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able to get there and see all our content about
Shador Sanders, who had his big debut tonight for the
Cleveland Browns two touchdowns. Browns beat the Panthers thirty to ten.
All of a sudden, Oh my goodness, there's hope in
Cleveland again. Mike Harmon, Oh wow, that's a stretch, but yeah,
from where you were, and of course there's hope in Cleveland.
(01:34):
Come on, man, yeah there is.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, I don't think it bumped their season long over
under on wins. It did change the odds though. On
Shador Sanders starting Game one, it went from thirty five
to one down to fifteen. Woo. I don't know how
much money that represents is the bigger question. I can't
imagine it's a major market. But all of that to say,
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you know, he puts some good things on tape. Couple
of highlight catches and throws, depending on how you want
to look at it. I'm looking at the acumen of
the receivers to complete the play, but certainly someone's got
to sling it and ropes from Sanders on a couple
of big throws. And now we move forward with a
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you might actually have one of those five that really
can't play. Joe Flacco was once elite. Now he's a
guy he's a placeholder. Can chaedor be the guy to
jump over his shoulders and get himself moving into that
starting role and maybe build I don't know. It's fun
theater if nothing else.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Look, and we talked about this the show. Hey, with
this performance tonight, he should absolutely be running with the
ones that practice next week. He should be elevated. You
have guys that are injured. You drafted Shador Sanders to play,
and you didn't draft to hold him back. Right, So
here's this ridiculous narrative now of all the Browns are
putting Schador Sanders in a position to fail. Like, how
much is that ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right, that's out the window.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Well, he put his quarterbacking for the Browns put in
a position to fail.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let's show you the part where the where the Browns
put Shador Sanders into fail and they press play on
the on the remote and it's with the third pick
in the fifth round the Browns select, Oh I see okay,
gotch Yeah, they selected.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They set him up to fail and drafting him in
the fifth round.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Jets have set up so many people to fail
over the course of the past fifty years. But look
to get a little bit more in depth on a
couple of things from him tonight. Right, let let let's
really get in depth on it. With what he did,
it was really good and some things did it weren't
It wasn't that great. I've talked about his toughness, right,
talked about that a lot, like there is no quarterback
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that I've seen come out of college that is tougher
than Shador Sanders that stays in, delivers the ball, takes
the hit, will run for a first down, take a hit.
He is bleeping tough man, and you can see it
when he stands in to deliver the football. Right, Like
his second touchdown pass to Cayden Davis, he knew oay
O the presence of mind to kind of slide a
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little bit to the right because he could feel the
rusher coming in and that opened up the lane for
running back to to knock him off and give him
a chance to stand in there and fire the ball
into for the touchdown. Right, great play. I knew he's
gonna be tough. I knew that was gonna be at
for him. But the other thing that was on display
tonight were his instincts, and he's always been a great
instinctive player. You saw it in Colorado, you saw but
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you know, balls and he's got to see place he
could put the football. He knew he could go. The
great one handed catch that was made in the first
half was up you know, he dropped in a pickle
barrel like you know, around three defenders. But just that
touchdown that he threw that he's got the presence of
mind to know, okay, where other quarterbacks are gonna freeze
up or try to run up in the pocket and
wind up getting sacked. He knew just a deaf step
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to the right, right, like you're doing the time warp.
Just a step to the left and just a step
to the right. He just knows, a deaf step to
the right opens up the lane for the running back
to make the play, and boom, I throw the touchdown
like to jump to that, you know, when you a
jump to leftist after the right. But seeing him, you know,
seeing him do that, I can already say, well, look
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at the uh, look at the questions for Anthony richardson
last night, Right, there's a lot of there's a lot
of experts that thought, well, he's got to see the
rusher and get rid of the football and not get hit. Okay,
now I can see where there's a school of thought
that tells you maybe he needs to see it. Also, again,
it's a guy running unblocked. Okay, this play was not
designed for that. And then, however you want to draw
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it up, this is a guy running unblocked getting hit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But well, but the quarterbacks got to recognize him.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Couple, I can't. I can't blame should Look Sanders is
playing and there or or Richards is playing, and there's
three backup offensive linemen. But still, okay, I can see
that where yeah, maybe he should he should have seen it.
Here's should door Sanders already seeing something like that? Like it?
I already see. His instincts are better than tons of
young quarterbacks in the game. And maybe that is because
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of the bloodlines with his dad and and knowing what
it's like and being comfortable being a star and being
comfortable being a quarterback, whatever, however you want to lay
it down. It could be just knowing his instincts with
the position. But he does things already that other quarterbacks
don't do. He's more instinctive than many other quarterbacks. Maybe
because he played so many downs and guys like Anthony
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Richardson have only started nineteen games in the past four years.
But whatever it is, he's got that man and that
those are two things that tell me, yeah, this guy's ready. Man,
he's gonna stay in there and not get happy feet.
Big thing you worry about with young quarterbacks. They're gonna
try to run and they need some time to get
used to the fact knowing that there's pressure and then
there's pressure. And the fact that hey, instinctively he knows
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where to go, where to get to, where he can
throw the pass, knowing exactly when he to get outside
the pocket, when I need to just step up in
the pocket. Like those are two of his biggest attributes
and they were absolutely on display tonight. Man, it was impressive.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's fun. We know he's got a good arm, above
average arm, good to arm strengthpecially so the first touchdown
pass gets it through two defenders, good concentration on the
back end by the receiver to haul it in the
one down, the sideline right roll to the right. One
of the things we always talk with young quarterbacks, give
them the opportunity because we watch it in college all
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the time. These guys throwing on the run, giving themselves
the option of taking off with it, and for Sanders
that was never in question in this particular play. You know,
it wasn't exactly like he had guys getting ready to
jump on his back on the plate, plenty of time
to make a decision, but he made the right one
and a nice touch throw down the sidelines. That was great.
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Good to see. You know, you like the time warp.
You know, we keep celebrating. I think it's the fiftieth
anniversary of Rocky Horror coming up here, right, seventy five, Yeah,
fiftieth anniversary. So you know, the jump to the left,
step to the right, shout out meat Loaf and everybody.
But it's you know, the opportunity was there, and he
certainly felt enough pressure. The offensive line wasn't great, as
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we know. It was quick to point that out whenever
given an opportunity on social media during his run at Colorado.
But here's an opportunity to show in game speed that
you can do this, and it's a great first step
right one of those Hey, here was your first test.
You got the prerequisites. Now get you get to move
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into the advanced class and probably run with the ones.
We have no idea what's going on behind the scenes
in terms of what he's done in meeting rooms and
and even on the practice field. The highs and lows.
We haven't had a lot of run coming out of there, right,
We had the first couple of days, but once everybody
else reported, it kind of got muted. Right as we
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talk about the league as a whole. The only thing
we've really talked about with Cleveland is the fact that
they kept adding quarterbacks. And he's like, we need one more.
Why these guys are hurt? All right, cool, keep adding
one more. So we get hunting today and he played
and whatever. But for Suari Sanders tonight, great, great stats,
great lines, great throws. It's too bad it's a Friday night.
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I mean, because think about what the radio would sound
like tomorrow morning. Oh man, people would be walking around
with T shirts with his face on him. Oh maybe
having someone running through the studios with his face on
a giant flag. I mean, maybe they'd have a band
there to sing a song about him. I don't know now, now,
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to be fair about it, oh look and there's Babe
the Blue Oks right now.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
To be fair, now, there were some things he didn't
do great, and only one of them really I stuck out.
