should have been the case the entire time. Why
all of a sudden they decided to make that change,
I don't really know. Now you can argue at them too,

(30:48):
the fact that you're having a lot of so teams
are going to be able to schedule a little bit
more boldly in the non conference. But do the games
actually mean that much now, because if you do have
a loss or two in a twelve and soon to
be sixteeneen playoff, well, it kind of diminishes the regular
season a little bit, and it might I do agree
with that notion. But with that being said, I do
want to see good on good and I love cross

(31:08):
conference matchups between two great teams, and teams were not
willing to schedule boldly back in the day because they
just didn't have to, especially if you were in the SEC. Well, now,
all of a sudden, you get brownie points for doing,
get an expanded playoff, and it'll only help you.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Well.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
Back in the day, when let's say Oregon with Legarrett
Punch or Blunt would lose to Boise State to start
off the season, it felt crippling, correct like it was
a death blow. It's over. We can't make it. In
Now with twelve teams, you have this long runway, and
I think it's better from a competition standpoint because you

(31:43):
can see teams progress and get better as the season
goes on. And especially coming into this season, with how
many young quarterbacks we have are unproving quarterbacks, I should
say on great ball clubs that are highly ranked, give
them a chance to shake things out and see who's
the best. I actually do like this format better just

(32:03):
because it's not the end of the world if you
lose at the beginning of the season, and that's only
gonna make teams schedule more boldly or bravely. Fortune favors
the bold It's better overall, I think for college football,
SAT's in't that positive?

Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah, And it doesn't put all the pressure on college
kids to have to go undefeated for an entire season.
Teams evolve, especially in college with no preseason, which is
something that a lot of people don't even talk about
a lot of times. And if you're playing one of
these big opening weekend games Texas, Ohio State, LSU, Clemson,
something like that, you know, five six years ago you
lose a game like that, to your point, it could
be over for you at that point, which is just

(32:37):
in fair to a team full of talk about Ohio
State turning over sixty percent or whatever it is of
their roster. It's not fair to them. A month from now,
they can be clicking on all cylinders. It could be
playing extremely well. But because they lost the game in
August and now we're in November, you're gonna hope that
against them and not give them a chance to compete
for a championship. It just makes no sense whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (32:55):
The crux of the issue is getting the best matchups
week to week that we can get in college football.
And I think this new playoff format, which twelve teams,
does incentivize teams to really test themselves out there. I
want to get a dark horse team from you that
could make the playoff this year because I got one. Oh,
And I don't know how you're gonna feel about this, Okay.

(33:17):
It involves your former radio partner, Matt Ruhle oh head coach.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Yeah, Matt Rule friends with Anthony Gargano. Did a show
with Anthony a couple of years ago.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Head coach Nebraska.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
He did this is before it took the this might
even before he even took the Panthers job.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, Bree, where were you pay attention?

Speaker 2 (33:33):
All right?

Speaker 3 (33:34):
They already beat Cincy. It started off well.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
It was a close game, probably closer than it should
have been.

Speaker 3 (33:39):
But when I like to project out and predict with
things I know less about, like college football, I like
to look at schedules and where teams are gonna land
in the Big Ten against them. They got Michigan at home,
they got USC at home. Uh, they got Dana Holgerson.
Now as there are oc is this Chip Kelly with

(33:59):
r in daylight? What Nebraska is doing over there? I
think they might have a little something. They might only
end up with two losses. Is that possible? Is that crazy?

Speaker 8 (34:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (34:09):
The problem is you are in a very competitive Big
Ten conference where you could have other three or other
teams that have one loss. I look, Nebraska is good
and they're on the come up, and I love Matt Ruhle,
and Rayola is obviously a really talented player. I think
the Patrick Mahomes comparisons are a little rich for me.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
You know, Is that is that because maybe he's being
compared to the best quarterback ever arm talent?

Speaker 2 (34:31):
But I get it. He does have a good arm,
he's a really good athlete. He does a solid job
of making things happen out of the pocket. But I
feel like that's kind of a little bit of an
unrealistic expectation to play on the money at this point.

Speaker 3 (34:42):
Horse though, is it the worst prediction? Yeah, no, long shot.
It's my long shot. What do you got?

Speaker 2 (34:47):
It's that it's not that long of a shot. You know,
I would have said Poise State, but based on what happened.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
We didn't do this show a couple of long night. Yeah,
that was a little bit shocking. I found out why
they're field is blue because they are sad, right Moise State.
You know, we just talked about how your seasons done
over if you lose the first game.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
But if you lose like that, well, the problem is
if you're a group of five or group of six,
if you want to share a PAC twelve and they're
still you can't afford to have slip ups like that. Now,
the only thing is if they run the table after
this past weekend, that a victory over Notre Dame is
actually gonna work in your favor. They could possibly still
get in as a group of five teams.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, and they'll get credit for being in last season two. Maybe.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
I know I brought Biowa State last week. I'm still
saying them out of the Big twelve. I think they're
the one for me that ends up making the playoff.
They're a team that I'm really bullish on this year.

Speaker 3 (35:34):
I'm going Utah in the Big twelve too. That's because
of you know, Pac twelve bias. We still got West
Coast bias over here on this side.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
Kevin all right, it's Kevin Figures. Adam Alston here on
Fox Sports Saturday. Coming up next. Oh love is in
the air at him?

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (35:48):
Yeah, there's hate also sometimes, so.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
We got to talk about it. Coming up next on
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Speaker 2 (36:25):
Adam, Uh, love is in the air. As we found
out earlier this week, it has finally happened. As you
roll your eyes at me, what's wrong with you? Why
is your heart so black?

Speaker 3 (36:33):
I'm not the granch over here.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
Source seems like it.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Because of the cigarettes. Okay, you want to know specifically, No,
I've never had.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
It's no love for Travis Kelsey and Taylor Swift getting
ready to tie the Notts sometime soon. Good for them
and what will be the next wedding of the century
at some point.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Good for them.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Sure, you know.

Speaker 3 (36:52):
Larry David was asked about this, of course on some
interview and he was just like, you know what I
think about I don't care about these people, and he
had to hold himself back from swearing.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
So it got me to thinking about certain sports marriages
or sports engagements. Guys get traded, coach goes through a
certain spot and not, by the way, I am not
wishing ill whatsoever on Travis and Taylor. I hope everything
goes great and these kids and they stay together forever.
But a lot of times things look phenomenal. Look how
great they've looked these last couple of years, and people
want to hate on them. I got nothing against the

(37:26):
two of them other than the fact that Travis Place
for the Kansas City Chiefs, and I hate their guts.

Speaker 3 (37:29):
Best witches all to to to the two of them.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
But a lot of times you see matches that seemingly
are made in heaven and they don't necessarily work out.
So it got me to thinking, what are some of
the sports matches that were made in heaven at the
time from the very beginning ended up in hell?

Speaker 9 (37:44):
All right?

Speaker 3 (37:45):
Yeah, I got one for it.

Speaker 2 (37:46):
What do you got?

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I don't know if it ended up in hell, But
compared to my lofty expectations, I thought this was gonna
work perfectly. Gary Payton getting traded to the Milwaukee Bucks
and pairing up with Sam Cassell'll.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Forget about that. I did not think that's where you
were going with this. By the way, I know you
played like thirty games or something there like that was
twenty eight, all right, I don't even remember that.

Speaker 3 (38:09):
Ray Allen goes to Seattle, right, Desmond Mason also went
to the Milwaukee Bucks. But I thought, here we go,
two headed monster in the backcourt. How are you going
to stop these two guys, two lethal point guards. And
while they did make the playoffs, and they had to
win eight of their last nine games just to get in,
they lost in the first round to the eventual Eastern

(38:31):
Conference Finals champs, the New Jersey Nets, who were going
back to the finals to lose again to the San
Antonio Spurs. But that Bucks team because GP was going
back with George Carl they were reuniting. He was in
Milwaukee at that time. But it just wasn't that notable.
As you mentioned, it's thirty games, even though he was
good twenty and seven at the age of thirty four.

(38:54):
The next year he ends up going to the Lakers.
He becomes an unrestricted free agent. So it was just
very short lived. In fact, maybe the most notable thing
that happened with GP and Sam Cassell was they were
charged with assaulting a male exotic dancer and his stripper
fiance during her confrontation outside of downtown Toronto at a

(39:14):
strip club back in two thousand and three. They were
cleared four years later. The judge cited inconsistencies with the
alleged victim's story. I don't know if they used if
the glove doesn't fit. You must to quit defense for
h Gary Payton. But yeah, it just didn't amount to much.
I was disappointed.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
You know what, if you were to told me that,
you know what, Gary Payton and Sam Cassell were arrested
for assaulting somebody outside of a club, I'd be like, yeah,
I could see that that would not surprise you, wouldn't been.
I'm gonna stick of the NBA too, a little bit
more recent and since your mission the new Jersey Nets,
I'm gonna talk about the Brooklyn Nets, and I'm gonna
talk about the three headed monster that played a total
of sixteen games together, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Durant and James Harden,

(39:54):
a combination of all sorts of issues. Kyrie didn't get
vaccinated so couldn't play in home games. Harden were hurt,
Durant was hurt, Kyrie had times, was hurt. Steve Nash
lost control of the locker room, and Kevin Durant actually
was a guest on Steve Nash and Lebron James podcast
and he was like, oh man, we were cool, we
were ready to go. It was some other knuckleheads that
messed everything up. Katie didn't say who it was who

(40:14):
he was talking about. Could have been Kyrie, could have
been hard, He could have been somebody else on the team.
I'm not one hundred percent sure he was like, we
were good, Steve, you got a raw deal. You weren't
able to coach, You had to deal with all the
other bs with the team.

Speaker 3 (40:24):
DeAndre Jordan really his stored the things up for us.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
I feel like it probably wasn't DeAndre Jordan, but people
thought this was the next big three, three headed monster
gonna win a championship. Didn't even sniff it didn't come
close match Maiden Hill, James Harden, Kevin Durant and Kyrie
Irving in Brooklyn, and most of you listening had probably
already forgotten that it even happened to be fair.

Speaker 3 (40:42):
If Kd's feet were just a little bit smaller, if
you didn't have those clown shoes on against the Milwaukee
Bucks in that game seven, and his foot wasn't over
the line, maybe they at least get to the conference finals.
But yeah, you know what really upset me about that team.
They were stacked. They were good when they actually.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Together sixteen games.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
Sixteen games. I swear the Clippers played them healthy three
times I swear the Clippers were the only team my
Clippers to catch them healthy every damn time, and they
look great against the Clippers. That's all I want to say.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
Honorable mention. I'll go with Tom Herman to Texas because
that was supposed to be a slam dunk higher for
the Longhorns, and after a couple of seven win seasons,
he was unceremoniously exed, and and there we go, all
of a sudden, Steve's Sarkisian is in there and going
to playoff games and potentially knocking on the door of
winning a championship for you two.

