Jonas Knox Weighs in on the Browns QB Competition, Michigan's Punishment & More!

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You know, despite what somebody wants to tell you, and
what they've already told you, they created a problem. They
created a problem for everybody, and we'll tell you why
and who it involves coming up here in just a
couple of moments from now, Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio.
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taking you all the way up until four pm Eastern time,
one o'clock Pacific. Jimmy Haslam has created a mess. Because

(01:34):
Jimmy Haslam did not learn the one rule while working
at a restaurant. And I don't know what his work
experience was. I don't know if he's ever spent any
time in a restaurant, but Jimmy Haslam, the owner of
the Cleveland Browns, clearly has never brought drinks to a
table on a tray. Let me explain. One of the

(01:56):
things you learn early when you work at a restaurant,
if you're carrying a tray of drinks is when you
walk out the door, you don't walk out the door
with the tray in front of you. You back out
of the door, and then you yell corner out so
people know you're coming around the corner so you don't
bump into anybody. Because what happens if you go tray

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out first, or if you don't yell corner out and
somebody's coming around that corner, Guess what. All the drinks
are on the floor and they spill over everybody involved.
You may not get wet, you may not get dirty,
but everybody else around you is gonna get wet and
gonna get a little bit dirty because of a simple rule.

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When you present the potential of a mess, there's a
decent chance that there's going to be a mess, and
Jimmy has Them presented a mess to the Cleveland Browns
and Kevin Stefanski and everybody involved when he decided, you
know what, let's go ahead and let's draft shaedd Or Sanders.

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And it's nothing that shudor Sanders did wrong. But there's
I have no issue. I have no issue whatsoever with
shad Or Sanders. I have no issue whatsoever with Dion
Sanders coach prime. I don't care about should or flashing
a watch. I don't care about him having a beat
box with him when he walks out for his preseason game.
I don't care that he's got an entourage. I don't

(03:24):
care about any of that stuff. Guy played pretty well,
probably not going to play today because he's dealing with
a little bit of an issue, a little bit of
an injury. So this is not anything to do with
shad Or Sanders. It's more to do with Jimmy Hasim
because Dylan Gabriel has started this game for the Cleveland

(03:44):
Browns currently playing against the Eagles, and look outside of
the interception, the interception by Dylan Gabriel on the second series,
and it looked like you had a couple of receivers
and close proximity to each other and they need to
get that worked out. And then there was a bobble
handoff as well too. Maybe that was on the running back,
maybe it wasn't. Outside of that, Dylan Gabriel's looked pretty good.

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The problem is because of the Shadoor Sanders in the
Vicinity conversation, Dylan Gabriel is not really gonna get judged
like you should get judged as a rookie quarterback taken
in the middle of the draft, third round, but not
a first round pick. Cam Ward was two of seven

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last night, and yet people will look at cam Ward like,
hey had a great throw, there was a drop, you
saw a little you know, he struggled. But he'll get
this sorted out. He's a rookie. Dylan Gabriel will get
criticized differently because Shadoor Sanders is in the conversation. Just
like when Joe Flacco starts Week one, if he struggles

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even for a second, Joe Flacco has one turnover early on,
he will get judged differently, just like Kenny Piickett will
get judged differently. Just like Huntley's gonna and all of
this is because should Or Sanders is in the room
and in the building, and it's nothing that he's done
wrong at all. But I said it a week ago.

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When you have guys like t Bow or Kaepernick or
the media jumps on something, they latch on like a
barnacle on a boat, and this becomes the storyline, and
this becomes the conversation, and this becomes a talking point.
You can watch the preseason game, they're showing it on

(05:42):
NFL Network right now, and every time Dylan Gabriel either
completed a pass or if he threw the interception, what
was one of the first things the camera showed should
or Sanders? Why? Why? Because everybody knows that this has

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created the mess that Kevin Stefanski and the Cleveland Browns
are gonna have to live with. And Jimmy has them
can tell you all he wants all. I mean, I
leave it up to Andrew Berry, and I leave it
up to Kevin's No, it was your idea, it was
your call to draft should or Sanders. And because of that,
anybody around should or Sanders is getting dirty. And it's

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all because Jimmy Hasm's the guy that carried the tray
of drinks into the room and said, surprise, here's another one.
I mean, showed to Shan Watson. You did last week?
Show him on the sideline. Hey, hey, look at that.
Look at Deshaan Watson and Dylan Gabriel on the sideline. Look,

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they look miserable that shoudore is Why is it? Is
anybody having that conversation? If Will Levis was still active
for the Titans, would they pan over to will Levis
upon one of the two completions cam Ward through last
night and be like, ooh, will Levis looks pissed, cam

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Ward looks decent. He wants him to know. Nobody's having
that conversation that doesn't exist, But it exists because Jimmy
Haslam has welcomed this noise to the Cleveland Browns. I mean,
I'll give Miles Garrett credit. He's gonna stick to what

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he knows, being a future Hall of Famer and driving
way too fast. Okay, so at least give him credit.
He's trying to hold up his out of the bargain.
At least I'm consistent. I've been the only inconsistent since
I got drafted. Here right, I'm looking at a Hall
of Fame, career square in the eyes, never gonna win
a Super Bowl, not here, And I'm gonna drive real fast.

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You know, I'm gonna drive real fast. That's what I do.
At least he's consistent. Jimmy has them presented all of
this and just said here you guys go, here you go.
And anybody in the vicinity's getting dirty. Anybody Kevin Stefanski's
gonna have to answer questions about it. Of course he will.

(08:17):
Of course. Andrew Berry's gonna be judged, of course, of
course they will. Dylan Gabriel is gonna get judged one
way or the other, one way or the other. People
are gonna want him to struggle because they want shit
or in or people are gonna look or are gonna
overreact in one direction or the other. Joe Flacco's gonna

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get dirty, Kenny Pickett's gonna get dirty. And yet the
guy who's the one bringing the drink set is Jimmy
has them. Oh and by the way, it's not like
he's a first time guy here. He don't worry. He'll
learn his next shift that you got to back out
with the trade drinks. No no, no, no, no no. He's already
done this once before. The guy we mentioned him minute ago,

(09:00):
Deshaun Watson, whose idea was that to give him two
hundred and thirty million dollars guaranteed. Like like, wh who's
sparked all that? Jimmy has them. But hey, believe what
he says. He's got nothing to do with any of
these decisions. All right. He leaves it up to Andrew Berry.
It's it's an Andrew Berry to may everybody back off.

(09:23):
Jimmy has them, Okay, guys, not trying to cause problems here.
He's not trying to cause I mean, he's the owner of
the team. But no, no, no, no, no, no, listen, I
leave it all. So because of that, you're going to
hear the conversations continue to churn and continue to burn,
and anybody not named should or Sanders is going to

(09:46):
be judged in comparison to should or Sanders every hot take.
I told you last week it was a hot take
hostage situation. Shad Or Sanders has been hand picked, and
he's been hand picked and presented to the Cleveland Brown
as their quote unquote problem because Jimmy Hasm couldn't help himself.
He's not the one that's getting dirty. It's everybody else

(10:08):
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I will tell you this right now. You need to

(12:26):
enjoy this version of Ben Johnson for as long as
you can. But you really you have to enjoy it, okay,
because I don't know how long it's going to be here.
And I'm not talking about job security. I'm talking about
this version of Ben Johnson. What version are you referring to?
You know, the one who just says it like it is,

(12:46):
just tells it like it is, like he did this
week about Caleb Williams completion percentage in Chicago.

Speaker 7 (12:52):
Then you said the seventy percent completions target for Caleb
for the season but also for practice.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
How often has he been hitting that? How is he
doing on that for trading can.

Speaker 7 (13:02):
I don't have the exact number, but we've been we've
been underneath that bar, which you know that that happens.
We're learning, we're growing. I think early on we were
probably fifty five. It's gotten better as camp has gone on,
but we haven't hit that threshold as often as we'd.

Speaker 1 (13:16):
Like to have a ballpark of what it's been lately.

