Monse Bolaños and Carmen Vitali talk Lions turnaround, MLB Playoffs and more!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Oh my goodness, Happy Saturday, Fox Sports Radio with Alex
Curry and me Monsy Bolanos. But Alex is not here, everybody,
she's off Gallivantine, right, Galavante, she's off covering the postseason
for Major League Baseball for Fox. But have no fear, everybody.

(00:27):
Carmen Batally is here with me. She is a Fox
Sports writer for the NFL. She covers the NFC North Division.
I sure do, but that's not all you've done. I mean,
like you've been around. Get your heads out of the gutter.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
You've been around. You worked with the Dodgers.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
At one point, you covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers during
their Super Bowl run.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Guys, get jealous. She has a Super Bowl right, I.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Know, you know, but you're gonna green next time, don't
raise right, Yeah, I'm gonna make you bring it. So
don't worry. We are in good hands. We're so excited.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And you know, maybe we'll talk to Alex.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Maybe we will.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Maybe we'll check in.

Speaker 4 (01:03):
They have time for us.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
Oh, she better have time for us.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Again, she's gallivantine, so she better have time.

Speaker 3 (01:10):
We'll check in with her. Maybe she could give us
a little update on the postseason because she's been in
the middle.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
I can't believe she was at that game, the Rangers game.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know when we were texting and you're like, yes,
stuff's happening, I.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Was like, I know so much stuff it's happening in
just that game. Absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 2 (01:57):
That's right, Bundle and save, that's right. So I can't
believe where we're starting. And why I say this is
because I just honestly like the biggest topic of the
off season in the NFL was Aaron Rodgers right going
to the Jets. That was the biggest topic of conversation.
Four plays into the start of the season, he tears
his achilles and I'm thinking, great, Aaron.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Rodgers is over, Like, we're not going to talk about him.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh did you really?

Speaker 3 (02:22):
I thought like we were.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Just I thought we were gonna wrap it up for
this season, maybe check in with him. But what I've
learned quickly is that Aaron Rodgers is a freak of nature.
This man is already walking without First it was like
he's with the boot. Just a couple of days later,
now we see videos of him with nothing, throwing a ball, like,

(02:46):
what is happening?

Speaker 4 (02:49):
So much so when this happened, can I tell you
my first reaction, please? My first reaction was, oh God,
Now now I don't ever want to see anyone get hurt.
Aaron Rodgers is a one storyline for the NFL. The
NFL is better when Aaron Rodgers is playing in it.
But now I was like, we're still going to get
Aaron Rodgers, but we're not going to get the benefit
of Aaron Rodgers playing football?

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Are or are we?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
If you missed earlier this week, Jets head coach Robert
Salo was on Good Morning Football.

Speaker 3 (03:20):
This is what he had to say. About Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
I think he's fueled by doubt. I mean, I don't
think I know he's fueled by doubt. The more you
dot him, the more he the more fuel he has.
And you know, he's on a mission. And there's one
thing I've learned about him is that when he has
something and he wants to prove something, he's going to
prove it. So a lot of people can doubt him.
I'm not downing him.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
I'm not doubting him. And then he also says we're
leaving the door open. And so Carmen, am I crazy?
Because all I thought in this moment when I heard this,
I was like, could there be a quarterback controversy with
the Jets at the end of the season, because this
is what I'm thinking. If the Jets find a way

(04:04):
to get into the playoffs wild card however, you want.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
To look at it a big if if.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
But if they do, that means Zach Wilson has either
played well or played decent. Right, But there is a rhythm,
There is.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Camaraderie. Is that the word, right? They like him, key, Yeah,
they like him. You could see it on the sideline.
What was it that game where he fumbled the snap
and then you saw him off to the sideline and
everybody was like, it's okay, Like don't worry. They like him.
So if you're in this position.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Where things have worked without Aaron Rodgers, I get it.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
It's Aaron Rodgers. He's also forty years old.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
He's also coming back from an achilles surgery injury, something
that nobody has ever ever done before, at this rate,
at this speed. I don't know if I'm Robert Solid,
thank goodness, I'm not if I would.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Just all right, Zach, take a seat.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
How you're going to because it's Aaron Rodgers. Because it's
Aaron Rodgers. And let me tell you, Okay, the Jets,
should they overcome all of this? Should they go on
a playoff run? Because I no matter what Aaron Rodgers says,
I can't think that we're talking the first round of
the playoffs that he can come back. I mean, the
achilles injuries are that severe, and I know that he's

(05:22):
putting weight on it. I know that he's throwing the ball,
But there's a difference in throwing the ball pregame and
tossing it around versus doing it in game. Especially with
the fact that he needs to be able to move
around the pocket as well as he does. But the
Jets would not be in that position. Zach Wilson would
not be in that position if it weren't for Aaron Rodgers.

(05:43):
And I'll tell you why Aaron Rodgers is still around
the building. Aaron Rodgers is still in Zack Wilson's ear.
The fact that Zach Wilson had an entire training camp
to learn from Aaron Rodgers, to be in the meeting
rooms with him, to learn how to operate this off
as it currently stands under Nathaniel Hackett, is all because

(06:04):
of Aaron Rodgers. And so whatever improvement we see out
of Zach Wilson, yes he's improving, but a big piece
of that is because of what he learned from Aaron Rodgers.
So therefore you have to step aside at that point.
You have to be like, Okay, we wouldn't be in
this position if it wasn't for you, and Aaron Rodgers

(06:24):
is still in the meetinggrooms. Tyler Conkline actually talked on
the Golick and Gojo show and talked about how Aaron
Rodgers is still a part of this team and he
is there as much as he possibly can in between
all of his rehab. So Aaron Rodgers will still have
a lot to do with this if the Jets pull
off something they haven't done since what twenty ten, It's.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Been a while, it's been a while. It's been a while.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
And I looking at the Jets schedule, I think, listen,
I think they could sneak into that low card spot.
Like I looked at it last night and I was like,
I predict six seven wins from what's left of their schedule.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
They could do it. They could do it.

Speaker 4 (07:02):
So if the defense continues to play out of their mind.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
And why not?

Speaker 4 (07:06):
And I know, hey, defense wins championships. I don't know
if it gets us through the regular season, but it.

Speaker 3 (07:11):
Defense does win. But also, Zach Wilson just has to
be a manager. He doesn't have to go crazy. He
just has to.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Manage the game right and not make mistakes. That's his
that's all he needs to do. Let everything kind of
else happen. We just saw Max Scherzer come off an
injury a month off the mound.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
No for the Rangers. Yeah, age injury, So how I
get it.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It's Aaron Rodgers, I understand, But how do you break
up that chemistry knowing his age and knowing the severity
of this injury. I'm just like having a hard time
even though everything you said is right, everything you.

Speaker 3 (07:49):
Said is logical. But what have I said? I am
not logical. I am emotional. I don't I'm happy.

Speaker 4 (07:55):
Like that emotion, that emotion man works in your favor.
It does recognize him, spark a spark like Aaron Rodgers
coming into the game for the for a postseason game
at the medal ins life like that is emotional in
and of itself, and that is an emotion that can
carry a team. I've seen it before, I've seen it
happen before.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
So i mean, listen, just to be the devil's advocate here,
what about the emotion of having it done with Zach
Wilson for all these weeks?

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Isn't that also an emotion that carries you on?

Speaker 2 (08:27):
And listen, I'm thinking that what I'm what I'm presenting
here is a wild card game.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Like I'm not saying if you know they're.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Deep into the playoffs, and like, of course you bring
Aaron Rodgers back, But let's say, like a wild card.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
Game, you're gonna you're gonna mess up that.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
It's one and it doesn't matter if it's a wild card.

Speaker 6 (08:45):
No.

Speaker 4 (08:45):
As someone who has seen the impact that a veteran
leader like Aaron Rodgers can have on a locker room,
I was in Tampa Bay when Tom Brady came in
Fox Flex. But uh, the amount of belief that that
locker room then had in and of itself because Tom
Brady was in it and because of the belief that

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Tom Brady instilled single handedly, Aaron Rodgers has that kind
of effect on a locker room. Not to mention, Nathaniel
Hackett is still the offensive coordinator. Nathaniel Hackett is one
of Aaron rodgers best friends. This offense is meant for Aaron.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Rodgers, always was, always was, always.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Was, So there are now Nathaniel Hackett is having to
make some changes, evolve the offense a little bit, make
sure that it's tailored a little bit more to Zach Wilson.
But please make no mistake, this is still Aaron Rodgers offense.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Again. You're saying right. I hear everything you're saying, and
it makes perfect sense. But I we have never seen
somebody come back this much.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
Exactly why Rogers wants to.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Do it I know, listen, it's absolutely nuts.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I cannot believe him, like he I didn't know, Like
he was this bast you know what I'm saying, Like.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
He's got that Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Tom Brady kind
of mentality that all the Tiger Woods that all the
greats have where they are.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Just obsessed right different watch me.

Speaker 4 (10:14):
Any sort of motivation. They are wired differently. I am
firmly in the camp that every great, every all time great,
is just wired differently, and as much talent as anyone
could have, as much of a work as everybody can have,
no one can ever match those kind of those guys
because of the way that their brain is wired. And
I just think Aaron Rodgers is wired like that for sure.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I again, I honestly the illeges you make me defend Aaron,
I'm really not. I'm not saying that Aaron Rodgers is
not great. That's not it.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
It's just unprecedented what we are seeing, and I I
can't imagine it just be that simple of a plug
in and out, Like I get it, he's there, it's
his offense.

