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August 21, 2025 21 mins

Sports talk legends Paulie & Tony give ESPN a 100% GENIUS IDEA to help the sports network recover after "First Take" host Monica McNutt confused Barry Sanders for Shedeur Sanders. Plus, find out why the Colts made a SMART move making Daniel Jones their starter, and why the Dallas Cowboys should COPY the Cleveland Browns.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right, all right, you damn and to your life
from Philly.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
It's a number one rated Paully in Tony Fosco Show
Yo as always Balie Fools Go here with Tony Fools
Go and Tony Huge Show.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Today let's Coults announced Daniel Jones as their starter. A
lot of morons out there saying this was the dumb move.
We'll tell you why it was exactly the correct move.
And also we'll get into all the shadeur Sander's drama,
because well, we know you idiots out there, you know
that's what you want to hear about. You know that's

(00:40):
your problem. All right, anyway, but we must address this
up top. An absolute all time blunder by ESPN's Monica McNutt.
She was on first take with some guy named Druski
dress Grouski something. Never heard of him anyway, this Drusky
drew Ski shows up where in a blue and silver

(01:00):
uniform NFL uniform with sanders and then number twenty on
the front on the front across. Now we don't we
don't understand why it was on the front. Sense now
that that made no sense, But that's neither the point.
Al right, Here's what happened, he shows up, we're in
the jersey. Play the clip of what happened next? So
the jersey.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Let's get into it, because obviously the ties for one
should or Sanders, who balled out in.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
His first.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I'm sorry, that's.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
High, Come on as high as the Sanders.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Bear with me, bear with me. Oh, clearly baffling that, don'ty.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
First of all, you know, I thought because ESPN, you know,
has gotten so political, that she was going to say
Birdie Sanders. Yeah, I thought too. Yeah, but you know,
people they're saying that this is bad for ESPN. Well, okay, true,
not necessarily, not necessarily exactly, don'ty. You know what you
got to do in this business is you got to
take advantage of opportunities like this. This is why we're

(02:00):
programming geniuses, don't you. We get how this business works.
So you know what we're gonna do today is we're
gonna give ESPN just some great advice on how they
can bounce capitalize on this. In fact, we're gonna do
later in the show what we call in the business
a pilot. Okay, it's an idea for a new game show.
We're calling guess what jersey. Monica McNutt thinks this is brilliant,

(02:26):
very exciting, and so this is how this is gonna work.
Later in the show, we're gonna bring on one lucky contestant, okay,
and we're gonna show them some NFL jerseys the famous players. Okay,
but see, the goal is not the guess who the
jersey actually belongs to, but who Monica McNutt would think
they belong to.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Okay, say they you're just so smart. I can see
the one hundred episodes right now.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
I can do Tony and well, unfortunately, something I also
see right now on my screen over here. Look goes
back producer who didn't show up for our last episode. Yeah,
and we hope that meant he was dead, But unfortunately
our worst fears came true. He's alive. So disappointing. Yeah,

(03:11):
by the way, you know, he's such a failure. A
couple of weeks ago, as you know, on this show,
we launched our guests. Yeah August, Yeah, yeah, we're gonna
have we were gonna have a guest come on every
week this month. Well, so far he's booked zero guests.
Nice loser. Yeah. The only guest we had was in
July because he can't even read a gallun exactly, moron, dummy.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
That's because nobody even responds to my requests. Nobody wants
to do this show.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Well, on the subject of things nobody wants to do,
you ah, got.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Him one that Doty Now, shit that that'll teach you
for talk be quiet anyway, on the subject of things
nobody wants to do, Doty. You know, I went and
checked our numbers on Apple podcasts. You know the reviews.
Not one new review in the last two weeks. What now, Yeah,
we didn't do a show, Okay, but that doesn't mean
you out there can get lazy. Our notification for you,

(04:07):
so you can go there now and you could make
it up your teah by weight and interviewing now yeah,
and you subscribe and like two lazy Yeah, enough about
that anyway, so much to get those So let's get
right into a top story story, all right. First, out
the gate, the Colts announced that former Giants QB Daniel