I said, oh boy, that's that's gonna be something that
I wonder what the ramifications of that is. The Benny
Hill play no, no, no, the Benny Hill plays I'm
okay with right, the Russell A couple of times he
did the Russell Wilson fading back to pass. I'm gonna
drop back thirty yards in the pocket because I think
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I can run around the outside and and make something happen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Right, swing around and twist. That seems to be to
write a passage for all young quarterbacks, though. Yeah, they
have to potentially get planted terribly at least once narrowly
avoid big catastrophic injury by doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He's way more mobile than you think. Yeah, look at
you had the big first down run this year, and
again he runs. He plays fearless, right, that's the best
part about him. But I think he's gonna he's gonna
learn if he didn't learn tonight that oh that whole
running around trying to get outside the tackle box and
run towards a line of scrimmage and launch a great pass. Yeah,
that might not happen. I might not be fast enough
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to do that in the NFL. I might be fast
enough to do that against Nebraska. Don't know that I'm
fast enough to do it, you know, in the league.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So it didn't work against Nebraska either.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh okay, example again, maybe that works against Colorado State,
but I don't know if it works all right. So,
but the other big thing is is there was a
third down play in the first half where he rolled
out and it looked like there was there was some
sort of confusion because you had three receivers on the
pl who looked like they were way too close to
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each other, right like and and Sanders. There was no separation.
And Sanders rolling out gets sacked and he gets up
with his helmet off, and it looks like he goes
over and he yells at one of his players. You
can see the announcers on the game. I think it
was Joe Thomas who said, oh, there, he always has
something to say to one of his wide receivers. And
I was like, dude, what are you doing? Man, what
are you doing? If the guy made a mistake somewhere,
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you don't you don't need to run on the field
and yell at him. Man, what what do you do.
That's like the worst part of Shador Sanders. That's like
when all the Browns and all the the the critics going, yep,
that's that guy. Man, not a great teammate, gonna throw
other people under the bus, like but uh, I have
to agree. The one thing I didn't like was, Dude,
you don't need to go up and yell at a
wide receiver. It's not like you got you got sacked, right, okay,
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but it's not like he he missed a block. He
wasn't paying attention. If if there's something like that, get
on the sideline say something to him. You could see
one of the coaches come over and said, hey, come
on over, come on over, tapped him on the shoulder
and said what over He said something to him, and
Chador looked up watching the replace said yeah, no, it's good,
I'm good. It's all good. And everything was fine after that.
But I'm like, boy, when I saw that rear up,
I said, ooh, that's like the worst part of Shador
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Sanders on display. Because what was the big criticism of
him of coming out, Hey is he a leader? Is
he gonna be somebody that leads? This is a big
deal to be the face of a franchise in the NFL,
and that one moment I was like, okay, it just
it struck me as that's the one thing that I said,
if you could take that back. I wish he could
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take that back.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, but that's also one that if he starts to
become a prime pun intended prime player in the NFL,
you can do with that. Right now, you're just colorful
and you're trying to get the best out of your teammates.
When you're first learning or you're struggling, it comes off
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as needy and problematic. So yeah, since it's the first game,
probably not the best look. I'm more worried that he
won't get out of the video game scramble mood. There's
a lot of quarterbacks that do that many years later,
like stop it, stop it, No, And sometimes you need
to get planted so you learn. It's the old You
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know you're a smart alec until someone punches you in
the face. Sometimes you need to.
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Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, no, really weird moment tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean, that's a weird moment that wasn't The Patriots
absolutely blow out the Commanders tonight. Travon Henderson first time
he touches a football in the NFL one hundred yard
kickoff return for a score, telling you, man, this Patriots team,
the culture that vrabel is building. They have a couple
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of really good running backs, but you saw the speed
on Henderson. Ramandre Stevenson was pretty good. He got paid
a year or so ago, but nearly lost carries to
Antonio Gibson with fumbles last year. I see this kind
of like a situation where in the beginning of the
season Stevenson will get the carries, but by the middle
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of the year it'll be an even probably job a
situation with him and Henders, but eventually Henderson's gonna take
over because he is just that talented man. I'm telling
you he is.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
He is the real thing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And for the first first time touch football, go one
hundred yards for a touchdown. Yeah, that's that tells me
that I feel pretty good about the career. He's gonna have.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Pretty nice audition right there. Hey, I'm gonna ue for
a lot of playing time because what did he get?
What else did he get? One carry? Eighteen yards? All right,
proof of concepts down. That's all.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We're good. We don't need you anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We're gonna save you now, we're gonna put you in
bubble wrap until the season starts.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's not a bad idea sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So a great headline there, right, absolutely great headline. And
then there was this because tonight was also maybe this
is why the Patriots won, so they were up seventeen
nothing right away because this was the unveiling of the
Tom Brady statue. Whoa yes, a twelve foot tall Tom
Brady statue, you know, because he wore number twelve during
the season, was unveiled outside Julette stadium tonight. Brady gave
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a big speech tonight for about five or six minutes
before the game started. Had a couple of fun lines
where he said, Hey, usually you don't get a statue
until you're pretty old, like Mike Vrabel and Teddy Bruski haha.
But then he decided, Ah, you know what, I'm gonna
have one more side swipe at the team I love
to hate the most. Uh when I talk about the
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dedication of this statue.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
But in the end, this statue isn't just for Pats fans.
It'll also give all the Jets fans something to throw
their beers at as they lead the stadium every year,
probably in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Boob, Now you know what's gonna happen. I want to
be beating the Patriots so bad in the second quarter
of a game in Gillette, like we're up like thirty
five seven, and Jets fans film themselves leaving. Well, I'm leaving.
It's the second quarter. Hey, Brady, here's your statue. Have
a enjoy the beer, Brady, Now, I really want to
see that. Now, dude, for a guy that won as
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much as he does, all of a sudden, here he
is he's on the Jets, lift Rent free in his head, put.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
His cornnuts in your face.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh stop, that statue was inflated way more than it
should have been, right, Ye, that stats should easily have
been deflated just a little bit. You could tell I
was all the way inflated, man, all the way. It's probably.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
By the way his thing was underinflated. So it should
have been a mini statue.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, it's only a four foot statue. Yes, mister Powers,
this will get inflated to twelve feet. I we'll call
it the Alan Parsons project. No, I mean that would
have been That would have been the best thing to say. Boy,
why is it? It doesn't look as chiseled. Oh no,
we gotta make sure the PSI is only a ten
and a half. Don't want it at twelve. Don't want
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it the Aaron Rodgers where it's like a bowling ball
when you're throwing it. No, no, no, I want it because
I got you know, my hands, I can't really hold
the football, and I'm not as good a quarterback if
you don't inflate. If you inflate, the football is too much.
So I'd need them really deflated so I can throw
them better.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah, because no quarterback in the rest of
the league ever bothered he got caught if he got.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Caught and he got suspend. He got caught, he got suspended.
