The Bernie Fratto Show Talks Jim Harbaugh, Team USA Basketball & More!

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you been watching the Olympics? You know, whether it be
Jesse Owens in nineteen thirty six, or the Miracle and
Ice hockey team in nineteen eighty, or perhaps Tanya Harding
Nancy Kerrigan in nineteen ninety four. Every so often the

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Olympics feature a singular historic event that ends up being
very noteworthy, talked about for decades because it was unique,
and you have I had to know the backstory and
the expectations and the psychodynamic going in. You had to
know the drama and understand what the drama would be.

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We almost had one Thursday, almost the USA Serbia basketball
game was in a manner of speaking, one for the ages.
But I say almost because down the road they'll look
at the box score they'll look at the final score.
Most folks won't remember the details, but I will. There

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are close games and then there are games so dramatic
enough that if you have that goofy rain Man memory
like I do, you're gonna remember this for a long time.
The Team USA went over Serbia I think belongs in
that category, and why only because of the last eight
and a half minutes. Simple in the fourth quarter, Serbia

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was all of nine from three point land. Meanwhile, Lebron,
Steph jol Embiid and Katie couldn't miss. It was the
essence of clutch see for three quarters. I'll call it again.
It was a semi final matchup, which folks who've been
there say it's often more pressure packed than the actual

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gold medal game itself. So this matchup, which was a
semi final matchup, looked like it was potentially going to
be a bad chapter in American basketball history. Paige Sergey Belloff, Okay,
google it. Nothing was really working for Team USA and

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Bogdan Boganovitch had turned into a monster. Maybe the most
talented roster in American Olympic history was crashing out badly.
By those are not my words. Somebody else's words. Don't
get me started about comparing this to the Dream Team
or I'm gonna you know, your first in line for
front of bot me. But this talented team, because they

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are talented. Well, they were down seventeen points at one juncture.
Why why did that happen? No one's talking about why
that happened. Well, hey, how about giving Serbia a little credit.
Their half court defense was terrific. Their emotion and ball
movement were terrific. You would say men's basketball is not
a team. They're merely a collection of individuals. That's a fact.

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But as I said, all along, that's all they need
to be. That's all they've needed to be. They're ten
and oh they haven't lost the game. They they feature
as a group the most prolific run and jump athletes
on the planet and frankly, pound for pound, the most
skillful basketball players on the planet.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Chick hern was once asked would Michael Jordan beat Magic
Johnson one on one? That was an argument back in
the eighties her and got mad. He said, don't ask
me dumb questions. Basketball is a team sport. I refuse
to acknowledge. He says a team. They're a collection and
they're gonna win the gold medal tomorrow. Frank this justin

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France does not have Nicola Jokick. They'll compete. I know
they're at home. That man get a call or two.
Wemby only weighs ninety seven pounds, are gonna push him
around like a rag doll. You'll see, ironically, France's best
frinkers their low post defense. Yeah, good luck against this group.
We got bodies. I'm not on the team. Scratch at
from the record, you're on her. The fourth quarter is

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what we're going to remember from Thursday. If you remember it,
you have four MVPs. If you haven't heard that by now,
it's only been repeated a thousand times. Lebron, Steph Durant,
and Joel Imbiid, they all played at their peaks in
the last eight minutes. They showcased their unbelievable God given
gifts down the stretch. Kurry was vintage, thirty six points

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in the game, hitting nine to three pointers. Lebron added
a triple double. Durant had a huge buck getting crunch
time to seal it. Joel Embiid nineteen points. He was
excellent and it was a pretty good foil for Nikola Jokic,
But there was you know, a collective you know, goosebump
atmosphere among social media, and up until and after the buzzer,

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I swear I never once thought they lose. I didn't
the only time I thought it was possible. There was
about five and a half minutes to go and the
US was chipping away at the lead, and Serbia was
still up by about seven, but an eternity to go,
and they got the ball. I got a live ball
rebound and rushed up the floor in one of their

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left handed sharpshooters for Serbia. I probably couldn't pronounce his
name anyway, so it doesn't matter, in a very Unserbian
like possession, pulled up on the run and shot a
three and missed it badly. And if they had gotten
to an offensive set and maybe taken a little time
off the clock and gotten a couple good looks as

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they had been getting and drained the three that had
gone back up ten, US got the ball the other way,
slam dunk, lay up file. Now the USA is down
by four instead of ten. At that point I said
they're not going to lose. But I never thought they
were going to lose. But had the Serbian player hit
that three with about five and a half to go,
that left hander, I would have started to say, it's possible,

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because you know, you have X amount of possessions, you
have X amount of time. Steve Kerr said he was
really humbled to have been a part of the game,
and I think maybe a lot of observers were. So
now you've got the gold medal game against France France Saturday,
which will tip off a twelve thirty Pacific time. They

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beat Germany in a rematch in another tight semi final
after losing by fourteen earlier. The Americans they're double digit favorites.
Depending on where you shop, you might lay thirteen and
a half, you might lay fifteen. And I think there's
a side story here. There'll be a side showing involving
Joel Embiid, who spurred the French to play for Team USA,
and the last time I think he matched up with Wemby,

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he scored seventy points back in January. So do I
think the US will lose? No, And I said all along,
they're not gonna lose. We you know, the USA still
has the market cornered on basketball even if he don't
really play as a team. Three takeaways from Friday. Give
it up to Steph Curry. He basically carried the team

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to victory. Here's a guy who never played in the Olympics.
He's been relatively quiet his first four games, all blowouts,
but he saved his best when the team needed it most.
It was a vintage Curry performance nine to three pointers,
thirty six points. He was hot from he got off
the bus and started banging threes, kept him in the game.
They were down seventeen, They could have been down twenty five,

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but Curry hit three triples in the opening couple of
minutes and finished with seventeen points in the first quarter.
Curry was really cooking. And then, of course, the night
three that Steph Curry made put the US ahead, and
then he and Lebron closed out the comeback and that
got the USA into the gold medal game, which is

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in about thirteen and a half hours. Second takeaway on
the floor. Lebron clearly established himself as the team leader.
He just would not let them lose. Had his first
triple double or the Olympics, only the fourth ever triple
double in the entire history of Men's Olympic Basketball sixteen
points while out of twelve rebounds ten assists. But the

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stats are numbers. They don't really do the justice as
to what Lebron meant to Team USA in the game,
spiritually and emotionally. When the US needed a bucket to
stave off one of Serbia's many runs, it was Lebron
taking the ball, playing bully ball. Get out of my
way here I come. Bogdanovich scored a team high twenty

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points for the Serbians. He turned to the US bench
and looked at Carmel or Anthony gave him the stinkye
James responded to Bogdanovich with the same chippy attitude. Curry
put the numbers up on the scoreboard. Lebron lit the
fire under his team and it needed most. There was
never a question. Lebron is the leader of this team.

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And it'll be either him or Curry for the MVP.
I don't know, they're both worthy. Okay, And finally, you know,
Tom Izzo has always talked about surviving advance. This was
Team USA surviving advance game. They rallied in dramatic fashion
when they needed to. You call it adversity. I don't know,
they just play with their food. And then we would

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all of a sudden in the fourth quarter. Defensively, they'll
pick you up at thirty feet instead of sixteen feet,
and they switch and rotate and they trap and they maul.
Yet they're too athletic, they're too deep. They're not gonna lose. Okay.
They dominated the final nine minutes to turn a thirteen
point deficit into a four point victory. Give it up
to Joel Embiid had his best game in the tournament.

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People have been critical. I was one of them. Scored
nineteen points against Jokic. He was their foil. He had
a critical, critical individual run where he scored seven points
in the fourth quarter by himself dunked mid range jumper
three pointer. By the way, Kevin Durant also hit two
clutch three pointers. And then Steph Curry with you know,

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the icy cold precision of an assassin seals off the
game with the pair of free throws at the end.
And if you expected the team to cruise of the gold, well,
they won by four. Okay, they did what they needed
to do. They don't draw pictures in the scorebook, they
don't ask how just tom many call it a test
if you want, But I actually think the USA passed

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it in flying colors because it's a four quarter game
and they turned it on the last eight minutes. Again,
Serbia was zero for nine when it mattered most, and
the big four for USA couldn't miss when it mattered most.
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Speaker 2 (12:51):
All right, back in the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports
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Las Vegas. We'll take you up to two and Pacific five.
We are just getting started springing a gentleman have been
a fan favorite on our show for his deep knowledge
and research. Say hello to Loof and a car of gamble, Lou, Lou,
Howry buddy.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
Bernie, good evening, Thanks so much for having me on,
and welcome to August and football.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
That is it, my friend, It is here, and we're
all here for it. Two of the teams that are
getting a lot of press, one because well they're America's team,
and the other well because there are lots of expectations.
So let's start with the Cowboys, and Lou, I have
seen over the last what ninety days, the Cowboys win

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total between nine and a half and ten and a half,
depending on Warriors shop and ward shaded. What number are
you using to evaluate their win total.

Speaker 6 (13:51):
Bernie, I'm looking at a ten and a half. And
with that ten and a half, I'm seeing an under
that's shaded minus one seventy five or one eighty and
that's a DraftKings here in Arizona.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Sounds good, So let's work off of that. I I've
been on record as saying I think this is the
year the wheels truly come off. What surprise me if
they were eight and nine. Take it away, Lou, you've
done a lot of research. Tell the folks where year
leaning or what your thoughts are and why.

Speaker 6 (14:27):
Well, sure, Bernie, I actually tend to agree with you here.
And here's why. Number one head coach McCarthy is he
elame duck coach.

Speaker 7 (14:38):
We don't know.

Speaker 6 (14:39):
We know that he's in the last year of his
contract as well, he loses defensive coordinator Quinn, and with
the loss of Quinn incomes Zimmer. Now I like Zimmer
quite a bit, and I think he's every bit as
talented as Quinn. But that does not alleviate the fact
that the Cowboys are going to have a new defense

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being implemented. And how about a little bit of regression.
Let's look at turnover Marsha ratio for the Cowboys. The
last three years, they've led the turnover ratio each year
plus ten plus fourteen plus ten. There's a regression crump
coming there. They're not going to lead turnovers this year.

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I don't mind sticking my neck out and saying that.
Last year also, they had six return and special teams touchdowns.
I don't see that coming back. Couple of things about
the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
That have changed.

Speaker 6 (15:36):
Number One, their offensive line. They used to always be
able to set your watch to it being the top
offensive line in the NFL. This year their offensive line
budget is nineteenth and their rate.

Speaker 7 (15:49):
Is twenty eighth.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
They lost their center, a guy named Bladis, and left
tackle Smith is gone.

Speaker 8 (15:57):
You look at this.

Speaker 6 (15:59):
Schedules strength and they have the tenth toughest strength of
schedule this year when it comes to monitoring them against
other teams win totals. Last year they played the easiest
schedule of defenses Dallas did. This year they play the
ninth toughest schedule of defenses their defense. They are paying

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their defense the twenty seventh amount in budget money for
the year, meaning that they have the twenty seventh most
expensive defense. Last year they had the tenth highest paid defense.
So they've really changed that defense considerably, not only from
the head defensive coach now with personnel. They play two

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sets this year of back to back road games, and
of course in Week eleven to thirteen they played three
games in ten days. That's the notorious stainksgiving day game.
So Dak Rescott a quarterback that I think is very,
very good, but not elite. He is gobbling up so
much money in their cap that they don't have a

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lot of room to pay other positions. And I think
their defense is gonna really have a hard time with that.
And I have a hard time feeling that Dallas can
get to eleven games.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Bernie, I'm in agreement with all that. And when you
add the fact that there's real uncertain here on which
you alluded to Mike McCarthy, Dak Prescott, Cee lamb, et cetera,
it only adds to the equation. Let's talk about the
forty nine ers. I believe their wintal is eleven and
a half. Is that correct?

Speaker 6 (17:41):
That's the number I'm looking, I guess, Sirtain.

Speaker 2 (17:43):
I'm of the belief, and I said this week ago,
when all is said and done, more will be said
and done, and Brandon Ayuk will still be with the
forty nine ers, but they're carrying a heavy burden. I
think it's going to be difficult for them to get
twelve wins.

