The Bernie Fratto Show Reacts to the First Two Rounds of the NCAA Tourney, Bronny's Big Night & More!

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be absolute jam pack show tonight. So much to say,
it's so little time. March Madness is here. And in
case you missed it, the first round was historically chalky.
Even our most casual college basketball fans are looking at
their brackets and saying, wow, I'm doing really well this year.

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The good news is if you pick mostly chalk for
your bracket, you didn't have to worry about too many upsets.
As a matter of fact, Alabama State, I'm Saint Mary's,
North Carolina, Xavier all lost. What does that mean? Mark's
just the second time a first four team did advance
past the first round since the tournament expanded in twenty eleven.

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As a matter of fact, twelve in the last thirteen
years Prior to this season, at least one first four
team got to the Sweet sixteen. Oh did I mention
that on Thursday and Friday, double digit underdogs were oh
and thirteen, five and eight against the number. Not a
single double digit dog one and on Thursday or Friday,

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first time that's happened in six years. But that's just
small potatoes compared to the stuff we really need to
get to. He ash for it. You got it, Patino
versus Calipari. Sure I wanted it. I'm Italian too, I'm
a wop one hundred percent calibrace. And that to me

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was probably the game of the day, not only for
what happened on the floor, but for a side story
that I don't think is gonna go away anytime soon.
And I'm gonna get to that in just a second,
but I want to just say this. I was on
a couple of Las Vegas betting panels here recently with
our good buddy Bill Krackman, who you here on this network,

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Jim Fies, the legend Tom Conally right over at one
of them was over Dom DeMarco's pizza, and I said
three weeks ago that well, I laid out and you
heard me say it on this show. At least two
of the last three shows, I thought there were only
seven teams that could win this thing. Now, I didn't

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list Saint John's and a couple of people asked me,
did you leave out Saint John's. No, I didn't. The
thing that bothered me about Saint John's as much as
I really like what they have done this year. First
of all, they didn't rank in the top seventy and
offensive efficiency that was simply going to catch up to
them at some point in this tournament. And it's not

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the Big Geast is not a good conference, but it's
not a great conference. The truth of the matter is
what would it look like once Saint John's got on
the floor with you know, more extreme athleticism and length.
And that's what you saw on Saturday. By the way,
I'd also mention that when Saint John's was tested by

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physical teams earlier in the year, they lost to Georgia
sixty six sixty three. Had one tweeter tell me that
that was a blind age, you know, the squirrel found
in his nuts. Okay, sure, just get on the floor
and do it then, which Georgia did. And by the way,
they lost a Baylor to ninety nine ninety eight, But
I digress, And oh, by the way, we're gonna get
to the other epic matchup. I thought the Gonzaga Houston

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matchup was just epic, featuring Mark fu and Kelvin Samson,
two of the more renowned coaches in the game who
have yet to win a championship. And oh, by the way,
Gonzaga will not be going to their tenth straight Sweet sixteen.
But again I digress. I want to talk about Saint John's.
It's been a fabulous story all year. For the last

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four months, Rick Patino has been the pop a chili town.
He's been riding high the last four months. John Calipari
feels like the bastard child, and in one afternoon that changed.
And it's funny because a Bart Giamatti once said the
games are designed to break your heart, and I think
they do. Because as satisfying as Saint John's season was

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this year, and Rick Patino resurrecting the program while resurrecting
his own career, the ending chapter is a Journalist was
unimaginably painful. I believe for the Saint John's faithful and
anybody who was rooting for them, or had them in
their bracket, or had them in the final four, or
even winning the darn thing. Of all the ways to lose,

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you're never gonna like the way you lose. But this
was an incredibly bad offensive performance and inability to get
the final defensive stops. Going out in the second round
is not what's Saint John's fans had Dare I say,
because I hate this cliche. They didn't have it on
their bingo card. But it wasn't just that. There was

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a coaching decision made that will follow Rick Patino and
the program for a long time. It's going to follow
him until they at least get back to this week
sixteen fair or unfair five minutes, well, four minutes and
fifty six seconds to be exact. That's how long the
twenty twenty five Big East Player of the Year sat

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as Saint John's tried to steal a spot in the
Sweet sixteen. Rick Patino pulled the Big East Player of
the Year his star wing R. J. Lewis out of
the lineup after he made two free throws to cut
Arkansas's lead to two points with less than five minutes
to play. Now, for you, analytics, walks. With Lewis on

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the floor, Saturday, Saint John's was plus fourteen. With him
off the floor, they were minus five. They trailed by two,
and they pulled him. This is a guy who finished
his junior season to become the first Gianny's player to
average more than nineteen points and seven rebounds in nearly
thirty years, and he was put in by a freshman

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or he was replaced by a freshman named Ruben Pray
out of Portugal who'd only been playing seven minutes a
game all season. Lewis sat like a bump on a
log in front of God and everybody. Only the third
player in program history to be named the Conference Players
of the Year. He was her leading scorer in half
the games this season, but he watched as it was excruciating.

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Five minutes brought Saint John's season two and in. This
was a harsh reality. Now, Rick Patino, for his own reasons,
Dean Lewis unplayable down the stretch. There is no game tomorrow,
This is no winner go home. This was, for all
intents and purposes, a game seven. Again, this was a

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physical game, not the likes of which Saint John's had
to play every night. They saw a Narkentah team with
big eyes in the post link athleticism, and yes, Lewis toiled.
He was three or seventeen from the floor, and that was,
you know, just reflecting. That was just the flashpoint of
an already offensively challenged Saint John's teen that looked completely

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inept on Saturday. But it was the body language he carried,
the countenance in his face, and the disposition of a
player dying in slow death every second of the worst
game of his life, in the biggest game in Saint
John's history of all time, a long face, sad eyes.
Now Saint John's players approached him, consoling him and trying

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to implore him to figure it out. Roy Hibbert made
an observation in the half that before the half that
Lewis wasn't getting back on defense, he was jogging back
on defense. And in the postgame press conference, which was
very uncomfortable, Rick Pettina did everything he could to avoid
saying the obvious. Finally he said, look, he played thirty minutes.

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That's a long time. The follow up question came played,
was he tired, No, he played thirty minutes. I played
other people. You know. The answer Roger. He was talking
to Newsday's Roger Rubin, who was known Patino for twenty years.
He goes, you're asking leading questions. I don't ask me questions.
You don't know why I didn't play. I guess we
can surmise from that. He sat him because he was
three for seventeen and he was over three on threes,

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so he figured I can't go to the well with
him anymore in the last five minutes because he can't
shoot today, which, of course the conventional wisdom for all
the people like us sitting on the sidelines with no
skin in the game, saying, but he's your horse. I mean,
is there a chance he might have found lightning in
a bottle? In all the while, we're not crediting Arkansas
enough for the win, but give it up to Rick Patino.

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It was a good season. Hostile defense, tough, bruising, physicality,
great rebounding. It was a great recipe. But Saint John's
defense made up for some harsh truths. His team ranked
three hundred and fourteenth in the country in three point
shooting in three hundred and forty second and points produced
off threes. Not a good offensive team. I said as

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much and that's what happens. You still got to score
more points than the other team. At the end of
the day, the Johnnies felt just short of posting a
program record thirty second win, and they also haven't been
back to this Week sixteen since nineteen ninety nine. It
would have been a great way to end the Saturday,
but not so much. Gonzaga and Houston. Oh my goodness. Now,

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I don't have Houston winning the whole thing. I said
it weeks ago. I'm riding with Duke. I think they
got NBA players and defensively they're pretty scary. So I've got,
you know, Duke and Houston in the Final four, with
Duke prevailing. But for the first thirty five minutes, if
you watch that game, Houston appeared to be honest way
to a comfortable win against a very good Mark fu

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coach Gonzaga team. Again, not one of their greatest teams,
but this Gonzaga team was very good. Their key LJ. Cryer,
this Houston team, this is the best version of a
Houston Kelvin Samson team that I can ever remember. They
they can shoot when they need to shoot. Crier's game

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high thirty points on six and eleven shooting from three
point range led everybody in double figures, and he drowned
out a very impressive twenty seven point effort from Gonzaga's
Graham mic So next up, Houston heads into a potentially
tricky Sweet sixteen matchup against Purdue. The games in Indianapolis.

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Will the venue help? Meanwhile, give it up to Purdue.
Check that, give it up to BYU. They flaunted their depth,
they showed defensive teeth, never let the highest scoring, tenacious
Wisconsin Badgers get up on them. Although BYU did the
half survive, did have to survive some furious rallies. But
that's what you do. That's what you do. Creating was

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game against Auburn not enough. Texas Tech is everything I
thought they were. They're one of the teams to beat
Houston this year, and on and on, and we'll get
to Sunday's games later in the show. But March Madness
is off and running. And after a very chalky Saturday,
we had some excitement and some interesting storylines on on Saturday,
and we've now got eight teams who've already punched their ticket,

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as it were, to the Sweet sixteen. Hey, by the way,
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was back. Oh yeah, Austin Reeves is back healthy and

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he only lost by thirty one? What happened? Lucy? I'm
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Speaker 2 (12:24):
All right, we are back on the Bernie Fradtle Show,
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Mark Medina Medina Magic. Our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru
comes to you every Saturday night at this time on
the Bernie Frattle Show. Never a shortage of topics. Mark,

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I must start by asking, since you were there, did
you get the license number of that truck that hit
the former Staples Center tonight?

Speaker 4 (12:58):
I did not get the license number, but I will.
In the locker room, when Lebron James was talking about
his return and burning a lot to unpack with his return,
he was asked point blank that it feels confident at
the going entry that sideline for him for eight games
is behind him, and he said this, I just take
it day by day. I can't worry about what can

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happen in the future. In other words, Father time is
still knocking on his door and this might not be
the end of it.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Well, let's go back a week, because I always end
every segment by what will the news cycle bring? And
credit to you, Mark, because we thought the Lakers we're
heading into a daunting week. But you thought they could
go three and two, and they did. They started out
three and zero, and the irony is you're playing with
I think I think they had smush Parker and four

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guys with black socks and wristwatches and wing tips shoes
and looked impressive in the middle of the week. Tonight,
they have their full compliments Saturday, and they lose by
thirty one. Look, I have a saying that's baseball, But
can you listen? Every time I think the Lakers really
might really make a run, at least maybe the conference

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finaler beyond something like this happens, which is very sobering.
Mark talked to us, really, would the real Lakers please
stand out? What are you see?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, Bernie, I mean, we've seen Smash Parker play and
it's night and day between what he showed and what
Luca Dodgson showed. So obviously obviously the Lakers and miss
Lebron James, but Luca is a generational star. Austin Reeves
is a pointing out of his mind, and you know,
Jackson Hay is all of a sudden, you're thinking Anthony
Davis who So I think they have the all hands

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on deck approach. Now in the short term, what you
saw against the Bulls is one Lebron James and really Actchama,
really rusty after coming off their injuries. But it's also
this complicated problem that obviously they want a full roster back,
but how do they integrate and find the right roster
combinationations while still playing with the sense of urgency when

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they didn't have them. And I think where the Lakers
are wrestling with that is the current circumstances, is that
I think that there is some level of what JJ
Reddick has said, Grace that they deserve because they've had
a very pressed schedule, playing six games in eight days.
The game Monday against s Antonio was a makeup game

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because that game was postponed due to the wildfires in
LA two months ago, and so it was already compressed
schedule with a lot of national TV games being shown
post Super Bowl. So that's all well in Dandy, but
that only means that the Lakers will only lay an
egg in Tonight's game against the Bulls. Moving forward, they

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don't have any margin for error starting Monday in Orlando
because the standings race is so slim. I mean, the
Lakers right now they're in fourth place, but that could
very well change. I mean, they're only two and a
half games behind Houston for the two seed, but they're
only I think two and a half games over Golden

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State for the sixth seeds, and JJ Reddick has told
me a few weeks ago he is not playing too
much important on seating as long as they avoid the
playing tournament. But as it stands now, they only have
a three game cushion over the Clippers for the seventh season.
Web gaining at Bernie is you know, I think tonight's game, yes,
they can have a bulligin, but it can only be

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that because every game is going to make a huge
difference when it comes to the playoff ramifications.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Talking with Mark Medina Medina Magic Fox Sports Radio NBA guru.
You hear him every Saturday night at this time on
the Bernie Frattle Show. Mark, there's one matchup I'm really
looking forward to. I can't guarantee that it comes to pass,
but I am really hoping that at some point in
the playoffs the Lakers square off against the Warriors. Have

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you noticed, Mark? Since the All Star Break, Warriors are
thirteen and three, their point differential is plus one sixty,
their turnover differentials plus forty three. They're averaging one hundred
and twenty one points a game on giving up one
oh seven. I could go on and on, but all
these are net rankings that are first or second in
the league since the All Star Break. Now Steve Steph

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Curry hurts his tallbone Thursday night. You can get to
that in a second. But if both teams are at
full strength and the Lakers got on the floor with
the Warriors in a best of seven, without overthinking it,
how much you lean toward.

Speaker 4 (17:36):
Well, it would be a tough one. Either team could
have their case that could go either way, but assuming
full health, I would go with the Warriors. You know,
I have been impressed with how the Lakers have played
up until tonight's game against the Bulls because they've played
at such an elite level defensively, just going all out
on effort. Jack said Hayes, all of a sudden looks

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like a really serviceable center, and J. J. Rennick has
made good use of small ball combinations. But I think
the reality is this, Draymond Green's now entered the Defensive
Player of the Year Award conversation with Evan Mobley and
Jaron Jackson Junior. And there's more continuity on that end
with the Warriors. You added Steph Curry, he's getting you threees.

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Jimmy Butler, he's getting you free throws, clutch midrange shots.
They have what it takes to make a kind of
championship run. Now, I don't give the Warriors the heavy
favor to win the championship. I still think it's going
to be between Boston, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, and Denver. But
the Warriors are the real deal. And I know that
Draymond Green wasn't happy with the loss today in Atlanta

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because of the same reasons why the Lakers feel concerned.
You know, there's only so much partner feir with these standings.
But the Warriors have been really good without Steph Curry.
And while there isn't necessarily a timetable on when he
comes back, you know, I've been told that you know
the pelvic area that you know they have again an
MRI from right there was a confusion, no structural damage.

Speaker 5 (19:09):
So he's going to be reevaluated on Monday.

Speaker 4 (19:11):
Doesn't mean he's going to return as early as Tuesday's
game in Miami, but there is a chance that he
can return while the Warriors are still on the road
next week in Miami, New Orleans, in the following week
in San Antonio, Memphis, and LA.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah. Ok so you basically answered that question. Steph Curry
did land very hard and so you know it's a
weight bearing injury, but you don't see any potential situation
where that could be debilitating As it gets towards the playoffs,
I want to see both teams at full strength.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
Frankly, yeah, and no, there's optimism. I mean, obviously we
don't know when step Curry is going to come back,
but doesn't seem like there's a high level concern on
severity of it. He's going to come back at some point.
With the Lakers, it's all kind of up in the air.
I mentioned to you about Lebron talking about his going
injury and he's going to have to take it day
by day. But really at Chama, he's another player that

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just came back tonight. He had been out for the
last three weeks with a knee injury, and he estimated
that he's only at about seventy five eighty percent. Now
that's better than zero percent, but he made it clear
that he doesn't think he'll ever be able to get
it fully healthy until the offseason. And look, it starts
with Lebron, James and Luka Dodvich, but the Lakers need

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to have roster death. They need to have good wing defenders,
they need to have guys that can run up on
the floor and get easy baskets. And really, ha Chama
checks all those boxes.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
I agree with all that last thing on the Lakers.
They're the only team in the top six, meaning that
if the season of today they wouldn't be in the
playing tournament that has an under five hundred record on
the road. Everybody else, Memphis, Golden State, Denver, Houston, obviously
Oklahoma City, they're all over five hundred on the road.

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Can you glean anything from that?

