The Fellas With Anthony Gargano & Geoff Schwartz talk Maxx Crosby being traded, NFL Free Agency, and NFL Draft most overlooked prospects!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, Good morning, Heavy, Heavy, Fox Sports Saturday Fellas
Jeff Schwartz back from his vacation on Anthony Gargana. Uh
As we get set for a cute weekend leading in

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the Monday and legal tampering, a couple of big deals
getting done they're waiting for. And last night, whereas we
were all hanging out on a Friday night, word comes
down of the blockbuster we knew the Raiders with trade

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Max came down earlier in the day. They were open
to move. There had been speculation all off season. Who
would it be? What it be the Bears, what to
be the Cowboys? Well it's the Ravens. The Ravens gland

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Max Crosby for two number ones. Good morning, Jeff, Welcome
back off to a bang of a thought.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, I mean wow, I think that when you look
at the market for Max Crosby, you know, the Ravens
weren't there because the Ravens don't make these trades, right,
This is so unraven like to make a trade like this,
But you know, for a player like Crosby, and where
the Ravens feel like they're at as an organization, it
might make sense to do this, and you look at
this draft as well, and it's not you know a

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draft where at fourteen where the Ravens were picking, where
I think they felt like we had to stay and
take a player, right, we had to stay and take
a player. So we're trading our first pick, you know,
this year, our first pick next season to have a
player like Crosby our on our roster. I feel like
just his style of play fits Baltimore very very well.
I mean, it's just, I mean, it's it's and so

(02:07):
I'm excited to watch this happen. I think that there's
a natural fear that as pass rushers get older, when
they approach thirty years old, they tend to to sort
of start backsliding a little bit. However, we have seen
that with better ways to train, more focused on eating

(02:30):
and recovery, that pass rushers tend to play a little
bit better, a little bit longer. I know people are oh, well,
I don't know, I'm not. I think they'll be fine.
I think the way Crossy place will be fine.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So really a really.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Seismic trade for the Ravens. I don't know if if
it changed my opinion. On them as super Bowl contenders.
But as far as their mindset, that's they're thinking of
that now right, Like they're thinking, let's go, let's go
a super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, I mean you have to.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
I think you got to go into that mindset going
all right, we've been close, we've been buzzing around.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
You know, we got to We just changed our coach.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Remember Tampa when Tampa moved on from Tony Dungee and
got crud and they won the Super Bowl in two
thousand and two, that two thousand and two season. And
I you know, I think they're looking I think Baltimore
at Buffalo or trying to think the same thing. They've
had longtime coaches been buzzing around, buzzing around, and they're

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hoping to jolt kind of jolter.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Teams into a run.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And look, you know the bottom line is you got
Lamar and it's like it's got to happen now, So
go in and you invested Acrossby your point's right, the
top edge rushers are all going to go before the
Ravens pick.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
It's a great it's a great group, but.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
The elite ones are going to be by the time
that Baltimore picks do we think, well, I think, what
do you think Messador is an elite you count him
as an elite guy or you just count like the
Bailey but he's good.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
No, but he's yeah, yes, he's not in that. He's
not that okay, Yeah, because I think Messador will be
available if you want him there. But I think he's
more of a mid to late round pick in this draft.
I think most people, and I did a mock draft
for Fox Sports, I think most people had the rights
drafting that guard out of Penn State. Who I mean who?
He's probably the most ready lineman now to play in

(04:31):
the NFL. But I just again, like you can get
Max Crosby, you might as well go for it. I
think we talked about this for you know when this
the Max Crosby story first broke, and I think I
told you at the time that you know, I don't
know if the Raiders should trade him, right, because you
have a player who if I'm Clinton Kubiak and I'm
I'm I'm Spytech general manager. I know his second year,

(04:52):
Kubex is the first shower. I want a guy like
Crosby on my team, right, I want that like I
want that bass. I want that Raider. I want that
guy who's gonna work his butt off to be on
the team. By the way, Shohiotani just hit another massive
home run in the World Baseball Classic. They hung him
a curve ball and he just murdered the ball again.
He was eleven to one to an m VP. And

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I didn't do it because Japan is not as good
this season. But if Otani, if Japan does win the
World Basball Classic, it's because Otani keeps hitting monster home runs.
Hit a Grand Slam yesterday and they just hung him
a curve ball and he hit the ball to the moon. Yeah,
is we is? Like so I thought to myself, like,
you know, the Raiders need a guy like that on

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the roster. But then they're so far away from winning,
you know, and it makes sense for them to trade
Crosby and they got the two first round picks, which
what they wanted. Say, two first round picks.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I mean, I say, I love Max right, Uh, He's
just great dude.

Speaker 4 (05:53):
We had.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I had a chance to hang out with him a
couple of times with Baldy and we did it. We
did aup of things together. I love the guy, the guy,
the guy is awesome. He's a mister Raider. But you
got to fix this thing once or for all. You're
going to get a quarterback, right, so you're gonna start
with your quarterback, who I love. So you're gonna get

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a quarterback, and you got to build this thing from
the ground up. You gotta protect that quarterback. So I
think it's smart. I think you gotta get the assets.
Now he did the intersection. Everything comes. Everything's about the intersection.
Do you believe the intersection of the quarterback? And you

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know where where you're gonna be at the build coincide
with a with an aging player, right, a guy that's
in their prime.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
And the intersection wasn't there for the Raiders, No.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
He was.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
No, it's not even by the way, it's not even
close right, like right, they're so far away that you
can take you can take a Mendozo one. And then
at fourteen you sort of have you could go offensive line, right,
you need as many offensive as you can get, so
you take the guard from from Penn State. You can
go wide receiver. Probably at fourteen, you know, there's like
there's so many different ways to go. Just make your

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team better. To take a defensive player. I mean, there's
at fourteen. Now you can take your best player you
have on the board. Right, you need to help all
over the roster.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
That's what you need to do. I mean, you're if you're,
if you're the Raiders, you just gotta stack talent. I mean,
I say, you gotta kill out your roster. Yeah you
have thin you have a thin roster. Naya, now you
got some madmo. So it was, it was, it was
the right thing to do. I was surprised that Baltimore

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wins the sweepstakes. I thought the Cowboys. I thought he
was going to Dallas. You know, Dallas would have been interesting.
But I too to get rid of Parsons and then
just trade for Crosby and sign him to long term deal.
I think that that that that feels like backwards process,

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even though you know, to Jerry Jones point with you know,
Crossy stops the run better?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Who killed me?

Speaker 5 (08:07):
Really?

Speaker 3 (08:07):
Who cares your job to rush the pass?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
It?

Speaker 3 (08:09):
Right? So yeah, yeah, I don't care as much.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
In the end.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
In the end, what was it asked backwards?

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, it was.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
It would have been.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
It would have been if they did they still need it,
They still needed a pass rusher right, and so from
that side of the ball.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
At twelve and the draft or to your appointment with
the Ravens, like they're probably knocking. I think they're they're
back twelve, right or eleven. They're probably not going to
find a pass rusher unless they overdraft someone. Maybe the
kid out of Auburn and you know again the folk right,
the kid out of Alburn. I think this is his
last name, and then you know, Messa Door. I think
you go corner back of twelve for Dallas and his options.

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Dallas has, but you know again, they just didn't want
to do it. I think Cross and I don't know, Yeah,
I think Hendrickson will have a good, a very a
very robust market. I would have imagine that the team
in Kansas City comes calling. I would imagine Dallas comes calling.
There's gonna be plenty of options for for Hendrickson to

(09:08):
make that move somewhere else. He's a guy that you know,
people thought like, oh man, the age, the age, it's
gonna and it made no effect. You know, It's just
it just didn't like that that. I think we're finding
that that thirty used to be the year when guys
bodies broke down. That just happened. It's so it fun
needs to happen. And now the way guys train, the

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way that they eat, the way that they prepare, it's
different now. And there's less practice time right there. There's
less hitting in college or less hitting in the NFL,
and someone not everyone, right, the average length of the
career hasn't changed at all. But I feel like these
top end guys at last a little bit longer now,
you know. And so there's also less plays. There's less

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except for Cosby who plays every play. He's right.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
If there's less plays in the game period than there
was two thousand and two. So it's funny you brought
that up. The Eagles used to have an edict that
they would never sign a player at thirty, never sign
a player at thirty, like they let Brian Dawkins, who's
a Hall of Fame safety go because of the thirty
year old rule. And that's changed over the years, but

(10:15):
they were when Andy Ree was here and Joe Bantner
was the president.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
That was a steadfast rule that they had.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, and obviously you know with Lane Johnson, you know,
they continue to pay those guys as they should, right,
I mean, can you imagine the Eagles just said, nah,
we're done with you Elaine at thirty.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
Now, Well, it was certain positions that they would like.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
They never like defensive guys, you know, with certain positions there.
But they were steadfast on that. They never gave guys
over thirty real money. That was their rule, like real money.
But again to your point, that's changed as careers have
been elongated, right for numerous reasons, Like you mentioned the

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training and everything else, and it's it's not as physical, right,
Like special teams weren't aren't as physical as they were
in two thousand and five. Right, Training camp isn't as
physical as it was in two thousand and five.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
So all the time during your era, it was different. Right.
The clock runs more than it dated in two thousand
and five.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Man, you just mentioned training camp, Well, yeah, it's not.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Not this two dated right, Like you look forward when
the afternoon session with special teams, right, like, no, we
didn't have any of those. We just had double.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
We just had.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
That's no matter what dandies to give, give the give
everyone every like third or fourth day was the special team.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I wish he did give a specially when I was
with the reader in Kansas City. We didn't have double
days anymore. We just had long practices like three practice
in training camp. But the last of twenty five minutes
were special teams, so like we could just as offensivelignment.
We could chill, we're off. It's like, coach, you made
us do drills for the most part, but a lot
were more relaxed when it came to especially was a
portion of a practice. Japan just hit three home runs

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in a row. I think, Wow, I love dude. The
love of sports being on right now is like it's
it's so it was so much fun during Olympics. It's
it's great that we I wish you could always have
six am sports Saturday morning.

Speaker 4 (12:16):
It's the best.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Yeah. By the way, Suzuki from the Cobs, who just
hit his second home run, is really should man, he's
a good player, all right, hit it and they've hit
it off of uh whose picture for you?

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Well they just put they just removed the picture because
he hung two. I love this World Baseball Classic because
of the name of not because about Tani. We watch
them play all the time, but there are a lot
of like dudes who haven't played in years.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, like you either got kids, right, you either got
young kids like last night the kid from uh the
seventeen year old Yeah, yeah, yeah from Brazil.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
How about Maddy's son hit two bombs from Brazil.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
Dude.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
It's yeah, it's it's a lot of fun. And you know,
it's it's fun because too, like the USA is obviously good,
but Dominicid is incredible. And the way the pitching works
in this in this world bastball Classic because they have
it's little. They have like Little League pitch pitch counts,
so starting pitchers cannot throw a lot, think like eight

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I think it's fifteen in the first round or for
pool play, and it's like three days rest, and then
I think you can get up to like eighty five
pitches for the starter by the championship game. And that's
what four innings maybe sometimes uh so mat you know,
it depends, it depends how you're pitching, but five innings,
so your your bullpen is mattering a lot more than

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usual in a thing, in a series like this, it's
so early in spring, you guys are stretched out. Yes, no,
I mean there's a good reason for it. But the
fact is, if you even have the ten run rule,
like we have in Little League. Yeah, because it happened
yesterday with Japan and beat someone and they after So
you know, it seemed like USA that has school ball

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and has schemes and stuff like. That's great, but like,
what's your bullpen?

Speaker 4 (14:20):
Like?

Speaker 3 (14:20):
Right, because those you know, obviously schools only pitching one
game and skiings might pitch two at the most. Right,
So the strategy of this is fairly fairly interesting to me,
right because the Dominican has today. I got mashers up
and down that lineup, So curious see how this one
goes for three weeks. Wow, we'll get We'll get into that,
all right, We'll get into that. But I don't want to.
I don't want to lose the lead.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I mean mcduffley, like this is awesome, Like I it's
so great having football to talk about, all right, And dude,
the Rams them Peck's boy, Oh, they're just gonna be
so good. Yes, Like you had one week then on
that on that team, and it was the secondary and

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then you go out and gage Trent McDuffie.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh my, and they could still pick at thirteen and
yet another cornerback if they would like, right, Yeah, So
this is a trade McDuffie goes from the Chiefs to
the Rams that I think is great for both sides, right,
Which is what? Which is what you want the trade?
You want trades to be right, You want both sides
to be happy about the trade. The Rams to your point,

(15:28):
we saw in big games this year they could hold
leads right, and part of that was they have they
have a good secondary. Right, it was fine, but not good.
And now you've improved seven correct, except verse kind of
disappeared sometimes, but otherwise you get him, I think, more consistent,
but otherwise you're that's what you needed, right, and now
you get Trent McDuffie, who is a fabulous football player.

