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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
To Fox Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome in another beautiful
night here Fox Sports Radio Midweek. Hopefully you're having a
good one out there, whatever however you're doing as we
get into the final throws of your summer months. Maybe
back to school shopping has begun picking out outfits or
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last minute travel plans. Whatever however you're listening. Thanks for
being part of our extended family. As we come to
you hear from the Fox Sports Radio studios in southern California,
watching some Major League Baseball action, all the training camp
news and oas coming about. We got a lot of
quarterback stories that are circuling, which is always good as
well as the holdout fun because well, we need labor
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dispute in every sport. It would see him at this point,
check another box but in Jason's place tonight as he
traverses the universe, perhaps actually making his way to Michigan
for a muskrat and dinner. Dan Byer, my colleague, got
great to be here. I watch a flex podcast. You
hear him on the Doug Gottlieb Show and part of
Cavino and Rich and of course on Sundays Fox Sports Sunday.
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He and I. Have you been hitting the links like
you had a couple of days, I know, just kind
of family in town, any golf in the mix.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Family put it on a hiatus, Mike. But I'm ramping
up for a big, big event in the next month,
and that's just basically going home and playing with the buddies.
I'm gonna try to not have to make a fool of myself.
So golf clubs with family in town put aside. But
I am going to be getting into mode, ramping up
for that Masters. If you, well, just like you out
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Tiger Woods would always try to do well, that's just.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It, right. You got to have that goal and visualize
it and have it out there. And I mean, if
you need me to put out some tweets about it,
you know, just to try to fuel you.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I could do that too, By the way, Who am
I kidding? Tiger just kicked everyone's butt anyway, so they
didn't need to wrap up.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh something had to click there mentally. I mean, we've
been talking about that a lot, you and I off
air and on the Sunday Show is related to Scottie
Scheffler and all that fun dialogue about him. We're watching
The Rays and White Sox. We'll see if I get
another text from my mom if the Rays can hold on,
because she mocked me after the last raise win in
that series. So that was great. Always good to know
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that your family loves you and it's checking in thanks
to our team being with us here. We got Monsey
at the news desk, We've got Alex and Justin making
a sound so pretty, and of course all of you. However,
you're listening on our terrestrial radio stations four hundred plus
affiliates nationwide, the iHeartRadio app where you take us wherever
you go settle Land. We've got a fun four hours
ahead of you for you. Some fantasy foot all mixed in,
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some top five lists, a lot of quarterback news, and
a little League controversy that I think will all appreciate.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It just dawned on me that your parents are kind
of the argument for the Tampa Bay Rays. Now with
new ownership coming in. I know, they're expected to stay
in the area because the ownership group is from Florida,
but the new stadium that they wanted now maybe not
gonna happen. But the argument had always been, Mike, the
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Rays get good viewership. They watched the Rays in the
Tampa Bay area, and here your mom is turned into
a Raise fan because of their living situation in the
area from Chicago. She is the example that so many
points to on why the Rays should stay on the
west coast of Florida. I do dig that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Then they got a valuation of one point seven billion.
That shows you the price of poker and what the
imminent TV deals really kind of mean in this process.
We got some data from the NFL that'll blow your
mind a little bit later on. But yeah, White Sox,
now take a lead. Maybe I should start texting her, haha,
how's that feel? Colson Montgomery just called up one of
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the would be new stars for the White Sox. But yeah,
the old one with the the hefty bag look and everything. Obviously,
you know, big thought violent storms took it down. But
other than the two touch ray tank, not a whole
lot of personnality.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, not at all, not at all. One of those
parks where you if you're on a ballpark tour, you
do it because it's one of the thirty that you
have to go to, but not one that you circle
and make. You're like, well, let's just get the rays
out of the way, then we'll figure out everything else
from there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, that's it, right, And it was a cheap gut yeah,
I mean it's a five dollar entry on most nights
as well as you roll up with many folks coming
from assisted living centers and others by the bus load.
I'm calling it what it is. It's just reality. You
want to hate ad swollen down.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
On the I watched, I thought that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But that's the larger thing, right for that and they
become Lightning fan. Mom still has her allegiance to the
Cubs and the memory of Ron Sano, but we'll leave
that and put a pin in that for now, as
that game is in the top of the eight White
Sox of rally to an eight to seven lead National
Football League. So many stories, Dan and one that I
think is moderately interesting because the first video clip I
(05:24):
saw this morning when I loaded up my computer because
I had an adventure where I left my phone at
a grocery store and thankfully they didn't sell it before
I recovered it. But I load up the old X
account and there's the first video is Jackson Dart throwing
a pick six and an eleven on eleven, Like, there
you go, so that's fun. And then we get Joe Shane,
(05:47):
Brian Dable, everybody talking about well Dart has the opportunity
to make some noise in the quarterback Derby, But as expected,
Russell Wilson's going to get the one chair out of
the gate to see what he can do here in
training camp. And it's the curiosity of how much Russ's
learned from past experiences, past locker rooms, past media coverage
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of his being in said locker rooms, and maybe those
disconnects and whether that matters to him at this point, like,
because that's the thing with Russell Wilson as he goes
to another spot. No expectations for the Giants to achieve,
which is curious because you'd think you'd go all in
either on the veteran with the ability to still be
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an ace or Jackson darts a guy that let's call
it what it is, it's a dart throw. Right when
we got to the drafts, he was a guy that
was very a sexy prospect. Last September. By draft day,
I was like, ah, let's see what happens. Right for
a couple of people liked him and you saw, like
you know, the old movers in the charts or whatever.
But the jury was out and now you have this
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quarterback room with an embattled GM and coach.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The old adage was coaches and gms would stick with
the veteran because they felt that that was the guy
that could save their job. And that's no longer the case.
It hasn't been that case for ten years in the NFL.
And if if you and I'm not talking about you,
Mike Carmon, I'm talking about anybody listening, and I guess
Russell Wilson for this. If you think that Russell Wilson
can be the starting quarterback of the New York Giants
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for this entire season, you're an idiot because it's not
going to happen, not for the entire season. There's already
rumblings that if they start off zero to two, by
the way, in a division, for as bad as we
think that Dallas could be, or at least what their
off season was, for as bad as it could be,
we still think the Giants are worse. Right and so
too to look at where the Giants are right now,
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and even here Joe Shane not even give the one
hundred percent endorsement. Russell Wilson needs to know and everybody
I think knows by now that Russell Wilson's days is
a long term starting quarterback in Mike Long term I
mean a season, like a full season as a starting
quarterback not working. We saw it not work in Denver.
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We sowt not work in Pittsburgh. In fact, the message
from Pittsburgh to us was we're not gonna bring back
both Fields and Wilson, but we could bring back one
of them. Well Field signs with the Jets, and Wilson's
still out there and there's no Russell Wilson back in Pittsburgh.
Obviously they go with Aaron Rodgers in the end, but
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didn't seem like the Steelers were really in any hurry
to bring him back to Pittsburgh. So now you go
to the Giants and you think it's gonna be anything
different than the previous two stops, it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, the end the amount of money that Denver eight
to make him go away, sure, and then Mike Tomlin
was bullheaded. They had success with Fields, was it perfect? No,
But they make the switch to Wilson and he was
damned if that wasn't gonna work. I mean, that's the
epitome of man. When your kids are young and they
want to put that block in that hole that you
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know isn't gonna fit. They're gonna find a mallet, they're
gonna find another truck, another din, a sore or whatever,
and they're gonna hammer the hell out of it until
it kind of starts to break apart to where it
fits into that hole. Current over unders Eagles eleven and
a half, wins Commanders at nine and a half, Cowboys
A Curiosity at seven and a half, and then the
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Giants at five and a half. Here's Joe Shane on
what his best case scenario would be.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I'm wondering how you generally feel about, you know, sort of,
for lack of better termed red shirting a quarterback or
a first round pick and sort of having them sit
the majority or most of the year.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, going through the process.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
We have Mike Kafka on the roster or on the
staff obviously as our offensive coordinator. He was in Kansas
City with Patrick Mahomes. I think he played one game
at the end of the year, so we've seen that.
