Jonas Knox talks Jets, World Series, Aaron Rodgers, and more!

Jonas Knox talks about the state of the New York Jets, the Blue Jays big win over the Dodgers in Game 1 of the World Series, the NBA's gambling issues, Aaron Rodgers comments about playing against the Packers this weekend, and much more! 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A better stop. Jonas Knocks, you thought you knew me.
You didn't know a thing about me.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
He's crazier than a else.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Wrecked that guy, Jonas Knocks, you heard me.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The brain, some darkness is lighting up your speakers to
establish an alibi for the day. Now, live from the
Fox Sports Radio studios, here's Jonas Knox.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
YEP.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
So okay, I'll be part of this world. You know,
there's some people that are really skilled at one thing

(00:48):
and not another, and then there's other people that are
really skilled nothing. We'll get into that coming up here,
just a couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox, Fox
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making us a part of your Saturday, we appreciate you
doing so, as you are a part of this two
hour extravaganza here on a wonderful Saturday morning into the afternoon,
or on podcast wherever you are listening. And I was
thinking about this because you'll see this occasionally, especially when
a celebrity throws out a first pitch, like you'll see

(01:31):
a celebrity throw out a first pitch and you're like,
my god, have you ever thrown a baseball before? Like
what was that? Like remember fifty cent? There was a
lot of people that thought fifty cent did it intentionally.
It's like damn, like how Connor McGregor. Connor McGregor threw
out the first pitch and it was awful And you're

(01:53):
looking at that going you're Connor McGregor, like you can't
throw a baseball. I said, well, you know he grew
up in Ireland, Okay, but like you're caught like you
can't throw a baseball. But then you come to find
out like, yeah, well some people are really good at
some things and maybe not good at another. Like Condor
McGregor may not be able to throw a baseball, but

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damn that dude could fight. And it's not even just
why he's a grappler and he's no, no, no, no, Like
you watch his striking, like his striking is phenomenal, Like
that is an athlete, Like that is a coordinated, skilled assassin.
He's really good, just can't throw a baseball. Some people

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are good at one thing but they're not good in another.
And then you get other people that aren't good at anything,
and that's the New York Jets. The New York Jets
have done it again, folks. This is an amazing, amazing
thing because look, so I know what you're thinking, Well,

(02:58):
you know, maybe the Jets are just like a bad
football team and a bad organization, but maybe there's some
things they do well. Like there's been bad teams in
the NFL before. You know that for whatever reason. The Bears,
for example, the Bears can always figure it out on defense.
They can always draft linebackers, they can always figure out
that side of the ball. They just can't figure out

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the quarterback for whatever reason, they just have that's just
not their thing. Now you're hopeful maybe things have turned around,
but there's just there's some organizations just can't figure that out.
They can't. The San Antonio Spurs know how to figure
out the center position. David Robinson, Tim Duncan, whether you

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want to call him power forward or not, but you
want to figure like, find a team that can develop
a big man, draft a big man like the Spurs,
and whether it's luck because they're in the draft like whatever,
the draft lottery, whatever it is, the San Antonio Spurs
have got that figured out. They've got that on lock.
The Jets don't have anything on lock, like literally nothing.

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And the proof of that is the fact that Justin
Fields is now starting this weekend. Yeah, yeah, Justin Fields
is starting this weekend, right. So basically what that means
is that the Jets can't even get a quarterback benching, right.
They can't even do that, right, Like Justin Fields was

(04:29):
thrown under the bus and then backed over and rolled
over again by his owner publicly all of the speculations started.
Yet they're gonna be making a quarterback change, like yeah,
Torod Taylor's gonna be the guy. He's gonna be. He's
gonna be your quarterback. But listen Aaron Glenn playing at
cooy all right yesterday he listened here. He just you know,

(04:50):
wanted to, you know, do his own version of Connor
McGregor kind of stand in the pocket, you know, box
a little bit, throw hands with the media. Let's take
a listen to the Jets head coach exchan change with
the media yesterday. It was a game today, Tyron.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
He is limited all right today, and he is questionable.
And I like the way those guys are trended.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
So are you able to tell us who's gonna I
cannot tell you that. But is it because you don't
want to?

Speaker 4 (05:17):
Because that's exactly its situation and question is that paid
this potentially? That's exactly why I'm not telling you because
I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
I understand that, But I mean, is it? Is it
partly because of the injuries?

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Exactly why I'm saying it because I don't want to.
I don't know how many times I got to answer
you that it's not gonna change.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
Do you do how virus that's gonna be between many players? Coach?
I have a follow up, What do you guys do?

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Do you do anything good? Like? Is it like does
anybody there have a skill that you go, you know
what You're pretty good at that? Like, like does anybody
have like, hey, you know? As an organization And this
is not not so much the players, all right, not
talking about the players. These are these are the best
of the bunch. Like these like these are phenomenal football players, athletes.
They do something I couldn't do a ninety nine point

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nine percent of the public could do. But the Jets
is an organization. I just have a follow up, coach,
what do you guys, do well, do you do anything well?
Because you can't even get a quarterback benching right, your
owners stepped on the gas this week and bury Justin Fields.

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You were so open minded to the discussion that it
was like, well, you know, I listen, I want to
keep my competitive advantage. I want to get And as
it turns out, well, no, the other guy that reportedly
was going to get the start, he's not even healthy
enough to go. So the quarterback that you signed this
off season because the previous one you didn't want any

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part of the quarterback you gave that thirty million dollars
to that you do less than two months in think
about it. People aren't even trick or treating, and Justin
Fields has been buried by the organization. And now because
the other guy that was going to get the start
can't even go because he's not healthy enough, now you're

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gonna have to go back to Justin Field and say,
hey man, you mind mine giving us a good game
this weekending in Cincinnati against another quarterback that we also
probably should have keptain let go. They can't do anything right. Look,
there's nothing they do right. And Justin Field is looking

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around and going okay, I'm sure. Yeah, let me, let
me go out and give it a go again. I mean,
is the only gonna be watching. I mean we've never
actually spoken other than you know, maybe a couple of
weeks ago he said high or whatever. I mean, it's
his money. He gave me all that money. And then
you hear the reports this week to where there's already

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the finger pointing where it was GM Darren Moogie who
apparently wanted to keep Rogers that Aaron Glenn didn't. Woody
Johnson is out there. It is a circus tent and
there's always a performance every single fall, Like, hey, you
guys bored, what do you want to do? I don't know,
Let's go to the circus. It's too cold out. No,

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it's not just go to MetLife. Jets are plane cold out?
Come on, come on. They don't do anything right. So
let's go ahead and stack this on top of everything
else that's gone wrong with the organization. All right, So
let's go ahead, let's let's let's just stack all this

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up together, all right. So they clearly can't identify head coaches. Clearly,
because they got rid of Robert Sala, they had to
make the move to Aaron Glenn Woody Johnson's back and
his guy and all that, and I totally get it. Listen,
that's fine, but clearly they can't do that. They don't
even know how to handle fans because apparently Fireman Ed

(09:04):
is nowhere to be found. Maybe he's back, but maybe
he's not. Of all the places that gets criticized the
most when it comes to their field conditions, it's usually
the Jets and the Giants because of MetLife and the
turf and how many injuries it's caused. And then apparently
when it comes to quarterbacks, not only can they not
identify talent when they have it, case in point, Sam

(09:26):
Darnold or Aaron Rodgers or Joe Flacco or you know,
just kind of run down the list of quarterbacks that
have been not only can they not have identified talent
when they have it, they don't even know when to
bench it, when to not bench it, or who's going
to start if you do bench somebody, or whether or
not somebody's healthy. Job well done. The New York Jets

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have pulled off the impossible. While some people are good
at one thing and not good at anything else and
vice versa, the Jets aren't good at anything. So congratulations
you've done it yet again. Snox here Fox Sports Radio.
I will say this about the World Series. Last night's result.
It might be the only win the Blue Jays get.