Speaker 4 (10:59):
There would be some b but it would be worth
it because fourth quarter comes around you're down by a score,
you need a touchdown with a minute twenty left in
the game. Who would you rather have in that game?

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Of course Aaron Rodgers, even if he doesn't have a leg.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
I get it, you know what I'm saying that that's
all you need to know. It just seems like this
might he maybe maybe he wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
But based on how we're talking about, how he has
that mentality, what if he comes back before he should
come back.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I fully think he comes back at all before the
season is over, posting it will be too soon.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
It will be too soon.

Speaker 4 (11:37):
But adrenaline is a hell of a drug. See, adrenaline
is a hell of a drug.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
It is.

Speaker 7 (11:42):
It is.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
So you're telling me you're Robert Sala He's going in
don't matter even Thank you so much, Zach Wilson forgetting
us here, Gona.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
That's the reality of the NFL. And that's the reality
of having a Hall of Famer on your team. That's
the reality of having a player that you gave up
so much to get.

Speaker 8 (12:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
No, listen again, you're so logical, Carmen. You're so logical
and I and yet still I to me, I'm like,
I don't know that's so risky because it's so again,
it would just it makes me feel like if they're
in that position, that means Zach Wilson is doing better
than decent.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
That's what I'm assuming.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Now, Let's say I'm wrong and he has played really
badly and the defense has been the reason they get there.
That's not the assumption I'm going with when I'm thinking
that they're might thots.

Speaker 4 (12:34):
Playoff experience, because the playoffs are.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
A whole different thing. Yes, yeah, and.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
Aaron Rodgers has a lot of experience in the playoffs.
Not a lot in super Bowls, it's my little dig
but he has a lot of experience in the playoffs
and he knows how to handle himself in those situations.
And I think that there would be a lot surrounding
Aaron to make sure that he wasn't overstepping overdoing it.
There would be some concessions made. And I mean, you're

(12:59):
the offensive line again. Not to bring this all back
to Brady again, but I just remember the offensive lineman
at the Bucks telling me like they leveled up because
they were like, I will not be the reason that
Tom Brady gets hurt. And that is a real thing
where not that they don't care about Zack Wilson behind them, correct,
But when Tom Brady or when Aaron Rodgers is behind you.

Speaker 3 (13:19):
All of a sudden, everybody's got to step up.

Speaker 4 (13:21):
I'm not taking the heat for being the one to
get him hurt again. I'm not the one that's going
to screw up and get him sacked. That's not gonna happen.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
So hypothetically speaking, let's say, all right, Aaron Rodgers comes back.
Would there be a bigger moment than that then Aaron
Rodgers coming back this season?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
No?

Speaker 4 (13:41):
And that is what I guarantee you, That's what's sticking
in his head. Is that moment of him walking out
onto that field in the postseason, the crowd roaring, the
lights coming on, you know, the announcers are going crazy.
Everything is just that is his moment that he wants
so badly that he is hyper fixated on, and that
is what is getting him through a grueling rehab.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, because he doesn't want the real to just be
him running out with the American flag, because that's that's
his snap.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
Ye force, he had four snaps as a member of
the New York Joity.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
Isn't that nuts? This whole this whole story. It's like,
you couldn't write this.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
If you made this into a movie, people would be
like you not they are now, but if it happen,
if it happens, and if but saying you know what
I mean, Like, if this was a movie before this
actually happened, people would be like, you've jumped seven sharks.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
There's no way this is actually what's happening.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
And yet listen, scriptwriters are on one. They're on one
already this season, are you kidding? And they have to
keep upping it. I feel like ever, it's just it's
every year they have to keep upping the absolute insaneness
that is the NFL because we're all just getting used
to the insanity.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
The insanity.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Insanity is exactly what I feel when it comes to
this Aaron Rodgers situation.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Because I just cannot believe it.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
I cannot believe that this is where we are right now,
literally talking about him coming back the door being open.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Because he is a freak of nature.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
He also wants to stay in the conversation, but he does.
He loves being in the conversation, so he has his
weekly appearances on McAfee.

Speaker 3 (15:09):
I catch all the time as.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
It was appointment viewing when he was a member of
the Green Bay Packers. And that's one of the teams
that I cover very heavily, is the as part of
the NFC North. So I had to listen to that
entire appearance every week. And he is still doing it,
and so there will still be stories coming out, and
that's why he's going to remain around the Jets, and
so he has a reason to say, I'm still involved,

(15:34):
this is still my team.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Yes, yes, Well, even though he was probably the biggest
story of the off season, another big story in the
off season was the Detroit Lions, and we will get
into that right after the break.

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Speaker 11 (16:28):
Milton play fake again, looks fires for the end zone.
That pass is gonna be caught. Then he's stay in
bounds touchdown. Tell us a Joe Milton bomps it down
the left sideline and score White and right along the
boundary able to haul it in.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
That was Bob Hasling from Learfield on the call. Joe
Milton to Scrorel White, thirty nine yard touchdown pass for
the first score of the game. Alabama on the board.
Alabama now leads. Oh sorry, Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (16:57):
Now les Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
That's off, Yes, no, I know, it's thirteen nothing Tennessee.
I'm really glad because in my little pool I put
that Tennessee was gonna keep pace with Alabama. So I
am very pleased.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
I can't get over squirrel, squirrel, white, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
I just think of the movie Up Squirrel and then
the dog. That's like all I'm being here is that
ice age too? Squirrels? Oh, I love that d lot.

Speaker 2 (17:22):
Yes, it's Box Sports Saturday with Alex Curry and me
Moncy Bolanos.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
But Alex Curry is not here. Don't worry.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
We're gonna track her down. We're gonna bring her on
the show, so don't you worry. Carmen Vitally here with me.
Thanks for joining us, and we are coming to live
from the tyreck dot Com studios. We just finished talking
about the biggest story of this off season in the
NFL being Aaron Rodgers and how it's still going because
he's trying to make a comeback something we've never seen before.
The other big story in the off season was the

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Detroit Lions because last year, which is weird to say,
but they kind of won over a lot of people
by the end of the season, winning what five out
of their last six games.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
Or something, oh more than that, eight of the last night.

Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yeah, n I thank you so much. There we go.
That's why she's here to correct me when I don't
have it right.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
They went on a run, and even the games that
they lost last year, so many of them.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Were like three points, four points, like they were there.
They were there in so many of the games.

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Now this season, there's a couple of teams struggling and
some maybe are thinking that they can turn around their season,
like the Lions, and you're affected by that.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
I am triggered.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
You're triggered by that.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
I'm a little bit of a petty queen. And can
I tell you when the Lions won me over last year?
Please tell us the last game of the season. I
was there at lambeau Field and both the Lions and
the Packers came in and it kind of dependent on
the Seahawks and what they did. If they won, then
the Lions were eliminated from playoff contention, and if the
Packers won, they would get in over the Seahawks. So

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the Packers had everything to play for in that game.
The Lions knew they were out no matter what. The
Lions went in there and they smacked the Packers in
their mouth? Did they last game of the season. They
played out of pure spite and as a petty queen,
I love me some petty kings and from the locker room.
I talked to one of the coaches right before the

(19:18):
game started and he told me that in the locker room,
Dan Campbell was basically like, let's go in there and
f s up. I don't know how much I can say.
On Ron Radio, there were two expotives. There were two
expletives in that and it was a battle cry. It
was a rally cry, and you know what, I'll be
darned if I didn't love it. So they won me over.
They'd won me over honestly before that. But I was like, Okay,

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I'm like, they're going to continue this momentum, and sure
enough they have. But I'm triggered by the fact that
all of these teams that have one win, two wins,
no wins are trying to say, well, the Lions did
it last year, we can do it too. It's not
giving enough credit to who the Lions were before they
started winning, before they went on that ru they had

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a very identifiable shortcoming in on their defense, and it
was fixable. The offense was scoring over thirty points.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
A game, right, that was not the issue.

Speaker 4 (20:13):
The offense was not at all the issue. And they were,
like you said, I think they were. They had like
three three of their first five losses came by four
points or less less. So they were in these games
and they had just one. I mean, not an easy
thing wrong. They were like dead last in EPA per
play as far as the defense goes. But around Halloween,

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after this long losing streak, they were like, you know what,
enough's enough. They fire their secondary coach, They tweak some
things on defense, figure out how to get some guys
in there. James Houston, a sixth round rookie out of
Jackson State, comes in first game, he's acted as week twelve,
goes on to have eight saxon nine games. Pass rush

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comes alive. Get rid of Aubrey Pleasant. I'm never calling
for someone's job, but getting rid of Aubrey Pleasant had
some effect on the secondary. They pulled it all together
to the point where their defense was serviceable and they
let their offense do what it had been doing. So
that was a very specific situation and should not be
treated as the rule. It was the exception.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
I could not agree with you more on that. It
was funny when you texted me this.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I was like, Oh, she's got something to say. She's
triggered by it. I'm triggered by this, and I hear
everything you're saying. I agree.

Speaker 2 (21:28):
I'm not as triggered, you know, because everybody's trying to
have hope, right and I get that, and that's.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Where that comes from. But I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Even this season, I feel like the Lion's defense is
so underrated to what they're doing.

