Jonas Knox talks Championship Saturday, Matt Campbell, and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have to have better stop from the beginning, Jonas Knocks,
you thought you knew me. You didn't know a thing
about me.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
He's crazier than a else.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Wrecked that guy, Jonas.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
Knocks, you heard me, Brien, some darkness. It's lighting up
your speakers to establish an alibi for the day. Now
live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, here's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yep, okay, I'll report of this world.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Well, we got some good news here. I mean a
little bit of bad news depending on who you are,
but we do have some good news in the world
of sports. We'll get into that for you coming up
here in just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox,
Fox Sports Radio. You can listen to us as always
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of affiliates all across the country. If you're listening on
the podcast, we appreciate you making us a part of

(01:09):
your Saturday and beyond on this two hour extravaganza here
because it is conference championship weekend in the world of
college football and listen. There's some people who look at
that and say, well, man, that means it's almost over.
Like we're getting really really close to it. I mean,
for most teams, it's over. But if you're the good teams,

(01:31):
like this whole thing's going to be wrapping up here
pretty quick. We're already in December, Christmas lights are up.
You got obnoxious people shopping and cutting you off in
line like there's But there is a little bit of
good news though, because it does mean that the bitching
and begging in college football is almost over. Oh no

(01:54):
more crying and complaining about which teams non conference schedule
is stronger than somebody else's, and which team did this
in a head to head matchup, and which team had
a better second half against a ranked opponent in September here,
and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. The bitching

(02:15):
and begging is almost over because after this weekend, we're
gonna get an understanding as to who's actually gonna be
playing for stuff that means anything. It's gonna be based
on results after that, Right, it's gonna be based on Oh,
you're actually gonna have to play on the field. You're
not gonna have a few guys making decisions and throwing

(02:36):
a pin. No, no, no, this is going to be results based.
After this, the bitching and begging is almost over. It's
like taking your kid to a theme park. It's really fun.
They love it. They're having a great time. They're going
on rides, they're you know, getting their picture taken with characters,
they're getting you know, T shirts and goodies and good

(02:57):
food and all that stuff. But it does get to
a point late in the day where the crying and
complaining and everything that comes along with it kind of
wears you the f out. And you've never looked more
forward to a car ride in your life, because you know,
the second you start driving, they're falling asleep. You don't

(03:19):
have to hear about it anymore. Now it's based on results,
not anybody's mood, not anybody's opinion, not anybody's hunger, nothing.
Here's the result. We are getting home. I'm at the wheel. Everybody,
shut the hell up, and let's just get there. That's
all we need to worry about now. And we are
almost at the point in college football where that's all

(03:41):
we gotta worry about now. We don't have to hear
about power five, non power five, power four, group of five,
group of six, all the like, you know, one of
the other things that bothered me this year this week.
The penultimate, the use of the term penultimate. Hey, it's
the pen ultimate college football playoff rankings. What that's just

(04:05):
a douchey, douchey term for hey, second to last. That's
all it is. That's all it is. But we've got
to get cute. We've got to, like, you know, throw
some cute terminology on it. We've got to oh, it's hey, guys,
it's the penultimate. Hey, everybody stick around for the penult.
Shut up. It's second to last. That's it. Let's not

(04:30):
let's not throw a bunch of spice and all the
other elaborate, stop stuff trying to make it exotic. It's
a second to last time that you're able to bitch
about where your team's at. That's it. That's all it is.
And we are almost at the end, So everybody, don't worry.
Kids are getting noisy, kids are getting loud, everybody's a
little cranky. The car's right over there, and soon we're

(04:53):
going to be in it. They're going to be sleeping
and you're on your way home. Jonas Knox here on
Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knocks on X by
the way. You can get me on Instagram as well too.
At Jonas Knox Show speaking to college football, Congratulations to
Penn State. They have hired a head coach, Matt Campbell
from Iowa State and spent a decade there, did a

(05:15):
really good job with Iowa State. He is the brand
new head coach there at Penn State. And you know,
I think everybody can agree. Probably took a little bit
longer than most people expected. Here's the one question you've
got to ask when it comes to the Penn State
coaching search, and really the one question you've got to

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ask when it comes to other coaches, not only in
college football but other coaches in sports. When you make
a decision to move on from somebody, was the end
result what you expected it to be? In other words,

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if you knew it was going to look like this
at the end, would you have made the same decision.
And if your Penn State you're probably looking at it going, yeah,
it probably would have kept James Franklin. You know, probably
probably would have figured out how to make that one work.
That would have been the move based on what has
happened since, because however you want to call it, and

(06:20):
there's people out there saying, hey, listen, Penn State kind
of saved themselves because they hired Matt Campbell. And I
would agree Terry Smith, who did an okay job as
the interim coach, but really he was there to kind
of stabilize all the chaos that was going on. He
gets a four year deal. He's gonna stay. I would say, listen,
that is great for both of them. And I would

(06:41):
tend to agree that they did sort of save the
day and save the search with the hiring of Matt Campbell.
Here's what you can't save how it looked the past
two months, because it took almost two months for you
to find another guy. And if it felt bizarre and
if it felt like something was going on, it's because
it was. And we talked about it yesterday on Two

(07:04):
Pros and a Cup of Joe and LaVar Arrington was
tremendous and sort of breaking down. Listen, man, there's problems
there that go beyond what anybody wants to talk about publicly.
There's problems there all right. The name Paterno is still around.
It's Jay, it's Joe's son, and he's still got influence
and it's not the right kind of influence. There's problems there,

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and it's almost like one of those times. It's like
getting back together with somebody after a while and you
guys get back together and all of a sudden, you
kind of you're going through it and you're thinking, eh,
you know, we're back together and we're happy. But I
just I have a hard time forgetting about that could
be a fight, a moment, a night, an incident like
there's just there's some things that leave residue that you

(07:50):
carry on for a while, and this whole coaching search,
I just wonder if there's some residue left over that's
going to be there for a while because it was
a mess. It was a mess. You fired James Franklin
on what October thirteenth. October thirteenth, they fired James. He's

(08:14):
not only does he already have another job, he's already
signed the contract, he's already poached recruits and he's good
to go. We're good, like he already did enter Sandman introduction,
like we are good here and Penn State couldn't find
anybody and every and when you hear a guy like
Matt Ruhle, who's a Penn State guy who went to

(08:37):
Penn State, played at Penn State, met his wife at
Penn State, is friends with the athletic director, and he
says no to the gig. Wasn't that an indication that
something was going on there? When Matt Ruhl comes out
in a press conference when it seems like it would
make the most sense of anybody and says, love my

(08:59):
time at Penn State, Love State College, love Patcraft, the
athletic director. I met my wife there, like he started
his family at Penn State. He met his wife there,
and still says no. Like that right there was him
basically saying, hey, it's not the school, it's not the location,

(09:24):
it's not the athletic director, it's not the players. There's
some other stuff going on there that I don't want
to be a part of. And that's a Penn State
guy saying it. So when you see sort of how
this whole thing broke down and the time it took
to make a higher and the time it took to
make this move and all the other stuff that came
along with it, when you see it and you go, oh, listen, hey,

(09:46):
they saved the day they hired Matt Campbell, they gave
Hi an eight year deal. Terry Smith is going to
stick around for four You like, listen, all is well,
everybody forget about that. We've got our guy. Let's just
move forward. Okay, Sometimes you can and then other times
you realize, yeah, but that one's gonna leave a mark.