(04:28):
Jones has won the starting job over Anthony Richardson. Now,
some people out there, morons are saying this is a
baffling bazaar, makes no sense. No, clearly these idiots didn't
listen to how Colts head coach Shane Steiken explained the move.
All right, hey said, you guys heard me talk about
the consistency. That's really what I was looking for. And well,

(04:52):
that explains everything, doesn't it. Donate.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Of course, you see, Daniel Jones is very consistent at
being a shitty quarterback. In fact, he's one of the
most consistent qbs in NFL history when it comes to shittiness.
You can always rely on him to be shitty. You know,
what do we always say in this league you need

(05:16):
to know what you're getting two exactly. Anthony Richardson was
too inconsistent. You see, sometimes he was bad and sometimes
he was very very good.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
That's just too inconsistent.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
How do you game plan when you don't know what
you're gonna get?

Speaker 1 (05:36):
Just terrific analysis that, Dony and uh, well, moving on
to other starting QB knows the Browns have tapped Joe
Flacco as their starter, and well, this was clearly the
right move, wasn't it, Dony.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
You know, in this league there's only one stat that matters,
Super Bowl rings, and Joe Flacco has a ring, and
that's why he should be the starter. Yo, this is
why I can't believe the Cowboys haven't benched Dak for
backup QB Will Greer.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
Just look at the stats.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Greer won a Super Bowl ring with the Eagles last year,
Dak goose Egg.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
There you go, just undeniable analysis that Tony and uh, well,
we do have to talk about all the drama surrounding
shade Sanders again, just so we make sure we panned
it all. You lose us out there who actually care
about me stuff anyway. You know, first of all, Brown's
QB Dylan Gabriel, well he's under fire because people thought

(06:33):
he took a shot at Shadeur when discussing the Browns
QB competition. He said, you know, there's entertainers and there's competitors,
and I totally understand that. But my job is to
compete and that's what I'm focused on doing now. People said,
by entertainer, he was talking about Shadeur. But I didn't

(06:55):
think so, did you, Tony. No, I thought he was
talking about Billy Joel.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
You know, when the word entertainer, that's naturally who I
think of exactly.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Honestly, Tony, I assumed he was talking about either Tony
Orlando or Rich Little, Yeah, exactly, Rich Little came to
my mind too. Of course. Anyway, you know, we got
to move on because there's big UFC knows. You know,
there are rumors flying around that Dana White and President
Trump planning to hold a UFC fight at the White House, Tony,

(07:27):
your thoughts on this?

Speaker 3 (07:28):
You know, honestly, I'm a little disappointed here because I
thought that's what this whole thing with Putin facing off
against the other Soviet guy at the White House was
this week. I thought that was gonna be the UFC fight,
you know, like Rocky four but in real life.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Yeah, but it was so boring.

Speaker 3 (07:46):
Instead of actually fighting each other, they just talked about
not fighting each other. And nobody wants to see that.
Just bad programming by Sea Span.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
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(08:19):
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it now. Yeah, okay, we're back from breaking you know,
as we told you off top. You know we saw
this all time blunder on ESPN. Monica McNutt. She had
on this guy on first take, Druski drew Ski and

(11:09):
he shows up wearing a blue and silver uniform with
Sanders written on the front and the number twenty. And uh,
we'll play that clip again. So the jersey.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Let's get into it, because obviously the ties one Shoudor
Sanders who balled out in his first I'm sorry, but
that's high.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Come on as high as the Sanders with me. Okay,
So there you see it. She thought there was Shador
Sanders when that was clearly Barry Sanders. Now people are
saying this is a bad look for ESPN, terrible, Okay, true,
but that doesn't mean they can't make the most out
of this opportuity. So that's why right now we're going
to be doing what they call in the business a
pilot pilot Okay, that's the terminology, and for a new

(11:54):
show that we think ESPN should launch to make the
most of it. It's called Guess What Jersey? Monica McNutt
thinks that is okay, so there we go. All right,
so we're gonna bring on a contested though. We got
them on the line. Yeah, all right, who's this person?
What's your name? What's your name?