Speaker 4 (21:41):
They are now winning games because of the defense, right,
and it's what they did in the off season. Brought
in a lot more guys in the secondary, although a
lot of them are hurt again, but they did a
lot of things to fortify what their weakness was. And
that's a credit to Brad Holmes, their GM and being
on the same page as Dan Campbell and the rest
and Aaron glennensive coordinator. So now the offense took a

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little while to get going. Actually this year they weren't
scoring at will like they had been last year, but
now they've figured that all out. The Lions are back
to scoring over thirty points a game and the defense
is holding opponents to just nothing.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
I think, like what you're saying that everybody should hear.
It's this didn't just happen for them. This was a
plan that took time, moving pieces to create what the
Lions are now. And instead of looking at it like
anyone can do it, they are the exception, not the rule.
That's what Carmen Vitally wants you all to know. Let's

(22:39):
chick in with Martin weistone, what's going on.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
In the beautiful world of sports.

Speaker 12 (22:44):
Martin, how are you college college scorer? Is the top
twenty five in action right now? You had number eight
Texas with a fourteen nothing lead over Houston. Number nine
Oregon time with Washington State three apiece at the end
of the start of the second quarter.

Speaker 10 (22:58):
There number eleven Alabama trail.

Speaker 12 (23:00):
Number seventeen Tennessee thirteen and nothing at the start of
the second quarter. Number twenty Missouri with a fourteen nothing
lead over South Carolina. Number twenty three two Lane leeds
North Texas seven and nothing.

Speaker 10 (23:09):
Middle of the second quarter.

Speaker 12 (23:10):
There number twenty four Iowa tied with Minnesota three apiece
early in the second quarter. Is there Daniel Jones apparently
a long shot to play on Sunday versu the commanders.
The Cardinals activated Buddha Baker. He'll play this Sunday. Daryl
Darryl Henderson, here we go. He's officially elevated from the
practice squad. He'll looks like he'll get reps this Sunday

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for the Rams. And Kyron Williams and her corresponding moves
sent to IR for the Rams as well. I'm Martin
Weiss and back to you, Bonci and Carmen.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
Thanks Martin, and you know what, I got super excited
to get this show started. I even washed my hair
for you that I completely forgot to mention that our
technical producer Chris Purfetti is here, who I'm sure is
loving the Lions conversation, and our producer Brandon Trufa is here.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
We've got Ian and Bree editing pulling cuts for us.

Speaker 2 (24:00):
It is a a well oiled machine what we got
going on.

Speaker 4 (24:03):
I'm impressed with everyone. You guys have been so wonderful
and welcoming, so thank you.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
You're welcome again. I wash my hair for you. So
now we're gonna talk to.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Your buddy Adam Amen, who is a play by play
just extraordinaire Adam?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
Are you there?

Speaker 13 (24:19):
Hello, friends, how are you guys?

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Oh so well, thank you so much for joining us.
We're so happy to talk to you, because you are
just a g is what Carmen tells me.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I thing his praises constant is the.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
Worst way to introduce me, because like anybody's listening to
this is going to go, oh, really, let's see what
this idiot has to say about the NFL.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yes, and that's exactly Yes, that's exactly what we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (24:42):
Start with the NFL. We're in Week.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Seven, Adam, who has surprised you the most, whether it
was a good surprise or a bad surprise?

Speaker 13 (24:54):
Well, I know that I know Carmen will appreciate this
answer as well. It's probably the Chicago Bears not a
good surprise surprise, And again I know I'm certainly closer
to it living in Chicago. We cover them during the preseason,
so you kind of get this general sense or a
general idea of what you think the season might play

(25:16):
out as. And even if it's you know, overly positive
in the preseason or you're getting some kind of negative criticism,
you still have a general idea about what you expect
to see. And for a three win team last year,
to improve roster wise and personnel wise as much as
they did, and to feel like everything was kind of

(25:36):
building towards this uh this season, to try to get
justin fields a little bit more comfortable, to add who
you've atted in the receiving corps, to feel like you
bolstered the offensive line, to feel like you helped out
your pass rush and your defense in the linebacking court.
With some of the signings and additions that they've had.
The expectation was, well, just based on talent alone, there

(25:58):
should be something closer to a seven or win team,
and it just hasn't really lived up to that by
any means just yet, just whether it's quality of play,
the personnel hasn't lived up to some of some of
the expectations. Perhaps certainly justin Fields isn't playing at the
level that people thought he was going to play at,
and obviously now he's hurt going into their game against
Las Vegas. So I'm certainly closer to that situation living

(26:21):
there and kind of covering them a little bit more.
But I certainly had much higher expectations, and I think
a lot of the league and a lot of people
who cover it at higher expectations for the Bears.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
Yeah, despite what people in Chicago think, I did have
them as a seven win team going into this season,
and I thought that that was completely fair and a
great improvement. But as you know, Adam, as you will now,
everybody in Chicago had much higher expectations. So I like
that answer. But another team that's kind of in the cellar,

(26:49):
at least offensively of the league is a team that
you are going to be calling this week, the Steelers
at the Rams to very different offenses. So what are
you looking four in this game? Did you? I want
to know if you talked to Matt Canada this Steelers
game and what the vibe is like there when I
mean the Steelers are If anybody is coming under more

(27:11):
scrutiny than the Chicago Bears offense, it's got to be
the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 13 (27:15):
I think that's the point. Again, not a great surprise,
although I think it's a little bit of a different
surprise with Pittsburgh. I think you were one of the
people and I certainly was two carps that thought well
with Kenny Pickett, the improvements on offense, they kind of
helped bolster the offensive line a little bit. We thought
that this might be a four or five win team,
you know, in the first you know, seven or eight
weeks now that could still be the case. And I

(27:36):
think that's what kind of threw me back a little
bit when I started to evaluate Pittsburgh this week is
and we actually talked with Mike Tomlin a couple hours ago.
He made a great point, think about who they've played
so far. Their first two games were against San Francisco
in Cleveland and also had a game against Baltimore. You
could argue that those three defenses are the best three
defenses in the league, or certainly they're amongst the best

(27:58):
five or six defenses in the league going into Week seven.
So for them to go two to one against those
teams they've beaten, they beat all from their last game.
They beat Cleveland in that exciting money Night game. Certainly
not in the way that they expected to win games
they're deep, or relied upon that anything else, but they've
won those games. So for them to be three and
two I think is actually pretty solid all things considered. Now,

(28:19):
the offense does have significant ways to go before this
is a team that's going to continue to compete in
what seems like a very competitive division. All of a sudden,
the AFC North looks a lot sharper for you know,
these last three or four weeks, and I think we
expected them to overall, and with Pittsburgh playing the kind
of offense that they're going to play, they want to

(28:40):
get Kenny Pickett more involved, They would like to throw
the ball a little bit more underly downs, I feel
like they've gotten a little bit predictable, but they're also
a physical running team, and they always have been that.
The trap play has been the staple in Pittsburgh's offense
for you know, years upon years, going back multiple coaching staffs.
So it feels like this is still a team that
wants to be physical. They want to get Najia Harris

(29:02):
more involved. I think Jalen Warren has played really well
in the running game. They're not going to have Pat
Bryer mouth, although they do get Deontay Johnson back and
maybe so maybe those things can kind of help compliment
what they're trying to pick up in a running game
that's been so bad so far. Just eighty yards per game.
That's forty yards less than where they were a season
ago when they really became a physical running team behind
Harrison Warren. So I think that's what I'm expecting to see,

(29:24):
trying to get back to a little bit more simplicity,
trying to run the football for a little bit more effectiveness,
and then trying to get Deontay Johnson involved to take
some pressure off of George Pickens, who's been getting the
majority of the targets for Kenny Pickett.

Speaker 14 (29:35):
Now I need that for my fantasy team, just the
most prepared man ever like that, Yeah, the way that
you can know the entire league and other leagues because
you were so You are a play by play guy
for mlbond Fox as well.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
You grind through the baseball season so real quick. I
want to know what you make of this Cinderella story
happening in the desert with the Arizona Diamondbacks. And I
just I I watched that game last night. It's so exciting.
I can't help but think of all of like the
young kids in Arizona that are going to now be
Diamondbacks fans for life. What do you make of that

(30:10):
team in general and their postseason run so far?

Speaker 13 (30:14):
I think with you watched them during the regular season,
you know the havoc that they caused. The new rules
in Major League Baseball this year that kind of rewarded
athleticism on defense and rewarded more aggressiveness on the base pass,
especially trying to steal bases. I think this is a style.
The rules really kind of complimented the style that Arizona plays, right.

(30:34):
They want to be a fat team, they want to
cause havoc on the base pass. They've been one of
the better defensive teams in all of baseball for the
last couple of years, and I think the banning of
the shift that has actually helped them to try to
cover a little bit more ground or not have to
cover as much ground. So I'm not super shocked that
they create havoc. And they've done that in these last
couple of games coming back against Los Angeles. So I

(30:57):
think the style of play is really suitable for twenty
twenty three baseball. They're probably the most, if not the most,
and probably one of the three or four most acclimating
teams to the new style of baseball that we saw
this year. So I'm not really shocked that they're causing
problems for pitching stats right now, that's.

Speaker 4 (31:12):
Such a great point of like who could adapt better? Yeah,
and how that was going to spell success for some
of these teams.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
And the Diamondbacks started well, you know that's another They
were at the top of the division for several weeks
when we started the season. You're listening to Fox Sports
Saturday with Montsey Bolanos and Karma Vitally in for Alex Currie.
We're talking to Adam Amin play by play EXTRAORDINAIIR does
it all.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
So I'm going to actually shift you to basketball.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Adam, Okay, we're gonna cover it all. We're gonna keep
you on your toes here, all right. So we're about
to start the new season. I am looking at Victor
Wembanyama be absolutely unstoppable. Are we going to start seeing
the NBA slowly transition back to having a big man?

