Jonas Knox on Alabama Nail-biter, Drinking a "Shoey" & NFL Picks 'Knox Lox'

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way tire buying should be. All right, So here's the
good news, right, So there's a little bit of good
news here because there's somebody who is desperately wanted to
be relevant again. I mean, they've really forced the issue,
and I think they actually got it from somebody else
that's actually not far from them, well within the same
him state. But the Texas Longhorns and the Texas Longhorn

(01:03):
fan base has been telling everybody they're back for like
fifteen twenty years. Right, they're not and they haven't been,
and that's all been a pipe dream. And that has
been that fan base. They love the program, they love
the school. They've turned and burned coaches, they've tried to
find answers all of that stuff, and so they've really
been trying to sell you and me and everybody else

(01:27):
at Texas Football is back. Texas is here to here
to stay. Uh, we've now got the coach that we
believe in. And they said that about the previous coach
and the coach before that, and the previous regime and
the quarterback before that. But now, so here's some good news,
right for you Texas fans, for you Texas ball washers,

(01:48):
right for you people out there that love to tell
everybody that your program is legitimate, even though it's not
really the case and you're not even ranked. You are
being competitive and you're staying competitive with the Alabama Crimson Tide.
It's at home, it's early in the third quarter, the
game is tied at ten apiece, and we've got ourselves

(02:09):
a little bit of a slug fest. Now, Quinn yours,
the quarterback got knocked out with I'm assuming a shoulder injury.
That's what we were talking about. A left his left shoulder.
He got banged up early in the game, and so
Quinn yours is out. But the good news for Texas is,
no matter what happens the rest of the game, barring
Alabama kicking it into high gear and putting up sixty

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points unanswered, you've now made your case. You've now stated
your case because nobody was expecting Texas to compete for
a national title. Nobody was expecting Texas despite what Steve
Sarkesian and Quinn Ewers and recruiting an n I L
and the fan base and everybody wants to tell you,
nobody was expecting them to compete for national championships. You

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just wanted to see some sort of progress. You wanted
to see Texas make some sort of a leap or
some sort of a growth from last year to this year.
And here we are, It's week two of the college
football season. You're being featured on Fox. It's big Neon kickoff.
Everybody's there. Brady Quim was telling us there's like two
hundred thousand people outside the stadium before the game. I mean,

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so we're gonna get a hundred thousand people inside the game,
and then two hundred thousand who are standing outside. It's
like woodstock, and everybody's there to watch Texas play Alabama.
You've got the pageantry, you're being featured on national television.
Everybody's there, You've got all eyes on you, and you're
competing against the number one team in the country, the

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team that everybody says coming into this year a lot
like Ohio State, Alabama is looking for revenge. Alabama wants
some revenge. They're gonna get their revenge. They were embarrassed
last year in the National title game. They're gonna come back.
Saban's got a red ass, he's letting everybody know about it.
And he's got the defending Heisman Trophy winner in Bryce

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Young back for another year. This feels like Alabama's year.
And yet here's Texas competing, playing hard down their starting
quarterback and they're tied early third quarters. So whatever happens,
barring sixty unanswered points, and I'll tell you what, I'll
do you one better because I don't want to piss
off Texas fans. I'll make it sixty one as long

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as they don't allow sixty one unanswered points. This has
been a success thus far. Thus far, you have been
a successful program, and you've been featured, and you were
putting on a good performance and whatever happens here on
out again, barring a sixty one point let down, the
Texas Longhorns for at least one afternoon can say they're

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kind of back right now. You gotta win the game
to say you're actually back, but they're kind of back
at this point. So we get to see how this
thing plays that and we will keep you updated on
this throughout the course of the show here on Fox
Sports Radio. Jonas knocks with you here on FS are
so one of the favorite things for me and a
lot of you're probably like this as well too, when

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a smell or something in the air brings you back
to a moment in time. There's something about it, like
you could you could smell something and you remember, oh
my god, I remember the first time I had that.
Or you can smell something you go, oh my god,
I remember, this reminds me of this, you know, like
you like when you when you smell wrapping paper for

