The Bernie Fratto Show With Chris Plank talks College Football Playoff Matchups, Heisman Voting, NFL Week 15 & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Bernie's got the night off, which, again I'm grateful. A
lot of people take time off whenever there is nothing
going on in the sports world, so you're left to
fill three hours tonight, four hours tomorrow through the middle
of the night with not a damn thing going on.
Bernie Frattle has been kind enough to take a few

(00:27):
breaks during his wildly busy schedule to actually allow me
to fill in when there's stuff going on. I mean,
thank you, Bernie, thank you. And as you heard on
a Fox Football Saturday, there is games today. I said
games plural because for the first time that I can remember,

(00:48):
there's competition in the college football world for Army Navy,
who got a couple of bowl games today too. So
welcome in on a Friday night into a Saturday, and
then tomorrow I'll be back from a Saturday into a Sunday.
I really feel like the only thing that changes is
a bit of the supporting cast. Brianna running the show
with Mark back Inthetirack dot Com Studios tonight than Mark

(01:10):
and Shay tomorrow night. I don't know why I needed
to go that in depth on the information, but here
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just quickly, little background for those that aren't familiar. Number One,

(01:34):
I'm a college football diard, livy breathe it every day.
I live in a state, I live in a city.
I live in a nation, by God, where college football
is king. And my life has been the transfer portal.
Not just since Monday, I mean whenever you cover a
team that's struggling like my unfortunate sooners have you start
covering that transfer portal in like October, maybe even late September.

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But it's been a wild time in college football, and
I got a lot from the college football world, and
the college football world in the NFL intersects just a bit.
Because everyone has an opinion on Bill Belichick. I mean,
people acting surprise that he signed a three year deal.
He's seventy freaking two. I mean, oh my god, how

(02:23):
shocked that a seventy two year old would only sign
a three year deal. But we'll get to that a
little bit later on in the program. I'm just letting
you know, if for any reason tonight you see me
happen to fall back into college football free agency talk,
then that's my explanation. It's my life, it's what I live.
It's crazy, and I'm all in on a lot of

(02:46):
the NFL storylines right now. What the problem is kind
of like Marianna, I'm a fan of an NFL team
that stanks, So it's kind of hard to get too
excited about the NFL because you know your team is
there to be Buzz Killington for you and anything that
you try to do. Right, I know that as excited
as I am about that Bill's Lions games, as excited

(03:09):
as I am on Sunday night you're on Fox Sports
Radio and my regular slot with Arnie Spaniel from eleven
p to two A to talk about Steelers Eagles, I
do know that Buzz Killington is waiting for me on
Monday night to ruin everything when the two and what
now eleven Raiders play the Atlanta Falcons. So I'm just

(03:31):
it's kind of like my open apology. Also, I have
a know Brion and Mark are running the show, Briann.
Have we actually ever done a show together? Have we ever?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
No?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Okay, no, this is the first time that's telling the guys.
I'm like, I've been listening to playing for years.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
I'm an old man, me telling you say you can
say Mark, No, I'm an old man.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
And actually you came down on like this when you
were doing the Sunday Show and Eric Rogers was your producer.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh my guy.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Yeah, and you actually went to El Poyo and I
want to say, you got me like a BRC.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
So I'm forever in debt to you man.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
By the way, side note note side note on that,
And I'm coming back to LA, but I don't know
if the timing is going to work out when I
can get to studio.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
They called me all my California friends or my LA friends.
Whenever I's like, yeah, you know, I got them Pi Loco,
and they're like, why why would you do that. It's
like someone coming here and saying, brought you guys from
Taco Bell. I didn't know, So I'm sorry, bro. I
hope you didn't judge me too much on that.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
No, I was super appreciative. I was starving, but.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean you. You understand where I'm coming from, right,
and you are. I don't understand your litany of fans,
Like how can you be a Sun's fan and a
Saints fan and a Dodgers fan. You're like me whenever
you have all these geographical non fits, right, at least
I think I got it right, didn't I was pretty
close five.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
For five, and I do get teased.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
I've been teased for it most of my life, honestly,
so yah, of course, of course it makes no sense.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
I'm not proud of it.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
I wish I could go like you know, chalk and
be like, I'm a Rams fan.

Speaker 5 (04:55):
That's right, I'm a Lakers fan.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
I may not, you know, I absolutely love the Who's
like a good and me. I love the Rockets. They're
actually good this show. I guess. I do love the Thunder.
I mean, they're they're they're here in my sh.

Speaker 5 (05:07):
They're so much fun. Oh my god, there's so much fun.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
And they're without their top player, right or at least
one of their top let's shea. He's their top player.
But they're without chat and they're still playing well. But
I guess my point in kind of bringing it up,
you feel the same way where you're loving the NFL
slate and you're all fired up, but you know your
team is there to kind of suck your will to live.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
And within the last two weeks, I actually did have
to have a reality check and I'm like, you know what,
I actually don't think the Saints are going to win
the NFC South because I really thought two weeks ago
I thought there.

Speaker 7 (05:33):
Was a chance.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
I'm not gonna lie like a Taysom Hill had that
great game and I was like, you know what, maybe this,
you know, we have Rizzy, that that honeymoon new coach effect.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Maybe this is going to start something.

Speaker 4 (05:43):
And and the Bucks were looking horrible, like they were
super hurt and everything. And then I much mccallay, I
can't who else was in the NFC South.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
That that oh Falcons.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
Yeah, it is like you can't even Kobeyoshi Maru himself
into anything right now, So like what are we doing?
So I was like, you know, there's a chance. So
last week I did have a slight reality check. I
was like, you know what, maybe maybe they're not gonna
win that you know.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
It's gonna happy about you. They're gonna be the Saints
are gonna do what they did last year, where they're
going to fish nine and eight, miss the playoffs and
everyone's going to be angry. But I'll say this much
I am. I am trying to not allow myself to
be the Debbie Downer and bring everything back to my team.
That's my goal tonight, My goal tonight, and I guess
this would carry over into manyana is whenever we talk

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NFL not to suck everything back towards how miserable my
existence right now is because I'm splitting hairs between cam
Ward and Shador Sanders and if I really truly want
the number one overall pick in the draft, just a
sad place to be?

Speaker 5 (06:44):
Is it sad?

Speaker 6 (06:44):
Though?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
I mean I give myself like every fan fall hope,
so probably I think here's the thing. Okay, real quick
on the Raiders. I'll only do this early. I promise
that I'll be over it. They are so close to
being a decent football team, decent, not good, not playoff contending, decent.
Where I'm sitting here instead of being two and eleven, right,

(07:07):
it's like four and five. You know, maybe I guess
four and five wouldn't be thirteen math six and seven, right,
five and eight, not two and eleven for goodness sakes.
So yeah, that's that's sad for me. But I think
the point you're bringing up is you're really gonna compete
in that division with Gardner Minshew and fill in X

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random quarterback.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
Here is there Madison?

Speaker 2 (07:35):
Yeah, in Madison running the football. Come on. So I
think your point is, Maya, I should be happier because
we're actually getting a quarterback. I shouldn't be sad about
it because you're actually gonna draft one.

Speaker 5 (07:46):
That's my point.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
And especially brock Bauers, I mean, like, I, yes, you
have a Tony Gonzalez possibly kind of in the making
right now, an elite once in a lifetime kind of
tight end right now. That's gonna be like. That's that's
franchise changing.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
That's changing, I feel like.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
So, I mean, so it's positive. So just you know,
just adjust the mindset a little bit.

Speaker 5 (08:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Should have be Let me get my should have game
out of the way here, okay, and then we'll be done.
Should have beat the Rams, should have beat the Chiefs.
Left Now, I know when I say should have beat
the Dolphins, it won't make any sense with a thirty
four to nineteen game. But I don't think I've ever
seen a player in the history of the National Football
League more wide open than John new Smith was, and

(08:29):
his kind of game separating touchdown probably should have been
in a better position to beat the Buccaneers last week.
That's four games right there. Four Anyway, enough about the Raiders.
Enough about the Raiders. I shall separate myself from it tonight.
And when we talk about the NFL, we do have
good storylines, right. We have a really fun Sunday afternoon

(08:52):
slated games, which is unique because typically the NFL is
kind and I don't know if it's a purposeful thing.
I'm sure it is, but that Sunday afternoon slate never
has any any more than one good game, right, and
it seems as if that one good game is featured,
if it's CBS or Fox, across the entire country. Well,

(09:14):
this weekend, this coming weekend, I guess this now, the
afternoon slate on Sunday, it's all the good games. It's incredible.
The noon Eastern sorry nuon Central one Eastern slate sucks.
I mean, it's not good at all, But you get
to that three point thirty four window, it's pretty good.
So we'll talk a lot about the schedule coming up

(09:37):
this weekend. I'm paint me intrigued by the Los Angeles
Rams right now, but I feel like we've been there,
and we've done that with the Rams over the last
couple of seasons, or at least last season. So we'll
talk about it dramend Philly this week. If you missed
out what's going on in Philadelphia. I mean, I know
Anthony Gargano is coming up after we're done here on

(09:59):
Fox Sports Radio, but this has been I mean, you
want to talk about having If I could have moved
to one city to work in sports radio, this week
probably would have taken Philly I mean from winning. I mean,
they're winning football games, right, So all of this complaining
about Philadelphia and their inability to throw the football comes

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whenever they're in the midst of a nine game winning streak.
They've got a three game lead in the NFC East
and are fighting with the Lions for the top overall seed.
But you start quarterback and your star wide receiver apparently
are beefing, and it's so obvious that Brandon Graham is
taking it to his freaking radio show, and it's all

(10:42):
that's being talked about right now, So we'll get to
whether or not we came to a conclusion in that
a resolution. In anticipation of the Eagles game against the
Steelers this weekend, and Roger Goodell, who Roger Goodell opened
his mouth about the seveneventeen plus one the eighteen game schedule,

(11:03):
and I again, I'm I'm of the belief that more
football is a good thing. So you're never gonna find
me in that group where I'm anti playing more football.
Oh but what about what with the players? Since you
worry about no, I don't. I don't. And I'll just
be honest with you, ninety percent of you fake like
you really care about concussions and things of that nature,

(11:24):
because you show your true colors as soon as one
of your star players is battling a concussion, I give
you Sunday nights with Arnie Spaniard myself, it's like, well,
why use to even missing a week? It's like, I mean,
we saw him almost die on the field. But people
are like, prop some dirt on it, get back in
there when it affects your player, right, suddenly you don't
care about player safety. And I think ninety percent of

(11:44):
It is BS just not that I don't think the
players deserve to be taken care of. People with their
little white nighting acting like they really care about the players.
It's true. Find one of your best friends or someone
that has ever told you's like, man, I really worry
about the concussion in the NFL. And then as soon
as one of their star players are I don't know,
one of their fantasy football guys has a concussion, then

(12:06):
that tune changes instantly. Concussion. Jack young Blood played with
a broken leg. I don't know why I just slammed
the table here, but that's I just you battle through it, right,
you fight through it in a lot of people's eyes.
So player safety is always a funny thing because I
feel like, well, it should always be in the minds

(12:27):
of the players and future sell A lot of people
want to say that matters to them and they care
about it, but in the end, they don't. They don't.
And when you talk about going to eighteen and you
worry about the expanded schedule, I mean, I think it's
a matter if I win, but not if you. I
think this is gonna happen. This is gonna happen. But

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Roger Goodell to his credit, did kind of pour a
little cold water on it this week and he went,
as my man Stuart Griffin likes to say, he went
ants at a picnic on this one. So I want
to carve out some time later on in the program
to get into that. Plus, as we brought it up
just briefly, the coaching carousel is going to be an

(13:08):
interesting thing to follow in the NFL, especially now that
it appears that Bill Belichick will not be involved on
that front. So are we seeing a couple of vacancies
where there is a slam dunk dude? In other words,
I don't know if there's ever been a more perfect
opening for a coordinator who is ready to make that
jump to being a head coach than Ben Johnson with

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Chicago Bears and what's waiting for him there. And I
don't know, bri what are you hearing about the Saints
right now? Is there any buzz? I mean, you seem
like you're on the interim coach train right Yeah.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
And I'm actually fine with Rizzy and he's been there.
He has a really good relationship. I've heard other things
that he's just in.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
His tapa for you, like they.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
Go like so if you have the locker room already
standing by you at this point, I don't might not
just go with it.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah why not? Look how it went for the Raiders.
But anyway, I hear you, I'm with I'm with you
to see. I told you I'm not gonna bring up again.
I won't bring them up again.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
And I you didn't do any cigar smoking though, after
like what two wins or something.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah, we're not going that hard.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Though, dude. That was one of the things. It's like,
I feel like both neither one of my teams know
how to handle wins. It's just it's so sad. But
I feel like the coaching carousel is going to be
an interesting one. I mean, is is New York gonna
be open? I mean, the Giants can't continue with this,
I mean GM and head coach. There's just no way.
Everyone keeps telling you that, oh, Mike McCarthy in Dallas

(14:32):
are not going anywhere. Really, it's the first time in
a while that I've actually started to hear even though
I don't think they're as bad as their record indicates.
The Dolphins, here's some backlash that maybe McDaniel's not that
dude in Miami obviously the Jets are gonna have the
vacancy and a quarterback question. So to me, I think
there is a fascinating, fascinating laundry list of topics in

(14:53):
the coaching carousel, and as the college ranks have filled
most of their vacancies right now, I mean, there's still
one potential looming name that if they don't win next
Saturday night, I don't care what an athletic director said
did Ryan Day is not going to have a couple
comfortable nights of sleep, nor should he if Ohio State

(15:16):
gets beat by Tennessee. And honestly, some have even gone
as far as saying, if Ohio State doesn't win the
national championship, Ryan Day should be out. So I think
I think the coaching carousel is going to be a
very interesting one, as will the quarterback carousel, which we'll
get to on a busy Friday night into a Saturday

(15:36):
morning here on Fox Sports Radio. So that's kind of
the lay of the land. A few of the topics
I want to get into, and again an open apology
where if at any moment I don't start talking about
something in the portal because my mind is still blown
that way here real quick before we grab our initial
time out of the program. Imagine for a moment that

(15:58):
you are just absolutely unt to anything or anyone, and
at any moment you can just get up and go
make more money and have the same role with another company,
with another business or whatever. That's college football right now.
I mean, dude, we got guys that are in the
portal for the third fourth time. You've got hundreds of

(16:18):
thousands and millions of dollars that are being shelled out.
You got tampering all over the place to try to
get guys to get into the portal in the first place.
And you've got college coaches and I guess now you
can say general managers and then boosters that look at
teams like Ole miss that look at teams like Indiana

(16:40):
and say we can do that. Let's go buy some guys.
And it's like a no holds barred thing. So it's
one of the most fascinating times. I feel like nerd moment.
Books are going to be written about this stretch of
college football. I mean, studies are gonna be made about
how we let it get to this point. And I
don't know how you get the toothpaste back in the tube.