Second time the Patriots got caught cheating in the you know,
in a in an eight year span. The last one was, Oh,
we had the plays before anybody else. Do you think
Tom Brady knew what the statue looked like way before
everybody else, just like he had the plays before everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I gotta think that he approved the likeness you think
you know, oh yeah, to be sary. Not as good
as the guy that did the ed read you know
all the dust. No, no, no, that guy. That guy
should be the only guy but creating anything and the
people that now do the Marvel Creator matel Creations things,
because those things are creepy as hell. Off the three
D scan. It's like mini versions like.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Brady's got a lot more pull and is a
lot richer to be able to say, Okay, I need
to see this before it's unveiled, because I'm not gonna
You're not gonna ed read me right, You're not gonna
do You're not gonna run now you're not if I
don't like it, guess what you're going back. You're going
back and making some fixes on Oh it looks good, Okay,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, they said him seven point three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's like a middle reliever.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's funny. How like like they pushed Brady out they
wanted to accept so much less money, but years later
after they're done winning super Bowls, Yeah, we'll spend seven
million dollars on your statue. How about you could have
given him seven million dollars more, Maybe he would have
stayed with you, and maybe he would have won one
more super Bowl instead of him jumping to Tampa Bay.
But now we'll bake seven pay seven million dollars for
a statue for the guy.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But it's kind of like all the chatter that we've
had about the Jerry Jones stuff, right, whether it's legal
or not based on the terms of the CVA, you know,
we can get into that. But if he's been get
able to get away with it and the handshake deals
while walking a guy around the stadium going boy, you're
really important to what we do here, and you play
to that, and you've been able to do it. You're
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not changing your ways until someone really draws the line
in the stand. People can go and find the full
accounting that we did in the in the podcast form.
Go look it up and then evangelize to your friends
and neighbors. But same thing with the Craft and Belichick,
with Brady, It's like, if you've now done this for
a decade, why in year eleven, am I suddenly gonna say,
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all right, now we'll pay you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The hell with it, We're done.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You're now you need these other guys more than you
did a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They pushed you, they pushed you out. What's what opportunity.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Spiking his cell phone?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh maybe that maybe that's what. That's maybe what Jets
fans will do. They will they will break the cell
phones and and throw throw a statue and break the
cell phone. Yeah, and then their own cell phones like
a bunch of dopes.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Oh yeah, hey look at this. Hey Tom, remember when
you did this. It's like, hey, did anybody get that?
Because I can't use my phone because I just broke
it because I spiked it like a dope?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Jets you Oh you know, I I really I I
I get mad because why did he decide swipe the
Jets is a statue for you? But okay, but now
I'm like, now you've invited Jets fans to do stuff
to your statue. Okay, all right, all right, great, okay,
throw their beer stat got it? Okay, we'll see all right.
Now they're gonna have to hire security guards to stand
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around it when they play other teams specifically but especially
the Jets. Have somebody said, I'm gonna go I've guarded
the Brady statue today. I'm feeling pretty good about it.
It's a very high profile job. I got to guard
the Brady statue.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So it's like when they on King of the Hill
when they had Bobby and he did the trojan horse
to steal the armadillo and then eventually got hammered it
at midfields, like and he and stood and took his punishment.
Is that is that what has to happen? Now? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Doesn't that now being serious here and patent pending on
this idea, doesn't that sound Doesn't that sound like the
beginning of a Mark Wahlberg comedy where he's a security
guard and his job is to guard the Brady statue
the night before a game against the Jets. Something happens
and the statue gets defaced with whatever on it, and
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he winds up getting fired from his job, and and
you know, hilarity ensues, like I.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Don't know he's and now he's on the case to
try to figure out who screwed him over.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, I don't know what the play, but that's the
opening scene. That pretty job is to guard the Brady statue.
But now he's trying to restore his name and the
statue because it's the big game for it all. And
Brady is now beside himself. Yeah, okay, and or or
this or this, because now I kind of bookend the movie.
The beginning of the movie is that, and then you
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have the plot of the movie. Then the end of
the movie is Brady confronts him because he's the guy,
and they have a big fight like Bob Barker and
Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore and Tom Brady just beats
the crap out of Mark Wahlberg. Wait, what do you
saying the security guard? Okay, and you just said it's
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basically observing report the movie.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, I was I was gonna go back to the
other guys when he shot Jeter in the ass.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, I never saw that.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Wait a minute, okay, hey, the next time you see
a good movie will be the first.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What's the oh stop with that? What's the uh what's
the plot of that movie?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I mean you basically just said it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Well, okay, there was no Tom Brady statue, smart guy,
so they can know that.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So with somebody with Seth Rogan guarding a Brady statue
in two thousand and nine and something happened.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, it's got a fifty one percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh okay, so already that my uh, already, my my
movie idea is better.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, I mean it's better than half.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But wait, he's a security guard at them all. Oh,
it's fine. That movie only made twenty seven million dollars
and that was in like the early two thousands. Nobody
saw that movie. Playing me for not seeing that movie.
Twenty seven million dollars. That's like nothing, Oh my goodness,
nothing in that movie.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Let me get to Tom Brady for talking smack.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I thought, you're gonna throw you know what, jets, that's
what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know what else? Is nothing with the points that
Jets are gonna score tomorrow against the Pack.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Come on, that's not too obvious. What are you gonna
do about Brady doing it? What are you gonna do nothing?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
You're getting them in the studio, right, We're gonna fight.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You're gonna do absolutely nothing except where what he said?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But what do you mean, I'm where? What are you
talking to?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Wear it? Man?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Are you talking? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Get him in?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We'll fight, get.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Him in, We'll fight. That owned you And now he's
he's taking. And that's what I don't get, Like, It's.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Not like the Jets were a team that beat him
a lot during his I think he was record against
the Jets was like forty eight and three, like and
all of a sudden, Oh but the Jets. But the Jets.
I'm like, well, like, what what's that all about? What?
Why do the Jets live rent free in your head? Tommy?
Why do they live rent free in your head?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Because he laughs every time he thinks of them. Yeah,
he thought everybody else would too.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, And all he's.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Got to say at the end is saying, you know,
And even when I was with the Bucks, Antonio Brown
quit in the middle of a game and ran off
the field and we still won that game.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's the Jets for you.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Jason. What are you gonna do about this?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That did happen? I thought you're gonna get him in
and we're gonna go one on one?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Are you gonna call this is just?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
And I told you you're the producer.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You you produced Tom Brady into the studio next week?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, okay, He's like, I reject the challenge.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
We got more after what's trending? But let's find out
what is trending from a guy who's been called the
Tom Brady at Fox Sports Radio. He's got a statue
right outside the studio. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
I do does it look like Lucy or statue?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know where the Disager statue is, right? You've seen that?
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Sure why the birds are familiar with it.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
That's about it.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
As for three NFL exhibitions. Tonight, New England did win
at home forty eight eighteen over Washington Patriots. Rookie Travion
Henderson ran back the opening kickoff one hundred yards for
a score. Cleveland got two touchdown passes from their starting
quarterback tonight, rookie Shaduor Sanders, thirty to ten. The final
at Carolina. Sanders played nearly three quarters. He had one
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hundred and thirty eight yards passing. Detroit won seventeen ten
at Atlanta Jake Bates with fifty seven yards field goal,
Kyle Allen two touchdown passes off the bench. The game
was suspended early fourth quarter after an injury the Lion's
defensive back Maurice Norris, who was taken to a local hospital.