(10:07):
That one's gonna leave a mark, and you start to
look at Penn State and you go, maybe the issue
isn't really James Franklin. Maybe the issue is not the players.
Maybe there needs to be less conversation about what they
do against top five opponents or ranked opponents, or how
far back they are from Ohio State or Michigan or
anybody else in the Big ten or Indiana. Maybe instead

(10:30):
of focusing on that, maybe there's other stuff going on
that needs to be cleaned up. Because if you don't
clean that up, what do you got? And how can
anybody operate in those circumstances. So good for Matt Campbell
gets his deal, good for Terry Smith. But I just
have a feeling it's not the last we've heard of
some dysfunction there in State College. At the Jonas Knocks

(10:51):
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(11:12):
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Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up, we'll call it
a little over ten minutes from now, we are going
to hand out an award on this show. This is
a Saturday tradition. It's our TGFG game of the Week.
That'll be yours here on FSR. And again, probably a
little bit of a surprise, little bit of a surprise
because one of these teams is expected to make a

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deep run in the postseason. We will get into that
for you again coming up here a little over ten
minutes from now. So, if you were gonna place wagers
before the season in the NFL, because you can do
a lot of that. You can do over unders on
win totals, you can bet on the MVP race, you
can bet Super Bowl, NFC champion, AFC champion, who's going

(13:11):
to win the division comeback Player of the Year. However,
they determined that these days like, I mean, I'll be
honest with you, Joe Flacco ruined that award for everybody
because a couple of years ago, Joe Flacco won the
award for getting off his couch and taking the Browns
to the postseason, and he beat out DeMar Hamlin, who
died on the field the year prior. So after that,

(13:37):
I have no idea how they do that award, but
you can bet on it, Like you can bet on
that award. You can. There's all sorts of stuff you
can bet off, But there was one bet out there.
It was the safest bet in the entire league going
into the season, right. The one bet was this that
at some point George Pickens was going to George Pickens

(14:01):
at some point. It was a guarantee, I'll be honest
with you. I wish I would have used that as
a Knox lock because I could have like kept that
in the back pocket and if I'm like struggling to
get to five hundred, I could just roll that out
and be like, yeah, but I said this because I
really did say at the beginning of the year, guys, well,

(14:23):
Dak Prescott's talking about how great it is with George Pickens.
Here and Ceedee Lamb and all this stuff like at
some point there's going to be an issue, like that's
how this works.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
Now.

Speaker 1 (14:34):
The latest issue is because Richard Sherman was critical of
George Pickens's performance on Thursday night, because I think anybody
that watched that game on Thursday night realized, you know,
George Pickens is like what was that? Like there was
a route he ran ball got batted down, big moment

(14:54):
of the game. They needed him. Seedee Lamb was out
with the injury with a he banged his head on
the turf. That was a spot to where you looked
at and said, men, Dallas had an opportunity and if
they could get George Pickens involved, that would be their chance.
And instead it just looked kind of similar to George
Pickens games at moments when he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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So Richard Sherman, if you missed it after the game
on Thursday night on Amazon Prime, had this to say
about the performance of Pickens.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
The big story, here's George Pickens. George Pickens throughout the game,
especially late in the game, just looked uninterested in playing football,
you know, And that's what you can't have if you're
going to be a superstar if you want to be
the best receiver in the National Football League. You can
ever be disengaged. You can't just disappear in these games
or else you're not gonna have impact. You're the guy.
You're the guy. Ceedee Lamba's not in this game, he's out.

(15:43):
It's unacceptable. And if you're the Dallas Cowboys and you're
looking at him and you're looking to pay him big
time receiver money forty million dollars, you got to look
at this take and say, hey, is this a guy
we can trust paying forty million dollars to show up
regardless of circumstance.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
And I don't know nothing he said. There was in
a appropriate nothing And Richard Sherman isn't exactly shy to
go at somebody. He isn't exactly shy to turn something
into what could be perceived as personal. There was nothing
personal there. He was doing his job as an analyst.
He did and I think he did a great job.
He broke he told you what the issue was. All

(16:19):
of that was fair, all of that was above the belt.
Nothing wrong with that. George Pickens went to social media,
called him a name deleted it, you know, went like
just you know, went on. You just kind of a rant.
Now you've got you know, Brian Schottenheimer or his kirkhurb
Street likes to call him forty seven thousand times shoddy,
having to say, yeah, listen, I'm going to talk to

(16:41):
him about, you know, his social media posts. I'm gonna
have to Jerry Jones is being asked about George Pickens
and no, listen, you know it's not about you know,
work ethic, and it's not about this, and it's like, okay,
but that's like a lot of conversation having to make
the math work on George Pickens when there's other numbers

(17:03):
that need to be thrown into this entire equation right now.
Jeremy Fowler and Todd Archer of ESPN, they reported this
was before the game, all right, so that Thursday night
game hadn't even taken place, and they reported that, well,
you know, the Cowboys have had to discipline George Pickens

(17:23):
a couple of times. Hmm. That sounds familiar. You know,
might miss a team bus, might be late to a meeting,
might miss a Okay, that sure sounds like what was
going on in Pittsburgh and there was the report where
him and CD Lamb were in Vegas for the Raider
game on Monday night a couple of weeks back, and

(17:44):
they went out to Red Rocks Casino and got dinner
and got back late, and so they missed the start
of the game and they were both punished for it.
And then there was you know, this other report that
ced Lamb was seen throwing up you know, seven thirty
in the morning on Monday, and you know, anybody who
knows me, according to it's like, all right, dude, Like,
first of all, there's nothing wrong with blowing chunks. Okay,

(18:05):
there's nothing wrong with it. I just won't let everybody
know because here's the other deep dark secret about the
holiday season.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
Booze.

Speaker 1 (18:15):
People love booze during the holiday season. Oh yeah, I
mean the egg nog. I mean who listen, who doesn't
just look at eggnog and get a little bit nauseous. Okay,
So there's nothing wrong with blowing chunks, especially during the
holiday season, and so ce D Lamb listen, man, if
you were losing your lunch and your dinner and possibly
your breakfast and whatever you had late night at seven

(18:37):
thirty in the morning on a game day it happens.
Who hasn't been there, who hasn't thrown up? I've told
this story before. I had a little bit too much
to drink. I was on a cruise ship when I
was like twenty two years old. Had a little bit
too much to drink. The only thing they were serving
late at night on the cruise ship, or tune of sandwiches.
I decided, you know what, that's a good idea. I'll
eat about three of those. I'll fall asleep. All the

(19:00):
boat's rocking a little bit. Next thing you know, I
woke up. It's like I had a tuna thermal sweater
on it happened, not lying about it, just talked about
it on the air. So like, all of this stuff
is happening, not you know, not the tuna sweater, but
all this stuff is happening with George Pickens. And you've

(19:20):
got Jerry Jones, Oh well it's this, and Brian Schottenheimer's
having to defend him, and now ceedee lamb got mixed
up in it in a couple of weeks ago, and
Richard Sherman makes a fair assessment, and George Pickens goes
off and deletes the post. That dude this was always
going to be the case. I realized that people want
to look at the Pittsburgh Steelers currently and where they stand,

(19:42):
because that's a little bit of a mess. Like they
started off four and one, they've not been the same
team since Aaron Rodgers got his face caved in. You know,
he's you know, walking around with you know, the kingpinhand
because you know of what happened a couple of weeks
ago and following it. It's like, dude, I get that
the Pittsburgh Steelers don't look good. I realized there's conversations

(20:04):
about Mike Tomlin being on the hot seat. But here's
what I do know about the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nobody, and
I mean nobody knows when to turn the page on
a wide receiver better than the Pittsburgh Steelers. Nobody go
down the list of guys that they've either decided to

(20:26):
part with because of off field issues or just decided
to part with because they felt like, hey, you know what,
our money's better spent elsewhere. We can find somebody in
the draft. Nobody's done it better than the Pittsburgh Steelers.
So the fact that they walked away from George Pickens,
they didn't want to be a part of that any

(20:46):
longer should have been the indication. And then lo and
behold it comes out afterwards. Well, George Pickens was fine,
like two hundred and fifty thousand dollars between the league
and the Steelers and all. It's like, listen what he play.
His ceiling is so high that when he plays and
he performs, you look at it and go, oh my god.

(21:06):
Like he'll make plays. He made a play on Thanksgiving
where he jumped and almost took it to the house
that there's like, what two three guys maybe in the
league that can make that play. He's unbelievable. But there's
always this, It always happens. It was the lock of

(21:26):
the year that something like this was eventually gonna pop up.
So while Jerry Jones is trying to make the mathwork
and Brian Schottenheimer's trying to make the mathwork and Ceedee
Lambs having defend himself blowing chunks and George ps, dude,
this is how this whole thing was gonna go. You

(21:47):
knew it from the jump. I'm surprised it took this
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(22:28):
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But for all the latest from around the world of
sports ladies and gentlemen. He is the one, He is
the only. He is the magnificent.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Sir, Isaac Longkro, Can you do me a favor?