(17:03):
I mean, because if you go with the salary cap
I get it with the rev share, you still don't
have true contracts. It's just wild.

Speaker 6 (17:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
When I was in college, I wanted to transfer early on,
and I looked into trying to get my credits from
where I was at school to transfer to another school.
It was a pain in my ass. I don't think
I've ever been through anything more difficult in my life.
And it got to the point it was such a
pain in the backside that I couldn't even do it.

(17:33):
I was like, Wow, I can't risk it. I can't
lose these credits because it'll keep me in college another
year and I can't afford that. I gotta be smart.
I gotta be a bunch of conscious. Meanwhile, in college football,
I mean, I have you ever heard a story about
a guy that's not able to go to a school
because his credits didn't transfer. Have we heard anything about
anyone being academic academically ineligible anymore for anything? They like

(17:57):
just call them the University of Voklahoma Sooners, but they
don't go to school there anymore. And that's what it
seems like. Nothing is nothing is making sense in the
new college football based on the foundation that has been
built on for eons and eons and eons, and some
of that is good and some of that is really
really bad. We'll talk about it coming up, all right
when we come back. It is a you heard the open, right,

(18:20):
It is a Fox Football Saturday. But I feel like
a story in the NBA is demanding our attention. No, no, no,
it's not the NBA Cup semi final showdown between the
Thunder and the Rockets. No, no, no, Or what is
it the Bucks and the Hawks on the other side.
That's not it. That's not what we're talking about here.

(18:40):
We're talking about Lebron. What's going on. Let's give you
our theory, our perspective. Next with the just absolute nosedive
for Lebron and the Lakers here in the first half
of the season. Next, Chris playing. That's me in for
Bernie Frado. This is Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 8 (18:55):
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Speaker 2 (19:07):
Oh, I did something Christmasy tonight. I should probably brag
about this. Early Welcome back to the Bernie Fratto Show,
my name is Chris Plank. Quick early reactions to the program.
Eloi from Compton writes, please Chris, no Raider talk tonight.
You're better than that, Eloit. No, I'm not better than that,
as you could tell from the first segment. And it

(19:29):
sucks for I think greater fans because not only does
your team suck, but the best team in the NFL
and the dynastics squad right now is the Kansas City Chiefs.
And they're doing it like basically while just rubbing it
in your face, winning a championship on your home field.

(19:50):
It's just elily, it's I'm not better than that, okay.
And then Thomas writes, we get college football talk, and
because he's based in Oklahoma, tonight, Plank maybe EVOLDI and
Texas Rangers talk. That's from Thomas. Let me be real
clear with you now, and Bria, I hope you don't
mind me pulling you in on this with me, I'm

(20:11):
barely hanging on when it comes to my give a
rip meter on the NBA right now. So it's it's
it's I'm trying and I cover a team that's really good,
and I cover it out of necessity because our people
in Oklahoma want their thunder talk, and I kind of
cover the Thunder or the Lakers because that's my team
and I love them, and I still, for some reason

(20:32):
hold out hope that they might be good at some
point before I die. Buddy Thomas, I appreciate the kind words,
but there is no way in hell you're hearing anything
about major League Baseball tonight on the show outside of
Steve de Seger's update. So unless Bri and I decide
we're gonna start celebrating the Lakers are, excuse me, the
Dodgers title, which could happen in the middle of this,

(20:53):
I don't. I don't. I don't think unless news breaks tonight,
unless we get another big time deal, a one Soto
esque deal, you can what do the kids say, miss
me with the hot stove talk.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
I don't even know. Okay, let's miss.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Me here, miss me with this hot stove talk right now, Thomas,
I mean, honestly, baseball can't win with me, right because
I love when the season's going on. They don't get
mad about the changes to the game, and then when
I do care about free agency, I get mad if
it happens too soon. Or too too late. Remember I
think when when Bryce Harper signed with the Phillies, it

(21:33):
was really late, and all the free agency happened really late.
Now I'm mad. It's like, oh, they're getting rid of everyone. Now,
what's going on? Why are we having this happen so early?
Don't they know we have January and February baseball shows?
But here we are, so yeah, I am domas for you.
Maybe late on the program, I'll find a way, but
for now, I mean, listen, I'm getting ready to talk

(21:54):
about Lakers for about five minutes here. Do you guys
realize how much research I had to do on this,
just in order to make sure I I can fire
myself up. And I don't think I'm alone in this.
As we welcome you back into the Tiraq dot Com
studios tyraq dot com. The way tire buying should be
Mark Ramsey running the show now, Brianna Miro right, I'm

(22:14):
not mispronouncing the last name, am I.

Speaker 4 (22:16):
No, but the first name it's Brianna. But that's totally fine.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Okay, well hold on here, hold on here, pause. That's
not my fault.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
No, that that's Patrick Sweekest, that's.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Patrick Sweakes fault. I've always thought it with Brianna, and
I was like, am I saying it wrong? Because I'm
old man, I forget stuff all the time. So bring
hold on, pause the show for just a minute so
I breathe because I even waited, and all right, there
you go. So I mean Brianna's Miro's running the show,
and then the Sega is going to have her updates
aroughout the evening tonight. I'm having a hard time getting

(22:52):
excited about the NBA. And I don't think I'm alone
because I'm sitting I've got all I've got all these notes.
Here's what's going on with the Lakers trade talk, it's
what's going on with lebron Is, just because of his
relationship with jay Z and Diddy. I don't know what's God,
why is he turning the ball over so much? Has
he done all these great storylines? And I'm like, you know,

(23:16):
I kind of feel like NBA talk no offense. It's
kind of being crammed down our throats. It's almost as
if ESPN has the NBA deal, and so they feel
like they've got to had eight different shows with eighty
five different people talking about and acting like we're losing
sleep over Lebron where well, hell, if you up at

(23:36):
this time, you're not losing sleep at all. But I
just I don't I don't have this high level of care,
especially at this point in the season where what you know,
twenty five games in for the Lakers right now, twenty
six for some teams. I just I don't get it.

(23:58):
I don't get why there are so many resources pushed
towards wanting to talk about this this early from certain
networks when it appears, based on everything that's out there,
that NBA ratings are tanking. Colin Coward this morning, I
was listening to his show in preparation for today's tonight's

(24:21):
This Morning's program. Whichever time zone you're in, NBA ratings
are down forty eight percent in the last twelve years,
and now, Colin, I hope there's facts behind this, bro
because I'm kind of running with it. But he said
they've followen off a cliff this year, fallen off a
cliff TV ratings wise, So to me, I mean, it's radio,

(24:45):
it's not music, it's sports talk. But we're always going
to play the hits. Why in the hell would I
sit here and try to cram something down your throat
that it appears nobody gives it damn about anymore. It's
just it least until March. Now. I'll give the NBA credit.
I'm not the biggest fan of the NBA Cup. I'm

(25:07):
not the biggest fan of the different colored courts, but
it does give you something at this point in the
season where you usually are just like Layter the All
Star break. Yet we started the playoffs. They're trying, but
it's failing. So how do you regenerate that interest? How

(25:28):
do you rekindle it? How do we get back to
the days whenever the NBA's eighty two game season was
something where you felt it necessary to watch eighty two games.
And there's a lot of people that are listening to
this semi slash mini rant right now and saying, bro,
what are you talking about? And they're mostly in places
like Oklahoma City, and they're maybe even to a certain
degree in Houston, where you have young, exciting rosters and

(25:53):
communities that love basketball and are all in right now right.
I mean, I could sit here and tell you that
ratings are down for the NBA overall, but I bet
if you drilled into some local numbers. I'd be willing
to bet again, Oklahoma City is just crushing it. I'm
willing to bet that. You know, maybe Houston is doing
much better than it's typically done in the past. Right,
I'm sure it's crazy and Boston, but I don't I

(26:14):
just I'm having a hard a hard time right now, Brian,
I don't know. If you're with me on this, Mark,
feel free to jump in, But Brian, I'm having a
hard time just getting excited this early about the NBA.
I'm pumped about all right. I see the makeup, I
see what it's gonna look like when we get to
the playoffs. I think the Lakers are still going to
be a team that's battling. I guess for the playing tournament,
your sons look like if they can get everyone healthy

(26:37):
and everyone playing the same thing, you don't want to
play them in the playoffs, right Timberwolves are struggling to
get back to where they were. The Cavaliers kind of
look like a wagon this year. But I'm not feeling
the need to sit down and watch a four quarter
Cavalier game, and I'm not feeling the need to be
outraged about what's going on with Lebron and why he's
not in there for the Lakers. Right now, my give

(26:57):
a Rip meter is way down on baseball, but brand
it's off the charts right now with zero concern about
the NBA.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
You know, I was thinking about it because we were
just talking off air about this. This is like the
first year I also haven't like purchased like NBA League
pass like Okay's, and that's the first time I haven't
done that probably in like five or six years. And
I mean, and I love watching Suns games, but something
that you pointed out with like the thunder in Houston,
I think because they've drafted really well and the continuity

(27:26):
of like watching a team kind of grow together compared
to all these other teams that are just trying to
like put this free agent together. And I mean, and
I'm guilty of it. As a Suns van, it's like, Okay,
let's throw KD right, you know whatever, And it's like
you can't mold, you can't like form something if you're
just throwing all these different ingredients together and just assume
it's going to work. And especially with the Suns right

(27:47):
now now they're in the Jimmy Butler sweepstakes supposedly, right,
you know, and it's like, Okay, you're gonna try to
try trade Bradley Beale. You're barely starting to glue with Beal,
Katie and Booker, Like what are we doing? Like, I
think that's a huge reason why. And when you look
at teams like the Rockets and like that's under they've
had such a good drafts within the last i don't know,

(28:08):
like eight nine years to kind of keep building and
like Shay and that huge trade and he's just become
a part of that culture.

Speaker 5 (28:16):
That that's what I think.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
It's unreal. It's and they're young and they're fun, right, Mark,
where do you say, Oh, by the way, do we
do we do it a saga update here?

Speaker 6 (28:23):
Or no?

Speaker 2 (28:24):
Yeah, no, no, just the top of the go ahead? Mark?
Where do you stand on this right now? With the
NBA and it's lack of interest.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
Es I thought about the NBA, it just seems like
all of basketball, the players from my view by vantage point,
they don't seem to care, not because I guess you know,
they have this my opinion, this made up tournament within
the regular season. And then so the fans are already

(28:53):
trying to deal with their own team that they like,
whether their player is going to actually play the game
or going to which is like crazy for a player
to rest when they're making so much money and they
have all these physical therapists to help them get through
the games. But just that it just seems like it's
just so divided. You got a tournament within the tournament,

(29:14):
and most of the players don't hold it very important.

Speaker 7 (29:17):
It's no urgency to play, So why should I give
it all?

Speaker 9 (29:21):
Why should I make a fuss if everything is like
separator it's so spread out because with this tournament and
then there's that tournament, so nobody really seems to care
about so much.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
And it's still hella confusing. So that's a very long
precursor to say, I put a lot of effort into this.
Lakers and Lebron take tonight. So I hope you guys
appreciate me pulling the band aid off and really diving
into the NBA. But I will say this before I
played with Mark Menina said earlierbout Lebron James. If you
really pull back, though, and take some time to look

(29:55):
at what's going on in the West right now in
the NBA, it's freaking awesome. It really is, And I
don't know if it's it's just like Mark said, maybe
we're perplexed by the NBA Cup. Maybe kind of like
Rihanna said, we're not really all in on what our
team looks like right now because there might be more

(30:15):
moves and things can get twisted. But I mean there's
two three really young, fun teams at the top of
the West. We just got to find a way to
kind of re engineer excitement. Some might say it's the markets. Okay,
if you're that elitist that you feel like you're too
good to watch the NBA because Oklahoma City and Memphis
are good, and because the Cavaliers are good, come on, really,

(30:40):
but with the Lakers to finally get to the point,
I don't I don't know what's going on here. Mark
Medena is our NBA guru or NBA insider here on
Fox Sports Radio, and earlier tonight he was on with
Jason and Mike and they asked, Mark, Hey, what what
is going on with Lebron James? The game tonight the

(31:00):
Lakers loss in the Minnesota Timberwolves. But what is what
is truly the story here? What's going on with Lebron.
How concerned should Laker fans be?

