The Fellas with Anthony Gargano, Jason Fitz & Kevin Figgers react to the Game 1 of the World Series, Sports Fandom Origin Debate, & MORE!

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it could go full circle. The storylines sometimes repeat with
different characters. And I felt last night that I was
Transport and Freddie Freeman was Kirk Gibson, and it was
the same. Its Dodgers Stadium. It's the Yankees, except this
time it's the Yankees. It's not Accursley, but still it's

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quartets who could throw far, who could throw heat, and
Freddye cobbled, like Figgie said, And it's the beauty of baseball, man,
it's the stories, it's the moments. And that was one
of the incredible moments in postseason history. Dodgers take game one,
and the way it all went down to where you

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know they're scratching and clawing for runs. They the Dodgers,
the Mighty Dodgers, manufactured two runs on a sackfly, and
then the Yankees in the top of the eighth, able
to in the top of the knife, able to take
the lead after the Dodgers had tied it in the
bottom of the eighth, only to see Freddy come in

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with a grand slam to win. It FITSI.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
There are so few times that you get to watch
something and in the moment you realize you are watching
what is about to become iconic imagery. And for me,
bottom of the tenth they intentionally walk the bases loaded.
They intentionally get to Freddy Freeman. And I was sitting
with some buddies at a bar in Connecticut, and I
said to somebody, I said, man, how must it feel

(02:21):
right now to know in the bottom of the tenth
that they intentionally walked Mookie Bets to get to you.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
That's how little they're worried about you. They will load
the basis.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
They intentionally walked them to load the bases to get
to Freddy Freeman.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
And the first pitch that he saw not only did
he knock the hell out of it, but that moment
where he just takes two or three steps from the.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Plate and he lifts the bat in the air. I
still get.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Goose I goosebumps for half an hour after that, Like
just the look on his face when he just put
the bat in the air. And the first thing I
thought is if this were twenty years ago, that's the
cover of Sports Illustrated Rights the that is the iconic moment.
It's it's the limping fist pumping around. You're coming around

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the bases. Like what a moment for Freddy Freeman. But also, dude,
like what a moment for the sport. Like to think
they had show Hey in the bottom of the tenth
that I thought this was gonna be like the the
baseball guys have decided show make the big play. Yeah,
it didn't work that way. It ended up being Freddie Freeman.
That's the hero. You got game one, you get free

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baseball because the thing goes into extra innings. You get
the two biggest brands in the sport, with the biggest superstars,
and Freddie Freeman becomes the moment that we will remember
for the rest of our lives on it. My god,
what an opening to that series.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah, man, it was. It was just so special. And remember,
you know, Freeman had chances earlier in the game, and
they're chanting and they're chanting. Uh, you know here Freddy
Freddy and uh. And there was Kevin Burkhart talking with
his mom Ailey watching right like it was.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
It was so dramatic for him early and.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
It was u it was just an incredible, incredible moment. Man,
it was Uh, it was awesome. I love that stuff.
I mean, this is why we love sports, man. It's
for these kinds of moments, which are the timelines like
of our lives. It's the truth. My my buddy David Saghee,

(04:30):
I tell you about who played in the Biggs for
a long time. Uh. He first thing hits me up, dude,
Why is Cortez giving him a fastball first pitch?

Speaker 6 (04:42):
What are you are?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
A left and a left e You're giving him a fastball?
Stop that's so bad pitching.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
That's what the whole I mean, because we were obviously
sitting in Connecticut. I was, but I'm there with my
buddy Geo, who's a lifelong diehard Dodgers fan and so
a group of us went to support him life diehards
Dodgers fan, let's be with him in the in the
bar while he's watching. It's his favorite dive bar. Like
everything lined up perfect before. But we were a few
people in a dive bar in obviously New England, just

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filled with the Yankees fans, filled with the Yankees fans,
and it was hysterical because what you just said is
what everybody was screaming, like there was nothing but screaming
when that ball went out, Screaming from us because oh
my god, Geo's team just won this game. I cannot
believe it. And screaming from the rest of the bar,
and how could you throw that pitch? Why were you
even using that picture? Like everybody freaking out in the bar,

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just absolutely losing them out, which is you know, an
attorney friend of mine years ago said that, you know
you've had a great negotiation if both sides are unhappy,
you know you have a great game.

Speaker 5 (05:43):
When both sides are yelling at the ending.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
That's just I felt like it at the end of
that like you can feel the pain from one side,
the angst from one side, and then this from the opposite. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Man, that's what it That's what it really means. Let's
bring in the figure Kevin figures. It's he's a Dodger Man.
Is a nice night? Now lay last night? You know, USC,
Anthony Davis, Lakers and then I mean that.

Speaker 7 (06:09):
Was just.

Speaker 4 (06:12):
Everything going on within a few miles of each other.
I'm happy to say that as far as way far
away from that as possible. He talked about armageddon. Uh
it was insane. But just seeing all the social media
videos of the people who are at the Lakers Sun's
game and they're cheering and for seemingly no reason. And
you are the coliseum, which was at a TV timeout,
I believe for USC and Rutgers, and people are cheering

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for seemingly no reason. And it's just the reaction across
the entire city. For Freddie Freeman's you know, home run,
which he's been a very trying year one. He just
wasn't having the greatest season in general to start the year,
broke his thumb. His son is going through, uh just
a debilitating health issue where he has to learn how
to walk again. Uh So mentally physically, it's been a

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trying year. Has the ankle injury that hampered him the
entire postseason leading up to this point. You mentioned, you know,
the only thing missing is a Hall of Famer on
the mound. No disrespect to nest Cortez, He's not done
it secretly. But it had every other dramatic element you
can possibly imagine. And you mentioned this is sports, this
is what it's all about. These are the things that
you remember. You know, this is Jordan over Elo, this

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is David Tyree with the helmet catch. It's all of that,
you know, encapsulated wrapped around the fact that you have
two of the most iconic franchises in the history of
sports in general, any sport, North American sport playing against
each other. I don't know what more you can ask for.
If you're a Yankee fan, you could have asked a
lot for a lot of things. One you could be
asking why did they take Garrett Cole out when they

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took him out when he just allowed to hit and
he'd been pretty much rolling the entire game. And two,
why would you put in a guy that hasn't pitched
in over a month, who, by the way, got away
with the fastball that he elevated to Otani The pitch
before I go that's one thing. He threw it to
Old Tani and he got bailed out through the exact
same pitch to Freddie Fieman and it ended up lost him.

Speaker 5 (08:01):
It was interesting, but you you mentioned that.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
But also if we're going to talk about weird, what
are you doing, Like I mean yelling at if I'm
the Yankees, I'm also yelling at the fan that reached over.
I mean the interference play was huge on that too.
So like, there's just there were so many moments in
this that only belong in a movie. I'm still stunned, y'all.

Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, Well, the throw bet to the infield that bounced
away and you know, allowed the runner to advance the
third base who ended up scoring on a sacrifice flyer
from Mookie Betts. Little things like that that you you know,
are pretty innocuously you don't pay attention to in a
random game in July. All gets magnified when you get
to games like this. All the little things matter.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
All and that's the beauty of baseball, right, All the
little things matter, and when it comes to baseball.

Speaker 6 (08:43):
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
I I was shocked you were court had in that spot.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
I'm very surprised. I'm surprised he was warming up to
begin with, and I thought, at best he was either
a long man or maybe he's a four starter or
if you need. I was surprised that you would put
him in in that now. Granted, the Dodgers put in
Bruis dark Graderol, who has not pitched in a month himself, and.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Look at the spot and actually it was the top
of the order when he came in. It was but
you know, Granerole, my god, look ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Well you know he can come in and he can throw,
you know, one hundred and one miles an hour easily.
He can he can throw a bike, and he.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Has that delivery, which is which I was trying to get.
I was yelling at my kid, look at this delivery.

Speaker 6 (09:26):
This is what you need to do.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
It's so compact and it just you know, hums and uh,
but you know, I get it, like you're trying to
get length, right, Admira Bullpens.

Speaker 6 (09:38):
So in that spot, it was just amazing.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
I'll all worked out where you're scratching and clawing, I
mean every like it's it's a it's it's like a
blood letting, right like it's and then and then the
Yankees breakthrough to break to uh to take the lead,
and by the way, which risso doing dude, stupid base running.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Yeah, I and again you talk about things getting magnified
the Yankees generally speaking of and that was going into
the series. You know, you break these things down, you know,
nineteen thousand different ways. One of the things that stood
out is that the Yankees are average defensively and are
not really good on the basis. Now Chisholm was it
was amazing and did his thing when he did get
on base, but generally speaking, it's seen as a big weakness.

(10:27):
And that's one thing that the Dodgers have done well.
They've stolen a lot of bases. They've been you know,
heady on the bass paths there. They are plus defensively,
you know, Tommy Edman, you know, Bobble the couple. But yeah,
they're and they're they're.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
A good team. Yeah, they're they're better than the Yankees.
They are, but they're the way they do what they do.
They they're just a really really good team. It's one
of the you know, go ahead, I was.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Just they are.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
But how different is our conversation today if I mean,
I mean, it took it took a couple of really
incredible moments for that game to have to end the
way it did, and we'd be sitting here talking about
the Dodgers leaving guys in scoring position for what three
straight innings, not being able to advance runners themselves, bobbling
what could have been an easy double playball in the
ninth inning that could have ended the game, and instead
they had a one run deficit. Like the Dodgers made

(11:14):
their fair share of mistakes too, Like this was not
necessarily a This was one of those games where neither
team played as clean as they possibly doesn't. I'm not
taking away from the game. I'm just saying that, like
I hear you that the Dodgers are a better team.
But man, I really thought as the game came down
to the bottom of the night, I was like, man,
tomorrow we're gonna be talking about lost opportunities by the

(11:34):
Dodgers and the fact that they just they should have
won this game.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, although I think we would have been focused more
on call probably.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
Yeah, he was a kind of I mean like.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
He battled for I mean, geez, I mean, you're right,
I mean they had chances in those hits three straight
innings and god he was he was. He was tough man.
He broke Freddy's.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
Bat, yeah, and got got ahead of hitters every single time.
I mean, one big thing about the Dodgers while they
were so successful, as they're very patient and they work,
they grind guys down and Garrett Cole was just getting
two constantly the entire night. And you saw the Dodgers
are more aggressive going after the first pitch than they
have been the entire postseason because they knew that was

(12:14):
going to be the strategy. And you're right, Fitzy, like
one thing the Dodgers have feasted on this whole postseason.
They've killed teams with runners in scoring position. They get
guys on base and they find ways to get them in.
And that's something that they were not able to do
the entire night, which if you are the Yankees, you
feel like you missed an opportunity. One, the Dodgers are
just not going to do that because history would tell
you when they get guys on most of the time,

(12:36):
they get them in. And then two, the advantage that
you do have is that you have more I guess
well established starting staff than the Dodgers do, who have
to piece meal a lot of things together. You have
to win when Garrett Cole is on the mount, when
Garrett Cole is pitching for you, you have to win those games.
And this is one that got away from them.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah, thinking about.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
Y'all with that too.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
By the way, when I was watching Garrett Cole, kept
thinking about how many times is year we've had a
conversation about guys getting.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Pulled early in analytics and.

Speaker 3 (13:02):
The just the depth of rotations and using as many
pitchers as possible.

Speaker 5 (13:06):
And as we were going into the seventh and it's like, man,
they are still letting him cook.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
That was a beautiful thing to watch.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
I was maybe thinking of my boys.

Speaker 4 (13:13):
Yeah, and he only twenty eight pitches. That's wild. Eighty
eight pitches. Guy was on first base. Let him try
to work out of it.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Yeah. I don't understand these guys. They overmanaged, Like we
talk about Dave Roberts overmanaging, but Geese, I mean, was
that was an overmanaged piece? Now you know it was.
They wasted that opportunity. And you know tonight Game two,
Yamamoto versus Ron Down, it's a major advantage I think

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for the Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (13:46):
Yeah, Now, I mean Yamamoto dominated the Yankees earlier this year,
but that was before he had an arm injury that
put him on the show for a couple of months,
and so he's kind of had to reinvent himself a
little bit. So just because he dominated them in June
doesn't mean it's gonna happen again. But the pressure is
all on New York, like, oh, he's great. I agree
when he's right, he's he's spectacic good.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
I mean, you know, I mean, listen, he's crafty and
he's a veteran knows how to pitch. But I you
know again this, you know, this Dodger lineup is he's
just ridiculous. They're so good.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
It's the depth of the lineup is why I think
a lot of people thought the Dodgers were at a
distinct advantage over the Yankees. And nothing that the Yankees
lineup isn't good, But I mean generally speaking, you kind
of have your big three and then everybody else's kind
of fills in and she tries to do what they can.
Volpe He's had a solid postseason. You've had some guys
who have played well, but the Dodgers are just a
tough out pretty much one through nine every single night,

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and generally speaking, if you can get through the big
three for the Yankees, and there's really been a big too,
because Aaron Judge has been mia the entire postseason. The
fact they've made it this far with him playing as
poorly as he has is really amazing. It parkens back
to Jose Al Tuve when Houston won a couple of
years ago against Atlanta and he did nothing and they
still won. I just think it's exceedingly rare that that happens.

(15:01):
Uh So, if the Yankees are going to find a
way to get back in the series and win it,
Aaron Judge is gonna have to put his stamp on
it in some way.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Now, he put a great he had a great piece
of hitting.

Speaker 6 (15:11):
Yeah, you can like rock that single up the middle.

Speaker 2 (15:13):
So you know, I mean maybe maybe he's finding his stroke,
but you're right, he's going to have to do it.
Stanton has been incredibly amazing. Yeah, you know, this whole postseason,
he's been awesome. But like little things, Man, I can't
harp on it.

Speaker 6 (15:26):
But Chishom still's third. You know, Rizzo's got to be
on second. Like that's a that's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
And then you gotta run hard, like he didn't even
run hard on that ground ball short stuff, Like you
gotta be able to do those little things like that's
what the Dodgers do. I mean, you know, it's funny.
I'm completely rooting Dodgers, like I just did stories too good.
And as someone who that's he really doesn't matter. You know,

(15:54):
I don't really have.

Speaker 4 (15:55):
No dog in the fight.

Speaker 2 (15:56):
Really no, I mean, you know, again, I just love baseball.
The Choi Konic franchises is awesome, and you know, I mean,
I actually don't mind the Yankee team, I think, but
I think the Dodgers are better. And I mean this,
the Freddy story is awesome, but I mean Otani we're seeing.

(16:18):
I was talking to a buddy of mine another baseball
had played for a long time, and we were talking
about Otani and he, I mean.

Speaker 6 (16:28):
What he does.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
He's the best player, like he's Jordan, and he's under
talked about. I mean, I know everybody thinks we talk
a lot about him, but we really don't when we
compare him to who he is. There's been nobody like
him that has come around like that We've ever seen.

Speaker 6 (16:48):
He's almost a years ago.

Speaker 2 (16:50):
Sports illustrat did a story about a fake prospect by
the name of Sid Finch, and he's Otani's the literary character.

Speaker 6 (17:00):
Jumped off the page. Who just is so great? I mean,
did you see what he was?

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Like?

Speaker 6 (17:06):
His postseason averages.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
Are like the runs the scoring position, especially oh my god.

Speaker 6 (17:13):
With like who who was klutz.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Like that over six hundred or whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
It was like eighty seven. I don't know, six eighty
seven maybe, I mean it was crazy.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
I did think Fox did a beautiful job.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
And by the way, I thought, look, baseball guy's gonna
tweet me down and saying an idiot because I didn't
realize that it's always been this way.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
I'm sure. I thought they did a beautiful job.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Some of the camera angles, some of the replay angles
on that game.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Some of the just the swiping.

Speaker 6 (17:39):
Oh yeah, I love Fox.

Speaker 5 (17:41):
A beautifully shot baseball game.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
It was a great calls.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
I mean, I love the broadcast.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
Team, but them putting up two batters until show hey
with the little image, I thought that was brilliant.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Like there were people in the bar that were complaining
about it.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
They're like, oh, just make this stop, and I'm like, Nope,
this is exact because you're telling everybody that's sitting that
doesn't know who this guy is, whoever's up in bat
You're like, oh, wait, wait, wait, I can't move, Like, hey,
we're not going to go to the bathroom right now.
We've got two batters until show. Hey, I'm not moving.
I thought I was really smart, but well, what.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
It does, you're spot on, And what it does is
it creates urgency, right, it creates urgency to the story
and furthers the story. I think you're spot on. I
loved it. They've done that throughout the postseason and I
think it's a great thing. I love it. I thought
the coverage was great. I was happy that the sport.

(18:32):
I was happy once on a Friday night, so it's
not interfered with really, you know anything. So it was
it's it was a standalone event. It was just a
it was. It was awesome.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
Yeah, although I'm sure FITSI was torn between watching that
and Boise stayed in is U n LV.

Speaker 5 (18:48):
I watched UNV when I got home, was broken by UNLV.
I need to sleep.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
I was root for you last night because I stayed
up to watch it too. And man, when they took
the lead first of all, I mean the kids. The quarterback,
he's ridiculous, right, Like you know, first played the first
first series of the game. He's taking it ninety yards,
you know, I mean or whoever it was seventy yards

(19:15):
and he had it. It's a shame, man. They had
a chance that they played. Just hold up.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
They played Ashton genty tougher than anybody has all year
in the organ. Yeah, for sure, that's where we talk
about what the and I know this is a baseball night,
but like I'll say this, we've said so much about
the playoffs means that there's not as much meaning to
every single game for UNLV because you lost the game
you shouldn't have a few weeks ago. You are now
with this loss, completely out of the college football playoff conversation.

(19:45):
And they played well enough last night that that that's
a bummer for me. Like this UNLV team is better
than any UNLV team on the football field I can remember,
And it's a bummer, Like last night was the true
you know nail in the coffin to any playoff conversation,
and you know that that's the beauty of every game.
Does still matter for some of these teams and UNLV
is one of them. So it's been a hell of

(20:06):
a year. I hope that their bowl game schedule allows
me to go to it because I want to support
the way.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
Those kids played.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
But man, that was cool to see Allegiance have.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
There were enough fans that they were actually in the
second tier of the seats, which has never happened before.
A new attendance record for you a LB. I just
it's a really cool moment for the it was.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
You know, it's a shape they would have stopped. I
just wanted them to stop them on the on the
fourth down the.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Other fourth and one. Yeah, get the shine.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
Right, Like, I just wanted to see the I just
wanted to see a legitimate shot. Give me, give the
kid a chance to maybe make a miracle.