Speaker 7 (13:19):
I know I have the numbers on my desk, but
I have not looked at it, so I gotta take
a look at that.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
It's just let me listen, man, Like, it's what it is. Yeah,
this is what the percentage is. He's not there, hasn't
met it. And yeah, I just but that's the way
it goes. And like, and it's not just Caleb Williams.
Like there's been reports that he's aired out Caleb Williams
at times in camp, that he pulled the first team

(13:48):
offense off the field. At one point, he talked about
the left tackle position, by the way, another issue for
the offense, another issue for the Bears. He talked about
the left tackle position. They've got like four guys trying
to secure that spot. And he's you know, been very open,
very honest about that as well too. Yeah, nobody stepped
up and taking it. Yet we're looking for somebody to

(14:09):
do it. We don't want a revolving door. But nobody's
done it yet. We thought so and so was gonna
it was gonna be decent. He was making progress, got injured,
you know, it took some steps back. Stance was like
he's just airing everybody out, and rightfully so, because Ben
Johnson gets in there and there's people talking about how

(14:30):
hard the practices have been, how intense they've been. The
culture has changed, yes, and it should have. I mean,
does anybody remember some of the public pr disasters that
were Matt Eberflus. Anybody remember those? Do you remember anybody
remember any of the commentary from Matt Eberflus sort of

(14:52):
how things were handled there before. How about the fact
that Matt Eberflus the day he was fired with the
media beforehand not knowing he was fired, and then they
pulled him in afterwards and said, oh, by the way,
thanks for showing up and doing your media obligations. You're
fired by This isn't just Ben Johnson's here to fix

(15:15):
Caleb Williams. I've said this before. Everyone's focused only on
Caleb Williams, Like, it's just you know, it's Caleb Williams.
You know, it's gotta you gotta fix the quarterback. I agree,
they better hope it works out with him, for as
much as they've invested in Caleb Williams. But Ben Johnson
showing up in Chicago wasn't just a hey can you
fix the quarterback? It was hey, man, can you fix

(15:37):
everything everything. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if
they asked him to figure out the stadium situation, like, hey, listen,
we've tried everything. We can't figure it out. You know,
there's Arlington, there's a you know. But I don't know
how long this version of Ben Johnson's gonna last because

(16:00):
he is so honest that I wonder if he's going
to become a little bit too honest. Bill Belichick learned
throughout the course of his career, you don't say anything.
Even his mentor Bill Parcells would just maybe be a
little bit too honest at times. Belichick learned early on, Yeah,

(16:22):
I'm just not going to say anything. And if it
sounds boring, and if people don't like it, and if
it sounds redundant and they want to make clips about us,
then fine.

Speaker 8 (16:31):
I don't have any of that.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yeah, that's what you're getting. It's hardy unaddressed. I'm not
going to be honest. I'm not going to talk about
Tom Brady's completion percentages. I'm not going to talk about
how are issues at left tackle and the revolving door there.
I'm not going to talk about all the other issues
we've got here. No, I'm just not going to do it. Yeah, nothing,
you get nothing from me.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
I'll wait until i'm done and then i'll do you know,
fifteen shows, TV radio, podcast, you name it. But other
than that, no, I'm good. I don't like to say
a damn thing. Oh would you like more information from me?
Did you get no? No, No, You're gonna have to
wait two decades. Ben Johnson's like, no, listen, all uh,
this is what it is.

Speaker 4 (17:17):
Like.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
When's the last time you've heard a coach say we
had a seventy percent completion percentage mark for our quarterback,
who's already overly scrutinized anyways, and then in the same
answer tells you, yeah, I think we're around fifty five.
I'll get the exact number. It's on my desk somewhere.
Just lets it fly, and he should, because it's been

(17:41):
a long time since anybody just let it fly in
that place. And I think when he got there, he saw, man,
there's a lot of potential here, but there are a
lot of issues. And that's somebody who comes from a
place where that head coach had to do a lot

(18:01):
of the same stuff. Dan Campbell showed up in Detroit.
They were a disaster, and he had to do a
lot of the same stuff. I gotta like fix some
things here, started bringing in some of the legends from
the past, started repairing relationships with them, and then he
gets in there and realizes, man, I got to fixed stuff. Yeah.

(18:22):
They drafted, well, they've got a great roster. There's good
players there, but there was a culture and an identity
that needed to be found, and Dan Campbell was tasked
with that. It wasn't just win games. It was hey, man,
can you fix that first, and then we'll get to
the winning. And then once they did that, they were
off and running. Ben Johnson, who leaned on Dan Campbell

(18:47):
for a lot and cites Dan Campbell as the guy
that he trusts, a guy that's been in his corner,
somebody that depends on Ben Johnson looked at Dan Campbell
was like, yeah, that's the model. Let me get in
there and let me fix a place. And part of
the way I'm gonna fix it is I'm gonna be
brutally honest. I'm not gonna give canned answers. I'm not

(19:08):
gonna sit here and tell you how great our player is.
And now how supportive we are and this and that. No,
we're struggling in this department. Yes, here are the numbers.
It's just not being rude about it. And I'm just
letting people know. Hey, listen, I'm direct, I'm honest. Is
what it is, our left tackle position. Yeah, we got

(19:29):
four guys. Nobody's taken it yet. We're not happy about it,
but you know, hopefully we get it done. Oh and
by the way, if somebody does win that job, that
doesn't mean that we're not gonna make a change at
some point. I wonder how long this goes for, because
I just don't know nowadays if you can be as

(19:51):
honest about the situations and issues you have, like Ben
Johnson's being about the Bears, because at some point, somebody's
gonna get sensitive, somebody's gonna get their feelings hurt. Like
this stuff may have flown back in the day, but
nowadays everybody's got a problem with something. He can't be direct,

(20:14):
he can't be honest, he can't be critical, because if
you are, somebody's gonna have an issue with it. So
enjoy this version of Ben Johnson while you got him.
Enjoy it. Why you can he's got a real task
and a real job on his hands because he's got
to try and turn around an organization, not just a quarterback,

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but an entire offense, an entire team, and an entire organization.
And he's got to do it while everybody's asking him
the same questions about one guy the entire time, and
he's trying to let you know with other answers, Hey,
it's not just him. We got problems here and he's
trying to fix them all At the Jonas Knocks on

(20:57):
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no more, that's it. We're all done here with this

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story in the world of football, they present to you
another one. We'll tell you what that is coming up
here in just a couple of moments from now. But
first for all the latest shore around the world of sports,
Ladies and gentlemen, make some noise and tell anybody around
you who is making other noise to shut their mouths,
shut your mouths. He's the one, he's the only. He's

(21:44):
the magnificent, Sir Isaac Longcrop.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
And I will lure myself to detail the NFL preseason
scoreboard Jonahs starting in Philadelphia, where the Eagles have a
thirteen to twelve halftime lead over the Cleveland Browns. Brown's
rookie third round pick Dylan Gabriel thirteen to eighteen for
one forty three on the first half, leading touchdown and
field goal drives. However, in between he was intercepted by
Philadelphia's Andrew mccooba, who returned at seventy five yards for

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a touchdown. The New England Patriots up fourteen to three
at Minnesota at halftime. Patriots quarterback Joshua Dobbs eleven out
of sixteen for one oh six with a touchdown pass.
The Colts lead the Packers thirteen to nothing with one
thirty eight left in the second quarter. Anthony Richardson six
of ten for seventy three yards, Daniel Jones seven of
eleven for one hundred and one yards. The Houston Texans

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with it Yeah, have a ten to three halftime lead
over the Carolina Panthers Bryce Young oz for two during
his stint In this game in Detroit, the Lions and
Dolphins are tied at seven with one point fifty left to.

Speaker 2 (22:50):
Play in the second quarter.

Speaker 9 (22:51):
In college football, multiple outlets reported today that the Big
Ten Conference is floating an idea to expand the college
football playoff. To his many is twenty four or twenty
eight teams, coupled with the elimination of conference championship games
and finally also trending right now, Jonas, we take you
to Germany for the World Shopping Cart Return Championship. Yeah,

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it appears to be a competition in which middle aged
women roll shopping carts from increasing distances towards the shopping
cart racks you'd find in the parking lot outside your
local supermarket. Here's how it sounded as Carmen Geiss went
for the winning shopping cart return fling to try to

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defeat Claudia Effenberg for the titles.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
In the hunts Tia, Mida, Di Fung Shots, Women, Rock Fi, Stage, fish, stage, Fishtagami, Lansop,
Indian Chai.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
Defasit Nda Clinton, Theater godsk oh So.