Speaker 10 (31:10):
I would think so. So again, you don't know what
you don't know, but you know, there is a coincidence
that he was already nursing injuries here, and I would
have thought that the fact that he missed Sunday's game
against Portland, they had a weird quirk in the schedule.
I guess instead of the intent to win money in

(31:30):
the NBA Cup, if you don't, you know, if you're
not able to qualify, all of a sudden, you get
some days arrest. And so they didn't play until Friday.
So as a result, they had two days off, They
practiced Wednesday, had a travel day. I thought that would
have been enough recovery time for Lebron to play. But
I guess because of the personal situation that complicates matters.

(31:51):
But you know, the reality as it pertains at least
to basketball, the fact that he is still listed on
the injury report with that foot injury should concerned.

Speaker 2 (32:01):
Yeah, I agree. Mark Medina, By the way, great stuff
on Fox Sports Radio. I'll add one more thing to it.
The Lakers have surprisingly been a much better basketball team
without Lebron this year. Those are words that I never
thought I would utter period based on this roster. It
sounds crazy, but the injury that took out Austin Reeves
has hurt this team. And David mcmahonus ESPN, he had

(32:23):
kind of like a three point thing, what's gone wrong
with the Lakers? A lot of really good numbers in there,
smart guy, smart guy, a lot of numbers, a lot
of stat inrding in that in that story, David, But
it's great stuff, and he had brought up the defense.
The defense sucks this year for them. The defensive rankings
are embarrassing. Their twenty ninth in transition defense, twenty sixth
and total defense. Their overall in consistency has kind of

(32:45):
centered around Austin Reeves missing five games, not six. But
if you know, maybe there's a deeper conversation to be had.
I love Austin Reeves, but if he is your third
best player, and maybe that debate is out there is
a connected him who's kind of stepped up. But he's
your third best player right now? Are you really built
for a championship? But the wild thing about it all

(33:05):
is that Lebron has just not been very Lebron. He's
just not been very good when Lebron's on the court.
And I'm not a massive plus minus guy, but the
Lakers are minus one twenty nine in the red one
twenty nine with Lebron on the court, the plus forty
two without him. He turned the ball over sixty six
times over his previous thirteen games. Sixty six. Oh gosh,

(33:29):
I was gonna try to do math here. Sixty six
divided by thirteen carry the one. So yeah, he's he's averaging.
He's averaging what close to four turnovers a game, four,
I mean, and there's a couple of doozy's in there too.
I think there's an eight nine turnover game. And he's

(33:49):
never really been a great three point shooter. But before
that night against Atlanta where he went six of eleven
from beyond the three point arc, Lebron was shooting just
eleven point eight percent from three in the seven games
prior to that. And what's what's the way to fix it? Yeah,
let's get Michael Wilbond on there. Start talking about trade rumors.

(34:12):
By the way, something else I learned today. You probably
knew this, Brianna. There are only two players in the
NBA that have a no trade clause two. One of
them is a Lebron James. Do you know who the
other one is? I don't. Yeah, Bradley Beal, you should
have known that, right I was. Whenever Brian winnehor said

(34:32):
that today, I was like, what, But really, that can't
be right. So I've been trying to prove them wrong
all night long. But I mean, this is to put
a rap on it though, Laker fans. This is a
deeper issue than just what's going on with the Lakers.
This is a team that said let's run it back
after getting swept in the first round of the playoffs.

(34:53):
I mean, I get it, three of those four games
could have gone either direction. But you basically said, let's
run it back to a team that got swept out
of the first round of the playoffs last year. All right,
I'm sorry. We got beating five last year in the
first round of the playoffs and they got swept out
of the Western Conference finals the year before. It's right

(35:16):
it back, right it back. It's just not working.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
All right.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
We'll take a break when we come back to the
tyrack dot com studios a little bit more on the
college football side of things. We're gonna be diving into
the college football playoff matchups to kick off next hour.
But Bill Belichick is officially the head coach in North Carolina.
What does it mean? And what does Army Navy truly mean?
What's it like to experience it? I did it for
the first time last year. We'll talk about it next

(35:42):
right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2 (35:57):
It's the Bernie Frados Show. My name is Chris Plank,
sitting in. You got a lot of football coming up
next hour. There is a There are two things that
I'm really kind of triggered by, but I'm trying. I
want to be careful because we are early, and I
feel like, if I'm going to get canceled, let's at
least wait till later in the program. But dude, the

(36:21):
the Mark Gaston note, Brett Favre clip, and then some
of the stuff I've been watching on TV tonight preparing
me for the progroom here. It's just it's gross. That's
just gross. Well, we'll get to that later on that's
my that's my Easter egg for later in the program.
And why are they showing all these glamour shots of
your boy Jay Hayner. What's going on there? Because he's

(36:43):
not even officially starting yet, right, Yeah, he actually is,
yes far out?

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Okay, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, oh gosh.

Speaker 4 (36:49):
I hope we don't see him for the rest of
the season, honestly, but you guys are going to.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Miss him when he's gone. I'm telling you don't think so.
I guarantee you will. I'm gonna sit here right now
and tell you all you care. As someone who dealt
with him nine years and blamed them for everything for
nine years, as soon as he left, you're like, he's
not that bad. He's not as terrible as he makes
this seem. Do you know the Saints record with and
without him over the last two years.

Speaker 5 (37:13):
Not on the top of my head, it's.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
Pretty incredible, it's pretty incredible. And this is the first
time in back to back years where he's really suffered something,
So I kind of become a car stand. I watch
more Saints football than I've ever watched in my life.
And it's also just because I think since he's left,
I've seen Jimmy Garoppolo, Tarna Minshew, Aint O'Connell, some guy

(37:36):
that was with the Falcons for a while and apparently
was their starter last year and now can't throw the
football forward. I think we had a running back play
quarterback one time for the Raiders. It's how bad it's been,
but it never hurts to have a consistent guy. So
Hainter is in. He's the dude over Spencer Rattler.

Speaker 5 (37:53):
And I actually, and I you know why I think
that's happening. I think that's fine.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
I think you know, it's Keith Spencer just nice and
and on ice.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
For now.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
Let's not get him hurt or get him with any issues.
Like let's let's give Hayn, you know, a shot for now.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I mean, give Hayn a shot and then realize that
Spencer Rattler, you're gonna have to go that.

Speaker 4 (38:14):
I bought a T shirt, Chris, I bought a Saints
Rattler tee.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
I was all in.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
It can't help, but be all you can do. He
just can't play quarterback. No, I I am, You're going
to break her heart when sorry. I'm one of those
who absolutely loves everything everything about a backup quarterback getting
an opportunity. So I am not going to dump on

(38:40):
Spencer or Jay Cayneer for now, but I will say this.
I will say this, look at those pictures. That's terrible.
When did those Are those his media guide pictures?

Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah, that's like his photo shoot after he got drafted.
That's embarrassing, honestly.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Yeah, no one, what was it? Performance and answers have
got him last week? Yeah? Or last year?

Speaker 10 (39:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (39:03):
He was out like four games?

Speaker 2 (39:05):
Hey, in our final minute. Tomorrow, two key things happen
in college football, and I've been blessed to be a
part of both of them for a while. The Heisman
Trophy will be announced. I've been a voter since twenty
two thousand and seven. I've been a voter in the
Heisman Trophy. Very proud of that. And the Army Navy
Game will be played tomorrow. Used to be the only
game in town. Now we got a couple of bowl
games or even take place on Saturday. But the coolest

(39:28):
thing about the Army Navy game for me is as
much as it's country and pomp and circumstances and the
march in, it's football. It's just old school football. And
I went last year and there's no show going on
around the game. There's no show on the jumpbo tri on,
there's no kicking for chicken or anything like that. It's
just a football game and what you see is what

(39:49):
you get. And everyone's so fired up and so proud
of both teams, and there's so much pride. I hope
everyone takes a moment tomorrow. Are depending on your time
zone today to watch catch it dive in a little
bit because it's well worth your time. Army Navy is awesome.
Stick around Fox Sports Radio. We'll back.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Let's go hour two. We're going to open the phone
lines at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I'd
love to hear from you tonight again. I don't think
we need to go to in depth on the Lakers
and Lebron except to say that it's an issue right now.
Captain Obvious seeing it for you. But if you want
to go in depth on anything college football related, let's go.

(40:31):
I think the best matchup in the first round is
Ohio State Tennessee. I also think it as the potential
to be the I guess you could say the upset.
I mean, what's the line four three and a half.
I don't think Asimi is gonna get Penn State. I
think Penn State's playing a really good ball. I don't
think that. I know we're looking at Boise and Arizona
State in that second round, those quarter final games, but

(40:52):
I don't think they're going to get a break. I
think Texas gonna take care of Clemson. I don't think
there's going to be any surprises in the Indiana Notre
Dame game. I think name is a wagon. But if
you want to jump in on to eight seven seven
ninety nine one fox eight seven seven nine nine six
six three sixth nine. If you're a wide receiver that
is looking for a college football home, allow me to
interest you in Norman, Oklahoma. Holy smokes, like six receivers

(41:15):
are in the portal right now. I might give you
my personal number for that. And then in the NFL brido,
we have to have a conversation about the Niners at
some point. What's going on there? Oh?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
For sure, that's like a soap opera already going back?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Yeah, I just I don't. One of my best friends
is a Niner fan, and I'm always very envious of him.
And this year well, I'm envious of everyone. Sorry, Manuel,
I saw Manuel checked and it's not good right now, Manuel,
we are fans of the exact same teams, like Manuel
from Guardina. Guardina and myself are like, we're the same
person essentially with our fandom, So it all sucks right now.

(41:50):
It just is terrible. But at least when my guy
struggle with his niners, I'm like, ah, feel your pain
a little bit. But the the laundry list of things
that have happened to that team is wild. So we'll
get into it coming up a little bit later on
in the hour, but let's try to start this off
with some phone calls. I mean, listen, it's not too

(42:13):
late on the West coast. We're into the time we're
on the East coast. If you're not in bed, then
you are battling. You are battling insomnie or you got
a great overnight job. And by the way, I always
give this reminder, if you're hearing my voice and you're
hammered and you're behind the wheel, stop, don't risk it.
Man Dewey's man or a woman Dewey's DUI's Ewy's what

(42:34):
do they call is it? EWI also whenever you're baked
and you try to drive or do they call that
HWI high while impaired or something out. But don't don't
do it. It's not worth it. You got uber, you
got Lyft, got so many opportunities. Don't drink and drive tonight.
Don't make a decision in a short term that ends
up costing you in a long term. So be smart
if you're hearing my voice tonight. But if you're sober

(42:57):
and you got to take on the football, let's go.
And seven ninety nine on Fox, hollering, James is gonna
kick things off for us. I like this, what's going on? James?
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. How are you man?

Speaker 11 (43:12):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Oh? James oh Man.

Speaker 5 (43:16):
I told him I gave him fifteen.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
Minutes anytime I get a Mallard militia member and it's yeah, sorry, James,
I'm just gonna go out on a limb here. Maybe
a guess. I don't know if we're burning the lines
up tonight. So if you get a chance to try
to jump back in later, I'd love to hear from you.
At eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Geene Is
in Memphis, Good morning, Jean, Welcome to Fox Sports Radio

(43:41):
or good night. Which one do you prefer at two
in the morning Central Time.

Speaker 12 (43:45):
Well, I say, I say good morning. Okay, it's just
two in the morning. But I'm cooking right now. I'm barbecuing.

Speaker 2 (43:51):
I love to hear that, man, I love to hear that.
I love to hear that.

Speaker 12 (43:55):
Yeah, I just want to talk about the Guy Trophy.

Speaker 10 (44:00):
Uh race just called.

Speaker 12 (44:02):
Presentation's gonna be tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, you know the trophy that appears to be done
based on all the Vegas odds that are out there.
It's pretty wild, isn't it.

Speaker 12 (44:10):
Yeah, it's pretty wild. But I wouldn't be surprised if
the kids and bore the state. Uh somehow, some way
get it there and get it. But uh, I think
Travis he beat the What you get this year is
it's remarkable. I think he's the best couge football player
this year.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
I think, what would you who would you voted for?

Speaker 12 (44:32):
I probably vote for Travis Hunter. Reason why? The reason why?
I think, uh, the genter kid. He didn't break Barry
Savage record. If he broke that record, probably had.

Speaker 10 (44:44):
To give it to him.

Speaker 12 (44:46):
But that you know, Travis, He's doing it on both
sides of the ball, and uh, I think the kid
is the kid especial man.

Speaker 13 (44:55):
He's done once you get to the league.