Speaker 4 (20:40):
But you bring up an interesting point there fits too,
because about you know, games that matter we can talk
about you know, Alabama Georgia and they and whoever lose
is well they're still gonna be alive. Or it's different
when you get back to the to the mid majors
or the group of five now because before you were
just fighting for the chance to potentially maybe make it
into the four team playoff. Now you know there's a
guarant he's spot in there for a group of five

(21:01):
champion and so now the standard has shifted. You know
you have interest in a UNLV Boise State game, but
now whereas last year or a couple of years ago,
you really didn't because a one lost Boise State team
wasn't going to be a factor in any meaningful game. So,
if anything, it just brings more eyeballs to a broader
depth of college football that most most of the nation

(21:22):
generally would not be paying attention to. And it's good
for the sport as a whole.

Speaker 2 (21:26):
I completely feel you, completely feel you all R. Let's
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Speaker 2 (21:57):
Fellas. Jason fitz Anthony, I got no Kevin Figures hanging out.
I was your schooling Brianna Young, Brianna our producer, and
even Mark A. Little bit of a violation. But I was, oh, yeah,
a little bit. But I think Brianna, who's La born, right,

(22:19):
she's a sons fan. I was like, oh, it's a
good night for you. And she's like, wow, why my sons.
I'm like, how are your sons? You're from La. These
people with the violations, you can't root for anybody but
where you were born. That's the rule. You got no choice.

(22:40):
The soil chooses you. You got no choice that you
grew up in a certain area. You're supposed to root
for the soil teams the tea. That's part of the
civic pride.

Speaker 9 (22:53):
Okay, yeah, that's the rule.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Ok.

Speaker 10 (22:56):
I need your opinion. I need your opinion. I need help.
Can you please back because I know Kevin's going to
go against me.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
That is the spaghazy rule I've ever heard of my life.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
That is that is thanks in that kind of rule
to gather in sus.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
See now I'm now, I'm I'm violating all the violations.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
I knew you would. I knew you wouldn't respect it
because you got no respect.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well, you're right, you're right one hundred percent. See, this
is what happens when you move around a lot of kids.

Speaker 6 (23:23):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I don't have a lot of civic pride, like there
isn't When people ask me where home, like where are
you from?

Speaker 5 (23:29):
That's such a weird and difficult.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Question for me to answer because I was born in Vegas,
I lived there as a kid. I spent, you know,
more time in my life in Nashville than any other city.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Where am I from? I don't know.

Speaker 5 (23:39):
I don't really have a spot that Like how old
are in Vegas?

Speaker 4 (23:42):
For?

Speaker 3 (23:43):
We left when I was in middle school, So I
was in Vegas until middle school, like six sixth seventh grade,
right in there, the sixth grade.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I mean, that's tough for those trains. Listen, there's exceptions
to all rules. There's there's provisions, there's all kinds of things.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
But if you grow up in Nashville, you shouldn't have
to be a T and S fanned. That organization sucks.
Why No, you're wrong, You're wrong.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
It doesn't it don't matter. You can't. Hey, listen, anybody
can root for the best teams. That's dayzy. Like if
I want to be a front runner, Oh that's that's why.
What do you do of cowboy fans? That's the worst
character trait of a human being is somebody that wants

(24:25):
to be a front runner.

Speaker 5 (24:28):
So there's a couple of thoughts here.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
Number one, what do you do if, like, you know,
you're like, I'm a Raiders fan because my dad's a
Raiders fan, like, so you know, but that had nothing
to do with I mean, they were in LA when
I was a kid, so you know, Vegas always gravitated
to La.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Sports for sure.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
But like, what do you do if, like, you know,
your family, you grew up in this city, but your
whole family's from this ring no matter here, Like.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
If you're from the area, if you're born and raised
like you have, you move around. You're born and raised
in a city that has profession teams, And.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
So Gargano moves like where Anthony Gargano gets the opportunity
of a lifetime, But unfortunately that opportunity of a lifetime
is in Dallas. And then all of a sudden, announced
to him, there's an extra like there's a new Gargana
running around.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
He just there's an extra kid running around.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
All of a sudden, he has a baby. Congratulations, that's
a boy, and that kid grows.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
Up in Dallas.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
You tell me that that kid's gonna grow up a
Cowboys fan in your household, not an Eagles fan.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
He has to allow that.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
He doesn't. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
He has that's the soil.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
If we decide to make Dallas our home, you know, forever,
our forever place to live, then he's gotta he's got
to become a Cowboys fan as much as it's.

Speaker 4 (25:48):
Given gonna be.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Like when he goes back to the rest of the
Gargano Claim with the rest of the family and all
of a sudden, everybody's in Eagles jerseys and he's wearing
the Cowboys jerseys.

Speaker 4 (25:55):
I can't wait Forgiving.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Day and they're gonna look at me and go, this
is what you did.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
You divided her home.

Speaker 2 (26:05):
You took the opportunity, and I go, well, you know,
I mean, you gotta do what you gotta do. And
you know it's all I disown the kid. I mean,
that's what it is now. I all kind aside. Where
you're from matters, civic pride matters. You don't get to
choose where you're And especially like Brianna, who's from you know,

(26:30):
La and loves the she loves like La to me,
you get to pass for for NFL because of all
the upheaval with the franchises. Right, unless you're a kid
that's being born now, then now you have choice, right
Rams or or Chargers. But when you're growing up and
you know, I mean like when Figure grew up in

(26:50):
the NFL, and you know, of course you like the Raiders,
but there's a lot of upheaval. Dodgers, Lakers, right, Kings.
You gotta be you know, that's what it is.

Speaker 10 (27:02):
Okay, So I was supposed to be a Clippers fan.
If I wasn't going to be a Lakers fan, two choices.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
I had two sons. You took a rival.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
That's you said, front runner.

Speaker 10 (27:16):
It's not like I became a Spurs fans because they
were the ones that were winning in.

Speaker 9 (27:19):
My childhood, right of the division. I know, but I
love Steve Nash like that.

Speaker 6 (27:25):
Well, you can't like the love of player. I don't
want to say you can't like a player. You just
can't make that your g I couldn't.

Speaker 9 (27:30):
I couldn't. I just didn't. I didn't feel anything with
the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I didn't watch There's one.

Speaker 3 (27:36):
The one thing I will say is you've made your
life more difficult. This is one thing I've learned over
the years. The one regret I have as a sports
fan is that by not living in the city of
the team that I root for every single time I
watched the Raiders play until you know, recently in Vegas,
I'm always the minority in the stadium.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
I'm like the one person in the stadium that's wearing
a race.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
It is what it is.

Speaker 6 (27:56):
I mean, you know it's not as but that's why
I gave you respect.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
I worked in Chicago, worked in New York, right, I
didn't hide by Philolphia roots.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
No moving around so much as a kid.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
As part of why I'm so dugging on being a
Raiders fan, because like everywhere I moved, I was like, no,
I don't.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Root for the team in this city. Heck no, I'm
a Raiders fan. Like it, Doug mean, I'm just saying, breathing.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Gave you something different.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
It gave you a an identic rebel right the Raider,
the Raiders for you know, give it gives you rooting
for Raider name, being a part of Raider nation like
embolded you gives you like backbone.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, but you fun going to games, bre That's all
I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Games more if you were.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
You know, yeah, unless you're you're a free agent football fan.
There's a lot of free agent NFL fans and not
from the area your team left you like, there's there's
there's definitely some wiggle room when it comes when it
comes to the franchise is moving or you're not from
a city with a franchise.

Speaker 4 (29:02):
I would just hate to be like if I was
born in Jacksonville that I have to be a fan
of the Jaguars. That seems unfair and that seems cruel
and unusual.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
They well, then, well then why do they exist?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
That's a good question. I don't know that I've been
asking that question the last fifteen.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Twenty years up Jacksonville. You don't root for the Jaguars. Date,
who would root for the Jaguars?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
Well, I mean you've seen that stadium the last few years,
I know. I mean there's a lot of people that
don't know competer.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
Root for the Jaguars and people in London.

Speaker 4 (29:32):
Yeah, and those people just want to watch any sort
of football that they can because it's not a sport
they used to watching. So they'll just take in. They'll
take any shlock that we give them. It's usually the
Jaguars and another terrible team.

Speaker 6 (29:44):
Yes, hey, Figgie, I do I really do this?

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Update?

Speaker 6 (29:50):
If I do, I mean I got I've already got
in trouble.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
Before I get in trouble. If you don't, I don't
want to get you in trouble. But but whatever, right,
The Dodgers did win Game one of the World Series.
By the way, I think we may have talked about
that just a smidge off the top of the show.
Six to three was the final. Freddy Freeman hobbled his
way to home play with the bases loaded in the
bottom of the tenth inning and hit the first walk

(30:13):
off Grand Slam in the history of the Fall Classic
Gen Carlos stand And also went deep for the Yankees
in a losing effort in Game one. We'll have Game
two tonight in LA at eight eastern on Fox. Yoshinobu
Yamamodos starting for the Dodgers versus Carlos Rodin of the
New York Yankees NBA. On Friday Night, the Lakers, who
Bri is not a fan of, overcame a twenty two

(30:33):
point deficit over the Phoenix Suns one twenty three to one.
Sixteen Pelicans at one o five. Don't look at me
like that, Brie one oh five, one oh three win
over Portland for the Pelicans, brandon Ingram the game winning
jumper there with five seconds remaining, but he healed off
the bench with twenty seven points for the Warriors as
they steamrolled Utah one twenty seven to eighty six. College football,
Boise State improved to six and one. They get one

(30:55):
hundred and twenty eight yards rushing in a score from
Ashton genty in at twenty nine to twenty four win
over you n lv USC three total touchdowns for Miller malson.
A forty two to twenty win over Wreutgers in an
acc battle Louisville a thirty one to twenty seven win
over Boston College.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Back to the fellas, thank you brother from the ti
raq dot com studios, and don't get me started with
Mighty Mark.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Now, Mighty Mark keeps at Chicago.

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Right, he's all shy Town right?

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yes, yeah, as well he should because he's Mark's true
blue except except oh he starts off a Cups fan.

Speaker 11 (31:31):
As a kid. Okay, before I came into thinking for
a living.

Speaker 6 (31:35):
How old what were you in two thousand and five?

Speaker 11 (31:39):
I was away. I guess twenties. I guess, yeah, because
I was still home. Yeah all right, No, No, I
was away. I was the way I was out here.
I was out of here.

Speaker 2 (31:50):
Okay, well you're twenty why twenty five, thirty or or whatever? Yeah, okay,
you can't switch because the White Sox are good. All
of this suck your White Sox man.

Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, what did you switch? What? I guess what was
the date that you switched?

Speaker 11 (32:07):
But I grew up. I grew up as a Cub fan,
had the jacket, the whole thing. I hit the jacket
and let's play two. And then I wanted to be
part of a team that would win games. And the
Cubs were not winning games because their uniforms would be
so hot in the summertime they would just pass out

(32:28):
during games. I'm joking, but just the whole idea. The
Cubs weren't a winning team.

Speaker 4 (32:35):
And then and.

Speaker 11 (32:37):
So way before I was a White Sox fan. And
then the White Sox eventually one in two thousand and five,
So that validated me switching teams and a weird.

Speaker 4 (32:46):
So evalidate you switching. But the question is at what
point did you switch? Because the White Sox don't necessarily
have a long history of winning either, if we're to
be honest, now, the Chicago team is like, you know,
this great bastion of over the last like thirty forty years. Right,
So if you switched to the White Sox in like
ninety eight, all right, they were terrible for the most
part too at that point in time. So I can
accept that. If you say, all right, now, I feel validated.

(33:08):
They won in two thousand and five, and I'm sticking.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
Out of five.

Speaker 11 (33:11):
My boss is my dad's boss.

Speaker 4 (33:14):
He was a judge.

Speaker 11 (33:14):
He took me to It was a game of the
White Sox playing Baltimore for a particular championship season. They
were in a playoff game. The White Sox lost to Baltimore.
But that was like another major thing that he liked.
We had he got tickets to the White Sox games.
So at that point, so I was still in Chicago

(33:37):
during that. So that was many, many years years ago
when the White Socks were playing the Baltimore Orioles and
we went to the game and they lost.

Speaker 4 (33:45):
That's eighty three. I'm looking at the eighty three Alcs.
They lost to Baltimore in five games.

Speaker 11 (33:51):
So I was a White Sox fan during those times,
so I was still at.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Let's face it, you flip flop, you will go back
and forth.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
Up.

Speaker 11 (34:00):
I grew up a Cubs fan, but I switched to
like in the White Sox.

Speaker 6 (34:04):
Okay, Kyrie Woods, Cubs.

Speaker 11 (34:09):
Would but I was of a White Sox fan, and
Woods you doing this thing and then various people and
you know, the Marlins and all that whole thing when
they went the whole perilous times and all that kind
of stuff. I was I had marked over to the
White Sox because they were playing at the season they'll
be playing more than the.

Speaker 2 (34:30):
Trouble again, I hear you and people. I have one
last thing on that and I'll drop it. You can't
just pick and shoes random. There's nothing again. If you
stay with the Cubs, at some point they're going to win,
and then you're gonna know bliss you got you have
to bleed to understand bliss, to stick with something until

(34:53):
it gets better. It's a light life lesson that you
may be not born on third base, but you aspire
to get to third base, and you gotta trudge through
the muck.

Speaker 4 (35:05):
There's a lot of you know, one hundred and twenty
something year old Cups fans that never made it to
the Promised Land for twenty sixteen. I'll say that. So
let's say you'll eventually get there, not necessarily.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Yeah, but it doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean anything.
It's gazy to say. I'll oh, look me, I'm a
Cheefs fan. I mean, I'm from Cleveland. I'm a Chiefs fan.
Come well, you're not. You're not going to pre You're
not a Chiefs fan. You're not flying to Kansas City
for the braid. Let's let let's be true to thyself. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (35:34):
I know we have to break, but I have more
on this. But we can. We can move on if
we like.

Speaker 2 (35:37):
But I know we got it. We gotta run. I
know this is always we always run through this sort
of thing. We gotta go. We'll come right back, I promise.
The fella is hanging on Fox Sports Radio. Fellas from
the tai Raq dot Com Studios, Jason fitz Kevin figures
on Anthony Garganha, all right, fitzy, uh, let's go to
game two and then we need an update on what's

(36:01):
uh what you're doing in your journey. I love your
fitness journey. But give give us you were talking about
game two. What's uh, what do you got on your mind?

Speaker 4 (36:10):
Well, here's here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I was watching the game as we finished Game one,
and like anytime we get extra innings, I immediately think
about this, but especially with a back to back because
you guys were talking about, hey, you know, there's a
ton of pressure on the Yankees here, and I agree
with all of that, but let's also just acknowledge the
fact that back to back you're gonna have to use
a bunch of rotation Like this does not feel like
a great situation to be and if you can't rely

(36:32):
on your starting to get a bunch of innings like
does back to back games after an extra inning game
not scare you a little bit in this situation?

Speaker 2 (36:40):
No, I mean well, I mean it's kind of how
baseball is, right, Why do you have a rotation? It
would worry me more if I was going on with
a complete bullpen game. Like relievers can can pitch, you know,
three days in a row. Like you don't want them
pitch three a's a row. Your optimum is two, but
your your relievers can, depending on pitch count, can pitch

(37:02):
three days in a row.

Speaker 4 (37:03):
Yeah, and I'm looking at the majority of the relievers,
you know, for both teams didn't really throw that many pitches.
I'm looking, you know, for the Dodgers fifteen eighteen, sixteen ten,
the Yankees nineteen eight seven, for the guys who got
into double pitches full week.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Yeah, the World Series is actually perfect because pitch counts
and guys not you know, you can't use I mean,
that's not a concern the World Series.

Speaker 4 (37:31):
I would only say good shirty sorry about that. And
I just want to say it's only a concern when
you get to games three, four, and five, because that's
three consecutive days and you have to be maybe a
little bit more mindful on how you use your guys
in game three knowing that it could have a carryover
effect into a potential Game five. But for the first
couple of games, knowing you have a day off in
between for travel, I don't think as much of an

(37:52):
issue in games one and game two as it is
for the middle three. Well.

Speaker 3 (37:55):
See that's why I ask you, because you know now
is a lifelong diehard Dodgers fan. If they win this series,
I just want to make sure that Dodgers are well positioned.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
Yeah. Yeah, I will also say you don't want to
use your reliever too much or you expose them.

Speaker 4 (38:11):
Right, You don't want to have the lineup see them
too often.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right now, like the Phillies against the Astros had Jose
Alvarado pitched four times in six games and Game six
ended with a home run off Alvarado because they exposed them. Yeah,
so that's that's the answer to your question.

Speaker 4 (38:33):
Again, that's why, that's why I asked that.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
That's why I came to the Fellas, because you know,
I'm looking at when I was a kid in Vegas.
To go back to our last conversation on what's allowed
what's not allowed. Vega's a big Dodgers town, so like, look,
I could, I could wear the blue and just say
I grew up that way.

Speaker 4 (38:45):
Like that's it's you.

Speaker 6 (38:47):
Listen, you're a free agent baseball fan.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
You you could go wherever if you know your team
doesn't if your town doesn't have a team, you're allowed
to pick and choose.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Which is that's part of the reason I have not,
in all seriousness, one of the reason I have not,
like ever over the last few years, clamped a loyalty
to any baseball team. Is that I don't have loyalty
and all expectations that are you know, Vegas and Nashville are.

Speaker 4 (39:09):
Both looking to get a baseball team.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
So like I'd rather, you know, affiliate with the place
that I live that I have history.

Speaker 4 (39:15):
With, you know, so that that you know I am.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
I am in on that. But you know, I figure,
I mean that's what you just said. I mean with
some place I have history with. And that's all like
like I'm joking around about this thing, right, but in
all seriousness, we we want to be a part of
something like that's what human beings do. And and you know,
having pride in your where you're from is I think

(39:37):
a good thing.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
There's no doubt I agree without one hundred percent. Having
pride and places that you resonate with is important for sure.
Just don't become an A's fan, That's all I'll say.
You don't want that missing a Fella's big outur head.
Don't go anywhere.

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Speaker 2 (40:00):
Welcome morning, a morning, A morning, A morning, A morning,
a morning, Happy, Happy Fox Sports Saturday Fellas, Jason Fitz,
Anthony Gargano, Kevin figures we're talking a lot about the
World Series.

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(40:40):
that I've been talking about for years, which is the
violations of where teams that you're supposed to root for,
and we learned that our producer is a violation. We
also learned that our producer tried to throw Figgie under
the bus. Would you like to tell Fitzbrie and and

(41:00):
Figgy what you just said to me?