(05:30):
Christmas and it just takes you back to, oh, yeah,
I know what this is like. You know, when you
smell a barbecue or you like. For me, whenever I
smell popcorn, especially popcorn, and I can smell it from
outside the house, it reminds me of high school football,
because if you go into any high school football stadium,
you smell popcorn, and you smell those frozen burgers that

(05:51):
they sling for three dollars a piece, right, you know that,
like the big Jumbo rappers. You get it like Smart
and Final or Costco, but only if you have a
membership at Costco. You get it like Smart and Final,
that whole sleeve of those skinny burgers and they're like,
they'll tell you that it's eight twenty. I'm pretty sure
it's a hundred percent fat because they shrink down to
nothing and they turned into sliders. But never mind that

(06:12):
they sell it for like three bucks apiece. Like, whenever
you smell those, you got all high school football's back.
So let me just go ahead and paint a picture
for the rest of the country, right and and I
will tie everybody together, at least two regions of the
country together. We're dealing out here in southern California with humidity,
all right, And it's the type of humidity where I'm

(06:33):
sitting instide of radio studio right now, and my shirt
is sticking to my back. It is disgusting. It's disgusting.
God forbid. You got long hair and you tried to
put something together and go out for a nice dinner
last night. Had fun with that. It looks like you
got a tarantula on your neck because the humidity is

(06:54):
eating people alive. You've got mosquitoes flying around, the size
of bean burrito is. You've got everybody looking for cover,
You've got the a C on it's raining. I mean,
it is nauseating and disgusting, and all that reminds me of.
It takes me back to when I was working in
South Carolina. It takes me back to being in South

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Carolina this time of year with the humidity and it's
football season and you're you're seeing uh, college football everywhere,
and there's rain like potentially a tropical storm or two,
and you're getting some flash flood warnings and all of that,
and it just brings me back to that moment. And
for those of you in the South, like Miami's playing

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right now, and there was a shot of of of
a head coach in that game or one of the
coaches in that game, who's wearing a white shirt and
it's basically a sheet of notebook paper that somebody sprayed
a squirtgun with, like just sweating his balls off. And
that's what a lot of people are doing out here
in southern California. And it takes me all the way
back to South Carolina and working there, And wouldn't you

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know it, wouldn't you know it? South Carolina is losing
here too. It's great, It's it's just like being back
in the South. You know, everybody's sweating. I'm I'm starting
to sweat, all right. I put on three swipes a deodorant,
and it's not getting me through this show. And God
forbid I run over to the liquor store next door

(08:18):
and buy a thing a deodoran again. I did that
one time, and I got an infection in my arm
pit because I'm not sure if that was deodorant or
a can of raid that had been sitting on the
shelf and they just repackaged it, whatever the case may be.
This is one of those moments where it takes you
back to time and you realize, look, it's early in
the college football season. We got humidity, we got storms,
we got people sweating, You've got kids drunk. They were

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yelling f you to Nick Saban in Austin before the
Texas Alabama game. How can you not like college football?
This is why we get excited for it. So, if
you've got somebody in your life that doesn't understand how
you could sit on the couch for hours upon hours
and watch borderline teenagers play football us to explain the

(09:00):
whole situation to him, Try and explain it to him.
I try and explain it to my wife. She doesn't care.
She gets back on Instagram, or then she goes to
church and leaves me by myself, which is cool. But
this is why we like college football. The scenery, the pageantry,
the sweat, the cursing, the booze, the action. And all
I'm doing is sitting here sweating in a studio because

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the humidity outside that we never get in southern California,
and it takes me back to those days. I love
college football. Jonas Knox here on fs are you can
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We're gonna have the usuals. We're gonna have some do
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So that will be coming up later on in the show.
We've got the scraps, the usual, grab Bass and Shenani
against plus updates on all the college football action throughout
the rest of the show as well. But coming up
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is a situation in the NFL that if you've been
paying close enough attention should not come as that much

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(11:19):
Fox Sports Radio you can hang out with us is
always on the I Heart Radio app. Coming up a
little over ten minutes from now, there's uh, somebody that's
really really trying, really trying hard. Man, Oh man, are
they trying hard? And I don't know if it's intentional,
I don't know if it's unintentional. I don't know if
they're trying to tease us or bust our balls, but

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they are really really trying, really hard. So we will
get into that for you. Coming up here again ten
minutes from now on fs are. So there's a quick
update on Alabama and Texas. That is the big game
taking place right now in Austin on Fox number one.
Alabama tied at ten apiece and that Texas has got
the football in Alabama territory with under ten minutes to

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go on the third quarter. So again, man, Texas keeping
it close, making it interesting, making Alabama sweat a little bit.
But I think the prevailing wisdom is eventually Alabama's going
to kick it in gear and and you know, to
find the next the next level that Texas can't get
to as of yet because it's still early in the
process for Steve Sarkiesian. But they are putting together a fight.