You know, our plan in Buffalo was for Josh to
probably not play much his first year, but the way
it worked out, halftime in the first game we get
blown out by Baltimore and we put him in and
you know, he played the rest of the year. So
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you know, I think there's some real benefits from sitting
and learning, specific at least from some of the guys
in the room that have the experience that they have.
But you know, if the coaching staff at some point
feels it's right and he's ready, then you know, I'll
leave that up to them.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Assistant head coach and OC Go Katz, Mike Kafkin, former
Eagle and chief and everything and then in his coaching career.
But it does become the curiosity of when you see
the writing on the wall of the last ditch, you know,
pull the pin on the grenade because you're trying to
save your job if you're both Joe Shane and Brian Dable.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And at some point you're gonna have to turn to
Jackson Dart. But not because he's a first round pick.
But it's just the way in today's NFL that you
just you need to find out, you need to find out.
And I think it could be a lost year with
how things are setting up for the Giants Mike. Defensively,
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they've got dudes, They've got guys. If their offensive line
can stay healthy, fine, but still at the quarterback position,
I don't know if there's a sure fire answer because
the only person I just don't know about is Jackson Dart.
I know about Russell Wilson, I know about Jamis Winston,
I know about Tommy DeVito, and we know those three.
I know, we all know about those three guys. So
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when you have Jackson Dart, even if he's the twenty
fifth overall pick, and I don't love Joe Shane using
him in the same breath as Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, however,
it helps his argument with it. And if Jackson Dart
doesn't work out, new people are in and the Giants
are probably starting over again. Anyway, It's not as big
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of a loss because it was twenty fifth overall pick
in the draft. However, you have to take a look
at him and at least get some sort of assessment
this season on him, and I think if you're a
Giants fan, sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It is the fun part when you get into hey,
we've got Kafka on the staff, and look who he
worked with and look how great they are. Yeah, like,
all right, you might be over selling his input the process.
I'm not gonna say he's a zero, but on a
giant pie chart, I mean, what about that Andy Reid guy? Yes,
you know, and then even had you know, former Bears
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coach Naggy, that's going to take some slice of that
and go on down the line, go back to Buffalo
and what they've had run through there as well.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Just even who Patrick Mahomes was coming out of college,
there was enough to be like, Okay, this could be
the guy, and we didn't think it was going to
be just Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen honestly was such
an intriguing prospect for what he was out of Wyoming,
there were just questions because of Wyoming and could he
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be accurate and he's obviously worked through those, but they
were top prospects. They were bigger prospects, and their draft
position represents that than Jackson Dart was entering, entering this
quarterback draft that we had this past year, which wasn't
even then enticing no exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you know, it's one of the I don't do
a lot of victory laps on Fox Sports Radio, but
I will dunk on those colleagues that thought Josh Allen
was just going to be a running back manny an argument,
particularly on Fox Sports Sunday all those years ago. Interesting
to note that the Giants begin their season ready at
Commanders at Cowboys Home against the Chiefs. Oh oh wait,
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then the Chargers come to town.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I didn't even I can't remember who it was, but
somebody said, if they're facing zero to two, you may
be looking at Jackson Dart in week three. Think about that. That's,
by the way, that's all you need to know about
about Russell Wilson again, like they're not going to give
them any leeway on the road, Dable and Shane trying
to save their jobs, You're gonna at least want to
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get a look at the kid. But it also makes
me wonder about Jameis Winston. I think people believe that
Tommy DeVito's the the odd man out in all of this,
But I don't know. Can you have Winston and Wilson
both on the same team and want to get a
look at Jackson Dart only count.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Only if you now get a reality show out of it.
Stick about those three guys in a room together, Just Russell,
Jamis Sar.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's called Winston, Winston and Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
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Speaker 2 (16:53):
Greetings and welcome back in Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith
Show with Me, Mike Carmon, No Jason Smith this week
off alevanting and finding himself. Maybe in the State of Michigan.
I don't know. Maybe it'll be in a new tourism
ad with me today and tomorrow. I got Dan Bayer
joins me. You hear him Middays on the Doug Gottlieb
Show as part of that show and Cavino and Rich
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and then he and I do a little thing called
I Watch a Flex, the Fantasy Football podcast, which is
coming back and earn us some segments already up there
from some of our Sunday Morning Fox Sports Sunday conversations,
some of the ranking stuff, some of the off season
meanderings and draft status and all that fun stuff. And
well now we get to rev it up again.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There are a lot of sickos that will be in
on this well, from the way the season ends, all
the way in the spring through the summer and even
right now. But I feel like August first is the
start line. That's what you start. There could be early
drafts because of people's schedules, but August one is the day,
but we try to get you rapped up for the
fantasy season. Can't wait to talk fantasy later on in
the show. And I'm also wondering why Jason doesn't do
(17:59):
any Smith in the Minton sort of shows, like that
should be the promo if he's doing a show. If
he was to do a show while in Michigan, Smith
and the Mitton I think works really well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I think that rolls off the tongue. Yes, especially if
he's at that restaurant with the Muskrat dinners. I think
it would be good.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He also want to say, Mancy Blanda is at the
news desk. She found out within the past three years
that there's an Upper Peninsula, right moncey up? Correct?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
That was that was a newfound tidbitch, Yes, and.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
It was easy to remember.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm really bad with geography.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I don't know where anything's up it so as like
the up yep, and he's like the Upper Peninsula, and
I said, start over, that's okay, Like I'm like, it's
first grade. Explain it to me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I don't remember, forget it geography something long long ago, right,
long time And.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's just up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's just up the up.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
I won't forget it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And that's one to grow on. See the learning never stops.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Every day we come up with something chaotic. Now coming
into this weekend and into this week where we sit
in this moment in time on a Wednesday, we've been
talking a lot about labor dispute, whether it's hold out
players in the National Football League. Trey Hendrickson, I'm taking
my ball and I'm going down to Florida. I'll keep
training and see y'all later. Michah Parsons, I'm going to
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show up and I'm going to start trading barbs with
Jerry Jones through the media and so many others. Right
Juwan Jennings, he showed up for work and he practiced
with the forty nine ers earlier as he's still saying, hey,
I want to get paid beyond my meager earnings here.
But a couple of stories also that go into our
baseball world and the WNBA. That's a whole other CBA
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that needs to be agreed upon. But going into this weekend,
the huge baseball series that will will come to bear,
and there's a story spawning off of that first off
Mookie Betts, former Red Sox star now with the Dodgers
and struggling this year. Go back to the series in
Japan where he lost a lot of weight and was
unavailable for a period of time, and he struggled all
(20:01):
season long, changing of positions. Now back at the top
of the batting order, He's three for twenty eight since
being reinstalled there, so trying to figure out his swing.
Dave Roberts says he may miss the opening of the
series for personal reasons, So trying to figure out. And
I'll hope he and his family are okay, but certainly
for the Dodger fans and the Greater Los Angeles base,
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still a lot of questions and concerns for that. Now
to the labor side of things, Fenway Park workers have
agreed to green light a strike that could happen for
three days and three days only. I feel like I'm
going into Mama Mia at the end when Meryl Streep
comes forward for one night and for one night on
for three days. So it's already just predetermined. We're gonna
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have a lotted, thirsty and hungry Dodger fans filling Fenway
Park and being around the area. So you know what,
Aaron Mark, we want more money. We want less automation right,
less of the kiosk kind of stuff. We want more
ability to where it's transactions with dollars because well, people
more likely maybe give me a quarter tip there as
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opposed to just click click click on a tablet. All
of those things. So saying that they could begin striking
at noon on Friday, lasting three days while the Dodgers
are in town.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I am shocked at this. The reason being is why
would you show how they can get by in life
without you. I understand that it's a huge weekend and
that's why they're choosing this weekend to do it, to
try to cause chaos, and maybe the systems that the
Red Sox don't have in place at this time Mike
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are able to be implemented on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
but Monday's going to come around pretty quick. So I
hate to say it, but I'm siding with the team
on this, like how are you gonna how are you
going to show your worth moving forward? If you're worried
about being replaced buy machines at some point, I I
don't know the ins and outs of it, and I
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know when you go to football games. The neat thing
about a football game is a lot of times it's
maybe local organizations running that booth or a college atmosphere
because college basketball there's only so many games that you
have in a season that you can get a youth
group or a church group they run that concession stand
and you have people there when it's and it's a
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way for those groups to raise money. When you have
this in this company and everything is turning to automation, yeah,
it's going to cause chaos this weekend. I just don't
know how in the world it's going to strengthen your case,
because to me, it's just a matter of time before
those Fenway franks are being handed out by robots. Well yeah,
just not robots, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
But the ordering process right, to streamline the process, I mean,
we've seen bojoskus all over fast food restaurants and in
a lot of a lot of ballparks. Now you have
the order from your phone and they bring it to
you like they do at movie theaters or whatever else.
