Jonas Knox talks Packers "Last Dance" and Dak Prescott's Rapid Recovery

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not talking about the vaccine done. That's a rap. I'm
not doing it. But we do need to talk about
something that does have a little bit of fatigue added
to it, and it's the Aaron Rodgers situation in Green Bay.
Because Aaron Rodgers situation in Green Bay is not all
of a sudden added a little bit of a new wrinkle,
a new element to it. He's got some company. Aaron

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Rodgers has got some company, and that company is none
other than all Pro Wide Receiver Davanta Adams. All right,
So Davante Adams is looking to get a contract. He's
entering the final year of a deal, a four year
Deally side back in UH and an extension he signed that.
And so Davante Adams would like a new deal and
he'd like to get something done in Green Bay. And

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apparently the talks between Davante Adams and the Green Bay
Packers have broken off. All right. They are reportedly in
a bad place, uh at that according to seven NFL insiders,
and they will not be having any more discussions when
it comes to these contract negotiations. And so you see
that and you go, well, you know, maybe that's just

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pure coincidence his contracts coming up. Aaron Rodgers has got
an issue. Those guys have had conversations back and forth,
and they've talked about how much they like playing with
each other, you know, and and all the other things
to go along with it. And you think pure coincidence.
I mean, like one doesn't have anything to do with
the other. Uh. These guys aren't in cahoots. They're not
communicating back and forth. For all we know, Davante Adams

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doesn't know whether or not Aaron Rodgers is going to
show up to training camp on Tuesday. And then social
media was invented a short time ago. And then social
media has taken advantage of by Aaron Rodgers and Davante
Adams who posted the same exact picture on Instagram or
snap face or whatever app you want to call it.

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They posted a picture of Michael Jordan's and Scottie Pippen
giving each other a fist bump, and people have now
taken that as me this is the last dance. It's
the last hurrah, Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams together one
last time. All Right, here's the one thing I'll say.
Aaron Rodgers may be done in Green Bay. He might

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be This maybe the last year. I think if you
are a Packer fan, this is good news. If you're
a Packer fan and you feel like, hey, Aaron Rodgers,
we're not sure whether or not he's gonna come back,
but then you see this pop up kind of makes
you feel good. It's like back in the day when
you weren't sure whether or not you were broken up
with your significant other, and so you kept checking their

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status on social media. You'd go on Facebook because it's
still in a relationship. Are they still in a relationship.
Are they still this or they Aaron Rodgers is clearly
identified and indicated we're gonna give this one last go.
If that, If that is the way you read this
social media post, Aaron Rodgers is telling you we're gonna
give it a go, which means he's probably gonna be
there on Tuesday. He might show up a day late,

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maybe he'll get fine, maybe they'll they'll try and not work.
That's fine, and in who the hell knows, But that
would lead me to believe that Aaron Rodgers is going
to be there. Davante Adams wants a new deal, and
Davontae Adams is looking at this situation like, hey, man,
I'd like to get a contract done. If we can't
make my quarterback happy and we can't make me happy,

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what the hell is the point? Well, the point is
you may not be thrilled, but they can just franchise
you next year. They can just slap you with the
tag if they wanted to. I mean, if Green Bay
wants to keep Davante Adams around, they're gonna keep Davontae
Adams around. These guys posting this on social media is
an indicator to me that they're gonna be there, They're

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gonna be a camp, and the Packers are gonna give
this one more go. And if I'm a Packer fan,
here's why I'm happy about it. All you can ask
for is for your team to be put in the
best position to succeed. That's it. If you are a
fan of whatever team you're a fan of, all you're
hoping for is that they put you in a better

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position to watch a good football team next year. That's it.
That's all you're hoping for. If you're a Patriots fan,
the free agent moves and all the stuff they've done
in the offseason, it may not work. Drafting Mac Jones
in the first round, it may not work. Bringing Cam
Newton back for another year after what happened last year.

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It may not work. But you know what, they've lined
themselves up and they put themselves in a position to succeed.
And if you're a Packer fan, your Green Bay Packers
have put themselves in a position with Aaron Rodgers and
Davante Adams. If you're just looking short term, to give
you another opportunity at a third straight trip to the

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Super Bowl, and that's all you can ask for these
guys are going to be at camp this week. I'm convinced.
I've been convinced for a little while. I don't need
a sports book to take down the season win total
for everybody to go, oh, does that mean that he's retiring. No,
it just means if they're not sure what to do

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and they don't want to lose their ass in the
sports book, that's all it means. But if I'm a
Packer fan, I look at this and go, hey, man,
you put us in a position to succeed. We're trying
to win games, and we're trying to get to a
super Bowl. You've been to back to back conference championship
games your twenties six and six the last two years

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in the regular season, and you're bringing back your quarterback
and one of the best wide receivers in the NFL
for a third straight trip. If it doesn't work this
year and you got to move on, at least you
can say you were in the conversation, and you were
in the discussion. But as of right now, I look
at that social media post and I think to myself,
all right, short term, we don't know what long term is.

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We have no idea what's gonna happen long term? But
short term I'm a Packer fan. This works for me
because that's an indicator that these guys are gonna be
together and they're gonna show up. Now. The only issue
Aaron Rodgers is gonna have is at some point he's
gonna get to camp and people are going to ask
over and over and over again, what the hell is
going on? What's happening, what do you think the future holds,

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What's gonna be happening next, Where do you plan on
playing next year? Is this your final season in Green Bay?
All of that's gonna happen, and I think that's part
of the hesitation for Aaron Rodgers. I don't think he
wants to deal with it, but we are too far
gone down the road. Toothpaste is out of the tube
and he's gonna have to deal with the fact that
these are the questions that are gonna come this week.
But as of right now, in the short term, if

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I'm a Packer fan, I'm good with this. You were
most likely moving off from Aaron Rodgers next year. Davante Adams.
It's a long term deal. Who knows whether or not
it even make sense at that point to bring Davantae
Adams back and commit that much money to the wide
receiver position. I would think it would because then you're
gonna have Jordan's love on a rookie contract and you

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can go forward with that. I would think it would
make a lot of sense. But as of right now,
if I'm a Packer fan them hosting a picture of
Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, we can all try and
read into it, and we can all break out our
Dakota rings and see what our horoscope says and what
it's an indicator of. It's an indicator to me that
these guys are gonna be a training camp this upcoming

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week and you're gonna get another opportunity to try and
make a run of the Super Bowl. And in the end,
that's all you can ask for. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
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there are a couple of teams that are doing something.
I gotta be honest with you, man, it seems like
it makes a lot of sense, but then you peel
back a couple of layers and I don't think it
makes any sense whatsoever. We'll get into that for you
next year Fox Sports Radio. Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio
coming up in we'll call it a little over ten

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minutes from now here on fs are UM. I have
identified thing about myself and a major sporting event, right,
So I've identified something, and I actually believe that there's
a lot of people who feel the same way, maybe
just we haven't put a finger on it yet, but
we're going to address that situation coming up here a
little over ten minutes from now on fs are UM.

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So there's this big discussion going on in college football
right now, and if you are a traditionalist, you don't
like this whatsoever. Right. If you are into tradition in
college football tradition, you're probably not very fond of what
Texas and Oklahoma are planning on doing because you're seeing
all these reports to where it's gone from. Texas and
Oklahoma are knocking on the door of the Big Twelve

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or of the SEC, wanting to get out of the
Big Twelve, and they want to join the the SEC
and formed this super conference, and so those you know
that stuff popped up, you know, earlier in the week,
and then all of a sudden, the next day the
reports became more and more at a fever pitch. And
then the next day it was oh, no, no, no,
they're not even gonna show up to the to the

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Big Twelve meeting that everybody is going to have to
address this situation. And now you're seeing stuff out there
that this could be taking place in a matter of weeks. Um.
You've also heard that that Texas and Oklahoma are willing
to wait so they don't have to pay as much
to get out and buy their way out of the
Big Twelve in essence to go join the SEC. But
if you're a fan of tradition in college football tradition,

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this doesn't appeal to you, and I'll be honest with you,
doesn't really appeal to me either. I I don't look
I still and right or wrong, I can't get over
the fact that Maryland is in the Big Ten. It
just doesn't sit right with me. I don't know, I
just I can't do it. Like when I think Syracuse,

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I think Big East. Like every time I'm watching the
a SEC tournament in college basketball. I see Syracuse it
and I go, what the hell is happening here? Shouldn't
you be playing Georgetown? Like where the hell's Jerry McNamara like, well,
let's go what's going on here? Like there? There are
certain moves that have been made in college sports that
I just don't get. Nebraska. I don't view Nebraska as

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a Big ten school man. I still think Nebraska is
Big twelve and and going all the way back, you
can say Big eight. But but that's so when you're
a traditionalist, a lot of things that have happened in
college football you're not fans of, like the bull set up.
It used to be back in the day to where
New Year's Day was really looked forward to, and it

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still is. I'm not gonna dismiss New Year's Day and
say oh, it's completely gone, and it doesn't, but it's
not the same. But this is where we are with
college athletics, and with all this money and all the
TV deals and the TV rights and everything that comes
along with it. This is where we are with college athletics.
There's this much money involved, and when there's this much
money involved, teams are trying to figure out a way

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that they can take advantage of it and that they
can try and make more money for their programs moving forward.
Thing that I don't understand about Texas and Oklahoma, especially Texas.
Oklahoma has had some success, like Oklahoma has been a
really good program over the past several years. I think

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Oklahoma is gonna be fine. Either they moved to the
Big twelve or stay in the Big Twelve, or moved
to the SEC, whatever the case may be. I think
Oklahoma is gonna be fine. Oh I'm not worried about Oklahoma.
But if you're Texas, you've been the armpit fart of
college football for how many years now? Every time a

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college football season kicks off, all I hear about is, man,
this is the year for Texas. Hook them, horns are back.
McConaughey's in a in an orange leather jacket on the sidelines.
This means Texas is back. Shout out Austin, hook them.
Like every year, it's the same thing over and over again.

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Texas is back. Texas is back. And every year they
lose a couple of games early on, and all of
a sudden, the hot incoming coach that they hired to
save the program is in trouble. It's every year with
this team. And so just from a football standpoint, you

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think going to the SEC is gonna be better for you? Ah, seriously,
do you think that's a good idea? Okay, I'm not
a big fan of spicy food. What do you plan
on doing about it? I don't know. Rub hallapenos in
my eyes? Oh cool, that works. That makes a lot

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of sense. What are you doing? Man? If you're Texas,
this would be the time that you don't move. If
I'm Texas, if I'm a Texas fan, I'm looking. I'm
i gotta be scratching my head. And they won't say
this because they're gonna pretend like we'll take on all comers.
We're not afraid of the big bad SEC. Well you
should be. You absolutely should be, because there's been parts

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of the Big twelve that have been terrifying for you.
So I would definitely be concerned. I would be scared
about the SEC. Why now, especially when you consider this name,
image and likeness is running rampant in college football to

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where kids. I mean, you've got Nick Saban, who, by
the way, can we shout out to Nick Saban? You
talk about a shrewd move. Nick Saban announces that his
quarterback Bryce Young, who's never started a game for Alabama,
He's played a little bit but never started a game.
And from everybody that I've talked to, because he's from

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out here in southern California, everybody that I've talked to,
multiple people who know a lot more about high school football,
quarterback development and college football than I do, all say, guys,
a stud. Guy's an absolute stud. Brady Quinn, we do
a show together. That's my radio wife. Whatever his name is,
Brady Quinn. I think his name is Brady Whatever. We

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do a show together. And he could not stop bloviating
about Bryce Young. And all he did was watched the
spring game and he went on this thing about man,
he's the Highestman Trophy winner. I'm telling you, this guy's
a stud. This guy's study. Nick Saban earlier this week
talks about how Bryce Young, never started a game for Alabama,