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yes, sir?

Speaker 7 (22:44):
All right, I just texted you a video and what
I would like you to do is to review the video,
but in particular the seven second mark of the video,
and at the end of this I would like you
to tell America, just your impressions of sort of what

(23:05):
you see at the seven second mark of that.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Video that I just texted you. Would you be able
to do that for me?

Speaker 1 (23:11):
I mean you've sent me several videos before this one.
I mean, wow, Isaac, Sorry, lucky man. I'll let get
to the other one.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
Well, I think the luck has felt both ways.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
So Isaac, who are you a batting practice? All right?
Let me second?

Speaker 2 (23:28):
Yeah, all right?

Speaker 7 (23:29):
So so so just review that and then because it's
kind of going viral right now. Also going viral a
surge by fourth ranked Texas Tech because in the Big
twelve Championship game, after falling behind eleventh ranked BYU seven
and nothing, they have scored twenty one points in a
row to take a twenty one to seven lead with

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three twenty one left in the third quarter.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
As moments ago.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Texas Tech's Ben Roberts intercepted a BYU passed and then
moments later Texas Tech turned it into a touchdown on
k TTU.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
Snap back to Dickey, He's in touchdown, Red Raiders completely
untouched off the right side.

Speaker 7 (24:11):
So Texas Tech in full control the Big Twelve Championship game,
up twenty one to seven, with three point fifteen remaining
in the third quarter. Coming up next at four pm Eastern,
it's the SEC championship game between number three Georgia and
ninth ranked Alabama and college basketball Today, Number ten Iowa
State won at number one per Due by twenty three

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points eighty one to fifty eight. It was tied for
the worst home loss ever by a number one ranked team.
Fourth rank Duke won a number seven Michigan State sixty
six to sixty. Right now, sixth ranked Louisville leads number
twenty two Indiana ten to nothing five minutes into the
ball game. Now coming up tonight at six pm Eastern,

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a big game for number twenty four USC at eight
and oh they will be playing host to the Washington Huskies.

Speaker 4 (25:03):
Now.

Speaker 7 (25:03):
Yesterday, in an effort to drum up support among the
USC student supporters, members of the USC basketball team bought
free donuts to fratos on USC's fraternity row, and the
video of them delivering the free donuts to the Frattos

(25:23):
has gone viral, particularly for the scene at the seven
second mark, which will now be expertly described by Fox
Sports Radio Greek Life insider Jonas Knox jonas all.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
That guy was butchered. He got absolutely butchered last night.
There's a dude, I'm assuming it's a guy laying on
the couch. Yeah, yeah, Yeah, there's a guy laying on
the couch. He's got a hoodie on. He looks like
he's got a hangover from outer space and is miserable,
absolutely miserable.

Speaker 7 (25:54):
Now, can you describe the scene of what appears.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
To be a living room?

Speaker 7 (26:01):
Can you just describe the decor, because I think that
also really adds to the atmosphere of that scene.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Well, it's so, here's the thing. It's clearly a frat house,
and if I just pause it, the place is destroyed
like it like it looks like like it literally looks
like there was a riot inside and this guy's sleeping
in the middle of this mess. So like this is
almost almost as if a guy got dumped and just

(26:31):
started destroying the house, because there's tables broken everywhere, Like
it's really it gets a quick shot.

Speaker 7 (26:38):
A discarded cardboard box in the back round. It appears
to be the living room of this fraternity house at USC.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Yeah, there's a steel folding chair turned upside down. There's
clothes over in the corner. I'm trying to see if
I see any beer cans. I think there's beer cans
on the ground.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
Oh, there are plenty of them.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Ye, yeah, I think there's beer cans on the ground. Yeah.
But listen, that's what you do. I mean, that's you know,
he probably uh now, don't you have to have permission
to film somebody? Like, don't you have to uh? Don't
you need their permission to film somebody? So maybe he's
got a case there, but you.

Speaker 7 (27:13):
Know, well, I mean it actually might increase is here.
Here's the thing. Now, I am a graduate of that institution.
I never set foot on fraternity row the whole four
years I was there. But for context, the big party
night at USC was Thursday night. So that's a context
because this was taken on Friday morning. Now I haven't

(27:33):
gotten into your academic career, but were you a frato
during your uh highly touted with honors academic career?

Speaker 1 (27:42):
Oh? God no, But I went to frat parties. Okay,
well that's my buddy went to. Uh my buddy was
at a prominent frat at UC Irvine, and we would
kinda like and listen, this was a long time ago,
so I'm not going to get grief four because this
wasn't my party, but it was basically you had a
guy because you would you would show up at this location.

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Then you would get on a bus and they would
take you to this warehouse or wherever they had rent
it out for this giant frat party.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Whoa like a rave Oh like it was crazy.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
And so you would show up there and you know,
they would let you know the guys on and then
when the girls came on, they would look around and
they would only pick the attractive ones. Like, so you'd
had you'd have these girls who were standing at the
steps to walk onto the bus and there would be
a guy at the bus saying, no, you can't come on. Geez. Yeah,

(28:33):
it was. It was not nice. It was not a
not a nice thing.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
So yeah, and I went to a couple of those,
and this was at UC Irvine. Yeah, boy, who knew?
And eaters were so ruthless.

Speaker 7 (28:47):
You know, there's a joke there somewhere, somewhere exactly.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
For our European friends.

Speaker 7 (28:52):
But there you have our USC College Basketball Student Section
Fraternity decor update back to.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
You, by the way, so you went to USC, huh,
Like what you tell me? What the parties are like,
you didn't see this is surprising to me. You went
to USC and you didn't have a drink until you
were like.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Didn't go to it, didn't go to a single one,
and there was a story of great lore there. There
was a campus area dive spot called Labarca, which is
phenomenal Mexican food, by the way.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
And everyone knew that I was not a drinker.

Speaker 7 (29:29):
So we had a senior year class project that well
it was a group project, so we completed it and
I was invited to a group project at Lebarca to celebrate.
Little did I know that it was all a setup,
because they told the staff at Labarca that it was
my birthday and they brought me a margaritea the size
of the Staples Center at a round table and saying

(29:50):
happy birthday to me. And I still managed to, somehow,
with great verbal dexterity, get out of drinking it.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
I mean, listen, did you did they make you wear
sombrero and all that while they were singing Happy Birthday?

Speaker 7 (30:01):
No, But to this to this day, whenever I'm in town,
I stopped there because the food there is phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Labarca on Vermont yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Listen. By the way, if you're ever, if you want
to go someplace where they make you wear a sombrero
for your birthday, like real authentic Mexican food. Like if
you walk in there, you're the only white person there.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh I've probably been there.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, well that was my in laws. But the other
place is El Pascador. There's one in Fillmore, there's one
in cow where's the other locations? But El Pascador. You
go there, it's unbelievable food and it's like you feel
like you're in Like they sell like Mexican goods outside
of the store, probably illegally, but whatever.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Okay, well, yeah, there's all sorts of s and just
for because I know we have a national audience. The
other place is the Mexicali Rose in Oakland that also
fits that description. I have some stories to tell about
that place for a later time. Unfortunately, perhaps not surprisingly,
it's been closed since twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
I have a feeling I know to you.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
Oh yeah, that's that's unfortunate. Well, listen, you know happens
to the best of us. I mean, maybe they would
have used some different spices or hot sauces, you know,
like Louisiana Hot Sauce, because the original Louisiana Hot Sauce
is the perfect balance of Pepper's vinegar and salt, wings, nachos, burgers,
hit any tailgate food with the bold, handcrafted flavor of
the original Louisiana Hot sauce. That's a Louisiana Hot. Buy you some,

(31:21):
all right? So another edition of Do You Care is
coming up here on Fox Sports Radio. We'll call it
less than ten minutes from now, but right now it
is time for a tradition here on the show. It's
our TGFG game of the Week in the NFL for
Week fourteen, and this week it goes too Broncos and Raiders.
Oh that's right, four h five Eastern time in Las Vegas.