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The thing that is fascinating to me about this trade,
it's sort of the Chiefs process when it comes to
paying player second contracts because, Uh, there's cope positions. They
just haven't done it over the years. Cornerback is one
of them, right.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Uh. The other one is.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Offensive line interior offensive line. It's not been any reads tending.
Even though they have recently paid Create Humphrey and Tray Smith,
they haven't paid a secondary player a second contract since
Eric Barry. It's been a while and up until I
talked to the defensive coordinator.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
He wasn't happy again.

Speaker 3 (16:23):
Right, but but there seed you go through it over instead. Yeah, well,
but Steve was hurt and it actually ended up looking
like it was a good decision for him because his needs.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But my point is is that he's been like he's
had to develop these kids.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
Well that's so so Spags. This is the reason why
they do it, right, because Spags develops these these cornerbacks
and so well, I know he's upset about getting using
with Duffy. It's because they find these guys and they
develop them with Dave Merritt, who's their secondary coach as well.
Like those guys that developed and they have young guys
in the roster right now that are that we think
are going to be good. Right, so they're they're just like,

(17:01):
all right, well you know what, all right, well you
keep developing these guys, well we'll keep trading them away
and chiefs God two first round picks now and they
could use one on another corner. Of course, they have
the three top forty picks and so from there for
me to protect mahomes.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
It was funny. I didn't say its bags because I
know he was he was not happy. But I was
talking about this with somebody else and I'm like, hey,
like they need to protect like you're now you've now
wasted a couple of years, a couple of seasons with
Mahomes because you just can't protect them.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Like they lost that three pet did now.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
I think think it was gonna win regardless, but they
had no chance of the game because they could protect Mahomes.

Speaker 3 (17:49):
Uh, they're I mean Carter wrecked the game. Their offense
line is is actually fine. They were just hurt last year.
Well that's they've been hurt. They're starting five is pretty
good right now, John Taylor being released with more and
right tackle, they just have. They have a running back
room right now in Kansas City. That is that some

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colleges are like are better than right, Like there are colleges.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
That better every game.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Certainly, their their wide receiving room is atrocious when you
consider that one of their wide receivers, their best guy,
might be suspended again, and it's just untrustworthy. You cannot
you cannot trust rights anymore. You just can't. So you
can't you can't trust he'll be ready to play? Is
ef you're worthy? Small and gets hurt all the time,

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So they got a lot of holes on their team.
Pass rusher is a huge problem of there. So now
you use those picks. I would imagine nine is you know,
Ruben bain or or maybe Love is available, Like I
don't think he'll be available, but and there's rumors that
Kenneth Walker is on their radar for freegency. You know,
twenty nine you take can you know concept she own?
Like you take a wide receiver at twenty nine forty

(18:54):
you take maybe an offensive lignment or another pass. I mean,
you've plenty of options now to make that team better.
But it seems like Mahomes is gonna be back and
they're they're going for it still, right, He's gonna be
back healthy. Yeah, So I like I like this move
for them because they've proven in the past that they
can get rid of these guys and draft well and
develop in that and look and to be fair, having

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good secondary is good, that's great, right, But if you
can't rush the pastor doesn't matter, and they can't rush
the passer like they just can't rush the path, they
have to spend all their resources finding that pass rush
of offseason. I mean, I think secondary pieces are huge
they're huge, but unless you can rush the passer, doesn't matter.

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Like they just they.

Speaker 2 (19:38):
They they I like, like I get it, but like
you can't, like you have to be able to cover
and hold up in this league, I mean with the course,
but like, like my argument to you is, look, the
Eagles don't really have any edge guys, and they great

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secondary pieces.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Right, but you have you have great you have two
dominating d tackles that rush the pass.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Well, no, but George Dames as a rushed passer and
and Carter was botting this year.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Truthfully, they didn't.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
They didn't get this was not a banner uh defensive front.
They were. They were really built from the back end up.
I'm not disputing that you need a pass russ because
I agree with you, but Molly, my point is it
shouldn't come at the expense of secondary pieces.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
Sure, the chief but the Chiefs do have secondary pieces
they like that are young and seem like they're in
the right direction.

Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah, I I'm just I'm with my man here.

Speaker 3 (20:41):
The Chiefs just have zero unless Chris Jones decides in
a given game to become a monster. They can't hit
the quarterback ever, like they don't hit the quarterback. Ever,
if they don't have Chris Jones, they need they need
someone else.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
Why he blitzes and you don't know why he's got
a right of blitzes. But their defense wasn't an issue.

Speaker 4 (21:00):
They're there.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
If you look at last year, the defense was the problem.
The problem was they couldn't they couldn't move the football.
There were I think there are many problems. One of
them when they play the better teams is they couldn't
hit the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
They just mean the.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
Off I don't disagree. I mean, like listen, I talk
to the guy every week.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
So he he I mean he had to he had
to reach into his bag of tricks. Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
And then eventually, because you know, you do someone zero
because you have to get home, and guys get free,
right if they block up to zero. So they lost
a bunch of games that way. Not no one's fault,
per se, but you know they just they went zero
and the Chargers blocked it up and made a player.
That's what they went zero. They blocked up and made
a play. That's just so I get I it's it's
risky trading McDuffie, I get it. But because the spas

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keeps developing these guys. They keeping they keep doing it.
So if Spas was some developing these guys, your boys,
something developing them, they wouldn't have to trade these guys away.

Speaker 2 (21:53):
So meanwhile, the Rams are just ridiculous. We got so
much to talk talk about. The Bills get a receiver. Uh,
there's another receiver about to be on the move. My
guess it happens between now and over the next especially
if the Crosby thing happened. My guess is this next

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trade should happen today? Oh, we get inside information. Well,
it's sure. I mean I think it happens one of
those prediction markets, and yeah, I do think it kind
of happens. We'll talk about it. Uh, and we'll tell
you what what that trade is. Free agent Frenzy is

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So Monday, Legal Tampering, we'll go through all the moves
that are expected to be they happen, the releases, everything else.
The two big blockbusters that we saw McDuffie and of

(24:15):
course Mad Max going to Baltimore. We saw DJ Moore
get traded from Chicago to Buffalo.

Speaker 4 (24:25):
Jeff, what did you think of that move?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (24:29):
I love it for Buffalo man. I feel the same
way I was on the Round, but really like their
offtions so far. So the number one and most expensive
wide receiver room in the NFL is the Bengals, right,
T Higgins, Jamar Chase like that that makes sense. Right,
number three in the NFL Dallas Cowboys, right George Pickens

(24:51):
and NCD lamb Like okay, yeah, you had all Pro
Pro bowlers like you got these like excellent football players
and pactful football players. And the second most expensive wide
receiver room in the NFL is now the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Yeah, and buddy, not good.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
I'm gonna pull up their exact depth charge so we
have an exact I don't want to get anyone wrong here.
DJ Moore, Joshua Palmer, Khalil Shakir, Kean Coleman, Shavers and
and Cooks. Dave Davis is as well, but I think
he's a free agent signed a one year deal last year.

(25:29):
Second highest wide receiver room. That's crazy. That's crazy with
that group. And I think, you know, their wide receiver
room was not great last year. I felt they're chasing
you know, they're chasing good here. But I continuing to
do some some things that I'm going to be out
of character. DJ Moore is extremely talented football player. He's

(25:52):
not a number one wide receiver at all. He's number
two and now he's number one, and you know the
things that are his criticisms, the sort of lack of efforts.
Maybe the wrong way to put it, but just you know,
the route running right sometimes isn't isn't perfect, you know,
and it does seem like at times he's not running

(26:12):
a hundred percent. I don't know if I trade for
that guy. You know, they get a lot for him too,
great deal for the back, stay over paint in a
big way.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Agree.

Speaker 3 (26:23):
So one contractual thing is we get to fre agency
next week. Outside of quarterback. A lot of times, gaining
that third year guaranteed or part of it is the
big structural difference that teams and players fight over, right that.

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So you know, you sign a five year deal most
of the time, the first two years are guaranteed, all right,
and the third year is the one that you try
to get guaranteed and maybe not even guaranteed all two years.
You like what I remember this is back in twenty fourteen,
I had like half of my second year salary guaranteed.
That's enough to keep you on the roster for two years, right,

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So players are trying to get that third year guarantee.
I'm I remember Dominkin, Sue got it, and that was
like a big thing, right, guys, thirty year guaranteed. It
appears that Buffalo is guaranteeing most of the third year
of DJ Moore's deal, So twenty twenty six, twenty seven
and guaranteed fifteen point five twenty twenty eight. That is

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is a lot of guaranteed money. I agree most again,
most of the time. Look as you as you get
these actual details of these contracts coming up that we're
going to see signed on Tuesday or I think it's Wednesday,
maybe a lot of them are gonna be yeah, five
year deal. When you when you kind of find the details,
it's really a two year deal, right, or maybe it's
a it's a one year deal. In this situation, it's

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basically a three year extension. And that that that feels
like a big contract for DJ Moore and for Buffalo,
and they're putting it all in. I just haven't liked
what I've heard from Joe Brady. Not that it's it's
not it's not that I don't like him, per se.
It's like he said things to me that sound like

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things he could have fixed us off as the quidator
that he's putting on on the old staff and like
he's the OC those are in my opinion, are yours right?
And he sort of And so we're gonna do things
differently on offense, Well, why did you do them when
you were there? You're not the mc dermot said, the
defensive coach. You're the offensive guy. He can do the
stuff you want to do there. So I just.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
I don't know. I just haven't liked what I've seen
from Buffalo offseason. I hate Brandon Bean. Can I be
honest with you. I don't like anything he does. I
think he stinks.

Speaker 7 (28:49):
I do.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
I think he's a terrible general manager. I think he's
wasted that team. He can't identify a receiver, He's struggle
to actually build out his roster defensively, and I think
they're gonna miss Sean mcdermoty in a big way.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
I think so too. They're a team that I am
eyeing under ten and a half wins, Like, I think
that that's.

Speaker 4 (29:16):
I agree doing.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
The only thing is that you're gonna end up with
two with four division wins because of the Jets and
Dolphins are so bad. So like that's the only part
about taking under is that you're gonna end up with.
You know, the Jets don't have a quarterback and the
Dolphins of a quarterback. So I mean, you know, maybe
you lose one in Miami or you you know, you
lose one lay in a year, but your pencil those
four division wins and you feel, you know, again, difficult

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to see that. Maybe under if that's the case. But nonetheless,
I think Buffalo got worse. I think they got worse.
I don't think they got better this offseason. And you're
getting better or worse, right, you're rarely staying in the middle,
better or worse. It feels like they've gotten worse. I
think you agree with me on that when they feel
like they've certainly gotten a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Demn man, I'm with you, I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
Oh my god. I just again, I don't understand what
they're like.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
If you if you're gonna trade, if you're gonna trade
for DJ Moore second round pick? Is AJ Brown not
getting a second round pick because he is team's trading Okay,
so that just helps AJ Brown. AJ Brown is much better.
So let me give you know that. That's why I
was curious about what his market.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Let me give you an update on that world because
I teased it going into the break. So yeah, uh,
the Eagles were offered a one and a three, Oh okay,
and turned it down.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
How we turned it down now.

Speaker 3 (30:38):
Like they turned it down this offseason or this was
a previous now.

Speaker 4 (30:41):
The only thing I'm not sure, like, So here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
If I let's just say this, let me just say this,
if I'm Howie from the Eagles, how he wrote its
an Eagles GM. If I'm Howie, I want I prefer
the twenty seven first round pick, because New England selects
thirty first. Well, next year, I mean I I don't

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think anything can happen and they could be off the table,
so that one could be.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
But even even even twenty two, they could make the
playoffs and be out in the wildcard round. Like that's
a that's a much better price.