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is gonna be close to seven figures, close to a
million dollars in name, image and likeness deals done, and um,
what's interesting about that. It's not the amount of money
that Bryce Young is getting or the fact that Nick
Saban is talking about that. It's the fact that Nick
Saban did that while at a high school coaches convention
in Texas, just letting you guys know, if if one

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of your players wants to come here, this is what's
in store for him. Just letting you guys know, sending
that back to all your players. So you're the Texas Longhorns,
that guy comes into your backyard, makes that statement, and
you think now is the time to go. You know what,
we'd like to be a part of that too. I
if I'm Texas, I'm not going anywhere because with name,

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image and likeness, if you wanted to fix your program,
this is the quick way to do it right now.
Nobody can deny the fact Texas is a brand. They
are an absolute brand. Uh. They in that state. You've
got Longhorn fans everywhere. They are the brand. They're very
similar to the Dallas Cowboys to where they don't even

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need real success to be a success. Texas can just
show up. They're gonna have, you know, a hundred thousand
people at their games. They're all gonna be fired up,
They're gonna get really geeked out going into a season.
They're gonna be on somebody's preseason poll, and three weeks
in they're out of a major bowl game because they've
lost two of their first three. Like this is the

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it's rinse and repeat with Texas. But if you wanted
to fix the program and you have that kind of
a brand, name, image and likeness is sitting here. If
you wanted to even the score and get the best
players and get all the guys to not leave your state,
get all the players to not leave the state of
Texas to go to a place like Alabama, for example,

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where they can make a million dollars in name, image,
and likeness. Wouldn't the state of Texas be the place
to be? I mean, like no state tax, like all
all the freedoms that come along with it, Like, wouldn't
Texas be the place that you would want to stay,
especially if you can get paid for it? Like this

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to me feels like the time. If I'm Texas, I'm
not going anywhere. This is my chance to capitalize on
that brand. This is my opportunity to look around and go, hey,
we know that you can go to other places and
you probably have a better chance of competing for a
national championship, But we're a brand and when you're a

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Texas football player in this town and in this state,
you're gonna be seen here. We'll get you connected with this,
We're gonna set you up with this, And so why
would you not want that in the Big twelve where
it's an easier path to get to where you want
to go, which is a national championship. I think the

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timing of this is weird, and I don't know if
it's just a major bluff. It doesn't feel like it
feels like this is gonna happen. And maybe there's the
the sec TV contract that they want to be a
part of. But ultimately, if you're winning national championships, I
think the money is gonna be there. And it's not
like Texas is broke, folks. I mean, come on, if
you've ever googled the Texas facilities where they have football

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at state of the art, through and through unbelievable, you
can find the pictures online. The timing of this from
a Texas standpoint, I think O Gloma is gonna be fine.
But from a Texas standpoint, this is the part that's
puzzling to me. Why now, when you have the first
real opportunity to legally underlining the word legally offer players

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financial support that can be built around your brand. I
just think the timing of it's very bizarre. Jonas knocks
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he doesn't get it, he will rip it from your
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Round of applause, Lady Jones, Isaac Loow and Krawn. This

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Folks and Jonah that manned the myth the legend. Jonas
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Fox Sports Radio studios. What's training right now? Jonas? The
Last Dance overnight on their Instagram stories, disgruntled Green Bay

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Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and newly disgruntled Packers receiver Davante Adams,
each post of the same picture of Michael Jordan's and
Scottie Pippen that was used as the alternate cover image
from last year's Chicago Bulls documentary The Last Dance, the
implication being this will be their final season together in
Green Bay. In fact, this clip from The Last Dance

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featuring Dennis Rodman sums up the chaos of the Packers
off season back this way only here here click and
going that way that way click here and going this
way pretty much. Dennis, By the way, it doesn't he
sound like an I T guy there, I can't. I
can't get into my computer. Just play that sound drop A.
I can't get into my computer? What do I do? Look,

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let me let me try that again so I can
so I can picture that in that context, because I
think you're on the right track. There, click and go
back this way, here, that way, click here and let
this way. I know that's that's an I T guy.
That's as confused as I feel when I'm talking to
one of our intrepid I T guys. But by the way,

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did you know that around here they send a false
phishing emails to us to try and test the test
us Like, if we click on the links and I
actually passed that test, that's what we got. Yeah, fall
forward every time. All right, Well, it's all it's all
about training us for for for real phishing scanals. At
the Olympics today, the US women's soccer team to be

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to New Zealand six to one that included two own
goals by New Zealand team USA bouncing background it's three
nothing lost to Sweden in their opener on Wednesday. And
in Major League Baseball late Friday night, the Colorado Rockies
defeat of the Los Angeles Dodgers in ten innings, nine
to six, as the Dodgers bullpen blew a five three
eighth inning lead, allowing six runs over the last three innings.

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The Dodgers have now lost four straight games when leading
or tied entering the ninth inning. They've lost nine consecutive
extra inning games. Back to you, Jonas Knox, and add
my name, by the way to the Bryce Young bandwagon.
I actually got the opportunity to watch him play as
a freshman in high school, and I was instantly a believer,
literally on the first series that I saw him. So

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the hype is justified. Yeah, I've talked to um, not
only Brady Quinn, but Petros Papadakis, and then a buddy
of mine, Keith Smith, who was uh um four year
starter at Arizona. He actually coaches quarterbacks in southern California.
And I him, I said, so what do you make
of Bryce Young? He goes, dude, He's a dude. He's

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I'm telling you, man. And this is from modern day,
which what had Matt Barkley, um, uh, Matt Liner, Uh,
Colt Brennan late great Cole Brennan I think was there
for a short time, but modern days had some real
good quarterbacks, and I've heard that he's the best of
the bunch as far as all the guys that have
come out agreed. Agreed. Yeah, so it's uh, that'll be.

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By the way, the Dodgers loss. Um. I made sure
on a Twitter last night that uh, you know, if
anybody had a complaint to file with the Dodgers to
uh tweet Fred Rogan the l a sports radio legend.
So that'll that'll piss Fred off. He's gonna have to do. Yeah,
he's gonna have to wear that for the next couple
of days here. So you know, you're very good at
rattling the saber of your fellow media. You know, why not,

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why what do we doing this for? We were here
to you know, be uh you know, be you know,
straighten line and robots. We're here to have a little
bit of fun, you know what I mean? So that
works all right? Um. By the way, coming up in
twelve minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. It's
one of the most annoying and worn out conversations about

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free agency. We have it every single year. It's back again,
and I'm sick of it. I'm absolutely tired of it.
And it's gonna happen in about twelve minutes from now
here on Fox Sports Radio. So I have I've figured
something out about myself and I didn't realize it until
over the past twenty four hours. So the Olympics are back.
All right, So the Olympics are on. Everybody has fired

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up about it. Most of these events, I think, all
these events that were in front of empty stadiums at
this point, who cares? I mean, listen, look, can you
gamble on them? All right? Good, We're good here. I
don't need I don't need spectators. Le'll be gamble on it.
And I say that as somebody who actually bet on
a horse race in Japan during the pandemic. True story,
everybody wearing a mask, true story. And I'm betting on

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a horse race in Japan on a Saturday night because
it was like Sunday at six pm over there because
of the time difference. So I don't need spectators to
be interested in something. But I did notice this about
the Olympics. Unless it's on in a room that i'm at,
I'm not going out of my way to watch it.

(28:17):
I'm just not. If it's on, I'll watch it and
be entertained by it. Like right now there's a volleyball
game on USA France. It's cool watching it, entertained by it.
Never would I ever go out of my way to
find this and make an appointment television, and the only

(28:37):
thing that I can compare to is cooking shows. Right,
I'm a big fan of cooking shows. I think they're
fascinating because anybody that can do something at a high
level that I can't do, I'm amazed by. I I
love to watch it. So cooking shows, I'm amazed by it.
Watching people do art, I'm amazed by because I can't

(28:59):
do art. I couldn't color inside the lines in kindergarten.
That's a true story. Remember the teacher asking me, why
can't you color inside the lines? And I just said,
I don't know. I don't know. I mean I I
could write, you know, I can? You know? I I can.
I can b s into a microphone for three hours.

(29:20):
I can't color inside. I have no artistic ability whatsoever
from a drawing, painting standpoint none. I don't know. It
just it does, it's not. It doesn't work for me.
So whenever I watch somebody do it, I'm amazed by
it cooking. I can't do it. So I could sit
there and watch somebody do on whether it's Diners, drive

(29:40):
throughs and dives or whatever it's called, or or street
meats or barbecue, chill and grill or whatever whatever these
shows are that you watch on on the Food Network
or the Cooking Channel. I could watch those shows forever.
I could watch a twenty four hour marathon. If you
were to tell me right now, you've got two t vs.
One of them is on the Cooking Channel or the

(30:01):
Food Network, and the other one is a twenty four
hour marathon of a football life documentaries. I'd be good
like I can watch those all day. The difference with
the football Life, I'll go out of my way to
watch those. Never one time as much as I like
cooking shows. Have I ever thought to myself, Hey, guys,
can we speed this up? I gotta get home to

(30:22):
watch uh you know, uh burnt and turned on the
Food Network like I've I've never one time in my
entire life set. I gotta get out of here, guys.
I gotta get home to watch the foot never once.
If it's on, great, it's one of my go two's.
I'm into it. But never one time have I made
it a point to get back or go out of

(30:43):
my way to make sure that I'm watching the latest
on the Food Network or the Cooking Channel. And that's
how I feel about the Olympics. I'm happy they're back.
I'm stoked for the athletes that are gonna get over
there and get an opportunity to compete and try and
win a gold medal. They've been busting their ass for
a long time. They've been through a lot of stuff.
They've been grinding to try and be able to compete
and be able to get into these events and be

(31:03):
able to put on a show and get out there
and try and do what their life work has has
has brought them to at this point. And so I'm
happy for the athletes. I'm happy for everybody involved. I'm
happy that we're going to have the Olympics, and we've
got them right now, and we're gonna have them for
a little while. I will not go out of my
way one time to watch them. I just won't. If
they're on great, if they're on in the room, I'm

(31:24):
at great. Perfect example, last night, I had a choice, right,
I had a choice. I was a grilling a couple
of steaks on my Uh. Someone call in a backyard.
I call it an outdoor cubicle. For those of you
that live in UH in southern California, you know about
the prices and UH, so many of us have outdoor cubicles.

(31:44):
It's not really an option any other way. And uh
and plus we work in radio, and so I was outside,
you know, cooking a couple of steaks. They were on sale,
which is the only reason I bought them, And uh,
I had an option. I wanted to watch something on TV.
And there was rowing on the Olympics, or there was
w W E SmackDown, and uh, I'm wanting to a SmackDown.

(32:06):
I just like, if if rowing was the only thing
on and I didn't have options, I'd go with that.
That's fine. I try and find a live bet and
I take advantage of it. But the Olympics, I figured
that out over the past twenty four hours. If it's on,
I'm into it. If it's not, I'm not going out
of my way. And I think a lot of people
feel the same way. Nothing wrong with it, it's fine,

(32:26):
but it's just a reality of where we're at when
it comes to the Olympic Games that are back. But congratulations.
At least we're here and it's something to h to
view while you're having a cocktail or two over the
weekend here and maybe take advantage of it from a
betting standpoint. So there's that, much like cooking shows, don't
go out of your way, but they're very entertaining. Jonas
Knocks Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the

(32:47):
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(33:10):
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(33:54):
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Uh the you know, uh, compliments are rolling in. This
is the This is one of the few shows that
I've never actually hosted here at Fox Sports Radio, so

(34:15):
I want to do one of the few time slots,
and so I wanted to make sure that, uh, you know,
that I took full advantage of this opportunity here to
just to give a shout out to all the compliments
that are coming in via social media, like Troy who
writes in uh quote the last dance every episode, second
by second re recap still much more interesting and riveting

(34:37):
than this useless bleep failed weekday a whole. So I mean, look,
I'm not here to judge all right, like it's the weekend.
If you're already been in the elbow or licking the
lid or you know, dusting off the old liver lube

(34:59):
as they would say, then you do, you man, whatever
you gotta do. That's fine. But keep them coming at
the Jonas knocks on Twitter as you continue to make
me feel good about my placement in life here on
Fox Sports Radio right now, though, it's time for this.
There's so many stories in the world of sports, and
most of them are a complete waste of time reports.