It doesn't eliminate people entirely, but it cuts some off right.
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It's going to shrink their workforce, and in this case,
they've been operating without a deal since the end of
the calendar year twenty twenty four and operating this entire
time talking about all these different parts of their labor,
just the friction, but then saying, well, because it'll be
a really busy weekend, this is how we're going to
show them.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you knew that there wasn't somebody walking up and
down the aisle saying cold beer, you know what you
would do?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You just go get your cold beers right right, and
that's the time there. I mean, look, I operated out
of the third deck, you know, the three hundred levels
in Chicago. Other than that one guy who's a legend
because he would carry like four cases at a time,
it just dominate. A lot of times those beers were warm.
I mean it just it was a tough go so
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you'd end up at the kiosk yourself. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I get the personality of some It's not all we
know that for sure. How many times do you say,
I think they're at a baseball game going like, gosh,
is the lemonade guy gonna come by again? He has
not been here since the second inning. Guess so I'm
just gonna go up and get a lemonade. I just
I don't know. I don't know what leg they have
to stand on, but I would not want to give
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the Red Sox an opportunity to do anything or show
anything that would make their work less important than it
already seems to be. To the Boston Red.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sox beer vendor, Laura Crystal told Front Office Sports, quote,
it's a big series. A lot of people in town,
Henry and Aramark scan to make a lot of money.
They don't want a disruption as much as we don't
want a disruption, But if that's going to help us,
so be so be it. Again, owing to the whatever
it would take and the time to develop an app
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to get someone to bring it to your seat, there's
half your vendors gone. Now you just have a runner
for five sections, yes, or you go get it yourself.
In the instance that you brought.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Up, that's yeah, I get it. I get that they're
trying to squeeze, But if you're worried about that, I
just wouldn't give them any opportunity to show that they
can get by with you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That is the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yes, it feels awful saying take what you can get
but I kind of just feel like that's the case.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Well, but also, I mean there's there's always the potential
that they just say you don't you don't want to
work here, and you've got deals like the union deal
is suspended, right and they're they're operating good faith whatever.
Not showing up for a big series, you're kind of
breaking some of that. Yeah, also announcing it with a
few days advance. Notice you don't think there's meetings in
the Red Sox offices right now? Of how automation, Hey,
(25:38):
can we get another computer or two up and running
by Friday morning. Might have to change up how we
do things a little bit, but we'll get by.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't know if they'll do it like Doug Deacon
and Arthur did when they were on strike at ips
on King of Queens, But it'd be a wonderful way
to spend a weekend, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Direct Eventually I end up with any money that's land
grubin betting.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
On the what's the what was the spinning wheel? The
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(26:33):
Doug having to my.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
Top ten your favorite King of Queen's episodes. It's the
great that holds un Greatest.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
During the strike was about as good as it gets.
All right, let's start it over to the news desk. Now,
coming up next, we'll talk more well, more labor, and
some more chaos here as they try to navigate the
college world with the sharks swimming. But since it is
Shark week, but let's go over to the news desk
with Manci Milagia's full slate of Major League Baseball. So
she'll have to talk really fast.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
And maybe a little bit of Upper Peninsula and the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I I'll find out some facts.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Do you know who's from the Upper Peninsula? No, John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I was really kind of hoping that there was just
gonna be some random ames.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
No.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I was thinking of a random I was like who's
from the other who's from Michigan?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, No, John PALMROSSI I did not know that.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
All right, we'll start here in baseball fellas eleven innings
in Philadelphia of baseball going on. It's been back and
forth between the Red Sox and the Phillies. Right now,
Boston is up nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning.
Phillies have a man on third, but they are down
to their final out in this game. Breitz Haarper hit
his three hundred and fiftieth career home run for Boston.
(27:40):
Rome Gonzalez hit a grand slam in the fifth inning
to take the lead. It really has been back and forth,
but nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning, Boston
on top.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
White Sox are on top of the Rays eleven nine.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Bottom of the eighth inning. The Rangers just edged the
A's two to one. A's are probably not going to
forget this one. That go ahead run scored by Texas
was on a pop fly where the A's just miscommunicated.
It dropped a run scored Rangers win. It not gonna
forget that one anytime soon. The Blue Jays outscored the
Yankees eight four. They now have a four game lead
on New York in the Al East, Aaron Judge did
(28:13):
hit his thirty seventh homer of this season in this loss.
The Dodgers walked it off four to three against the
Twins thanks to a bases loaded two RBI single from
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He's used to that show.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Hey Odani also homered for the fifth consecutive game time,
a Dodgers franchise record, and Mookie Betts could miss Friday's
series opener against the Red Sox due to personal reasons.
Dave Roberts announced this after the game. The Guardians did
edge the Orioles three to two. In college hoops, USC
five star freshman Elijah Arenas has suffered a meniscus tare
(28:43):
and is expected to be sidelined for at least six
to eight months, and fever star Kaelin Clark has been
ruled out for Tomorrow's game against the Aces.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Back to you guys, there you go. Manti Belagias, find
your eye on Twitter at Monte Belangja's famous people from
the up someone who's in the news a lot who
shall not be named. I'll just leave it at that.
We've got the Terry Crews. Madonna James of the up.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Really, I thought that she was just from suburban Detroit.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, well they've credited her as a yuper.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Well, so you're not You're not from the same area. Like,
it's not like you got up a pencil in Detroit.
You're like, no, well, separate California, southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There might be beef with this list.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I don't know, and Detroit just in you know, entire rivals.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, Vince Gilligain breaking bad. Josh Grobin, I mean, come on,
it's beautiful up. You don't know, Josh Grobin, I mean, come.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
On, Marquette, the whole deal, Marquette Michigan. Yes see, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
See we learned all sorts of new things. Thanks Manci.
I will check back with you in a little bit
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Speaker 3 (30:11):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Just Hey, Jason Smith and doctor Harmon.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
By the way, I know you're transitioning to a topic
regarding the ACC with a Big ten school, but a
former Atlantic Coast Conference member, University of Maryland.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, so we've got the ACC now changing up their
policy of how they're going to report injuries, where we're
going to get some of the more traditional listings like
we've seen for NFL games and for those unaware, long
long time ago, the injury report existed and it was
pretty much known far and wide it was because of gambling. Likewise,
(30:50):
the ACC and changing the policy for all conference games
is owing to that same thing, with the number of
people that are fishing around for inside information, the growth
of the gambling space, the legalization state to state and across.
Really there's just a couple of states that seem like
there'll be a holdouts forever, and we're residing in one
(31:13):
now here in California, where daily fantasy may go away
before it's all said done. But that's a whole other thing. Yeah,
just cut off those revenue streams. You don't need that.
But all in that to say, this doesn't seem like
I like the announcement of it, but this always was
the case. You always had people fishing around. It just
was a little more buried underground here. But I think
(31:35):
just the formalization of the process of trying to be transparent,
I would be curious in each of those organizations, like
what now other hallmarks that you're setting up for security,
and how people are engaging in their processes and who
outside the organization that they're working with. But it's at
(31:58):
least a step to acknowledg Hey, we see problems, we
see major League Baseball, we see other leagues that have
had these issues. We're at least going to make a
public policy to thwart this to a degree.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I think that to your point of it, being transparent
is one hundred percent the deal. And it was just
more of a case of I feel Vegas knew the
information and you could tell with lines on players. Sure,
you just would know if a guy was going to
play or not by what the what that line was.