(10:09):
I don't think so. I think this is gonna go
a little bit longer than maybe Dodgers fans want to hear.
But I will say this, you did need that result, Okay,
you needed that result. You needed to keep the interest
going for as long as possible, like you need this
to go. I mean at least five games six games
seven would be ideal, but you needed to keep this

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going a little bit longer. Okay. The last thing baseball
needed was for the Dodgers to dormat somebody else.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Right.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
You had the Brewers show up. They're always pretenders. Their
World Series was beating the Cubs. That tells you everything
you need to know about that organization. And then the
Dodgers wait around and wait around and wait around, and
Toronto gets into the World Series. You needed that result
last night. You got to keep people's interests for longer.
You got to keep them hanging around for longer, give

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them hope. Ultimately probably going to go the side of
the Dodgers, but give them hope and give baseball fans
hope that it's not a fore gone conclusion every time
the Dodgers take the field. You needed that it was
the ideal outcome. And again, whether or not that impacts
what happens in game two, three, four, it could be
the Dodgers running the next four games and we're out

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of here in a week. But the result that took
place last night, the one inning explosion for Toronto Otani
getting a home run. Baseball needed that, Baseball fans needed that.
You needed something to keep people's interest a little bit longer.
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio and by the way,
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on today. We've got our TGFG Game of the Week

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that'll be happening later on this hour. We've also got
another edition of Do You Care, which is always a
fun segment because we like to point out some of
the flaws with some of the storylines that are out
there in the world of sports. Throughout the course of
the week. We're also going to have another edition of
Knox Locks in honor of the NBA, because we know
they like gambling as much as they do. All of
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Be sure to select Fox Sports Radio is one of
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at the top of your screen. When the NBA's betting
scandal popped up on Thursday, what a what a sensation
that was just a rush of emotions feeling really validated
about a story that we did and discussed on this

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show a little while back, because I remember, you know,
kind of mentioning an NBA story and people were like,
oh my god, football season's coming up while you talking
about the NBA. Why is this you know, et cetera,
et cetera, And it was the Terry Rogier story. And
I remember making a point at the time like, well, look,
this investigation is still going on. The NBA is in ESPN.

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Are trying to tell you, oh no, listen not you know,
the case was dismissed, Terry Rogier has been cleared, and
Chris Haynes was reported like no he hasn't. What are
you talking about? And then as it comes to find out, no, yeah,
like there was, yeah, there was, there was a lot there.
As it turns out, the NBA knew about it in
real time, Terry Roseier didn't play the rest of the year.

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And my point at listen, and it's not to criticize
the gamblers. God knows, I'm a gambler. I mean, it's
not to criticize them. Those are my people. I've said
it before. First email address I ever had my life
was to open up an online gambling account like full disclosure.
So it's not to criticize them. Like, hey, listen, you

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guys want to go gamble, Go gamble, Johntay Porter, Let's
hang out, man, who do you like in the Bears
Ravens game tomorrow? Let's talk Calvin Ridley, the people's wide receiver.
I'm in like, I defended the players that the NFL
said couldn't walk through a casino when the Super bowls
in Vegas a couple of years ago. I'm like, hold
on a second, what is you know, Kyle Yuschek playing

(16:02):
at the penny slots have anything to do with the game, Like,
who cares? So I have defended a lot of these kids,
But like the Terry Roseier stuff, I made the point
at the time. I was like, look, man, you're betting
the unders in these games. It's accessible. It's probably not
that hard to do to get information like that. It

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was very obvious that there was something going on. He
didn't play the rest of the year, and he wasn't
on any injury report during the game before the game
after they it just like he didn't play in it.
As it turns out, the NBA was notified about the
irregularities when it came to the betting on that game.
They sat him the rest of the year, but then
they let him play the next year. It's like, oh,
well they didn't find enough evidence. Okay, well then why

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wasn't he cleared? Because, as Chris Haynes reported, he wasn't cleared.
ESPN was real like, I know, we don't know how
to Like when the story first came out, they weren't
quite sure how to handle it. And it's like, dude,
like there's like the way that this makes people uncomfortable
is comical to me because none of it surprises me,

(17:11):
just like it doesn't surprise me when another guy tests
positive for steroids years later, after all the steroids scandals
we've had. There's going to be people out there that
are going to try and cut corners and cheat the system.
There always is. Why do you think prisons in jails
are full? Do you think it's just because people had
nothing to do that weekend? Oh, they committed crimes most

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of us, don't they do. Like, it's just it's it's
pretty simple. But my favorite part about this whole thing
is the idea that well, I mean, huh, you know,
got to get rid of all of it. I mean,
they shouldn't have access to this. I mean that's where

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it starts. It's their faulty, it's their fault, and the
usual suspects are pushing that narrative. The usual suspects, Mike
Florio and the user, they're all pushing the narrative. Oh well,
I mean it's their fault. No, no, no, no, it's not their fault.
It's the people that make bad decisions fault. They're the
ones to blame. If you don't think I'm telling the truth,

(18:18):
if you think I'm just you know, spitting a bunch
of crap and not being reasonable, let's listen to somebody
make the most rationable reasonable statement regarding this whole issue.
Draymond Green.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I'm not going to sit here and be like man, y'all,
partner with a gambler company open a can of worms
like that can of worms can be open with partner
with gamblet companies or not. You know, partner with gablin
companies ain't make gambling more accessible to us. The accessibility
is what it is.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
Round of applause for Draymond Green. That's right, one hundred percent,
one hundred percent DraftKings be involved has nothing to do
with Johntay Porter and Terry Rosier and Chauncey Billups and
Damon Jones giving inside information about tanking and point spreads

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and over unders and availability to play to gamblers. It
has nothing to do with it. Everybody has access to it, everybody.
What's the old adage a hammer? It can either be
a tool or a weapon. How do you choose it?

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Those guys treated that as a weapon, most other people
treated as a tool. Gambling companies being involved in sports
have nothing to do with guys making dumb decisions. I'm sorry. Sorry,

(19:52):
Just like when somebody gets popped for drunken driving, guess
what I'm not doing picketing outside a liquor store that
they should shut it down. No, As a matter of fact,
I'm more likely to walk in and take it home
than I am to ask for somebody to shut it down.
You shouldn't feel bad because some moron gets behind the

(20:12):
wheel of a car when he's intoxicated. It shouldn't make
you go, well, god, I'll go put this eighteen pack
back right now. Like, no, it's not your fault and
it's not your problem. It's not the gambling company's problem
that they're involved, and now players can't help themselves. Dude,

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you got choices, There are choices. You can make those choices.
I got news for you. If you're married and you
see a rocket ship who's showing interest in you, you
don't have to cheat. I don't know if anybody knows Saturday,
you don't have to. You can't keep your trousers on,

(20:53):
believe it or not. But this idea, they'll like, oh
my god, like, look, you're right, what do you expect
things like this are going to pop up? True? But
this idea that, oh well, I mean, we've got to
get rid of the thread altogether. I mean, why even
let stop? That has nothing to do with their poor

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decisions DraftKings giving you an opportunity to bet on Terry
Rogier over unders for points, rebounds assists has nothing to
do with Chauncey Billups wearing X ray glasses. They can
see whether or not you're holding a queen or a jack. Okay,
it's got nothing to do with it at all whatsoever.

(21:37):
But as I've said before the real issue is you
got a bunch of gambling virgins who cover this stuff
for sports now they cover this stuff. They've never been
around the world, they've never actually placed a bet. They
have no idea how that works. They want to take
the money when it comes in and then say, oh, well,

(21:59):
upon further review, this is a bad idea. No, no, no,
it's a great idea. In fact, every state should legalize
sports betting, every single one. It's a great idea. It's
a tremendous idea. Everybody should allow you. You should have
the ability. As Draymond Green pointed out, he even said
it himself. Look, man, this is America. You have the choices.