Speaker 12 (44:57):
He needs to I think he needs to concentrate more
home defence and uh, make me play a little nickel defense.
He there defense, but he needs to be on offense
because he's explosive.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I don't know about you, Jim, like the heights still
matters to me. I know people dump on it and
say it's not what it used to be. I don't
know about you, man, but I'll be fired up watching
that tonight tomorrow night. What you ever want to say?
I think it's fun. I'm here for it.

Speaker 12 (45:22):
I remember Mike Roseer war it back when Mike Rogier
was playing those guys when Nebraska and all those andre
Ware's guys in Houston when I was a kid coming up.
You know, it's I don't know if the kids these
days really respect and understand what the heights from Choker
really means and hersche Walker and all those type of guys.

Speaker 14 (45:38):
Those guys I.

Speaker 12 (45:39):
Came up watching, and you know Bo Jackson and Dad
m Hooward and you know Charles Woods and guys doing
it in on the biggest stage and the biggest model
in the biggest game. Those are the type of guys
I watched. The Heights mean something. These your high school kids.
And even because he understand that that war means something man,
even today the men's ward, Jeff can can get specificalege.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Football child of the eighties, My guy, I have a
good one, Gene, thanks for checking in eight seven, seven
ninety nine one fox. I think my earliest Heisman, Boy,
this is going to really age me. I think the
earliest Heisman Trophy winner I remember like knowing about might
have been Marcus Allen Marcus because Marcus won it in

(46:22):
eighty one. Here you heard him mention it. Here, herschel
Walker and Micro's year that was eighty two and eighty three,
Doug Flutie in eighty four, Bo Jackson in eighty five.
I mean, that was just that was the ultimate award
in I don't want to get too carried away and
say in sports, but it really seemed like it. Now

(46:44):
fast forward, you know, people are complaining because they feel
like it's oversaturated. I think there is a large faction
of people that have their votes that maybe are a
little bit lazy and don't don't really dive into the
numbers or watch the games like they should. I think
they just kind of they vote for whomever they are

(47:08):
told to vote for. And I don't mean like there's
some sort of illuminati he or anything. But right now, Brandon,
you have a vote. All right, let's go. You're voting.
Who's your Heisman Trophy pick? Right now? Is it Travis Hunter?
I think yes it is. He didn't get my number
one vote. Yeah, I mean, I'm not supposed to tell you, guys,

(47:28):
but I mean it's freaking like three in the morning
on the East Coast, two cares. But he didn't get
my number one vote. And I've questioned myself a lot
since I did it. I've done this twice now. I
told my first year I voted was actually thirteen, twelve
twelve or thirteen whenever Manziel wanted his freshman year, when
Manziel wanted his freshman year. I was the first year
that I voted, and I remember I had a lot

(47:50):
of doubts after that because my vote had been for
Anti Tail. Manti Tail was the number one guy on
my ballot that year. And a funny looking back on it,
because part of the reason why I really enjoyed the
Manti Tail story was the Manti Tail story, which, as
we've come to find out, wasn't a hundred percent true.
That's fine, but I this is another one of those

(48:12):
where after I put my vote in, I've really kind
of done a like a one eighty and then a
three sixty and then another one eighty because maybe I
and I don't think it's gonna matter. I mean, Travis
Hunter at last check is a minus twenty five hundred
pick to win the freaking he He'sman Trophy. But I
just I don't know. I kind of was more impressed

(48:34):
with Shador Sanders numbers than I were with Travis Hunter.
And no, I bring out it, don't you? Don't you
dare accuse me of this. It's not because your door
might be on his way to the Raiders.

Speaker 4 (48:43):
I'm gonna say all the sweets of like oh God,
God bless or can't wait all the tweets passing a
Legiance Stadium?

Speaker 5 (48:49):
Is that why?

Speaker 13 (48:50):
No?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
I just say, these numbers blew me away. And when
he did it Colorado on their turnaround. But yeah, so
you you would vote for Hunter?

Speaker 5 (48:58):
I would, and then I'd put Ashton gent is a
number two.

Speaker 2 (49:03):
Yeah, I might have had those flipped a little bit.
I will say Dylan Gabriel has had an outstanding year,
but cam Scattabo should have been headed to New York
ahead of either Gabriel or cam Ward. And by the way,
did you notice they did something different this year? I
say they did it different this year, but someone might

(49:24):
be yelling at me on Twitter. They do it every year,
but I don't remember them releasing five through ten like
they did earlier today. Do you see that?

Speaker 4 (49:33):
I just saw I just saw it right now. Cole
McCord was that number ten? Sanders?

Speaker 2 (49:37):
Was that Nick Fee? I'm accord.

Speaker 5 (49:39):
By the way, that Jason Smith has a vote now,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
It usually takes more than there's one guy. Did you
have something you wanted to dive into on the Heisman
before we get back to THEA I did.

Speaker 4 (49:53):
I'm just curious because I Moncey and I just learned
that there's eight hundred and seventy votes voters. Yeah, yeah,
So I'm that kind of bothers me a little bit
because I'm like, how are they all supposed to? How
are it kind of what you said that people just
kind of mail it in? And how serious? Like do
you take it, well, yeah, I don't know that kind

(50:13):
of that irritates me.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
I don't blame you part you have. So I got
my vote because every state has a guy that's in charge,
and that guy in charge is kind of the Heisman elector.
I don't know what the term is. I was going
to try to make it up, but I completely forgot it.
But he's in charge of the heisman voters in your state.

(50:37):
And so around two thousand and I think it was
eleven or twelve, they did a little bit of work
and realized there's a lot of people that have these
ballots that's not even voting right. And then they dug
a little deeper and they realized there's a lot of
guys that have a ballot that aren't even working in
the media anymore. So they went back through it, and
I think, I don't think every state has equal representation.

(51:00):
I think it's kind of like politics. I think it's
kind of like an election where it's waited a bit
and certain states have more voters than others. But that's
how I got mine. Like the guy that was in
charge of it, John Hoover, he was ride at the
local paper at the time, said hey, man, you got
a radio show, you cover college football NonStop? Do you
want to do it? And I took a very serious.
I still take it very serious. But there's too many

(51:23):
there's too many people that vote on it. But I
don't think you need to get it down to just
like the former winners, because every former winner gets a vote, right,
And I don't think it makes to be something that
just like former winners and a handful of media people.
I liked that there's a larger number. I just think
it's I think that's too many, don't you.

Speaker 4 (51:40):
So it's nine hundred and twenty eight actually, as I
was wrong, and then yeah, so it's you know, eight
hundred and seventy media and one hundred and then the
rest are the former Heisman fifty seven former winners.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
It's tough, right, I mean, let's just be honest about
it. It's tough because you do want to have a large
representation of people that are voting for the most important award,
or at least what's viewed as the most important award
in college football. But you also want to make sure
that everyone's doing the work to truly understand and not
being overly influenced by like odds. Well, my vote doesn't

(52:17):
matter because Travis Hunter is minus twenty five hundred right now.
But you're you're seeing a large number because they want
every region fairly represented. Because I'm gonna be honest with you,
I've seen a hell a lot more of Dylan Gabriel
than I have of Shad Or Sanders or Travis Hunter,
right just because I covered Oklahoma and then I followed

(52:37):
him to Orient. So it's just a kind of I
think it balances it out, but it's too many. I
think you could go with two hundred voters from each
region and and get wait, maybe like one hundred voters
from each region and probably do fine.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
Yeah, like five hundred.

Speaker 4 (52:51):
Yeah, I mean, if you ever want to do like
five hundred and just like have that, I guess. But
over nine hundred, it's just like what I just everything
just gets lost at that point and how how seriously
are these people taking it?

Speaker 2 (53:03):
And then real quick before you get back to the
phone todaight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. There is
that balance between you know, not being too reactive to
what you just saw in conference championship weekend, but yet
not completely ignoring it. I have a couple of people
that would they stopped. They used to have to send ballots.

(53:24):
Now it's all online and they've they've kind of changed
the system they use every year that I've done it
right now it's very It used to just be a
website and you'd go in and you do it. Then you'd
have to have these credentials. Now this year, you just
went boom boom, ready to go. Pick three guys. Used
to be you couldn't spell a name wrong or they
would throw your ballot out. Now I think they kind
of like, Okay, we get it. You guys can't spell.

(53:45):
If you happen to misspell Johnny Manzel and you may
spell M A n Z E L L, we know
what you're talking about. It's not as uptight as it
once was, I don't think. But and listen, we got
in Steve Hartman, one.

Speaker 6 (53:57):
Of the more.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
In depth historian, historic connoisseurs of Heisman information I've ever
met in my life. I think that dude came out
of the womb with a Heisman vote. It's like, Steve Hartman,
here's your Heisman vote, buddy. You're like not even able
to talk yet, but I will say the people that
vote as soon as it comes out as soon as

(54:21):
you get the opportunity to vote enrages me because there's
one more game to be played, and I honestly I
kind of wish we didn't vote on the Heisman until
the end of the playoffs now, But I then also
understand that you know, a dude goes off and has
two huge games in the playoffs, like Carson Beck, if
he's healthy, goes for three hundred in each game, is like,

(54:43):
WHOA Carson Beck should win the Heisman? Right? So I
guess maybe changing the timing of it isn't the best idea.
It's just something I've always thought should happen. But the
Heisman Trust did decide one they wouldn't send out ballots
until championship because they would send him out in early November,
and people start voting right away for unknown reasons, and

(55:05):
they encourage you to wait and submit your vote until
after the games are finished. You want to get a vote, Brianna,
Do you want me to You want me to work
on this and get you a vote as part of
the Oklahoma contingent in twenty twenty five?

Speaker 4 (55:20):
No, absolutely not. That is a lot of work, That's
what I'm saying. I'm like those people, you got to
take it real seriously, you got to kind of devote
like a portion of your life to sure I feel like,
you know, I feel like I do. Yeah, Yeah, I
feel like you're deserving. Steve Hartman is one hundred percent deserving.

Speaker 2 (55:35):
Gosh that Maan. I hear him talk about things, I'm like,
how does he know?

Speaker 3 (55:38):
That?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
Mean? I know he's not googling, because I don't think
he does. He know how to use a computer. The
guy is just an absolute machine.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
He's a He's a walking encyclopedia. He's insane.

Speaker 2 (55:47):
All more Heisman talk to come. Can I fit in
though these? At least one of these two calls real quick?
Is Andre in Massachusetts? Still hanging in there, Andre, Good morning,
Welcome to Fox Sports Radio. What's going on, Andrea?

Speaker 6 (55:59):
How you doing?

Speaker 11 (56:00):
Thanks for taking the call. Listen. In terms of the
college football playoff, I like the opportunity that we're seeing
for some of these dare I say, second tier teams
to get in the mix and make some noise. Shout
out to the ASU some devils right getting the first
round by We'll see if they can kind.

Speaker 3 (56:17):
Of stack up.

Speaker 11 (56:18):
Look, I want to know if a team can kind
of unseat the SEC as the predominant power and like
the facto ruler in college football. Can't Oregon really being
the number one seed go head to head with a
Georgia team that really should have been in the mix
last year got slighted last year having the perfect season,
losing one game in the XC Championship game and getting

(56:39):
booted from all contentions. They had their back and forth
this year, but now they're right there in the playoffs
and I feel like they have to be the odds
on favorite based on the pedigree. So I took my
hat to college football. You talked a little bit about
nil not going to dive too deep into that in
terms of how it's just completely changed.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
The dynamics overall.

Speaker 11 (56:58):
But with this what is the success? Can Borse State
really hold their own? Never mind just us thinking, can
they really hold their own against the big dogs? Can
as I said, Arizona State, we got teams like Indiana
in the mix? Or is it going to be at
the end of the day, the Ohio States, the Georgia's,
the Texas Is Are they just gonna wipe these teams?

Speaker 3 (57:17):
I think that's a.

Speaker 11 (57:18):
Fascinating Storylige no matter where you come from, your prospective
old school new school. So I'm really looking forward to that.

Speaker 13 (57:24):
Thanks taking the call.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Hi brother, good stuff like tall college football. That guy
all not long. Here's the thing, here's the thing in
all of this, so many of you people complained about
mid majors getting a seat at the table. All right,
this is an unfair system because you see f couldn't
play for a national title, or this is an unfair

(57:45):
system because Alex Smith and Utah didn't get a chance
to play for a title. And over the last couple
of seasons, we've started seeing some of like those types
of teams get an opportunity and it hasn't necessarily gone
so well. Cincinnati, yes, though TCU would fall into that mix.
And TCU played in the championship game but gave up
sixty that same year Cincinnati beating Michigan. You know, you've

(58:07):
had a few surprises. But what I get a lot
is people complaining because they want blue blood. So to me,
I think it's gonna be fascinating to see how a
Boise State who for years and years and years for
college football fans, give them a chance, Give them a chance.
They deserve a chance. And they just never got it.
Now they do, and now only do they have a chance,
but they're freaking three seed. You know, with the college

(58:30):
football playoff rankings how they're played out where if you're
a conference champion and you're in the top four rankings
of those conference champions, you get a bye. So it's
it's something that I'm glad is happening, and I'm sure
we better embrace it now because I'll I don't think
they're ever going to take away that spot from the
Group of five school. Don't think it's ever gonna be

(58:50):
taken away, But I do think that they've got to
play well. You can't go out there if you're boys,
you get a first round by and then get smoked
in the second round by Penn State like Arizona State. Listen,
it's the Big twelve. The Big twelve, I think is
always gonna be in this conversation for all the trash
has been talked about the depth of that league. Right,
you can't go out and get smoked in the second round, right,

(59:12):
But there will no longer be complaints about a seat
at the table. And maybe it's to the detriment long
term of college football. I don't know, but access access, access.
All right, let's get a break, Sea Lions are jammed up,
So eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, we'll get
some more of your calls. I do have more on
the I am really debating whether or not I think

(59:34):
Clemson in Texas is gonna be a good game, because
there's a part of me that thinks Dabo is just
slick enough to where you're gonna be watching Clemson in
Texas and the next thing you know, it's coming down
to a field goal. But we gotta spend some time
on the game of the weekend coming up next Saturday night,
and that's Ohio State and Tennessee. Plus a huge, huge

(59:54):
game coming up with Army Navy. Some things to keep
an eye on, and your call's next right here on
Fox Sports Radio.