Speaker 6 (17:55):
At your thoughts, yeah, I totally, I totally agree on this,
when in fact, this is one I've already released and
advised under eleven and a half, and we start with
a great head coach in Shanahan, but he's off the
Super Bowl loss and that doesn't really affect his coaching,
but it sure can affect the players playing when they

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had those extra games as well. San Francisco has a
new defensive coordinator incomes Nick Sorenson was an assistant with
them last year. But not only are they going to
maybe have more continuity in their defense because Sorenson was
with them last year, but they lose their top three

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defensive lineman Armstead, Young kind Law. They're all gone. So
I don't care what you say. That defense is going
to be new and it's going to take them some
time to develop this year. That defense, by the way,
face is the fourth most potent schedule of opposing offense.

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Their overall schedule strength is really not too bad at
the eighteen, so they get a break there. But where
they get hammered is net day's rest. This year in
the NFL, they have a negative twenty one days rest
compared to their opponents, which is unbelievable. It's the most

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in the last fifteen to twenty years since Warren Sharp.
The guy I get this information from has been tracking
this as well. Last year San Francisco had the worst
net days of net rest and that was minus twenty
so they had a lack of rest against competition. Last

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year played to the Super Bowl and now faced negative
twenty one. And of those twenty one days of net rest,
it is all backloaded. In the schedule. Their last eleven games,
they have six games where they're facing teams that have
more rest than them. As well, they play three short

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week road games. The schedule's brutal to San Francisco. From
Week seven on they play the fourth toughest NFL schedule
and they have three games in thirteen days, the last
three games of the season. Now you look at their personnel. Now,
the defense has changed, the offense is all back. However,

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you've got Brandon Nyuk crying soup and you don't know
where that's going. It's the same thing as Lamb. It's
just a lack of continuity.

Speaker 9 (20:37):
You look at.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
George Kittle, George Kittle is brittle. That's why they brought
in another tight end, Logan Thomas from Washington. They know
what's happening there. As far as the condition of that
tight end. And then you look at Deebo Samuel, a
guy that plays like a nineteen sixties linebacker as a

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wide receiver. It's hard. It's going to be hard for
him to last a whole season as physically as he plays.
And then last McCaffrey, who was traded from Carolina because
he was somewhat injury prone. Excuse me, there must be
something happening outside my house right now. All good, Yeah,

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So there there's McCaffrey who was hurt in Carolina, that's
why they traded him. He goes to San Francisco and
he gets three hundred and forty touches last year. I mean,
what one NFL touch would do to the average human
is unbelievable. And so I really sense that there's going
to be trouble in San Francisco. They could win the

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Super Bowl, they could win the NFC West, but I
think it's going to be really, really difficult for them
with this schedule backloaded, with all the trouble that they
have to get to twelve wins.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
I'm with you on both Miners under Cowboys under Lou.
I got less than a minute. Let's talk about the Jets.
It begins and ends with Aaron Rodgers. I know the
defense is good. Your thoughts, where does this thing end up?

Speaker 10 (22:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (22:07):
I tend to think that the Jets have some good
hope this year, but the early part of their schedule
is brutal. They I'm trying to see here. From week
seven on the Jets are actually a team that you

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can play. However, they start the season three games and
ten days the first three games of the season, and
then week six through week nine they play four games
in seventeen days. So I would say the time to
take a look at the Jets if you want to
bet them positively. Week seven, week eight, when they're about
five hundred and people are losing hope, that's when you

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come to the Jets because the rest of their schedule
from week nine on gets much easier.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Loud, good stuff. We'll have you on as we get
into the season. But I'm with you. These are three
teams that I think, well, they're not only polarizing, but
they're also sort of media darlings and their marquee factor
for obvious reasons. Keep up the great work, Lou, Thanks thanks.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
For having me, Bernie, good luck everybody.

Speaker 2 (23:15):
As gambla Loo Finacarl he comes at my show four
or five times a year, and this is especially analyzing
from a numbers basis what's likely to happen. We talked
about the Niners, we talked about the Cowboys, and then
the Jets. Coming up, Let's talk about Jim Harbaugh. He
had a very eventful week. But first let's go to
our guy, Kevin Figures with the.

Speaker 11 (23:36):
Latest Okay Bernnie In and Lefko's Baseball Friday Night Show,
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day night double header over Cleveland, who's lead in the
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Speaker 12 (24:20):
Eighth overall pick for Atlanta.

Speaker 11 (24:22):
Michael Pennix Junior started for Atlanta, was nine of sixteen
for one hundred and four yards passing Houston defeating the Steelers.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
C J.

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Stroud played two possessions and threw a touchdown pass justin
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Speaker 2 (24:38):
Okay, thanks Kevin So. Coming up in twenty eight minutes
from ri City. Here in Las Vegas. It will be
twelve midnight literally on the clock, twelve midnight Pacific time.
From where you sit, it may also be twelve midnight
Pacific time, or figuratively it's going to be twelve midnight
as we get into our midnight hour. One of the

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topics we're going to talk about is James Joseph Harbaugh.
Very interesting week. Let me start with this. The first
news you heard, I guess it broke Monday ish was
how ar Ball does not apologize for things. Hold that thought.
We're gonna come to that in a minute. The other
news that was a little bit bigger, but it's a

(25:21):
little crazy. Jim Harball was actually issued a show cause
penalty for recruiting violations. Now, let's not conflate the two.
We've got the Connor Stallion situation, which is going to
be a Netflix special. He was the guy who made
other road trips and allegedly was scouting teams and so
on and so forth and illegally, you know, stealing signs

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or whatever. But remember that Jim Harball was investigated by
the NCAA for recruiting violations that had to do with
going back during during COVID, right, And we all joked
about how the cheeseburger is bigger than the cover up,
And the nca made it clear that in his statement,

(26:03):
Harball would be banned from all athletic activities of college
for the next four seasons. Okay, do you really think
he's going back to college? And he would serve a
complete one year suspension in his first season if he
went back to college. We all know it's highly unlikely
that Jim Harball is going back to college, right, So
that kind of it's the infamous cheeseburger deal, but the

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one that broke the bank. On Monday, was in Jim
Harbaugh complete in Charger regalia. After the League Michigan football
allegations came out and I was in Michigan money talk
to a lot of people. The good folks in Michigan
are livid about how this situation continues to rear its
head and how it might could affect your own more.
But you know in the deleted text messages, et cetera.

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But before I get to that, I want you to
hear an obstinate Jim Harbaugh. He talks about the fact
that code I do not apologize.

Speaker 13 (27:00):
Listen, never lie, never cheat, never steal. I was raised
with that lesson. I have raised my family on that lesson.
I have preached that lesson to the teams that I've coached.
No one's perfect. If you stumble, you apologize, and you
make it right. Today, I do not apologize. I did

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not participate, was not aware nor complicit in those set allegations.

Speaker 12 (27:24):
So for me, it's back to work.

Speaker 13 (27:26):
And attacking with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

Speaker 2 (27:29):
All right, So here's the issue, all right. For notice
of the allegations, Harball was eventually simply accused of not
cooperating with the nsay's investigation. Why because he didn't allow
the organization to review records from his personal cell phone.
Later in the week, Harball got his show calls penalty

(27:50):
if he ever returns into college ranks. Okay, yeah, all right,
there's that. But the obstinacy of Harball, which I think
got him into trouble in the first place, and why
he's kind of been in the NCAA's crosshres And you
remember all the hullaballoo last November when he was suspended
for three games again and missed the Penn State game,
he missed the Ohio State game, et cetera, and Michigan

(28:13):
went on to win their national championship. Right there, A
ninety nine point nine nine nine percent sure there isn't
going to be any retroactive punishment for Michigan. They're not
going to have to vacate wins or a champions or
anything like that. When the investigations complete, you may see
some some kind of penalties in the spring. I don't
think they'll complete this investigation regarding the Connors Stallion's stuff

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having to do with the alleged fifty two text messages
that current now head coach Cheron Moore deleted from his phone.
And it goes a little deeper than that. But look,
this is one of those things that won't go away.
For whatever reason. The NCAA keep, I think, enjoys twisting
the knife at Michigan. They handled the Kentucky investigation differently,
They had to handle the Tennessee investigation differently. And it's

(28:59):
it's too illuminous to really go into without boring people.
But here's what I want to address at the top
of the hour, and I want the callers to weigh
in on is it really reasonable to believe that Jim
Harbaugh knew nothing, knew nothing about the Connor Stallion situation
given the amount of you know, the amount of road

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trips he took, the money that had to be paid,
the information that was dispensed. I don't know if he
did or he didn't. I can't play god, but I
want the callers to weigh in. Do you believe Jim
Harball when he says I don't apologize, you know, never lie, ever, cheat,
never steal. I was raised on that lesson. Why do
you even need to go down that road? I've raised

(29:41):
my family on that lesson? I've preached that lesson to
the teams I've coached. When you doff protest too much,
it makes me wonder. Right. Then he goes down and say,
no one's perfect. If you stumble, you apologies, you make
it right. But today I do not apologize. I was
not aware nor complicit in those set allegations. Do you
believe him? I really want to get the people's thoughts

(30:03):
in this. The callers have been phenomenal the past nine months,
looking deep into situations, offering varying opinions, and I'm looking
for some disagreement. Remember remember that the most boring conversations
are those when everybody agrees. So I want to know
what people think. And I'm quite sure we'll get some
Michigan folks calling in, and maybe they believe Jim Harbaugh.

(30:26):
Maybe it was handled several levels below him. And you know,
a lot of times, what's the old addage, the parents
are the last one they know when their kids are
doing drugs right in their own basement. But knowing how
meglomaniacal Harball is and how hands on he is and
how thorough he is, he's a great coach. It's hard
to believe that he didn't know anything. But for him

(30:48):
to get up there on a proactive basis, on an
unsolicited basis, and talk about these allegations and be so
vehement about it, and then preach his you know, philosophy
and how he was raised and how he raised his family.
To me, that makes it feel a little less genuine
to me my opinion. All right, I will when I

(31:12):
don't know, I don't know, so I don't argue. So
I can't really argue that Harbaugh knew or he didn't know.
It just makes me scratch my head as I observe,
does this not past the sniff test? Is it possible
a guy that runs a tight program like he did
actually not know at all that none of this was

(31:32):
happening under his watch? None of it? Is it possible?
All right? We want to hear from you on that
coming up. I give Part B if you watched Part
B or the midnight our topic, if you happen to
watch any of the Detroit Lions New York Giants exhibition

(31:52):
game on Thursday. Well, I know sports fans consistently yearn
for technology that will remove mistakes from the game, but
at what cost? I'll explain what happened Thursday night and
why most of us threw up in our mouth, including
Phil Simms, who was on the call for the game.
I'm Bernie Friday. We are comedy live from the Las
Vegas Fox Sports Radio tire Act dot Com Studios. Keep

(32:14):
it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle
Show on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (32:20):

Speaker 2 (32:23):
All right back at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Coming to live from me tire act dot com Studios.
We are here in Las Vegas. We are fourteen minutes
away from the midnight hour. From where I sit will
be midnight, twelve midnight Pacific time. Literally, from where you sit,
it will either be twelve midnight literally or figuratively is

(32:44):
the midnight hour eight seven seven nine nine six six
three six nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
That's the number to dial. Our first topic will be
do you believe Jim Harbaugh that he really didn't know
anything or wasn't involved in any way in the commerce
stallion situation? Number two. If you've watched tennis, they have

(33:06):
a system called the Cyclops system, which is an electric
eye which tells you very quickly whether a ball was
in or out on a serve, etcetera, etc. So the
NFL is using this Hawkeye technology to create what's called
the Hawkeye system, comparable to what you see in soccer
with var and tennis to determine whether balls in bounds

(33:27):
or out of bounds. You've got robot umpires that call
balls and strikes in baseball, and that's on the list.
And there's a quieter push now there have been for
a year, has been for years to create a more
scientific way to measure for first downs in football instead
of trotting out the chain gang to determine if a
team gained the required yardage. Right. Why people want to

(33:50):
remove mistakes for the game. They're striving for perfection. The technology,
as we talked about three weeks ago, will be tested
in the preseason. It debuted. It debuted in the New
York Giants Detroit Lions game. It met Life Stadium. Yes,
it got off to a rocky start. Let me set
this up. Nate subfield quarterback for the Lions. Through a

(34:14):
completion do Tom Kennedy, he's a wide receiver. I have
no idea if he's going to make the team. Probably
not On a third and five in the second quarter,
the Hawkeye technology was utilized to determine if the Lions
had reached the first down marker. Here's the problem. We waited,
We waited, we waited, we waited. It took almost four
minutes until the ball was snapped for the next play,

(34:38):
at which point phil Simms asked, are we really going
to use this technology if it's going to take this long? Okay,
I want to be fair. A couple things to keep
in mind. It's new technology, just going to be flaws
to work out early on. That's why the NFL is
practicing with it this year in the preseason. They're not
just going to implement it for regular season games to

(35:00):
try to work out the kinks. And just because the
first example took several minutes does not mean it will
always take that long. But people want accurate and correct measurements,
and they believe the system could help make that more consistent.
That's assuming assuming the officials get the spot on the
field correct in the first place, but that's another topic

(35:21):
for another day. There's also some see but here's my beef.
We're in the entertainment meeting. They already stopped to review
every score in and out of bounce plays, you've got
coaches challenges. Now you've got this stoppage, which I don't
know how much time they're going to save off that
three and a half minutes, because it turns out when

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you do the research and did a little bit of research,
not a lot, that it requires a recreation of an animation.
It's different than the cyclops and tennis. So while they're
doing that, that takes time, and then they at the
end of the day they found out that the ball
was about a foot short of the but it took
almost four minutes. So you add that to reviewing all
the scoring plays, you add that to all the other

(36:05):
place stoppages, you add that to coaches challenges, et cetera,
et cetera. Inbounds, out of bounds, fumble, didn't fumble, turnovers reviewed. Okay,
there is to me a hell of a lot to
be said for the drama and the flow of the
game you lose by all these stoppages. And by the way,
I never really had a beef with the chain game
getting trotted out for potential game deciding measurement. It's actually

(36:29):
actually the excitement and its instant. It's right away but
you have to wait. If you wait for players and
officials to emphatically signal whether it was first down or not,
after four minutes, come on, we're killing you get killing it.
You're killing the entertainment. Quot Sports are entertainment. They're dramatic technology.