Speaker 9 (24:00):
Congratulations to Carmen Geiss, although I'd love a crack at
a rematch back to you.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Now, how do you feel about returning shopping carts?

Speaker 9 (24:11):
Well, I always do because admittedly I do the same thing.
When I get twenty feet away, I fling it towards
the return rack.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
And if I get a bullseye and put.

Speaker 9 (24:22):
It right between the racks and into the shopping cart return,
you know, I don't care who's around me. I celebrate
pretty loudly beating my chest because that is really the
peak of my athleticism.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah, listen, I'm with you. I'm not one of those
throw from a distance type because I like to let
people know that I'm doing my due diligence and doing
my Okay, I'm doing my part to walk all the
way over. I respect that.

Speaker 10 (24:48):
Have you guys heard of the shopping cart theory?

Speaker 2 (24:50):
No? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, maha.

Speaker 8 (24:52):
Apparently it just says a lot about you as a
person that decision as to whether you return your shopping
carts or not.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
So thing, is anybody that and listen, I'm not trying
to you know, anybody listening that's you know, currently got there,
you know, listening to the iHeartRadio app while they're doing this.
If you're not returning your shopping cart, even if you
take it and return it to the cart station in
the parking lot. You're lazy, all right, you're lazy. Return

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it all in front of the store. Turn it all
the way to the front of the store. Okay.

Speaker 9 (25:23):
The theory is that you return the cart, no matter
where it is, to the front of the store.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
Somebody still it's.

Speaker 10 (25:29):
The front of the store, has to be to the
front of the store.

Speaker 2 (25:34):
Things.

Speaker 10 (25:34):
Yeah, the rat because they want to exposes you.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
They want to expose you. They will say, hey, you're
halfway there. You're gonna give up now. And those people
do they didn't have the racks. Quitter, you're a quitter
and you're and you're lazy. And furthermore, you should do
jail time.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
It's it's like a it's it's a halfway step with
those racks because they realize people are so lazy. If
they don't have the racks, you'll just leave them in
front of parking Yeah. The horrible people are the ones
who leave it in front of parking spots. The racks
are okay.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Out in the No no, no, no, no, neither is acceptable.
All right, neither is acceptable as somebody who as somebody
who returned carts. Let me tell you something, it's a
real pain in the ass, But they build up your biceps.
Jonas well, that's fine. I don't need shopping cart retrievals
to build up my biceps. Okay, I need somebody to

(26:19):
build up their quad and leg muscle and stop being
a lazy ass and bring the cart to the front
of the store where you got it from. And also,
let me tell you one of my proud parenting moments
early on is I was explaining to my son as
we would go to the store, like, hey man, so
you always want to return your carts. Do you know
why you always want to return your cards? Because if
you don't, that's lazy, that's lazy to do. So now

(26:42):
when we go to the shopping we go to the
store together and we're walking through the parking lot. If
he sees a cart next to a car or in
one of those cart retrieval racks, he says, lazy, lazy.
I'm like, you're right, you're right, So hell yeah, telling
you right now, raising a good one. And also for

(27:03):
anybody out there that works at a store, because I've
heard this one too, people that get the shopping carts
that work at stores they go, you know, but if
you return it, you're kind of taking jobs away from us.
Trust me, there's a small percentage of people that do
the right thing and return to the front of the store.
Most people just leave them in the parking lot. Your

(27:23):
jobs are safe because most people are lazy.

Speaker 9 (27:26):
But if you return them to the fun of the store,
people still have to transport them from the fun of
the store back into the store.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
What do you mean.

Speaker 9 (27:34):
That's how it is at my supermarket. That's how it
is a target. They have a rack in front of
the store, and then they have the place where you
actually get the carts is inside the store. And by
the way, when did you sports radio renegade, sports radio contrarian,
delighting in your haters on social media?

Speaker 2 (27:52):
When did you turn into the morality police around here?
Because I'm a humble guy and I know where I
came from, all right, And let me tell you something.
When I was working at Toys r Us as the
maintenance guy, there were two things that were real pain
in the ass. Number one, returning shopping cards. Number two,
cleaning the tampon drawer in the women's restroom. That sucked.
I'll just say this. By the way, ladies, you your

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bathrooms were dirtier than the men's. I'll just put it
that way, okay, whether diaper trays, tampon racks, the little like,
all of that. Like it was I had to do
all that empty the trash. I had a buddy who
worked the other shift, one of my dear friends. I
knew he was taking naps on the job based on
the amount of work I had to do. When I
came in, he tried to lie to me and say

(28:36):
he didn't, and I was like, really, then, why can't
I see your ass dented into the pack of trash bags.
They were like a box of trash bags where he
would sit and nap. I just don't.

Speaker 9 (28:46):
I just don't understand, given your prior experience as the
rat at Chuck E Cheese, why you were unable to
get the position as the guy in the Jeffrey suit
at Toys r Us Or was that already filled?

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yeah, I don't know. I think I wanted to show
some range people. I want to ask people I know
that that I was more than you know, something you
would get out of a claw machine, you know. I
want I wanted people to know that, hey, this guy
could do some of the grunt work. So I did
the maintenance Shabba Toys r us respect. Yeah, all right,
all right, know what we accomplished there, But at the

(29:18):
Jonas Knocks on X and you can follow along on
Instagram at Jonas Knox Show. Now if you mentioned Isaac
brought this up in his award winning update a few
moments ago that apparently believe it or not, right when
you thought, hey, we've heard every single college football playoff
model that ever existed, you know, ten, twelve, sixteen. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,

(29:40):
no stop. Did you think they were done? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. The off season of the one what if,
the off season of thee what ifs for college football
is back because the Big Ten has got this idea
for a twenty four or twenty eight team college football playoff. Yeah,

(30:05):
there's massive expansion of the college football playoff. The ideas
in the early stages, but the Big Ten commissioner Tony
Pettiti ran the idea by his conference on Wednesday, sources set.
According to Pete Thamil of ESPN, he ran it by
his conference on Wednesday, and it's begun. The sharing of

(30:31):
it has happened started to happen for others as well too.
They started aay, you know, maybe here's another idea. Oh
you know this right next to the sixteen and the
automatic qualifiers and all the other So, oh, by the way,
just in case anybody that's like focused on the college
football playoff for next year, you know next year, what
next year will look like? We do know that we're

(30:52):
less than a week away from this season starting, right,
we do. Everybody knows that next Yeah, like there's a
game while we're doing the show. Oh, next week, a
game will be about half over in Ireland like that.
The season kicks off next weekend. And all we keep
hearing about is everything that's happening the year after this year?

(31:14):
Why why like I am over it? I'm over the
different college football playoff models. I'm over this. Uh uh
these these automatic qualifiers get this, and this conference gets this,
and and we want this many here and we want

(31:35):
we want home playoff games. Dude, can we just like
talk about the season season's ear? Can we focus on that?
Do focus on something? I mean, are we just gonna
ignore the fact that Hawaii football kicks off next week.
We're just gonna ignore that, just dismiss it like a
it doesn't matter. That's week zero. We'll get to that

(31:56):
when we get to it. What do you mean, got
a game in Ireland, got a top twenty five matchup,
whatever that means. It's preseason eight p polls, Iowa State,
in Kansas State, like you've got games. We're right here.
We can push all this till later on, and still
it continues to pop up. Still, So if you think

(32:21):
that this is the last of these discussions, they will
not be. I'm just letting you know I'm over it,
and I think a lot of people are over it.
A lot of people just want to focus on the games.
We're tired of the meddling. We're tired of the back
and forth. We're tired. Figure it out. Whatever you guys decide,
just figure it out, but stop with the twelve, the sixteen,
the twenty four, the twenty eight, the forty eight. Enough.