Speaker 10 (41:02):
I was just bringing it to everybody's attention that I,
you know, I'm not a Lakers fan, but Figgy is
actually an Angels fan and not a Dodgers fan.

Speaker 9 (41:12):
I'm wearing a Dodger sweatshirt right now.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Okay, what was my response to that quote? To that
that what you said to me? I said, Figgy's not
walking around like this populous.

Speaker 10 (41:24):
Sword And I said no, and he's not walking around
like he's figgis soosha either.

Speaker 4 (41:29):
Oh, I mean, I keep it mostly neutral. I don't
walk around and just team colors in general. I just
not my style these days. But I've told anybody who
would listen that I grew up an Angel fan, and
even though the organization is terrible and I don't like ownership,
I still am a fan. That the players don't can't
affect that. I still support the players on the field.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
This is exactly why he's true blue. This is what
I'm talking about. Listen to what figgis say it, Fitzy,
he is exactly like he's a model citizen. He's someone
deserving of respect. Bre I bring this up for a
reason to teach you Fiking should be your role model.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
He is.

Speaker 4 (42:11):
No, No, it shouldn't. He shouldn't be.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Astray Now you have no idea.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
In my yearbook, and I think it was seventh grade,
when I had moved to the East Coast, one of
my teachers wrote go Raiders in it because I wore
Raiders stuff to school every day. I still when I
was out on tour buses, everybody laughed about the fact that,
like every single day I walked into every arena stadium
we ever played in.

Speaker 4 (42:39):
Humble brag.

Speaker 5 (42:40):
I always wore a Raiders hoodie, a Raiders zip up.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
Every stinking day, like to this day, I go to
the gym. But when we finished the show, I'm gonna
immediately get to go to the gym. The first thing
I'm gonna do is.

Speaker 6 (42:56):
Seconds.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
But here you're a freaking karate kid.

Speaker 6 (42:59):
Move it up, moving out.

Speaker 2 (43:01):
To LA right. You're getting picked on, the people are
looking at you, and you go. The Raiders became a
source of self pride for your instilled something inside you
which I think is beautiful, which is bad sports.

Speaker 6 (43:23):
Right, Here's it's a beautiful thing.

Speaker 3 (43:25):
Every Sunday I sit in front of the TV and
for three hours I get.

Speaker 5 (43:29):
Kicked in the no no places by the team that
I've invested.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
Look what they did for you. They did for you.
They gave you a friend when you were in a
tough situation. They gave you backbone when you're in a
tough situation. They gave you medal. And by rooting for
a team that you actually connected with and love for
all these years and years and years, you get something

(43:53):
out of it. You get if you were to leave
you to become a Chiefs fan, you would what would
you get out of it?

Speaker 6 (44:00):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (44:01):
I I am physically incapable of uninvesting or deinvesting. I
should say in the Raiders, I wish it could like
I wish I could just not care the number of
times every every season.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
When the season is done, I'm like, you know what, I'm.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
Just not gonna waste my time Sunday, I'm not gonna
watch that game. Like there's a part, right, I get that,
But here's the whole thing. Everybody that's like, you know,
what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. You know, if
you go through all this, you're gonna be tough for
you know what's what's easier than all that is just
having a great team that wins a bunch of football games.
I wouldn't want to root fandom of a trash team

(44:33):
on anybody because it just sticks, It wears out, it
wears out.

Speaker 12 (44:38):
You're asking me, right, you're talking to me. The Eagles
sucked forever my whole life. Don't you want everybody else
to have an easier path? Like if somebody today is
I want them to pick the Chiefs. I want them
to be Chiefs fans.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
No. Here, here's why the answer is no. Here's why.
Here's why it's ridiculous. You can't.

Speaker 6 (45:03):
It's a lot in.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Life, right Like if everybody was a Chiefs fan of
the league wouldn't exist. You can't do that those people
in Kansas City. Like if I'm in Kansas City, I
don't want all these band wagoners, right Like, if I'm Mkin'sity,
I'm like, you guys don't even know who Christian Okoye.

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Is, oh Nigeria, and I that's my guy, right like
my favorite people.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
I'm like, I would be like, bleep you.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
You know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (45:32):
But see that's because you're you're in Philly around the
magic of Eagles and like, and I do mean.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
I lived in Chicago. I mean I live. I mean
I was in New York. Why I covered the ye
he's winning. I mean I wasn't rooting for anybody because
it's journalists. I'm you know you don't do that. But
I mean, you know, I'm a human being, so I
knew guys. To this day, I still have dear friends
of mine who played them in in football and the
and and basketball and baseball in New York.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I think there's the thing that I keep thinking about
and you mentioned the community of it. The hardest part
about the strongest point that I think to rooting to
your soil is if you were there, because there's just
nothing And I don't feel this every Sunday to Pully honest,
there is nothing like being in a sports bar and.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Having that moment.

Speaker 5 (46:19):
Like I said, last night, I was in a bar in.

Speaker 3 (46:23):
Connecticut with a group of friends watching my buddy GEO
as he watched the Dodgers, and he was getting tears
in his eyes as the Dodgers won that game, and
I was so glad we were all there because none
of us, none of us have a favorite team that
would ever step up like we were all Dodgers fans
last night, just because Geo is such a lifelong time
and that's a beautiful thing. What you miss when you

(46:44):
don't root for a team in your soil or where
you are, whatever that looks like, what you miss is
like it's the worst when the Raiders score a touchdown
and I look around and there's really.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Nobody that gives it. Damn Like you're in a sports
bar because.

Speaker 3 (46:54):
You want the energy, but like you got your buddy
that you can high five. But like I do miss
it when I'm sitting in that same sports bar at
one o'clock and the Patriots are the giants, or.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Like, yeah, I get that. I mean, but most people
are in the bars watching games. Most people are home
watch the game. You know what I mean? That sounds sad.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
I like home.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
I just I think, for for Bree's sake, if you're
living in l A, it's easier to be like I
got to give her more street Kit credit because she
didn't pick the Lakers.

Speaker 4 (47:26):
Like it's easy to root for the Lakers. You could
have been a Clipper fan, though that's the NBPA a
little bit of model. Well, I'm just saying, for all
the Laker fans are so pretentious, then be a Clipper fan.
Go ahead and watch Mo Taylor score a team that
wins nine games. By what I mean.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Again, you have self respect. You went to Arizona with
a rival that to me, I don't look at this,
I don't look if that ticket chet the final table
a rat.

Speaker 10 (47:58):
The heart once at the heart, I like I said,
you don't think I wish I could have resonated with
me and all that it was.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
I would that the heart everything will be fine.

Speaker 9 (48:14):
Yes, do you want me to just become a Laker fan.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
You have to again, you have to do your Penance connect.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Okay, how does that make.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Her any better than than Mighty Mark at that point,
She's just flip flopping teams now in a year where
maybe the Lakers are going to be good, Like, I mean,
how does that work? Then we're gonna critique her for
flip flopping to the Lakers.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
She does get an automatic entry, she's got to sound
the sidelines for a little picture.

Speaker 9 (48:39):
So I have to do.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Yeah, Penance, I mean, you know.

Speaker 4 (48:47):
Water, you know Loy. Yeah, just with the imagery of
a lifetime.

Speaker 3 (48:53):
I'm imagining you walk into the confessional booth and you
slide the door shut, and you're like, father, please forgive
me five and I must fans just to.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
See that.

Speaker 4 (49:06):
Exactly.

Speaker 9 (49:06):
It was hard growing up.

Speaker 11 (49:08):
I got stop.

Speaker 10 (49:10):
You should have I should have gotten to you being
a Suns fan in La.

Speaker 9 (49:16):
Yes, and I still though.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
What's the game? You're from l A, not that you
were living there, it's where you were born and raised.

Speaker 9 (49:25):
I was and I still live. Yes, I didn't resonate.

Speaker 10 (49:29):
I didn't love that. Just you want to be you
want me to be an unhappy marriage, unhappy marriage.

Speaker 4 (49:36):
You want me to be that, well, that's kind of
sounds a little Welcome to America when it comes to
sports franchises. I'm an unhappy marriage. I'm an Angel fan.
I just said, for the love of God, unhappy marriage. Yes,
I'm still, but I'm still there, by the way, my
real marriage is find not phenomenal. I don't wantnybody to
take that enough context my sports.

Speaker 5 (49:58):
Quickly clarify my.

Speaker 4 (49:59):
Sports, Mayriorge. The Raiders is really hard right now and
has been for twenty years. The Angels has been hard
for twenty years. But I'm still there, by.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
The way, with gold medal backpedaling, gold metal backpedaling. There
to make sure and that, my friend, that's good work
by humans. I want to sure point out me see,
this is what happens.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
Figgi's a dad.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
And now, like I toured with the guy that said
I'll never forget this is a terrible thing to say,
but like I toured with the guy for for years,
and you know, he used to always say that when
he was married. If you know, you're walking around after
showing you see a pretty girl, He's like, man, there's
a difference between hot and half.

Speaker 4 (50:32):
Everything you own hot. Those are two different categories.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Then when you wake up one day and you realize
it's half everything you own in every other weekend hot
and now it's totally like, that's totally that doesn't exist.
See so I like how Figgy's Spiggy's just backpedaled that
all the way.

Speaker 5 (50:45):
He's like, look, I just want to clarify my marriage
is great.

Speaker 4 (50:48):
My sports marriages are falling apart.

Speaker 2 (50:49):
That's about amen, Thank you. Amen. Listen, there's look around
professional sports and look at all the people suffering. I
just like to be in Cleveland, all right, those poor.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
Would you wish that on anybody?

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Though? Those poor people I gotta use for it. I
respect them. I love those people. They're true sort of
the earth people, loyalistic, they goes like you know, you
think about it, They're loyalty. They're not flipping to They're

(51:25):
not all of a sudden going to be, you know,
moved to Russia. Like.

Speaker 6 (51:28):
Those people are full of Americans.

Speaker 4 (51:31):
Russia's hearts.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
They're in their hearts. They got a deal, think about it.
They gotta deal with de Shaun Watson just right, well right,
this is.

Speaker 9 (51:47):
A great transition, you guys. Let's just talk about that.
Let's talk about this, well.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
I mean, think about how what they've had to endure,
and now you know they have to treat like they're
trading tomorrow Cooper to talk about Miles Garrett. You know,
these poor Browns fans had been through freaking the fumble
and the drive and getting Torch tortured by Denver the Broncos.

(52:14):
Oh my god, I had to deal with Brian Sipe
and Bernie Kosar falling short and all the direct him
couches and the horrible things that they had to deal with.
But here you go, there's a dog pound. They're there
with dog faces on all right. Those are that's true fandom.

Speaker 4 (52:33):
No, what's better than that.

Speaker 3 (52:34):
What's better than that is grow like getting if you
were born in nineteen ninety five and by the time
you understood football in Boston, all you had to do
was watch Brady and Belichick win a bunch of Okay.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
Your base, that's a lot more fun.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
It's just more sports.

Speaker 5 (52:48):
Its supposed to be fun. That's more fun though that
championships are more fun.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
Of course, they're more fun. Okay, but they got to
mean something. Do you agree with that? Well?

Speaker 4 (52:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (52:59):
I don't want, meaning you're yallow, vapid person.

Speaker 4 (53:05):
There's an element of, you know, the long suffering fan
finally winning a championship. I'll go back to my Angel
fandom when they won the championship in two thousand and two,
the closest they've ever held a Sniffinger World Series. I
hated that rally monkey, and I still do, but notwithstanding love,
that team will always hold a special place in my heart,
and I can always say, you know what, the Angels
won a championship in my lifetime if they never win

(53:27):
another one, and it doesn't look like they're any close
to doing that anytime soon. Came this close to seeing
the Raiders doing in San Diego back in two thousand
and two as well, it never happened, and that doesn't
look like it's happening anytime soon either. But if it does,
it'll be one of the happiest days of my life.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Right but like, but.

Speaker 5 (53:45):
It's not gonna happen. Like I'm I've seen three that
I can remember.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
I've been watching football in.

Speaker 3 (53:51):
A way that is like religious for me since I
was probably eight, so I am roughly forty years into
watching the Raiders. Of which of those forty years, I
could argue that I've really had meaningful five seasons.

Speaker 5 (54:03):
I don't want that for somebody else.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
I want I want somebody else to go out there
and have twenty out of twenty five years where they win,
because it just sucks when every single year you're so you.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Want everybody to be a Patriots fanning.

Speaker 4 (54:15):
Again, yes, let's not flop over to the Chiefs when
they win.

Speaker 6 (54:18):
Like, yeah, that's that's great.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
Let's let's be just complete front runners. No, I mean yes, again,
that's the most way of looking at things.

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yeah, but at some point why And this is just
a deep thought think process. I can't get out of it.
I'm already in this, but I'm just saying, we love
our favorite teams more than our favorite teams love us.

Speaker 4 (54:40):
And we see it constantly in the way.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
They invest in, the way they raise prices, in the
way that they overcharge for everything that they ever give us,
the way that they basically choose not to they go
through rebuilds constantly because they want to save money while
they're making money. You've got billionaire owners who sit here
and they rake in their billions like Scrooge McDuck, and
they rely on the fact that we are all so
be holding to them because of our loyalties, that they

(55:02):
don't have to treat us right so with our favorite team.
So that's why if they're flipping with us, why can't
we be flipping with them?

Speaker 4 (55:10):
I wish I could be.

Speaker 5 (55:11):
I wish I could be a Chiefs fan, because that's
so much more fun than being a Raiders fan.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
It is, no, but just look at you. You're battling
within yourself. But you can't do it because you know
it's not right. You know it's not right to call
him an addict. I'm I'm a Raiders No, no, no,
you're a sports fan. You're just like the guy in
Cleveland rooting Browns who's got the you know, the Brian

(55:36):
Site or Webster slaughter Jersey. That's too tight right now.

Speaker 4 (55:41):
The justification I would give for jumping off off as
if there is an organization and the ownership up top
to your point, Finzi is just not even putting forth
a good faith efforts to even try to compete. If
you're Oakland over the last ten years or something like that,
and you are a dedicated A's fan, I wouldn't I
wouldn't begrudge anybody for saying, like why am I supporting this?
What am I doing? Why am I spending money? Why

(56:01):
am I even spending just time even if I'm watching
on television to this. They don't care about me, so
why would I care about them? That would be the
only out that I would give if there's an organization
that's not putting forth a good faith efforts to try
to put a.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
Product on the field, like even that you know that,
you know, all that stuff is sick with call and
the band owners get weeded out. Like again, I sometimes,
like I've been think about it, like I I'm not
bored on their base, I'm bored in Philadelphia. The Eagles
won their first Super Bowl in twenty eighteen. They sucked

(56:35):
and then when they finally get good, they're so good,
yet they they go to four championship games and don't
win a super Bowl and lose. You know how hard
that is? I mean, you know, you know what you know,
kind of blood letting that is to have to go
to forge at championship games and lose or where they

(56:55):
losing the super Bowl and then they lost another championship
game and no, wait.

Speaker 4 (56:58):
Well you know those Browns fans, you were just talking
going to able to give up their left foot just
to have that. They haven't sniffed close to?

Speaker 6 (57:04):
What about the Bills fit because I got news for it.

Speaker 2 (57:07):
There's a special sort of of of torture that brings
you to the brink and then drops you from a cliff.

Speaker 4 (57:18):
I just say super Bowls.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
With Buffalo you know, no, for nothing, that's torture. You're
a Bills fan. Look at like Bill's mafia. I love
those people. Those those people I would have I would
have walked next to in a war right because those
people got your back.

Speaker 6 (57:38):
They don't leave, No.

Speaker 4 (57:40):
They jumped through flaming tables. I want them to a
war two exactly.

Speaker 6 (57:45):
Like you don't think about it that franchise, what you've
been through.

Speaker 2 (57:49):
You haven't won a Super Bowl and you were that
close and a freaking kicker, you're you're there, you're at
the wind and you lose on a field goal like that, Like,
think about the special kind of torture and then thirteen
seconds you lose to the Chiefs. Like that's unfathomable the

(58:10):
type of torture that is. But they're not running scurrying
like a rat.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Yeah, I wouldn't jump off from a situation like that.
But if we're talking about decades of futility, at what
point did you just say I can't do this anymore?

Speaker 6 (58:24):
Well, I get I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
We've been through both, right, We've been through long drafts,
and we've been through periods of good that don't result
in the championship. There are equal parts torture.

Speaker 4 (58:37):
Yes, I would agree with that.

Speaker 3 (58:38):
I think you know, when you have that era where
you're good enough and you just can't.

Speaker 5 (58:42):
Get over the hump that haunts you.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
But also, you know, like I've said before, when the
Raiders found whatever it was the after the Siragusa game
and then the Tuck Rule and then the Super Bowl,
I remember distinctly looking at one of my friends and saying, man,
I'd rather not even make the playoffs and go through
these losses every year. And then the Raiders lost double
digit games for ten consecutive years, And I to this
day think that, like, you know, I put a curse

(59:05):
on my favorite.

Speaker 4 (59:05):
Team, Like, yeah, you were the guy that did that. Yeah,
Like it was me.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
It wasn't Mark Davis, it wasn't Al Davis, it wasn't
ineptitude within the organization.

Speaker 5 (59:12):
It was me, not appreciating playoff runts, and I laughed.

Speaker 3 (59:15):
I was talking to a friend yesterday that's a Steelers fan,
and he's like, oh, man, I don't know, Like this
team just never gets over the hump and we never
managed to win super Bowls and we're.

Speaker 5 (59:23):
Just like this is maddening. It was frustrating, and I
feel that, but also it's like.

Speaker 6 (59:27):
Well, what what what?

Speaker 10 (59:27):
What?

Speaker 4 (59:28):
How old is the guy thirty something? Thirty something?

Speaker 6 (59:32):
So like wats to beat Arizona?

Speaker 7 (59:34):
No?

Speaker 4 (59:35):
Yeah, yeah, but I mean you watched the Seattle and
Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (59:38):
Yeah, like yeah, but by the way, sitting here with
with Tomlin and who is that Ben?

Speaker 4 (59:43):
And that your.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
Friend what's his name? He's a violation.

Speaker 4 (59:50):
That he's not the only one. There are plenty of.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Tom the Tomlin Big Ben, the you know, the Big
Ben era of Tomlin didn't get as much.

Speaker 4 (59:58):
And I made the point.

Speaker 3 (59:58):
I was like, yeah, but the Big Ben era was
taken on Belichick, and it was taken on Brady, and
it was taken on you know, Peyton, Like we we
all understand the other.

Speaker 6 (01:00:07):
We got two, right, and we got two?