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The way tire buying should be good news crew, good
news fam. I usually whenever I fill in with Ben
Mallor or for Ben Malor, I should say when they
get down the depth chart enough where I get the call,
I'd either bring an energy drink or a cup of
coffee I have sitting right next to me. And then
there's also a four pack of this tonight was not

(01:00:55):
bush light. It was but ice. If things go poorly,
we're drinking the four pack because we're just gonna try
to survive it. Tonight, I can report things are going well.
So I put the four pack back in the fridge,
and I got my core hydration water and my small
little cup coffee. So you won't have to worry about
dragging me off the air tonight because the overnight crew

(01:01:17):
beat me up too much. I'm having fun. Now. We've
only taken a couple of calls, and I see Manuel
as waiting, and I don't think he's very happy with me.
So at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight
seven seven nine ninety six sixty three six nine. Let's
get some of your calls going. I got a little
mini update of things you might have missed from last
night coming up in just a bit, and we're gonna
kick off hour three of the show with some Bill

(01:01:39):
Belichick talk, because everyone has to have a Bill Belichick opinion.
But Manuel in Guardina is up next. I'm sorry Manuel
that I had such a negative approach in our number one.
How are you? Man?

Speaker 13 (01:01:52):
You know, it's all in the.

Speaker 14 (01:01:53):
Game, man, I just want to Shellelebray.

Speaker 13 (01:01:58):
Because the pirate who is Chris Plank is in for
my man, Bernie Fraddle, one of my favorites, Christopher Plank. Hey,
it's all good. You know, what can we do?

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
Man?

Speaker 13 (01:02:12):
Lebron To quote Adam Auslin on the blow Torch, Lebron
is ruining this franchise. I mean him with this whole
nepotism play and all that, Man's that's something that you
would see in a minor league town.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
Man.

Speaker 13 (01:02:29):
I mean, I'm glad that we got the chip with him,
and that's about the only thing that has made the
Lebron Laker era palpable, you know, what I mean. Then
we move on to our Silver and Black Crusaders, right
Tom to LESCo all of a sudden for got how
to freaking draft or what I mean. This team has

(01:02:52):
the depth of a waiting pool plank. It's ridiculous, man.
I mean, we were talking of you guys were talking
about brought Bowers and you know, talks to that dude,
and uh, what happened to Michael Myers. He was brought
Bowers last year, right, I mean, like it's crazy, man, Like,
no development other than Matt Max, you know, uh, we

(01:03:14):
had to see you know, Devonte Adams Lee. Man, it
was for the better because he was just becoming canceroust.
It just seems like, man, we can't get him out
of our own way. Whether it's the jumpsuit or the
pumpkin haircut, it free, it's always the same. I'm hoping
this influx of cash with these new investors that Brady's

(01:03:34):
bringing in finally gets to some some play like because
right now we're in the the court era of the Raiders.
I'm hoping that with this influx of cash, we can
get the Raiders into the Dodgers googin high era because
we saw, like you know, when when you're spending money
the right way and you got the right minds doing it,

(01:03:54):
you can make some headway. Now, I think to Lasco
has the right mind, but is he gonna be hampered
by freaking the pumpkin haircutter free you know.

Speaker 4 (01:04:05):
What I mean?

Speaker 13 (01:04:05):
Hey, Flanks always love you. Shave us up to that
knuckle ahead, Arnie Spaniard tellum, Miami win in another game,
So stop stop stop outrow Bud.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
Yeah, my partner on Sunday Night's, Arnie Spanier, is a
big Dolphins fan, and we're on every Sunday night from
ten p to one a Central time see ideal in
God's time zone, that's Central time, Eastern time eleven to
two Western Pacific time zone would be two minus two
is eight what eleven something like that. Anyway, it's a

(01:04:43):
fun show. If you haven't heard it, give it a listen.
We'll definitely have a blast taking you into the start
of the weekend at the Ben Mallord Show. But Arnie.
Arnie is one of those guys that will never let
go of the chance that his team not only is
going to make the playoffs, but once they make the playoffs,
are going to the Super Bowl. And through week like four,
when Tua got hurt, I was kind of trying to

(01:05:05):
hype him up. I was like, dude, look two, it
gets healthy. Look at this schedule. You got a chance
to make a run. And then Tua gets back, and
I mean he's on fire right now, right, He's on
absolute fire. They can't stop anyone. So it started to
fade a little bit. I think we started to see

(01:05:26):
the hope fade just a bit when they lost a
couple weeks ago. But they beat the Jets, So now
I've got to deal with hope again. And there is
nothing worse than that terrible drug known as hopium. Many
you experienced it two and oh.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
Yes I have, unfortunately.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
Should have been three and oh still don't know how
they lost that game to the Eagles. I experienced it
with the Dodgers. Well, let me rephrase that I experienced it.
If we're all going local, right, we had hopeum kicking
in a high degree whenever the Raiders beat the Ravens, right,
it's like, whoa, they might be good. It's a dangerous thing,
and I think it's it's real dangerous right now for

(01:06:03):
fans of Let me see here, who is who is
the who is HOPEI a most dangerous for right now?
Maybe the Bills right in that fan base who is teetering.
Maybe the Lions right the level of hope and believe
right now with Detroit fans, and it's it's earned, right,
it's deserved. They're twelve and one. It's kind of funny
because the team I think that has the uh the

(01:06:25):
best chance to maybe compete with them is the team
that's in the most turmoil right now, and that's the Eagles.
Because it's like, I don't really know about the Eagles,
but they do have that running game in Saquon, and
you know, the Lions are struggling defensively with that. Everything
with the Eagles right now is an absolute s show.
It seems beyond winning games. I don't know, Uh, where
do you want to go next? Brianna? Your your call?

(01:06:47):
Which which call do you want to go to next?

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Let's go Tony in Vermont.

Speaker 2 (01:06:54):
Anytime we can go to the beautiful state of Vermont,
home of the stinking genius Armie Spaniard, will do it.
Good morning, Tony. How are you, bud Hey?

Speaker 15 (01:07:02):
First time? Long time. Yeah, I'm not really a big
college football fan, even though my cousin he is a
long snapper. My cousin's son's a long snapper at Notre Dame.
It's funny like he didn't even know how to long
snap in high school and then he only took him
one year and now he was a walk on a
Betre Dame. But he could have gone to Boston College,
but he didn't want to go there. I wish he

(01:07:22):
had gone, though, because I love Bill O'Brien so much.
But I wanted to ask you a radio question. I'm
a big but I'm a big radio junkie. You fill
in for Chris Russo all the time. I'm all take
the story up to the air, but I'd like to
hear the best Chris Russo story you have, because I
was pretty pressed that I hear you on there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:38):
Thanks dude, I filled in for him, and I'm proud
of it. If you're a serious XIM guy, you get
Fox Sports Radio on eighty three, and then Mad Dog
is there on eighty two, College Sports Radio on eighty four.
It's it's a kind of a cool little suite of
channels right for Series XIM subscribers, because everything you could
need sports wise is right there from right there together,

(01:08:01):
and I now I've never his crew is the best.
Eddie Erickson is one of my buds, and he's his producer.
But my favorite story with Russo so far is I
got called to fill in for him on a very
short notice. Got a phone call. It's like, hey, Chris
is out, can you do a show this afternoon. I'm like, yeah, bro,
that's prime real estate. So it was like two hours

(01:08:22):
to get ready. He's like, hey, good news. Though, management
everybody wants Josh Allen was on earlier and they want
you to re air it. Like that's fine. I have
no problem. I don't know a lot of people are.
I have no problem re airing a previous interview. Not
the fool thing always, but if it's a chunk and
it's like, hey, you can get the rest of it
on our podcast, I see nothing wrong with that. In fact,

(01:08:43):
I wish we would do that more on Fox Sports Radio.
I think it'd be kind of cool. Hey earlier, sorry
my phone. Earlier today on on Dan Patrick, you know
they had it. He caught up with I don't know
aj Brown that right, and then boom, you can find
the rest of it on the podcast. But I'm also

(01:09:04):
you know, it's like, you don't get that opportunity a lot, right.
So I was like, uh, you sure we want to
do that. I can fill three hours. It's not a problem.
You'll find out over the next two nights and it's
not going to be a problem filling this time. And
they're like, no, no, no, it's it happens a lot
on this show. They want to promote this interview with
Josh Allen. So I'm like, great, great, So the show

(01:09:26):
goes well, we get a lot of calls, get a
lot of interaction, play the Josh Allen interview, and I'm
just I'm feeling really good about things. Right. It's a
big deal, man, It's a big deal. And the next day,
I mean literally, Likenah got it back so you don't
have to have someone replay interviews all day long. I
was like, what I I was told to do that,

(01:09:49):
And someone had later smartened me up and said it
was more a shot at the producers and the suits
than you, But like, literally, I did what I was
told to do. And what happens right away, Tony, I
get lambastard for it. I had a buddy of mine,
David and Maryland. It's like, oh, Doggie just destroyed you.

(01:10:11):
So yeah, that's my that's my one great, not so
great story for me. Did what was told to got
crushed for it. That's fun, I would say of all
the of all the guys that can remind you that
it's it's never too late. Mike Breen's a great example
of that. Chris Phrusso has been a rock star for

(01:10:32):
a majority of his career, but really specified in the
New York area. Like when they had the Mike and
the Mad Dog thirty for thirty, I had no idea
who either one of those guys were. Mike Francessa was
a dude that every time he would be on our
college basketball coverage, I would get pissed because the dude
couldn't pronounce any named right. He'd put an R on
the end of everything. It's like, ah, you got Oklahoma
they're playing Oklahoma State, or you know, it's like who

(01:10:54):
is this guy? But then you know Russo gets his
own station and then obviously is blown up on uh
first egg, blown up crude us to him, he's awesome.
Mike Green is a guy I think he didn't get
his first major like broadcasting gig until like he was
in his late forties and look what he's become now.
So it's pretty cool. This is me hyping myself up

(01:11:16):
that I can still do this, Brianna, That's what it is.
It's okay, you're not too old, plank you got.

Speaker 5 (01:11:21):
This age is just a number. It doesn't mean anything.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Chico is in Baltimore, I think, is he still hanging
in there with us? It is very very early morning. Chris, Hey,
is this Chico?

Speaker 3 (01:11:36):
Hey?

Speaker 13 (01:11:36):
Who's the woman?

Speaker 3 (01:11:38):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
That's Brianna.

Speaker 13 (01:11:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:43):
A little college football and you do you think there
should reach some suspensions from that Ohio Michigan fight.

Speaker 2 (01:11:50):
You know, I watched that thing about five or six
times just to kind of get a feel of it. Boy,
there was a lot of There was a lot of
dudes that looked like they were getting worked over that
I never got an update on. Like there was one
of the Ohio State guys.

Speaker 3 (01:12:05):
They did give them a fine, right, right, right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
But I just mean as far as guys getting their asking,
is what I said. You know, I'm like watching guides
get pummeled and I never heard anything more. So maybe
it was just more seen it from afar, But no,
I don't wanted to get suspended where it would affect
Ohio State in the playoffs or Michigan in the bowl game.
But I do think that. I mean, but that wasn't
all out brawl.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
There wasn't fine by schools. And also about the Big Ten.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
What do you why are you? Are you thinking they
should have suspended guys for it?

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
So and then and they tell you the truth to me,
the game was over anyway. I don't know how I'll
say overreacted after the flag planning and you feel they
should stop having flag planning now, well, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:47):
It's a great question. I appreciate the phone call. My
first answer is I think there needs to be some
common sense put into this. Let me explain if you're
going to plan a flag or a trident or what
ever else was I think Florida's was a flag, right,
so Florida State would have been the spear. Why are
we trying to do it on a turf field, like,

(01:13:08):
let's let's have some common sense. Oh, but it's just
the action of it. No, it's freaking dumb. You're not
gonna plan a flag in a turf field. It's just
not reality, I know, unless you're gonna start early and
you got a hammer out there. So number one, let's
stop being morons and let's get it right. But number two, yeah,
they you know, college football is kind of funny. I've

(01:13:28):
been the in my nine to five, I cover Oklahoma
and i've been their sideline report on the radio network
since twenty eleven. Point, I'm really getting into my resume
here bringing I'm sorry, but I've been apart. College football
has a major field storming problem. This year was the
first time I've been a part of a field storming
where it wasn't people that were storming because they celebrated

(01:13:52):
you losing, and to your point, told me about hey,
guys should be suspended, they should stop this, or at
least I get the sense that's how you were going
with it. People feel like they have superpowers when they're
storm in the field and something bad's gonna happen, like
something really bad's gonna happen. I was at Fort Worth
a couple of years ago when TCU beat Oklahoma, and
as we were walking off the field, I'm the radio guy.