(32:44):
Let's just focus on the season and let the rest
play out afterwards at the Jonas Knocks on X at
Jonas knockhow on Instagram here on FSR coming up next,
though it is a Saturday tradition, something you can depend
on here, all right, something you can depend on. It's
another edition of do You You Care? Right here on FSR.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio. Come it up top of
next hour. We'll call it about fifteen minutes from now
here on FSRU. There was something that was I guess
handed down in the world of sports that really just
means nothing. It means nothing unless you want it to

(33:31):
mean something. We'll get into that for you again, to
come it up here a little over fifteen minutes from now.
Right now, though, it is time for a weekly tradition
here on the show, one that we uphold and one
that we believe in. It's time for this.

Speaker 6 (33:46):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time
DMG reports.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Let's get kinky.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 2 (34:02):
And look, we're not messing around here Bo Benson as
our normal executive producer. He has been suspended for ped
usage again. This is becoming a problem to an addiction.
Really yeah, I mean he's on the gas and he's
got to be held accountable for it. So in his place,
we turn it over to the man himself. Rowdy Ian,

(34:22):
Roddy Ian, what's happening?

Speaker 10 (34:24):
All right?

Speaker 8 (34:25):
I'm I'm you know, Bo's on the pds, but I
benefit from it. I'm happy to be here on the
Jonas Knox Show and acting asking you, Jonas, whether you
care about these things?

Speaker 10 (34:34):
So should we jump in?

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Let's jump in? All right?

Speaker 8 (34:37):
Number one here, Taylor Swift announced her upcoming album, The
Life of a Showgirl on Travis and Jason Kelsey's New
Heights podcast. So some football fans of the podcast, we're
pretty unhappy with that, saying, you know, we're already subjected
to seeing her every reaction every time he makes a
catch in a game, so you know, doing such a
big announcement on a football podcast really rubbed them the
wrong way.

Speaker 10 (34:56):
So, Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 2 (34:58):
No, I don't care. He gives it just like the
whole Can we get over the Taylor Swift stuff? I
mean that took us through some you know, Chiefs blowouts
for a little while, and it was a storyline to
pay attention to because maybe some people had Chiefs fatigue
and so they wanted to, you know, talk about Taylor
Swift and did they sneaker in in a popcorn carrier
or whatever the story was back at Arrowhead Stadium. Look,

(35:21):
they're dating. Cool, she's got a new album coming out.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
The Chief season's coming up around the corner. That's even
more cool. Whatever. If people still want to get hung
up on the Taylor Swift stuff, have a good time.
I'm not into it anymore.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
Next, all right, Next, the NBA two K video games.
They're hugely popular franchise every single year, but they're in
the news this week after they've announced that the upcoming
edition of the game will let players use WNBA players
on the same court as NBA players. So in previous
editions you could use both both WNBA and NBA.

Speaker 10 (35:58):
Players, just not at the same time. But now they're
on the same court.

Speaker 8 (36:01):
So newest promo video shows Angel Reese and Shaquille O'Neil
on the same team. So I've seen mixed reactions on
social media to this announcement, But Jonas, do you care.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
No, not at all, though definitely don't. Uh this is
and I'm just gonna be honest, because you've got a
lot of people out here masquerading and pretending that they
care about the WNBA. Like any WNBA story, they want
to jump all in. You know what ESPN is because
they're invested, so you like, they want to pretend like
they really care about it. I'll just be honest with you.
I couldn't care less about the WNBA at all whatsoever.

(36:32):
And furthermore, the only thing I care less about than
the WNBA is the WNBA in a video game. Okay,
So everybody have fun, do what you gotta do, and
if it makes you smile, go take a walk and
enjoy your time. Next, all right.

Speaker 8 (36:50):
Hayden Christiansen, the actor famous for playing Anakin Skywalker in
Star Wars. He threw out the first pitch at yesterday's
Chicago Cubs game, and he was wearing a number sixty
six jersey, which Star Wars fans loved because it correlates
to Order sixty six from the Revenge of the Sith
movie where all the Jedis were killed. So, Jonas, do
you care?

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yes, only because I love it. I want to throw
out the first pitch at Wrigley Field. Okay, that's what
I want. I want to do that, and I want
to sing the seventh inning stretch. That would be a
bucket list of mine. If I could ever do that,
I would want to bring my son with me and
do it together. That would be a wonderful time. What
I don't care about is whatever the origin of the

(37:33):
number sixty six is. I do any care anything Star
Wars related, Star Wars, Space Track, like super like all
these other like comic books and like Galactica, all these
I just I don't know why people get so fixated
on this stuff. I really don't. I don't understand it. Like,
is sports not that exciting for you that you've got

(37:55):
to venture off into other realms? Like you've got to
go down these other roads. If you're bored with sports,
that you've got to, like turn on Space Wars or
whatever it's called. And they're wearing some Galactica sixty six jersey,
and what does it mean? What's the meaning behind that?
If you're that bored with it, why don't you be
an adult, be a good human being and start drinking
and gambling while you watch games, Like you do your

(38:19):
body good, have a cocktail and throw some money on
an under and be stressed out for three hours. You'll
forget all about that nerdy comic book stuff, if you
actually venture into that world and start talking about the
real side of sports.

Speaker 8 (38:32):
Next Bo promised me, as Star Wars is for nerds,
rant if I included that one and you'd alogize.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
So I I just can't. I've never been into it.
I just don't get it. I do not understand it.
I don't know how people are into it, but they
are good for them, all right.

Speaker 8 (38:51):
Next to Jaguars head coach Liam Cohen told reporters that
two way rookie Travis Hunter is dealing with an upper
body injury right now and he may not play in
their preseason game this week against New Orleans. So some
fans have been pretty concerned about that because you know,
it comes from him playing both ways, and the fact
that he's already gotten injury before the season started could
be seen as a little concerning.

Speaker 10 (39:09):
Jonas do you care, No, I don't care.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I here to tell you right now, we don't care.
I want to see it. I want to see him play.
I would like to see if he can go and
play offense and defense and try and do something that
a lot of people don't think it's possible that he does.
But I'm not going to get worked up over some
sort of a preseason issue or preseason injury. If this

(39:32):
lingers into the regular season, all right, if we're talking
about like the Matthew Stafford stuff like, then we can
have a conversation about it, because that one has just
been Eh, there's this that's never never landed. Right with
me from the get go, I'm not going to concern
myself about Travis Hunter. Hopefully he's out there, Hopefully he
can play offense and defense, because I want to see
it just as much as the other guy. Next.

Speaker 8 (39:54):
Texas quarterback Arch Manning, who's also the nephew of Peyton
and Eli. He's got some of the best odds in
the country to win this year's High Trophy. But somewhat surprisingly,
there's another award literally called the Manning Award, which is
given specifically to the nation's top quarterback.

Speaker 10 (40:07):
But Arch didn't even make the watch list for it.

Speaker 8 (40:09):
So oh and by the way, there were twenty seven
different quarterbacks on the watch list and it was his namesake.

Speaker 10 (40:15):
So Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 2 (40:16):
No, not really, I mean, look, I just hey, some
of these are like it's about the Heisman, you know,
like it's about the people want to win the Heisman,
and if he goes on and he wins the Heisman
or whatnot, like it just like he's one of those
guys though that he is going to be scrutinized and
judged in a way that's probably not fair to him.
But it's just because of his last name. And so

(40:37):
you've got all these people talked well, I mean, are
the Saints taking tanking for arch Manning? Is this going
to happen for arch Manning? Could he just play a
full season at Texas? This is like the college football
playoff expansion. Could we just focus on this year and
then start looking big picture afterwards? Is that okay? With everybody?
With the season right around the corner or what door?

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Listening no Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
You know, it's just how you look at it. That's
really what it comes down to in the world of sports.
I'll explain coming up here in just a couple of
moments from now, Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. You can
listen to this show as always on the iHeartRadio app.
You can find us on hundreds of affiliates all across
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(41:22):
we take you all the way up until the end
of this hour four pm Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific.
So you know, the punishments were handed down to Michigan
for the sign stealing scandal that went on a couple
of years ago with Connor Stallions and all that stuff,

(41:43):
and you know they handed those down yesterday and you
had all the all the details, the juicy details of
you know, a ten year show cause order for Jim Harbaugh,
two year show cause order, three games to suspension, I've
shrown Moore, got financial penalties like all the other things,

(42:06):
like Connor Stallions has got like an eight or ten
year show, Like you can't even keep track of all
of it. Like it's just beat every and it looks
like really bad, and it's like, man, it like this
elaborate scheme to like steal signs and all that, and
Michigan is this and that, and it's and I'll just
be honest with you, it does nothing for me at all.