Speaker 4 (21:00):
Yeah, it's a really interesting stat I mean, I think,
you know, as it pertains the Lakers, a lot of
it has to do with they played a lot more
road games in the game of the season before the
Luca Dogics trade. They're just a dramatically different team before
the trade deadline, as we've seen. So I think that,
you know, the law of averages will weigh itself out.
I think that they're capable of winning on the road.

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I mean, you may recall these past two years, the
Lakers basically had to fight through their life post trade
deadline just to make the play in tournament, and so
they have players that are experienced with that, with Lebron
James really action more they have Jared Vanderbilt, so I
think if they're e clipped.

Speaker 6 (21:39):
To do that.

Speaker 4 (21:40):
But it is obviously a testament that all those other
teams have won on the road, because the bottom line is,
if you're going to make a championship runs, you have
to win the road games. It's I need to think, Okay,
you're going to win every single home game, because that
literally has never happened in the history of the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
Mark, you mentioned the Clippers a second ago. Don't look now,
They've won fight by combined ninety three points. They've won
eight of their last nine, right on schedule to get
the Oklahoma City Thunder Sunday night and what may or
may not be an acid test. Can you trust that
the Clippers, now with a healthy Kawhi and James Harden

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company might finally reach whatever ceiling they have?

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Well, they very well could. I mean, the Clippers are
always going to have a chance of Kawhi Leonards on
the floor, and so far, so good, he's out of
the minutes restrictions. Ever since he came back, there haven't
been any signs of stepback. You obviously never wish this
on anyone, but you know, you just have to be
aware that his injury history speaks for itself. But yeah,

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on paper, they're a great team and James Harden, he's
still playing an all Star caliber level. I think that
the thing that has really kept the Clippers to be
a competitive team even with all these overlapping injuries. They
have great role players that ful filled positional needs. And
when you're looking at this current Cloppers roster, there's a
little bit of comity there. Of he'sa Zubot's longest tenured
Clipper right now the team, Norman how great bench player

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now having a starters role this season, and ty Lou
heack of a coach ironically, he's been out these last
Torutch of games because of issues with his back. But
Brian Shaw, he's a very well respected coach. He's had
a lot of extensive experience both as a head coach
and assistant coach, and he's very close to Tyleru, so
it's not surprising that they've had success under him.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, certainly, the Clippers are peaking at the right time
and they're getting offensive production across the board with the
you know, by the players you just mentioned, And so
the question is this Can you trust this? Or is
this light at the end of the summage. It's another
oncoming train because I think it would be actually be
good for basketball because he both LA teams make noise

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in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
Yeah, I think do I trust that? Yes, they're a
great team. I think it's this that you can't ever
discount injury history because he's with Kawhi and James Harden.
But I think even if they're a healthy roster, what
they're saying themselves up for is likely facing either the
Oklahoma City Thunder or the Denver Nuggets in a first

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round playoff matchup, and assuming there's no major injuries on
those teams, I just don't see the Clippers even a
full strength of being in them because there's just so
much roster depth, so much continuity. You know, I know
that the Nuggets they've been vulnerable recently while Nikoli Jokich
and Jamal Murray have been out. But you know, I
talked with Felipe I Converger, the Nuggets head trainer, earlier

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this week. Didn't seem to be like it was two
cause of a concern the thrust. These are real injuries.
They didn't just sit out for the sake of it.
They Nikoliok has a pretty good track record of playing games.
Jamal Murray not so much because of his ACL injury.
But the bottom line is there's a lot of comfort
levels within the Nuggets training staff that they're going to

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be fully healthy once the playoffs start.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
I can't not in this segment without mentioning the venerable
Bronnie James, who, by the way, fired back at a
heckler last week, and he was pretty clever. Yes he
should be. No, he would never fire back in me. No,
I hit him with a combination night putting up with that.

Speaker 7 (25:18):
But well I would.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
But I don't just like Bronnie. I like Bronnie. He's
a victim of circumstances, as I say on the three studies.
But he did he did play the other night because
every starter except Jackson Hayes didn't play. And yes they
were minus thirty six. But let's keep Bronnie James his due.
Seventeen points on a seven to ten, seven to ten

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field goals right, five or six free throws, by the way,
two for two from the line tonight Saturday Night hit
five assists. Those are thirty very very productive minutes in
an NBA game. So let's be fair here. Is he improving,
Is he starting to show some promises put potentially a
legitimate NBA player.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Oh yeah, there's no doubt he's improving.

Speaker 8 (26:04):
I think the.

Speaker 4 (26:05):
Challenge with brawny James and frankly is a lot of
topics to the state of the world these days is
there's a lot of lack of perspective and overreaction on
both sides. He didn't play a lot at USC his
freshman season because of the cardiac arrestsco but even when
accounting for that, he wasn't seen as NBA ready. But

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when he was drafted fifty to fifth, you know, the
feeling I got talking to different scouts was that he
didn't have a defined skill set. No one really knew
if he was a traditional point guard or a shooting guard.
They did like his defense and attitude, and so the
feeling was as long as he's playing mostly in the
G League, you know, he could obviously develop and expedite

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his growth, but there weren't a lot of people that thought.

Speaker 2 (26:51):
He's ready for the NBA.

Speaker 9 (26:53):
At the beginning of the season.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
Now, yeah, we've seen that he can play in spot
minutes and he's continuing to get better. But I do
think we have to keep in mind that that Milwaukee game,
it was impressive, relatively speaking, encouraging, but you hit the
nail on the head. He was playing because half the
roster was hurt, and so I think that there's this

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overreaction that can paint this as some sort of redemption story,
as if he was proving people wrong, when in reality
it was almost always the same. He entered the NBA
not being fully ready. He to a man, did all
the right things as far as his work habit, attitude,
didn't try to, you know, lean on you know, the
fact that Lebron is his dad is, and he's sort

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of feeling that he's entitled anything, and he just kept playing.

Speaker 7 (27:40):
In the work.

Speaker 4 (27:40):
And so where he's at now, you know, he's capable
of playing minute starring mop up duty, and he's capable
of playing in the G League. And I think that
moving forward, there's always going to be a want for
players of his caliber to be on an NBA team
that are at the end of the rotation, because they're
good practice players. They'll compete and they're always willing to improve.

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Now what that means as far as his future and
what his trajectory is too hard to say. But the
reality is in the NBA, as much as there is
a need to be talented, hard work often can chip
away at different deficiencies. So from that standpoint, he's doing
the right things and he'll always overachieve because of that.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
I will always maintain my objectivity about Brownie. She's helling
personal with me. He even hit a three pointer over
Nicole Jokin Friday night. If people were paying attention. They
lost that game, of course to the Nuggets. The Lakers did,
but that was the game where there was a stoppage
in play and some heckler I don't know what the
details were, yelled at Bronnie, who was in the bench area,

(28:48):
and he said something about him and his father, and
Bronnie looked back at the heckler and there's a video apparently,
I haven't seen the video. He just says, hey, your
chain fake. That was pretty good. I thought that was
not pretty good. I thought that was really good. So
give it up to Brownie. Maybe he's finally arrived. I'm
a million miles away from being convinced you'll ever be

(29:09):
an NBA player. But if you score seventeen in an
NBA game, Okay, we got to talk about it, right,
that's got to be fair, right, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
Look, I mean, I'm sure knowing how Brownie is, he
obviously has bigger aspirations of this, but I think he
has proven that he could be a player that is
a twelfth, fifteenth man on the loss because a lot
of times when organizations are valuating and evaluating players that
are going to be in their slot, they're evaluating are
they good practice players? And will they not complain and

(29:41):
be a pain of that, you know one, because they're
probably not going to be playing a lot now. Obviously,
Bronny again, I presume he has bigger aspirations, but the
fact you know that is in of its in and
of its itself something that you can tigue your horn
about because he wasn't projected to at least have that
kind of rotation as a twelve to fifteenth person at

(30:04):
the beginning of the season.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
I will say this, one of the things I think
Brownie has proved proven is that the spotlight, as it were,
the spotlight is not too big for him. No, I
don't think he's any good but the spotlight Snope. He
conducts himself like a professional. He truly conducts himself like
a consonan professional, and he's trying to make the best
of his opportunity. And I think there's something to be

(30:28):
said for that. Mark, a great store, great stuff is
always once again, I'll say it again. Can't wait to
see what the new cycle brings us before next Saturday.

Speaker 4 (30:37):
I presume it'll all be interested in my friends.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Thanks so much, Mark, appreciate you, Bud, thank you. Has
Mark Madeina Medina magic every Saturday night on the Bernie
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(32:39):
also the rant, and if there's something you just would
like to get off your chest, we're here for you.
Callers have been fantastic. Let's start with march Man. This
is there's a decidedly different look. You're not seeing the
buzzer beaters, you're not seeing the upsets, you're not seeing
the mid majors you heard me see earlier Alabama State,
mont Saint Mary's, North Carolina, Xavier all lost. What's that mean?

(33:01):
Second time in fifteen years? The first fourteen didn't invest
advance past the first round since the tournament expanded in
twenty eleven to the playing games. Prior to that, twelve
of the last thirteen years one of them got to
the sweet sixteen. So I attributed to the nil and
transfer portal. The rich kid richer. If you're a mid
major kid and all of a sudden, someone's going off

(33:22):
your five hundred grand to go play at a power
five school, you're going or perhaps you want a bigger
platform that's the way I see it. How do you
see it? How do you like the tournament so far?
I'm still enjoying it. I just think it looks different.
Let's get your thoughts all right. At the NFL a
couple of potential rule changes. Someone wants to ban the
push touch. I'm looking at you, Green Bay zero and

(33:44):
three against Philly since twenty twenty two. You called the
ban the play because you don't like it. Well, I say, nope,
not up in the ear. You want to ban a
play that one team has taken the time to master,
simply could because you struggle to stop it. Come on, man,
I ain't going for that, but you might want it banned.

(34:05):
You might not see it as a football play. Now,
A lot of folks look one of the best things
about the midnight hour. I think our best conversations are
the ones where people disagree, simple as that the other
playoff rule that's gonna be discussed, or check that the
other NFL rule no more? Five hundred ish NFC South

(34:27):
champs hosting teams with significantly better records. Now. This proposal,
not surprisingly came from my beloved Detroit Lions, who are
covered pre and post from ninety eight to two thousand
and eight, they finished one loss away from the number
five seed despite having a fifteen to two record. I
gotta vote ya on this one. He would know. Back
in twenty ten to seven to nine, Seattle Seahawks gave

(34:49):
birth to Beast Motors. They stuffed New Orleans. It can happen,
but division battles would still remain important. But this would
reward teams who perform better and harder divisions. So if
you have a better play season record, you'll get preferential
treatment with your seeding over a team who might have
won their division, even though they have a lesser record

(35:11):
than you. And Bannon a touch push, I'm against it.
What are your thoughts? What are your thoughts on those
two rules? All right? On the third topic, I want
to give my good buddy Dan Bayer, you hear them
all around the network a lot of credit on this one.
I thought was very clever. Talked about Bronnie james seventeen
point performance the other night. The problem is, yes, it

(35:31):
was in an NBA game. You score seventeen points in
an NBA game, that's noteworthy, even if your minus thirty six,
even if you get blown out, even if they're essentially meaningless.
He scored seventeen points in an NBA game, but might
that have been a lot more meaningful? This was Dan Stott.
If you'd scored, say twenty seven points in a March

(35:53):
Madness game, I would say, what if he even scored
just seventeen points in a March Madness game. Let's say
you were watching Bronnie James the USC Trojans score seventeen
points in a March Madness game. Might you have found
that to be more significant than just scoring seventeen points
in a meaningless NBA game. The fourth topic Dion Sanders.

(36:17):
I love Deon Sanders. So we are in that time
frame now where many colleges are having spring football practice.
Some have already completed it, some are just starting. You
get the picture. I mean, there's one hundred and forty
Division one college football teams. Dion, by the way, many
schools are scrapping their spring game. Dion not only is

(36:40):
going to have his spring game, he's managing to get
it televised. And oh, by the way, Dion has come
up with a new fangled idea, why don't we have
a spring game against other schools? Hmmm? Is it a
head scratcher. Is it a good idea? What do you
think about Dan's idea? Would you watch, say, Colorado play

(37:00):
Illinois in a a in a spring game. It's got
my attention. I don't know, you know, if I'm gonna
if it's gonna be appointment viewing, but it's got my attention.
I've heard worse ideas, But give it up to Dion
for typically thinking outside the box. Now again, we've also
got the rant if you would like to call in

(37:21):
eight seven, seven, nine, nine, sixty six, three, sixty ninth,
it just gets something off your chest. But I kind
of I like to lead the witness, as it were,
for these topics. So March Madness, it's underway. Eight teams
have already punched their ticket to the Sweet sixteen. And
you've got a situation where you are seeing no buzzer beaters,

(37:41):
no real upsets. You had a couple five twelves, big
whoopedie damn do Okay, it's not like it used to be.
You're not seeing Mercer beating Duke, et cetera. And I
my theory is that nil and the transfer portal has
created this landscape, the richer getting richer, simple as that

(38:03):
the chasm between the mid majors in the great schools.
You know, Member B while he's a Big twelve school,
they're no longer than the whack like they were thirty
years ago. All right, so do you get my point?
The NFL rule changes ban the toush push. Green Bay
wants it. I say, no, you want to ban a
play just because you haven't mastered it and they have.
Philly has Nope, not up in here. And how about

(38:25):
wins determined playoff seating versus whether or not you won
the NFC South with a lousier record than the Detroit Lions.
I like that rule change. We stive had passes. Give
my credit to give credit to my guy, Dan Byer
Bronnie James. He had seventeen points in an NBA game.
That's something I've never had him scoring seventeen points in
an NBA game, But he did it. But it might

(38:47):
it have been more significant and memorable had Brownie's James
scored seventeen points in March Madness say playing for us.
He finally, Dion Sanders still coaching in Colorado, and I'm
glad Dion is not only going to have his spring
football game, he managed to get it televised, and Brownie
had our check. Pronni Jesus Dion had an idea, why

(39:11):
don't we have maybe spring football games against other schools.
He's kind of got my attention. So there you have it.
March Man, it's NFL real changes, Brownie James seventeen point
meaningless game in the NBA, and Deon Sanders plus the
rant you know what to do eight seven seven nine
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(39:35):
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(40:40):
about whatever you want. But to lead the witness, I
want to talk a little March madness if you should
like to opine no upsets really a couple of twelve
fives one to eleven six, big deal. I attributed to
the nil and transfer portal, NFL rules changes, toush push
and best record versus conference or division championship. Who should

(41:02):
get treatment or treatment for the playoffs? Brianni James scores
seventeen points. My guy Dan Byer thought would have been
a lot more meaningful had those seventeen company any any
March Madness game. And then finally Dione Sanders in his
spring football idea, we go out to Massachusetts where Jim

(41:23):
joins us and starts us off. Jim, good to hear
from you. You've got the floor.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
Hey, Bernie, how's it going? As far as Matchman just goes,
I'm old school Berninge back with Isla Maguire where he
says the NCAA tournament isn't about winning. It's just about surviving.
And you know it started off pretty good. I mean,
look what happened to Saint John's. But you know it's

(41:49):
going good. I like the way it's going. And you know,
you can't prepare for those games. I mean, coaches, when
they know who they're going to play, they can maybe
within a few hours get takes on the other team
of videos or something like that. But you really can't prepare.
And that's what's so best about the tournament. You know,
you can't scout, you can't do anything. You just got
to go out there and play because you don't know

(42:09):
who you're playing.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
You know, go ahead, no, go ahead, No, you got
the floor, man, I wanted to see.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
The other thing about the lake is my god. The
other night I turned on the game, I think they
were playing Denver. In the crowds that they were winning
in the last two minutes of the game, that in
the crowdstted yellow Brownie. I don't know what what's in
the water out there or something, but that poor kid,
I mean, because I don't think he's going anywhere. I
don't think he's an NBA player. And you know, the

(42:42):
NBA as a whole. You know, they're down what fifty
three percent viewership. I'm just the old school.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I like the old.