(01:14:13):
I have headphones on. I'm not If you've seen me,
you know I'm not someone who probably looks like that.
They're either a a coach or be a player. I'm
very much looking like, what is that middle aged white
dude doing over there on the field. So as I'm
walking off the field, there is I would assume she's
a sorority girl. She's got her phone up and she

(01:14:35):
is just mother f and me man, She's calling me
a loser. She's in my face, and I'm like, I'm
the radio guy. I'm like, don't I don't matter here?
But she was thinking she was doing that to someone
that was important, And what does she have superpowers? Because
she's down there on the field and you can't do anything.
I've also seen guys get their clocks clean because they
feel like they have that superpower. So I don't want

(01:14:59):
field storming and or anything that's fun about sports to
be taken away. I don't want flag planting to be
taken away. I just think we need to be smarter
about it. And I have no problem whatsoever and Brandon Mark,
I don't know you guys feel, but if you're gonna
try to plan a flag on my field like Michigan
tried to do at Ohio State and I'm an Ohio

(01:15:21):
State player, We're gonna have problems. Even if you did
just kick my ass. There is one thing about beating me,
and there's another thing about trying to rub my face
in it. So I had no problem with really truly
any of it. I feel like though Michigan could have
won with a little bit more class. I think that
there was a little bit of dog. You guys just

(01:15:42):
won the national championship last year, and I get it
that it's fun to beat your rival whenever no one
thought you could. But you know, Chreon Moore, I don't
really know. If I'm egging on the bench of the sideline,
I'm just kind of walking out and taking my dub.
This is a little older story. But did you have
a problem with it, Brianna.

Speaker 5 (01:16:03):
I did not know.

Speaker 7 (01:16:05):
I didn't think.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
I know there were some dudes getting leveled in that fight.
That's still the craziest thing to me. There were people
throwing hands and nothing happened, or at least as far
as injuries are concerned, it didn't seem like anything happened.
Oh gosh, we got a break eight seven seven ninety
nine on Fox eight seven to seven, nine ninety six
six three six nine. When we come back is brock

(01:16:27):
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there's a piece of business number one, piece of business

(01:17:32):
number two. The text the tweeters to the show are
claiming that we have been full Manuel, good job, Tony
and vermont er Blind Scott in Boston, the freaking baron
of Brail, Darryl wrights Plank. That was the Malard Militia's
own blind Scott. That was not Tony and Vermont. I

(01:17:53):
here's what I thought. Tony and Vermont was a really
good caller too. It's like, damn Tony's cooking blind Scott.

Speaker 4 (01:18:01):
I literally looked at Mark and I said that, and
he's really swear. I literally looked at him like I
think that's blind Scott. And I heard his voice and
his inflection.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
I'm like, oh, you don't it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
I would have never known. I don't. I mean, I
haven't filled in for Ben in a long time, so
I haven't had a chance to talk to the Mallard
militia in a scoch in a minute. But that's good.
Say hey, I don't care blind Scott, Tony and Vermont
good college football talks. In the meantime, speaking of college football,

(01:18:36):
we're going to preview a little bit of the schedule
for next week next hour. I think that made sense.
But we've got we got to have a nine ers
conversation somehow. Someway, you want to talk about one of
the wildest years that you could ever imagine. I think
San Francisco has lived it. I been troops of former

(01:18:59):
tied End played with the Florida Gators. Good dude worked
with him a little bit on the Magic Radio, and
he tweeted. He tweeted something that really resonated with me
just about some of the off the field issues. And
while this was more centered around de Andandre Campbell walking away,
Ben Trup pointed out Trent Williams lost his new boy son,

(01:19:20):
Treyshawn Ward, lost his fifteen month old daughter, Ricky Piersall
got shot, and Rob Fred Warner is still playing on
a broken ankle. So those are just a handful of
things add to it. And Ben trip that was a
great tweet. It was more about Campbell walking away, but
it just you think about finally getting an agreement with
Brandon Ayuk and he tears up his knee. The second

(01:19:41):
game in you got Deebo Samuel who went from being
your multi million dollar due to looking very pedestrian. And
now I think you have even bigger questions around brock Party.
I mean, Brock Purty was so bad last night. Niners
from hero to zero in a heartbeat. We'll talk about
it more in depth next A Fox Sports radio.

Speaker 1 (01:20:04):
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I have a request. I know you have Breeze three
on the rundown and I completely, un totally missed that.

Speaker 4 (01:20:29):
Oh that's an accident. That's not supposed to be there.
I should have deleted that.

Speaker 2 (01:20:33):
Can it be there? You want to do it? Next segment?

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
Oh yeah, I can come up with stuff stuff for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Well, I mean, listen, we're all in this together, okay.
I mean it's three in the morning in the Central
time Zone. For goodness sakes, nobody wants to be up
at this time, but we want to make sure if
you're up, we're making the damn most of it. Right
two one am Pacific time, it's still party time at
a certain age. For me, it means I probably got
to get up and pee. Meanwhile, there's people like my

(01:21:00):
man Arnie Spaniel, whose alarm clock is probably going off
in the Eastern time zone. But Breeze three, I noticed
that you had Jameis Winston on here. Please tell me
you're not one of those that wants Jamis. Please, he's terrible.
No doing yourself.

Speaker 4 (01:21:16):
No, So Breeze three is so I you know, it's
it's like a movie segment. Oh, so Jamis Like, so
Jamis had those quotes of Delivery Deliver Me Lord from
Pick sixes and obviously all his other quotes. So the
bit was, what are three movies that have the best quotes?

Speaker 2 (01:21:34):
Okay, we can do this, Yeah, we can do this.
Let's do it next segment. We'll work through it, we'll
find something. I love this idea. This also magnifies how
rarely I scroll all the way through the rundown. I mean,
let's just be honest. Arnie sends me every Sunday, every Sunday,

(01:21:55):
without failure. It'll be seven in the morning, seven in
the morning. You know you want to sleep a little
bit on Sundays, and I'm an early riser anyway, But
seven in the morning he'll send me two screenshots. It'll
be of his terrible handwriting on a yellow notepad, and
I'll say something along the lines of, here you go, buddy,
it's like seven in the morning. We don't go on

(01:22:17):
the air until ten o'clock at night. Like, dude, just
just send it later in the day. You're gonna have
things you add to it. No does he do that, Brianna, No,
he does not. He sends me every single update that
he has to it throughout the day. Added a few things, Buddy, like, yes,
I would hope. So the games haven't been played yet.

Speaker 5 (01:22:33):
Don't you like that communication though? That back and forth?

Speaker 2 (01:22:37):
I mean, listen, I'll I'm not gonna complain about it
because I've had people that put zero effort into their show.
So I love working with Arnie. But the funny thing
about it is, it's just like you know, one rundown
will be okay, you send twenty of them. I'm gonna
get confused. I am an old man. Things get confusing
to me here on Fox Sports Radio. So we'll we'll

(01:22:59):
play Breeze three coming up in our next segment. In
the meantime, we had a meeting of the minds during
the top of the hour break bri and Mark and
myself said, is it really worth spending more time talking
about the Niners. Is it really worth sitting here at
this ungodly hour of the day and debating about how

(01:23:24):
miserable the Niners have been this year? Debating about how
last night, according to Benjamin Salik over at ESPN and
the Ringer brock Purty on passes of twenty or more
yards downfield was over seven with the pig. My goodness,
who knew that all you had to do was like
spray a little bit of water on a field and

(01:23:45):
the Rams and the Niners would forget how to play football. Yeah,
neither one of those teams are going anywhere in the postseason.
But I digress, Brice said, the bigger stories Philadelphia, come on,
and we're leading right into Anthony Gargano and Jason fitz
this morning. So if you missed it, if you missed it,
let's relive the week that was for the Philadelphia Eagles,

(01:24:08):
which I don't know about you guys, I was very
envious of. In the other than that, how is the play,
Missus Lincoln? The Philadelphia Eagles extended their winning streak on
Sunday by beating the Panthers twenty two to sixteen. It
was there I don't want to get too carried away here,
because they did beat the Ravens last week and they

(01:24:28):
pretty much smoked the Rams, but it's been less than stellar.
I guess you could say, dating all the way back
to whenever Nick Sirianni was talking trash to the fans
and waving Adam. But I mean, the Eagles have been
an offensive running juggernaut since and defensively they're a really

(01:24:49):
good football team. But passing the football, it's been a problem.
So as soon as things wrapped up between the Eagles
and the Panthers, AJ Brown, this isn't the greatest audio
that we've ever been given, but you'll get the sense
of it. AJ Brown went about venting his frustration about
the lack of well opportunities.

Speaker 16 (01:25:13):
And what are some things you think they needed that
the offense needs to improve on back passing?

Speaker 1 (01:25:18):
AJ, I know everybody wants to get in.

Speaker 14 (01:25:20):
The RYTHM all right, you plant this technology.

Speaker 2 (01:25:22):
You know, the receivers, just like running backs, want to
get in a rhythm. How hard is it as a
receiver to get into a.

Speaker 10 (01:25:27):
Rhythm when you guys only throw them about twenty times?

Speaker 16 (01:25:30):
Incredibly, so it seemed like there was a moment on
the sideline when you threw your helmet into the bench.

Speaker 2 (01:25:37):
What prompted that reaction?

Speaker 12 (01:25:40):
Dr Enow?

Speaker 2 (01:25:43):
He was targeted four times, made four catches for forty
three yards, but the Eagles only threw the ball twenty
one times passing. What's the problem? Aj Brown passing? So
it didn't end there. I mean, as you might imagine,
there were post game converse from Jalen Hurts because you
knew QB one would be asked about it and about

(01:26:06):
solving anything.

Speaker 17 (01:26:07):
Everybody has a reason to want more, you know, it's
a fair desire of being in foodness of what we
can be because we've done it.

Speaker 2 (01:26:14):
Just got to build, got to progress.

Speaker 17 (01:26:16):
Have to find a way to come together and come
and sink as a unit and play complimentary ball.

Speaker 2 (01:26:20):
Now again, I want to remind everyone that we're talking
about a team that hasn't lost in like two months,
but yet because it can never be good enough, right,
there's reason for concern because these passing games struggles are wild.
Jalen Hurts. Jalen Hurts has attempted two passes of twenty

(01:26:44):
plus air yards in his last four games. That's according
to True Media too. I mean, in a world where
I mean, come on, Brie and your deep rooted hate
for Derek Carr. He's at least gonna throw deep more
than two times in four weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:26:59):
Yeah balls when he's trying to throw his wide receiver, Sure.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Stop at Michael Thomas. The other thing is that it's
kind of Jalen Hurts game a little bit right, and
he's not going to be a guy that I think
has taken a bunch of deep shots. You know, Nick Sirianni,
now Kellen Moore, They've really tailored their offense to Jalen strings.

(01:27:22):
But I personally, I think Jalen's become a much better
deep ball thrower in the NFL than he was in college.
But the two passes of twenty plus air yards in
his last four games are the fewest of thirty quarterbacks
who've thrown at least fifty passes during that span. The

(01:27:43):
Eagles offense is averaging its fewest pass attempts per game
since nineteen seventy eight, and Hurts, if you want a
little perspective, had attempted thirty one passes of twenty or
more air yards from weeks one through ten, which were

(01:28:03):
tied for fifteenth to month quarterbacks. So in I went
through ten, was that truly ten weeks of the season,
maybe eleven? He had thrown thirty one passes with twenty
or more air yards. Right in the last four he's
only attempted to So obviously there's some issues there for

(01:28:24):
the Eagles. I don't think people are taking it away
from them because I think eventually they're going to have
to do everything they can our defenses to stop Saquon
Barkley if they're not already. But let's just say it's
not necessarily a banner season throwing the football for the Eagles.
So let's just for a reference. You had aj Brown

(01:28:48):
when asked about not getting the football, what's the problem?
His response was passing. Then you had Jalen Hurts layout, Oh,
you know what, everyone's got their own motivation here. Nothing
too terribly, So it's kind of quiet, kind of laid
back for about twenty four hours, and then Brandon Graham
had his radio show and said this.

Speaker 18 (01:29:08):
I don't know the whole story, but I know that
one is trying.

Speaker 2 (01:29:12):
And I mean Elevin.

Speaker 18 (01:29:14):
Could be a little better with how he respond to things.
And they was friends before this. It's like, man, but
things have changed, and I understand that because life happens.
But it's the business side that we have to make
sure that we don't let the personal get in the
way of the business. And that's what we got to
do better as right now because we know it's an issue.