Speaker 4 (01:00:10):
Yeah, Steelers have two? Yeah yeah, Coward got one and
then Tomlin h yeah, Tomlin b Arizona. Yeah right, and
lost to the Green Bay. So got there twice in
one one.

Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
Right, And I'm saying too within the last you.

Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
Know, five years six in two thousand and nine where
they're two super Bowls, So yeah, it's been fifteen years.

Speaker 4 (01:00:27):
But yeah, yeah, so killed for that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
By the way, like like, by the way, I don't
want to hear nothing from those people. You just say
thank you very much and move along. Are you crazy?
You'll complain? And by the way, I freaking love Mike Tomlin.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
Freaking loved I think most people do. Whatever. He's in
Pittsburgh people, A lot of people in Pittsburgh don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
Do you watch the game the other night when when
there was roughs, it was they were they were at
like the two yard line and he starts barking at
his OC and they want to throwing a fade to
Pickens was to play. I don't know what he said,
if he said for a fade, if he said run it,
I don't know what he what he was saying, but
he just barked at him and then he and then the.

Speaker 13 (01:01:13):
OC just nodded like yes, sir, you know it was awesome,
Like it was just like he's in charge, Like I
want to coach who's in charge.

Speaker 4 (01:01:23):
I don't disagree with any of that.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
If Tomlin were fired today, he'd be the top candidate
for every Like Tomlin wants Coast Raiders next year, I'd
be happy with that they they give him one hundred
and fifty million.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
I don't want to Steel fans complain on their like
you're on your pile of gold the good six and
O nine after they had a freaking dynasty, And I
don't care if you weren't born for that dynasty. The
fact is they were a dynastic team and that that
sets the stage forever.

Speaker 6 (01:01:53):
Yeah, you know how many and to to wise.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
Another thing I disagree with because I don't give a
damn what the Raiders did in the seventies that no
longer about, like if I have one more.

Speaker 2 (01:02:03):
Rats, all right, all right to state.

Speaker 3 (01:02:07):
Just you're right if my mom and dad weren't even
doing the hibbitt when you won Super Bowls, I don't
want to.

Speaker 4 (01:02:13):
Hear I don't need to hear about, you know, Mark
Van Egan. All right, that's I'm tired, all right, I'm
almost I heard about the Sea of Hands for the
last twenty years. Can I get a modern highlight?

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
Please? Oh? We gotta break, we gotta break. No, sorry,
Fells trumpled two years?

Speaker 6 (01:02:32):
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Speaker 4 (01:03:53):
Well, the Dodgers took Game one of the World Series
in dramatic fashion on Friday night, Freddy Freeman hitting the
walk off Grand Slam and the bottom of the tenth
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Back to the Fellas, all.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Right, thanks Vig. We are the Fellas coming alive from
the Fox Sports the Tyreck dot Com studios. All right,
let's let's uh, let's get into some football, shall we.
Because we talked a lot about baseball and the fandom,
but let's get a little NFL action going and.

Speaker 6 (01:05:23):
The trades of the receivers.

Speaker 2 (01:05:25):
All right, So actually I want to start here because
let's keep it La base for a second. I don't
understand with all the trades and receivers to talk about
Cooper Cup being traded. I didn't understand the rumors that
were out there surrounding him. I didn't understand the rumors
about uh Stafford. It's funny because I was talking to

(01:05:48):
Mike Garafala from the NFL Network yesterday and he said, yeah,
he was. The Rams were quietly kind of looking to
see what they could get for Cup. They didn't actively,
you know, put them out in the market, but they
were listening. And I look at that team, and I look,
I think the Lions are the best team speaking of

(01:06:09):
franchises that need to win, but man, those Rams are dangerous. True.

Speaker 4 (01:06:16):
Look on Thursday night, you know, I here's the thing
they have. Their cap situation is not the most ideal
and the biggest cap numbers they have right now are
Stafford in Cup and not having the greatest season to
this point. But the NFC West as a whole has
not been that great. So they're right there in the
division race. You know, you pick up a big win

(01:06:37):
over a Minnesota team that people at least thought was,
you know, a quality team, and still early in the season,
so they've had a couple of back to back losses.
Here we'll see what kind of team they actually are.
But I understand the logic and at least listening to
see what's out there. But I don't think the Rams
should be actively shopping either of those guys, knowing that
the division is very much winnable this year and they

(01:06:57):
haven't even been healthy. You know, you can attribute the
re and that they start at one and four, like
three fifths of their offensive line was her Cup and
Nikuo were both out. I mean, their defense is kind
of rebuilding, retooling, and kind of learning on the fly
with a lot of young guys. So there's a lot
of reasons as to why they got off to a
slow start, and you saw on Thursday night what they
could be when they just when they start getting their

(01:07:18):
key guys back healthy again.

Speaker 3 (01:07:20):
I think all of this too, you know, talking to
some of the people at Yahoo and like Charles Robinson,
our NFL Insider, talked about this this week.

Speaker 4 (01:07:27):
I feel like.

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
You have to acknowledge that had they lost on Thursday,
they fall to two and five, maybe they're too much
in a hole. Depends on how things are going, so
they think about selling off. Now that they win, they're
a game out of first in a division that's really
up in the air. There's plenty of reason to think
that they're turning around. I think exploratory calls to figure
out value when you don't know if you're going to be.

Speaker 4 (01:07:49):
A seller at the trademarket.

Speaker 3 (01:07:50):
Actually just from just from a pure business standpoint, can
make some sense. I just don't believe that they were
ever really going to push the go button on any
of that, so, you know, finding value, because they were.
They were dug in from every everything I've been told.
They were dug in on a second rounder, absolutely, and
the rest of the league sort of laughed at that.
That's not the comp value compared to what other wide

(01:08:12):
receivers are getting. So I'm not sure they were ever
really in the market. But especially now that they get
to win Thursday, now they're certainly not that that changes
everything for the Rams and where they're where they're going
to be moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
Yeah, they're they're dangerous. I mean, I think once you
get your interior alignment back because with Stafford, although I
gotta tell you he still surprisingly moves decently.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
I mean that that move on Thursday night, the duck
under at the touchdown, Yeah, that's incredible at his age,
with the injuries he's had, exactly impressive.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
I got a lot of respect. I just think they're
a dangerous team. I think they're like, I don't want
to play. I was talking about them because the Eagles
have to go out there a couple of weeks. I'm like,
that's not a that's a tough game for that man.
That's you know what they getting healthy. I don't I
love that Nakuwa. Yeah, that dude is the greatest man.

(01:09:04):
He comes out and he just balls out. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:09:08):
I would say that the biggest issue for them that
I don't then don't see them improving is their defense.
You can move that ball up and down the field
wide will on them for the most part. They can
come up with a play here and there, uh and
be opportunistic. But if they run into one of the
better offenses, you know, I know, Look, I know Minnesota
had been that, but it's not like Minnesota was shut down.
Now they look they got they they played him pretty

(01:09:29):
well in the second half and held them down a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
I tell you, I was impressed by they they call
the good game. Defensively, I agree with you. I think
they're your vulneraball because they don't get a lot of
you need. They need the blitz to get pressure.

Speaker 4 (01:09:42):
Correct. Yeah, and they're not the strongest on the back end.
They're decent up front, so dangerous in that they can
make the postseason and depending on the matchup, can win
a game. I can see that, but I don't think
there's much beyond that for the Rams person of all.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
Well, I mean, I'm just talking about go ahead.

Speaker 3 (01:10:00):
But at the end of the day, like this also
speaks to the identity of who McVeigh is as a coach.
And look, I'm not going to bet against them necessarily.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
We get you got to win one game.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
You got to coach in a quarterback that have seen
a lot of football together you can trust. With some
offensive weapons, I think they can manufacture the way through it.
Are they a Super Bowl contender? Are they in the
same level that the Lions are in?

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:10:22):
But you know, frankly, did they expect to be where
they are. They didn't expect to be in that range.
So you know, that's the other thing of trading at
this point. To me, if you're looking at trade value,
it's because your season didn't go the way you think
it's going to go. I think given the injuries that
they had and where they are as a franchise right now,
they had to kind of expect that this is where
they'd be.

Speaker 4 (01:10:40):
So you know, I'm with you, Viggie.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
I'm not sitting there saying they're Super Bowl contender, but
I'm also not banking against McVeigh. I think he sort
of put himself in that Tomlin category of your always
has a chance.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
And I would also say, in a league where we
see teams turning around worse the first, you know, so quickly,
they have so many good core pieces. I mean, I
don't know if I'm necessarily ready to blow it up
up at this point in time. And like the way
you find a way to keep Stafford protected, why can't
he play for three more three more years? You know
what I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:11:06):
So what's the point weapons?

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Yeah, so Hyar Williams is legit, He's excellent, I mean
so yeah, And like don't have their tight end.

Speaker 4 (01:11:15):
Back, right, So I would just look to Ford. I
f now, look, if things that totally blown up, maybe
it's something to look into. But if anything, even going
into the off season status quo and just try to
look to fortify the rest of the team and see
if you can still compete here for a couple of years.
I don't they're not bad enough to have to blow
the entire thing up and start from scratch. I just
don't think. I think there's too much talent in that
building for that right now.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Yeah, I listen, I like, I'm with you. I like
gired Verse, right, He's going to grow and get better.
You know, it's a solid player. They had to have
some solid foundation. Yeah, yeah, I know, listen, I'm with you.
And then let's be real too, when you look at
the NFC, I mean, outside of the NFC North, what.

Speaker 4 (01:12:00):
Do you got? Not a lot, to be honest, it's
a pretty hulhum average conference, to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
It's not like the AFC, AFC got three you know, Juggernauts, right,
you got you know, Ravens, Bills and Chiefs. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
I mean, even if you look directly at the division
for the Rams, the Seahawks have been inconsistent. I really
like some things there. But Seahawks a little ahead of schedule.
I'll give them credit on that. Also, I didn't think
the defense would come to come together as quickly as
it's come together. And they certainly have a ton of

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talent on the offensive.

Speaker 5 (01:12:38):
Side of the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:12:38):
So but but the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Aren't you know, a team that everybody's shaking in the
boots over the forty nine ers are so decimated by
injury like this, this might be one of the just
worst seasons you can remember for key people just absolutely
going down.

Speaker 2 (01:12:52):
So there's opportunities. Sad let me loseing eye, you know.
I mean, that's just that's tough.

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
And the McCaffrey thing, I still don't understand, like how
he's not playing yet and how that was seemed to
be mismanaged or misinformation or something in the offseason with him.
I mean, this this looks like one of those you know,
you lost the Super Bowl and you come back and
you win six games the next year. Is kind of
the way this is starting to shape up.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
It feels like a Joe ellen Beid situation.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
No boy, I'll get to that at some point too.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
Don't get that.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
But then Arizona's inconsistent Kyler Murray can look like a
pro bowler one week and look like a pauper the next.
H So, So we say all this to say the
the NFC West is wide open and the NFC in general. Look,
if you can win the West, get a home playoff
game against whoever a wildcard team is. You know, the
South isn't especially strong, the East isn't strong at all,
you know, and whoever comes out of the North, who's

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to say it's out of the Roman possibility that whoever
comes out of the West could end up and find
themselves in the NFC championship game, you know, at Detroit
or at Remain. It's very it's very doable.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
I agree.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
I think you got all Listen, I think three those
three teams. The Lines are number one, the Packers are
number two. This is my eyes. And I know Minnesota's record,
but I and I like Minnesota, but and I love
their defense, but I'm still I'm still side eye Donald's.
I mean, you know, I mean, you got Jefferson all

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those weapons, and Donald's played really well, but I still go, eh, So,
I really think it's Lions one, Green Bay two dead Minnesota.
But the Rams are right there. The Rams could actually
get hot and do that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
During that next tier. I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Yeah, yeah, all right, fellas will continue our NFL for
right around the league, Yeah right here on Fox Sports
Radio Fellas from the tai Iraq dot Com studios. You know,
I'm curious to see you know, uh, with all the

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trade deadline's talking to somebody about this and they were like,
stuff's happening, man.

Speaker 6 (01:14:59):
People are all ready you know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
I hate to bring this up to you guys, but
they're already, you know, poking around trying to figure out
to put big packages and like, what would you wish
for Crosby? What would you wish for Max? Like your
close with Fitsie. I love the guy too, He's fantastic,
you know. I know you've interviewed him to Figgy, Like

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what would you wish for Max?

Speaker 4 (01:15:27):
I will tell you this.

Speaker 3 (01:15:27):
I talked to somebody that I think is pretty well
connected in general around the team, and he told me
that the word out there is that you could offer
five first round picks and Mark Davis would.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Still say no. So I honestly don't think he's available
at all.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
If you were going to try to get him, it
would have to it would.

Speaker 3 (01:15:46):
Take multiple first in a second, it have to be
so much that you know you can go get a
quarterback like that. That's and that's such a hard thing
to do because again I'll go back to go. Leading
up to this year's draft, a couple of people tell
me that teams were all offering Washington as many as
three first rounders to move up to try and get
Jayden Daniels, and you know Washington had no interest. So

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you can have three or four first rounders if there's
only one. Let's say that by the end of this year,
we've all figured out cam Ward is the only truly
draftable quarterback in the first round that that's worth it. Right,
If you're that in love with cam Ward, you may
not even be able to You could offer your whole team,
And it doesn't mean if the Titans are picking ahead
of you, for example, doesn't mean they're accepting any offer,

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you know what I mean. So I just don't think
there's anything that it would take. But if you were
going to trade, if I wake up tomorrow and find
out he's been traded to me, it'd be, you know,
a couple of first rounders in a second something in
that range.

Speaker 4 (01:16:39):
At the very least. Well, And one, I don't like
cam war with that much. Two I agree with you.
I heard the exact same things that you're hearing, that
that there's basically no trade on the table outside of
just some Garganitian herschel Walker a type of move of
what you would never do for a defensive end. I
don't care how great he is. And three, he came
out explicitly himself and said, I want to squash all
the room is right now, like I want to be here.

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I wasn't sitting some coded message last week. I want
to be with the Raiders. Have the Raiders tattooed to
my body? This is where I want to be. So
the combination of all three of those factors tells me
he's not going anywhere anytime soon.

Speaker 6 (01:17:15):
So what would you? And I don't listen.

Speaker 2 (01:17:19):
I bring it up only to ask you, guys, if
you did go to Detroit, how would you feel.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
I'd be happy for him individually, to be honest with that.
I hate to see great players not have a chance
to showcase their talents on the biggest stages and be
able to win. Yeah, so it'd be mixed. It'd be
torn mixed emotions, for sure. But there's also an element
that I know that the Raiders are not a player
away from being a contender either, So I would love

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for him to be a part of the core that
turns it around and gets it becomes a perennial playoff team.
But if he has a chance to go to a
team that's ready made, that's a super Bowl favorite and
has a chance to win a championship because and and
I'm sure it's mixed emotions for you because he's a
friend of yours. There fitsy so it's a little bit different.
You're a fan of the team and a friend of his.
I will look at it at from a standpoint off

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you have a chance to go win, I would support
you and your chance and your opportunity to actually win
a championship. That's all I want is for him to win.

Speaker 5 (01:18:16):
I would be so happy for him.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
But as a fan, I think after watching Khalil Mack
get traded and then Max Crosby get traded, I it
would definitely like there's never anything that's going to make
me box up my Raiders stuff and take a year off.
That would probably be the closest I've ever come to
in my life of just being like, you know what,
if y'all are going to rebuild, call me when you

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get into it, like, because rebuilds are like golf, It's
one thing you can do over and over and over
again and not get any better at it, and like
it's just it's amazing how many times we work through
what would you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:47):
What would you? What do you want as a fan? Like,
I mean, I'm a quarterback? Right, but is there any
other way to get a quarterback without a rebuild? No?

Speaker 4 (01:18:55):
But yeah, find a guy in the fourth round, which
is not no, the most likely situation. Get lucky. I
don't know, get luck.

Speaker 3 (01:19:05):
He's not a plan, right, there's no other The plan
this year is to reach on a guy in the draft. Correct,
just going to overdraft a quarterback, which they would have
done last year if any of them had fallen to them.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Right, Yeah, that makes sense. Listen, you got to keep
taking them until you find one. I mean, I get it.
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had to do that at some point this hour. But

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we haven't talked a lot of college football. We had
the epic weekend last weekend, and I think we're all wrong,
all held dogs.

Speaker 6 (01:20:26):
Bet.

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
I mean, I mean, I don't know about you guys,
but wow, man, I did not expect that. I did
not expect Georgia coming out where the flats thump in Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
And Texas came out flat. I mean, it just didn't
even look like the same version of Texas. I'm not
taking anything away from Georgia. Let me be really clear there.
It's just, you know, when the markets are not scared.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
But he looked like he kind of shrunk a little.

Speaker 5 (01:20:51):
Bit on hundred. You were who I've been super complimentary
of this season.

Speaker 4 (01:20:57):
It's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Early in the season, you know, we were just talking
about quarterbacks and who's worth drafting. Early in the season,
it looked like Youwers and Jaylen Milroe were going to
be part of this resurgent draft class we didn't expect,
and both of them have regressed at this point. You know,
and I'm watching yours and it just felt like he
was small in the pocket when he was getting beat up.
And this was a level of Georgia that came out,

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you know, over simplification. But they always say, well who
wants it the most? God, Georgia came out with a
different level of pop. Their turbo button was hitting a different,
different level from the outset of that game. I was
really surprised to see Texas wasn't ready to take the
punch in the mouth and didn't have a way to
punch back. I was a thorough ass whooping by George.
I gotta give him a ton of credit.

Speaker 4 (01:21:39):
It almost seemed like they were at a different skill level,
like and they're clearly not. But it was almost like
the Cincinnati Alabama playoff game from a few years ago,
Like like Texas shouldn't even have been on the field
from a skill position standpoint with Georgia, and I know
that's not the case. So for some reason they I
don't know if they came in shell shocked from getting
punched early on or unmotivated. How that could be a

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game of his magnitude, I don't know, but it was.
It was an incredible effort by Georgia, like you guys
mentioned for sure, especially defensively, which is where they've been
the most leaky at times this season. Carson Beck is
still turning the ball over a little bit more than
I would like, and it's gonna end up biting them
later in the year. But all kudos to them. But
for Texas, this is a big weekend for them to
come back and regroup because all of a sudden, usually

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the doormats of the SEC, Vanderbilt, you know, all of
a sudden, are ranked in the top twenty five, and
if they're not careful and come in serious, they can
end up having a second loss on their ledger coming
out of this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:22:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:22:35):
No, it's a great point.

Speaker 4 (01:22:36):
I think that's realistic possibility the way Vandy b Vandy's
been playing. It's also really that stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:22:43):
And I know I've said this before, but I've had
former players talk to me about the fact that playing
at Vandy is different because it is a small stadium
that is typically.