(31:59):
Because right now it's like positionless basketball, but now you
have victor Ian Banyama. You got to check Holmgren when
the Lakers won their Bubble champions because they had three
big dudes. Are we going to slowly start to see
the NBA.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Go back to that.

Speaker 13 (32:13):
I don't know how slowly or how quickly it's going
to happen, but you're already starting to see it. I
think it's a great point, MONTI, because I look at
the Cleveland Cavaliers. They have multiple big men. You know
Jared Allen, Evan Mobley, they had lowry marketing before they
traded him a year and a half ago. The Toronto Raptors,
who obviously had some new pieces this year. Fred van
Bleek goes to Houston, but you look across their line

(32:35):
up six ' nine, six ' ten, six eight sixty seven.
So their wings are all big players too, so that's
more of the positionless basketball, and you're playing different types
of players at the five. You know, you're playing guys
who are like wemen Yama at seven foot six, year
playing guys who are six foot eight. You're playing guys
who are seven foot two. Karl Anthony Towns and Rudy
Gobert playing together in Minnesota. You're seeing a little bit

(32:57):
more implementation, but it's not the same true additional big
man role that I think you probably grew up with
that I probably grew up with. I know Carmen grew
up with. I think this is going to be a
little bit more of an expectation to be able to
step out, to be able to shoot threes. Nikola Jokic
has obviously kind of changed a little bit of the
perception of what the big man can be as a playmaker.

(33:18):
You see it with Demanta Sabonis as well in Sacramento.
I think that was a really good trait that they
made to try to get somebody like that. So I
don't know how quickly or slowly it's going to happen.
Weben Yalma is such a unique piece because he's got
a guard skill set at seven foot six and his length,
His length is impossible to stop. I mean, think about
how hard Kevin Durant is to guard at six '

(33:39):
eleven basically or sixty ten, who plays the three or
the four or swing position or wing position and can
just shoot over everybody. Victor Weben Yalma has got a
decent shot. I would like to think that it's going
to get better in the professional ranks if he continues
to work at it. So, yeah, he becomes that much
more difficult to guard. So the speed of which is
going to happen, I don't know. And how specific the
role is to be, I don't know. I think it's

(34:01):
gonna be a lot more fluid. But in a way,
I do think that the big man is coming back
because they're expected to do a lot more and a
lot different things than they were maybe five or ten
years ago.

Speaker 2 (34:09):
I see already a difference with Victor Winbanyama from summer
league to now. Like they the game against the Golden
State Warriors. I don't know if you noticed they let
Steph Curry do the jump off.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Because they were like, it doesn't matter, go ahead, it
doesn't matter.

Speaker 2 (34:23):
He's gonna get the ball, like I just am so excited. Adam,
thank you so much for joining us. We know you're busy,
so we appreciate that you put some time apart for us.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
We really appreciate it. Thank you, thank you. We appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (34:35):
Thanks Bobs, thank you.

Speaker 13 (34:37):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
All right, guys, that was Adam. I mean, what do
we call him? Play by play extraordinari That's what we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Coin him as. That's it.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
It does three of the four major sports in this country.
It's just it's insane, and we made him answer all that.
But he's just like the way his brain works, how
prepared he is for everything I have been witnessed to
his calendar, just his notes, and just how incredibly well
prepared he is for every single game league. He's just

(35:07):
he's one of the best.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
He is one of the best. So are you. Guys.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
Don't go anywhere, because we still have our dues and
don'ts of the week.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
That's next.

Speaker 6 (35:16):
They're gonna go fast in the line of scrimmage again
from the seven yard line. Hit up the key you
Watson touchdown, Washington State over the goal line. Nikiyah Watson
right down hill, down the hash mark. The Kooks take
the lead nine to three with nine to twenty two
left in the second quarter.

Speaker 4 (35:33):
That was mattchas Now from lear Field Nikia Watson a
four yard touchdown run, first touchdown of the game, and
Washington State is up ten to three over number nine
Oregon at Watson. Aughtson is a hard, hard place to
play as someone who did her undergrad in the pack. Well,
it was the pack ten turned into the Pack twelve.
I'm dating myself. Oughtson was one of those places that

(35:57):
guys didn't like going up to. I thought a crowd,
noise and practic in preparation for going up tos And
there it is, Orion.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Just they heard you. They're like, we have to tell
cart just.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Rushing touchdown by Bucky Irving already, okay, right or you.
I love having this multi screen view in the studio
right track of all these games.

Speaker 3 (36:15):
No excuses.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
I know We've got it all right in front of us.
All right, everybody, it's time for you know.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
What highlighting dues. I love that putting a spotlight on
the don't.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
The subject brings me no joy?

Speaker 5 (36:29):
Don't do that?

Speaker 3 (36:30):
Are you on crack?

Speaker 1 (36:31):
It's time for the dues and the don'ts and sports
like that.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Are you going crack?

Speaker 2 (36:36):
I have somebody that I am going to ask if
they are on crack, but I'm not gonna get there yet.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Crack one more time.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Crack crack again, say crack. Wait, what are we doing?
Oh yeah, we're doing We're doing show dunes and don'ts
of the week. Guys, I got a big d for you.
I love this story. It brought me so much joy.
I don't know if you saw it.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Colorado Buffalo wide receiver Jalen Ellis went on a hike,
found a dog and a cat.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
Took them home, adopted the dog, named her.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
Angel, and the kitten He's like, I put up the
kitten for adoption because it was a kitten, like put
him in his pocket, like somebody's gonna adopt.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
The dog was like scruffy, and he was like the
videos like there's nobody here. Both of them just came
to him, walked away with were they together before?

Speaker 6 (37:21):
We don't.

Speaker 3 (37:21):
He doesn't know.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
It's like, how was the dog like helping the kitten survive?
This is the second time someone's brought up homeward bound.

Speaker 1 (37:33):
I know.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
I just did it, but like in a week and
I get weepy eyed thinking about it.

Speaker 3 (37:38):
No, you should see this video. I got Dreyline a guy.

Speaker 4 (37:42):
Do find a dog and a cat while you're hiking
and adopt them.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
And save them and save them. Good job. Jalen Ellis
of Colorado Wide Receiver.

Speaker 4 (37:52):
All right, I have a do and a don't?

Speaker 3 (37:54):
Is it together?

Speaker 4 (37:55):
It's together?

Speaker 3 (37:55):
Oh wow, look at you spicing things up.

Speaker 4 (37:58):
Icing things up. I know I'm I'm breaking all the
rules with their time here? Do do Creed in the
locker room, which obviously the Rangers did a little while
ago now and then the Vikings though did it last
week and Kirk Cousins got to the podium for after
their second win of the season and said, yeah, we
played Create in the locker room, and I was like,

(38:19):
that's so on brand, but don't actually invite Creed to
the game. You didn't like that because the Rangers did
that yesterday and it didn't work out for them. And
I have a theory ast to why it didn't work out,
and it's because they had arms wide open. No, but
the thing is they performed in the stadium right that
exposed the Astros to the Creed energy.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
Oh that's good.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Like you were giving away some of this good juju
that apparently Creed has on sports teams.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
That's good.

Speaker 4 (38:51):
So just don't let them.

Speaker 3 (38:52):
Don't let it be public, right, don't let them take
away if you.

Speaker 4 (38:55):
Want to have them performed maybe in the locker room
shirt why not?

Speaker 7 (38:58):
Right right?

Speaker 8 (38:58):
I like that?

Speaker 4 (38:59):
Don't so do have do play create in the locker
room before the game. Do not have them come to
your stadium and perform live.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
That's good. I like that, all right, I gotta don't.
This is where I'm gonna ask Caleb Williams, Are you
on crack? You want.

Speaker 4 (39:14):
In all of these No?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
No, no, no, he's special. He's special.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Apparently he wants to ask for partial ownership of the
team that drafts him in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (39:23):
Are you I have clarification on that because I fell
victim to this too. That was from an interview from
back in June, and so that was before the rule changed.
This is like the third or fourth rule that Tom
Brady has single handedly changed. So that is no longer
a thing that you can do in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
I don't care the fact that you even said that
in June. How many players have we seen be drafted
number one overall and they do nothing?

Speaker 3 (39:48):
How are we gonna give you anything?

Speaker 4 (39:50):
Hey, get it while you get get it, while you
live it right, No, live it, get it how you
live it?

Speaker 7 (39:55):
All right?

Speaker 4 (39:56):
My last do Mike players everywhere in the games, not
just in the games. I want so filled out. The
Eagles players DeAndre Swift and Terrel Edmunds were at the
Phillies game and they miked up the guys in the
stands and it was them just being like, oh, this
is lit. I love baseball, like it was Trel Edmunds
first baseball game ever, and like they're commenting on walk

(40:19):
up songs everything like that. It was mic players up everywhere.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
That's right, do that and don't go anywhere. We still
have more here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
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Speaker 3 (40:39):
That's right. Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
Yeah, typically with Alex Curry and me Monty Bolanos. I'm here,
but I have Carmen Vitally next to me, who is
in for Alex because alex is off gallivantine. I'm gonna
keep using that word even though she's working, she's.