(36:52):
You might have the best intentions, but it takes away
from that. That's what I saw Thursday night. So this
is the second topic that I want to hear from
in the midnight hour, coming up in nine minutes eight
seven seven nine nine six six six nine. If you
saw the Lions game, let me you know if you didn't,
just what do you think in general, do we need
to add one more robot, one more ego eye to

(37:13):
the equation. And keep in mind it's not decided yet.
They're testing it. They're testing it in the preseason, but
it didn't exactly get off to a great start. I
think it underwhelmed a lot of people and a lot
of people were very nonplussed adding in almost another almost
four minute delay. So these are our two topics tonight

(37:33):
at midnight Pacific time. From where I sit, it's midnight
in Vegas. In nine minutes, we want to hear from you.
Eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
Number one, do you believe Jim Harbaugh? He gave a vehement,
long winded oratory about how he raised people, how he
was raised not to lie. But he you know, he

(37:55):
apologizing here because he doesn't. I don't know nothing, and
I didn't participate in outward and upward with my intensity
unknown to mankind. With that part, I believe. So do
you believe him? Is it possible? A man of that stature,
a man that accomplished, who's coached for over twenty years,
who tutored under Bo scham Beckler, who I do think

(38:16):
was a paragon of integrity. Do you really think Harbaugh
knew nothing? Do you believe him? Number two? Do you
like this Hawkeye technology to test first downs? By the way,
we're gonna have a quick side one too. This is
way under the radar, So if you saw it, I
want you a call in. Arnie Spaniard alerted me to this.
Our teammate here at Fox here mon Sunday Nights with

(38:37):
Chris Planning. Apparently, in the USA Poland volleyball game, a
ball was called out on Poland, but a player for
the USA, on an unsolicited basis told his coach that
he touched the ball, then told the ref he touched
the ball without reviewing it. The ref reversed the call
later on, Poland goes on to win the match. It's
the ultimate in sportsmanship. It's like to lose long story,

(38:57):
and Jesse Owenes back in nineteen thirty six pretty rare
these days. Are you aware that happened? And if you
know that it happened, or even if you don't know,
you can comment on that as well, because he was
the ultimate in sportsmanship. But are you glad he did it?
Or it was like, wait a minute, this is international competition.
If the ref wasn't asking him in the first place,
what are you doing your grandstanding and being a hero?

(39:20):
Or is honor above all? How do you feel about
this incident where a coat with a player told his
coach that the ball shouldn't have been out on Poland
in the volleyball match. They told the ref and the
ref reversed it without even reviewing. So we've got Jim Harbaugh.
Do you believe him? Yes or no? You heard yan sound.
You've got more technology spotting whether or not the ball

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was a first down and it took almost four minutes
for the Hawkeye technology to kick in, and then finally,
ever so quickly USA Poland Volleyball, the ball was out.
The player for USAY said, no I touched it. They
told the ref. The ref reversed the call without even
reviewing it. Sportsmanship or silliness eight seven seven ninety nine

(40:04):
on Fox eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
six ' nine. Those are our midnight our topics tonight
we want to hear from you. Keep it locked. You're
listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio
and it's the midnight hour.

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(40:46):
should be well. Plenty of topics tonight. Jim Harbaugh, more
technology in the NFL and some sportsmanship in Olympic volleyball.
You know what to do. It's the midnight hour.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Right now, the midnight out.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
We've been doing this nine months. The callers have been fantastic.
We're lining up, so we waste no time without further ado.
Let's get the ball rolling. Jim in Massachusetts, glad they
have you starting us off tonight. Let's start with Jim Harbaugh.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
Jim Harbaugh. I think he's telling the truth. I think
that he's writing what he says. I don't think he
was involved in any of that stuff. And Bernie, they're
investigating a guy that's gone, so I don't understand the point.
I mean, Casey might come back to college football. We're
gonna do this, We're gonna do that next thing. You know,
they're gonna they're gonna send them to bed without supper.

(41:42):
I think they should just drop all that stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
You know. I was in Michigan earlier this week. They're
not They're none too pleased with how it feels like
they're trying to twist a knife and it's not really
serving any fruitful purpose. They don't like the way Harball
thunder knows that him during the cheeseburger thing. But that's
a story for a different day. You have any thought, Jimmy,
if you don't think he did it, I mean, or
was involved, I'll believe you. I don't. I really have

(42:05):
a dog in the fight on this one. Long and
short of it is, though, we do have a second
issue with this good Did you happen to see the
Lions Giants game at all?

Speaker 3 (42:15):
Like I told you, I used to be a referee.
I did all the sports. I did football. Now when
they mocked the ball, lineman does it on the end
and then the ball goes out to the umpire said down.
Now it's not exactly lined up. It could be a
link of a football short, could be a linked of football.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Over in the first attent.

Speaker 3 (42:30):
So you're telling me, now, with all this new stuff,
the referees have flags, they have a beanbag, or you
change possession. Now you're going to put a set of
calipers and you know, verniers on them and waits and
measures to check all this stuff, you know along with it.
Just get all that stuff out of the game. You
need the human element of it. If someone makes a mistake,
they make a mistake, you know, it is what it is.

(42:54):
You know, I'm blowing down the game like that flowing
down the game like that, a high hitting the game
which is on a motion, and stuff like that. In
the four minutes is like a half hour burning in
that game.

Speaker 2 (43:08):
With you at it. Yeah, it was dramatic, and Phil
Simms was none too pleased. Jim, did you happen to
see what happened in the USA polling volleyball game or not?

Speaker 3 (43:16):
You know what, I think that's the greatest thing that's happened.
It just goes to show that there are some decent
people and still left in this world with all that's
going on, that the believes in fair play and sportsmanship
and everything else. I mean, kudos to the guy. I
love him. I say a prayer for him. I wish
more Americans were like him.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
That's all good stuff. Jim, way to start us off tonight.
See you next week. Andre, we stay in Massachusetts. How
are you, Andre, Bernie, how are you dealing?

Speaker 14 (43:49):
Thanks for taking the call.

Speaker 15 (43:50):
Listen.

Speaker 14 (43:50):
I am I got to say. I'm apoplectic with this
foolishness going on with the NCAA and fingering Jim Harbaugh
for alleged penalties after he's already rode off into the
sunset delivered a national championship to the Maze and Blue.
Now he's out in Los Angeles with his crown jewel
justin Herbert, trying to get that program off the ground.

(44:12):
And now the NTAA wants to.

Speaker 7 (44:14):
Swoop in with their what is this?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
What are we talking about?

Speaker 14 (44:19):
Herbert Hoover, you know, and masking prohibition bottles, you know,
and taking on crime and making the society state or
law buying and bodies citizens.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
I'm with you on all that, But Andrey, real quickly,
do you believe Jim Harbor knew nothing about the Connor
Stein situation? That's all I want to know. I'm in
agreement with you. The NCAA has taken us too far.
But regardless, it's impossible to know. But what is your
gut tell you that Harbaugh really knew nothing about Connor stallions?

Speaker 16 (44:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (44:50):
Yeah, my gut feeling is you didn't know anything about
it because the rule of law in college football is
if you ain't cheating, you ain't trying, okay, And everybody
knows it. All the top schools that are competing for
national championships, they're looking for loopholes. They're they're you know,
stretching things out to the unteenth degree. And guess what
nobody really cares if a kid eight to cheese berg Berger,

(45:11):
you know, and didn't pay the ninety nine cents or
whatever the heck you are, you know, spending this time
on it just drives me crazy and I have to
go back the MPT double a years back. We're probably
been a decade ago. They caught North Carolina running a
fraudulent academic program or there. They caught them red handed.
And what was the penalty for North Carolina? Absolutely nothing.

(45:34):
I threw up my hands after that.

Speaker 7 (45:36):
You're picking and.

Speaker 14 (45:37):
Choosing this school over here. You're gonna penalize this school
over here gets caught red handed, but because they're a
blue bloods, you don't do anything. Just stop the charade.
Charlie Baker coming from Massachusetts, maybe just try to do
something productive that like actually helps the fact I think
they're removing in the right direction with paying players, like.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
The technology on the first Don Marker. I don't know
if you saw the Lions Giants game last night, disaster
think conclusion.

Speaker 14 (45:59):
You got a lot of other people. We already got
enough robots, you already, you already get in the TV.
What do you need? Roch Cadell you got a twenty
five million dollar valuation. How many more commercial do you need? No, Okay,
we got enough.

Speaker 8 (46:11):
Just leave it as it is.

Speaker 14 (46:11):
You need to experiment and try and do you know.
But he's gonna do what. People are going to continue
to consume it. The mighty's gonna keep going up. So
if it's not, you know who am I? But I
don't need all this extra stuff. We can simplify a
little bit more NTAA, but do your job please, Thanks
so much Bernie for taking the time.

Speaker 2 (46:27):
All right, Andrew, we see you next week, buddy the
sports cord here in Las Vegas. You are out next
on the Bernie Flowders Show. Good evening, Good.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Evening, we hope.

Speaker 15 (46:37):
I would expect people from Massachusetts, where six of their
seven Super Bowls were all due to cheating, be it
Bygate or to playgates. So when you think you have seven,
just just realize you only have one legitimate super Bowl.
So no wonder you think that Hardbaugh is enough the

(46:58):
world's biggest liar, and he didn't Inhale, big liar didn't
pass the smell test. The guy is just a real
scourge and uh, just a ridiculous anybody that believes him. Uh,
just does not want to even listen to the truth.
The guy, the guy cheated. I'd rather believe Jim Sandusky

(47:23):
being innocent than Jim Harbaugh. That's how bad Harbaugh sounds.

Speaker 2 (47:28):
No true cost tonight, so I'm strong. All right, Let's
move on to the new technology that they're experimenting with
on whether or not a ball spotted in a first
down was a cheat. All I can say is first
impressions were bad Thursday night. Did you have thoughts on that?

Speaker 15 (47:46):
Well, it's not your first impressions because you've watched tennis
and you love to see the line out when the
ball is.

Speaker 7 (47:55):
In or out.

Speaker 15 (47:55):
That talk guy, and that's by Sony, the same company
that's doing NFL beta testing right now. So no, it's
superb and it's just being food around with right now
and fine teamed actually with the NFL. The NBA uses

(48:17):
it also in the Devil.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Okay, but four minutes, man, that's the problem. Apparently. See
the Cyclops technology that's using technology is great. The NFL
out of the gate, they have to create some sort
of animated ball and that takes time. So it we're
really kind of compared to apples and oranges. Do you
think it's going to find its way into the NFL?

(48:39):
And should it?