Speaker 3 (41:30):
You We'll see Carlos Beltron going to the Giants in
twenty eleven. We thought they were gonna go back to
the World Series and win it.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Quarterback headlines in the NFL Coming up next on FSR.

Speaker 1 (41:41):
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Speaker 2 (41:44):
That's right, second hour Fox Sports Saturday with Kevin Figures.
Adam Alson at follow Adam is where you can find
him on X. You can find me on X at
k fig one. Coming up in the very next segment
in about fifteen minutes or so. Dan Walkin, formerly of
USA Today now with Yahoo Sports yeah, covering college football,
so we'll talk to him and so what's on his mind?

(42:05):
As we have Week one of college football.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
We also got stranger than fiction at the end of
the hour because things are happening to me personally that
are freaking me out. Oh really, yeah, I'm personalizing this story.
There's some stranger than fiction happening in my life.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
Athletes foot or something.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Okay, it's not that I used tough accent, but you
can use for that, you know, all right, boom so.

Speaker 2 (42:27):
Bart So, before we get to quarterback headlines, I did
see this, and again you guys can hit us up
on x at kfig one and at follow Adam ay
Dan Tompkins checks in says that Dallas stands are in shambles,
that Luca is in Los Angeles and Michah Parsons is
in Green Bay within months of each other. And this
reminds me of a photo that Adam Schefter, which was
this is unnecessary. He didn't have to do this, Yeah,
Adam Schefter. Probably about yeah, Brie, did you see this?

(42:50):
Probably about thirty minutes or so after the trade of Michaeh.
Parsons to the Green Bay Packers, he tweets out a
photo of Luka Doncik standing next to Michah Parsons, and
they swapped each other the jerseys, so they were holding
each other's jersey. So the Dallas Mavericks jersey for Luka
Doncik was being held by Michael Parsons and Luca was
holding Parses as Dallas Cowboy jersey, and Schefter says within

(43:10):
months of each other, Dallas loses two stars. I would
like to say, probably not necessary, Schefter, that that's the
wound is way too fresh. Brother.

Speaker 3 (43:20):
It's not nearly as bad as the Luca trade, Nor
would it be nearly as good as the herschel Walker
trade for the Dallas maver or for the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
In this case, I think I can feel fairly confident
in saying that this is not gonna let the same
return as herschel Walker did.

Speaker 3 (43:35):
I did see this very mean spirited tweet from somebody
who said heartbreaking, and it was a black and white
photo of Jerry Jones.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Oh, I know what you're going.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
This is bad.

Speaker 3 (43:45):
Cowboys owner and GM Jerry Jones found alive in his
home at eighty two is so unnecessary, disgusting, disgusting, but
Cowboys fans are upset right now, and that's what they're
resorting to.

Speaker 2 (43:56):
Yeah, I'd be upset too. You know, apparently Adam is
not Sean No ship him out. Know Kobe Bryant said
about Andrew bidhim back in the day, ship his ass
out he did. Yeah, that's what Adam said about Michael Parsons.

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Don't need them. I don't think the Cowboys do. I
think the Packers do. I think it's gonna work out
nicely because the Packers have a real quarterback. Speaking of
one of our favorite segments, one of the headlines on
the announcement to starting quarterback.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Pel b all over this show, Yes, putting his stamp
back on the Fox Sports Radio network.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
All right, Kevin, you got a great idea. This involves
ranking quarterbacks by who has the most pressure on them
heading into this season.

Speaker 10 (44:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
You know a lot of quarterbacks in different places a
lot of pressure. You have some quarterbacks who have playoff
games or playoff monkeys to get off their back. You
have somewhere just fighting for play for starting positions, fighting
to remain a starter in the league. So it got
me to thinking, like, which quarterbacks in the NFL have
the most to prove going into this season, and I
think it's a pretty long list, to be honest with.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I could start with this guy. We just mentioned him.
The pressure cooker is under Jordan Love now because the
rest of the team's ready to go. There's no excuses.
A couple of years ago they made it to the
second round, I think, lost to the San Francisco forty
nine Ers. This iteration of the Green Bay Packers puts
him in a position where it's like, Okay, what do

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you got. Don't tell us you're the weakest link holding
us back. You better not be that guy. You better
not be Dak Prescott. We need you to elevate this
team that's loaded. We're ready to win now. The Packers
to be opened up a three year window at least.

Speaker 1 (45:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
The thing that that hurts Jordan Love and someone will
call it excuses, someone will call it reasons. But their
receiver position, for as deep in as talent said that
as it is, they just cannot keep these guys on
the field. True, every single one of their impact players
finds a way to miss five, six, seven games during
the season, and it's just really hard to find any
sort of rhythm in your passing game when you're rotating

(46:00):
guys in and out and you have guys dropping passes
left and right too. So Jordan Love has not necessarily
gotten a lot of help from his skilled position players,
his playmakers on the field.

Speaker 3 (46:09):
He's had a built in excuse because of that. But
he's also he's performed admirably. I think he's still in
that place where he's the new shiny toy and we're
projecting him out to be an elite quarterback. He can
he can throw it all over the field. He has
all the talent in the world. Now he just has
to prove it on the biggest stage with a team

(46:29):
around him where he has that support system where you
can say, yeah, they're a real contender.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Yeah. I've been holding out hope for the last three
seasons that Green Bank can kind of make that next leap,
and for whatever reason, they just have not been able
to do it. Now, they took their defense to your point,
which was good last year in one of the tops
in the league top five and turnovers, turnovers forced, and
you added Micah Parsons one of the biggest game wrecords
in the entire league. So that's only gonna help.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
And I guess they were the fifth worst team when
it came to getting pressure on the quarterback without blitzing.
Correct Now they can just have four guys out there
and they can wreak havoc and do damage. So, even
though there I guess a little bit under talented when
it comes to the back end and the corners, that's
one of their weakest, their defensive ends are gonna make

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life easier on their defensive backs.

Speaker 2 (47:14):
Now, I like Jeff Hafley as defensive coordinator, cooking things
up back there. He'll make that defense roar this year
for sure.

Speaker 3 (47:20):
Give me a guy who's in the pressure cooker.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
How about Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers, he's the one that
needs to prove that he still has it, that he
can still play. First of all, the fact that he
sat out the entire offseason, nobody knew if he was
going to be retired, if he was still going to return.
Ends up signing with the Pittsburgh Steelers a roster that
has all the talent in the world. You trade for Metcalf.
You have talent at receiver. Obviously defensively, you have a

(47:42):
lot of talent that's aging out to a certain degree.
But I still think they're at an elite level. You
just need competent play at the quarterback position. Aaron Rodgers,
he needs to be seventy percent of what he was
at Green Bay. He doesn't need to be a superstar
or anything. The problem is we didn't necessarily see that
production when he was in New York. Grantedy was hurt,
was in and out and had a lot of things
working against him, including himself at times. Oh you know sometimes,

(48:05):
I wouldn't even say sometimes. The majority of the time,
Aaron Rodgers is his our worst enemy. Yeah, usually starts
with his mouth.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
I think this is a great call. I didn't have
it on my list. He would have been an honorable
mention because he's gotten to a point where he's become
such a distraction with off the field comments and stuff.
What do you do, whether you agree or disagree, He's
become a little bit controversial and it's kind of distracted
people from just how good he wash. You can disagree

(48:33):
with that, but yeah, and if you go out poorly,
even though he won a super Bowl, even though he
was one of the best quarterbacks of his era, one
of the best quarterbacks of all time, if the last
five or six years of your career. You're being remembered
for everything else that can stick with you, that can

(48:53):
harness your legacy. He can, So I agree with you.
I do think this could be a big season.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
So now look, I don't think it gonna tark. It
won't tarnish his legacy from my standpoint.

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Well you're smart though, Well fine, you're reasonable.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
But yeah, the more and more you become to a
certain degree a little bit of a caricature, Yes, that's
it's gonna be the lasting impression. We're way removed. I
mean that Super Bowl was what twenty eleven, it was
a long time ago.

Speaker 3 (49:16):
Yeah, aj Hawk was not on the Pat McAfee show
interviewing Eric. No, he wasn't Aaron Rodgers or We're a.

Speaker 2 (49:23):
Long ways away from that. And now look, I think
he can do it. I think if they just keet
competent play out of the quarterback position. No, granted, they
are in a definitely terrible or excuse me, definitely difficult
division in the AFC North save for the Cleveland Browns.
So it's gonna be really hard to get to ten wins.
But I mean, Mike Tomins gone how long without having
a losing season, and these last couple of years are
talking about not having the best quarterback play with this

(49:45):
defense in place, improving the offense with a guy like
DK Metcalf in there. I really think that the Pittsburgh
Steelers can really make noise this year. But if if
Aaron Rodgers can play consistently and just play well, he
doesn't have to be phenomenal, he just needs to be solid.

Speaker 3 (50:00):
I'll tell you a guy who's under the most pressure
because of me. That would be my quarterback if he
wants to be Bryce Young of the Carolina Panthers, because
he has to beat the Doug Flutie allegations that he's
taller than him and he's better than him. I put

(50:20):
out this tweet in the first half of his first
NFL game September tenth of twenty twenty three, saying, with
a gift of Tobias Funeq, I think that was David
Cross's character from arrest development crying in the bathtub, saying
this was game one quote, Panthers season is already over

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and Bryce Young is.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Shorter than Doug flute looking at Addam the prophet, their
season was over Game one. In the first half of
Game one is great press answer on your part.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
His career is on the line. I think because they
brought in Tmac out of Arizona, they have Adam Feelen,
they have enough. But they had Adam Thielen last season,
and he didn't take advantage of him until the pressure
was off. I don't give a you know what about

(51:12):
the last eight games and how good he was with
I think twelve touchdowns to three interceptions. Bryce Young. The
pressure was completely off after he came back being benched
first of all by the super ginger Andy Dalton, Like
that's a bad look. They also went three and five
in those eight games where he played so well. At

(51:32):
the end of last season, well.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
So IQ was played. This is not the Carolina Panthers
from two thousand and three, Adam. The team around him
is not necessarily great. You're right, he played better. I
think he played well in spite of the talent he
had around him. To give him credit for that, but.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
Some of that better transfer and carry over into this
season and they better start fast in maybe the worst
division in football. Bryce Young has pressure on him. This
is a make or break at time.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Okay, it's not make or break because it's his essentially
rookie season. But I'm going with JJ McCarthy, who has
to prove his worth as a first year starter coming
off of the injury last year. Sat down took all
the mental reps, all that stuff that people like to say.
But now he's actually on the field and you were
handed the keys to a Ferrari. This Minnesota Viking team
is excellent. They have talent up and down the board.
You have Justin Jefferson and Addison once he gets back,

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and you have Aaron Jones and Hopkinson. You have an
excellent defense. You have one of the best defensive coordinators
in the entire league who's coaching his ass off despite
the fact that he's suing the league right now. So no,
I think it's unrealistic to expect the Vikings to win
fourteen games again or whatever it was. But you just, again,
similar to to Aaron Rodgers, you need competent quarterback play.
JJ McCarthy does not need to be Patrick Mahomes and

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come in from game one and light up the Chargers
like Patrick Mahomes did his rookie season when he was
a first year starter. He just needs to make sure
that he what's the old statement people say like, don't
let go of the rope. Just come in and just
keep things moving. Be a nice game manager, make plays.
You have talent all around, just don't make mistakes. But
there is a certain element of pressure around Jay McCarthy
because of how well they played last season, because they

(53:02):
let Sam Darnold go after he had an MVP ith
season up until the last couple of games that he played.
So I think there's a certain amount of pressure on
JJ McCarthy as the signal caller for a team that
does have a lot of talent and high expectations.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
You're the new guy. We were doing well last season,
so it's going to stand out if we're failing now.
Because the guy under center, Jared Goff, is also under pressure.
He lost his offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson goes to the Bears.
He's the head coach now dealing with Caleb Williams. And
not only that, Jared Goff is coming off a miserable

(53:38):
playoff loss where he had three interceptions. They were the
number one seed in the NFC and it said they
lost to a rookie quarterback and the Washington Commanders. I
think there's question marks. I think we may find out
for the first time really because he's had such good
offensive minds around him. Going back to Sean McVay exactly

(54:00):
how good Jared Goff is at this level. And I'm
not trying to be a hater because he's been really
good overall, but I do think he's been propped up
by some pretty good offensive minds.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Yeah, sometimes you need a little bit of help.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
He's getting me a lot, all right.