Speaker 3 (40:55):
Recovering, she's working very hard. She's traveling up in down Texas.
Try to make sure we are all updated with the
MLB postseason. But don't worry. We're gonna check in with her.
We're gonna check in with her, So don't worry, guys,
we will talk to her soon. Karma vitally.

Speaker 2 (41:11):
It covers the NFL for Fox, specifically the NFC North Division,
and she's struggling.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
You know, it's it's not an easy season for you.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Listen, I grew up outside Chicago. I was a big
time Bears fan growing up, and this is just this
is this is how it goes. I knew when I
took the job. Man, I'm like, this was this was
the gritty division. It was the old black and blue division.
Like I'm tough, I can handle this.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Yes, yes, you are tied. That's right now. Is James
hard and tough or is he just a baby?

Speaker 2 (41:45):
We're gonna have an answer, both of us in trouble. Okay,
we gotta talk about the NBA. We've got to talk
about James Harden because man, this kid.

Speaker 3 (41:56):
I like, I don't even know anymore, but he's acting
like one. But so I mean, I'm gonna call him
a kid for a hot second.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
James Harden, Uh Cliff cliff notes exactly, and kiddy don't know.
The cliff note version is that basically, James Harden has
asked to be traded out of every team he's ever
been on, and now here we are seventy six ers.
Has not shown up to any of their preseason games.

(42:26):
Left didn't nobody knew why. They asked Joel and Beaten.
He's like, you probably had something to do. That answer
was so great, absolutely so great. Did not show up
for their final preseason game, and he wants.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
To be traded. He's acting a fool.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
A couple of months ago, when the story first came
out that he wanted to be traded to my Clippers,
I was like, Uh, all right, whatever, just bring him in.
At least he plays, you know what I'm saying, Like
I got players that don't play as a lot of
these he plays.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
And now I'm just like, can you stay away? But
can miss? That's hollenden. Don't tell me it's not a
bad word. The end, It's like you. You're bugging like
you're just like you're bugging, you know, like a bugaboo.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
So here's the thing. It's worked though, it has worked
for James Harden. But the difference now is that he
is not a rising superstar. Do you want to tell
him that he is a regressing superstar? And I don't
want to get in a lot of trouble, so I'm
dating myself. This man is thirty four, thirty three, thirty
four years old. We were at Arizona State together and

(43:27):
I was.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
Across the street at gar High School while he was
at ar Tisia. So we have a We had a no.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
And honestly, like the James Harden, I knew uh was
wonderfully in love with basketball and it actually I remember
this very vividly. He came out the year that he
was the first year he was eligible, not by choice necessarily,
but because he knew he was going to be a
top five pick. And you can't pass up an opportunity
like that. But it killed him so much so that
his first break. I will never forget this. He comes

(43:57):
back to Arizona State after he gets drafted, pulls up
to Mill Avenue, which I don't know if anybody out
there knows what mill Avenue is, it like, it's the
College Cedy college bars that border campus shows up in
like a rolls Royce fanom and buys the entire bar shots,
which was great. It was a lot of fun. He
didn't want to get out of college because he loved
He loved asu, he loved the sport of basketball. That

(44:17):
is an unrecognizable version of James Harden at this point.
And I think you said it. You guys did the
sound effects. This is not gonna fly when you were
a grown man. And I get that his relationship with
Darryl Moray has been severed. And for someone that you've
had a relationship with this long, you know, a long time,

(44:39):
to feel like they betrayed you get it. That sucks, yes,
And you have every right to be mad if you
were false promised whatever it was, sure, but you aren't
allowed to let your teammates down like this when you
play a team sport, right, this is tennis, golf, very
different completely, But now you're letting down some guys.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
That I really like, right, and I agree with it
something that you said that it's he's gotten away with it, right,
like he has literally asked, and it's been delivered. Whatever
he's asked, I am now here where. It's like, my guy,
like you said, you are not an up and rising star.
The fact that we heard the story that he wanted

(45:21):
to go to Houston and he said, I want to
be the scoring champion again, it's like, how delusional are
you to what you? What you James Harden needs to
bring to a team because you can be valuable, you
can be a positive factor on a team, but you
are delusional.

Speaker 3 (45:39):
You are a good player. You are a googole bird. No, no,
you are a good player. There's plenty of good.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
That's the problem. I'm hitting the mic because I'm so
into this. Do you there's plenty of good. You are
not anything spectacular anymore. And instead of bringing what you
can to a team, you're playing these games. And so
now I am like seventy six ers hold your ground,

(46:11):
not just seventy six ers, every other NBA team. There
is going to be a lot of weight, a lot
of precedent is going to be set with what happens
moving forward with James Harden.

Speaker 3 (46:22):
Do not give him what he wants. You are acting
like a child. The endo ho the endo.

Speaker 4 (46:28):
Okay, it's not and it's not just him. This happens
in the NBA all the time. Actually, Conk Cowherd said
something about this this week which he compared how players
are treated and able to force their way out of
situations in the NBA with guys in the NFL who
aren't able to do those types of things. Like the
NFL takes it very seriously. This is a team sport,
and so there is no one player that is bigger

(46:48):
than everybody else, with the exception probably of the quarterback.
But we haven't seen a player really successfully, at least
at this rate, force his way out of a team.
And Aaron Rodgers is basically the first guy to do it.
And it's Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
After playing in the league how long, you know what
I mean?

Speaker 4 (47:04):
So you have that, But that's I agree with you
that the precedent maybe not all like I think, it's
already set in the NBA. But you don't have to
perpetuate it.

Speaker 3 (47:14):
No, yes, that's a good word. Yeah, perpetuating right now,
I s I did really well.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
I don't even know how I did the fact that
you even remember, I have no idea what my scores were,
and I would not like to know.

Speaker 3 (47:26):
It's okay. That's why we're gonna talk about that.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
I just think despite everything that has been given to him,
all the yeses, it's time for a no, and it's
time for a hard no.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
You can't do this, dude.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
Like you said, it is a team sport, fully, team
from top to bottom. Because in football it's like it's
a team sport, right, but you have your offense and
your defense, like in you mentioned tennis and golf and baseball,
your picture is kind of like separate, and then when
you go to bat, you're all on your own.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
I can't help you bat. This is true a team sport.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
You play offense and defense together. You have to start
building chemistry. And you're not there, and you're not there,
and the Sixers are good, there's a chance.

Speaker 4 (48:09):
And that's the other crazy part. I get that that
that Daryl and you are on the.

Speaker 3 (48:14):
Outs, right, but you're on a good team, and a
good team.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
That's not easy to do. You're in a good situation otherwise,
and Philly is such a wonderful sports town. They're crazy, crazy.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Fans, crazy fans, but that's a good.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
Thing, right, just and you're you're not doing yourself any
favors at this point, not at all, and he.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
Self aware, be self aware, and you really can't help
a team you really, it's you're not washed. You're just
not the superstar that you were when you won the MVP.
You're not that guy anymore, so you can't act like this.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
And I I hope, I don't know. I actually I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
I truly don't know how he can repair his image
at this point, because if I'm any other team and
any other coach on any other team, any other GM,
I'm like, this guy's gonna come and like, what if
he doesn't like something here?

Speaker 3 (49:04):
What if he doesn't like the strip clubs here? He's
gonna get mad? What if the chicken wings aren't good?
I'm just like, I don't know what Sully.

Speaker 4 (49:11):
He's been in some places that have had some pretty
good strip clubs.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
Yes, that's what I'm saying. That's why I wasn't up
to the clubbers for that. No, I just like, what
what have you done for me lately? What are you
going to bring to the table that I can trust?
Because there's nothing.

Speaker 4 (49:26):
Yeah, and the moment things get tough, are you going
to try and force your way out again. Literally, like
this instant gratification goes both ways, and it's just it's
it's unfortunate because you want to see guys kind of
play for the love of the game again. And that's
why I bring up I brought up that story about
it because he the James Harden I knew, was so
in love with basketball. It was so in love with
being with being part of a team that he came

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back to a su because he missed that team so much.
So I just, yeah, I would like to see him
remember that part.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
And if you don't love the game anymore, that's okay,
But don't drag the seventy six ers like this through
this mund they're literally everybody. It's so awkward. Like you
ask Nick Nurse, you ask like Joel Embiid anything.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Do you keep him around the team at this stage
right now?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
If I no, no, I would cut I would cut
all ties with If it's I'm in charge right now
seventy six years, I would cut all ties with him.
I would say thank you so much. It's we lose money,
but at least you're out because you're bringing.

Speaker 3 (50:26):
Nothing for me.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
And then that's another thing where it's like I don't
feel bad for you. You've made so much money, like you,
you don't need any more money. And I'm saying you love,
You've probably put so many strippers through college.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
And we thank you for that, James Harden turn, We
thank you for that show.

Speaker 15 (50:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (50:43):
If you yeah, if you don't want to play, just
say that and move on so that the Sixers can
move on, so every other team can move on and we.

Speaker 3 (50:54):
Just play basketball, because that's right. We just want to
play basketball. We just want to watch seasons about to
start next week.

Speaker 4 (51:00):
I'm say, I know, and you want to have that
continuity going into it.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Because again, a team sport unlike any other. So what
would you do if you're the seventy six ers. Oh,
you're struggling.