(31:45):
You're probably looking at this going, wait a second. The
Denver Broncos are gonna be a playoff team. They're gonna
win their division. They might even be the one seed.
They could make it deep run of this whole thing.
But this is more of a sign of respect to
the awful Las Vegas Raiders. They are brutal, brutal to watch,
and in fact, they're so uninteresting that they sort of

(32:08):
bring in the chaos with the Denver Broncos, and then
the Broncos get to take part in it, because, if
we're being honest here, Denver wins a lot of games
that you look at and go, probably shouldn't. Denver on offense,
still trying to figure it out. How is Marcus Mariota
a two point conversion away from beating you on Sunday
Night football? How is that possible? Well, it's possible when

(32:28):
you keep games close, when you've got your quarterback getting
really sensitive and defensive about the fact that the defense
carries a load there on Offensively, they're struggling. So your
TGFG Game of the Week for Week fourteen goes to
the Broncos and the Raiders a four h five Eastern
time kickoff in Sin City. TGFG, thank God for gambling,

(32:50):
because of not for gambling. Who's watching this piece? At
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Right here on FSR, can't just fire everybody? Bo Jonas

(33:12):
Knox Fox Sports Radio. By the way, coming off top
of next hour, we'll call it a little over twelve
minutes from now, somebody has finally decided to do their
part right. They have finally decided to do their part
in the world of football. It's about time they got
off their lazy ass and have finally figured this out

(33:33):
and they're gonna chip in. We'll get into that for
you here on FSR again. That's coming up a little
over twelve minutes from now. You can get me on
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of the show. So we'll have all of that for

(33:54):
you because we've got another outward plus to play with
here on FSR right now. Though, speaking of true editions,
it's time for another edition of this.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.
DMZ reports not 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 1 (34:19):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benzon to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week. Bo, well, Jonas.

Speaker 8 (34:26):
You might remember this guy, Antonio Brown used to play
wide receiver in the NFL.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
Yeah, pretty good. Of course.

Speaker 8 (34:32):
He is currently facing second degree murder charges in the
state of Florida. However, he is seeking a dismissal of
those charges, citing uh, Florida's stand your ground law. So, Jonas,
do you care?

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Wait a second, is it murder or attempted murder?

Speaker 8 (34:49):
It said second degree murder? Maybe maybe? Uh maybe it's
a either way. Yeah, he has his defense and uh yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (34:56):
Mean like as a murder attempted murder.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
Like.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
All of that is said secondary to his annual Cracker
the Year awards, which you're coming out. And I have
made my case. And I don't want to beg for stuff.
I'm never one of somebody likes to beg for anything.
But I have made my case. I would like to
be nominated for Cracker the Year. I don't even I
don't want to win. I just want to be nominated.
I want my name on the list. And that's really

(35:19):
all I care about. From Antonio Brown, I hands down
the greatest Cracker of all time.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Rob Parker once said it best. He said, next to cheese,
it's and rits. I'm the greatest cracker Rob Parker invented
and so hot, and so I would say, like I
used to get caught in the weeds when it comes
to Antonio Brown and be like, oh, what's he doing?
And the guy ruined a Hall of Fame career with
his antics and all that. Like I took that same cornball,

(35:46):
lame mass approach, and then I just realized, Hey, listen,
the guy wants to do what he wants to do.
Oh and he's like given out Cracker the Year awards
and I could win one because I qualify. That's what
I care about. Whether or not he killed somebody or
tried to kill somebody, I don't.

Speaker 8 (36:02):
Caitlin Clark, Paige Becker's Angel Rees, and Juju Watkins will
be making their USA Basketball Senior National Team camp debuts
next month. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Oh god, dam oh kivell No. No. And by the way,
anybody that says they do, they're lying. No, No, definitely
not no. They listen, there's too much going on. We
got the NFL, the College football Playoff. There's way too
much going on. Enough's enough. Stop trying to like shoehorn

(36:32):
in at their sports that nobody cares about next Iowa.

Speaker 8 (36:35):
Sam is within thirty miles in closing.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
That's fine. Listen, he can go. He can go hug
a silo if he wants to, like he take a walk, buddy,
nobody cares. You could try, and you could try and
jam Crop Circles and Caitlin Clark at everybody's throat. Nobody
gives a rip.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
Former NBA and Kentucky center Boogie Cousins voiced his displeasure
with the Wildcat's recent performances, tweeting out, can't lie. This
UK team has no heart. This is hard to watch.
Shaking my head, Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Well? I care from this standpoint there they couldn't. I mean,
when John Calipari left, it was like good riddans man,
good riddens. Listen, he's got to go. John Calipari's got
to go, and he had worn out his welcome. Okay,
all right, I mean whatever you say, like, we'll take
your word for it. Everybody wants to fire coaches, but

(37:25):
they don't want to think about what happens after the fact,
Like everybody, Oh, James Franklin's gotta go, He's got to go,
and then afterwards you go oops, maybe not, Like, dude,
this is what so many people wanted, so many people
campaigned for. I'm sorry that they're a bucket of puke.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry that you know, you've got you know,
guys that went there and won a lot of games

(37:46):
there that are just embarrassed by the program. But this
is kind of what you asked for, and you give
what you asked for.

Speaker 8 (37:51):
Next, With the two months remaining until they start, only
slightly more than half of the one and a half
million tickets allotted for the Milancore Tina Winter Olympic Games
have been sold.

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Jonas, do you care? No? God, no, listen, Well, first
of all, like, who go to that?

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:08):
Who?

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Who?

Speaker 4 (38:09):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Does anybody really want to go like to the Olympics
in person? Like really? Like when the Olympics are out
here in La, anybody want to deal with that traffic?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Does anybody want to sit in traffic and go watch
somebody from Bangladesh try and win the four hundred meters?
Like I don't. Let's go live to our I'm rooting
for the guy from Bangladesh to win the four hundred meters.
Inside of Christopher for the latest Chris Well. I am.

Speaker 9 (38:31):
I've been to two Olympics in my life, but the
Winter Olympics are a different sort of like I I'm sorry,
I don't think people care about it. I figure skating anymore.
I just don't. And no hockey players play in no
NHL players play in hockey.

Speaker 1 (38:45):
There's just there's certain things that are just despite what
anybody wants to tell you, are better made for TV.
And the Olympics are better made to watch on TV
like I have because if you go to one event,
you miss out, there's all the other events that you
can watch and on television. It's pretty so like listen
when the Olympics are out here in LA unless I
get free tickets, I'm telling you this right now, or

(39:06):
I've got to work like I'm not going special events.

Speaker 9 (39:09):
But again, like it for the Winter Olympics, there's like
nothing your options are like here's here's a guy going
down a slope and here's ice.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
That's it.

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Yeah, I'm good.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Next, Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray will not return this year
and his future in Arizona is very much in doubt.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Jonas. Do you care, Yeah, because look Kyler Murray. Anybody
that was trying to say, well, you know they're gonna
put him on he's gonna miss four games and you
know they're gon and Jonathan Gannon kind of spilled the
beans when he said, yeah, I think it's safe to
say he was on a local radio show in Arizona.
He's like, yeah, I think it's safe to say that.
You know, even if Kyler were healthy, we'd still be
going with Jacoby Brissett. It's like and then he comes

(39:49):
out afterwards said, oh, yeah, he's not going to be available.
We're putting him on IR. No, you're put him on
I R for the rest of the year. Like your
your version of IR and the NFL's version of irre
two different irs. The NFL's version is can't perform physically.
Your version is can't perform here, ever, because we don't
want them anymore.