Speaker 2 (54:16):
Gonna take a little bit of a break. Coming back
on the other side, we're gonna have Dan Wolkin rights
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happening around the world of college football here. In Week one,
it's Kevin Figures Adam Auslin with You on Fox Sports
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Speaker 2 (54:43):
Back in on Fox Sports Saturday, Kevin Figures and Adam
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Adam a is where you can find Adam. Before we
get to Dan Wolkin from Yahoo Sports. Eloy from Compton
checks in talk about our last segment quarterbacks that have
the most pressure on them to win this season. Eloy says,
come on, keV, you gotta go with your boy just
He says Justine Herbert. I don't think that's necessary to

(55:05):
call Justin Herbert. Justin Herbert. He said, you picked some
Farris memberg division no excuses. Yes, I did pick this
in the Los Angeles Chargers.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
Excuse me, old habits.

Speaker 8 (55:15):
No.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Eric Dickerson says they should still be in San Diego,
but that's his opinion. I did put the Chargers to
win the AFC West this year. I'm not wavering off
of that, even after losing Reshaun Slater for the season. Obviously,
Justin Herbert is going to have to play well, but
I still think that their team is going to be
built mostly on the running game and on defense. Justin Herbert, yes,
is going to have to play well for them, But
I don't know if the pressure is necessarily all on

(55:35):
his shoulders now once they get to the postseason. Yes,
it changes.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
You mentioned guys who have to prove it in the postseason.
I think he might have different poster boy for that,
right now that is very much different.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
But as far as just in the regular season, yes
there's pressure on him, but I don't think it's as
much pressure as some of the guys we mentioned last segment.
But thank you for checking in, Eloy, We appreciate it.
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Full slatey games coming up later this afternoon, and Adam,
we have one of our favorite guests coming up right now.
Let's get to one, Alan dragandad thank you.

Speaker 3 (56:26):
Donny Well join the show right now. Is an accomplished
and opinionated college football rider who may have recently joined
a new company, but that doesn't mean he's taking a haircut,
and certainly not one as bad as that assistant from
Rutgers Gott no way. This man is looking as sharp
as his coverage is now with Yahoo Sports. Is Dan
Walkin here on FNA show on Fox Sports Radio, Dan,

(56:49):
thanks for joining us here on FNA on FSR.

Speaker 11 (56:53):
Hey, thanks you guys, appreciate you having me on.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
Let's start with the biggest game of the weekend. Who
wins between Texas, Ohio State and Dave Portnoy? Is this
like a three way ladder match? How has the coverage
been in your opinion? Which is kind of the side
show going on with Dave and what's happening and what
you believe is the real reason that he's not allowed

(57:18):
on the field, Like it's just kind of a mess,
but it is kind of college football asque.

Speaker 11 (57:23):
It's very college football. I don't believe anything that Ross
Byork said. I think he first talked to my colleague
Ross Ellinger and said that this was a Fox thing.
I just don't think that makes any sense, to be
honest with you. I think Ohio State doesn't want him there,

(57:44):
which that's fine. Like they're not the only ones in
the Big ten from what I've heard, who are uncomfortable
with Portnoy's involvement in the show. Look understand why Fox
did what they did. I understand the strategy, but I

(58:08):
think the blame to me goes mostly to the Big
Ten because obviously people were kind of unprepared at that
level for the backlash that was going to come from
inside some of these schools and looked it just looked
this week like they were scrambling to kind of make
up a story. That's what it looked like to me.

Speaker 2 (58:28):
As far as on the field, there's obviously the big
hype train behind Arch Manning. People think he's the second
coming of Peyton Manning or something like that based on
the last name, I guess, but there's a school of
thought out there that he might not even be the
best quarterback on the field later today, and that might
be Julian saying, what do you think as far as
the quarterback matchup and how this shakes out coming up
later this afternoon.

Speaker 11 (58:48):
Well, yeah, I mean what's interesting about this season in
general is that some of these teams who we think
are the most talented have quarterback question marks, and we're Kennethy,
two of them in this game coming up, like are
commanding to me, does not have really much of a

(59:09):
track record to stand on. It's all hype and projection,
which he might deserve, but he really has not done
anything on the field to suggest that he is going
to be as dominant or as terrific right away as
a lot of people seem to think he is right now.
I believe the Heisman favorite according to some of the sportsbooks,

(59:31):
which to me is just kind of crazy, you know,
as far as saying, I mean, we'll see it's going
to be a very different offense. I'm less concerned about
the quarterback for Ohio State than I am about the
coordinator situation, because I thought last year they had an
incredible coaching staff and their coordinators were amazing, and this

(59:52):
year I think there's a potential that they have downgraded
at those two staff fires.

Speaker 2 (59:59):
Dan Wilkin Yahoo Sports is joining us here on FNA.
On FSR, you talk about quarterbacks, and you know, Alabama
during the next saving years at times was able to
make deep runs and win championships with I don't want
to disrespect anybody, but pedestrian play at quarterback because they
were just so talented. You have Kaylen de Bor coming
in in the second season. Ty Simpson thought of as

(01:00:19):
kind of a game manager quarterback, not necessarily a superstar,
and now that Grub is back with Kaitlyn de Boor,
do you believe that Alabama has enough talent on the
roster overall to overcome ty Simpson's deficiencies and still be
a national championship contender.

Speaker 11 (01:00:34):
Well, they're certainly going to be one of the most
talented teams in college football, But what does that really
mean in twenty twenty five when so much revolves around
Kris for portal and who can develop chemistry the quickest
and all the sort of moving parts that go into it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
We'll see.

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
I do think it's a big help that Ryan Grubb
is back with Kaitln de Boor. I think will calm
the waters. And also it's probably good for them that
they can kind of start from scratch at the quarterback
position as opposed to what they had to do last year,
which is put a well established veteran player in a

(01:01:17):
little bit of a different system and maybe you know,
they had to hold back some things because of their
quarterbacks ability. And I just think we're going to get
a much better, more full Kalin de Boor experience at
this point. But you know, trying to project all this stuff,
they got a tough schedule, They're gonna have to go
win some key games. This is not the Nick saban

(01:01:39):
Era Alabama. They're just by definition going to be more
vulnerable in certain situations. And you know, it's going to
be interesting to see not just how it plays out,
but how Alabama fans react if things don't go the
right way. A couple times.

Speaker 3 (01:01:56):
They're both in the SEC and they're both ranked right
next to each other and the A people currently speaking Obama,
they're right next to LSU. Who do you think ends
up having the better season this year?

Speaker 2 (01:02:07):
Dan Well, I.

Speaker 11 (01:02:08):
Would say between those two, I would go with Alabama.
I'm not really sold on LSU yet. They just did
not look very good last year. And I know that
they brought in a lot of transfers. They obviously have
a great quarterback returning in Gary nus Meyer. But you know,
I just haven't seen it yet from Brian Kelly in

(01:02:30):
the SEC that they have the kind of plan, cohesions,
coaching staff, whatever to win at the highest level. Now,
you know, maybe they get there, and maybe it's been
this three year building process to the point where now
they can kind of go all in with this particular
group of players. But I need to see it, and

(01:02:52):
I haven't seen it his past couple of seasons.

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Dan If Clintson wins the ACC and makes a deep
playoff run, maybe even wins the National Championship like some
people think that they might. Do you think it would
give any other major programs pause about trying to build
contenders on the fly through the portal? Or do you
think the two paces already out of the tube and
we're never gonna go back. But I know that Dabo
Sweeney has, you know, hung his hat on the fact
that they've only had five transfers come in since the

(01:03:16):
transfer portal opened, and you know, the graduation rate is
the highest in the country for a team that's still
as good as they are. If they end up making
a run and winning this thing, do you think that
other teams might try to look to go back to
that model of trying to build from within and using
the portal as a supplement as opposed to trying to
build the majority of the roster that way.

Speaker 11 (01:03:33):
Not necessarily, No, I mean, first of all, I don't
think Clubs is winning the National Championship. We can, we
can start there, But second, everyone's got to do what's
best for their own program and for some programs they're
going to be more portal heavy. From year to year,
it's gonna change because they're gonna have different roster needs. Also,

(01:03:56):
in this era with the revenue sharing, we're gonna see
schools r contracts in a little bit of a different way,
So that may naturally kind of tamp down on the
portal activity. I think maybe the quality of players in
the portal at certain level will go down. So like,
there's just a lot of different factors to it. And
I don't think because one team wins doing it one

(01:04:20):
way that that means everybody automatically has to try to
copy them. I don't really think that's the way it
works anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
Dan Welkin from Yahoo Sports is our guest here on
the f and A show on FSR. Dan, you mentioned
you need to see it from LSU and Brian Kelly.
Is that your philosophy also with Penn State and James Franklin,
you still got to see them prove it. Even as
stacked as this team looks, do you think they still
are going to struggle in those big moments?

Speaker 11 (01:04:49):
Penn State, It's an interesting proposition because they have proven it.
They've been a top level program, not every single year,
but for quite a long time. Most of the time
they're you know, very solidly inside the top ten. And
you know, the margins once you start to get up

(01:05:10):
to the very very top become become harder to close.
And I think at the top end of the sport,
they've just proven that, you know, the talent level is
maybe just a half kick below what it needs to
be to win a national championship. And then you know,
you've got the James Franklin on game day. What's going

(01:05:33):
to happen? Because his game management skills are you know,
at this point, I would say not even average for
a Power five level coach. They lose some mart they
just do. They lose some margin there because he does
not manage games all that well. And I don't think

(01:05:55):
that's gonna suddenly change overnight.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
He's the same guy.

