Jonas Knox Reacts To The Start Of The College Football Season, The Cleveland Browns Being Super Weird, Deion Sanders Beef With Sean Keeler, and More!

Jonas Knox gets hyped and reacts to the start of College Football with week 0 starting today and tells everyone why it definitely counts. Jonas also gets into the mystery of the Cleveland Browns and Deshaun Watson always being super weird in handling their business. Plus, Jonas talks Deion Sanders banning a reporter, Georgia Tech upsetting #10 Florida State, odd newer football rules, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I have to have better stop from the beginning.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Jonas Knox, you thought you knew me.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
You didn't know anything about me. He's crazier than a else.
Rapped that guy, Jonas Knocks. You heard me.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Bring in some darkness is lighting up your speakers to
establish an alibi for the day. From the tirag dot
com Fox Sports Radio Studios, here's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
So okay, I'll reporting this world.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Well. I will say this. We are off to a
good start in the world of football. We are off
to a good start, much better than we've seen recently.
I'll get into that for you coming up here in
just a couple of moments. From now, Jonas Knox, Fox
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say this about the start of the college football season,
we are off to a better start than we were
last year. Now clearly not in Ireland, because let's be truthful.
And I know this because I was there last year.
The people that kind of arrange how this stuff works,
and the people of Dublin, and just based on what

(01:53):
the crowd and the scene was like last year, they
really would love to have Notre Dame there every single year.
I mean, just facts are fat. Notre Dame fans took
that place over. It was amazing to see, amazing to witness,
amazing to be a part of the atmosphere, the fan base.
I mean, it was a foregone conclusion Navy was going

(02:15):
to get annihilated, but it was all about Notre Dame.
And then walking around the city after the game was
over all the people from the game just spilled out
into any pub that was nearby and got disintegrated. It
was amazing, amazing scene, amazing atmosphere. Well, this year you

(02:37):
get Florida State Georgia Tech now Florida State, great football program,
rich in history and tradition. Georgia Tech not so much.
But Georgia Tech still has done some things and it's
a legitimate universey. It's a legitimate school. They don't carry
the same fan base and Notre Dame does, and that's
not a slight on them, because there's not a lot

(02:59):
of fan base is like Notre Dame. There just isn't.
It's a national brand, like they've been on NBC for decades.
For a lot of people, that was like the thing
you watched. It's why you ever noticed when you go
to a baseball game, like it doesn't matter if it's
in Wrigley or outside of Wrigley, there's always a strong

(03:21):
fan base for the Cubs. Do you want to know
why that is WGN Superstation. A lot of people grew
up with that. That was their team that they watched,
and so when you go to a lot of ballparks,
they like cub fans take it over. And it ain't
like they've had a ton of success to fall back on.
Like it's not like the Yankees where it's like, oh,

(03:42):
you got all these World Series, You're just the front runner. No,
you've seen the Cubs a lot. You haven't seen them
win a lot, but you've seen them a lot, and
so Notre Dame's got that national brand. So from a
boots on the ground standpoint, yeah, the people there look
back at last year and go, we wish we could
have that again. Of course they do, but I'll say

(04:03):
this from a viewing standpoint as far as the game goes,
last year wasn't close. This game between Florida State and
Georgia Tech, this has been fun. You started out with
two quick touchdowns, you started out with a swinging gait.
You've seen a guy hit a fifty nine yard field goal.

(04:25):
You've got the elements, there's rain, there's I mean, this
is a fun game. And it features a top ten team.
I get it, nobody's played yet. It's just a little
number next to the name, but whatever. It adds a
little ingredient, a little spice to the whole thing. So
from that standpoint, it is actually delivered like we've gotten
a good competitive football game thus far. And that's all

(04:45):
you can ask for. Because listen, and I said this
yesterday on Fox Sport Radio. Don't be one of those
candy asses. That comes on and says it's just week zero,
get back to me next week, when like all the
other teams play stop stop like discounts. These are a
win and a loss that goes on their record for

(05:08):
every team that's playing today. And you want to know
what makes this an actual college football Saturday. You're probably
thinking to yourself, well, yeah, because you got some teams
like no, no, no, no, it's because you've got a game
starting at noon Eastern time, nine o'clock Pacific, and then
the last game of the day starts it close to midnight.

(05:30):
Because the damn Hawaii Rainbow Warriors are the main event. Now,
I don't want to hear that they're playing Delaware State
and you need some app to be able to watch
the game in Delaware State miss their flight and they've
got to like fly and travel in. Hawaii's like a
forty point favorite for the first time in like a century.
I don't want to hear any of that craft that qualifies? Right,

(05:50):
does it count as a College Football Saturday ranked team
and a competitive game to start at noon Eastern time
and Hawaii's kicking off at close to midnight Eastern time
later on the same day, So yes, this counts the
week zero is here and thus far from a football standpoint,

(06:11):
it's absolutely delivered. Jonas NOx here, Fox Sports Radio. All Right,
have you ever done this before? And this doesn't make
you a bad person, but if you've done it, you
kind of know what I'm talking about. You know, Like
they always say, like, hey, if you want to, you know,
if you want to do something fair, flip a coin.
It's like, okay, but have you ever done it to

(06:31):
where you're like, all right, let's flip a coin to
decide where we want to eat, or let's flip a
coin to decide this, or like whatever the case may be.
And so you call heads, it ends up tails, and
then you go best two out of three, like everybody's

(06:52):
done that, right, Like you're assuming and you want it
to be fair. You want to call it down the middle.
You wanted to be competitive. So when you flip the
coin and it doesn't result in your way, then the
truth comes out, Ah, best two out of three. And

(07:13):
then when it finally does go your way. It wasn't
a true competition. It was just basically a coronation. You
were going to settle on whatever it is that you'd
settle on. Previous and the coin flip was just kind
of like a whatever, that's Listen, the pageantry is cool,
but none of it really matters. And that's kind of
like what happened with the Steelers quarterback quote unquote competition,

(07:36):
because it wasn't really a competition, it was a coronation.
So last week, Russell Wilson makes his debut for the Steelers.
He's been dealing with this calf issue popped up early
in camp. Justin Fields played previous to that, took most
of the reps with the first team, and so you
got all these people like throwing out the word like, oh,

(07:57):
it's a competition, like Justin Field and Russell Wilson are
competing for the job, and it's like, okay, So Russell
Wilson plays last week, doesn't look all that great. Justin
Fields plays last week doesn't look all that great. Played
the week before, had some fumbles, kind of Mike tomlind
even spoke about it and said, well, you know, those
kind of negated, you know, some of the other good
stuff that we saw from him, those two fumbles. And

(08:20):
so then they get to this preseason game this week
and Russell Wilson gets a start and he goes two
for two and I think he played like five snaps
and they pull him. They put in Justin Fields. Now,
they haven't like officially announced anything to my understanding. I think,
you know, Mike Tomlin says, hey, we're still on track.