Speaker 15 (48:41):
Absolutely? And this is just an exhibition game, and so
you have you have new officials that are giving it
a try. You have players that are not going to
even see a taxi squad out there, so they're just.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Well, the players had nothing to do with that. I mean,
I agree with that situation on the kickoff, The players
had nothing to do with determining whether or not there
was a first down. Real quickly, do you were you
aware of what happened in the USA Poland volleyball game?

Speaker 15 (49:11):
No good, go ahead, tell me, well.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
Just ever so quickly. The ball was out on Poland.
The USA player said, no, I touched it. He told
his coach. The coach told the ref. The ref reversed
the call without even reviewing it. USA ended up losing.
You know, tremendous sportsmanship. Although I know that some people
will we'll maybe take umbrage with that. So all right, hey,
don't be a stranger here, sports could you have? Well,
you have what you got? The last word? You got

(49:39):
something quickly?

Speaker 7 (49:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (49:41):
It reminds me of and the girls softball championship game.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
The girl around the base exactly.

Speaker 16 (49:51):
Good.

Speaker 15 (49:55):
I would have not done that. I would have taken
the win and uh that's uh, that's this competitive nature
in me. But good for him. Good luck with your
endorsements and your uh and getting phone calls from your
fellow teammates for uh, for you know, letting that uh

(50:16):
that that honesty and you screw it up for the
rest of your teammates that have been trying to get
this win their entire life. So that's what my take
on that last one.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
Right, it'll be a stranger. Good strong call there, Sports
Court Poppy in San Diego. How about those Potters man?
All right, Sony Poppy, Let's start with Jim Harball. Do
you believe me?

Speaker 7 (50:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (50:39):
Yeah, the Potter's on fire brandant. But you know, Jim Harball, Look,
this is what I think, Like consciously, I'm thinking, hey,
I do believe Harball because everything that he's saying. But
Harvor is a smart guy. Well you guys aren't realizing
why is Harbo fanded? Because look, anything you say in
the Cortla.

Speaker 3 (50:56):
Can and will be used against you.

Speaker 16 (50:58):
So Harball is saying, no, I was raised this way,
my kids not alive. But when you do question on
the concept. You know you question are like, wait, I'm
not apologizing right now. He is guilty, like, and it's conscious.
He knows that he knew all about this, but to
protect the damage and so he doesn't want no drama
getting to it.

Speaker 10 (51:17):
You know.

Speaker 16 (51:18):
Now he's the coach and the Chargers and then no,
I didn't do it. So he's full of Balgonney. I
don't believe him. I know there's people saying, yeah, I
believe him. Yeah right, he did do it.

Speaker 3 (51:28):
He knew what he was doing.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
All right. First down marker Eagle. Lie, I'm not bagging
on the technology. I'm just bagging that it took four minutes.
Your thoughts do we need enough?

Speaker 16 (51:39):
Of course people are going to be banging on this, Bernie,
I totally understand you. I'm a big football fan who wouldn't.

Speaker 7 (51:45):
But this is a preseason.

Speaker 16 (51:47):
But Roger Dedell needs to be trying this technology. It
look before we tried in the preseason. Hey, I know
the teams are scriminage and we got the Chargers and
the Rams the scriminize each other. Why not trying that
when they're practicing and then do it in the preseason.
But I think it's the perfect reason to try it,
and why not. See what's going on the preseason. Not
a lot of people are going fair enough.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
But do you think the NFL really needs to go
to this to add one more delay?

Speaker 16 (52:12):
Well, you know yes, because look, I think they do
need it because on sports betting, we know how the
rems do bad calls for sports betting. Wise, me, I'm
a sports better.

Speaker 7 (52:22):
Look, I really hate it.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
Okay, a good point. Leave it there, Poppy. That's good
enough for me. Ever, so quickly, USA Polling Volleyball. Did
you hear about that?

Speaker 16 (52:30):
Yeah, I mean I heard about that, But I wanted
to give you guys a quick take about the NFL.
We got the Chiefs. I really like the Chiefs. You
know they're going to be playing against the Jaguars, so
I'll take the Chiefs.

Speaker 7 (52:40):
Give me the minus one.

Speaker 16 (52:41):
And about that with Bernie Wow. About the volleyball tack,
I think it's really great. We need honest people that
doesn't exist nowadays.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Good for the.

Speaker 16 (52:49):
Player for being honest, raised on the honest values, and
we do need that. At least at the end of
the day when he wakes up in the future, he's
not going to be living with that regret and his
parents satom just always say the truth, and I got
respect for that.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
All right, good perspective. I'm kind of refreshing to hear
the callers on that. Tonight. We will be continuing on.
We're just getting started the Midnight Hour eight seven seven
nine nine six six three sixty nine. Jeff Holler and
James Jerry, You're all going to be up next. Everybody
gets in. Want to hear your thoughts. It's hardball telling
the truth, yes or no? What are your thoughts on

(53:23):
the new technology on whether or not first down ball
spotting and the USA poland sportsmanship in volleyball. I'm Bernie
fraddlework comes to your line from the Las Vegas Fox
Sports Radio tirect dot com studios. Keep it locked right here.
You're listening to the Bernie Fradle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
All right back in the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Come to your line from the TIREC dot com studios

(53:45):
here in Las Vegas. The Midnight Hour is off and running.
Callers lining up eight seven seven nine ninety six six
three six nine. Do you believe Jim harbaugh Is comments?
Was he complicit? Did he not know anything? Do we
need more technology in the NFL as it pertains to
the execution of determining whether are a football was pasted

(54:10):
the first down marker or not. And did you hear
what happened in the USA Poland volleyball game at the
Olympics a new mark and sportsmanship? Holler and James, you're
up next? What's up? Buddy?

Speaker 10 (54:23):
Hey? Bertie Waller? Thank you very much, particular show. I
had a question for you, okay, Adam. My question is
these referees actually try to call the game as they
see it. But now online sports Betty don't do that
fake that enhances some of the low calls that they

(54:45):
make or do make you know where they're right, they're right,
but don't we have replay Now replay that determine everything.
But now they want to add robots to the game
and they go the referee. I believe Jim Hartball was
absolutely correct and the right decision.

Speaker 7 (55:06):
And what he did, well do.

Speaker 2 (55:09):
You so you when you say correct, you you say
he didn't know what was going on. This whole Connor
Stallion's thing was happening without his knowledge. Is that what
you're saying A James exactly?

Speaker 10 (55:19):
He took the words right under my bouse. Okay, but
that's allot to say, doubt because I didn't follow a
whole big back.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Oh wow, that's nice. Hey real quickly, did you hear
what happened in the USA Poland volleyball game? And what
are your thoughts on the sportsmanship?

Speaker 10 (55:38):
I thought the sportsmanship was growfully accused and wrong, because
isn't the US say all about competition? I mean it
our honest season, And aren't these athletes trading their hardest
trading their heart steeds? Here now? My brother, Leonard James
Farmers will call him Guy Guy, was a under up

(56:00):
at the nationals at the Marine Corps for the Olympics.
He found of the same boxing team as Leon Spakes
sugar in or would occur. I'm needing myself. I'm sixty
years old. I turned sixty till my twenty third. I'm
nineteen sixty four is when I was born and created
at one am. So I'm allowed to stay up this

(56:23):
late with you, the house folk in the group home.
And I've been cheated in my life. I ain't claimed
the backagery against the American family at all. Stay went
to a lot of niment, a lot of attorneys and
still exactly right. I got cheated on what I got
for a return for the for the age of the

(56:44):
suffering I suffered. I had a kind of director who
was our licensed who the board never went after. So
some of these athletes need a trade their hotel and
do it respectfully and honestly.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
All right, hollered James, good stuff. I know you're a
legend on the show. You always welcome to call mine
appreciated buddy. So we're getting a variance of opinion, which
is what we expect, which is what I like. Jack
and Syracuse you're up next, You're chanced a weigh in.

Speaker 8 (57:13):
Hello, Jack, Hey, how you doing, Bernie good you're on
the area. Yeah, I'm a huge Chargers fan, So whatever,
harbod did I want him to do it again for
the Chargers. But yeah, he was lying. He was lying.
But it's a little white lie because it's like jaywalking
for you or me, what he did in college. Anything

(57:36):
you do against the NCAA is all right by me.
He wasn't going way out of the lines, and he
can't say out loud that he did it.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
But hell and I agree with you know fair enough.
I'm not going to contest that, but he didn't need
to get in front of a microphone on an un
solicited basis then give his sermon from the mount. That's
that's that's all you. No one was at him anymore.
This is oh no, it's been a fat of complete
for six months. So all right, what are your thoughts
on the NFL. I don't know if you saw the

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game Thursday night, Giants and lines took almost four minutes.

Speaker 8 (58:12):
I'm glad. I'm glad I missed that. That would have
been too painful.

Speaker 10 (58:16):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (58:16):
I think the technology will be good, but it has
to be instantaneous. If you add time, you got to
learn from baseball. They strip time out of their games
to improve their ratings. You can't add wasted time into
the game for a little bit of game.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
Yeah, the execution, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 8 (58:37):
As far as volleyball, I play a lot of racket
sports and all and all the time I grew up tennis, racquetball,
now pickleball. You have to self police lines and things
like that. You're always calling those yourselves. That's an honorable thing.
In baseball. I never I was a catcher. I never

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corrected an umpire and the other team's favor and no
one in basketball ever said no, he got all ball,
he didn't foul me. So it's different for each sport
in a sense. But on the racket sports, you grow
up calling all of those lines, including volleyball. It's not
until you have appreciating but the honor still needs to

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be there. I think it was the right thing that
the kid did. It ended up being the right call.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
I'm only fair enough, and again fair enough, I certainly
accept that. Keep in mind in racket sports it's one
on one though, and you have a situation where this
involved teammates and other things.

Speaker 8 (59:39):
But oh yeah, you have doubles though too.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
Yeah yeah, oh yeah, fair enough, Okay, good stuff, Jack
the Stranger, Dave in Phoenix, I'm guessing you have some
very definitive thoughts on Jim Harball, Bernie.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
You guess correctly.

Speaker 17 (59:54):
Let me say this, the sanctions on Jim Harbaugh actually
had nothing to do with Conyore stallions. That's a separate no.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
I said that at the top of the hour. I
made the difference between the cheeseburger, the recruiting back during
COVID and Connors Stallions. All I want to know is
you heard his Behemian press conference Thursday or check that Monday.
Do you believe Harbaugh had no clue what was going
on with Connors Stallions?

Speaker 17 (01:00:22):
No, I do not, And I've been a Michigan fan
for over fifty five years, but I'm not blind. And
the propaganda that we've been hearing is, oh, it was
just a burger, Just a burger. It was a lot
more than that. It was violating the covid ERA rules
on hosting recruits, paying for meals on analysts, illegally coaching,

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and then on top of it all howled about it.
He was extremely uncooperative with the investigators.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
You nailed it. You couldn't have nailed it any better.
That is essentially chronicles the beginning. Middling in thoughts on
the extra technolog Dave in the Lions Giants game Thursday night.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
Well, I didn't see the game.

Speaker 17 (01:01:06):
Generally speaking, I'm in favor of trying to get it right,
and I know there's problems with replay, but it also
solves a lot of bad calls and sometimes we only
hear about I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Okay with that, but a four minute delay, come on, mane,
on top of all the other delays we already have
to endure. That's my beef.

Speaker 17 (01:01:25):
Well, you may be right, and I guess I'll have
a better opinion once I see some football games coming
up this fall.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Well you won't. They're not going to implement it in
the regular season. They're testing it in the preseason, lots
of preseason games. Yep. And this hawkeye technology ever so
quickly the Sportsmanship USA pulling any thoughts on that.

Speaker 17 (01:01:44):
I think it was wonderful to exhibit sportsmanship like that
on the international stage in the Olympics. That's fantastic. I
mean that set's an example of honesty that I'd like
to see more of.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Very refreshing career. Thanks Dave, appreciate you, Bud. About eighty
percent of the callers this is enlightening are very pleased
with the sportsmanship the USA volleyball player exhibited in their
game against Poland. So really interesting to hear. The Midnight

(01:02:21):
Hour will continue, We'll talk Jim Harball, we'll talk technology
in the NFL. USA Fernando, you'll be f next. But
let's first to go back to our guy, Kevin Figures
with the latest.

Speaker 12 (01:02:33):
All right, Bernie.