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You have choices that you can make. That's the great
thing about our country. You just hope that you make
the right choices. You hope you make the best choices possible.
These guys didn't. Has nothing to do with gambling companies
being involved. It's got nothing to do with it. There
are bad apples at every bunch. Like. You don't just

(22:42):
throw everything out because a couple of guys make a
bad decision. You don't. There was a lot of other
people that played in that game, Hornets Pelicans, which, by
the way, if you watch that game or you bet
it on a Thursday night, personally, I think you should
keep that money. Okay, I think you should get to
keep that money. I mean, let's like, look, if we're
trying to generate interest, this is how you do it.

(23:03):
But gambling company is getting involved. Just stop and I
got news for you. Much like steroids, something like this
is gonna pop up again. So what are you gonna do? Say, huh, well,
there's proof, there's proof we got to get rid of it. No, no, no,
there's proof that there's still people that behave like scumbacks
from time to time. Everybody tells you don't drive drunk,

(23:24):
don't steal, don't kill, don't like all these things are known.
Ninety nine percent of us don't do that. But it
doesn't mean some people won't. It doesn't mean to say
like you're just gonna stop the problem altogether. Well, isn't
this a little awkward, Like we're criticizing these guys for

(23:45):
doing this, and then we're announcing that this show is
sponsored by DraftKings. No, it's not awkward at all. As
a matter of fact, it's not. No, it's actually not.
If there's a drunken fight at a football game and
somebody's sitting across the stadium that has nothing to do
with it. Should they dump out their margarita because two

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guys are throwing down. It's not their problem, it's not
their fault. Some people can handle it, some people can't.
Those guys couldn't handle it. Majority of us can. Jonas
Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knox on
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Jonas Knox Show coming up next here, we are going

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to hand out an award on this show. We do
it every single Saturday. It is yours right here on FSR.
But for all the latest from around the world of sports.
Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise for a man who,
if I could, I'd bet on him. Give me whatever
prop you want now, I'd go heavy on the one

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and only Sir Isaac Longron.

Speaker 6 (24:51):
Our first item is and I was going to rip
Jonas Knox, but instead wound up with egg on my face.
Update you ready, Yeah, during your last soliloquy about this
whole sports gambling thing, you use the word rationable, and
I was about to jump all over you and rip

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you saying that rationable is not a word. But it
turns out the joke was on me and all of
your haters, because rationable is a word. And get this,
It was first used in the thirteenth century in a
textbook by famous medieval French surgeon on Re Demandeville. So

(25:40):
you are apparently playing chess while the rest of us
are playing checkers.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
How about that thirteenth century, all these years later. Huh?
By the way, Lebby, you think so that means he
would be a fan of the show. Whoever that guy
is on Rie Demandeville, on Ree Davondeville Demande. Yeah. Whatever.
If his name was Devondeville, he would have been a
better surgeon, by the way.

Speaker 6 (26:05):
You see, you want to talk about a rough gig
surgeon in the thirteenth century.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Man, let me look this guy. How do you spell
his last name?

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Real quick?

Speaker 1 (26:13):
I just want to get peeking out loud.

Speaker 6 (26:15):
Yeah, well, come on, Henri de Mondeville m O N
D E V I L l E. You should see
some of the illustrations from his French tax piece.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
What has he got like a plunger on some guy's head? No,
i'd be very erotic.

Speaker 7 (26:34):
Well, I'll just take your word for it on that.

Speaker 6 (26:36):
But the picture I'm looking for, you know, the guy
who he appears to be performing brain surgery on is
kneeling in front of him that appears to be wide awake.
I'm telling you you thought quarterback for the New York
Jets was a rough gig. Try to be a surgeon
in the thirteenth century. Actually it had plugged be more
difficult to be a patient for a surgery in the
thirteenth century.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
This looks like that scene at the jewelry store in
pulp fiction.

Speaker 7 (27:00):
Unfamiliar.

Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh well, it looks just like that. I'll tell you that,
all right.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Well, that's what retweeting is for. I'm just saying, speaking
of the Jets day, it wasn't a jewelry store.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
It was a h It was like a used items store.
You could buy and sell used items. Okay, yeah, listen
Z's basement whatever.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
All right, Well, we will have our research staff look
into that staff.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Okay, I'd like for you to look into that, Isaac
and look up that scene. I'm looking at an reed Demandeville.

Speaker 7 (27:26):
I can only do so many things at once.

Speaker 6 (27:28):
Speaking of the New York Jets, they've ruled out quarterback
ty to Rod Taylor for Sunday's game at Cincinnati because
of a knee injury.

Speaker 7 (27:34):
Justin Fields will start at quarterback.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
The Baltimore Ravens shop, that's what it was.

Speaker 7 (27:37):
Oh okay, All's coming back to me now.

Speaker 6 (27:40):
The Baltimore Ravens today officially ruled out Lamar Jackson for
Tomorrow's game against the Bears. Hill miss this third straight
game with the hamstring injury. Tyler Hunting will start at quarterback.
The New York Giants just ruled out safety Javon Holland
for tomorrow's game at Philadelphia because of a knee injury.
And college football Number two Indiana leading UCLA forty two
to three, six fifteen and counting for the third quarter.

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Seventh ranked Georgia Tech up twenty seven to ten over
Syracuse eight twenty, incounting for the third quarter. There Eighth
ranked All Miss leading twenty five to twenty at Number
thirteen Oklahoma four fifty two, remaining of a fourth quarter.
Number sixteen Virginia and North Carolina remained tied at ten
forty five seconds into the fourth quarter. Coming up tonight

(28:23):
at eight Eastern Game two of the World Series from Toronto.
After the Blue Jays drew first blood with an eleven
to four win over the Dodgers on Friday night in
Game one. And finally along those lines, Jonas, we have
a World Series Grand Slam pullout couch update. Turns out
that Toronto's Addison Barger, who's pinchhit Grand Slam, of course

(28:45):
broke open the game, spent the night before Game one
as well as last night, sleeping on teammate Davis Schneider's
pullout couch. Here's Schneider with the details.

Speaker 8 (28:57):
Like his family's coming in, became in night and so
like he needed me or needed someone and then stay
with me last my girlfriend's here. So like he was like,
I'm sleep in the bed with you guys, And I
was like, no, sleep on my couch. He didn't sleep
in the poll it's a pull out. Yeah, yeah, but
it was squeaking all night, Like.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Is the most uncomfortable. Yeah, imagine, it was so funny.

Speaker 8 (29:16):
Just I looked over and I just see him just
sleeping there and in the middle of the night, and
he's a head case, but he's funny.

Speaker 6 (29:22):
For a breakdown, we go to Fox Sports Radio pull
out couch insider Jonas Knox.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
Jonas back to you, be careful that you word that
we both have kids, so that would be inaccurate. But
I would say this, uh huh, I would say this.
I disagree with the reporter who said pull out mattresses
are the most uncomfortable, because the most comfortable mattress I
was just actually just telling my wife about this. The
most comfortable comfortable mattress I've ever had in my life

(29:49):
was on a futon that I had no kidding, Yeah,
a futon mattress. I slept so good on that thing.
It was so comfortable that sometimes I didn't even like
extend the futon out to make it a bed. I
just slept in it like it was a couch. Interesting, Yeah,
really really comfortable.

Speaker 6 (30:04):
You know, my oldest had a futon in his room
and he kind of was the same way.

Speaker 7 (30:09):
And by the way, I have no idea how that
is it?

Speaker 6 (30:12):
Like this in your house, do you have things that
randomly appear in your house that like your kids or
your wife are just in your house and you have
no idea how they got there.

Speaker 1 (30:22):
Yeah, like Thanksgiving decorations that we don't need those, like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
there's a lot. Yeah. It's like like when whenever my
wife says she's going to hobby lobby or she's going
to you know, home goods. I know what that means
that I'm gonna stumble into something that wasn't here before
she left. She can't help herself, literally can't help herself.

(30:45):
And it's not to knock those stores, but like, come on, man,
like do we really need like another pumpkin that when
you open the top it plays you know, autumn, you know,
coffee shop music. Like it's just like, what are we
doing here?

Speaker 3 (30:58):
Like?

