Jonas Knox talks Luka's injury, Puka & Tiger, and more!

Jonas Knox explains why Luka Doncic’s injury doesn’t really change anything for what the Lakers expectations should be this year, what we need from college sports as consumers, finding humor in a couple of rough situations, a bad look for Chris Ballard, the NFL calls an NFL team’s bluff, a defense of Rams fans at SoFi Stadium, throwing some cold water on the Bears, and more!

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Y So okay, I'll be part of this world. You know,
it is kind of funny how people have sort of

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changed and moved the discussion and the talking point around
one team in the world of sports, and they're doing
it right now. We'll tell you who that is. Coming
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So you know it's funny. We were having a discussion
about what one team was supposed to be this year.

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And it's weird how things sort of got in the
way because you've seen this in a couple of different places. So,
for example, with the Celtics, there was this discussion that, well,
it's kind of a throwaway year. You're getting rid of
Al Horford and Christophsporzingis and Drew Holliday and all these guys,
and all these guys that want to title with them

(01:53):
a couple of years ago. They need to get under
the apron, and so they're looking around, Hey, how can
we save money? And they move all these guys out,
they bring in some other players. Jason Tatum's out for
the year, presumably, and you just think, all right, whatever
whatever you give us this year, that's cool. We're good.
Everything's fine. Whatever you give us this year, that's cool,
and we'll worry about next year. And then all of

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a sudden, know Jason Tatum and they're one of the
best teams in the league. And then he comes back
and he's performing, maybe not from a point standpoint, from
an all around standpoint off the Achilles, way better than
anybody expected. The offensive production may not be there, but
the reboundings improved. Like all of a sudden, you're looking

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the Celtics going, hey man, that team could win a championship.
Now again, expectations going in. The season plays out, and
now you adjust those expectations. But what's funny about the
Lakers is now there's this oh no, Luke is out.

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He's gonna miss the rest of the regular season. It's
going to be a wait and see approach in the postseason.
They're one hundred and twenty to one to win the title. Now,
oh my goodness. And if you're an honest basketball fan,
if you're an honest Lakers fan, you know this to
be true. This year, eh whatever. This year had nothing

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to do with them competing for a title. It had
nothing to do with them trying to get over and
get past Oklahoma City or San Antonio or any of
those teams. That wasn't happening this year, And who knows
if it's going to happen in the next ten years
based on how those teams are built now. But this
year was all about, hey man, we'll just say, you know,

(03:43):
we'll get it over with with Lebron and then we'll
focus on the future. Like it's a So what everybody
gets caught up in the weeds on all this. Man,
what does this mean for their title hopes? What is it?
It means the same thing it meant the year that
before the season started. It means the same thing it
meant a month ago when they were going on. It
means this is what you expected. This is exactly where

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they are. Because this was what most honest, true understanding
able to comprehend. Laker fans and basketball fans understood. This
is all about, we just have one more year of
Lebron and then we can move on with our lives.

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Everybody play nice, nobody no drama getting the way everybody. So,
now Luca pulls his hammy, suffers a hamstring injury. Hees
gonna miss the rest of the regular season, who knows
about the postseason? And everyone's looking around going, oh, what
does this do to their title hopes? The same thing
it was gonna do at the beginning of the year,
because the championship was not the goal this year. It

(04:48):
was to make nice play nice, and you move on
from Lebron. James, That's it, and everybody knows it. JJ
Reddick knows it. Knows it. Lebron knows it. He's spend
more time bearing Memphis than he is talking about the team.

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Everybody knows and knew way in advance what this year
was all about. So if you're one of these people
looking at it going, oh my goodness, you know Luca's
hurd and what does this do to their title hopes,
it does nothing to them because there were no title
hopes before this. This was the reality. They're not the

(05:32):
best team in the West, they're not the second best
team in the West. They're not close to being title contenders.
And that's all right, because this year was never about
raising a banner or winning a championship. This year was
about getting away from Lebron. Plain ice, peaceful exit. Everybody
moves on and everybody lives with their lives happily. Ever after,

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he can go back to Cleveland, he can go do
what he wants to do, and we don't have to
worry about this anymore. The injury and the status for
Luca change nothing. They're moving on from Lebron after this year,
and you're gonna realize at the end of this whole thing,
oh yeah, that was the goal. Goal met, goal achieved.

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the iHeartRadio app. So I was thinking about this because
the one thing, however you feel about Nil and however
you feel about, you know, the changing college landscape, whether
it's football, basketball, whatever, however you feel about it, the

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one thing we can all agree on is that it's
really hard to fall in love with a team because
these players don't stay with these teams long enough anymore,
you know what I mean. Like, it's hard to fall
in love with a player unless you have this magical
whatever run that plays out on all these big time games,

(07:01):
like a Fernando Mendoza or something like that. It's really
hard to fall in love with teams the way we
fell in love with them back in the day, to
where you could talk about the Dukes in the nineties,
you could talk about the Fab Five, you could talk
about all of these teams with all these monikers and
nicknames and all that, and you could really fall for them.

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And you remember those teams, the running Rebels, we talked
about them last week. It's hard to do that in
college sports. Now because everybody moves so quickly. Because one
minute a guy signs an NIL deal to be with
one team, and the next minute he's in the portal.

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So the whole way you view college sports at the
highest levels completely changed. It's no longer man, we love
this team, we love this program. Look at Indiana and football.
How many new players they got this year. They had
a brand new recruit wide receiver commit transfer from Michigan State.

(08:06):
First practice comes out in gold cleats. Kurt Signetti rips
him apart. That's one of the top transfers in the market.
Enter the portal. Kurt Signetti ripped him. We don't do
that here. Everything changes, everything is different now. So I
just have one request because I know, listen, President Trump

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signed some executive order and there's a back and forth
and guys like Ross Dellinger and he does a great job,
but every time you go on his feed, it's some
NIL battle, some we're going to expand here. It's exhausting,
and I think a lot of people feel the same way.
So this is all I ask. Go wherever you want,

(08:49):
come up with whatever plan you want for NIL and
college sports, and who gets paid and who doesn't do
whatever it is you want to do, all that's fine.
Can you just give us some good games? That's it,
that's all we're asking. If we can't get to know you,
can we at least get entertained. Duke's collapse against Yukon

(09:10):
highly entertaining. What a gad job. Second year in a row.
Now a lot of those players on those teams are gone.
Boozer's gone, a lot of these get gone. You'll never
see him again, just like when Duke collapsed last year
and Cooper Flagg was the star of the team. Guess what,

(09:31):
man have been vanished like a fart in the wind. Gone.
So if you're going to move around and not give
us an opportunity or give us time to get to
know you, or know the team, or know the personalities
with the team, etc. Etc. Since nobody sticks around and
nobody stays longer, and if they do, it becomes a joke.

