Jonas Knox on Saints Fine, World Cup Screw Job & Week 14 Picks

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there's a lot of people out there. They're gonna try
and tell you the bad stuff, And don't worry, We've
got plenty of that to get to. But I got
good news for you if you have dabbled in watching
the World Cup at all. One of the things that
happens every four years when this whole thing pops up
and before you you turn this off because you think
we're gonna talk soccer right now. It's not really. It's

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actually an NFL story. But but I want to make
sure we're clear on that. Like, one of the things
that happens is you watch a soccer game, you see
some guy go down in a heap. He grabs his
calf and they bring out some spray like some w
D forty or some like a tough act into an
acting or some like banoca, and they spray his leg

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and then sometimes he gets taken off on a stretcher,
and sometimes he's not, and so like the whole thing
is odd, and then you see the looks afterwards, and
it's like, dude, you barely got touched. Why you going
down in a heap? So it looks like a bunch
of guys faking injuries and it kind of turns people off.
You've even got American soccer players, and you've got American

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soccer fans and former players who are like, Okay, this
is ridiculous, it's getting out of hand. Well, here's the
good news. You ain't gotta worry about that in the NFL. Nope, no, no,
no, no no, no, you don't have to worry about that
at all in the NFL. I want to know how
I know, because the NFL is finding teams a grip

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of cash for faking injuries. Now, this is a story
that has caught on earlier this morning because you've seen
this play out a couple of times. Jesse Bates of
the Bengals, he got he went was on video and
they saw Jesse Bates and the Bengals near a goal
line situation a couple of weeks ago. He went down
in a heap and pretended like he was hurt, and

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it was obvious the guy was trying to buy time.
And then you've seen other things pop up and it's like, okay,
like we we it, what's happening here, But is this
really going to turn into soccer? No, no, no, no no,
don't worry about it. And if it does turn into soccer,
somebody's gonna be out of a chunk of change. Here's
the latest on a big fine that was sent out

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the New Orleans Saints, who are no stranger to being
fined if anybody remembers bounty Gate and all that crap
that went on a few years ago. But apparently there
was a situation on a Monday night game where Cam
Jordan's quote unquote faked an injury, and so the NFL
looked into it. They spent a little bit of time,

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they got some other video. They determined that he did
fake the injury because he was looking over at the
sideline and was given clear instructions by coaches there, and
was given clear instructions by assistance there, and everybody told
him they take a knee, take a knee, get down,
take a knee. There was a third and sevent team
play apparently, And so the NFL, after doing their research,

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after looking into the situation, has decided, yeah, that wasn't
all on the up and up. That wasn't exactly legit.
And so they find the New Orleans Saints five hundred
fifty thousand dollars for what happened. Now here's how the

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finds break up. Cam Jordan was popped fifty thousand, his
position coach got popped fifty thousand, Dennis Allen, his head coach,
got popped a hundred thousand, and the Saints as an
organization outside of those guys, got fined three dollars. So
the NFL has said, we hear you. We know you're

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watching the World Cup, and we know you see augusta
wind fly by in Qatar. And then some dude pretends,
like all of a sudden, he ripped his hamstring in
half and falls to the to the turf, and they
gotta come out and spray him with like awkwinet hair
spray to make sure he's okay. But don't worry about it.

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We've seen all that. Listen, we have seen all that.
We have got it taken care of. And the NFL
has said, if you pull that crap in our league,
you're gonna get clipped a significant amount of money. So
there is that, and apparently they find like a handful
of teams. So the New Orleans Saints exhibit a of
why the NFL has said, we're not gonna be soccer.

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This ain't happening in our sport. We're not playing this game.
We don't care how much of a rooting interest you
have in some of this. We don't care who you
look at on a soccer pitch and say that's what
I want to pull off. If you do it, you're
gonna get popped. And the Saints just got popped half
a million dollars because of one guy taking a knee
with instruction from the sideline of Monday Night a couple

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of weeks ago. Now here's the other thing, this whole situation.
Make no mistake about it. The reason why the NFL
is also very sensitive to this topic is because of
something that I remember telling everybody about a couple of
years ago. Hey man, you want to partner up with

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gambling sites. You want to partner up with people that
make money on gambling. You want to partner up with
with people like DraftKings and some of these others. Drew
Brees faked a lightning strike in promotion for some gambling site.
Like you you want to, You want to partner up
with some of this like you want to? You want
to play this game. There's a lot of money involved.

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But if there's a lot of money involved, it means
there's a lot of people involved, and if there's a
lot of people and a lot of money involved, you
better be on the up and up. And this is
another indication that the game has changed because you can
sit here and say, well, that was in the middle
of a game. I mean, we understand if you placed
a bet before the game and you're seeing some of

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this funny stuff happen before the game and warmups, we
can understand why you would be outraged. But in the
middle of a game, what's the problem that I mean
we were, I mean this was later on. It isn't
no no, no, no no. Now that's the old school.
Place a bet before the game, Maybe place a bet
at halftime on the second half. Live wagering in game betting,

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that's completely taken off. And you want to know why
it's so popular now because people don't want to wait around,
Like ask yourself this, if somebody sends you a clip
to a video, are you more likely to watch it
if it's thirty seconds or three minutes. We don't want

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to wait around. So you can actually go in the
middle of a game that you just turned on and say,
what's the score here? It's what have we got a
third and seventeen. Is there a live bet on this? Yeah? Yeah,
you know what. I don't like the Bucks offense right now,
I'm gonna go ahead and take the Saints. And all
of a sudden, Cam Jordan drops to a knee and
with instructions from the sidelines, and now he's got to

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go on the blue medical tent. Guess who's out of money?
The person who just turned on the game, who didn't
like the Bucks situation there, but now all of a
sudden likes the Buck situation that much more because Cam
Jordan's a borderline Hall of Famer, has now taken a
knee and he's gonna sit out the next play. All
this stuff is in play. All of this stuff is legit,

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and everybody can scoff at it and say, oh my god, No, no, no,
you're over No, no, no, man, I'm not overthinking anything.
You see what's happened in the UFC. You talk about
an underreported story. The UFC has just banned a trainer,
a guy who used to fight in the UFC. His
name is James Krauss at a Kansas city. They've now

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banned and prohibited him from being involved in any UFC event.
And it's not just the UFC, it's m A in general.
Athletic commissions aren't signing off on anybody that's got anything
to do with him, pending an investigation. And why are
they having an investigation Because one of his fighters showed

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up to a fight and lost in the first round,
and then afterwards they admitted he went into the fight
with an injury. Now that's bad enough. Guess where it
gets worse. On the day of the fight, all of
a sudden, the betting lines completely switched. So who spoke

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up to who? Who said who to what? And why
did this? Because somebody do something, somebody was in the
know and it wasn't on the up and up. And
then you do a little bit of digging and you
find out that this guy, James Krause, this trainer and
m m A a guy who who's fought m m A.
He was on the reality show The Ultimate Fighter, which

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is a big part of the reason why the UFC
is as popular as it is. This guy gives out
gambling advice and gives out advice on fights and is
quoted as saying, I make a lot more money on
gambling on mm A than I do actually on mm A,
and then they come to find out one of his

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fighters who was injured all of a sudden shouldn't have
been fighting, and all the money was slanted and going
towards the other guy he was fighting, and he ended
up losing in the first round. Now the UFC is
looking and going, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on,
hold on, hold on. What's going on here? What's happening?
This is a dangerous game. It's a slippery slope, and

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that guy and any fighter that has anything to do
with him is prohibited from fighting pending the investigation until
they find out what the hell happened. That's how serious
this is. So when you see a guy taking knee
in the NFL, or a guy fake a ramp or
Jesse Bates or Cam Jordan or any of these guys,