His coach says he was breathing, talking, had movement, but
Norris is due to stay in a hospital overnight. He's
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listed in stable condition. There is a game coming well
a few lots tomorrow and a couple on Sunday. But
for that Sunday game, the Chargers have some news this
past week. Of course, a knee injury to pro bowler
Rashaun Slater out for the year, so the Chargers said
today they're moving Joe all to left tackle. Quarterback Taylor
Heineke will start for the Chargers Sunday against New Orleans
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against quarterback Spencer Rattler. Dallas defensive end Micah Parsons is
day to day with a back injury. As for the
Dolphins and Bears, they're meeting Sunday Caleb Williams, quarterback for Chicago,
will not be playing. Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill did
not practice again today due to an oblique injury. Colts
quarterback Anthony Richardson could practice this weekend after Thursday night's
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dislocated finger. A reminder Fox we'll have a Sunday Night
preseason game the next weekend. LSU quarterback Garrett Nosmeyer is
dealing with pateller tendonitis, but the team says he won't
miss significant time. A p's preseason college football pool comes
out Monday. The Boston Celtics gave coach Joseph Missoula an extension.
The NBA's opening night doubleheader will reportedly have Houston at
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Oklahoma City and then Golden State at the Lakers. Three
WNBA games tonight wins for New York and Minnesota Las Vegas,
as well as for Minnesota, all starting a Fisa Collier
out at least a couple weeks with a sprained ankle,
and for New York Breonna Stewart due to return late
August with the brow and Bruce internee. Dallas lost at home.
Page Beckers was out tonight with a bad back. Tommy
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Fleetwood leads by four strokes.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
In Memphis.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Colin Moore Coawa tied for second place. In Chicago. At
the Livegulf event, Dustin Johnson is tied for the lead
with Sergio Garcia. The group tied for third one shot
back includes Brooks Koepka and Bryson De'shambo, also John Rahm
and Phil Micholson. In late night baseball wins for Arizona
and San Francisco, the Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw beat Toronto
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and Max Schurzer five to one. Mookie Betts with a
homer and three RBIs Boston was a ten to two
winner at San Diego, and Walker Buehler got the win
going six innings. Seattle won its fifth straight game, three
two over Tampa Bay Kyle Raley with his forty third
homer a three run shot in the bottom of the eighth.
Saint Louis shut out the Cubs five to nothing. Milwaukee
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won its seventh straight game, three to two over the Mets,
who've lost five in a row. Milwaukee took the lead
in the fifth on a basis loaded hit batter. The
Brewers offense went four for twenty nine and still won
the game. They're five up on the Cubs in the
NL Central standings. Now in the NL East, the Phillies
first place, three and a half over the Mets after
a nine to one win at Texas, beating Merrill Kelly
(29:45):
Kyle Schwarber of the Phils his forty first home run
Trey Turner with a homer five RBIs Detroit homer in
the eighth to beat the Angels six to five. Houston
won in ten innings at the Yankees five to three.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, bye bye, first place. Now I gotta worry about
the Reds and the Cardinals. That's great.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, well, but the Mets got you to the Jets.
That's done. Yeah, that's true. That's got me to the Jets.
That's to the Jets. Man, that's gott you're already looking at.
I mean, I showed you that picture of Jalen Brunson
in those re refurbished Knicks uniforms because I already I'm
already trying to transition to you there where you may
have some hope.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, no, those uniforms look sweet. Going back to the
nineties Nicks uniforms. Yeah, where again, we almost made it
to the finals. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Great, let's go by the way though, Jason in that
picture right for all of the talk that we've had
of slim down, yoked, Luka, doncics, right, men's health and
all that other stuff. Yeah, they did a really good
job on Jalen Brunson there.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh sure, Yeah, I wonder if I Luca lost thirty
one pounds, right, that's what he said, thirty one pounds.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Or something like that. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Uh Now, coming up next we're gonna get into we'll
preview some of the big stories tomorrow for big NFL games.
But one guy I'm buying for the season played tonight
and obviously didn't get any of the headlines because it
was all about Shador Sanders. But I am really buying
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Bryce Young for this year for Carolina now still not
a great team, but I'm buying the upward trajectory of him,
mainly because I love the guy that's gonna be his
number one receiver in Tedrowa. McMillan had a big catch tonight,
Like he is he is it, like he was so
good on Arizona the past couple of years. Again, Mike
and I watch PAC twelve or late night football on
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the West Coast, you don't have to. But he's everything
they thought that Xavier Leaguet was gonna be ed who
got thrown out of the game tonight before he caught
a pass. I am buying to the point where he's
gonna he's gonna be a league average quarterback. Like I
can see him. He's took. He took big strides last year,
that first year the Dave Canalis offense, which is very
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quarterback friendly, and I kind of feel that the Panthers
have a really good vibe going on there. Bryce Young
feels confident, He looks confident. You know already the connection
with McMillan is there. But I can see like he's
never gonna be a guy to win a passing championship
or throw for three hundred and seventy five yards a game.
But can I see a twenty touchdown, six interception type
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season for him where his quarterback raiding is in the
mid to high nineties. Yeah, absolutely, I can see that
upward trajectory for Bryce Young. He's got he's look the
guy's at number one pick for a reason, right, probably
needs to get outside the pocket more to throw the football.
Same thing that bears he to do with Caleb Williams.
But you know what do I know? But you know
he's got that talent. He's not surrounded by talent, but
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he's good enough where he can be that league average
maybe Gino Smith guy. And yeah, no it's not. It's
not the player you thought he was going to be
with when you drafted a number one overall. He's gonna
be this big time franchise quarterback and he's gonna be
a top elite, you know, top seven, top eight quarterback.
But can he be a top fifteen, middle of pack quarterback?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yah?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You know what, you can win with those guys. There's
guys like that that have been years and teams win
and you won't have to worry about the quarterback position
for a little bit. Like I'm I'm buying on the
on the Bryce Young continued ascent from the from last
year to this year.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Bought on Canalis last year. Second half. You got some
couple of veterans that can move the change. Chubbahabra was
really good out of the backfield, so you got some balance. Uh,
they need to figure out how to get him some
nice short and intermediate scheme up so you can get
that completion percentage up, because that fifty nine to sixty
ain't gonna win you a lot of games. But the
long road began with that first step. Believe in year two.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming
up next, we take a look at a couple of
the biggest storylines headed into you a big day. NFL
preseason kicks off in Ernest tomorrow with a full slate
of games. What are some of the big stories We'll
talk about him next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Probably the Jets getting slaughtered.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Uh well, it's a preseason game, so boiler alert and
that wasn't a We usually have pretty good third stringers
for Rostburgh.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Just so you know, no need for a response.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
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able to get there and see all our content about
Shador Sanders, who had his big debut tonight for the
Cleveland Browns two touchdowns. Browns beat the Panthers thirty to ten.
All of a sudden, Oh my goodness, there's hope in
Cleveland again. Mike Harmon, Oh wow, that's a stretch, but yeah,
from where you were, and of course there's hope in Cleveland.