Speaker 1 (30:59):
But she she like those things. But yeah, man, and
we're thinking about getting my son a futon. Just talking
about yesterday. Look, and people say what they want about
a futon, It like it comes in handy. You want
a couch, you got a couch. You want a bed,
You've got a bed. Like it does it does multiple
things if you don't have a lot of space. I
like futons, man, big futon guy.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
You're a delightful husband and father.

Speaker 1 (31:21):
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(31:42):
Do You Care coming up less than ten minutes from now.
But right now it is time in honor of the
NBA to hand out our TGFG game of the Week,
our thank God for Gambling Game of the Week. And
it goes to Tighten and said colds, and so we
got to give the Tennessee Titans all the credit here.

(32:02):
They are really carrying the load. They're really carrying the
duty here of the thank God for Gambling Game of
the Week, because let's be honest, if not for gambling,
why are you gonna watch this game? I mean, like
whether it's fantasy football, whether you got money on the game.
The Indianapolis Colts right now, as it stands, are the
best team in the NFL. Like people could say whatever

(32:22):
they want about them. They are not fake. They are
a for real team. They're getting excellent quarterback play and
they look like the goods and they're going to run
away with that division. Okay, but the fact that the
Colts are taking on the Titans at this point Tennessee's
already fired their head coach. They've got a quarterback who's
just trying to survive. The Tennessee Titan fan base just

(32:42):
feels disenchanted. They've got moving pieces within the front office.
Mike Brable just blew through town and whooped their ass,
and they're looking around going why do we get rid
of that guy? So this isn't a knock on the
Indianapolis Colts, who I firmly believe are going to be
a playoff team and win that division the AFC South.
This is more of an indictment on the Tennessee Titans.

(33:03):
We knew cam Ward was going to be up against it.
I don't know that anybody knew he was going to
be this up against it. So your coach has already gone,
you got a rookie quarterback struggling, and they're a fourteen
plus point underdog as they go on the road to Indianapolis.
So congratulation to the Titans and the Colts, mainly the Titans.
Your Week eight TGFG Game of the Week, because if

(33:25):
not for gambling, who's watching this piece? Jonas Knox here
Fox Sports Radio. Coming up next, it is another edition
of do You caring as yours right here on FSR
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up top of next
hour a little over twelve minutes from now. You know,

(33:47):
somebody did actually manage to give someone a fresh perspective
on their past in the NFL, right like they I
think they actually have manned to give somebody a better
vantage point on how their career is really gone in
the NFL. And you're gonna hear from them coming up here,
and we'll call it again a little over twelve minutes

(34:10):
from now, top of next hour. You can also check
us out on Instagram as well too at Jonas Knox Show,
and you can find us on x at the Jonas Knox.
All Right, So there's a lot of people out there
that are like, listen, man, you know, we're listening to
sports talk radio. We're hearing about all these stories that
are out there, but nobody's just going to tell us
the truth about them. Nobody's gonna tell us, you know,

(34:30):
why these are being force fed, which is why we
have implemented this segment as a Saturday tradition here on
the show. So, without further ado, it's time for this.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.
DMZ 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 1 (34:56):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
the one and only Bo Benz in find out what
the hell people have been talking about all week. Bo.

Speaker 9 (35:02):
Broncos head coach Sean Payton took what was perceived as
a shot at his former quarterback Russell Wilson, telling I
believe Brian Dable that he was hopeful they were waiting
till after they played the Broncos the switch quarterbacks. It's
pretty weird. Russell Wilson responded on Twitter, accusing him of
bounty hunting, which was really cool, and then Sean Payton

(35:24):
walked back to his initial comments, Jonas, do you care
about any of this stuff?

Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (35:28):
I actually do. I love Sean Payton. Just an unnecessary
shot taken at Russell Wilson. And look Sean Payton's excuse afterwards,
it was like, oh, you know, in the heat of
the moment, and he was like, okay, well I don't know, man, like,
based on your history with Russell Wilson, you know, maybe
some it's easy to see why some perceive that as
a shot at Russell Wilson. But I did like the

(35:49):
fact that Russell's like, man, I'm tired of this crap,
tired of being the nice guy. I'm tired of having
to apologize for doing everything the right way. Maybe it's fake,
maybe it's not okay. So I'm gonna go to social
media and I'm gonna lay one out like I'm gonna
let him have it on social media. There were no
curse words, there was nothing in no vulgarity. But it's
good to see Russell Wilson punch back a little bit.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
All right.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
He's been picked on for way too long. People need
to stop playing with that man. He's a borderline Hall
of Famer. He's got millions of dollars in the bank,
and he's done well for himself off the field, if
you know what I mean.

Speaker 9 (36:21):
Next, Steve sarkisian Texas head coach, reportedly informed NFL circles
that he'd be interested in head coaching vacancies such as
the Titans. His agency has since denied that request or
that report. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:36):
No, No, I don't care. This is just college football.
Like once one coach gets fired, then it's just all right,
who's next, Who's gone, who's gonna be. It's like we
spend more time firing coaches than we do actually covering
what the coach has done with his team. Like it's
just so like Steve Sarkisian out there, you know, whether
he's campaigning for jobs or not. Like this thing, these rumors,

(36:57):
these reports, all this stuff that's gonna leak out there.
This is people trying to get bigger deals. Kurt Signetti
got his Monster contract because all of a sudden the
Penn State job opened up. It's just like you're gonna
see so much of this stuff and majority of it
is garbage.

Speaker 9 (37:11):
Next, the Wiener Circle in Chicago has offered free hot
dogs if Bears head coach Ben Johnson takes off his
shirt Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Not really, it's kind of I don't really understand it.
I would say this, if you're Ben Johnson and you
want a great Chicago dog, there's a there's a Chicago
dog cart right outside Soldier Field. Like it is just
a I mean, a tremendous, tremendous Chicago dog. It's right
outside Soldier Field. In my opinion, it's the best in

(37:41):
the city. I can't even remember the name right now,
but it's this little cart. If you ever go to
a Bears game, there's this little cart that just hangs
out right outside the stadium and they do these Chicago
dogs like it's nothing fancy. You can get like a
bag of chips. Afterwards, you can go to like I'm
trying to see, let me find this name. I think
I got it here. What is this place called? Oh,

(38:04):
it's called Kim and Carlos. Kim and Carlo's Chicago Dog.
So both if you ever in Chicago and you go
to a Bears game, right outside Soldier Field in front
of the Field Museum, Kim and Carlo's Hot Dog stand,
Chicago Dogs best in the city.

Speaker 9 (38:17):
Next, Dallas Mavericks fans, once again, we're chanting fire Nico as.
The Mavericks have started zero and two. I believe they
lost to the Wizards last night, Jonas, Do you care?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Yeah, cause it's kind of funny. It was like, Hey,
you know the NBA, the NBA did the MAVs a
solid if you know, they did them assault. They gave
him the number one pick, so that way they could
get Cooper Flag. It's like, okay, well, even if Cooper
Flag is like a really really really good player and
ends up having a really good career with the MAVs,
to think that he's going to be comparable to Luca,

(38:49):
that's asking a lot. Like it's asking a lot, and
Luca's been on fire to open up the season. The
fat shaming apparently worked. He cut off like a third
of his body. He's a completely different human being, a
completely different play and so the Mavericks fans are just
reminded about what a whiff that was by Nico.

Speaker 9 (39:05):
Next, the SEC suspended referee Ken Williamson for the remainder
of the season following his cruise controversial umpiring of Georgia's
victory over Auburn. Jonas do you care?

Speaker 1 (39:18):
Not really unless look, and I'm not trying to, I'm
not trying to, you know, put anything in the universe.
I'm not trying to speak it into existence. But unless
you know, they find out that maybe, uh, maybe he
channeled his his inner Terry Rogier and he had money
on these games. I'm just saying, like, you know, if
that's the case, then it's a juicier story and it's

(39:39):
something I think we can talk about for a significant
amount of time. Again, you know, it's just it's one
bad apple. But if it's just your run of the mill,
he made bad calls and he's got to go, not
as entertaining.