(35:21):
Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big stories from
the last week. But Jonas, the real question is do
you care? Yeah, this is a weekend overnight staple brought
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(35:43):
balls and said, I'm out of here. I'm tired of
having to go home at six am. Yes, it is
fun to actually sleep seven nights out of the weekend.
Imagine that. How's how's that feel? All right? First off,
here Chris Paul Russell, Westbrook, DeMar Derozen, Kyle Lowry. They've

(36:05):
all been named as possible acquisitions for the Lakers this offseason. Jonas,
do you care? No, I don't hear it. I'm so
fed up with this story. Everybody wants to be a Laker.
We all want to be Lakers. Everybody wants to sign
with the Lakers. Might I remind uh you blow hard
Laker ball washers that make up many of sports talk radio.

(36:27):
It was years and years ago that Greg Monroe. Al Right,
Greg Monroe was looking around as a free agent. He
had two destinations in mine. He came to l A
was being recruited by the Lakers. He stared at the
palm trees, he looked at the beaches. He looked at
all the beautiful people. He looked at the great food,

(36:47):
the weather, all of that, and he decided to sign
with Milwaukee. Alright, So we have been down this road
many times before. I don't need to hear about Chris
Paul and some of these other players. At some point,
the reality is, uh, Anthony Davis might be damaged goods
and Lebron James might be on his way out of
the league. So call what it is, but I'm done
with the story. Next, the Tokyo Olympics have begun. Jonas,

(37:12):
do you care? Nope? Next, the NBA Draft is this Thursday, Jonas,
do you care? Not really offce with you? This this
is the one. This is the one downside to NBA
free agency because all the great and interesting moves in

(37:32):
the NBA are done be a free agency. He just
kind of like, it's a draft, you know. I mean,
it's just it's so much easier to get better by
going out and signing a big time free agent. And
and a lot of these deals are done on short
term deals, so you can, you may sign a guy
and then it seems like a couple of years later
he's already up for a new contract, like, uh, Kawhi Leonard,

(37:53):
he just got to the Clippers. I did the show
right after he announced he was signing with the Clippers.
It's and we we go to bed, we wake up,
but it's already Hey, are they gonna keep him long term?
What do you mean? He just got here? So no,
I mean, this is one of the downsides through the
NBA Draft. Next, the Cleveland baseball team will now be
called the Cleveland Guardians. Jonas, do yeah, I do you

(38:13):
couldn't do letters. I mean seriously, like you couldn't do
I mean, first of all, I don't even want to
get into the whole conversation of whether or not you
find Indians offensive or I don't even know if I'm
allowed to say that. I mean, who knows. But how's
how's it racist been called? They did two movies, three movies,
a major league surrounding the the Cleveland Indians now the

(38:36):
the Cleveland Guardians of the Galaxy. Like, I just there
had to have been something better, right, Like I mean it, look,
we're gonna get used to it. I mean, the Utah
jazz don't really make much sense. You know, that made
sense when they were in New Orleans, but the jazz
or are in Utah. I don't know many jazz players
in the state of Utah. If they are out there,
I want to apologize deeply. I didn't mean to insult you.

(38:57):
Maybe there is great jazz in Utah. I just am
not aware of it. I just I look at it
and I go, it feels like you could do better.
But all right, this is where we're at. I mean,
the units aren't bad, but we'll just kind of, you know,
insert this into our our sports nomenclature, I guess is
the proper term. And then we move forward with the
baseball season. Next, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers got their Super

(39:19):
Bowl rings and when asked what ring is his favorite,
Tom Brady said, the next one, Jonastar care, yeah, because
I'm calling the shot right now. This will be on
the back of a TV twelve T shirt, guaranteed, Like
it's now morphed to remember no fear verst remember no
fear shirts. But all right, yeah, no fear shirts to
where it was like bottom of the ninth, two outs,

(39:42):
bases loaded, no fear. I was like, what what what
are we doing here? It was so dumb, like this
feels like this is where the shirt is going to go.
So I'm calling my shot. Favorite ring is the next
one is going to be on the back of a
TB twelve T shirt. The modern day no fear. Next,
the no sex bed story at the Olympics. You animal,

(40:05):
I mean, I know you're at Cisco's, but Jesus, first,
come on now exactly it turns out that story was
a myth and uh, you know, presumably you can on
those beds. Jonas, do you care now? I do? I
mean you know I did before and until I you know,
I heard you know, you're not just sort of uh
you know, get this blush on the air now and

(40:26):
now I definitely care about this. Um yeah, I mean, look,
you hear stories about Olympic Village, and um, from what
I hear, that is a wild place, man like, Uh,
Coachella's got nothing on the Olympic Village from the stories
that I've heard. Next, Kanye West should reportedly have a
new album coming in the next week or two. Jonas,
do you care? No, I don't. Who cares? I don't

(40:50):
here to tell you right now? We don't care. Listen,
He's he's a total success, very smart guy. Um. I
actually listened to the interview between him and Joe Rogan,
and UM, I was confused for three hours. And I
don't know if it's just because he's really smart a
Kanye West, or if it's just because he was making

(41:11):
it up on the fly, But I was confused for
three hours. Uh, congratulations to him. He's going through a
tough time. Uh, you know, he's going through a divorce.
But the good thing about going through a breakup with
the Kardashian is you don't have to worry about it
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(41:55):
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(42:19):
tried to do my best. There's been a lot of
people who have been swallowed up and been laying around
and moping and thinking about all the negative things going
on in the world of sports. Now I'm not going
to talk about those two things that are big hot
topics and debates and discussions and arguments on social media

(42:41):
in the NFL. As I pointed out to begin the show,
I will not bring up those things the entire show
because I think you're worn out by it. I think
you're fatigued by it, and you're tired of hearing about
doom and gloom. Right, So instead, this is sports Radio,
do whatever the hell we want. It's July. You want
me to break down the volleyball game on in the

(43:04):
Olympics right now, not happening, But it's the NFL right
around the corner. And so I have tried my very
best to give people hope, to let them be aware that, hey,
football is right around the corner. I mean it may
seem like a long ways away, which is and this
is the way this works. When you're a kid, everything

(43:25):
seems like a long ways away. Like when you're a
kid and you ask your parents how long until Christmas
and they tell you, oh, it's like three and a
half months or four and a half months. You think, man,
that's gonna take forever. And then the older you get,
you start to equate everything around football season. Hey, how
long until Christmas? I don't know, like week fifteen, like

(43:48):
like I don't like week that's just when it is
week sixteen, like usually, like that's that's how I like that.
That's how your your body works. And so things show
up on your timeline much sooner than you are used
to when you were a kid. And so I have
done my best to bring back that childhood moment, to
bring back the anticipation, to bring back something to look

(44:09):
forward to as much as I can. But there's a
lot of people who look and go, yeah, the NFL,
I mean, yeah, it's coming up soon, but we still
got I mean it's like September, and you know we
got It's like, you know, that's a couple of months away.
We're still in July. Uh wrong. Hall of Fame weekend
less than two weeks away. Hall of Fame game less

(44:30):
than two weeks away. Steelers Cowboys Hall of Fame game Thursday,
August five. I've been trying to tell people, why do
you think the Cowboys and Steelers showed up to training
camp this week before everybody else because they got a
game to prepare for Hall of Fame game August five,
on a Thursday, less than two weeks away. And so
I've been trying. I've been pounding the drum. We got

(44:52):
good things coming up around the corner. We got good
things coming up around the corner. I'm telling you, get
excited about it. Don't worry about all the negativity you
see on social media. Twitter is a joke. It's a
professional wrestling organization. Everybody's got a role to play, and
everybody's full of crap. Stop swimming around in the negativity.
And let's focus on the realities, all right, not fake

(45:15):
social media. Let's focus on the realities. And the reality
is football is less than two weeks away. It's right
around the corner. And with the Dallas Cowboys taking center stage,
the discussion now turns to, Hey, what's Dak Prescott gonna
look like? How's Dak Prescott going to look in the

(45:37):
upcoming season? Is he going to recover? Is he going
to make the Cowboys regret this big time contract he got?
Is he going to be healthy enough to play this season? Well,
Dak spoke with the media from Oxnard's someone called an
ox and Art depending on who he asked, But Dad
spoke with the media in ox and Aart a Cowboys
training camp about how he's feeling there was no part

(45:57):
of practice yesterday. I thought about my ankle, thought about
any physical thing holding me back or anything, to be
honest with you, and so he feels like, hey, we're
we're all good here now. He said earlier the off
season that he knew his ankle was right because he
was dancing on Sinco to Mayo and he didn't have
any concerns about it. And by the way, I'm not

(46:19):
trying to be a smartass when I say that. That's
a true thing, Like he really said that, like he
alluded to, he started to feel normal again once he
started dancing on Sanco to Mao. Now, I don't know
anybody that dances on Sco to Mio. I know people
that throw up. I don't know anybody that dances. I'd
be look, i'd I feel like we had a mini

(46:39):
Sinco to Bio last night. Ryan Burshing, our executive producer,
turned into the human pinata in my neck of the woods.
All right, so a good like I'm I'm not I'm
not here to judge. All right, it's the weekend. We're
all professionals. But I don't know anybody that dances on
Sanco to Mayo. But apparently Dack does and that's fine.
He feels good about his ankle. But I thought this
was interesting. His coach, Mike mccarth theme told reporters on

(47:03):
Friday that he anticipates that Dak Prescott is going to
be playing in the preseason. Now. Dak wants to play
in the preseason. And the initial reaction to that would be, oh,
absolutely not, don't do it, because remember we were told
all last year man a preseason, it's not worth it.
You don't need preseason games, don't worry about it. The
preseasons meaningless. Players don't need that to get ready. And

(47:26):
yet here we are a year later and we got
preseason games, which tells you they're not as unimportant as
you are led to believe by a lot of people
in the media. There is a great value to the preseason,
all right. So I've always liked the preseason, if for
any other reason than the storylines that go into it,
Like what are your favorite stories from Hard Knocks? Favorite

(47:48):
stories from Hard Knocks of the guys that are on
the bubble, they tell their back story. They get into
a preseason game and they're trying to make the roster.
That's a lot of players in the league, and so
the preseason does have a value. Guys are trying to
make rosters, they're trying to to accomplish their their goals,
they're trying to chase dreams, and all of that plays out.
And if you're a player like Terrell Davis was who

(48:11):
ended up being in a Hall of Famer back in
the day, you get noticed in preseason games. It's one
of the great stories. Terrell Davis was ready to leave
the Broncos. He wasn't getting any playing time. He was
like sixth on the running back a depth chart. They
were playing an international game over in Tokyo and he
was getting ready to leave the team. He was going

(48:31):
to go back to the States. Terrell Davis called down
to the front desk of the hotel to get a
flight back home from Tokyo because he was quitting the
team and most likely going to quit football. The only
reason he didn't get on a plane to leave Tokyo
is because he couldn't understand what the lady at the
front desk was saying because it was on It was

(48:52):
on Japanese. It's a true story. So he ends up
going to the game. They need a body on special teams.
He didn't even think he was gonna play, so he
had just eaten. He was done. Twarrelle Davis was done.
They needed somebody on special teams. He goes down on
kickoff and absolutely flat line some dude on kickoff, and

(49:14):
all the coaches said, who the hell's that? And the
running back coaches like, well, that's our six string guy.
Like that guy wants to be here, Give him some
playing time. That's a true story at Trolle Davis turned
into a Hall of Famer. But don't worry. Let everybody
tell you the preseason doesn't matter. No, no, no, the
preseason it's meaningless. We don't need these preseason games. You

(49:35):
can go to Wes Welker, who made his name in
the preseason. You can go to Austin Ekeler who made
his name in the preseason. There's a value to it,
and the Dallas Cowboys see a value to it. So
when you got Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy, you were saying, hey,
we'd like to play in the preseason. The initial reaction is,

(49:56):
don't risk it. He's coming off an injury. You just
paid him all this money. Why would you want to
spoil it in the preseason because you'd rather find out
in the preseason whether or not he's good to go,
then testing his ankle on Sinko to Mayo, and then
rolling it out night one against the Buccaneers in prime time.

