Mike Harmon & Dan Beyer Talk LeBron James, NFC West, Raiders, & So Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Great eggs and welcome in another beautiful Fox Sports Sunday underway.
We already had the end of the Belgian GP. We've
got some contract signings, guys showing up for work in
the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
We'll get to that as we flow.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Big night last night here in Los Angeles, Angel City FC.
Yet after the four home run game that we saw
from Kurtz the other night, the madness for the A's
for Angel City Alyssa Thompson with four goals in a game,
and a summer friendly against Carolina, we got the three
M Open, we got a full day of baseball, the
Euro twenty twenty five final, and Dan Byer and I

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together trying to figure out the meaning of life.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (00:44):
Well, I I just need some clarity.

Speaker 4 (00:46):
Is is there a friendly in the middle of the
season because of Euro that's going on right now?

Speaker 3 (00:52):
Is that what is happening?

Speaker 2 (00:53):
So they took a little break, yes, right, so they
haven't played I think it's mid June, was the last
league game, and now starting to get back in and
moving about. So you have this friendly on a Saturday night,
pretty well attended, and you get what is a pretty
ridiculous outing of four goals to herald you into the

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Euro Final, which if you've watched any of this tournament,
it's been absolutely insane. So we get England and Spain
to finish it off. England has been like a cat
with nine lives, whereas Spain has been dominant for the
most part. My daughter is still yelling from the goal
that put them through to the final, going cover your

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front post because the goalie got to caught in no
man's land off a pretty crazy angle. But here we
are with a full slate of activity on a Sunday,
the final Sunday of July. Hall of Fame inductions later
two of my favorite guys of all time, unfortunately will
not be there.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
To give speeches, so we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
How well their friends and colleagues do right by Dick
Allen and Dave Park Each uro goes in slinging Billy Wagner.
Later on, we've got the Pro Football Hall of Fame stuff,
my guy Steve McMichael going in and the Lions and
the Chargers getting after.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
Yeah, we'll celebrate that game.

Speaker 4 (02:13):
Hopefully ce Ce Sabbathia and crew make it because stranded
on the road on the way to the Cooper's town
there's like a vehicle breakdown. But those ceremonies were postponed
a few hours because delayed a few hours because of
storms in the Cooperstown area.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
All.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
The only thing that I've learned from this is this
has been the summer of Low and Kron. So that's
that's what I've learned. It's coming to an end this
week with the Chargers, but it must be the summer
of Low and Crown.

Speaker 5 (02:40):
I love what's up, buddy, good morning. That was a
very very nice Sunday greeting. It's not even the summer
of Loan Cron in my own house, so I appreciate
those kind words.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
Well, it may not be the summer of Isaac. I
mean the surname may still have good point.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
The kids may have had run of the house and
gone a bit nuts. So yeah, you have all of
that going on.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
But yeah, I mean it's just that point in the
year where we're starting to see the swell starting to
gain that momentum, final throws of the the uh, the
summer season and all those vacations whatever you bring up.
CC Sabathia, because we got the trade deadline is Thursday
as well. I think one of my favorite trade deadline
acquisitions in the history of man was when CC Sabathia

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showed up in Milwaukee and was like Iron Man every Thursday,
every fourth day, throwing one hundred and twenty pitches.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Just give me the damn ball. I'm gonna will us
to greatness.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
The plan was for him and Ben Sheets to carry
the Brewers' pitching load down the stretch, and then, unfortunately
for Sheets, he got hurt and it was all Sabbathia.
Every third day it was Sabbathia. But the great thing
about it is everybody knew it. Everybody knew what was
at stake, and everybody knew that he wasn't coming back

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next year. So it was just all right, let's let's
ride it out, let's do this. And it was pretty magical.
And it's one of those unique stints that you have
that it was only there a couple months, but you'll
remember it.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Forever because of what transpired.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah, there's those two trade deadline things.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
And for me being a Chicago kid, remembering when Rick
Sutcliffe showed up and had that ridiculous run I think
he was sixteen and one with the Cubs in eighty
four with the run they had, and then Sabbathia that
year used up like a running back on an expiring contract,
every third day, just keep it going, and it became
part of his legend that leads us to today and

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his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
And this is the interesting part is now with the
expanded playoffs, Mike, there's different things at stake in Major
League Baseball. But at that time in two thousand and eight,
the Brewers hadn't been to the playoffs since they went
to the World Series in nineteen eighty two, So it
was just getting to the playoffs was the was the deal.
And it's funny I was even thinking about this morning
and just thinking back on baseball history of how we

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looked at the Cubs and how we looked at the
Red Sox with like the Red Sox going to the
World Series wasn't a thing, like they had to win
it because of what happened in eighty six and obviously
they were there in the nineteen seventies, but so then
when that curse ended in two thousand and four, but
even the Cubs just like making the World Series in
twenty sixteen, would have been something. They end up winning
it and then everything is off the board. But there

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are so many levels of baseball that I remember in
growing up, and for the Brewers that year was just like,
let's just make the playoffs. Now it's a little bit easier,
more spots for teams to get in, but that's what
was at stake In two thousand and eight. They lost
to the Phillies in the divisional round and that was that,
but still made for a fun final two months of
the season, and I think a lot of teams are

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looking for that as that trade deadline near see.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
If they can find lightning in the bottle.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
We'll see if the Brewers are active in the marketplace
as well as they battled the Cubs atop the division.
Lots of fun as the week go on. We'll keep
an eye on that. But a name you need to
know Mischkel Raznatovich. Good job, Yeah, I practice Mischkel.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
It's the summer now of Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
You didn't think he was going to go quietly into
the good night after accepting and opting into a deal
of nearly fifty three million dollars, did you?

Speaker 6 (06:19):
No?

Speaker 1 (06:19):
No, no, no. Mark Stein, who joins us on the network.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I know on the Doug Gottlieb show, you guys have
done to time and Jason Smith and I regular visits
with him on the Steinline on his substack, saying, quote,
Lebron James has genuine curiosity about playing for the Mavericks.
Now it's something we've theorized about, right. He's got a
couple of his old running buddies there, Kyrie Irving coming
back from injury, Anthony Davis, and then clearly after the

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Luka donchis trade anything you can do in the front office,
Nico Harrison or whatever to make yourself look better and
try to push things over the top. Now that Cooper
flags arrive, you're gonna do it. And I gotta say
I will. I don't drink much anymore, Dan, I would
pop a forty if this were to come to bear,
just to sit and be entertained by the potential chaos

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that would unfold. We'd start setting over unders of how
many games the three of those guys would be able
to play together, how quickly there'd be discord, but all
of it as soon as like if all Lebron James
had to do was not opt into this deal and
just say, you know, I have a free agent, I'm
gonna go where I want and instead, well you take
your cash. And now it creates all sorts of issues

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in terms of finding a trade partner, which means this
just gets to jes State out there for a while.
But it's another great example of all the rest of
the NBA's run and fine, Luca's building his little team
here Marcus Smart and everybody else saying, yeah, Luca reached
out DeAndre Ay and yeah, Luca reached out you know,
the summer of Luca. So Lebron not going quietly into

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the good night, was on a boat and I had
to do a triple check trying to figure out who
the hell some of the principles were, because at first
I thought it was Dean Norris who played Hank Schrader
on Breaking Bad, or maybe it was Steve Bolmer sitting.

Speaker 1 (08:05):
In there in that red red outfit.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
But instead we're talking about being overseas and planning for
the summer ahead.

Speaker 4 (08:15):
And that uh that that figure it was. It was
Misko good, thank you for that, the agent for Nikolaokch.
Now there's a couple of things at play here. So
there's the mark Stein report about Dallas, And then there's

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now you're wondering does Lebron want to go to Denver?
I mean, we've seen Denver kind of shake up the
Apple Tree by you know, kicking out Michael Malone and
Calvin Booth at the end of the regular season, and
Dave Adelman's now the full time head coach, but they've
moved off of Michael Porter junior, so they're kind of

(08:55):
trying to change things up, like would you pair would
you pair him when the cold in Denver in fall
of twenty twenty six, Maybe maybe, maybe that's a possibility.
I don't think that Denver would have been a possibility
for Lebron, but this picture that was posted on social
media opens it up as well. And then there's there's

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the fact that there was a report about six months
ago and Worldwide WOB ended up putting this out about
I don't know, last night about eight o'clock that there
was this league that was touted to be a competitor
to the NBA. There was going to be a worldwide

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league of six maybe six men's teams, six women's teams.
They would travel the world, and it feels like a
very Honestly, it feels like a very Saudi public investment
fund backed venture.

Speaker 3 (09:49):
Like they've got all the money in the world.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Let's throw all the money at the big stars that
may not want to do or may not want to
play in the NBA anymore.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Want a limited thing, but get a whole bunch of money.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
It looks like golf looks like what Chris Gionnaldo Christianna
Ronaldo is doing now, so like it would fit like
in that thing.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
So now you have that.