Speaker 11 (01:06:00):
He's been doing this a long time. I think the
deficiencies are what they are. But can they win a
national championship? Absolutely, things have to fall the right way,
They have to stay healthy. They certainly have a very good,
experienced team. But you know, what we're talking about with
them is much different than where we're at with Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Kelly and LSU.

Speaker 11 (01:06:19):
Brian Kelly at LSU in three years has not even
been close to the national title race. Penn State has
been there, and for them to prove it is just
can you win that one game against the elite of
the elite, and we'll see, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
What's your outlook for North Carolina this coming season with
Bill Belichick mystery do your job at no distractions that
he's taken flak because of the Hulu reality show and
he and Jordan Hudson apparently trademarking the term gold digger
and all the noise around North Carolina outside of football,
which is sort of the antithesis of how he built
the New England Patriots program. So, just from people you've

(01:06:59):
talked to and what you observed, what do you think
is a realistic outlook for Bill Belichick this season and whatever,
however longest tenure at North Carolina is going to ultimately
end up being.

Speaker 11 (01:07:08):
Yeah, everyone is just speculating and guessing at this point
because we don't really know what their team is. Obviously,
Monday night when they play TCU will have some sense
of it, and I'm excited to I'll be there. It'll
be fascinating to watch them and see what they look like.
But if I had to guess, I just sort of

(01:07:30):
default back to the simplest part of the discussion, which
is Bill Belichick is without question one of the great,
if not the greatest football coach at any level we've
ever seen. And if that's true, then North Carolina will
be significantly better simply by virtue of being coached better.

(01:07:52):
And you know, it's not like they're playing in the
AFC East. This is the acc They have a relatively
manageable schedule. If they go on nine ten games something
like that, I would not be surprised. Having said that,
there's also a possibility they're going to be very bad
because they just haven't had enough time to flip the
roster yet. But I would lean towards they'll be pretty good,

(01:08:13):
just because you know, Oukham's razor Bill Belichick's a great
football coach.

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
Dan Welkin here is with us on the FNS show
on FSR. Dans USC got into a place where they're
almost underrated at this point. Like I know, they got
humbled a little bit their first year in the Big Ten,
but they lost a lot of close games. They're betting
on those coin flips going in their favor this time.
I'm sure could they overachieve these low expectations, Yeah, I was.

Speaker 11 (01:08:43):
I was a little surprised that they didn't crack the
top twenty five in the preseason. And that does speak
volumes just about where the vibes are right now around
Lincoln Riley and what they haven't done. And I get
it because, like it's it's not like they're out there
dominating recruiting on the West Coast, pulling in these incredible classes.

(01:09:08):
You know, that's been a bit of a disappointment. We've
seen some of the issues they've had on the field. Defensively,
they were better last year, but not close to good enough.
You know, has the well run dry on elite quarterbacks.
Obviously there was a huge run, but maybe it's a
little bit of a gap there for Lincoln Riley. There's
there's a lot of question marks and they feel a

(01:09:32):
little irrelevant, which shouldn't be the case given what they
invested in in Lincoln to come out there and bring
them to the College Football Playoffs and potentially compete for
national titles. We'll see what they are this year, but
you know, it just doesn't feel like they're even in
the conversation right now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Speaking in the conversation, let's talk a group of five,
our group of six. I guess, if you want to
call it, what's still the PAC two as of now.
As far as who you think is is the favorite
to get that automatic bid from a group of five,
Boise State was the favor by a lot of people
going in and after what happened on Thursday night, Boy,
something tells you that's probably going to change. So from
your outlook, as far as the group of five programs
they have the best shot of cracking the playoff, who

(01:10:13):
do you think that is?

Speaker 11 (01:10:15):
Yeah, that's always interesting. I just picked Memphis because I
think they recruit at a level that's so much higher
than the league they're in in the American Conference. Now,
obviously South Florida looked like maybe they're gonna have something
to say about that. Maybe they'll contend in the American

(01:10:37):
or maybe they won't. You know, maybe that was just
kind of a weird outlier performance. Time will tell. But
if you're just gonna go by kind of who's got
the closest thing from a talent standpoint to a Power
five roster, I think it's probably Memphis, so I would
just default to them.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
All right, this is the obligatory question that we have
to ask about the ever changing lands in college football.
So you've seen all the machinations, You've covered the sport
for a long period of time. The BCS, the four
team playoff were now at twelve. So, as someone who
asked seen it all, I have a two part question. One,
what in europeion is the best solution for a college
football postseason? And two, based on who you talk to
and what you know, what do you think is the

(01:11:16):
most likely long term playoff scenario for college football?

Speaker 11 (01:11:20):
I was fine with twelve, and I don't really understand
why there's this rush to throw that format in the
crash and start over. It's all just because of access
these conferences. Now that we've expanded access, they want access
to continue because they wanted more teams to be part
of it. The problem is with some of these proposals,

(01:11:41):
you're really getting into not only devaluing the regular season,
you're also just including teams that just have no business
being in a national championship playoff. Some of these eight
and four teams in the SEC, in the Big Ten,
and like, why should they be in. Why should they

(01:12:02):
be in this thing? Nobody really buys it, And I
don't really think it's gonna move the needle very much financially.
For sure, Television is not going to care that much
about those games. And if you do it at the
expense of the regular season, then I don't think you've
advanced the interests of the sport. And you know, I

(01:12:24):
thought last year with the twelve team or so many
games felt very relevant late in the season because of
the number of teams that were in the mix. But
there is a threshold you cross if you go to
you know, sixteen or twenty four or twenty eight or
some of these numbers people are throwing out there where
it doesn't matter if you win or lose a game

(01:12:46):
late in the season because you're already in because there's
so many teams. And I think that would be a
mistake for the stakeholders of college football to go down
that road. I would just stick with twelve, but I'm
guessing it'll probably settle at sixteen at some point in
the near future.

Speaker 3 (01:13:03):
Dan, speaking of obligatory and required, here, can we get
your eventual champion pick and your Heisman pick?

Speaker 11 (01:13:10):
Yeah, what we've maybe seeing him in the same game
on Saturday. I think Jeremiah Smith is gonna win the
Heisman just because I think he's the best player in
the country. And I think the Excess is probably gonna
win the national championship. They have the deepest and most
talented roster, I believe, and if Arch is just decent,

(01:13:30):
then I think by the end of the season they're
probably going to be the best team.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
Dan, you know you've taken some incoming here and there
with strong views and opinions. We went national recently. Any
advice for dealing with the haters when you're on a
big platform.

Speaker 11 (01:13:46):
Just ignore it. Yeah, don't even worry about it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
So mute your thing, do your thing, run.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Your own race. By the way, I know you're a
big tennis guy too. Before we let you go. I
don't know if you're at the US Open and Flushing Medals,
have you heard about these cavar cover chicken nuggets.

Speaker 11 (01:14:02):
I've seen that before. Me not my not my not
my bag, I would say, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:10):
I don't you know.

Speaker 11 (01:14:12):
I kind of got my little routine. I'll be up
there next week for a little while. They have great
concessions there. That's one thing about the US Open. They
have unbelievable concessions. I don't really need cavir when I'm
watching tennis, though I don't. That's doesn't do it for me.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
I needed a twenty piece with caveat.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Yeah, it sounds like, well, like a minor league baseball promotion.
The great Dan Wolkin, formerly of USA Today, now with
Yahoo Sports, covering of course college football, but also tennis,
the Olympics, and all the important stories over at Yahoo. Dan,
thanks so much for doing this, man. We appreciate it.

Speaker 11 (01:14:44):
Thanks appreciated.

Speaker 3 (01:14:45):
Gay. Not only do we get people prepped for college football,
Dan Wolkin got people prepped.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
I'm prepped for those caviar cover nuggets.

Speaker 1 (01:14:54):
Have you seen these?

Speaker 3 (01:14:55):
By the way, it doesn't sound great to me.

Speaker 9 (01:14:57):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
I like nuggets and I'll take just about anything on him.
But that seems a little much hody toy.

Speaker 2 (01:15:04):
I'm not a big caviar guy to begin with, so
it also just doesn't seem like it mixes well. That's
the issue, like, why would you of all things to
put together? It doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
I'm gonna stick with my Polynesian sauce from Chick fil a,
you know, goes something like that. That's all I need
about ranch or barbecue. Keep it sip kiss, keep it
sitting the.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Ranch person of the barking person. To be honest with
you these days mix it. Uh, you know what? I
haven't actually am I missing out?

Speaker 3 (01:15:35):
You haven't lived.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
It's Kevin figures Autam Alston on Fox Sports Saturday. Coming up, Adam,
we have a Stranger Than Fiction.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
Every ten old is new again and also good. I
feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. That's coming
up next here on Stranger than Fiction on f n
A on f SR, Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Kevin figures Adam Alston back with you guys at k
figure ones where you can find you on You could
find Adam on X as well. Thanks again to Dan
Wilkin from Yahoo Sports, popping on last segment, talking college
football with us. Right now, let's get to one of
our favorite segments.

Speaker 6 (01:16:10):
Here a fast food customer defending perticies called nine to
one one after her.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
McDonald's run out of McNuggets.

Speaker 7 (01:16:18):
He can't give a drunk man riding a horse at Ewy.
He goes unlike card boards just don't have motors. They
have a mind in their own.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Strange things begin.

Speaker 4 (01:16:27):
Twenty four year old man.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
Now jus they're throwing an alligator through a drive through window.

Speaker 10 (01:16:33):
Too high.

Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
Strange.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
So, Kevin, this stranger than Fiction story is gonna be
a little different. It's not a story about a guy
seeing like the Virgin Mary in his pancakes or in
his lemon pepper wings at Magic City. What's up, Rob Parker.
It's not one of those type of things.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
You gotta have the bones, you gotta have the structure.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
There's something strange happening in my particular con biodome right now. Kevin.
You know I'm an overly critical a hole sometimes when
it comes to music, movies, TV, all the time. I'm
a harsh judge, all right, especially when we're talking about
reaching back to the past and the destruction many have
done to my childhood by ruining movies and characters that

(01:17:19):
I once held sacred.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
No, this is a passion point for you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
I'm tired of all these remakes, reboots and tardy sequels.
I need another Jurassic Park movie about as much as
I need barber Salts shaving cream to sweeten my pie.
Like I need another Star Wars trilogy about as much
as I need a lightsaber to help me shave, so
that would probably kill me. But I gotta say there

(01:17:43):
have been a string of nostalgia plays recently and fans
service from franchises and artists I thought can only disappoint me,
but instead I found them quite enjoyable. Lately, I'm as
shocked as anyone by this new development here. Strange things
are happening, stranger than f is, Right, like the fictional
aliens in Alien Earth I mentioned last week.