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make no mistake about it. There's a couple of things
going on here. A. The NFL is looking out for you.
They don't want this sport to turn into soccer and
be The NFL has got a lot of new partners
and a lot of money involved, and they're not taking
any chances with any of this crap. There's a reason
why a few years back. The Miami Dolphins had a
little bit of an investigation into them because all of

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a sudden, Ryan Tannehill, who wasn't on the injury report,
was listed as questionable with no injury designation during the
week getting ready for a game on Sunday. Ultimately didn't
play and brock os while they got the start, and
guess what happened. The NFL investigated it because the NFL
knew this was coming. If we're gonna partner up with

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gambling sites, if we're gonna partner up with with with
people with a lot of money that want to get
involved in this world, you gotta come clean. And that's
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I love how my wife tried to throw me earlier today, like, hey,
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You gotta be kidding me. Man, Like you going to
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Can I just say this before we get into somebody
who's completely full of crap and they've been exposed in
the NFL, Let me just say this. We're talking about
the World Cup earlier whatever. Uh and you know, like listen,
you know there's there's teams still alive, and you know,
obviously there was a game earlier today and there's one
going on right now between France and England, and so
people are a buzz on social media about it and

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all that. And my point a few minutes ago was
the NFL's cracking down on the faking of injuries because
they don't want to turn into soccer where people are
faking injuries all the time to try and you know,
get arrest and it just looks like crap. It's just
it's a bad look for everybody involved. And there's a
lot of people out there who watch it and go
come and you gotta be kidding me. This is terrible.
So on the subject to the World Cup, I want

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to I want to make sure everybody is okay here,
and I want to make sure that we've addressed this
situation because you probably heard something near and around your home,
Like you probably heard something, and I want to make
sure that there was Like you're not alarmed, but shortly
before new An Eastern time, you probably heard a noise.

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Now tis the season for these things called porch pirates.
I don't know if anybody is familiar with the term
porch pirate, but basically, they're these losers who walk up
onto your porch and steal the package that was left
for you that you ordered, and usually they're caught on
like one of those door cameras or whatever. But there's

(16:32):
a name for those absolute losers, those zeros, those complete
failures in life. Are the people that steal those packages
off your porch during the holidays. Those are called porch pirates.
They're awful people. In fact, I don't even think they're people.
In fact, I think pirate is too nice of a term.
They're losers, right, So they're losers. But if you heard

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a noise in and around your home shortly before New
An Eastern time, it was not one of those losers. No, no, no,
no no. That noise you heard was a toilet flushing.
The toilet flushing the herd was because of the scam
that was pulled off here at Fox Sports Radio a

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few weeks ago by Steve de Seger, one of the
great update anchors of all time in the history of
sports radio, also pulled off a scam because he hit
me up and said, you want to be a part
of my World Cup pool? And I said, yes, Steve,
that'd be fun. I love watching the World Cup. It's fun.
I love the big events in soccer. Those are always fun,
the pageantry, everything. I mean, listen, I root for for

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Italian soccer, it at least not in it. That's a
whole another discussion. But yeah, of course i'd love I'd
love a spin at the wheel. Why not let me
be a part of this World Cup pool only to
find out while I wasn't there. Keep in mind this
happened while I wasn't there my draws for the World Cup,
I drew four teams. Four teams according to Mr Honesty,
Steve de Sager and the rest of the honest people

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at Fox Sports Radio. The four teams that I drew
word Ghana, Saudi Arabia, Poland, and Portugal. So if you're
wondering why there was a toilet flushing and you heard
that noise in and around the area a little before
nude Eastern time, that was my final World Cup pick

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that I didn't actually pick, some scam job by the
people at Fox Sports Radio. And it was Portugal losing earlier.
So I'm out. So there it is. You could kiss
my ass everybody involved. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. By
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Big Green egg dot Com. So when this was happening
in the NFL, I know, I didn't buy into it.
It just didn't It didn't smell right. Something about it

(18:58):
seemed a little off. This hole Odell Beckham Jr. Tour,
This this free agency tour. You know, he's gonna he's
he's identified three teams that he'd be willing to play for.
You're like, hey, have I've identified these teams I'm willing
to come back and play for, you know, like the Giants.

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So he goes on this tour with the Giants, and
then the Bills were involved, and the Cowboys were involved,
and the Cowboys like played into it. You know, you
got all these players on the Cowboys who are like,
oh'll be so awesome to play with O. B J'd
be so awesome to play with O. B J. And
then he passes out on a plane and we're just
gonna overlook that, whatever that whole thing was about, We're

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just gonna forget about all that, and you know, just
let's focus on the tour. He's got a free agency tour.
Never mind, it's the middle of the season. We got
the holidays going on, you got a bunch of other
stuff going on, but everybody pay attention to Odell Beckham,
who is going to determine where he wants to play.
You even at the l A Rams save a locker
form earlier this year. And then they realized we've got
bigger problems outside of whether or not we can bring

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back Odell Beckham Jr. And Odell Beckham Jr. Has had
a great career. And I said it from the jump,
Duty's injured, Like, like, what am I missing here? He's injured?
What like what's going on? And then is it continued
on and continued on. I just was like can we
just end there? Like, what is what's happening here? Somebody
sign him or don't sign him or wait to the

(20:22):
off season, but he's injured. And then the reports started
to come out that the Dallas Cowboys were a little
bit concerned about the situation. Dallas had a little bit
of an issue because Dallas was was looking at it
and going, well, we're not quite sure. We're not quite
sure if you know whether or not Odell Beckham Jr.
Is gonna is gonna be ready to play, and you
know we've got these and then all of a sudden,

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Dallas got a bunch of heat from some people who
said that was unfair to Odell Beckham and O b J.
Didn't deserve that. You're you're basically throwing out some medical
stuff and it's a bad look for him, and you're
creating some costs for concern and you've got people who
cover the Cowboys like Clarence Hiller were like, hold on
a second, what did Dallas do wrong? All of this
stuff has been set in motion by O. B J

(21:07):
and his team. Dallas has got concerns about the medical
and they should have concerns like, I don't understand the
guys coming off an a c L injury. Yeah, but
what about Michael Gallup? Michael Gallop towards a c L
and he didn't. The Cowboys doctor performed the surgery. Well,
what about Jalen Smith? When Jalen Smith came out of call,

(21:29):
the Cowboys doctor did the surgery. That's why they were
comfortable with it. Odell Beckham's first surgery didn't go well,
and a lot of people realize that and knew it
was only a matter of time before this issue popped
up again based on the surgery. So Dallas has every
right to have concerns, but now we've gotten the real answer.

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We have gotten the real answer as to what's actually
happening here. Apparently oh b J thinks he's an NBA
player and Hill determine when he comes back and when
he wants to play here. He was just a couple
of days ago, and I think it's called the shop
with Lebron James. Listen to oh b J. Are you ready? However,

(22:11):
I haven't made a decision, And for me, it's like
I would like I would like to be in a
stable environment, get up six am, leave at six pm
for four weeks and then let's talk about it. I've
played football for a long time. I'm not saying that
I couldn't step in and play regular season, but I
don't see the point. I really don't like. I would
rather play when that presses on, rather play when the
licen is on. Like I went through the whole playoffs,

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and I was after having my first bad playoff experience,
Like all I was ready for was to clear that
off my name, uh the balls on hire man. Hey, listen,
I understand you guys are in the mid of a
playoff push, you know, and I'd love to help you
out during the regular season and show that I can
still play once you was waiting put me in during

(22:55):
the playoffs. Oh yeah, you got it. I mean, if
I Mike McCarthy and I know my jobs on the line,
because my owner was talking about assistant coaches on my
staff that would be better replacements, are a better options
than me. Of course, why don't I just go ahead
and jeopardize my job in the first playoff game of
the postseason that if I lose in a one and