Speaker 9 (39:48):
Next, the new Sam Adams Utopia's beer has been banned
in fifteen states due to its thirty percent ABV.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Jonas, do you care? Yeah, I kind of do. I
love it. Let's do the math here. If you're drinking
a bud Light or a Miller Light or a Cores light,
if you're having a light beer, those are four point
two percent, which means if you have seven and a
half of those, you're at thirty percent. If you have

(40:20):
eight of them, you're well above thirty percent. So if
that's the case, what they're telling you is that you're
not also not allowed to have eight bud Lights because
apparently that thirty percent ABV on a Sam Adam's Utopia
is just to way too much. And I understand it's
in one beer, but don't you just want to take
a sip and see what happens? Like, don't you just
want to see how far back you time travel with

(40:41):
one of those thirty percent bad boys. I think we
should sample them on the show. I don't know who's
against that. I think it's a great idea for everybody involved.
You know, believe it or not. All you need is
to look at your past to really appreciate how good
you had it. You just need to look at your

(41:01):
past to really appreciate how good you had it. And
somebody is going through that in the world of football
right now. 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 hang out with us as
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(41:24):
As we continue on here on this two hour extravaganza.
As we opened up the show, we were talking about
the New York Jets. If you have missed the news,
a lot of quarterback updates, a lot of quarterback injuries
going on. Your fantasy football waiver wire is probably going
bonkers right now. But there's a lot of things that

(41:45):
have popped up. Apparently, you remember how the Jets were
planning on benching Justin Fields for Tarad Taylor. Yeah, that's
not happening because apparently Torod Taylor's not healthy, so he's
dealing with a knee issue. Aaron Glenn tried to play
koy with the media and there was this little back
and forth going on. Woody Johnson threw Justin Fields under

(42:07):
the bus earlier this week, and so my whole point
on the Jets is like they can't even get a
quarterback benching right, Like they can't like even that they
can't figure out like the mixed messages and the stuff
that's come out publicly and the mixed signal like all
of that, Like, I mean, it's just I mean, dude,

(42:28):
like what are we doing it? And I would argue,
and this is Look, Aaron Glenn's up against it. I mean,
it's not like they were a good team last year.
But what makes this worse is the fact that the
most important position on the field is the quarterback position,
and you figured out a way to screw that up already.
Because if you believe a report from Pro Football Talk,

(42:50):
it was Darren Moogie the GM who wanted to keep
Aaron Rodgers, but Aaron Glenn was against Aaron Glenn was
the guy who said no, he's got to go. And
it's like, all right, so he's the who's got to go,
And so they bring in Justin Fields and then we're
not even two muths into the season and well he's
got to be benched. Okay, so you're gonna put in
Torodd Taylor. Well, actually we're not because he's not even healthy,

(43:11):
and like the whole thing's a clown show. And the
other thing that makes it look bad for Aaron Glenn
looking in his past is the fact that I don't know,
the Lions seem pretty good on defense, and I would
argue they seem better this year than last year with
Aaron Glenn. Like, one of the things that I think

(43:33):
a lot of people sort of embellished was the loss
of the coordinators and the impact that would have on
the Lions and whether or not this means the Lions
are going to make a deeper run in the postseason,
whatever you want to say, Like it clearly has not
had the impact that a lot of people, myself included
thought it would. Now, offensively, they look good, not a
whole lot of differences there. They've still got the explosive playmakers.

(43:56):
The roster is still really good. You look at what
Ben Johnson's done in Chicago and you're like, all right,
well yeah, I mean it was his time to go,
and it's not. It doesn't look bad for Ben Johnson.
It looks bad for Aaron Glenn. They got better on defense,
and the team he's coaching is winless. They're awful, way

(44:18):
worse than anybody expected. And I almost think that there's
like this state of shock, like, well, we haven't we
really haven't won a game yet, Like really, and I say,
this is somebody who bet on the Jets last week.
That was part of my Knox locks. I thought the
Jets being an underdog against Carolina was ridiculous, hold on

(44:41):
to say, I don't neither team's great, but like really,
like the Jets at home couldn't beat Carolina and know
they were right they couldn't. They're terrible. But I do
think what they've done and while they haven't done anything right,
I do think that they've helped in some way, and
they've helped somebody heal from a breakup, right, and that's

(45:03):
somebody is Aaron Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers will take center stage
on Sunday, Night Football as the Pittsburgh Steelers are going
to host the Green Bay Packers, and while the conversation
is about Aaron Rodgers against this former team, there is
this thought that Rogers would have a red ass about
the Packers organization based on his personality, based on the

(45:26):
fact that he's always keeping score chip on your shoulder,
so on and so forth. But if you listen to
Rogers talk about the Packers organization, it sounds a little
bit different.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
I feel so good about my time then, because damn,
everything great in my life is because of you know,
my football career, and my football career.

Speaker 9 (45:43):
Starts and we're in one day with the with Green Bay,
so we all.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
I love for all those memories and a lot of
great friends still carry with me.

Speaker 2 (45:50):
To this day.

Speaker 1 (45:52):
Like there's no animosity, there's no like, there's no ill will,
there's no hey and f you like no, no, no, like. Listen,
my career started in Green Bay. It's gonna end in
Green Bay. I'm gonna retire a Packer. This isn't Brett
Farv where it wasn't until years later you finally was
welcomed back and he went into the ring of honor,

(46:14):
and all no, no, no, no, no, no. Rogers is good now,
Like he's got great things to say about the organization,
like right now while still playing. Do you know what
that is? Because he dated the Jets? What do you
mean dated the Jets? He was in a long term

(46:37):
relationship with a nun, they broke up, and then he
dated a drug addict afterwards. Of course, of course you
appreciate it now. Of course that little pit stop at
the Crystal meth lab in between church and your current location,

(46:58):
that helped a lot.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
But of course, why.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Would he have ill will? Like but there's some people
who I think Mina Kimes even said, oh, come on,
you know, he's gonna want revenge on his former team.
I really believe him, I don't. Does he want to
beat his former team, Yeah, he wants to beat his
former team, wants to beat every team. But I truly
believe that there is no ill will that Rogers has
towards the Packers organization at all. Had he left Green

(47:30):
Bay and I don't know, gone to Pittsburgh directly, then
maybe it would be a little bit different because he's like,
oh so I can just get this anywhere, you know,
because if you think about it, the Packers organization and
the Steelers organization, very similar stability, tradition, great fan base,

(47:51):
kind of a feels like a mom and pop shop,
if you will, like, very similar organizations. If he had
gone from Green Bay to Pittsburgh just like that, I
can understand. Oh, so this is just how it is everywhere. Yeah,
screw you guys, Like, yeah, I know what that relationship
brought me, but I can get it over here too.
But he didn't do that, Like, he didn't go from

(48:15):
one great relationship to another. He went from great relationship
to flunky to another great relationship. And now there's talk,
according to Jeremy Fowler, where the Steelers have been so
happy with Rogers that they're open minded to the idea. Hym,
what about maybe another year? We give it another go?
What about next year? Why not? If he's healthy and

(48:36):
if he gets through this season healthy enough and he
plays at this level, doesn't mean they're gonna win a
super Bowl. It doesn't mean they're gonna they're gonna be
a legitimate super Bowl contender. But if he does, like,
why wouldn't you come back and play? Can only do
this once? He knows that, But when I hear him
talk about the Packers organization the way that he does.
I don't think he's he's giving you know, he's playing

(48:56):
coy or he's just you know, telling you something publicly,
but inside he feels a different way.

Speaker 3 (49:01):
No.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
I think he's being one hundred percent honest. And I
think the reason he feels that way is because the
bucket of puke that he swam in for two years.
I might actually go back on my original take. I
might actually say this, as I pointed out, the Jets

(49:22):
can't even get Benching a quarterback right, Like they can't
even do that right, Like they really can't do anything
right apparently, I don't know, maybe this is what they
could do. Hey, come date us. You'll feel better about
your previous one, you know what I mean. In fact,
I would encourage every player in the NFL who's in
the midst of bad contract negotiations whatever. You know. Trey Hendrickson,

(49:45):
perfect example, just cannot get the deal he wants, cannot
get the long term deal he wants from the Cincinnati Bengals.
If I were Trey Hendrickson, you're playing the Jets this weekend,
make a couple of calls, say hey, trade Deadline's coming up.