Speaker 8 (40:07):
Next, Apple Music and Spotify dropped their twenty twenty five
rapp features this week. My top artist for twenty five
was a Turnstile Jonas.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Do you care? And what was yours? I have no idea,
I'll be honest with you. I'm not even I'm not
even sure. Can I guess Blippy? Oh god no, no,
we're way past that. Yeah, listen, like Blippy got run
over no pun intended by Monster Jam and then next
thing you know, my son saw Pete crow Armstrong play
baseball and it's been over ever since. That's like, I've

(40:36):
never seen somebody want to be a redhead so much
of my life. It's disgusting. You know, somebody's finally doing
their part in the NFL. It's about damn time. We'll
get into that for you coming up here in just
a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
You can find us as always on the iHeartRadio app.
You can find us on hundreds of affiliates all across
the country, and if you are listening on the podcast,

(40:58):
we appreciate you doing so as we take you live
all the way up until four pm Eastern time one
o'clock Pacific, hour two of the program here on the
show and on the pod. As we fire away, Texas
Tech has just scored again. They are up thirty to
seven over BYU in the Big twelve Championship game. So

(41:19):
that's a rap on the Big Twelve Championship and Texas
Tech is going to win that one going away there,
So congratulations to Texas Tech fans everywhere. And I'd like
to also say congratulations to fans of rivalries. If you
are a fan of rivalries and that is something that
you really dive into in the world of sports, we

(41:41):
got something for you because somebody has finally done their part.
It's a a group project, and there's one guy who's
always late, one guy who always comes in. He smells
like weed, and he's just never on time, and you
can't depend on him. And all of a sudden, one
day he actually pitches in. It's like, man, this big,
it a lot easier. So we'd like to think at

(42:02):
this time the Chicago Bears like to give a round
of applause and think the Chicago Bears who have finally
decided to do their part in the NFL's most storied rivalry,
which is their matchup against the Green Bay Packers. I mean,
Micah Parsons is calling a disrespect even though he just

(42:24):
got to Green Bay like an hour ago. He's calling
a disrespect. Says the Bears are disrespectful. Said you got
to earn respect, you got to beat the s out
of somebody. You got all that going on. Apparently, Matt
laflor In company are not happy with Ben Johnson, who
had his introductory press conference with Chicago, said he really
enjoyed beating Matt Lafleur twice a year when he was

(42:45):
the OC in Detroit with the Lions. Like there's just,
you know, all of a sudden, there's some things being said,
some stuff being thrown out there. But what really makes
this a rivalry is pretty easy. The Bears aren't awful year,
you know what I mean, Like it's they're not a
bad football team. That helps. It's about time because it's

(43:08):
been a long time since the Green Bay Packers, who
seemingly have just you know, figured it out, whether there's
a coaching change or a quarterback change, train keeps on going.
They keep on winning games, they keep on dominating this matchup,
and the Bears are like, whoa, huh, yeah we got it.
Let's say, but we made this change, Okay, now what
it was still not good? Like there's a reason why

(43:33):
Packers fans have had toilet seats in the shape of
the Bears see logo, Like there's a reason why because
they have crapped all over that franchise for years now years.
There was a time where the all time series was
like in going away fashion, like the Bears that dominated
that Now not so much. Nope, nope, definitely not not

(43:55):
at all. But this thing only exists this shar year
and the bad blood and the hype and the fact
that this game is going to be featured at four
to twenty five Eastern time on Fox. That's the game.
Like if you're if you're looking at the four to
twenty five Eastern time slate, you're like, okay for the
late window. That's the one. The fact that that's happening tomorrow,

(44:21):
and it's not even just tomorrow that it's getting the love.
It's the fact that it's also going to be featured
in primetime in a couple of weeks on Saturday. These
same two teams, these same teams are going to be featured.
Like you look at tomorrow's game. Tomorrow's game was flexed
into that spot and Bill's Bengals was flexed out. If

(44:46):
you would have told somebody before the season they Josh
Allen versus Joe Burrow is going to be flexed and
in place we're going to do Packers Bears, they would
have said, wait, what have you You've seen the Bears?
Do you know how that looks. The only way this
happens is if the Bears do their part. The only

(45:09):
way this happens is if the Bears aren't awful and
they have figured it out this year. They run the
ball well, the passing game is Ben Johnson has pointed out,
still need some work to do, accuracy, receivers in Caleb
Williams being on the same page, all that stuff, But
they run the piss out of the football. They chewed
Philly up and it's not just Philly, they do that

(45:31):
to everybody. And so you're looking at this game going
all right, Micah Parsons is talking a lot, Ben Johnson
talked a lot previous. The Packers building apparently is upset
about what happened the last time the Bears played in
Green Bay. They won last year's season finale. Jordan Love

(45:52):
got banged up, Watson went down for the year with
a knee injury. Cairo Santos hit a game win. So
all of this trash talk and bad blood, all of
it is irrelevant unless the Bears do their part and
actually end up being good again. They've done it, and
all of a sudden, we finally have a rivalry back.
It's finally back because it's been gone for a long

(46:15):
ass time, while the sinking ship has finally decided to
start floating again at the Jonas Knox on x at
Jonas Knox Show on Instagram and you can hang out
with us is always on the iHeartRadio app a Right, So,
speaking of the NFC North, there was a team that
a lot of people looked at in the NFC North
that said, all right, that's one wet you gotta worry about.

(46:36):
That could be a problem. All right, Now that team
is in Minnesota Vikings. But if you ask Justin Jefferson,
the wide receiver of the Minnesota Vikings, whatever you hear,
this is not a wasted year in Minneapolis.

Speaker 10 (46:51):
And I wouldn't say wasted. Obviously. It's a difficult season.
You know, it's probably one of the most difficult seasons
just off of the circumstances having a young quarterback, having
a different team, having young players on the team. So
it's just you know, one of those years. You know,
not every year is going to be, you know, our
top tier year. For me, you know, it's really a

(47:13):
part of the game. So it's just all on me
to you know, expect a lot from these guys and
to improve on anything that we need to improve on.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
Yeah, it's a wasted year. Sorry, sorry, just Is. And
here's why it is, because if you believe the reports
going into the season, the reason why the Minnesota Vikings
decided to not sign Aaron Rodgers and decided to move
on from Sam Darnold and decide to not retain Daniel

(47:46):
Jones is because they viewed this as a three year
championship window. That that was the reporting before the year.
Not making that up. That was the reporting. Can go
back and look it up for yourself. I'm not going
to do all your work for you. Get off your
lazy ass, you know, put down the booze and the
uh you know, the holiday popcorn tin and and do
your own research. But the reporting before the year was

(48:10):
the Minnesota Vikings had a three year window that it
wasn't about this year. It was a three year window.
And the idea behind that was we've got the roster.
We just need to develop this young quarterback and we'll
be able to do that, no problem. Because Kevin O'Connell's
track record with quarterbacks. Oops, it's been a disaster. Like

(48:34):
it's been a I don't care what anybody call it?
Oh no, no, no, no, it's been a disaster. Then here's
the real problem. If JJ McCarthy was out there and
you knew, all right, we've given this guy a year,
he's just not it at least, you know, like there's
something to knowing, Like you don't want this sort of

(48:55):
up in the air vibe around the building, like we're
not really sure whatever. No, at least you know, if
he was out there and he was just struggling, at
least you know. The problem is he's not out there
enough and you don't know anyways do you think that
like well, yeah, I mean, is you know what we've seen,
like there's some bread no, Like there's been ups and
downs and there's been a lot of doubt and it's

(49:17):
looked ugly at times, but he's not even out there
enough to really get a true answer. It actually feels
more like the Trey Lance experiment in San Francisco than
it does anything else, because if you go back to that,
the problem with Trey Lance wasn't really that you knew

(49:38):
the guy couldn't play, and that you knew that you
didn't want him as your starting quarterback, even though you
gave up a boatload to draft him. The problem with
Trey Lance was that he wasn't available enough on the field.
And I've always defended Trey Lance in this regard. I
don't think he's ever really gotten a shot. I really
don't like people can say, well, what do you mean?
They chose him and they had Jimmy Garoppolo there, but

(50:01):
he was the guy and they okay, fine. But as
I've pointed out before in the show, if you want
to go back to Trey Lance's time in San Francisco,
he got a couple of starts his rookie year because
Jimmy Garoppolo got banged up, and then the second year
when he was supposed to be the guy, he opened up.
The year in Chicago there was a literal monsoon, nobody
played well, and his next game he broke his leg.