Speaker 2 (01:18:04):
We're going back on Alien Earth again.

Speaker 3 (01:18:05):
Well, I just want to say, I didn't expect it
to be this good. It's amazing, like it's a blast
from the past. It's wowing me how well they're handling
the aliens. And then I went and saw the new
Naked Gun movie with Liam Neeson and it was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
You actually went to the theater to see this. I
know you were bored.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
It was good. It was a worthy addition.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
What were you expecting because you were not expecting it
to be good.

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Not this funny? Yeah, this was It's a reboot. I mean,
I'm supposed to be offended by this. How dare anyone
else try to be well?

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
I'm offended. I'm not offended by it, but I'm surprised
that you would actually spend money to actually go see
something that you were expecting to be terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Well, I was bored and college football hadn't started exactly,
I say, you were bored.

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
That's that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
It wouldn't happen. Now, these are different times. We got
football over the place. But Liam Neeson did about as
good of a job as you could filling those big
clown of shoes that Leslie Nielsen left for him. They
both have the same initials, by the way, which is cool.
They didn't just wait in the past and say, hey,
remember this gag from the original Jokes. No, they brought
their own laugh bag of tricks to the New Naked Gun.

(01:19:14):
It was fun. Then I got another treat this past week.
One of my favorite bands from the nineties put out
their tenth album, and you know what it's Hella good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Oh I know you're a big Coldplay guys?

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
No, No, how dare you see? Coldplay fell off after
the first two albums, But my Deaf Tones, the Deaf
Tones from sack Town, from Sacramento. They have become one
of the biggest bands in the world now bigger than
they were when they initially peaked in the two thousands,
and now they came out with this new album, Private Music.

(01:19:49):
It dropped last week to the masses, and the drop
d on Stephan Carpenter's guitar never sounded better. It's the slickest,
most melodic deaf tone album in at least fifteen years.
The guys are like fifty and putting out some of
their best material while sober. That never happens. Okay, a

(01:20:11):
band over thirty years old is putting out new music
that is good, So let's review. I've gotten new Aliens
that's been good, New Naked Gun that's been good, New
Deftones in the last couple of weeks. All of it's
been great. This is like a modern miracle. This is
like Summer of George, but instead it's Summer of Adam
going on. Everything is coming up roses for me with

(01:20:34):
stuff that you suck. I've been enjoying so many new
spins on old content. I've actually questioned whether or not
I'm washed, Like maybe these projects aren't that good and
I'm just getting old.

Speaker 2 (01:20:45):
I wasn't gonna say anything. It was like, maybe you're
a palette has changed, and it's actually gotten worse.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Most of the time, I'm like Principal Skinner, a questioning
Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who
are wrong. But this time I agree with the kids.
They like this new stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
I like it, Like I thought, are you sure you're
not just going through a midlife crisis? Is because the
kids think it's cool. You feel like you have to
think that it's cool. It's not it.

Speaker 3 (01:21:09):
I swear by Steve, you shimmy, what's up, fellow kids? No,
but this is like a twilight zone moment for me.
But then I remembered something I recently hated, and this
thing I hated centered me. It reminded me. No, I
still have good taste. I still can decipher between good
and bad material. I hated the new Happy Gilmore too.

(01:21:32):
I'm not washed. I still know what's good and what's not.
It just so happens a lot of stuff that I
wouldn't think being good is happening right now. We'll see
it was good.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
Coming up later this afternoon, Arch Manning big time debut
on FSR.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:21:49):
CFNA show here on fs R welcome back. Our three
coming up. We got Breeze three. Always good. But as
we mentioned earlier, Kevin, there's quite the debut coming up
just hours from now. It will be rsh Manning.

Speaker 2 (01:22:08):
Yeah, the much anticipated Now granted he has played, it's
not like we've never seen him before. He did play
a couple of games last season, which alreadyeers got injured.

Speaker 3 (01:22:16):
You know, he's got wiggle like, It's not just the
straight line top end speed. He's got some of that
Johnny Manzell left to right, being able to move like that.
If that is as big a part of his game
as people are touting it to be, then yes, he's
gonna be very special.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Not quite Gumby like like I used to say, Lamar
Jackson when he played at Louisville, it was almost like Gumby,
Like he was very bindy and no one could catch
up with him, and it was like.

Speaker 1 (01:22:41):
A whoo.

Speaker 3 (01:22:44):
Yeah, like one of those little flyer things you see
outside of a car dealership.

Speaker 2 (01:22:48):
Oh yeah, those whole balloon things. Yeah, the used car things.
They're like they're dancing and blowing all over the place,
exactly like one of those. So that's more, he's not
quite that shifty, but considering his name, is Manning phenomenal
athlete at least compared to his uncles and is uh
you know, I guess his grandfather was pretty amazing when
he came to having some wheels on him relative to
his uncles and dad, but running for his life. Yeah,

(01:23:09):
like every Saints quarterback pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:23:11):
Much well, and they really had I know, Drew Brees
was pretty good, but uh slightly.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
Thankfully they had him. Otherwise, who was the best Saints
quarterback not named Drew Brees? Uh? I mean roads all over.

Speaker 9 (01:23:27):
It has to be Arch Manning And that's the most
memorable historical everybody else last like a year and goes
bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
Jake Delon was there for a cup of coffee, as
Rob Parker would say.

Speaker 3 (01:23:36):
Yeah, and then he left to go to greener pastures
with my Carolina Panthers.

Speaker 12 (01:23:40):
Andy Dalton, also a former New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (01:23:44):
Which is favorite quarterback of all times ever heard of him?

Speaker 12 (01:23:47):
Blocked out no idea.

Speaker 3 (01:23:48):
And now you guys put in your faith in Spencer Rattler.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
That way is that?

Speaker 8 (01:23:54):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (01:23:56):
Is it? Don't tread on us with the Saints?

Speaker 7 (01:23:58):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:23:59):
That is?

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Is that what Saints fans are gonna do? When Spencer
Ratler plays.

Speaker 9 (01:24:03):
I'm actually Jonas does that, and so that's I'm just
copying him that he says a but I'm a huge
Spencer Ratler fan.

Speaker 12 (01:24:10):
I have a lot of faith in him. Is it
ridiculous faith? Is it Delulu faith? Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Absolutely, I'd be concerned that.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
Very very ging z of you to say de Lulu.
By the way, Yeah, don't say that, is it?

Speaker 1 (01:24:23):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:24:25):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:24:26):
Or farming or whatever. I could do this all night.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
No, it's.

Speaker 12 (01:24:32):
Okay, that's like, that's millennial.

Speaker 2 (01:24:34):
Now it's old. Now I get you exactly. Let's I
find out about it. I know it's old and it's
over and now the kids are going to move on
to something else. But we're talking about arch Manning. It's
a very hyped, much hype debut, not only for the
fact that it's great Texas versus Ohio State, but because
of the blood lines. People are already saying that he's
the front runner for the Heisman Trophy. As Dan Wilkin
mentioned last hour, we'll see people think he's going to

(01:24:55):
be the top overall pick in the draft, which some
people believe the Saints might have that pick. And you
might follow his grandfather's footsteps.

Speaker 5 (01:25:01):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:25:02):
So God was to thinking about much ballyhooed, popular, well
looked ahead for sports debuts, some overly hyped or maybe
over hyped, or maybe rightfully hyped. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:25:14):
Tell me it's a good theme.

Speaker 10 (01:25:16):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:25:16):
The first one that immediately came to mind for me
probably hits home close for you. Adam is Lebron James.

Speaker 3 (01:25:22):
Lebron James Lebron.

Speaker 2 (01:25:23):
James made his NBA debut in two thousand and three.
It was the first overall picked by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
In his first game was in Sacramento against I guess
they were your Kings. Now now you're a Clipper guy,
as you wear your Clippers hat.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Well, the Kings betrayed me.

Speaker 2 (01:25:38):
How did they betray you?

Speaker 3 (01:25:39):
Well, they're dysfunctional, like they're like that.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
They've been like that the majority of their existence. They
had a slight run in the two thousands with the
Mloof Brothers for about seven years.

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
People traying for the maloof brothers at this point. With
how bad things have been, it's been a dumpster fire
at times, especially with the deer and fox trade as
of late. For the Sacramento Kings, but.

Speaker 2 (01:25:59):
You were remember Lebron James who I mean, we knew
about Lebron James when he was a sophomore in high
school at Saint Vincent, Saint Mary and Acron and people
are talking about him being the first door overall pick.
And I remember back then people were saying, this guy
is Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson combined. He's going to
be a Hall of Famer. Yeah, you, He's gonna win
multiple championships. He's going to be an all time great

(01:26:20):
when it's all said and done, He's going to be
one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
And at the time, I was like, what is wrong
with you people? He is sixteen years old. He can't
even drive, Like, can you let him be a high
school kid and let him work and let him do
his thing and whatever happens happens. Now, sure enough, pretty
much all that came true to we're at a point

(01:26:41):
now where there's ongoing, raging debates that will never end
as to who's the better basketball player between he and
Michael Jordan.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
I remember watching this game on up North. It's ABC
ten that was the local King's affiliate at the time.
And I'm sure it might have been carried on ABC
nationally because it was Lebron.

Speaker 2 (01:27:01):
James or Letter probably would have picked that game up
or TNT at the time or whoever at the national Rights.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
But you know, the Kings had their local feet as well.
And I'm watching it and I actually went back to
check my own memory on this of how that game went.

Speaker 2 (01:27:15):
I don't think Twitter was around back then, so I
don't went on YouTube.

Speaker 3 (01:27:19):
It's up. You can watch the full gamer at least
some of the Lebron James highlights. First shot he makes
is a jumper and it's over Mike Bibbie. Like, this
game is so old and the league has changed so
much that they basically were matching up point guard to
point guard because Lebron James came out and was running

(01:27:39):
point for Paul Silas with the Cavaliers. His first major play,
which is kind of apropos because he looks for his
teammates first, is throwing an oop to Ricky Davis for
a dunk.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Oh Ricky Davis, He of the trying to get his
own triple double by getting a rebound off of his
own basket. Yes, Jerry Sloan did not like that and
Lan didn't like a lot of things. Jerry Sloan was
just perpetually Matt did he call it bush League?

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
I forget what it Probably he was right, uh, but
the fact that Mike Bibby at six' one was trying
to Guard Lebron james just because they're both boy. Guards
so that's how you match. Up nowadays it's more cross, matchups, like,
Hey lebron isn't technically playing the, one but he is
a point. Forward it was just it's honestly as a

(01:28:26):
different league that you're looking at just twenty years.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
Ago, well If Mike bibby was as swollen then as
he is, NOW i, mean he would have Bodied lebron
all the way back to the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:33):
Backcourt so, FAIR i thought WHEN i was watching that
game back in two thousand and, three as all the
comparisons were To, mike and for so long we had
gotten all These Michael jordan clones that didn't live up
to Being Michael. Jordan of, Course Kobe bryant definitely got the,
closest but you think Of Vince, CARTER i think a,

(01:28:54):
tea Mac, Grant hill And penny were supposed to carry
the league at one point.