(50:16):
This is exactly the move, even if it's just a
couple of plays a game. If I'm Dallas, If if
Dak Prescott is ready to go, and it appears that
he's good enough to go, he's at training camp. Less
than two weeks from tonight, Dak Prescott starts that game
incanting against the Steelers. I'm telling you, less than two

(50:39):
weeks from tonight, Dak Prescott's a starting quarterback for the
Dallas Cowboys. I'm not rolling out Bend Nucci or or
Quincy Carter or any or or a Tony Romo's uh
stunt double like I'm not rolling out in any any
of these other guys. I'm starting Dak Prescott night one.
Can't in Ohio at the the Fame Game. You gotta

(51:01):
dust this thing off, man. You gotta get him back
out there. And I don't care who you are, you
can talk to anybody, They'll all tell you you need
that first hit you need that callous you. You need
to know that you can deal with it before you
feel right again. Alex Smith talked about it coming off
the injury he dealt with last year. That first hit,

(51:23):
he was nervous, and then all of a sudden, you
get out there, you take the hit, you realize you're
your your your injury can sustain what is happening, and
you're no longer thinking about it. Paul George wasn't the
same for like a year because there was still an
uneasiness about it, Like I'm not quite sure. I've suffered
one major injury in my life and it was a
massive knee injury. I dislocated my knee cap playing basketball tour,

(51:47):
a bunch of ligaments. It was a disaster. My knee
cap was like next to my calf. Uh, you know,
and look, truth be told, I had had a few drinks,
all right, They'll say, no, you know, we're at a
family reunion in Monmouth, Illinois, Western part of the aid
shout out to, uh, my family that might might not
be listening in Monmth, Illinois, because I have no idea
who I am. But I suffered the injury and I

(52:08):
gotta be honest with you. For a long time, I
questioned even stepping down off stairs because I just thought
to myself, hey man, it happened pretty freaky and and
flukey the first time around. Who's to say this wouldn't
happen again. Well, the difference between me and Dak Prescott
is he's actually an athlete. I'm an idiot who talks
into a microphone for a living, and Dak Prescott needs

(52:31):
to know whether or not he can get get back
out there. If I'm the Dallas Cowboys and I'm Mike McCarthy,
I have a conversation with Dak Prescott, hey man, are
you good to go at the Hall of Fame game
two weeks from now? If he says he is, I'm
giving him at least a series. I'm sending him out there,
and I don't want to hear anybody come out and
say that's reckless. What are you doing? How could you?

(52:53):
Football is a dangerous game, and if I'm coming off
an injury like that, I would rather test it out
in a priest eason game, or get a couple of
snaps in the preseason and know that I'm good to go,
then roll the dice from Sinco to my O waits
several months later and then show up Thursday Night Football
when the Bucks are raising the banner at Raymond James

(53:14):
and say, all right, let's see if this thing works.
I think this is absolutely the right move. They'll probably
get a little bit of criticism for it, but I
think Dak Prescott Mike McCarthy on the same page, I
love it. I think Dak Prescott should be the quarterback
of the Dallas Cowboys in the Hall of Fame game.
And if he is, Cowboys plus one saying I just

(53:36):
said there's worse things to spend your money on, you're
probably doing it right now. I'm just saying, Cowboys plus
one is an opportunity for you. If you're gonna do it.
Jonas Knox or Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter
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(53:56):
a coach who had some strong words this week week
and what's funny is how far we've come. Because if
you think you know this guy, wait till you hear
some of the stories about his past. We'll get into
that next. Here it's Jonas Knocks right here Fox Sports Radio.
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(54:20):
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I'm listen. I'm not trying to put people in a
bad mood, right, I Am not trying to piss off
an entire fan base. I'm just saying there's a team
in the NFL. I'd be a little concerned about this

(54:42):
upcoming season, and this is a team that many people
think is still a Super Bowl contender, right, so I
would be a little bit concerned about this team coming
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(55:03):
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(55:49):
between the South Carolina GAMECOCKX and the Clemson Tigers. And
college football is big down there in the South. Um,
South Carolina is no different. A lot of hands um
and it's mostly a South Carolina Gamecock state. Like that's
mostly that That's where it felt like most of the
fan base was. So this is all the way back

(56:11):
to you know, two thousand nine. We're talking long, long
time ago Dabbos when he was the coach for Clemson,
and Dabbo was the most down to earth, coolest guy,
I mean, like a lot of fun and you know
it knew that Steve Spurrier kind of had his number

(56:31):
for a little bit. And Steve Spurrier ran his mouth
a little bit and it was just he was he
was just he was a really good dude, alright, got
his opportunity to be a head coach, was a walk
on at Alabama. UM. You know a lot of people
actually projected that Dabbo of Nick Saban ever left Alabama
the Dabos when he would be one of the one
of the guys that they would go after because of
his ties and his connections to Alabama. Dabbo actually won

(56:54):
a national championship under Stallings back in I want to
say ninety two. I think it was when beat the
Miami Hurricanes, UM in the Sugar Bowl. If I'm not mistaken,
why I remember all that? Again, I have no life.
Why wouldn't I remember that? So? Dabo Swinney was very
cool guy. UM, you know, I don't recall him ever,
you know, turning down it an interview request. I don't

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recall anybody that ever dealt with him from my station
or other stations that we worked out. Always had good
things to say about Dabo Swinney. Really good dude. Since then,
Dabos turned into a little bit of a car salesman,
you know, like a little bit of a here's what
I got, I got this, I got that. I got
a're gonna hear like like some of the comments he
makes like that, you know last year when he was

(57:37):
critical about Ohio State, talking about Ohio State and uh
sort of uh where they were and where they should
be ranked and why you know they shouldn't be rewarded
because of uh you know, uh there there they started
the season late. And it's like, dude, Dabbo, It's not
like Ohio States started this season late by choice. Their
commissioner didn't have the guts to go through with the

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season and then caved when he got a little bit
of pressure and push back, and so then they rolled
out the season. And then you did deal with Ohio
State in that bowl game and Justin Fields made throw
after throw after suffering an injury, and Clemson got exposed
and so it was a bad look. You've also had
Dabbo come out years past and talk about name image

(58:23):
likeness and we're gonna play players. You know, I'm gonna
I'm gonna leave the sport and he was sort of saying,
and I think ingest um. But he talks a lot.
He Dabbo loves him some some Dabbo and it's different
from the guy I remember covering years and years ago
when he was first at Clemson, and maybe it's the success.
Maybe he feels like he has to to stay competitive

(58:44):
to try and get recruits down to Clemson to want
to be a part of the program. All that being said,
he's done a phenomenal job at Clemson. Like from where
they were back when I covered him to where they
are now, it is night and day. Their defensive coordinator
makes two point five million dollars a year. Their defensive
coordinator makes two and a half million a year. If

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you would have told us back then, hey man, a
Clemson's defensive coordinator in ten years from now is gonna
make over two million dollars a year, I would have said,
get out of here, Get out of here. What are
you talking about. This is Clemson. No, no, no no, they
can't even beat South Carolina. Stop. That's where we're at.
That is what he's done with the program. So all
of that is phenomenal what Dabbo has done with the team,

(59:28):
the program, everything involved. But then Dabbo also had some
comments about the twelve team playoff, and um, you know,
Dabbo uh not very fond of the twelve team playoff.
Dabbo maybe not a big fan of what the college
football playoff could look like moving forward. Here's what he
had to say earlier this week. I met with my team.

(59:48):
Our team was it forward. They don't want to play
more games. And and to be honest with you, I
don't think you swelve team is good enough. So you
gotta play more games just to play more games. And
I think the more you expand it, the less important
the season. What comes? All right, let's address a couple
of things here. One, they don't want to play more games.
I get it. That should that is definitely concerned, totally understandable,

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but with an im image likeness. These are opportunities to
get paid now, I mean they just are like like
a lot of that stuff when you're talking about having
players play more games and have them do it for free,
that's for free now again, Scholarship, all that stuff. There
is a value to that. I'm not just diminishing that.
But players, look at this is sort of a a

(01:00:33):
cash situation. What am I being rewarded for? You're getting
an opportunity to play more games? And uh, and so
I think that that sort of has been diminished a
little bit. And and minimized a little bit the the
risk reward factor when it comes to playing these extra games.
Here's the other thing. I don't think there's twelve teams
good enough, all right, probably not, But there's also probably

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not sixty eight teams good enough to win an n
ci A tournament. But we have an n c A tournament.
And I say all this as somebody who was against
expansion of a four team playoff. I didn't think it
was necessary. I thought, men, what are we doing here,
Like like, we got four teams, let's go. I didn't

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think it was necessary. And then I took a step
back and I just looked at the reality of the situation.
The reason why they want to expand the playoffs a
is because of money. There's gonna be more money involved,
and be because at least you're giving these teams an opportunity.
At least, you're giving them an opportunity to try and
win a national championship. It doesn't mean it's going to happen.

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It'll be very rare if a team outside the top
four seeds actually wins a national championship. But at least
there's the chance that it could happen. At least there's
the hope that it could happen. Why do we love
the n c A Tournament. We love the n c
A Tournament because of the first two days. Like if

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you think about it, like like, the n c A
Tournament is a fun event, but it's over in three weeks.
You get your opening rounds in the opening weekend, and
then weekend too, we already have our final four set
and then we got our final four set the following weekend.
With a national championship, it's it comes and goes fast.
But the reason why we love the the n c

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A Tournament is because of the first two days, because
you've got the potential upsets. We've seen a sixteen beat
a one like Virginia get lost. We've seen fifteens beat twos.
We've seen it before, and we've seen all these buzzer
beaters and down to the wire game. So yes, a
lot of those lower seated teams may not be good

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enough to win a national championship, but at least there's
the opportunity and the outside chance that it could happen.
And that's why we love the n c A Tournament.
The other thing that I'll push back on when it
comes to Dabbo making these comments when he says, you know,
I think it's gonna take away from the regular season.
I don't buy it. I honestly I don't. I don't
buy it for a second. I actually think it increases

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the importance of the regular season because now, all of
a sudden, if you lose a game, you can look
at it like this and say, well, we lost a game,
big deal. At least we know we're gonna be back,
you know, at least we you know, it doesn't matter
because we're gonna have enough wiggle room and we've got
time to make up that loss. We'll get into it. Right.
There's that. But also, if you're a team playing down

(01:03:29):
to the end and you're trying to make one of
those twelve spots, multiple games now become really important because
you're trying to get in. So I think it does
increase the importance of it. And just from a rivalry standpoint,
rivalry games are always going to be rivalry games. It
doesn't matter if you're listening to this up in Oregon.