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And the more Texas stays in this game, and the
longer they stay in this game, the more as a
Texas fan you can feel good about this. This team
that everybody's been telling you has is back. It's the
Jerry Jones syndrome. Look, Jerry Jones has mastered this. Jerry
Jones has has mastered the ability to have an underwhelming
football team still be the topic of conversation every single

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week during every single football season. I mean, a quarterback
contract dispute. This is how how much of a genius
Jerry Jones is. A quarterback contract dispute carried us through
a pandemic. That's how good Jerry Jones is. That is
the magician that Jerry Jones is. The Dax Contract, along

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with the Last Dance documentary and Tiger King got us
through a pandemic in sports radio. So Texas obviously taken notes.
They've tried to make themselves a topic of conversation in
college football with an underwhelming football team, but not underwhelming
today Texas keeping it close with Alabama and there was
just a penalty handed out to Alabama. So now Texas

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continues to move the ball. They were approaching the red
zone against Alabama. Will keep you up to date on
that throughout the course of the show. You can get
me on Twitter. By the way, at the Jonahs Knocks,
people are already firing away on the compliments. We will
read those later on in the show. Uh, but the
first one that was said, and I'm pretty sure if
I read it on the yard and get fired, So
we won't go that direction because you know, little little

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early for some of the slurs that were used in
that tweet. Um all right, let's get into this. If
you've been paying close enough attention the Ravens coming out
yesterday and telling you that, a, we're going to continue
these contract negotiations with Lamar Jackson after the season. We're
going to focus on the year right now, and we're

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gonna table these talks and we're gonna get into this
after the year. If you've been paying close enough attention,
it's not that much of a surprise, right, It's not
that much of a surprise because Steve Baschatti, the owner,
basically told you his feeling on what the rumored numbers
are that Deshaun Watson is seeking a right or that

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that Lamar Jackson is seeking. He's seeking Deshaun Watson numbers.
All right, that's the guarantee money he wants. Now, you've
seen Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray and other quarterbacks get
their deals done, and they're nowhere close a lot of money,
obviously a lot of guaranteed money, but nowhere close to
the fully guaranteed contract that the Rounds gave to Deshaun Watson,

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and so Lamar Jackson, that's that's what he's seeking. According
to a lot of people who have who have been
looking at this, and we can say, well, he doesn't
have an agent. And whether he doesn't have an agent
or not, I mean, he knows what he wants from
the Baltimore Ravens and he's trying to get it, and
he sees Deshaun Watson get that type of money and
he says, hold on a second, this is the same division.

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I'm better than him. I've got more credentials than Deshaun Watson.
Why can't I get paid like Deshaun Watson. If you
want to say that an agent stepped in, uh, you
know you had the agent Eric Burkhard I believe is
his name, Kyler Murray's agent who stepped in and got
a deal done after they aired out the Arizona Cardinals
in public multiple times. Whether you want to say Russell

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Wilson and his agent got a deal done and and
they were trying to do a more team friendly deal,
whatever it is. Lamar Jackson knows what he wants and
he's willing to bet on himself. But Steve Bashotti told
you how we felt about it when he criticized the
Browns afterwards and said, I don't know if this type
of contract, which we've never seen in the NFL. Is

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the right deal to give to the guy with the
track record that he has with everything going on, I
don't know that that was the right idea. And that
was him basically saying f you to the Browns. You
screwed us, and you made our negotiation with our quarterback
that much more difficult because Lamar Jackson could say, hold
on a second, not only do I have better credentials