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ThEC he's twenty eight, twenty nine years old, he's still playing.
Like if that's the case, and you're entering and and
trying to stick around for as long as you can,
and you're you know, Cam McCormick, and you were in
justin Herbert's recruiting class, and then you just finished up
your last year of college eligibility a year ago. If
you're going to play that game, at least give us

(10:15):
some good games. At least make an entertaining So my
one request with the final four here is the same
request I got for every big time, high profile college
sporting event. If you're gonna move around and you're gonna
take advantage of the opportunities you have, and rightfully so,
they should have gotten paid over the table, not under

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the table a long time ago. We all agree on
that if you're going to play that game, at least
give us good games. That's all I'm asking. I don't
need to get to know anybody that's in the Final
four this year. I don't need to get to know
anybody's backstory, none of it. I don't care. You'll be
one and done or you're transferring to somewhere else after this.
Just give us some good games, entertain and everybody goes

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Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, by the way, coming up
in We'll call it a little over ten minutes from now.
Maybe the least surprising follow up to a story that
took off last night in the world of sports. We'll
get into that for you coming up here a little
over ten minutes from now. You know, it was kind

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of funny. So I guess some people won't find this funny,
and I'm just letting you know in advance. Some people
are going to be offended by what I say right now,
and that's totally okay. That's fine. So I had a
little getaway with the family this past week, so I
was not on two pros and a cup of Joe,
just wanted to get away. We went away, took took

(13:01):
my son out and you know, did some fun stuff
and had a good time and all that. And it
was really really good time. Plenty of stories, plenty of laughs,
all all as well. Everything's fine. So but it was
interesting because usually when I do that, I don't go
on any social media. I don't go on X, I
don't go on Instagram. I don't it's just not it's

(13:23):
just a getaway, you know, you just live your life.
But what's kind of funny is that you go to
some of these restaurants, some of these places and they've
got stuff on the TV or you'll see stuff on
the TV, go back and forth and the Tiger Woods,
Puka nakua stuff. It's kind of hilarious. Now for a

(13:47):
lot of people out there, it's not hilarious, all right.
A lot of people out there look at that and
they go, man, this is you know, they're really going
through some stuff. You know that we just hope they
get their life together. And I look at it and
I go, that's not my problem. I'm sorry. One guy

(14:09):
can't handle his booze and the other one's got issues
with pills. What I care about is what you do
to affect people around you when you do that stuff.
One guy goes out and plays bumper cars like he's
at Talladega, and the other guy turns into Marv Albert
and starts biting people. That that's a problem. So, yeah,

(14:34):
they went to rehab to get treatment. Uh yeah, they're
they're seeking uh, you know, they need to get things
to okay. But the constant follow ups on the stories,
I don't understand. Hey, yeah, here's a here's some glimpses
of Pooka outside rehab. He stepped away to go to

(14:55):
in and out to grab a bite cool at least
whatever he'd been into didn't have a name. Great, all good,
that's fine. Hey, yeah, here's a Tiger Woods' is exchange
with the police officers. He may have been on the
phone with President Trump. Ooh, and here's a picture of

(15:17):
him in the back of the squad car. Are we
sure that was him? Because it looked like et with
the towel over his head. I'll bet you one hundred
bucks you pan that camera down. Tiger Wood's right index
finger is glowing. But these guys got problems. Let them

(15:37):
go sort it out. That's their business, it's their thing.
I get that. We have this infatuation where we got
to see superstars in vulnerable moments, and we gotta and
I'm watching the coverage of this going. I couldn't care less.
These guys got problems. They need to get him so out,

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They need to get all as well. Go do your thing.
The problem anybody should have is when what they're into
is affecting the people around them. Tiger Woods is lucky.
All that happened was him in the back of a
squad car and looking like extraterrestrial. Okay, it's like Tiger

(16:23):
Woods lucky, like something out of a Steven Spielberg movie. Like,
that's that's fine whatever. I'm surprised he didn't call one
of the cops, Elliott, But all that's okay, got it Pookinakua. Hey,
he's lucky. Nothing worse happened, and nothing worse has happened.

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Guy apparently likes to party a little bit. All that's
repair your reputation, repair whatever, whatever you know, labels you've
been given. Over All that is fine. The coverage of it,
I really don't understand who gives a rip about? Who
can be cool working at IT rehab? Who cares Tiger
Woods sitting in the back of a squad car, like

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we haven't seen that before? Who cares?

Speaker 4 (17:09):
It?

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Just was kind of fascinating to see how much that got.
Or maybe it's just a slow time of the year
and maybe people are looking or scrambling for stories. I
don't know, but I found it kind of hilarious at
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discussed recently about you know, maybe why things may have

(17:59):
gone side ways for the Indianapolis Colts. You see, because
there was a moment for the Indianapolis Colts in which
things sort of veered off into a bad place. You know,
things sort of veered off into a place of man,
we just can't quite figure it out here at the
quarterback position. So Eric Hebron was on the On My

(18:20):
Soul podcast and discussed the moment and what led to
Andrew Luck retiring.

Speaker 5 (18:26):
Andrew then decides that he's so tired of he don't
tell nobody this.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
This is the backstory. He's so tired of injury and
he just doesn't want to do a surgery.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
You know who the man is around there that gets
on everybody's nerves. Big drums over there behind that disc
He tells Andrew this is word, bro. He tells Andrew,
you're either.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
Playing this year or we're moving on. Who the would
tell Andrew Luck that, right? So he's referring to Chris Ballard,
the g of the Indianapolis Colts, and upon further review,
if true, probably a mistake by Chris Ballard. I would

(19:10):
say that's probably a, you know, maybe not the best
best move to make. If you are Chris Ballard and
you're deciding on what the plan is and what you
want out of your starting quarterback, and you basically set
an ultimatum for your starting quarterback, only to have him

(19:33):
walk away because he doesn't like the ultimatum, and next
thing you know, you're scrambling to find a starter, not
just for that year, but every year since. If you
look at the run that the Indianapolis Colts have been
on since Andrew Luck walked away, Jacoby Brissett, Philip Rivers

(19:57):
Volume one, Carson went Matt, Ryan Gardner, Minshew, Anthony Richardson,
Joe Flacco sprinkled in there. Don't forget you to get
about your your touch of Nick Foles and Sam Ellinger,
Daniel Jones, Riley Leonard got to start Philip Rivers Volume two,

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which was a fun watch at the end of last season.
When you look at what's happened to that organization, that's
a pretty damning acknowledgment that one guy might have been
what led to everything sort of reeling from there because
the struggles for the Indianapolis Colts have not been really

(20:46):
difficult to figure out. They just haven't been able to
go find the right quarterback over and over and over again.
I think that's why they ended up giving Daniel Jones
the contract he got, because they looked at it and said, hey,
even him coming back from injury, at least it's something stable,

(21:07):
because they've had nothing stable there. Jacoby Brissett stepped up.
I still remember watching that preseason game, watching the preseason
game when it came out that Andrew Luck was going
to be walking away, and Jacoby Brissett is on the
sideline finding out, yeah, I'm retiring and realizing, oh, I'm

(21:28):
gonna have to start this year. Then he did all
but one game and Brian Hoyer got to start. But
ever since that moment, the Colts have been scrambling. And
you got a guy who was on that team who's
coming out and saying the reason he walked away is
because he didn't like the ultimatum from the GM. And
then it makes you wonder this, if Chris Ballard wasn't

(21:51):
the GM, there still would Andrew Luck have come back.
Because there's been a lot of speculation that maybe he
would come back, maybe he'd want to do this again.
He retired too early. Maybe he feels better. You're seeing
all of these quarterbacks come in. Christ Philip Rivers came back.
Philip Rivers hadn't played in four or five years. He

(22:12):
just wanted to make sure that, you know, his seven
hundred kids had health insurance for the next five years.
So he said, he, oh, whatever, I'll come back. I'll
restart the Hall of Fame clock. I don't care. All
these guys are coming back. Joe Flacco was on the couch,
just got re signed again. You made to tell me

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Andrew Luck couldn't come back and play. I wonder if
part of his hesitation for wanting to come back was
him looking and saying that guy's still there, Like I
love Indianapolis. I'd want to go back to Indianapolis. I
don't want to play for that guy, and he's too
classy to come out and say it. But if this

(22:52):
is true, and what Eric Ibron is saying is true,
and Andrew Luck walked away because he didn't like the
ultimatum from the GM. He didn't like being told, either
you're playing this year, We're moving on, that's a really
damning look for Chris Ballard, who if you talk to
enough people in and around Indianapolis, there's already been some
questions about there's already been some a what do we know?