(23:17):
done again, I'm gonna be out of work. Why don't
I go ahead and do all that, just so you
can show to everybody that you didn't need the regular
season to get ready. We'll just throw you in during
the playoffs. Makes all the sense in the world. In fact,
let's go around the horn here. Let's go to the
Buffalo Bills. You know, I mean, of course, listen, there's
a lot of conversation about is Josh Allen gonna finally

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win the big one? Well, don't worry about that conversation.
The conversation we should have is let's let Odell Beckham Jr.
Feel his way through the offense in a playoff game
in a one and done scenario so that he can
show everybody I don't need the regular season. What are
we talking about here? Like there's a reason why I

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it didn't smell right from the jump. There was always
more to it, and he can cite, well, you know,
I had such a bad taste in my mouth the
first playoff game against the Packers and all we got it.
But and and listen, nobody's denying he's not a great talent,
and had he stayed healthy, he's probably the m v
P in that Super Bowl last year. He's great. But

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the idea that a guy through in his thirties coming
off another a c L surgery is going to dictate
terms to teams who don't need him when he's gonna
come back and play is insane. Like I I could
I could never imagine pulling that stunt. Like the first

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time I got I got an opportunity to work here
at Fox Sports Radio, I could never imagine telling my
bosses who called me up to say, hey, you want
to work this holiday? Well, listen, I mean I very
easily could work this holiday. But I don't see the point.
You know, why don't you just put me in there
during a regular Monday through Friday shift and then let
me take it from there, you know. I mean, yeah,

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of course I could work that holiday. I just don't
see the point, you know what they would say, Oh
got it, um kiss our ass, have fun, Go go
back to go, go back to the tree loot and
pick up some seasonal work. They're not happening here at
Fox Sports Radio. Dude, understand the situation you're in, and
apparently he doesn't. But at least now we have our

(25:28):
clear answer if it seemed funny and smelled a little
bit odd right from the jump. Now we know why
Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at
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We're gonna hand out an award and it's an award
to a team that is in the news. All right,
So we'll get to that here coming up in just

(25:49):
a couple of moments from now. But for all the
latest from around the world of sports, ladies and gentlemen,
make some noise for the great Brian Finily. What is knocks?
Thank you? It is an honor to beyond your program.
Speaking of stuff the news, the World Cup you were
talking about that earlier. We had quarterfinals and a game
that's being seen right now in Fox Television where England
is trailing France one nil in the thirty fourth minute.

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Too Many had that goal for France in the seventeenth minute,
so that's been the only scoring so far. The winner
of this one is going to take on Morocco after
Morocco pulled up a beat down if Jonas's Portugal, who
he had in his World Cup poll pull yeah one nill,
They're unbelievable. Yeah, Steve to Sager, Man, that guy always

(26:33):
gets you, just every time. And by the way, like
don't even bother Steve sending me over the updates on
where everybody stands, because like I was holding out hope.
Then it's like such a tease to because didn't Saudi
Arabia beat Argentina, And it was like, oh my god,
like man, maybe I'm onto something here. And then I
look at this little number next to him and I

(26:54):
realized that ranked like sixty one in the world. Cool,
like who does that? But like you at these other
people here who have like you know, like all these
top tier teams like three in the top ten, and
I get like Saudi Arabia, Ghana and like Usdan Jose
State or some crap like that. What are we doing here? Yeah?
And I think your your fourth team was Madagascar. They're

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not even playing in it. But that's out of line. Listen,
like you wait a way to kick a guy when
he's down. Family, you're a real bully here. Ben Maller
is right about you. Well, Jonas, you know you blamed
your wife for wanting to take you to the mall.
You said, no, here's where you can't blame your wife.
You were the one that decided and wanted to put
antlers on your car. And they looked really good, by

(27:36):
the way. I don't ever say that your Lincoln town
Car they look No, I don't ever say that. We've
already talked about that. If you have antlers on your
car and you're driving around right now, you got to
be ashamed of yourself. Grow up. We're some truck nuts
telling you there were some truck nuts. Well you have
both unless oh there you go. So the NFL ing

(28:00):
the Saints, as Jonas mentioned, a total of five d
fifty thousand dollars for conspiring to fake an injury in
Monday's game. Three fifty thousand of that dough is directed
at the organization. Another chunk going to head coach Dennis Allen,
so he's gonna face that one hundred thousand dollar penalty.
They're all going to appeal now. The team has put
out this note in response to this quote. The New
Orleans Saints deny any allegations of purposely delaying the game

(28:23):
on Monday evening. The Saints will appeal the fines through
the proper channels and believe the allegations will be proved incorrect.
Close quote. Even with all of that evidence that was
seen and picked up by the cameras, the NFL Ticketing
Bank of Safety just he bates another fifty thousand dollars
for faking an injury in last night's game as well.
We've got the Steelers, a couple of their players will

(28:45):
be back tomorrow and their contest t J Wad, Deonte Johnson,
Malik Read all active. The Chiefs downgrading their wide receiver
Cadareus Tony too out against the Broncos coming up this week.
Kevin Ran and Kyrie Irving two of eight net So
we're just gonna sit this thing out this evening against
the Pacers. I guess they have other guys on the team,
the maverige kind. I wonder what that that that line

(29:08):
is that you just let me go ahead and take
a look at this wold one. So they've got eight
payers out players and still Indiana, Indiana is only a
seven and a half point Jesus. The Mavericks are saying
that Luca Donche is not gonna play tonight with the
right quadru step strain. And lastly, Jonas Stanford hiring a

(29:29):
new football coach. It is Troy Taylor. He comes from
the great Sacramento States. He was there as their head
coach from twenty nineteen to two. So big news. They're
down at the farm. And yeah, it's been a couple
of down years first Stanford, but you know what's been
up and up and up. Jonas knocks, thanks family. Yeah,

(29:53):
those haters, those losers give you criticism, like those people
that steal packages off porches, losers. All right, Jonahs knocks here,
Fox Moor, treat you get me today. Eight years now,
somebody's got at the back of their minivan. All right,
coming up, we are gonna have another edition of do
you caring about ten minutes from now here on? Fs
are to stick around for that. If you thought this

(30:13):
show was already really really positive and upbeat, you don't
want to miss what's gonna happen ten minutes from now
But we do do this. Every single week we hand
out an award. It's the t G f G Game
of the Week, and this week's award for Week fourteen
in the NFL goes to ja. Yeah, congratulations to everybody involved.

(30:44):
Jack's Titans is our thank God for gambling game of
the Week because if it wasn't for gambling, who cares?
Who cares? Now you probably are sitting there thinking to yourself,
but what are you talking about? Man? You can't put
the Jaguars in every single week? Well I probably could,
if we're gonna be truthful here, but there are certain
matchups which are kind of interesting when it comes to Jacksonville.

(31:07):
And I don't know what you're also thinking, haven't we
heard the Titans get this award before? Yeah? Probably, I
mean I don't. I don't think that's outside the realm
of possibility. But look, the Titans got exposed last week.
If Derrick Henry isn't running the football at a high level.
Tennessee struggles. I love Mike Rabel, I love a lot
of what that team is about. I like the fact

(31:28):
that they've been pretty consistent over the past few years.
But there is a ceiling there. And again, how do
we know there's a ceiling because they just fired their
general manager in December of a season in which they're
leading their division and running away with their division. So
that out to tell you everything you need to know

(31:50):
about what the hell is happening with the Tennessee Titans.
But congratulations to everybody involved, Ryan Tannehill, Trevor Lawrence. It
is a big weekend. It's our thank God for Gambling
game of the Week, Jags Titans, celebrate, guys. Everybody's a
big winner here on this December weekend. All right, it
is Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter

(32:12):
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here on fs are. This is a bad song. Come on, Sam,

(32:38):
where's the good Christmas? Music man, you know, like a
little thirty eight special. Come on now, is this uh
John Rottweiler, Mellencamp or whatever his name is. No, I
just said it. It's thirty eight special, A wild Eyed
at Christmas Night thirty eight special. Huh isn't that a gun? Yeah?