Speaker 2 (31:18):
So but this year, thirty one, it does I don't
think in this draft that how he likes the thirty
the thirty first pick, so he's looking for a one,
A two, and a player is what they're looking for
unless you turn unless unless it's this year's one, like
you know you're gonna they would preferred next year as one.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
Yeah, and the player unless you think, like thirty one
could be a Ty Simpson trade up spot, which is
a very very big projection, right, like your team wants
I don't want Ty Simpson, I know, but I'm saying
like that's like maybe, like you know, someone trades back
up for Tysonson, that's a spot to get another first
round pick next year, right, type of situation, which I
think is probably far fetched.

Speaker 2 (31:57):
So do England's the spot? Do you think?

Speaker 3 (31:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Look, the big picture thing with A. J. Brown is
that I think that we are learning that paying for
two wide receivers. And look again, the Eagles won Super Bowl.
So I'm not saying it's it's the worst thing in
the world. It just makes sense.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Ironically they want it running the football with sau historic
gear and but that but.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
That game, by the way they do they do them
all for four hundred yards was so was so odd.
It just was so backwards to how the entire season
went for both those teams. Basically is that you know,
you pay these two guys, right that the Dolphins pay
two guys didn't work out. The Bengals have paid two
guys and they're there are short one hundred defensive players.
The Cowboys are doing it now and they're short a
bunch of guys in their team, like they're not winning

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Super Bowl anytime soon. Philly is like, we're done with
this thing. We're not paying these two guys, paying two
wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
Is this is not an Eagles generated move. Eagles aren't
and and and they they even want to They don't
want to get rid of A j.

Speaker 4 (33:00):
Brown.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
So why are they doing it then?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Because he wants out? He wants out.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
What if they were a juh, what if they just say.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
What if they just say no? It's just unhappy then?
So you want to know, I mean, you know, do
you want to deal with that? You know what your
prior to be like miserable and then.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
And look he loved what's that He's gonna be happy
in New England.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Yeah, that's where he wants to go. I guess he does.

Speaker 2 (33:32):
He's been miserable here and it's it's him in the quarterback.
Him Jalen don't get along and it's less even it's
really one sided from a j on the field, he
doesn't like he doesn't like playing with Jalen. I mean
that's basically it boiled down in a nutshell interesting, So

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it wouldn't be like it's not like they're like, oh,
we got it. We wanted to move on from a J.

Speaker 3 (33:59):
Brown.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
They don't want to do that, especially now, Dude, they
got one receiver.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
If they move a J. Brown, which I think is
gonna happen later today, they're gonna have one receiver basically
on the roster, like decent Davante. They don't even have it.
They don't have their tight end. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
So and they have a new OC.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Coming in and Sean mannon and trying to rework their
entire offense.

Speaker 3 (34:25):
It's a it's a decent wide receiving draft wide receiver drafts.
I think they could find obviously some option there.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
Yeah. I went body and I spent six hours the
other day grinding receiver tape.

Speaker 4 (34:41):
So we'll go over stuff.

Speaker 3 (34:43):
I wish. I wish there were some bigger wide receivers.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
But Chris Bell is the guy like who Now he's
got an a cl from out Louisville.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
I think that I think probably tastes the first one
off the board. Lemon's close behind him.

Speaker 2 (34:59):
Yeah, we'll twalk about it because we literally spent six
hours grinding receivers the other day Tyson and said, Hey,
I love Tyson. He just get it's about its health. Uh,
we're gonna take quick ta We'll come back. But dude,
I do think the AJ Brown thing happens at some
point today. We're the fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargano hanging

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in the i ont Radio app. Yeah, Jeff, it's gonna
be Uh, it's gonna be interesting. Uh next couple of
days as the tampering starts. See if there's any other
moves that are gonna be made. You know again, I
think the A. J. Brown thing happens before Monday.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
Well, I just put some I just put some money
on it, so I hope you're right.

Speaker 2 (36:32):
I don't know, I.

Speaker 3 (36:36):
Just put a little. It was training at like fifty Well,
yes on New England, why not?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
All right?

Speaker 4 (36:41):
Yeah, I do think it's New England. I know the Chargers.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
I didn't mentioning how much women's college basketball and wage
during the last couple of days. You think just putting
money A J. Brown is nothing, So don't worry. You're
you're you're you're in the clear. Okay, good, good, But
I do believe it happens. I do believe New England
is the New England's the team. So I think I
think you should be good.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
And it's you know, stuff's got to get cleared up
by by Monday because you got the tampering period, the lead,
the new league year starts on Wednesday, and you got
to figure out other positions.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
You know. This is you know, interesting free agency because
it feels like as teams are getting a little bit
more just just I think I think better at evaluating
their own talent. We're find at least, I'm I'm finding

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that work. It feels like we're getting less and less,
less and less like impact players in fregency. That's what
we're seeing all the trades, right, because you're just you're
just not getting these You're just not getting these players
in fregency anymore. That that I feel like, I feel
like you feel the same way, just like, are not
these like really powerful game changers. They don't make the

(38:03):
phragency right because people people teams pay right, they pay
their own players now, right, it makes sense to pay
the guys you draft it, you end up paying. And
so I think this is why fregency has changed a
little bit. It's why teams are more aggressive, in my opinion,
in the trade market.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Yeah, I love that. I think you're you're one hundred
percent right.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
I think it's a great call by you, And I
love you know, being aggressive in the trade market.

Speaker 4 (38:32):
I think that that adds to it.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Like like again, look at the rams, I mean, less
things done such a great job.

Speaker 4 (38:40):
You know when they do keep their picks, they hit
on them and.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
They or they just use their picks to trade to
make trades like you're talking about, like they just did
with with Trent McDuffie, and the way they build it
is just smart.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
There's a couple of different ways obviously to build a roster,
and the Rams have one way, the Chiefs have one way.
But in the end, when you pay a quarterback a
lot of money, which the Chiefs do, which the Rams do,
and the thing that they have done well and you
have to do this and we taught we forget about
this a lot. It's both the Rams and Chiefs have

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been great at drafting right and not drafting in the
first round, but drafting in the second round and the
third round, the fourth round, and you can you know,
when you can make these trades. The Rams can make
these trades because the rosters at a good place right
now because they've hit a lot of auto. They don't
need their first round pick, right I mean they need
it per se, but like they don't need it because
the roster is really good right now that they can

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go trade their first round pick. And so it's twenty
nine about they still have a first round pick, by
the way, thirteen, they trade their next first round pick
at twenty nine because our roster is pretty good and
Trent McDuffie can impact us now we can win a
Super Bowl now because of the things we've done to
make our rosters, because possible part of that is drafting
Puku Nakua right and drafting these you know, these these
gass rushers and other players are and the and the

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tight ends they brought in and the running back they
just have done a really good job of that. So
the Chiefs right can trade Trent McDuffie because they draft
and develop the secondary very very well. And we forget
about that in this process. But that's the reason why
these teams are where they are. These additional pieces make
them much better. The Rams would not be as good
if they did if they failed drafting, right, and you

(40:25):
know if Seattle or they went with Super Bowl they
failed at drafting. They've hit home runs in the draft.
That's a great point, man, it really is.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
And then you look at it and you go, all right,
there's look what we're coming off of.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
There was just one weakness. Rams had one weakness.

Speaker 3 (40:44):
Yep, the Rams are very rightfully the favorite to the
Super Bowl champions.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's right, all right, stay with U's a big hour
coming up. Megs felt good morning and morning, a morning,
good morning, good morning, happy happy be Fox Sports Saturday, March. Baby,
we are in March. Gotta love it. Conference tournaments, n

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C Double A's around the corner. And of course free agency,
the new league year, the draft. It's all happened, and
get out of that February mouck that happens post Super Bowl.
Welcome to the fellas he is, of course, the great
Jeff Schwartz. I'ay gargana.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
How much college basketball we watch it?

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Are we are? We? Uh?

Speaker 3 (41:37):
It's it's a lower It's the kind of like the
other the Group of six, right like the the mid
major conference tournaments are happening right now.

Speaker 4 (41:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'll heat up next week.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
Yeah, next week. Obviously the big dogs, well we'll get
we'll get going. There's been some some upsets, you know,
it's been okay basketball, but.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Was great though. I mean, they were awesome last night.
Again they went over time and in Miami is.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Thirty one, and oh it's so funny Miami. So they
are gonna be like an eleven seed and they're gonna
play the six or seventh best ACC team or Big
twelve team, and they're probably gonna lose by thirty. But
they deserve to be in the tournament. I think it's
so funny.

Speaker 4 (42:16):
That, oh, it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (42:18):
Pearl, Well, Bruce Pearl's you know, he is fighting for
his son to make to make the make the tournament.
The fact is this, guys, is there are six There
are sixty eight teams to make the tournament. Right, this
tournament is built to have a team like Ohio in
the tournament. Why have a sixty eight team tournament? If

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Miami of Ohio at thirty one to oh and I
know their metrics are not you know, they score a
ton of points, the don't play great defense, and they
play nobody.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
This is the point of the tournament, right. I don't
want to see a nineteen and fifteen Auburn team in
the postseason. I want to.

Speaker 3 (42:59):
See thirty one Miami because here's the reason why they
might lose by thirty to a sixth ACC team. They
also might win, you know, like that, like that could
be fun to watch. I don't need to see Auburn
get in the postseason and not make it out of
the first weekend. I watched them play all season. They're
not good. And again, give me Miami of Ohio. Give

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me that offense. How it's different color football, we have
twelve teams, right, you have sixty eight teams. This is
built to have my house. They're not even the favorite,
by the way, to win their own conference tournament. It's
acron right.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Now, I know. And and the Actro might beat them.

Speaker 3 (43:39):
There are different sides, right, Miami's on the top and
Actwords on the bottom because they're one and two.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Act That's why. That's why there's all this consternation about
Miami oh It's that the automatic birth comes from the
conference tournament winner. So are you going to take two
teams from that conference? Yes, I'd rather again.

Speaker 3 (44:00):
I'd rather have one less Big ten team, one less
SEC team, and then put Miami of Ohio in there,
overseeing again a meddling power four team or power five team.
I that's me personally. I know people might disagree with that.
This is and people say, well, shorts, you don't say

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this about football because there's twelve teams in football, right.
This is if there were sixty eight teams in football,
and say put them all in, right, But they're not right,
they're not. And so this is why again I think
maam Ohio should be in and a team like auburns
is just gonna be out.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Sorry you weren't good enough. Well, for the record, I
agree with you. I think Miami O needs to be
in the metalway. What do you think of And I'm
curious if you're in this grouping. Coach K said, don't

(44:58):
do it. You got gold, don't mess with it. But
expanding the tournament. So if you expand the tournament, I
was messing around with just during the week, you could
you could do a Monday, you could have you could
actually have the tournament if you went to eighty and
you would have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at ten games

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each day, you have forty first round games.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
Yeah, I've been a hard pass on that. But I mean,
if that's what people want, I think that we have
enough teams in the tournament. I mean, look, I'm gonna
I'm gonna watch it, but I think we have enough teams.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
The hard pass at first, I was like I at
first I agreed with Coach K, which was agreat with you,
which is not I don't mess with it. It's even
to play like the play in is kind of for bogus, right,
Like you know, I mean do you watch the playing games?

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Well, yeah, it's on television. I am a sports fan.
I will I'm watching. You get my point?

Speaker 4 (46:04):
The play game game matters to you.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
If I I mean.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Am I like am I at my son's baseball game
on a Tuesday night watching you know the first four game?
Probably not am I?

Speaker 2 (46:19):
You know?

Speaker 3 (46:20):
Now, if it's a team like UCLA a couple of
years ago was in that, I you know, I'm like
u SI basketball, So I would watch that. But I'm
not like glued to my TV watching those games. No,
I know they're on, but I'm not like I have
to be in front of my television watching those games.
I will start Thursday.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
So I'm the same way. I go. The idea of
the playing game is what it is. But if you
actually made them and I started to think about it,
I go, wow, it'd kind of be fun. Where you
then you start to torment on Tuesday and you have
ten games Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday day Friday and stagger them

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so you can watch almost everything. I mean that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
I mean, look, but but like me and you will
watch any sports, like we'll watch any We're like the
we're probably the wrong people because I'll watch anything and.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
So but like it just doesn't Japan.