Speaker 5 (01:22:53):
Not really fired up. It's much quieter.

Speaker 3 (01:22:56):
No offense to Vandy fans, both of you that are
gonna get my menchies, it's a quiet stadium. I've been
to that stadium a bunch of times. Don't done at me.
It has a different vibe and so sometimes teams come
in and they just have a hard time picking the
adrenaline up because it's a flatter game day experience than
you're used to. And I just I think, you know,
look at Alabama obviously came in and lost that game.

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There is a little element for me if Texas is
going to have to find their juice, which you would
think wouldn't be a big deal after losing, But I
think that's tougher than we want to give it credit for.

Speaker 5 (01:23:29):
Sometimes I do think Texas rolls against Sandy.

Speaker 3 (01:23:32):
But also I will be the first to loudly say
I've underestimated Vandy a lot this year in Clark Leader.

Speaker 4 (01:23:37):
Has it's done a good job?

Speaker 2 (01:23:39):
Yeah, And I got a question for you guys. You
burn up Alabama both you guys. If your bill row
do you come back another year? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:23:50):
I mean it depends on what the scouts are telling me.
You know, it's the he's ready to play is different
than where he's going to be drafted. You know, those
are two completely different things.

Speaker 2 (01:24:00):
Now you're going to get paid, right like, so it's
not like you know, this is not like the pass
right now with the nil you're getting and you're getting
real money, right so you're getting real money.

Speaker 6 (01:24:13):
And I go back.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
It's your two of the coach, and you know, I
feel good. I mean, I could, I could set myself
up for a big year. I got Bran Williams another year,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:24:28):
And that's why I come back, because you know, if
you look at and look, I know it's way too
early to really pay attention to draft experts, so on
and so forth. But most of the draft experts they've
got Frankly, he's what the fifth ranked quarterback, and a
lot of these fourth ranked quarterback and a lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
These behind Cam Shador And.

Speaker 3 (01:24:47):
Then depending on who you read, some people have both
Carson Beck and when you were ahead of Jaln Molroe.

Speaker 4 (01:24:52):
Still his accuracy early in the season looked great. Since then,
it's fallen off a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
And all I keep thinking about is man we saw
the leapix you know that he took and I'm looking
around thinking I'm with a great quarterback head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:25:06):
So I come back.

Speaker 3 (01:25:08):
But here's the bigger problem Alabama faces this this Alabama's
problem isn't a Jalm mil Roll problem. Alabama's problem is
a culture change problem. And this is why Bama fans
destroyed me all summer for saying, hey, this is a
three or four lost team, not because they're not very good,
but because you were going to have to withstand the
difference in culture. And look at what happened for Alabama.

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Alabama had a fourth and reasonable fourth and seven, that's
not reasonable, but they had a fourth to seven late
in the game, and that fourth and seven suddenly changed
drastically because frankly, what happened was an unsportsman like penalty
conduct on a player that turned a fourth and seven
into fourth and twenty two. And what really hit me
all was like the camera was on the player on
the sideline, nobody was chewing them out, like somebody talked

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to him. But like, that's just not the way Kaitlyn
de Boor does. And I'm looking at an undisciplined Alabama
team that commits turnovers and penal He's like, they're not Alabama,
and I'm waiting.

Speaker 5 (01:26:02):
For somebody to step in and say not here.

Speaker 4 (01:26:04):
And that's I think that's the Saban different.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
So like, I really I believe Kaitlin de Bor is
a very good football coach, and I believe Alabama is
very talented. But man, you can't go from having a
leader that just absolutely runs things very tight every single
step of the way to having somebody that's far different
in that and not have a bit of a cultural
backseat with it. Like it's just everything slid back for Alabama.

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So Jalen Milroe, I think that's a great point.

Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
I do.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
I think it's a great point. The same thing I'm thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:26:32):
My first reaction after the game was over was Saban's
not losing that game.

Speaker 4 (01:26:38):
This is not Nick Sabans Alabama.

Speaker 5 (01:26:39):
And that's okay, Like, I don't think that that's like spreading.
You know, I'm not hating on Alabama or.

Speaker 4 (01:26:45):
On Kiln the boor.

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
It's just this is not Saban's Alabama team. And man,
right now, these teams are all gonna beat up on
each other. I get that, but my god, this this
Alabama team. I wouldn't take him at LSU at night.
So like they've got a they've got a third loss
coming at him in the next couple of weeks.

Speaker 4 (01:27:02):
Yeah, And I don't know if it's necessarily fair to
put it all out the feed of Kaylen to Boor
because quite honestly, nobody's Nick Saban. The closest thing you
would have gotten to him is Kirby Smart and he
ain't leaving Georgia to come back to Alabama. So there
is gonna be some growing pains regardless of if who
took this job, Kaitlyn d Borr of the candidates who
are out there, that's what Fitz's I think was one
of the best guy you could have gotten.

Speaker 3 (01:27:23):
But that's why you're so right, and this was brilliant
because if you're Kaitlyn to Boor, you'll always look at
it and say, hey, I took the Alabama job, by
the way, for a ridiculous amount of money. Nobody's ever
gonna fault me. If you're Alabama, you can always look
at your fans and your fan base and your donors
and you can say, you know what, guys, we got
the ragning coach of the year that's won everywhere he's
ever been and losing two games in the SEC is

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not the end of the world. But we all know
that Alabama fans are not going to accept that long term.
This was a very smart hire and he's going to
be a great bridge head coach. I think the realistic,
the unrealistic expectations that Alabama fans have after a generation
of Nick Saban will be the undoing. But I still
think Kaitlyn Divor is a very good head coach and
Bama is going to be a ten win team most times.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
It's just is that going to be enough?

Speaker 2 (01:28:09):
Well? I mean, you know, I mean you go through
a dynasty. You know, it's unfair to expect dynasty all
the time.

Speaker 4 (01:28:18):
Yeah, Like, if he's if he's there, let's say over
the next projecting the next five years and he makes
the playoff three out of five years but doesn't win
a national championship, I mean, he's going to be on
the block. I know he's gonna be on The fans
are gonna be calling for his head. Most universities around.

Speaker 3 (01:28:32):
The fans would have been calling for Saban's head if
his name wasn't Nick Saban, given the success that they
didn't have against Georgia over the last few years. Like, right,
Alabama fans, man, they live in a different world.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
It'll work.

Speaker 4 (01:28:45):
Yeah, you know, you're not that far from from Mike
Shoele as your head coach. I just want to make
sure you remember that, remember those days. I know that's
blasphemy to say, you know, I.

Speaker 5 (01:28:54):
Want to get on social media for the day.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
Just just remember what the days were like before Saban, Like,
I know, it's it looks a great story, tradition, bear
all that stuff. You had some very lean years, extremely
lean years for a while. So to expect somebody to
pick up from the greatest coach in the history of
college football and to just keep it rolling, I mean,

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that's just unrealistic without some hiccups. And again I projected
again three playoff bursts in five years, and you guys
are gonna be you know, carrying pitchfork saying get rid
of this. Guys, just be careful what you wish for,
is all I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:29:29):
Yeah, no, I think you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
I mean, and truthfully, I was just more disappointed in Texas.

Speaker 4 (01:29:36):
So, yeah, I agree. It's unbecoming of what Sark has
built for them to come out that flat in a
game that important.

Speaker 2 (01:29:44):
Yeah. I thought it was tight. Yeah, Like, they just
seemed so tight and we almost worked against them that
they were home.

Speaker 4 (01:29:51):
Yeah, maybe they would have been more focused if they
were on the road. That's that's a good point, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
Well, liked great pressure, like you can almost feel the
weight of the world on them, like they were expected
to win.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
This ain't gonna go anywhere either, y'all because like quin
Ewers didn't play well enough. And now this is what
we talked about when when yours was out hurt and
everybody's like, what a luxury, What a luxury?

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
We said on this show. It's a luxury until it's
not right.

Speaker 3 (01:30:18):
And like now Quinn, you Wewers comes out and has
a bad quarter in an SEC game, fans are gonna
be calling for him. It's gonna be arch arch arch
arch arch and we all know that if you start
that revolving door quarterback, you're done.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
Like it's just this, this, this could this is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:33):
Where Sarks got to come in and earn his money
right now, because I still believe what we said a
week ago is true. Texas is the most talented, complete
team in the country, or looked like in a week ago.
They have that in them. It's gonna be up to
Stark to figure out how to bring that back quickly
because man, there just isn't a lot of room for
error in this SEC and it's gonna be I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:30:51):
I don't know what SEC fans should be rooting for
right now.

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
I almost sit here and say it could be an
advantage to a team to lose enough games to have
to play in the SEC Champion Chip Game and at.

Speaker 5 (01:31:00):
Least let the committee wonder. You know, it's it's gonna.

Speaker 4 (01:31:03):
Be weird and wild to see how all of this
gets ranked at the end. You know, it's easy to
look at their schedule ahead and say, like, well, you know,
they don't really have much of a challenge until they
play Texas A and M at the end of the season.
But the way that college football has played itself out
this year, who's to say Florida can't get them or
going on the road against Arkansas won't they won't get bitten.
You know, that's the SEC is kind of, you know,

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beating itself up and leveling itself out as a conference.
You don't have one dominant team at the top anymore.
Even as good as Georgia is, you know, they've shown
some holes. I mean Texas A and M in LSU
that's a huge game this weekend. That's the battle of
the first place in the SEC, and going into the season.
Who would have said that six seven weeks in. It's
just unpredictable.

Speaker 3 (01:31:43):
The Big Ten's going to do the same to itself,
no doubt soon, no doubt. Like I mean, Penn State,
I don't remember a number three team that I thought
less of.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
I agree, it's not the.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
Penn State's not a They're fine. They're fine. But I
don't watch Penn State and say, oh my god, that's
the number three team of the country. But Penn State
and Ohio State playing a couple of weeks and that's
when you know we're going to start to get some
of that delineation there.

Speaker 4 (01:32:06):
You know, I just wanted to use it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Yes, No, it's well, it's a good delineation is a
good word. Yeah, No, I'm with you. I mean, I
don't think they slip up unless it can't rain those
tough it's their you know, night game, tonight, prime time.
It's a great place to play.

Speaker 4 (01:32:23):
And they are playing better for sure. They've won what
three four games in a row, three believe.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
Now, I mean this is a huge Franklin test. I mean,
because everybody expects them to lose Ohio State, right, The
key is you got to beat Wisconsin and you just
can't get blown out.

Speaker 4 (01:32:40):
Yeah, you have to be competitive with Ohio State. Yeah,
you know which I think they have the ability to do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
Yes, But I agree with you know your guys, that's
they're not the number three team in the country, Like
they don't feel like that high now.

Speaker 4 (01:32:56):
But nobody everybody has there Like as much as I
like Oregon out love Oregon. Oh there, there's nobody this
year I would agree. No, I don't disagree. I agree
with that, but there's not a single team that I say, Wow,
this team is you know, unbeatable, or this team is
a juggernaut, which I think is a great thing for
college football. That's something that we really haven't really had

(01:33:17):
the last you know, decade or so. For the most part,
it is kind of interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:33:22):
We're in the spot where there's a bunch of teams that,
if they play their best football, I think are great
football teams. And I don't trust many of those teams
to actually play their best football. If I have trust
is years for college football this year, which is what
I love about it, It's what makes it makes it
so much fun. But it is the inconsistencies are wild
this year.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
Yeah. Completely, Now you're you're spot on. How do we
feel about Ohio State? Now they got Nebraska? Who oh God?

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
What the hell happened? Royal?

Speaker 6 (01:33:53):
Oh in the Ota?

Speaker 2 (01:33:55):
God bless them? And they played great, they played great defense.
But man Rayola looked like a freshman and he's got
nobody around him. Like, what really stands out is there?
Did you have such a lack of skill? Guys?

Speaker 3 (01:34:10):
Yeah, And I think that was one of the more
shocking results. Like I'm gonna say the same thing about
Indiana that I just said, like I about Penn State
at a different level. I don't look at Indiana and
think holy cow, because they put up a lot of
points against some bad football teams. But what they did
last week, you can't do anything but hang your hat on.

Speaker 2 (01:34:30):
That's a good coach, by the way.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
He'll tell you about it too. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
Google, Yeah, I like it. He's got the stones.

Speaker 3 (01:34:39):
There's never been somebody that has said Google me and
not had me roll my eyes.

Speaker 4 (01:34:43):
But I still I do love that level of like.

Speaker 5 (01:34:45):
Hey, man, I do. All I do is win Google
meet and let's say, oh.

Speaker 4 (01:34:48):
Well, well we'll see you know what you look like
this coming your weekend without your starting quarterback? So that's
that's a huge loss for them.

Speaker 2 (01:34:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Yeah, yeah, And Washington is not necessarily walk over. They've
been competitive, They've been a tough out this year.

Speaker 6 (01:35:03):
So I could see that. I could see the lot
down there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:35:06):
I also cannot imagine when Indiana has to go to
to Ohio State in.

Speaker 4 (01:35:11):
A few weeks.

Speaker 3 (01:35:12):
There's gonna be some Google Me signs all over that
point Like that just feels like big New Game Day.
They're all gonna be hanging out there and there's gonna
be plenty of creative Google Me signs.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Yeah, cause you look, it's most likely not gonna happen.
Imagine a world, as you would say, fits in a world,
In a world if they beat Ohio State and you
look at their schedule and based on how they've played
this year, that Indiana is undefeated going into the Big
Ten Championship game. Wow, how wild would that be? I mean,
and you're basically a shoe win for the playoff, Indiana

(01:35:45):
will be in the College Football Playoff win or lose
the Big Ten Championship Game.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
Well, I mean, here's the thing we kept talking about,
how we don't want to get Ohio State vision in
three straight times because you could get it in the
Big Ten Championship and all this stuff. Well, there's a
very real possibility that Indiana loses to Ohio State and
still finds their way into the Big Ten Championship game
against Ohio or against you know, I guess or gituation. Yeah,

(01:36:12):
that is The possibilities here are endless for the Big
Tab That's where I think we have to understand that
the SEC is beating up on each other, everything is normalizing.
I expect that the same thing is going to happen
at some point to the Big Ten because all of
these teams are about to play each other so well.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
I mean, let's I mean again, Ohio State, It's going
to be interesting because you get past Nebraska and then
it's Penn State. You know. Now, I don't know, this
is a tough spot because you're coming off of the
Oregon game. They had to buy. But you're coming off
the Oregon game. Now you're you're a thirty point whatever,

(01:36:50):
twenty eight point favorite, and then you got Penn State
next week.

Speaker 4 (01:36:57):
I mean, it's just I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
I look at that and the way the schedule plays out,
it's just it feels like the world is not necessarily aligning.
Like you look at Oregons and and this is no fault.
You only play what's ahead of you. But you look
at Oregon and they got Illinois today and that should
be that should be a win for Oregon. I think
we can all agree on that. And then Oregon's got
kind of a cakewalk guy for that. Michigan's no good

(01:37:22):
this year, Maryland's no good this year. Wisconsin should be
a win for him. In Washington's absolute trash. So like,
you know, no offense. Washington putt, well, they're.

Speaker 4 (01:37:30):
Not on Oregon's level. I think they're average. They're not
not on Oregon's level. We'll put it that way. That's
probably a nicer way to say that.

Speaker 3 (01:37:36):
So you know, it's funny because this is the one
thing that is going to happen as some of these
teams go through their schedule, is like the schedule and
the way it lays out and the timing of it
makes such a difference every single year for all of
these teams. So you know, if you're if you're Ohio
State and you got to get through penns If Ohio

(01:37:56):
State loses to Penn State and then takes on Indiana,
it's yeah, Ohio State by by nature of two good losses,
Oregon and Penn State in that situation would be watching
the Big Ten Championship game, not a part of it.
The committee is still going to put him in. And
then you got it, Like where it gets really curious
is then if you're a team like Indiana, you make
the Big Ten Championship Game and you lose, you can

(01:38:19):
end up missing out on the playoffs to Ohio State,
who didn't have to play in that Big Ten Championship game.
So it's like this all gets really wild for the
committee in a couple of weeks. I think that's where
they were smart, you know, in letting the committee still
have a hand in it, because that frankly creates drama
and there's an Asian and chaos. We're all going to
be talking about who actually deserves these playoff spots in

(01:38:39):
a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:38:41):
Yeah, that's a great point. That's a great point. Excellent.
All right, coming up, we'll continue the college talk, and
I gotta hit you, guys man, it's the story to
me that I can't wait. That's shape it up pretty
cool is the service academies. So we got to talk
about that Navy's got Notre Dame today, so we'll talk

(01:39:01):
about we'll go through some of the games, and then
we'll take a look at the NFL slate as well.
So lots to get to fellas hanging right here. Fox
Sports Radio.

Speaker 8 (01:39:11):
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Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Fellas. Jason Fitz, Kevin Figures, I'm Anthony Gargano. Funny. A
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all about he's in Nebraska, man like myself. He's looking

(01:39:44):
for Navy and we were just about to talk about it.
The service academies are such a great story. In fact,
today in the Meadowlands, Navy and Notre Dame go at it.
In two weeks it'll be Army and Notre Dame at
Yankee Stadium, so it'll be kind of we're really looking

(01:40:06):
forward to seeing what happens with Army and Navy and
if that collision course can continue.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
If you do not pay attention to these games, then
stop bothering me with your The Service Academy game Army
Navy game in December is the most important game in America.
Don't miss me with all of that, because both of
these teams are playing meaningful football right now. So if
you really want to support service academy football, to support
service academies, this is the time to do it.

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
Like you talk about consequence.

Speaker 3 (01:40:37):
Navy is a ranked matchup for Notre Dame, which doesn't
have much on its schedule that gives any sort of
a meaning to the committee on who they are as
a football team. Navy. Sorry, Notre Dame needs this game
over Navy for their college football playoff chances in the meantime.

Speaker 5 (01:40:52):
This is a Navy team.

Speaker 3 (01:40:53):
I don't know the triple option, but this is not
the normal triple option we're used to seeing from Navy.

Speaker 4 (01:40:57):
This isn't painful football where you're like, well.

Speaker 5 (01:40:59):
They just find a way to win.

Speaker 10 (01:41:00):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
This is a physical quarterback that absolutely gets demolished in
the pocket and still throws the football all over the
field like they run a passing offense out of the
triple option. That is really fun to watch. So, hey,
this is not your older brothers Navy. It's not even
Navy from a couple of years ago. B.