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It doesn't matter if Oregon and Oregon State are winless
going into what was previously known as of war. All right, listen,
I know, I don't. I don't want to. I'm not
trying to get in trouble, just saying that's what it
was called for a long time. If you're an organ
or an Oregon State fan, they could be winless. Is
that game any less important to you? Absolutely not? Like

(01:04:16):
I know Oregan grads and Oregon State grads that that
is the game. If you're listening in Alabama right now,
if Alabama is out of the playoff race and so
is Auburn, does that game the Iron Bull mean less
to you? Now? No? What about Ohio State Michigan? If

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all of a sudden, Ohio State and Michigan are completely
out of the playoffs, both teams are sitting at like
two and two and eight. If they go into that
week Ohio State in Michigan week, do you mean, all
of a sudden, this is gonna be the year in
which Ohio State fans will now use the letter M
leading up into that game against Michigan like like, well,

(01:04:59):
this and we're out of it, it doesn't mean as much.
So we're gonna go ahead and kill all those traditions. No,
those traditions and rivalries are always going to be there.
I don't care if it's Oregon, Oregon State, Alabama, Auburn,
Ohio State, Michigan. I don't care if it's Uh, South Carolina, Clemson, Miami,
Florida State, Like I don't like. All of these rivalries

(01:05:20):
are always going to be there, Oklahoma, Texas, It's always
gonna be there. So when Dabbo says, you know it's
gonna take away some of the importment, don't worry about that.
There is a reality to this. It's money. This is
an opportunity to make more money and push the sport forward.
You're right, there may not be twelve teams good enough

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to win a national title, but when you present twelve
teams with an opportunity to do so, it makes it
for that much more of an interesting watch. It makes
it that much more fun towards the end of the season.
And if you need any proof of that, just think
about how excited you are when the n c A
Tournament rolls around, especially that first weekend. Joe the Knocks
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if I was a fan of this team. We'll get
into that here for all the latest though from around
the world of sports. A man who makes everybody nervous.

(01:06:25):
It's Isaac Loan crossed in a good way to your
point about Clemson football salaries, Jonas, can you guess the
salary of the Clemson strength and conditioning coach? Oh? Jesus, um,
you can call me Isaac. Okay, that's a good point.
But you know it's you know, it's Latin Riasac. I think,
uh here, let me strength and conditioning coach. I'm gonna

(01:06:48):
go one point two million. You're off on the high end.
Five hundred and eighty thousand dollars still, so I was
being a smartass. But five eighty thousand dollars first, anything
conditioning coach. In a related story, I just bought Weightlifting
for Dummies via Amazon. So think but think about that though,

(01:07:09):
Like you remember Clemson back in the day, they weren't this,
And you've got a defensive coordinator making two and a
half million dollars. It's it's it's crazy to see where
that team has come from all those years ago and
where they are now. Credit to Dabbl, but man, he
loves to hear himself talk. I think I should order
football for dummies now that you mentioned speaking of football

(01:07:29):
for dummies. Perhaps The current headline in the Green Bay
Presscazette newspaper reads, a last dance for Aaron Rodgers and
Davante Adams. Packers stars stoke mystery with Bulls photo overnight
on their Instagram stories, disgruntled quarterback Aaron and newly disgruntled
receiver Davante Adams each posting the same picture of Michael

(01:07:52):
Jordan's and Scottie Pippen that was used as the alternate
cover image from last year's Chicago Bulls documentary The last
as the implication being this will be their final season
together in Green Bay, and it became personal with me.
He was not the only one, apparently. At the Olympics
right now, the US men's volleyball team playing its opener

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against France, and it's a final team. USA has just
swept France in three sets, completing the third set moments ago.
They went at eighteen eighteen, twenty five to twenty two.
Earlier today, the US women's soccer team defeated New Zealand
six to one that included not one but two New
Zealand owned goals. As Team USA bounced back from their

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three nothing lost to Sweden in their opener on Wednesday.
Jonas spect to you, thank you, Isaac. It is uh
Jonas knocks here on Fox Sports Radio. I almost said
a variation of it is outkicked the coverage or straight
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but you know, it is fun to be here on
a Saturday hanging out with everybody. It's one of the
rare shows that I have not gotten to do yet.

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So we'll check this off the bucket list. Take you
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going to find out whether or not you can get
in to a sporting event this weekend, or whether or
not you're a cheapass. Right, that's a true story, all right,

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So that'll be happening here ten minutes from now. Um, look,
I have not been as high on the New Orleans
Saints over the last couple of years as everybody else has.
I just my my big thought on the Saints was this.
They had a Super Bowl roster, they had a Hall

(01:09:38):
of Fame quarterback, they have a fantastic head coach. All
the pieces are there, But how many times can you
get kicked in the nuts over and over again until
you're like, hey man, I gotta take a seat, Like
I can't deal with this anymore. And the New Orleans

(01:09:58):
Saints have dealt with bad blow after bad blow after
bad blow. I mean, think about this. In consecutive years.
You had the Minneapolis Miracle which ended their season. You
had the non past interference call against the Rams, which
basically ended their season. There was an overtime and Drew

(01:10:20):
Brees through an interception, but that basically ended their season.
And then you had a potential offensive past interference in
the end zone against the Vikings in the playoffs, and
that ended your season. And then the next year you
had to deal with Tom Brady and the Buccaneers in
that defense. And then they went into to the Super
Dome and they took care of business and that ended
your season. So when you are constantly in the conversation

(01:10:43):
for a super Bowl and you constantly come up short,
I just wondered, how many times can you get there
not go through the finish line before you realize maybe
our best chances have gone away. And then you find
yourself in this upcoming sea in which you've got Jamis
Winston who's got a bunch of weird workout videos that

(01:11:04):
he posts online when he's not licking his hands, uh,
to try and hype up his team on the sidelines.
And you got Taysom Hill, who proved last year he's
probably not an every down quarterback in this league. There's
a value to him. There's a purpose for Taysom Mill.
He really really skilled, talented guy, but probably can't build
your team around him, which is why Jamis Winston is

(01:11:27):
the odds on favorite to be the starting quarterback Week
one for the New Orleans Saints. And moving forward, and
then this story comes out with Michael Thomas, their stud
wide receiver. Michael Thomas is reportedly um going to miss
maybe up to the first month of the NFL season
because he's going to have to get surgery and he's

(01:11:49):
dealing with an ankle injury that that he has been
dealing with since last year. So he's gonna miss maybe
possibly up to four weeks of the NFL season um
to deal with the surgery that he had to go
through this offseason. There's a report out from Nick Underhill
of New Orleans Football dot Com, who did a little

(01:12:11):
bit of digging on this, and this is, uh, this
is where things are gonna get interesting. According to the report,
Michael Thomas saw a specialist after the season and the
specialist thought that, you know, Mike Thomas could could you know,
rehab the injury. He would need surgery. He was dealing
with the ankle, but he figured, you know what, if

(01:12:32):
you rehab and if you uh come back and and
and rehab the right way, we can avoid surgery. And
apparently Michael Thomas was supposed to spend a month they're
trying to heal the ankle, trying to when he returned
back after seeing the specialist, he was gonna come back

(01:12:53):
and he was going to rehab for a month and
they felt like if he got aggressive with it, he
could avoid surgery and he'd be ready for the start
of the season. Apparently, that visit never happened. Uh, the
second visit never happened. And then when Michael Thomas did
show up and the Saints got to look at his ankle,
they realized, hey man, this thing is not good. So
you've got a star wide receiver who was dealing with

(01:13:16):
an injury, was supposed to go through a rehab process
in order to take care of the injury and be
ready for the season. He didn't do it, according to
this report, and the and the Saints gonna look at
the ankle when he shows up and realized, we got
a problem here. Now he's gonna have to have surgery,
and now he's gonna miss the first month of the season.

(01:13:37):
So again, I ask you, how many times can you
go through this, deal with these issues and then expect
that you're just gonna roll right back to the super
Bowl or be in Super Bowl contention the next year.
Round This is gonna sound crazy. I'm not sure that

(01:13:57):
the Saints don't finish third or fourth in that division
this year. I'm serious about it. I'm much I think
Tampa Bay is winning the division. I think I think
the Bucks are winning the division. They're getting everybody back.
Tom Brady stays healthy. With that offensive line playing the
way that they did towards the end of the year.
I think Tampa Bay is winning that division. I think

(01:14:18):
Atlanta's a real threat, maybe not to win the division,
but I think they're gonna be vastly improved. I think
the offense is gonna be a lot of fun to watch,
and I think there's going to be a new look there.
Maybe they sort of get rid of the old. Julio
Jones is out, which is a loss, but they draft
Pits in the first round. I think Atlanta is going
to be improved. And who knows. I mean, if you

(01:14:39):
believe everybody in the media, Sam Donald is the second
coming and and he's in Carolina now, and maybe he's
the guy that can, you know, get the Carolina Panthers
back on track and moving in the right direction. I
like the Saints roster. I like Sean Payton. I think
Jamis Winston has got an opportunity to be a really
good quarterback. I just wonder, from a ment state at

(01:15:01):
this point, how many times can you bookend your seasons
with drama or dysfunction and then expect you're just gonna
roll right into the next year and like nothing happened.
We'll be right back where we were before. Because remember
last year, the drama was Drew Brees and a comment
he made and it piste a lot of people off,
and then he apologized and then apologized again, and then

(01:15:23):
apologized again, and then apologized again, and it was just weird.
The whole thing was weird. You had teammates call him
out for it. It was just it was a weird thing.
And a lot of people looked at that and said, well,
you know, maybe Drew Brees isn't who he says he is.
You know, maybe this guy there's a little bit of
phoniness there. Like now you're already going into the season. No,
Drew Brees question marks a quarterback a division that's better,

(01:15:47):
and your star wide receiver didn't take care of his
injury in the off season, so he's gonna miss the
start of the season and maybe a month. Look, I
don't want to I don't want to spread doom and
gloom if if you're a Saints fan, I'm just saying, man,
you can't see all this and just assume nothing to
worry about here. We'll be fine once we get into

(01:16:07):
the season. I think there's something here. Jonas Knocks Fox
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little over ten minutes from now on Fox Sports Radio.
There's a water polo game on the in the Olympics
right now. I'll say this, I don't know how they
do it. If I tried to peddle my legs that long,
I'd sink. I don't. I don't. I have no idea
how these women are able to do this. I they
I would absolutely get schooled in this water pole game.

(01:17:10):
I don't even know what my position would be like
maybe goalie, but if only if there's like a chair underneath,
which I don't think it is possible or legal, But
never mind that. Right now though, it is time for this.
Something big is happening on a grand day, A dangerous
woman on the road as your you go, and we
have your tickets or stick. It sounds hot alright, So

(01:17:35):
this is how this works. We do this. This is
a very popular segment that we do on the highly
rated weekend overnight show that I host here on Fox
Sports Radio, and by highly rated, I mean not rated
at all, and which we find out how much it
costs to get into a sporting event near you over
the weekend, and whether or not I'm completely off, whether

(01:17:56):
or not I could afford to get in, and whether
or not I'm just a giant chee pass all the
way through. So let's go to Ryan Burr Schinger who
has got some events, got some games and things going
on this weekend burst where we started. Let's start off
with the Conker Calf Gold Cup Quarterfinals. Why not? Now?
This is uh you get a double header with this ticket.
It is at a T and T Stadium in Arlington

(01:18:18):
and the double header is Costa Rica VERSUS Canada and
then uh, the US against Jamaica. Um, how much would
I pay for a doubleheader soccer event like that? You know,
I'll give you a ticket, all right? No, you that's
the ticket, thirty seven dollars. That's the lowest price to

(01:18:38):
get in. I wonder how many people to show up
to that because soccer is so much more popular now.
I went to an internet like a four way series
at at Dodger Stadium years ago. It was Juventus, Uh,
an Italian team. I think it was man you, um,
Real Madrid or Barcelona, and then there was the Galaxy

(01:18:59):
that played and there was nobody there. Like it was
like burst, you've been how many Dodger games do you
think you've been doing your life? A couple dozen? Yeah? Like,
but you think there's always either traffic or people. They're
always aligned to get concessions. There was nobody there. It was.
It was completely empty. If you were to put that

(01:19:19):
event on now, I think the place would be packed.
I think there's gonna be actually a good crowd there.
All right, what else we got, Well, let's go to
baseball Yankees Red Sox at Fenway, Oh, jeez. See, I've
never been to Fenway and I want to go, um
especially a Yankee game. I'll give you sixty bucks, all right,

(01:19:42):
that's a ticket. Fifty seven. That's actually know, I actually
thought it would be a lot more than that. I
thought I was. I was low ban on it there.
So I'm getting into two sporting events this weekends. Awesome. Alright,
what else we got? Let's go to golf? How about
the three M Open in Blaine, Minnesota? Are you serious
right now? Dude? The three M Open? But it is

(01:20:04):
three M the company that does the post it notes? Yeah, yeah,
what did they do anything else? Or it's just that
anything and uh yeah, stuff like that, and sure that
came in handy during the pandemic. Alright, um so alright,
so the three M Open? And where's this that Blaine Minnesota? Dude,

(01:20:24):
I'll give you five bucks. I'm not giving you any
more than that to get no, no, you can stick in.
How about sixty two? Hold on a second, sixty two
dollars for the three M Open and fifty seven to
get in the Yankees Red Sox. What what do you
do you get to golf? Do do you get a car? Like?