(33:01):
Something like that? Okay, what do I know? All right?
It is Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. You can hang
out with us as always on the I Heart Radio
app coming up top of next hour. Alright, so we're
gonna have some Knox locks. Actually a decent week last week.
We're gonna have some Knox locks. Also. This is hilarious.
So there's there are two teams in the world of

(33:24):
football who are both responsible for an embarrassing number, an
embarrassing stat but we're only gonna blame one of them,
and it's for a reason. So we'll get to that here.
Coming up again top of next hour, a little over
ten minutes from now here from the entire rac dot
Com studios. But right now it is time for something
we do on the show every single week at this time,

(33:44):
and it's called this. There's so many stories in the
world of sports, and most of them are a complete
waste of time. M reports. Let's get kinky. Here's some
of the big stories from the last week. But Jonas,
the real question is do you care? And for that
we turn it over the man with the best pipes
in all of radio, the one and only Danny G.

(34:08):
Happy Saturday. The microphone there it is interrupted my own drop.
All right, let's start in the bay. Mr Irrelevant brock
Purty came off the bench to lead the Niners to
win over the Dolphins after Jimmy g went down injured
last Sunday in Santa Clara. Do you care? Yeah? I do,

(34:29):
for a couple of reasons. One, it's pretty cool seeing
brock Purty, Mr Irrelevant come in and have success. A
lot of those guys, especially that late in the draft.
If you talk to people, they'll say you're almost better
off not getting drafted because you get to pick where
you go. You can kind of bargain with people as
far as signing bonuses go or contracts you get. If
one team wants to wants to sign, you can come

(34:51):
back to him and say, well, we're being offered this.
If you get drafted by somebody, you're just kind of stuck.
And he got drafted by the Niners, and Kyle Shannon
has been nothing a complimentary about the guy. But also
it kind of sucks for Jimmy Garoppolo. It does kind
of suck for him. So all in all, I do
care about the story and I'm fascinated to see how
it plays that moving forward next Alright, a couple of

(35:12):
days into the week, baseball insider John Hayman not only
jumped a gun with his Aaron Judge to the Giants tweet,
but at first he typed Arson Judge was headed to
San Francisco, do you care? Yeah, listen it. There is
something to like grammar on Twitter. I never am too

(35:34):
harsh on people when it comes to grammar on Twitter,
because I screw stuff up all the time, all the time.
Like if I'm writing freehand, like sometimes I have to
go back and check am I spelling that word right?
Because I like to write freehand a lot. I just said,
you know, it's old school. I never want to forget
how to do that, and and technology kind of weirds
me out sometimes. But if if if I see somebody

(35:54):
with a grammar mistake, it's like, okay, whatever it happens.
People are are tweeting or typing in a hurry that
you they forget the apostrophe and your or your you
are or whatever it is. John Hayman not only misspelled it,
but also got the wrong team and only to come
back later the very next day and he signs back
with the Yankees. It just a bad look. I like

(36:16):
John Hayman, but not not a great opportunity, not a
great moment for him in his Twitter game. So we
you know, thoughts and prayers to John Hayman, but still
a great reporter, gets a lot of his stuff right,
and he'll continue on next alright. Australian boxer Ebony Bridges
showed up to her way in with Shannon O'Connell in lingerie,
which included a see through bra. Do you give a

(36:38):
rat's ass? Yeah? Why not listen? I mean you got
you gotta change stuff up a little bit. You've seen
guys in in M M A come out with like
tribal headwear on. Kabib Naraga made off. He came out
and like, I don't know if it's like a what
they call like a chiky or something. He's got that
big poofy hat. It's like something from Daugastan in Russia. Like, listen,
I mean, you gotta put something together, and apparently they're

(37:01):
taking this to another level. I'm I'm curious to see
what happens next. I did see the photo of it.
Lot going on there, and we'll just kind of play
it out from there next. I bet you saw the
photo of that. Sure did? All right? Portugal coach Fernando
Santos says he has no regrets about not starting Ronaldo
despite their World Cup exit to Morocco. Do you care? No,

(37:23):
I don't care. Listen, I'm done. I'm done. Look, Portugal,
you had an opportunity, you had a chance to really
make me seem like I'm I'm a soccer guy, and
then all of a sudden you pulled what you pulled earlier.
I blame Portugal, I blame Fernando Santos, I blame Ronaldo.
I blame Steve de Seger and the rest of the
scam artists of radio who forced me into a World

(37:46):
Cup pool only so they could let me draw Portugal,
Saudi Arabia, Ghana like seven eleven, and uh pulled Ghana? Alright, yeah,
sure did. It's not the first time. Alright, So next, alright, finally,
let's go to TV. Do you remember the movie Stella

(38:09):
Got Her Groove Back? Yes, that um Wendy. I can't
think of the famous actress's name. She aged like fine wine.
But Tay Diggs was the like the dude and the
young dude in the movie. Well, he's got his own
show he's hosting now on Hulu called Back in the Groove.

(38:30):
This is a real thing. Three mills and twenty four
young guys all d bags. Wait what yeah, three older
ladies with twenty four guys on an island. Hold honest,
and it's is this a reality show? It's a reality
show on Hulu. Do you care? So? Yes? Yeah, the
one four young guys, the twenty four youngsters are fighting

(38:52):
over the three older ladies in their forties. Okay, now,
so they're in their forties, all right. See, I thought
we were going a lot older because that would have
made him and by the way, it was Q talk,
you know. Good. Look, some people some people are into
dating much older women. I have a buddy who loves

(39:13):
older women, like that's always been his thing, Like, he
absolutely loves older women. And so the ongoing joke with
us because he had like all these dating apps because
on a dating app, Danny, you know this. You gotta
put an age range of like what you're interested in,
so you can put like, you know, thirty to forty two. Yeah.
So so this guy, my buddy, it was an ongoing

(39:35):
joke with us that on his dating profiles on his
apps his age range was anywhere from twenty five to death.
So listen, a lot of people are open minded this stuff.
So this, I think counts is something that is very
embarrassing in the world of football. Now, two teams are responsible.

(39:58):
Unfortunately we can only blame one. We've identified the one
team we're gonna blame. We'll get into that for you
coming up here just a couple of moments from now.
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I'm not trying to start a fight. I'm really not.
But I was kind of doing some research. Some people
have referred to me as show prep. Jesus again, I
don't know who these people are, but you know, no
Stone Unturn do a little research, look into some stuff.
And so I'm noticing that although we do have some

(41:04):
you know, lower conference college football on that we can watch,
and you know, it's it's all fun. I mean, you know,
obviously everybody's waiting for the Bull season to start. We
know he's gonna be in the college football playoff all that,
and once Bull season starts, you're gonna have all these
random bulls pop up throughout the course of the week.
It's fun. You know, some players might sit out, some
players might not, but ultimately it's fun. It's a fun

(41:24):
time of year. But like, the one game that is
taking center stage is Army versus Navy, and it's kicking
off here shortly and it's look for all the tradition
and everything that goes on with this game. It's fantastic.
Just you see, you know, the people supporting on each side,
you know how much they celebrate. Just it's it's a tradition.