(42:31):
And it doesn't change the way I feel about Michigan
winning that national title that year. It does nothing because
I know what I saw, Like I know what I
saw and I know what I watched, and I know
what happened even after Jim Harbaugh was punished in season,
when the whole thing became, you know, the big revelation occurred.

(42:53):
Like I saw what happened afterwards, and what I saw
was a team win every single game and win a
national title. That's what I saw. And really, if you
are one of these other schools that's complaining about this,
that's what this is all about. You want to show
that there was a reason why you lost, even if

(43:17):
you're a Ohio state and there were other opportunities to
beat Michigan after this stuff came out and you still
didn't do it. So you're looking for and it's just
one of those things in sports where it pops up
or is scandaled or something like this pops up and
I look at it and I go, you know, it's
kind of a good thing for sports because it's a reminder,

(43:39):
stirs it up a little bit because I operate under
the assumption that everybody's doing something to cut a corner
here or there. Like that's just the way I view
all this stuff. Like you can feel however you want
to feel about Barry Bonds. You have that right, here's
what I know. That's the greatest baseball player I've ever seen.

(44:00):
Sorry you want to say, well, you know he did
steroids and p d ok fine, I mean don't I
don't know that he's ever actually pissed hot. I don't know,
I don't. You know, there's been a lot of speculation
about who was on the list, who wasn't on the list.
You know, this was like, well he's not allowed on
the Hall of Fame, Okay, but like you know, Ty
Cobbs in the Hall of Fame, and you know, people

(44:21):
think he might have murdered somebody. So what are we
really talking about here? So it comes down to what
did you see? What are you willing to accept? And
for me, I'm willing to accept that there's probably a
lot of people that are doing stuff wrong that we
just don't know about. And so you want to judge

(44:46):
Michigan and want to take away wins, or you want
to take away their reputation or call them cheaters or
do like you could probably do the same thing if
you wanted to with the Patriots. I mean, Rob Parker's
been doing that for years, talking about the Patriots and
the cheating and they're this and that, and they're a
bunch of cheating. It's like, okay, what footballs?

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Like?

Speaker 2 (45:04):
All right, well they deflated footballs and then after it
was discovered that the football was a little bit deflated,
guess what happened. They went on won a Super Bowl.
So what about all the other ones? What about all
the It's like, if we really wanted to do this,
we could do this for a lot of people. Michigan
tried to make the claim. Listen, there's other schools that

(45:26):
were stealing signs. It's happened before. Like it comes down
to what are you willing to accept? And me, I'm
willing to accept and I have been for a while
now that Yeah, there's probably some dirty stuff that goes on.
There's probably some people who were using steroids or peds

(45:47):
back in the day that didn't get caught or aren't
looked at, or didn't have a finger pointed at them
because for whatever reason, they just got to flown under
the radar. You know, we weren't the Sambisocid, we weren't
the Maguire, the Bonds. We were just one of these
other guys that kind of flew under the radar and
they got in and nobody said anything like they listen,

(46:07):
they they got in and they're kind of like dodge
that one. And so the Michigan sanctions come out and
all the punishments come out. It's like, see, we told
you they were to say, Okay, dude, Like I watched
the games. I saw what happened. Like I saw what happened.
I know what I watched. That team won a national title.

(46:31):
They were the best team in college football that year.
I'm sorry if you want to get caught in the weeds.
And that's why I say this is probably a good
thing for it, because the good thing is that you
can have this conversation, you can have this debate, you
can have this argument back and forth. Like the Astros
winning the World Series after they were popped for all

(46:51):
the cheating and the buzzers and the trash cans and
all that stuff like that threw a wrinkle into things
like now, well they want it without that, So now
what does this mean for that? Like I look at
this stuff is, hey, these are good conversations, good talking points.
But I'm under the assumption that there's a lot of
people doing dirty stuff, that there's a lot of people
probably doing stuff. I think there's still probably a lot

(47:13):
of people now that are testing positive for peds if
you gave them the right test, that have just figured
out a way to beat the system. I really do.
I think there's probably a lot of While everyone wants
to point to Michigan and we've now we've figured this out,
we've figured out signs stealing, there's probably still people that
are doing it. They just probably are. And so if

(47:36):
you want to look at Michigan getting popped for this
and all the punishments that came out and go, hey, yeah, yeah,
we knew it, we knew what they discovered. That team
was cheating. Okay, fine, like to each their own, But
I look at it and I go, that was the
best team in college football that year. And even after
that stuff was discovered, they went on and won every
single game, and they won a national title, and they

(47:57):
were playing in some tough environments and still want on
to win. Like it does nothing to take away from
the fact that they have dominated Ohio State in recent memory.
Like what happened last year? Like like were they were
they stealing signs last year? What happened? What happened in

(48:18):
Columbus last year like this, Like you're going to feel
a certain type of way no matter what came out,
and if there was any sort of punishment handed out,
like you were going to feel a certain type of
way because you were destined to feel that way based
on who you rooted for, who you cheered for. Like

(48:39):
when you find out all these like and and people
may not like this. I think Pete Rose should have
been in the Hall of Fame from the get go.
Nobody wants to have that discussion and say, well, yeah,
you know Pete's Pete's claim was I didn't I didn't
bet against my team. I bet on my team. It's like, well,
you know, still it's still bet No, not really. If

(49:00):
you're betting against your team, that's a problem. If you're
betting on your team, it's a problem. But at least
you're not trying to manipulate games to go the opposite
direction and cause your team to lose. In fact, if
you've got more money on your team to win, you're
probably going to be more enticed on them winning. I mean,
he's probably a better manager for it. Like it's just

(49:20):
so the Michigan punishment comes out and people are pointing
left and right, like, oh, you take away the title,
and of course they didn't. They didn't. They didn't take
away wins. The whole idea of taking away wins after
the fact is lame, Like I just that's lame. It's
like Patino. Patino's got a bunch of it. It's like, oh, well,
you know, we took away all these tournament wins and all.

(49:42):
It's okay, all right, Look, I know what I saw,
I know what I watched Lance Armstrong. You mean to
tell me he wasn't the best cyclist there. Yeah, but
he's using peds. Have you looked into cycling? So was everybody.
Everybody was doing it. But there are certain people who

(50:04):
get spotted, and certain people who get pointed at, and
certain people who get punished and get vilified for it.
And there's other people that kind of slowly just walk
on by, look the other way. I mean, how many
times have you been speeding and you get pulled over

(50:25):
and you know for a fact you saw somebody going
faster than you right before you got pulled over. But
there's only one cop. They can only pick and choose
who they want to choose, and they choose you for
some reason. Doesn't mean nobody else is speeding. They were
You saw them, you were there, they were going faster
than you. Why'd you get pulled over?

Speaker 4 (50:44):
It?

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Just so if you want to feel a certain type
of way about Michigan, you can go ahead and feel
however you want to feel. I'm telling you right now,
it does nothing for me. Whatever punishment they get to
hand it out that the suspension, they're going to appeel it.
They're gonna Sharon Moore gets it and Connor Stallions gets
into whatever. I know what I watched and that was
the best team in college football. It does nothing for

(51:05):
me to take away from what they did that year
at all. It just doesn't. At the Jonas Knox on X,
at the Jonas Knox on X and you can get
them on get us on Instagram as well too, at
Jonas Knox Show. Coming up next here though, on Fox
Sports Radio, we're going to tell you. We're gonna tell
you about how one coach who did it his way

(51:27):
is back to doing it his way yet again. Right
here at FSR. We don't need to bring Jonas in.
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up in a little
over ten minutes from now. Despite all the warnings despite
all the other issues that people try and tell you about.