(50:27):
That was it. The thing that bailed the Niners out
was Brock Purty. Well, Minnesota doesn't have a Brock Purdy.
So instead they've got JJ McCarthy, who they banked on,
who can't stay healthy. Whether it was the knee last year,
whether it was you know, the high ankle sprain or

(50:47):
whatever it was this year, the concussion that's been a
problem and they have no answers either way. And you
said no to Aaron Rodgers, who say, whatever you want,
is that a better year than JJ McCarthy. You said
no to Daniel Jones, who's had a better year than
JJ McCarthy. And you said no to Sam Darnold, who's

(51:08):
had a way better year than JJ McCarthy. So yeah,
justin Jefferson's frustrated and he can say he's saying the
right things. Oh no, it's not a wasted year. One
hundred percent is Yes, it is because you have no
clear answer either way, like he got nothing and you
don't have a rock party sitting there that you can

(51:28):
replace him with Max Prosmer. I mean, listen, he was
in a tough spot. Hey buddy, congratulations, you're gonna start
cool who I got this week? You're gonna go on
the road and play Seattle, have fun. Have you seen
that defense? So like you like they could say whatever
they want about Well, no, it's not a wasted year,
and lo I, it's just one of those years. It's

(51:49):
just a down year. No, No, this year is different from
Minnesota because they told everybody, hey, we got it all
figured out. We have a plan and then all of
a sudden, the ball god stepped in and said, hey,
we're gonna go ahead and change your plan a little bit.
And they have no answer. So whether or not JJ
McCarthy can be the guy first, he's got to be

(52:11):
available second. As what we've seen in comparison to what's
been around and what you had around and what you
let go, this has been a full blown disaster for
the Vikings at the Jonas Knocks on x at Jonas
Knock Show on Instagram and again you can hang out
with us as always on the iHeartRadio app. Update from
the Big twelve Championship game Texas Tech four minutes and

(52:34):
change left to go up thirty four to seven over BYU.
So that is a wrap there for the Big twelve
Championship and we are off and running here on Conference
Championship weekend. All right, So apparently there's a Super Bowl
winning head coach whose job is in jeopardy and I'll

(52:58):
tell you who it is next. Boom touch us for
Jonas Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. By the way, we
are going to tell you about a game that on
paper looks like a complete waste of time, but I

(53:20):
will sell you on the storyline of that game coming
up here in a little over ten minutes from now
in the NFL, so we'll have that for you here.
You're also going to hear the final score of the
Big twelve Championship game from Isaac Longcron as well too,
coming up in about ten minutes from now. I mentioned
this earlier. You can get us on x at the
Jonas Knox You can also get us on Instagram at

(53:43):
Jonas Knox Show. In the IG Stories, I have posted
some of the insulting tweets that have been sent in
throughout the course of the show. I'll read a few
of those here for you if you don't mind. Rob
writes in leg crossing, f boy, leave the real sports
talk to actual men, not bleep beta bitch like you,
so you can stick with your group of bleep bags

(54:06):
breaking down your irrelevant team USA and FIFA, and now
it's the greatest event of all time, you bleep bleep.
JC writes in Hey c Gobbler, do I have to
do this every effing week? Get the f off the radio.
Don't you own a dog? Slap some crunchy peanut butter

(54:28):
on your bleep and let him bleep it off you
pansy asked beast reality loving zoophilia bleep choke on a bleep,
Dan writes in you bleep soy boy, bleep, get back
to crying and pms ing about your boy toy Lane

(54:49):
Kiffen leaving the LSU and how he lets you down
and how outraged about his betrayal you are you certified? Bleep?
Bill sends he's in a picture of Dracula and says, quote,
I'm assuming you have the blinds closed, pretty sonny out there.

(55:10):
He's right. Maddie writes in screw holiday time. Why are
we still hearing Jonas and his pompous, always sober sidekick
anchor both wasting our time on frat party stories and
Mexican restaurants. Hopefully in twenty twenty six, somewhat at Fox
Sports Radio will wake the f up hashtag I want

(55:30):
to puke. I don't know what Isaac did. Isaac, I'm
sorry that you caught astray there.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
I take issue with that. I actually have not always
been sober. My wife actually witnessed this that once we
had to walk home from a Glendale dive bar because
I was so inebriated. Now if you talk to her,
she will tell you that I only had one sip
and that we had actually walked there. But I'm still

(56:04):
sticking to my version of events. So Glendale dive Barja,
be honest with me. How many times on the way
home did.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
You hear it?

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (56:10):
Bro?

Speaker 2 (56:12):
No comments?

Speaker 1 (56:16):
Hey man, Hey, look love Armenians. Man, let me tell
you something. You want to talk about a passionate boxing
fan base. To go to a boxing match. When an
Armenian is fighting, it's the best, especially when they happen
to be fighting a Mexican fighter. The two clashes of

(56:38):
personalities there are really really funess, justly when there's a
couple of drinks involved. So there's that again. You can
see all of the unedited versions of all of those
tweets on the IG stories. Go to Jonas Knoxhaw on Instagram.
Click up there on the the little profile pick. They've
got all the you can read it all, you can
see it all, and you can understand and that it

(57:01):
is the holiday season and they are still giving us
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(57:23):
some speculation. I was making the point earlier that the
Raiders being in our TGFG Game of the Week against
the Broncos, who were fighting for the one seed and
going to win the AFC West, is really more of
an indictment on how bad the Raiders have been this year.

(57:43):
And I don't think anybody expected the Raiders to be
a playoff team, maybe a borderline playoff team at best,
But I think you expected that there would at least
be some sort of a calming of the waves, if
you will, Like, hey, listen, like, you know, let's calm
the water down a little bit here, all right, Let's
just you know, we just need somebody to stabilize the organization.

(58:05):
And maybe he's not the long term answer, but at
least we got somebody to stabilize the organization, and instead
they've been worse than before. Pete Carroll has been in
large part helping to make this team worse than they
were before, if we're being totally fair about this, because
Antonio Pierce was kind of the fall guy. Antonio Pierce

(58:27):
was kind of the well, listen, we got to move
on from Josh McDaniels and we'll bring in Antonio Pierce.
And then he was there for a little while. It's like, no,
now we got to move on. And then there was
the the Ben Johnson rumors that were out there that
the Raiders were, you know, going to land Ben Johnson,
and then it was it turns out that maybe Ben
Johnson and his agent sort of leveraged the Raiders to
get a better deal from the Bears. Like whatever you

(58:48):
want to but now that you look at the rosters,
why would Ben Johnson ever go take that job? Why?
There's good pieces with the Raiders, like Brock Bauers is awesome,
Max Crosby's awesome, Ashton Gent's got a lot of talent, Like,
there's good pieces there, but it's been a mess. And

(59:12):
according to Diana Rassini of the Athletic, the real issue
is that there's no direction and the conversations are you know,
maybe this is going to be a one and done
for Pete Carroll, like they're two and ten. They're awful.
And what makes it worse is that, as pointed out
in the article, yeah, there is no direction, Like one

(59:37):
raider anonymously told Diana Rossini, quote, I really don't know
what the plan is. I don't think anyone knows. Isn't
that kind of a bad sign when you've got a
Raider player saying I don't think anybody knows what the
plan is here, like what are we doing? And what
makes it even worse is the fact that Chip Kelly,

(59:58):
who's out the door. They decide we've got to move
on from Chip Kelly. We've got a fire offensive coordinators. Like, okay,
all right, you're gonna fire your offensive coordinator even though
you paid him six million dollars a year. Okay, okay, fine,
fair enough, you're gonna fire up. But then all of
a sudden, these reports start coming out about how bad
Chip Kelly was as an offensive coordinator and how he
didn't have the plays in right, and he didn't have
the formations lined up, and he didn't all of this

(01:00:20):
crap that came out after the fact, which just felt
like somebody inside the building, either Gino Smith or Pete
Carroll or others, were trying to save their own ass
and so the move they made was to fire the
offensive coordinator and then they buried him when he was gone.
Does that seem like somebody who stabilized things there, like

(01:00:43):
has calm the waters, somebody who's at least we've got
an idea of what's gonna happen next. You've got Raider
players talking to reporters saying, we don't know what's gonna happen.
We have no idea, we don't know what the plan is, Like, hey,
maybe they'll get a boost on offense because you know,
they fired the offensive coordinator and they sucked again. So yeah,

(01:01:07):
like the conversations being like, you know, maybe this is
a one and do I mean maybe it is? I
think that was the highlight of their season right there.
They'll play that on a loop at the postgame postseason
wrap up party. Like so yet, like, I think it's
very much on the table. They can make a change.
And is tom Brady going to be more involved in Rember?