(08:41):
Let's just call this what it was. It was a coronation.
Russ was going to have to vanish into thin air
for Justin Fields to be the starting quarterback in Pittsburgh
Week one. Like that's just a fact. Like we can
try and dress this up as well. True competition and

(09:02):
Russ's CAF is an issue and if he's not out there,
then Justin Field is getting all the first team reps.
And then yay, listen, Justin Fields. The offenses looked better.
There's more fluidity with them. You know Russ is out there.
They strugg the fact that the Steelers came back this
week in the final preseason game, labeled Russ the starter

(09:23):
and then pulled him after a handful of snaps and
two completions. I ought to tell you from the jump
this thing was over. And I talked about it a
little bit last week, like just what was the pursuit?
Like did they pursue and sell Russ on coming to

(09:43):
Pittsburgh or did they pursue and sell Justin Fields and
coming to Pittson. No, like Russell Wilson was looking around,
Mike Tomlin saw it as an upgrade at the position.
It absolutely was based on last year. People can try
and diminish Russ all they want, but he wasn't bad
last year. He wasn't like he got kind of thrown

(10:05):
under the bus by the organization and Sean Payton and
he didn't really want him. And it's not the same
Russ that we've seen in previous years in Seattle. But
he wasn't awful last year. Go back and look at
his numbers. Mike Tomlin and Pittsburgh wanted to bring Russ in,
so that's why they met with him. That's why when
he went to New York and talked to them, and

(10:26):
then he got on the plane and him and Mike
Tomlin connected and all. That's like they wanted this to work.
Justin Fields is just kind of like, Okay, only a
six round pick. Cool, Yeah, it'll turn into a fourth
V play something. That's fine. But listen, we got Russ,
like they told you throughout the course of this whole
thing what the end result was going to be. And

(10:49):
I'm just going to tell you right off the bat,
Russell Wilson is going to be announced at the starter,
whether it's an official announcement or not, or Mike Tomlin
wants to like, you know, play with work, like whatever
you want to call it. Russell Wilson's going to be
the starter week one, and it was always going to
be that. Just like whenever you were flipping that coin,
you were always going to go with whatever your result

(11:10):
was going into the coin flip. So were the Steelers
when it came to this quarterback competition, because it wasn't
ever a competition, it was a coronation, and Russell Wilson
was always going to be the guy starting week one.
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on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter or ex
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Somebody's trying to pull something off in the world of sports.
I mean, if we're being honest, it's not all that fair.
It's kind of ridiculous, but it's also kind of hilarious.

(13:21):
We will get into that for you again a little
over ten minutes from now here on FSR. So it
was announced, as you heard, by the way, Georgia Tech
Florida State tied at fourteen under five minutes ago in
the third quarter there from Dublin, Ireland. So there's your update.
Been a while since we've done that, damn. Brian Fannie

(13:41):
will get better details on that coming up here in
about eight minutes from now. But you know it was
announced earlier, as you heard from Brian Finley in the update,
and if you're listening to the podcast, you didn't hear it,
but what he said was Deshaun Watson will not be
playing in the Browns final preseason game against this Ehawks
coming up later on, So no Deshaun the entire preseason,

(14:07):
which is like, I mean, look at it, you go,
I mean, what's the big deal. I starting quarterbacks don't
play sometimes in the preseasons, Like okay, well, like what
about like the you know, last couple of years they've
been with the team, Like do they play? Because once
he got like twelve starts something like that, Like that's
what we're looking at. But I mean, again, you want
to play it safe. You got a lot of money invested.

(14:29):
You gotta like I get all that, you know, like whatever,
and then we just get to see it roll out
Week one against the Cowboys America's Game of the Week.
Tom Brady on the call, like, I mean, we're just
gonna get to see it and they're just gonna roll
it out. But I thought somebody made a point that

(14:54):
when you hear it, you go, I mean, this could
be just hear say from a guy just talking who
covers the team, or but then when you actually sit
down and you think about the entire situation, He's right.
So Jason Lloyd of the Athletic was on the Ultimate
Cleveland Sports Show and he was just talking about the
Deshaun Watson situation and the best way he could describe

(15:15):
it was that it's weird, Like the whole this whole
training camp, everything going on with the team with DeShawn
is just weird and kind of detailed how Kevin Stefanski said,
you know, they were hoping to get him some playing
time in the final preseason game and then DeShawn comes
out and says, well, you know, that's news to me,
and it's like and he's one hundred percent correct. The

(15:37):
whole thing is weird. And do you want to know
why it's weird? Because Deshaun Watson's weird and so were
the Cleveland Browns. Like that's how this works. Like my
wife's got dark hair, and so do I. If my
son came out of redhead, you know, I might be

(16:02):
reaching out via DM to Canelo and be like, hey, man,
when's the last time you were in town. I just
am just curious. I got to know what's going on here,
like for my you know, my own peace of mind.
Can you please, like if I could just get a
heads up, like let me know, Like usually when two
things get together, it usually spits out the same thing.

(16:26):
And that's what's happening here. Deshaun Watson's a weirdo and
the Cleveland Browns are weird, so of course this situation
is weird, and it's been weird from the jump. Like listen, man,
Like we've talked about it before. I don't want to
go through and read all the transcripts of like, you know,

(16:47):
all the reports and details of what the guy was
into and what he liked to do, and the fact
that you know, he liked to like, you know, put
his Like listen, you can look all that stuff up.
But that's like weird behavior. That just it is. But
the whole thing, like, I'm sorry, it is just like

(17:07):
it was weird behavior. When he signed a contract in
Houston to be with the Texans long term, even yes
after they traded away DeAndre Hopkins, he sat up there,
he cried. He thanked the owner of the Texans, He
thanked Bill O'Brien like he thanked everybody. He was so emotional,
loved being in Houston and was so grateful for the

(17:29):
extension that generational wealth and the opportunity to be their
franchise quarterback. And then you know, less than a year later,
decided I don't want to play here anymore and basically
just sat out. I don't want to play. Yeah, I'm
just not interested. And then all the allegations come out
and all that stuff happened. So with all that being known,

(17:53):
weird upon weird, what do the Cleveland Browns do? All right,
I'll see you weird and I'll raise you weird. We're
going to go ahead and make it public that we
would have some interest in Deshaun Watson, even though we
do have a starting quarterback who you know, won us

(18:14):
our first playoff game in years and it was on
the road, has shown the ability to play good football,
and you know, we were discussing a contract extension. But
we'll make it public and let it be known that
we're interested in DeShawn Watson, so that we alienate our
relationship with our current quarterback, forcing him to go public,

(18:35):
and then forcing us to go out and get really
aggressive with Deshaun Watson. And in fact, you know what,
all of that was weird, but we'll get even weirder. Hey, buddy,
with the weird background and the guy that alienated his
former franchise, how about this will do you a solid.
Here's an unprecedented two hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed contract.

(18:56):
What do you say, your weirdness and our weirdness game
together and try and create something magical, something really weird.
And that's exactly what's happened. It's been awkward since he
got there. It's been uncomfortable since he's gotten there, Like
you haven't gotten anything close to whatever it is that

(19:19):
you had shelled out in money and guarantees and all.
Like the whole thing is just odd, and it continues
to get odd, like last year's handling of his injury,
Like one minute it was like, well, you know, he
was a little roughed up, and then it was Kevin
Stefanski came out and said, you know, I think it's

(19:39):
just maybe a pain tolerance thing. And it's like all
these like back and forth through the media, and then
he goes out and plays, and then they've got a
you know, backtrack, and you've got position coaches saying, oh, well,
you know, he's as tough as they come and he's this,
and then Kevin Stefanski backtracks and all that, and then
Deshaun Watson has to come out and speak on it,
and then you find out, oh no, no, wait, he's
suffered this injury way before this and played through it,

(20:03):
and I was like, okay, all right, So so he's
not gonna all right, so that's a bummer. Hey, legitimate injury,
that's fine. Cool. I mean, man, they're really gonna struggle. No, No,
Joe Flacco walked in off a futon somewhere in Delaware

(20:25):
and one comeback player of the year, like while Deshaun
just kind of sitting there just like, but you know,
they made this preseason. Everything's fine. His arm was sore
in camp this camp, but like he hadn't really thrown
the ball like all that much reportedly, so like, how's
your arm sore? And then he was gonna play and
then now he's not gonna play and we're just gonna

(20:47):
wait for week bro. Like that's what you get, Like
from the jump, the whole thing was odd, Like it
didn't make any sense from the start, none of it,
not even just the decision to sign him, the decision
to sign him and give him the deal that you

(21:09):
gave him, what you gave up in a trade to
acquire him, his handling with his previous organization after he
signed a contract, and his handling of his personal life,
like none of it made sense. It was a odd
from the jump, so no, I'm not surprised. Jason Lloyd

(21:29):
of The Athletic You are correct. It's weird because it's
been weird this entire time, and that's what you get
when you put those two weirdos together and try and
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there is something that's happening in the world of football.
I probably shouldn't be entertained by this, but I really am.
We will get into that for you here on FSR,
but for all the latest from around the world of
sports ladies and gentlemen. He's our franchise quarterback. He's got

(22:35):
no weird stuff in his background, No, not at all.
He's the one and only Brian fan. And you know
what's not weird about you, Jones.