Speaker 5 (42:49):
NBA when there were rivalries and there's post up play.
Now it's just running gun like. You know, you don't
have to pay go see that. Just go to your
local uh you know, your local park and why to
play on the toier, you know, on.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
The tire courts. That's what they do.

Speaker 5 (43:03):
They just run and gun. I mean, what is that?
I mean, I don't like that. And as far as Dion,
Dion did a good little coup there because the school's
going to get money for them being on TV. Yeah,
he's a finance finance guy. He knows what he's doing.
So that's good for Colorado. You watch now that he
does it. You watch in five years, everybody's gonna want this.
They're game on TV. So you know, took the hat

(43:27):
to him.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
He knows what he's doing, all right, Jim appreciated. But
anything on the NFL rule changes. I don't want to
ban the toush push, and I think they do need
to revisit, uh the wins determining a playoff seating more
so than uh uh, you know, a division champion who
may have been a division champion but has a lesser record.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
Well, that's that's just the way it is. You just
got to let that go.

Speaker 9 (43:53):
I don't you can't.

Speaker 5 (43:54):
Deny the Vision Championship. I don't think that's going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Well, they were still getting the playoffs, but but maybe
a team of the better record gets more preferential home
seating type thing.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
That's not the way it's set up. And I don't
think they're going to change that. I don't think the
owners are going to vote on that to change that.
I'm pretty sure about that. But you know that's the
whole that's the whole thing man on that that topic.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
Right, all right, thanks, do you appreciate it? Eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine, eight seven
seven ninety nine And Fox Poppy in San Diego. What's up, buddy?

Speaker 9 (44:31):
Hey, I'm just right here excited that march Man is
Bernie and you know, it's it's great. You know, on
people don't like it. There's an underdog and of course,
and I know everything's changing, but look, tomorrow is gonna
be good games. I'm really excited against Duke against Baylor,
minus probing. I have that's an easy one for me, guys,
loving that. And the other game that I'm excited the

(44:53):
march Man is New Mexico Lobos against you know, Michigan State.

Speaker 2 (44:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (44:59):
Yeah, and I really love the Lobos plus seven and
a half guys. I think that'll be the upset tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
So yeah, that would be Now, that would be an
upset in my view. If you've given any thoughts to
the rule changes too.

Speaker 9 (45:16):
Yeah, yeah, And the rule change, I think that's good
because you know, certain teams in the division. You know,
some teams are weaker and they won the division out
of winning the like almost fairly winning record, and they
get like a home scene, and I think that's good.
That needs to be changed because there's controversy like hey,
this team has a better record, Oh, this won the

(45:37):
division and they get a home team because that's the
division one and then the other one that barely made it.
I think that's good. And the touch push people complaining
about that, well, guess what I got some secrets for
you guys, so you can do if your complain about that,
those owners are voting for that, well with how about
you stop the egos before that and you won't get
the fourth and one and touch push or in the

(45:59):
fourth than one in the goal line or first down
in one. How about your stop on so they won't
do that on you? How about that?

Speaker 2 (46:06):
Well, there you go. I'm going to read a tweet
in a minute that basically said the same thing. Any
thoughts on Bronnie James, Like my dann Byrus said, Buddy
dan Bier said, might his seventeen points have been a
little bit more impactful and meaningful if it was actually
in a March Madness game?

Speaker 9 (46:24):
Well, you know, I love that. Well, he's got his
opinion on that. And you know what I think about Bronnie.
I saw him on the Summer League in your hometown
in Las Vegas, right there UNW Stadium, and look, this
was just not any regular scrubs. Bronnie jeans and was doing.
He's put in his work, he's been on the g
leag he's been working hard, and he played against two
all stars right on the bus with Jonas and Vimion Leonard.

(46:47):
It's just not any scrub players. And yeah, I understand
that Luca wasn't playing all these players, but hey, you
got to take it till you make it. Bronnie's been
putting the hard work. I like how you broke the
ankles of Janets. It would have been good if you
would have finished that great and got a bucket right
highlight reel. But what it is, I love everything that
he's doing and.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
He deserves that fair enough.

Speaker 9 (47:10):
And then onto Dion Sanders on that one. Yeah, he
knows what he's doing, smart marketing, smart strategy. I would
love for him to play against who knows a Colorado state.
You know that the rams right there, somebody else. There'll
be good highlights time time.

Speaker 10 (47:25):
He knows what he's doing.

Speaker 9 (47:27):
And uh yep, I think he does that. It'll be
the start of the trend of maybe Netflix or other
Sydney services showing that game.

Speaker 2 (47:33):
Thanks, Poppy, appreciate you, enjoy your Sunday. And I'm gonna
get to that a little bit later. Both Colorado and
Syracuse that petition the NCAA to do this. Deon's basically said,
you can't have a competitive game against your own guys
against Monotona. So we'll get to that a little bit later.

Speaker 11 (47:50):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Next up, Gunner in Minnesota, Thanks for joining us. Gunner,
You're on the Bernie Fraddle Show. How Bernie Good, Bernie yeah,
I gotta think about them so much.

Speaker 12 (48:03):
Man, I think, hey, big Kelly.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
You got a little noise in the background there. Could
you pop that down just a hair please, it's coming
back through the airwaves. It's muffling your commentary.

Speaker 10 (48:14):
All right, go ahead, all right, I got some.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
I'll tell you what, Gunnar, do me a favorite pal
uh Ian. Put Gunner on hold, tell him the call back.
We'll go right to him. We're having a fagezi there,
and I want him to I want the folks to
be able to hear what Gunner's got to say. Uh,
Danny and Bellingham jointed. Just Danny, welcome into the Bernie
Fradle Show. Is this your first time in the midnight hour? Hey, yeah,

(48:42):
it is welcome.

Speaker 9 (48:43):
Hen I listen all the time.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Though, good to hear from you. What do you got
for us?

Speaker 9 (48:48):
Oh? Hey?

Speaker 11 (48:49):
On the touch push thing? So from what I understand,
I thought having an offensive player pushing another offensive player
was illegal, And if it's not, then shouldn't a defensive
player be able to push another defensive player?

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Then?

Speaker 2 (49:10):
I mean, where are we going with this?

Speaker 13 (49:13):
Then?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
You know, well, what's interesting? You know what's interesting, Danny?
Other NFL teams have attempted to copy the to push.
They just can't do it as well as Philly. But
I think banning it is a little silly. Do you
think it should be banned?

Speaker 14 (49:32):
But my point isn't whether they're good at it or not.
My point is whether it is. It's a rugby play
and that we want great rugby into football, and if
we're gonna let the offense push, shouldn't we let the
defensive start pushing?

Speaker 9 (49:52):
All right?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
This is a good call, Danny. I will say this
that you're not the first one to basically allude to
it as a rugby play. Anything on March Man is
my man or Brownie.

Speaker 14 (50:05):
So here's my March Madness saying I've got one thing
to say, man, and.

Speaker 7 (50:10):
It's my favorite coach of old times.

Speaker 10 (50:13):
And I'm gonna give you.

Speaker 14 (50:14):
A quote from Bob Knight. Stupid loses more games than
smart wins.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
That's very true, very true, and.

Speaker 9 (50:23):
We see that all the time.

Speaker 14 (50:25):
Hey, I love Bernie by the way, and my favorite
segment is what kind of who are you?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
That'll be coming up in about two hours, my friend,
So thanks so much for joining us tonight and day
and Bellingham. You got anything real quickly.

Speaker 11 (50:40):
No, no, no, have a good night, folks.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Thanks thanks for checking in. Don't be a stranger. All right,
I believe we have Gunner back on a better sell. Gunner,
welcome back in.

Speaker 12 (50:48):
All right, I'm back, Yeah, I thought it.

Speaker 10 (50:50):
Okay, I'm okay, I am my team out.

Speaker 12 (50:55):
So you know, I got my bracket's still living, and
I got Maryland.

Speaker 15 (50:59):
And in that final form with why there but so
and my mother?

Speaker 10 (51:09):
I mean, have it up right now, I'm a duke
in the other aubumn and.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
Why do you suppose they are the upsets this year?
What's your theory? Do you have? Ring boy gonna We're
having the same issue. Man, We're gonna try it one
more time. It's not fair to you, and I certainly
want the listeners to be able to hear you. Uh,
try a different spot. I want to give you your due,

(51:36):
your your day in court. But it ain't working so far.

Speaker 16 (51:40):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Andre in Massachusetts, welcome back in. It's been a minute.
Good to hear from you, Andre.

Speaker 10 (51:47):
How you doing, Bertie? Thanks for taking the call. Listen.
I got a chime in about March madness. I'm enjoying
the tournament and like no other. The first Thursday and
Friday have to be the best two days in the
in the sports calendar for me. Bernie, I got to say,
I'm a little bit heartbroken for Saint John's and what
happened today in Province. Now we got the marquee matchup
that we wanted, Patino versus Califari back in Providence where

(52:11):
Patino got his start, and I tipped my hat. I
got to call him Don Califari because nobody produces NBA
prospects like Califari. So I'm happy for him that he's
moving forward after the situation in Kentucky and people doubting
his ability to coach and get wins in the tournament.
But this was the Johnny year, forty years since they
won the Big East. Patino had all ships, everything fired

(52:32):
in the right direction. He's got nil situation with the
way that it needs to be in terms of the
investment from the under armour folks. And it's just you know,
Arkansas was the better team. Game was well officiated, there
was nothing untowards. But I was really hoping for Saint
John's and really Patino to make a run, you know.

Speaker 14 (52:50):
Good for the Big East.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Michael, Sir Andre and I said it I've been sitting
on my shows for three straight weeks. They didn't rank
in the top seventy and offensive efficient, and I believe
that would would catch up with him. I didn't think
we'd catch up and the way it did today, but
it certainly didn't real quickly. Anything on the NFL rule
changes proposed to Bronnie Oh, first of.

Speaker 10 (53:12):
All rule changes, cuse push listen, I love it. You
know we'll do. Are we supposed to ban contact from
simhere wrestling? Now? What are you talking about? This is football? Okay,
sit down there on the line and go go at it,
you know. And just because people can't stop the egos
doesn't mean we shouldn't have it in the game. And
Bronnie had had a breakout game right showed that.

Speaker 9 (53:32):
He I don't know belongs.

Speaker 10 (53:35):
But that was an impressive showing. And it's silence, or
at least so I have people take a step back
in terms of his uh uh, whether he deserves to
be on NBA Ross. Thanks taking Nicole bring all right, Hey,
don't be.

Speaker 2 (53:48):
A stranger Erhondo. Always appreciate your stuff. We're just getting started, man,
It's some men that hour. When we come back, we'll
give Gunner. One more try hopefully third times a chim
joshuam Cincy hollering, James and Tony and Miami do not
go anywhere. I want to hear from all you, and
I look forward to it. Eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six nine. I'm Bernie Frattle, come to

(54:10):
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(54:31):
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Holler and James?

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How is jas with you?

Speaker 13 (54:42):
Bernie Fredd, all you're doing?

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How you doing doing well? My friend? What do you
got for us tonight?

Speaker 13 (54:47):
I've got some cake on Jjo McCarthy. I went out
at Berg Tabby from Mattanta for Jjo mcarthey. Jersey if
that kid really shines and they got with Daniel Jones
and they got because they got some other quarterbacks of
their roster.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
You know, Daniel Jones is gone, right he signed with Indianapolis.

Speaker 13 (55:10):
Yeah, well, I'll just say those were the sun of right.
Teachs got some quarterbacks of their roster that they're gonna
really shine. And if they're not, the surprise to the
lope to take the second, the vision away full these
dreg lyons and the Greeway packers. Let me eat my words,
and I'll never call your show again.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Now you call any time, man. I appreciate the opinion,
and you may not. Let'ten have a lot of faith
in Kevin O'Connell the.

Speaker 13 (55:36):
Faith, didn't you wark Coach of the Year?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
I think he did. Yeah, I think he did anything else?
Howering anything else, buddy, But yeah.

Speaker 13 (55:44):
I know, buddy. Are timberwolves. They're in a battle for
their lives with at any Edwards. At the man is
doing it all by himself. He need big tac though
they should have never got in a big tat.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
All. Right, Hollard, I appreciate you, man, I appreciate the energy.
And good luck to your vikings and good luck to
your timberwolves. Why not? What the hell, hey, Tony in
Miami is back, Tony, where you've been, Man, where you
have been, buddy.

Speaker 6 (56:13):
Dealing with a couple of kidney stones?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Buddy, No, no, are you are? I'm doing well, my friend.
What do you got for us tonight?

Speaker 6 (56:23):
I'll try to get through this with a puffin too
much air out. But I'm going to stick to the two, basically,
the NFL and then the Brownie. But I really I
liked I think they always should have had the idea
to have the better records go against each other dating

(56:43):
back to twenty ten, and I really believe that yes
Saints team would have gone to the Super Bowl. If
you watch that game again, it was a mud bowl.
It results like just a total, you know, disaster of
a game.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
Said about half an hour ago. I don't know if
you're listening. The game played in Seattle. There were seven
or nine and that's the day of Beast Mode was born.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
Yeah, I I really, I really believe that that Saints
team played anywhere besides that that that conditions of Seattle.
But it's this just like the NFL, they're gonna you know,
I don't think they will. I think it's a great
it's a great proposal. I don't think they will, though,
because it's it's they love the controversy. They love it's
part of what the.

Speaker 2 (57:28):
NFL point point.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
What were gonna say about Brownie? I, Bernie, I'm I'm
gonna stick with the last time. I believe I talked
to you, either three or four weeks ago before the LUCA.
I still think, Bernie, the half of the players in
the NBA aren't playing. I mean, I could go to

(57:50):
the LA Fitness down the street and grab some of
these guys and jump out there. I mean, I I
don't I don't believe it means anything. I don't believe
numbers mean anything in this league. I think it's just
it's just a seriously bad product. And I want to

(58:12):
say this and I'll get off, Bernie. The NBA, the
sport of the NBAS people are still not watching, whether
you want to admit it or not, They're not watching
like we.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
Watch the NFL.

Speaker 6 (58:24):
What it is is where the sport of the NBA
is sitting down listening to you, listening to Parker, listening
to these guys, and it's being nobody watches the game anymore. Still,
So you no, I mean, I don't want to wander off,
but yeah, Bronnie, Ronnie can can can get you know,
meet me at twenty four hour fitness if he wants

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tonight at midnight.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
All right, thanks, I appreciate you, Tony. And of course
the irony is the NBA is the recipient of an
incredibly lucrative TV contract, so money is is not an issue.
Gunner in Minnesota. Hopefully the third time was a charm.
I didn't want to cut you off. Appreciate you calling back,

(59:08):
but it was started to sound like the U the
drive through a speaker at Burger Chef, you know when
they I'll take a vanilla shake and they say, okay,
go ahead, but you got the floor.

Speaker 9 (59:20):
Yeah, I got a couple of things too.

Speaker 16 (59:22):
Then, Bronnie, I'm not convinced you.

Speaker 10 (59:25):
I'm not convinced at all.

Speaker 12 (59:26):
It's just the one.

Speaker 10 (59:27):
Game show, your one time, and he's not gonna be
anything like his father is. I'm not I'm not a
fan of lebron and all, but I like him when
he's younger, but he's he's not gonna be nothing like.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
Him anything on March Madness or the NFL room changes.

Speaker 10 (59:48):
If you want to try to change, good luck with that.

Speaker 9 (59:50):
You to fail your defense if you.

Speaker 12 (59:53):
Want, Yeah, just try to stop it.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Common sense.

Speaker 14 (59:57):
Like I said, I'm a Panther fan. We're figuring out
or to defend the I just pray Deven just picked
up all even the players.

Speaker 10 (01:00:06):
Yeah, and the other role change. Well, I just I said,
I'm a Panthers and we're trying to get in the
playoffs and net roll change, it'd be fine.

Speaker 9 (01:00:18):
Who is after it out?

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:00:21):
Youn I appreciate you man, thanks a lot. I appreciate
you calling in and hope you're back again next week. Uh,
your perto and San Diego Como.