Speaker 11 (01:02:33):
In the baseball Friday night, the Dodgers snapped a two
game skid with a nine to five victory over Pittsburgh.
Jack Flerty getting the victory and striking out ten in
his home debut for La Showy Old Tiny, leading the
National League with thirty five home runs, had his thirty
fifth home run of the night there or of the
season there I should say. Seattle a shutout victory over
the Mets, Houston defeating Boston, so the Astros have a

(01:02:55):
half game lead over at Seattle. In the American League West,
the Yankees Rangers matchup was rand out, while Baltimore defeated
Tampa Bay four to one, so the Orioles have a
half game lead over New York for top billing. In
the American League East, Arizona a victory over the Phillies.
It was the Cardinals eight and the Royals five victories
from Milwaukee, San Diego and the Twins, who swept a
doubleheader over Cleveland, who have lost seven games in a row.

(01:03:18):
NFL preseason CJ. Stroud through a touchdown pass to Tank
Dell in limited action as Texans defeated Pittsburgh justin fields
sixty seven yards passing, but did fumble twice and was
sacked twice. Olympic events of note today include US women's
water polo team facing the Netherlands in a bronze medal
match that will set to begin in about an hour
from now. The US women's soccer team will face Brazil

(01:03:38):
in the gold medal match at eleven am Eastern. The
US men's hoops team will face France in the gold
medal game at three point thirty pm Eastern.

Speaker 12 (01:03:46):
Back to Bernie, Fredo.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
All right, thanks Kevin, another full slate, Fernando in Las Vegas.
You're up next, buddy. What do you got for us tonight?

Speaker 18 (01:03:56):
Hey, Bernie, Jim Harbaugh and his coaching staff they know
everything that goes on because they always say we're a family.
We're a family, we know everything. So he knew was
going on.

Speaker 15 (01:04:09):
They all did.

Speaker 18 (01:04:10):
And with the first down, marker, I like it, get
it right. I don't care if it takes seven minutes,
come get it right. And then the third one was
the honesty is the best policy. So it was great,
great sportsmanship. And that's what it's all about, sports integrity.

(01:04:31):
What happened to the word integrity, inegrity?

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
It's gone rock solid, rock solid stuff. Fernando, boy, very good,
nicely done. Appreciate you checking in. We hadn't heard from
me in a few weeks, but you believe Harball new
You know he's right. We're a family. I tend to
side with Fernando on this, and you know the technology.

(01:04:56):
I love it. He took a position, he is willing
to wait to get it right. That's the price we
got to pay to get it right. Who's in a hurry? Okay,
fair enough, I have to. I certainly accept that, and
honesty's the best policy. Well, who can disagree with that?
Very enlightening calls tonight? Well they always are. Robin, Orlando,
you are up next? Your turn? What's up, Bud?

Speaker 19 (01:05:17):
Hey, Bernie, It's been a few weeks since I've talked
to you.

Speaker 3 (01:05:19):
Man.

Speaker 19 (01:05:19):
Good too, good to hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
Boys, Yes, sir, welcome back in.

Speaker 8 (01:05:22):
Thank you, Thank you man.

Speaker 19 (01:05:24):
First, on the Jim Harball thing, I think he's a
straight up guy.

Speaker 10 (01:05:28):
Man.

Speaker 19 (01:05:28):
I think he's got way too much intensity and pride
to be lying about this. At the end of the day,
I don't think it's that big of a deal anyway,
But you know, I mean that's that. As far as
the Hawkeye technology, I'm I'm an old school guy, but
I've also embraced technology. I think anything you do to

(01:05:48):
make it right is good. But here's here's the lacking
part of it. The drama that comes out for the
chain gangs.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
I remember a.

Speaker 19 (01:05:55):
Few years ago, a number of years ago, I don't
remember it was Bill Cower or somebody, when they had
the chain gangs out there and he brought an index
card out to make sure that it wasn't touching the
ball man. But there's dramatic aesthetic to it that you're
going to lose with that, and it's just, I don't know,
it's almost even though you're utilizing the technology, it's just

(01:06:16):
so plain jane to me versus the human element.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
That's very well said. And I think at the end
of the day that we know that they're not going
to implement it NET this year. As soon as they
would be would be twenty twenty five, and I think
it's more of a long shot that it even materializes. Finally,
the USA Poland volleyball match, I'm sure you heard us
talking about it.

Speaker 19 (01:06:40):
Your thoughts on that, Yeah, I actually saw that match.
I'll refreshing. Yeah, it's refreshing, Bernie, I mean in today's sports,
and you know, I'll huge basketball as an example, these
guys always crying and begging for calls, and here's somebody
just refreshingly threw their hands up like we used to

(01:07:01):
on the court back in the day. Up, my bad,
my style, whatever, whatever you had to call, but refreshing
to me to be very honest, would you outstanding?

Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Great call? Uh, don't be a stranger, Rob. Thanks for
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up the midnight hour. Jim Harball, was he telling the truth?

(01:07:56):
You really didn't know anything about Connor stallions. Secondly, we
talk about the situation the NFL experimenting with hawkeye technology
and first downs. First impressions were not great Thursday night.
And then finally the volleyball match between USA and Poland
were a particular athlete for the US exhibited a common sportsmanship.

(01:08:18):
We want to get the cruise thoughts on all these
subjects as well as well as yours at eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six,
six three sixty nine. I Bernie Fraddlewick Company line from
Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tireck dot Com Studios. Keep
it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on
Fox Sports Radio. All right back on the Bernie Fraddle Show,
Fox Sports Radio. The midnight hour continues to roll on.

(01:08:39):
It's welcome and a gentleman. Ladies and gentlemen, put your
seatbacks forward, your trade tables upright. Say hello to Jerome
in Charleston Drome. Where you been, Buddy?

Speaker 7 (01:08:51):
I have to get I'm an older guy and I
need mych you know, so in the middle of the night,
A lot of times I just go to bed and wait,
hope I wake up the next day. Okay, I got
I got a brother, I got birda coming up in
a couple of weeks. Bursard coming up in a couple.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Reminds me of the old George Burns joke. Either to
be ninety nine he said, or maybe he made it
two hundred. I don't know. He said. Every day I
wake up, I read the obituary column. If my name's
not in it, I have breakfast. Anyway, you got the
Florida home.

Speaker 7 (01:09:26):
I just wanted to say that when I heard about
this man, you know, because like I've been following sports
for a long time. You know, I remember Bullsham Beckle,
I remember Anthony Carter, I remember the Akapa Tuga, I
remember those guys. I was curious, you know. I mean,
Misten hadn't won anything in a long time. She had
been there nine years. So I understand the desperation to

(01:09:47):
bring a trophy home to Anne Auble. But this wasn't
the way.

Speaker 8 (01:09:50):
To do it.

Speaker 7 (01:09:50):
Man, This wasn't the way to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
But hey, SoJ Marb knew something about this COREGT. Do
I read your drum?

Speaker 7 (01:09:58):
Come on, he's a smart guy. Come on, he's one
of the best coaches. Okay, hey, he's a smart guy.
That look, I was scurious about. So all the people
that marked me say, oh.

Speaker 8 (01:10:08):
This ain't no big deal.

Speaker 7 (01:10:09):
Oh they want to see due process. But hey, when
due process came knocking at the door, he hit behind
his lawyers and that was a dead game away. Okay,
but when you're telling the truth, he said, put me understand,
I'm sitting like a canary. I'm not hiding anything but
show up. And that was it. But I'm telling right,

(01:10:29):
the balls in your court, Ryan, Hey, you better and
I'll lose a game this year. And you got him
coming to your columbus. And I got tied to that
Ohio State program that goes back like about sixty years. Okay,
I'm not going to tell you one of their I'm
not going to tell you, but hey, the balls in
his court, the got him coming, You got you're you're

(01:10:51):
an experienced guy. They got a young guy at the
head coach. You're an experienced guy. You're lorded from Woking on.
From what I've been reading, Hey, he got a lot
of talents. This year he was he was on his
quarterback to getting better ship and so the pressures on
Ohio State is national championship of bus. I know that
picking Jordan didn't win it all. I know they are

(01:11:13):
I know Jordan's loaded, but hey, it's national championship. Of
bus Ohio State, Ryan j Ball in your court? Shit,
what happened to Juan Hard? He didn't deliver it and
he's gone. So hey, you might be the next out
to door if you don't bring that trophy home, because
I'm telling you there's a lot of pressure on Columbus
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:11:33):
Real quickly. The technology being used to determine first downs.
Did you your thoughts on that?

Speaker 7 (01:11:41):
Look? I got a smart point a couple of years ago,
and it maybe a lot smarter than I used to be.
I'm all for technology, anything that makes our society better.
As far as technology goes advancement medicine, I'm all for it. Okay,
I'm all for it. So hey, you got no problem
as well as you get it right and you're fan everybody.

(01:12:01):
You got no problem with all?

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
Right? I guess I'm the one with the issue with it.
Four minutes to late, ever so quickly, the USA Poland
volleyball match. The display a sportsmanship? Your thoughts on that?

Speaker 7 (01:12:15):
You know? I was just thinking about that the other
day with all the shieldboarding in the dancing and all that.
Where is sportsmanship gone?

Speaker 19 (01:12:21):
Man?

Speaker 7 (01:12:22):
Where's I go across the feeling ship?

Speaker 8 (01:12:24):
Gil?

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Hey? Man?

Speaker 7 (01:12:25):
You guys playing the heck of a game. You girls
play heck of a game.

Speaker 14 (01:12:29):
You know.

Speaker 7 (01:12:29):
Good on you, but but it's right all the showboard
to dancing. It kind of turns me off, you know,
But hey, I grew up in a different era, man,
You know, well what do I know?

Speaker 2 (01:12:39):
All right? Great culture? Own, appreciate you, man, get your sleep,
You're rested up, and want to hear back from you
next week. Excellent stuff. Stephen in Kansas City, how are you, hey?

Speaker 20 (01:12:50):
Bern?

Speaker 9 (01:12:51):
A good show?

Speaker 10 (01:12:52):
You know.

Speaker 9 (01:12:53):
I don't think anyone outside of the Big House in
ann Arbor believes Jim Harball.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
But that's just me.

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
It's not an unfair comment.

Speaker 9 (01:13:05):
I've been I've been here. I've been hearing a lot
about this sportsmanship and I and I like the I
like the topic. I just wish that sportsmanship would extend
to our professional athletes. I'm hearing Lebron James has told
France that they're not that talented ahead of the ahead
of this gold, gold medal game. I think our professional

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athletes are losing losing focus about what it's like to
be at the Olympics. It's not about expanding a brand,
you know. And this this goes to the coach Steve Kurrent,
why they're not playing very well is that they're they're
there to serve the country. They're they're there not to
go to parties. I've seen them. I've seen all these

(01:13:49):
guys at NBA parties, going to ping pong matches, going
doing everything but playing basketball. So I'll be very interested
to see if they actually to get focused today. It's
kind of interesting. I noticed the the women. You don't
see any of the women at these events. You don't
see Britney Griner. You know, Don Staley.

Speaker 20 (01:14:11):
Would would would would put them back on the dorms
if this happened. I mean, we I just hate to
say it, but I think we deserve what we deserve
to lose sometimes because of the way our guys are
conducting themselves and just kind of half half half in
on winning because they're so.

Speaker 9 (01:14:32):
They're so talented. That's the ultimate show of disrespect and
sportsmanship when when you're at a ping pong match, or
or you're at some event in the Olympics the gymnastics,
instead of preparing for your opponent. And I don't think
anyone anyone has said that because these guys are not
the dream team they're they're not even close to the

(01:14:53):
Dream Team. They're they're almost the screw up team. What
do you think about that?

Speaker 2 (01:14:57):
Bernie? All right, thanks, watch you even covered a lot
of there. Look, I saw the dream Team. This is
not the Dream Team. And Bill Russell said it best.
Don't compare eras, don't compare ghosts. People insist on doing
it right. That Dream Team twelve Hall of Famers and
nineteen cumulative championships. And unless people saw Jordan play Courtside

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and Magic and Burden the whole group, then you have
to kind of recuse yourself from the argument. You can
have an opinion, but you had to see the ore
those guys had around them when they played, in addition
to the success they had and the showman they were.
This group does not have that. Although they are a
collection of accomplishment, no doubt about it, and they're gonna

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beat France. It's not a good matchup for France. This
just in in case you missed it, France does not
have Nikola Jokic. I think the US wins by about
fourteen since Saturday. Later on Saturday, let's get the crew in, Kevin.
You've heard the discourse tonight, do you believe Jim Harbaugh,
I don't know anything.