Speaker 3 (47:22):
Like my my the way, my thing about the postseason
in any sport, right is the goals to find a champion, right,
And expanding the tournament to let in more teams is
not finding a champion. That's not the goal in terms
of a participation tournament, right. And I feel like we
don't need it's sixty eight teams already, Like we don't

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need a participation tournament. We don't need to add. You're
not You're not adding any champions. You're adding the ninth
best team in the ACC. You're adding maybe a mid
a second mid major team from a you know, from
a conference one in and like I just the quality
of basketball drops off so fast from you know, Florida

(48:06):
and Yukon and in Arizona even just like a top
twenty five team, right, and then now you're adding another
mid major. I again, I'm a hipocrat. I'll watch it,
but I don't think the sport needs it, right, No,
does it need it?

Speaker 2 (48:25):
No?

Speaker 4 (48:25):
I agree with you. I don't think it's necessary.

Speaker 2 (48:28):
Like you're not to your point, and it's a great,
it's a compelling point by adding another I don't know,
twelve teams, you know, sixteen teams you would add, you
would go to whatever it is, you would add sixteen
number sixteen teams right like, like, that's crazy if you
got to eighty. But in my mind, I go, oh wow,

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i'd be fun more basketball. Is the champion going to
come out of that grouping?

Speaker 6 (48:57):
No?

Speaker 3 (48:58):
So right now, the first if you go to any
sort of bracketology, right the first four out right now
from what I see is Cincinnati, Virginia Tech, all Bird
vcus So Cincinnati right now in the Big twelve they

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are seventeen and thirteen overall and nine and eight in conference.
Do we need to see the Cincinnati Bearcats in the postseason?
Is that?

Speaker 2 (49:28):
Like?

Speaker 3 (49:29):
Are we itching for like the bear Cat? Like?

Speaker 2 (49:30):
Oh man, I can't wait to watch the Bearcats.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech? Here we go? Where are they even?
Where are they even at? Here?

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Can I not?

Speaker 2 (49:39):
They're ACC?

Speaker 4 (49:40):
Right?

Speaker 3 (49:42):
Am I crazy about Virginia Tech and ACC?

Speaker 2 (49:45):
They are?

Speaker 3 (49:45):
They're so far at the bottom I can't even I'm
like shocked. They're one, two, three, four, five, ten, They're
twelveth of ACC, twelfth in ACC. I was looking like
the top half. I couldn't I couldn't even much. I
couldn't believe in my rain they were below the top
half of the ACC. We want that and we need
that in the postseason. That's what we want to That's

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my point. Like, these are the these are so in theory.
You're like, yes, we get more of the Akron in Miami,
of Ohio and tak You can get more of these
teams in there.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
But what you get is more games and a bigger
tournament and more days, more chicken wings.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
And more pints and beer. You know what.

Speaker 3 (50:29):
The sports books want this because they want you guys
to spend all your money that these games.

Speaker 4 (50:34):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
These games. That's listen, this is all that, all things
way true. I mean, if I'm to get deep with you,
I mean, you know this is bread and circuses, right,
I mean, this is there's no different than ancient Rome
when they gave you the games at the Kyle Saam.

(50:56):
This is the same thing. Hey, I know, let's let's
get the tournament. Add another to get two days in
the tournament. Yeah, keep occupied, keeping fat and happy, chicken
wings and beer.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
Look straight for those industries. I'll tell you that. But
I I don't know if it makes the sport any better.
There's you know, unlike football because again there's there's such
a there is already a lot of teams to make
the tournament. You know, there's automatic qualified, right, so all
so all the tournaments this weekend, right, they feel hugely

(51:36):
important because they matter already. So teams are already playing
in games that matter even they don't make the tournament, right,
I mean part of it In football's people say, well,
games don't matter as much because not everyone makes it. Okay, okay,
But that's not the argument in college basketball because right
now we have you know, we have these we had
multiple we had overtime game in the Missouri Valley yesterday,
right like, we had the number one see the Missouri

(51:57):
Valley lose in in in the first game tournament, Like
that's a big stealing potentially happening right there. So we
already have a play and mentality in the sport because
of conference tournaments. And so you're the team's already get
the rush of playing this style of basketball well having

(52:19):
to go to a tournament, right, So I don't buy
that they need to do this because you know it
makes everyone you know, opportunity to make the postseason. Well,
you already get the opportunity by playing your conference tournament.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
Yeah, because that's the other thing that gets devalued in
this whole thing.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
I mean maybe, but now again, like a seventeen to
fourteen Auburn, you win one game in the SCC tournament
and it's like, oh, now we're in the playoffs, like
or now we're in the postseason. It I don't know.
I just think it's it's really devalued. It will really
devalue even.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
More all the time.

Speaker 4 (52:53):
Yeah, I mean you're not wrong, Like, you know, I
get it.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
Like and you know when people say the same thing
when they went to thirty two teams right when they
were when they go from thirty two.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Well they used to never they used to not allow obviously,
like it was only conference champions. So you know, there
was you know, there was a you know, I'm a
Pac twelve guy, but there was a time like USC
men's basketball was actually really good. They never were in
the tournament because used to beat him every year with
John those Wooden teams, and you only allowed the conference
champion in. That was only the only one. So I'm

(53:24):
okay with like with that decision to make it a
little bit bigger to allow you know, more teams to
at least be in the tournament. But again, I I
just this, we're at sixty eight teams already, like we
already have expanded the tournament to let anyone in who
can win a championship. So it's funny. I'm shocked.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
So my main man south Side Chuck, hits me up
on Twitter and he says, I had to jump on
and say, you and Jeff are serious about Miami oh
being in the tournament regardless of winning your losing their
conference tournament. Question mark question mark question thirty one, and

(54:05):
oh Man, look at the team's record they play. Their
strength of schedule is two hundred and eighty two. I
don't care to Ken Palm, don't care. I don't care
if you're on the bad you play nobody and listen
like you and I completely agree you can't because I

(54:26):
said the same thing. I don't care what they play,
they belong to tournament. Love you, but ridiculous. I'm like, no,
there's no way you can't go unbeaten and not get
into tournament if you lose in the conference, in the
conference tournament, that's ridiculous. It's your point, and it's sixty
fourteen field. Forget the sixty eight to four playing.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
I just I think that if you have a tournament
like this, what's the point of it if you can't
have a team like Mana of Ohio in there? Again,
do you want to watch Mana of Ohio or or
Cincinnati play. I'd rather watch the man of Ohio play.
I'd rather reward a season like that that I would
you reward an Auburn season where they're you know, they're

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barely over five hundred.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yes, Chuck says, strengthless guts are two wady two. That
tells me all I need to know about their competition.

Speaker 3 (55:24):
Well so, uh uh. Matt Brown on Twitter, he's a
good business ZBA business insider to follow. He did a
freedom of information request to get emails from Miami of Ohio.
They tried to play better teams this year. Everyone said no,
Like they emailed, They emailed around asking to play teams,
and I mean asked.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
There was one about.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Orgon asked organ to play or I don't know, I
think we're answer them, but they said no. They tried.
They tried, they tried, and everyone said no. So true,
it's not like they didn't try. They tried to get
better games. They were denied the opportunity to have better games.
And so this is where they're at with their schedule.
And again they keep winning, man, And last night, look,

(56:07):
it's not not always pretty last night and they go
to overtime at Ohio, but they're winning the games, dude,
And in the end, we we have to reward winning. Man.
At some point, it's just it's just it's what sports is,
and we got to reward the winning part of it.
And they've won all their games.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
Man, I don't want to.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
I don't care about the the twelfth best ACC tea
making the tournament. I just don't.

Speaker 2 (56:35):
Yeah again I I I look at it and go
to the same thing, like, once you get that, can
you compile that kind of record. I don't care what
you're playing. Come on, man, and again you're coming out
of the MAC. It's not like it's a complete waste
of a conference. I grant it, it's not the Big
Ten or the SEC, but come on, if that's not

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a joke of a conference, it's not.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
I'm I'm again. I I'm the leadist in college football
because there's a small number of teams that made them
make the postseason and so I feel like I'm a
little bit more elitist than that. But because of the
of the size of the tournament, this is it's built
to have Miami Ohio in the tournament.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
That's what's built for, right, And to your point, it's
completely different than college football, where you and I were
both against unless you're going to expand the field, to
be to have those teams is ridiculous. Like like I was,

(57:38):
I was watching tape the other day, right, So I'm
watching McKayle Lemon and I'm watching him get completely stoned
by Notre Dame. He didn't play on that game, all right,
Well you know why because it was press coverage.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
Now the kid, the kid from the David dude, uh
that was on the outside on him, but he struggles
against press.

Speaker 4 (58:01):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
I'm watching that Notre Dame team and then I'm put
on Jeremiah Love tape. I'm going it's criminal that they
weren't in. Its criminal that they weren't in the playoffs. Yea,
they should have been. Yeah, I mean it was a joke,
it really was. It was. It was absolutely criminal that
you lose the early the season and then you hold

(58:22):
it against that team all because whenever the conference thing,
affiliation and the people are managed that they weren't need
the money. They were good. Those kids deserved to be
in it. They deserve to be in it. This it's
completely different in basketball when you have that size of
a field. It's just completely different.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
Again, I keep bringing this point up, but you have
to think about the alternative, right, like they like, Okay, football,
your Not Dame example is great. Okay, So in football
with twelve teams, the debate was Notre Dame with now
the Heisman favorite for next season, CJ. Carr, the talent
on that roster, Jeremiah Love right, the talent they have

(59:07):
on the roster, the defense they had. It was that
or a second group of five team. It was that
or jmu in Twulane. Like that was a debate. Okay,
we're now debating Virginia Tech. Who again. I'm looking at
ACCNS right now. I had to go thought, I thought

(59:28):
they move conferences. I was looking at the top half
of the rankings. They're that low down. I didn't see them.
Auburn is five, ten, eleventh in the SEC. I think
it is right now, seven and ten in conference. We're
arguing about Auburn seventeen and fourteen, seven and ten in conference.

(59:49):
We're arguing about them, or Miami of Ohio. We're not
arguing about Arizona right in Miami of Ohio, we're arguing
about Auburn.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
So I think.

Speaker 3 (59:59):
That that is the difference between football and basketball, is
that we're not arguing about about, you know, a team
that can win, arguing about a team that's just not
gonna win. Auburn is four and eleven in Quad one.
In Quad one, they're four and two in Quad two.
They even have a Quad three loss. It just I

(01:00:25):
I don't buy any argument to not put Miami of
Ohio in this then and again, I mean even the
Quad one wins for Auburn, they beat Saint John's neutral
site earlier in the season. To me, that's that's not
as important as obviously what you're doing now. So I
just don't buy Auburn and I'm not putting an Auburn
over Miami Ohio.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Yeah, we agree, all right, let's take a quick to you.
We'll come back and we got to get back to
football and some of the other some of the other moves.

Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Kyler Murray will be on the move.

Speaker 2 (01:01:00):
Be interesting to see how the quarterback kind of thing
shakes out where the Fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargano hanging
it out right here on Fox.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Welcome Matt h Fellas, Jeff Schwartz, Anthony Gargan.

Speaker 4 (01:01:26):
And uh we get ready for the front see.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
About to commence on Monday.

Speaker 4 (01:01:33):
Now that Max mad Max.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Is a raven It's not gonna look right man Crosby
on the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:01:44):
It's it's gonna be odd. But I thought the personality
really fits, right, you know, Crosby and the Ravens. So
that's a it's a fun personality match between those two guys, right,
So that'll be a lot of fun too to watch here.
And well, again, we're seeing trades almost replaced fregency right now,
right or you know, just guys are not either not

(01:02:05):
getting fregency because they're resigning, right, which makes a lot
of sense. Teams are valuing draft picks right or or
guys that make the freatency just there's a flaw, right,
there's something that you know that teams are just kind
of too much money injured just not producing the same level.
So we're seeing trades or supplements would used to be fregency.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
Yeah, it's a great point. Great point, So let's go
through it all right, this is what all that's going on.
So Max again gets moved for two first round picks.
The Patriots are trading Garrett Bradberry.

Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Yes, there's I like that move for the Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
I think it's essential for the Bears because obviously Drew
Dolmen retired unexpectedly, and it's not a good center draft
and you're not guaranteed to get what I mean. You know,
the kid Iowa was five, but not gared to to
get one again the fre agency. You know, Beyonce would
have been I think a decent signing for them, but

(01:03:06):
he went to Chargers. And so yet you need someone.
You know, Bradberry played in the South offensive Minnesota. He's
a veteran, which which I think was an important part
for them. They just wanted someone to play a lot
of football to work with Kevin Williams this enter position.
So this made sense to go get yourself a center,
and you know that was the missing piece, and you
left tackle as well. But just you lose Dolmond, you

(01:03:28):
need you need someone. And so they went into and
got brad rig So it was a trade that made
sense for them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
The Texans get David Montgomery and they released Joe Mixing.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Montgomery you had to think was on the move, right,
There's there's no reason to keep him. And and you know,
Gibbs got more cares in the season as he was
still healthy. Happens. Just you don't need two running backs.
You know, you must well get something for him, and
you know you got you got more than something for him.
So that was a good trade for the Lions.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
The Raiders released you know, Smith obviously because they're gonna
draft the quarterback. So Smith.

Speaker 3 (01:04:07):
Yeah, Geno Smith. I want to I want to touch
on this quickly because this is uh. I like analytics.
I use him a lot, right, d v O A
E p A all that stuff, right, C Poe, all
the all the data. I've always been to odds though
with with the Geno Smith fans, because the Geno Smith
fans would use some of this, you know, some of

(01:04:28):
the data and analytics and try to tell me that
Geno Smith was a much better quarterback than I saw
with my own eyes. I feel like I got vindicated
a little bit last couple of years, Like Geno Smith
played well for eight weeks his first year in Seattle,
and it's sort of like never was the same quarterback.
He just became what he's now, which is he's just
like not very good Seattle. He left Seattle and won

(01:04:48):
a Super Bowl. He went to Vegas. I have a
number one pick in the draft. Like, there's a reason
why I I feel vindicated on Geno. For a while,
I've been saying I just don't get like this whole
like football community on social media that thinks he is
much much better than I think he is. And part
of it was like the advanced numbers were good. I'm like,
I have you watched him play?

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
I mean at some point I didn't realize that there
was a catre a Gino Smith love out there. Oh yeah,
yeah that like and look I love and look people
love the story of the comeback story and all that
stuff and whatnot. But I just I just never budge,
you know, know, this was like in Seattle, people are
he's much better than'm my guy.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
He's not. He's not much better than we think.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
Uh well, I mean all you had to see is
Sam Darnl go there and Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:05:35):
And he'll sign and you know and he'll sign somewhere,
Hill sign somewhere. You know, there's a there's a priority,
you know, backup somewhere and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (01:05:46):
Yeah, I think he's a good backup. I always thought that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:49):
I always thought he was just a much better backup
than he was a starter, and that he was one
of those guys like you need a backup quarterback in
it's lead to come in and hold the fort for
two to three weeks. Yes, you know, Kylin Murray is
interesting what happens to Kyler Marry because you know, he's

(01:06:13):
a guy that despite his size, when you would watch him,
he could be electric right like he had a great
arm but didn't know the offense and questions all about
his dedication and everything else, but could move and had it.
I always loved his arm to shame man to share

(01:06:35):
he should have been better.

Speaker 3 (01:06:38):
It does feel like the vikings are you know, it
seems like the fit for him, and I think he'll
be fine. But I think you're to your point, like
there's just something that has sort of been missing a
little bit, and I I don't know if it gets
fixed in Minnesota, but it's just, you know, he's supremely talented,

(01:07:01):
just sort of never reached that potential. No, he's hot,
and he's very hot and cold depending on his start
of the game. Like if he starts fast, sort of
stays fast, if he starts colding, sort of stays cold.
But Minnesota is in a binde. I think the thing
about about Minnesota, though, is that McCarthy's only started six games.

(01:07:21):
That's it, and he might not be very good. I
will I'm fine in saying that, but you kind of
don't know. If you get Kyler Murray, you're basically admitting, like,
this is the end of McCarthy, right because you don't
bring Kler Murray to be a backup and there's no Murray.
It's better than McCarthy. I think we agree on that.
So that's what you Minnesota's calculation on that is like
do we have a roster right now that can win?

(01:07:41):
And is it worth just saying, Okay, we're wrong about McCarthy,
which again, they might be wrong. They might be wrong,
and he's just not the guy, and it's totally fair
to say that that's the case right now. But signing
Kyler Murray would be the end of J. J. McCarthy.

Speaker 4 (01:07:56):
I had no problem with that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
I don't either. I mean, I I can't play violin
strings for JJ McCarthy. I was. It was a horror,
horrific decision by that horrible decision because they had a
team that can actually compete. But I didn't understand the
wisdom and rolling the that was too big of a

(01:08:20):
gamble to go on an unproving quarterback, and especially that
kid like that kid doesn't That kid doesn't go.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
He never spoke to me like, oh my god, he's
gonna be the answer.

Speaker 2 (01:08:34):
I didn't understand it from the jump, I said, So,
I don't get it. When you had that kind of
receiving corps and that kind of offense and that kind
of offensive coach, why in the world would you settle
him with such a big question market quarterback.

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
I well, then they drafted him high and they thought
that he was their guy.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
Dude, come on, they overdrafted him. It was a reach.
Knew it was in reach. He knew it was over drafted.
And even if he wasn't, even if you still believed
in it, he's.

Speaker 4 (01:09:06):
A kid that they screamed at you not to play
right away.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
So he gets hurt, then you're gonna just throw him
right back, and you had a chance for Rogers.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
It was dumb. It was a dumb move.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
It just was because if you have Aaron Rodgers and
you saw at the end with the Steelers, I.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
Mean with that receiving grew like you had a shot.

Speaker 3 (01:09:35):
You did, and I think they still think they have
a shot if Colin Murray is their quarterback. Is my
guess again the draft, you're not drafting Tie Simpson, You're
not drafting after drafting McCarthy. They also going to have
a Jed Apartment general manager right now. So my guess
is Ann Murray's gonna be cheap. It's the Russell Wilson right.
It's that Arizona will eat his salary and you can

(01:09:55):
then get Colin Murray on the cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Yeah. The uh, I just look at it and I go,
of all the quarterbacks, would you prefer Kyle and Murray
or bringing Cousins back?

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
Or what about Malik Willis too?

Speaker 3 (01:10:16):
Not for thirty million? No chance, not a freaking chance.
I think Malik Willis is one of those guys that
this is. This is like the Jeno Smith thing, where
like I feel like a bunch of the analytics guys
are like man, look at his numbers throwing the ball deep. Okay,

(01:10:36):
here's the thing. He's still like one hundred and fifty
passes in his career, all right. The thing about about
Malik Willis and people say, well, he could be Sam Darnaler,
he can be Baker Mayfield, he could be this and that. Okay,
when those guys go to a second or third team
and become much better. Right, they're often first round picks.
They're often like top of the of the of the

(01:10:59):
of the class guy in the given year and it
just didn't work out wherever they're at for whatever reason. Right,
Belie was a third round pick. Like, he's not those guys.
He's not as talented as those guys. The Packers run
an offense when he's in there that invites play action
pass success because they run the ball so much with
him as a quarterback. I'm not paying that guy thirty

(01:11:20):
million dollars a year to be my quarterback and expecting
him to now go from throwing the ball in his career.
I'm gonna pull up right here one hundred and fifty
five times in four seasons to throwing the ball four
hundred times in a season. He played four games last year,
started only one, but he through thirty five passes last season.

(01:11:41):
There's no sample size for him fifty four or two
years ago in two starts.

Speaker 2 (01:11:47):
Thirty million dollars. Yeah, you know what people are judging
it on. They're judging it on because I look at
him as the Saint Darnold as no no, no no.
When you watch if you just watch him, when you
watch him, you see ability.

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:03):
But here's the thing. You know this, Okay, sorry to
interrupt you. You know this is a big difference between
playing well in one or two starts in the season
versus playing well over seventeen games. When we have film
after the first month of the season, you have four
weeks of film. You know what you're I don't see

(01:12:24):
Milik Willis. We don't even know. I mean maybe I'm
I could be totally wrong with this. We don't even
He's not even done enough to give you any film
on him. We have no idea what he can do
for it. Again, he's gonna go from throwing thirty five
passes last season to four hundred next season for the
Miami Dolphins or whoever's going to sign him for thirty

(01:12:45):
million dollars. A year. Dude, that Donald again was a
first round pick. He was a top of the market
player from USC, right like a guy that he won
a roseboll USC. He had shown the ability to do
some of these things. This is not the be all I.

Speaker 4 (01:12:58):
Got for Liberty.

Speaker 3 (01:12:58):
For for quarterbacks like Malikis was a third round pick
who's now who has not played a lot of football,
not play a lot of quarterback, and when he does
for the Packers, they have give the Packers off its
credit talked about a lot. They do a great job
of game planning for him. I give him a lot
of credit for when he comes to the game they
are ready to go with with with the Malik Willis package.
But now you're gonna give him thirty millars a year

(01:13:22):
to be your starting quarterback. I expect this to scale up.
I don't buy it for one second, dude, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Listen, I don't think you're dubious.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
I don't think you're wrong to be dubious because it's
a it's an expense, it's a gamble, it's an expensive gamble.

Speaker 4 (01:13:42):
Now, I think I like him more than you do.
But again, I can't I can't.

Speaker 2 (01:13:47):
Sit here and argue with you and go, well, I
would spend that that I would spend that money and
feel good about it because it is you know, you're
that's an uneasy stomach going in like you gotta be right.
And to your point, you know, they're well coached offensive
team Green Bay, right, Like, that's a that's a very

(01:14:10):
good offensive team and they help their it's a quarterback
friendly system. So you know, would I be nervous, Yeah,
I would be nervous. To your point, I would be nervous.

Speaker 3 (01:14:21):
But here's here's the other Thing's the thing about how
the funt?

Speaker 4 (01:14:23):
Well, we'll get right back to it. Okay, we're gonna
take quickt oh, where the.

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Welcome back fellas from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Schwarts, Tantady,
going out and Jump was off last week?

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
How was that? Mexico?

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
It was good? I tried I tried to to work
on Sunday because at the time, I just said, my
wife was like, why don't you work Saturday show. I'm like,
I'd like to sleep in just once on a Saturday
that's on vacation.

Speaker 4 (01:15:16):
But didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
It didn't work.

Speaker 3 (01:15:17):
It was nice. Look, I I like working, you know,
but it's uh, it's nice to take a little bit
of a break. It was my first probably weekend. I
haven't worked since jeez July. Maybe, I don't know. It
was nice, you know, we had a we had a
lot of good food. We went, uh we went out
one night. We were on in Camcoon on the Hotel
Strip area. We weved to dinner one night and it

(01:15:38):
was a ton of fun. It was like a dinner
and kind of like a show. And they had a
club attached next to it. And my wife loves to dance,
and I just kind of like, I can't dance with
a lake, but I just go with her because it's
fun to be with my wife and uh, bro it
was like eleven fifteen and we were the only people
in there. The only people were let me, I don't

(01:16:01):
think eleven fifteen PM is that early. I mean for
some of us to go to bed at like ten
like myself feels late. But we had a wife, which
just like dancing. My wife was this time of year, I.

Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Go to bed.

Speaker 3 (01:16:14):
I don't want stadap late to watch sports very often
right now NBA playoffs, I will. But we uh we
went dancing, hung by the pool, had some good food.
It was it was relaxing. Pro you can't go to
the club before midnight. I don't know these rules at

(01:16:35):
thirty nine anymore. But uh yeah, I mean I I was,
you know, I probably we probably were sleeping by like
we got made a home twelve twelve fifteen, and.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
We were out groud to be home.

Speaker 3 (01:16:48):
Though after after like three or four days. I'm good
with vacation.

Speaker 4 (01:16:53):
Oh really, you're you're like that.

Speaker 2 (01:16:55):
Yeah, we're going back.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
To Mexico for spring break with the kids and with
some families and whatnot. So like we're going back in
a month. It's easier for us. It's like two hour
fight to can't and it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:17:04):
Ah, that's good. Yeah, that's awesome. You have good weather.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Yeah, it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
It's a warm here now it's in the eighties and Charlotte,
but it was about you know, it was about that
weather in Mexico. Dude, I'm dying. I need vitamin D.
But oh dude, my my mood is I've been so
we got, we got, we got ten o'clock. My son
got practice at ten o'clock. It's a little overcast right now.
We got practice at Nune for softball. It's it's shorts
and T shirts. Baby, it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
I know. Yeah, we have not had shorts and T shirts.
I means right now, it's still like thirty nine. It's
gonna go up a little warm today, like warmer. It's
gonna be oh.