Speaker 4 (51:15):
You're struggling because at some point, like you know, there
was a clip of James talking to the media talking
about how, you know, thanking the fans for the support
and his teammates and all that kind of stuff, and
like that guy is still there. I think very often
from the outside, we can blow this out of proportion
and think that all of those relationships are automatically severed
because of one relationship. And I don't believe that's the case,

(51:38):
but I don't know if that negativity, and I would
hope that negativity wouldn't rub off on like the seventy
six ers have quite a few vets. I don't think
that they're that easily swayed where James. They need James
to be a leader, and therefore they kind of live
by the sword, died by the sword of James Harden.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
So I don't know.

Speaker 4 (51:53):
I'm kind of thinking that maybe being around his teammates
would make him remember what it's like and again and
see that he's in a good situation and try and
put this rift with with Darryl behind him. But I
don't know if that's the case. Like I would, I
don't think I'm worried about him poisoning anything with his negativity,
But if he's going to behave like this and the

(52:15):
team is going to have to get by without him
or figure out how to do that, then yeah, maybe
he should stay away.

Speaker 10 (52:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (52:21):
I'm kind of torn.

Speaker 3 (52:24):
I mean, I hear what you're saying. I was like,
there was stuff I was agreeing with you, and this
stuff I was like, I don't agree with you, know
what I mean? So I just maybe you're right I
the toxicity that he is bringing.

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Maybe it is specifically because of Daryl Morey, and if
he goes to another team, maybe he won't take that
with him.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
Right, Maybe it's specifically this, but either way, it's like,
you got to do your job right.

Speaker 4 (52:45):
This is your job, and if the seventy six ers
are going to have to get used to life without him,
then you might as well start now.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Exactly exactly. Oh man, I don't know. I can't wait
to see what happens with James Harden, but.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
Me up next Carmen and are gonna ask each other
a couple of questions?

Speaker 3 (53:03):
You know who has better here? Patrick Mahomes or Trevor Lawrence? Little?
This A little that don't go anywhere?

Speaker 15 (53:10):
Three tight ends one on the fullback, give it to Bucky,
goes behind everybody and goes through for the touchdown. Bucky
Irby with three tight ends, you had some meat in there,
just pushing start.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Over again on the call.

Speaker 4 (53:25):
I was, I was so taking it back. I love
it when teams go thirteen personnel, But that was Bucky
irving to your touchdown. Run to tie it at ten ten,
bow Nicks takes in another after and now the ducks
are up seventeen thirteen, had.

Speaker 10 (53:40):
The meat in there.

Speaker 4 (53:42):
Juice push big man, just some big pushing. You need
some big personnel.

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Oht it the Fox Sports Saturday with Me, Monty Boos
and Karma Vitally who is in for Alex Curry?

Speaker 3 (53:56):
And we are going to get into some this and
some that. But we got Alex. Alex, how are you?
Dear guy?

Speaker 16 (54:09):
You would laugh so hard if you knew where I
was right now. So we are road tripping from Dallas
to Houston, but our three hour road trips turned into
an eight hour like let's stop and see everything the
way an there, yep, that was my first time when
we drove from Uston to Dallas and the BUCkies that
is like the most magical roadside stuff I've ever seen.
But right now I am in a ghost tower Salmon Lake.

(54:32):
It's like one of the first like old ghost towns
that were like shooting our show open for tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
At So are you are you dressing up and doing
like the old school like photo booth?

Speaker 16 (54:44):
Because I had no idea we were coming here. The
moment we got in the car this morning, We're like
where are stuff? Like gets a surprise. Okay, we have
a cowboy hat on a black romper and my nikes
and here we go. Adventure.

Speaker 7 (54:57):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Speaking of adventures, yesterday baseball was then.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Sure you were there, Rangers Astros, You saw everything.

Speaker 2 (55:08):
What was it like from the from Alalis Garcia getting ejected.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Oh my god, to which we're gonna talk? Tell us?
What was that like? Being there?

Speaker 16 (55:18):
I mean, yesterday was insane because not only do these
two teams, like I didn't realize how much these two
Texas teams really hate each other fan bay scenes. There
is some deep serious drama and a rivalry going on
between these scenes, and they came and tied at to
yesterday with both of their aces on the mountains. Right,
you had Jordan Montgomery and Justin Berlander, and in the

(55:40):
first five innings of the game we had a great
old like pitching duel, and then the sixth inning kind
of fell off the rails for both these pitchers. And
then that when he saw a doulas Garcia threw, you
went home run to put the Rangers up on top. Now,
apparently there is some history between Adulos and the team,
and he like songs on home played and people don't
like that very much. Oh yeah, he got hit by

(56:02):
a pitch, which, by the way, there is this was
kind of like what's up for debate?

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Was it intentional?

Speaker 16 (56:07):
This is not a time or place to intentionally hit
batter in the ALCS when you are tied with game
on the line, you're down a couple runs, So yeah,
that's just clear. Adults gets u Dorcia gets ejected, Dustin
Baker gets ejected, if Ray who gets ejected, And for
some reason, that whole situation just woke up the Astros,

(56:31):
and the next half inning, two guys get on bethe
Jose Alcuve comes to the play and you just kind
of had this feeling. It's like he is the heart
and soul of this team. Like everybody that we talked to,
every Astros player that we've talked to since this series started, says,
you know, as at too ve goes, the Astros go
and you kind of just like felt this big moment

(56:53):
that was about to happen, and he gave Astro fans
that October moment and one swing of the bat run
home run and you just they took it and they stood.
I mean, this whole series has been crazy because the
road team has won every single game. Not only that,
but the Astros are an incredible road team and they
were nine and one at Globe Life this season, so

(57:17):
they basically own the Rangers in their own ballpark. And
it was just like it was so cool, it was
so crazy. Obviously, my co host Ben Burlander, his brother
Justin was pitching, so like we got him on the
show after the game, and it's just like this was
the swing game. It was a big feeling of whoever
won this one to go up for toot that you

(57:37):
just have to win one more to make it to
the World Series was going to get the job done. However,
Astros haven't been able to win at home, which is
a little bit of a repeated the twenty nineteen World
Series when they lost to the Nationals. So yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 13 (57:54):
So it's been a fun one though.

Speaker 3 (57:55):
Before we move on completely from josse As to it
who I don't want to give credit to because obviously
but you this guy, I don't know how tall he is.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
He's not a tall guy. No spotlight is too big
for him. And it is quite frustrating.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
Alex. You have been around some of the biggest stars
in baseball.

Speaker 16 (58:14):
What makes him different, just who he is as a person,
Like you'll hear all of his teammates like, yeah, he's
a great player, but he's an even better person, And
you have to think obviously he was a part of
that twenty seventeen Astro's team with a cheating scandal. They
are the most hated team in baseball. Everywhere they go,
especially jose Al TV bo that they get are in shame. However,

(58:39):
they play better on the road. They have all adopted
this villain role and almost lay better when you're booing them.
We were joking last night. I was like, Tomorrow, Hoday
and Monday Astro fans should just start booing Altuba when
he comes to the play. Maybe they all wear blue,
Maybe everyone wears blue and they wear grays. Was like
kind of like they're in a and they can get

(59:01):
that same kind of atmosphere and winning record that they
have on the road back at home. But I mean,
he is as good as they come. And like I
covered the Angels for ten years, grew up a Dodger fan.
There is no other two teams of the Astros, you know,
in that whole situation hurt more and I have just
started to fall in love with jose Al Tubay his

(59:21):
whole story. I mean, he was such an underdog. Even
when he tried to try out for the Astros, they
turned him away, like multiple times. He has just beat
all of the odds and he is not only an
incredible player, but an even better person. And that's someone
that you.

Speaker 3 (59:37):
Need to root for.

Speaker 7 (59:38):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (59:39):
I love Josea Bray. It's on the Astros. I worked
for the White Sox during his rookie season and he
was just such a sweetheart, even though he could speak
English at that point, but he was. He's incredible. I
find myself kind of rooting for the Astros even despite
their recent history.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
No Baker, I Lovett Baker so wonderful thing.

Speaker 16 (01:00:01):
Did you see last night when he got ejected he
wouldn't leave, You wouldn't leave. The dugout and then come
up to him like you gotta leave.

Speaker 4 (01:00:07):
He's like no, his arms folded, just like sitting there.

Speaker 16 (01:00:12):
I'm not going to do it. I'm staying here.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
Who do you think that?

Speaker 9 (01:00:17):
Though?

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
So there was a giant delay because everyone was trying
to figure out who to toss and who not to toss,
all that other stuff. Who do you think that ended
up hurting more? Did that kind of eat the Rangers?

Speaker 16 (01:00:29):
The Rangers, Yeah, it woke literally Martine Moldonado, who was
the catcher when that whole situation went down, said, you
know that was the worst thing that Rangers could have
done because it woke up Fiatro. Yeah, the fuel, this
is all that it is. It literally is it's everything
they needed in that moment to come back and have

(01:00:51):
that that's happening.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
So we know you're covering the.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
A l c S, but let's talk about NLCS because
the back.

Speaker 3 (01:01:02):
So I like, this Cinderella story doesn't end at midnight. Baby,
We're gonna keep going.

Speaker 16 (01:01:07):
I mean, it's crazy. Once again, they're just creating chaos
and the means two completely different stories. Like the ALCS,
the road team has won every game, the LCS, the
home team has won every game. Which you know, it's
the best to pull it off again tonight and steal
and get ahead in the series. That's their best bet
because once the series goes back to Philly, we've seen it.

(01:01:29):
The home field advantage for the Phillies is so real
and it is so hard for a road team to
win there. But you know, it's crazy, Like we knew
the d Backs and Corby Carrol and this whole team
like had such young talent and bright stars and they
would eventually get to this point. I just didn't think
it was going to be this early. So good for them.