(01:34):
Come on, man, yeah there is.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Well, I don't think it bumped their season long over
under on wins. It did change the odds though. On
Shador Sanders starting Game one, it went from thirty five
to one down to fifteen. Woo. I don't know how
much money that represents is the bigger question. I can't
imagine it's a major market. But all of that to say,
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you know, he puts some good things on tape. Couple
of highlight catches and throws, depending on how you want
to look at it. I'm looking at the acumen of
the receivers to complete the play, but certainly someone's got
to sling it and ropes from Sanders on a couple
of big throws. And now we move forward with a
(02:18):
you might actually have one of those five that really
can't play. Joe Flacco was once elite. Now he's a
guy he's a placeholder. Can chaedor be the guy to
jump over his shoulders and get himself moving into that
starting role and maybe build I don't know. It's fun
theater if nothing else.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Look, and we talked about this the show. Hey, with
this performance tonight, he should absolutely be running with the
ones that practice next week. He should be elevated. You
have guys that are injured. You drafted Shador Sanders to play,
and you didn't draft to hold him back. Right, So
here's this ridiculous narrative now of all the Browns are
putting Schador Sanders in a position to fail. Like, how
much is that ridiculous?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Now?
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Right, that's out the window.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Well, he put his quarterbacking for the Browns put in
a position to fail.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I mean, let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Let's show you the part where the where the Browns
put Shador Sanders into fail and they press play on
the on the remote and it's with the third pick
in the fifth round the Browns select, Oh I see okay,
gotch Yeah, they selected.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
They set him up to fail and drafting him in
the fifth round.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The Jets have set up so many people to fail
over the course of the past fifty years. But look
to get a little bit more in depth on a
couple of things from him tonight. Right, let let let's
really get in depth on it. With what he did,
it was really good and some things did it weren't
It wasn't that great. I've talked about his toughness, right,
talked about that a lot, like there is no quarterback
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that I've seen come out of college that is tougher
than Shador Sanders that stays in, delivers the ball, takes
the hit, will run for a first down, take a hit.
He is bleeping tough man, and you can see it
when he stands in to deliver the football. Right, Like
his second touchdown pass to Cayden Davis, he knew oay
O the presence of mind to kind of slide a
(04:02):
little bit to the right because he could feel the
rusher coming in and that opened up the lane for
running back to to knock him off and give him
a chance to stand in there and fire the ball
into for the touchdown. Right, great play. I knew he's
gonna be tough. I knew that was gonna be at
for him. But the other thing that was on display
tonight were his instincts, and he's always been a great
instinctive player. You saw it in Colorado, you saw but
(04:24):
you know, balls and he's got to see place he
could put the football. He knew he could go. The
great one handed catch that was made in the first
half was up you know, he dropped in a pickle
barrel like you know, around three defenders. But just that
touchdown that he threw that he's got the presence of
mind to know, okay, where other quarterbacks are gonna freeze
up or try to run up in the pocket and
wind up getting sacked. He knew just a deaf step
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to the right, right, like you're doing the time warp.
Just a step to the left and just a step
to the right. He just knows, a deaf step to
the right opens up the lane for the running back
to make the play, and boom, I throw the touchdown
like to jump to that, you know, when you a
jump to leftist after the right. But seeing him, you know,
seeing him do that, I can already say, well, look
(05:07):
at the uh, look at the questions for Anthony richardson
last night, Right, there's a lot of there's a lot
of experts that thought, well, he's got to see the
rusher and get rid of the football and not get hit. Okay,
now I can see where there's a school of thought
that tells you maybe he needs to see it. Also, again,
it's a guy running unblocked. Okay, this play was not
designed for that. And then, however you want to draw
(05:27):
it up, this is a guy running unblocked getting hit.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But well, but the quarterbacks got to recognize him.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Couple, I can't. I can't blame should Look Sanders is
playing and there or or Richards is playing, and there's
three backup offensive linemen. But still, okay, I can see
that where yeah, maybe he should he should have seen it.
Here's should door Sanders already seeing something like that? Like it?
I already see. His instincts are better than tons of
young quarterbacks in the game. And maybe that is because
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of the bloodlines with his dad and and knowing what
it's like and being comfortable being a star and being
comfortable being a quarterback, whatever, however you want to lay
it down. It could be just knowing his instincts with
the position. But he does things already that other quarterbacks
don't do. He's more instinctive than many other quarterbacks. Maybe
because he played so many downs and guys like Anthony
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Richardson have only started nineteen games in the past four years.
But whatever it is, he's got that man and that
those are two things that tell me, yeah, this guy's ready. Man,
he's gonna stay in there and not get happy feet.
Big thing you worry about with young quarterbacks. They're gonna
try to run and they need some time to get
used to the fact knowing that there's pressure and then
there's pressure. And the fact that hey, instinctively he knows
(06:41):
where to go, where to get to, where he can
throw the pass, knowing exactly when he to get outside
the pocket, when I need to just step up in
the pocket. Like those are two of his biggest attributes
and they were absolutely on display tonight. Man, it was impressive.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
That's fun. We know he's got a good arm, above
average arm, good to arm strengthpecially so the first touchdown
pass gets it through two defenders, good concentration on the
back end by the receiver to haul it in the
one down, the sideline right roll to the right. One
of the things we always talk with young quarterbacks, give
them the opportunity because we watch it in college all
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the time. These guys throwing on the run, giving themselves
the option of taking off with it, and for Sanders
that was never in question in this particular play. You know,
it wasn't exactly like he had guys getting ready to
jump on his back on the plate, plenty of time
to make a decision, but he made the right one
and a nice touch throw down the sidelines. That was great.
(07:37):
Good to see. You know, you like the time warp.
You know, we keep celebrating. I think it's the fiftieth
anniversary of Rocky Horror coming up here, right, seventy five, Yeah,
fiftieth anniversary. So you know, the jump to the left,
step to the right, shout out meat Loaf and everybody.
But it's you know, the opportunity was there, and he
certainly felt enough pressure. The offensive line wasn't great, as
(08:01):
we know. It was quick to point that out whenever
given an opportunity on social media during his run at Colorado.
But here's an opportunity to show in game speed that
you can do this, and it's a great first step
right one of those Hey, here was your first test.
You got the prerequisites. Now get you get to move
(08:22):
into the advanced class and probably run with the ones.
We have no idea what's going on behind the scenes
in terms of what he's done in meeting rooms and
and even on the practice field. The highs and lows.
We haven't had a lot of run coming out of there, right,
We had the first couple of days, but once everybody
else reported, it kind of got muted. Right as we
(08:44):
talk about the league as a whole. The only thing
we've really talked about with Cleveland is the fact that
they kept adding quarterbacks. And he's like, we need one more.
Why these guys are hurt? All right, cool, keep adding
one more. So we get hunting today and he played
and whatever. But for Suari Sanders tonight, great, great stats,
great lines, great throws. It's too bad it's a Friday night.
(09:07):
I mean, because think about what the radio would sound
like tomorrow morning. Oh man, people would be walking around
with T shirts with his face on him. Oh maybe
having someone running through the studios with his face on
a giant flag. I mean, maybe they'd have a band
there to sing a song about him. I don't know now, now,
(09:28):
to be fair about it, oh look and there's Babe
the Blue Oks right now.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
To be fair, now, there were some things he didn't
do great, and only one of them really I stuck out.