Speaker 5 (01:41:18):
This is meaningful.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
Playoff college football, playoff caliber, playoff football that we're gonna
get from the Service Academy. He's like, what else could
we want? I think this game today could end up
being one of the best games of the day. This
is a tough challenge for a Notre Dame defense that's
young and experienced on the back end in some ways
and has made some mistakes week in and week out
defensively in their assignments. Like, man, this game is gonna

(01:41:41):
come down to the wire. And if Notre Dame's lucky
enough to pull out a win, if people turn around.

Speaker 4 (01:41:46):
And say, well, they barely beat Navy, that just shows you.

Speaker 3 (01:41:48):
Any analyst that says that just to telling you they
haven't watched a second of football, that's a I haven't.

Speaker 6 (01:41:54):
I think you're spot on.

Speaker 2 (01:41:56):
Let me ask you guys a question, because I saw
the line Notre Dames third team and a half. Oh
it's fat.

Speaker 6 (01:42:03):
I think it's way too fat.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
I think you know, if you're going to do something
with that game, I go I would take Navy and over.

Speaker 4 (01:42:12):
Yeah, And and to Fitz's point it really both Army
and Navy have this up their sleeve that they can
actually throw the ball, you know, both both the Horvath
and Dealley, you know, kind of mixing it up. It's
not your classic triple option anymore. They're doing away with
the cut block a couple of years ago. It's kind
of forced them to alter the way that they do things,
and they've they've mastered it so far. Here's the interesting thing.

(01:42:32):
And I don't want to get to ahead of ourselves.
I'm the main one who says, let's not look forward,
let's look at the president and enjoy the games for
what they are. But as of right now, the top
two teams in the American are Army and Navy. So
if this were to somehow hold and both of them,
let's say we're the defeat Notre Dame. You realize that
we'd have the classic Army Navy matchup that we always

(01:42:52):
get as a standalone game. And then they play each
other the next week in the AAC championship game too.
How in same with that be?

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
I'd mean incredible. Well, it's a great story.

Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
The highest ranked group of.

Speaker 3 (01:43:06):
Five, uh huh, the highest ranked group of five champion
has gets an automatic bid to the College Football Playoff
and right, you know, look, we all think that's going
to be bois that's fine, but any slip up from
Boise State, like Poise State is likely to get UNLV
again in the in the Mountain West Championship, that game
came down to the wire last night, so you know,

(01:43:26):
you'd never know. If you're an Army or Navy. You're
looking at it and saying, man, I got a really I
got a real shot at the College Football Playoff and that.

Speaker 4 (01:43:35):
That gets wild. And based on how both of those
teams have played this year, you look at their schedules,
I mean, the hardest game for each of them, Notre
Dame and each other. So if both of those teams
can find a way to get past Notre Dame. Some
teams that you thought might be competitive this year, you know,
like UTSA or North Texas having that the years that
people thought that they would. So those I don't want

(01:43:56):
to call it a walkover. And we said anything can
possibly happen, but it shouldn't be too tough. I can
see a path for Army to be potentially undefeated going
into the final weekend, and you can say the exact
same thing for Navy, who has Tulane in East Carolina
lined up.

Speaker 2 (01:44:10):
Yeah, you know, you're you're lay out a great case.
It's so interesting because like as you're kind of looking
at this, how it all plays out. I mean, there
is a real possibility that, you know, all that thing
comes to fruition and it goes back to what Fitzi's

(01:44:32):
talking about with chaos. Uh So I'm talking with Kevin
the Gandhi and our mutual friend Fitzi, and Kevin was
talking about how Army, Navy, and BYU are the teams
that are the programs that are impervious to the portal,

(01:44:55):
and that those teams will do good from now on
because of the kids just can come back and they'll
have that continuity.

Speaker 3 (01:45:06):
I've never thought of that. That's a really smart point.
You know, start thinking about players sticking together for a
minute and how much of a difference that can make. Yeah,
that's a really really smart point by Kevin that I
hadn't thought of. Because everything else is revolving door for everybody.

(01:45:27):
So you know, if you can get continuity, man, continuity
is priceless in college sports right now. So yeah, that's
that's brilliant by him. And you know, this is a
real opportunity, by the way, to also like think at
what we've talked about today, Boise State and you know,
their possibility of a college football playoff, Berth Army, Navy, BYU.

(01:45:48):
These are not schools that usually, if we're being fair
on the National Show on Saturday morning, anybody would give
a damn about in a fourteen playoff society. I don't
think people are going to be clamoring to sit there
and say, oh, I got to watch.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
The Navy game today.

Speaker 5 (01:46:04):
In a twelve team playoffs society.

Speaker 4 (01:46:06):
That game has meaning, you know, and that's just.

Speaker 5 (01:46:09):
What the really special things about it right now.

Speaker 4 (01:46:11):
Like even if you can't really.

Speaker 3 (01:46:12):
Love college football, if you're just sort of a casual
on the sidelines, yeah, that's all.

Speaker 4 (01:46:16):
I don't pay attention.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
You're paying attention to Iowa State and BYU because they
got a shot. You know, both of those teams have
shots at the college football playoff, real shots. You're actually
paying attention to what Indiana does because it's not just
a cute story, it's a man, can Indiana make the
college football Playoff?

Speaker 4 (01:46:32):
Like that?

Speaker 5 (01:46:32):
This is where expansion is just continuing to win for
the growth of the sport.

Speaker 4 (01:46:35):
Yeah, that's for all the people who are claiming that
if you expand the postseason it's going to diminish the
regular season for some teams in some conference, as it might.
But now, and we mentioned this in the first hour,
it kind of forces you to pay attention to teams
and matchups that you otherwise would never have paid attention
to because now you might have to. You might actually
see them in a playoff matchup in that first weekend

(01:46:56):
in December or the last week in December.

Speaker 3 (01:46:59):
And nobody can about the fact that Texas and Georgia
might play again in the SEC championship game.

Speaker 4 (01:47:03):
We were watching that game last weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:47:05):
It's just, you know, we are absolutely beholden to the
moment right and in the moment this year continues to win.

Speaker 4 (01:47:12):
Do we think that the conference championship game could be
in jeopardy? Just do you talk about the fact that,
you know, it could be advantageous for certain teams and
certain conferences to actually not make the conference championship game
because losing is an extra point against them. I wonder
if at some point, as this continues to evolve, that
the conference championship game just goes away and whoever ends

(01:47:32):
up having the best at.

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
The redundancy to it right, right, And you're right, it
can also work as a negative.

Speaker 6 (01:47:42):
So anything that you know, the.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
Whole point was not do it work as a negative,
was to add that whole level of So I'm with you, like,
if you win your conference, you're automatically in. I think
you got to get ready of the championship game.

Speaker 4 (01:47:57):
I guess the issue would be in certain sorry fits,
in certain years, if you're in the Big Ten and
there's eighteen twenty teams and there's two teams that don't
play each other that are both undefeated, you know, someone
has percentage points, comment upon it, all that stuff. Those
are things that are out of the player's control.

Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
Yeah, you have to do the championship game.

Speaker 3 (01:48:14):
Yeah, you're right, But like I was saying earlier with Indiana,
this becomes, you know, imaginary scenario. But a one loss
Indiana team makes the Big Ten championship game and they
lose that Big Ten championship game. They played an extra
game nobody else played, they lose it, and then somebody
that didn't.

Speaker 4 (01:48:29):
Play in the conference championship at all.

Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
That has you know one or two losses is going
to get in above that Indiana. It gives the committee
an opportunity to as I use this phrase all the time,
but like you can't get people a yeah but well
yeah but and losing the conference championship game is an
extra tick down for some of these teams.

Speaker 2 (01:48:47):
Then I know, I don't know how you record, I
don't know how you recond selt because you like Figgie's right,
you need it, because my first reaction is get rid
of it. Poro. If you do have those unbeaten teams, let.

Speaker 6 (01:49:00):
You do seekin.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
It goes back to the big ten in the SEC
being the super conferences. I mean, the only way that
truly works is if you have an AFC and an
NFC and the division winners all go right, and then
there's wildcards. That's we talked about that remember fake.

Speaker 4 (01:49:17):
Yeah yeah, and as this look this is going to
continue to evolve four more times in the next decade.
We know. That's just how this works.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
That's I think that's fitzy. How it gets fixed is
if you just have the two super conferences or wherever
how you do it, and the division winners all go
and then there's a wildcard system. But I but we're
we have to do the trending again, so.

Speaker 4 (01:49:48):
They ever enthused Anthony Gargano don't trending, Thank you, Anthony.
The Dodgers Game one of the World Series on Friday night,
LA first basemen Freddie Freeman toddled his way up to
the as he had the entire postseason, but this time
he comes through with a game winning Grand Slam, the
first ever walk off Grand Slam in the history of
the World Series, off of Yankee reliever Nest Cortez, normally

(01:50:12):
a starter, but coming in out of the bullpen in
the bottom of the tenth inning, Dodgers coming away with
a six to three victory there. Game two will be
tonight at eight Easter. Yoshinobu Yamamoto going for the Dodgers
against Carlos Radon of the Yankees. College football Friday night,
we talked about Boise State picking up a twenty nine
to twenty four victory over UNLV. They are six in

(01:50:33):
one on the season, USC five hundred and four and
four after a forty two to twenty victory over Rutgers.
Miller Moss a couple of touchdown passes there. Louisville overcame
three turnovers to defeat Boston College thirty one to twenty seven.
And on the hardwood in the NBA, Anthony Davis thirty
five points for the Lakers and a victory over Phoenix.
Kobe White thirty five points for the Bulls as they
defeated Milwaukee. Wins for Cleveland, Houston, and Golden State. Back

(01:50:57):
to the Fellas, all right, that sucks.

Speaker 2 (01:51:00):
You know, I'm always enthused like you're part of it's weird.
You're part of the show. So it's not like, no, no, no,
I I love that. I always make sure that it's
not as it separates you and the trending.

Speaker 4 (01:51:12):
I separate it was directed towards the trending, not towards
me yet.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
Exactly, I understand exactly, yes that you know, I mean
we are the trending. We talk about what's happening.

Speaker 4 (01:51:22):
We are.

Speaker 2 (01:51:23):
That's the Fellas too, right, We got to take a
quick time out. We'll come right back and uh we'll
continue college. And also I want to start looking at
the games for tomorrow, so lots to get to Fellas
hanging right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
All right, welcome back, Fellas.

Speaker 2 (01:51:43):
Jason Fitz, Kevin figures on Anthony Gargano from thetiraq dot
com studios.

Speaker 6 (01:51:51):
All right, let's go through some of the other games,
and we talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Notre game in Navy, Ohio State, Nebraska. How about there's
I mean Oregon in Illinois. I mean, I know they're
a big favorite. Any letdown at all from Oregon, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
Think so, But I'll say this, Oregon still needs to
continue to get their offense on track to where we
all thought it would be. I know, the big win
over Ohio State, and obviously they blank Purdue thirty five
nothing last week. But I just Oregon has lofty expectations
because they have the most talented weapons on the outside.
In the eyes of many other than Ohio State, They've

(01:52:30):
got everything you could possibly need. Dylan Gabriel, as I've
talked about a lot, I think, puts the ball at risks.

Speaker 4 (01:52:35):
Sometimes it doesn't need to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
They need to keep playing clean football like the Oregon's
undefeated their number one, but they are not playing necessarily
even as hyped as I thought they would. They were
my preseason pick to win the National Championship. Dylan Gabriel
was my preseason Heisman Award winner, just because that's the
way that usually works. This is the last real test
on their schedule, so again they go at Michigan, then Maryland,

(01:52:59):
then at Wiscon and then with Washington. So they make
it through this game and they should be able to
presuming they stay focused, they should be able to find
themselves in the Big Ten championship game and likely right
they control their own destiny to be the number one
seed in.

Speaker 4 (01:53:13):
The College football playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
So I don't see a slip up coming for Oregon,
and Dan Lanning has done a great job with this
team this year.

Speaker 4 (01:53:20):
I will say, yeah, I think they win as well.
But I'll give props to Brett Beilama for Illinois and
how they've played this year too, because they've they've bought
their asses off, but they're they're overmatched in this one.
They just don't have the horses offensively. I think defensively
they can do enough to kind of him Oregon down
at least a little bit early on, but on offense
they just don't have enough to keep up. So what's
the spread twenty two and a half. I can see

(01:53:43):
that's that's fat to me.

Speaker 2 (01:53:44):
That is yeah, I like Illinois with the points.

Speaker 4 (01:53:47):
Yeah, I'm kind of I was kind of thinking maybe,
you know, a seventeen point win is ten to seventeen points,
and twenty two seems seems lofty considering the effort and
vigor with how Illinois plays this year. So I don't
think they lay down. I think they keep it competitive.
But Oregon wins by I'd say, you know, ten points,
seventeen points something like that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Yeah, I could see that Byu is a dog. We
talked about this, you know, against Cuchral Florida, and you
know that that's gonna be a That's an interesting game, man,
you know, especially after they played the Iowa State really tough.

Speaker 4 (01:54:25):
Right, well, then at Oklahoma State game last weekend was
unreal with BYU in Oklahoma State. Well, I mean the
big thing it begins and ends with UCF with running
the ball. Can they run or can they not? If
they don't, they're not gonna win. So and I feel
like I trust BYU's defense enough in this spot, even
though I know it's on the road to be able

(01:54:45):
to stay undefeated and get the victory. So I like
what I like with b I E. B. Y U
s cooking out there. So I'll take them against u CF.

Speaker 3 (01:54:52):
I think UCF is getting so much hype because they
almost beat Iowa State, and Iowa State to me, is
not the number nine team in the country.

Speaker 4 (01:54:59):
I guess somebody has to but there a number ten
team in the country, like somebody has to be.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
But look at the wins this year for UCF. They
beat New Hampshire, Sam Houston, and TCU by one. They
got smacked by Colorado, they got smacked by Florida. They
lost to Cincinnati, who's no good. Like I just think
that we're over blovigating, like we're we're we're gasped bat
like this this big moment of UCF gets it almost

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gets a big win and b YU almost lost.

Speaker 5 (01:55:25):
Like that's a lot of almost to put together.

Speaker 3 (01:55:27):
I think, you know BYG comes through BYU. I love
the fact that he's monetized that like and before you know,
in case anyone doesn't know the quarterback for BYU, he
has come up with this hashtag. He is the one
that puts it out. He is the one that is
monetizing BYG. It's hysterical to me, So you know, just
I've had some blowback from people at times on that.

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So making sure they know that this is what he
prefers to be called.

Speaker 4 (01:55:51):
Jake Retz left the starting quarterback, made this up himself
and as and has written it into you know, into
the sunset, and good for him by all means, take
advantage of it as much as you possibly can.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Yeah, exactly exactly. We touched on Bama Missouri. Bama fifteen
and a half point favorite. That feels fat too.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
Well in Missouri? Are they going to have Brady Cook?
Is he gonna play? I don't even know what his
status is, and even if he does, I mean, they
haven't been the model of consistency this year. That's lost Auburn,
and Auburn is terrible.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
Yeah, So I.

Speaker 4 (01:56:24):
Mean the problem with Alabama you keep saying like, oh,
they'll figure it out. They'll get it, right, will they?

Speaker 7 (01:56:30):
You know?

Speaker 4 (01:56:31):
So this game is as questionable as any Like It's honestly,
if you were asking me to, like, if I had
to pick this one, I probably probably stay away from it.
But since I'm not actually putting real money on it,
I'll take Alabama. But I'm not necessarily super confident about it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:56:46):
And Pete Damo last night from ESPN said that Cook
is going to do his best to try and play.
He's been upgraded to questionable. He's going to try to play.
I don't like any of that. I also, by the way,
I've never believed in Missouri this year. I've been pretty
loud about that. I still don't believe in Missouri. I
think Alabama gets right in this game. They win this game.

Speaker 2 (01:57:05):
Ah, So Penn State six and a half on the
road in Wisconsin.

Speaker 4 (01:57:12):
As you like Wisconsin to cover the number high too,
I think in State wins, but they're gonna have to
sweat this one out.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
I agree. I could see if that's another field goal game.

Speaker 4 (01:57:22):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:57:23):
Guys like I want that because I like I like
to have nice things. Wisconsin playing a little better, obviously,
but this is a Wisconsin team that gave up thirty
eight to USC, right, this is Wisconsin team that gave
up forty two Tobama. Their wins are yeah, their wins
are okay, their wins are less convincing.

Speaker 4 (01:57:40):
I think. I think actually Penn State roles in this.

Speaker 5 (01:57:42):
I get I get Penn I'll take Penn State and
I'll take the points.

Speaker 6 (01:57:45):
You're you're gonna lay, You'll lay six and a half.

Speaker 4 (01:57:47):
Yeah, I'm laying six and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:57:48):
Yeah, whoa all right? I mean penns I mean USC
did put up thirty on Penn State.

Speaker 3 (01:57:55):
Yeah, well one hundred percent, one hundred percent. I who's
Wisconsin beating in this? They beat a bad burdwe team,
They beat Rutgers, they beat a bad Northwestern team.

Speaker 4 (01:58:06):
They smacked it. You know what out of Rutgers are
getting that?

Speaker 3 (01:58:08):
They they they beat South Dakota. Like, I don't know,
like Wisconsin's okay this year and Penn State.

Speaker 6 (01:58:15):
Especially much great. I just think it's a spot. It's
also a spot.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
Like it's yeah, tough conference game on the road. I
don't think Penn State has looked overly impressive in many
of their games this year, either against quality competition.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
So and I've had a lot of people say trap
game too, because the Ohio State games coming.

Speaker 2 (01:58:32):
Up, No trap game, not a camp randle.

Speaker 5 (01:58:37):
I think Penn State is gonna jump around all over them.

Speaker 4 (01:58:40):
There you go, look at that? Thank you?

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
All right, fellas, Yeah we're coming up next right here.
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It is uh seven am and eight am in the east,
five am in the west, and in the west they're
still celebrating an incredible Dodgers victory. It was sintling. We

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talked about it to start the show. It was man,
it was special, it was drama. It was an automatic,
an instant classic. There Freddy Freeman was and he played
the role at Kirk Gibson. Isn't it funny? Fits e
How you know life can be? You know that circ

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killer kind of movement where those things from the past
all of a sudden resurface in a different form with
different characters.