(32:34):
Vegas had that information. Now it's just the acc saying like,
we're not trying to keep the wole, you know, pull
the wool over your eyes or keep it hidden from you.
But they they and by day, the insiders in Las
Vegas have known this information many a times Mike, do
you remember when you just would look at a line
(32:56):
and be like, Wow, so and so is injured on Saturday.
That line is now they they have no chance to play.
And the only thing that was I guess, non transparent
about it was just that the teams and the schools
and the leagues just wouldn't tell us. But that information
was there, and if you knew the line and you
(33:19):
looked at the line, you knew what the status of
said player would be.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Something we talk about all the time, right, how much
value right quarterbacks? Obviously the biggest movers we can see
three points to ten points. Right, Brady was worth nine
and a half I think for a good chunk of
his career, perhaps even a little more. Patrick Mahomes. When
that Chiefs machine is rolling, go on and you know
all the way through right wins above replacement come to
your betting line. The other piece of this is, obviously,
(33:45):
as states are taking some of this money in right.
So we're talking about the North Carolina considering a proposal
right now that would give him up to twenty million
dollars of tax revenue from gambling into state institutions such
as North Carolina and NC State. So in that case,
the more you're in bed with gambling as a as
(34:09):
an entity, whether it's advertising behind home plate in a
game or in this case, state school's taking funding from
such residuals that you know, transparency is the only way
to go.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I don't think it changes much. I think that the
inside information is still going to be there. And again,
this is just what twenty four to forty eight hours
before kickoff, and a lot of this stuff is known
on Monday and Tuesday of that week. Very rarely other
situations where there's a player who has got a significant
sort of ability to move the line that you just
talked about, that we really don't know his status, like
(34:45):
even if it's a if it's a star running back
like usually the team is. I mean, it would have
been different if just naming names, like it's different if
Ashton Genty doesn't play for Boise State and if he
isn't playing in that game, you know that, Okay, maybe
it's gonna be a little different. Maybe that line would
have been significantly less. But we're also just I think
(35:06):
talking about quarterbacks here, right, I mean, like there's for
the most part, yeah, I mean outside of a Jeremiah
Smith at Ohio State. That's who we're talking about here,
And I think I still think that information is going
to be able to be consumed and and shown by
Vegas on the Sunday and Monday when those lines are
This is just kind of a look at we're to
your point. Look, we're playing good, we're playing nice. Here
(35:28):
is the injury report. But I think we're gonna know
well before those games, because I just don't think in
college guys are truly game time decisions like give give
them a chance to make it work in pregame warmups.
That doesn't happen as much as it does in the pros.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I think once upon a time, like if we go back,
I don't know, give it a good decade or so,
you might have been able to obfuscate a little bit
with your practice possibility right, stuff you do in the bubble,
uh you know, and away from what the beat reporters
are seeing and reporting, or the guy with the uh
you know, high power telescopic lenses looking in and beaming in. Hey,
(36:02):
that guy wasn't on the field, and maybe there'd be
some moving in that. Now we're into that more perfect
information because again, the revenues are flowing the changing face
of college sports as a whole, which take it or
leave it, whether you want to want to or not.
It begets more of these kind of conversations, you know,
especially when you're having what media days in Vegas and
(36:26):
other spaces as you have low so many years.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
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QB see if we get a jumbling from what we
saw in twenty twenty four, any new entries and always
trying to figure out how much you calculate the greatness
or the operation shutdown of week eighteen into your new
year and as you look ahead. But first we've got
the play of the day and well a day game
(37:34):
here in Los Angeles in triumphant fashion.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
That's the third, the tying run, oh Tania's second, the
winning run one two framon line's about him.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Left field pater can't get him und the Dodgers one
sits tuper engine f freemom my hero, here you go
already Freeman with the walk off.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Joe Davis, Dodgers TV on the call. Bader tries to
make the hero play and instead allows the winning run
in Otani to score from second base four to three
year final O'tani did homer earlier in the game as well,
fifth straight day with a home run for him as well,
So yeah, getting it done. So the Dodgers now will
(38:23):
have a day off before they head to Boston. For
that story we talked about Big Series Boston, one of
those teams kind of in No man's land of deciding
whether they want to hang around and see if they
can cobble together something to be competitive down the stretch,
or did they start selling off ancillary parts.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Well, and the other thing about just the conversation that
we had miss speaking in a way that wasn't meant
to be misspoken. The labor dispute is between Aeron Mark
and it's in the union. The Red Sox are being
used to be brought into the ponds. Yeah, but it's
yeah to try to say, like, all right, we either
need the worker that we don't. And I think that
(39:01):
the Union feels that the Red Sox could come in
and help their cause by saying we really need these
people for this three games.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
No question about it. Yeah, it's the Ara Mark and
the Union and certainly the Red Sox ownership them in.
They've got the deals in place, right, So how much
do they want a flex in this prospect? With so
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so Dan Buyer. As we look at last year's final
quarterback stats, you go to the tail of the tape.
Lamar Jackson was your leader in the clubhouse, had a
nice Week eighteen, doesn't matter, was still number one. Josh
(39:51):
Allen did not play week eighteen. He was number two.
Joe Burrow and Baker Mayfield curiously tied for third. They
both played in Week eighteen with a bigger effort from
Mayfield and number five rookie Jaydon Daniels against the schedule
that they had, with some huge games down the stretch.
(40:12):
He was a hero certainly in the Fantasy playoffs twenty three, six,
thirty six, four thirty two eight. Right behind them Jared
Goff and Bo Nicks, those are your Magnificent seven.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Kind of funny considering the recent ESPN rankings that had
the quarterbacks in the top five. Was the big discussion
on Jayden Daniels being at five the core four, if
you will, But the core four for fantasy does not
include Patrick Mahomes. As you look at those point getters
and Mike Even as I'm sitting here looking at my
(40:44):
rankings as well. I don't know how you decipher Allen
and Lamar, Lamar and Allen. It's it's I honestly think
it's it's who you like, and I just I think
that they're gonna put their numbers up, that they're gonna
put their numbers up in so it's however you want. However,
I do feel now that Jadon Daniels is a part
(41:04):
of that conversation, just because Burrow's the different type of
quarterback where he's not going to be running as much,
and who knows what Jalen hurts and what's gonna happen
with the Eagles if you're not getting as many touchdowns.
But for those three, Mike, I I'm actually moving Jaydon
Daniels up after the great rookie season is possibly being
able to challenge him those two for the number one spot.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Patrick Mahomes number eleven last year wide receiving course. Still
waiting on how many games Rashi Rice will miss when
the hammer of the NFL law comes down on him. Alan,
I guess James Cook gonna play the whole year? Is
he gonna be salty? Don't know, Lamar Jackson, you still
got the Derrick Henry part of things. Joe Burrow I
(41:48):
like him, perhaps as much of them because guess what
we talked about Trey Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart a lot.
That defense didn't get any better.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Their offensive line still stinks too, though, So Joe Burrow
could be broken in half byke How would you five?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
How would you put the five in order?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I would take Jackson first, followed by Burrow, then Allen,
I'm gonna slide him down a little bit. And then
for me, the curiosity becomes Jalen Hurts number eight a
year ago, thinking maybe we get a little bit of
a bounce from him in the past game.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
A right, Allen Daniels Lamar Hurts Burrow my honorable mention, Dak.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Look at you like that George Pickens connection.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Do you I just don't trust their defense.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, that's probably a fair point, especially if maybe Micah
feels a little more of a hamstring sure pull that
takes him out and bad back right now from carrying
the weight of the world. He's Dan Byer On Mike
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
To Fox Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome in another beautiful
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good one out there, whatever however you're doing as we
get into the final throws of your summer months. Maybe
back to school shopping has begun picking out outfits or
(00:46):
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being part of our extended family. As we come to
you hear from the Fox Sports Radio studios in southern California,
watching some Major League Baseball action, all the training camp
news and oas coming about. We got a lot of
quarterback stories that are circuling, which is always good as
well as the holdout fun because well, we need labor
(01:08):
dispute in every sport. It would see him at this point,
check another box but in Jason's place tonight as he
traverses the universe, perhaps actually making his way to Michigan
for a muskrat and dinner. Dan Byer, my colleague, got
great to be here. I watch a flex podcast. You
hear him on the Doug Gottlieb Show and part of
Cavino and Rich and of course on Sundays Fox Sports Sunday.