Speaker 4 (22:41):
I had no idea that you're moonlighting teaching karate classes
on Fifth and Main. And I got to say you
that that is some impressive work. The way you are
able to be a father, to be a full time
radio host and to teach karate.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Good on you, man, man. I wish would I wish
it was that flexible. I mean, my hip is so bad,
I'm gonna have to get a new hit eventually. I
got to hit up your buddy, Andy Furman. You've been
working Yeah, yeah, the hip a lot. Now you know
what the problem is. I'm gonna smack you from tomorrow.
So I tore so. I dislocated my kneecap, tore my

(23:14):
meniscus and got a bone bruise and I just didn't rehabit.
I probably should have gotten surgery. I didn't. I got
a stump. We've heard Andy but and so because of that,
it changed my gate and the way I could walk,
and so it's basically just grind. So I got to
like do like extra. Yeah, it's just bad, but who cares.

(23:37):
I'm trying to figure out when did this injury happen?
Was this when you were trying to get into the
cage fighting world?

Speaker 1 (23:41):
No?

Speaker 3 (23:42):
No, definitely not.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
No.

Speaker 3 (23:43):
Two thousand and seven, Monmouth, Illinois, July first, two thousand
and seventh, was at a family reunion in Monmouth, Illinois,
home of Wyattart. By the way, I know you were wondering,
you know, And I was over there and we're playing basketball,
landed wrong, and uh like, oh, that feels weird in
my knee. Why can't I stand up? And then I
feel my kneecap next to my calf and I go ooh,

(24:06):
that's not good. So, you know, had a cousin there
popped it into place. I got up. They said do
you want anything? Do you want an ambulance? I was
like no, that's too expensive, and I said, but I'll
take that basketball. And I took the ball, I made
the shot and we left and I was like, non,
I'm gonna be fine. Absolutely not. I almost fell over
multiple times. It's like a baby giraffe when they're born,

(24:26):
trying to find their legs. Not good and all. Whatso,
But again, who cares. That's got nothing to do with
the fact that college football is back, Brian Fanley, So
why don't you tell your nerd friends in the tennis
world you put that in their pipe and smoke it.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Yeah, what is up with this US open stuff going on?
We're not gonna start with that, although there is. The
news are on Carlos Alcaraz, But yes, let's go college
football and Georgia Tech. Don't look now they've got a
lead here in Dublin, Ireland where Jonas infamously was at
that Ireland game last year between what was it Northwestern
and noted.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Now's Navy and Notre Dame. Don't be disrespectful of the
Naval Academy.

Speaker 4 (25:04):
What's wrong with you either way? Yeah, Jonas was there.
He's not here for this one because he's doing this show.
But it's twenty one to fourteen, Georgia Tech leading number
ten Florida State. Early stages of the fourth quarter, Haines
King is eight to thirteen through the air, the Yellowjackets
quarterback for.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
One hundred and fourteen yards. Jonas brought this up I
think earlier.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Ryan Fitzgerald two fifty plus yard field goals that he
has made, including a fifty nine yarder right before the
end of the first half, so he's been doing big things.
But right now, these seminals yet to score in this
second half as they're trying to fight their way back
and trying to move the chains, which they do right there.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
With the football.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
Meanwhile, we do know that the NFL preseason is going
on as well. There are tons of games happening right now.
Bryce and yeah, Bryce Young excuse me, had a touchdown
past to Jordan Matthews in limited duty for the Panthers.
They're up seventeen to eleven at the half against the Bills, Steelers,
and Lions. They are all square at fourteen. Russell Wilson,

(26:06):
who Jonas is gonna probably draft in his fantasy league,
was two for two, Yet two for two didn't play
a whole lot. Played about a series and twenty six
yards passing. Then he comes down justin fields enters, he
goes three to four through the air forty yards and
that's about it for him. They've brought Kyle Allen in
now so a third string quarterback Hendon Hooker does have
a touchdown.

Speaker 3 (26:26):
Through the air elsewhere.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
We do know that the Ravens have seven, the Packers
have twenty, that is at the half. Also, the Vikings
have two touchdown throws from Jaron Hall, who is their
starting quarterback today, twenty to three. They are leading the
Eagles again at the half and then ten to nine
in the Texans favor against the Rams late second quarter
Tim Boyle, the phenomena that is Tim Boyle is forty

(26:52):
nine yards passing so far with that one touchdown through
the air. You have Chargers and Cowboys coming up at
four pm Eastern time. Lastly, in the world of the NFL,
quarterback Deshaun Watson not going to be playing tonight as
this is a game, a preseason game against the Seahawks.
He'll be ready to go the week one of the
regular season.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
Wink wink.

Speaker 4 (27:12):
He did experience some arm soreness this week, so that'll
get you every time. And yeah, and then Jonas that
Carlos Alcaaz, who we know as is a well known
tennis player, hurt his ankle today at practice before the
US Open starts on Monday. As soon as that happened,
they stopped him from playing out on the court. He
spoke to his team, which of course is his coach

(27:34):
and his physio and all that, and they left the court.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
So no word on his status.

Speaker 4 (27:38):
But one of the favorites at the US Open, and
not Jonas, You're going to be talking about this in
hour number three time, but Alcaaz, you know, his status
injury wise, is in jeopardy.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
And you know we're going to hold things down here
in the newsroom, Jonas.

Speaker 4 (27:49):
We are going to have it all as far as
what's going on at the US Open, along with what's
going on in the NFL and in college football.

Speaker 3 (27:56):
We've got it all going down here. Man. Yeah, and listen,
Brian Fenley's correct three. We are going to break down
the US Open also the last half hour of our
three all WNBA, all the time, So stick around for
that here on this two hour show. Thank you, Brian.
It is Jonas Knox he or Fox Sports Radio. Also,
I'll say this, I'm surprised more people don't roll their

(28:16):
ankle in tennis. Is that that's got to be a
common injury? Is that the most common injury? Have they
got blown hammy? The most common injury or is it
just boredom.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
From the Oh my gosh, No, I would say definitely
the rolled ankle. And but you know what's great about guys?
People think I'm a pro tennis player. They look at
my calves Jonas, and they say, my goodness, you know,
because tennis players have humongous calves.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
Man, I don't play.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, well some of us have, you know, muscle tone
below the belt and something like Jones.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
You spend most of your time just doing bicep curls. No,
not even that. I mean, look, I walk around. It's
like a couple of pool noodles. Like my son tries
to bring them into the pool and like throw them
around a little bit.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's tear.

Speaker 3 (28:52):
I've told people this before. I'm a flamingo with bad tattoos.
Like that's really the best way to describe me.

Speaker 4 (28:58):
Were you also the bus drive for Delaware State trying
to take them to the airport.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Oh okay, it's unfortunate. Listen, they're gonna be up against
it with Hawaii. You don't want to mess with Timmy
Chang's fighting Rainbow Warriors of Hawaii. You don't want to
mess around with that, all right, So with that being said,
we now transition smoothly over to this coming up in
about twelve minutes from now, we are going to have
another edition of Do You Care? These are sports stories

(29:25):
things around the world of sports and beyond people have
been discussing. We're going to give you our honest, brutally
honest opinions on all of that. Coming up here again
about twelve minutes from now. So, look, I probably shouldn't
find this entertaining, but I'm sorry I just do so.

(29:45):
Colorado has banned a Denver Post columnist, Sean Keeler from
asking questions of Dion Sanders or other members of the
football program. So the ban is indefinite. This is announced
on Friday. Now. They have cited personal attacks from Keeler

(30:06):
in discussing the Colorado program. Now, some of the names
that have been thrown out there by Keeler are the following.
He has referred to Dion Sanders as Deposition Dion, the
Bruce Lee of BS false prophet. He's also uh used

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such phrases as planet Prime, the Dion kool Aid, and circus. Now,
because of that, he will not be allowed to ask
Dion Sanders or members of the program, any further questions.