Speaker 2 (01:29:00):
Remember Harold, minor who came nowhere close.

Speaker 3 (01:29:01):
To, that No Baby. Jordan but watching that first game
With Lebron, JAMES i actually was, Going, huh this is
actually something. Different this isn't A Michael jordan clone out.
There this is magic and dominique with a little bit
of almost Like Baby. Shack this is nothing we had ever.

(01:29:22):
Seen it didn't feel like a cheap imitation of Mj
it felt like something new and it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
Was So i'm Assuming Lebron james was on your list
of big time debuts if.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
You're talking about most hype, players, ever he has to be.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
There now we're talking about hype. Players. Man we were
talking a lot Of saints today on the, show specifically this.
SEGMENT i don't know, Why, well how do we not
Mention Reggie? Bush, Okay Reggie bush big Time heisman? Winner
controversially so not because he had a stripped, away because
he got a house in money and all that, stuff
but because there was a lot of people at the
time who thought That Vince young should have won The,

(01:29:56):
heisman AND i think they had a legitimate case for.
THAT i probably we would have still given it To,
reggie BUT i certainly would not have argued That Vince
young would have won The. Heisman, Now vince got the
ultimate last left winning The National championship that, year.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
And reggie having the fumble on that lateral early on
in that game kind of set in a bad.

Speaker 2 (01:30:11):
Tone, Yeah so The raggie debate going into that draft
Was Reggie bush Versus Vince young and then our old
Friend Charlie casherley FORMER fna podcast. Guest that's. Right the
outgoing general manager of The Houston, texans who had the
first overall pick at the, time shocked everybody took when
he took a defensive end out Of Vincy state Named Mario.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Williams he was the Original Nico. Harrison he.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):
Was people are, like what the hell is already taking
this guy when you have these two generational talents that
you could have, Taken well you fast. Forward Mario williams
had just under one hundred Career sacks was one of
the best patch versus of THE nfl for a better
part of a. Decade Vince young flamed out after what
five six years something like. That, Yeah Reggie, BUSH i would,
say had a good, career BUT noh club people were

(01:30:54):
saying he was the Next gaale sayers he was going
to be A hall Of. Famer, Now Petrous papadak as our. Friend,
Yeah petrick else was always very skeptical of. HIM i
think can't run between the. TACKLES i think his exact
quote was he's light in the. ASS i think it
was an exact. Quote But reggie was a very good
change of, pace you, know guy out of the, backfield
kind of like A Charlie garner, type you. Know, yeah

(01:31:15):
he was very productive his. Rolls, yeah his first game
he had like fifty yards, rushing sixty yards receiving was,
good but never anything. Spectacular did help The saints win
A Super, bowl so, well never we have that taken
away from.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
Him they have a big punk return along the way
in that playoff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Run he was a very productive, player but he was
very much hype coming out OF. Usc people really were
looking forward to his deview and thought he would turn
into A hall Of fame type player and just did
not necessarily work out for. Him but he was someone
who was extremely hyped when he came.

Speaker 3 (01:31:44):
Out, OKAY i got somebody for. You not talking about
a guy on the, hardwood on the, field on the,
Diamond i'm talking about the Late Kimbo. SLICE i remember
watching grainy backyard brawls with the street Fighter Kimbo slice
putting gashes in guys faces that made it look like

(01:32:07):
they got bitten by a shark because he had heavy.
HANDS i also remember that first loss he took to
this Guy Sean, gannon who also passed away a few years,
back also from heart. Failure but when we Heard Kimbo
slice was going to participate in The Ultimate fighter season

(01:32:27):
ten and try to earn his way into THE, ufc
the underground fight scene was going. Crazy this was Big
and then who do you lose to this fat ass
keg Belly Roy nelson guy like he just laid On
kimbo for fifteen minutes and we were. Devastated he got

(01:32:50):
beaten by a guy that looked Like Jelly roll like.

Speaker 1 (01:32:53):
He Did Roy.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
Nelson Now Roy nelson did have some, hands but The
kimbo hype train went off the tracks early there by
a guy whose belly was hanging over his. Belts he
looked like he had a fat suit on from like
Fat bastard And Austin power.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
And don't understand the fat people man speaking.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Of, petros he would have called Him Octo dad like
he Did Rex, Ryan, like that's what this guy looked.
Like that Beat Kimbo.

Speaker 2 (01:33:19):
Slice people underestimated. Him it was, like, oh he thinks
it's fat and.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
SLOW I Kimbo slice was supposed to come in Like
Mike tyson and just knock everybody out within the first
thirty seconds because he was a. Monster when it came
to bare knuckle fighting in the, streets he got humbled
a little. Bit he only was probably in ten or
twelve professional. Fights he was older when he got. In

(01:33:43):
But Kimbo slice significantly hyped coming into THE UFC a
little bit of a, disappointment but still gave us a
lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Memory that's a good. ONE i forgot about that. One
i'm gonna go back to football for the next. One
and speaking of someone who got a lot of hype
at a young age early in his career at the quarterback,
Position i'm gonna go With Andrew. Luck Andrew luck was
a sophomore At. Stanford people, said if this guy was
able to come out, today he would be the first
overall pick in the. Draft was a red shirt. SOPHOMORE

(01:34:13):
i believe could have come out and decided to stay
AND i believe that was the year That Cam newton
came out and was drafted by The.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Panthers guess who was upset that he didn't come. Out
This panthers fan right, HERE i thought we were Getting andrew. Up.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Now all the honorable mentions list Was Cam, newton who
had a phenomenal debut against The. CARDINALS i think he
had like four hundred yards, passing one hundred yards rushing
in like four touchdowns or. Something, now they, lost but
he still had a great, debut so empty.

Speaker 3 (01:34:36):
Numbers he turned into AN.

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
MVP i Think Cam newton had a pretty damn good career, There.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
Adam he had a nice OUTLIER mvp season leading to
him not jumping on that fumble in The Super bowl
against the demo.

Speaker 2 (01:34:47):
Rate because The panthers have had such a great run
of success throughout their franchise's history story short franchise is,
history by the. Way But andrew Luck colt select him first,
overall by the, way just the shoke of luck That Peyton,
manning you, know has this shoulder slash neck, injury gets
knocked out for the entire. Season they go into the,
tank get their first overall, pick and they go from

(01:35:10):
one generational quarterback to another And Andrew.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
Luck it felt like The San Antonio spurs Having David
robinson out for a year with that back, injury which
let them get and Draft Tim duncan number.

Speaker 6 (01:35:21):
One.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
Yeah, now his debut was not. Spectacular he threw three
interceptions and a loss to The bears and got roughed
up pretty. Good but his, career however, short was spectacular
and was probably trending towards being at the very least
a Borderline hall Of. Famer but he. Was HE'S i,
mean he led him to THE Afc Championship, GAME i
believe in his second season before they lost to The,
patriots and obviously after seven, seasons decided to hang it

(01:35:45):
up and he's now the general manager of The stanford football.
Program But Andrew luck someone who received a lot of,
hype AND i would say his, career although, short lived
up to.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
It, yeah he wasn't surrounded with a great supporting cast
there with The, cools but he still.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
Won, yeah you want a decent, amount despite the fact
that his roster was not very.

Speaker 3 (01:36:03):
GOOD i felt like he showed the potential that he
had At stanford and if the right pieces were, there
he could have been a Super bowl in the class
of A Super bowl winning. Quarterback he was that. GOOD
i was disappointed that he retired, early BUT i also understand.
It same thing happened With Luke keigley with The Carolina.
Panthers i'm gonna go off the board a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:36:24):
Here If Kimbo slice wasn't off the, board what is?

Speaker 3 (01:36:27):
This i'm talking about something outside of, sports something that
was very much hyped in my. Childhood in my Youth,
coke Not New, coke Not CRYSTAL pepsi The White. RANGER
i remember all the promos leading up to The White
rangers debut In Power, rangers a New ranger was. COMING

(01:36:50):
i was. Hyped we had The Black ranger played by
a black. Guy, Yep so is The White ranger gonna
have to be played by a white? Guy? No eventually
he was played by the Former Green ranger In Tommy,
oliver the Late Jason David frank true. Story oh he

(01:37:11):
was three and oh, baby and he started very. Late
his karate skills were real, well obviously he had to
fight The Punny patrol all those. YEARS i, mean don't
forget gold Ar what more training do you need than?
THAT i think he choked a guy out with his
foot a rare. Move, yes like he had Some Bruce
lee and. Him he was an absolute martial arts. Savant

(01:37:34):
he was. Incredible but this is a true. STORY i
actually this is kind of. PATHETIC i probably shouldn't be saying.
THIS i was so excited for The White ranger episode
because it was the most hyph thing ever In Power.
Rangers who's The White? Ranger who was the first New?
Ranger he came in like season? Two BUT i got in.
TROUBLE i don't know WHAT i, did WHAT i get

(01:37:56):
a minus instead of AN? A LIKE i was a
pretty good, kid pretty high. Standards some REASON i got
disciplined and the disciplinary action my parents took what they
knew would hurt, me was not letting me watch that
episode of The Power rangers with the New White. Range
who knows to you mister and Missus. Auslin, now they
did at least record it for, me SO i caught

(01:38:18):
it the next, week BUT i didn't get to see
it with the initial. Premiere but when he was really
nice of.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
Them, yeah it's really nice because they could have, like,
no you missed, it, sorry wait for the reruns to come.
Up they back, then you, know for your kids listening,
Today SO i can sound like an old. Man you
can't just go back and stream something that aired. Yesterday you're. Cooked,
yeah you have to wait for it to come out
ON vhs or wait for the reruns to cycle back
like six months.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
Later, yeah or eventually the DVDs come out and you
paid like one hundred dollars for one season Of THE X.
FILES i remember when when shows initially came. Out now
they're all On. Netflix you played ninety nine a? Month,
yeah what's A? Dvd, anyways When Tommy oliver revealed that
he was The White, ranger it was a pretty big.

(01:39:03):
Deal so not sports, related but, yes, hyped hyped. Debut
how about you guys listening out there In Fox Sports.
Radio do you guys have any over hyped? Debut much
hype worth the?

Speaker 2 (01:39:14):
Hype some that we. Missed there's a couple that we
didn't even get to that maybe we can get to
in the next. Segment but if you have on your,
mind eight seven seven ninety nine On fox is the
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gets ready to make his official debut as Officially texas's starting,

(01:39:35):
quarterback coming up just a few hours from. Now talking
about some big, time much hyped debuts in sports or
Otherwise here On Fox Sports saturday on Fsr's Kevin figures
And Adam Auslin Fox Sports Saturday coming back With.