(01:20:46):
What do you get for sixty plus dollars to go
to the three M Open? Is there anybody worthwhile even participating?
What a rip off? Man? Alright, what else we got
that's a joke? How about in tennis this weekend? You
are such a pain in the actual Atlanta Open. Uh,

(01:21:09):
it is part of the a t P. But they
got a special event on Sunday night. It's a showdown
between Kim Clysters and Sloane Stevens. Okay, see now that
now I have heard. Uh. When I lived in Charleston,
South Carolina, the Daniel Daniel Island is is a sort
of a part of Charleston. But they had this Daniel Island.

(01:21:30):
There's there's some They have a tennis court there and
it was a big event. And I've heard the tennis
matches are a lot of fun to go to. And
when they do the nighttime tennis matches, those are fun.
You know what, I'll give you thirty bucks to go
to this verse and you can stick at how about sixty?
I'm out listen. I don't get it. I I don't
get it. I just offered you thirty bucks to go

(01:21:52):
to a tennis match. I offered you five to go
to a golf event and I'm lowbald s Steve plus
dollars to go to the three M open. Get out
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So I'm checking it off my I need to get
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So that that is a clear indicator that we are
often running here. And this show has been a bonanza
and a total success here on Fox Sports Radio. So uh,
listen if you're not happy. But what you hear, I
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(01:24:03):
just you know, like do that loop up a little
bit next time, you know, it'll sound better. All right?
There is that that sounded awkward, but you know what
I mean. So there is a an NFL story out
there and that NFL story involves Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron
Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers are not in a
good place, all right, They're not in a good place.
I think we can all agree on that there's clearly

(01:24:25):
some bad blood. UM Now, I firmly believe that the
bad blood Aaron Rodgers has is not with Brian guten
Kunts the GM. I definitely don't think it's with Matt Lafleur.
I don't think it's with any of his teammates. I
think that it is Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy.
That has been my guess. Um. We've been talking about

(01:24:46):
that myself and Brady Quinn on out kicked the coverage
You've been filling in there with LaVar Arrington, um and
and Brady and I've been talking about this on our
Sunday night show for a long time, and we called
it Weekend at Murphy's and it was sort of a
play on the movie week End of Bernie's, except there
were no dead people involved in this. But we called
it Weekend at Murphy's because every single weekend for a

(01:25:06):
couple of weeks in a row, Mark Murphy had some
weird comment about the situation, and I was like, what
are you doing? Man Like, just like, let's let's let's
let's let this thing cool down a little bit. All right,
Let's let it cool down a little bit and and
then and then we'll get back on track here. And
so since then he's calmed down because I think he
realized I'm not helping matters here. But we've identified that

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Mark Murphy was the guy nobody was discussing that. I
believe Aaron Rodgers has an issue with and whether it's
the personnel control, whether it's just the relationship he's got
with Mark Murphy, whatever the case may be, I believe
that that's where the root of the issue comes in.
And I think it's Aaron Rodgers issue with uh with

(01:25:49):
Murphy there in green Bay that is causing a lot
of the problems. But the situation that we have here
is you've got a quarterback who's under contract you at
an organization that is seen that they've identified the end
date of his time with the Green Bay Packers, thus
the reason they moved up in the draft to take
Jordan's love. And these two worlds are colliding, and the

(01:26:13):
latest is Davante Adams, who apparently is in a bad
place reportedly, uh, contractually with the Packers. They were trying
to talk about an extension. He's entering the final year
of a deal. He's been, you know, if not the
best wide receiver in the NFL, he's been on the
shortlist of best wide receivers in the NFL. He was
awesome last year. Uh. And and the thought is, all right,

(01:26:35):
we're gonna try and get a deal done with Davantae Adams.
Now reportedly they've broken off talks. They're not in a
good place. He's entering the final year of his deal.
And so him and Aaron Rodgers go to social media
and go on snap phase or or Insecure Graham, whatever
you want to call it. And they've got this picture
of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen fist bumping, and people

(01:26:56):
are taking that to mean the last dance. Maybe this
is the last year, the last go around. Well, you've
got enough people out there that are now starting to
feel like Aaron Rodgers is not showing up. And there
are some people that think that the sports books who
are taking off the season win total of the Green
Bay Packers, that those sports books are thinking that Aaron

(01:27:20):
Rodgers is going to announce his retirement now. Aaron Rodgers
agent is also the same agent that wrapped Carson Palmer
when he wanted at a Cincinnati and just decided to retire,
and then later was able to get a trade done
to the Raiders that didn't work. Hugh Jackson was the

(01:27:44):
coach who orchestrated that that didn't work out. Then he
went to the Arizona Cardinals and he was fantastic for
the Cardinals and got him to a Super Bowl, or
got him close to a Super Bowl. But this whole situation,
like all of this that you're that you're hearing and
seeing and reading into, it means one of two things.
Either Aaron Rodgers is done right now in Green Bay
and he's not showing up, or Aaron Rodgers is probably

(01:28:07):
gonna be done after this upcoming season. I'm gonna be
defying here. I think he's showing up this year. I
think he's showing up the training camp this next week.
I could be totally wrong. This could be pure stubbornness,
because I don't want my take to be bad, and
it probably already is. But this could be pure stubbornness.
I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna show up. I think

(01:28:29):
he's gonna play because I think the Green Bay Packers
have dug their feet in and they've not gotten a
trade done because they feel like we could have repaired
the situation. We offered him more money. He rejected the
two year deal. He didn't want any more money. Uh
So we're gonna try and roll this thing back around,
and I think the Green Bay Packers are gonna try

(01:28:50):
and give it a go, try and play nice for
a season and hope that Aaron Rodgers and Davante Adams
can get him to the super Bowl that they've been
closed us to the past couple of years. If I'm
a Packer fan, I'm good with that. If you're a
Packer fan, just come to terms with the reality the
Aaron Rodgers is not going to be there after this season.
He's not. It's over. I mean, you've got one more

(01:29:13):
year of Aaron Rodgers and that's it. So, I mean,
if you're thinking about buying a number twelve Jersey, wait
twelve months sweaty here. They'll be like a thirty bucks
at raw Stress for us. Actually, if it's raw Stress
for us'll probably like ten. Just wait a here because
he's not gonna be there. So he's either got one
more year to go with the Green Bay Packers or

(01:29:35):
he's gone. Right now, I think he's going to show up.
I think they're going to give it another go in
Green Bay. I think they probably tried to work on
a deal. And from everything that I have heard, the
conversation surrounding the Denver Broncos was a real conversation from
what from what I heard and everything that I heard

(01:29:55):
was that Aaron Rodgers was frustrated that the deal didn't
get done with Denver. There were discussions with the forty Niners.
But I don't think that the trade with the forty
Niners made a lot of sense to the Green Bay Packers,
probably because they didn't want to trade him in conference
and they don't have to deal with the forty Niners.

(01:30:15):
Because you trade Aaron Rodgers to the forty Niners and
put him on that roster, find me another team in
the NFL outside of Kansas City, maybe Tampa that you
look at and go all that team is going to
a super Bowl. It's not happening. I mean like that
that's a super Bowl team he's on. He's on San
Francis a super Bowl team. I think they're a super
Bowl team now, and that's what Jimmy Garoppolo. But I

(01:30:35):
I like Jimmy Garoppolo a lot more than a lot
of people like him. But I think there was serious conversations.
It didn't get done in San Francisco because I don't
think they wanted to trade him in the conference, but
I do think serious discussions were had with Denver and
all go as as far to say from people I've
talked to, they felt like there was probably gonna be

(01:30:55):
a deal done with Denver. I think that's why Rogers
acted out on Draft night. I think he got frustrated,
and that's when Adam Schefter had the report that came
out about Aaron Rodgers wanting a trade and wanting out
of Green Bay. I think Aaron Rodgers maybe got his
hopes up, felt like he was going to be on

(01:31:17):
his way out, and then Green Bay backed out of
it because either the offer from the Denver Broncos wasn't
up to snuff, they didn't want to trade him in
the conference to San Francisco, and so green Bay just like,
you know what, we're better off just going through this
year trying to get a Super Bowl this year, make
another run at it, and then we'll address this situation

(01:31:37):
next off season. That that is my best understanding. I
think that's what happened. And I've been saying this for
a while now. The guy to watch in all of
this is Adam Schefter. That's the guy you watch because
Adam Schefter release the report on Draft night that Rogers

(01:31:57):
wanted out of Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers got a
lot of heat for that. And the reason he got
a lot of heat is because people felt like he
was taken away some of the shine from the players
who were in the draft. It's their night, they're ready
to get drafted, they should be the top of a
conversation in the NFL. Dreams come true and Aaron Rodgers

(01:32:20):
merges into their lane, doesn't throw on a turn signal,
and all of a sudden starts taking some of the news.
And there were there were It was a father of
a player, a former NFL player whose son was in
the draft. I don't I don't know if it was certain,
or it might have been Horn whose son was in
the draft who came out and he was bothered that
Aaron Rodgers decided to drop that news on Everybody's Left

(01:32:41):
on Draft Night, and then what did Adam Schefter do?
Came back around a few weeks later on the Dan
Patrick Show and said, oh, no, no, no, that was
me that that they decided to drop that story, and Dan,
being a great interviewer, has heard on many of these
Fox Sports radio affiliates, was like, wait a second, So
you decided on Draft night you would at lease that? Yeah, yeah,

(01:33:01):
you know, I just I mean, you know, Draft night
or not Draft nine. I just felt like, you know,
I was just gonna release the story. What I think
happened is Aaron Rodgers felt bad because I don't I've
never met Aaron Rodgers, but I know people who know
Aaron Rodgers and they say he's a good dude, right,
this this thing on Aaron Rodgers being a diva and
he's this and he's that not true. Like I've heard,

(01:33:23):
He's a really good dude. His family issue is his
family issue. It's not anybody's business. Not everybody has a
great relationship with their family. It shouldn't be brought into
the conversation when it comes to Aaron Rodgers. I've never
understood that. I think it's weird. It has nothing to
do with anything. But everything that I've heard is that
Aaron Rodgers is a good dude, really good dude. I
think he felt bad about what happened on draft night.