(41:48):
Every single year you watch it, you know, it's just
it's America through and through and just the pride that
that the alum and everybody involved have with both of
these schools and both these programs Army and Navy, it's
not really about football. And what's what is cool about
it though, from from a football standpoint, outside of all
the other stuff that's bigger than football, what's cool about

(42:08):
Army Navy is that it's almost like you get a
peek into history in real time because the way these
teams play is how football was done back in the day,
to where you didn't have all these elaborate offenses and
schemes and these just superstar athletes and these worlds no
like you. You had the bare minimum, the basics, and

(42:29):
both of these programs run basic offenses that you don't
see anywhere else. It's why if you talk to anybody
who's ever played an Army or a Navy, especially anybody
who's like an interior lineman. They'll tell you they're destroyed
after these games because you've got guys just cutting the
entire game, just sawing you off at the knees because
they're running the football. That's the way their offenses. And

(42:52):
so sometimes it gets a little dicey. I can remember
South Carolina playing I want to say it was Navy
years and years ago, and South Carolina struggled to beat them,
like they nearly lost the game, and I remember Steve
Spurrier saying afterwards, it's these are just difficult games to
prepare for because you don't see this offense anywhere. Yeah,
you've got much more talent than them from a football standpoint,

(43:14):
but you don't see these offenses, so you're not sure
how to get ready for it. And so thus you
see these low scoring games and you just see a
different look. But it's like how football was back in
the day. So all of that is awesome. Here's the
here's the other part of this. So the if you're
betting on this game, the under, the point total in

(43:36):
this game has hit sixteen straight times. So we're talking
low scoring sixteen straight times. The under in this game
is hit. Now, if you're wondering well, what's the point
total in this game? Now? It's sitting it around thirty
two or thirty two and a half, depending on on

(43:57):
where you look. Like. It's just you know, but it's
really low, I mean really low. You know, there's I mean,
there's some teams who average that and a half seemingly
like so, I mean we're talking thirty two and a half.
So it's really low. Here's the best part. It's also
not the lowest opening point total of the college football

(44:21):
season either, because the lowest opening point total betting line
in college football doesn't go back to Army Navy, who
play football like we used to watch in the thirties. No, no, no, no,
can we get a drum roll? Please? A drum roll please?
Because two teams have the honor of having the lowest

(44:44):
point total this season in college football when the line
first open, and they are that's right, Iowa and Minnesota.
Congratulations to Iowa, Sam, Congratulations Sam. How does that make
you feel? I'm used to it, I understand. So the

(45:08):
projections are that Army Navy would be higher scoring that
Iowa Minnesota. By the way, for those of you wondering
what the total for the Iowa Minnesota game was when
it opened up, it was around like thirty one or
thirty one and a half between both teams, and they
still hit the under Still now, I will take that
game to ten. Was the final in Minnesota. But Sam,

(45:33):
I mean, if you ever want to talk with your
friends back home and say, I don't think you guys
understand how low scoring our team is. You're projected to
be a lower scoring game against Minnesota to winning football teams,
by the way, to like to winning football teams projected
to score fewer points than Army Navy. Jesus Christ, Sam,

(45:55):
Come on, man, doesn't Nates Danley have some eligibility left?
Can we get Shawn Greenback? No? Like, nothing like, we
don't have anything to work with here, Jesus man. Alright,
So congratulations to Iowan Minnesota the lowest opening point total

(46:15):
in the college football season, even lower than Army Navy,
who are kicking off here shortly. Alright, So when it
comes to Knox Locks, all right, let's let's let's first
focus on the positive here. All right, Let's focus on
the positive. The positive is we had a winning week
last week. We actually had a winning week last week.
That is cause for celebration here two in one last
week now Steelers Falcons. That was the one I felt

(46:38):
most confident on because I could not figure out why
the Atlanta Falcons were underdogs at home against the Steelers,
and it took like one half of football for me
to realize, oh, yeah, that's the case. That's why. Now
Marcus Mariotte has been benched. Desmond Ritter is going to
be the quarterback moving forward. So Desmond Ritter will be
your starter after the bye week, and then you've got

(46:59):
Ken Picket who's playing much better football. But nonetheless, that
was a loss. We own it, we accepted. But we
did call the Vikings minus three against the Jets. I
don't know why that game was that close towards the end,
but thankfully the Vikings get it done. We had Vikes
minus minus three. And then this seems kind of odd
to point out now that we're here, but we did
have the Raiders minus two. So we didn't feel good

(47:22):
about that because I thought the Raiders were rolling, they
were heading in the right direction. Now, we'll forget about
everything that happened on Thursday night. We're not trying to
piss anybody off, not trying to piss Danny g Off
and bring up the old stuff. But we want to
focus on the positives here. We did have the Raiders
minus two last week against the Chargers, So a two
and one performance last week, and you're probably asking yourself,
why are you so happy about a two and one performance.

(47:43):
What's the celebration here for Well, it's two and one
and it means we're only one game under five hundred
for the season. So we're eighteen nineteen and two on
the season. Week fourteen is here, So let's roll no
no looks, Brown said, Bengals. I'm taking the Bengals. Now,

(48:08):
where were you Halloween night? Now, it was a week night,
it was a Monday. Some of you were probably still
at a party. You used one of your sick days
to call out in November one, and you got after
it like you You were eating all sorts of Halloween candy.
You had like a baby Ruth in one hand, you

(48:29):
had an almond joy in the other, and Jello shots
being poured into your mouth at some Halloween party while
you were dressed up as some you know, cal Trans
worker or something like that, some highway worker. Some of
you probably dressed up is like a priest and got
after it a little bit, and all that is fine, man,
All that's fine. But you know where I was. I

(48:50):
was studying, and so I'm watching Monday night football and
Halloween and I'm noticing, Man, the Browns and Jacoby Brisset
are all over the Cincinnati Bengals, all over them. It
was just great. They were great. So you're seeing it
play out on on Monday Night Football and you're like, man,
oh man, what what what is going on here? This
is I mean, you know, we're watching the Cincinnati Bengals

(49:12):
fall apart. They represented the a f C the Super
Bowl last year. What is happening to the Bengals. Well,
don't worry about it, because since then, Cincinnati is one
of the hottest teams in the league. They are scary
right now, one of the hottest teams in the league.
And they're also a five point favorite coming up tomorrow.
Deshaun Watson looks shaky at times at best last week,

(49:33):
and that was against the Houston Texans, who are by
far and away the worst team in football. I think
Cincinnati gets some revenge. I like the Bengals at home,
and I like the Bengals minus five Vikings said Lions. Now,
this has been the topic of conversation around NFL circles.
It's a one Eastern time kickoff on Fox. Even so
much so the topic of conversation on the betting and

(49:54):
the line. Here Dan Campbell, the head coach of the
Detroit Lions. He can't figure out the Lions are favorite either,
but the Detroit Lions are favorite in this game, and
nobody seems to know why. Well, if you watch the
first game, Detroit should have won that game in Minnesota.
I mean, it was a a terrible collapse late in

(50:16):
that game. The Vikings won it. It was one of
those games that Detroit looks at and goes, man, it's
a positive season, and we're having a really good year
for Detroit Lions standards, but we probably should have had
that one as well too. So the Lions lost that game,
a game they should have won at Minnesota. So you
come back all these weeks later and you're thinking to yourself, well,
of course the Lions would be favored, and yet makes

(50:37):
some sense. And I'm inclined to look at this and
say somebody must know something. Detroit is favored for a reason,
But I'm not doing it. I'm taking Minnesota. I'll take
these points. They're gonna win that division. They're gonna win
that division handedly, the Vikings are gonna roll. I like
Minnesota in this game getting points on the road, and

(50:58):
plus it's a one Eastern time kick off. You know
how we feel about Kirk Cousins. In those spots, it's
a much better season for Detroit. I'm happy for their success.
I hope it continues. Love Jared Goff, love Dan Campbell,
But in this spot, I'll take Minnesota getting points on
the road. Buccaneers at give me Tom Brady. Tom Brady,
speaking of getting points, he's getting three and a half

(51:19):
points against Brock Purty, a rookie, Mr Irrelevant. We gotta
calm down. We need to calm down on the They're
gonna be fine without Jimmy Garoppolo stuff. That's just people
who want to go back and get their takes right
because they've been talking about Jimmy Garoppolo being a system
quarterback and Jimmy Garoppolo being this and anybody could do

(51:39):
the job. Okay, let's see it. If anybody can orchestrate
that team to a super Bowl like Garoppolo did, Let's
see Brock Purty do it. Go ahead, Let let convince me.
And until I'm convinced, I'm not gonna bet against Tom
Brady in this spot. I'm not saying Tampa Bay is great.
They are not. They got problems. We can celebrate that
game winning drive on Monday night, Alay want, we can

(52:01):
talk about Cam Jordans going down and getting the Saints
find five hundred plus thousand dollars for faking and injury.
We can have whatever discussion you want about that game
last week. The fact of the matter is Tampa Bay
didn't look right, but they look right in this game.
I will take the Bucks getting the three and a half.
A little bit of a home coming for Tom Brady's
he goes back to the Bay Area. Give me Tampa.