Speaker 12 (01:15:56):
No, of course I don't. Yeah, and the problem is
to your point.

Speaker 11 (01:16:00):
On Monday, he gets on the podium talking about the
Connor Stallion situation, saying, you know, I never lie, I
never cheat, I never steal, and then ironically two days later,
completely unrelated, of course, when it comes to the COVID nineteen,
you know, recruiting situation, they said you clearly lied and
didn't cooperate the end with the investigation.

Speaker 12 (01:16:16):
And I think based on the facts.

Speaker 11 (01:16:18):
That we know, it's pretty hard for him to die
to deny that, so he ends up looking bad in
that situation. I think most people would have been on
his side if you were to say, yeah, I did it,
and you know what, I'd do it again, because the
entire rule is stupid and what the NCAA is doing
is stupid. And I'm glad that the kids are getting what
they were that they've had coming to him for.

Speaker 12 (01:16:32):
The last fifty years.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Most people would ever hold that thought. You really articulate
that nicely. I'm in agreement. The fact that he got
like the way he set it up, the fact that
he got on the podium on an unsolicited basis kind
of blows his covers. Like the old joke, I don't
smoke out on drink, I don't swear. Oh damn it,
I left my cigarettes at the exactly go ahead, Kevin
continue on.

Speaker 12 (01:16:53):
No, I was pretty much wrapping up my point on
that one.

Speaker 11 (01:16:55):
It's just like, I think more people will respect Jim
Harball if he would just kind of pull the veil
back and just be a undred percent honest about it
as opposed to getting up there and essentially lying about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Thoughts on the Hawkeye technology and its potential future.

Speaker 11 (01:17:09):
I think potentially in the future, once they get all
the kings worked out, it's going to end up working
out for the better. Usually when you roll these things out,
you know, people try to compare it to Major League
Baseball and the automated strike zone. This thing has been
around for three years now and they're still kind of
working out a lot of the kings, but you don't
see it because it's happening in the minor leagues. So
now that it's somewhat front and center in an NFL
preseason game, there's gotta be some issues to have to
work out. But I think ultimately the more you can

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use technology, the more that you can use things to
try to take human air out of any particular professional situation,
I'm all for it, So I support it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
That's kind of the recurring theme. Yeah, I have to
revisit this and then USA poland final thoughts.

Speaker 11 (01:17:45):
I greatly appreciate and respect him for making that decision.
The majority of people, whether it's amateur sports or professional
sports especially, would never do such a thing. So there's
no way that I can hate on or say something
negative about someone who shows the utmost sportsmanship and tries
to be honest about the fact and knowing that it
can end up costing him a medal.

Speaker 12 (01:18:02):
That's a true show of sportsmanship.

Speaker 11 (01:18:04):
And I know you didn't ask this question, Bernie, but
based on what the last caller said, I'm not going
to criticize any athlete who's out there at the Olympics
supporting other athletes, which is what Team USA has been doing.
And there have been other players from other sports and
other disciplines who have also put out there supporting other
athletes from their respective countries.

Speaker 12 (01:18:19):
So I just wanted to make sure I make that clear.
I don't think that's a bad sign from the basketball
players to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Noted duly noted, thank you. Ian thoughts on.

Speaker 21 (01:18:28):
Harbaugh, Yeah, really quick. Look, I'm not saying he masterminded
the whole thing. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't. But
to say he didn't know anything about it at all,
it's just ignorant. But I don't think anyone's being ignorant.
I think we all know that he at least had
some knowledge of it. He was the man at Michigan,
and if anyone was going to make any big decision
like committing recruiting violations, they wouldn't have done it without

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him knowing. And if he didn't know, then it was
because he specifically told them that he didn't want to know,
which I still think makes him guilty by association.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
Personally, Well said replay technology on first downs.

Speaker 21 (01:19:04):
Yeah, I mean I don't feel super strongly one way
or the other, but you know, four minutes is a
pretty long time, so it sounds like it's not ready yet.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
And the sportsmanship situation, I respect him for it.

Speaker 21 (01:19:14):
I wouldn't have done it myself. It kind of gives
me teachers pet vibes. But you know, good for him.

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
That's a good analogy, So great calls tonight. I don't
know that there was a consensus on Harball. I think
that a lot of folks felt, hey, you know, maybe
there's plausible deniability. Maybe he didn't want to know. On
the other hand, knowing Harball the way we do as
a task master, it's hard to believe he didn't know anything.

(01:19:40):
And as far as the technology I got to give,
the folks have spoken, let's give this a chance to work.
You'd rather have things get right, even if it takes
a little longer and interesting. I think all except for
one or two. Maybe we're enamored with the sportsmanship. And
how can you not be, especially in this day and age,
especially on an international stage like that. It is the
true show of honor coming up. Guess who's back? Well,

(01:20:03):
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be great job by the callers as always tonight, very
thought provoking, not always in sync in an agreement, but
thought provoking, insightful answers when it comes to whether or
not Jim Harbaugh is being truthful at the podium on Monday. Well,
the thoughts on technology further being used to determine first

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downs in football and then of course to display a
sportsmanship USA Poland before we put a cap on it,
Mark Ramsey, let's have you weighing on this. What were
your thoughts on the situations that we talked about.

Speaker 22 (01:21:13):
When it comes to Harbaugh, he doesn't strike me as
the kind of guy that doesn't know what's going on
in some place that he's in charge of. So too,
from what I understand, if he doesn't know something, I
don't believe that. I think he knows what's going on.
He's aware of everything going on in an organization.

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
That's how I feel about it, and maybe maybe to
not every nth degree in every detail, but I've in
agreement with you knowing what a task master he is
and having lived and worked in that market for a
long time. It's just it's hard for me to buy it.
It's it just it's I guess I don't buy it.

Speaker 22 (01:21:53):
I figured he has his you know so called these
are my words, his spies, people that are looking out
for him. Him, He knows and people tell him what's
going on. So to say he's not aware, I think
he's aware of everything. Now what he choose to admit
to that's a completely different story.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Yeah, fair enough. All right, let's talk ever so quickly
about the NFL and the links are going to go
to now to make sure first down markers are done right.

Speaker 22 (01:22:21):
Like one of the callers said, I'm gonna miss the
anticipation of the chain gang coming out and watching how
bad the spot is, whether the referee doesn't put it
down the right way, and everybody's gonna argue.

Speaker 1 (01:22:35):
That's wrong, that's wrong, that's wrong.

Speaker 22 (01:22:37):
And so I'm gonna miss that part if I watch
a game. But then, if this technology works, like everybody
was saying, if it makes it faster, that's okay, But
trying to get it right is always the objective. But
if it's not gonna work as quickly and as fast
as it does in tennis, then that's gonna ob make

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the games longer, you know, commercial breaks, having to stop
for for measurements or checking a you know, a footstepping out.
It's just going to add more time to the game
and just eventually it's gonna make everybody upset if it
causes too much trouble.

Speaker 2 (01:23:17):
It made them upset the other night, including the announcers
Phil Simms. I mean, look, it's gonna disrupt the ebb
and flow of the game. It's gonna cause delays.

Speaker 22 (01:23:25):
You could throw off a quarterbacks timing because all that
stuff they want to go, they want to go, and
if it's going to take time and make and slow
everything down, the you know, the potential of quarterbacks getting
out of sync and they got to you know, worry
about you know, trying to get the next play in
and trying to hurry up and you.

Speaker 12 (01:23:40):
Get it done.

Speaker 22 (01:23:41):
It's it just maybe more of a potential disruption than
being a good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
All that stuff. I agree. Finally, the sportsmanship.

Speaker 22 (01:23:50):
You know what, a person doesn't have to look over
their shoulder for the rest of their life and they
can sleep at night and their mind will be at
ease that they told the truth. Like in golf, golfers
tell on themselves, and so this person also did the
same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:24:06):
Yeah, all good. The comments have been refreshing tonight to
hear that those sentiments. And by the way, just so
everybody knows, they are only experimenting with the Hawkeye technology
right now with respect to first downs and whether where
the ball is placed and whether or not there was
a first down. Keep in mind, they may well go

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with it, but it's not going to be this year.
So if you like that drama and we can all
relate to what they're talking about, then you're gonna get it.
There will be no changes this year, and whether or
not they end up implementing it in twenty twenty five,
very much remains to be seen. So there's nothing definitive

(01:24:50):
decided at all on that vein. All right, good stuff.
Guess soon's back. Well, look, he never really left. Turns
out now that Charles Barkley is not retiring, and not
only that he's staying with T and T. I kind
of I kind of saw this coming. He's only in

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the fourth year of his ten two hundred actually third
year of his ten year, two hundred and ten million
dollar deal and you know, we know that T and
T Sports will have the NBA for one more season.
They don't lose the NBA till following the upcoming season,
so Barkley stays, and then of course the obligatory comments,

(01:25:34):
I love my T and T Sports family. My number
one priority has been our people, keeping everyone together. That
I believe him. I heard a story through the grapevine
that Barkley paid all the support people five grand each,
so and he'd been the target of you know, ESPN's
courting and Amazon and NBC and they all begin there

(01:25:56):
seventy seven billion dollars agreements after next season. The theory
now is that TNT Sports is going to stay in
business with the NBA, but on a dotted line basis.
Remember you got the lawsuit right, The lawsuit wants to
be adjudicated, and I'm not even going to dive into

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that tonight. I got into it kind of granular fashion.
A couple of weeks ago, and a week and a
half ago, Barkley told the Athletic he was open to
staying with T and T if they paid him in full,
and he was quite emphatic about it. He says, Turner
has to come to be asapp and they have to
guarantee my whole thing, or they can offer me a pickup,
and there's no chance that's happening. I'll be a free agent.
Right So, the long and the short of it is

(01:26:39):
one of the things that's being bandied about right now.
We really should bring in the crew on this, because
there is a theory and why not that even though
there perhaps are not specific NBA games on T and
T or playoff games on T and T, that would
not necessarily preclude the TNA from having a postgame show

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with the same crew. Kenny to Jett Smith, Ernie Johnson,
Charles Barkley Shack in theory could that happen? I was
thinking about that kind of to myself a while ago,
and now there is some momentum that perhaps that is.
There are at least those discussions. Kevin, let's start with you.
Do you think there's plausibility? Do you think that's perhaps

(01:27:28):
logical that something like that could happen even though TNT
is not showing a game per se, just to have
a postgame show.

Speaker 12 (01:27:34):
It's plausible. I don't see why you couldn't do that.

Speaker 11 (01:27:37):
I mean, there's certainly a certain amount of people and
look that the running joke is a lot of people,
you know, they wait for the game to end so
they can watch the postgame show like that, the game
is just filler into inside the NBA. So I can
see a lot of people going out of their way
to tune in to an inside the NBA type of
situation where they see Charles and if they want to
bring Ernie and Kenny and those guys back to do

(01:27:57):
something from an NBA postgame standpoint, I know, granted, you
can't use the NBA branding, so they'd have to find
some creative way to get around that part, or probably
can't use highlights or look, maybe they can find a
way to go back to the negotiating table with the
NBA and find a way to use that. I'm not
exactly sure how that can work, but you know, my
thought was with TNT Sports still having rights to many
other you know, sporting events, whether it's some golf events,

(01:28:18):
I know they're in the college football rotation, maybe using
Charles Barkley and so that sort of you know, the
format and used because he.

Speaker 2 (01:28:25):
Usually Charles bought that as well.

Speaker 11 (01:28:27):
Yeah, he gets tapped into for all his opinions on
a lot of different matters for him to be able
to pay off that contract that he's making a hefty amount.
They might want to try to use him as much
as they possibly can for as many different projects as
they can. But to answer your question, I don't think
it's a terrible idea at all to explore having some
sort of NBA pregame and or postgame situation, even if you.

Speaker 12 (01:28:46):
Don't have the rights to the games.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Well, and here's why it might not be a terrible
idea at all, because let's let's ask part V the question,
do you think people would continue to watch it? I
think they would.

Speaker 12 (01:28:58):
Many people would.