Speaker 3 (01:17:40):
Yeah, we got, we got, yeah, we got, uh, we
got like full we got, we got full sun. We
got like these are record highs. That's super hot. Right now,
we're gonna have another cold staff. But it's been nice
to be out on the field and not have to
worry about wearing layers. You know.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Yeah, I can't wait because Monday, Tuesday, it's gonna be
seventy three.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
We got our first our first first day. I think
our game schedule comes out today for softball, so we'll
see what we got. Saturday mornings might might be a
little tougher when this when the schedule comes out, we'll
see buddy, I don't know. Uh, you know, we gotta
we gotta. We got a big season ahead of us,
Gotta be there early.

Speaker 2 (01:18:18):
We gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:18:18):
I gotta line the field now. Being the head coach,
I'm gonna field line the field. I got so many
more duties.

Speaker 4 (01:18:23):
You got the keys to the shed, Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:18:25):
Yeah, I know. I got the code to the shed. Yep,
I got the code of the shed.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
I always when you made it is when you can
get the code or the key to the shed, to
the lock coat of the shed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
I gotta.

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
I gotta.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
About softball, so the basis stay on for the most part.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
You don't take the bases off. You gotta take the
basis and put them in the shed.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
We don't. We don't our littleague. No one's gonna don't.

Speaker 2 (01:18:48):
We've never. I mean, I guess you don't want. You
don't want the basic. The basics get exposed to the elements.
I'm not my.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Commissioner, but we don't take the bases out.

Speaker 2 (01:18:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:18:57):
I talked to the commissioner about it.

Speaker 2 (01:18:59):
I don't. I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
We just don't.

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
We haven't.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Maybe we should, maybe we should, but future equipment nicely,
when you line the field. In baseball, you line the
field from the front corner of home plate. Right, in softball,
you line the field from the back corner of home plate.
It's a difference the back that the back of home plate. Yeah,

(01:19:23):
so it's so because I've I've argued in the past,
I'm like, we're lining the field incorrectly. It'ppos to be
from the front corunner of No, it's to allow hitters
to slap, to give them more room to slap, I think,
to like un the box.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Yeah, and then.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
Also too like also to like when you when you measure,
so it's thirty five feet is our distance for the
pitching mound, and that's measured from the back of home
plate to the front of the mound. Baseball is the
front of home plate to the front of the mound.
So a lot a lot of differences happening. And then.

Speaker 4 (01:19:57):
These things do you guys play tournaments?

Speaker 2 (01:20:00):
How's the week playing?

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
So so there so we do, like I think I
mentioned before, our league has this like semi travel ball
thing called Challenge Baseball where it's it's with your little
league and you play on Sundays. Now you might now
this time of year, you play Saturday and Sunday. There's
this tournament that some kids are right right now, but
it's with it's with your little league. So they have

(01:20:25):
they have Challenge Softball that you play. We have two
tournaments in March, March and April on a Sunday. So
you play like two games that you play. You know,
you play more if you if you qualify for more games.

Speaker 2 (01:20:37):
Yeah, it's like for us, that's all we do every
weekends torn them.

Speaker 3 (01:20:42):
But you play travel ball. This is not necessary necessarily
travel ball per se.

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Right, all right, fella, it's big last hour next Fox
Look Morning, good morning, good morning, happy Happy Fox Sports Saturday.

(01:21:11):
Jeff Schwartz, Anthony go again, hanging out with you as
we get ready for the start of the league season.
This week the big football week, free agency, and then
what will happen is we'll get through this week and
that'll then set us up for the draft, and so
teams will kind of to look at it. They'll have

(01:21:31):
an idea of kind of what they're needing and what
they're looking at. Have you begun your draft homework yet?
My brother, I uh yeah, I.

Speaker 3 (01:21:44):
Did a mock draft for Fox Sports. It's up right now.
I think what's so fascinating about this draft? Is it
Mendoza's going one, Reese is going two or three. Probably
I think we know sort of the range of where
like David Bailey is going in the first ten. I

(01:22:05):
think we know like sort of the first like nine guys,
but sort of where first ten, like where they're going
who knows? And maybe there's some surprises, right, but then
the rest of the drafts who knows? Man, Like, I
think there's there's just there's no there's just not a
lot of like first round graded guys in this draft.
And I feels like a very up in the air. Uh.

(01:22:30):
You know, it feels like a very up in the
air draft where like you know, Jeremiah Love right, like
you go three to nine, okay, Like like that feels
very you know, that feels about where he's gonna go
right again, you know Tate right, the wide receiver, Like
I think if he gets to eight, he goes New
Orleans or to Chiefs at nine or sort of maybe
I tell you.

Speaker 2 (01:22:52):
I don't I don't see the value in Tate that early.
Jeremiah Smith is their bet, was their best player. Well,
of course he's a freak show. He's everyone's best, I know.
But the point is is that you're getting the kid
that is opposite that draws all the attention from the
kid that draws all the attention you.

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
So you watch wide receivers with pauld that you said yesterday,
right or the other day.

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
The other day.

Speaker 4 (01:23:16):
We spent six hours going through it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:18):
So would you?

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
So who's your one?

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
Lemon? I'll be honest with I love Tyson, but I
worry about the injury.

Speaker 3 (01:23:27):
So he's gonna he's gonna run it his pro day,
they said, And if he runs in the field four
or five range, he's probably gonna go, you know, top
twelve ish, right potentially what so, so you would have
you would have Tyson one for you.

Speaker 2 (01:23:43):
So, so here here's how I look at it, right
when I ranked the receivers. So I because we went
through it, I like Tyson the best because now again
he's knowing that he's got injury history, but as a player,
he's just so much better than anybody else.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
So he so for those who so Tyson went to
Arizona State. He's also much bigger than Lemon and Tate.
He's like six I think six two sixty three.

Speaker 2 (01:24:09):
Yeah, I mean Tate's got size. I mean six.

Speaker 3 (01:24:14):
Feet No, I think it takes six feet Tate, but
officially like around six feet. But like Tyson just catches everything, dude,
he's he's great.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
I love that kid, like he's my favorite. But the
problem is, uh I you know again, it's all goes
back to injury, right. I like Cooper, I don't dislike Tate.
I'm just saying that's for him, right.

Speaker 3 (01:24:41):
I mean, if you're Kansas City at nine and Jeremiah
Love is gone and the pass rushers are gone, I
think you're taking Tate. I mean you're just like young
you can't do another small wide receiver and Lemon and
you probably not, and the Chiefs do not draft guys
with injury history that you know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:58):
What the problem is elsewhere?

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
Is that again? I think Lemon is he's a football player, right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
But he got hemmed up in that. Like that's the
problem then, though.

Speaker 2 (01:25:12):
You're speaking my language right, like again, So how I
like to do it is I like more game stuff,
and I like to see you against late in this season,
against better competition, right, like in the games that matter obviously,
because you know, when you're a CRINDI college tape anybody
looks like, yeah, how many of these receivers when they're

(01:25:35):
playing soft or you got a cornerback, they just got
no hips, right like, So, so you're gonna get You're
gonna look good all day long. How far are you
against Pressman's So what do you look like? Can you
get off the line of scrimmage against press Man?

Speaker 3 (01:25:49):
So against like the three best defenses, he played their
name four catches seventy six yards Nebraska, two catches eighteen
in Organ I think had seven catches for thirty four yards.
Remember in that game, Jacoby Lane had a huge game
and really the third wide receiver for USC. Who's a
third one? I tell you, I like Jacoby Lane cobally,

(01:26:13):
I think I think he's gonna be a better pro
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Sorry, who was the other one?

Speaker 4 (01:26:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:26:20):
Oh yeah? This heindz Kid for US. He had six
catches for one forty one. But Lemon had three catches
for thirty thirty four. He had the two touchdowns. But
I mean Jacoby lan had a better game. Jacoby Lanz
just he's a kind of a box out, big, bigger
wide receiver, right like that's a basketball player. Yeah, So
I just you know, the smaller wide receivers and again,

(01:26:41):
I mean, you know, a small as relative, but I
just got like they just are tough to project because
sometimes if you're not you know, he's what, he's five eleven,
one ninety two, he did he he didn't run the
best at at at you know, you make him am
around Saint Brown, right, you make him a slot guy.

(01:27:03):
Sat Brown is incredible, So I love watching St. Brown play.
So that's what you project him as. And that's just
sometimes tough to project a guy to be am around
Saint Brown. You know, like, right, you'd rather have a
guy like you know, Tyson and Projects like a pure
number one. But the injury problem is, you know, is
the concern for him and Tate Projects may need to
be more of a number one guy concept. She owns interesting.

(01:27:26):
I think he's a later first round pick. You know
this is so I think that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
I again, he's the kind of ordinary in that listen.
I think he finds space. Well, I think he's a
good slot guy. I think he's a football player and
he'll like he'll find space for you. But I mean
he's kind of ordinary athletically, like doesn't pop. He he

(01:27:51):
wasn't even my favorite receiver on his team, right, And
I look at it and I go, there's all the guys,
there's all that you know, you know what, you know,
it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:28:02):
It's a shame. But the kid that I think is
it's done.

Speaker 2 (01:28:06):
Like if you watch his tape, just pops, but apparently
he's got there's other issues. It is brazzle, yeah Tennessee. Yeah, dude, dude,
he's awesome. Like when you watch his tape, he just

(01:28:28):
he just is a neon. But but I hear there's
there's other issues there.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
I feel like there's with a lot of white outs here.
Here's the thing about about college film that I just
find so tough. I I know you deal with this
probably too. It's like a lot of these offenses, you're like,
what what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
You know, it's funny. I always say, it's always like,
oh my god, what is this? And there's no pro
it's all it's all lap.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
It's just nonsense. It's just it's it's just trick them
Dickham stuff. It's just it's just not like it's just
I watched I watched all the offensive line stuff with
the Joe Moore Award, and I'm just like, what am
I watching? I I you know, Utah fans did not
like this, but a Utah's offensive line was, you know,
they have two guys go in the first round, and
you know, Lou and I've watched the Utah's film and

(01:29:22):
I you know, they were upset they weren't Joe More
Award finalists. And I was trying to explain watching their film,
and it's they have so many things happening on the
play that you can't just watch the offensive line. They
have like a guy running across in motion, they have
a pulling this guy and moving this guy. It's just
so much eye trickery for the just getting in. That's

(01:29:43):
your job in college. I'm not saying you have to
prepare an offense. It looks like the NFL, but there's
just so much like I Candy and this and that.
It's like, what am I watching? I don't even know
what I'm watching. It's it's so it's so hard to
watch college film. And then so it makes it really
hard to project these guys. Look as we're talking about
the whiteouts, like you're saying, well, this guy finds space well,
and this guy does this, but it's just they're gonna

(01:30:05):
be asked to do so many different things in the
NFL that you're just it's all projection now, right, It's
not you're not watching any guys film and saying, Okay,
here's an NFL thing I see on the film you're
watching and saying, Okay, what can this guy do in
the NFL? Because what I'm watching right now is nothing
we're gonna ask. There are guys you'll get back the
offensive line. There are guys that you watch their film

(01:30:29):
and they might have three actual true pass sets a
game where they are third and eight, like we are
passing the ball. We know we're passing the ball, and
we're not play action passing, we're not rpoing, we're not
doing anything to help you. Where just it's third and
eight and you have to block the defensive end there.

(01:30:53):
You might watch an entire season of football for an
offensive tackle and find seventeen of those the entire season, right,
and you're like, how do I project this guy in
the NFL? I don't do You're not doing anything, and
so that's the majority, Like that's why you're gonna throw
the majority tape out.

Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
I mean, think about it. On a given season, right,
like any of these kids except for playoff games and
a couple of the top conference games.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
You got to throw it out because you're not learning anything.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
First of all, like to your point, you know the
offense is not NFL close to NFL standards.

Speaker 4 (01:31:33):
Is next thing. And then you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
And the next thing is when you're looking at them
against subpart defensive play, if you're looking at an offensive guy,
I mean, how you're supposed to look at You've got
a corner that stiff, got no hips, Well, like, you
know what, my kid could beat them right, Like you know,
you know you look at you look at their route running.