(23:16):
What's going on here? It's been a long time since
you've won a division title, been a long time since
you've been a real relevant factor in the AFC, and
you had one of the better franchise type quarterbacks in
the league, and then you come to find out he
was banged up, his body was beat up, he didn't
want to go through the surgeries, he needed time, and

(23:38):
your GM gave him an ultimatum, and the guy said, Fan,
I'm out of here. Bad look if true for Chris
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you the one, the only, the magical, the magnificent, the majestic,
and last but not least, the Saucy mount Sir Isaac longn.

Speaker 6 (24:15):
He's the Kidable.

Speaker 1 (24:16):
I never heard on Vegio.

Speaker 7 (24:18):
What the oh I pressed the wrong button? Sorry, let
me try that again. Actually both do kind of fit
in their own separate ways. Well, thank you, Jonas. We
have a new development as Yukon women's basketball head coach
Gino Oriama has just issued a statement apologizing for confronting.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
All no way, oh Way. But there's a twist.

Speaker 7 (24:50):
So he has issued a statement apologizing for confronting South
Carolina head coach Don Staley after South Carolina beat Yukon
in last night's National semi final. The catch here, Jonas,
is that the apology might have made things even worse.
Orima said, and I quote, there's no excuse for how

(25:12):
I handled the end of the game. I want to
apologize to the staff and the team at South Carolina.
It was uncalled for in how I reacted. The story
should be how well South Carolina played, and I don't
want my actions to detract from that. I've had a
great relationship with their staff and I sincerely want to

(25:35):
apologize to them. Unquote. Orima's apology did not mention Don
Staley by name, even though he confronted her and not
the staff again, that issued just a short time ago
by Yukon head coach Gino Rim. Meanwhile, the Basketball Hall
of Fame class of twenty twenty six was announced today.

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It consists of Amari Stademayer, Shamikua, Hole Old's Claw, Candice Parker,
Elena Della Don, Doc Rivers, Mike dan Toni, Mark Few,
Joey Crawford, and then it ninety sixty United States women's
national team. Baseball, the Blue Jays today plays catcher Alejandro
Kirkhon the ten day injured list with a broken left thumb.

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Tigers plays pitcher Justin Verlander on the fifteen day disabled
list with left hip inflammation. On the field right now,
the Tigers have a six to one leader of the
Saint Louis Cardinals in the bottom of the fourth inning.
Jonas back to you.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
When are they going to come out with the list?
Because I think it's shorter of people that did not
make the basketball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 7 (26:37):
It was a healthy cross section of the basketball community.
I mean, come on, how many people got in the
Baseball Hall of Fame this year?

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Like two? Yeah, It's like all right, see that's the problem,
you know, it's because people that do peds are judged unfairly.
In my mind, you know, I'm pretty sure Ty Cobb
murdered somebody. He's in the Hall of Fame. I mean,
what do you expect when you know you got a
you know, an enshrinement or a hall of fame that

(27:09):
gives Rob Parker a vote? That's what happens.

Speaker 7 (27:12):
Oh what was that necessary? Rob Parker, as I understand,
is in multiple hall of fames and has a press
box named after him. By the way, what do you now?
What do you have named after you?

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Nothing? Well, actually my wife, my wife bought a urinal
cake with my name on it, if that helps. But fair,
here's you want to know what you want to know?
How you'll know that Rob Parker's and all those hall
of fames? He'll tell you.

Speaker 6 (27:41):
Do we count the Magic City Hall of Fame?

Speaker 1 (27:43):
For that was stupid? I'm a woman. Uh No, but listen,
we're that was Rob's time is an adult film star.
But here's the thing I wanted to ask you, Isaac,

(28:08):
was anything about gino Oriema's apology surprising to you anything
at all?

Speaker 7 (28:13):
No, he made it worse, and he made the controversy
bigger and I'm here for it with popcorn.

Speaker 1 (28:19):
That is correct, because he even said it last night.
I have no relationship with Don Staley. There's nothing there.
He was pissed off because what he waited on the
court for three minutes or something like that, and she
didn't come out to shake his hand beforehand, so he
already had a red ass. He probably knew they were
going to get blown out. And then there's apparently she
coached under him for the Olympic team back in twenty

(28:41):
sixteen or something like that, and so he's probably looking
at this. He's got an ego. He's probably looking at
this going, oh, that's like the next big thing that's
taken over the sport. And here I am with an
undefeated team getting shelled in the final four again, and
he's lost to her a couple of times. Now. It's
the least surprise result to all this. And you know what,

(29:01):
I'll give him credit. Good for not apologizing to her,
all right, he apologize in general, good for not apologizing
to her. Enough's enough, man, all right. People need to
come to terms with the reality on a couple of things.
Number One, in the heat of the moment, you sometimes
do regrettable things. All right. It happens. Okay, that stuff happens.

(29:24):
It happens a lot, all right. In the heat of
the moment, maybe you say something, maybe you throw something,
maybe you've done something that you probably shouldn't have done,
and all of a sudden, the next day you wake up,
you've had time to think about it, and or you
sober up and you realize, you know what, that was
a mistake. But maybe not all of it was a mistake,

(29:45):
all right. Maybe he didn't feel bad about the way
he treated Don Staley. Maybe he didn't feel bad about
what he said about Don Staley. So you know, good
for him, Good for him. Gino Oriema looked at this
and said, look, I'm willing to go only so far.
All right. I shouldn't have acted like that, but I'm

(30:09):
not going to apologize for my behavior completely, because there
were parts of that that I absolutely meant, And the
parts I meant were my criticisms of don Staley, the
way she can talk to officials that apparently I can't,
and the fact that she left me hanging out there
for quite a while. And if I'm not mistaken, I
think don Staley was yelling. I'll beat your ass, Gino.
All right, he was threatened, so no, come out and

(30:34):
apologize all that as well. But let's not ignore the
fact that some of that stuff out of anger. You
meant some of that stuff, right, There was some intent there.
So least surprising result from something that took place last
night was you knew Gino Oriema to be the face
of the program, to be one of the faces of

(30:56):
women's college basketball, was gonna come out away, going to
say some nice things. He didn't want it to be
an attack on the South Carolina program. He didn't want
it to be an attack on the South Carolina players.
He didn't want it to stain the sport. But he
also wanted to let you know by leaving Don Staley
out of the apology. Yeah I'm not a fan, and

(31:18):
that's okay, good for him. Least surprising result apology, but
not all the way because no matter what your intent
was and whatever frame of mind you were the night before,
all right, no matter what that was, maybe you didn't
mean all that, but at least you meant some of it.
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(32:02):
from now, we are going to tell you about how
desperate the NFL has gotten. All right, If you want
a true sign of desperation, we've got it for you.
That'll be yours again a little over fifteen minutes from now.
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Jonas Knox Show. But right now it is time for this.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time reports.
Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big stories from
the last week. But Jonas, the real question is do.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
You care for that? We turn it over to our
executive producer, Bo Benson to find out what the hell
people have been talking.