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(01:41:02):
here bost.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
On, debuts, memorable over hyped or rightfully hyped sports debuts
or non sports. Debuts adam AND i talked about a
few last. Segments adam talked About Kimbo slice in THE.
Ufc we talked About Reggie, Bush Andrew Luck Lebron james
obviously with his debut against The Sacramento kings with The
cavaliers back in two thousand and. Three let's not forget
many guys lived up to the hype and he didn't

(01:41:24):
forget who The White.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
Ranger excuse, me less we Less we've come on, now
rest in.

Speaker 2 (01:41:29):
Peace The White ranger eight seven seven ninety nine On
fox is the telephone. Number let's go To Evan evan
In Kansas. City, evan what's on your?

Speaker 3 (01:41:38):
Mind?

Speaker 11 (01:41:38):
Man, hi, guys there's this Guy Tiger, woods who.

Speaker 2 (01:41:43):
Had a kind of a never heard of him Never, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:41:50):
A hype startup and it's turned out pretty.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Well just half. Decently when he, was you, know a
little kid On what The Tonight show and you know
something who was hyped up, everywhere he was everywhere as a.
Child and, yeah thanks for the, Call, evan much appreciate. It,
man that's a really good.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
One didn't like he lose his last big amateur event
though before he went, Pro, like didn't he lose and
we were all clowning him like he's not going to
be that. Good he's not gonna outshoot everybody about like
twenty eight strokes At Pebble beach like he did his first.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Year, WELL i certainly hope nobody set that on the,
record because they're the ones who are the, fool and
you guys are the. Fool all, right let's go To San.
DIEGO i, Guy, Poppy, poppy what's? Popping?

Speaker 8 (01:42:31):
Hey what's?

Speaker 5 (01:42:31):
Popping?

Speaker 10 (01:42:32):
Is you know last week we made that blink blink
with The ravens that told You i'm the best underground
calf for there Is and, look what do you? Think
were you guys? Surprised but look talking about. Tomorrow there's
college football AND i really Liking alabama Versus Florida. State
the spread right, now, guys is minus. Fourteen alabama's gonna
do Spank city and you know cleansing, Time they're gonna

(01:42:54):
like popping For Florida.

Speaker 3 (01:42:56):
State how does any of this relate to our theme?
Here is that the most hype game of the. Weekend
is that what you're? Saying and that's how you?

Speaker 2 (01:43:05):
Are you are you excited about the debut With, slash
non debut Of Ty simpson With? Alabama is that what it?

Speaker 10 (01:43:10):
Is i'm really excited about the, debut you, Know, alabama
AND i gotta get picks a bit underground, cap but
there is and also there's gonna be a debut On
thursday night FOOTBALL. Nfl we got football back back game
is at five twenty. Pm we got The cowboys versus
The Eagles Chilean. Herds you know, what everyone a lot
of drama.

Speaker 3 (01:43:28):
Poppy this ain't, Popping, no this is this ain't a Pringles.
Can we're done. Here we're not just gonna go through
the schedule and. Win games are being. Played we appreciate
the for your lock of the. Week we appreciate, it, Brother,
yeah we'll be sure to write that down and put
our life savings and mortgage on. It, kevin do you

(01:43:48):
got any more big time debuts when you need to
go through?

Speaker 11 (01:43:51):
Here?

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
Yeah, ONE i can think Of Steven. Strasburg remember he
And Rice harper we're TAKING i believe in back to
back drafts by The Washington. Nationals Steven strasburg was very
much hyped and in his debut In june of twenty,
ten you realize he had fourteen strikeouts in seven innings
and did not walk a.

Speaker 3 (01:44:10):
Batter he was one of DON i know everybody everybody
throws one hundred, now you know so many guys everybody
every team has multiple guys that throw a hundred miles.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
Pera oh, yeah like the average fast fall velocity is
like ninety six and a half miles an hour out
of something.

Speaker 3 (01:44:25):
Stupid but when he came in him as a starter
throwing that hard was very. Special he, was, yeah hugely
hyped and as, advertised you, know helped The nationals win
The World. Series, unfortunately signed a big contract and you,
know as happens to pitchers who throw that hard that
consistently ends up getting injured in his career ends probably

(01:44:46):
a little earlier than he was hoping, for and fans
were hoping for it because he was definitely fun to,
watch but he was the guy that burst onto the
scene to a lot of. Excitement And i'll also have
this one For shoeotani as, well because at twenty eighteen
with The, angels debuted as A, dh three days, long
debuted as.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
A, pitcher and, uh he only had one. HIT i
think he was one for three at the plate when
he debuted as A, dh and then a couple of
nights later when six, innings struck out six and won
his first start as a.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
Pitcher i'm still upset as A San Francisco giants fan
that they didn't implement the UNIVERSAL dh between both leagues
until a couple of years After Show Hail towny entered
because there was a rumor that he was flirting with
going To san Fran but of course then in The National.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
League doesn't everybody do that, Though and everybody they used
us was talking To San. Francisco Iron judge was talking
To San. FRANCISCO i Think jeter was.

Speaker 3 (01:45:40):
Back in like twenty. Eleven he used them to get
more money out of the. Ache the ultimate leverage play,
yeah and then nobody shows. It we got diverse and
then went to a tail, span like literally as soon
as you Signed Rafael. Devers it's honestly, unbelievable Uh Mark Mark.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
Ramsey can you think of any over a hyped or
well well deserved hype debut for many, players college, pros anywhere?

Speaker 13 (01:46:01):
Else as the kids, say many many moons, ago there
was a track and field star that you're gonna, know
and he played For San. Francisco his name Is Ronaldo Nea.
Maya oh, yeah so he was a great track. Star
so it was very fast and so he could do
that very. Well and somebody got the, idea maybe it was,
him that maybe he could play football because he's so. Fast,

(01:46:24):
well he got to THE, nfl and yes he could,
run but the problem was he really wasn't good at catching.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
The past so and.

Speaker 2 (01:46:35):
Forth that was the part that made. It you, know
he was in for eighty from eighty two to eighty.

Speaker 13 (01:46:40):
Five But Ronaldo neamyah was a big deal in my
house because my sister thought he was good, looking so
she wanted to See Ronaldo Nea mayah play. Football but
he had his. Moment but because he couldn't catch as.
Well that moment came and went away.

Speaker 2 (01:46:57):
Fast, yeah many a player At fall victims to. That
Willie galt was a track guy turned into a football.
Player James, JETT i was gonna go there formid. Great
who wasn't so?

Speaker 3 (01:47:06):
Great Michael bates with The Carolina, panthers although they pretty
much kept him on special teams as a return. SAVON
i mean he was an incredible kick.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
Returner that's, Great that's the way to use. Him absolutely back.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Then you, know kick returns were kind of. Important, Uh,
bravery you got.

Speaker 9 (01:47:23):
SOMETHING i was Thinking Andrew wiggins in twenty, thirteen and
specifically like where before he debuted in college of where
he was going to go. To And i'm a Huge
Tar heel, fan SO i was like praying AND i
had like bets with some guys in. COLLEGE i wanted
him to go to the Tar heels so, bad AND
i obviously, lost SO i owed them like, lunch and
that was really.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
Depressed, well you were betting On Maple, jordan not when
he got drafted by The, cavaliers but where he ended
up going to. College, yes that was a big. Deal
it was a.

Speaker 9 (01:47:50):
Problem, YES i was betting in middle, SCHOOL i was
betting ice cream sandwiches and pizza.

Speaker 12 (01:47:54):
Sticks, okay, yes BUT i was gambling. FOOD i mean
it was a different.

Speaker 9 (01:47:59):
TIME i also Had Bryce harper in twenty twelve and
his debut was against The.

Speaker 12 (01:48:03):
Dodgers and then.

Speaker 9 (01:48:04):
More recently BECAUSE i was working here and it was really,
exciting was One Banyama Victor wembanyama his debut against The.
Mavericks his uh he had three three pointers in the,
loss and so it set The spur single game team
record for a rookie in his. Debut finish off with fifteen,
points five boards to, assist and two.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
Blocks what was Uh DeAndre aiden's stat line?

Speaker 2 (01:48:26):
Debut.

Speaker 9 (01:48:27):
Dairy, also going back to WHAT i thought was really
interesting about the debut was the.

Speaker 12 (01:48:34):
Radio the broadcaster he would call the three pointer Of wemby.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
Tis like a Toa French, yes very very.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Clever again is?

Speaker 9 (01:48:43):
It?

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
Yeah we, yes it's.

Speaker 12 (01:48:48):
Great we have one more caller before we head into.

Speaker 2 (01:48:51):
Breeze three miss, vieho. Mischievieho, Benjamin oh, see, yes what's going?

Speaker 5 (01:48:55):
On that's?

Speaker 7 (01:48:56):
Me, Hey, Adam, Hey, Kevin, HEY i got a throwback
of a type debut that really really worked out.

Speaker 10 (01:49:02):
If we could go back to nineteen, ninety.

Speaker 7 (01:49:05):
To the WW App survivor. Series do you guys remember that?

Speaker 2 (01:49:08):
Debut whose debut are we thinking of at THE? Wfs
give me the year AND i might be able to
get you.

Speaker 7 (01:49:14):
Nineteen Ninety survivor serious nineteen Ninety survivor SERIES wwe, Debut.

Speaker 3 (01:49:21):
Kevin you're a wrestling, expert far.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
Far from an. Expert, NO i THINK hbk was not
a heartbreak.

Speaker 4 (01:49:28):
Kid, no The?

Speaker 2 (01:49:29):
Undertaker was it The? Undertaker? Yeah The undertaker debuted With
Brother love AND i think he was part of the
Million Dollar man's team in The survivor. Series AM i?
Right does that.

Speaker 7 (01:49:40):
Kind of because remember they had that giant egg and
there would have been that mystery character that popped out of,
it and he was the.

Speaker 11 (01:49:47):
One he was the.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
One oh that's.

Speaker 3 (01:49:49):
Right how about When caine debuted his face? Finally if
you were, like, yeah this wasn't that?

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
Cool keep the ask on just To kine's debut And,
benjamin thank you for. That that's a great. Call we
could TALK. Wwf it's always gonna be THE wwf to,
me called me, OLD i don't. Care it's always gonna
be the Wrestling federation When caine made his debut at
A Bad Blood Paper VIEW i believe In december of
ninety seven And vince, McMahon the now Disgraced vince, McMahon
that's gotta Be, kine and he comes in and rips

(01:50:16):
the door off the hell in the cell and He
tombstone's The, undertaker And Shawn michaels, wins oh chills thinking about.

Speaker 3 (01:50:22):
That it was supposed to be some type of passing
of the torch or like he's the new, big bad
evil guy used to be The, Undertaker now It's, kine his.

Speaker 2 (01:50:29):
Brother The undertaker was a baby face at the, time
So caine came in as a heel and they had
a whole thing that culminated with the match At. WrestleMania,
wait was.