I said, oh boy, that's that's gonna be something that
I wonder what the ramifications of that is. The Benny
Hill play no, no, no, the Benny Hill plays I'm
okay with right, the Russell A couple of times he
did the Russell Wilson fading back to pass. I'm gonna
drop back thirty yards in the pocket because I think
(09:53):
I can run around the outside and and make something happen.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Right, swing around and twist. That seems to be to
write a passage for all young quarterbacks, though. Yeah, they
have to potentially get planted terribly at least once narrowly
avoid big catastrophic injury by doing that.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
He's way more mobile than you think. Yeah, look at
you had the big first down run this year, and
again he runs. He plays fearless, right, that's the best
part about him. But I think he's gonna he's gonna
learn if he didn't learn tonight that oh that whole
running around trying to get outside the tackle box and
run towards a line of scrimmage and launch a great pass. Yeah,
that might not happen. I might not be fast enough
(10:31):
to do that in the NFL. I might be fast
enough to do that against Nebraska. Don't know that I'm
fast enough to do it, you know, in the league.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
So it didn't work against Nebraska either.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh okay, example again, maybe that works against Colorado State,
but I don't know if it works all right. So,
but the other big thing is is there was a
third down play in the first half where he rolled
out and it looked like there was there was some
sort of confusion because you had three receivers on the
pl who looked like they were way too close to
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each other, right like and and Sanders. There was no separation.
And Sanders rolling out gets sacked and he gets up
with his helmet off, and it looks like he goes
over and he yells at one of his players. You
can see the announcers on the game. I think it
was Joe Thomas who said, oh, there, he always has
something to say to one of his wide receivers. And
I was like, dude, what are you doing? Man, what
are you doing? If the guy made a mistake somewhere,
(11:23):
you don't you don't need to run on the field
and yell at him. Man, what what do you do.
That's like the worst part of Shador Sanders. That's like
when all the Browns and all the the the critics going, yep,
that's that guy. Man, not a great teammate, gonna throw
other people under the bus, like but uh, I have
to agree. The one thing I didn't like was, Dude,
you don't need to go up and yell at a
wide receiver. It's not like you got you got sacked, right, okay,
(11:46):
but it's not like he he missed a block. He
wasn't paying attention. If if there's something like that, get
on the sideline say something to him. You could see
one of the coaches come over and said, hey, come
on over, come on over, tapped him on the shoulder
and said what over He said something to him, and
Chador looked up watching the replace said yeah, no, it's good,
I'm good. It's all good. And everything was fine after that.
But I'm like, boy, when I saw that rear up,
I said, ooh, that's like the worst part of Shador
(12:08):
Sanders on display. Because what was the big criticism of
him of coming out, Hey is he a leader? Is
he gonna be somebody that leads? This is a big
deal to be the face of a franchise in the NFL,
and that one moment I was like, okay, it just
it struck me as that's the one thing that I said,
if you could take that back. I wish he could
(12:28):
take that back.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Yeah, but that's also one that if he starts to
become a prime pun intended prime player in the NFL,
you can do with that. Right now, you're just colorful
and you're trying to get the best out of your teammates.
When you're first learning or you're struggling, it comes off
(12:49):
as needy and problematic. So yeah, since it's the first game,
probably not the best look. I'm more worried that he
won't get out of the video game scramble mood. There's
a lot of quarterbacks that do that many years later,
like stop it, stop it, No, And sometimes you need
to get planted so you learn. It's the old You
(13:12):
know you're a smart alec until someone punches you in
the face. Sometimes you need to.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
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Speaker 3 (15:06):
No, no, really weird moment tonight.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
I mean, that's a weird moment that wasn't The Patriots
absolutely blow out the Commanders tonight. Travon Henderson first time
he touches a football in the NFL one hundred yard
kickoff return for a score, telling you, man, this Patriots team,
the culture that vrabel is building. They have a couple
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of really good running backs, but you saw the speed
on Henderson. Ramandre Stevenson was pretty good. He got paid
a year or so ago, but nearly lost carries to
Antonio Gibson with fumbles last year. I see this kind
of like a situation where in the beginning of the
season Stevenson will get the carries, but by the middle
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of the year it'll be an even probably job a
situation with him and Henders, but eventually Henderson's gonna take
over because he is just that talented man. I'm telling
you he is.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
He is the real thing.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
And for the first first time touch football, go one
hundred yards for a touchdown. Yeah, that's that tells me
that I feel pretty good about the career. He's gonna have.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Pretty nice audition right there. Hey, I'm gonna ue for
a lot of playing time because what did he get?
What else did he get? One carry? Eighteen yards? All right,
proof of concepts down. That's all.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
We're good. We don't need you anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
We're gonna save you now, we're gonna put you in
bubble wrap until the season starts.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
It's not a bad idea sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
So a great headline there, right, absolutely great headline. And
then there was this because tonight was also maybe this
is why the Patriots won, so they were up seventeen
nothing right away because this was the unveiling of the
Tom Brady statue. Whoa yes, a twelve foot tall Tom
Brady statue, you know, because he wore number twelve during
the season, was unveiled outside Julette stadium tonight. Brady gave
(16:55):
a big speech tonight for about five or six minutes
before the game started. Had a couple of fun lines
where he said, Hey, usually you don't get a statue
until you're pretty old, like Mike Vrabel and Teddy Bruski haha.
But then he decided, Ah, you know what, I'm gonna
have one more side swipe at the team I love
to hate the most. Uh when I talk about the
(17:17):
dedication of this statue.
Speaker 6 (17:19):
But in the end, this statue isn't just for Pats fans.
It'll also give all the Jets fans something to throw
their beers at as they lead the stadium every year,
probably in the second quarter.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
Boob, Now you know what's gonna happen. I want to
be beating the Patriots so bad in the second quarter
of a game in Gillette, like we're up like thirty
five seven, and Jets fans film themselves leaving. Well, I'm leaving.
It's the second quarter. Hey, Brady, here's your statue. Have
a enjoy the beer, Brady, Now, I really want to
see that. Now, dude, for a guy that won as
(17:56):
much as he does, all of a sudden, here he
is he's on the Jets, lift Rent free in his head, put.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
His cornnuts in your face.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Oh stop, that statue was inflated way more than it
should have been, right, Ye, that stats should easily have
been deflated just a little bit. You could tell I
was all the way inflated, man, all the way. It's probably.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
By the way his thing was underinflated. So it should
have been a mini statue.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
No, it's only a four foot statue. Yes, mister Powers,
this will get inflated to twelve feet. I we'll call
it the Alan Parsons project. No, I mean that would
have been That would have been the best thing to say. Boy,
why is it? It doesn't look as chiseled. Oh no,
we gotta make sure the PSI is only a ten
and a half. Don't want it at twelve. Don't want
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it the Aaron Rodgers where it's like a bowling ball
when you're throwing it. No, no, no, I want it because
I got you know, my hands, I can't really hold
the football, and I'm not as good a quarterback if
you don't inflate. If you inflate, the football is too much.
So I'd need them really deflated so I can throw
them better.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Yeah, okay, yeah, because no quarterback in the rest of
the league ever bothered he got caught if he got.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
Caught and he got suspend. He got caught, he got suspended.