(01:31):
He and I. Have you been hitting the links like
you had a couple of days, I know, just kind
of family in town, any golf in the mix.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Family put it on a hiatus, Mike. But I'm ramping
up for a big, big event in the next month,
and that's just basically going home and playing with the buddies.
I'm gonna try to not have to make a fool of myself.
So golf clubs with family in town put aside. But
I am going to be getting into mode, ramping up
for that Masters. If you, well, just like you out
(02:00):
Tiger Woods would always try to do well, that's just.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It, right. You got to have that goal and visualize
it and have it out there. And I mean, if
you need me to put out some tweets about it,
you know, just to try to fuel you.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I could do that too, By the way, Who am
I kidding? Tiger just kicked everyone's butt anyway, so they
didn't need to wrap up.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh something had to click there mentally. I mean, we've
been talking about that a lot, you and I off
air and on the Sunday Show is related to Scottie
Scheffler and all that fun dialogue about him. We're watching
The Rays and White Sox. We'll see if I get
another text from my mom if the Rays can hold on,
because she mocked me after the last raise win in
that series. So that was great. Always good to know
(02:38):
that your family loves you and it's checking in thanks
to our team being with us here. We got Monsey
at the news desk, We've got Alex and Justin making
a sound so pretty, and of course all of you. However,
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ahead of you for you. Some fantasy foot all mixed in,
(03:00):
some top five lists, a lot of quarterback news, and
a little League controversy that I think will all appreciate.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It just dawned on me that your parents are kind
of the argument for the Tampa Bay Rays. Now with
new ownership coming in. I know, they're expected to stay
in the area because the ownership group is from Florida,
but the new stadium that they wanted now maybe not
gonna happen. But the argument had always been, Mike, the
(03:29):
Rays get good viewership. They watched the Rays in the
Tampa Bay area, and here your mom is turned into
a Raise fan because of their living situation in the
area from Chicago. She is the example that so many
points to on why the Rays should stay on the
west coast of Florida. I do dig that.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Then they got a valuation of one point seven billion.
That shows you the price of poker and what the
imminent TV deals really kind of mean in this process.
We got some data from the NFL that'll blow your
mind a little bit later on. But yeah, White Sox,
now take a lead. Maybe I should start texting her, haha,
how's that feel? Colson Montgomery just called up one of
(04:12):
the would be new stars for the White Sox. But yeah,
the old one with the the hefty bag look and everything. Obviously,
you know, big thought violent storms took it down. But
other than the two touch ray tank, not a whole
lot of personnality.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No, not at all, not at all. One of those
parks where you if you're on a ballpark tour, you
do it because it's one of the thirty that you
have to go to, but not one that you circle
and make. You're like, well, let's just get the rays
out of the way, then we'll figure out everything else
from there.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
No, that's it, right, And it was a cheap gut yeah,
I mean it's a five dollar entry on most nights
as well as you roll up with many folks coming
from assisted living centers and others by the bus load.
I'm calling it what it is. It's just reality. You
want to hate ad swollen down.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
On the I watched, I thought that's what they did.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
But that's the larger thing, right for that and they
become Lightning fan. Mom still has her allegiance to the
Cubs and the memory of Ron Sano, but we'll leave
that and put a pin in that for now, as
that game is in the top of the eight White
Sox of rally to an eight to seven lead National
Football League. So many stories, Dan and one that I
think is moderately interesting because the first video clip I
(05:24):
saw this morning when I loaded up my computer because
I had an adventure where I left my phone at
a grocery store and thankfully they didn't sell it before
I recovered it. But I load up the old X
account and there's the first video is Jackson Dart throwing
a pick six and an eleven on eleven, Like, there
you go, so that's fun. And then we get Joe Shane,
(05:47):
Brian Dable, everybody talking about well Dart has the opportunity
to make some noise in the quarterback Derby, But as expected,
Russell Wilson's going to get the one chair out of
the gate to see what he can do here in
training camp. And it's the curiosity of how much Russ's
learned from past experiences, past locker rooms, past media coverage
(06:11):
of his being in said locker rooms, and maybe those
disconnects and whether that matters to him at this point, like,
because that's the thing with Russell Wilson as he goes
to another spot. No expectations for the Giants to achieve,
which is curious because you'd think you'd go all in
either on the veteran with the ability to still be
(06:32):
an ace or Jackson darts a guy that let's call
it what it is, it's a dart throw. Right when
we got to the drafts, he was a guy that
was very a sexy prospect. Last September. By draft day,
I was like, ah, let's see what happens. Right for
a couple of people liked him and you saw, like
you know, the old movers in the charts or whatever.
But the jury was out and now you have this
(06:54):
quarterback room with an embattled GM and coach.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
The old adage was coaches and gms would stick with
the veteran because they felt that that was the guy
that could save their job. And that's no longer the case.
It hasn't been that case for ten years in the NFL.
And if if you and I'm not talking about you,
Mike Carmon, I'm talking about anybody listening, and I guess
Russell Wilson for this. If you think that Russell Wilson
can be the starting quarterback of the New York Giants
(07:20):
for this entire season, you're an idiot because it's not
going to happen, not for the entire season. There's already
rumblings that if they start off zero to two, by
the way, in a division, for as bad as we
think that Dallas could be, or at least what their
off season was, for as bad as it could be,
we still think the Giants are worse. Right and so
too to look at where the Giants are right now,
(07:43):
and even here Joe Shane not even give the one
hundred percent endorsement. Russell Wilson needs to know and everybody
I think knows by now that Russell Wilson's days is
a long term starting quarterback in Mike Long term I
mean a season, like a full season as a starting
quarterback not working. We saw it not work in Denver.
(08:04):
We sowt not work in Pittsburgh. In fact, the message
from Pittsburgh to us was we're not gonna bring back
both Fields and Wilson, but we could bring back one
of them. Well Field signs with the Jets, and Wilson's
still out there and there's no Russell Wilson back in Pittsburgh.
Obviously they go with Aaron Rodgers in the end, but
(08:24):
didn't seem like the Steelers were really in any hurry
to bring him back to Pittsburgh. So now you go
to the Giants and you think it's gonna be anything
different than the previous two stops, it's not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, the end the amount of money that Denver eight
to make him go away, sure, and then Mike Tomlin
was bullheaded. They had success with Fields, was it perfect? No,
But they make the switch to Wilson and he was
damned if that wasn't gonna work. I mean, that's the
epitome of man. When your kids are young and they
want to put that block in that hole that you
(08:55):
know isn't gonna fit. They're gonna find a mallet, they're
gonna find another truck, another din, a sore or whatever,
and they're gonna hammer the hell out of it until
it kind of starts to break apart to where it
fits into that hole. Current over unders Eagles eleven and
a half, wins Commanders at nine and a half, Cowboys
A Curiosity at seven and a half, and then the
(09:15):
Giants at five and a half. Here's Joe Shane on
what his best case scenario would be.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
I'm wondering how you generally feel about, you know, sort of,
for lack of better termed red shirting a quarterback or
a first round pick and sort of having them sit
the majority or most of the year.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, you know, going through the process.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
We have Mike Kafka on the roster or on the
staff obviously as our offensive coordinator. He was in Kansas
City with Patrick Mahomes. I think he played one game
at the end of the year, so we've seen that.
You know, our plan in Buffalo was for Josh to
probably not play much his first year, but the way
it worked out, halftime in the first game we get
blown out by Baltimore and we put him in and
you know, he played the rest of the year. So
(09:56):
you know, I think there's some real benefits from sitting
and learning, specific at least from some of the guys
in the room that have the experience that they have.
But you know, if the coaching staff at some point
feels it's right and he's ready, then you know, I'll
leave that up to them.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Assistant head coach and OC Go Katz, Mike Kafkin, former
Eagle and chief and everything and then in his coaching career.