Speaker 4 (10:07):
Because Lebron's been in Europe over these past couple of weeks,
which is his excuse probably why he hasn't spoken with
Marcus Smarter DeAndre Ayton. There are so many different ways
that this can go. But the funny thing is, Mike,
none of it is Lakers twenty twenty five, Like, none
of this is yeah, has nothing to do with the
Lakers or what is coming up for next season. It

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is everything after the point, he wants to cash his
check and move on. And we wondered on how things
would be able to survive considering how active Lebron was
in sending out messages when he opted into his contract.
The whole golfing thing, the Welcome Home at playing in Cleveland.
The pictures with the Calves. Now this is almost seeming

(10:53):
like a little subtle attack. Now you have the Lebron
would be interested in going to Dallas. You've got this
picture being taken like there's just none of it has
anything to do with the Lakers, and I find it fasting.
I think it would be if you went to the
Mavericks Miike. I think that it would be horrendous for Dallas.
I do not know why you would want to do

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such a thing because it changes the dynamic of everything.
It truly does with all of your pieces, and we
can get more into it.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
How much should they hate Cooper flag would be the question?
Oh right, yeah, here, let's build with three guys, come
on average age?

Speaker 1 (11:28):
What about thirty eight.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
And a half when you just had Lebron's in and
let's bring this guy in where I think they're moderately
interesting as currently constructed. Yes, it's a crowded Western Conference,
but if they were to do a trade Dan, I mean,
there's so many pieces that would have to come back
to make salaries matchup in the lunacy that is the
NBA at this point, like Lakers aren't buying him out

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unless he wants to get back every dime of the
fifty two million, which isn't going to happen. He wouldn't
have opted in at all. So it becomes this long
drawn out thing. And to your point, it's typical Lebron
like it is the well here, let me let you theorize.
To read good old Mishko's line from Instagram quote, the

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summer of twenty five is the perfect time to make
big plans for the fall of twenty twenty six. And
since you've mentioned the league right, six men, six women,
the WNBA, potential for the labor dislorge kind of interesting
in the background.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
So I mean it all plays.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
I think all of.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
That could be in play for that big picture sort
of deal as you look at life after the NBA.
And Maverick Carter was reportedly a part of this group,
which Maverick Carter is in this picture. Interestingly enough, you
didn't have to include him in the picture. You could
have just had Lebron and Jokicic's agent.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yeah, I'm on a boat, right, just go full step
others I'm on a boat and leave it.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Let's be real. You could have just had Maverick Carter
and Yo'll ketch his agent.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
It could have been those two like eating in the Yes,
absolutely like it was framed, so all three of them
are are in the picture, and there's just a lot
of different options. You're right about, Dallas, it would be
a disaster. There wouldn't be You can think of a
worse teammate to put next to Cooper Flag than Lebron
James right now, truly like it wouldn't. Then you have

(13:21):
Anthony Davis. It's not like they were besties when they
were in Los Angeles, but let's make it work here.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
Excuse me?

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, by the end all of that, anything we've heard
from the people that are embedded and have been around
the team that it was frosty and they didn't have
you know, after Anthony Davis got shipped away, all those speculation.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Of how much did Lebron know, did he not know? Whatever? Else?

Speaker 2 (13:46):
And you know, only the their text messages would reveal.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
Yeah, and reveal all of that.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
And then you have Kyrie Irving who's trying to come
back from his injury. So now you're going to rush
in aging Kyrie Irving back. How's that gonna work for
a guy? Who's already always deals with injuries in his
career anyway, and has logged an enormous amount of minutes
and trying to fill the gaps that the Mavericks had.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
It is a recipe for disaster.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
Lebron would be the last teammate I would want to
have for Cooper Flag in Dallas. So if Nico Harrison
does this, I think it could be worse than the
Luca trade, Like if there was something that they were
able to do, I just do not see a fit.
Even if Lebron is interested in going there, I think
it's pure revenge. He wants to get revenge on Luca,

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wants to get revenge on Rob Polenka.

Speaker 3 (14:35):
Luca had nothing to do with it.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
It's just that he happens to just to be Luka
datcch And so Lebron's like, Okay, well I'll go there
and I'll win a title something you didn't do, Luca,
and I'll leave these Lakers lying in the dust with
my wake. Maybe not, maybe that doesn't happen, But I
don't think Plinka really cares what happens to Lebron after
next season.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Well, I mean we've seen it time and again. I mean,
Lebron is not above Petty. There's a promo line that
I threw out at one point. I don't know if
I co opted it from somebody or whatever, but pettiness
knows no tax bracket. Sure, right, I know, you could
be the poorest guy in the world, you could be
the richest. You could still be petty. And Luca becomes
the guy the face right on the murals and everything else,

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as the top guy on the banner any of the
sales and promotional stuff that's going out trying to re
up folks for the crypt coming up for twenty twenty five,
twenty six, and Lebron's now in the background.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Like I joked about it the other day.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Of the movie Almost Famous, right, it's about a band
and they're rising up and you got the lead singer.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
It's like, I get people together.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Well, when they finally put out a T shirt, the
guitarist is front and center and the lead singer he's like.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
I'm one of the fuzzy guys in the back. The
T shirt is everything. Man, we were supposed to be together.
You were gonna be the you know, enigmatic to see
mysterious guitar guy. And I was up front and now it's.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
All gone, and he's like, dude, it's a T shirt.
It's like the T shirt's everything. That's Lebron James. Yes,
you're absolutely correct. I would have gone with the Johnny Bravo.
Oh no, no, but that's just way more dated. No, no,
but but it fits. So I mean for those unawares
man Johnny Bravo, going back to you, Greg Brady and

(16:14):
the Brady Bunch and how he was gonna fit the
suit and be the next leader and next big pop star.
I saw something terrifying though, just since we went to
the Brady's really cool gelling, something that started populating my
timelines all across and I don't know why. It was
suddenly the Brady Bunch of Variety Hour with the fake
chan doing a rendition of Live and Let Die by

(16:36):
Paul McCarty and Wings scared the hell out of me.
They're all sitting on the air when you were young.
It was like whoa, and then like making it really
poppy with a string and you know, you know there's
a horn section and a string section in the song.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
Yes, but not right off the jump. Yes, they didn't
really die. Wasn't a big topic during Brady Bunch, So
so surprising that it would happen to the variety.

Speaker 1 (17:00):
But there you go.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
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I would have had an excited utterance about forty five
seconds ago as Espanya has broken through in the Euro

(19:19):
Final in the twenty fourth minute. Off a beautiful well
i'd call it a centering pass, but across that gets
headed with authority to the back of the net.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Dan.

Speaker 4 (19:30):
Still some match to plays. We're still in the first
half here. This has been really up your alley. I
will admit that I've not been locked into the women's
Euro However, when the men's come around, more interested in
that and so, just like anything like with the women's
World Cup garnering huge interest in the United States, I

(19:53):
feel like this is an opportunity where Euro women's now
from now on will be garnering more interest here. I
think that, and you know ESPN had held the rights
previously to the Men's euro Championships, and they did a
really good job and would get people kind of in
that World Cup mode, you know, in the sandwiched in

(20:15):
between the World Cups. And I think that this event,
because it's been on everywhere for the past month, I
think this is a good start for the Women's euro
to gain traction in the United States because I don't
remember it being that much of a thing in the
past at all. Like this is the first year where

(20:35):
I've felt like it's been like, oh wow, this is
the Women's euro So it's the.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
First time that it's been broadcast like this US TV.
They were talking about it a little bit in the
Fox pregame because it is on Big Fox. Yeah, you know,
second screen experience turned down the volume and you know,
crank us up a little bit higher.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
But it's interesting.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yesterday was a day my daughter's had a bunch of
stuff running around, so I'm getting some work done, which
means in the background it becomes I become a glutton
for how much media can I consume? Right there were
a couple of movies that came out on streaming. Check
those off Early stick. Owen Wilson golf comedy on Apple TV.
Not Bad finished the first season is now done. Cool,

(21:15):
it'll come back. And then I went back and did
another run and Happy Gilmore two, which I find it
entertaining because it's the I just want to I just
want to be entertained. Sure, I'm not I'm looking. I'm
not looking for high art here.

Speaker 9 (21:29):
Dan.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
When when Adam Sandler and the crew get together.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
Well I was, I was.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
I was turned away to watching it because of the reviews.
And then I found out that uh, Hunter Mayhan, friend
of the network, Doug Gottlieb show you and I like
to talk NFL uniforms a lot was the double to
Adam Sandler.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
He was his swing.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Well there you go.

Speaker 4 (21:51):
And so now I'm like, well, maybe I've got to
got a reason to check this out.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
I would say the the crossover for the two of
them and you being a big golf guy, lot of
golfers make it appearance.