Speaker 3 (02:00:09):
These are the moments that make new fans for generations, uh,
players of teams of sports. You know, if you were
sitting up and you saw Freddy Freeman hit the ball
and you saw the look on his face and then
he just held the bat in the air straight up
in the air for that second before he dropped it down.
It was such a incredible movie like ending, you know,

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to have the walk off Grand Slam, to have been
intentionally walked to get to that point, all of these
things that you know you could use as a fuel
and motivation and all of these things for Freddy Freeman
to make the most of that first pitch. You know,
it's just in a game that was so just wired,
wire came down to the wire and it was just

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so tight on both sides. It just to have that
be the way it ended in La with everyone going nuts.
It's just I tweeted this last night as this was
all happening, but says why I don't need sports movies,
because like the real thing is dramatic enough, and you
just you watch what we got last night and it
just fuels the fire for what this series is going

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to be. Two biggest brands in the sport, all of
the superstars you could beg for coming into it. Show
hey with an at bat in the bottom of the
tent that you thought was going to be some sort
of a magical finish, and instead Freddie Freeman is the
guy that gets you to win the w from Game one.
I don't remember ever in my life being as excited

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for a baseball game as I am for tonight with
Game two.

Speaker 4 (02:01:37):
And that's all fueled.

Speaker 3 (02:01:39):
By Freddie Freeman having his Sports Illustrated cover moment iconically
of hitting that ball out of the park.

Speaker 2 (02:01:45):
I mean, played Kirk Gibson, who was unbelievable. Man, it
really was Figgy. I mean, how incredible was that? You're
you know, if you think about Dodgers baseball and the
iconic part of it, Oh my god.

Speaker 4 (02:02:00):
Last time they won a World Series in a full
season nineteen eighty eight, and it kind of just mirrorred
that moment. And I think the big thing for me
I think of is the experience. You know, one of
the big stories the last week has been how expensive
the tickets are, whether New York or in Los Angeles.
And you know what price you're willing to pay to

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be able to experience if you were at that game
on Friday night, If you were there, if you found
a way to get into the building unless you won
them or something. You spend an arm and a leg
for that, And maybe your wallet's hurting a little bit,
but can you imagine the memories that you're going to
have for the rest of your life to say that
you were there in Heaven forbid, that you were someone
who was old enough to be at Kirk Gibson's you
know game in nineteen eighty eight and on Friday Night.

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I mean, those are priceless moments and memories if you're
there with your son or your daughter or your family,
that you're going to be able to share forever, and
especially if the Doctors go on to win the World Series,
to say that you were in attendance for what could
end up being one of the great moments in they
hissed not only of the Dodger franchise, but in all
of baseball and World Series history. How can you put

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a price on that? That's That's kind of one thing
that stands out to me watching that.

Speaker 2 (02:03:11):
I mean, so perfect, Oh man, you're right, you're right.
It's uh man, that was just its Yankees. It's the
way the game plays out. I mean it was. It
was just tremendous theater.

Speaker 4 (02:03:26):
And I know, baseball is different than a lot of
other sports. You know, you win, you know, big games
in dramatic fashion. People always ask if there is some
sort of emotional letdown that might happen, And you wonder, honestly,
in this situation, if it's the opposite effect for the
Yankees who are winning in that situation, and you know
you thought you were gonna be able to Yeah, you
blow the gang. Granted the lee wasn't large, it was

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one run, but blow an opportunity, Yeah, to take a
one lead on the road, Yeah, and a big spot living.

Speaker 2 (02:03:53):
Let's face it, now you got Yama Modo going the
night tough, right, You're wasting an opportunity with Garrett who
pitched the jet like listen, he's he was.

Speaker 4 (02:04:04):
A great, great pitcher, spectacular.

Speaker 2 (02:04:07):
But you know how it is too, you get usually
one of those games in the series, right, you know,
a guy on the downward side of his career gives
you that the second time around is usually gets beat up.

Speaker 4 (02:04:20):
A little bit or it's more of a labor because
I mean he was cruising, yes, really had any issues whatsoever,
no traffic on the basis for the most part. And
to lose a game where your ace, who you need
to pitch like an ace in this in the postseason,
you know, loses That's that's difficult. That's a hard one
to swallow.

Speaker 3 (02:04:38):
Yeah, I keep going back to also just the viewing
experience what we had last night. And one thing that
I think makes this series maybe resonate a little bit
more with people that don't love the sport the way
you two do, which I respect so much, is just
there isn't ever a gap in these games where people

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are to bat that you don't know, and there's that's
just such a hard thing to accomplish, you know. It's
it's hard when you're sitting in a bar with a
bunch of randoms it just happened to have the game on.
It's hard sometimes in Major League Baseball that doesn't always
market names incredibly well to know who's who and what's
going on. And it hit me last night watching how

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often it wasn't just it's not just about show. Hey,
it's not just about Aaron Judge. You just go up
and down these rosters and the number of, oh, I've
heard of that guy is just that's real. It's palpable
in this series, like the number of it even called
me in on the mounds, like kept, these are names
that I've heard a million times if I've ever watched sports.
Something makes that an easier watch, an easier consumption, you know,

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because last night wasn't a you know, six to three,
seven to thirty, like, last night didn't have that sort
of a feel. It had a we are just struggling
to get runs. How do you make every bat a
bad impactful and you know, chicks love the long ball
sort of jokes aside, we love offense in every single sport.

Speaker 4 (02:05:59):
I thought it was pretty compelling.

Speaker 3 (02:06:00):
That you're watching every at bat and you're just looking
at star.

Speaker 4 (02:06:04):
After star after star.

Speaker 3 (02:06:05):
Like it it to me it's impactful that you know,
show Hay strikes out and then it's like, well, Mooki's
up next, and it's like it's just another household Okay.

Speaker 4 (02:06:13):
Yep, Mookie, Like we all know this.

Speaker 3 (02:06:16):
Like it's just it just makes this whole thing sort
of connect on a different level, which is I think
a huge opportunity for this series to connect with everybody.

Speaker 4 (02:06:24):
Yeah, to bring in the casuals because you bring up
a good point the name recognition of all the star
players and how infrequently we get this this deep in
the postseason. Because the way that the Major League Baseball
playoff model is built, it just baseball in general, it
just lends itself to hot pitchers flukiness. You know, a
nine here it gets hot all of a sudden and
a five game series in the DS. And you haven't

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seen like the Dodgers that wins the division every year
get knocked out of the first round the last two years. Yeah,
you know, and it just doesn't Linditraves, yeah, the Braves
or the Phillies. You know, it just doesn't line itself
up to have, you know, these epic matchups with these
superstar players, because you know, teams get eliminated early on
in the five game series so often it makes me
wonder and maybe they will, maybe they won't. I would

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like to see them extend every series to seven games,
say for the wildcard once you get to the division series.

Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
I do they should?

Speaker 4 (02:07:13):
Yeah, like I look, I respect and like and understand
the notion of upsets and senses of urgencies within a series.
But why wouldn't you want to give the best teams
the best opportunities to make sure that they play each
other on the biggest thing.

Speaker 2 (02:07:26):
You see Yankees Yankees Dodgers, right, you're rid off the
name value right alone. And and by the way, forget
Yankees Dodgers as much as O tiny judge right, that's
more that the name Todo Freeman like all those you
get great players playing against each other.

Speaker 6 (02:07:42):
That's what grows the.

Speaker 2 (02:07:43):
Sport and keep them the sport alive, no doubt, you know,
I I like, I agree. I actually think that they
should lop off some games the regular seasons, start the
playoffs in middle September.

Speaker 4 (02:07:56):
Well that's an extreme but I and I understand that
part of it only.

Speaker 2 (02:08:00):
Because like you got to fit in a couple seven
game series, you know, Yeah, you know, I think it's
too late. I think having the World Series going to
November is too late.

Speaker 4 (02:08:13):
Yeah, I mean, and for me, I say, what's one
extra week? I don't know if that maybe you push
back the start of spring training by a week, you
know that, I think that's I don't know if that's
that big of a burden. If you're talking about extending
the Wildcard series to seven games, then okay, that might
be an issue. But if you're just talking about taking
the DS and extending it by two more games, potentially,
I don't think that calendar that much.

Speaker 2 (02:08:34):
I hear you. My only issue is I try to
reconcile the wild Card because inherently I don't like it
as a baseball fan. Yeah, I think it's good for
the game because it gives you know, fans other cities,
you know, life, But it's such a disadvantage to guy

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the teams. Look, I know the Dodgers and they still won,
But I do think it. Baseball's a rhythm game, and
if you're sitting, it's not good.

Speaker 4 (02:09:08):
Yeah, it can ultimately end up hurting you in some senses.
But there are teams, like if you're the Dodgers, I mean,
even though they got knocked out in the DS the
last couple of years, they would work to their advantage
because they've had so many issues, particularly with their rotation.
The extra rest can help. So the rest and rust.
I mean, we've seen it work both ways, you know So.
I mean your Phillies made into the World Series a

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couple of years ago and they had rest and they
ended up being fine and making a run.

Speaker 2 (02:09:32):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:09:32):
So, I don't know. I'm fine with the Wildcard. I
hated the Wildcard being a one game situation. I'll say
that that was terrible. You don't play one sixty two
for it to come down to one. I'm fine with
it being best of three, all being played at one site.
But I don't know if I if I necessarily want
to extend that even further and then make that if

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you're talking about extending the wildcard into seven games, then
that that just you know, makes things to go a
little bit longer than I think it's necessary.

Speaker 3 (02:10:03):
But to Anthony's point about extending the playoff series, the
only thing that you know, look, there's just nothing that
can be done. And this i'd say the same thing
as a hockey fan. There's nothing that can be done
to bring the same intensity to a regular season hockey
game in February that we have in June and the
Stanley Cup, right, Like, there's just nothing they can do that.

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Last night, even after the game, you know, my first
thought was when Freddie Freeman, when they ice bat him
after the game while he was doing the interview, my
first thought was, like, God, this this had the drama
of a Game seven. Like we see her all the
time and we say game seven best two words of
sports or the WNBA apparently game five. But like we
sit here all the time and talk about clinching games

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all the time. I felt like we had every ounce
of that, and in that sense, last night was really
reminiscent of what I love about playoff hockey, where you
are on the edge of your seat because you realize
one goal could just be the end of your entire series.

Speaker 5 (02:10:57):
Right, it just feels like there's this drama.

Speaker 4 (02:11:00):
Well last night, the fact that two teams that I.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
Think both you know, both have guys that can obviously
just hit the hell out of the ball, and the Dodgers,
who can score a ton of runs. When you saw
both teams really not capable of getting runners out of
scoring position and taking advantage of opportunities, it really started
to get that same sort of feel to me, where
like one run is going to be the death of

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this game. I will go back to one of the
most impressive parts, not just winning at the bottom of
the tenth, but the fact that even after the Yankees
go up one run in the top of the ninth,
I'm sitting there thinking, well, that's so this thing's over.

Speaker 5 (02:11:36):
No, I ain't know why you're getting a run, like
it's just they've been impossible.

Speaker 3 (02:11:39):
Like it had that sort of a oh my god,
how are we going to get through every single base
last night? And that's just a level of intensity that
June baseball will never provide that is a level of it.

Speaker 2 (02:11:50):
I know you're right, it's what made it beautiful. It did.
Like to think about when the Dodgers the rally right
like that, that the Yankees got cold, got out of right.
I mean, you're like, wow, man, it was like white knuckle.
Remember earlier Freeman got his bat sawed.

Speaker 4 (02:12:11):
Off because bats on off. Freeman had a triple I
believe what it was two outs early in the game,
and Cole got out of it. Kiki here and Anders
had a triple what I think one out? I believe
Cole got out of it. Tommy Edmond had a lead
off double in an inning off of Cole, didn't score.
Cole got out of it, which again just makes me
question Aaron Boone's decision even more to take him out
at eighty eight pitches. He was a man on first

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and I believe one out, why not leave him in?

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
Nah, dude, I agree. I don't know how you do that.
It's horrible.

Speaker 4 (02:12:40):
Overmanaging, overthinking it is it's horrible.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
I don't know why you know these guys. I don't
understand it, and I don't buy into the third time
through the order right same you know, Oh my god,
they're exposed. No, I watched it with Wheeler against the Mets.
The Mets went, We're ecstatic when they Phillies took them
out of the game.

Speaker 4 (02:13:02):
Yeah, sometimes you have to have the all time greats
performed like greats. Look you just the same situation happened
in the twenty twenty World Series when the Dodgers played
Tampa Bay. Blake Snell was destroying the Dodgers. They couldn't
do anything with them, and because he was getting ready
to go through the third time through the order, Kevin
Cash took him out. Dodgers came back one game six,
won the World Series.

Speaker 2 (02:13:21):
Yeah, and we killed them. We did analytics, adalytics, we did.

Speaker 8 (02:13:26):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:27):
It's amazing how they they all fall the same sword. Wow,
it's the analytics, Like were you stupid? Yeah, you know
they were to thrown at your face. But all it
is is, well, it's like, well, all right, well then
just let you know the program manage.

Speaker 4 (02:13:43):
That's the biggest thing.

Speaker 3 (02:13:44):
Anthety like, you're so right about and I don't care
what sport we're talking about. If you rely on the
crutch of analytics as being the reason you made a
decision and the only thing that I'd say to that
is it's not a spreadsheet.

Speaker 4 (02:13:55):
It's coaching or managing, right, Like, there.

Speaker 3 (02:13:58):
Has to be some like the reason that you're paying
that person that's standing in the dugout or on the
sideline wherever, whatever sport we're talking about. The reason you
are paying that person is because they are supposed to
have this not only brilliant brain, but also this innate
feel for the game. And that's one thing that I
just we cannot put a value on it. And how
much do instincts? Instincts are a huge part of what

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makes whatever you do for a living. The one percent
typically gets to the one percent because they have great instincts.
If you are a manager or coach, you are a
leader of a team, and you are simply relying on
the concept of analytics, I think what you're forgiving in
that is that analytics should inform your decision. Yes, but
analytics should never make a decision for you, just like

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gut instincts should never fully make your decision. You should
weigh all of these things together. And if you're sitting
there saying, well, you know the numbers, say, you can't
let them see you third time three like that's just
that's asinine. You have to be watching this and saying,
hey that I understand the feel of the game and
when the right time is to make a move. And
so often now analytics had become a buzzword crutch for everything.

Speaker 4 (02:15:03):
Yeah, and it grinds my gears in football too, where
it's like it's a it's a sin to kick field
goals all of a sudden for some reason. And there
have been times this year, I mean the Chargers against
the Chiefs four goal for for going a field goal
attempt that would have put them in the lead to
go for it a touchdown. They didn't get it, and
that altered the game they ended up losing. You kick

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the field goal, take the lead early in the fourth quarter,
you're gonna have more possessions. It's not like the game
is going to be won and lost. Dan Lanning is
probably going to end up getting torched by his over
aggressiveness at times and probably sticking to the analytics and
going for going forward on fourth down in the red
zone as often as he does. There's nothing wrong with
kicking field goals. Point there's still points. All you have

(02:15:43):
to all you need is one more point than the
other guy. That's all you need.

Speaker 2 (02:15:47):
I the same argument, because Sirianity for the Eagles, this
just doesn't want to do it. And it's like, you know.

Speaker 4 (02:15:53):
Man and Doug Peterson as a poster child for that.
It worked at times in Philly form, but just to
and look and and it and it ended up killing
Brandon Staley with the Chargers, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:16:03):
And look, realistically, when you use the football model of it,
analytics don't know if you're taking on Gardner Minshee or
Patrick Mahomes, right, And I think that they require different
feels for the game. If you're sitting there saying, hey,
we're gonna we're gonna go for this deep in our
own end, but also we're taking on Andy Reid and
Patrick Mahomes and Steve Spagnola, maybe we shouldn't do that
as opposed to we're taking on Gardner Minshee.

Speaker 5 (02:16:25):
You know, like there's just there's a difference in how.

Speaker 3 (02:16:27):
That should impact your thinking, which is why you know, realistically,
every single coach or manager is essentially this Lady Justice
skills like, give me a little bit of feel, give
me a little analytics, weigh the two of them together
and then make your decision and stand by your decision,
but don't tell me that the numbers were the reason
you did what you did.

Speaker 4 (02:16:44):
Because.

Speaker 2 (02:16:46):
If you know your team well enough, the analytics will
match your feel right.

Speaker 4 (02:16:53):
Like it to take it back to baseball, like, if
you're it's different if it's you're getting ready for them
to go through the third time through the order and
it's your fourth starter versus Garrett Cole with eighty eight
pitches who's been rowing them down the entire game. Maybe
generally he doesn't do great the third time through, but
if he's having a night where he has it, yeah,
why not leave him in?

Speaker 2 (02:17:12):
You should be able to discern, Yeah, a guy having
a night and a guy getting through X amount of innings.

Speaker 4 (02:17:17):
Right, That's the part that doesn't make sense to me.
It's the analytics are a tool. It's not. It's not
the Bible and twenty guys are using it as the Bible.

Speaker 2 (02:17:27):
Yep, yeah, the religion.

Speaker 4 (02:17:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:17:30):
Also, you know what, like, I think a lot of
guys use it that way and girls use it that
way because simply it can it's the blameable reason.

Speaker 5 (02:17:38):
Hey, not my fault, man, that's what the numbers say.

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
I know, not my fault can I stretch a point
real quick. It'll take a minute. But all the analytics,
of course, the NBA is built on the analytics, right
in the three. I watched Opening Night and I watched
the ninety one threes. Yeah, and it's just horrible. It's

(02:18:02):
bad basketball. It is doesn't move, it stinks. Oh my god.
All right, listen. I don't want to be that guy,
but geez, just watching guys jack up threes all night long,
it's too much.

Speaker 6 (02:18:19):
Just kills the game.

Speaker 3 (02:18:20):
Yeah, it's not every shots that used to get you
kicked off of a team in rec league. Like if
you took these shots in rerect League all the time,
they'd be like, dude, what are you doing now? That
is like the analytics show that that's the right thing
to do.

Speaker 4 (02:18:31):
They're screaming at you if you don't, if you don't
shit it, Yeah, why you shot a twenty footer so good?

Speaker 2 (02:18:38):
Yeah, oh my god, that's frustrating. I had to pliny
to say that, because you just can't. I love it,
and but yet I sit there, I'm going I'll stop.
I love the three corner three. First thing I would
do would be I would push it back a little bit,
and then I would get rid of the corner three.

Speaker 4 (02:18:57):
Just killed the corner three completely.

Speaker 2 (02:18:58):
I would, I would put the three point line and
back it up and do it from sideline to sideline
and kill the corner three. It's too close, it's too easy.
You don't deserve it. You don't deserve three for that
that extraordinary yes, right, like used to be a three

(02:19:19):
pointer was because like the difficulty of the shot. Well,
if the difficulty shot is a free throw, then a
free throw is one point. Well then why why why
is that worth three?

Speaker 4 (02:19:33):
Yeah? I mean, look, the NFL moved back extra points
because they became too easy to make. Exactly, you have
to adjust. I'm all for moving the three point line back.