(51:49):
People on the inside, they're saying, relax, we got this,
we got this, don't worry about us. Everything's gonna be fine.
We'll get into that for you a little over ten
minutes from now here on FSR SO. I was talking
about this earlier that Ben Johnson thus far with the
Chicago Bears has been a breath of fresh air because
of how honesty is. Like he's literally going to tell

(52:12):
you about Kayleb Williams completion percentage. He's going to tell
you about how it looks in practice. He's going to
tell you about how they're underperforming. He's going to tell
you about how they've got issues at left tackle. They've
got three or four guys trying out for the same
position and nobody's really taken the range yet because nobody's
done that well yet. Like he's just letting it fly

(52:34):
on everybody. Everybody in the organization. Doesn't matter, Caleb Williams,
not Caleb Williams, does not matter. He's letting it fly
and it's a breath of fresh air because you don't
normally get that. And one of the examples of that
was Bill Belichick. For years, Belichick would give you nothing.
You would get nothing from Belichick, and so you know,

(52:56):
you would you ask them a bunch of questions, you
get a bunch of you know, one word answers or
you know, very surface level stuff, and that was it.
And it was almost like a game. Can you get
him to answer something? Can you get him to do this?
Get a reaction out of this. So when Belichick started
doing media stuff, people were blown away by the same
thing with Nick Saban. Like, Belichick and Saban are best friends,

(53:20):
and you can tell because they both kind of handled
coaching the same way. We're gonna give you what we
give you. Saban would be a little bit more of
a red ass and shows emotions publicly. And then all
of a sudden, you see those guys do media stuff
and they're great. You know, Belichick won an Emmy for
the you know, NFL one hundred stuff he did on
NFL network. It's great. You're like, well, where's that happened?

(53:43):
Why couldn't he get because he didn't want to, Like,
you're the media, He'll give you what he gives you.
Like everybody thought they had Belichick figured out, they thought
they had him. You know, like, oh, we understand who
he's a curmudgeon, he's this and that. I can tell
you this. I know this for a fact. So Andy Furman,

(54:05):
dear friend, Fox Sports Radio legend, Sportstock radio legend, give
me a salami submarine. Andy Furman's got this thing where
he sends mail like he just loves to do it.
It's it's weird. It's a you know, we've talked about
it on the network, you know, hundreds of times before.

Speaker 6 (54:22):
I want to make sure guy.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Yeah, and he wants a mature guy that helps him
lick stamps. That's what he wants. And Andy loves sending
mail like that's just he still does it. He sends letters,
He sends stuff in the mail all the time. He
loves it. And one of the people that like because
normally and this is, you know, just telling you the truth,
a lot of people will get stuff from Andy and
not send anything back. Like they'll get stuff from him,

(54:47):
to open it, they'll throw it away, won't even either
acknowledge it or anything. You know, who would Bill Belichick
Belichick and Andy have been pen pals four years. I'm
not even making that up, like they send each other mail.

(55:08):
I'm a pig. I'm an NFL pig. Yeah, but let's
he build his mind. Like I've seen the letters, like
they send each other stuff in the mail. Like Belichick
has been on Fox Sports Radio before. You want to
know who was on with Andy Furman and Aaron Taurres
because Andy Furman knows Belichick like Belichick doesn't. Didn't do

(55:32):
any media while he's coaching. Nothing like you maybe do
a paid hit in Boston. He would do nothing. Came
on Fox Sports Radio. Why he's friends with Andy? Why
are they friends? They send letters to each other, swear
to God. Like so like when everybody thought they had
Belichick figured out, like, oh, he's this guy and he's
out of here a curmudgeon, and they said, like I knew

(55:53):
just based on that, Like whatever you think you're getting,
you're not getting. Like he's giving you a very simple,
you know what, not a lot of detailed version of him.
But there's more to Bill Belichick. And you've seen that
in the media. You've seen how that stuff plays out.

(56:13):
And so Ben Johnson coming out being as honest as
he is. I just wonder how long that's going to
last because Belichick, I think he figured out early on
based on coaching under Bill Parcells and maybe being honest
himself about performances and players. Oh yeah, listen that you know,
maybe I want to keep some of that stuff close
to the best. Maybe I don't want to tell everybody
all of our issues and be as blunt and honest

(56:36):
as I have been throughout the early portion of my career.
And the great thing is is that Bill Belichick, that guy,
the guy everybody thought was a curmudgeon. He's not going
to talk to the media and not gonna He's back
because North Carolina in a release on Friday, they have

(56:56):
this college football Coaches show, and Belichick's gonna appear on
the first episode. Only that's it. Like every school, like
every college coach has a coaches show. Like I remember
working in South Carolina and Steve Spurrier had a coach
a show when he was coach of the game Cocks,

(57:19):
and uh, look, there may have been an episode or
two where a Spurrier showed up, but it was like, God,
he seems real happy today. What's going on? And you know,
maybe he was looking the lid before he got on
the air, just saying maybe he was. Maybe he's like,
you know what, I got a couple hours of free time,
I got this coach a show coming up, and coming up,
I got to answer a bunch of questions I don't
want to answer. I'm gonna have a couple of cocktails.

(57:39):
Why not? And I think some people started to notice it,
and you know, sooner rather than later, that sort of
came to an end. But Belichick is like, yeah, appear
on in the first episode of this coaches show and
then none, that's it, you get nothing, see you. He's back.
So for all of you that were looking at the

(58:00):
curmudgeon and being like, that's the Belichick we know, and
now he's going to be in the media and he's
going to be talking more, it's a different version of him.
It's not he's coaching now again. So that version of
Belichick will return to the coaching world, and it's happening
after the first episode of this Coaches Show. North Carolina
is gonna put out and then afterwards Michael Lombardi will

(58:20):
take over and everything will be fine because Lombardi's great.
But Belichick, that guy that you knew for all those years,
that you were so surprised at when he turned into
somebody else, when he got into the media. That guy's
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we might have ourselves a little bit of a problem
in New England, right, maybe a little bit of an issue.
All right, there might be, you know, something that is
not waiting until the start of the year to all
of a sudden become become a problem or an issue.
So Stefan Diggs, who last seen on the s S

(59:27):
two C Stefan Diggs apparently, you know, he's working his
way back from the knee issue, the knee injury, and
you know, they asked Stefan Diggs whether or not he
would be participating in the first week of the NFL season,
if he'd be ready to go, and he kind of
gave a well, yeah, I don't know we'll see kind

(59:49):
of I don't know, like kind of almost like playing
the Belichick game to the media in New England yet again.
And so Phil Perry of NBC Sports in Boston went
on to explain how he took that answer from Stefan Diggs.
He went to Mike Rabel and has sort of started
to figure out that maybe things aren't going so smooth

(01:00:11):
with Steffan there in Foxborough.

Speaker 11 (01:00:13):
There are little signs that he's just becoming a bit
of a pain in the posterior. I asked Mike Rabel
about those very comments that we just played this morning,
and he said, did you really believe that? Phil, did
you really believe those comments? I mean, he's out here,
he's doing everything. You seem like a smart guy. Did
you really believe that? He said, yeah, I mean, he
says he might not be ready for week one. Do
you have any doubt? And he's I don't know. We'll

(01:00:34):
find out when we get to week one. But he's
out here and he's doing everything. I mean, for Mike
Vrabel to sort of have to be his public relations
assistant and tell us what he really meant in his
commentary to a member of the national media, I don't
know if that irks Mike Vrabel or if he's just
looking to go back and forth with somebody in the media.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
But between Downing's comments, between his.

Speaker 11 (01:00:53):
What I would call sort of quiet performance this camp,
Rabel's comments this morning, and the fact at the time
he is not planning is my understanding on talking to
the local media until he plays in a game. So
maybe that'll happen this Saturday. I have my doubts.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
It all sort of.

Speaker 11 (01:01:09):
Adds up to there's a lot going on with this
guy for a guy who doesn't look like a number
one receiver.