(01:01:50):
We're getting two great series right now.

Speaker 4 (01:01:53):
The CS Alec Thomas for the d Backs, the Chicago kid.
Everybody back in Chicago, the White Sox. They are all
very upset that they did. They had they had a
chance at him a couple of times in the draft,
and yeah, I him, and then for him to be
the hero last night, I know, I just uh, they're
they're White Sox fans aren't a bad way.

Speaker 16 (01:02:13):
I love heroes. You know, it's okay, It's okay. You know,
it happens, happens to the best of us.

Speaker 3 (01:02:20):
Before we let you go, Alex, you have a new BSS.

Speaker 16 (01:02:23):
Yeah you guys, Yeah, Reggie, Reggie Jackson and I you
guys like we.

Speaker 2 (01:02:31):
Didn't know.

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
I know.

Speaker 16 (01:02:34):
You guys. I love him so much. So before like
we do the interview, you know, you introduced yourself. I'm like,
Alex Coury's like, like, Steph Coury, are you related to
Steph Curry I'm like, yeah's my club. I've been saying that,
you guys for years. Anytime everyone apps are you related,
I'm like, gay, he's my cousin. Half the time people
believe me. The other half they're like really no, but
Reggie like laugh's really hard. I like that, And so

(01:02:58):
that's just our new inside joke is like, yeah, I'm
gonna remember because of Steph Curry. I'm like, yeah, my cousin.
And it's just like you so kind and even before
like coming to see us, we walked over to say
ahead of Derek Cheeter and Alex Rodriguez and like everybody
loves Reggie so much and he's on Yeah, he's on
the staff for the Astros. So that's why we got
him there. He's just he's just the coolest. It's been

(01:03:20):
such an awesome experience, just the legendary talent that we
have around this series on our broadcast. And I'm just you, guys,
I'm having so much fun. Where am I right now?

Speaker 3 (01:03:32):
Dallas? Yes? Or where am i?

Speaker 16 (01:03:33):
Sam and Lakes? I have no idea.

Speaker 4 (01:03:35):
Where am having fun?

Speaker 10 (01:03:36):
Alex?

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
And even though we miss you, we love that you're
out there living your best life. We're living vicariously through
your videos and.

Speaker 4 (01:03:44):
I'm trying my best.

Speaker 16 (01:03:47):
You are crushing and I tuned in for the open.
I absolutely love you guys. Keep up the great work, Carmen,
thank you for filling in Monty. Keep absolutely crushing it.
I love you guys. You're doing amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
Love you, yes, and I enjoy live it up. Thank you,
my baby.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Fox Sports Saturday with Monte Bolanos and Karma Vitali.

Speaker 3 (01:04:09):
Who is in for you? Just heard her Alex Curry
and we are coming to you live from the Tyrek
dot Com studios. But now let's check in with Minis.

Speaker 10 (01:04:18):
Thanks Monti.

Speaker 12 (01:04:19):
College football scores in progress right now. All of these
games at the half are early in the third quarter.
Number eight Texas with a twenty one to fourteen lead
over Houston. Number nine Oregon leeds Washington State seventeen to thirteen.
Number eleven Alabama trailing, Number seventeen Tennessee twenty to seven.
Number twenty Missouri with a twenty four to three lead
over South Carolina. Number twenty three two Lane leeds North

(01:04:39):
Texas twenty one to nothing, and Iowa leeds Minnesota and
a barn burner ten to three in the NFL. The
Rams plays running back Hiram Williams on ir activate running
back Darryl Henderson in his place. The Arizona Cardinals activate
safety Buddha Baker. He will play on Sunday against the Cardinals.
New Philadelphia Eagle Julio Jones activated from the practice. He'll

(01:05:00):
play on Sunday against Miami and Monday Night's gonna be
see some new faces right there. Christian McCaffrey practiced the
first time this week for the forty nine Ers. He's
questionable against the Vikings. Left tackle Trent Williams, doubtful, wide
receiver Deebo Samuel out. He will miss at least the
next two games with the hairline fracture. Then the forty
nine ers have a buye and they'll leave vacate. They
will evaluate, not evacuate, evaluate him going forward to that

(01:05:24):
for a Week nine matchup. But looks like Brock Pardy
is not gonna have his general cast of characters around
him Monday night for the Vikings.

Speaker 10 (01:05:32):
That's all I got, Moncey Carmen back to you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
That's you know.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
It's especially against the Brian Flores defense.

Speaker 10 (01:05:37):
It'll be interesting, for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:05:38):
It'll be interesting and Martin is, he's a show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Heyo tani today, He's a double wayte start today, guys,
because Martin.

Speaker 3 (01:05:45):
Has a show that starts. He's anchoring up until your show.

Speaker 10 (01:05:48):
That's right a pm Eastern.

Speaker 12 (01:05:50):
Time, a pm Eastern time. Then I slide over, thank
you for keeping the chair warm for me.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Standing so your chair is not gonna be warm at all,
but you know, I'm pretty.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
Sure the next spell is will keep it warm from
you for you. But yes, Martin will be back eight
pm Eastern time. Martin and VJ.

Speaker 10 (01:06:06):
So tune into breaking down a big time college football game.

Speaker 4 (01:06:09):
Then clearly that Minnesota Iowa game, big ten as scores.

Speaker 10 (01:06:14):
Gosh, yeah, that'll probably be our lead story.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
Thanks Martin.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
All right, So now Carmen and I get to get
into get to get into that's right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:26):
Yeah, that makes sense. A little of this and a
little of that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
We're gonna have a little fun, ask each other some questions,
get to know each other a little bit better. And
I started up who has better hair, Trevora Lawrence or
Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 4 (01:06:39):
Oh come on, okay, so I have like weirdly wavy hair, right, No,
I have feel Yeah, it's not it's not curly right,
it's not straight, right, it's just this weird whatever. And
so I am always so envious to people with very
curly hair. And Patrick Mahomes has this wonderful curly hair
that I just feel like if you like grew it out,
it would just be so wonderful and Lasha, so I'm

(01:07:02):
gonna go with Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
Oh my gosh. But Trevor Lawrence looks like he just
comes out of the shower like that, which is like
our hair right now. We tried to do this. We
I washed my hair, I blowed dried it for you.
And I look at Trevor Lawrence like, I think that's
just his hair.

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
I don't think he uses his dice in air. I
don't think he's got the air wrapping like I do
every single time. Gosh, it is a timesaver though shout out.
I know that most people listening are probably not listening
for hair care tips.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
But we got got your well rounded show here, ladies
and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (01:07:36):
Europe go, yeah, I thought you said Europe. I was like,
what about your girl? Are we going to We're going
to Europe because I could do that, Okay, So we
talked to Adam Amin about the Steelers game and the
Steelers offense and as it's struggling at historic at an
historic face the decisions Matt Canada is making. So would

(01:07:58):
you rather your offensive coordinator between two Matts, Matt Canada
or Matt Patricia who who was a famous experiment by
the New England Patriots here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Oh man, you know, as much as I have heard
the fire Matt Canada chance, I.

Speaker 3 (01:08:24):
Think I would take Matt Canada.

Speaker 8 (01:08:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:28):
Yeah, he's got these, he's paid disuse. I think I
would probably agree with you know, like it's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
Yeah, I think it's there's as much as the offense
has been struggling, it's like I think there's just other
issues too with the offense, like they're still figuring it out. Yeah,
I think, uh yeah, yeah, I know, I yeah, I
stand by my decision.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
No, I think I agree with yeah, because like that's
Matt Canada's background for better or worse is offense. You're
not putting in a defensive coordinator to be like, well,
so how would.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
You counter that?

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
And trying to play like this ridiculous game of chess
that doesn't really follow the rules, right, right? Your best work, Belichick,
not your best work.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
Not at all, not at all, all right, who who
would you rather get sacked by? Aaron Donald or JJ wat?
It's not an option, no, no, If what's gonna tackle
you and take you down? Do you want it to be?

Speaker 4 (01:09:23):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:09:24):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:09:24):
Hear me out? What are you thinking? Hear me out?
Aaron Donald usually rushes from the interior. Right, so he's
got less of a place, like he's got less of
a distance to cover.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
Okay, okay, momentum, but he's got less momentum.

Speaker 4 (01:09:37):
I mean, I know, but he's just like a bowling ball.
I don't know. I guess I guess Aaron Donald because
I just feel like he's he's not gonna come in
with the force necessary, Like he's gonna sack me for sure,
but he's not gonna come with the force that like
JJ would off the edge. Yeah, for sure, I guess
I'm gonna go. God, that doesn't sound right though, Like
I know Aaron Donald want to be sacked by either

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of these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Aaron Donald, to me, it's like it's like a giant refrigerator,
Like I as crazy, second coming of the fridge.

Speaker 3 (01:10:05):
Right, you make perfect sense about the momentum. But I
think I would.

Speaker 4 (01:10:10):
I do think that Aaron Donald's tackles are more violent
than J's.

Speaker 3 (01:10:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
That might be recncy biased though, because but at the
same time, like JJ was also very violent in the
way that he tackled one. You're screwed either way.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Yeah, no, but I think I would take J. I
think I would take JJ. Aaron. There's Aaron Donald. I'm
telling that if that guy hits I'm dead. I'm done.