Speaker 6 (33:13):
About all week, Bo Jonas. Rams head coach Sean McVeigh.
During I believe it was the owner meetings this week,
he acknowledged that the team spoke to wide receiver Davante
Adams about the possibility of trading him. That would have
been part of a deal to bring in Aj Brown.
I assume, So, Jonas, do you care about that at all?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
Not? Really? What I care about is now what happens,
because now Davante Adams knows that they were trying to
deal him, and he knows that they were trying to
move on. But maybe it's smart that they did hold
on to him. Based on recent developments in the wide
receiver room with the Rams, it seems like they got
some stuff going on there, so maybe it's smart to
keep a guy who Matthew Stafford had a great relationship

(33:57):
with whom Matthew Stafford had, you know, some real chemistry with,
especially in the red zone. For a lot of Kyron
Williams fantasy owners, you know all too well about the
one yard touchdown passes to DeVante Adams when clearly running
the ball would have been the play there that would
have helped you out. So we'll see how it plays
out moving forward, and we'll see whether or not DeVante
Adams has a red ass based on the fact that

(34:19):
his coach and his team acknowledge, yeah, we were trying
to deal him.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Next.

Speaker 6 (34:24):
Mavericks power forward Cooper Flagg became the youngest player in
NBA history to score at least fifty points in a game,
doing so at just nineteen years old. Last night, Jonas,
do you care, Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Think it's awesome. I think good for the Mavericks. You know,
you trade away Luca and you end up with Cooper Flagg,
a little bit of a consolation prize, clearly a step down.
But for all the hype and all the conversation about
him as a player and him coming into the league
to see what he's done, he's been tremendous To see
what Canipple's done with Charlotte. It's been tremendous. Maybe not

(34:58):
a great look on john Shire either when you consider
those two guys are there and they also collapsed in
the final four and in the NCAA tournament for Duke,
But nonetheless, it's been really fun to watch Cooper flag.

Speaker 6 (35:08):
Next, the NFL said that it had found no reason
to discipline Chiefs wide receiver Rashid Rice over abuse allegations
he was facing. So Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Not really, I I'm exhausted with the NFL's decision making
on why they do one thing but they don't do another,
whether it's this, whether it's you know, the Rooney rule,
and you know, apparently the Bears are not going to
get compensation even though the Falcons hired Ian Cunningham to

(35:39):
be their GM, and it's all the Rooney rue qualification. Like,
it's just the whole thing the NFL, it's the hypocrisy
when they pick and choose to discipline, when they pick
and choose, it's just the whole thing is bizarre. It
doesn't make any sense, and it's hard for me to
keep track of.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Next, the illustrious Chicago White Sox announced that they will
retire Ozzie number thirteen. Do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:03):
Not really? Look I think, look, Ozzy Gan is, you know,
he's a White Sox. He's done an incredible, you know,
incredible job of sort of carrying the flag for the organization.
Maybe not so good of a job while he was
with the Marlins, and maybe you should probably, you know,
stay out of, you know, making comparisons to to people
that would you know, the Cuban population in Miami would

(36:26):
find defensive. But you can look that up on your own.
But I will say this, the highlight of Ozzy Gean's
career with the White Sox has nothing to do with
him winning World Series. It's got nothing to dow with
him as a player. It's got everything to do with
the back and forth that he had with the great
Mike North. And we're actually coming up on the anniversary
of that, so if we're on the air, we will

(36:46):
play that legend between Ozzy Gean and Mike North on
that day. It's a classic. That to me is what
I remember when it comes to Ozzy Gan and the
White Sox.

Speaker 6 (36:57):
Next, the NFL has ramped up its effort to recruit
replacement refs with some group of four team college refs
being offered one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for training
from May to August. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
I just, well, yeah, I guess we kind of have to.

Speaker 6 (37:16):
Where do I sign up?

Speaker 1 (37:17):
I love it? And here's the other thing, I kind
of You know, everyone remembers when the replacement refs were
around and it was a disaster and you saw the
fail Mary. That's where I got the name from the
fail Mary, because it was clear the greatest place, no
catch made, and yet for some reason it was called
a touchdown. Like the whole the whole thing is bananas.

(37:40):
It doesn't make any sense. And when the NFL gets
in these little pissy battles where they're arguing and haggling
over dollars and what refs should be paid and what
it's it's almost as if, all right, we're going to
stand our ground. We're going to be really stubborn about this,
and if it results in a worse product, and if
it were results in us getting the fiasco that we

(38:02):
got ten, twelve, fourteen years ago whenever it was, then
we'll just go back to that to stand our ground.
It's actually, if you think about it. It's a childish move,
and I'll be honest with you, I kind of hope
it happens. And here's why I want to see the
chaos again, except this time I want to see the

(38:23):
chaos with all the gambling companies involved in it, because
now you're not only pissing off the fans, You're not
only pissing off the coaches. You're not only pissing off
the players and the front office. Now you're pissing off
the DraftKings and all the other gambling sites and people
out there that are putting money on this because you

(38:44):
want to stand your ground and haggle over a few
bucks when it comes to the officials, and you want
to bring in some replacement ones to have another fiasco
on your hands. Let's go live. Do I have a
thought on replacement refs? Inside of Christophe for the latest?

Speaker 8 (38:57):
Bring up all the sports books and I cannot help
but know notice that as of two days ago, the
NFL is a free agent with no official sports book sponsor.

Speaker 1 (39:06):
Oh, because the sports books are probably looking around going hey, buddy,
what's the plan here? What? What's it?

Speaker 8 (39:13):
Just?

Speaker 1 (39:14):
The whole thing is the NFL and the way that
they battle back and forth over dollars, like not wanting
to put real grass in because it's more cost effective
to have turf, even though it causes more injuries. It's
just crazy.

Speaker 6 (39:27):
Next, all right, here we go, h Jonas. We are
taking my young daughter to see the Mario Galaxy movie tonight.
This is gonna be a TEP number two because I
took her on Thursday and she was scared of bowser, Jonas,
do you care about that? And also, if it's still available,
should I buy the fifty dollars Yoshi popcorn bucket?

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Oh Jesus, fifty bucks?

Speaker 6 (39:48):
Yeah, fifty dollars fifty bucks.

Speaker 1 (39:49):
For a popcorn bucket? Look, what's so great about the boat?

Speaker 2 (39:54):
You know?

Speaker 6 (39:55):
It's just Yoshi and I think the his egg pops
open for your popcorn. It's insane selling as sandworm, is it? No,
it's not. That is still safely in my room.

Speaker 1 (40:04):
Yeah, well, I mean some have said it's in your wall,
but again I'm not. I don't want to go there,
like I'm not bringing that stuff up. Bo Like that's
the last thing I'm gonna do. Like I would not
want to bring my That's fine. Yeah, okay, listen and
look hey, to each their own. I just I'm not
paying fifty dollars for a Yoshi popcorn bucket on top

(40:27):
of everything else that you've got to pay for while
you're in the movie theater. But here's the problem, and
you know this bow when you're a parent, if it's
fifty bucks to calm your kid down so you can
get through a movie, you're probably gonna en up paying
it like that. That's where they've got you by the balls,
and and all these venues know that as well too.
It's what, hey, you want some crans and you want
a little kids men need to color in because we

(40:49):
know we're going to get you for more when they
throw a tantrum. And you've got no choice if you
want to sign us some desperation in the NFL. Boy,
oh boy, do we.