(01:33:44):
I think he maybe lost his cool a little bit.
Went to Schefter. Schefter release the story. Aaron Rodgers was
frustrated that a deal didn't get done. He felt like
he was being dragged in the sand by the packers
who ended up backing out on a deal, and Aaron
Rodgers got frustrated, went to Schefter and the story row.
I think Rogers felt bad about it, which is why
Adam Schefter laid down on the sword form weeks later

(01:34:08):
on the Dan Patrick Show and said, oh, that was
me that did that. Aaron didn't have anything to do
with that report. That was me. I had sources. That
was me that went with that, and in in exchange,
I think Adam Schefter is going to be the guy
who drops the bomb on whether or not Aaron Rodgers
place this year. I think they probably had a conversation

(01:34:28):
and Aaron said, hey, man, you know you helped me out.
I'll help you out, you know, I mean, you know,
come out say that it was you that released this
story the report, and then I'll help you out. I
think Schefter is the guy to watch. Tuesday is when
Aaron Rodgers is reportedly going to be showing up to
training camp if he's planning on playing for the Packers.

(01:34:48):
Tuesday is the day to watch. Schefter somebody to pay
attention to, because I think he's going to have the
inside info from a national standpoint on whether Aaron Rodgers
comes back. And when you go to their social media
and you see him and Davante Adams doing the last
dance picture, whatever you want to interpret that as I believe,
and this could be me being defiant that Rogers will

(01:35:08):
report this upcoming week, I think Adam Schefter is gonna
be the guy who's got the news. But I think
either way, this is the final year for Aaron Rodgers
in Green Bay. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio, get me
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a major storyline around the world of sports. And if

(01:35:30):
you're one coach, there's a move to be made and
I'm waiting for him to make it. We'll get into
all that for you. It's Jonas Knox right here at
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(01:35:51):
with this as always on the I Heart Radio app
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use iPods? Jesus, I sounded like I was seventy eight
years old. Or do iPods even exist? Bursh Are those
even still around anymore? Technically? Yes, they do still exist.
But all right, well that's good, I mean, and next
time I'll bring up VCRs just so we can all

(01:36:11):
feel like we're up to date on current technology. All right,
I comeing up ten minutes from now, we are going
to get to uh something we do called scraps things
in the world of sports and beyond possibly that we
have not had a chance to get to. So we'll
have that for year ten minutes from now on fs R. SO. UM,
the Texas Oklahoma rumor that is that is a hot one.

(01:36:32):
A right, it is Texas and Oklahoma? And are they
going to the SEC? And here's here's the way that
this whole thing is being laid out right now, it's
going to happen, right This This is not a bluff.
This is in Texas and Oklahoma trying to scare people.
This is legitimately Texas and Oklahoma that are trying to
get into the SEC. Now, the one school who is

(01:36:55):
adamant that they don't want this to happen is Texas
A and M. Because Texas A and M part of
the appear old to them to go to the SEC.
It was to break away from Texas in a sense
and to be able to go to that conference and
be the only Texas team in town. That was part
of the appeal for Texas A and M. And there's
been some reports that there was sort of a handshake

(01:37:16):
agreement um from the previous commissioner of the SEC that
Texas A and M was told, Um, you know, handshake agreement,
We're not going to have another Texas team in. You
have veto power over that Texas team should they come in.
Apparently there was a vote done recently. Every team in
the SEC approved the move of Texas and Oklahoma to

(01:37:38):
the SEC, except for you guessed it, Texas A and M. So, um,
there's that aspect of it. There's the the element as
we talked earlier. I don't understand the timing. If I'm Texas,
If I'm Texas, you have been the most one of
the most overhyped teams in all of sports. Every year

(01:38:00):
we hear about, oh man, Texas is back. Hook them,
the long Horns are back. Every year we hear the
same crap from the same people talking about the Texas
Longhorns and Texas football is back. It's like, man, at
some point, you need to face the reality, alright, Like

(01:38:21):
like Texas thinks when they stare in the mirror that
they're at ten, look in the other mirror, all right,
you know, you know the one that that that you
see in the fun house at a carnival. That's kind
of more similar to what you actually look like in reality.
You've got two national championships in the last fifty years.

(01:38:42):
The last one was oh five with Vince Young. Before that,
I think it was one and and and they are.
They are played up and hyped up as as the
greatest show, like a legitimate college football power. I've never
understood it. It's weird. The Dallas Cowboys I can get.
I can actually understand the Dallas Cowboys and the hype

(01:39:03):
around the Dallas Cowboys like I get that if you
grew up watching football in the nineties especially I'll tell
you this, in southern California, a lot of people didn't
grow up with an NFL team. The Rams left in,
the Raiders left, so you kind of picked and choose
what team you wanted to root for. I got a
buddy of mine who's a Cleveland Browns fan. I swear

(01:39:24):
to God on this story. This guy has never been
He's not not from Cleveland, has no family in Cleveland,
knew nothing about Cleveland. But he grew up in l A.
There was no NFL team here when he started getting
into football, and so he needed to pick an NFL team.
He picked the Browns because they were the worst rated

(01:39:45):
team on Madden. I swear to God. That's how people
were picking teams out here in Southern California back in
the day. That's how it went. It was the Wild West. Man.
I just whatever, whoever we want throwing him in a hat,
We'll just pick one. I had a buddy who became
an Eagles fan because he put he put every NFL
team name in a hat. There was no team in

(01:40:06):
l A. This is not a true story. He put
every single teams a name in the hat, and he
drew two teams. He ended like the papers were stuck together,
and the two teams that he pulled were the Vikings
and the Eagles. So he went ahead and he did
it again, and then he pulled Philly. So he's an
Eagles fan, diehard Eagles fan. There was no team in

(01:40:26):
l A. So if you're in in southern California, there's
a lot of cowboy fans. Like it's a national brand.
You get it from a national standpoint. Texas like like
they're they're respected in Texas. That's it, Like, there's no
there's no like. I've never understood it. I've never gotten

(01:40:47):
the Texas thing. But I think the timing of Texas
move is weird now because the name, image and likeness.
I think this is an opportunity. If you had trouble
selling your program to recruits and getting kids there or
having success, they're no better time than now to take
advantage of your quote unquote brand in state. Then now

(01:41:09):
you can now offer financial rewards to these players who
come here. There are not going to deny their a
massive brand in the state of Texas. They're massive in
the city of Austin. It is a big market for
them and there's a lot of opportunity. So for them
to want to move to the SEC now I don't
really understand. I would I would want to wait. Why

(01:41:31):
not just see how this name, image and likeness thing
impacts you, because I think it's gonna be nothing but
good news for Texas Texas football and for them trying
to pull the best recruits that they can to go
to that school if you do believe that it's a
powerhouse in your own state. Here's the other thing that
I think is interesting to watch. Lincoln Riley. Lincoln Riley

(01:41:52):
is one of the hottest coaching names. One of the
guys like a Matt Rule that people look at, and
there are a couple other guys that are out there.
Matt Campbell's another guy that you look at and you
go that guy. Brian Kelly maybe, but I think Brian
Kelly maybe it's it's past the peak of his he
could be an NFL coach hype. But you look at

(01:42:13):
Lincoln Riley and he is considered to be the next
great candidate to go from college to the NFL. And
if for any other reason than what he's done, with
the quarterback position year after year, seems like he's got
a Heisman Trophy finalist at quarterback or a winner year
after year. Baker Mayfield Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray was

(01:42:36):
a baseball player Lincoln Riley turned into the number one
pick of the draft. Heisman Trophy winner Jalen Hurts was
benched mid game at Alabama and Lincoln Riley turned him
into a second round pick and now a starting quarterback

(01:42:58):
in the NFL. So, if quarterback is the most important
position in the league, and you've got a guy who
time after time can not only take his own players
and get the most out of him, but can take
Nick Saban's player who wasn't even good enough to finish
a game and get the most out of him and
get him drafted. And then you see what, Spencer Rattler,

(01:43:20):
He's already favored. If you if you want to bet
on who's the number one pick in the draft next year,
Spencer Rattlers already the favorite to do so. So if
you're Lincoln Riley, your stock has only gone up, so
your stock is at it all time high right now?
What would be the way that his stock would go down? Oh?
I know, how about if he went to the SEC

(01:43:42):
and was no longer playing the teams that he gets
to play in the in the Big Twelve. How about that?
If you're Lincoln Riley, are you not watching this closely
and thinking to yourself, all right, if we're not going
to go to the SEC this year, and maybe we're

(01:44:02):
going next year depending on what the buyout would be
moving forward, why don't I start kicking the tires on
what openings could possibly be available at the NFL level,
Because I don't know that I want any of the
shine to come off my reputation because our our team
and and and our program decides they want to join

(01:44:23):
the SEC, and next thing, you know, I go from
playing Texas Tech and some of these other schools in
the Big Twelve to Alabama, Auburn, Georgia, you name it, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Powerhouse, powerhouse, powerhouse.
If I'm Lincoln Riley and my school makes the announcement

(01:44:44):
in the coming weeks that we're going to the SEC,
I find out two things. One when are we going?
And two who's hiring in the NFL that year before?
Because I'm out, I think, Lincoln Riley, if oak Homa
ends up in the SEC. I think the clock's taking
on his time at Oklahoma, and I think then he

(01:45:05):
decides to make the jump to the NFL. Jonas Knox
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buzz and water polo, it's Isaac Long. Indeed, that's what's

(01:45:29):
trending right now social media and Jonas. Where were we
before athletes started posting passive aggressive things and sub tweeting
on social media? How did we ever ever get along
in the sports media? See, it's brutal bad. I can't
even like when you got into this business, back when

(01:45:53):
you were, you know, working with some of the all
time grades and some of your mentors, like like, uh,
I kind of can't remember his name. Oh my god,
I know who you're thinking of. Gosh, gray hair, patrician eyebrows,
Oh my god. The original Prince of Darkness is that's
who you're thinking of. And no, man, you told me

(01:46:13):
that there was somebody who had God. Who was it?
I like a broadcast or a play by play guy
Vin Scully? Maybe No, not Vince Scully. There was another guy.
There was a guy. He was now with the Pelicans.
He was with the Lakers for a long Oh. I
think I know where you're going with this. Yes, I
remember you tell me that you knew him or had

(01:46:34):
some sort of a run in with him. Oh. I
didn't have a run in, but someone else I knew
how to run in with. I might explain later on
the uncensored podcast version, But indeed that was like the
most interesting thing we could talk about back in the day.
But now we have these athletes filling our content for us,
it's like life before the advent of the remote control

(01:46:55):
on TV? How did we survive having to get up
and walk all the way eight back and forth from
from the couch. How did your dad ever make you
change the channels by hand? My dad did. Yeah. Yeah,
we didn't have a remote, or at least it was
either that or we didn't have batteries, And so my
dad would make me stand up and and change the channel.
Until he found something liked. It was hell, wasn't it

(01:47:17):
enough about going through something similar in Green Bay? Because overnight,
on their Instagram stories, disgruntled Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and
newly disgruntled Packers receiver Davante Adams each posted the same
picture of Michael Jordan's and Scottie Pippen that was used
as the alternate cover image from last year's Chicago Bulls

(01:47:38):
documentary The Last Dance, the implication, of course, being that
they this will be their final season together in Green
Bay and their last dance, and indeed Michael at the Olympics. Today,
the US women's soccer team defeated New Zealand six to one.
Team USA now one and one after their shocking opening

(01:47:58):
game loss to Swede three nothing. On Wednesday, the US
men's volleyball team swept France and it's opening match eighteen
twenty two. And speaking of twenty five, the US women's
water polo team barely edged Japan in their match today.
Team US A wedding it twenty five to four. Jonas

(01:48:23):
back to you, Thank you, Isaac. It's always always want
to make sure we can stick the landing, so to
speak with with this, but I don't even know when
either these games are on live or delayed. I can't
figure it out if that's one of the challenges, uh,
when it comes to Olympic games in halfway around the