Speaker 4 (22:01):
Yeah, I think there were too many. Like I had
seen clips previously, I'm like, well, there's just there's almost
way too many.

Speaker 3 (22:06):
Like everybody was in it.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
I would just say this, Rory and Scheffler, you may
never look at them the same again, particularly Scheffler for
what we've been talking about these last couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
I've heard about his Yeah, he.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
Does a really great job. But it's funny.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
So I go from there and then I'm like, well,
I could either watch another old golf movie or no,
you know what, I haven't watched the latest.

Speaker 1 (22:25):
Season of Wrexham.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
So it's the long secutest way to get back to
the women's sport because they started a women's team.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
Now yeah, yeah, So.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
They were talking about the the friendlies that they had
here in the US this past year and how a
per member of the women's team as they came out
onto the pitch, the fact that there were more than
ten thousand people in the stands yes, and lining up
like they're all kind of glass eed eyes, and one
girl kind of puts her foot.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
In the mouth and gets gets in trouble with the.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Sure with the mac and Recks and the locals and
Wrexham in terms of comparing La there, But it was
just the idea of right, you've got to build it right,
and eventually, in the old field of dreams, build it,
they will come.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Well, I'll just say this, just with international soccer, at
least for US in the States.

Speaker 3 (23:11):
This was this was the gap, right, because if you.

Speaker 4 (23:15):
Want to say World Cup, then the next the next
summer Women's World Cup, then the next summer you had
Men's zero. Then the next summer there's the gap, and
then World Cup starts again. So now if this gains traction,
now you've got something like the NFL basically wants you
to have something every month except June. It's really the

(23:36):
only one where there really isn't anything for the NFL.
It's the same thing with international soccer. If this takes
off like it has with Fox.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
And certainly June and in the NFL, the only thing
they're praying is you get no news. Usually it's not
so good at Dan bar on Fox. Where you find it,
find me over at swollen Don. We'll turn our attention
to the NFC West coming up here in a minute,
but first let's get an update of all things going
on in our sporting universe with the One, the Only,
the Man, the Legend, the Myth, The Summer of Loewen
Krot Isaac Lowan Crow, and the Summer of Contract Extensions,

(24:08):
The Sunday of Contract extensions fellas. Starting with Dallas Cowboys
tight end Jake Ferguson. He signed a four year, fifty
two million dollar extension with thirty million guaranteed and a
twelve million dollars signing bonus. Washington Commander's star receiver Terry
McLaurin reported to training camp today, ending his holdout without
a contract extension. He was subsequently placed on the physically

(24:30):
unable to perform list due to an ankle injury. Despite that,
Commander's fans gave McLaurin a rousing welcome today at in
the day's business, but it has nothing to do with them,
and any chance I could come out here.

Speaker 1 (24:45):
Do what I got to do in there, but come
out and show them.

Speaker 9 (24:47):
My support and how much I love him.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
It's tough, but you know, it's the business right now
and just trying to take things day by day.

Speaker 5 (24:53):
That audio courtesy of Nicky Javala of The Washington Post
as well as WJFK Radio. Miami Dolphins safety Fitzpatrick's agreed
to a revised contract, adding a sixteen million dollar signing
motus to his deal as they continue to negotiate a
multi year contract extension. In the NBA, ESPN reports that
Chicago Bulls head coach Billy Donovan has signed a multi

(25:14):
year contract extension. And as you guys mentioned in Women's soccer,
the final of Euro twenty twenty five going on right now,
Spain a one nothing lead over England there crossing it
the thirty third minute.

Speaker 6 (25:27):
And you know how here.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
In the States on social media, fans not shy to
react about disappointment in the team that they root for.
The same also true apparently across the pond. England fans
reacting to that goal by Spain at Lucas NCFC posting
and I quote, bloody hell, this defense is shocking unquote

(25:49):
defense by the way, spelled here with a scene not
a test at Shankly disciple posting quote awful defending that
unquote that's a British phrase. But finally at Tis Cooper
woman a little more optimistic post end quote Hannick Ye.

Speaker 10 (26:06):
Not it's a marathon, not a sprint. Back to you guy,
here you go at Isaac Lohankron. It does fit the
bill of what England's done this entire tournament. Fall behind,
early battle back and then somehow some way find life.
Like Jeff Goldblum told us in Jurassic Park, life finds
a way at Dan Byron Fox where you find Dan,
find me over at Swollendome. Story that we've been following

(26:28):
here and certainly filling the airwaves in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Matthew Stafford and his sore back.

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Now, Sean McVay addressing it yesterday, quote, Matthew's feeling good.
He's had a bit of soortus in his back that
kind of crept up throwing. Feeling good. Not anything that's
necessarily new. It's something he's dealt with before. Back injuries always.
You know, we get the red flag goes up and
we get a bit nervous when we hear this, And
part of it is the way McVeigh had originally termed

(26:58):
it as they were coming into camp and kind of
downplayed it, said, hey, I should have called it a
week to week injury.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
So the goal is still for week one.

Speaker 2 (27:06):
So we're talking about the NFC West and fantasy purposes,
but we'll start with the Rams because you have the
curiosity of bringing DeVante Adams in as one of your
top wide receivers. The backup to Matthew Stafford is our
old pal, Jimmy Garoppolo. Yeah, oh, he didn't exactly get
along with we can't play the audio because it's too

(27:26):
expletive driven for FCC compliancy. But that becomes a very
curious thing. If Stafford does have to miss.

Speaker 4 (27:32):
Time, well, I'll tell you what just from the Rams portion,
And if I go along and we need to push fantasy,
I'm sorry. I apologize. But when you look at where
the Rams are as a team, I think we tend
to look backwards and we say, this was a team
that was in a snowstorm in the second half against Philadelphia,

(27:54):
that was driving with a chance to meet the Egos
in the divisional playoffs.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
This is how close this team could be to a
super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
And I don't know if they see it that way,
and I sure don't think that they look at Matthew
Stafford as possibly being that way. But Mike the week
to week stuff, I am a true believer in if
stuff isn't going right in the offseason leading into the preseason,
it's probably not going to go right into the regular season.

(28:23):
Some may be happen in stance, some may be just
bad luck, and others are continuous. If we're having Matthew
Stafford back issues at the start of the season, how
in the world are we gonna think that he's gonna
make it through this entire season. And so that's where
I look at the Rams, and there's something that happened
in April that I think that we may slip our mind.

(28:46):
Not that we completely forgot about it, but this is
a Rams team that swung a deal and traded away
their first round pick to get another one next year.
So if this team was truly knocking on the door
of what they thought would be a Super Bowl contending team,
I think that pick has got some value this year.

(29:07):
Now they got a deal that they couldn't refuse, ended
up saying, guess what we'll do the deal with the
Falcons have our first round pick, We'll get your first
round pick next year. So now twenty twenty six, they
got two first round picks. That isn't necessarily Rams like, right,
Like we're used to them going in and going hi, yes.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Yes exactly.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
So all of that stuff just adding up and now
this happening and Sean McVay saying that it should have been.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Week to week.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
I thought they were going to bought him out a
few years ago, and they completely proved me wrong. But
the signs of what they have done and now with
this injury and how it plays out, I think that's
a bad sign for Rams fans heading into this season.
They won the division last year, there were ten games. Again,
took the Eagles to the you know, so the wire

(29:58):
in that game in Philadelphia. But I don't think that
they viewed themselves as that team that's a super Bowl contender,
and I feel like this season maybe a reset so
then they can really load up in twenty twenty six
with whoever is going to be their quarterback of the future.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
It's the curiosity right the offseason. We heard some rumblings
right when it came to Stafford's status, even going back
to the before their run last year. Go back to
the middle of last season, struggling a bunch of injuries,
Stafford didn't play particularly well and it was easy to
just say, well, this guy was heard or that guy
was heard on the outside, and then they go on
this tremendous run. Well, his numbers were not overwhelming. We've

(30:37):
been worried about his health going on two years, three years,
I mean yes, most of his time in Los Angeles.
Coming into camp, there's always the question of what's going on.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
I feel like since the Super Bowl right right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:49):
Yeah, I mean got his ring, but was beat up
in the process. And ever since, every year it becomes
the all right, how much closer are we to where
that click fizz? And last year to your point, right,
IFFs and butts, you know, maybe a win over Philadelphia,
but it seemed like you were on on some magical

(31:12):
path based on where your regular season. Yes, right, so
you're forgetting all the struggles because the end was great. Yep, exactly,
And that's always a difficult like look in the end
ends justify the means is the most biggest cliche of
at all, but it speaks to the point of, all right,
let's go back and see how you got there, right,
young defense, Great, those guys are all signed on. They're

(31:34):
there for a couple more years, right, Jared Verse and
all these guys.