Speaker 2 (01:01:13):
So that was Phil Perry talking about the Stefan Diggs
experience early on with the New England Patriots. Now for me,
the way Rabel responded and kind of dismissing the listen,
you know, I know what Stefan said. I know what
he said, but do you really think that he's not
going to be ready for week one, et cetera. Like
to me, that's that it should be a sign that

(01:01:36):
Stefan Diggs is going to be ready. He'll be ready
to go. I'm not worried about it, but I'm tired
of having to be asked about Stefan Diggs, but it
does start to all of a sudden build momentum towards
uh oh, maybe Stefan Diggs, and maybe this whole thing
is off to a less than ideal start, because there

(01:01:57):
were some people who wondered. You know, Scott's Olac was
one of those guys, one of the one of the
radio legends in Boston. Scott's Oleag was one of those
guys that was saying, hey, listen, man, like you know,
they weren't happy about, you know, the the stuff on
the boat. You know they weren't. You know, there's just
you know, he looks good, he looks like he's, you know,
coming all the way back from the knee injury. But

(01:02:18):
you know there's some there's some stuff there, and they
weren't thrilled with it. And you're trying to start a
brand new regime and you're trying to get back to
the Patriots days that Mike Rabel experienced when they were
winning all those Super Bowls and all that. And now
already before the season even starts, before he's even suited
up in a game, preseason or regular season, you've got

(01:02:39):
the stuff on the boat with the pink booger sugar,
and then you've got this whole situation where he's playing
games at the local media, but he's not going to
talk to the local media, and now Mike Rabel's being
asked about it. And that's the same thing when I
hear all these glowing reviews of George Pickens early on
in camp with the Cowboys, and everyone's like, oh, oh

(01:03:00):
my god, he's been great. He's been everything they hoped
he would be, and all the stuff that you hear
about him off it's like, dude, it's only a matter
of time. Like like it's like, haven't we seen this,
Like we've seen this with Stefan Diggs. We saw when
he was in Minnesota, like everything seemed like it was fine,
only a matter of time. Gets to Buffalo, the contract,

(01:03:23):
multiple contracts, only a matter of time. He got to Houston,
he got hurt, and now he's back with New England.
We're not even at the regular season yet, and there's
already stuff that's popped up a couple of times. So
I don't know that this is necessarily that big of
a deal, just like I personally didn't think that the uh,
you know, the pink snotsand that he was you know,
blowing while he was out there on the boat whatever

(01:03:46):
he was doing. I didn't think that was that big
of a deal when but when you start piling up
little stuff like this, at some point, Mike Rabel's gonna
get really tired of it, and Mike Frabel's just gonna
let it fly and like, dude, enough, like he's already
blowing a gasket. A couple of times, we're not even
at the start of the season. And this is multiple

(01:04:08):
times that the Stefan Diggs conversation has taking a turn
in this direction at the Jonas Knox on Ax at
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what the hell you're talking about. That'll be yours here
on FSR. But for all the latest from around the

(01:04:30):
world of sports ladies and gentlemen, we turn it over
to a man who stares at shopping carts in a
parking lot and says, I'll put you wherever the hell
I want. Jam Right's the one and only, the magnificent
Sir Isaac Long right between the shopping cart uprights we started.
College football is Multiple outlets reported today that the Big
Ten Conference is floating an idea to expand the college

(01:04:51):
football playoff to as many as twenty four or twenty
eight teams, coupled with the elimination of conference championship games
and Major League samee Paul at Wrigley Field, the Cubs
and Pirates tied and one in the top half of
the sixth sitting ATFL New Orleans, Saints head coach Kellen
Moore announced a short time ago that rookie quarterback Tyler
Shuck will start Sunday's preseason game against Jacksonville. Right now,

(01:05:12):
the Cleveland Browns have a twenty two to thirteen lead
at Philadelphia with seven minutes left of the fourth quarter.
Brown's rookie quarterback Dylan Gabriel thirteen of eighteen for one
forty three today. He led touchdown and field goal drives,
but in between was intercepted by Philadelphia's Andrew mccooba, who
returned its seventy five yards for a touchdown. Right now,
the Patriots have a seventeen to nine lead at Minnesota

(01:05:35):
with eight fifty one left in the fourth quarter. And
you know, Jonas, during these preseason telecast because it's preseason,
a lot of times they do a live in game
interview with the head coach as play is actually going on. Well,
that's what the Minnesota Vikings did on their telecast with
head coach Kevin O'Connell during today's game with the Patriots,

(01:05:58):
and the in play interview was marred by a penalty
flag that Kevin O'Connell notably described, listen to be excited
about this year's team and excited about this play called
those what do we going? What a fast motion?

Speaker 4 (01:06:14):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:06:14):
No, Rosemer black play action, right Price coming out?

Speaker 9 (01:06:24):
Ah, yes, the joys of live television. And finally, Jonas,
we have one more NFL note. I'm not making any
of this up, including the guy's name. Great Britain's Ambassador.
A Great Britain's ambassador to the United States wants the
NFL to hold a future Super Bowl in Great Britain.
The ambassador, whose official name is his Excellency, the Right

(01:06:50):
Honorable Lord Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelsson, Privy Council, told the
Chicago Council of Global Affairs Thursday that he has even
personally campaigned NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell about it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:05):
Listen, by way, I've met a big pitch for the
first super Bowl outside the US to take place in Britain.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
And I want that super Bowl in Britain. I don't
care when.

Speaker 8 (01:07:17):
It takes place, but I want you to announce while
I'm mambassador.

Speaker 9 (01:07:20):
So Jonas, you and LaVar and Brady could one day
being be doing super Bowl radio row from Savile row
back to you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:28):
Man, come on, come on, like it's we already give
him enough games, Like you listen, you get the Jaguars
and you'll like it. Okay, that's what you'll get.

Speaker 9 (01:07:38):
And also, if they ever held a Super Bowl overseas
in Great Britain, it would have to start at like
eleven thirty pm local time in London.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
I just like, I don't, like, can you just don't
move the super Bowl? Like keep it in the States, Like,
I don't know how you feel about this, Isaac, but
I'll tell you, Like if they wanted to say, hey,
we're rotated a couple of times Miami Vegas and then
we'll take just vice versa. But I'm good. I had

(01:08:08):
at la to that. But I'm good.

Speaker 9 (01:08:10):
By the way, do you know that you actually have
something in common with His Excellency, the Right Honorable Lord
Baron Peter Benjamin Mandelson, Privy Council.

Speaker 2 (01:08:20):
I don't even know what is his Like, what does
that title include? What do you get to do? It
has a bunch of stuff. Does he wear like a
white wig? Is like back in the day? No? No, unfortunately,
Like what do you what do you get to do? Well?

Speaker 9 (01:08:32):
He's the his job right now is the ambassador. But
the rest of it is like his title. But he
and you both have had the nickname bestowed upon you
as the Prince of Darkness. With him it was because
quote of his ruthless and media savvy reputation. But you
have both at various times been referred to as the
Prince of Darkness.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Stay, that's what you have in common and me it's
because I work overnight.

Speaker 10 (01:08:56):
Yeah, different, not as creative as the other guy.

Speaker 1 (01:08:58):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Yeah, that's all right. Just don't take the super Bowl
for us.

Speaker 9 (01:09:01):
That's where as I know, we whipped them twice in
the Revolutionary War in eighteen twelve, but you can't have
the super Bowl. Guys, we actually lost in eighteen twelve No,
we eventually won an eighteen the White House.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
Yeah, I mean they got to look. They might have
won a battle, but we won the war.

Speaker 10 (01:09:19):
No, we actually didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
But you know then, why am I not speaking with
the British accent? Oh gosh, they didn't want to listen.
Listen to Team Britain over there?

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
Who knew?

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Wow? By the way, the history guy, what do you do?
What are you doing here right now? Isn't it?

Speaker 9 (01:09:34):
Isn't it tea time? Don't you have a crumpet and
some early great android?

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
I thought you. I bet you were, mister Italia. Way
to go after.

Speaker 5 (01:09:41):
All those They won't let me have my They won't
let me have mymorrow here in studio.

Speaker 9 (01:09:45):
So so far today the four of us have been
arguing about the War of eighteen twelve and shopping cards.
What a real Algonquin roundtable we've got around here.