Speaker 6 (40:57):
Got it for you.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
That'll be yours coming up here in just a cup
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you doing so. We are going to take you live
all the way up until four pm Eastern time, one
o'clock Pacific, And you know, we were talking about the

(41:22):
Final Four, and I was making the point earlier that
with the Final Final Four, it's, you know, one of
the great sporting events. And even though college basketball has changed,
and even though you've seen you know, college sports in
general change, and you've got you know, players going from
one place to the next. You've got players signing nil

(41:46):
deals for one year and then they bail and go
to somewhere else, and the transfer portal all this time.
There's a lot of people who have a lot of
complaints about it. All that is fine, because it really
is exhausting to keep track of all the different results
and core battles and whatnot. And it's sort of taken away,
in my mind, from the fun of it, which is

(42:07):
the sport, the actual playing, because you don't really know
who's going where, who's going to be eligible to play
a Trinidad sham lists, like all of these weird stories
that go on when it comes to college sports. It's
hard to keep track of all of that because you're

(42:27):
too caught up in the drama surrounding it. And so
with the Final Four, I'm looking at it going and
my point earlier was all I'm asking for is if
you're going to move around and it's going to be
so transient, and we're going to see so many different
players and people changing teams and go to and all
that is fair because they all deserve to get paid.
And I think that's awesome. That you can literally be

(42:48):
a millionaire for something you do at the college level
that makes more than that for everybody around you, I
think is wonderful. I think it's tremendous. But because it's
been so transient and people are moving around left and right,
it's hard to figure out and really fall in love
with certain teams and certain players because you don't know

(43:11):
where they're going to be from one year to the next.
And in college basketball, I think it was Mike Krzyzewski
who made the point He's like, man, listen, or Colin
Goward who was making the point he said, man listen,
Like you're going to see a ton of players go
on the top ten at this final four in the
NBA Draft, and all that's great. So if there's that

(43:31):
much talent on the floor, then give me some great games.
If I can't fall in love with these stories surrounding
the teams, or the teams themselves or the players themselves,
then just give me great games. So from that standpoint,
that's where I want the entertainment from. And then you
get the NFL in the NFL is like, you know

(43:54):
what we want the entertainment to. So here's how we're
going to get you the entertainment. We're gonna jam it
down your throat for as long as it takes for
you to realize that this isn't going anywhere. Right, we
talked about the stubbornness the NFL is finding themselves in

(44:17):
this spot to where they're you know, they got refs
coming in and they're going to training camp in May
to get ready for potentially working the season because they're
in this battle and this you know this, this labor
dispute with the NFL Refs Association, and the end the
NFL just looks at it and says, now, listen, man,
look we're going to stand our ground. We'll run the

(44:40):
risk of bringing in these these other officials that do
a less that do a worse job. We're going to
create chaos and we're gonna give you a worse product
just so we can stand our ground, but we're all
about the entertainment. We're all about the fan. And so
here's how they're doing it. All right, the NFL's decided, Hey,

(45:01):
you want entertainment, talking about college basketball, giving you an
entertaining Final Four. You want entertainment, here's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna give you Hard Knocks again, except we're gonna
announce the next two teams to be featured on Hard Knocks,

(45:22):
because if you miss the news, the Seahawks are gonna
be Team one this year in this offseason. That's how
we'll keep you entertained. And we've also announced the Patriots
are gonna do it in twenty twenty seven. And you're
probably thinking to yourself, why the change. Normally we get

(45:42):
it one team at a time every single offseason. So
Adam Schefter tell us why now of all the times,
the NFL has decided, here's how we're gonna entertain you.
We're gonna give you not one, but we're gonna give
you two teams. They're gonna be doing so in the
next two Hard Knocks that you probably didn't ask for.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
So the NFL has been asking teams to do hard knocks,
and the answer always says next.

Speaker 1 (46:09):
Year, we'll do it next year.

Speaker 4 (46:10):
So what the NFL did this year When the NIMAL
Patriots said we'll do it next year, they said, you're in.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
You've got twenty twenty seven.

Speaker 9 (46:17):
Congratulations, And so they take it for two Super Bowl participants,
the Seahawks this summer in twenty six, the Patriots next
summer in twenty seven, and they held their feet to
the fire.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
So basically, the NFL had to call the bluff of
an NFL team in order to get anybody to want
to participate in hard knocks. If that's not an indication

(46:53):
that maybe it's time to put an end to hard knocks,
I don't know what is. It's over. I said it
last year. I said it the year before when they
were struggling to find teams. It's over. Nobody cares, nobody's interested.
The NFL is a year round product. We don't need

(47:15):
the extra entertainment. You can go on Netflix or Amazon
Prime or wherever else you want to go and find
countless documentaries that are NFL related. They're all over the place.
QB Wide Receiver, QB one Football Life, They're all over

(47:37):
the place. We don't need hard knocks anymore. It served
its purpose. It was great, but we don't need it anymore.
We got all the entertainment we want. We got it all.
There's enough documentaries, there's enough television shows, there's enough programs,
there's enough enough coverage, podcast articles, radio shows, TV shows.

(48:06):
We got enough. We don't need more hard knocks. And
the fact that you've got a con NFL teams and
bluff in order to get them to commit this far
in advance, I got to tell you everything you need
to know. This is like bribing your kid when you

(48:27):
want them to potty train. I can remember trying to
get my son potty trained, and I remember telling them like, hey, man, listen,
if we can do this, you know, if we can
do this, there's gonna be big things on the other side. Yeah,
like what, I don't know. What do you want? I
want a golf course? Yeah, okay, okay, okay, you got it, man.
You got a golf course right on my backyard cubicle. Sure,

(48:52):
a golf course. And guess what happened two days later?
Took a dump the size of a bowling pin. Guess
what happened two days after that? A putting green that
doesn't even fit in our backyard, showed up called my bluff.
Probably shouldn't have done that, Probably a bad idea. Maybe

(49:14):
you should have figured out another way or uh yeah,
called my bluff. NFL, nobody wants to do it anymore.
John Schneider can say whatever he wants about.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
Uh, you know we're gonna make the most of it.
I talked to Ryan Poles about uh, about doing hard
knocks and you know, we're gonna we're gonna pick from
everybody and we're really gonna have a fun time with this, Okay,
And what was Ryan Poles' feedback? Hey Man, hard knocks
was great for us. They showed the story and told
the tale of us giving Dj Moore that massive contract
we gave him. Oops, how that last? Hey? They showed

(49:55):
a Matt Eberflus and Caleb Williams getting together every day
to talk about what they saw practice. Oops, how that go?
Nobody wants to do it. The fact that everyone's doing
the yay, we'll get to it later, we'll get to
it later, and they're procrastinating progress because nobody wants it.
And yet, for whatever reason, the NFL is like a

(50:19):
stand up comic who goes on tour and swears that
this joke is gonna kill. Uh, this is the one
man it's gonna kill. It was just that audience. No, no, no,
it was it was that audience. I'll do it the
next show and it bombs again. Yeah, but you know,
maybe those people who drank too much before they sat down.