Speaker 11 (01:28:58):
Now I don't know if I would go out of
my way personally to go to watch it, but I
do think they've built up such a following, such a
giant audience at this point using social media, which they
do so well over there as well. Now you can
put preview videos up to see what Charles has to
say about X, Y, and Z. They have enough following
of a media following that I do think people will
go out of the way to watch the postgame show

(01:29:20):
just to see what Charles and those guys have to say.
So I do think there's a market for it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:25):
Yeah, I think there are more collection of personalities. I know,
I'm going to speak out of school here, and I'm
going to allen a scholarship. I never really cared for
the show that much. I liked the guys individually, but
I marveled at their inability to really know a lot
of facts about college basketball. I always thought they were
brutal around March Madness time, but nonetheless, they're naturals. They

(01:29:46):
mesh well together, they have chemistry, and this is a
product that people have availed themselves up for a long time,
and there was real outcry. So I think it could work. Ian,
What are your thoughts? Barkley stays Team T he continues
maybe after twenty twenty five, do they find a way
to continue this show in some in some form or

(01:30:06):
fashion even though they're not showing NBA games per se.

Speaker 21 (01:30:10):
Well, I think it kind of goes without saying that
the numbers would be a lot worse just because of
the fact that I feel like a huge chunk of
their viewership is just people who are just you know,
still have the game on from when it ends, you know,
so that then the postgame show starts or the halftime
show starts inside the NBA, so you naturally end up

(01:30:31):
watching because of that.

Speaker 12 (01:30:32):
I don't think that people are going to be like, oh,
you know.

Speaker 21 (01:30:35):
The game's over, let's let's switch over to this channel
now so we can watch inside the NBA. What I
do think actually might work, and this is a little
outside the box, would be if they did like a
podcast or a YouTube channel or something. And I know
that that's weird to say, like that would do better
than an actual show on a network, but I think
in this particular case it actually would because people go

(01:30:58):
to YouTube, to these pods cast after games and to
their specific sources defined with their favorite outlets, their favorite
personalities have to say about the games as they end.
I really do think that something like that would be
something that they could really carry the momentum that they
have from their TNT show and you know, bring a

(01:31:19):
massive audience. Because I don't know, like I'll reiterate it,
I just don't think that if they brought it to
another network it would do well enough. Like I don't
think that people would switch channels just to watch them.

Speaker 12 (01:31:31):
I think people like it interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:31:32):
But that's interesting because I might have got strong on
that I figured if they like it, they would follow
it because they're following the personalities, you know, and it's
just just just just a thought.

Speaker 21 (01:31:44):
But I would say that a lot of what people
the way people consume it right now is just through
seeing clips on social media, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
What I mean.

Speaker 21 (01:31:54):
So it's it's not like people right now are are
actively tuning into the show, like I it's time to watch. Well,
I mean, you know, maybe some people are, but I
feel like a lot I.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Could have it wrong. I alway thought it was appointment watching.
I'm just not one of the people that make that appointment. Yeah,
they run to the score, but they run to the
chalkboard and they raise each other, and I'm like, I
don't know, man, it doesn't It honestly doesn't do much
for me. But so okay, so look, the bottom line
is none of this is decided yet. It's just in

(01:32:26):
the drawing board. So you got you got the show
for one more year. But ye're of the belief that
if it's segregated, for lack of a better word, from
regular programming, so you have to change channels to find it.

Speaker 21 (01:32:37):
And I know that that's weird because it's like, you know,
if it's on a podcast or YouTube, then you're still
kind of technically quote unquote changing the channel, going to
another source to get it.

Speaker 12 (01:32:46):
But I don't know.

Speaker 21 (01:32:47):
I just think that that's the way things are going
right now, and and I don't know that they're specific.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
I could draw a parallel think about back in the
day when Chris Berman did his highlight okay, the Sunday
night highlights, and the NFL games would end, and perhaps
ESPN didn't even have an NFL contract. Back then, you
just said CBS ABC on Monday night and you know, NBC,
and then the games would end and you'd rush you

(01:33:17):
changed channels to watch the highlights or see how your
fantasy team did.

Speaker 12 (01:33:20):
Definitely, definitely, I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:33:21):
Could that not be somewhat analogous to this and.

Speaker 21 (01:33:25):
TNT No, it is, But I would say that today,
back then, back you know, fifteen years ago, ten, fifteen
years ago, that's when cable viewing was way bigger. But
I think that it's shrinking gradually, not that it isn't
still huge, but I think that people now their postgame

(01:33:47):
experience has changed a lot. It's not anymore so centered
around the postgame covers that's on that exact channel. People
have their favorite sources that they want to go to
get their information from, and if that's Ernie Shack and Kenny,
they'll go to get that somewhere. But I just think
that the easier it is to consume whatever their new
show is, if they have a new show at all,

(01:34:09):
then that would be the most beneficial for them, and
that would be something like you know, a podcast or
YouTube or something that keep bringing that back to the
same example.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
But Okay, Mark Ramsey thoughts on the TNT Charles Barkley deal.

Speaker 22 (01:34:23):
I just thought with Charles's contract was so big that
the people that signed him would try to find a
way to keep him and extend his period of time. Okay,
we're not going to let him just sit around and
collect money, or we don't want to write that big
a check and just let him go away. If he's

(01:34:43):
still able to broadcast and do things, why let him
sit around and do nothing and we just pay him
to do nothing. They were going to find a way
to get him to come back some kind of way.
As long as it's time to negotiate, they can find
something to do. And when it comes to the point
about you were just discussing with Ian about whether they

(01:35:04):
would that.

Speaker 12 (01:35:05):
Show would work.

Speaker 22 (01:35:06):
I think those four guys are the draw and people
would find a way to go watch them. Back in
the in the you know, many moons ago, there was
George and Michael's sports Machine and the oh god, that's
remember that, and then there was the Bernman highlights. I
have no idea, but would people switch over to watch

(01:35:29):
an NBC to watch George and Michael or would the
other the other half of people stay on and watch
ESPN and watch him go boom, you know, because that
was a day when the audience would, you know, from
what I can tell, go and watch something. And I
think those four guys, with their basketball knowledge and how

(01:35:50):
they entertain each other and joke around and just keep
it going.

Speaker 12 (01:35:54):
They would they would keep the draw.

Speaker 22 (01:35:57):
And the whole thing of why everybody was moaning that
the T and T was going to lose, that's because
they were going to lose those four guys, and so
if there's if there's a way to get them together.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
Except Ernie Johnson, he was going nowhere.

Speaker 22 (01:36:10):
That that was the wild card because if he was
if there was going to be no TNT, then he
couldn't go but if they could find a way to
keep those guys together, I think they would still be
the draw.

Speaker 2 (01:36:21):
They're one thousand percent. Those guys are the draw. Their personalities.
I think you could put all four of them together
and they could talk about movies, they could talk about
you know, Thursday Night Bowling League, and they're gonna draw
an audience just because of their history and their personalities
and the critical match they've built on that show. I

(01:36:43):
just like people. I just think that they've they've built
a core audience of of people who just want to
watch them kibbots about something. And because I got to
tell you, when March Madags rolls around listening to them talk,
it's not good. But their their personalities and the likable
and you know, Shaq played in the league. He's got
a hell of a resume, Barkley's got a hell of

(01:37:04):
a resume, Kenny Smith as a resume, and Ernie Johnson
is like the man of the people, so everybody loves
him as well. So they've got themselves quite a combination there.
And you know, this is not like something that is
brand new. This would you know, you'd be taking an
existing idea and giving it a quarter turn. And so
I'm of the belief. And to Mark's point, if they've

(01:37:27):
got seven years left on Barkley's deal, they got to
get some return on that investment, right, and so they
want him on that network. And frankly, you know they
need Barkley, but Barkley needs his teammates as well to
to you know, make the product that they're putting forth
the most viable. Coming up, if you are a New

(01:37:48):
York Jets fan, I might have some possible sobering news
for you, because the reality of it is, when it
comes to your starting quarterback, no matter who it is,
starting every game and being available, the numbers aren't necessarily great.
And I'm even talking about just last year. I'll share

(01:38:09):
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Coming to a lie from the Tirack dot com studios
here in Las Vegas. Take up to two am Pacific,
five am Eastern. I don't mean to be the bearer
of bad news. I'm not gonna kill joy, but believe
it or not, in the entire National Football League in
twenty twenty three, only nine quarterbacks started all seventeen games. Obviously,

(01:39:38):
Aaron Rodgers was not one of them. Nonetheless, nonetheless, you're
gonna see the Jets on TV a ton this year.
Aaron Rodgers team has been awarded six primetime games over
the first eleven weeks alone. That makes it the first
time in NFL history that a team has been given

(01:40:00):
that many night games over the first eleven weeks. By
the way, the Jets also have a Week five game
in London, which means the beginning seven standalone games before
you even get to Thanksgiving this year. And that's pretty
amazing for a team that hasn't even be in a winning
season in nine years. But look, the truth of the

(01:40:21):
matter is that history goes the NFL goes. You play
the Hits. Tell me you don't want to watch the
Jets when Aaron Rodgers is playing. People hope, people hope
that Aaron Rodgers his better days are ahead. But I've

(01:40:41):
talked to too many people that think his better days
are in the rear view mirror. Look, forget last year.
It was a disaster, and I am rooting for Aaron
Rodgers to complete the season. I think it's a better
story if the Jets get to the postseason. If something
flames out, there'll be a lot of I told you
soos and so on and so forth. But my concern
is not twenty twenty three. It's actually twenty twenty two,

(01:41:05):
Aaron Rodgers failed to throw for three hundred yards in
any game, not one game that year. He also threw
twelve interceptions in the same season. That's the most since
his rookie year as a starter in two thousand and eight.
So look, you got the forty nine Ers, the Cowboys,
they all max out with six primetime games. Well, one

(01:41:28):
of those teams won fourteen games, one one twelve, The
Jets won seven. They put a lot of respect on
the Jets name. I hope they live up to it.
Coming up Chris Pohfet's World of Soccer, But first we
go back to our guy, Kevin Figures with the latest.

Speaker 11 (01:41:43):
All right, Bernie, And there were three NFL preseason games
on Friday Night, including Philadelphia defeating Baltimore sixteen to thirteen.
Michael Pennocks junior of Atlanta got the start and completed
nine of sixteen passes for one hundred and four yards
and directed two scoring drives, and he lost to Miami.
Justin Fields, playing for Pittsburgh, completed five to six passes
for sixty seven yards and a loss to the Texans.

(01:42:05):
In Major League Baseball, the Dodgers defeated the Pirates nine
to five. You had victories for the Diamondbacks and the
Padres as well.

Speaker 12 (01:42:11):
ELI has a two and.

Speaker 11 (01:42:12):
A half game lead over San Diego and a three
and a half game lead over Arizona in the National
League West. Minnesota swept a doubleheader over Cleveland and now
trail the Guardians by a game and a half in
the American League Central. Baltimore a half game lead over
the Yankees in the AO East after they defeated Tampa.
In New York's game against Texas was ragined out. At
the Olympics, the final round of the women's golf is

(01:42:34):
underway with American Nellie quarter five strokes off the lead.
She'll begin her round in a couple of hours from
now at eleven am Eastern. It'll be the gold medal
match in women's soccer between the United States and Brazil.

Speaker 12 (01:42:46):
Back to Bernie Fredo.

Speaker 2 (01:42:47):
Thank you, Kevin. Gold medal matching women's soccer. Men not
so much, but we covered all on the Ronnie Frianto Show.
That's why this time every week we bring you Chrisperfett's
World of Soccer.

Speaker 23 (01:43:01):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum, give fuck,
It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

Speaker 24 (01:43:20):
What a long summer it has been, Bernie for the
world of soccer. International play is finally with this this
weekend here at the Olympics, coming down to a close.
Spain under twenty three has won the gold for men's spending,
their dominance here in this international year between here and
the euro Championship, and if the next two years prove anything,

(01:43:42):
then they will be prohibitive favorites going into the twenty
twenty six World Cup, especially with Lamina mal some very young,
fine players and a young under twenty three squad which
will form backbone as they grow older and older. It
also means that we are closing in finally to starting
to deal a little bit more on the club side
of things. And I want to frame this by we

(01:44:04):
had a bit of a conversation last week about FIFA
and overcrowding the calendars, and I want to have another
conversation this week coming from the words of Zlatan Ibrakimovich
about MLS Major League Soccer, the domestic league here in
the United States. Yes, we haven't talked about MLS a
ton because of we just haven't had time.

Speaker 12 (01:44:23):
In the world of soccer.