Speaker 2 (01:09:54):
Hey, let me tell you something. If you don't like it,
start the NFL season sooner. All right, we can talk
about those games. Wouldn't you rather listen to that? Imagine
how many people are wasting air space talking about the WNBA,
You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 (01:10:12):
Come on, all.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
Right, So there was a survey done. By the way,
we're going to have another edition of the Scraps coming
up here in about ten minutes from now here on
Fox Sports Radio. There was a survey that was done.
This was from the It was a survey conducted by
ESPN and Independent Health Policy Research Polling, a news organization KFF,

(01:10:36):
and they were talking to NFL players and they wanted
to it attempted to contact. This survey did all fifteen
hundred and thirty two players who played in an NFL
game during the nineteen eighty eight season, and five hundred
and forty six of them participated, right with the average
age of sixty two, And they found out, knowing all

(01:11:01):
that came with the dangers and risks and fallout from
your NFL playing days, would you do it all over again?
And like nine of ten said yes, yeah, yeah, of
course we would. Oh yeah, we like we know, like
we know all the stuff that you know, like all
the dangers and long term health and all that stuff

(01:11:23):
that comes along with it. But yeah, yeah, we do it.
Yeah of course, yeah, of course. But yeah, And so
when you think about that and you know that that's
the truth, it does kind of make the whole idea
of why people on the outside are trying to tell

(01:11:46):
the NFL what they need to do to make the
game safer on the inside, Like it's like it's all
the other people telling you all the things they've got
to do if they want to help the product and
help these players. Yet it's the players on the inside
dealing with all of that that are telling you, yea,

(01:12:07):
will we do it again? And one of the details
of the findings was yeah, they you know, they think
football has been really beneficial for him, Like, yeah, there's risks,
there's danger, there's all of that stuff. But that's why
a select few can play it and the rest of
us can't. Trust me, I tried to play. I played

(01:12:27):
high school football. I was awful. Awful, just listen physically
one there. Sorry. I just wasn't just it was not
going to be for me, Like it was just not
in the cards. Would love to play. It wasn't terrible,
But that's why there's a select few that can do

(01:12:48):
it and a bunch of others who can't. So that's
why whenever I hear like conversations about people on the
outside telling those on the inside what they need to
do to make the game safer, and all the risks
that come along with it. Dude, they know, and they'd
still do it over again based on this survey at
the Jonas Knocks on X at the Jonas Knocks on

(01:13:08):
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will close up shop on this Saturday with another edition
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Steve Hartman and Nikki k will be taking over. They

(01:13:28):
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from now here on FSR before we get to another
edition of the Scraps as we close up shop here
on this Saturday. A lot of positive feedback here on
the show. Dan writes in you bleep, you're more of

(01:13:49):
a bleep than all these soy boy bleeps whining and
pms ing about no real punishment for Michigan and all
these other schools, and how you'll boycott since there's no
more sportsman in the NCAA anymore, You bleep packing ass
otter Peter Wrights in jof Joni the bleep stalking SWIFTYE

(01:14:16):
was locked into every word of your beloved traventay about
her lame ass new album like it was every bleep
super Bowl and Beefcake Huge Bleep you munch on go
count down for the album you Bleep Bleep at v

(01:14:39):
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with this.

Speaker 6 (01:15:29):
Jonas, how could you not get to these stories, moron,
These are there scraps, And for.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
That we turn it over to the one and only
Rowdy Ian Roddy Ian. Hey, by the way, Ian, is
anybody else call you rowdy Ian Roddy?

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:15:45):
But you know, it's not the first time I've heard it.

Speaker 8 (01:15:48):
I feel like I've just heard it throughout my life,
but I've never had it as a solidified nickname.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
So you're the first one who can claim that. You go, Hey,
you know, listen, we get people nicknames on the show.
Who do you think came up with Iowa sam Me? Wow? Yeah,
creative lame that one. I also gave Ralph Irvan the
most violent man in sports radio tagline. I gave him
that because of something that happened off the air, which
I can't can't repeat on the air. But listen, you

(01:16:14):
know we are off and running here to close up
the show. What do we got here? All right?

Speaker 10 (01:16:19):
Well, let's start off the scraps with this.

Speaker 8 (01:16:21):
So a five time NFL Pro bowler actually quietly retired
this offseason. Speaking to John Bowencamp at the Iowa Hawkeyes
Athletics website, Brandon Sheriff. He's an offensive guard or former
now offensive guard in the NFL revealed he's now retired
from football. He was recently inducted into the Iowa Hall
of Fame, which is when he acknowledged. The NFL teams

(01:16:42):
have been informed all off season that he's now retired.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
So what do you think, jonas well? Do you think?
By the way, quick update on Iowa Sam. He is
currently sitting on a spaen with I believe Ryan Berschinger
and they both look like they've been drinking for three
weeks straight. So look, I me, the guy had a
nice career and just decided I'm good. By the way,

(01:17:06):
I like that retirement approach as opposed to, you know,
the long drawn out one. You remember Marshawn Lynch's retirement
where he just posted a picture of the shoes up
in the telephone wire. I think he came back. I
think he might have come back, yeah for the Raiders.
Like He's just like, I'm out, man, I'm good. I'm
ready to go, call it a career and move on
with my life. I think that's a better way to

(01:17:27):
go about it. But by the way, if I ever
leave Fox Sports Radio, which I hope that I never will,
but if I ever do it's going to be something
like that.

Speaker 10 (01:17:34):
You just won't tell anyone.

Speaker 2 (01:17:35):
You're just gone. One day gone. Yeah, it's like the
end of the usual suspects, and like that, he's gone.

Speaker 8 (01:17:41):
Well, hopefully you can reveal it when you're being inducted
into the Radio Hall of Fame and then you can say,
I'm actually retired from Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
It's funny you think that's actually a possibility. Opening That's funny,
all right.

Speaker 8 (01:17:53):
Next up, Academy Award winner Denzel Washington made headlines this
week for a rant he went on about sports media
talking heads, Hey that's you. In an interview with Sports Illustrated,
he was asked about Brownie James and Shador Sanders and
proceeded to go off on critics, saying you have to
actually have played in order to comment on sports. So
New rocketstar Kevin Durant actually loved it, commenting a few

(01:18:14):
fire emojis beneath an Instagram clip of the rant.

Speaker 10 (01:18:17):
But Jonas, what say you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Was Denzel Washington never a cop?

Speaker 4 (01:18:25):
No?

Speaker 10 (01:18:25):
I don't think he was.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Oh okay, so he can play one in training day,
But he was never okay. I was just wondering. I
was just wondering what the rules are here, but just
why I just want to know what the rules are.
I mean, look, he's right. If you start, you know,
trying to take the approach that you can do what
they do, you can't, all right, we can't do what
they do. I just I mean, and I'm the first

(01:18:48):
to admit that. It's also why I don't get upset
or offended when you get an athlete who says, well, yeah,
you didn't play. There are people, like a lot most
of the people that do what we do. They get
offended by that. They know that that's the kill shot.
It's over after that, like you have nothing, like there
is no response either than you know what, You're right.
You're right, you're absolutely right. So I try and never

(01:19:10):
go down that road. But it's just funny, how you know,
somebody who literally makes their living pretending to be something
they're not criticizing people who are criticizing people for doing
something that they're not. It's just fit funny. I know
it sounds a little bit of hypocrisy there, but again, hey,
love him as an actor, he's great. Trading Day is

(01:19:32):
one of my favorite movies. Good for him. What else
we got to in.

Speaker 10 (01:19:35):
That's a good way of putting it.

Speaker 8 (01:19:36):
The commanders activated Terry McLaurin off the pup like yesterday.
There's no contract extension though still. This comes a day
after Kingsbury made the rounds after comments stressing the urgency
of getting the twenty nine year old receiver onto the field.

Speaker 10 (01:19:48):
What do you think, Jonas?

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
I mean? And then you know people are like, well,
it's got nothing to do with the contract. It's like, okay,
well let me know what it does like to either
either pay the guy, don't pay the guy, Michael Parsons
get paid, and then let's just focus on the season.
These stories have drugg on long enough. Enough's enough, shonas
son of a bitch.

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