Speaker 16 (01:00:31):
Star well, La comasta, Bernie moeby Annie too movie and
movie end. Listen, Bernie, h I'm gonna get to the
to the questions you have. But I'm a little bit
sad because we lost a great one in George Foreman.

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
I'm gonna give a him later in the show.

Speaker 16 (01:00:52):
I appreciate it, Bernie, appreciate it, and listen. Regarding the NFL,
for the the record, I team, they should recede and
based on they should receive them based on the record,
and they should do that. The same thing in baseball
because you have tough teams basing each other. Okay, in

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baseball that shouldn't be playing in the divisional and in football,
if you have the most wins, you get a home game,
not only because we have two or three week divisions
every year and it's not fair for the teams that
play that really play great, they should be.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
I'm an agreement with you. I'm an agreement with you
the luck of the draw. You may be in a
very tough division, you're fifteen in two, but you don't
you don't get the same courtesy as the NFC South
Winterhead a much worse record. We're an agreement. What are
your thoughts on March madness and where there are any upsets?

Speaker 16 (01:01:50):
I don't we nil?

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
That's what I think.

Speaker 9 (01:01:55):
Yeah, basically, that's what it is.

Speaker 16 (01:01:58):
And our I was telling me and uh, regarding the
push push, I said, Aron Rogers had left the Green
Bay Packers. Why are they whining?

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Now's your own three against Philadelphia. That's the reason it's
clear day to me.

Speaker 9 (01:02:16):
Yeah, they should.

Speaker 16 (01:02:18):
They should never let let it get to that point.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
And that's why that's another good point. Another too thoughtful, Gilberto,
you make you make too much sense.

Speaker 16 (01:02:28):
I know what's wrong with me?

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
All right, tell anything else?

Speaker 16 (01:02:34):
Listen and regarding Bronnie James. One day he's going to
score thirty points in trash time. Nobody cares. I mean,
that's that's something that nobody cares. The kid plays. I mean,
the Bugs are a great team. They just let him. Okay, shoot,
don't don't, It doesn't matter. Let's see what they do

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in the playoffs, and let's see if he's in the
roster in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
All right, my man, two things, Buenoswerte and Via condos.
Are you there? All right, Gilbert? I always appreciate you, man, always.
Now this next call, this is way cool. This gentleman's
calling from Tokyo. Let's welcome in, Paul. Paul. I'm glad
to hear from him in Tokyo. My wife and I
are actually going to Tokyo next May. Are you in

(01:03:21):
the American ex pat living in Tokyo or you visit?
Whats your situation?

Speaker 17 (01:03:26):
I live in work here, been here over fifteen years,
and love it, love it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
Love it. That is just simply fantastic. I just think
that is where you're from originally in the States.

Speaker 17 (01:03:38):
I grew up in the DC area life well, grew
up a Redskins fan, our a commander's fan went to
graduate school at Tennessee, so that's very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:03:50):
I'm assuming you've been to the Tokyo Doom, right.

Speaker 17 (01:03:54):
Tokyo done quite a bit.

Speaker 10 (01:03:56):
I've been there.

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
I'm jealous, man, I'm jealous. All right, let's get to
the fix it in. I want to hear what you've
got to say.

Speaker 17 (01:04:03):
Well, you know, I'm just coming off as I'm doing
some Sunday It's Sunday afternoon here doing some errands. Not
too long ago. I just finished watching Tennessee beat up.

Speaker 9 (01:04:11):
On U C.

Speaker 13 (01:04:12):
L A.

Speaker 17 (01:04:13):
And you know, I think, if they can playing really
nice defense, a rebound, well, if they can just shoot
the ball a little over mediocrity, maybe a tendancy the
first ever Final four or could coach Barnes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:24):
There Yeah Barnes yep, he teases you that way. Man.
He look like they're gonna do it. And then I
think they're gonna run into Florida some time in the brackets,
So they're gonna have to solve that.

Speaker 17 (01:04:35):
Do you have any know we would have to run.
We're gonna have to run to Florida at some point.
Everyone will. But we did beat him by twenty this year. Well,
I don't know we're gonna do that again. Yep, we
did take him out one.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Yep. Any thoughts on the March madness, whether they have
him any upsets or the NFL rules change or Brownie, Well.

Speaker 17 (01:04:54):
I think you know that at the end. But why
there's not any upsets? You know, we're not done yet.
We could get more upsets. And I need a little
more sample size to just declaire ni L's nil is
ruining and all that. I need a little more sample
size before I do that. And when it comes to
the Toush push you know, I said, I'm a DC guy.
I can't stand the Eagles, but these guys that are

(01:05:15):
lining about the Tousch push rule have to change it
every other play, every other fan out there, if their
teams could run it to the efficiency the Eagles can,
they would be all for it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
There it is, and they've tried. There have been I
think us have tried sixty Yeah, they've tried. Yeah. Right,
you do a.

Speaker 17 (01:05:34):
Better jobs, build a better mouse trap, stop this one.
You know, do that first.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Hey, Paul, don't be a stranger man turns out on
mid days in Tokyo. You're welcome in every It may
not be the midnight hour, literally where you're at.

Speaker 17 (01:05:51):
Well, you know something, if you're in the drive time
in the afternoon, you're on during Russia and the biggest
city in the west.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
Populated city in the world.

Speaker 17 (01:05:57):
You need to re up your contract.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I mean to go. Maybe you could be my agent, Paul.
I don't know what you do for laving. Maybe you
can be my agent. Hey, seriously, I'm seeing don't be
a dream Go ahead, right, all right, buddy, all right, Bud, good,
good to hear from you. Thank you, Paul, and Tokyo.
Let's go to the other end of the spectrum. Howard
in New York joins the Bernie Fraishow. Welcome in, Howard.

(01:06:20):
How are you? How are you doing well?

Speaker 18 (01:06:24):
I'm totally against receding by record. Then you might as
well not have divisions. I know when the season starts,
those six games that my favorite team plays are the
most important games of the season. They mean winning the division,
which has meaning. They mean getting a home a home game,
which is meaning. I think it's an overreaction to what

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happens occasionally where a not so great team wins their division,
but that usually sorts itself out anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Howard I appreciate your candor, but weren't the Lions six
and zero against their division this year? Their two losses
were to Buffalo and UH and Tampa Bay. No, I'm
not disavowing your point. I think it's well crafted. But
the Lions were six to zero in their division and
had a better record than the AFC the NFC South

(01:07:16):
champion yet and it doesn't happen very often, So anyway,
it's not worth really debate. I appreciate your thoughts. So
you don't want to change it? No, no change? How
about the touch?

Speaker 18 (01:07:24):
I don't want to change. But also in terms of
Lebronni James, I know nobody on Earth deserves to be
in the position that this kid is in. That that's
really he's in a difficult spot, and he has my
sympathy personally. I think they should have put him in
the G League for a couple of years and let
him and let it and let you know, and let
him learn his craft.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Fair enough. Any thoughts on why there aren't han't been
any upsets in March Madness?

Speaker 18 (01:07:52):
No, but it's it is my favorite three weeks in sports.
It's the only place where Cinderella lives at this point
they used to, or at least at least they used
to versus this year. Yeah, you know it's I mean,
obviously you can't do it in football. There's no way
mcneise States beat mcnease State beats Alabama, you know, nor.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
Would they be given a chance. It's honestly impossible.

Speaker 18 (01:08:18):
We know Ohio State, we know Alabama, we know Chargia,
and perhaps somebody else gets in.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
Hey Howard, I appreciate your thoughts tonight, and don't be
a stranger on the Bernie Frowner Show. Okay, thank you,
Thank you, David from here in Las Vegas. Welcome in
David to the Bernie Frowner Show.

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Hey, Bernie, First of all, thank you for doing your show.
I think it's the most intelligent, well thought out, an
informative sports radio show.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Whatever.

Speaker 7 (01:08:44):
I know you're not doing this many nights anymore, but
whenever it comes on, I really appreciate here.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
Thanks for the kind words. I appreciate that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
On the NFL rule changes. First of all, the division
winners in the home game, I'm coming around. I have
been like your previous car, thinking that win the division
needs to be an important thing, and I would up
till very recently, I would have defended them getting the
home game too, But do seem to be these extreme cases,

(01:09:11):
and maybe you were really over rewarding these division winners
with wolsy records. It's just for playing in a lousy division.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
I like the way. I like the way you crafted that. Okay,
it's quite simple and straightforward, concise, because the truth of
the matter is this doesn't happen very often in their outliers.
But I think the division championship should not be an
inflexible anchor. It should be a guideline. Because if your
team was fifteen to two and didn't win their division

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for whatever reason, and oh, by the way, some other
division was nine to eight and they get a better
playoff seeding by virtue of winning their division even though
they were in a lesser division, that seems fundamentally unfair
to me, just my thought.

Speaker 7 (01:09:55):
I still think they should get a playoff spot, even
if they're sevens with better records.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
Yes, yes, I'm hope.

Speaker 7 (01:10:02):
I'm coming around. I haven't completely cover around.

Speaker 2 (01:10:04):
I'm coming around, and I.

Speaker 7 (01:10:08):
Disagree with you completely on the Tooch pushka. I just
think I don't think it's a play that wouldn't have
always been legal, and half of all has been legal.
I think there are so many rules on both sides
of the ball keeping you from leveraging, lifting, pulling, jumping,
over all kinds of things, and historically pushing other players.

(01:10:28):
It just hasn't been considered legal football, and I don't
think it should be. I just I just don't think
you should be able to get behind some of the
in pushing. I just don't think it's really football, you know,
I think it's rugby, and I would just assume we
go back to rules where you can't you can't do
that kind of assistance.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
Well, and that has been the comor argument basically, David, Dad,
it's a rugby play more than a football play. That
it's been here for four years, so fair enough.

Speaker 7 (01:10:56):
Any closing thoughts, I'm standing by that one, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
No, and I appreciate that, David. Thank you, thanks for
thinking about check in. And as I said, the best
of conversations are the ones where people don't agree, so
I respect varying opinions. The Midnight Hour will continue Jay
dot Brock and Alberta, Manuel and Guardina will be up next.
Keep it locker, you're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show
on Fox Sports Radio. Oh, right back at the Bernie

(01:11:24):
Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio, coming to life from the
Tarak dot Com studios here in Las Vegas. We continue
on with the Midnight Hours. Welcome in, Jay dot in Utah.
Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

Speaker 8 (01:11:36):
Yo, I said, Jace Harmon, what is up, Yoe?

Speaker 9 (01:11:40):
What hey?

Speaker 8 (01:11:41):
I gotta question why would the Jazz Utah Jazz not
be able to get the number one pick?

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
I don't believe I have an answer for you. I'll
try to research you, my man.

Speaker 8 (01:11:56):
I don't know, I know, I don't well, why wouldn't
not they get the number one pick? After look at
the Lakers, look at the Spurs, look at all the
other teams, look at Bums.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
All right, thanks, Ja Dott, appreciate it. I'm gonna try
to get an answer for you on that. Fair enough,
if something you feel passionate about a little off topic.
But that's okay, that's okay, It's what the midnight hours for.
But I, as someone who is not a fan of
NBA tanking or things of that nature, I have to

(01:12:34):
look at the machinations and who's lined up to get
the lottery picked et cetera, et cetera. You get the point.
Brock and Alberta a regular on the midnight hour, Welcome
back in. How are you hey, Bonnie?

Speaker 19 (01:12:47):
How are we going on?

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
Good? Thanks?

Speaker 19 (01:12:49):
Awesome brother. To get to Brownie, then talk about Brownie first,
to start with that first of all, that game he
had against Denver, I think I was the one he
had seventhing points in prest I believe so, yes, yeah,
So I think, like I said before about him, I
think he's I think I think he had a great future.
I think in the future of that in time he

(01:13:10):
has a he could be in the NBA. Like I
said before, I just think right now it's just he's
being the G League and then coming later, you know.
I think That's how I'm looking at it. So and
then NFL wise, Aaron Rodgers, That's what I'm going to
talk about is Aaron Rodgers. He becomes such a flake
and you know, poison to the NFL that nobody wants them.
I mean, you look at what happened with the Jets

(01:13:30):
last year. It was horrendous.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
Well, there's no question I do think Pittsburgh wants him.
But there's going to be obviously, you know.

Speaker 19 (01:13:40):
Some Well, go ahead, Well, I think I think I
think the problem is too they gave him too much control.
And I think, honestly, Bernie, maybe hopefully you agree with
me on this. I think sometimes too much control is
not good control.

Speaker 9 (01:13:51):
You know, I.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
Completely agree, especially when you're not going to produce results.
And a little later in the show, I'm going to
compair Aaron Rodgers numbers to Russell Wilson's numbers in the
last three years, and you know, it's pretty pretty eye
opening anything on on BRIDI James.

Speaker 19 (01:14:14):
Well, like I said, I think give him time. He
has a great future.

Speaker 2 (01:14:18):
But that's about it.

Speaker 19 (01:14:18):
And one last thing I was going to add to
Kevin durantson saying a lot of stuff over the week
to tweeting back to people and you know, skip baylist
and all that kind of stuff. But I'm going to
say this, he saved Steph Curry's legacy. There's no way
the Warriors beat Lebron twice in a row in twenty
seventeen or twenty eighteen about Durant. I mean, Lebron widout
six rings right now. If it was over Katie.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Fairness, that may very well be true. Hey, appreciate you
as always, Brock hold it down there up in Alberta.
But by the way, for what it's worth, Tjay Dot.
If the draft were hell today, it looks like Utah
might have the number one pick overall and they would
probably go for They've lost nine straight, they have the
worst record heading into the March Madness Tournament, and wouldn't
that be something if they got Cooper Flag. So something

(01:15:02):
to watch. We'll get into NBA draft talk. That's way
down the road later in June. Ladies and gentlemen, boys
and girls, Wait, the kids, Alert, the neighbors, Grandpa, put
on pants. We welcome in the legend, Manuel in Guardiana.
What's happening? Manuel?

Speaker 12 (01:15:19):
I'm going to wait till the midnight out they say,
I'm laving, but it takes so much time.

Speaker 2 (01:15:27):
Hey, ajent Kymas Simon car.

Speaker 12 (01:15:30):
Yes, sir, hey so quickly. I'm gonna touch one of
the subjects that nobody's been wanting to touch, kind of
like a Bronnie James trade proposal. Sanders thing. I think
that is a brilliant idea frame game with two different teams.

(01:15:54):
I mean, everybody knows. You know, what are you gonna
do for your football picks? Watch the xfil and bring
come on. Nobody watches that crap. So I mean, I
think Dion may have just stumbled upon something that can
be huge, although you know, with an injury factor and
such that maybe may people may want to shy away

(01:16:15):
from it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:16):
But I think, Hey, if you're listening after the top
of the hour, I'm going to give a commentary. Manuel.
You may already know this. Both Syracuse and Colorado has
filed paperwork with the NCAA requesting the ability to hold
that game and if they're going to meet on April tenth.
The NCAA Division Oversight Committee is going to meet on

(01:16:40):
April tenth, and they may allow it, so continue on.

Speaker 12 (01:16:43):
Hey, that's a change I can get behind, and I
will be listening, like I always listen to your full show.

Speaker 9 (01:16:49):
Baby.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:16:50):
Man, As far as that rule change, I like, I
don't care about the too push one, but the other
one I think it's necessary. Do you have to start receding? Okay,
if you're gonna give these teams, these craft teams they
are seven and nine or well now seven and ten,

(01:17:11):
right or eight and nine a home game just because
they were the best of a terrible division, then okay,
I know the owners are going to be up in
arms about it because they want that home game.

Speaker 9 (01:17:24):
But then you should.

Speaker 12 (01:17:25):
Recede the next week, and then you go top to
bottom whoever the best team is, because they shouldn't be
awarded a second game if they're going to be coming
up against a team with a much better record, you
know what I mean. So I would be in favor
of that rule. Change the push push. I think like

(01:17:46):
your other guy was saying, Hey, man, build a better mousetrap,
do a better job. Everybody has that opportunity, so just
learn how to defend it, you know, stop crying over spilled.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
It is what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:03):
Man, Well, great job as always, baseball, hot dogs, apple
Pie and Manuel and Guardiana. You enjoy your Sunday, my.