(01:48:46):
world time zones. So these are all live. Um, I
will hopefully make not make the same mistake that a
prominent UH sports radio personality made about a year ago
reporting I've something in Major League Baseball. I think that
had happened literally one year before. I'll have to try

(01:49:06):
and remember the details of that. Maybe I can come
up come up with that for you. Yeah, it wasn't you.
Let's put it that way. Oh man, Uh, I'm looking
for a baseball fan. Uh yeah, I just uh it
wasn't him, Okay, although his record was about a month
after something happened. Yeah, I mean god, I loved him,
though I love I love me some hacks. I Hamilton's

(01:49:27):
man growing up hacksas headline to absolutely I loved it
all right. Um, it is a Jonas Knocks here on
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as they say here on Fox Sports Radio. Right now, though,

(01:49:49):
it's time for something we do on the show, and
it's called this Jonas, how could you not get to?
These stories are the scraps? And for that we turn
it back over to the great Isaac lowan kron professional
broadcaster extraordinaire and a man who refuses to follow any

(01:50:10):
of his co workers on social media. Isaac, what is he?
What have we missed so far on the show? You
know what? I think I'm gonna literally follow you as
we speak, just to spite the co work. Is this
about Steve Hartman? Because Steve Hartman is furious I mean
that that I do not follow him on social media.
So as we speak, I have just followed you on

(01:50:33):
social media just to spite Steve Hartman. So we start
with the topic that you were just addressing Oklahoma and
Texas saying s E c A to the Big twelve.
Bruce Feldman of The Athletic did a great deep dive
on the last forty eight hours or so of this
incredible dramatic story, and it includes this quote by an

(01:50:54):
unnamed Big twelve athletic director who told Feldman, quote, I'm
not surprised by Texas, but I'm really disappointed by the
way Oklahoma has handled this. They've participated in all our
meetings without saying a single word. I think this has
been going on for six months, at a minimum of
probably three months, and ESPN has been right in the

(01:51:18):
middle of it. Unquote, how about that shots fired at
ESPN and Oklahoma. By the way, is Oklahoma's athletic director
still bitching because they have an early kickoff in their
game against was like Texas they had some early kickoff
and they were mad at Fox for scheduling the game early,

(01:51:38):
and and Foxes like, dude, we have the broadcast rights,
Like what do you want from us? Rule the world? Yeah?
I um. That's the worst though, when when when they
tell you listen, I understand why this happened, but I'm
really disappointed in you. Like there's nothing cuts deeper than
when when your parents says, you know, I'm really disappointed
in what you did. Like you'd rather just get banked

(01:52:00):
or humiliated publicly then have them say that to you privately.
That's a that's a tool in my tool kit. The
disappointed card that I pull. I always I always try
and and and play the guilt card as much as possible. Uh,
what I will say is I'm not saying that that
works any better than any other parenting tactic. By the way,

(01:52:21):
in terms of Oklahoma complaining about kickoffs, uh, they don't
have it as bad as the PAC twelve, which last
year had a nine am local time kickoff. I mean,
only in the PAC twelve can you have nine am
local time kickoffs, but also games that kickoff as late
as eight pm time. So you know, you know what

(01:52:44):
I did. Um So, my wife the first time we
had saved up some money, I was like, we've never
been to Hawaii. I really wanted to go to Hawaii.
So like a couple of years ago, we went to
Hawaii for the first time. And it was a Saturday
and it was the first weekend of college football. She
she comes out of the of the room and I'm

(01:53:04):
in the other room because it was like the way
the TV was located like around the corner, and I'm
watching the Ohio State game. She goes, Babe, it's six
thirty and I was like, I know, I just want
to see what it's like to watch football six in
the morning, so I had to do it. I just wonder, like,
how do you I got it? And I think it's
the most fascinating things, like some of these start times

(01:53:26):
and how they affect people around the country, Like a
six thirty college football six thirty in the morning in
Hawaii with with a cup of coffee. It was awesome.
Life is good. Yeah, Or when they play those NFL
games over in London, we can do the same thing
here in the Pacific time zone. I always think it's

(01:53:46):
funny when people on the on the East Coast get
their first tape. I was talking with our Lord and
Savior Scotch Shapiro once and so he lived. He lived
on the on the East Coast for a long time
because he worked at ESPN. And I asked him and say, hey,
what do you make of the ten am starts to
the NFL games? He goes, Oh my god, he goes,
I I never want to go back, Like I know,

(01:54:08):
like once you once you get a taste of football
early in the morning, it's awesome. So I would encourage
everybody to indulge in an early start time if they can.
That's our lives here forever. Here on the on the
West coast, because I've been back on east on the
East coast one year there was a final, the Final
Four in Indianapolis that kicked off at one local time.

(01:54:32):
I'm like, how in the world do you how do
you do you function? And the you know, we did
have a nice postgame meal at Steak and Shake down
the Street, which was which was very enjoyable. Now we're
gonna go on to our next item, the Olympics, and
something making the rounds on social media. Did you know
that during the opening ceremony, just before Team USA took

(01:54:53):
the field in the Olympic Stadium for the traditional Parade
of Nations, they were all congregated in the mount of
the stadium waiting to go out, when the entire contingent
of Team USA saying Happy birthday to men's basketball star
Kevin Durant. Listen to this. Here's the audio courtesy of

(01:55:13):
Javaiale McGee social media. There was only one catch, Jonas,

(01:55:40):
and that's why we're presenting it here on the scraps.
Kevin Durant's birthday is actually September, so the whole time
he's standing there with a bemused expression on his face.
That's the beat. That is one of the one of
the great uh, you know, ball busting moves. If you can,
if you can. It's like when you tell the waiter, hey,

(01:56:01):
it's my buddy's birthday, can you bring him something because
you want a free dessert. It's the it's the same thing.
I always Brady Quent and I every time we talk there.
I don't remember the last time we've spoken in a
day in which we haven't said happy birthday. Like it's
like it's one of those because that way, like the
goal is you don't want to forget somebody's birthday, so
you just say, oh, I met have forgotten it on
the actual day, but remember that one time in July

(01:56:23):
I said it. That should make up for it. But
this feels like Draymond or somebody knew that Kevin Durant
was going to get bothered by it, and they just said, hey,
let's get everybody to say happy birthday. It's fantastic. Kevin
Durant so bothered that at the next Olympics they'll be
signing as a free agent to play for Team Argentina.
Oh my god, can you believe that? Unbelieved Isaac Lowan

(01:56:44):
kron How dare you attack NBA free agency like that? Actually,
you know what, if you are taking exception, if the
likes of you are taking an exception to something, I say,
it really must be. By the way, this was actually
done to me in college because I had a reputation
unbeknownst to me, because I was like literally the only

(01:57:06):
person at my entire college that did not drink alcohol.
So I was invited out for a celebratory meal for
some of my partners in a group project at school,
and they told the server that it was my birthday,
so he brought out a margarita roughly the size of

(01:57:27):
Staples Center and everyone's saying happy Birthday as um an
effort to get me to take my first drink. Unfortunately,
I was able to cleverly worm my way out of it.
But that tactic was done to me once. So you
know what it's crazy about that is that, like I mean,
I don't remember you going a day and not drinking
in studio, including today. Ironically, when when you go to

(01:57:51):
that liquor store up the street where they changed the
prices every day, And that's the thing, it's not up
the street, it's across the street. Now our final item
here on the scraps. This is so well, yeah, this
is sort of a non sports story. We take you
to Florida, where a Florida man was arrested early Thursday
and charged with possession and injury of an alligator after

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he allegedly took an alligator by its tail, hit it
against the awning of the building, threw it to the ground,
and stopped on it twice. The man told police he
was quote teaching it a lesson, unquote, and also added
that he had stolen the gator from an enclosure at

(01:58:34):
a nearby miniature golf course. Now, so many things come
to mind here, including not just the horrific behavior of
the man allegedly, but what kind of miniature golf course
jonas keeps a live alligator on its premises? Yeah, this
this feels like some tiger king you know what they

(01:58:56):
call Jose exotic or whatever, Joe exotic, yeah too whatever.
I was watching the Tijuana version, but this this sounds
like a you know, just one of those weird wild
parks where they got miniature golf courses and then uh,
you know, wild animals like that. Here, here's here's the
thing I would say in defense of the guy who
acted like this. You see, when we grew up, we

(01:59:17):
had this thing called wrestling buddies where you would get
like a whole cogan. Wrestling buddy was a stuffed animal
and you could throw it around and do moves on it.
I mean, they don't have that these days. So if
you got to use an alligator, you gotta use an alligator.
I mean, what do you want it? Are you referencing
the nineteen eighties kids doll craze my buddy? No, there's
something else, Yeah, wrestling, but wrestling dolls from from the eighties, Yeah,

(01:59:42):
like the and this guy doesn't have it, so he's
got to use an alligator. What do you want from?
By the way, though, is we wrap up this edition
of the Scraps. I'll leave you with this Jonas. I
think if it was safe and dignified for the animals,
that would be a really interesting miniature golf course where
part of the obstacles would be live animals instead of
a stationary windmill. You could combine a miniature golf course

(02:00:05):
with a wildlife preserved where you would have to dodge
around live ferocious animals. I think that's an idea worth
pursuing Jonas. That's awesome. That is awesome. Yeah, instead of
hitting it into a clown's mouth, he didn't do it
like a you know, a bobcat's mouth, like that'd be
That'd be fun. Man, I'm into it. Let's make that happen.
We'll do a miniature golf course. You and I, uh,
just give me your credit card and by other materials.

(02:00:26):
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It is another edition of Up on Game. And I'm
not trying to tell people how to live their life.

(02:00:47):
I'm not trying to tell people what to do. All
I'll say is this, you better have some damn cooking
shows on the television for LaVar Arrington. He didn't mess around, man,
telling you. You talk about it. You talked about an obsession. Uh.
There there are some people who like to watch adult
flicks on social media and like to uh to get
after a little bit. And I'm not here to judge
you do what you gotta do. Uh. LaVar Arrington loves

(02:01:11):
cooking shows. I have been in studio with this man
several times before. So make sure sticks has got some
some grilling shows on a barbecue show, whatever it is.
That way you can make a run afterwards and and
get his grill on this weekend. By the way, A
speaking of an opportunity this weekend, Um, there is a
UFC event coming up later on uh, later on tonight.

(02:01:33):
And I am not good at sports betting. I'll just
tell you that right now. Right which is probably a
bad thing to say, is I'm about to give you
a pick in a sports betting opportunity here. But I'll
just simply say this. When somebody else feels the same
as me and they know a lot more than I do, uh,
that makes me feel better about the situation that I like.

(02:01:54):
And so we were on Straight out of Vegas yesterday
and uh, you know, r J Belt said, do you
have a best bet? Do you like a s bet? Uh?
And I had one in mind for the UFC event,
and then uh A J who is a member of
the show, he also had the same pick. And he's
a guy who's a former m M A fighter Uh,
and he actually liked the Corey Sandhagen in the main event.

(02:02:15):
He's fighting t J. Dillashaw later on tonight. Uh, Corey
Sandhagen to win inside the distance. So if you're watching
the UFC event later you want to make a little
bit of coin. Corey Sandhagen is a stud. He's not
a real well, really well known fighter mainstream, but he's
getting there really exciting, devastating finisher. He's gonna be taken

(02:02:36):
on t J. Dillasha It's a five round battle. So
if you can make a little bit of money, I
would recommend you do that. Corey sand Haagen to win
inside the distance coming up later on in the UFC.
This has been a lot of fun. Thank you guys
for letting me hang out, for Chris Perfette, for Don
for Isaac, for Ryan Burschinger, and for everybody who took
part in the show. We appreciate you making time with

(02:02:57):
us here on a Saturday. Keep it locked up on
Game Is next year on Fox Sports Radio.

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