But it does become the curiosity of when you see
the writing on the wall of the last ditch, you know,
pull the pin on the grenade because you're trying to
save your job if you're both Joe Shane and Brian Dable.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
And at some point you're gonna have to turn to
Jackson Dart. But not because he's a first round pick.
But it's just the way in today's NFL that you
just you need to find out, you need to find out.
And I think it could be a lost year with
how things are setting up for the Giants Mike. Defensively,
(10:52):
they've got dudes, They've got guys. If their offensive line
can stay healthy, fine, but still at the quarterback position,
I don't know if there's a sure fire answer because
the only person I just don't know about is Jackson Dart.
I know about Russell Wilson, I know about Jamis Winston,
I know about Tommy DeVito, and we know those three.
I know, we all know about those three guys. So
(11:15):
when you have Jackson Dart, even if he's the twenty
fifth overall pick, and I don't love Joe Shane using
him in the same breath as Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, however,
it helps his argument with it. And if Jackson Dart
doesn't work out, new people are in and the Giants
are probably starting over again. Anyway, It's not as big
(11:35):
of a loss because it was twenty fifth overall pick
in the draft. However, you have to take a look
at him and at least get some sort of assessment
this season on him, and I think if you're a
Giants fan, sooner rather than later.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
It is the fun part when you get into hey,
we've got Kafka on the staff, and look who he
worked with and look how great they are. Yeah, like,
all right, you might be over selling his input the process.
I'm not gonna say he's a zero, but on a
giant pie chart, I mean, what about that Andy Reid guy? Yes,
you know, and then even had you know, former Bears
(12:10):
coach Naggy, that's going to take some slice of that
and go on down the line, go back to Buffalo
and what they've had run through there as well.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Just even who Patrick Mahomes was coming out of college,
there was enough to be like, Okay, this could be
the guy, and we didn't think it was going to
be just Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen honestly was such
an intriguing prospect for what he was out of Wyoming,
there were just questions because of Wyoming and could he
(12:39):
be accurate and he's obviously worked through those, but they
were top prospects. They were bigger prospects, and their draft
position represents that than Jackson Dart was entering, entering this
quarterback draft that we had this past year, which wasn't
even then enticing no exactly.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
And you know, it's one of the I don't do
a lot of victory laps on Fox Sports Radio, but
I will dunk on those colleagues that thought Josh Allen
was just going to be a running back manny an argument,
particularly on Fox Sports Sunday all those years ago. Interesting
to note that the Giants begin their season ready at
Commanders at Cowboys Home against the Chiefs. Oh oh wait,
(13:25):
then the Chargers come to town.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I didn't even I can't remember who it was, but
somebody said, if they're facing zero to two, you may
be looking at Jackson Dart in week three. Think about that. That's,
by the way, that's all you need to know about
about Russell Wilson again, like they're not going to give
them any leeway on the road, Dable and Shane trying
to save their jobs, You're gonna at least want to
(13:48):
get a look at the kid. But it also makes
me wonder about Jameis Winston. I think people believe that
Tommy DeVito's the the odd man out in all of this,
But I don't know. Can you have Winston and Wilson
both on the same team and want to get a
look at Jackson Dart only count.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Only if you now get a reality show out of it.
Stick about those three guys in a room together, Just Russell,
Jamis Sar.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
It's called Winston, Winston and Wilson.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There you go have it at it. He's Dan Byer
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off alevanting and finding himself. Maybe in the State of Michigan.
I don't know. Maybe it'll be in a new tourism
ad with me today and tomorrow. I got Dan Bayer
joins me. You hear him Middays on the Doug Gottlieb
Show as part of that show and Cavino and Rich
(17:14):
and then he and I do a little thing called
I Watch a Flex, the Fantasy Football podcast, which is
coming back and earn us some segments already up there
from some of our Sunday Morning Fox Sports Sunday conversations,
some of the ranking stuff, some of the off season
meanderings and draft status and all that fun stuff. And
well now we get to rev it up again.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
There are a lot of sickos that will be in
on this well, from the way the season ends, all
the way in the spring through the summer and even
right now. But I feel like August first is the
start line. That's what you start. There could be early
drafts because of people's schedules, but August one is the day,
but we try to get you rapped up for the
fantasy season. Can't wait to talk fantasy later on in
the show. And I'm also wondering why Jason doesn't do
(17:59):
any Smith in the Minton sort of shows, like that
should be the promo if he's doing a show. If
he was to do a show while in Michigan, Smith
and the Mitton I think works really well.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I think that rolls off the tongue. Yes, especially if
he's at that restaurant with the Muskrat dinners. I think
it would be good.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
He also want to say, Mancy Blanda is at the
news desk. She found out within the past three years
that there's an Upper Peninsula, right moncey up? Correct?
Speaker 2 (18:23):
There you go?
Speaker 3 (18:23):
That was that was a newfound tidbitch, Yes, and.
Speaker 7 (18:27):
It was easy to remember.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm really bad with geography.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
I don't know where anything's up it so as like
the up yep, and he's like the Upper Peninsula, and
I said, start over, that's okay, Like I'm like, it's
first grade. Explain it to me.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I don't remember, forget it geography something long long ago, right,
long time And.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
It's just up.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's just up the up.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
I won't forget it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
And that's one to grow on. See the learning never stops.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Man.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Every day we come up with something chaotic. Now coming
into this weekend and into this week where we sit
in this moment in time on a Wednesday, we've been
talking a lot about labor dispute, whether it's hold out
players in the National Football League. Trey Hendrickson, I'm taking
my ball and I'm going down to Florida. I'll keep
training and see y'all later. Michah Parsons, I'm going to
(19:15):
show up and I'm going to start trading barbs with
Jerry Jones through the media and so many others. Right
Juwan Jennings, he showed up for work and he practiced
with the forty nine ers earlier as he's still saying, hey,
I want to get paid beyond my meager earnings here.
But a couple of stories also that go into our
baseball world and the WNBA. That's a whole other CBA
(19:38):
that needs to be agreed upon. But going into this weekend,
the huge baseball series that will will come to bear,
and there's a story spawning off of that first off
Mookie Betts, former Red Sox star now with the Dodgers
and struggling this year. Go back to the series in
Japan where he lost a lot of weight and was
unavailable for a period of time, and he struggled all
(20:01):
season long, changing of positions. Now back at the top
of the batting order, He's three for twenty eight since
being reinstalled there, so trying to figure out his swing.
Dave Roberts says he may miss the opening of the
series for personal reasons, So trying to figure out. And
I'll hope he and his family are okay, but certainly
for the Dodger fans and the Greater Los Angeles base,
(20:23):
still a lot of questions and concerns for that. Now
to the labor side of things, Fenway Park workers have
agreed to green light a strike that could happen for
three days and three days only. I feel like I'm
going into Mama Mia at the end when Meryl Streep
comes forward for one night and for one night on
for three days. So it's already just predetermined. We're gonna
(20:45):
have a lotted, thirsty and hungry Dodger fans filling Fenway
Park and being around the area. So you know what,
Aaron Mark, we want more money. We want less automation right,
less of the kiosk kind of stuff. We want more
ability to where it's transactions with dollars because well, people
more likely maybe give me a quarter tip there as
(21:05):
opposed to just click click click on a tablet. All
of those things. So saying that they could begin striking
at noon on Friday, lasting three days while the Dodgers
are in town.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
I am shocked at this. The reason being is why
would you show how they can get by in life
without you. I understand that it's a huge weekend and
that's why they're choosing this weekend to do it, to
try to cause chaos, and maybe the systems that the
Red Sox don't have in place at this time Mike
(21:39):
are able to be implemented on Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
but Monday's going to come around pretty quick. So I
hate to say it, but I'm siding with the team
on this, like how are you gonna how are you
going to show your worth moving forward? If you're worried
about being replaced buy machines at some point, I I
don't know the ins and outs of it, and I
(22:01):
know when you go to football games. The neat thing
about a football game is a lot of times it's
maybe local organizations running that booth or a college atmosphere
because college basketball there's only so many games that you
have in a season that you can get a youth
group or a church group they run that concession stand
and you have people there when it's and it's a
(22:22):
way for those groups to raise money. When you have
this in this company and everything is turning to automation, yeah,
it's going to cause chaos this weekend. I just don't
know how in the world it's going to strengthen your case,
because to me, it's just a matter of time before
those Fenway franks are being handed out by robots. Well yeah,
just not robots, but you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
But the ordering process right, to streamline the process, I mean,
we've seen bojoskus all over fast food restaurants and in
a lot of a lot of ballparks. Now you have
the order from your phone and they bring it to
you like they do at movie theaters or whatever else.