(30:53):
You could feel how you could feel however you want
about the names. You can feel however you want about it.
Here's what I find entertaining. I find the fact that
Dion Sanders has the ability and the control to be
able to pull this off. I think it's fascinating. It's

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like one of those things to where you see somebody
who like makes a really questionable purchase just because they
have a lot of money, and you go, oh my god,
like why would you buy that? And then you stop
and you think to yourself, you know, buy that kind
of money? Maybe I would buy something stupid like that,
you know what I mean? Like a boat is kind
of a waste of money. Anybody that's ever owned a boat.

(31:36):
My buddies and I we went in. We all chipped in,
like I think it was like five hundred bucks, like
years and years ago, and we bought this used pontoon
boat for like twenty five hundred bucks. So there was
five of us that chipped in and we bought this
used pontoon boat. It was like, I think it was
a nineteen eighty nine land now if I'm not mistaken.
We drove this thing twice and gave it the nickname

(31:58):
the Floating Coffin because there was going to be a
point in time to where when we went out, we
were not going to get back. It was brutal. But
it's like now when I see people buy yachts or
boats or things like that, I go, oh my god,
why would you do that? It's such a waste of money.
And I go, yeah, to bude a lot of money,
maybe I'd pull off something like that, you know, just

(32:21):
to do it, like why not. It's like some people
have like golden toilets in their house, like twenty four
care gold toilets in their house. It's like, why would
you need a gold toilet? And then you go, well,
they got so much money, It's like why not. I
wonder if Deon Sanders is so powerful and has the

(32:43):
credentials that he does that, I wonder if at like
certain point in times he's like, no, I'm just gonna
go ahead and do this. Remember like Tommy Lee back
in the day, like put a Starbucks in his house,
Like he went to Starbucks so much. They was like,
you know, why don't I just save the trip and
I'll just build one in my house? And he did
not like Deon Sanders has basically said, look, I know

(33:05):
that this is not normal. I know that most people
don't want to do this or maybe can't do it,
but I'm going to make this decision. Like the poet,
like the Denver Post said that Sanders has unique language
in his contract that says he's required to speak only
with quote mutually agreed upon media like I don't know.

(33:27):
I've never read through another coach's contract, and nor do
I care to, but I'm curious to see if anybody
else has got a contract like that or language in
their contract like that, and if not, that's fine. It's
just kind of fascinating that Dion Sanders is like, no,
I'm gonna go ahead and put that in determine who
gets to talk to me. As not the first time

(33:48):
he's done this. I mean, he called out CBS for
their questioning of the program, like he called. I just
wonder if he's like a rich guy or somebody that's like, listen,
I know that maybe I shouldn't do this. I know
this might be a bad look. Some people will say
that it looked like I'm soft or I'm sensitive or whatever.
But you know what, I'm gonna do it because I'm

(34:08):
Deon Sanders. I can I'm going to make this decision like, yeah,
you can't do it, like that guy can't do it.
Another coach over here can't do it. I'll do it. Oh,
you got me ranked as like second to last head
coach in the Big Okay, watch this. You can't ask

(34:30):
me any questions. Like it's just like the whole thing
is preposterous and like I should be siding with the
media here, and then I find myself going, no, I
don't even want to take sides. I just admire the
level of wealth so to speak, that Dion Sanders has
that he can sit there and dictate who gets to

(34:51):
ask him questions. It's amazing. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio.
Let's go live to where I've got a thought on
Deon Sanders insider Christopher after the latest Chris, I do
got to say Bruce Lee of BS as an all timer,
And maybe I didn't intend on this, but I've I've
found this columnist his name, and I intend to read
stuff now. Look that's all. And I love Deon Sanders

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and nobody was more supportive of Deon Sanders in Colorado
last year. And I continue to support Deon Sanders in Colorado.
But man Bruce Lee of BS Deposition dion, like some
of that stuff is hilarious. That's like some of this
is Rob Parker Ben Maller level stuff here. Oh, it
is hilarious. So like the whole thing is entertaining. I know,

(35:36):
I shouldn't be entertained by it. You should take a
serious stance on this stuff because it's not fair and
it's freedom of speech and he's got to do. But
this stuff is funny. Man Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio
at the Jonas Knox on X at the Jonas Knox
at X Coming up next here though, we're going to
have another edition of Do You Care right here on FSR.

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Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up top of next
hour a little over ten minutes from now from the
Tiraq dot com studios. I mean, it's really the least
surprising result that we've seen in football, Like you should
have seen it coming a long time ago, but for
some reason, people are still taken back by it. We
will get into that for you again a little over
ten minutes from now. A quick update for you on

(36:28):
the game of the day thus far in college football
and the game of the season. Why because it's the
first game of the season, of course. Florida State and
Georgia Tech tied at twenty one a piece. Under five
minutes to go in the game there in Dublin, Ireland,
third and seven, and Georgia Tech has just converted a
big first down to move the chains. So that is

(36:51):
the situation there. We will keep you posted on the
results of that one. But at least we got a
good one. This is a competitive football game here. Unlike
last year Notre Dame annihilated Navy. They're in Dublin and
all their fans spilled out into Temple Bar and got
ripped in half until about two in the morning. So

(37:11):
we've got ourselves a good one there at aer Lingus
Stadium or is it a Viva Stadium, whatever, it's air
Lingus Aviva, same thing, all right, So I'm good to
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Speaker 1 (37:40):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time
DMG 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?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Patrick Sweekt to find out what the hell people been
talking about all week.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
Pat, all right, Jonas, I'll let you know what we've
all been talking about this past week. In fact, earlier
in this week, Jonas, some thieves actually broke into Rick
Pettino's office at Saint John's. And what did these people do?
They stole a ceremonial sword and a bullhorn. Jonas, do
you care?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Not really listen? Like, well, we were talking about this
a little bit on the show yesterday, Like is it
me or is like theft on the Rise? Or are
we just seeing more of it? Because everybody's got a
camera and everybody's showcasing it like there was a guy
that drove his pickup truck through a smoke shop window
and like had a bunch of people get out and

(38:44):
ransacked the place here in southern California this week, like
it just like there's always it seems like this stuff
happens so much more often. I just want to like,
what are you gonna do with the bullhorn? What are
you gonna do with the sword?

Speaker 6 (38:58):
Like?

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Is this something like you can't sell it because everybody knows,
So what do you like, like put it up in
your room like he got a trophy room with some
other stuff that you've stolen. None of it makes sense.
It's the peak of laziness. I don't understand it at all.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
Next, Larry Bird's not walking through that door, fans.

Speaker 6 (39:13):
Thanks coach, Well, Jonas, theft may in fact be on
the rise, because I got a two for fore you
here since we're on the same subject. In a separate incident,
mind you, Penny Hardaway actually had his exclusive shoes stolen
from not his office, his actual home. Do you care
on this one, Jonas?

Speaker 3 (39:33):
I still understand, man. It's like the guy who stole
the was it the Jackie Robinson statue that you like
cut it off at its legs and like walked away
with it. Like what why you know? You know the
guy who poisoned the tree after the Alabama fan. I
think his name was Harvey Updyke. By the way, don't
dump me. That's his real name. So Harvey Updyke poisoned

(39:55):
the tree at Auburn. He was an Alabama fan and
like killed two or at Tumor's corner, whatever they call it.
It's like, you know, at least that was original, like
like he like if he wasn't trying to take it
home with him, he just wanted to eliminate the whole
thing altogether. But like, what are these people gonna do
with Penny Hardaway's shoes? Again? If you sell it, people

(40:16):
are gonna know whose it is and you get busted.
It doesn't make sense next.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
All right, Jones.

Speaker 6 (40:21):
Earlier in the week, the Commanders traded wide receiver Johan
Dotson to the Philadelphia Eagles. Do you care that the
Commanders traded and I emphasize in their own division, to
the rival Eagles?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
No, I don't listen not. What I care about is
whether or not this is applicable to Brandon Ayuk and
whether that's a possibility of him landing there. That's what
I care about.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Next, all right, Jones Real quick Jets Sauce Gardners struggled
to compliment Daniel Jones at joint practice.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
Do you care about that?