(50:40):
I'll do it at the next show and it bombs again. Yeah,
but you know, I'm telling you, it's an earlier time
slot here, all right. The weather's a little better, you know,
there's there's less distraction. I'm on a better part of
the lineup. This is gonna be the time this joke's
gonna kill. And it bombs again. At what point do
you go, Yeah, maybe that's just a bad joke. Maybe

(51:02):
I got to write some new material. If you're the NFL,
write some new material, or just be good with the
material you got, because that joke is dead. Nobody cares
about Hard Knocks anymore. Who watches it? Who's watching it?
There's enough content. You don't need to bluff teams to

(51:26):
get them to do it. You just need to take
what the teams are saying to you without saying it
to you and realize Hey, nobody wants to be a
part of this. It's over. It's run its course. We
already tried to force teams into it by saying, well,
if you do this for the year prior, you're not qualified.
But these are the teams that will be qualified. And

(51:47):
then they cut down on those restrictions and next thing
you know, here we are the defending Super Bowl champions.
Oh then the team that was in the Super Bowl
as well, they're going to get the next two years,
which I'm sure they're all thrilled with at the Jonas
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(52:08):
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fan base, Okay, because it's not their fault that they've
been done dirty before, right, and it's yours right here
on FSR Boom Texas for Jonas Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Uh,

(52:35):
coming up, we will call it a little over ten
minutes from now. I'm gonna tell you about somebody in
the NFL that has had a very interesting offseason and
I don't think it's a good thing. Be honest with you.
I don't think. I don't think things are trending in
the right direction for a team that people A lot

(52:56):
of people feel are so we will get into that
for you coming up here a little over ten minutes
from now. A lot of positive feedback, by the way,
on the show, people fired up about what we've done
so far. An hour plus into the program, Booby writes in,
Hey Jonas, I bet your wife wishes she had some
hard knocks once a week. Tell that saucy mouth Isaac

(53:19):
Lohancron to keep up the good work. It's interesting. Makes
you wonder if maybe Isaac's behind that Twitter account. Another
guy writes in, Hey Monica Lewinsky Jr. Why don't you

(53:39):
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in West Hollywood. The only thing redder than Gino's ass
is yours. After that bleep show, whack Wombat writes in,

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you've not heard this or you've missed the news, the
NFL's really into this international thing. I mean it's it's
their thing. Like the NFL like they got it. You know,

(55:16):
love their international stuff. They love you know, they're really
going to try and you know, push the international agenda.
They're going to get all these games to take place
in all these different places. We're seeing everything from Spain
to England, More to Germany to Mexico to all the

(55:37):
and now Australia is going to get it. They did
Brazil last year. But what's interesting about the Brazilian or
the Australian game is the fact that it's going to
be the Rams and the forty nine Ers. So they
did a division game in Brazil last year, they did
Chiefs Chargers, but now they're sending the Rams and the

(55:57):
forty nine Ers out to Australia. So early this week,
while on NBC Sports talking with Mike Florio, you add
Kyle Shanahan, the forty nine Ers head coach, Matt Lafleur,
the Packers head coach, and they sort of kind of

(56:17):
hinted at in a joking way about why their good
friend Sean McVay and the Rams wanted to play the
game against the forty nine Ers in Australia. I'm pretty
sure the Rams lobbied for that game.

Speaker 8 (56:32):
For the fact they did it because we don't bother
some coolfully the legal do right and let us play
the Rams in Mexico since we got to go out
of the country twice and.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
They requested us. I'm requesting them in Mexico. Oh not
that not that that gives us an advantage. It's just
fair to make them go out of the country. That
would be great to have some games between the Rams
of forty nine ers. Like you, I knew he might
go this. He brought it up. I knew it. I
so he's ready for the right moments, all right, So

(57:00):
I have brought this up a little bit. So you
think the Rams have lobby because they're they're sick of
seeing the forty nine ers dominate the crowd at Sofi.
And I get that, Yeah, that would sip.

Speaker 7 (57:12):
Yeah, I have to do sign a cadence and have
our home game at their stadium.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
So I get their ambitions. But sure they were rewarded
that because I'm just hoping we can get it, quite
get it. I'd love them to come to Mexico. Now,
obviously kind of joking, kind of you know, teasing a
little bit here, because they're all good buddies. But one
of the things that they are alluding to there is, well,

(57:39):
the forty nine ers take over Sofi Stadium whenever they
come out to LA and that is true. Every time
you watch a forty nine ers Rams game at Sofi,
it does feel like it's prenominantly forty nine Ers fans.
If you can recall the forty nine ers Rams game
that took place during the regular season. It was a

(58:02):
Thursday night game. It was a game in which Mac
Jones was going through body cramps and he almost threw
up on the sideline because he was eating so many
bananas because Rock Party was still hurt. And so Mac
Jones went in there and the forty nine Ers actually
pulled off the upset. They were riddled with injuries and
the forty it was another one of those weird losses
by the Rams that nobody could really figure out, like

(58:23):
how did they lose that game? And so Mac Jones
steps up apparently saw a dead body floating by his hotel,
you know, the night before or the day of the game. Whatever.
It was, like just the whole thing was weird. But
even in that game, they showed up and it was
almost all forty nine Ers fans. And here's the one
thing that I would say, because I know everybody makes

(58:45):
the jokes and I make the jokes and all that.
Can I defend Rams fans for a second here? All right,
let me just defend him for a second. First of all,
the stadium's a pain in the ass. Okay. It's expensive
as all hell to get there, and once you get there,
to park. There is crazy, all right. You get into

(59:06):
the stadium, and while it's a nice place, it wasn't
really built for football fans. It was built for fans
of all sorts of stuff, concerts, soccer games, monster truck rallies. Also,
it's an entertainment complex. That's what it was built for.

(59:27):
It was built to have Super Bowls, not just to
placate to the Rams and or the Chargers. So you've
got that on top of all that, and maybe most importantly,
the organization left. It's not as if you've been loyal

(59:51):
and you've stood by and watched this team for years
and they literally got up and left and didn't just
leave for an hour or a month or a year.
They were gone for a couple of decades, and people
just expected that all of a sudden, when they decided

(01:00:12):
they were ready to come back because they liked the
stadium set up better, or the proposal that was out
there better, because they played in the coliseum the first
couple you just expected that as soon as they come back,
they're going to sell that place out and everybody's just
going to be bought in all the way. That's not
how it works because what people miss and what people

(01:00:32):
don't realize is out here during that time when the
Rams were gone, when the Chargers weren't in LA, when
the Raiders left, people started picking teams to root for.
So it's why there's a large Cowboys fan base out here.

(01:00:54):
It's why there's a large Raiders fan base out here.
The Raiders were still in California. It's why there was
still a big forty nine Er fan base out here
that still goes to those games because they were still
in California. So a lot of fans just chose those

(01:01:16):
teams because they didn't have a local NFL team to
cheer for. So you get all these people on the outside,
they go, man, how could you let those people take
over your stadium? What do you mean they left? Like
I know some Rams fans that followed them to Saint
Louis and then followed them back, but they bailed for

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twenty years. So did you just expect everybody?

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Just It's like when Chargers fans get a hard time, like, oh,
you let all these opposing fans come into so fine,
they're cheering for the other team and not your team.
We were in San Diego, we were never in LA,
and maybe those people don't want to drive from San
Diego to come up here. It's gonna take time. So

(01:02:04):
the forty nine Ers and their fan base selling out
so far and dominating the attendance game when they can, well, yeah,
just like the Raiders do, just like the Cowboys do,
just like a lot of opposing fans do. Because out
here people were looking for teams to root for. I
had a buddy during that time who roots for the Dodgers.