(01:31:57):
Well you know when you got the chip can world
where half the fields cut off yep, and they're going
through their motions on the other half.

Speaker 4 (01:32:05):
Like what are you supposed to learn from that?

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
And again this is, by the way, this is not
at all knock on college coaches, Like this is your
jobs to when colle football game is not getting you
guys ready for the NFL. So this is not all
knock on colleture on college coll I wouldn't make that
very clear. I got this. I got this thing this
week where the offense line coach for South Carolina, they
posted there was a video posted by some reporter who
covered the team of some offensive line drill they were doing,

(01:32:29):
and it was a useless drill, and a couple of
us said it was useless, and the coach got up set.
It was this whole thing this week. So I'm very clear,
I'm not knocking college ball coaches, but it is there's
just there's just no translation for a lot of this stuff.
You mentioned it, right, they cut off half the field, right,
even a guy like Mendoza. And this is my thing

(01:32:49):
about Mendoza, is you watch his film. I don't know
if you've watched much of Mendoza's film. I watched it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Yeah, actually, I you know, I it was funny. I
was enjoying them because I put the championship game back on.
I was looking at Cooper right, So yeah, I love Cooper. Right.

Speaker 3 (01:33:06):
So Indiana guys are good, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
They really are. It's rot like they're they're good.

Speaker 3 (01:33:11):
They're tough and physical.

Speaker 4 (01:33:12):
Start.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
You know what's funny, We went through the red like
and you know this, like when you're when you're watching tape,
you wind up going down a rabbit hole, right of course,
So Baldy and I were like, you know, could you
get you get somewhat like your eyes are start to
glaze over, right, your notes and all and and and
and then then you get exciting, right because we're looking
at Indiana and we're and I'm going to look at this,

(01:33:35):
Look how well they're coached, Like he's Signetti and his staff.
They're such great coaches, great, great great coaches. And you're
you're watching them and you're watching those kids and they're
so technically sound. And so then we go on the
rabbit and we go down the rabbit hole, and we're
watching the championship game, right, and I'm watched him in

(01:33:58):
dooze Dude, the touchdown run. Oh my god, they have
him stopped. It's fourth and four. They got him stopped
at airfter three yards and he gets free and then
wriggles into the end zone. Yeah, he's a tough kid, man.

Speaker 4 (01:34:16):
I love that. Mendoz' tough tough kid.

Speaker 3 (01:34:19):
Okay, So here's the thing about Mendoza and sort of
the college film connection, right in college offense connection, India's
offense is as far away from what the Raiders are
going to run as can you can ever imagine with
with with Klinn Kubiak, Right, And so there just are
not a lot of throws Mendoza makes in a game

(01:34:44):
where you're like, that's a Sunday throw. Okay, Now, that
doesn't mean he can't do it. It doesn't mean that
he's not capable or they doesn't have the arm strength.
But there's just not a lot. You can watch an
entire game, Indiana. Look, the back shoulder fade is great,
an RPO back shoulder throw. Yea to a game in

(01:35:05):
the NFL. I don't know how many backshoulder fades you
have in a given game. I was in the red zone.
That happen a little bit more, right, But you're just
not gonna make as many of those attempts in the
NFL as you do in college. Right, There's not a
lot of over the middle throws. There's not even often
a lot of like I read one side one to two,
I go the other side and go three to four
with his Indian he has off with all those guys

(01:35:25):
just open one to two and it's a back sholder fad.
It's a one on one they catch. They caught every
fifty to fifty pass the entire season. Right.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
But but.

Speaker 3 (01:35:35):
The plays that he makes like you mentioned the touchdown run,
the other plays he made this season, like dude is
a gamer man. You look at the at the Penn
State drive, okay to win the Penn State game. He
gets sacked on the first play of that drive with
no timeouts.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Typically, you are dead man, that is dead.

Speaker 3 (01:35:55):
You get sacked your first play, two minute drive, no timeouts.
It's second and twenty two. You are dead and pennzate
defense is good was still good last season. Next play
like I think I have a right boom over the middle,
tied end. Next play, boom over the middle again and
then boom touchdown pass like against zero, Like there are
there are moments that he shows that like those intangibles

(01:36:16):
that you grow with in the NFL. So even though
the film the film is like you watch a film, like,
I don't really see the NFL stuff on this film,
the other things make up for him.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
Right, You're you're so right about that. You're so right.
He's got those intangibles.

Speaker 2 (01:36:30):
The only thing he makes a nice backshoulder throw.

Speaker 3 (01:36:34):
He does, But you're just not you just that's you're
not building the NFL offense around that. No, I'm just
saying accuracy correct, Like right now. With the Raiders, you
don't have a wide receiver that they could do that
those things like he just had those guys that they
just caught every freaking pass last year. Man. There, those
those guys are just physical, tough wide receivers that have
it Indiana, and they're so well coached too, you know.

(01:36:56):
But in the Kubiak offense, you know you have Bachelor
of Fate is not really part of that offense. Now
they're gonna set them up with easy throws just schematically
because that offense is really excels But the offensive lignment
and the Indian's offensive line was one of the best
in the country last season. You know, there's a lot
of differences you're going to find the NFL. But I
do think that those moments where you really needed him, man,
he was he was really really good. So you sort

(01:37:19):
of no excuse the lack of NFL film, but it's
just an example of you just the projection, right. You're
projecting a lot of things that you just don't see
it on a film very much, right, And so it
makes I think the draft much tougher to figure out
how guys will succeed because you just don't see it
as much you know in the college film anymore.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
You know what's funny and as difficult as it is today,
think back to the processes of the past and how ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (01:37:48):
I went down the other one night.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
I went down this draft rabbit hole and it was
like drafts of the past of like did nineties early two.

Speaker 4 (01:37:57):
Thousands right, and you got milk Kuiper.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
You know, I'm talking about taking some Runnie back and
you and you're going, wow, like look, how look how
like elementary the whole thing was back?

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
Oh yeah, yeah, it definitely was different.

Speaker 2 (01:38:16):
It wasn't sophisticated like now you can say what you want,
but the process is very sophisticated. I don't know how
long the combine stays, but it's the way they the
way they do their processes.

Speaker 4 (01:38:29):
I mean it's legitimate.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Well, the COMBA is never going to lead because of
the medical stuff. But I do think that less players
are working out right now because I mean, you know
the workout it feels because of the GPS data that
you have now with these players, they the teams know
how fast they're running. They don't need to run a
forty to really they know how fast these guys are

(01:38:53):
and they know what they can do on the field,
and there's just more ways to measure those type of things.
I think, I feel like, why would I, Why would
I do that?

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
Why would I.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Risk anything at the combine? Now, of course, if you're
fast or fast, you might want to run the show off, certainly,
but like, there's no real reason I think to work
out as much anymore at the combine And he could
save it for pro day and whatnot. So you know,
the workouts might change a little bit over time, but
I think the medical and the interview process is still
so important that that's just not lead that maybe it
goes to Los Angeles at some point, but Indie set

(01:39:24):
up so well to handle those.

Speaker 2 (01:39:26):
Type of things, tell me that they don't think that
all their staffs going to go. Well, some of the
rams for.

Speaker 3 (01:39:38):
Years didn't go this year, someone didn't Someone didn't go
this year, some head coach.

Speaker 2 (01:39:42):
In Jami, there's a couple of coaches didn't go. And
who didn't go And he didn't go. He watched the
home won TV on the video.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Interesting, Oh he watched the interviews on a video. Well,
he had his knee replaced. Oh okay, but he works
every morning man. He gets on that, he gets on
that treadmill. Rick Rick Rick Rick that what's up on
the treadmill? I think in the middle of the He's
one of the best guys.

Speaker 2 (01:40:08):
We're talking about a guy Jeff told about, a guy
named Rick Burkhalter who's the chiefs trainer. He's been with
Andy since the beginning. He's one of the greatest people ever.
In fact, my this is funny, right. So my my
wife one morning is like, hey, you know, I'm having

(01:40:28):
trouble breathing and and and and I'm trying to diagnose
it right an idiot. So I it's it's you know,
very pro painful. She can't move the whole thing. And uh,
I said, babe, go go, I hook her up with
with Rick.

Speaker 4 (01:40:48):
So I sent her down to the Eagles facility.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
So she goes down there and it turned out it
was her rib was displaced. Oh yeah, it was wild
sleeping and uh and Rick and Rick fixed it.

Speaker 4 (01:41:04):
Rick was awesome, Rick Rick sharp. But yeah, it's not.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
So I don't really. I mean, if you're a nearer place,
but I get you, why why you don't want to
go to Comma. But it does feel like it is
sort of changing. I mean, look part of it too. Obviously,
it's a good you know, networking opportunity for a lot
in the in the media business.

Speaker 4 (01:41:24):
I love it from a media standpoint because it's you know, also.

Speaker 3 (01:41:27):
Like you know, there's a there's an offensive line. Coaches
like dinner. These guys have to hang out a little bit.
That that to me feels like it's never going to
go away. But I think players, the players sort of
do less and less. We'll just real yet, I mean
that can cycle in and out. And he's a great
host city though it's a really it's it should not lead.
It's a great town. Like I agree with those things.

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
I agree by the way. One one just one first
round note.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
If I'm the Giants Sunny Styles.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
All day low, man, I think so.

Speaker 2 (01:42:04):
But man, I high of love that kid because I
could see it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Mendoza Reese Styles potentially for the Arizona just need to
know anybody valley. It depends who they have higher graded
higher listen, it would be smart would take love if
he was there at four at four Yeah, I think
that you just get as many guys for to help

(01:42:31):
out cam Moore as possible, right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:33):
Yeah, well, I'll tell you though, Man, that's Sonny styles.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:42:36):
People talk about somebody popping on tape.

Speaker 2 (01:42:38):
He's ridiculous, the way he goes, the way he how
fast he is side to side.

Speaker 4 (01:42:45):
He's to watch.

Speaker 2 (01:42:46):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:42:47):
I do wonder if teams look at off the ball
linebacker and think the value is just not there?

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
For I know, and that's what kind of what But
that's why I said to why I said it, which is,
if I'm the Giants at five, I'm all about the
way the kid moves.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
Oh my god, because because like a guy like the
ball is going to be like a Parsons esque right,
He's gonna be off the ball, but also put his
hand on the dirt, right, so he gets like that
wrote that that guy who either past rush value. So
I'm curious how teams view styles that that by the
way that the tech linebackers, he's boy, he's good too, man.

Speaker 2 (01:43:22):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yess yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:43:24):
Yeah, all right, we think quick too.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
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He's back, all the Celtics. Tatum's back. Take a Lizon
pulled away by Washington, but his lead pass picked off

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by Derek White.

Speaker 7 (01:44:32):
Shoff over Prichard opened, three short offensive rebounds, two man
slam jac.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Team Tatum's back. That's courtesy In ninety eight to five
is sports hup Celtics Radio Network. They're gonna be scary, Jeff,
Yeah they are.

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
Yeah, they got Yeah, I mean they got. They're much
better than they thought they would be this year. I
think that Tamam doesn't come back if they're not as good, right,
but very clearly they they got with them back. Man,
I'll tell you that.

Speaker 4 (01:45:07):
Oh man, they're scary.

Speaker 5 (01:45:09):
They're scary all no, right, oh god, listen, I had
to deal with like the Celtics are my art, my
arts enemy.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
I hate the Celtics almost as much as I hate
the Cowboys, that's all growing up in Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
No, that's the that's the you know, that's the pecking order, the.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Cowboyss hating sports. So I'm okay with that. I like
hating sports. We need Yeah, it's sports hate. It's not
you know, I born out of respect, you know what
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
Like jealousy, Magnif it's.

Speaker 3 (01:45:47):
Okay, hates, fine, we need more hating. We don't have
enough hating sports. Yeah, it's it's all. It's it's sports
eight anyway, They're gonna be good. They're tough, tough, tough.

Speaker 2 (01:45:59):
Uh, let me run through some of the some of
the hoops with you today. I don't know if you
have any selections for the people, but.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
I got two already. But that's I'm just I'm cripping
from a buddy, so I'll be very clear about that. Okay,
all right, good Miami. I took Miami minus one Louisville
Louisville because Louisville's best players out I believe for the game.
So that's that's important to note, right. And then Brown

(01:46:30):
is out right for Louisville, I think. And that took
Missouri because one of one of Arkansas's better players is
also out. So I was able to get both of those.
And I think the numbers, it's more about the numbers too.
And the numbers are gonna are gonna change quickly when
people realize that some of these guys are out. So
those are two bets I've made so far today.