Speaker 3 (40:50):
We go, yeah, I care about Daniel Jones, the guy
getting bullied. I hope he has a bounce back year.
He probably won't, and then Brian Daball's gonna get fired,
but you could still hope for the best. You know,
there is going to be a saving grace in the
world of football, and it's going to happen very very soon.
We'll explain who that is and why. Coming up here
in just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox

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we do have ourselves a great game over in Dublin,
Ireland between Florida State and Georgia Tech. They are currently

(41:56):
tied at twenty one a piece. There's a minute left
to go in the game. Georgia Tech has the football
they're driving, Florida State has called a timeout, so I
believe they've got one time out remaining, and Georgia Tech
is trying to pull off the upset, which I'll be

(42:18):
honest with you, I don't even know if this is
an upset, because who the hell knows whether or not
Florida State's gonna be good. This is the problem. When
you put the number next to the name before the
season starts, you give the impression that we've actually seen
these teams play and we know who's good and who's not.
I mean, it's a decent guess as to who the
twenty five best teams are in college football. It's a

(42:41):
decent guess. I think you know who the top teams are,
generally speaking, your Georgia's, your Ohio State's all that. Like
all of that makes sense, Oregon, All that makes sense,
but like you're not quite sure. I remember when Texas
A and M went into Williams Brice and beat South Carolina.
South Carolina. I think it was coming off the season

(43:02):
they finished fourth in the country. They were ranked tenth.
Texas A and M went in and beat their ass
week one, I mean stomped them out, and everyone was like,
oh my god, what a massive upset. And like South
Carolina went on to lose like three times that year,
Like it's just like, what are we talking about? Like

(43:24):
like I remember being in doing radio in Charleston, South
Carolina when College of Charleston beat North Carolina. It was
like early in the season and College of Charleston beat
North Carolina and it was like the biggest story in
recent memory and local sports there because North Carolina was
ranked fifth. It was like, oh my god, they beat

(43:44):
a top five team in the country. Dude, North Carolina,
Like I don't even think I think they went to
the NIT that year. They sucked. So like just because
you got the number next to it doesn't mean it's
a massive upset. Now it's gonna be a big win,
but it's not like you did it in Tallahassee. You're
in Dublin, and who knows, maybe some of these guys

(44:05):
for Florida State got a couple of bad plates of
bangers and mash and they're you're kind of wearing it
a little bit. But the good news is, no matter
what happens in this game, whoever comes out on the
short end of it, Dublin's going to be there for
the save. Because I'm telling you, man, I've done the walk.

(44:25):
I did it last year. You leave the stadium, you
just head up a couple of blocks. There's gonna be
a lot of foot traffic, a lot of trying to, like,
you know, get you to go over here, and then
you walk. All of a sudden, you just stumble it.
And that's a great thing about Dublin. You just stumble
upon pub after pub after pub, and you go in
there and people are just getting destroyed. So if you're

(44:50):
a Georgia Tech fan, a Florida State fan, if you're
wondering how people are going to take it with boots
on the ground there in Ireland. Trust me, they're gonna
forget all about it about an hour and a half.
They've got no choice, that is. That's the one thing
about doing the shows last year in Dublin. You really
don't have a choice but to drink, like it just

(45:13):
is what it is. Like Pat McAfee did a show
yesterday was got butchered. Joe Tessitour, who says a professional
broadcaster as there is, was having a beer before the
kick before the game started. It might have been right
after kickoff. Jesse Palmer was having one as well too.
The camera guy had a beer. Like. We were doing

(45:34):
the show there last year and we were at I
think it's the buskers and they were literally handing us
beers while we were on the air. Beers taste some
whiskey this and that. And I don't ever drink when
I'm working ever, Like I just I'm weird about that.
I'm kind of a nerd, Like I don't want to
disrespect the business, disrespect the quote unquote art or the

(45:58):
craft of it all. And I'm sitting like like why
am I having like half a Guinness right now? Like
for what, like why am I doing? Because they force
you to do it like you show up there, it's like, hey,
can we get you anything? It's like, uh yeah, can
I get like you want, like a guineas you want,
like a you know, a whiskey, like a Tealing whiskey
or anything. It's like, can I get a coffee? Let

(46:19):
me see. It's like okay, like maybe we've got coffee.
You know, we definitely have, though, Booze definitely got that water.
I don't know. Maybe we'll find something. Maybe there's a
mop bucket that hasn't been emptied somewhere nearby. We'll go
see if we can scoop something out of there. But
if you want Booze, we got it for you. So
that being said. An update on the game. Third and

(46:39):
eighteen a broken play on a bad snap for Georgia Tech.
So now it's third and eighteen for the yellow Jackets.
Tied it at twenty one apiece. They're going to get
a completion, little swing pass down the left side, and
so now take Georgia Tech has the football at about
the twenty seven yard line of Florida State. Florida State

(47:03):
is out of timeout, so Georgia Tech's just going to
grind this thing all the way down I think they'll
have about four seconds left on the game clock after
they're able to juice this play clock a little bit
more and try and attempt a field goal. And in
case you miss it, the kicker for Florida State earlier
in the game hit a fifty nine yard field goal,

(47:27):
so it is possible, I mean, he had a big
time shot, So it is possible for Georgia Tech to
try and pull this off here. So they've just called
time out five seconds left in the game, and so
now we get to see whether or not Georgia Tech
does pull off the quote unquote upset Florida State. No timeout,
she can't ice the kicker, so that's off the table.

(47:49):
And so now that little play on third down got
him back into field goal position. And so now Georgia
Tech's just going to try and win this game here.
By the way, Star of the game Kyle Effort, who's
a linebacker for Georgia Tech, who's got a neck role
it looks to be a neck role, and cowboy caller
Combo from outer space like that is old school, just

(48:14):
going to throw his head and neck into somebody because
he's got a tire iron welded down around his neck
to make sure there's no issue with an injury, and
he could just light people up. Old school football guy
is Kyle Effort for Georgia Tech. Number forty four. So
now here comes the game winning attempt for Georgia Tech

(48:38):
from forty four yards. It is up and it is through,
and Georgia Tech has done it. Georgia Tech gets the
first win of the college football season. So congratulations to
Calvin Johnson. Roman reigns Kenny Anderson. And that's about all
I got for Georgia Tech representation, who have just pulled

(49:02):
off a quote unquote upset. At least it's an upset
right now with Florida State being a top ten team,
whatever that means. But Georgia Tech has done it. Twenty
four to twenty one. Your final there. I mean, listen,
I wouldn't know either way, but I hope to God
that this is the Georgia Tech fight song. It is ramblin.

(49:23):
So there you go. Unbelievable. Jonas knocks here Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, lost opportunity. I knew I should have
bet Georgia Tech plus ten. Damn it, like on the

(49:47):
money line. Probably would have gotten that like two fifty
to one like plus two fifty like damn, that could
have paid out nice But nonetheless, congratulations Georgia Tech gets
it done. They are one to know. To start the
sea in the first game is in the books in
college football, and it was a good one. So hopefully
we get some good ones throughout the course of the day.
Remaining and reminder, friendly reminder, just before midnight Eastern time,

(50:11):
the team America's team, the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors, will be
kicking off, So find whatever the hell app there on
and see if you can watch that here. All right,
we're doing the show here live from the ti raq
dot com studios. I do want to say this though,
because this people are looking at this like it's a surprise,
and it shouldn't have been a surprise. So Nick Saban
made his debut as part of the game day for call,

(50:36):
and again, I mean, I have no affiliation with anybody
on the crew. I'm more of a big noon kickoff guy,
A right huge fan of Rob Stone, Love Urban Meyer,
you know, I love Matt Lionert, you know mark Ingram's awesome.
Like all those guys, like those guys specifically love all

(50:56):
those guys. There's somebody else that appears like, oh, bear appears.
He makes some picks there. You know, I believe Tom
Rinaldi as well too, Like I think I think I've
named everybody so. But the point is, big fan of
what they do. Love the show. That's my personal favorite.