Speaker 12 (01:18:09):
Friend, he appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Bernie Callers, fantastic job. Then I don't want to get
through a couple of tweets on this subject. A d
a Russian kid hobby Bernie. Let's start with Dion Sanders idea, yes,
but make it similar. Hard knocks Mike up coaches and
star players. Number two, the tousch pushes a rugby play,
not a football play. Boring three, do not change playoffs seating.

(01:18:32):
Every team needs to worry about winning their division. Okay,
some thoughtful points, Spock swed my man, Bernie. I don't
have the stuff to call in the night, but I
do have one opinion on the tush push rule. If
you don't like the toush push, then don't let Philly
get the fourth and two or fourth and one on
any possession. Fair enough, Okay, Dan Rivera my guy listening
to Bernie Frautle Fox Sports Radio. Part of the reason

(01:18:54):
the upsets in March Madness is nil, but also matchups.
March is about matchups, and some teams are paper tigers,
but they didn't get a good matchup for them to
be exposed early. So far, Missouri got an awful matchup.
Yet Drake's a hell of a team, no doubt about
their Dan knows this stuff. Coming up. After the top
of the hour, I'm gonna give you some details on

(01:19:15):
Dion's ID. It's not bad and my thoughts sound missing.
March Madness upsets and what we've been used to in
past years, and we got a whole lot of other
stuff to get to as well. I promise you that
we're nowhere near I got a tribute to George Foreman.
We got some stuff on the quarterback carousel coming to
a close. Aaron Rodgers don't oh yeah, brand new fool

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But by the way, great job as always to all

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the midnight callers. Appreciate the varying opinions. Man. We even
had a call from Tokyo. I hope that continues, a
call from Alberta, and of course all are on the
great United States, and our regulars appreciate everybody. One of
the topics we talked about was Deon Sanders. He has
a fresh idea. While some colleges, universities and their football

(01:21:12):
programs are vacating their spring game, not only is Dion
playing one, he's going to have his televised, but he
wants to take it a step further. Colorado and now
Syracuse has joined the fight. For lack of a better word,
they find paperwork of the NCAA requesting the ability to
hold spring practices and a spring game against each other

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in April. So Syracuse's coach Fran Brown doubled down on
the idea. Now, while the NCAA bylaws prevent teams from
holding intercollegiate practices or exhibition games, each other against the spring,
against each other in the spring. Well, on April tenth,
the nca Division one FBS oversight Committee is going to meet.

(01:21:57):
They could actually decide to allow this waiver. Now, Colorado's
spring game is currently scheduled for April nineteenth in Boulder.
Fran Brown and the Syracuse Orange offered to fly his
roster out for the game. Syracuse already has this spring
game scheduled for April twelve. Brown went on to say, quote,

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for us to be the first to do it at
historic schools would mean a lot. Two African American men
to have the opportunity of doing that means a lot.
Especially with Deon Sanders being an icon I would watch.
I think this is a fantastic idea, perhaps an idea
whose time has come. Give it up to Dion and
Fran Brown. And just this past Monday, Deon Sanders pitched

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the idea of scrimmaging another college football team as they
prepare for their nationally televised spring game. Now, many major programs, again,
as I said, have decided to cancel their spring games altogether.
Why well, they're concerned about injuries they're concerned about death
pieces getting scottered for the transfer portal. But if you

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practice against another live opponent, that creates a new model,
which is already done in the NFL. Dion went on
to say, to have a competitive game against your own guys, quote,
it's kind of monotonous. You can't really tell the level
of your guys because it's the same old, same way.
I would like to play against someone else for a
few days. Then you have the spring game, and I

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think the public would be satisfied with that tremendously. I'm
in agreement. Dion went on to say, I think it's
a tremendous idea. I've told those personnel who should understand
it's a tremendous idea. Now, fran Brown, in response quickly
offered to travel the Boulder and it's off and running.
So let's see what happens on April tenth. Now we

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all know a game of this nature would bring a
lot of attention to Colorado and both programs because Syracuse
actually went under the radar. Is one of the most
improved teams in college football last year, and I can
second that they came to Las Vegas and passed the
ball silly against a very good unv run and rebel defense.

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With their transfer quarterback from Ohio State and under Fran Brown,
they jumped to ten wins last year and they got
a number twenty one slot in the college football rankings,
and it was only their second ten win season in
twenty years. Buffalo's meanwhile, they're not far behind. Just two
years ago they were one and eleven and nine to
four last year. So both Syracuse and Colorado going through

(01:24:30):
major periods of transition. The Boffs obviously lost Travis Hunter,
they lost your Doors Sanders. Syracuse lost their quarterback Kyle McCord,
who led the nation of passing through for forty eight
hundred yards and college with college football games going extinct, basically,
I think what that does is eliminates opportunities for fans

(01:24:54):
to come to the stadium in the spring, watched their
favorite college team in a discount, and grow your fan base.
Do I think it's a good idea. I think it's
a very clever idea, and I hope the Oversight Committee
vote stumps up on April tenth. We will continue to
monitor this and follow it with any updates. Now back

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to March Madness, Look, I don't want to, you know,
overstate this or overthink it, but you really are not
seeing the you know, the Mercers over or the Baltimore Maryland, Maryland,
Baltimore counties over Virginia's. You've had a couple of one
versus sixteen's two, you've had the two versus fifteens, you've
had the three versus fourteens. We're not seeing a lot

(01:25:36):
of competitive games, a lot of double digit wins. And
now that you get into the sweet sixteen, I mean,
you know there's eight games tomorrow Sunday, check that later today,
and is it a little different. Listen, I'm still enjoying
March Madness. It's like getting a pizza. Okay, you're always
gonna enjoy it. You I don't give a dam if

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it's a frozen pizza, your favorite New York styles, cargo,
deep dish. You're gonna enjoy it's pizza. But has March Man.
It's been missing the buzzer beaters and big upsets in
one shiny moments that people have come to notice. Okay,
the first round of the NCAA tournament was complete Friday.

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The bracket was completely void of buzzer beaters. And what
I would consider major upsets. You didn't see Fairleigh Dickinson
beat a Purdue or as I just said, a multi
of Maryland Baltimore County takedown Virginia. In years past, we've
seen Princeton beat at number two seed Arizona, Saint Peter's

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chopped down Kentucky, a massive blue butter. For years ago,
the top four seeds would have combined sixteen to zero
in the first round for the first time in eight
years and only the sixth time since the field expanded
to sixty four teams forty years ago. The top two
scenes would by an average nearly twenty seven points, the
best the bracket hands for upset so far, he's a

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couple of twelve seeds over fives. But that's been happening
over the years. That's happening at an almost a forty
percent clip. In the last ten years, Colorado State was
favored by two and a half points. They were a
twelve seed over Memphis, who was shorthanded lost their point guard.
Colorado State won seventy eight to seventy Is that really
an upset? Number twelve in Knee State and their aura

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who's following will wade to North Carolina State. Yes, the
outlasted Clemson after getting a big lead, almost blew a
twelve point lead. But that's a good program, all right,
not that big of an upset. Some people saw it coming.
I wasn't one of them, but I know how good
McNee State was number eleven seed, Drake the hell of
a program. They had a mild a mild first round surprise.

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They took down number seed Missouri sixty seven fifty seven.
But eleven over in a six is even more common
than a twelve beating of five. Okay, It's just that
everything is juxtaposed against expectations. College fans expect buzzer beaters
in March. Now, we may get him. We may get

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him Sunday, we may get him in this week sixteen round.
All right. There was one kind of sort of almost
sort of close a player by the name of Omar
Knox last Tuesday. He plays for Alabama State. He scored
on a layup with one second left. Alabama State beat
Saint Francis seventy to sixty eight in the first four

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and Tuesday. But it wasn't exactly watching you know, Pittsnagul
or Bryce Drew or grand Hill and Christian later. It
wasn't exactly that. Vanderbilt almost had its shiny moment, only
to see Devin mcloughton. I believe he was a transfer

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from I forget where he had a three point attempt.
It clanked off the back of the rim. They lost. Vanderbilt,
A plucky Vanderbilt team from the best conference in college
basketball lost to a very good Saint Mary's team fifty
nine to fifty six, now number ten. New Mexico had
the only upset among the late games on Friday. They

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took down Marquette, who was seven seeded seventy five sixty six.
I did not see. I had that one wrong. I'm
not big on Mountain West teams, and Poppy may be right.
Maybe grabbing New Mexico in the seven points, I don't know.
I don't see. New Mexico is physical to a point,
to a different level. You saw. I mean, God bless

(01:29:34):
Seth Davis. I mean they pay him to tell you
that he thought there could be five major upsets. He
did come close on UC San Diego. It wouldn't get
off that, but come on High Point in Utah State
and some of the other ones he mentioned. Liberty do
you really mean that, I mean, it's really your money,
if you're really your shekels. Does that mean the bracket's
been boring? No, no, No, it's just that we haven't

(01:29:58):
had that spectacle. People have to come to realize. And
I attributed frankly to you know, the nil and the
transfer portal situation. The rich get richer because someone comes
along with money and you're gonna go A kid's gonna
go from a mid major to a Power five school

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just the way it is, or maybe you're in the
transfer portal. It kids can enter the transfer portal and
then pull themselves back out if they if they didn't,
you know, find what they want. That doesn't mean there
weren't some really good game Sunday you could really know.
No longer consider Gonzaga at mid major nor as Kelvin
Samson said, were they really an eight seed per se No, No,

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Gonzaga lost eighty one seventy six, but it was really
tight in the end, and Gonzaga wouldn't get you know,
wouldn't give up b YU. Right now, they're in the
Big twelve. Now, they frankly ran an offensive masterclass against
a very good number seed Wisconsin team and you know

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one of the other callers, I forget it was. I'll
give you credit by name, he said, Bobby Knight one said,
he's right, that stupid loses more games and smart wins.
It didn't help that Greg Guard, who's done a fabulous
job at Wisconsin, had a real meltdown and cost himself
a couple of free throws. And you know that he

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was assessed a technical foul and the player for b Yu,
Richie Saunders, hit both free throws. The Badgers had closed
to within six points after being housed. There was still
fifteen minutes left in the game. But Greg Guard gets
a technical foul, Saunders hits both free throws, b Yu
gets the ball and scores in the falling position. That's

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four more points. Guess what BYU won the game ninety
one eighty nine. Creighton hung in as long as they
could as a number nine seed. Auburn was just too
much Arkansas. This Arkansas team, the way they're constructed and
the way they got players healthy. Now and when you
got six to eleven Jonas to do and Trevon Brazil

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six foot ten, couple of towers on the offensive end,
all of a sudden, they're more potent than the paint.
That's not the kind of matchup Saint John's had been
used to seeing all year. So a number ten seed
gets it done against Arkansas, against Saint John's. But Arkansas
came from you know, the SEC, and if you watched
the SEC this year, many of Arkansas's games they played

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just well enough to lose. They hung in there, they
were not overmatched, they just couldn't get over the hump.
I started out, I think zero to five in conference.
Drake has everybody's respect. They were an eleven seed. But
Texas Tech one of the teams to beat Houston this year.
They couldn't you know, they hung in there, they just
couldn't get it done. Michigan, a number five seed, gets

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it done over number four Texas A and m I think,
and at the end of the day, Vladislav Golden and
Danny Wolf, both seven footers, were solid for the entire game.
I don't know what the hell happened to UCLA's program.
Steve Hartman just must be livid with what's going on there.

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They're a number seven seed. They played like a number
sixteen seed. Yes, Ucla, I'll say this in their quotes
only lost by nine, but they were never in this game,
never McNee State a number twelve seed, they had their
moment in the sun. But Purdue played with the pedigree
of a team that was in the national Championship a

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year ago, even though they no longer have Zach Eedy,
but they do have Trey Kaufman Ren and Braden Smith,
and they had a very good coach in Matt Painter.
We'll see what Purdue can do in their next matchup.
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is still hanging out there doing his Aaron Rodgers stuff.
Let's take a minute to review the NFL twenty twenty
five quarterback carousel through a big trades, small trades, a
new competition. Hmmm an interesting I say this in air
quotes reunion. Yeah, we'll have it all for for you.
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right after we get off the air. Well, it was
a very busy, crazy quarterback carousel. And trust me, I'm
going to get Aaron Rodgers here in a minute, and
I'm going to get to Russell Wilson and even Jamis
Winston and JJ McCarthy. But let's review quickly some of
the highlights. Lest we forget, the Raiders made a fairly

(01:36:14):
big trade. I thought they sent a third round pick
for thirty four year old Gino Smith. Remember they wrote
him off, but he ain't right back. What that basically
says is the Raiders expect to be competitive immediately, or
at least to attempt to be competitive immediately in the
Pete Carrole era. Gino Smith's coming off three to ten

(01:36:35):
win seasons. He's done a pretty good job. He did
a good job under Pete Carroll in Las Vegas. Vegas.
Check that Smith does get a better offensive line, but
a major drop off in skilled position talent the Lakers.
The Raiders have no run game that I can see.
Maybe they'll draft Ash and Genty, although they do have
Brock Bowers and I think Jacobe Myers, who is very

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underrated as a number two, So we'll see what happens there.
What the hell, they're only in the same division against
the Chiefs with Mahomes and the Chargers with Harbaugh and
Justin Herbert and Denver who's very much on their rise.
A little bit of a smaller deal under the raidar,
the Browns acquired former first rounder Kenny Pickett, although Kirk Cousins,

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Russell Wilson, or a potentially highly drafted quarterback remains starter options.
The Rebeat reporter for the Browns, Zach Jackson, said he's
willing to leave that they're open crack for Cleveland by
selecting Sdor Sanders second overall if cam Word isn't available.

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Do I think that would be smart?

Speaker 5 (01:37:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
I don't.

Speaker 9 (01:37:41):
Well, what do I know?

Speaker 2 (01:37:43):
Desperate people do desperate things. The Colts said they wanted
to give Anthony Richardson some competition for that forty seven
percent passing completion percentage. That's the Department of Redundancy department.
So the Colts went out gave Daniel Jones fourteen million.
That leads me to believe he'll be the starter unless
he botches it, which I don't think you will. But

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I do think Anthony Richardson, who's still only twenty two,
still on a rookie contract. He may still be given
every opportunity to start Week one, but listen, it doesn't
you kind of know what you have there. I just
say it in terms of no competition whatsoever. This is
a reunion of sorts. The forty nine Ers added former

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number fifteen pick Mac Jones. Remember three years ago, in
twenty twenty one, four years ago when I will go
to my grave believing that Kyle Shanahan wanted mac Jones
and not Trey Lance, and they traded three first round
draft picks. But the number fifteen pick will back up
number mister irrelevant, former mister irrelevant, number two hundred and
sixty two pick Brock Purdy. And by the way, the

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Steelers brought back Mason Rudolph's insurance behind whoever starts for them.
I'm going to get to that a minute. Chiefs gave
Gardner Minshew a one year deal to back up Patrick Mahomes,
and the Dolphins added former AFC East rival and Matt
and I Idl Zach Wilson to a one year, six
million dollar contract. The most unique interesting deal the Ravens

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Well Lamar Jackson averages sixty rushing yards per game, So
why not the Ravens go out. They signed Cooper Rush.
He's rushed for twenty four yards in his entire career.
How about pairing up Matthew Stafford and returning backup Jimmy
g Their combined age seventy. Jimmy G will make thirteen

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and a half million. And if you ever see Jimmy
g Anders center this year, it better be a blowout.
Otherwise that means something bad has happened to Matt Stafford,
and I like Jimmy G. By the way, the neediest
perhaps quarterback team need the Titans, who added a bunch
of offensive linemen. Though everything suggests Will Levis is no

(01:39:56):
longer their starter. I will predict this is no longer
even a prediction. It's probably just a fact that will
be revealed on draft night. I will be shocked, beyond
shocked if the Tennessee Titans don't draft cam Ward number one. Overall,
they liked him, they become even more enamored with them

(01:40:18):
during the pre draft process. Seriously, okay, all right, Oh,
by the way, for anybody who needs more Kirk Cousins
in their life, Netflix is producing a second season of
the behind the scenes documentary Quarterback Again, Why I don't know,
starring Kirk Cousins alongside Joe Burrow and Jared Goff. Have've
even got a trailer out, uh, and Kirk Cousins will

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be back with the Falcons. He got it, you know,
the better he once he crossed a certain day, he
was eligible for the ten million dollars you know, roster
bonus as if he needs it. All right, Aaron Rodgers.
So we've got the Steelers and the Giants. Holders are
the number twenty one and three picks, respectively, appear to

(01:41:01):
be waiting on whatever Aaron Rodgers decide to do, as
he has declined the Vikings for now. So if you
land the forty one year old Aaron Rodgers and you're
in Pittsburgh, that doesn't necessarily mean or even the Giants
who just recently signed Jameis Winston to a two year
deal for eight million. But we all know he's not
a franchise quarterback. Think what you want. I like the guy,

(01:41:25):
but he throws too many damn interceptions. There he went
thirty for thirty. Six of those interceptions were on in
the first quarter. Six were when they had the lead.
Six were in were picked sixes. I mean, look, you're
never gonna like an interception, but they were killer interceptions.
And I know somebody on Twitter will defend him. Knock
yourself out, knock yourself out. How's that working out for you?