(50:07):
I want to feel better about how things are in Cincinnati.
Would you mind sending me to the Jets. Take a
seventh round pick, like, take a compensatory, like take bottom
of the barrel stuff. I promise you after the season,
I'll come back and sign whatever you deal you want
me to sign. I just need to try out a
really bad pair of shoes to remember what the comfortable

(50:27):
ones are like. That's what I need. I would encourage
every player to take that approach. It's worked for Aaron Rodgers.
This is somebody who does have resentment in his heart.
We've seen it. He keeps scoring, he remembers. Yet he
doesn't have that for the Packers. And why Well, it's
because of the eighteen years he spent there. And I mean, yah, yeah,

(50:50):
sure sure. But if you asked him how he felt
about things immediately after the breakup with the Packers, they'd
be different. But this has nothing to do with the
time he spent with the Packers. This has got all
to do with the time he spent with the Jets.
The guy walked out of mass after just receiving communion

(51:12):
into a meth lab and then ran out the back door.
Two years later and realized, Oh my god, I'm going
What time's the evening mass I I'll go back. Oh
there's another church open, it's in Pittsburgh. I'll go to
that one. That's fine, that works, Just keep me away
from what was in the middle there. So, if anything,
at least, they're helping people appreciate where they were just

(51:36):
by spending a little bit of time there in the
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(52:23):
some people in the world of sports who have every
right to be pissed off They've got every right to
be pissed off, and I'm surprised nobody has pointed this
out yet. We'll get into that for you right here
on FSR Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. By the way,
we are gonna have knoxlocks in honor of the NBA

(52:44):
and there gambling scandal. We're gonna have Knox locks coming
up here before we close up shop here later on
in the show. Kind of a disappointing week last week,
but you know what, you got to own it all
on up to it. I mentioned one of the bad
picks I made. We're also closely monitoring what would be
the first signature win of the Bill Belichick era at
North Carolina because right now they are tied with Virginia

(53:09):
and they're in overtime there in Chapel Hill. So based
on previous games, I don't know if people left in
the second quarter, but if they did, I mean, you're
really missing out. North Carolina's playing hard, They've got a
ranked team six and one Virginia, they're in overtime, they're

(53:32):
tied to ten apiece. I mean, if you are one
of those people who usually leaves in the second quarter
of these Bill Belichick North Carolina games. You're missing out, man,
should have stuck around a little bit longer, you know, like,
support your coach, support your team. They need all the
help they can get. You got people in the media
that are, you know, trying to bury them any opportunity
they get. So Virginia's got a first and goal in

(53:52):
overtime and North Carolina looking to try and pull off
the upside again. What would be the first signature of
the Bill Belichick era at North Carolina. So we'll keep
you posting on that with Isaac lohncron bottom of the
hour with the update on that. By the way, a
lot of positive feedback here on the show. I know
what you're thinking, man, Like listen, all people do is

(54:14):
make fun of this show or rip it apart, and
all you do is post the negative stuff. Not true.
Ben here says, hey, bleep, epic game for your Dodgers
last night, getting railed like you from behind by a
bleep from West Hollywood while you were in your showtime show. Heyo,
Tani Onesie in the fetal position with la media bleeps

(54:36):
rooting for your blue by a country that only cares
about hockey. Clearly a couple of words missed there, not
the ones that I edited. Those were intentionally edited, but
clearly the grammar of that did not go through the
wash that it needed. Not to be outdone by Rob

(54:57):
who writes in all the blank, Jonas once is your
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I was thinking about this and I'm surprised more people

(56:06):
haven't brought this up. One of the stories that was
told years ago with the Tim Donahy scandal. But one
of the beliefs was that the NBA knew about the
Tim Donahey stuff. The NBA knew that this was about
to break. They knew that this was a really bad

(56:26):
look for the league. You had an official who was
fixing games. I mean, that's awful. They knew it was
a terrible look. But because the NBA was on the
brink of signing this multi million or billion dollar media
rights deal, they kept hush hush about it. That's one
of the stories that was out there that the NBA
knew about this and they sort of kept it under

(56:49):
wraps and didn't let it get out until the deal
was signed because they didn't want it to jeopardize all
the money that it was going to bring to the league. Right,
So that was one of the stories that came out.
And so I do find it a little bit curious
that more people haven't looked at this. They just signed

(57:10):
new media rightes deals with you know, NBC, Amazon Prime,
Like there's like new people like new places to go
to watch NBA games now, Like they agreed to these
deals and it paid the League of Fortune. The NBA
knew that this investigation was going on. They knew what

(57:33):
was going on. They knew about the Terry Rogier stuff.
They knew the day it happened. That's why the NBA
SATOM in twenty twenty three. This was March of twenty
twenty three. It's not like this was two weeks ago.
Oh my god, it popped up out of no. No,
like they were well aware of this. To Johntay Porter
stuff that was going on. They were aware of this.
They had to have been. And I just wonder if

(57:57):
any of these networks, these new broadcast partners are looking
at the NBA and looking at Adam Silver and going, hey, dude,
we just gave you X amount of dollars to broadcast
your league and you had this scandal going on, and
you didn't tip us off or let us know. Hey,
by the way, a week in or a few days

(58:17):
into you just now showing games, we're gonna throw a
bag of crap on your lap during live broadcasts and say, oh,
and what about that gambling scandal of the league you
just signed up with earlier today? If I was Amazon Prime,
if I was NBC, I'm pissed, Like I'm pissed because

(58:39):
you had to talk about it. Amazon Prime built this
brand new set. They built like they invested a lot
for this league trying to get into the sports you know,
the sports rights and live sporting event market and do
it like they invested a lot to get into all this.
NBC finally got being got back in after decades away,

(59:01):
and everybody was excited about it. You had round Ball
rock back. You had even the guy who did the
voice over work, Jim Fagan, like they ai generated his
voice because he's since passed away and brought him back.
Like they got all these Mike Tarico's on the call
and then like forty eight hours later, Oh, by the way,
we got a guy who was throwing games intentionally for

(59:23):
gambling purposes. We've also got a head coach who was
giving information about tanking to certain people, whether or not
it was you know, intentionally giving him information to tread,
but like giving away information he shouldn't have been giving
away and was clearly associated with people he should have
been associated with. You got the John tay Porter stuff.

(59:43):
You've got another coach who was on the Lakers staff
telling people whether or not Lebron James was going to
be playing or not playing like it just the whole
thing's a bad luck, really bad And if I'm one
of these broadcast partners, are like, hey, man, when I
sign up for this, I don't sign up for it
to have to discuss this crap. I'm signing up for

(01:00:05):
it because I want to present this product that I
thought was on the up and up. And I'm surprised
there hasn't been more conversation about that unless they knew,
unless maybe the NBA did tip them off, unless maybe
Adam Silver said, hey, by the way, you know, sign
on the dotted line if you will. But this stuff's
gonna pop up. We don't know when it's gonna pop up.