(51:17):
Game Day does a fine job. But Nick Saban was
great earlier today, and you shouldn't be surprised by it.
Just because he was difficult and a curmudgeon and all
that in talking to the media and us getting to
see it on the outside doesn't mean that that's who
he is. And like we're gonna say the same thing
about Belichick. Belichick's going to be fantastic. He's already won

(51:40):
an Emmy, like for the for the NFL networks, you know,
top one hundred players of one hundred years, whatever they
did a few years ago. Nick Saban was fantastic and
be like, oh my god, he's actually really good. Yes,
what you get from them is not always who they are,
that's the perception they've given you. Like do you do
you think Nick Saban was able to recruit and bring

(52:04):
the players that he brought in if he was just
an a hole all those years, Like I don't care
what sort of money you were handing out allegedly according
to some people, or what, you know, what opportunities you
were probably Like if you're an a hole, nobody's gonna
want to be around you. Like it's why all those

(52:24):
guys you know still have a relate like Tuatukabailoa played
golf with Saban not long ago, like what. So, yes,
he's good at this. Just because he didn't want to
talk to you doesn't mean that he doesn't want to
talk football, especially when he's getting paid a significant amount
of money. So of course he's good. Belichick's gonna be good,
and I got news for you, so's Tom Brady. He's

(52:44):
going to be great as well too. So it's a
lot of fun to watch on the broadcasting watch here
throughout the course of the football season. So there it
is in the books. Georgia Tech is your winner twenty
four to twenty one game winning field goal there in Dublin,
Ireland at the Buzzer, and Georgie Tech is one to
know to start and an upset over Number ten Florida
State here to kick off your college football season. Jonas

(53:06):
Knox here on FSR at the Jonas Knox on X
at the Jonas Knox on X coming up next here
though from the tire Rack dot Com studios. There's a
group of people in the NFL that are breathing a
sigh of relief, and we'll tell you who they are
right here on FSR. We don't need to bring Jonas
in Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up and we

(53:31):
will call it a little over ten minutes from now
from the tire Rack dot Com studios, we are going
to discuss something that's probably long overdue. A right. It
kind of doesn't make much sense whatsoever. The NFL does this.
People surrounding the NFL do it, and I really have
never I never got it, and we will get into
that conversation for you again coming up here a little

(53:52):
over ten minutes from now. Just another update here on
the game thus far in college football that has concluded,
and that's how the first game of the college football
season and what was a great game down to the
wire Georgia Tech with a twenty four to twenty one
win over Florida State at the gun game winning field
goal there in Dublin, Ireland. And like I said, if

(54:14):
you are a Florida State fan and you are really
bummed because last year you felt like you got jipped
out of the college football playoff and then you start
off the season like this, and now you've got people
out there making signs about kirk Herb Street that traveled
all the way to Dublin, which are very inappropriate, which
we cannot read on the air. Don't worry about it.

(54:35):
There's a pub nearby that you can go ahead and
drown your sorrows and trust me, just walk for about
five minutes. They're all there. Myself in Lee to Lap
showed up there last year after the game between Notre
Dame and Navy, and you can get after it a
little bit. So don't worry about it. Everything's gonna be fine.
You won't remember a damn thing in about an hour
and a half, so just have fun, be safe, and

(54:57):
enjoy the night there in Dublin, Ireland. We do have
some people who've chimed in on the show via Twitter
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I don't if they still do that on X, but
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Jonas Knox is where you can find all that stuff.
There was an interesting play like the NFL Competition Committee

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in the NFL has come under a little bit of
heat because, you know, some of these rule changes that
they try and implement, like some of this, you know
stuff that they try and put together and try and
you know, force us to embrace and get used like
the kickoff. You know, like the kickoff. I think we
can all acknowledge, at least early on, based on what

(56:53):
we've seen from the kickoff, and they can try and
put together all the stats and the touchback numbers and
all this stuff and what it means. The kickoff sucks.
It just does. The new kickoff doesn't look right. They've
shown that there's like this thing where it's only resulted
in like a difference of like four yards in where

(57:15):
the ball is the starting position this year as opposed
to last year. This through the first couple of weeks
of the preseason, and so a lot of teams are
looking at it like, well, wait, if we're going to
start at like the twenty eight yard line by kicking
it off, and that's the average starting position so far
in the preseason, why not just kick it deep and

(57:38):
that way, if we kick it deep, a team will
get the ball at the thirty Anyways, it's only a
difference between a yard and you don't run the risk
of anybody making a big return. So they're looking at
it like, what's the difference, We'll just kick it out
of the end zone. So if that's the case, then
why are we doing it the way that we're doing
it and lining up the way that we are. Just
go back to how you were lining up previously and

(57:59):
just kick the ball the end zone. It doesn't make sense,
but like they'll force us to accept these rules and
then they'll make a sham of it. Occasionally they'll come
out and say, well, look, you know, don't worry about it.
We're just going to try this out for a year.
It's a trial period, you know, like the past interference
penalty like that stuff that was throwing, Like, oh, you know,

(58:20):
we're gonna be able to challenge past interference and all that.
It's like, come on, dude, like like enough's enough, Like
stop playing games. Stop forcing us to embrace some of
these rules. You still haven't corrected the one most obvious
rule change that needs to be done. Where you fumble
the ball out of the end zone and for some reason,
not only do you lose possession, the other team gets
it at the twenty doesn't make sense. It doesn't make

(58:43):
sense other team didn't recover the ball, why are they
getting possession and twenty yards If you want to punish
me twenty yards and me and that means the ball
goes back to the twenty, but we keep possession because
nobody clearly recovered it. I get it, but losing possession
never made sense. But the NFL Competition Committee comes under
fire all the time, the tush push like everyone's wanting that,

(59:05):
Like you got teams wanting that change, you know. Like,
but if you're the NFL Competition Committee, if you're the
NFL who like votes to approve some of these rules
that are out there, you can feel good that at
least you're not the CFL. Like, you can feel pretty
great about that. And here's why I say that. People

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just now notice that there's this rule in the CFL
because of a play that took place recently, where if
you miss a field goal that goes through the end
zone you get a single point. Right, So let me like,

(59:47):
just for example, guy lines up for a field goal,
he misses wide right or wide left, but it goes
through the end zone completely, so he still gets a point.
And the problem with that is there was a tie

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game recently in which Toronto was playing Saskatchewan, I believe,
and at the buzzer, the kicker for Toronto missed the
field goal, but it went through the end zone, so

(01:00:30):
they ended up winning by a point based on this
goofy rule. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever at all
on any level. Yet for some reason they've rolled that
out and everyone's looking at it going hold on, like,
I know that we got problems in the NFL with

(01:00:51):
some of our rules. That one sucks, and sometimes you
do need something to bring everybody together, Like, you know,
maybe we can't all agree on this. We can't all
agree on that. Like listen, your neighbor might vote Republican,
the other guy might be a Democrat, the other one
might be a libertarian. But if somebody breaks into your

(01:01:12):
home on your street, they're all going to beat his ass.
Like that's like, I mean, we're all on the same
page here. It's almost like you got NFL the rules
committee in one place, the owners in another place, and
fans over here and we're all arguing over about whether
or not some of these new rules work. And then
we turn on the CFL game and go, oh, that sucks.

(01:01:38):
Like you miss a field goal but it goes through
the end zone and you still get a point and
it costs a team of game last night or this week,
because well listen, the game was tied missfield goal, but
it went through the end zone. So all is good here,
what the f man. So if you are questioning the
new kickoff like I have been, and you are, we're

(01:02:00):
questioning some of the decisions by the Competition Committee in
the NFL recently, just know we are all in agreement here.
Whatever the CFL is trying to pull off, that's not football.
That's not a game winning field goal in football, and
it will never count as one in the NFL. So
at least feel and take some solace in that and
feel good about that situation. Jonas Knox here on FSR,

(01:02:21):
at the Jonas Knox on X at the Jonas Knox
on x AS. We take you all the way up
until four pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific. By the way, guys,
is accusing me of being an FSU fan, Not true.
I don't care. I just wanted a good football game.
That's fine, Listen. I mean, I wish I bet Georgia Tech,
I do like I wish I bet him, But listen,

(01:02:44):
I just want a good football game. I don't care.
I now do I have a preference towards Hawaii football. Yes,
that is true, and I will be rooting on the
Rainbow Warriors later on tonight. I will not try and
deny that that is the fact, because when I was
doing weekend overnights, that was the only live sporting of
that we got outside of the awful Australian Open or
whatever that crap is that tennis rolls out every year.