Second time the Patriots got caught cheating in the you know,
in a in an eight year span. The last one was, Oh,
we had the plays before anybody else. Do you think
Tom Brady knew what the statue looked like way before
everybody else, just like he had the plays before everybody.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I gotta think that he approved the likeness you think
you know, oh yeah, to be sary. Not as good
as the guy that did the ed read you know
all the dust. No, no, no, that guy. That guy
should be the only guy but creating anything and the
people that now do the Marvel Creator matel Creations things,
because those things are creepy as hell. Off the three
D scan. It's like mini versions like.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The Brady's got a lot more pull and is a
lot richer to be able to say, Okay, I need
to see this before it's unveiled, because I'm not gonna
You're not gonna ed read me right, You're not gonna
do You're not gonna run now you're not if I
don't like it, guess what you're going back. You're going
back and making some fixes on Oh it looks good, Okay,
that's great.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Yes, they said him seven point three million dollars.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
That's like a middle reliever.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
It's funny. How like like they pushed Brady out they
wanted to accept so much less money, but years later
after they're done winning super Bowls, Yeah, we'll spend seven
million dollars on your statue. How about you could have
given him seven million dollars more, Maybe he would have
stayed with you, and maybe he would have won one
more super Bowl instead of him jumping to Tampa Bay.
But now we'll bake seven pay seven million dollars for
a statue for the guy.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
But it's kind of like all the chatter that we've
had about the Jerry Jones stuff, right, whether it's legal
or not based on the terms of the CVA, you know,
we can get into that. But if he's been get
able to get away with it and the handshake deals
while walking a guy around the stadium going boy, you're
really important to what we do here, and you play
to that, and you've been able to do it. You're
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not changing your ways until someone really draws the line
in the stand. People can go and find the full
accounting that we did in the in the podcast form.
Go look it up and then evangelize to your friends
and neighbors. But same thing with the Craft and Belichick,
with Brady, It's like, if you've now done this for
a decade, why in year eleven, am I suddenly gonna say,
(21:06):
all right, now we'll pay you.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
The hell with it, We're done.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
You're now you need these other guys more than you
did a decade ago.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They pushed you, they pushed you out. What's what opportunity.
Speaker 7 (21:19):
Spiking his cell phone?
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh maybe that maybe that's what. That's maybe what Jets
fans will do. They will they will break the cell
phones and and throw throw a statue and break the
cell phone. Yeah, and then their own cell phones like
a bunch of dopes.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
Oh yeah, hey look at this. Hey Tom, remember when
you did this. It's like, hey, did anybody get that?
Because I can't use my phone because I just broke
it because I spiked it like a dope?
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Jets you Oh you know, I I really I I
I get mad because why did he decide swipe the
Jets is a statue for you? But okay, but now
I'm like, now you've invited Jets fans to do stuff
to your statue. Okay, all right, all right, great, okay,
throw their beer stat got it? Okay, we'll see all right.
Now they're gonna have to hire security guards to stand
(22:04):
around it when they play other teams specifically but especially
the Jets. Have somebody said, I'm gonna go I've guarded
the Brady statue today. I'm feeling pretty good about it.
It's a very high profile job. I got to guard
the Brady statue.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
So it's like when they on King of the Hill
when they had Bobby and he did the trojan horse
to steal the armadillo and then eventually got hammered it
at midfields, like and he and stood and took his punishment.
Is that is that what has to happen? Now? I
don't know.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Doesn't that now being serious here and patent pending on
this idea, doesn't that sound Doesn't that sound like the
beginning of a Mark Wahlberg comedy where he's a security
guard and his job is to guard the Brady statue
the night before a game against the Jets. Something happens
and the statue gets defaced with whatever on it, and
(22:50):
he winds up getting fired from his job, and and
you know, hilarity ensues, like I.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Don't know he's and now he's on the case to
try to figure out who screwed him over.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Yeah, I don't know what the play, but that's the
opening scene. That pretty job is to guard the Brady statue.
But now he's trying to restore his name and the
statue because it's the big game for it all. And
Brady is now beside himself. Yeah, okay, and or or
this or this, because now I kind of bookend the movie.
The beginning of the movie is that, and then you
(23:20):
have the plot of the movie. Then the end of
the movie is Brady confronts him because he's the guy,
and they have a big fight like Bob Barker and
Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore and Tom Brady just beats
the crap out of Mark Wahlberg. Wait, what do you
saying the security guard? Okay, and you just said it's
(23:43):
basically observing report the movie.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, I was I was gonna go back to the
other guys when he shot Jeter in the ass.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, I never saw that.
Speaker 7 (23:51):
Wait a minute, okay, hey, the next time you see
a good movie will be the first.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
What's the oh stop with that? What's the uh what's
the plot of that movie?
Speaker 7 (24:00):
I mean you basically just said it.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Well, okay, there was no Tom Brady statue, smart guy,
so they can know that.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
I've never seen it.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
So with somebody with Seth Rogan guarding a Brady statue
in two thousand and nine and something happened.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Well, it's got a fifty one percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Oh okay, so already that my uh, already, my my
movie idea is better.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Well, I mean it's better than half.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
But wait, he's a security guard at them all. Oh,
it's fine. That movie only made twenty seven million dollars
and that was in like the early two thousands. Nobody
saw that movie. Playing me for not seeing that movie.
Twenty seven million dollars. That's like nothing, Oh my goodness,
nothing in that movie.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
Let me get to Tom Brady for talking smack.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
I thought, you're gonna throw you know what, jets, that's
what you're gonna say.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know what else? Is nothing with the points that
Jets are gonna score tomorrow against the Pack.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Come on, that's not too obvious. What are you gonna
do about Brady doing it? What are you gonna do nothing?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
You're getting them in the studio, right, We're gonna fight.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
You're gonna do absolutely nothing except where what he said?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But what do you mean, I'm where? What are you
talking to?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
Wear it? Man?
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Are you talking? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (25:09):
Get him in?
Speaker 1 (25:09):
We'll fight, get.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Him in, We'll fight. That owned you And now he's
he's taking. And that's what I don't get, Like, It's.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Not like the Jets were a team that beat him
a lot during his I think he was record against
the Jets was like forty eight and three, like and
all of a sudden, Oh but the Jets. But the Jets.
I'm like, well, like, what what's that all about? What?
Why do the Jets live rent free in your head? Tommy?
Why do they live rent free in your head?
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Because he laughs every time he thinks of them. Yeah,
he thought everybody else would too.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, And all he's.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
Got to say at the end is saying, you know,
And even when I was with the Bucks, Antonio Brown
quit in the middle of a game and ran off
the field and we still won that game.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
That's the Jets for you.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
Jason. What are you gonna do about this?
Speaker 1 (25:51):
That did happen? I thought you're gonna get him in
and we're gonna go one on one?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Right?
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Are you gonna call this is just?
Speaker 7 (25:57):
And I told you you're the producer.
Speaker 1 (25:59):
You you produced Tom Brady into the studio next week?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Yeah, okay, He's like, I reject the challenge.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
We got more after what's trending? But let's find out
what is trending from a guy who's been called the
Tom Brady at Fox Sports Radio. He's got a statue
right outside the studio. It's Steve Desager.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
I do does it look like Lucy or statue?
Speaker 1 (26:28):
You know where the Disager statue is, right? You've seen that?
Speaker 8 (26:30):
Sure why the birds are familiar with it.
Speaker 7 (26:32):
That's about it.
Speaker 8 (26:32):
As for three NFL exhibitions. Tonight, New England did win
at home forty eight eighteen over Washington Patriots. Rookie Travion
Henderson ran back the opening kickoff one hundred yards for
a score. Cleveland got two touchdown passes from their starting
quarterback tonight, rookie Shaduor Sanders, thirty to ten. The final
at Carolina. Sanders played nearly three quarters. He had one
(26:54):
hundred and thirty eight yards passing. Detroit won seventeen ten
at Atlanta Jake Bates with fifty seven yards field goal,
Kyle Allen two touchdown passes off the bench. The game
was suspended early fourth quarter after an injury the Lion's
defensive back Maurice Norris, who was taken to a local hospital.