(01:00:26):
I mean, the timing of it was interesting that it
happened to show up, basically, you know, right as the
season started, when everybody's really excited about the year and
the NBA is back and all that, and all of
a sudden, this gambling scandal pops up. But just the
idea that these broadcast partners sign on the dotted line
to be a part of this league, and you've got

(01:00:49):
the NBA knowing that they've got some potential degenerate gamblers
who are out there that may or may not have
been fixing games. Just like, it's a bad look for everybody.
And I just I wonder if you're Amazon, if you're NBC,
if you're not looking around going hey man, this is
a bunch of crap. Now again, they may have known
that and still signed up for it, if you had

(01:01:10):
given them that information, and we're a full disclosure, this
is what's going on. If they you know, if they
had that information and still signed up for it, it
wouldn't surprise me. Maybe who knows, Maybe you get a
better deal, because let's be honest, while everybody thinks that
this is gonna be God, how can you ever trust
this league? Again, let's stop, let's not go over the
top here. Again, these are some bad apples. Yes, it's

(01:01:32):
a bad look for the league. They probably swept it
under the rug at least a little bit. I agree
with you, bad look all the way through. People are
still gonna watch. You're still gonna watch these games. Like
the NFL, they had this stuff pop up. You had
guys get suspended for a year, six games, it got
reduced all that stuff like, and nobody's walking around going

(01:01:52):
Oh my god, how can we trust this league. No,
you're gonna watch, and there's gonna be situations that still occur,
stuff that's popped up in college football. You're still gonna watch.
And not to get morbid, but we do this all
the time. Like how many times have you seen a
fatal crash on a freeway? You see it on the news,

(01:02:15):
freeway shut down, There's you know, yellow bags on the
on the asphalt, like it just like the whole it's
just it's an awful scene. You feel bad for everybody involved.
It's terrible, terrible, life's ruined, life's ended, It's terrible. The
next morning you're on that same road going to work,
like you know what I mean. Like it's like we

(01:02:35):
could pretend that this is going to be damning for
the league and they're never you know, they're never going
to recover from this. Let's relax. I agree, bad, look,
but I'm also not going to sit there and throw
out the entire league just because they had a couple
of bad apples. I'm not doing it. At the Jonas
Knocks on X at the Jonas Knocks on X and
you can hang out with us on Instagram at Jonas
Knox Show. All right, it's coming up next here. We

(01:02:56):
are going to continue the discussion, but first we must
find out whether or not Bill Belichick has his first
signature win as head coach of North Carolina, as they
were in overtime against sixteenth ranked Virginia. And for that
and all the good news, we turn it over to

(01:03:17):
Sir Isaac Longcross.

Speaker 7 (01:03:18):
They lost back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:03:20):
Do you see how close they were to Yeah, if
he would have extended the ball across the goal line, son.

Speaker 7 (01:03:26):
Of a bitch man, I don't know he tried.

Speaker 1 (01:03:29):
God, I want Belichick to be successful so bad. I
want it so bad. As Lee Eliot would say, just
to stick it to all them fans. Okay, thank you.

Speaker 7 (01:03:41):
Oh your set's the contrary.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
And so to recap, it's North Carolina hosting sixteenth ranked Virginia.
They take him to overtime, tied to ten, Virginia scores
a touchdown, kicks the extra point on the first possession
of overtime. North Carolina scores a touch down on its
first possession of overtime. Then they throw a pass Go

(01:04:06):
Lopez after the touchdown has scored, throws a pass Devengamin haul.
They're going for two, haul makes the catch headed towards
the front right corner, stops short of the goal line.
Reached the ball towards the front right pylon and missed
it by a millimeter.

Speaker 7 (01:04:21):
He was already down.

Speaker 6 (01:04:23):
So Virginia escapes with a seventeen to sixteen overtime victory
at North Carolina. Another game going by the.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
Way, it's your show.

Speaker 7 (01:04:35):
Feel free to jump in any time. Literally missed it
by millimeter.

Speaker 1 (01:04:40):
It's like we're not embellishing that. If he just like
extended his wrist half an inch, it's a two point
eight version in North Carolina win.

Speaker 7 (01:04:50):
He tried.

Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
Meanwhile, right now, Ole Miss ranked number eight, holding on
to a thirty four to twenty six lee to thirteenth
ranked Oklahoma and Oaklan Home has just failed on a
fourth down and five from the ole Miss thirty yard line,
so ole Miss will take over with one thirty left
to play in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 7 (01:05:11):
Again.

Speaker 6 (01:05:11):
They lead at Oklahoma by a score of thirty four
to twenty six. Number two Indiana has just completed a
fifty six to six victory over UCLA seventh ranc Georgia Tech,
leading Syracuse forty one to sixteen with two minutes left
to play in the fourth quarter. Eighteenth ranked South Florida

(01:05:32):
holding on to a thirty one to twenty six lead
at Memphis with two minutes left to play in the
fourth quarter. Right now, Memphis has a third down and
three coming up at the South Florida thirty eight yard line.
We also have a lot of NFL news of Baltimore
Ravens today ruling out Lamar Jackson for Tomorrow's game against
the Bears. Jacksonvill miss his third straight game of the

(01:05:52):
hamstring injury. Tyler Huntley will start a quarterback. The Dallas
Cowboys plays cornerback Trayvon Diggs on injured reserve due to
a concussion. The New York Jets ruled out to Rod
Taylor for Sunday's game at Cincinnati with a knee injury.
Justin Fields will start at quarterback, and the Green Bay
Packers a short time ago activated receiver Christian Watson at
advanced for Sunday Night football at Pittsburgh. Watson has not

(01:06:14):
played since tearing is ACL in last year's regular season finale.
Shonas so close yet so far for your pal Bill Belichick,
That's unfortunate, man.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
I've just I feel like people have been picking on
the guy for too long. You know, at a certain point,
enough's enough. He's got to stand up for himself, you know,
like enough's enough. I just I don't know why people
can't just want success from one of the all time grades.

Speaker 6 (01:06:39):
It seems like you see the inherent warmth that the
rest of us are missing. It's just you and your
other friend, Jordan Hudson.

Speaker 1 (01:06:51):
Well listen, I mean, we can have a whole discussion
about what she sees. But I think part of it
is because I know, and I don't know if I've
told you this before, but I brought this up on
the air. Like Belichick is a pen pal of Andy Furman.

Speaker 6 (01:07:08):
Oh yeah, no, that you're not exactly I've seen it.
This is this is actually true. He does submarine.

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
Yeah, especially one from Bill. But he Bill Belichick because
Andy Furman sends letters to everybody, the great Andy Furman,
which you hear on Fox Sports Radio here every Sunday morning.
Like Belichick. Andy sends letters to random people all over
the country, like he sent him to like.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
Sale sale mail letters.

Speaker 1 (01:07:33):
Yeah, yeah, Like he loves the post office. He loves
sending letters. He's still he's still he still has a typewriter,
like it's his thing. He loves it, and he sends
like all sorts of articles and stuff. But one of
the people that he's kept in contact via mail handwritten mail,
is Bill Belichick, and Belichick will write back every time.

(01:07:55):
I'm a pig, I'm an NFL pig. I've seen the
let that they send back and forth to each other,
so I know that this is legit. In fact, Belichick,
who never did while he was coaching the Patriots. How
many times did Belichick do you think did a national
interview when he was coaching the Patriots? If you had
to guess, just with Andy Furman, I'll bet Andy Furman

(01:08:16):
and Aaron Torres, he literally because Andy Furman communicated with
him via mail. Belichick said, yeah, I'll come on with you,
no problem. And randomly it was like during the off season,
I think Andy and Aaron Torres were filling in on
another show when Belichick came on and joined him. All
because so I see that side of Belichick. Yeah right,

(01:08:38):
I don't see all the other stuff. And you know,
clearly his eyes work. I mean, he's doing okay for himself,
but you know, I'm just hoping he can figure this
out in North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (01:08:47):
By the way, we have you know, there's been a
lot of discussion this week about his general manager for
that program, Michael Lombardi.

Speaker 1 (01:08:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:55):
So, given the way that the.

Speaker 6 (01:08:56):
Game just ended with North Carolina in overtime, people, as
we speak, on social media have somehow found a tweet
from Michael Lombardi from August twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, over
eight years ago, and the tweet reads, quote why do
guys reach the ball out and give the ball away?
Details never reach the ball out unquote And if they

(01:09:20):
had reached the ball out better just moments ago, they
would have won the game against Virginia.

Speaker 1 (01:09:26):
Okay, but that's the piling on that right there. How
many people had that in the holster from twenty seventeen
waiting for something like that to happen.

Speaker 6 (01:09:38):
According to my feed, more than one person on social
media has resurrected an eight year old tweet.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Hey, you guys got to get a life, just for
those people out there, get a life. Stop going back
on x from twenty seventeen what it was called Twitter
and digging up old pass takes from people that are
coaching or GMing teams. You don't like more big curiosity.