(01:03:06):
Speaking of which, let's turn it over to Brian Finley
for the latest in sports.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
Brian.

Speaker 4 (01:03:09):
Wow, what a wonderful, just beautiful transition there, Jonas, And
that is so endearing of you to toss it to
me with that and knowing how much I love tennis,
and you know, you know, Jonas, I just want to
say that I'm not sure where Hawaii plays there is
what high school football stadium?

Speaker 3 (01:03:26):
Do they play their football games?

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
I'm trying to figure that out, do you know, I
don't know. It's like like like Timmy Chang Park or
something like that. Yeah, Okay, Hey, they're working on a
new stadium. Why do you have to judge him? Like Finley,
when people are getting new stadiums done, they've got to
have a place to play games. So they're going Northwestern
is renovating their stadium. Get they're playing a couple of

(01:03:49):
games at Wrigley Field this year. Like, there's nothing wrong
with that. So because Hawaii's playing at a temporary facility
that may or may not have like eight thousand people
in eight thousand seats available, doesn't mean you need to
come on the air and bury him just because you
don't like Timmy changing Warriors and because for whatever reason

(01:04:09):
you don't like the people of Hawaii, I think of it.
It's not true. I was just in Hawaii.

Speaker 4 (01:04:15):
The Big Island, by the way, they deserve a lot
of praise. They are always underrated those who live at
the Big Island.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
Wait, almost say you were in Hawaii recently? Yeah, I
just went had my honeymoon there. Oh no kidding. I mean, so, hey,
how many like ConA beers did you have or you
could do Maui Brewing Company, Like they have a decent
i pa. There's a Koua bay I Pa that ConA
Brewing has that's really good?

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
Like which one was your favorite? So Jonas, I don't drink.
All I did have is I had a lot of macadamia.

Speaker 3 (01:04:44):
Did I say that right?

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:04:45):
I did not macadam Macadamien. There we go.

Speaker 4 (01:04:48):
Yeah, off to a great start on this update. So yeah,
I had a bunch of those. And what we did,
Jonas is we spend a lot of time at the beach.
We played some golf. We didn't just you know, the
splendor and the wonderful that is, wonderful activities that come
forth the adventurous nature of the islands.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
It's also kind of weird that, like a jacket isn't
even an option, you know what I mean, Like like
I was asking Uber drivers when I was out there,
It's like, hey, do you own a jacket? Yeah, I
got one somewhere. Like it's not even like it's just
the most consistent. This is what we got every single day.
Although there are parts at elevation in Hawaii depending on
where you are, that do get a little bit chilly,

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but nowhere near where the Rainbow Warriors are going to
put a beating on Delaware State later off.

Speaker 4 (01:05:32):
Yeah, and just why should you say about the Rainbow
Warriors next weekend because you know they're taking on UCLA
So oh boy, Yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
Got your own problems at UCLA.

Speaker 4 (01:05:41):
Yeah, well, I think they're gonna the brillin should well,
at least make it interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Okay, why don't we wager on it? All right? All right,
let's let's do it. So let's well, we'll figure out
a bet, all right, how about that? All right, I'll
do it. Okay, I we'll bet your trench coat. It's
very good. That's nice here, Like, why don't we do
like a real bed? How about if Hawaii wins? Do
I get points? By the way, because I think UCLA
is a heavy favorite. Do I get points? You're gonna

(01:06:06):
give you a po I'll give you a few points,
all right. So how about I like, if I win,
you buy me a six pack of gold cliff I
Pa from Kona. Okay, And if you win, I'll buy
you a six pack of o'duels.

Speaker 4 (01:06:20):
Oh that's just a it's such a fair trade in transaction, right.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
I bump those numbers up.

Speaker 3 (01:06:24):
Those are rookie numbers. What the guy doesn't drink? What
do you want me to do? All? Okay? Six pack
of caprice? Son? I mean, what are we doing here? Like,
let's be men about this.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
How about you you host a barbecue at your house
and we come over.

Speaker 3 (01:06:41):
Not a chance? Why not? But not a chance at all? First,
of all, because you're not bilingual, first of all, and secondly.

Speaker 4 (01:06:46):
Actually I might. One of my majors in college was Spanish,
by the way, So.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
Okay, well cool, Well, I mean listen, my wife is too.
I still don't speak the language, but like the point is,
like I don't want you to have to step on
monster trucks on your way through the door. And secondly,
you're not in it. How about that? Well, I'm gonna
invite myself.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
And I do have a three year old nephew, my
sister's son, so I'm very used to how to interact
with children that age. And I have a wife who's
very caring and she would love to babysit your son.
And I don't think you offered, but there is the offering.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
All right, Cool, I'll give you the wrong address if
you're out the air.

Speaker 4 (01:07:19):
Thanks, never heard of which overpass are you living underneath?

Speaker 3 (01:07:22):
I can you just make sure you give me the
right address? Just just I'm the gray tent. Just just
yank on the great tent and we'll come out after
we're we're done cooking meth inside. We'll be right out.
What do they say when that tent's rocking? I don't know, okay,
just good trust me. I'm married. I wouldn't know, and
neither would you. Buddy. You're gonna find out soon enough.

Speaker 1 (01:07:44):
I'll leave that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
Right there, all right.

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
So you know, Jodys, you were talking about field goal
kicking and even the kickoff. It was a field goal
that decided things in our most glorious first college football game,
Week zero, number ten Florida State and Georgia Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:08:00):
It's tumbling, it's turning, it is.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
The hornet, the luck of the Irish hit the heart
of the Jackets, and.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
Georgia Tech knocks off.

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Number ten Florida State Georgia Decorado Network. That was a
fantastic call, enthralling to say the least, twenty four to
twenty one. Yes, And it was Aiden Burr who made
the forty one yarder to finish things off, this coming
after Florida States. Ryan Fitzgerald no relation to Ryan Fitzpatrick.
I know, Jonas, you made that mistake earlier in the show.

(01:08:34):
But Ryan Fitzgerald did make a fifty two yard and
a fifty nine yarder as a Seminoles field goal kicker.
But it was the kicker on the other side that
had the last laugh. In the world of the NFL,
We've got preseason games. Will touch on those in a minute.
But according to NFL Network, Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson is
not going to play tonight against the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
No surprise here, and.

Speaker 4 (01:08:52):
They're saying that it is arm soreness, and I'm just
gonna leave that one right there as well.

Speaker 3 (01:08:59):
I mean, you know, maybe, like, do you think DeShawn
would play if they like announced what time kickoff was
in neon lights with like the picture of a foot
next to it. Geez. I'm just saying, Look, I'm just
I just want to get the guy in the field,
that's all. I'm just trying to get the guy in
the field. Like I don't know, I'm willing to do

(01:09:20):
whatever it takes to try and get him on the
field because he once was one of the great quarterbacks
in the NFL, or projected to be one of the
great quarterbacks in the NFL. He just doesn't play, So
sorry for coming up with solutions here.

Speaker 4 (01:09:32):
No, you know what you have to do. You just
get Bob Kraft to show up to a game.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
Oh no, you can't say that. Hey what Tom Brady said,
you could not make comments about Bob Kraft. Okay, he
said that in the roast, So don't you dare go there.

Speaker 4 (01:09:47):
I'm just trying to be a guy that's coming up
with solutions, Jonah suddenly.

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
But I'm with you. But we got to be careful.