(01:02:28):
Is a Dodger fan, like he will root for the
Dodgers because that was the team that's never left. They've
been here in LA. And obviously we know they came
from Brooklyn and all that, but right now they've been
in LA for decades. They've got a fan base. Same
with the Lakers. And I had a buddy at the
time who was trying to pick an NFL team, and

(01:02:49):
I swear to god this was his reasoning. He picked
the Browns as he said, yeah, I'm just gonna go
with whoever's the worst team on Madden, and so he
chose the Browns and he's been rooting for them for
twenty years. But had the Rams been here, had they
been around, he would have been a Rams fan. The

(01:03:10):
problem is they got up and left. So you've got
a lot of people who chose a team and they're
loyal to that team, and it's not like they're going
to pick a team the Niners or the Raiders, or
they'll pick the Eagles or the Bears or the Packers
or somebody like that, and then all of a sudden,
the Rams come back and go all right, everybody, throw

(01:03:31):
away all your gear, forget everything you've been rooting for
for the past fifteen years, twenty years. Now we're going
to transition to the team that decided they were ready
to come back. Doesn't work that way. NFL fans are loyal,
If you haven't noticed, NFL fans are really loyal. They
will continuously root for an awful team because they don't

(01:03:53):
want to give up their fandom for that team. So
this idea that man, the Rams should be condemned because
the Niners take over their stadium and the the Ram fans,
what does it say about you? What does it say
about the organization that they bailed for twenty years, decided
to come back and then look around as if God,
what's going on here? We can't get anybody to show
up to our games. No, you are, and it's improving

(01:04:16):
and it's getting better, but there was a large period
of time where people locally shows elsewhere because you weren't around.
And it would also help if when you do win
the Super Bowl, if one of the politicians who steps
up to give a speech at the Super Bowl parade

(01:04:38):
isn't wearing a Saint Louis Rams jersey, that would probably
help to at the Jonas Knox on x at Jonas
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us as always on the IHR radio app. All right,
it's coming up next here. Not the best offseason for
one team in the NFL. We'll get into that for
you right here on FSR. But for all the latest,
we turn it over to the One, to the Only,

(01:05:01):
to the Magnificent, and yes, the saucy mouth, Sir, Isaac Longin,
just gotta sign out of one of my burner accounts.
I'll be right with you, Okay, all set. You got
fans out there. I don't, but you do, Isaac gradually.

Speaker 7 (01:05:14):
Well and rightly so, to be completely honest with you, Jonas,
you caught women's basketball head coach Gino Orima today issued
a statement apologizing for confronting South Carolina head coach Don
Staley after South Carolina beat Yukon in last night's National
semi final. Orima said, quote, there's no excuse for how

(01:05:34):
I handled the end of the game. I want to
apologize to the staff and the team at South Carolina.
The story should be how well South Carolina played, and
I don't want my actions to detract from that. I've
had a great relationship with their staff, and I sincerely
want to apologize to them. Unquote, Orima's apology did not

(01:05:57):
mention Don Staley by name. Meanwhile, the Basketball Hall of
Fame class of twenty twenty six was announced today, consisting
of Amari Statamier Shamik will Holds, Claw, Candice Parker, Elena Deladon,
Doc Rivers, Mike D'Antoni, Mark Feud, Joey Crawford at the
nineteen ninety six US women's national team. Baseball, the Toronto
Blue Jays today plays catcher Alejandro Kirk on the ten

(01:06:20):
day injured list with a broken left thumb. The Detroit
Tigers plays pitcher Justin Verlander on the fifteen day disabled
list with left hip inflammation. Finally, Jonas, we have a
Major League Baseball beer update. Alright, Today, the Washington Nationals
are having a twenty first birthday celebration, with today being

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the twenty one year anniversary of the Nationals inaugural game.
As part of the festivities today, they determined that a
Nationals fan named sorche Lewis will also be celebrating her
twenty first birthday today, So before today's game against the Dodgers,
chill Lewis will be partaking in a ceremonial first sip

(01:07:04):
of beer in honor of her twenty first birthday. Here
for his reaction, Fox Sports Radio beverage insider Jonas Knox Jonas.

Speaker 1 (01:07:14):
Yeah, listen, I spent my twenty first birthday having a
babysit my buddy, who was already twenty one, because he
just got annihilated and he saw his ex girlfriend with
some guy and he got upset about it and he just,
i mean got absolutely butchered, and so I ended up
having to carry him out of there. So I didn't
even get I didn't even get hammered on my twenty

(01:07:35):
first I don't even remember that night, one bet, but
you were a good friend. You were a good friend
that night. Yeah, listen, to Isaac, you know you were
going through it, man, I don't blame you. I don't
blame you. By the way, did you get ripped in
half on your twenty first birthday? Okay?

Speaker 7 (01:07:48):
So my twenty first birthday was?

Speaker 1 (01:07:51):
What was I doing?

Speaker 5 (01:07:52):
Then?

Speaker 1 (01:07:55):
You know what?

Speaker 7 (01:07:55):
It was probably right around the start of that my
junior year of college, and I was probably like announcing
either a women's soccer match or a water polo match,
or maybe a football game, depending on the day. So
good for you got after it pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:11):
I can remember that same buddy who I had to
babysit on my twenty first birthday when he turned twenty one.
I was a bar back at TGI Fridays. Was that
before or after the Chuck E cheese rat?

Speaker 5 (01:08:27):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
Well after that? I graduated right same mall, you know,
same Saint Jan's marketplace, same mall, just you know, right
right around the corner from there, and Toys r Us
ironically all in the same place. But so he shows
up and he's already mangled, and we could tell that
he was going to like it was. It was going

(01:08:48):
to be bad, and so he ended up doing like
an Irish car bomb or something like that. And I
could see him starting to get sick while he was sitting.
But you know, like the people that are trying not
to throw up and they're really going through it. Sometimes
you'll run straight to the bathroom. Other times you're trying
to like no, no, no, it's not happening, and you just
end up looking stationary and your mouth stots the water.
So I can see it happening. I literally picked a

(01:09:11):
bus tub off the ground behind the bar and just
set it on top of the bar for him to
lose his lunches.

Speaker 6 (01:09:17):
Smooth move.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
You know what, A got all in the bus tub
and nowhere else. See that's the thing.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
Yeah, I mean, if it was a smaller vessel, there
could have been a spill, or it could have run over,
which actually once happened to me in a different way. Yeah,
with something else that I probably shouldn't talk about. But anyway,
that's a heads up movie. You're a good friend.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Yeah. No, So for anybody out there that's celebrating their
twenty first birthday, make friends with the bus boy because
if for whatever reason, you know, things go sideways, they've
got a bus tub on them, they can just throw
it ay and I slid it across the bar too,
so it look cool, you know, like I just said
it there, I slid it across the ball.

Speaker 7 (01:10:04):
You know what I shouldn't. I shouldn't tell this story,
but you bring this out of me. So remember the
golf tournament at Riviera. I don't remember what it's called now,
it's maybe the Farmers Open, but it used to be
called the Nissan Open.

Speaker 1 (01:10:15):
Right, was that the tiger Woods Tournament? No not, I don't.
I don't think so. I think he had another tournament anyway,
it was which which I believe is the Triple A Tournament.

Speaker 8 (01:10:25):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
Yeah, So I was covering that at the rivi Era.
But then I had an anchoring shift that night in
Burbank and I got stuck in and hillacious traffic jam
on Sunset Boulevard and I was terrified of missing my
shift and nature called during the traffic jam, so I
had to.

Speaker 1 (01:10:45):
You know, relieve myself. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:47):
Yeah, but that's that's the problem. The bottle that I
was using was too small, and you figure out the
So I was unlike you at the bar, So heads
up to you.