(01:41:46):
But back to Aaron Rodgers, by the way, Russell Wilson
is not my understanding. And I'm gonna get to this
more in a second. The Steelers have not necessarily completely
one hundred percent close the door on Russell Wilson. But
let's compare Aaron Rodgers and Russell Wilson. In the last

(01:42:08):
three seasons, Rogers had a record of fourteen and twenty one.
Russell Wilson had a one lost record of seventeen and
twenty four. Rogers completes sixty three percent of his passes.
Russell Wilson completes sixty three percent of his passes. Rogers
throws for about two hundred and sixteen yards a game.

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Russell Wilson throws for two hundred and twenty one yards
a game. In the last three years, Aaron Rodgers he
has throwing fifty four touchdown passes against twenty four interceptions.
Russell Wilson is throwing fifty eight touchdown passes against twenty
four interceptions, and if you're really scoring at home and

(01:42:51):
hopefully are, Rogers has a passer rating of ninety point
seven and Russell Wilson ninety two point two. So what
does it all mean? Pee wee hell, I don't know.
I do know this. Aaron Rodgers did visit with the
Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday, according to the Pittsburgh Post Consette,

(01:43:13):
and it's been confirmed by other NFL insiders. However, it
still feels, based on people who are certainly much closer
to the situation than I am, that Rogers is not
going to make his decision anytime soon, and Rodgers left
the team facility without an agreement in place.

Speaker 13 (01:43:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:43:35):
By the way, I don't blame Cam Hayward for speaking
his mind about you want to be here or not.
He since walked back those comments. I'm not sure why.
I think Pittsburgh's very concerned right now. You got Mason Rudolph.
Nothing against Mason Rudolph, but I don't think he's a
bona fide starter in the league. So what do you did?
You stick with Russell wilsoner? Do you wait? As Aaron Rodgers,

(01:43:58):
whose agent believes he's doing the right thing because he
believes patience becomes leverage. I'm not so sure he's wrong.
But Rogers, if you want to be there, if you
want to play football next year, Colin Cowartz surmised that
if didn't Minnesota want to me, he might just retire.
I can't see that. I could be wrong. I don't
see that Aaron Rodgers wants to go out the way

(01:44:21):
he went out last year, and he already said he'd
want to go out the way he went out the
year before with the injury. So apparently, you know, when
you look at Rogers and Pittsburgh, there has to be
a contract in place, right and those contract parameters apparently
have been in place for weeks, But yet money allegedly

(01:44:44):
was not discussed during an Aaron Rodgers visit Friday. He
was merely a chance for both sides to get to
know one another. What that guy's been in the league
since Moby Dick was a Minno. You know, he's a
complete load in the shorts when he wants to be.
He has no fear future and TV when he's done.
I kind of like Aaron Rodgers as I do. But

(01:45:05):
he's very annoying. No one can disagree with that. Apparently
Rogers spent his day in Pittsburgh. I doubt he went
to some of the fine museums. He revolves around meeting
with coaches and he is sorting through his options. Well,
his options are the New York Giants or the Pittsburgh Steelers.
All right, we can assume that Rogers spent time with

(01:45:28):
Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith, who, by the way, seems
to have had some success with Ryan Tanney Hill and
Justin Fields. And again, I think Pittsburgh is much closer
to winning than people realize. Why. You know, you have
a George Pickens, who's an elite receiver. You bring in
a DK Mettletcalf and you send the world this message that,

(01:45:51):
my god, we got a couple of targets. We can't
wait to not have Justin Fields. We don't need him.
They don't want him throw into those targets. You got
to a guy that can get him the ball. You've
already seen the Russell Wilson act in Pittsburgh wasn't terrible.
But Aaron Rodgers in theory hope Springs Eternal might have
a higher ceiling Field's elected to sign with the Jets

(01:46:12):
and free agency instead of resigning with Pittsburgh. You know
how I feel about Justin Fields. A man of very
high calendar, a solid professional, a great teammate, a great
locker room guy. He is the college version of a
Reid option only quarterback whose default mechanism is to run.
It's got to be maddening if you're an offensive coordinator.

(01:46:35):
As he watches wide receivers one wide open and he says, I,
what the hell, I'll do that whirling dervish, take off
and run and run seventy five yards in Game three? Oh,
I'll every now and then he'll break one off and
go sixty yards and go there go that man. Okay,
that's not how you play quarterback in the NFL. He's
fourteen and three as a starter for a reason. Why
I digress? Why am I on him? Rogers has reportedly

(01:46:58):
obviously spent the last couple of weeks trying to decide
between signing with the Steelers, the New York Giants, or retirement.
As Aaron Rodgers said in his Netflix special, many times
he suffered what are called ego deaths. Had to be
an ego death when the Minnesota Vikings, who'd been kind

(01:47:19):
of linked to the Rogers, reportedly decided to move instead
forward with JJ McCarthy, who missed his entire rookie season
due to an injury. Obviously, and you really got to
love the way head coach Kevin McConnell O'Connell in Minnesota
was so diplomatic in his public statement. He says, not

(01:47:42):
for now, not for now. Yeah, I don't know that
it's anytime soon, but you don't rule anything out. I
frankly would have liked to see an Aaron then on offense.
But the problem is when you get Aaron, you get
all the mischieg gost that comes with it, and they
don't want that. He still is a four time league MVP.
He's coming off at twenty twenty four season and saw
him rank in the top ten. Believe it or not,

(01:48:05):
this has got to be the most vacuous, superfluous statistic.
This year he heard Rodgers ranked to the top ten
in the NFL and both passing yards and touchdown passes. Now,
some might consider that a good year, maybe even a
banner year. It is not a typical season for Rogers
because he suffered through the worst year of his career
from a win lost standpoint, The Jets five and twelve

(01:48:28):
record last year basically said we're blowing this thing up
and starting over. They brought in Aaron Glenn and that's
gone from there. Okay, the new brass sit, We're not
bringing back Rogers. He officially became a free agent shortly
after the free agency officially started on March twelfth. Meanwhile,
again back to Pittsburgh, Field's departure led the Steelers interest

(01:48:49):
in Rogers. By the way, you know that Rogers and
Mike Tomlin have been a winkning each other across the
sideline for a decade. But if for whatever reason, Aaron
Rodgers doesn't sign, they have a contingency plan because they
do have Mason Rudolph. I don't dislike Mason Rudolph. He
was eight and four to one as a starter during
his first pro goal round. But can you really say

(01:49:12):
with Mason Rudolph under center, can you really say, with
Mason Rudolf under center, you can feel good about going
to the playoffs? If you can, I can't. Now try
to figure out why the Giants are hitching their quarterback
wagon to something called Jameis Winston. I don't know. Maybe

(01:49:35):
there is some common sense the Giants are still set
in their sights, maybe on their upcoming draft to secure
the most important position on the field or else. How
about this the Giants, even after adding Winston, maybe they're
not completing on on Aaron Rodgers. I think they are
to the extent they were ever in on Aaron Rodgers.
So for now. Last Friday, it was reported Jameis Winston

(01:49:58):
is coming to the Giants on a two year deal
worth eight million, as The New York Post reported, I
guess it'll be a wild and wacky fun time in
New York, maybe within the occasional highlights. What you don't
know is they haven't said that Winston is QB one.
What if they do draft Shodor Sanders they might. There

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are a lot of people that certainly have him plugged
in there. I don't do mock drafts. I don't predict
the future. It's difficult. Well, I do predict the future
on some things, but not not mock drafts. And sorry,
I hate to break up the party, but if you're
asking me, with all due respect, with all due respect,
would I draft Schadorf Sanders three overall? No? Not no,

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hell no, I don't dislike Schador Sanders. He's gonna have
a role in the National Football League. He does not
have that one lead superpower a top five pick has.
He has good arm strength, good accuracy, good athleticism. Put
him on the field with NFL players. He's not going
to be nearly as dynamic as you think he is.
Maybe you don't think he is. But Winston is certainly
not the giants franchise quarterback because he's simply not that.

(01:51:05):
He's not even Aaron Rodgers. He's certainly not Aaron Rodgers,
who's the crazy forty one year old with Iowatskin on
Dark Retreats and Pat McAfee. But he wants his twenty
first season. The Giants apparently still want him. They haven't
closed the door on him even after the Winston signing.
They just didn't feel comfortable waiting and waiting for Rogers
to make up his mind without at least getting an
experienced quarterback. Before that, Tommy DeVito was the only quarterback

(01:51:29):
on the roster. I like Tommy DeVito, then again, they'd
be better off of Danny DeVito. Rogers is still a
long shot. It does come to the Giants if Rogers
does come to the Giants, Winston Wisby is backup, his
contract is in line with backup money, and in that scenario,
the Giants could still be interested in selecting a quarterback
with a number three overall pick on the draft. And

(01:51:51):
that's a lot of stuff on the New York Giants.
Now coming up, JJ McCarthy, Aaron and the Vikings quarterback situation.
There are four key questions. Why were the Vikings ever
considering Aaron Rodgers? Where no one's talking about this, Where
does JJ McCarthy's development stand right now, What does the

(01:52:15):
decision not to sign Rogers say about JJ McCarthy, And finally,
what does this mean for the Vikings going forward? As
it stands today? I'm Bernie Friddle. Were coming to your
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Number one, Why were the Vikings considering Aaron Rodgers well
after winning fourteen games? And it came to check that
after winning fourteen games last year and the season coming

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to a very unceremonious then with the first round playoff
route and by the way, Rogers viewed the Vikings as
a premier destination. And the quarterback group is very incomplete
this year because you have twenty two year old first
round pick JJ McCarthy. He missed the entire rookie season
with torn MI In this Minnesota Pitts Jones on an
open competition for a starting job. Sam Darnell bolted and

(01:54:08):
Daniel Jones bolted, So that leaves you know, JJ McCarthy
and assuming he's healthy, he's still untested, and I think
he's got a chance to be good in this league,
but you really don't know. It's still theoretical at this point.
And Kevin o'connin Aaron Rodgers have known each other for

(01:54:29):
ten years. They both played quarterback in the early two thousands.
They're about the same age on the West Coast. Apparently
they've stayed connected over the years. And once I've kind
of learned of Rogers interest, he said, let's let's give it.
Let's give it a thought. But then McCarthy had to
look at how Rogers would fit into the Vikings culture,
what the optics would look like, how he would blend

(01:54:50):
his schematic philosophies, et cetera. Would it mesh with what
Aaron Rodgers wants. And a lot of people supported the idea.
I think he can still operate at a high level.
But mccar O'Connell wasn't quite convinced yet, at least yet
that's the way I see it. So where does JJ
McCarthy's development stand right now? When the last time Kevin
O'Connell publicly talked about McCarthy's status was two months ago,

(01:55:14):
when he was asked as McCarthy would be the starter
in twenty twenty five, he said, I'm excited about where
JJ is him being able to absorb a lot of
the offenses past year and have a positive off season,
YadA YadA. Yeah, but he wouldn't go as far as
explicitly naming JJ McCarthy as a starter, which is not

(01:55:34):
unexpected if it's only a January news conference. But this
is the first round draft choice, and you've already lost
one year. If he's not gonna start year two and
you don't have it's not like he's sitting behind in
Aaron Rodgers like Jordan Love did in Green Bay, or
Rogers did behind Brett Favre. You get the point. So apparently, Look,
McCarthy has spent these early months of twenty twenty five

(01:55:57):
in Minnesota and they're monitoring his progress and we'll see
what happens. But I think the Vikings have to find
a veteran It just looked doesn't look like it's gonna
be Rodgers right now. So what is the decision not
to sign Rogers at least so far. Specifically say about
JJ McCarthy, It means that the Vikings are tipping their

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hand that they are comfortable enough with McCarthy to risk
Rogers signing with another team or simply retiring now. Back
in twenty twenty two, all the Vikings brass got together
and they felt their best path to a Super Bowl
was selecting a quarterback at the top of the draft
and then pairing that quarterback's rookie contract with additions because

(01:56:38):
they always have extra salary cast space everywhere else. Now.
O'Connell personally structured the team's plan to evaluate quarterbacks in
the twenty twenty four class. Last spring, he interviewed them,
the Vikings flew him in, worked him out privately, and
right before the twenty twenty four draft, O'Connell admitted he
was look knowing that he's kind of been the guy

(01:57:00):
who kaibosches quarterbacks because he fights off decisions from the
inside because of certain evaluation processes that he does. But
I really respect. Kevin O'Connell Okay. Once Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels,
Drake May Michael Pennis were drafted, the Vikings moved up
a spot and said, let's take McCarthy. McConnell said he
was very happy with the way it all came together

(01:57:21):
on draft night because McCarthy had been checking box as
the prior fall before he took his meniscus. His mechanics
looked very smooth. He executed consistently in a preseason game
against the Raiders, and the Viking staff was ready to
give you more first team reps when they started to
have joint practices in Cleveland. But then he had the
injury and that threw the whole thing into a wrench. Now,

(01:57:43):
committing Nick McCarthy right now comes with risk, but the Vikings'
actions cement their belief that I don't think this risk
has risen to the level and needed to make a move.
They could have been more aggressive and trying to keep Darnold.
They could have offered Daniel Jones of Moore lucrative deal,
but they didn't. They could have signed Rogers but they didn't.
So what does this mean going forward? Looks to me

(01:58:06):
like the Vikings are looking for a big you know,
a big training camp from J J McCarthy. Offseason workouts.
They're almost upon us today, is what March twenty second,
twenty third workouts begin in fifteen days offseason workouts in
the National Football League, and JJ McCarthy's going to have

(01:58:26):
the opportunity to show the Vikings what they are hoping
they got. His physical condition matters. His command of the
offense is extremely important. So in the meantime, do the
Vikings pursue another backup? They have options to play. They
could still go out and sign a veteran like a
Joe Flacco or Brian Tannehill. Or they could trade for

(01:58:46):
a younger player like a Sam Howell or Aidan O'Connell,
just someone to put in the roster. Right well, I
don't know what they're going to do. So until Aaron
Rodgers retires, signs with the team, or whatever the hell
he does, goes at another retreat. The prospect of him,
Minnesota can't rule it out. And what if God forbid,
JJ McCarthy suffers a setback with his knee or the

(01:59:07):
Vikings come to the realization he needs more development time.
That's why the Vikings are taking their time, and maybe
that's where Rogers is taking his time. Coming up the
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Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
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Because here on the Bernie Frattle Show, as Yogi Abara
would say, you can observe a lot by watching, and
that's what we do. We and our staff we observe
and watch events around this great country of ours, from

(02:00:14):
sea to oily Sea, and perhaps even around the globe
and the planet, because people engage in behaviors. People like
to engage in behaviors sometimes odd ball, stupid, silly, innocuous,
and some you know, sometimes they don't mean any harm,
but other times they do and other times for it,
perhaps they can lead to criminal charges and things like that,

(02:00:38):
and you end up in jail and your life is ruined.
But any way you slice it, any way you describe it,
any way you characterize it, these behaviors that we observe
that people engage in, well, they always leave us scratching
our heads and asking ourselves, what kind of brand new
fool are you?