Speaker 4 (31:36):
Got great way to bounce back from Donald's retirement. Right,
So we thought they'd take a step back here, or
that somehow he would come walking through the door.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
We keep hearing about all his hurrg outs or whatever
that somehow, all of a sudden he's tearing the door
off and climbing back into the mix, and he would
be the savior. Well, it turns out, they didn't need him.
Whatever the inspiration was, the defense rose up and had
their moments. But for Matthew Stafford, Yeah, now you're in
the curiosity I bring up to Jimmy Garoppolo because it's
him and it's Steedson Bennett behind Stafford if he's unavailable,

(32:07):
And that DeVante Adams thing was something truly yeah, incandescent.
I mean, this is the night you could light up
a sky with that kind of energy, go full monsters,
inc because there's a lot of screaming.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
Well, I'll just to your point about Matthew Stafford and
what he did last year when we look back like
we shouldn't just look at that Eagles game and be like,
oh they were close, because I don't think that's how
the Rams look at it. To your point, in their
five game win streak, did that crazy game against Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Where they won forty four to forty two.

Speaker 4 (32:34):
They then won at San Francisco twelve six, at the
Jets nineteen nine, and that crazy game against the Cardinals
they won thirteen to nine when with the turnover at.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
The goal one for Arizona, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, ended
up maybe winning that game.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
Stafford didn't top wasn't higher than one hundred and eighty
nine yards in that game.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Look look at that.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Yeah, that four pack you just laid out not exactly
a bunch of offensive juggernauts right now, that was your
defense doing its thing. But San Francisco by that point,
we're playing a bunch of guys you had never heard of.
And Ricky Pearsall was the guy who'd been shot. Like
that was the only thing you knew about it? Yes, right,
and so like, go on down the line, Arizona and

(33:18):
a team that I think I may be higher on
this year than most, assuming you know that all plays
right as well, I.

Speaker 4 (33:26):
Think that there's legitimate concern if you're a Rams fan
on how this has gone, because I just don't see
a way where in your seventeenth season the back problem
goes away.

Speaker 2 (33:40):
No chance and no argument there as we look at it,
the Rams are a seven, They're a what about I
think twenty two to one right now.

Speaker 4 (33:51):
So the NFC West this year has an easier schedule,
So the forty nine ers end up having the easiest
schedule in the National Football League because they cross over.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Or with the UH with the AFC South.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
So what is great about this scenario though for the
not so great for the Rams is they still get
that first place schedule. So yeah, you get a break
because you get Tennessee, they get Houston in the open ear.
And that's what Sean McVay was saying, like, that's what
we're what we're aiming for. You get the you get
the AFC South, but you're going to get the top
of everyone else, you know, throughout the you know, throughout

(34:26):
and so that's going to be a little bit more
difficult for the Rams to try to navigate. So and
and maybe they don't have the room for for for airror.
This year, they they beat Seattle out for the division
on strength of schedule win percentage, you know, some wacky one.

(34:46):
Now they could have they would have played Week eighteen
if it was worth something. They didn't play Stafford in
that game against Seattle. So maybe the Rams end up
winning that, but it was a you know, a ten
win team that ends up winning the division that I
think they realized that they it is close to the
super Bowl, and when you look at what they've done
this offseason, I'm not sure that they believe that they
can do it in twenty twenty five and are rather

(35:07):
looking ahead to the post.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Matthew Stafford Era.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
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Speaker 9 (35:23):
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Speaker 2 (35:36):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports or Radio.
Full slate of activity rolling around. We'll circle back into
the NFL. We'll do that Fantasy NFC West next hour.
But sitting next to me at my left is my guy,
Dan Byer.

Speaker 1 (35:50):
I hand the stick microphone in his general direction.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
All right, the Fox family is together and it's time
to play the feud. Let's go, Mike. In your absence.
Last week with Adam Kappa, we talked potato chips. We're
gonna stay on the food train. We're talking about sauce.

Speaker 9 (36:05):
Sauce.

Speaker 4 (36:06):
Top ten answers on the board. The ten Buffalo Wild
Wing sauces picked as a favorite by at least one
of our fifty states. So you see those state and
graphics where they're like, this is this state's favorite sauce. Well,
in twenty twenty, Buffalo Wild Wings put out a graphic
that showed the favorite sauces of each of the fifty states.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
So there were ten different sauces named. I want to
know which ten they are.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
You feel free to bring up the Buffalo Wild Wings
menu if you need ideas for sauces. There's no cheating
in that because it may help.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
You along the way.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
We've got Mike Harmon, We've got Chris Purffett, We've got
producer Shay and Isaac Low and Kron here as a team, Mike,
we start with you. Three strikes at are pass available
The ten most popular wing sauces, according to Buffalo Wild
Wings amongst the fifty states.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
I'm gonna trust the bland palettes of a men Erica
and say, Terry Aki's gotta be there about forty times?

Speaker 11 (37:03):
All right, is it Terryaki? I was shot? I was shocked.
It's so innocuous that it's I was shocked by this.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Let's go to Chris Prefet.

Speaker 12 (37:16):
All right, I know what my favorite is, but I
don't want to get a second strike on there. You
know what, I think people love lemon pepper. I'm gonna
go with lemon pepper. Okay, is that a sauce, Lemon
pepper sauce?

Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yes?

Speaker 4 (37:28):
Okay, all right, is it lemon pepper man? You guys,
come on, guys, Well, that's let's go. They have a sauce.
They have a sauce for him. I just like a
rub sort of deal. But hey, that's all good. Let's
go to Let's go to Shayan.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
God, I'm gonna have to go Asian zing.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Show me Asian zing that not only is it popular
second most popular Asian sing as their most popular over
to Isaac Lowingkron.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
I mean one of them would have to be their
original sauce, right, I just need a name, like I need,
like original Buffalo sauce.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
Well, I kind of need, I kind of need.

Speaker 12 (38:11):
That's either going to be they're hot or their medium
they're mild.

Speaker 3 (38:16):
Yeah, yeah, between one of those.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
Okay, maybe I'll just go in a different direction here.
How about barbecue ranch?

Speaker 3 (38:22):
Okay, Okay, I just need to gonna be more specific.
I don't think I am.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
You can say buffalo. You can say Buffalo if you
want no, he can't.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
He needs to say medium, mild or high.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Medium medium.

Speaker 4 (38:39):
Originally show me medium, guys, do we have to go
after the show.

Speaker 3 (38:45):
So that's ulterior moans head medium.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
Seventeen states had medium is their most popular, orated Dan Byer,
I know why they don't want to work at Buffalo
Wild Wings. It's people like us ordering I'll have the buffalo,
all right, all right, let's go to Mike Carmen.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Oh, we all find our favorite and then we become creatures.
And how about parmesan garlic.

Speaker 4 (39:11):
Yes, show me parmesan garlic. Six states had parmesan garlic.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
The boy, let's go.

Speaker 3 (39:18):
This is the rams of last year. All right, let's
go Chris.

Speaker 12 (39:21):
Perferreright, No, I don't want to be the strike to
end this, so you know what, I am gonna go
with my favorite. It has got to be someone else's favorite.
Mango hobbanio.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
Show me mango habigero. Yes, five states had that as
their favorite. Over to Shay, so we did medium. Yes,
Medium's off the board. I'm gonna go hot, show me hot,
all right? Just two states, Mississippi and Vermont. But hey,
this according to the twenty twenty Facebook poll, which you
know it's official.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Then, all right, back around to Isaac Lohingcross.

Speaker 13 (39:49):
Sweet Barbecue Sauce. Show me sweet barbecue. Two states had
it as their favorite. Back around to my Carmen. How
about honey barbecue? Show me how honey barbecue? Three states?

Speaker 4 (40:02):
My personal favorite, my son's personal favorite as well, honey barbecue.

Speaker 12 (40:06):
All right, there's three left over to Christmas. Oh no,
I don't. I'm fifty to fifty here. I don't know
which way to go. I I'm constrained. I know, I know,
I know, I I I'm gonna I'm gonna go out
a limb Caribbean jerk. No no, no, no, no, no no, no,

(40:26):
I'm wait or now.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
What you are calling him or calling me?

Speaker 3 (40:32):
I shoot?

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Parmisan garlic, Parmesean garlic. I already get it.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Yeah, you tay off of the brigon jerk, cribon jerk?
Is it Caribbean jerk? No, you're gonna say.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
It was Parmesean garlic? I did not.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
It was fifty dad, Yeah, shaye.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Do you have any guesses? I know there's only ten seconds.
Honey mustard, No, there's no honey mustard. What we missed
were mild blazon and spicy garlic.

Speaker 1 (40:56):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (40:57):
That's it A.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Good topic though, group trip out toww we got goods.
Still reeling from the great sauce Quandary of twenty twenty five.
We sold youra on here Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday,
Mike Carmen dan Byer with you, watching the global impact
of the sporting universe. Here, we've got a second half

(41:23):
about to start Euro twenty twenty five Women's final, Spin
up one.