Speaker 1 (01:10:59):
Good are you? Isaac? Congratulations? Man?

Speaker 7 (01:11:03):
That's awesome. And I did make it in time for
my shift the Dirk.

Speaker 1 (01:11:07):
Diggler of Sports Stock Radio. Wait, way to slightly move
that into the discussion there. Let everybody know, Isaac, it's
good good for you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:16):
No.

Speaker 7 (01:11:16):
I Hey, if you want, if you want to, if
you want to take that connotation away from it, I
will not dispute you. Lord only knows, hey, but I
people call it.

Speaker 1 (01:11:25):
Some people call it urinating. Isaac calls it batting practice.

Speaker 7 (01:11:28):
All right, all right, notice how I'm not disputing you.

Speaker 1 (01:11:32):
Back to you grow up at the Jonahs Knocks on
X at Jonas knock Show on Instagram is where he
can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app.
All right, So I did I've kind of been keeping
track of this stuff, and I think I have everything
correct here. All right. So one of the teams that
everybody looks at and says, hey, they're on the rise,

(01:11:54):
that's a team that could really be a team to
mess with next year, like you got to really deal
with them next year like that. That's a team to
reckon with in twenty twenty six in the NFL. And
one of those teams is the Chicago Bears. A lot
of hype, a lot of momentum, a lot of positive feelings,
all right, And I'm looking at the off season because

(01:12:15):
there's a lot of teams that have made moves in
the off season. I'm just keeping track of everything Bears
related in the off season, and so far, here's what
I got. You traded Dj Moore, who arguably caught the
two biggest touchdowns in recent franchise history, and by recent

(01:12:40):
I mean twenty years, fifteen, twenty maybe more years, like
caught two of those. You say whatever you want about
the miscommunication on the final route and the interception from
Kleb Williams probably shouldn't have thrown that ball, let's be honest.
But I'm looking at it and going, all right, So
you traded away Djmore. You are haggling the NFL over

(01:13:02):
some compensatory picks to which the NFL denied again because
of the Rooney rule mess. Your stadium issue is still
a mess that is still playing out, and there's some
talk that you might move to Hammond, Indiana and not
stay in Chicago or even renovate Soldier Field at this point,

(01:13:22):
and then your quarterback is in a trademark battle with
George Gervin over Iceman. Yeah, I don't know everything coming
out this offseason just doesn't feel like it's the best
thing for the Bears. I don't know about you. And
then you start to look back at last year and
you realize, you know, there were a lot of games,
and they're one of those teams much like the Broncos

(01:13:45):
that you look at and go, eh, how many of
those games are going to go that way for you again?
How many games and bounces and turnovers are going to
go your way again? How many times are you going
to win a game on a blocked kick or a
crazy ending or some fluky result that you look at

(01:14:08):
and go, Yeah, that's gonna happens. You can replicate that
another season. Yeah, your defense can be bad, but don't
worry about it. You're just gonna create turnovers like you
did again next year. How many times does that happen?
And then you get to the offseason and you've got
stadium drama, draft pick, Rooney rule drama, a trademark battle

(01:14:33):
with George Gervin for some reason, and the player who
caught the two biggest touchdowns in recent franchise history you
traded him. I don't know about you. Seems like a
less than ideal offseason to me. At the Jonas Knocks
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can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio app.
Coming up next here, we close up shop on this

(01:14:56):
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Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
How could you not get to these stories?

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
Are there? Scraps? And for that we turn it over
to our executive producer, Bo Benz and to find out
what the hell we've missed so far in the show.

Speaker 6 (01:16:14):
Bo well, the big news out of Lakerland. I don't
know how he missed this one. Lebron James did like
a show, a golf podcast with some guys he's like golfing,
and he just talked about how much he hates staying
in Memphis and that the Grizzlies need to move to Nashville,
which caused a firestorm. Lebron doubled down today, reiterating his
anti Memphis stance and also adding Milwaukee and yeah, Cleveland

(01:16:40):
to two cities that he does not like staying in
while playing there.

Speaker 1 (01:16:44):
Okay, now, what is the all right? So Milwaukee's got
a haunted hotel? Right like that? I think that's Okaye Bets, well,
I think Mookie Betts has said that one in Milwaukee too. Yeah,
in Milwaukee there's a haunted hotel, and so that's why
all those guys freak out. Let's go live to our
I've got something on haunted hotels inside of Christopher fabulat
More on Milwaukee.

Speaker 8 (01:17:05):
But I always remember, I think Chuck Daily threatened to
leave a Detroit Piston in Milwaukee and told him there's
no nightclubs in Milwaukee that you that you can go to.

Speaker 1 (01:17:13):
So I don't know. I mean that that's the nineties.

Speaker 8 (01:17:15):
If Milwaukee Sullivan advanced the nightclubs.

Speaker 1 (01:17:18):
I don't know. I just I've not partaken in any
of the entertainment in Milwaukee or Memphis to know which
one sucks and which one doesn't. I just know the
Cleveland thing's kind of weird. Maybe he's legacy, or maybe
he looks at this as you know, I don't want
people to think that I'm just going to go crawling back,

(01:17:39):
or he knows that they won't take him back, so
then he's going to.

Speaker 6 (01:17:41):
Put it out here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Oh yeah, like it got to be preemptant. Yeah, I
don't like going home. I didn't want to go home anyway.
Yeah no, yeah, listen, I didn't like you guys, I
don't want to be bit Why do you think I
left so many times? But yeah, the the Milwaukee thing,
there's a haunted hotel. I think Mookie Betts has talked
about it. It's legitimately haunted. And then the Memphis Like,
what is his issue with me? Like, so that's what
I don't understand.

Speaker 6 (01:18:04):
Yeah, I think he just wants to be in Nashville
because there's more stuff to do there. Lebron was also
being called racist on Twitter for this stance, so that's
not really Yeah, that's a new one for me.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
Oh that's awesome. Hey they have why not? Okay, Like
I mean everything, Okay, that's fine, all right, So get
racist against what black people or white? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
I am assuming the former. I don't want to comment.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Why not anybody's gad you never know.

Speaker 8 (01:18:34):
I mean I take a look at the bachelorette parties
in Nashville and kind of goes a particular way.

Speaker 1 (01:18:39):
Yeah, but he's a married man.

Speaker 6 (01:18:41):
Yes, So nothing to worry about Lebron on that front.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
What else we got?

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
But ESPN published a dissertation letter earlier this week on
everything wrong with Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts. I don't know
if you saw that. Oh my god, Yeah, the days
of our Eagles is in full steam.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
It's and then I think Jeff McClain had an article
that ye said, Yeah, Jalen Hurts has gotten the message.
He knows this is the last year of his guaranteed
money and this and that, and you know, there's going
to be a time where all of these guys that
are involved with the Eagles years down the road are
going to realize, you know, wasn't that bad, you know,

(01:19:23):
like it really really wasn't that bad if you know, actually, actually,
you know, it's pretty cool winning a super Bowl, nearly
winning another one, and going to the playoffs every year.
That was pretty cool. Like that was a really fun time.
And all they've done during this close to historic run
for the Philadelphia Eagles is complain about the quarterback and

(01:19:45):
complain about everything else. It's just I've never seen a
more successful, more miserable group of people in my entire life.
It's amazing. This has been a fun one. Thanks to Chris,
thanks to Bow, thanks to Isaac. Stick around more Fox
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