Speaker 9 (02:01:02):
So?

Speaker 1 (02:01:02):
What kind of brand new fool are you?

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
So I've got one tonight that actually I would very
much put in the innocuous category, kind of weird, And
for the first time I can remember in the history
of what kind of brand new fool are you? We
take you to Sheldon, Iowa. I've been to Iowa. I've
been to Des Moines. My wife and I were moving

(02:01:27):
across the country. We've passed through des Moines, Iowa, a
very nice city, but I've never been to Sheldon, Iowa.
And I'm wondering if anybody knows mister Doug Paul quistra
just throwing it out there. Nicely done, Mark, all right,
So we have heard if you watch the news or

(02:01:48):
maybe even study the hatfields of McCoy's, there can, in
fact be neighbor feuds. In fact, they may or may
not happen more often than we realize. And we've seen
him on the news. We've seen them turn violent, we've
seen them involve crimes. Sometimes they are crimes that hurt people,

(02:02:10):
sometimes they are crimes that hurt property, and sometimes they
are more a crime of nuisance. Now, I don't know
what in the hell happened to mister Doug Paul in Sheldon, Iowa,
sixty four years old. And if you see a picture
of this guy, his beard would make Rip van Winkle blush.

(02:02:31):
But I don't know who pissed in his corn flakes
or licked the red off his lollipop. But something got
his tractor cranked because he decided he would get revenge
on one of his neighbors. And man, you are not
gonna believe what he did. Then, that's why we call
this what kind of brand new fool you? So what

(02:02:55):
mister Paul did was caught on video, and he ended
up being arrested for criminal mischief, part of it was
trespassing and vandalizing. So what exactly did mister Paul of Sheldon,
i Would do? He painted his neighbor's plants. What he

(02:03:19):
can be seen on video going onto the property, painting
plants and going about his business. It turns out the
plants are worth a whopping forty dollars. But that's somebody's property,
somebody's stuff. And there was a complete police report in
this city report, and mister Paul admitted going on to
the property and admitted to the crime, which again resulted

(02:03:41):
in criminal mischief and trespassing forty dollars in plants. But
it's still considered vandalizing. Boy, he knows how to get even,
doesn't he. I But listen, not that I advocate any
of this stuff, but when I saw this story again,
all I could do is ask myself, mister, mister Doug Paul,

(02:04:02):
sixty four years old, of Sheldon, Iowa, what kind of
brand new fool you? All right, mister ian, what have
you got for us tonight?

Speaker 20 (02:04:11):
All right?

Speaker 21 (02:04:12):
So I'm actually I'm pretty excited about this one and
happy to be back on the Bernie Frattle show because
it's been a while since I've been able to share
one of these fools, which always keep them in the
back of my head, you know, save them for later.
But this one was actually recent, so that's makes it
a little more timely. So our story begins in clear Water, Florida, Florida, Florida.

Speaker 20 (02:04:32):
You know that was follow one.

Speaker 21 (02:04:33):
Yeah, plenty of fools in Florida, but tonight's fool. We're
following a man named Aaron Jablonsky. Yeah, his name's funny already.
But Jablonsky decided he wanted to go out for a
few drinks at the nearby Overtime Sports Bar. So this
is in Clearwater, Florida, near his house. So Overtime it's
good bar, has food, drinks, sports, all that. But the

(02:04:56):
real reason Jablonsky wanted to go that night was for karaoke.
They also offer karaoke, so that's a little caveat there.
So he gets there, presumably ready to sing his heart out,
but unfortunately for him, on that particular night, the karaoke
machine was actually broken, so no karaoke that night was available.

Speaker 20 (02:05:15):
So so now.

Speaker 21 (02:05:17):
The average non fool would have just accepted that, maybe
got an extra drink to help cope with the fat
that they couldn't perform karaoke that night. Worst case, maybe
they'd go to another bar looking for a working machine.
But that was not Aaron Jablonski, so he started yelling,
making a scene. He ended up storming out of the
bar in a fit of rage, but that wasn't the end.
So apparently outside the bar, he was still so visibly

(02:05:39):
angry that another man tried to calm him down, denied karaoke,
though Jablonsky was in no mood to be calm, so
he pulled out a gun, brandished it and fired off around,
not at the person, just you know, off into the distance.

Speaker 20 (02:05:56):
And after that happened, he ended up sticking.

Speaker 21 (02:05:57):
Around at the bar for a little longer. Police showed up,
obviously as there had been gunfire. He still had the
gun on him, not like he chose to ditch it
or anything, just kept it. It was a glock, and
he was of course arrested. Turned out that Jablonski wasn't
actually legally allowed to have that firearm in the first place,
as he had previously been convicted of battery on a
law enforcement officer. So again this was literally just earlier

(02:06:21):
this week. So I believe he's still currently locked up
in the county jail as we speak, unless someone bailed.
But Aaron Jablonski, what kind of brand new fool are you?

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
So you bring your gun to karaoke? Did I understand that? Correct?

Speaker 21 (02:06:35):
Yes, he brought his block to karaoke, and yeah, it
wasn't available, it was broken, and he was not happy
about that. He ended up going outside firing a shot
off because someone tried to calm him down. Yeah, not
a good night for Aaron Jablonskill.

Speaker 2 (02:06:50):
Any truth to the rumor he was set to do
a you know, a series of guns and roses.

Speaker 20 (02:06:56):
On I cannot confirm nor to I.

Speaker 2 (02:07:01):
All right, another one from Florida and my wife and
I would be visiting Clearwater later this year. I hope
Jablonski's nowhere around. But all right, another outstanding addition.

Speaker 21 (02:07:11):
Well, actually, Bernie, I do have another little runner up
one since we have a little bit of time.

Speaker 20 (02:07:17):
Is that okay?

Speaker 2 (02:07:18):
Sure?

Speaker 21 (02:07:18):
Just just bring another quick one here? There was a
guy whose brother in law pranked him by pouring super
glue into his belly button. Now I couldn't get specific
names for this one. Which is why I didn't have
it as my official fool here. But he ended up
suing his brother in law, taking him to small claims
court and fifty three dollars. He's suing him for super
glue in his belly button.

Speaker 2 (02:07:40):
Was he asleep or something?

Speaker 21 (02:07:41):
Yeah, he was asleep. Fell asleep apparently, was at a
family barbecue. He'd had a too few too many beers.
Fell asleep in the hammock with his shirt off. His
brother in law, who was completely sober, thought it would
be funny to fill his belly button with super glue.
He said, at some point I must have touched it,
because when I woke up, I had glue partially dried
in belly button and on my finger.

Speaker 20 (02:08:02):
Tried to remove it, it was stuck.

Speaker 21 (02:08:03):
The gluid adhered to my skin, and when we attempted
to peel it off, it caused him tearing around the edges.

Speaker 20 (02:08:08):
Not fun, not fun.

Speaker 2 (02:08:09):
So nice brother, like cannon Abel. I mean, wow, all
this guy intended to do with I was like a prank.
He wasn't pisso he like revenge like mister Paul and
iowall who's painting plants? He just thought he'd have a
little fun with some super glue hunk.

Speaker 20 (02:08:25):
Guess so, guess.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
So that's why we call this segment, what kind of
brand new fool?

Speaker 5 (02:08:30):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (02:08:31):
All right? Well? That enables us now to segue into
our second favorite bit that we lovingly refer to as
what my name? And here we go? All right, this
past NFL season, I became the only running back to

(02:08:53):
rush for one thousand yards in the last four seasons.
Mark Ramsey, What my name? And here's a clue. He
plays for one of the franchises that Aaron Rodgers is
considering going to.

Speaker 20 (02:09:13):
Would it be the Vikings?

Speaker 2 (02:09:17):
It's not the Vikings, but I'm looking for the name.
Is it? I'll give you a clue. Is it? Is
it Joe Mixon, Josh Woods or Naji Harris?

Speaker 20 (02:09:33):
Naji Harris?

Speaker 2 (02:09:35):
It is, in fact, Najie Harris. We begin with a winner,
all right. I am the most sacked quarterback in NFL history.
Ian Roddy, What my name?

Speaker 20 (02:09:52):
The most sat up?

Speaker 2 (02:09:54):
And I'll give you a clue. Yeah, he did win
one Super Bowl, but he's no longer with the team.
What he wont the Super Bowl?

Speaker 20 (02:10:03):
That makes it sound like he's still playing, so he.

Speaker 2 (02:10:07):
Wants to be still playing. He's kind of a man
without a country.

Speaker 20 (02:10:11):
Right now, I'm gonna say Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
It is, in fact Aaron Rodgers excellent, most history, Yeah,
most sacked in NFL history. But you know he's been
around twenty one years, so why not? All right, let's
let's that's a little basketball. Saturday, I became only the
second coach in NCAA March Madness history to lead his team.

(02:10:37):
Check that, to lead four teams to the sweet sixteen.
So Saturday, I became only the second coach in NCAA
March Madness history to lead four teams to the Suite sixteen.
They had a big win on Saturday. That's I think
a pretty big clue. Mark Ramsey, what my name?

Speaker 20 (02:11:00):
Mister Calipari?

Speaker 2 (02:11:03):
It is, in fact John Calipari. Now I said that
mister Calipari was the second coach in history. I'm the
only other coach in history March man Is history to
lead four teams into the sweet sixteen. Ian Roddy what

(02:11:28):
my name? And here's a clue. His son coaches in NCAA.
His son coaches in the NCAA basketball but was recently fired.
Was recently fired?

Speaker 20 (02:11:39):
Who would that be? Rick Patino not.

Speaker 2 (02:11:44):
His son was recently fired from a Mountain wet school
who didn't make the tournament. Their nickname is the Running Rebels.
So his dad is the only other coach to lead
four teams into the sweet sixteen. What my name?

Speaker 20 (02:12:05):
I'm gonna say Jim Beheim, But I don't think that's right.

Speaker 2 (02:12:07):
It's not a terrible guest. It's not a terrible guest.
But behein spend so much time at Syracuse. Yeah, all right,
I'm the only other coach to lead four teams into
the sweet sixteen. Mark Ramsey, am I, Roy Williams, Mike
Krzyzewski or Lon Krueger.

Speaker 20 (02:12:31):
Is a total guess? Is it Krueger?

Speaker 2 (02:12:34):
It is, in fact Ln Krueger. Great guy lives here
in Vegas. He did it with Illinois, he did it
with Florida, he did with UNLV And someone can I
should know the fourth team? And I do, and but
I don't know. Okay, here's an interesting one, guys. I
am the winningest NCAA coach with seven hundred and eighty
six wins to have never won a championship. Ian Roddy,

(02:12:59):
What my name? Here's a good clue. Doug Gottlie played
for this guy. It was his point guard oh Man twelve.

Speaker 20 (02:13:07):
Yeah he has it a fran Yeah, I forget it's.

Speaker 2 (02:13:11):
Not friend, but you're tracking. You're tracking. He coached for
Oklahoma State, Mark uh Ian, what my name?

Speaker 20 (02:13:24):
Just a game? I'm just saying, Mike Sefski. I know
that's wrong, but that's no problem.

Speaker 2 (02:13:27):
You gave it an effort, all right. I'm the winningest
coach in the NCAA. Toho have never won a championship,
even though I won seven hundred eighty six games. Mark Ramsey,
Roy Williams, Steve Fisher or Eddie Sutton.

Speaker 20 (02:13:42):
I'm gonna guess and say Roy Williams, it is.

Speaker 2 (02:13:46):
In fact eighty Sutton from Oklahoma State. Doug played for him.
Great coach, never really seemingly mentioned on the short list.
You guys are gonna get this one though, easy. I'm
the only NCAA basketball coach to have actually won ten
NCAA championships. Ian? What my name?

Speaker 21 (02:14:05):
That would be Shryzhevsky Nor?

Speaker 2 (02:14:10):
Yeah, you were gonna catch yourself. Go ahead, what my name?

Speaker 20 (02:14:12):
Jim Behein?

Speaker 2 (02:14:14):
Oh not Jim behind. Here's a clue. He coached the UCLA.
His last championship was nineteen seventy five and then he retired.

Speaker 21 (02:14:25):
No, it's gonna come to me. It's I wouldn't John Woodney.

Speaker 2 (02:14:29):
John there you go, big fella. All right, John there
it is all right? Two more. I'm the winningest NCAA
basketball coach in the history of women's basketball. Mark Ramsey
what my name? Here's a clue. Won all my championships

(02:14:51):
at Yukon. Yukon.

Speaker 20 (02:14:57):
Oh. I can't think of his name, but I know
you were his glasses. I was gonna say Pat Sutton,
but I guess that's wrong.

Speaker 2 (02:15:06):
He does work glasses.

Speaker 20 (02:15:07):
Okay, you did say Yukon, so yep.

Speaker 2 (02:15:10):
I'm the winningest coach in NCAA in the history of
NCAA women's basketball. Ian Roddy what my name? He was
very outspoken about Caitlyn Clark last year and he couldn't
have been more wrong.

Speaker 20 (02:15:21):
This has to be Geno Rima, right, You got it?

Speaker 2 (02:15:23):
Geno Arima. Yeah. Notwithstanding his great accomplishments our last one,
I am currently the NCAA college basketball coach with the
longest streak of advancing my team into sweet sixteens with
six Mark Ramsey, what my name? He's still coaching right now,

(02:15:47):
and his team is one of the hot favorites to
maybe win it all, to win it all five tremendous defense.

Speaker 20 (02:16:00):
There any clues because I'm only thinking of everybody.

Speaker 2 (02:16:02):
Yeah, they beat they beat b YU today. No, no,
they did not, by you excuse me, they didn't. Forgive me.
It's a brain fart.

Speaker 20 (02:16:09):
I'm not going to know.

Speaker 21 (02:16:10):
I'm only thinking about Florida because everybody loves Florida.

Speaker 2 (02:16:13):
Now, all right, let's just get let's so, my clues
weren't very good, but I'm currently the head coach with
the longest streak advancing to the Sweet sixteen with six
or ian What my name is this?

Speaker 20 (02:16:28):
Tom Izzo?

Speaker 2 (02:16:30):
I believe it or not, I'll give you, guys so
you can blurt it out. Is he is? His team
is based in Texas.

Speaker 20 (02:16:39):
Oh, Kelvin Houston coach, Right, you.

Speaker 2 (02:16:42):
Got it, Kelvin Samsons. And what's interesting, uh, Mark Fugh.
Had Gonzaga somehow beaten Houston Saturday night, that would have
been Gonzaga's tenth straight Sweet sixteen under under Mark fu
So that would have been I think quite an accomplishment.

Speaker 20 (02:17:01):
All right, learn a lot about college basketball tonight.