Speaker 3 (12:13):
Bro?

Speaker 6 (12:14):
Roman?

Speaker 1 (12:15):
All right, Roman, are you ready to play Guess What? Jersey?
Monica McNutt thinks, this is let's do this all right, God,
hold on, die, you know this is a pilot. We
need a little more energy out of your u. There
you go. You got to coach them up. We don't
have a producer who does his job on this, unfortunately,

(12:36):
we have to produce, have to do it ourselves. Okay. Anyway,
all right, here you go. So here are the rules. Roman,
I'm gonna explain this to you. Okay. We're gonna show
you jerseys of famous NFL players, Okay, and see, your
goal is not the guess what jersey that is and
who it belongs to, because anybody, any schmoke can do that.
What we want you to do is guess what athlete

(12:59):
Monica big Nutt would think that jersey which lost not
what it actually is. You got that, got it?

Speaker 2 (13:07):
Got it?

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Very simple rules. So you're ready to play. You're ready,
all right, let's get right into it. We're gonna play.
Guess what jersey Monica McNutt thinks. This is all right?
Round one? All right, go ahead, put that jersey up, okay, Roman.
As you can see, it's a blue and silver jersey
with Johnson on the back and the number eighty one.

(13:30):
Guess what athlete Monica McNutt would think that jersey belongs
to Johnson?

Speaker 6 (13:37):
Uh, maybe she thinks it's Ben Johnson, the coach from
the Detroit Lions was now the coach of the Bears.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
Ding Ding ding ding one. There you go Johnson, correct
Andre Johnson. But again, if she didn't know Calvin, she
wouldn't know Andre. Ex played it right, you went one
for one, one guy one. All right, here we go.
Let's put up this next jersey, so as you could say,

(14:07):
this is a blue and white jersey with the name
Smith on the back and the number twenty two. Which
athlete would Monica McNutt thinks this jersey belongs to?

Speaker 6 (14:20):
I gotta go with Steve Smith.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
See what God is not the right thought there? The
correct answer is Alex Smell. Because you gotta think, who
would Monica McNutt worked exactly Alex said, work at ESPN,
so she would mine would assume. Sorry, one for two.
But what you gotta do in this game you gotta
get in the head of Monica McNutt. Okay, that's what

(14:46):
you gotta do, all right, So focus syndrome. Okay, here
we go. Let's bring up the third. All right, let's
bring up the next jersey here. Okay, so this is
a red and white and black. Okay, it's got the
name Jones on on it and the number eleven. Okay, Jones,
number eleven.

Speaker 6 (15:06):
It's got to be Mac Jones, right, I mean he's
he's a quarterback.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
He got it, Joe Jon's very good. She would think
that's a forty nine ers jersey. The red there you go, now,
you Jones. You know a lot of people by Michael
Daniel Jones. But he's on the Colts.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Now she might have known that fifty fifty.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
But good back in the rag back on the bark
on the board. All right, let's bring up this next jersey.
All right, so here we go. This is more of
a classic jersey. We got some blue hold on Roman,
gonna wait, you're telling you we're gonna build the anticipation here.
That's how a game show works, obviously or not? What

(15:50):
do you do for a living? Roman? We forgot to
ask you nothing that I will if what were you doing?
You do nothing? You like a produce as a producer?
Oh you did? Oh you did in DV? What do
you produce?

Speaker 6 (16:06):
TV?

Speaker 3 (16:06):
You know?

Speaker 1 (16:07):
Spars? Okay, well, let me teach you. You gotta build anticipation. Okay.
You can't just rush into things. You gotta slow it down. Okay.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
So having said that, he's already a better producer than that.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
You're already miles ahead, just the fact that you'll have
a brain. That thing. They let's bring that jersey up,
all right, we're looking at the jersey. It's red and blue,
mostly blue. Okay, it's got Taylor written on it and
the number fifty six. Okay, which athlete would Monica big
Nutt think that is?