(52:22):
That's a four Eastern time kickoff on Fox and that
is this week's edition of Knox Locks. So it's done, Jonas.
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up next, there's a team in the NFL who made

(53:06):
a big decision a few days ago. They're now telling
you why they made the decision, and believe it or not,
it kind of makes some sense. We'll have that for
you here on fs are Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio
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(53:31):
you make the soft bleep boy soccer players look like
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By the way, you can check out the unedited version
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(53:52):
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just want to see what was actually said that I
can't say on the air until I get fired. You
can check that out there. So nothing but beat stuff here.
So you hear the Christmas music, You're like, hey, man,
everybody's in the spirit. Apparently Paul is all right. Coming
up in we'll call it about ten minutes from now
we are going to have a conversation about a situation

(54:14):
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get on the grill. So it gets cold outside, it's
the best part. You see your fog mixed with the
smoke from the grill, which is great. You know, like
in some places it's snowing or you know, maybe there's
some rain and you can't really make it happen. But

(55:19):
if it's if it's if it's dry out and still chilly,
there's nothing better than you hanging out by the grill
having a nice beer, like a nice I p A.
You see that meat fire up there. Plus it's cheaper
than going to some of these restaurants and what they're charging.
So there is that, all right, So let's get into this.
Somebody's trying to convince you why they made a decision

(55:43):
in the NFL. They're gonna try and convince you why
this is happening, and and they're gonna give you their example.
They're gonna give you their reasoning, and it's gonna make
some sense, all right. Now. It may not make some
sense initially. Maybe you'll look at it and go, well,
you know, I smell bs. They're full of it. There
was something else going on here. So the Tennessee Titans

(56:03):
made the decision earlier this week to fire their general
manager John Robinson. He's gone now. The timing is curious
because it was right after they lost to the Eagles. Now,
losing to the Eagles is you know that that's it's
not like that's a bad thing. Basically everybody is lost
to the Eagles. Washington is the only team that's beat him.

(56:24):
That the best team in football. They've had a really
great year. Jalen Hurts is in the m v P
conversation Nick Sirianni has done a tremendous job. They're they're
talented Howie Roseman and that he continues to build build
this roster getting better and better. They had a big flaw,
especially exposed in that Washington game. They couldn't stop the runs.
So what you do? He went out signed a couple
of interior defensive linemen to try and improve all that. Like,

(56:47):
Philadelphia is doing it right and their favored to win
the NFC, and they should be favored to win the NFC,
So when you lose to Philadelphia, it's you shouldn't be
knocked that much for it. Well, when you lose to
Philadelphia and a J. Brown, you're warmer player goes off
on he like he did and torches you. And it's
a guy that you couldn't come to terms on a
deal with, a guy that wanted to stay in Tennessee,

(57:09):
a guy that reportedly wasn't even asking for some of
the numbers that were being thrown out there, really wanted
to stay in Tennessee, and you decided to move on
from him, and it plays out like that. Yeah, you
can kind of see why. The timing is a little
bit suspect. All of a sudden, the GM who made
the trade is out of work a couple of days later.
The timing of it is a little odd. It's a

(57:31):
little bit a little strange. I think we can all
agree on that. You know. It's almost like John Robinson
and Tennessee was like, well, the Bills and Vikings pulled
this off when Minnesota traded Stefon Digs to Buffalo for
a first round pick and then they used that first
round pick to draft Justin Jefferson. It worked out for everybody,

(57:53):
So why can't we do it? Well, you can't do
it because A J. Brown's played outstanding and trailing works
the guy that you did draft with that number one
pick you acquired he's been up and down and been
injured and bed a little banged up. So there's a
clear weakness for Tennessee. It was exposed on Sunday, and
now John Robinson's out of a job. Well, apparently they're

(58:14):
gonna try and sell you on why this happened. Now,
Amy Adams Strunk, who is the owner of the Tennessee Titans,
and she's the one who ultimately made the decision. Alright,
she she she made the decision to fire John Robinson.
All right, this is you know, this is what what
happened in Tennessee this week. She went on to say,

(58:36):
a couple of days ago and she talked with Teresa
Walker of the Associated Press and just said, look, once
I made the decision, I can't sit on it. Let's
just go ahead and be fair to him, and let's
make the move now. It seems a little odd that
you would want to make the move now in the
middle of a season. Who knows if Tennessee goes on
a run here and next thing you know, they're in
an a f C championship game again. I mean, they're

(58:59):
gonna win their divis Jian, So who knows if Tennessee
all of a sudden figures this thing out. Next thing
you know, Burke's catches fire and Tennessee's rolling in their
passing game comes together. Who knows, but she didn't want
to wait around for which tells me decision was made.
They were gonna do this anyway, so why wait around?
And when you explain it like that, And we've seen

(59:21):
this play out before with Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy got
fired in season by the Packers a few years ago,
and I wasn't opposed to it. Like some people called
it a knee jerk reaction, and they said, well, because
he lost to Arizona. The Packers lose to the Cardinals.
They're like twelve point favorites at home. They lose to
the Cardinals, and then you fire Mike McCarthy. It seems
a little bit drastic. Well maybe drastic, just like John

(59:43):
Robinson getting fired is is a little bit drastic in
the middle of the season. But I'd rather know, Like,
wouldn't you rather know? Let me ask you this, if
you knew somebody was going to dump you? All right,
We've all been dumped, all right, there's nothing wrong with it.
Don't be ashamed. It's like everybody's with the bed at
some point. Don't be shamed. We've all done it. Everybody's
been dumped. But if you knew somebody was going to

(01:00:05):
dump you and it was around the time of your birthday,
would you rather they dump you the day after your birthday?
Would you rather they dump you the day before. I'd
rather get dumped the day before. What do you mean
it's gonna ruin your birthday? What are you talking about?

(01:00:25):
One of your days is going to be ruined. Anyways,
I'd rather go into the birthday thinking, Okay, I'm free
to do what I want. Like they made the call,
we're all good here. I'd rather know, like like, tell
me at a time. I'd rather know if you're John
Robinson or you're Mike McCarthy some of these other guys
that have been fired at this time of the year.