His coach says he was breathing, talking, had movement, but
Norris is due to stay in a hospital overnight. He's
(27:16):
listed in stable condition. There is a game coming well
a few lots tomorrow and a couple on Sunday. But
for that Sunday game, the Chargers have some news this
past week. Of course, a knee injury to pro bowler
Rashaun Slater out for the year, so the Chargers said
today they're moving Joe all to left tackle. Quarterback Taylor
Heineke will start for the Chargers Sunday against New Orleans
(27:37):
against quarterback Spencer Rattler. Dallas defensive end Micah Parsons is
day to day with a back injury. As for the
Dolphins and Bears, they're meeting Sunday Caleb Williams, quarterback for Chicago,
will not be playing. Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill did
not practice again today due to an oblique injury. Colts
quarterback Anthony Richardson could practice this weekend after Thursday night's
(27:57):
dislocated finger. A reminder Fox we'll have a Sunday Night
preseason game the next weekend. LSU quarterback Garrett Nosmeyer is
dealing with pateller tendonitis, but the team says he won't
miss significant time. A p's preseason college football pool comes
out Monday. The Boston Celtics gave coach Joseph Missoula an extension.
The NBA's opening night doubleheader will reportedly have Houston at
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Oklahoma City and then Golden State at the Lakers. Three
WNBA games tonight wins for New York and Minnesota Las Vegas,
as well as for Minnesota, all starting a Fisa Collier
out at least a couple weeks with a sprained ankle,
and for New York Breonna Stewart due to return late
August with the brow and Bruce internee. Dallas lost at home.
Page Beckers was out tonight with a bad back. Tommy
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Fleetwood leads by four strokes.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
In Memphis.
Speaker 8 (28:43):
Colin Moore Coawa tied for second place. In Chicago. At
the Livegulf event, Dustin Johnson is tied for the lead
with Sergio Garcia. The group tied for third one shot
back includes Brooks Koepka and Bryson De'shambo, also John Rahm
and Phil Micholson. In late night baseball wins for Arizona
and San Francisco, the Dodgers and Clayton Kershaw beat Toronto
(29:03):
and Max Schurzer five to one. Mookie Betts with a
homer and three RBIs Boston was a ten to two
winner at San Diego, and Walker Buehler got the win
going six innings. Seattle won its fifth straight game, three
two over Tampa Bay Kyle Raley with his forty third
homer a three run shot in the bottom of the eighth.
Saint Louis shut out the Cubs five to nothing. Milwaukee
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won its seventh straight game, three to two over the Mets,
who've lost five in a row. Milwaukee took the lead
in the fifth on a basis loaded hit batter. The
Brewers offense went four for twenty nine and still won
the game. They're five up on the Cubs in the
NL Central standings. Now in the NL East, the Phillies
first place, three and a half over the Mets after
a nine to one win at Texas, beating Merrill Kelly
(29:45):
Kyle Schwarber of the Phils his forty first home run
Trey Turner with a homer five RBIs Detroit homer in
the eighth to beat the Angels six to five. Houston
won in ten innings at the Yankees five to three.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah, bye bye, first place. Now I gotta worry about
the Reds and the Cardinals. That's great.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Yeah, well, but the Mets got you to the Jets.
That's done. Yeah, that's true. That's got me to the Jets.
That's to the Jets. Man, that's gott you're already looking at.
I mean, I showed you that picture of Jalen Brunson
in those re refurbished Knicks uniforms because I already I'm
already trying to transition to you there where you may
have some hope.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Yeah, no, those uniforms look sweet. Going back to the
nineties Nicks uniforms. Yeah, where again, we almost made it
to the finals. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Great, let's go by the way though, Jason in that
picture right for all of the talk that we've had
of slim down, yoked, Luka, doncics, right, men's health and
all that other stuff. Yeah, they did a really good
job on Jalen Brunson there.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Oh sure, Yeah, I wonder if I Luca lost thirty
one pounds, right, that's what he said, thirty one pounds.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Or something like that. Yeah, look at that.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Uh Now, coming up next we're gonna get into we'll
preview some of the big stories tomorrow for big NFL games.
But one guy I'm buying for the season played tonight
and obviously didn't get any of the headlines because it
was all about Shador Sanders. But I am really buying
(31:09):
Bryce Young for this year for Carolina now still not
a great team, but I'm buying the upward trajectory of him,
mainly because I love the guy that's gonna be his
number one receiver in Tedrowa. McMillan had a big catch tonight,
Like he is he is it, like he was so
good on Arizona the past couple of years. Again, Mike
and I watch PAC twelve or late night football on
(31:30):
the West Coast, you don't have to. But he's everything
they thought that Xavier Leaguet was gonna be ed who
got thrown out of the game tonight before he caught
a pass. I am buying to the point where he's
gonna he's gonna be a league average quarterback. Like I
can see him. He's took. He took big strides last year,
that first year the Dave Canalis offense, which is very
(31:50):
quarterback friendly, and I kind of feel that the Panthers
have a really good vibe going on there. Bryce Young
feels confident, He looks confident. You know already the connection
with McMillan is there. But I can see like he's
never gonna be a guy to win a passing championship
or throw for three hundred and seventy five yards a game.
But can I see a twenty touchdown, six interception type
(32:14):
season for him where his quarterback raiding is in the
mid to high nineties. Yeah, absolutely, I can see that
upward trajectory for Bryce Young. He's got he's look the
guy's at number one pick for a reason, right, probably
needs to get outside the pocket more to throw the football.
Same thing that bears he to do with Caleb Williams.
But you know what do I know? But you know
he's got that talent. He's not surrounded by talent, but
(32:36):
he's good enough where he can be that league average
maybe Gino Smith guy. And yeah, no it's not. It's
not the player you thought he was going to be
with when you drafted a number one overall. He's gonna
be this big time franchise quarterback and he's gonna be
a top elite, you know, top seven, top eight quarterback.
But can he be a top fifteen, middle of pack quarterback?
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Yah?
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You know what, you can win with those guys. There's
guys like that that have been years and teams win
and you won't have to worry about the quarterback position
for a little bit. Like I'm I'm buying on the
on the Bryce Young continued ascent from the from last
year to this year.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
Bought on Canalis last year. Second half. You got some
couple of veterans that can move the change. Chubbahabra was
really good out of the backfield, so you got some balance. Uh,
they need to figure out how to get him some
nice short and intermediate scheme up so you can get
that completion percentage up, because that fifty nine to sixty
ain't gonna win you a lot of games. But the
long road began with that first step. Believe in year two.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Exit out by a Fresca exit swollen dome. Jason Smith
Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming
up next, we take a look at a couple of
the biggest storylines headed into you a big day. NFL
preseason kicks off in Ernest tomorrow with a full slate
of games. What are some of the big stories We'll
talk about him next right here, Jason and Mike Fox.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Probably the Jets getting slaughtered.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
Uh well, it's a preseason game, so boiler alert and
that wasn't a We usually have pretty good third stringers
for Rostburgh.
Speaker 7 (34:02):
Just so you know, no need for a response.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
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