(01:01:29):
By the way, you remember that laughable assumption that Tom
Brady was going to gather information from other teams and
give them a competitive advantage. Let's just pretend that that
was true. Let's just let's do a hypothetical here. Let's pretend.

(01:01:49):
Let's pretend Tom Brady was giving them secrets of his
meetings and conversations with other organizations around the league because
he was a broadcaster. Let's just assume that's the case.
If they're two and ten. Now, what would they have
been if it was all on the up and up?
You want to do that one? If I mean, Golding's preposterous.

(01:02:16):
They are awful. So yes, that is a real possibility.
Like this could be a one and done for Pete
Carroll because at worst, like if you were to look
at this and say, all right, we're not a good team.
Yeah we know, listen to the rosters. It's going to
take time we get all that, but at least we
know where on the right path. They don't even have that.

(01:02:39):
And now you've got people in the building saying, we
don't know what's going on. There is no plan, nothing's happening,
We have no direction. The only thing that we've gotten
is that the offensive coordinator we fired, apparently he was
giving away wrong plays and wrong formations. And that's why
our quarterback was struggling. Okay, well he did in this
past week and what happened. So yeah, the idea that

(01:03:01):
Pete Carroll, a Super Bowl winning head coach, could be
one and done with the Raiders is a real one
because it's done an awful job of trying to stabilize
an organization who desperately needed it at the Jonas Knocks
on X at Jonas Knock Show on Instagram, and he
can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, so coming up next here, we're going to
tell you about a game that you could court the

(01:03:23):
sort of scoff at or you could look at and go,
something's got to give, Something's got to give in a
very interesting matchup in the NFL this weekend. We'll have
that for you right here on FSR. But for all
the latest from around the world of sports. This man
stays sober, and this man knows Mexican restaurants better than

(01:03:47):
he knows Big Twelve Final scores. He's the one and
only Sir Isaac long Crown.

Speaker 7 (01:03:51):
Actually, coming up in mere moments, Jonas, we'll be having
a late breaking NFL locker room Rabbit update, so stay
tuned for that. But indeed we do begin with by
the way, that's that's canajo in Spanish rabbit. What'd you
say about my mama?

Speaker 1 (01:04:07):
Yeah, she's very good. Say you don't say that around
Lane Kiffin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
You're you're not joking about that.

Speaker 7 (01:04:17):
You could glean that alone from the tweets that he's
put out just today alone. I'm not exaggerating Big twelve
Big twelve Championship game in the books at AT and
T Stadium in Arlington. It started with number eleven BYU
jumping out to a seven to nothing lead over the
fourth ranked Texas Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
But after that all Red Raiders Horton.

Speaker 4 (01:04:37):
From the shotgun gona throw it right side, it's caught
by Akon.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
He stays in bouts heads out field.

Speaker 4 (01:04:42):
Of the ten touts back five touchdown Red Raiders that will.

Speaker 7 (01:04:46):
Do it the call on k t Tu Texas Tech
forced for BYU turnovers in a dominant thirty four to
seven victory. Coming up next to the top of the hour,
it's the SEC Championship game from Atlanta at number three
Georgia against ninth ranked Alabama. Then tonight at eight pm Eastern,
it'll be the Big Ten Championship game Number one Ohio State,

(01:05:10):
number two Indiana. In college basketball today, Tenth ranked Iowa
State want at number one, per due by twenty three,
eighty one to fifty eight. That tied for the worst
home loss ever by a top ranked team. Fourth ranked
Duke Victorious at number seven Michigan State sixty six to sixty.
Right now, sixth ranked Louisville of forty four to twenty

(01:05:33):
nine over number twenty two Indiana, they are a minute
and a half into the second half.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
And with that in mind, a.

Speaker 7 (01:05:40):
Shout out to the legendary Don Fisher, the voice of
the Indiana Hoosiers. As we speak, mister Fisher, who is
seventy nine years old, is calling the Indiana Louisville basketball game,
and tonight he will also be calling, of course, the
Big Ten Championship game in foot ball against Iowa State.

(01:06:01):
So seven or nine year old Don Fisher a shout
out to him. He'll be pulling off the doubleheader. Hopefully
he'll have time to stop by the stake and shake
in downtown Indianapolis.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
Or eight.

Speaker 7 (01:06:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry, so fort you no no finish, I'm sorry, no,
no you go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:06:18):
I was trying to time that I missed time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
That's my Oh you know, even Sinatra missed a note
once in a while.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
That is true, not much else. So So here's here's
my question for you. He's doing it at seventy nine.
How long do you want to be a play by
play guy for? Like, how long do you want to
do this whole?

Speaker 7 (01:06:35):
I'm not exaggerating literally to like literally till I keel over.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
I'm with you, man, Yeah, I mean, it's that fun. Now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:44):
I don't necessarily want it to literally happen that way
because a very prominent famous broadcaster literally passed away in
the booth. I don't want that literally to happen. Oh yeah,
who is that again, Harry Killis.

Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:07:01):
But from a timing standpoint, he did have the good
sense to do it the opening day following the Phillies
winning the World Series. I mean, you want to talk
about going out on top, I mean and and chick
Hern went out that way. You know, the Lakers completed
the three peat and that was his last broadcast. So
I'm just saying, but you know, yeah, look, I'm with you.

Speaker 1 (01:07:23):
I had a guy, the great Tony Dsiri, my old
radio partner in South Carolina, who said, he's like, you
know what I want to do when I retire from
doing sports radio. I was like, what's that? He goes,
I just want to like be a play by play
guy for like a minor league baseball team in some
small town somewhere. Oh. Sure, he goes like, that's that's

(01:07:44):
my Oh, that's what I want to do for a retirement.
Is a bad or like high school football or He's so,
that's what I want to do. It's a great. Oh
my god, how much fun that would be. Absolutely, By
the way, i'd been half in the bag every single game,
only half, I would make Harry Carey look more by
the time of the stuff, well we have.

Speaker 7 (01:08:02):
We have brought up Harry Carey's a drinking log on
this program, which is an actual literal thing. Before so
our final item in the NFL, here's your NFL locker
room rabbit update, Jonas.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
I'm not making this up.

Speaker 7 (01:08:16):
The defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles coming off back
to back losses against the Cowboys and Bears in demoralizing
fashion today, I'm not making this up. They have placed
an enormous, inflatable bunny in their locker room clad in
a bow tie and overalls that they have dubbed the

(01:08:39):
Positivity Rabbit unquote, So the positivity rab I'm not making
any of this up. The Positivity Rabbit, the latest weapon
of choice and free agent acquisition by the defending Super
Bowl champion Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Back to you, I don't I don't really, I don't
really get it. Let's go live to our I have
something on the rabbit inside or Chris Purfet for the
latest Chris Isaac.

Speaker 9 (01:09:05):
I don't know if you notice this too, but it
has a sign that says Happy Easter.

Speaker 7 (01:09:09):
Yeah, that kind of you know, from a calendar standpoint.
I mean, you would have think they could have somehow
found a way to like not inflate that portion of it,
because it kind of loses the context. He also appears
to be holding something that looks like a microphone.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
Is most it's a paintbrush. I think it's a paintbrush.

Speaker 7 (01:09:25):
No, I was gonna say it looks like a cigar,
which is kind of you know, I'm pretty sure it's
supposed to be a paintbrush painting the sign that says
Happy Easter.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
But I think, all right, yeah, it could be.

Speaker 1 (01:09:36):
I mean, is there anything to the fact that it
was the the Eagles fans who threw snowballs of Santa Claus.
And they're like, well, like, moulde be kind of hypocritical
if we had Santa up there, so's blow up in
Easter Bunny.