It doesn't eliminate people entirely, but it cuts some off right.
(23:04):
It's going to shrink their workforce, and in this case,
they've been operating without a deal since the end of
the calendar year twenty twenty four and operating this entire
time talking about all these different parts of their labor,
just the friction, but then saying, well, because it'll be
a really busy weekend, this is how we're going to
show them.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
If you knew that there wasn't somebody walking up and
down the aisle saying cold beer, you know what you
would do?
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You just go get your cold beers right right, and
that's the time there. I mean, look, I operated out
of the third deck, you know, the three hundred levels
in Chicago. Other than that one guy who's a legend
because he would carry like four cases at a time,
it just dominate. A lot of times those beers were warm.
I mean it just it was a tough go so
(23:51):
you'd end up at the kiosk yourself. Anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I get the personality of some It's not all we
know that for sure. How many times do you say,
I think they're at a baseball game going like, gosh,
is the lemonade guy gonna come by again? He has
not been here since the second inning. Guess so I'm
just gonna go up and get a lemonade. I just
I don't know. I don't know what leg they have
to stand on, but I would not want to give
(24:16):
the Red Sox an opportunity to do anything or show
anything that would make their work less important than it
already seems to be. To the Boston Red.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sox beer vendor, Laura Crystal told Front Office Sports, quote,
it's a big series. A lot of people in town,
Henry and Aramark scan to make a lot of money.
They don't want a disruption as much as we don't
want a disruption, But if that's going to help us,
so be so be it. Again, owing to the whatever
it would take and the time to develop an app
(24:47):
to get someone to bring it to your seat, there's
half your vendors gone. Now you just have a runner
for five sections, yes, or you go get it yourself.
In the instance that you brought.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Up, that's yeah, I get it. I get that they're
trying to squeeze, But if you're worried about that, I
just wouldn't give them any opportunity to show that they
can get by with you.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
That is the opportunity.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Yes, it feels awful saying take what you can get
but I kind of just feel like that's the case.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Well, but also, I mean there's there's always the potential
that they just say you don't you don't want to
work here, and you've got deals like the union deal
is suspended, right and they're they're operating good faith whatever.
Not showing up for a big series, you're kind of
breaking some of that. Yeah, also announcing it with a
few days advance. Notice you don't think there's meetings in
the Red Sox offices right now? Of how automation, Hey,
(25:38):
can we get another computer or two up and running
by Friday morning. Might have to change up how we
do things a little bit, but we'll get by.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
I don't know if they'll do it like Doug Deacon
and Arthur did when they were on strike at ips
on King of Queens, But it'd be a wonderful way
to spend a weekend, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
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Speaker 3 (26:33):
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Speaker 2 (26:38):
During the strike was about as good as it gets.
All right, let's start it over to the news desk. Now,
coming up next, we'll talk more well, more labor, and
some more chaos here as they try to navigate the
college world with the sharks swimming. But since it is
Shark week, but let's go over to the news desk
with Manci Milagia's full slate of Major League Baseball. So
she'll have to talk really fast.
Speaker 7 (26:57):
And maybe a little bit of Upper Peninsula and the
rest of it.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
I I'll find out some facts.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
Do you know who's from the Upper Peninsula? No, John Morosi.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
I was really kind of hoping that there was just
gonna be some random ames.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
No.
Speaker 7 (27:13):
I was thinking of a random I was like who's
from the other who's from Michigan?
Speaker 3 (27:17):
No, No, John PALMROSSI I did not know that.
Speaker 7 (27:20):
All right, we'll start here in baseball fellas eleven innings
in Philadelphia of baseball going on. It's been back and
forth between the Red Sox and the Phillies. Right now,
Boston is up nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning.
Phillies have a man on third, but they are down
to their final out in this game. Breitz Haarper hit
his three hundred and fiftieth career home run for Boston.
(27:40):
Rome Gonzalez hit a grand slam in the fifth inning
to take the lead. It really has been back and forth,
but nine to seven bottom of the eleventh inning, Boston
on top.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
White Sox are on top of the Rays eleven nine.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
Bottom of the eighth inning. The Rangers just edged the
A's two to one. A's are probably not going to
forget this one. That go ahead run scored by Texas
was on a pop fly where the A's just miscommunicated.
It dropped a run scored Rangers win. It not gonna
forget that one anytime soon. The Blue Jays outscored the
Yankees eight four. They now have a four game lead
on New York in the Al East, Aaron Judge did
(28:13):
hit his thirty seventh homer of this season in this loss.
The Dodgers walked it off four to three against the
Twins thanks to a bases loaded two RBI single from
Freddie Freeman.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
He's used to that show.
Speaker 7 (28:23):
Hey Odani also homered for the fifth consecutive game time,
a Dodgers franchise record, and Mookie Betts could miss Friday's
series opener against the Red Sox due to personal reasons.
Dave Roberts announced this after the game. The Guardians did
edge the Orioles three to two. In college hoops, USC
five star freshman Elijah Arenas has suffered a meniscus tare
(28:43):
and is expected to be sidelined for at least six
to eight months, and fever star Kaelin Clark has been
ruled out for Tomorrow's game against the Aces.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Back to you guys, there you go. Manti Belagias, find
your eye on Twitter at Monte Belangja's famous people from
the up someone who's in the news a lot who
shall not be named. I'll just leave it at that.
We've got the Terry Crews. Madonna James of the up.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Really, I thought that she was just from suburban Detroit.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, well they've credited her as a yuper.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
Well, so you're not You're not from the same area. Like,
it's not like you got up a pencil in Detroit.
You're like, no, well, separate California, southern California.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
There might be beef with this list.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
I don't know, and Detroit just in you know, entire rivals.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, Vince Gilligain breaking bad. Josh Grobin, I mean, come on,
it's beautiful up. You don't know, Josh Grobin, I mean, come.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
On, Marquette, the whole deal, Marquette Michigan. Yes see, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
See we learned all sorts of new things. Thanks Manci.
I will check back with you in a little bit
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Speaker 3 (30:11):
Maybe not?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Just Hey, Jason Smith and doctor Harmon.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
By the way, I know you're transitioning to a topic
regarding the ACC with a Big ten school, but a
former Atlantic Coast Conference member, University of Maryland.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Yeah, so we've got the ACC now changing up their
policy of how they're going to report injuries, where we're
going to get some of the more traditional listings like
we've seen for NFL games and for those unaware, long
long time ago, the injury report existed and it was
pretty much known far and wide it was because of gambling. Likewise,
(30:50):
the ACC and changing the policy for all conference games
is owing to that same thing, with the number of
people that are fishing around for inside information, the growth
of the gambling space, the legalization state to state and across.
Really there's just a couple of states that seem like
there'll be a holdouts forever, and we're residing in one
(31:13):
now here in California, where daily fantasy may go away
before it's all said done. But that's a whole other thing. Yeah,
just cut off those revenue streams. You don't need that.
But all in that to say, this doesn't seem like
I like the announcement of it, but this always was
the case. You always had people fishing around. It just
was a little more buried underground here. But I think
(31:35):
just the formalization of the process of trying to be transparent,
I would be curious in each of those organizations, like
what now other hallmarks that you're setting up for security,
and how people are engaging in their processes and who
outside the organization that they're working with. But it's at
(31:58):
least a step to acknowledg Hey, we see problems, we
see major League Baseball, we see other leagues that have
had these issues. We're at least going to make a
public policy to thwart this to a degree.