(01:29:36):
Everybody's seen with some things. But we need to be
able to talk talk things out as men.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 18 (01:29:44):
But we need to let personal stuff go and let's
get right for this game, because man, it's like a
lot of stuff. Most of the time, it's just a
conversation that just need to be had. But the person
with the problem got to want to talk to the
person other than others.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
Oh that's all I'm saying. All right, So there's the
weekend into like Monday. So here's my question to you, Brianna,
here's my question anymorek here's my question to you, Bernie Maniacs.
There's gotta be something more going on here because AJ
Brown is really gonna start making it like personal over

(01:30:18):
not getting the football. And I don't know, maybe this
is an area where maybe I'm a little ready shoot
aim on this. I don't know if there's some sort
of number that AJ Brown has to reach to get
more money, like a performance incentive. I don't know if
he has that in his contract that would lead to
maybe it feeling a little bit more personal. But I

(01:30:41):
mean when aj Brown said, we got to leave the
personal stuff out of it, like we're just talking football.
Whenever it's like passing, that's not necessarily personal, that's still football.
I mean, do you think there's something deeper here, Brianna,
because just from that bit of evidence, Now we got
more because we learned throughout the week, But there was
this part of me that kept thinking there's something deeper here.

(01:31:03):
Am I reading too much into it?

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:31:05):
And I think because he's actually in the locker room
seeing this, Like Brandon Graham is actually there, So why
is he gonna lie about her bee or just say
something fake about what's going on? And he even said
what we were talking off air, Yeah, like, whatever your personal
issues are, don't bring it on the field. Separate your
business from your personal life. They're not friends right now,
that's totally fine, but don't let it affect the game.

Speaker 2 (01:31:29):
Yeah, hey, you guys don't get along. It's okay. We've
seen many teams win titles. I mean, you brought up.
Kobe and Shack never really liked each other until you know,
later in their careers, but when it came time to
get on the court, that stuff didn't matter.

Speaker 5 (01:31:46):
Yeah, because the goal should be winning.

Speaker 4 (01:31:47):
It's not oh my god, how does this person see
me or anything else.

Speaker 5 (01:31:51):
It's like, no, we shouldn't want to just win the game.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
Let's just focus win the game, and then whenever you're done,
you go home and do your thing, and you go
home and do your thing. Just there, there really seemed
to be something more there, and I don't know what
it is. I don't think this is a Tony Braxton
breaking up the Mavericks kind of a situation, but it
just it seemed odd to me. And then the week

(01:32:15):
played out and we got a little bit more from
everyone involved. Let's see oh oh well. Let's also add
when you have a former great like Donovan McNabb, who
checked in with this when asked about the beef between
AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 6 (01:32:31):
Look, man, it's too grown, man, it's too grown men.
If you got an issue, you come to me. Let's
not go through the media.

Speaker 14 (01:32:38):
And so if you got to issue, this conversation needs
to be had between me and you, and then we
had that conversation with the play call. But let's not
go through the media because it now it blows up
and then now all of a sudden, you put it
in the microphone, becke in his mouth, and then all
of a sudden, now it becomes well, I didn't mean
it that way, and I you know I'm saying this,
and you know because now what you said is out

(01:33:00):
there in front of everybody. So now either you're gonna
back your statement and make the situations worse, or you're
gonna now correct you to say this is what I meant.

Speaker 6 (01:33:11):
And then even though that you may say it that way,
it's still gonna make the situation look worse. Yeah, Now,
if there was an issue, yes, let's have that conversation, Hey,
receiving a quarterback, we can't have that grownad conversation, and
then we can had that conversation with the coordinator board,
the head coach.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Again, when Brandon Graham says, you gotta leave the personal
stuff out of it, I don't. I think it's something
beyond football, man. I'm just saying that that kind of
reaction does not lead him to believe that it's just Hey,
he's mad that he's not getting the football. All right,
But Donovan McNabb is right, and I think we all
agree you can't bring that stuff. Leave it at the door.

(01:33:49):
I had a great boss one of my first jobs,
don Christy. Oh, well, I should say first job, first
guy that kind of believed in me. And I also
was very young, dumb and well, I wasn't quite married yet.
But I would always end up getting into like some
sort of drama. I don't know, I like crazy women,
what can I say? And he would always tell me,

(01:34:10):
you gotta leave it at the door every single time
you step in here. You gotta leave all your personal
stuff at the door. Now, part of having a train
wreck as a radio guy makes for the fun on
the air, right, But he was right, and you can't
let that personal stuff bother you in any walk of life. Now.
If again, like I said, if this is just people
using a less than serious term of personal, right, a

(01:34:34):
football term of personal, then I'll stand down, like, Okay,
they can figure this out, but it just seems deeper
to me, man, It just seems deeper to me. As
the week went on, we started hearing a little bit
more and here was the last little last little bit
I have on this saga, and it was Nick Sirianni

(01:34:54):
who was asked, how's it going, how's things going betw
aj Brown and Jalen Hurts after the weekend, it.

Speaker 19 (01:35:03):
Was, let's just talk about Jalen and Age. I see
them working to get better. I see them working to
get better together. I know there was assumptions of things,
and we get how that goes, but I can only
go on my personal experience of how these guys interact
every single day. And these guys are so locked in
and focused to getting better and getting better together, so

(01:35:24):
they're on the same page to go and accomplish the
things we want to accomplish. And I witness that every
single day.

Speaker 2 (01:35:30):
Yeah, okay, I uh, Nick Sirianni, have to take you
at your word. Got a bye to what you're selling
me right now. There has been no salatial report anywhere
about you know, he talked to his girlfriend or anything
of that. Hature are they don't really like each other
off the field? I mean, everything just seems to be

(01:35:52):
centered around what the frustration over not getting the football,
which is wild, which is wild. I also will say
I do think it's absolutely hilarious on two fronts. Number One,
AJ Brown's team just won a football game and they

(01:36:13):
go over to interview him after the game, and instead
of saying, hey man, we're gonna get it figured out.
We just won the football game. That's what's most important,
he does decide to go right out and call out
the offensive passing game. Heyj what do you think is?
Let me send you a handbook, AJ Brown, I'll help
you out here. Buddy, got your back, and this is
available for any coach that's listening right now and needs
help on this front, or athlete or student at In

(01:36:36):
those situations, in a postgame where someone asks you about
something that could be considered controversial, your first response should
be I'm happy we won the game, not passing. So
that kind of set the tone for the week that was.
Philadelphia plays Pittsburgh, very anticipated, highly anticipated game in the

(01:37:00):
NFL this weekend, and it'll be very interesting to see
if Philly, who has found a way to win football
games but has been very limited throwing it, if it
is a concerted effort to get AJ Brown the ball.
Because I'll tell you what I mean, I do a
lot of fillings on Fox Sports Radio, and I'm grateful
for it, So that means I get to hear all

(01:37:21):
the promos they're in the commercial breaks and have them
all pretty much memorized. But when Colin Coward one of
the more brilliant things he said, and I love Colin,
but when he talked about quit trying to take care
of your wide receivers, I mean, I think that can
be dangerous. I get you're going to spend your time
trying to feed aj Brown. Here are you getting away

(01:37:45):
from what's made Philadelphia the team that they've been down
the stretch. I don't know, do you say to yourself, hey,
bleep that plank. We're gonna need him if Philly's gonna
win a super Bowl. Because this is a team now
that is in position in an NFC with a Lions
who are gaestimated defensively. Right now, we might be the
favor to make a run back to the super Bowl.

(01:38:07):
So I think it's I think it's one of the
more fascinating stories. But I agree that the one hundred percent
it is much more interesting than what's going on at
San Francisco. San Francisco is still reeling from the loss,
and I don't even know what to make of the
Campbell situation leaving. We're gonna try to debate and discuss
that more tomorrow night here on Fox Sports Radio. But

(01:38:28):
how do you get things right in Philly in the
locker room? Because things could not possibly be going more right,
at least in the wins and lost column on the field.
I wish I could be mad at my team and
they were like ten and two or eleven and one.
Right now, that's got to be a great feeling where
everything you're mad about like, ah, I hate them all,

(01:38:51):
But we are, you know, in the midst of a
nine game winning streak. So I guess that's pretty good,
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Bree How you feeling Breeze? Three? Feeling good? Feeling good?
We got something.

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
I think we got something.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
We'll all find out together next right here on Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 8 (01:39:33):
the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio
listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:39:45):
I think I've come to realize, Brandon, we could do
like a Fox Sports Radio history show if we wanted to.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
That'd be so fun. Go through the timeline in the past,
like thirty years.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
My wife and I are celebrating six seventeen years of
me marriage. Next year seventeen years and the first trip.
This kind of shows you how different times were. I was.
I was working weekends in Fox Sports Radio and I
got invited to come out to the Christmas party and
they flew me out to the Christmas party and I
did my show from the studio and my wife that

(01:40:17):
was one of our first well I don't say dates,
but we've been dating for a while. I'm like, hey,
you want to go to LA with me? She was like,
I don't like to fly. It's like, let's do it.
Seventeen year late, seventeen years later, we have a seventeen
year old. It's crazy how that happens. All right, it
is time here on Fox Sports Radio with Bernie Fratto.
Auta'm Chris Plank sitting in from the Tirack dot Com studios. Mark,

(01:40:37):
I assume you know what to do whenever I say
it's time for Breeze three, not one, not two, but three.

Speaker 1 (01:40:48):
It's entertainment. It's good.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
It's Breeze three. Oh that's well done. Did you do that? No?

Speaker 5 (01:40:57):
No, Ricky Herrera ran star.

Speaker 7 (01:41:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:41:01):
If we can just at some point get rid of
the one that says looking for the one and looking
for the one, because it's just it lives rent free
in my head. All right, Breeze three times. For those
that are new to the Bernie Fratto Show here on
Fox Sports Radio, maybe you're driving around and have never
caught this program before. Bernie's out on Plank, but tell
us the reasoning, the genesis, what Breeze three is all about.

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
So every week I kind of just find like a
topic and then I kind of base like an idea
of like what that has to do with like movies. So,
like you know, recently Jamis Winston, like all his quotes
always seem to go viral. So you know last Monday
when he was like Laura delivered me from Pick sixes
again of memorable like movie lines. So the first one

(01:41:50):
I had was Jaws, You're gonna need a bigger boat.

Speaker 2 (01:41:52):
You need a bigger boat, classic class. Were you even alive?
Whenever it was really no, you won't.

Speaker 4 (01:42:00):
I was not Mark and I were Okay, I was
not alive.

Speaker 5 (01:42:04):
And so that was my first one.

Speaker 4 (01:42:06):
Okay, usually I'll throw in, like, you know, some little
tidbits about the movie. And then the second one, I
went the Shining Here Comes Johnny and full disclosure, I
just watched that recently with my dad. Creepy, right creepy,
But also I was I was surprised, like how scared
I really wasn't because I always thought that was like
a terrifying movie. And The Twins and the Red Run,
Red Run, like I thought I was gonna be like

(01:42:28):
scared out of my mind?

Speaker 2 (01:42:29):
Can I tell you something? Yeah, same same, We had
what's the scariest movie You've ever seen? Just off the
top of your head, The Ring, Oh, the Ring, I've
never seen The Ring. Terrifying terrifying mark, is there a
scary one that jumps off the top of your mind?
A long time ago, and there was a movie called Willard. Oh, okay,
I'll write that down.

Speaker 9 (01:42:47):
We watched The Exorcist when I was a kid because
that was the scariest thing.

Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
And we were in college and there were three of us.
None of them are listening right now, but my buddy
Robert Harris, who's probably a millionaire in Houston right now,
and a guy that was a football player on our
colleges football team, Jeremy Bunch, and we were watching The
Exorcist and at one point, like something dropped in the
house in the middle of a scary moment, and you
would have thought it was not three fraternity brothers but

(01:43:13):
three sorority sisters watching it together. Yep, we probably finished
watching that thing bundled up on the couch freaking out.

Speaker 5 (01:43:19):
But yeah, okay, at least you even attempted watching it.
I refuse I get nights.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
Yep. The shining it holds up and it's writing, but
it's not one of those where you're like, oh, I'm
so petrified by this. No, no, just that crazy guy.

Speaker 5 (01:43:31):
I'm glad I watched it.

Speaker 4 (01:43:32):
Though I really am glad like Jack Nicholson, you know,
Top from Tier.

Speaker 5 (01:43:36):
And then my last one, Louie.

Speaker 4 (01:43:38):
I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
So Casablanca another movie I was not alive or even
thought of.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, Mark, Mark, what are
your three? So my three?

Speaker 9 (01:43:49):
My first one was going to be Young Frankenstein and
it's when they're in the graveyard and Jane Wilder says, oh,
this is a mess, and then he says and then
Marty says, well.

Speaker 7 (01:43:59):
They could be worse. It could be raining, and it
starts to rain.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
It starts to rain.

Speaker 7 (01:44:03):
And then my second movie is Blazing Saddles.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Which line Mark, which line? Hold on here, I don't
want to get canceled tonight. I gonna have to hit
the button. Mango Only Pawn and Game of Life. My
personal favorite from that was whenever they put the toll
booth up. Oh that was good. Someone's gonna have to
go back and get an ass ton of nickels. Not bad,

(01:44:29):
not bad.

Speaker 9 (01:44:30):
And then my third movie is Magnum Force and Dirty
Harry says, every man's got to know his limitations.