Speaker 2 (02:17:05):
All right, good job guys, what brand new fool? What
my name? I certainly appreciate the efforts. By the way,
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Coming up, Did you know the Dodgers are already two
to zero? Major League Baseball has started well thanks to
a record setting Tokyo Series. Major League Baseball is started

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the season with some serious momentum. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're
coming to you live from the Fox Sports Radio Tireck
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that coming up, so Bernie Friddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.
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They're two to zero, and I say his tongue in
cheek that the Cubs were already in last place in
the NL Central, but as expected, Major League Baseball, in
their season opening trip to Japan this past week is
the league's largest standalone international event in league history. Now,
I didn't stay up to three am either day, but

(02:18:34):
I did DVR the shows, and we had a caller
from Tokyo earlier Paul and Tokyo hope he calls again.
Is fantastic. And I turned out that Bernie Frattle Show
is a drive time in Tokyo. I gotta love that.
But the league said Friday. The two game series earlier
this week at the Tokyo Dome, which my wife and
I will visit next May between the Dodgers and Cubs

(02:18:57):
set an array of records, not only viewership, but attendance,
merchandise sales, everything. So the soaring popularity of Major League
Baseball in Japan is alive and well, and the rabid
fans and the reception for their homecoming native stars like
not only Shoheo Tani, but Yoshinoba Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki

(02:19:19):
part of the Dodger's rotation was off the hook. These
are historic totals. An average audience of twenty five million
people in Japan alone for the first game. That completely
smashes the previous record for Major League Baseball viewership in
Japan that was set during the World Series last year. Now,

(02:19:41):
the second game almost matched it twenty three million, And
if you adjust that for Japan's population, well, those figures
are greater than what our Super Bowl draws in the US.
And the games happened during prime time for Japanese viewers,
which was not the situation with the early morning airing

(02:20:01):
here of the World Series. So even by the way,
there was a series four exhibition games that preceded the
Major League Baseball openers, involving two nip On Professional Baseball
League teams, and those drew huge numbers in Japan, almost
twelve million across all platforms. Now back here in the
United States, and remember the game. The games were on

(02:20:24):
at three am in Los Angeles local time, in five
am local time in loss in Chicago. But back here
in the United States, the Dodgers Cubs game on Opening Day,
I believe that was Tuesday or three in the morning
on Wednesday, drew an average of almost nine hundred thousand
viewers on Fox. In the second game on FS one

(02:20:47):
averaged about four hundred thousand, despite the fact, like I said,
three AM and five AM. But here's the key takeaway there. Collectively,
the viewership here in the United States completely surpassed last
year's Sole Seat that was played in Soul, South Korea
between the Dodgers and Padres. It was increased by wait
for it, sixty percent. So when you add those two

(02:21:10):
games along with the four prior exhibitions, those not only
drew a combined attendants. Combined attendants of over two hundred
and fifty three thousand of the Tokyo Dome. The Major
League Baseball Tokyo Series FanFest I tracted almost half a
million fans over a twelve day run. That's the most
visited fan festival of any type in league history. Now,

(02:21:31):
the fan fest started in Toronto back in nineteen ninety one.
I got to do the one in nineteen ninety two
with Jim Lampley on Home Shopping Network Believe it or not,
live from the old Jack Murphy Stadium. It was down
in San Diego before Petco Park was built, and it
was amazing. Major League Baseball FanFest is amazing, but they

(02:21:52):
didn't draw a five hundred thousand fans. They drew a lot,
but not that many. So give it up to the
international impact that baseball is having, certainly in Japan. By
the way, not for nothing, Major League Baseball had the
best merchandise sales of the in and Andy of any
international event in their history. Last year. The London Series
in twenty twenty four set records. But what happened this

(02:22:17):
past week broke the London Series merchandise record by three
hundred and twenty percent. Just simply incredible. Baseball is upon us.
It's already here, and yes, Dodgers fans here already two
and zero. Well, we talked a lot about NFL football
earlier in the show, with the NFL quarterback carousel and
Aaron Rodgers and the like. We covered all on the

(02:22:39):
Bernie Frauder Show, including the sports spelled fut bl that's
also played internationally. Gold Cup coming up this summer. At
this time, we throw it to Chris Purffet and the
world of soccer. The greatest goal, the thrilling, finishes.

Speaker 3 (02:23:03):
The international drama. It's all here in this report from
the world of soccer.

Speaker 15 (02:23:14):
Now, Bernie, I don't want to be alarmist, but I
do believe it is now time to start worrying about
the US men's soccer team when it comes to the
World Cup, because the US team took probably its first
big loss in the Pochettino era. Caulcacaffe Nations League is
a tournament that the US has generally cleaned up at.

(02:23:35):
It's not really seen as much of a stumbling block
for them, and in spite of feisty conking Caff play
at times from rivals across North America, they've usually been
able to get into the final match fairly easily in
dispatch Canada or Mexico or who have you.

Speaker 20 (02:23:51):
Well, the US will be.

Speaker 15 (02:23:52):
Playing Canada on Sunday, however, it will be for the
third place match. And their loss came to Panama. Yes, Panama. Now,
I can already hear US soccer fans saying, oh, Panama
usually gives the US trouble. Sure, sure, understood, But you're
supposed to be ready to play for a World Cup.
And what happened at the end of the game was

(02:24:13):
nothing short of a backbreaker. It was nil nil going
into the final final bit of time. When all of
this sudden, Panama's Cecilio Waterman suddenly gets loose in the
ninety fourth minute, seconds before the end of the game,
and runs loose. He gets the ball past Matt Turner
Waterman and Panama goes to celebrate with Thierre Henri.

Speaker 20 (02:24:35):
Who is on the broadcast set there.

Speaker 3 (02:24:39):
And that's that.

Speaker 15 (02:24:40):
The US loses to Panama. It is a stunner of
epic proportions that all we can talk about of a
US team that had possessed the ball for two thirds
of the game, for a US side that really should
not be at this point screwing around with a team
like Panama and got sound defeated in a stunner and

(02:25:02):
a strike. And honestly, I'm not sure what's gonna happen
with Canada, but it's just genuinely not good enough. And
so says Pochettino as well, that wearing the US shirt
simply isn't good enough. It is a test, it is
a massive test for the US Budgetino is already looking
forward to Canada, saying quote that the US team needs

(02:25:23):
to show character. But already we're starting to really start
to dissect this team, and wonder, hey, are you guys
ready for you know the World Cup, you know that
thing that's next year that you host here in North America. Assumingly,
this isn't the sort of loss the team like the
United States is supposed to take. And yes, loss has

(02:25:45):
happened across the soccer but we always have to repeat this.
Conka CAF is a very shallow pool.

Speaker 2 (02:25:50):
The US.

Speaker 15 (02:25:51):
It would always move them to play commable or UEFA teams.
But if you're losing to a team like Panama, it
is a It is a a a indictment upon who
you are as a team. This is a team whose
roster really has not changed. It hasn't brought in new
big top scores. Pulisic had very little impact in the game.

(02:26:14):
Pulsich himself, who is kind of getting to the to
the point where I'm starting to wonder if this guy
is going to be something of a leader. And there
is lots of contemplation within the squad as to who
is going to step up, But the question is who
even will be that person be? Because I look across
this roster and I don't really see a lot of

(02:26:36):
pieces still remaining after how the last era blew up.
Outside of Pulsich to say, Hey, this is a team
that's going to be exciting. This is a team that's
going to be dynamic and attack and really have an identity.
It really does not have that right now. That was
ninety minutes of frustration capped off with a big, giant

(02:26:57):
mistake that ended everything. And then there's the case of
the turnout at Los Angeles in Sofi Stadium for this game.
I know Clint Dempsey spoke on CBS and said that
the game's timing probably you know, threw off a lot
of the crowd. It's competing against March madness. But this
is a team that once upon a time, ten years ago,

(02:27:19):
would draw tremendous crowds when it was Clinton Dempsey playing,
when it was Josie Altador, when it was those guys
who went to Brazil. Like, this is a far cry,
not just for the team before the entire American fan base.
I kind of get it too, though, but considering how
little they are showing you. But at the same time,

(02:27:39):
this spark has to come from somewhere, and you're supposed
to being ready for a World Cup too. I don't
I'm throwing out my hands on this one. I have
to stew on this for quite a while because quite honestly,
it shouldn't really be a problem. This is supposed to
be the new manager and this is a big, big
stumbling block with a big milestone, with a World Cup

(02:28:00):
coming up in your backyard. Within I would say a
calendar and change. What's it gonna take to really get
this team to take things? Seriously, what's it gonna take
that'll do it for this sedition of the World of Soccer.

Speaker 2 (02:28:19):
Well, Mauricio Poltuccinos to come under great fire, and you
shouldn't this This is like groundhog Day with Bill Murray.
It just keeps happening over and over and over and over.
Against Panama, the US reverted to form no offense. You know,

(02:28:42):
all right, there's no sense in belaboring the point. But
there will be a World Cup coming up. There will
be a Gold Cup coming up. And I think Doug
Gottlie said earlier in the week, we're promised every year
every decade, this is finally going to be the iteration
that puts us on the world stage. But I'll say
what I was told back when World Cup. You know,
I was told that until the Adrian Peterson's of the world.

(02:29:03):
This is a quote from somebody start to decide they
want to play soccer. Yeah, we ain't. Wen't going nowhere
on the world stage. And I kind of believe that. Hey,
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(02:29:50):
we wrap up the show and the final eighth spots
in the Sweet sixteen will be awarded on Sunday. As
the opening weekend will we'll come to a close. We'll
go over some of the key matchups you can look
forward to on Sunday, and also believe me. I didn't
forget a tribute to a true American icon, legend, entrepreneur

(02:30:15):
and boxing champion with a great life story, dead at
seventy six, the great George Foreman. I'm Bernie Fratto coming
to a line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio
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the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,
we are wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show

(02:30:38):
Fox Sports Radio. Come to line from the Las Vegas
Fox Sports Radio tyrack dot com studios. Before I go
any further, I want to thank my broadcast team tonight,
Ian and Mark a great job. Appreciate all the efforts
brand New Fool what by name, turning all the dials,
keeping us clued together, keeping the ship. Afore, always appreciate

(02:31:01):
the professional efforts of my broadcast team. Before I get
to a couple of the key matchups later Sunday that
will be provocative as we are now ready to award
the final eight spots in the Sweet sixteen. As the
first weekend of the twenty twenty five March Managed Tournament

(02:31:23):
comes to a close, I want to pay homage to
a gentleman I considered to be an American icon. And
what's interesting I not adopt in my mind, there's a
whole generation of people. They know him from his George
Foreman grill, which he created in nineteen ninety four, sold
one hundred million of them, sold a couple of them

(02:31:44):
to me, and became a funny, likable pitch man, among
many other things he did as a legendary boxer as
an entrepreneur. George Foreman is his story is an epic story.
Passed at seventy six, six years old. We know it
was peacefully in the Houston Hospital. We don't know what
the cause of death was. Just don't know. But here's

(02:32:07):
a kid coming out of Texas who had some trouble
in his youth, joined the job corpse he was sixteen
years old, and someone introduced him to boxing in seventeen
and it must have agreed with him, because he made
his first stamp on the boxing world when he was
only nineteen years old at the nineteen sixty eight Mexico
City Olympics, and he won a medal. To the best

(02:32:28):
of my knowledge, and I understand that before that fight,
the thing everybody loved about George Foreman is he was
honest and candid and sincere, and there was no trepidation
about what was on his mind. And he was entertaining
and always packaged his message in a way that really
resonated with people. And he admitted many many years later,

(02:32:50):
he looked back at that fight at the Olympics. He'd
only had a couple dozen amateur fights. It's incredible that
they would rush him into that situation. He admitted just
what fifteen years ago, that how afraid he was at
the time of that fight getting into the ring. And
he said, a lot of people thought I had confidence. Well,

(02:33:11):
I didn't have a lot of confidence that the people
thought I had. He wanted to win the gold, but
he didn't know that it would happen. But his coach said,
jab jab jab, and with all his jabs and wild punches,
when he got going, he was fairly well unstoppable. Then
one year after George Foreman's gold medal win, Well he
became a He took up professional boxing. He had a

(02:33:33):
legendary career seventy six and five sixty eight wins by knockout,
and in nineteen seventy three he won the first of
his two heavyweight champions when he knocked out Joe Frazier,
who was also the gold medalist in sixty four and
that famous fight in Jamaica. And then Foreman lost the
title in nineteen seventy four, one year later against Muhammad

(02:33:54):
Ali and the famous Rumble in the Jungle. But George
Foreman's life changed him when he lost a fight and
at twenty eight years old in nineteen seventy seven at
the hands of Jimmy Young and Puerto Rico. He was
twenty eight years old and he believed he almost died
that night. He almost suffered, well, he didn't almost suffer.

(02:34:16):
He suffered from serious exhaustion and heat stroke. He absolutely
said it was a near death experience. He stepped away
from boxing. He took a full decade and stepped away
from boxing. His life took one hundred and eighty return.
He became an ordained minister and in nineteen eighty four
he founded the George Human George Foreman Youth and Community Center.

(02:34:38):
But something was eating at him. He would go door
to door, door to door. Something was eating at him.
After being a preacher for ten years, and he said,
I got to get back in the game. I got
to get back in the game, and in nineteen eighty seven,
ten years later, at the age of thirty eight, George
Foreman returned to boxing and it wasn't easy for him.

(02:35:00):
He was beating the tomato cans, but he wasn't having
the success he wanted. But he found himself seven years
later with an opportunity to take on the heavyweight champion
Michael Moore at forty five years old, but multiple states
turned down his boxing license and so they couldn't sanction
the fight in the various few states they tried. Finally

(02:35:22):
Nevada accepted and the rest is history. Two decades after
losing his first losing his first through Ali the heavyweight
championship of the world. Believe it or not, I mean,
twenty years later he comes back and beats the younger, stronger,
faster Michael Moore from Detroit, even though more through four

(02:35:45):
hundred and forty punches to Foreman's three hundred and thirty.
Forman just admitted, sometimes you got to sit there and
take it, and when they dust settled, George Foreman, at
forty five was the heavyweight champion of the world again.
He went out to say anything you can desire, you
can make happen. Is like the song when you wish
upon a star your dreams come true. Will look at
me tonight. In nineteen ninety seven, Foreman and forty eight

(02:36:08):
retired from boxing for good, but by that time he'd
already reinvented himself. He was that crazy, funny, gregarious pitch man,
endorsing various products, most notably the George Foreman Grill. Foreman
also made some the television appearances. He's on The six
Million Dollar Man and even the Matt Singer in twenty
twenty two. And by the way, you probably already know

(02:36:30):
this story. George Foreman had twelve children, seven daughters and
five sons. Named all of his sons George Edward Foreman,
so he said they will always have something in common.
So this is a guy whose life spans sports, pop culture.
Rest in peace, your legacy will live forever. There's no question,
all right, couple of big games on Sunday that I'll

(02:36:52):
be having my on. I've got Duke wing it all.
I think they handled Baylor. They cover the eleven and
a half. It appears there'll be no concern about Cooper
Flag's injury status. Baylor's got some linked at the perimeter,
but they have one interior player that's gonna be very
tough to get downhill against Duke. Duke's gonna get them
out and transition and smoke Baylor. I believe Kentucky and

(02:37:13):
Illinois that's a bit of a toss up. Believe it'll
be low scoring. I do like Illinois, Maryland and Colorado
State's interesting because I'm not big on Mountain West teams.
Colorado State catching seven and a half. Some people I
trust like Colorado State. Their fifty year senior Nick Clifford
has emerged as one of the most impactful players of

(02:37:34):
the country. Didn't really have a great game against Memphis,
but his supporting cast stepped up. I think they've met,
they meet. I don't agree with my friend. I think
at Colorado State meets their maker against Maryland, Iowa State,
and Old Miss. I always love I always love Chris
Beard in the tournament, but lay in the four and
a half. I'm not really willing to do that. The

(02:37:55):
Cyclones have played well even without Keishawn Gilbert in their lineup,
and so look, I like Chris Beard and No Miss,
but I'm not laying the points. Arizona and Oregon I'm
naturally I'm working for rooting for Arnie's Arizona Wildcats are
actually favored by three and a half points, but as
a better you can't bet with your heart, you get
heart disease. I do like Dana Altman, plus to three

(02:38:16):
and a half. Anyway, slice it. By this time tomorrow,
the final Sweet sixteen will be in place as we
head into the following weekend, and so far, all four
final four teams for the most people unless you had
Saint John's, they're intact. I know my final four were attack,
so we'll see what happens by the end of the day. Scien,
it's gonna do it for the Bernie Frattles Show. We'll

(02:38:37):
see you next Saturday night at eleven. Keep it locked
up next to Great Andy Furman on Fox Sports Radio.

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