Speaker 24 (01:44:24):
Certainly with euro Championship, Copa America and then even the Olympics,
it's just been completely outshaded and that's kind of rough
if you'r MLS. Even with Lionel Messi, the league stelf
finds self in frustrating terms of growth, finds self cast
more in the foil against grassroots USL clubs around the
country and quite honestly just demands still to see if

(01:44:46):
they're gambit on this messy project, it will pay off
to higher popularity. But Slatt took a bit of a
different attact when it came to talking about MLS now.
Speaking with the ESPN program First Takes, the had said
that when it comes to the game, he thinks that
it's getting better. The quality of the game, the individuals

(01:45:07):
is growing and getting better and better in the country.
He points to the twenty twenty six World Cup that
is coming for the United States and will be very
important to MLS, especially since this is a league that
can really trace its modern foundations back to the last
time the United States hosted a World Cup in the nineties.
But he says it also quote has too many rules

(01:45:27):
to make it grow faster. Speaking about the league, and indeed,
there are a lot of rules that seem to phibit
growth in Major League Soccer, and the biggest one comes
in the term of salary cap. Bernie and I think
that might be a shock to American sports fans. We
are used to this outside of baseball, but we really
need to talk about the salary cap in frank terms.

(01:45:49):
I think in the minds of fans out there in
the United States, the salary cap exists to promote parody.
It's to make sure that one side doesn't get bigger
than the other. And that's taking off of the model
that the NFL has been able to find too great success,
where thirty two of its teams are all going to
be usually in the same realm of relevancy in any
given year. However, really what we're talking about here when

(01:46:12):
we're talking about growth, especially for a growing league like
Major League Soccer, is that the salary cap in a
sport also serves a second, and I would argue more
powerful purpose in that it keeps owners from outspending each other. Yes,
it exists because nobody wants another George Steinbrenner making the
rest of them look bad, because that is what a

(01:46:34):
salary cap is is it is a cartel limit on
owners saying we don't want you guys to spend more
than X.

Speaker 12 (01:46:43):
Why do we not want you to spend more than X.

Speaker 24 (01:46:45):
It might just be for it might be for competition,
but more than anything, it also makes sure that you
can't then accuse other owners of not spending well, because
that was always the knockback. You'd always hear about George
Steinbrenner in baseball outspending the other owners, and that was
unfair to the small market guys, and always the retort
I heard back then Bernie was well, then just go

(01:47:05):
spend more money, spend money like him, and then there'd
be a lot of cries of poorhouse, even though in
the modern age of baseball there's no reason for any
owner to try to cry a poorhouse. And something kind
of like that exists in soccer that has never really known,
a salary cap. If you go over to Europe, the
rich are big because they are rich and powerful, and

(01:47:26):
the small guys they just struggle to stay afloat, and
that might seem unfair to the untrained eye, but at
the same time it also ferrets out people who come
into the ecosystem and just won't spend to compete.

Speaker 1 (01:47:39):
Right.

Speaker 24 (01:47:39):
You always hear about guys who come in at like
the second or third tier of English soccer, buy up
a club and then start to cut costs. They don't
want to spend too much on player role and the
fan base usually ends up revolting. Why because they understand
that to compete with everyone else, you have to spend money.
You can't treat it like a trust fund. You can't
treat your sports club as a retirement in a vehicle

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for you to passively make money. That's always been the
problems that Manchester United fans bring up the Glazer family.
You're not there because it is an investment and you
want to see a profit. You should be spending money
to compete at every level. And ultimately that's when people,
especially those abroad, start talking about the salary cap being
a weird problem of MLS. It is right, that is

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what they're talking about, but more practically, it also limits
you from being unable to compete with other actors out
there to get talents, like say slots on Abrahimovic. There
are several player slots that are exempt from the salary cap,
but you're still limited on what you can pay out
for those players to bring them stateside. And that means practically,

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if you are an MLS contending with say the Premier
League or La Liga. La Liga has been having a
very fun transfer season. By the way, you're missing out
on too many big players, top talents who are going
to go to more places where they won't have limits
on what they can spend. You've encouraged the sort of
it's okay to not spend this money to compete with
the big guys out there. And that can even be

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traced back to how MLS was able to bring in
Lionel Messi, where they had to help enter Miami spend
the money to afford a Lionel Messi. And here's the
grim part about competing. If you're MLS, your entire window
for this summer is gone. Premier League, La Liga, all
the rest of Europe are coming back next week. That's right,
August fifteenth, Thursday. We're already getting domestic season kickoff in

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La Liga in Spain. Friday will be the Premier League
and Saturday will be a full slate of Syria. It's
already coming back so so quickly. That's just one of
the things I've had on MLS, Bernie. But we should
talk a little bit before we get out of here
about the latest US men's team rumor. They still have
yet to hire a coach. However, several newspapers out there

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in the athletic with New York Times sources reporting to
them that Mauricio post Chattino is one of the top
names for the job right now and that they might
be pursuing him. Poschatino has a bit of an interesting
profile right now. He was kind of the rising star
bringing Southampton in the Premier League up to prominence before
he then get hired away where he spent five seasons

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with Tottenham Hotspur, going to about Tottenham Hotspur levels, never
really going too far, but I don't think a lot
of that was completely on him, and then getting bounce
between Paris, Saint Germaine and Chelsea, both with outsized expectations.
It would be very interesting to see him come to
the United States. I think this is a man who
has a lot of European experience. It would fit very well.

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He is a coach who favors a very high press,
attacking style of soccer, and that is something that has
fit this profile of American soccer, who wants to press,
who wants to have possession, and who wants to get
goal scoring opportunities. That he also raised a lot of
young players who played at his clubs ended up going

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on and playing for the English national team. I think
this is guy who would be a very good developer
of talent and someone who fits the profile of what
the team wants to play on the field. I think
this would be a very good interesting hire. If this
is true, we will have to see, but I would
say Poshatino definitely gets my nod of approval on first

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blush as we start to look closer and closer and
who the Americans will have next. But that's going to
do it for world of soccer this week, Bernie. We've
got a lot to do here. As I said, next week,
club play is back, Premier League is back, La Liga
is back, Syria is back, The soccer is getting already
into the club levels.

Speaker 12 (01:51:36):
We cannot wait. We'll see you next time.

Speaker 2 (01:51:39):
So we exit the international stage after a couple of
years of Olympics in World Cup, et cetera, and it
just feels like, man, this men's team is a million
miles away. They don't even have a coach, and so
I guess we have to start there. But as Chris said,
the club leagues are upon us, and there's always plenty
of news there as well. Coming up, we wrap up

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the show. And in addition, hell, there hasn't even been
a game played yet. Well I don't count the preseason games,
and yet there are already coaches on the hot seat.
Three of them. Well you probably shouldn't be too surprised,
at least for two of them, but the third one

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you might be a little surprised. Yep, that's what they're
talking about. I'm Bernie Fraddle, were Keviy, lying from Las Vegas,
Fox Sports Radio, Tirack dot Com studios. Keep it locked.
You're listening to the Bernie Fradle Show on Fox Sports Radio.
We are wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show.
And before I go any further, I want to thank

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my broadcast team. They've been with me since eleven pm
Pacific time on well Friday night. We are now obviously
into Saturday. We are about eleven hours away from USA
versus France for the gold medal. What am I thought?
Quite simple? This justin in case you didn't know, France

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does not have does not have Nicola Jokic. Yeah, so
I like the USA. I don't know how tense it'll be.
I think they'll end up winning by double digits. Before
I go any further, I want to thank my broadcast team,
Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, turning all the dills, keeping

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us glued together, Kevin Figures and all the updates. And
of course Ian Roddy, our executive producer. Great job taking
all the calls. Great job to all the callers tonight.
It's some interesting topics, whether or not Jim Harball was
telling the truth at the podium on Monday. Thoughts on
the NFL and their new fangled technology that they're testing. Remember,

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they're not going to implement it anytime soon, but they
are testing it, so I think they tend to if
they can make it work right. But boy, I'll tell
you the I'm talking about the Hawkeye technology for the
you know, the first down marker. It was off to
a very inauspicious start, and that means not good all right,

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in case you were wondering. And then of course the
sportsmanship in USA Poland volleyball match with Johnie Spanier enlightened
me to and a great caller, some great thoughts tonight.
You never know where the midnight hour is gonna go
outstanding before I get to the real quickly. The three
coaches that are on the hot seat, this slays me.

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Russell Wilson fans, if Russell starts against Pittsburgh or checked
that against Denver in week two? Russell plays for Pittsburgh,
and I make no mistake, He's gonna start unless something
bad happens. Justin Fields is not a major league quarterback,
and don't make me go into my rant again. This
is a remarkable stat These are the kind of things
that slay me. Justin Field starts against Denver week two.

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Now Denver, of course, is his former team. He'd be
the first player, not quarterback, first player to play against
a former team while they are still paying eighty seven
percent of his salary. Now mark that on your calendars
week two. If that isn't something to cause you to
want to pay even more attention, how would that be?

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How would that go amongst the local faithful as the
Steelers visit Denver in week two? Okay? Three coaches that
are already clearly on the hot seat. The first one,
no surprise, Mike McCarthy, how's Dallas gonna function mentally this year?
You got Dak Prescott, He's in limbo. He remains unsigned
beyond this season, as does Ceedee Lamb. Jerry said, it's

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not a priority. The Cowboys loser. Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn
to Washington. You saw an embarrassing bidder in for the
team last year. That's got all this talent on the roster.
Win twelve games three years in a row. But you
get to the playoffs, they look like a drunk crossing
in icy street. And I blame Dac a lot. He's
two and five in the playoffs. Sorry, you're the quarterback.

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He'll probably end up getting paid. He didn't deserve it.
He hasn't earned it. However, he's damn good in the
regular season, and you don't want to go back to
the Quincy Carter Drew Henson era. So you're kind of
stuck there. But add it all up, put it in
a blender. Make no mistake. Mike McCarthy is very much
on the hot seat in twenty twenty four. Secondly, Jets

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coach Robert Sala appears increasingly more on the hot seat,
almost as much apparently as Mike McCarthy has been well documented.
He and Aaron Rodgers started the offseason somewhat poorly. Remember
how bad the team was without Rogers last year. This
is a good roster. The Jets have a good defense.

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You got a forty year old quarterback. Their fortunes are
going to rise and fall with him, Make no mistake.
He's got to start fifteen games. So if Rogers plays
fifteen games and the Jets don't make the playoffs or
get flushed out earlier or something, I think the entire
regime is in trouble. God forbid Aaron Rodgers gets hurt
and they don't finish up the season. With Aaron Rodgers,

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they could just clean house of the whole damn thing.
But Robert Sala, the closer you get, he's a good dude. Okay,
he's from Dearborn, Michigan. A lot about him, and he
was the architect has some very good defenses in San Francisco.
I think he's a defense oriented guy. But when you
step away from simply being a coordinator, whether you're an

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offensive coordinator where you're basically the head coach of the
offense or defensive coordinator, the head coach of the defense,
you're different. Now you're in a CEO role. I'm not
one hundred percent sure how well he's acclimated to that role.
Sala is on the hot seat. The Jets need to perform. Finally,
this might be more of a warm seat than a
hot seat, but it could turn into a hot seat
quick should Matt Eberfluse have a tanked season as it

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were building their world around their gifted quarterback called Caleb Williams.
Now Justin Justin Fields is never going to work. But
there's a feeling that the eberflu student do a hell
of a lot to help Justin Fields either And whether
or not that Zacher, it doesn't matter. He was ten
twenty eight as a starter. If Eberflus, for any reason

(01:58:09):
fails again the Bears are under five hundred, I would
say there's a probability, more than a possibility, that they
may look to do things elsewhere. I'm not rooting for
that to happen. I don't dislike Matt Eberflus. I'm just
telling you what I heard. By the way, honorable mentioned
Saints coach Dennis Allen, He's been the definition of mediocre
since he's been a head coach in his career with

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the Raiders are now taking over for Sean Payton. And oh,
by the way, do I dare mention Nick Sirianni? Do
I dare mention? The thought is in Philadelphia. If Sirianni
doesn't take into a championship, the leash is not going
to be very long. And this recent Deniu mal or,
this recent tet of tet with with Jalen Hurts is
not helping matters at all. So there you have it,

(01:58:53):
all right, it's gonna do for the Bernie Fraders show
back on these erawaves Saturday night, eleven pm Pacific, heavy,
heavy NFL stuff. We're going to get into. We will
reassess the USA and their gold medal win over France.
We'll get into some college football of course, what kind
of brand new fool of you? And what my name?
Plenty of high jinks. We'll see you Saturday night, eleven pm.

(01:59:14):
In the meantime, keep it locked up next Chris Plank
and Kevin Figures right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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