Speaker 9 (01:09:49):
Maybe same vibe, So snowballs at the Easter Bunny next
is what we're hearing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:53):
I mean, I mean, you want to talk about a juxtaposition.
You have in the background literally the logos from the
two Super Bowl championships that they've won in the last
eight years, and they literally are flanking the ears of
this enormous inflated positivity.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
Rabbits.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
Yeah, it feels like a bit much, to be honest
with you. And by the way, rabbits are pretty overrated.
Like we used to have rabbits as like pets, and
I don't know what they did, Like what you what
do they do? Oh? I think I know what.

Speaker 2 (01:10:22):
They spend a lot of time doing.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Well, yeah, I mean I know that obviously. And by
the way, if you see one, I mean they're like rats,
just step on the gas like not even like if
one's running across the street, Like, don't worry about it.
There's plenty more whe that came from Geez. I'm just
saying it's it's like a penny in a fountain. It's like,
oh and I got to get that one. There's plenty
more in there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Like could be said about people in sports, socc radio.

Speaker 1 (01:10:44):
I'm just saying that's I mean, that's fair, that's fair.
But I mean, we live in California. They did build
a route for Mountain Lions to crossover so they didn't
get hit by cars.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Baby, Oh my god. Or P twenty two or P
ninety X, I don't know, Yeah, more.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Like P one eighty seven. Who cares?

Speaker 4 (01:11:04):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:11:06):
If you're a member of PETE, at the Jonas Knox
on X and at Jonas Knox Show on Instagram is
where you can find find all of the content that
would be suitable for you. Now, we are going to
have another edition of Knox Locks coming up here in
about we'll call it ten minutes from now. I did
want to point this out that one of the easy
things to do would when we hand out our thank

(01:11:29):
oud for gambling Game of the Week. One of the
easy selections because we did go with Broncos Raiders, as
we talked about earlier, because the Raiders are so bad,
and the Broncos just aren't very fun to watch. But
one of the the games that would be the easy
choice would be the Jets and the Dolphins, right because
I mean, because both of them qull, I mean, they
both meet the criteria, they're both not good. And let's

(01:11:51):
be honest, if you got tickets to that game, you're
probably not going so like unless you've got money on it,
what's really the point. But let me just tell you
about a something's got to give scenario in this game
to a tongue of Iloa, who, by the way, if
I have this correct, according to Pro Football Reference, which

(01:12:13):
Pro Football Reference just comes up with all sorts of
nicknames for everybody in the NFL, apparently, to a tug
of Iloa's nickname is the Samoan Sniper, which is awesome.
But I've never heard literally anybody call him that ever anywhere. Like,
I've never heard any like, nobody from the Great Saint
Louis High School in Honolulu, nobody at Alabama, nobody with that.

(01:12:37):
I've never heard one person ever call to a tug
of Iloa the Samoan Sniper ever at all one time.
But apparently the Pro Football Reference that's his nickname, but
nonetheless to a tug of iloa.

Speaker 5 (01:12:50):
All Right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
He is zero to seven in games under forty six
degrees in the NFL. All right, it's expected to be
forty degrees at kickoff between the Jets and the Dolphins
coming up tomorrow, and you're thinking, man Tua is screwed.

(01:13:14):
He's also six and zero games he started against the Jets,
So something's got to give, all right. Either he's going
to freeze his balls off or he's going to go
out and actually be the Samoan sniper like he always
is against the New York Jets. So if you're looking
for a storyline and maybe the worst game of the
week in the NFL, there it is. We've done our

(01:13:34):
part at the Jonas Knox on AX. Up next here,
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(01:13:54):
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here on FSR. But right now, it is time for
something we do every single week. It's time for this. Hey,

(01:14:58):
lock it, let's lotch this Knox lucks. All right, so
let's take a look back at last week. All right,
last week Texans Colts. If you've been watching Indianapolis, it
just hasn't looked the same. There's just and whether it's
Daniel Jones being Daniel Jones, or whether it's Daniel Jones

(01:15:19):
who's got a broken leg or whatever they're calling it now,
it just they haven't looked the same. I took the
Houston Texans plus the three and a half. That was
easy money. Houston's a team nobody wants to deal with
at this point in time. So I took Houston plus
the three and a half. That was a win. Also
got a win. I wasn't so much a bet against
Minnesota as it was a bet on against Minnesota. In

(01:15:41):
that spot, Max Brosmer, who was making his first career start.
He was going to Seattle against the Seahawks. Seattle't even
play that well on offense, but I like Seattle. It
was a big line. It was eleven and a half,
but that was covering easy, and it looked like it
was going to very early in that game, the one
game we lost by a damn half point. The hook,

(01:16:03):
as they call it, because the hook will always get you, right,
the hook is always gonna get you. So if you're
walking the streets, to Vegas. Keep that in mind, but
the hook always gets you. Buccaneers minus three and a
half against the Cardinals, the damn half point Jacoby Brissett
with a touchdown. The Bucks couldn't get a stop when
they needed to. They won the game, but not the

(01:16:25):
way we needed him to. So it was that damn
half point. The cost is a perfect week. So we
finished two and one on the week. In Week thirteen,
it puts us at twenty one seventeen and one on
the season. And now it's time.

Speaker 4 (01:16:38):
For this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
Steelers and Ravens. I want to say this upfront. I
don't feel great about any of these picks, right, I
really don't feel great about any of these picks, But
you gotta make picks, all right. I'm gonna go with
Pittsburgh gear, and I'm going with Pittsburgh because they're getting
six points. Look, I know Aaron Rodgers is not healthy.
I know it's late in the year and it looks
like he's sort of hit a wall and whether you

(01:17:02):
want to call that just the wall in the year
the wall in the season. But there's been a lot
of noise about Mike Tomlin's job. There's been a lot
of noise there. The idea that Baltimore, though, should be
a six point favorite in this game doesn't really make
sense to me for the simple fact that Lamar Jackson's
not healthy. They can try and tell you whatever they
want about Lamar Jackson and he's on the injury report

(01:17:23):
and now he's off and Jim, if you've watched Lamar
Jackson this year, there's something going on. He's not healthy.
I don't think he's been healthy the entire season, outside
maybe the first week of the season. Lamar Jackson doesn't
look right. So the idea that Baltimore being a six
point favorite and a rivalry game a must win for
both teams because you're not getting a wildcard team out

(01:17:44):
of that division. I'm sorry, whoever wins that division is
going to be the team. They're going to see each
other twice over a short period of time. I like
Pittsburgh here getting the six points. I don't think they'll
win the game, but I think getting six points is
the spot here. Give me the Steelers, Bears and Packers again,
rivalry game, division potentially on the line. The idea that

(01:18:09):
Green Bay is a seven point favorite in this spot,
I just don't like it. I think green Bay wins
the game. Green Bay was my Super Bowl pick. But
the way the Bears are on the football, the way
they control the clock, the way they've gotten turnovers at
the clip that they've gotten this year, I think Chicago
goes into green Bay. They played If people forget this,
they played them real close last year in both games.

(01:18:31):
It wasn't just the last game that they won. They
played them real tight in a game earlier in the
season in Chicago. I think we're looking at a game
that is a lot closer than the seven point spread
that they've got it at in most places. I'm gonna
take the Bears here getting the points, much like I
did the Steelers. I took Eagles and Chargers. If we're
being honest, no team got embarrassed more in Week thirteen

(01:18:56):
than the Philadelphia Eagles. And it was on Blackfry for
a lot of people to watch who were putting up
decorations or decorating the Christmas tree like we were, and
the Chicago Bears ran through them at will. They completely
clowned them. And if you don't think that there's some
Super Bowl champion pride in the building there to bounce

(01:19:20):
back from getting exposed the way they did in front
of everybody last week. There is in Philly. The Chargers
have got Justin Herbert banged up. Philly's a two and
a half point favorite. I think they go on the
road quote quote unquote to the world's largest gazebo Sofi
Stadium and Philly gets it done. I like the Eagles
minus two and a half. And that is your Week

(01:19:41):
fourteen edition of Knox Long Knocks. I'm gonna go own three.
I know it. By the way, Thanks to Bo Benz
and thanks to Chris Burfett, Thanks to Isaac Lohnkron. This
is Jonas Knox. Thanks for hanging out with us always
here on Fox Sports Radio. Soonas Son of a Bitch.

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