Speaker 6 (01:09:58):
More big curiosity makes me want to add, are there
any skeletons in your ex closet?

Speaker 1 (01:10:05):
I had a bad taste. Oh god, yeah yeah. I
called Jared goffa bust. Yeah, I said, well, I didn't
say bugs. I don't like that word. But I just said,
oh yeah, this is not like this. This has been bad.
And then I actually walked it back on the air
because he beat Patrick Mahomes and that Monday night shootout,
remember when they had to play that game at the coliseum. Yes,

(01:10:28):
there was fires going on. It was back in twenty eighteen.
And I apologized the next day on the air. I said,
I was wrong. Jared Gof's not he's like the guys,
guys can play quarterback.

Speaker 6 (01:10:36):
Not sure you're You're the only one who had to
take like that back then though, in your defense, but.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
There was also the RAMS organ I don't know if
I've told you this story. The RAMS organization caught whim
of what because the way that it was presented in
a headline, I was way more harsh than I actually was.
The RAMS organization called Fox Sports Radio and said that

(01:11:03):
no Rams player will ever appear on the network because
all they did. I swear to god, all they did
was read the headline. If they were to click through
and listen to the take, uh huh, they would have
realized that there was no issue at all, and so
they they afterwards, once they actually heard it, they said,
oh yeah, no, yeah, we just the headline was very misleading.
They know everything's fine, but again, that's headlines. That's like,

(01:11:26):
get this clickbait crap, Like that's what people run with.
So you know, Mike Lombardi's gonna get it, They're gonna
Florio is gonna pile. It's just like it's usual suspects.

Speaker 7 (01:11:35):
I wear that is anor good for you.

Speaker 6 (01:11:39):
For what for the Jared Goff stuff? Yeah, for being
for being such a powerful voice. Then an NFL team
goes out of its way to come back at you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:49):
Oh I don't need you listen. I mean I don't.
I don't think they really knew that it was me.
I think they just knew. One of your hosts said
it like they were like, if I if I walked
into if I walked into the the rams were at
CLU one thousand Oaks. I literally live four minutes away,
side streets away. They have no idea who I am.

Speaker 6 (01:12:07):
So we're not really so we're not going to be
able to get place Kickery Joshua Cardion anytime soon because
of you all.

Speaker 1 (01:12:13):
Oh no, no, no, no, yeah, that's not happening. Yeah,
they have no idea who I am. Sean McVay, no clue.
And I live right like near those guys. Well they
live in nice houses. I don't but like you know
what I mean, same you know, same city. Yeah, no chance,
not happening. Here's what it is, man, all right, Jonas
Knox here Fox Sports Radio at the Jonas Knocks on X.
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(01:12:54):
Up next, it is the week eight edition of Knox
Locks and the Yours right here on FSRUS. College Football is,
by the way, Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio, so ole
miss just beat Oklahoma thirty four to twenty six. It
just went final. It's the first road wind for Ole

(01:13:17):
Miss versus a ranked opponent under Lane Kiffin. And yet
he's probably going to be taking the Florida job. Like
you know what I mean, can't even enjoy the moment.
You can't even enjoy like any sort of success. And
it's like, all right, well, yeah, he's probably going to
be the favorite to take the Florida job. It's like, dude,

(01:13:38):
like that's the problem. That's why when Steve Starkesian and
these rumors come out that he would be interested in
NFL jobs, like just you don't know what to believe.
You can't just enjoy anything in real time because everybody's
looking for the next big thing, and all anybody wants
to do is either fire or hire coaches in college football.
It's kind of wild, by the way. Coming up a
little over ten minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio,

(01:14:00):
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and Nikki Ka, which will be taken over the airwaves.
We are getting ready to have the week eight edition
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(01:14:41):
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But right now it's time to close up shop. In

(01:15:05):
honor of the tremendous week that the NBA had was
something we do called this locked it. Let's locked it
and Knox locks and away we go. But first let's
go all the way back to last week. Not ideal,

(01:15:25):
I mean, listen, things were looking right, looking good. I
mean we had Philly minus a point and a half
over the Vikings. I mean, as it turns out, good pick.
Minnesota is now reeling. They've lost two games in the
matter of four or five days. But we had the
Eagles minus one and a half, nice little bounce back
spot for Philly in that game we won. That had
the Broncos minus seven against the Giants, and I'll be

(01:15:48):
honest with you, I was hoping Denver was just going
to lose that game out right, and it looked like
they were going to and then all of a sudden,
one of the epic gag job collapses that we've seen
in recent sports history took place. But I thought Denver
was going to roll. I didn't buy into the Giants hype.
I thought it was going to come to a crashing
end against that defense in Denver, and for three plus
quarters it looked like a wife out and then all

(01:16:10):
of a sudden craziness happened. But it didn't help us
because we had Denver minus seven and they clearly didn't cover.
And then, for some inexplicable reason, I bet on the
Jets getting a point and a half against the Panthers.
I thought there's no way the Carolina Panthers should be
favored over anybody in the NFL outside of maybe, I
don't know, New Orleans, maybe Tennessee. And then I forgot

(01:16:31):
about the Jets. Oh, they should be favored over the Jets,
because the Jets are terrible. For some reason, I didn't
see that in the moment, and that was a bad pick.
So a one and two performance last week. It brings
us to eleven and ten for the season, just one
game over five hundred. But we're back for more in
Week eight. I thought forty nine Ers and Texis. I

(01:16:53):
don't like this bet. I don't like it one bit,
but I'm going to take Houston minus a point and
a half. Short week, I know, but I just at
some point, even though the Niners are playing as well
as they are and you look at the records, they
should really be reversed if you're looking at you know,

(01:17:14):
expectations and injuries and where these teams are. At some point,
the Niners have got to, like find it difficult to
perform with all these injuries, and yet here they are
with a really good opportunity on the road against a
Houston team that just doesn't look anywhere close to what
people thought they were going to be, especially after c J.
Stroud's rookie year. But for whatever reason, I got a

(01:17:36):
feel and Houston responds here again short week. It didn't
look great on Monday night, but I think Houston responds here.
They're a point and a half favorite on DraftKings. Shout
out Terry Roseire point a half favorite on DraftKings. I'm
gonna go with Houston reluctantly in this spot against the forty.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
Nine ers Giant City Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
Now this is different. I love the Eagles minus seven year. Okay,
A couple of weeks ago, the Eagles were put in
a clown suit on Thursday Night Football by the Giants.
You remember, law was the dancing, It was Brian Dayball
getting fined one hundred thousand dollars for violating concussion protocol,
and Jackson Dart and Cam Skataboo, I mean everybody Camp

(01:18:21):
Scataboo's got a grill now, like everybody's loving the Giants.
And they put Philly in a clown suit and mocked
them and ridiculed them. But everybody was calling into question
whether or not Sirianni had this team heading in the
right direction. And now after a fail last week in
Denver of epic proportions. You get an Eagles team that

(01:18:43):
got right through the air last week in Minnesota. I
think Philly's out for revenge. I think Nick Sirianni's as
spiteful as it gets. I think he remembers how Brian
Daball played up that matchup going into the game a
couple of weeks ago. I think the Eagles get right.
I like Philly, Packers and Steelers. I'm gonna go Pittsburgh.

(01:19:04):
I'm gonna go Pittsburgh at home getting three points. Mike Tomlin.
I heard this number thrown out there that Mike Tomlin
as a home underdog is like seventy percent against the spread,
Like just a crazy number, crazy success rate as a
home underdog, with the Aaron Rodgers factor, with Pittsburgh needing
to respond after that game, with a little bit of

(01:19:25):
extra time to prepare coming off that loss again Cincinnati
on Thursday night last week, I'm gonna go with Pittsburgh
at home plus the three. And that is your Week
eight edition of Knox Lives Knocks. For Bo, for Chris,
for Isaac. It's been a fun show. Thanks for hanging
out with us here on FSR shonas son of a

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