Speaker 2 (02:19:43):
Good good, All right, we'll come back. The brain will
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Speaker 4 (02:20:52):
All right, Well, we'll go back to Friday night at
Dodgers Stadium, Game one of the World Series, Yankees with
a three to two in the bottom of the tenth inning,
Freddie Freeman walks up to the plate, bat ankle and
all and hits a walk off a grand Slam, sending
the Dodgers to a Game one victory six to three.
Would be the final score, first walk off home run

(02:21:14):
in the history of the World Series. The two teams
will be right back at it tonight on Fox at
eight eastern for Game two. An NBA hoops Anthony Davis
let the Lakers with thirty five points and eight boards.
I should say in a one twenty three to one
sixteen win over the Suns Kobe White thirty five points
for the Bulls. They defeated the Bucks one thirty three
to one. Twenty two wins for Cleveland, Houston, and Golden

(02:21:37):
State in college football seventeenth ring Boise State with a
twenty nine to twenty four victory over UNLV USC defeated
Rutgers forty two to twenty Louisville with a thirty one
to twenty seven victory over Boston College. Back to the fellas, all.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
Right, fellas hanging out with you, guys, Let's bring in
the brain that without further ado, do to look at
this weekend.

Speaker 6 (02:22:02):
Bray, good morning.

Speaker 7 (02:22:04):
Good morning. What a baseball game last night?

Speaker 2 (02:22:07):
Oh my god, we were talking about it all morning.
It was it was It was great. It was baseball
away It should be right. Kirk Kibbs being played by
Freddie Freeman.

Speaker 7 (02:22:17):
Incredible, absolutely incredible. But I have a question for both
of you, because maybe I'm and I'm just curious if
I know what's speaking about this. Did you think the
FAMA ference play. I watched it probably ten thousand times.
I'm that sick in the head. I actually thought it
was going to be a home run. Am I am

(02:22:38):
I just blind or I'm not seeing it the way
it was. I guess I am, because I guess they
rule it that way. But I thought it was actually
going to be a home run.

Speaker 3 (02:22:48):
But I thought the reachover was I thought I thought
it reached over and got it in play. But I
will say this, I was sitting there with twenty people
and ten of us thought it was out, ten of us.

Speaker 5 (02:23:00):
Thought it was in. So like it it was certainly
not clear.

Speaker 3 (02:23:03):
But but the funny thing is, it's kind of like
that that meme that was successful of like is it is?

Speaker 5 (02:23:08):
What color is this dress?

Speaker 3 (02:23:09):
I think both sides were wildly convinced that the other
side made no sense on it.

Speaker 4 (02:23:13):
So it is kind of funny to me.

Speaker 7 (02:23:17):
Actually was what you made me laugh there? But yeah,
I mean what I mean just I mean, that was
one of them. I mean just incredible, and again with
the history of Dodgers versus Yankees, it's just the whole
thing was just incredible. And then Freeman, of course I'll
be obviously having all like his injuries and and he
was like, honestly, I mean, for those you know, Anthey
and I remember that. I remember the twenty people remember,

(02:23:38):
you know when JFK was shot hardly, but I remember
when top Kirk Gibson hit its home run, Like that's
my I remember.

Speaker 2 (02:23:45):
No, dude, that's the timeline of our lives, sports man.

Speaker 7 (02:23:48):
Yeah, at the timeline of our right the sports time.
I think you phrased it way better than me. It's
the sports line timeline of our lives. And I just
I couldn't help but thinking about that. You know, when
you've there, she goes, you know, like it just you know,
it's just just it was a great, great game. I mean,
just you know, and you know what, it's interesting to know.

(02:24:09):
Just a quick side note. Aaron Judge, who's just had
such a brilliant career, Yeah, kind of gone a little
like the a Rod Barry Bond's way of the postseason
in terms of just not being able to look and
now he doesn't work two hundred and thirtieth that he
just has not had that anywhere close to the kind
of success you would like to be seeing for him.

(02:24:30):
So hopeing to his point of view, he can turn
that around.

Speaker 2 (02:24:35):
I'm with you, but let's uh, let's get into it.
Let's talk about some of the what you like first,
what do you like today? Let's let's tackle college first.

Speaker 7 (02:24:45):
Yeah, uh, it's interesting. I have a game in b
y U. Now it's funny b YU. They' look they
are they're undefeated, and they're undefeated. And I watched the
book all their games. They've been a little bit fortunate.
They've been a little bit fortunate. Pay State bailor outgained them.

(02:25:08):
And then you know the Oklahoma State game last week,
they were like losing outright, uh, and then at the
end of the game they they got a fourth and
I think like twelve and scored. You know, it's interesting.
Central Florida as a team that preseason ranks was extremely high,
like extremely high, and then it looked like their season
was going down a toilet. And then they played a

(02:25:29):
very solid I was State team last week and like
had them on the ropes that I Was State kind
of got a little bit of a miracle win. I
think you see at that home get this win, I
think by us undefeated streak and then this one, uh,
and I think it'll be a get an exciting game,
good game, but I and the line had little They

(02:25:51):
were actually the underdog. Now they're the flight favorite, but
I think they get it done a game. To me,
it's interesting Indiana, you know, without Curtis Fork right like
that to me is like going to be a very
tough situation because you know he's been really good for

(02:26:11):
him and you know without without him that Indiana has
been probably the number one apply team in college football
this year. They're at him and laying about six and
a half points. I think Washington actually not only does
it not only Colors game. I think Washington's gonna win
this game. I think Washington's a good team, and I

(02:26:34):
just don't like playing this kind of game when you're
missing your your starting quarterback. I just don't. Washington's also
off the bye week, and like to me, you know,
as they have a guy named Kavon Jackson coming in
to play again, maybe he has a good game.

Speaker 2 (02:26:53):
I think the.

Speaker 7 (02:26:53):
Downgrade there is going to be start. And I'm going
to actually say the Indiana who is ranked. You know,
he did lose his outright, So if anyone wants to
do a money line play on that too, I don't
have any objection that. But I really like them getting
six six and a half points because I think this
game is going to be extremely close.

Speaker 3 (02:27:10):
What do you make a Notre Dame Navy? We did
a little breakdown of the great one. Carry your thoughts
on it.

Speaker 7 (02:27:15):
Well, you just look at how the tag lines are
sitting between. You get dealer's choice. If you want litter An,
you ca late thirteen and a half. If you want
to take Navy, you can grab the fourteens, just depending
where you shop. Here's the thing that they like. When
I look at that game, it's like, it's most I
could say it if Anthony, I final to see if
you are, if your dad, But if your dad and

(02:27:36):
let those you only wrestled, You're like eight year old
son and you just kept beating him and then you're like,
I'm a great wrestler. And then well you wrestle Hulkogan
one day. It's a little bit different. Well, Navy's schedule
has been so poor that their stats are great, but
they have not faced one team without one team who

(02:27:57):
defensively I think even the top one hundred. So it's
almost like impossible to do that. I mean, it's just
it's almost impossible play a schedule like that. Be not bad,
but I mean, so here they basically again I'm not
calling them so gazing. That's not fair, But it's just
hard to know if they really are any good or not.
And look, they've been great for me again because if

(02:28:21):
I can get the fourteen slightest of leaves to Navy,
but because the schedule, the strength of schedule has just
been so bad in the sense that they haven't played
anyone that I really know these are. If this is
a decent team, I'm gonna pass it. But if you
just look at the raw stats, maybe it's an obvious play.
But I can't trust their strength is schedule at all.

Speaker 2 (02:28:41):
Does it look it doesn't look like real quick guys
in the side, doesn't look like they're total Like that's
an over because dangerous score.

Speaker 7 (02:28:48):
Well, this is no Dame. I agree with you one
hundred percent. Notre Dame absolutely should score. And here's it's funny.
Earlier in the year I've been betting Navies overs like
over in the er again I was, And yeah, right
now the line is sitting around fifteen and a half
guys at op or you can see some fifties I
see out there. But yeah, I mean it comes down
to nerd Dame is going to score. Nerdame definitely should

(02:29:09):
score in the thirties. I agree with you, and I
yes to me, I would definitely lean over this game
because again, I only get them to be a game
that usually we see Nerdame maybe a lot of times,
maybe we would score like seven, ten three points. Maybe.
Does seem again that they completely turn around their offense.
You know, you got to give them a lot of credit.

(02:29:30):
You know, the coordinator A. Kronik has done a really
good job. And I think they're like their six and
scoring the entire nation, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 (02:29:41):
I don't disagree with any of that. What about A
and MLSU. That's the biggest game obviously, that's the game
of the weekend.

Speaker 7 (02:29:46):
Yeah, best game of the board. It's interesting LSU, I
get Look, I give value credit if you have a
good coach. They have a good coach, and when you
have a good coach, you can turn things around. LSU
had the horrible performance U the week one, losing to
USC and then since then, listen, give give this team
a lot of credit. I really give them a lot

(02:30:06):
of credit. They have gotten it on they really have
gotten it one, and they had a good week last
week against Arkansas. Like Arkansas the team that I actually
really really did respect and they whipped them really good.
I mean that was not like anything about that game
with a fluke I think be all legitimate old miss
team again. They got fortunate again for down conversion. That's whatever,

(02:30:28):
but still a good win. And they've won on the
road against South Carolina. You know, I still just don't trust.
When I watched A and M. I just don't like
the quarterback play. I just don't like it. I don't
like it. Well, I'm not disagreeing with the number of
percent here, guys. I do think LSU wins a close game.

(02:30:48):
I think this game will be closed. I think it'll
be tight. But to me, the only way I come
up and I agree this is the best game of
the week is the LSU side. I think Issue is
gonna is going to be able to win this one.
And I have respect for their dame, but I mean
for a banana, but I think they'd up. Sorry, I
think that Issue win. This came out right, all right?

Speaker 6 (02:31:10):
How about tomorrow where you like in the NFL?

Speaker 7 (02:31:14):
Yeah, well, it's interesting if I don't understand why the
Eagles are getting three points. I really don't like to
me that there's a stone cold fifty to fifty game,
and I think just getting three points to me is
just just too much. I mean, you could lay for
a get play higher Jews around one twenty. I think

(02:31:35):
it's a dead stone cold if you at the game.
Giving Eagles in that game, I'm not expecting to play,
so it it does, it's just a huge bonus for me.
But I like Washington getting three against the Bears. I
know I'm probably playing the.

Speaker 2 (02:31:48):
Stereo too much of an overreaction. I think you're right.

Speaker 7 (02:31:52):
I just again, like who are the Bears? I mean,
I know there, I mean that. I mean, I just
think people are going a little bit too higher. Man. Look,
give Washington c give their coaching staff credit. You know,
they have done a really good job. And Jay Jael's
honest a witch kind of that. But I can't think
spend all of it. I mean, again, close game NFL,

(02:32:12):
three points is king. I think that they can again,
I think they're get they fifty game. To me, I'll
take three points. I mean Green Bay is down to
three and a half as a spot. I well, I
just think that I have a very good team against
the team that it really isn't good. Not that it's
a bad number, per se but I just trust Green
Bay to be able to score and do what they

(02:32:32):
have to do. I think green Bay gets that one done,
and then I'll say this. I mean, I see as
high as five and a half points now in Miami Arizona. Well,
I do think Miami wins the game. And line opened
at three. I think once against to five, I think
that's too high. I think Arizona getting five and even
with two back, and it's a shade too high.

Speaker 6 (02:32:54):
All right, buddy, we are up against it real quick
to night game two.

Speaker 7 (02:33:00):
Yeah, I mean listen, Anthony, real quickly. We talked about this,
and I think that the Dodgers are the best of
this series and every game they play. So only way
I can look, you know, and learn about a dollar
forty thirty five the thing we shop only way look
as Dodgers. Think the Dodgers are gonna win the series,
and there's really no name. I'm gonna pick the Yankees
square honestly.

Speaker 2 (02:33:19):
Yeah, I'm with you. The Bray great stuff at Brad's
best bets is how you get him. He's terrific. Get
to know him, fellas. We'll be back in a minute
to wrap it up. I like we have a closing song, FITZI.

Speaker 3 (02:33:42):
Is it a closing song or is it really the
opening song for the rest of the day. You know,
this is the tone center that you need. You know
what you got the rest of the day. You can
you can sign your name to it. You're gonna do
the rest of the day your way.

Speaker 5 (02:33:55):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 4 (02:33:56):
We're gonna do with this Saturday, That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:33:59):
Cool, that's brilliant. I love that you are an inspirational
man between your fifty's fitness journey, which we we.

Speaker 4 (02:34:10):
Oh we missed that today.

Speaker 2 (02:34:11):
Because of the World Series. We were trying to get
to it, and I brought it up, and then we
were talking. You had that question about the game too,
and then we started.

Speaker 4 (02:34:20):
And then the fugeesy fan thing came up, and yes,
I took over the show for.

Speaker 2 (02:34:23):
A little bit. Yeah, it thinks we meander, you know,
but doing well in.

Speaker 5 (02:34:32):
Your journey, dude. So I'll tell you really quick.

Speaker 3 (02:34:36):
I have an opportunity that has come up in life
and I need a suit for it, like right, you know,
it's kind of in our business.

Speaker 5 (02:34:43):
And I can't I can't, can't, can't reveal.

Speaker 4 (02:34:46):
It right now. It's it's top secret.

Speaker 3 (02:34:47):
But I got to have a suit, right, and none
of my suits fit anymore because like you know, I've
lost so much weight. And but I'm at the spot
where I went into to a super sup place and
I went in and you know, the super skinny like
because I'm little guy, like super skinny suits.

Speaker 5 (02:35:01):
Have never really fit right off the rack. I popped
one on, walked out like just to make popped it on.

Speaker 3 (02:35:07):
And even the girl behind the counter that was like
in a different area that was ringing somebody else.

Speaker 4 (02:35:12):
She looked over, She's like.

Speaker 5 (02:35:13):
Wow, you look great in that.

Speaker 4 (02:35:14):
I was like, h I do. I'm telling you, in
your life has some it has some. Uh you know
there's some benefits to it.

Speaker 5 (02:35:21):
When you're like I gotta buy gotta buy something off
the off the rack.

Speaker 2 (02:35:24):
I can't shut now struck down the street.

Speaker 4 (02:35:28):
Shoot, yeah, you know when you get down that.

Speaker 5 (02:35:31):
Like thirty one, thirty one waist on these suits, like.

Speaker 4 (02:35:34):
Let's say they ain't there ain't a lot of body
fat left her shed off here.

Speaker 2 (02:35:37):
Buddy, you got a humble brag right there.

Speaker 4 (02:35:39):
That's just a straight brag. I ain't thirty one, right.

Speaker 2 (02:35:46):
I could see that in a while.

Speaker 4 (02:35:48):
I haven't seen thirty one since I was thirty one.
And even even then, it's the struggle. Still got still
got a little ways to go.

Speaker 5 (02:35:56):
But you know what, the minute, the minute we finished
this show, what.

Speaker 4 (02:35:59):
Am I gonna do? I'll walk, Uh, i'mna walk downstairs
and I get in the car.

Speaker 5 (02:36:02):
I'm gonna go.

Speaker 4 (02:36:03):
It's back day.

Speaker 5 (02:36:03):
It's pull day. Today, go do my poll day, get.

Speaker 4 (02:36:06):
It to, get it done. Hit them dead list.

Speaker 3 (02:36:08):
Brother, anytime, anytime, you know, anytime you delay what you
got to do, you might not do it.

Speaker 4 (02:36:12):
So I'm just gonna get out there and get it done.

Speaker 2 (02:36:15):
That's the right it's the right attitude. Very good, very good.
All right, what are we watching? We got game two show?
Of course we're all going to be our game too.
But tomorrow we didn't really get into some of the games.
Not a great card tomorrow. But give me kind of
what games stand out, Fitz. He'll start with you.

Speaker 3 (02:36:35):
Well, I think that I mean, honestly, you say, not
a great car. But when you start talking about that
Bears Commander's game, I do think that we've fallen in
love with these two young quarterbacks. And you know, anytime
we get a showcase. We love to turn everything to want.

Speaker 4 (02:36:47):
To stopting little lost Daniels in.

Speaker 3 (02:36:51):
That's he was gonna try and give it a go,
is he officially?

Speaker 2 (02:36:56):
I don't know why you would like that's the most
If they I saw him trying, you gotta be like, no, dude, no, no,
I put my foot down. He can't play. I'm not
risking him on a Week eight game. You remember the
story of Washington and R three.

Speaker 4 (02:37:15):
Yeah, that's right. In that playoff. I just want to hope.

Speaker 3 (02:37:18):
Let me have hope outside of that, not just because
of you. Eagles Bengals, by the way, I think has
a ton on the line for both teams.

Speaker 4 (02:37:23):
So Eagles Bengals. The Bengals offensive started to get right.

Speaker 6 (02:37:26):
So I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (02:37:28):
I don't want to say it because I was happy
Brad was all about the Eagles. I'm not. I think
this game is a tough gay Eagles beat up. The
Giants stink and the Browns, Uh, they gotta they gotta
show me before I before I back him against Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (02:37:49):
Yeah, I don't. I don't doubt any of that.

Speaker 3 (02:37:50):
By the way, and the Bengals sneaky if they win
that game or at four and four, and they're doing
the annual thing that they do every time every single year.

Speaker 4 (02:37:57):
We were like, oh my god, the Bengals are broken.

Speaker 2 (02:37:59):
And then see it. I mean you could see it,
you know. I mean Higgins though popped up with the
injury report. He's got to play.

Speaker 3 (02:38:07):
Yeah, I pop it up on the injury report, versus
staying out of a game like that.

Speaker 4 (02:38:11):
I think Higgins is speaking of injury reports. I'm intrigued
with the return of Tu what the Dolphins offense looks like,
because they have not looked anywhere close to an NFL
offense the last month. So see how he looks like
coming off of that concussion situation. And I don't know
why I have a weird feeling about the Colts Texans game,
but I just do.

Speaker 6 (02:38:28):
You gotta feel, and the Colts win that game.

Speaker 4 (02:38:31):
I do, and and I really can't explain.

Speaker 2 (02:38:33):
There's no football reason for me explain to you. I
I just have a feeling. I feel your feel right,
totally totally with you.

Speaker 3 (02:38:40):
And the Chiefs too. By the way, the Chiefs are
forty up on the Raiders. Usually there are Chiefs players
that have had this game circled since Christmas.

Speaker 4 (02:38:47):
Day.

Speaker 5 (02:38:47):
It's going to get ugly late the nine and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:38:50):
Oh yeah, we're out. Everybody, have a great week. Thanks
for hagging fellas.

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