(01:00:48):
And you'll hear this sometimes where people get, you know,
laid off from jobs around the holidays. Trust me, I
was one of those guys. But I'd rather get laid
off before the holiday than afterwards. So I know, Okay, Well,
I don't want to spend that money. Maybe I'm not
gonna splurge on this. Maybe I don't need to buy
all this and and splurge if I know what's gonna
happen around the corner. So if you're John Robinson, or

(01:01:08):
you're Mike McCarthy or some of these other guys, get
popped right now, I'd rather just go hang out for
the holidays. If this is where this is gonna go.
And and I and I was already on this thin
of ice, and you're gonna make the move anyways to
her point, to the point that she was trying to
make for Amy Adams Strong who says, look, we're gonna
make the move. I I didn't want to just sit
on it and know this was gonna happen in the

(01:01:30):
back of my mind and then do it. So she
made the call. Now. And if I'm John Robinson, I'm like,
all right, if I was already on that short of
a leash, I'd rather just go. If I'm gonna be
if I'm on such a short leash that my job
is on the line when we're facing a former player
that we traded in the off season, then I'd rather

(01:01:50):
know now. So from that standpoint, it does make some sense.
It does make some sense why they would make the
firing now, but it is pretty wild that a wide
receiver trade and playing that former wide receiver all of
a sudden cost somebody their job a couple of days later.
Kind of a wild turn of events there in Tennessee.
Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at

(01:02:12):
the Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, and
you can hang out with us as always on the
I Heart Radio app. Alright, it's coming up next. We're
going to get into a situation at quarterback this weekend
in the NFL that you've seen. You've seen this before
and it worked out really well for everybody involved. We'll
have that for you here on Fox Sports Radio. But

(01:02:34):
for all the latest from around the world of sports ladies,
and Jennimen makes some noise to the great Brian Fenley. Jonas,
I feel like I'm watching in Iowa football game right
now between Navy and Army. There. Hey, Navy an Army
are scoreless, five thirty left in the first quarter and
Navy's first drive Jonas eleven plays, eleven runs, so very
exciting football. It's an old school football. Listen, Sam, at

(01:02:57):
least you know you're not alone, man. At least I was.
Sam knows he's not alone. And you've got Iowa Minnesota,
who you know, had the lowest point total on record
this season, even lower than than Army Navy. So at
least Iowa fans can watch this game and go, We've
seen that somewhere before. It's like every Saturday the past
four years. Iowa does try to pass the ball. They do, Oh,

(01:03:18):
they do, Minnesota not so much. Yeah, maybe the backwards
passed that. Maybe that's what it is. Wow, shots fired?
How about how did that feel right to your silo? Sam?
I've been numb all season, so I can take the arrows. Uh. Well,
we do have some interesting developments happening in this World

(01:03:39):
Cup game quarterfinals. England has scored to even things up
with France. Now in the seventy third minute, it's one
the piece, and that fifty fourth minute Harry Kane made
a penalty kick, he scored and so it's the equalizer,
it's one all. Winner is going to be taking on
Narrocco after By the way, it doesn't doesn't that name

(01:04:00):
sound like a porn star, Harry Kane. Isn't there a
movie something something Cane Citizen Kane or Yeah, there's there's
that there's Kane, the wrestler, Candy Kane. Yeah, Candy Cave.
Isn't that your nickname during Christmas? Only only after like two?
I am, yeah, only after two, I am. But no,

(01:04:20):
I'm like Harry Harry Kane sounds like a porn name.
It does, yeah, it does. And so Morocco beat Jonas
knocks Is Portugal. That was part of his World Cup
I think who else did you have? Jonas? You had
Say Sells, you had Papua New Guinea were the it
was the other team And I'm looking at the list
right here, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenis, Ghana, Poland, um, alf H,

(01:04:48):
South Dakota, tech Uh, Zimbabwe. I mean, you know whatever,
whatever team had no chance of winning, that's the team
that I drew all while I wasn't there in the
building when the dry actually took place. Yeah, what a
bunch of crafts. Unbelievable. So so Morocco is awaiting that
winner between England and France one nil. Morocco got down
against Portugal in the other quarterfinal, the NFL finding the

(01:05:11):
Saints five hundred fifty thousand dollars for conspiring to fake
an injury and Monday night's game, so three fifty thousand
dollars of that is going to the front office, another
one hundred thousand headed to head coach Dennis Allen. The
NFL also sending a fifty thousand dollar fine to Bengal
safety Jesse Bates for the same thing. They think that
he faked an injury in last week's game. ESPN notes

(01:05:33):
the Ravens are activating running back JK. Dobbins, taking him
off into reserve, where he's been since October twenty one
after having surgery on his left knee. The Cardinals wide
receiver DeAndre Hopkins was off the injury reports, so he
seems to be good to go for Monday night. Stanford
football hires Troy Taylor as its new head coach. He
comes from Sacramento State, where he was the head coach

(01:05:54):
there from two thousand nineteen to two thousand twenty. To
some college basketball happening right out, and number four per
Due was holding on against Nebraska forty five to forty one,
twelve minutes to go in the second have Zack Eady
has eight points, ten rebounds in three blocks. Number nineteen
U c L. I gotta make sure I get this
one In is up against Denver twenty nine to twenty two,

(01:06:15):
five and a half left in the first half. And finally, Jonas,
number eight Alabama is a fourteen to twelve against number
one Houston Kelvin Sampson's Cougars nine, and oh look, going
to go to ten and know there's eight forty six
left in the first half, and Jonas, I was checking
in on your team, and I don't think University of
Phoenix plays until tomorrow, but I was going to try

(01:06:37):
to get that game in if I could on the update.
Why you gotta attack me friendly, jeez, I'm just journalistic
integrity here, Mr broadcast professional. My god, yea spinning facts.
You know Ralph Irvan I used to work here. We
called him the most violent man in sports radio. You
gotta come up with a name for Fenly. Come up
with a very angry Yeah he was. He definitely was. Yeah,

(01:07:00):
sure it was. What's how you get that nickname? All right,
work on that, Faily. I'm gonna come up with something
sounds good. In fact, you know what, I think. I
just came up with it. And I might have already
used this before. The most exotic manage like that. Yeah,
So there. It is the most exotic man in sports radio.
Everybody got to pay this year, so we clear. Yeah,
good stuff, man, daddy family, you're gonna be speaking of

(01:07:24):
the Source Awards or what. Well. I tell you, Jonas
that my radio college DJ name. Remember I told you
that Innocent Convicts. So that was some of my work
that I always sam played from one of my songs.
It's better than some of the other stuff out there,
that's for sure. All right, Thank you, Brian. It is
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. You can get me

(01:07:44):
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canna be a live here from the Tirack dot Com
studios by the way, coming up and we'll call it
about twelve minutes from now. We've got ourselves the scraps.
There are some things in the world of sports beyond
that we have not had a chance to get to,
and a lot of this stuff people don't have the
balls to get to. We do on this show and

(01:08:05):
it's yours twelve minutes from now, all right. So I
heard to uh talk about this earlier in the week,
and he's a correct to a takobyla. The Dolphins and
the Chargers are the Sunday night game on on NBC.
By the way, on that note, you want to know
how bad the Denver Broncos are. You want to know

(01:08:27):
how bad Russell Wilson has been this season? The Broncos
Chiefs game got flexed out of Sunday Night football for
Dolphins Chargers. That's how bad Russell Wilson and the Denver
Broncos are. You had an opportunity to get Russell Wilson

(01:08:47):
versus Patrick Mahomes in prime time, Russell Wilson versus Patrick
Mahomes in primetime on Sunday Night, and NBCs like, now,
we're good. You know you guys can. Why don't you
know you guys gotta play in the catch? Why don't
you go ahead and kick off a couple of hours early.
We're good here, We're gonna go ahead and take our
chances with Dolphins Chargers, Like just think that is how

(01:09:11):
bad this season is gone. You had an opportunity to
get Patrick Mahomes, one of the great quarterback talents of
all times, some would argue, on his way to becoming
maybe the greatest quarterback of all time against Russell Wilson,
who's a Hall of Famer, and even NBC was like, yeah,
we're all right here, thank you though, appreciate it. Have fun, guys,

(01:09:33):
catch the flight, have fun. We're gonna go to SOFI
that that's crazy. But the Chargers have been on Sunday
Night Football like three straight weeks. That is crazy. But nonetheless,
the Dolphins Chargers are the Sunday Night game. And Tua
was talking earlier about this week about just, you know,
being compared to Justin Herbert, and of course these guys

(01:09:55):
are always going to be compared because two, I got
drafted one pick before Justin Herbert. Everybody had already written
their story on two of the first couple of seasons
of his career and just said, well, you know that
he's not really a good quarterback and he's never gonna
mount to anything. And you had an opportunity to take
Justin Herbert, but you didn't, and you took to a
at etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. And Toham made the point, I'm

(01:10:17):
happy where I'm at. I'm good. I'm like, like, I'm
happy where I'm at. He's all good, Everything's fine. And
it just makes me laugh because people want to do
these comp games and they want to talk about the
mistakes that people made, like, well, why did you take
this guy when he could have taken this guy? There
is such thing as it working out okay for everybody involved.