Speaker 4 (01:09:52):
Here, okay, yeah, yeah, And then I'll leave you with this, Jonas.
We do know that there are some NFL preseason games
going on. Rice Young had a touchdown throw. His team
is up Panthers thirty one to nineteen against the Bills,
is seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter. There
also Russell Wilson, playing about a series two for two
through the year, finished with about twenty six yards, and

(01:10:13):
then Justin Fields came in three or four passing forty
yards two sacks. They are now working their fourth quarterback
in this game, John Reeves Plumbley, formerly of Ole Miss
and UCF, hes a quarterback and the Steelers are losing
to the Lions twenty one to seventeen. And I'll leave
you with this, Jonas. One more score here and that
would be the Ravens taking on the Green Bay Packers

(01:10:35):
thirty to seven in favor of the Packers. In the
fourth quarter, Jordan's stout. Remember the name kicked a and
this is the number. This is the number, so don't
knock me for the number. But the punter made a
sixty nine. He connected on a sixty nine yard punt.
That is the number. Don't say anything about that, but

(01:10:55):
it's a sixty ninety yard punt.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
By the way, welcome to August where we're reporting on
how long the punt was from some guy for the Ravens. Yes,
all right, thank you, Brian. Unbelievable Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, we are going to close up shop
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(01:11:19):
from now. They're going to be all the things in
the world of sports and beyond we have not had
a chance to get to. That will be yours here
from the ti rack dot com studios. Now, I do
want to say, because Brian was mentioning Bryce Young's performance,
this is the first we've seen of Bryce Young and
the starters in the preseason under Dave Canalis, new head
coach there. You know, they had some injuries. He elected

(01:11:40):
to sit him out for all of the preseason until today,
and Bryce Young played pretty well. Made a good throw,
you know, on the run numbers look good, he looked good.
I find myself rooting for Bryce Shung because I just
find it hard to believe for that a guy who
played the way he played, who has been the quarterback

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that he's been, whether it was coming up in southern California,
whether in high school, whether it was playing at Alabama,
I find it hard to believe that he's gonna wash
out of the NFL, just based on what happened last year.
Like he's in the worst situation in the NFL as
far as from an ownership standpoint, when it comes to

(01:12:22):
impulsive making quick decisions, getting Just if you're David Tepper, dude,
just give Dave Canalis and give Bryce Young an opportunity
you didn't last year with Frank Reich. Then you drove
around Charlotte if somebody had to sign up, making fun
of the team outside some pub and grill nearby on

(01:12:45):
your way to the draft. You went and took some
guys hat off his head because like you threw a
beard a fan at a Jaguars game. Last year. Like,
just stop, dude, let these guys work, let them try
and figure it out. That's what I'm hoping for when
it comes to Bryce Young, I don't expect them to
be competitive in the division or anything like that. I
just want to see some improvement, man like. That's it,

(01:13:07):
and just an opportunity to do so because last year
wasn't really one. Now, the good news is the Patriots
are in the NFL, so the Carolina Panthers will not
be the worst team in the league. That'll be New England.
Speaking of New England, it does apply to their former
head coach because there was a rule that was announced.
They've changed the rules in the Hall of Fame for
coaches to get in instead of needing to be out

(01:13:27):
of the league for five years in order to get
in as a Hall of Famer. Now it's just one
which means Belichick will be up for enshrinement coming next year.
That's a shoe in. They've also thrown in Pete Carroll
as a possibility because he also left this past year.
And if you think about it, why there's a wait
of five years for players and formerly for coaches just

(01:13:48):
doesn't make any sense. Why do we do that for what? Like,
what is the reasoning behind it? It doesn't make any sense.
And if you're looking at some of the players, like
why should they have to wait? Like, why should Tom
Brady have to wait five years? Why? Like what do
we do? Like you're just delaying the inevitable. Like if
you want to like do like make it two or

(01:14:10):
three years. Okay, fine, then we'll play the game a
little bit if you're so fixated on your five years.
But I look at it, and I go, it's the
right thing to do. Belichick's a Hall of Famer. Pete
Carroll's a possibility. By the way, Pete Carroll now teaching
at usc Apparently people forget Apparently we're just gonna forget
how that whole thing ended and everything that happened after
he left. But point is good move by the Hall

(01:14:32):
of Fame. I would also recommend doing something similar when
it comes to players having to wait five years as
well too. Jonas Knox here on FSR. Coming up next
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(01:15:58):
how could you not get to these stories? Monies? Are there? Scraps?
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Patrick's We got to find out what the hell we've
missed so far.

Speaker 6 (01:16:08):
Pat all right, Jonas, here's what we've missed so far
in the scraps. I got one for you. It actually
happened last night. Several players in the for the Los
Angeles Chargers were in Dallas, you know, because Chargers and
Cowboys are playing for the preseason in Dallas. Apparently last
night there's a little bit of a fire going on
in one of.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
The hotel rooms, so everybody had to go out.

Speaker 6 (01:16:32):
Apparently in the chaos, they tried getting an elevator and
about fifteen or so players in personnel were stuck in
an elevator.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Jonas, Yeah, that's brutal, I said. Now, they had to
climb through the ceiling.

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
They had elevator, Yes, one by one had to climb,
crawl and get through the ceiling just to get out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
At the end of the day, no one was hurt.
Everyone made out safe.

Speaker 6 (01:16:56):
But just in Dallas at the hotel, just it's like
they're going through die Hard.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
I swear it's like John McClain, that's.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
What I thought. It was, like die Hard, it's all
and like the guy who was there, the mechanic who
was trying to fix it, just couldn't fix it. He
couldn't get it figured out, and so they had to
send him through the roof of the elevator, Like like
what like like this is the there should always be
Like I try and take stares whatever I can, just
so it's a little more exercise. And you know, one
day I'm not going to be able to maybe you know,

(01:17:23):
walk or be able to do so. And I'm like, well,
I at least want to make sure I've gotten my
steps in while I can. And like that's that's kind
of like how I look at it, And like, I know,
I have a a good buddy of mine who gets
claustrophobic in elevators, Like he'll never take an elevator because
he gets claustrophobic. I can't even imagine what people would
do in a situation like that if they were claustrophobic.

(01:17:44):
That is a nightmare situation. But thankfully everybody got through
and now they're ready to take on the Cowboys in
the preseason finale. What else we got?

Speaker 6 (01:17:52):
All right, what else we got? Well, Jones, we're going
to go to the baseball so MLB player Danny Jansen,
he's actually doing like a little historic little switchero we
got going for us. So in June he played for
the Red Sox, was starting and he was actually in
a game that actually was suspended mid game against Toronto.
So they were like, all right, cool, we're gonna stop

(01:18:13):
this here, we'll play it at a later in the
season day. So a month later, he gets traded in
July to Toronto. Now he's there, so now apparently we're
now at the peak of well, this game's about to restart.
So now he plays for literally both teams he has
to when they restart the game. Up, he's going to
be with Boston, but he currently plays for Toronto. And awesome,

(01:18:37):
so he's actually, for the first time ever in e
MOLB history, we're having a good player that's going to
actually play for both teams.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
Well, I mean that's awesome. Also, well I'm thinking myself
because wasn't now was he with Toronto and then got
traded at Boston? I thought it was the other way
around either way, like the fact that they're they're like
they're conclue completing the game he's going through with this,
Like they better have some fun with this, I mean,

(01:19:05):
like send him out, like bring the lineup cards, like
figure out a way to try and lean into this
and play all this because I think Alex core the
manager for the Red Sox, is like, yeah, let's go
ahead and make some history. So I think they're probably
also going to have a little bit of fun with
this to try and lean into the whole storyline surrounding
it all. But yeah, that is a fun story that
will be interesting to check out and see how they

(01:19:26):
try and bust his balls while he's out there, depending
on the clubhouse he's in. What else are guy?

Speaker 2 (01:19:30):
Absolutely all right, Jonas, let's go to college.

Speaker 6 (01:19:32):
So apparently there is a proposed little talks to eliminate
the spring football transfer portal window. Yeah, nothing's imminent, but
apparently it's going through enough discussions that now we're starting
to hear a little talks of it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
I mean, look, if it was up to me, I'd
like to get rid of all of it. Not that
I don't think it's you know, players should have the
right to move if they want to move. I'm just
tired of talking about it, man, Like everything is portal
this nil that can people focus on what matters most
college football is here. We had one upset already today
and we got Hawaii playing later on. That's the focus
of college football right now. Jonas son of a Bitch,