Speaker 6 (01:46:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
In college basketball, all right? Uh, yeah, we get ready
for the tournament. It's going to heat up all the
conference tournaments. Obviously it's Duke North Carolina the rematch. Great,
you can't wait is today? That's it's six thirty on
the ESPN. Yeah, it's funny. That's six thirty. Slot's always
a great slot for the for the game, you know,

(01:47:10):
the pre emited game. Uh. You got Kentucky Florida today.
I like Kentucky against the Gators. Really yeah, I think Kentucky.
I think they play well.

Speaker 5 (01:47:25):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
I think Florida. Florida is one of those teams that
you know, I think that if you look at like
the menu of teams that can win a championship, they
aurrently back on that menu. They weren't to start I
think to start the season they can't. They weren't to
do that. But uh, Kentucky though, is just they have
they're so up and down. Man, they have good games,
but they've been playing well. Got to A and M

(01:47:47):
the other day. I I don't know, Man, it's games.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
They are up and down. I think today's the spot.
I just think today's a good spot for.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
There are a few games today the are not sort
of on the radar that are interesting because of conference
titles already won. So, for example, Saint Louis goes to
George Mason today, Saint Louis has already won their conference.
They're the number one seeing the A ten. How how much?

(01:48:17):
How much do we care about playing George Mason today?

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
I think that's a George Mason's against seven and a
half points in that game. Yukon hosts Marquette today. Yukon
goes to Marquette. Saint John's has won the Big East
after after last after Saint john won last night. So
is you how much does Yukon care about playing Marquette today?

Speaker 2 (01:48:39):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:48:40):
So, like there's some a couple of these spots today
that I think are important to know. It doesn't mean
you met them all, but there are some some opportunities
I think for some of these teams that really have
nothing to play for or that are on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
It's a good eye. It's a real good eye. A
couple of tomorrow. I got Michigan Michigan State. That's great.

Speaker 3 (01:49:02):
The first game was really good. Yeah, Michigan, Michigan came
down the stretch and won that game. Right, they they
blew up Michigan State. Right, if I'm correct, I thought they.
I thought they blew them out. Now I got it,
I gotta start. I gonna remember to look it up.
But that the Duke North Carolina game, you were called.
Duke scored nine points the final ten minutes of that game,

(01:49:23):
and then Carolina had that big big three late. I
kind of liked do today.

Speaker 4 (01:49:28):
Well they're so good, dude, what's the line I.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Haven't I don't let me see here for for Duke
North Carolina. Yeah, uh.

Speaker 3 (01:49:40):
Well I'm not taking Duke seventeen and a half. Yeah
that's a big number, dude, that's a huge number.

Speaker 4 (01:49:48):
Uh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:49):
So Michigan, Michigan blew them out. They were up sixteen
and a half time. Yeah, and then they went and
they went on the win by twelve.

Speaker 3 (01:49:58):
Another another game, by the way, tonight, like Arizona, I
believe has won the Big Twelve. How much are they
gonna care about a night game in Colorado tonight it's
a late game two eleven pm Eastern color I was
getting fourteen a half points in that game. There's a
couple of notes like somebody on the road, you know. Yeah,
it's a good point the Arizona. Yeah they're up to
in the Big Yeah, yeah they're up to. So they
won the Big Twelve. It's okay, how much how much

(01:50:21):
are these teams gonna care? Can I give you my
favorite play of today? Though?

Speaker 2 (01:50:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:50:25):
Okay, it's a women's college basketball I've made, Like I
believe I've made a lot of money last two days
of women's college basketball. Like I think I'm up like
thirteen units in the last two days. It's again it's
you have to not not all the books are gonna
have it, but the major ones will have will have
this one. So yesterday Old Miss upset Vanderbilt and SC Tournament.

(01:50:48):
They shot out of this world yesterday they were they're
bench players. I was paying today had Vanderbilt. That's why
I know this stuff. There are bench players. Okay, there
are three bench players. Yesterday shot nineteen, twenty one of
twenty five from the field. Old Miss bench players twenty
one of twenty five from the field. That's not gonna

(01:51:10):
happen today. Let's tell you it's not gonna happen today.
They play Texas today, is one of the best teams
in the country. I think Texas is going to murder
Old Miss today. I will be taking Texas first half.
I'll be taking them full game. It's not up yet.
Those game is at seven o'clock days. Number will be
up till like two o'clock today. Just keep in the
back of your mind, Texas first half, Texas full game.

(01:51:32):
Old Miss is not gonna shoot twenty one of twenty
five for the three bench players against Texas. So I
think Texas is gonna roll today. That's why women's called
Basketball Wager of the Day. Look at that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
Look at that, dude.

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
Twenty one of twenty five for the bench players yesterday. Yeah,
that's not gonna happen again. Yeah, that's a good point.
Their bench players scored twenty I mean, they scored a
total of forty nine points yesterday. They scored more points
than their starters did.

Speaker 4 (01:52:09):
Wow, do you have a strategy for to tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:52:13):
Like when you see tour you if you see a
like a great shooting night, are you like a fade
the next game.

Speaker 3 (01:52:23):
In the tournament? It depends on the team, like the tournament.
You know, like if it's a team that normally shoots
well and they shoot a little bit above like they're no,
I'm not going to fade them. If it's a team
that shoots terribly and then has yeah, I probably will
look to fade them like first half under the next
game something like that. But the tournament's weird. You get
in these straights, so you have these dudes like on
Oakland who just hit ten threes a game and what

(01:52:45):
do you what do you know? Tournament's difficult for that man.
In the regular season, I actually love love the zigzag theory,
and there's good opportunities to do that like today, especially
with like you know, the ability for these you know,
these teams to have done nothing to play for or
your hot one game and you're really not that good
of a shooting team. You play well the next game,
I will look to fade them. The tournament is difficult

(01:53:07):
because again some teams just get hot, right, But I
I what I do like to do is if I
in the sweet sixteen. By the way, if you get
a team through, that's sort of a Cinderella is I
take the other side of the sweet sixteen. Man, You're
just it's a different beast. When you you wait four
days or five days to play right to a sweet
sixteen game and everyone's talking about you and you can

(01:53:27):
run up against you know, a number a number two seed,
you kind of get smoked.

Speaker 4 (01:53:31):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:53:32):
Yeah, yeah, that's you're right. That's usually a trend. All right,
let's say quick too, will come back to wrap it up.
I want you to think about this, what your what
did your three big expectations for Monday?

Speaker 4 (01:53:49):
In legal tamper?

Speaker 2 (01:53:51):
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about where perhaps your three biggest moves. So we'll rap
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(01:55:15):
All Right, brother, if I said to you the three
big moves that are coming from Monday, now, what do
you got? All Right?

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
It sounds like the Chiefs are in on Kenneth Walker,
which would be obviously a pretty good move. No, unless
they decide to run the football, because what's the point. Okay,
this is a change in philosophy to now they decide

(01:55:50):
to run the football. Okay, I'm in on this, but
they're gonna run the same offense with is Kenneth Walker.
I don't see the point in that. Do you agree
with me? There?

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
Yeah? I like Keath Walker and he was great.

Speaker 3 (01:56:07):
But I'm not making it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:09):
I'm not investing heavily and the running back.

Speaker 2 (01:56:11):
And I think he's good. I don't think he's the chief.
I don't think he's like a top five back in
the league.

Speaker 3 (01:56:16):
So rooms, the running back rooms the worst the NFL, though.

Speaker 2 (01:56:18):
So it is, it's bad, it's bad. You don't think
he loves going to fall there? You like him going
forward to Tennessee. I think he goes for to Tennessee
as Mike. I think they just say, let's get someone
to help us with help Cam Moore, you.

Speaker 4 (01:56:31):
Know, I mean, I hear you, but like you're passing
on some great defensive flyers.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
Oh, I get it. And maybe Sala, you know, decides
to this defensive coach, you would where he'd rather go
pass Rusher certainly a fair thing that he would decide.
But I do think that I just I I think
I think love is going early. And you know part
of it too is you know, there's a couple of
guys that you know, I look at their mock drafts
post Combine right when they spend all that time, you know,

(01:56:58):
talking to people like you know, Daniel Jeremiah and whatnot,
and you know, and Dan Brugler that they both had
love three and four in their new mock drafts. That's
partly why too, Like I think that they're they're hearing
those things right, They're not They're not making you know,
they're not making that up. They've been, they've been in India,
They've heard these teams talk, and it sounds like those
are guys that are going high in those spots. So

(01:57:19):
that's the other thing. I I think Kyler Murray will
be a Viking. And there's always one thing. There's alwoys one.
There's gonna be one movie. You're like, what what are
we doing here?

Speaker 2 (01:57:30):
Right?

Speaker 3 (01:57:31):
There's gonna be someone making too much money. I don't
know who it's gonna be. It sounds like offensive line
might get one of those positions that it just gets
a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:57:38):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:57:39):
The thing that I thought what happened that seems to
not happen is Tyler Linderbaum, which I thought had a
chance to make the open market and get be paid
the highest center in the NFL. He might still be
paid the highest center in the NFL, is not making
the open market. With some of the moves that have
been made so find the ravers are gonna pay him
a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:57:57):
Yeah, yeah, I I I'll say, I do think that
a J.

Speaker 4 (01:58:03):
Brownt gets moved.

Speaker 3 (01:58:04):
I think it's too new England put some money on
it today. I I hope.

Speaker 4 (01:58:09):
So, yeah, I think that that happens.

Speaker 2 (01:58:14):
I think they need some closure because the Eagles need
to figure out what they're doing, like because Goddard impacts them.

Speaker 4 (01:58:22):
There's a couple of guys that are that are interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
You know what was interesting in that the Eagles went
after Max Crosby too, and they daggled Jalen Carter in
a trade.

Speaker 3 (01:58:34):
Why is that? Ah there.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
I think they're afraid of the like he's gonna he's
gonna want a tom He's a Rosenhouse guy.

Speaker 4 (01:58:46):
He's gonna want a ton of money.

Speaker 2 (01:58:49):
And you know, I wonder if they're thinking about, I
don't know, investing in the maturity part.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Of it and you know who knows you trust them
and that's Oh I get it. I get that. Oh,
I get I understand that. Yeah, but there's always again,
there's always something that happens. You're like, well, I didn't
see that happening. Yeah, I'm curious what that what that
move is going to be Brian Thomas being out there
interesting for me. Maybe maybe the trade for Brian Thomas

(01:59:18):
being out I could see a lot of teams I
wanted to make that movie is.

Speaker 4 (01:59:21):
Very very talented, interesting, very talented.

Speaker 2 (01:59:23):
Yeah yeah, right now generally, but going into going into
free agency and in the draft rams to me or
every team to.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
Be Oh yeah, I think they're I mean they're the favorite.
I strong with you with that being the favorite. Yeah,
like they're.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
I just love the McDuffie trade for them, I do.
I I think that's such a great move for them, dude.
Their biggest weakness was was that giving up big plays
down the field their second and to the end of
games too.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
Right, and any games they just they just you know,
Oh my dog's angry. We've gotta we're gotta, We've gotta
hv every year, HVAC guy, he's here, a ac went out.
I thank who knows? I hope not. She's every every
time you get right all already it's in the eighties.
Oh my god, today it's like eighty. It's like in

(02:00:23):
the mid eighties. The last couple of days, we we
we even thought about heat in the pool this weekend. Wow,
we didn't do it though.

Speaker 2 (02:00:31):
Yeah, oh my god, it's fifty, like right right now
to like whatever it is, thirty eight and raining forty
and radio it's just ugly.

Speaker 4 (02:00:41):
I can't wait for freaking seventy degrees this week. That's
gonna be the best.

Speaker 3 (02:00:46):
It's great. I'm gonna I'm outside for the next six hours.

Speaker 2 (02:00:50):
Nice, no, no, enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:52):
Four hours we've got we've got baseball, softball practice, babe.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
I love it. Enjoyed my brother. Great to have you back. Everybody.
Enjoy the weekend, football man.

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
You love you, guys. See you next week.

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