Speaker 1 (41:27):
Nil over England.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
We'll see if they comeback. Kids have it in him again.
We've got the three M open from Blaine, Minnesota. It's
just about twenty miles outside of Minnesota, or outside of Minneapolis,
I should say, the Twin Cities. We just watched the
Savannah Bananas do a giant dance routine from their most
recent game in Philadelphia. And we've got all sorts of
reporting coming out of the NFL, including a bunch of signings.

(41:49):
Jake Ferguson now thirteen million dollars a year, so Jerry
is sending out memos to players to get contracts signed,
so we have proof of concept.

Speaker 4 (41:59):
They just don't have Micah Parsons name on those that's
that's the only issue.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
We'll see if that dance and how long that continues
along the way. We probably more contract talk, I think
across the league than we've had for the first week
of training camp in a while. Right with Terry McLaurin,
Now he's a hold in. Right, he showed up. You
heard the audio Ilo played earlier.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
Of the Terry and excitement.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Okay, cool, We'll see because he's been pretty pointed in
some of his comments. We've talked about Shamar Stewart. He
and the Bengals finally settled their differences. He accepted the
language that voided future guarantees in exchange for five hundred
thousand dollars now, but it's now a precedent that it'll
be curious to see how many other teams try to

(42:45):
adopt similar language to what the Bengals were able to.
And folks were up in arms like that, common sense prevails.
He's betting on himself that he's not going to get
in trouble. He got an extra five hundred thousand dollars now, Okay,
right now, and we move on from there. Still Trey
Hendrickson sitting out there, so you've still got all of
those mechanics of the dollars and cents of football. But

(43:08):
we get football in earnest on Thursday, and I'm starting
to get a little jacked up about it.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
Right.

Speaker 2 (43:14):
You know, You've got the the NFL network going camp
to camp and giving you storylines and some video, and
I know we grossly over overrate every throw, every interception,
every completion. Right right now, cam Ward might be the
greatest quarterback in the world.

Speaker 1 (43:32):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
I mean, based on what I've seen on video here, Dan,
I mean he maybe that guy.

Speaker 1 (43:38):
No, and Aaron Rodgers may never complete a pass.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
I mean Pat Fryerm threw his hands up and discussed
when he when he checked out, Yes, he did bad
things so in there in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 (43:48):
So the cam Ward your quarterback couldn't do this is,
you know, is one of the things that I that
I saw on top of it, which, by the way,
and I don't I don't feel bad for will I
think Will Love has had his opportunity to stay claimed
to the job didn't work out. Now he's got the
shoulder injury that's going to cost him the rest of

(44:08):
the season. But there never was a competition, right, and
they just never like they as much as the Titans
tried to make us think that cam Ward was going
to try to earn it, that just never was the
case and it shouldn't have been the case.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Well, and the fact that he opted for the surgery, right,
there was some speculation of what, you know, well, did
he really need it?

Speaker 1 (44:26):
Was it advised?

Speaker 2 (44:26):
And we've had that with Christian Wilkins, which is a
whole other kettle of fish we can get into here
in a second. Is just that you know, it's it's
cam Ward's job. In Chicago, there's a lot of handwringing
over Caleb Williams first couple of workouts that there's still
this great divide with ben Jonson's language and how he
wants to stop right, It's like, no kidding, you've operated

(44:48):
one way for your collegiate career and whatever that was
a year ago, whatever truth there is to coordinators not
wanting to sit and do film with you, and all
the different tales that came out, and then you get
a new guy coming in to put in a faster
to make you play on time faster football with all
these grandiose expectations coming off of his run in Detroit. Yes,

(45:11):
that there were gonna be hiccups in the first week
of training camp, no kidding.

Speaker 4 (45:15):
Yeah, and I had also I think it was Albert
Breer who said that Ben Johnson and the Bears are
just throwing the kitchen sink at Caleb Williams to find
out what works what doesn't when he's under extreme pressure,
and then we'll figure out how they want to pair
down their playbook when they end up entering the season.
But they're just throwing everything at them, so they're better

(45:36):
be hiccups and is to your point of just everything
being new, Yeah, there's going to be growing pains there
those things that happen as a Seahawks fan. More of
the reports on the defense is winning over the offense
in camp, well probably should be its. First of all,
it's Mike McDonald's team. That's not a new quarterback in place.

(45:57):
You have two of your top wide receivers for season
ago no longer there, so yeah, there's going to be
a change. You have a new offensive coordinator and new
blocking scheme, so there's going to be a lot of changes.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
This happens in camp. It should not be any surprise.

Speaker 2 (46:12):
I do appreciate your wide receiver one leaning into jokes
folks who want to make of my Injigba. I didn't
even see that he signed an autograph for got because
he actually had that a custom jersey made. A fan
gave him one that said can you sign this, and
he's like, dude, this is great.

Speaker 4 (46:31):
The league with hyphenated wide receivers. So because you have
him and Mark Quez Valdus Gantling on the squad as well.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
There you go, affectionately known by.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Their yeah nbs exactly kW three in the backfield.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
So yeah, there's there's a lot of that going on,
a lot of it going out on the sea.

Speaker 1 (46:51):
Nicely well played.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
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Speaker 1 (47:19):
You like to share this?

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Yes, get your entire damn contact list and let's go absolutely.

Speaker 1 (47:25):
That's it, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
So I wanted to bring like since we're we're in
contracts and we're in this mode and all these battles
and with all this labor stuff swirling with the NFLPA
in the background, which is more sorted by the day,
Like we thought we'd hit some new low when they
went line item for line item and found out about
Tootsie's the World's Gentleman club that's so large and everything else,

(47:48):
and here's a driver that's sad idol for eight hours.
Those are minor expenses when you talk about the grand
grand thing. So I still want to know who ordered
the code red to go after Lloyd Howe to find
said expenses right, Who was in the room where it
happened to steal from Hamilton? But all of that is
swirling new leadership. Treader tried to go on with Dan

(48:10):
Patrick and clear his name as best he could. It's
like you were in the room, like you're one of
the leaders. So yeah, there's some of this is going
to get back on you. There's no way to avoid it.
Right now, it'll come out in the wash, but in
the moment, the slings and arrows are there. Right there's
no proving the negative at this point for you. But
when we look at it, you now have this void

(48:32):
as we get to grievance time, and Christian Wilkins had
his deal avoided by Pete Carroll and it's something you
and I talked about a little bit earlier in the week.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
But for those that.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
Missed it, they avoid the remaining thirty five point two
million dollars guaranteed money joined the team a year ago
one hundred million dollars deal. This is huge, played five
games when against what they were saying in terms of
charting is getting back up on the field in terms
of having a surgery which would extend things, but in

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theory get it right to where he'd finish out the
rest of the contract. And now we get into a
larger issue of filing aggrievance with the league. Is I
want to know who's going to be there to work.
I mean, the lawyers are still getting paid, buildable hours
are going to be there, But for the actual union leadership,
it's a very curious time for any of these kinds
of situations.

Speaker 4 (49:25):
Now, this is the time for the for the NFL
and for the teams to take advantage of the players
because of how weaken the players' association is. And even
if you know you're talking about JC Tretter going on
trying to clear his name with the Dan Patrick Show,
I would say this that it and I think I
think this is your point as well, like, Okay, you

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were you were a part of it, so you have
to bear some of the responsibility, right, you brought it in.
I think that yeah, and I think that there's there's
also the part is it's so fractured that you have
guys who are trying to say I didn't know this
and I didn't know that because of how bad and
poorly it was being run. However they straighten it out,

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it's not going to help them right now because teams
are taking advantage. It's not a surprise that the Raiders
are moving on from Christian Wilkins after just one season
when you consider just again the track record of what
Pete Carroll has done and when he went to Seattle
and turned around the Seahawks. I mean, it's just turnover, turnover, turnover. Now,
the amount of money and that was guaranteed in the
contract that he signed.

Speaker 3 (50:30):
That's what's surprising.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
But a player being let go because they were injured
and didn't have much availability is not necessarily surprising.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
There then now you're not on the same.

Speaker 4 (50:40):
Page of how rehabs should go, and they're just not
going to waste any time and move on. And they
can do that, And Mike, I don't even know if
the Raiders believe that they can they could do it.
I just think they're like, well, let's give it a shot.
What's the worst that could happen? They end up paying
them him the money anyway, and if the union is
so weak right now that there really is no leadership,

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then why not give it a shot. We had Jason
Cole on Winston night when we were talking about it.
So there's no way Wilkins is not going to get
his money. And I think that the Raiders probably understand that,
understand that, But the worst that they could be told
is no, you have to pay him, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:18):
I mean in the interim, maybe it sets up more
guardrails and protocols in terms of specificity of language. It's
a lesson learned by the PA as they scramble to
get back, because look, we talked about it the last
couple of years with Lloyd Owl and Tomorrow Smith, like
we've talked about him getting drummed for years. So like
now it's the question and how many former NFL players

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have we had walked through the door that we've done
shows with. If they weren't the team representative, they got
very sparse information of what the hell was going on
unless they were truly proactive themselves, right them, their agent,
their family members, spouses that wanted to make sure they
were looking out and minding all the mining the fhar
as it were, because otherwise it's all going from your

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executive level and meeting with either Demorris Smith or Howell
and that group, disseminating to the team reps in their
meetings and then filtering down and then depending on where
you're at in your continuum, you care about much different things,
which is why anytime they go to the negotiating table,
it's like that's what they got, That's how they got.