Speaker 3 (32:11):
I think that to your point of it, being transparent
is one hundred percent the deal. And it was just
more of a case of I feel Vegas knew the
information and you could tell with lines on players. Sure,
you just would know if a guy was going to
play or not by what the what that line was.
(32:34):
Vegas had that information. Now it's just the acc saying like,
we're not trying to keep the wole, you know, pull
the wool over your eyes or keep it hidden from you.
But they they and by day, the insiders in Las
Vegas have known this information many a times Mike, do
you remember when you just would look at a line
(32:56):
and be like, Wow, so and so is injured on Saturday.
That line is now they they have no chance to play.
And the only thing that was I guess, non transparent
about it was just that the teams and the schools
and the leagues just wouldn't tell us. But that information
was there, and if you knew the line and you
(33:19):
looked at the line, you knew what the status of
said player would be.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Something we talk about all the time, right, how much
value right quarterbacks? Obviously the biggest movers we can see
three points to ten points. Right, Brady was worth nine
and a half I think for a good chunk of
his career, perhaps even a little more. Patrick Mahomes. When
that Chiefs machine is rolling, go on and you know
all the way through right wins above replacement come to
your betting line. The other piece of this is, obviously,
(33:45):
as states are taking some of this money in right.
So we're talking about the North Carolina considering a proposal
right now that would give him up to twenty million
dollars of tax revenue from gambling into state institutions such
as North Carolina and NC State. So in that case,
the more you're in bed with gambling as a as
(34:09):
an entity, whether it's advertising behind home plate in a
game or in this case, state school's taking funding from
such residuals that you know, transparency is the only way
to go.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
I don't think it changes much. I think that the
inside information is still going to be there. And again,
this is just what twenty four to forty eight hours
before kickoff, and a lot of this stuff is known
on Monday and Tuesday of that week. Very rarely other
situations where there's a player who has got a significant
sort of ability to move the line that you just
talked about, that we really don't know his status, like
(34:45):
even if it's a if it's a star running back
like usually the team is. I mean, it would have
been different if just naming names, like it's different if
Ashton Genty doesn't play for Boise State and if he
isn't playing in that game, you know that, Okay, maybe
it's gonna be a little different. Maybe that line would
have been significantly less. But we're also just I think
(35:06):
talking about quarterbacks here, right, I mean, like there's for
the most part, yeah, I mean outside of a Jeremiah
Smith at Ohio State. That's who we're talking about here,
And I think I still think that information is going
to be able to be consumed and and shown by
Vegas on the Sunday and Monday when those lines are
This is just kind of a look at we're to
your point. Look, we're playing good, we're playing nice. Here
(35:28):
is the injury report. But I think we're gonna know
well before those games, because I just don't think in
college guys are truly game time decisions like give give
them a chance to make it work in pregame warmups.
That doesn't happen as much as it does in the pros.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I think once upon a time, like if we go back,
I don't know, give it a good decade or so,
you might have been able to obfuscate a little bit
with your practice possibility right, stuff you do in the bubble,
uh you know, and away from what the beat reporters
are seeing and reporting, or the guy with the uh
you know, high power telescopic lenses looking in and beaming in. Hey,
(36:02):
that guy wasn't on the field, and maybe there'd be
some moving in that. Now we're into that more perfect
information because again, the revenues are flowing the changing face
of college sports as a whole, which take it or
leave it, whether you want to want to or not.
It begets more of these kind of conversations, you know,
especially when you're having what media days in Vegas and
(36:26):
other spaces as you have low so many years.
Speaker 7 (36:29):
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Speaker 2 (36:29):
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Let's see how it jumbled the list we can make.
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(37:13):
QB see if we get a jumbling from what we
saw in twenty twenty four, any new entries and always
trying to figure out how much you calculate the greatness
or the operation shutdown of week eighteen into your new
year and as you look ahead. But first we've got
the play of the day and well a day game
(37:34):
here in Los Angeles in triumphant fashion.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
That's the third, the tying run, oh Tania's second, the
winning run one two framon line's about him.
Speaker 8 (37:47):
Left field pater can't get him und the Dodgers one
sits tuper engine f freemom my hero, here you go
already Freeman with the walk off.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
Joe Davis, Dodgers TV on the call. Bader tries to
make the hero play and instead allows the winning run
in Otani to score from second base four to three
year final O'tani did homer earlier in the game as well,
fifth straight day with a home run for him as well,
So yeah, getting it done. So the Dodgers now will
(38:23):
have a day off before they head to Boston. For
that story we talked about Big Series Boston, one of
those teams kind of in No man's land of deciding
whether they want to hang around and see if they
can cobble together something to be competitive down the stretch,
or did they start selling off ancillary parts.
Speaker 3 (38:39):
Well, and the other thing about just the conversation that
we had miss speaking in a way that wasn't meant
to be misspoken. The labor dispute is between Aeron Mark
and it's in the union. The Red Sox are being
used to be brought into the ponds. Yeah, but it's
yeah to try to say, like, all right, we either
need the worker that we don't. And I think that
(39:01):
the Union feels that the Red Sox could come in
and help their cause by saying we really need these
people for this three games.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
No question about it. Yeah, it's the Ara Mark and
the Union and certainly the Red Sox ownership them in.
They've got the deals in place, right, So how much
do they want a flex in this prospect? With so
much revenue coming into town? Play at the day rot
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so Dan Buyer. As we look at last year's final
quarterback stats, you go to the tail of the tape.
Lamar Jackson was your leader in the clubhouse, had a
nice Week eighteen, doesn't matter, was still number one. Josh
(39:51):
Allen did not play week eighteen. He was number two.
Joe Burrow and Baker Mayfield curiously tied for third. They
both played in Week eighteen with a bigger effort from
Mayfield and number five rookie Jaydon Daniels against the schedule
that they had, with some huge games down the stretch.
(40:12):
He was a hero certainly in the Fantasy playoffs twenty three, six,
thirty six, four thirty two eight. Right behind them Jared
Goff and Bo Nicks, those are your Magnificent seven.
Speaker 3 (40:23):
Kind of funny considering the recent ESPN rankings that had
the quarterbacks in the top five. Was the big discussion
on Jayden Daniels being at five the core four, if
you will, But the core four for fantasy does not
include Patrick Mahomes. As you look at those point getters
and Mike Even as I'm sitting here looking at my
(40:44):
rankings as well. I don't know how you decipher Allen
and Lamar, Lamar and Allen. It's it's I honestly think
it's it's who you like, and I just I think
that they're gonna put their numbers up, that they're gonna
put their numbers up in so it's however you want. However,
I do feel now that Jadon Daniels is a part
(41:04):
of that conversation, just because Burrow's the different type of
quarterback where he's not going to be running as much,
and who knows what Jalen hurts and what's gonna happen
with the Eagles if you're not getting as many touchdowns.
But for those three, Mike, I I'm actually moving Jaydon
Daniels up after the great rookie season is possibly being
able to challenge him those two for the number one spot.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
Patrick Mahomes number eleven last year wide receiving course. Still
waiting on how many games Rashi Rice will miss when
the hammer of the NFL law comes down on him. Alan,
I guess James Cook gonna play the whole year? Is
he gonna be salty? Don't know, Lamar Jackson, you still
got the Derrick Henry part of things. Joe Burrow I
(41:48):
like him, perhaps as much of them because guess what
we talked about Trey Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart a lot.
That defense didn't get any better.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
No, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Their offensive line still stinks too, though, So Joe Burrow
could be broken in half byke How would you five?
Speaker 3 (42:02):
How would you put the five in order?
Speaker 2 (42:03):
I would take Jackson first, followed by Burrow, then Allen,
I'm gonna slide him down a little bit. And then
for me, the curiosity becomes Jalen Hurts number eight a
year ago, thinking maybe we get a little bit of
a bounce from him in the past game.
Speaker 3 (42:21):
A right, Allen Daniels Lamar Hurts Burrow my honorable mention, Dak.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
Look at you like that George Pickens connection.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
Do you I just don't trust their defense.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah, that's probably a fair point, especially if maybe Micah
feels a little more of a hamstring sure pull that
takes him out and bad back right now from carrying
the weight of the world. He's Dan Byer On Mike
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