Speaker 2 (01:44:37):
Wow, Okay, So in honor of Jameis Winston. I have
three as well, Brie. Yes, all of mine are very
I think I don't know. I feel like they're two
in the weeds. But let's find out Number one. Animal
House several choices, several But when when Bluto says, was

(01:44:59):
it over? When the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor and they
go the Germans in pomp Pearl Harbor and the guy says,
don't don't stop him, he's on a roll, that's the best,
okay question? Hold on, I've had a big week with
Animal House trivia bride. Have you ever seen Animal House before?

Speaker 5 (01:45:16):
Full disclosure? I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:45:19):
How does this how does this movie not hold up?
I'm not even kidding right now. It's enraging. And what
do you bring? You're like twenty four? You're young, right,
I'm thirty one. You look so damn young?

Speaker 3 (01:45:30):
Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
Okay, so, okay, thirty but you're still are you a millennial? Yes?

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
Okay, No, I'm an older, older millennial.

Speaker 2 (01:45:39):
Okay. So in the millennial slash jin y slash gin
alpha whatever we're in. I work with a lot of
youngsters and this week, this week we had a women's
basketball player and named Reagan beers and Reagan beers for her.
Nil had created these like ceramic mugs, and I was like, oh,
I had a friend of mine named Fawn Leewitz, but

(01:46:00):
I mean she actually got injured in a tragic killing explosion.
And she looked at me like I was the dumbest
person on earth. No, I don't know what's happened here now.
Animal House isn't really a movie. You could say, kids,
sit down, let's watch Animal House, right, but it just
somehow a whole generation has missed out on the greatness
of this movie. Great moment, isn't that movie.

Speaker 5 (01:46:22):
I'm gonna add it to my cue and I will
watch it.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
I don't know how I like.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
To me, animal House is timeless, priceless and holds up.
But then again, I haven't watched it in probably ten years,
so if I go back and watch it, I'll probably
be like, ah, but yeah, it's not like I was
twelve when I watched it the last time. That was
still whenever I was like in my thirties. Oh, it's
just say it's a great movie. It's one of my
all time favorites. So was it over when the German's

(01:46:49):
bomb pro Harbor Number two number two for me over
the line market zero, over the line, over the line
market zero, Glebowski. Several other lines in that movie that
you could choose from, right.

Speaker 5 (01:47:04):
Why nobody asks with the Jesus?

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Nobody, nobody, nobody f's with the Jesus. That's whenever Walter
and Lizer goes Peto or you know that all the
homework lines that they had. No, No, he doesn't say pedal,
he says thirteen year old, right, and he's like, oh,
twelve year old, twelve year old, twelve twelve year old.
And then my third one, which again might not be
even the most famous quote from said movie. But why

(01:47:30):
is the carpetol wet Todd? I don't know, Margo, anyone, anyone? Bueler, Bueler.

Speaker 5 (01:47:36):
Christmas Vacation another national lampoon?

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
Are you have you seen Christmas Vacation?

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
Stop? Are you serious? Right now?

Speaker 4 (01:47:47):
I mean, I think I'm saying I've seen bits and pieces,
but like to sit down and watch the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I admit it.

Speaker 5 (01:47:54):
I'm I know, I know, I know, Okay, I know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
I need a moment here. I swoldn missed on.

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
Oh man, I just failed, I just totally failed.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
This. Huh No, No, it's magnified. It's magnified that the
whole generation is missed out on cinematic brilliance. Well, there
you go. Breeze three this week, another award winning edition.
I think now is the key to this where I
want you guys to actually know the movie that I
bring up as part of this. I mean, isn't that
part of the fun of it?

Speaker 1 (01:48:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:48:23):
I mean sometimes, but sometimes I mean like sometimes Mark
will say a movie and I'm like, huh, and some
even Bernie will sometimes will say a movie and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
Like, what can throw you off?

Speaker 9 (01:48:31):
I know, you choose my movies based on brionn and
might not know it. So I bring it up to
just add to her list of movies to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
Gotcha, gotcha? That's my idea of doing it. I like it.
I like it. That's that's that's good stuff. I'm still
just triggered that nobody has seen Animal House, nobody, nobody
of a younger generation. But then I'm also of this
realization that hey, kids don't watch movies anymore, and b uh,

(01:48:59):
it's not like a family movie. I don't remember my
dad like Buddy Chris Hey put down the Nintendo. Get
it here with your boys. We're gonna watch Animal House.
You like, can't do it. It's not anywhere near being
a family.

Speaker 7 (01:49:11):
When I think of Animal House, I think of when
they go to the club.

Speaker 2 (01:49:15):
Can we dance with you amount? If we dance with
the o dates? Yeah, exactly, great point. That's vaun Leebelwitz.
That's whenever he goes to pick up faun Lebelwitz, who
was gonna make him a She was gonna make me
a ve. I think he said a vase or mug. Yeah,
all right, a little bit louder. Now, yes, you've got
to see this. You know what, Now that you've done
all this, Mark, you've got to see this movie. Ranna,

(01:49:36):
You've got to see this movie. All right. Two things
before we put a rap on this segment, get back
to sports real quick. I found it fascinating. Found it
fascinating that a player left the team in the middle
of a game, and that happened on Thursday night between
the Rams and the Niners. Whenever Devandre Coleman left the sideline.

(01:49:59):
Uh first head coach Kyle Shanahan afterwards was in shock,
like I think most of us were.

Speaker 1 (01:50:06):
Happened with Defondre Campbell. He didn't play it, and he
went into the locker room at some point.

Speaker 2 (01:50:10):
Yeah, he didn't, said he didn't want to play today.

Speaker 6 (01:50:11):
Play today. Yeah. The coaching staff.

Speaker 19 (01:50:14):
He didn't want to asked him why I didn't want
to go in during the game or before that was
in the third quarter.

Speaker 8 (01:50:18):
How does that ever happened to you where a player
said they didn't want to play in a game.

Speaker 2 (01:50:21):
No, he got demoted for this game.

Speaker 1 (01:50:24):
He was not going to play.

Speaker 2 (01:50:26):
No, he was going to go on when Drake came out.
Drake Greenlaw, by the way, big moment in that game
Thursday night, Drake Greenlaw and Fred Warner were working the Rams.
They were doing a great job, just dominating at the
line of scrimmage, and then Dray got hurt. I don't know,
I don't know if we have any updates on it,
but Drake Greenlaw got hurt and then things kind of

(01:50:47):
fell apart. The Rams became very sive esque, I'm sorry,
the Niners became very civ asking. The Rams took advantage
of it, and green Law getting hurt as part of it.
You're then back up walking off the field and not
coming in. Is interesting. Here was George Kittle afterwards. I
don't like distractions on the sideline.

Speaker 16 (01:51:08):
I think that's ignorant, and I think it's just dumb.
It's just stupid and it's very immature, and I just
don't I don't see how that's a I just don't
see how you can do something like that to, you know,
to your team.

Speaker 2 (01:51:21):
Here's what's wild to me. There's been no updates on
this none. It's I don't know how different the schedule
is when you play a Thursday night game, So I
would assume that the guys get the weekend off that
you come back after playing on Thursday, you got Friday,

(01:51:42):
you know, every I don't know if the NFL treats
every game that this is gonna sound weird. A lot
of college coaches say every game day is Saturday, so
they set their schedule up where like, for instance, if
you play on a Friday night, your Monday is actually Sunday,
your Tuesday is actually Monday. I think that makes sense,
but I don't know if the NFL does that as well.

(01:52:03):
So I don't know if the the Niners, you know,
do take those two days off before they get ready
for next Sunday's game. No clue but the fact that
there's been nothing on this. Right now, we had an
NFL player refused to go in the football game. Guys.
I mean he said no, you just heard it, and

(01:52:26):
I don't. I don't really know how the dude can
get back and not be cut. I mean, there is
this part of me that i'd be liketcher. You don't
want to play for our team. You don't want to
be a part of this team. One of the perks
of this team is how we got here, how we
traveled here. Get your own ass home. Man, I am
cussing a lot tonight. I'm sorry. I don't know what

(01:52:48):
it is. I get in this safe zone and all
of a sudden, I'm like, I can say whatever I want.
But you know, there's always got to be somebody in
today's media, right always, there can never be he can
never be universal on anything, even something as dumb as this, right.
I mean, I I don't know how anyone could say, yeah,

(01:53:12):
I gotta get what he's doing there, right, because it
makes no sense. Hey, you lost your starting job. You
made a lot of money playing football. Get out there
and help your team. And I'm on team. Do your job.
I'm on team, no days off. So even though all
of us, I mean, I'm not trying to speak for
you guys, but Brian, I assume that you can't make

(01:53:34):
sense of a guy leaving the sideline early when he's
gonna play right.

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
No, that makes him zero sense.

Speaker 2 (01:53:40):
Mark, I assume you feel the same way. I'm not
trying to put words in anyone's mouth. So this shit.

Speaker 9 (01:53:45):
What was he thinking that he leaves a game and
leaves a team? Just a basic pride? He should add
that this.

Speaker 2 (01:53:52):
Is the most we can all agree on this. There's
no Offenser. There is one thing that will bring us
all together as a Maria Rickens, and it is it
is unacceptable to leave your team mid game when you're
called upon to try to help them. He's on a
roll boom. But guess what, oh not in today's modern

(01:54:14):
media world, No, no, no, Bart Scott as a member
of the get Up panel that is like the land
of forgotten toys of NFL people. Mike Tannenbaum is on
it for some reason. Don't know Dan Graziano who ESPN
keeps trying to make a thing. I like Dan Graziano,

(01:54:36):
but quit trying to make him a thing. Just just
just give me his updates, give me, give me his news.
He's not funny. This from Bart Scott quote, Remember this
is a former All Pro, a very prideful player in
this league. He's come in, he knew what he was
a one year rental. He's balled out. Now this week

(01:54:59):
probably went like, Okay, Drake Greenlaw is back healthy, He's
going to start football and is still all about competition
and getting what you earn. He probably felt that he's
earned the right to continue to be the starting linebacker.
But all of a sudden, now he's relegated throughout the
week to looking at cards and being part of the

(01:55:20):
look team. Right, that's demoralizing. Bart Scott said, for a
prideful man that feels like he's a starter, blah blah
blah blah blah. He's probably been. He probably has been
fighting internally with himself whether he wanted to play all week,
and I'm sure his agent was saying, hey, be a
pro and do what you're supposed to do. Got caught

(01:55:42):
up in the emotions of things. Now you want me
to come out and play and save you guys after
you guys basically told me I'm a stepchild, which by
the way, as a stepchild, it's not really a bad
thing to be a step kid, all right. The step
parents kind of go over the top for your love
in a lot of instances. Everybody that spoke in that meeting,
when you talk about Kittle, you talk about Ward, they're

(01:56:03):
going to be there for the long term. You just
told me that I was a rental car. It's one
thing to know that, it's another thing to see it
and have to receive that in real time. Again, we've
never had anything we've been more universal on. But there's
always got to be somebody, right. That's Bart Scott defending
the decisions of Devandre Coleman. I keep saying Coleman, Devondre Campbell,

(01:56:25):
who left his team on the sidelines Thursday night. What
a wrap on this edition of The Bernie Fratto Show.
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(01:57:06):
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(01:57:27):
Bernie's taking the weekend, So thanks to all the Bernie
Maniacs for allowing me to sit in tonight and then
Arnie Spanier and I every Sunday night from ten p
to one a Central Time, right here on Fox Sports Radio.
One topic that I think we're gonna go a little
bit more in depth tomorrow night, but I'm fascinated by

(01:57:47):
is what I believe is somewhat of a sudden one
to eighty involving the future of the NFL playing an
eight team game schedule. Now, I am a firm believer
that it's going to be sooner than later that the
NFL will have the eighteen game schedule. Too much money involved.
I mean, heck, you're talking about a situation where you're

(01:58:10):
talking about a situation where the NFL is making so
much money on just playing a game on Christmas. And
by the way, and he would take and you just
take a look at that list of analysts they have.
I think it was like twenty five people for two
football games for the.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
Basements, Yeah, for Christmas likes. Yeah, Drew Brees is in
there too.

Speaker 2 (01:58:34):
How does he keep getting jobs? I know you love him.
I know you love him. I'm sorry, I am sorry,
but he is terrible.

Speaker 5 (01:58:41):
You have to practice to get good. This is how
you do it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:45):
Listen. If you want to practice to get good, I'm
with you one hundred percent, but don't do it during
games that I want to watch. Put him on like
McNee State or somebody like that. Anyway, maybe I'm maybe
I'm yelling at the at the air here, maybe I'm
peeing in the wind. But again, count me among those
that is jacked over the moon for the potential of

(01:59:06):
an eighteen game schedule. I care about player safety, as
we brought it very early in the program. I think
a majority of you don't until it affects your team,
especially when it affects your team, get it back out there.
I need him to play. But Roger Gudell this week,
we don't have time to play the clip because we
ran out of time tonight somehow. But Roger Dedell basically said,

(01:59:26):
you know, it's not imminent, and my understanding, like in
my world, imminent means over the next two years. Now,
with the schedule workout pretty well because you'd have that
Monday off after the super Bowl on Sunday at most
places with the President's Day. Sure, but it doesn't appear
as if the NFL is going to push too quickly
to get to that eighteen game schedule. All right, Stick around.

(01:59:49):
The Fellows are coming up next. Be back tomorrow night
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