Speaker 4 (52:24):
You know, this is something that you're way more passionate
about than I am. But I will say this, I
have memories, very very faint memories of nineteen eighty two
and I completely remember nineteen eighty seven. There's people our
age and older. I'm looking at you, Steve Hartman that

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remember those work stoppages. Yeah, Mike, So when we had it,
what fourteen years ago? And was it twenty eleven when
the lockout happened? Like there was there was football pta
from those times in the nineteen eighties, so that's twenty
five thirty years. You got a goal in your match

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here at England, just put one on the board. See
that's what they do. Man, come back kids. But I
remember when we didn't have football. So as a fan
this may sound crazy, but the reason I started where
I'm saying you're more passionate about this is I see
a weekend union. I think awesome, no work stoppages at

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any point in the near future because they are so
weak and that there's no So like I'm like, great,
I'm gonna have football because I don't as a fan,
I don't think that I'm relating to the players. So
like I see that, I'm like, all right, good. There's
no possibility of opt outs unless the owners aren't getting something,
and if the owners are happy with things, which it
seems like they are, then there's not going to be

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any work stoppages. As crazy as that sounds, thirty years later,
I am still feeling like, Okay, good, we're not going
to miss any games. We're not gonna need replacement players.
To that point.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Well, it's funny because you know, when we're talking midweek, right,
we'd add the Jerry Jones and Mike Brown, and as
we talked about it's like they're they're awful confident. They're
just saying what they want. You can chalk it up
to their old guys, right, and they're just gonna say
crazy stuff.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
And Jerry Jones is what he is. Mike Brown normally
doesn't do a lot of that stuff.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
So you're you're feeling a little chesty right now if
you're an owner watching all of this swirl around to
your point like you've got them, you know, backpedaling a
little bit, and that fracture, it's going to take time
to rebuild trust.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
You're gonna have to clear out more guys.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Yeah, it's it's a it's a shaky spot for the
players side of things, but certainly as fans. Yeah, those
TV deals and everything being structured. Hey, everybody, we've lived
through NBA lockouts. We've lived through players strike in Major
League Baseball and and yeah, we've been able to to
make it through with football. I don't know, there's a

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younger generation that just has no idea on what it
was like in nineteen eighty seven or nineteen eighty two.
And you didn't have games for one week in eighty seven,
then you had then he had the replacement players after
that and lost games at eighty two as well. Weird,
weird time Baseball still owes me that exposed White Sox
World Series from ninety four. He's Dan Bayer, I'm Mike Harmon.

(55:23):
Welcome in. It's Fox Sports Sunday. Here Fox Sports Radio
at dan Byer on Fox where you find and find
me over at Swollendum. Coming up next, we've got to
change of the leader board in terms of MBP odds.
We'll touch on that very briefly before we get to
our NFC West Fantasy preview. We already talked about the
quarterback position for Los Angeles. What does it mean for
their stars as we look around across the rest of

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the division and impassioned Seattle Seahawks run coming up from Dan.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Byer next on Fox. So you now I'm strolling around.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
IM gonna start dancing like Christopher walking through that hotel.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
It'll be brilliant.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Sixty six minute Anglin got their equalizer one one Euro
Final twenty twenty five Women's So keeping an eye on
that full slide of Major League Baseball action coming up,
be remiss, But I didn't mention it and pay off
the teas the new leader in the clubhouse, your odds
favorite for the al MVP, with Aaron Judge going to

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the il elbow and we'll see how long he's out
and already talk that he'll be well a DH when
he returns.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Cal Raley the big.

Speaker 2 (56:30):
Dumper at minus one p thirty, Judge is still just
plus one hundred. And then you get to schoobl and
some others, Bobby wid Junior starting to gain some run
and maybe you'll see Raleigh's teammate Julio Rodriguez bump up
a little bit for cosmetic purposes given his recent run.
But cal Raley, a guy already had forty home runs,

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just a couple off of the record paces that we've
seen in the past. So fun story that just keeps
getting better.

Speaker 4 (56:57):
Dan, Yeah, absolutely, and a shame for the Yankees, who
are sitting atop the ale wildcard standings, but it's not
like they have a lot of breathing room because things
are tight in the American League. The Mariners, the aforementioned
Mariners right now in the thick of it as well
for the wild card, just four games back of the Astros.
A lot of that's going to change the shape of

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this race as well if the Mariners stay there, if
the Royals continue to make a push. Sure feels like
the Tigers are going to win that division despite how
bad things have gone for Detroit lately. Kansas City four
and a half back of the wild card, that they
make a push. I will also say this, and I'm sorry, Mike,
I'm gonna just take ten seconds to pat myself on
the back. But I told you a week or two ago,

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look out for the Marlins, all right. This team is
They're not red hot, they are white hot. They've been
playing really, really good baseball over this last month or so,
one eight out of the last ten.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Mike.

Speaker 4 (57:56):
Right now, I know there's a log jam in the
National League, but just five games out of the wild
card in the National League, so I'm going to cash
in my chips and congratulate myself as the Marlins go
for the sweep of my Brewers today in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
So bittersweet, So take the victory lap, but still hope
for the they take the l today, no question about it.
I'm going to my trustee Tankathon. Strength of schedule for
the stretch run right in the meaty part of the curve.
Five hundred record for the remaining teams for the Marlins.
But in that division, that would be fun to see

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them rise up because I'll watch my guy melt down
Monday through Friday Jason Smith after he hit back from
his sojourn. Because I haven't had to talk about the
Mets during their six game winning streak, it's been glorious, you.

Speaker 4 (58:43):
Know, teams like a team like the Marlins was thought
to be a seller at the deadline. They still maybe
they could maybe afford to be You're just not gonna
trade any of your your key pa pieces away. But
I think they're gonna They're gonna be interesting. Yeah, Mett's
getting a little little separation right now. Should see some
good divisional races. But it looks like the Brewers and

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Phillies in that wild card are set. Same with the
Cubs or Mets, depending on how you're going to that
division sorts out, but beneath that below that should be
interesting in the NL as well.

Speaker 2 (59:18):
Yeah, Brian Cashman and company already hard at work making
a couple of deals over the last few days. Rosario
shows up yesterday, so we'll see what happens as that's
McMahon showed up and then Homer's in his first bat,
so Vince gets himself a skybox in a luxury box
there at.

Speaker 1 (59:34):
The Yankee Stadium.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
So all of that to say, it's gonna be an
interesting week because there are so few teams like my
White Sox that are so desperately lost and out of
things that how many sellers do you truly have? Yeah,
all right, how many are they? Well, you know, we
haven't made the playoffs in X years, so we should
do this. Even if we know we're gonna get trounced,

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we should take our shot.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
It's fun, you know, like the Diamondbacks team.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
And the Diamondbacks have been hit with injuries, but they
have not lived up to what they would have hoped.

Speaker 3 (01:00:07):
They're sitting there on.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
The same exact spot as the Marlins, and I think
we see the Diamondbacks. With Josh Naylor being traded in
u Henneo Suarez on the block as well, we expect
him to be dealt. They're in full sale mode in
Arizona well, a team like the Marlins. Again, I'm not
saying the Marlins aren't going to sell. I'm just they're
all of a sudden in the thick of it. And
I think for a while people felt that they were

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one of the worst teams in baseball. But they've been
anything but that over the last month or so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
Catching lightning in the bottle and you were on boarded fast.
And they wore those resplendent teal hats like that ultra
teal to where you got to put these shades in us.
It's so bright. All right, let's stir our attention back
to the National Football League, shall we and the NFC West.
We talked a lot about Matthew Stafford a last hour.
If we look at the rankings for other Rams principal

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Stafford currently twenty first on average for the quarterback position,
coming off of a twenty to eight final run, and
came up big down the stretch when they needed him,
But it was more the defense and Kyraen Williams, who's
number twelve on your running back board right now in
PPR leagues wide receiving board, Nikua is fourth, and then

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you've got Devantae Adams coming in at sixteen right now,
Dan and the Adams one is interesting. It brought it
up last hour as we were talking about the Stafford
injury because of suddenly Garoppolos throwing to him.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
He may just opt out. I got a little bit
of a hammy. I'm not going over in the middle here,
I'm not doing this.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
But Nikua has become one of the steady as you go,
and it's just odd that Cooper Cup will be wearing
a Seahawks uniform. Will get to them in a minute,
but you know, it's just those identity, the identification of
what the rams have been a bit of a shift.
But Nikua for fantasy purposes, no matter who's throwing the ball,
has just been nails.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Yes, yes, you obviously would want a healthy Matthew Stafford
being the one. And it's funny because I just I
don't think to your point of Nikua being the guy,
no matter who's that quarterback, you would think that if
it had to be Jimmy g for any stretch of
the way, he would have the familiarity with Devonte Adams,
but you bring up the history and the frustration of Adams,

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so then it kind of falls back to Nicula. What
I think is also adjesting about the Rams in this
scenario is Kyen Williams. He's got a contract situation, not
holding out, but he's kind of been like Nikoua, a
guy that just produces, produces, produces, And maybe you're not
paying as much attention to how good he is because

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we're focused on what Saquon Barkley does and other players
at the top of their positions. But Karen Williams has
been good when he's been available for the Rams, and
he flies under the radar because there's also not that
we felt that blake Korm was a threat. But you're wondering,
Jeesus blake Korm going to have, you know, the opportunity
to carve out a role, and it didn't happen as

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much last year. Maybe at some point as well, but
I've always been a fan of Karen Williams.