Speaker 6 (16:39):
I'm thinking Brad Taylor when he went to the Patriots
for one year after he was with the Jaguars.

Speaker 1 (16:46):
You know what, Tony, let's go to the judges. Judges.
Shut up. Another acceptable answer would have been Tyrod Taylor
when he was playing for the Bills. That not that
it was Lawrence Taylor. Obviously she would not have put
that together. But no, here you go, all right, very

(17:07):
good job. What's just going now? I've forgotten because I
don't have a producer.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
Who Yeah, we don't have a producer to keeping track.
I think it's what to two?

Speaker 1 (17:15):
I don't know. All right, he's doing well, you're doing good,
Roman you're doing good all right. You know what, Donnie,
Let's try something different. We're gonna go out of the NFL. Here.
This is we're gonna go to your bonus round here. Okay, okay,
this is ring double. We're gonna go outside of the NFL.
Put up this NBA jersey. Okay, so as you can say.
It's purple and gold with the name James on the

(17:37):
back and the number twenty three. Now think very careful.
This is double the points here. You go, take your time,
come get through. Come on, we want the end on
the thing. This will help sell the pilot. Yeah, Roman's
counting on you. He's kind of a is he crying?

(17:59):
I don't know what's going on, cry Bro. Yeah, okay, keeps.

Speaker 6 (18:03):
Like Leron James Junior, Brownie James.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Is that Brownie James? That is correct, Brenny James. You
are goig winner. There you go. You'll be taking home.
Well nothing because the Roman pilot yet, but when we do.
You do a great job. Row You're going out the

(18:26):
big winner, big winner. Romany just what jersey Monica McNutt
would think. This is well done, good job, just a
total success there all around Tony and Roman, Big winner
and you know Dony I mean Roman producer with nothing
at all. Maybe, yeah, we need it. We should play
off exact. Yeah, he can go Roman aroducer Roman, Yeah exactly. Anyway,

(18:54):
all right, uh, let's just wrap the show there. He
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Speaker 5 (19:09):
What corrections?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
What what.

Speaker 5 (19:12):
You said?

Speaker 4 (19:13):
Will Greer should be the Dallas Cowboys starting quarterback because
he has a super Bowl ring?

Speaker 1 (19:18):
Yeah? Bro, yeah he won with the Eagles. Bro super
Bowl experience.

Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah, he has no super Bowl experience.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
He played zero snaps in the Eagle Super Bowl last season,
and in fact, he hasn't taken a.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
Snap since twenty nineteen. So that's dumb.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Oh yeah, well you know what, I'm going to start
a fire in your apartment. Yeah? You know who else
has zero experience? You with women? Oh?

Speaker 5 (19:48):
Right, one, he's he's not going what you said.

Speaker 4 (19:53):
Daniel Jones is and a quote consistently shittier than Anthony Richardson.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah, Bro, check the stats, bro.

Speaker 5 (20:03):
I did.

Speaker 4 (20:04):
Daniel Jones has a career passer rating of eighty four
point three well, Anthony Richardson's is sixty seven point eight,
so you're just wrong.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Oh yeah, well, you know who has a perfect career
passer rating every woman at your speed dating events.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
You know what else is consistently shitty? You're under way?
Oh got him?

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Great, let's get at it.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
What you said, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with quote
the other Soviet guy. Yeah, bro, follow the news, bro. Yeah,
the other guy is Vladimir Zelenski. He's the president of Ukraine.
And also the Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Oh yeah, well you know what also doesn't exist? Your girlfriend?
And you know who's Russian?

Speaker 3 (20:58):
Every girl to get away from you the right.

Speaker 1 (21:05):
You know who's gonna be rushing to this show? Just
booked for next week, super Bowl Hero Eagles legend Nick fo.
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Speaker 3 (21:32):
Yeah, here you go, hey, toting, great job as always,
same to you, Paulie another floorless show.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
There you go, We'll see you paper next week, see
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