(01:10:39):
We talked about the Digs trade between Minnesota and Buffalo.
We talked about talked about that happening, and we talked
about why that worked out because Justin Jefferson was the
draft pick for the Minnesota Vikings. And when you were
to stack wide receiver rankings in the NFL, if you're
gonna go top five wide receivers in the NFL, guests,

(01:10:59):
who's that bix? Justin Jefferson and Stefon Diggs. So that
was one of those scenarios where sometimes it does work
out for both parties. And it did, and we've actually
seen it work out in the NFL when it comes
to draft picks and when it comes to quarterbacks taken
in the draft, because you can go to certain years
and you can go, well, you know, so and so

(01:11:20):
was a bust. All right? You could go to seen,
even though I hate the word bust, you go to
seventeen and you could say, man, the Bears had an
opportunity for Patrick Mahomes or Deshaun Watson, they took Mr. Drabinsky,
Say well, that was a mistake. And then you can
go toeen and you can go, man, oh man, like
you had the Jets, you had, the Browns, you had

(01:11:41):
like all these teams had an opportunity to take Josh
Allen or Lamar Jackson and they didn't. So you look
at Baker Mayfield and Josh Rosen and Sam Donald and
like all these us, Oh my god, what a mistake
that was. And now the Jets have to deal with
Josh Allen for the rest of their career. But sometimes
it does work out. And I'm not saying that two
has got the same talent and the same skill levels

(01:12:04):
Justin Herbert. But if you just go back to that
draft class Joe Burrow to a Justin Herbert, it's all
kind of working justin her Like Justin Herbert's got the goods,
and there's a lot of people who think if he
gets an offensive minded head coach, there a guy like
Sean Payton, like we're looking at a Hall of Fame
talent for TUA, Like it's working. This year. Say whatever

(01:12:29):
you want, he's in the m v P conversation for
a reason. Well, it's all the talent around him, whatever
it is. Whatever you want to say, Well, it's the coaching,
whatever you want to call it, it's working. Miami's got
a quarterback, and we know how Cincinnati feels about Joe Burrow.
I was just in a Super Bowl, probably gonna win
an m v P during the course of his career. Like,
there are these situations that pop up where it does

(01:12:49):
work out for everybody involved. And I got news for you.
It's happened in the NFL before, remember two thousand four.
Like you want to argue Eli Manning, or you want
to argue Philip Rivers, you want to argue Ben Roethlisberger,
I got news for you. That worked out for everybody involved.
Ben Roethlisberger is gonna be a Hall of Famer. Eli

(01:13:09):
man Who's gonna be a Hall of famer. And Philip
Rivers is a borderline Hall of famer. If Philip Rivers
want a Super Bowl, a no doubt hall of famer.
So there are situations that we see where it works
out for everybody this draft class. And I've said it before,
like don't compare this to recent draft classes. You've got
to go all the way back fifteen sixteen years earlier,

(01:13:32):
go back to two thousand four, Eli Manning, Philip Rivers,
Ben Roethlisberger. The comp to that draft is what happened
a couple of years ago, Joe Burrow to a tug
of Iloa and Justin Herbert Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
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(01:13:53):
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on FS are. Oh yeah, as Christmas Eve with the
in laws, man oh Man, Tomali's tequila. So Tody says,

(01:14:22):
fired it up, man Magic, Sure do. I don't have
a choice. I'm married into it all right. It is
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(01:14:44):
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(01:15:04):
Right now, though it is time to put a bowl
on this bad boy. Was something we do called this Jonas,
how could you not get to these stories? These are
the scraps? And for that we turned it over to Danny. Gee, Danny,
what the hell have we missed so far? Steve da
Sager just texted me and said, make sure Jonas talks

(01:15:25):
the World Cup right now. Harry Kane, he just missed
a penalty kick at Fox Soccer. The tweet shows him
biting his shirt and it says Harry Kane misses the
penalty with a sad face emoji. Did you see this? Yes,
I did. And here's the part of that thing. This
is so it's it's it's not a World Cup final,

(01:15:48):
but it's an opportunity to go to the semifinals. And
England's never won anything like. The English fans are blowhards.
They'll tell you all English soccer, English soccer, they never
won anything like, They've never won a World Cup. So
Harry Caine the porn star. And by the way, I
don't know if he's actually a porn starbody's got a
porn star name. Anybody wants to dispute that, you clearly
have no idea what you're talking about. Uh. And by

(01:16:10):
the way, I'm the utmost authority on that. I had
a segment called pro wrestler or a porn star in
the overnights, so I clearly know a porn name when
I hear it. Harry Caine. He not only did he
miss the penalty kick, he missed it high, so it
wasn't like it was blocked. It wasn't like there was
a great save. He missed it all together. And if
anybody's ever like, if you ever want to look up something,

(01:16:30):
because a lot of people pointed, remember Scott Norwood missing
the kick in the Super Bowl to win the Super
Bowl and his career like was he always looked back
on his career and he go man like that was
the one, like that's what he'll be remembered for. And
he hit a ton of like clutch kicks, had a
really good career, but they always go back to that
Super Bowl miss. Well, for Italian soccer, there's a guy

(01:16:51):
by the name of Roberto Boggio, and Roberto Boggio is
one of like the great Italian players of all time,
but he's always remembered as the guy who missed penalty,
who missed a kick, And I want to say it
was I think it was free kicks, Yeah, I think.
I think it went to shootouts and he missed a
kick in the World Cup against Brazil and he missed

(01:17:12):
it just like that to where he shot it high
and it's lived with him forever and ever. So, if
England loses this game, the porn star Danny Harry Kane
is going to have to hear about this for the
rest of his career. It's sad, but that's ultimately how
it works in soccer. How about that? All right? And
I don't know how you missed this final story here.

(01:17:32):
A handwritten a letter from a young girl led animal
care and control officials in southern California to issue the
kid a preapproved license to keep an unusual pet in
her backyard, a unicorn. L A County Animal Care and
Control said in an Instagram post that it received this
handwritten letter in the mail from a local girl named Madeline.

(01:17:55):
She wrote, dare l A County, I would like your
approval if I can please have a unit corn in
my backyard. If I can find one, please send me
a letter in response. Hold on a second, Like, so
does she actually have the unicorn or just needed approval?
She's looking for one. She's being proactive here. She wanted
to make sure she was allowed to keep it in

(01:18:16):
her backyard once she finds one. Okay, by the way,
I you know, listen, this is gonna sound dumb, but
I'm asking the question. Are unicorns real? Okay? Like? Is
that is that a real thing? Like? What is it?
Like basically a rhinoceros who had sex with a horse.
I don't know, but I'm just asking because like I
look like how why would she even have entertain the

(01:18:38):
conversation unless she believed that these were real. That's what
That's what I'm curious about. So, like Danny, I mean,
what's even crazier If I see a picture of her
house here in the story, there's no chimney. So I
got a couple of questions for her. Yeah, a little yeah,
So you know there's that is kind of odd. It
doesn't make a whole lot of sets. Although look, I remember,

(01:19:01):
you know, not far from my house, somebody got raided
a few years ago because they had all these crazy
like illegal reptiles and stuff. Look on Animal Thunderdome. You've
done stories like that where somebody tries to sneak a
Komodo dragon onto a plane and then they get popped
for like somebody who knows if they can do that,
why not a unicorn? I'm just are they real? Because
somebody cleared up? Is a unicorn real? If so, where

(01:19:23):
they at? Jonas son of a Bit

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