Speaker 2 (01:03:05):
Yeah, finished seventh and PPR leagues did not play Week eighteen,
so he, you know, get the gap is a little
wider there for the guys that did you know, because
because we learned it's bijan huh. He made sure to
point that out in an interview as they were doing
this round stuff in roundtable stuff with the NFL Network,
going camp to camp.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
Well, so it's no longer be.

Speaker 4 (01:03:27):
There have been a lot of There have been a
lot of guys who say their names are pronounced one way,
but if if the masses don't pronounce it that way,
then you're kind of stuck.

Speaker 1 (01:03:35):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
It's like all those words that find their way into
the dictionary because folks get say it wrong, you know,
like irregardless.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
I you that's true. That's one of my wife's biggest
pet peeves. She hates irregardless. My my story that I
always tell with names is ray Ma Luga, former USC
and Bengals linebacker. When he was at USC. I just
went up to him and asked him, as the how
do you pronounce your last name? And he said, is
that the G is like the N like like you would,

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So it's Mala Luna. Nobody calls him Luna. No, everybody
just called them Mala Luga. And that's how it is.
Now you have those you know, thievesman thighs, mean sort
of deals there end up making a change. But once
it's it's done, it's done. Even Terrell Owens, people will
still call him Trello.

Speaker 2 (01:04:22):
Sure so there's or they mispronounced Barcelona.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
You gotta listen to every show we do. People. Dan
was with me during the week that became a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
I don't know. God, go find the podcast wherever you
get your audio.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
That was the Jason Smith Show with me and Dan
earlier this week. Now the rest of the Quarterback Run
And I mentioned Arizona earlier because I'm curious right coming
off of what they did this offseason fortifying the defense.
James Connor is still there. You have Trey Benson, Marvin
Harrison Junior, and Kyle Like. I'm still a sucker for

(01:04:58):
Kyler Murray. Is it just because I'm short?

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
No, well, you're not short, but.

Speaker 4 (01:05:05):
I think Kyler Murray has that pizazz if you will,
even with the knee injury, so I don't think it's
just height wise. I really like them. I've really liked
them for the last couple of years. Jonathan Gannon's intro
as the head coach was weird, remember the interaction with
Oh yeah, I think with Kyler Murray. But what they've

(01:05:28):
done on the football field I think has been really solid.
I do question about James Connor and how long this
can go for As great as Connor has been, he
was never better than he was last year. So now
eighth year in the league, and he has his most
games played, most carries, most yards, most touchdowns. So at

(01:05:51):
a time where you're thinking he's going to fall back,
is this the time where he does it, where he
actually is at the top of his game.

Speaker 3 (01:05:59):
I think yes.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
I do you think that Trey Benson is a big
part of it, but just as a team like Marmon
Harrison Junior isn't going to be that absent, as we
had such high expectations for him last year and it
wasn't that he was absent. I just think that we
thought sixteen hundred yards twelve touchdowns and that's just not realistic.
Trey McBride's magnificent. I love Arizona as a whole. As

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a team with the defensive changes you mentioned, get.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
In there and bye bye bye.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
They're eight and a half win total in the over
under plus four fifty for the division. Harrison, Michael Wilson
had a couple of games last year, mighty intriguing. Zay
Jones is there when he's healthy, has been a steady,
reliable tertiary ops. And the offensive line's a bit better
than it was. Harrison Junior currently being drafted as the

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twentieth wide receiver.

Speaker 4 (01:06:49):
Overall, I think you're going to get really good value
with Marvin Harrison Jr.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
And if the defense does their work, and that's where
I'm pinning my homes right, because they did a lot
of work on that side. It's kind of like, Josh,
what you know, you start looking at where you made
substantive changes, like they've always been weak in the interior,
finally fortified.

Speaker 4 (01:07:10):
Yes, the draft was heavy defense as well. Walter Nolan,
I know he's digged up right now. Will Johnson you
drafted as your second round corner. Yeah, Klass Campbell's back there.
They did make wholesale changes, but they're all in I think, Mike,
and then this is a fantasy conversation. I think they

(01:07:30):
have a good chance to win the division because you
know my thoughts on the Rams, and I think people
are overvaluing the forty nine ers because they're the name
of them is the forty nine ers. But I actually
think that Arizona has a chance to win the NFC West.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
So forty nine ers plus one sixty five Rams plus
one seventy five Arizona plus four to fifty Seattle at
plus five hundred. Let's get to those forty nine ers.
Brock Purty currently the tenth quarterback drafted on average. McCaffrey
backup as the fourth running back on the consensus rankings
to this point. At wide receiver Juwan Jennings wants his

(01:08:06):
new deal. He's thirty ninth.

Speaker 3 (01:08:08):
At least he showed up. Yeah that just.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
Like recognizing I haven't made major bank fifty thousand dollars
a day, A heads up, yes, and I'm gonna need
to do the work anyway, so why not go through
the paces. I'm not gonna get hit, but I'm going
to go through the paces and be here.

Speaker 4 (01:08:24):
And also there's no guarantee that they know about Ricky
Piersoll Debo's not there and Brandon and Ayuk's not going
to be ready for week one.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Pierceaw forty six, Diyuke forty ninth.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
So like there's there's like there's that like the forty
nine ers need him and he could.

Speaker 3 (01:08:39):
Be in line for a big season.

Speaker 4 (01:08:42):
It's why I think, like when we talk about tight Ends,
when we you know, talked about who we like, it
is tight ends, Kittle is.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
Kittle is top three.

Speaker 4 (01:08:51):
I think because of the lack of weapons that San
Francisco has for brock perty to throw to right now,
and I I for his greatest Kittle can be. I
don't look at him as the brock Bauer's trade McBride
type because just how physical and what he does blocking.
But I think he's so high because there's just not

(01:09:13):
a lot of guaranteed options for San Francisco right now.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
Yeah, just the curiosity right as it stands. I mean,
it's whatever health we get from McCaffrey and kittle holding
up problem is to your point about physicality. Anybody that
knows anything about George Kittle, besides the fact that he
loves professional wrestling and eventually he is going to be
a professional wrestler if his body holds up, is the
fact that that dude is one of the elite blockers.

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Like it's a clinic, yes, but over the course of
a seventeen game period, everybody else got hurt last year,
he was unscathed. So does the fickle football god's hand
go and find out I'm not calling oh no, but
I mean he's a little longer in the tooth right,
and everybody else in San Francisco seemed to catch that.
But I've been watching the old Final Destinations again because

(01:10:00):
there we saw the last one. So it's all these
weird ways people die. But it goes back to like
a legacy that kind of hangs around this family and
group of friends. It's got a fun and then I'll
go see I know what you did last summer later
on full review on Letterboxed tomorrow. Let's get to your
Seahawks before we get it over to Ilo one last time.
Gino's twenty fifth kW three to go back to.

Speaker 3 (01:10:24):
Our Donald Donaldson.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):
I'm sorry, Donald, Why why did I want Geno? I
wanted Geno back for you?

Speaker 3 (01:10:30):
All right?

Speaker 1 (01:10:31):
Sorry? Sorry? Sorry? Yeah, goes a dummy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:36):
Hey, I want twenty sixth. So it doesn't make much difference.

Speaker 2 (01:10:40):
So we get the rut the wrong thing.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
Yeah, just that, just that, uh the uh, just at
a little cheaper price for the For the third straight
training camp, Kenneth Walker the third is getting rave reviews.
And when Kenneth Walker the Third has had his opportunity,
he's been very, very good.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
The thing you just.