Speaker 7 (01:10:31):
You got I know.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
But like I've heard, I've heard players say like both
with both of them, Like I don't want do you
understand how hard it is to take a talent hit
from either one of those ye, Like guys that have
played against them have told me, like, no, you can't,
it's not fun. I don't want to go up against them.
Like offensive lines though, do game plan like for Aaron
Donald on the interior and like those guards and the

(01:10:53):
centers up front are like okay, just gotta get up
and get through one more snap, one more snap, just
one more step throughout the game, like you know when
you're playing Aaron Donald and you're.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Just like you need an by the end of it. Yes,
that that's the secret. The secrets.

Speaker 4 (01:11:09):
Would you rather do ayahuasca with Aaron or do a
darkness retreat with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (01:11:17):
Oh wow, this is really hard because I you know,
I'm all for trying stuff, but this idea that what
is this called the tea?

Speaker 3 (01:11:26):
The thing?

Speaker 4 (01:11:27):
Yeah, but apparently like it makes you hallucinate.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
I'm fine with that, but I hear that it makes
me release everything, whether it comes one end or the other,
like apparently everything comes out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:40):
That's where I'm scared.

Speaker 4 (01:11:43):
I don't know that I know that hard.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
I have.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I have not done any research into what ayahuasca really does.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
That's what I've heard that's coming down, whether one way
or the other.

Speaker 3 (01:11:53):
So that's what scares me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:55):
But a darkness retreat where I don't talk to people, Oh,
I don't know if I can handle.

Speaker 4 (01:11:59):
I think it would be worse if you were in
there and talked to him for three to four days.
I could hardly handle his McAfee appearances and having to
listen to them for fifteen.

Speaker 3 (01:12:09):
Minutes, So you would do the tea.

Speaker 4 (01:12:11):
I don't know. I don't want any of that. Although
Chelsea Handler, I guess did aahuasca. I read her book
and she did ayahuasca, and she said it was an
enlightening experience.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
That's what everybody says. Despite this, despite all of that,
I guess I would go for that. I would do that.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
So it should be over sooner than a darkness retreat
for like three to four days. I couldn't handle that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
All right, you're not gonna like this one. Oh gosh,
who's a better tight end? Rob Gronkkels.

Speaker 4 (01:12:37):
I don't care who else you're saying. It's Rob, It's Gronk.
I don't care what else you're saying. You don't even
need to give me number two. Who's number two?

Speaker 3 (01:12:45):
Travis kelce No, listen.

Speaker 4 (01:12:48):
I love Travis Kelcey. I am a trench person. I
love the interior, especially of the offensive line, the interior
defensive line. I'm a big offensive lineman defensive lineman girl.
By extension, I love tight ends because I don't think
that they get enough credit for what they have to do.
But that is a precisely why Rob Gronkowski is the
best tight end in NFL history, because he was such

(01:13:10):
an elite blocker on top of being an elite pass catcher.
And Travis kelce can block, yeah, but not the way
not the way that Gronk could.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah, I agree with you, and I also would have
picked Gronk, but I had you know this, it's your buddy,
so I had asked.

Speaker 3 (01:13:24):
I had asked.

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
I mean exactly like I'm he's the only I tell him,
he's the only Arizona Wildcat that I like because we
were in school at the same time together. He was
at Arizona, I was at you Asu. I got to
watch him torch Asu in multiple territorial cups, and I
still despite all of that, he's a wonderful human and

(01:13:44):
the greatest tight end in NFL history. Please let me
be clear. As much as I love Travis Kelce, I do,
I do, and I'm I'm sympathetic to the plight of
tight ends who need to get paid more because they
do more things.

Speaker 3 (01:13:59):
Yes, so, yeah, so you heard it. Greatest tight nd
of all time, Rob grond Calgary.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
I can't believe we are coming to the end of
the show, but don't go anywhere. We're gonna wrap it
up with our week seven picks and our progressive play
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Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
That's right, We are back Fox Sports Saturday with me,
Moncey Bolanos and Karmen Vitally and we are coming to
you live from the Tirek dot Com studios. And before
we get to our pics, thank you to the crew.
Chrispher Fe, our technical producer, Brandon Truffa, our producer Martin
Wiss over there on the updates, who is doing a
double duty today. He's got his show at a PM

(01:15:25):
Eastern time. Thank you fellas and everybody editing back there,
Ian Bree, thank you guys so much.

Speaker 3 (01:15:30):
What a fun show. Thank you, Karmen, thank you Monk.
Oh my goodness, I've got you're doing. I should be
thank you. You're here filling n in. Thank you, thank you.
But now it's time for our picks. No, Week seven
picks are.

Speaker 7 (01:15:43):
So hard just as a general, well you you have
a lot of pressure, Harman, because you have to be
picking for Alex the next few weeks.

Speaker 10 (01:15:52):
All right, you could just ruin her record.

Speaker 3 (01:15:54):
You could.

Speaker 4 (01:15:56):
Record you guys can't do that.

Speaker 10 (01:15:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, no you have to you can.

Speaker 4 (01:16:00):
We will, I'm sorry in advance.

Speaker 3 (01:16:04):
You could use it as.

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
An opportunity to tank her record.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
I'm not gonna do that to her sor right?

Speaker 7 (01:16:14):
All right, Well, last week Alex went two and two,
but Moncey took it home with the three and one.
That's right on the season. Alex is thirteen and seven
and Moncy you're sixteen and four.

Speaker 3 (01:16:24):
You have a quit sizeable, right and dust right. Well,
we'll see if the Carmen.

Speaker 7 (01:16:29):
Is some ground or if she's just gonna tank Alex's record.

Speaker 4 (01:16:33):
Horrible.

Speaker 3 (01:16:33):
So let's start with we don't have to pick sept
we can pick the same team. Okay, just so you know, okay,
got it, just let it, letting her sorry, go ahead, right,
all right.

Speaker 7 (01:16:42):
We'll start with the Dolphins at the Eagles. Eagles favored
by three in this one, Moncey, you got so I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Actually taking the Dolphins in this one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
I don't think the Eagles secondary is going to be
able to keep up with the many weapons that the
Dolphins have, So I'm taking the Dolphins.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
I am actually also taking the Dolphins. I just think
so like the Dolphins. I know, got like quote unquote
exposed a little bit by the Bills, but I think
that the Bills defense and the Eagles defense are kind
of on par At the same time, though Miami's offense
is looked unstoppable. You've got Raheem Moster was the offensive

(01:17:21):
player of the week with John h out E Chin
Eachen e chan Chin a chain chin. I thought it
was a Chine and then it was a chan and
now it's a says it everybody sasquently. But even with
him on IR, you got Raheem Moster set stepping up.
I think that Mike McDaniel is a brilliant.

Speaker 3 (01:17:38):
Play caller, so yeah, he seems like a fun guy.
I'm with the Dolphins.

Speaker 7 (01:17:42):
All right, let's start with Carmen on this one. Lions
at the Ravens. Ravens also favored by three.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
I'm going to go I'm probably biased the Detroit Lions
just because I think this is you know, everybody keeps
waiting for them to make a statement game. I'm like,
what more of a statement game that you need? But
you're gonna listen. I am so excited to see Aiden
Hutchinson go after Lamar Jackson, and I want to know
who wins that. I think who wins that particular matchup

(01:18:12):
is going to win the game. And I do think
that the Lions defense is truth.

Speaker 3 (01:18:16):
So I am also taking the Lions.

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
Ravens offense has been to be nice, inconsistent, to be nice.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
I don't know what I'm gonna get from them. I
know what I'm gonna get from the Lions existent, So
I am I'm gonna take Detroit. I am over the Ravens.

Speaker 4 (01:18:36):
Okay, yeah, okay, so far we're in agreement. So far.

Speaker 7 (01:18:40):
All right, Steelers Rams a battle in La Rams also
favored in this one by three months.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Who you got? This is the one where I keep switching.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
I don't know, like what I wrote down, I don't
think is gonna I'm gonna take the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:58):
Oh, I wrote down Rams over Steelers.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
And there's something I'm emotional, not logical, right, there is
something in my gut that is saying.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
Steelers, we're gonna figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:08):
They're gonna figure it out. And like the you know,
the Rams are fun, but the Rams aren't anything crazy.
So I yeah, no, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go Steelers.

Speaker 4 (01:19:17):
Adam almost made me want to change my pick when
he's talked about what Tomlin said about how they're still
they did. They did well against really tough teams in
the beginning. So but it's not enough because I do
think that the Rams are a different Rams team this year.
We need to get that internalized, that they are better,
their offense is better, it has evolved. Sean McVay seems

(01:19:39):
like he loves life again, football life at least. So
I'm gonna go with the Rams. So there's there's a
chance for yeah, for some points.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Yes, yes, the guy.

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
Packers in the Broncos to take us home. Packers favored
by one in this one.

Speaker 4 (01:19:53):
Carmen, who you got, Yeah, Packers, Packers. This is a
get right game for them. They're coming up a buye.

Speaker 10 (01:19:58):
They have a lot of.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
Guys questionable, which isn't the greatest thing in the entire world.
But at the same time, I don't know that the
Broncos defense is good for the long haul.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
Call me crazy, I'm going Bronco.

Speaker 3 (01:20:07):
Oh my gosh, okay right, call me crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Thank you so much for joining us on this Fox
Sports Saturday.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
I am Manzi Bolanos, That is Carmen Vittali. Stay tuned
because Steve Harmon and E from Salam are next. See
you guys next week.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Bye guy who

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