Speaker 3 (01:50:36):
This the Motorcycle Western, undertaker BECAUSE i did not like that.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
Guy you're thinking of The american Badass. Undertaker that was
many years later when he came in riding on A
Harley american and it was more like. It AND i
wouldn't say it was A western you. Know he wasn't
Like Clint eastwood or anything out. There it was more
of like a biker gang, situation which was not his best. Gimmick,
no when he went back to being the debtman much,
later and at this POINT i stopped watching, it.

Speaker 3 (01:50:59):
But felt Like Hollywood hulk to. ME i didn't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
Turn you didn't like The Hollywood Hulk. Olgan, oh that's
one of the great Small i'll call out great moments
and sports entertainment. History the formation of THE. nWo you
didn't like. It that changed. Everything NOW i THE, nWo
there would have been no degeneration next the Stone Cold
Steve auston, situation and THE wwf probably never would have
happened BECAUSE wcw was kicking their.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
BUTT i Liked hulk playing the. Guitar, okay that's The
hulk THAT i.

Speaker 2 (01:51:24):
Like, yeah that was.

Speaker 12 (01:51:27):
Different Chris jerco's debut and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:31):
They made a whole big. Deal they had a whole
countdown clock for like a month or something like that back,
then and he debuted and talked for like fifteen straight,
minutes and Then The rock basically, said who the hell are?
You shut the hell up and get all get out
of my.

Speaker 3 (01:51:43):
RING i think you Know i'm not the wrestling. GUY
i played more of the video. Games that's HOW i
got To nogan when did Gold dust? Debut was that
a big deal BECAUSE i didn't have no idea who
this guy was WHEN i was PLAYING wwf War.

Speaker 2 (01:51:58):
Zone, yeah the son of the Great Dusty rhodes Gold
dust sometime in the mid, NINETIES i don't remember, exactly
and he was hyped up as This Holly he was
supposed to be like A hollywood, actor this overly dramatic
actor with gold. Hair and you, know his wife was
supposed to be like his assistant or. Whatever she sat
in an actor's. Chair so that's what the whole role

(01:52:20):
was supposed to. Be and he was very, flamboyant for
lack of a better term at the, time turned a
lot of people off a lot of. Glitter, yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
Different, uh we got somebody here poles Ring pole in
the pole position in first your first, Up?

Speaker 2 (01:52:36):
Arkansas who picks?

Speaker 1 (01:52:38):
Up what's going?

Speaker 11 (01:52:39):
On how About johnny Manzil?

Speaker 2 (01:52:43):
Okay, yeah WELL i feel like they are with the wasn't.

Speaker 11 (01:52:48):
The, best very heavily and it didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (01:52:51):
So, well, well oh it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:52):
Didn't he was heavily, hyped especially from one, Person oh
here we, go who actually made the statement made the
state That Johnny manzil will be bigger In cleveland Then
Lebron james ever was that would be mister one point
For skip baylest that was actually uttered old takes exposed.

Speaker 7 (01:53:12):
Forever, WELL i used to live in The dallas area
when You skip was at The Dallas Morning.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
News i'm, Sorry, YEAH i was, too believe, me we all. Were,
Well i'm sure he was much more serious then and
not just being a hot take artist and actually believed
some of the things that he. Said PROBABLY.

Speaker 10 (01:53:37):
I hope he believe him because none of the rest
of us skip.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Exactly, no that's a good. Pull that's a good poll.
Poll thank you, man appreciate. That, yeah talk About Johnny
manziel was so much. HIGH i mean people were talking
about him being the first overall pick in the draft
by The Cleveland.

Speaker 3 (01:53:49):
Browns and we didn't know about all the issues off
the field of that.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Time, no we just knew he was a phenomenal player
who just ran a rough shot Over Nick saban's defense
when they were at their. Height this was like it
was a terrible defense or. Anything he just sliced them
and diced.

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
THEM qb bootlegs all over the falls.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
Way to A Heisman trophy and obviously his off field
issues and he could not overcome. Them let's go To, Boston,
andrew what's going? On what's?

Speaker 8 (01:54:11):
Up what's? UP i actually wanted to Say undertaker. Too
i'm forty, Now so nineteen NINETY i was five years
old and The undertaker came out and H koga was
my favorite, guy AND i just remembered that's, like that's
the first memory of, mine like crying and being scared
out of my mind because he was just such a scary.

(01:54:34):
Man and also just In boston back in early, nineties
Like Tyson dave doing IN wwe and then Doing WrestleMania
And boston and it really changing the trajectory of the
next ten.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Years it was.

Speaker 11 (01:54:50):
Crazy thank, You.

Speaker 2 (01:54:51):
Andrew, yeah that's a good. Call Mike tyson was called
upon to be a big marquee attraction At WrestleMania.

Speaker 3 (01:54:57):
Fourteen his fake punches were. Legendary, yeah and.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
They, uh this was in the midst of The Monday
Night wars BETWEEN wcw AND wwf AND i forget what
documentary it, was But Eric bischoff when he, said WHEN
i found out That Mike tyson was going to be
part of the main event At. WrestleMania i knew that
we were, done OR i knew that the end was
near and we couldn't. Match it wasn't When, OKAY i
was gonna, say apparently master p and The Rough riders

(01:55:22):
are who are teaming up and doing stuff AT wcw couldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
Match masterpiece and make them say oh oh, no, no no.
NO i do remember distinctly being a kid and also
being scared of The undertaker because of his music and
because he Put hulk in a pile driver on top
of a steel. Chair, yes and to, ME i was
still young enough to believe In Santa, claus SO i

(01:55:46):
definitely believe wrestling was. Real AND i thought The holster
was dead or.

Speaker 2 (01:55:50):
Something, no he was, not, Obviously, okay AND i at
The No Limit, SOLDIERS i said The Rough. RIDERS i
don't know WHY i said. THAT dmx No wrong crew.

Speaker 3 (01:55:58):
Now coming, Up oh on our crew here on f
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Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
App before we get out of, here we got to
get TO i guess some people's favorite, segment not, mine
but it's pretty. Good let's do, it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:49):
Not, one not, two but. Three it's.

Speaker 1 (01:56:55):
Entertainment it's. Good it's breeze.

Speaker 12 (01:56:59):
Three all, right.

Speaker 9 (01:57:03):
Guys, So Travis, Kelsey Taylor swift, Engage Jordan hudson and
Uh Bill belichick whatever that? Relationship creepy grandfather granddaughter?

Speaker 12 (01:57:14):
Anyway what are they?

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
Trademarking daddy? Issues is that The?

Speaker 3 (01:57:19):
Sorry that's kind of funny because if he's trademarking, it
does that mean he's also digging for gold by making
money off of her being a gold Digger is.

Speaker 12 (01:57:30):
It that sounds very NSF w but.

Speaker 9 (01:57:35):
Whatever, Okay so, anyways let's talk about so like relationships
in the world of sports and entertainment that kind of
did like a little crossover like in, between like you
know that got. Together SO i just remember Completely Jessica
simpson And Tony, romo LIKE i was like in the pink,
jersey the pink, jersey she was up, there just you,

(01:57:57):
know it just looked a lot more genuine or less
genuine than Like Taylor swift And Travis. KELCEY i don't,
know looking, Back sierra And Russell. Wilson that was kind
of like a huge power. Couple do we Think Russell
wilson's play went.

Speaker 12 (01:58:10):
Down after he?

Speaker 2 (01:58:11):
Started are you doing.

Speaker 3 (01:58:14):
Trying to a little bit with those?

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Two?

Speaker 12 (01:58:18):
Yeah with those two, ESPECIALLY i am not gonna.

Speaker 9 (01:58:21):
Lie and then the other one Was Chris humphries And, Kardashian,
yeah exactly because they were married like five.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
Seconds, Wait chris was With Kim, kardashian wasn't?

Speaker 12 (01:58:33):
He yeah WHAT i, say you, Said? Chloe, okay BECAUSE
i was, yeah, okay, YEAH i had both of them
side by.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
Side you're gonna have to get real specific when it
comes to.

Speaker 2 (01:58:42):
Athletes Because chloe is all again off against situation With Tristan,
thompson which she might still be with. HIM i don't even.

Speaker 12 (01:58:48):
Know they have like seven kids. Together, yeah so those
were those were my Three Mark.

Speaker 3 (01:58:52):
Europe so the first WHEN i thought of Is Kate
upton and The pitch Of.

Speaker 13 (01:58:57):
Verlander, yep so that's, one and then another one Is
Carrie underwood And Mike fisher got The, predator and another
One Andre agacy And Steffie groff's per, coupling and then
another one just to make it another one past that
is A Mia hamm And No min' still going.

Speaker 2 (01:59:18):
Strong they are love it, Absolutely, adam all.

Speaker 3 (01:59:21):
Right one of mine was like two ships passing in the.
Night it almost. Happened Petros papadakus And angeline And.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
Jolie, hey, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
Look he's told the story on air many. Times i'm
not telling stories out of school. Here she was into
him at A usc practice because she heard he was
dark and she was into that type of, stuff and
maybe he painted his nails black or something and was.
Goth Angelia jolie made a runner at, him And i'm
pretty sure the story goes he didn't give her his,

(01:59:55):
number which is. CRAZY i, mean she was in her.
Prime she's about to do the first Tomb. Raider that's
one of. Them so it didn't actually end up. Happening
And petropapadecus is halfily. Married how About Enrique iglacias In. Anakornakova,
uh they're about to have their fourth. Kid, YEP i
can be your hero baby now they're having. There, yeah

(02:00:18):
they're still. Going. Uh he put her in the music
Video escape back in the. Day and then, Lastly Dennis
rodman And Dennis, RODMAN.

Speaker 2 (02:00:27):
I was gonna, say, yeah that's.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
Right that's when he dated himself and married her himself
as a publicity stunt for his. Book so there's my.

Speaker 2 (02:00:34):
Three, YES i did Have Dennis robin And madonna bres
one of, mine which is one of the more. BIZARRE
i didn't know. This dennis apparently Said madonna offered him
twenty million dollars so he can impregnate. Her, now it didn't,
happen but it wasn't for lack of. Trying from WHAT i,
understand she wanted a good. REBOUNDER i guess.

Speaker 9 (02:00:52):
So.

Speaker 2 (02:00:53):
Uh non sports, Related Tommy lee And Pamela, Anderson oil
And water kind of going back and. Forth they were
kind of off and on and made very faint for
something differently That i'm not going to talk. About you
guys can google it if you want.

Speaker 3 (02:01:04):
To but you watch The hulu. SHOW i thought it
was pretty.

Speaker 2 (02:01:06):
GOOD i did not know there was A hulu show
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air which is not too long from. Now, adam did
you get all years in all?

Speaker 3 (02:01:29):
THREE i, did all. RIGHT i guess we got to
thank everybody now, then, YES i Guess bree for her
big three Here breeze Three bri, Producer bree Bre. Bri
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Mark you're the chairman of the board for a, reason
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