Speaker 4 (01:10:57):
Worry about is injury, which he has been dinged up
in his career. Klint kubi X now the offensive coordinator,
so you have a change there. They they upgraded their
offensive line by drafting Gray's Abel in the first round
as their left guard, but in Seattle's fashion, they then
didn't do anything else to really address the center position

(01:11:18):
or the right guard position, so there's still questions, but
they go to a new blocking scheme this year. kW
three getting rave reviews. Jackson Smith and jigbo We mentioned
earlier than now WR one, he's gone high in a
lot of drafts.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
So for twelveth from what I see on on the
fantasypros dot Com, so expectations that he and Darnald still
feel like an idiot. We'll get it done there and
there's a chance to this.

Speaker 4 (01:11:46):
So they drafted Elijah Arroyo in the second round the
tight end out of Miami and aj Barner was tight
end that they drafted a year. I think it was
in the twenty twenty four draft. Anyway, Barner's now they're
starting tight end, but Arroyo is the one that gets
all the glitz and glamour because the second round you
see the highlights of what he could be almost reminds

(01:12:06):
me a little of Jimmy Graham. I don't know if
it's the you comparison, but Barner could actually maybe have
more of a role than Arroyo does, even if Arroyo
is thought to be as the shiny new object Mike.
But I'm not sure how much you're gonna get value
tight end wise. To me, it's just JSN and Kenneth Walker.

Speaker 3 (01:12:24):
The thing.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Yeah, Arroyo is the guy at twenty eighth on average
in early drafts, but yeah, certainly Cooper cups at forty seven.
So it's the winging a prayer. A lot of it
is the how much do you trust that Sam Darnold's
performance last year wasn't just the aberration?

Speaker 3 (01:12:41):
Sure, I'll tell you two things.

Speaker 4 (01:12:43):
See that it's going to be a defensive team, so
I don't think you're gonna see tons and tons of
points from them. But also you wonder how Jalen Milrow
could affect Darnold. Sure, so if you've got packages for
Jalen Milroe. In the red zone or in near goal
line situations, you could see Darnald even tick down on
the touch passes.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Absolute chaos, no question about it. He's Dan Bayer on
my garment. It's Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Rady. I'm
gonna go flog myself while Ilo gives us an update.
Across the sporting universe. It'sizes at Glow and Crown after news.

Speaker 5 (01:13:12):
Gay busy, busy Sunday, especially in the NFL. Cowboys tight
end Jake Ferguson signed a four year, fifty two million
dollar extension. Washington Commander star receiver Terry McLaurin reported to
training camp today, ending his holdout without a contract extension.
He was subsequently placed on the physically unable to perform
list due to an ankle injury. Miami Dolphins safety and
Mika Fitzpatrick has agreed to a revised contract, adding sixteen

(01:13:36):
million dollars of a signing bonus to his deal as
they continue to negotiate an extension for him. ESPN reports
that Arizona Cardinals cornerback Starling Thomas tore his ACL in
practice on Friday. The San Francisco forty nine ers moments
Ago announced they have activated receiver Ricky Piersalt from the
physically unable to Perform list NBA ESPN report. Chicago Bulls

(01:13:58):
head coach Billy Donovan has signed a mo ti year
contract extension in women's soccer. In the final of Euro
twenty twenty five, Spain and England tied at one in
the eighty fifth minute. As we speak, let's catch the
highlights courtesy fellas of Fernando Cardinal on Radio Nacional Tabletro

(01:14:21):
di Portativo. Here was Spain's goal in the twenty fifth minute.

Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
I ever, and here's how mister senior Cardinal called England's

(01:14:51):
time goal in the fifty seventh minute.

Speaker 5 (01:14:54):
And there would appear to be some slight discrepancy in
the enthusiasm for this one.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Loo ah, fank godic look at it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:09):
So the six I thought Isaac was going to say,
this is how it sounded on Fox, like that's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:15):
Where I thought you were going. I was there. It
was a curveball.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
He gets the end of the game on Big Fox
at Isaac Lohenkron. I'm going to find a way to
get to go back in time and get a video
of him doing that dance when that music started the extension.

Speaker 1 (01:15:33):
So jealous as a man with no reach.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
We got to start doing this in America, having techno
music to celebrate like touchdowns and home runs and goals.

Speaker 3 (01:15:40):
Why don't you start it? Yeah, yes, exactly.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Look at you, not like you have any I don't
a place you might be able to do that.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
I don't know, Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
It's like he's speaking in theoreticals Angel City FC. You
catch Ilo on that, and he's getting ready for all
of the fun and exciting comments that will flow through
for the Charger.

Speaker 1 (01:16:01):
Season starting with the Hall of Fame game on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
On Thursday, That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Nobody traverses the handles across social media better than Ilo
at Dan Byer on Fox where you find and find
me over at Swollen'd Dome.

Speaker 1 (01:16:16):
As we finish up, there's.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
A curiosity a running back who found his way into
a backup situation. A former hero might need to be
one again for his new team. We'll tell you what
that's all about coming up next here on Fox Sports Radio.
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday, Dan Byron,

(01:16:37):
Me and Mike Carmen a couple more minutes with you
here as we round out our Sunday, and this will
be the last Sunday of July, and by time we
talk next we'll be breaking down the.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
Unless we won't, we'll have experienced it, and we'll talk
some of the speeches, some of the luminaries going in
and celebration thereof Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Induction
weekend next week, the Nationals Card Collectors Association stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:17:04):
So I mean, there's a lot going on, dan.

Speaker 4 (01:17:06):
A lot going on, and they keep changing Hall of
Fame weekend, not every single year, but there's changes. Remember
the one year because the game was coming after the
ceremonies and then the setup like they didn't want to
play on the turf because of what they did with
the with the ceremony facilities and the stage and all
that kind of ruined the turf, remember that, So they

(01:17:28):
just canceled the game. So then they like, we're gonna
have the ceremonies before the game, or the game before
the ceremonies. So the game will now be on a
Thursday night instead of on a Sunday. And now like
the ceremonies last year were on Saturday afternoon, like they
didn't have them like at night leading into it, and
I don't know if it's people just wanted to leave
after a while. But this year a smaller class for once,

(01:17:50):
they didn't just jam everybody in, So I feel like
they're trying to make it more viewer friendly. But yeah,
different changes game on Thursday, and I believe the Sea
Money to take place Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:18:01):
Yeah, with the baseball side of things, I'm still salty
about what they did to me back in twenty nineteen.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
So I had a trip.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
Planned with my my daughters and it was always the
last weekend in July. Guess what the year Harold Bayins
goes in, Yes, July twenty First, jerks, H can't. I
had two guys growing up. I had Greg Luzinsky and
I had Harold Baines. Those were my guys. I looked
like Luzinski and loved the workmanlike approach of Harold bains

(01:18:30):
It was a lesson for everybody professional hitter.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Well, here we are and again today's ceremony pushed back,
should have already gotten under way, but because of weather
in Cooperstown.

Speaker 3 (01:18:40):
Your Formert of the Woods right lived around that area.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Yeah, we were in Schenectady and Niskayuna, So a scant drive.
A brewery that has now become kind of a big
deal because of a tie in with Game of Thrones
was just down the road there in Cooperstown. Used to
have a lot of excuse to go to the Hall
of Fame for a couple hours and then get a
bunch of your supply for any of the people in
the neighborhood.

Speaker 1 (01:19:03):
Oh so you'd load.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Up the car after you'd spend three hours wandering around
the Hall of Fame and the stores there. And used
to go there all the time. It was great, Like
you got to know a lot of the people. It's like, Hey,
you want to see something cool. Look behind here. Wait,
why is there that on display? Oh it's coming, it's coming.
We're building a display all right. AFC out South the outs. Yeah,

(01:19:24):
Houston Texans are your leaders. In the clubhouse, we talked
about the Jaguars a lot, and the Cohen and Lawrence relationship,
the one hundred question quiz of getting Him Ready, Colts
Titan's all that fun stuff. You can find all the
podcasts there. But for the Texans, they now have a
bit of a quandary, and that Joe Mixon has an
injury that's going to sideline him indefinitely. Here, Dan, So,

(01:19:48):
all of a sudden, Nick Chubb, once upon a time,
your fantasy superstar, and I mean the collective you out
there in fantasyland, four straight thousand yard years last year,
relegated to a smaller role, just one hundred and two
carries in eight games played.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
Can he be that guy? Can he be the man
for CJ. Stroud?

Speaker 4 (01:20:07):
I don't think so. I think it would have worked
great for both Mixon and for Nick Chubb to share
that workload. Mixon was magnificent last year, much reached expectations
that I didn't think that he could reach. But I
think they both needed each other again for a Texans
offensive line that is not good.

Speaker 3 (01:20:27):
Some more bad news for CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 2 (01:20:28):
Tough run ahead. We'll keep an eye on that as
we go. Thanks for being with us, Dan at Dan
Byron Fox. Hear him during the course of the week.
Here in the middays find me with Jason Smith yelling
at him as the week goes on. Coming up next,
it's Husky and Hartman. Full slate of baseball action ahead.
Thanks for being with us, Have a great day.

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