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as we named, I'm a former m v P of
this league, but I also don't have any of the
crap off the field that Deshaun Watson has. I have
none of it. Like I'm a safer bet, like if
you if you were going to give somebody a guarantee contract,
Lamar Jackson seems like the guy you would want to
give that type of a deal too. And Baltimore is

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trying to negotiate with him with the understanding that hey,
we know what you want. We know you're looking at
this deal. We are understand it was given out to Deshaun.
We're not going in that direction, dude. That was a
one off. It was a one off, And I don't
blame Baltimore for saying it, like, Hey, we shouldn't be
held accountable because the Cleveland Browns got desperate because they

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burned the bridge with their starting quarterback and needed to
overpay for Deshaun Watson. There was some speculation in talking
with with Albert Breer and some other people that that
covered this contract. There was some speculation that the Cleveland
Browns the next closest offer for Deshaun Watson was like

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eighty million dollars guaranteed less. They overpaid by eighty million dollars. Alright,
Like that's like when when you're you're playing Texas hold
him and uh, you know that that that you end
up folding on a good hand. And then then they
asked you, do you want to see what cards the
dealer had? And it's like not really, and then they

(18:01):
show you anyways, You're like, oh my god, the guy
had a two and a seven. Jeez, how did I
fall for this? Like? How did I How did I
fall for what the other guy had when I had
a solid hand. It's like when you're watching Wheel of
Fortune and they get one of those cards those envelopes
and at the end of the game when they can't
solve the last puzzle, they say, all right, and for

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some reason, the guy's got to open up the card
to show him. Dude, I just lost I don't want
to know what I lost out on. Hey, look at that.
It's a seventy five dollars or a trip to the
Bahamas in a private jet and you're not getting it.
That's a bummer. Like the Cleveland Browns probably opened up
the envelope afterwards and said, oh my god, you mean
Atlanta was only gonna offer from one sixty guaranteed. Yikes. Okay,

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well we're gonna have to swallow that seventy million guarantee
because we overpaid for him. But Shoddy called him out
on it. He said, it, why are we giving this
type of a contract to this guy? So have you
been paying close enough attention? This was heading in this
direction the whole time that Lamar Jackson wasn't going to
get the contract that he wanted, and it wasn't gonna

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get done before the season. What's a little surprising is
that Lamar Jackson is like, look, I understand the risks.
I'm gonna go play Football's football. I'm gonna go and
it's probably the right attitude to have. I'm not doing it.
You mean to tell me, I've already got the credentials.
I'm looking at potentially a hundred and sixty million dollars guaranteed,

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if not more. Who knows, they could they could be
approaching the two million dollar guaranteed. So let's just say
you're looking two hundred million dollars square in the eyes.
You've now seen your own mortality because you got hurt
last year and you miss time, and you've got that
money on the table and you're like, no, I think
I could get more. Let me go back and play

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with his style of play. And there's no guarantees, no
pun intended that this deal is gonna get done. You
remember Dak Prescott, You remember Kirk Cousins. They all wanted deals.
What do the organizations do? Ended up using the franchise tag.
All right, we'll give him the franchise tag. Now. Dak
Prescott won the negotiation with the Cowboys by a wide margin.

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And anybody that tells you any differently is full of crap,
because Dak Prescott snapped his leg and still got paid
the next offseason and got paid more than what he
previously asked for. Like the idea that that ah, by god,
you know, Jerry Jones and the Cowboys because of the injury.
This is going to help them out in negotiations. Nope,
sure didn't. Guy was walking around on one and a

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half legs and still got the type of contract that
he was asking the entire time. So look, Glamar Jackson,
hopefully there's no injury. I'm surprised that he's taken this approach,
but clearly he sees what his value is, he sees
what his prices and he and if the Baltimore Ravens
aren't gonna cave, then this is gonna play out next

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off season. They'll probably slap the franchise tag on him,
or who knows. Maybe Baltimore looks at and says, why
don't we try and make a deal. Why we try
and get away from this and try and find another
quarterback in the draft and go that direction. I don't
think that's the right play because of Lamar Jackson bets
on himself and goes out and does what Joe Flacco
did to the same organization a few years back when

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he bet on himself and they had to pay. I mean,
this is a the shrewdest move that we've seen by
a player representing themselves, gambling on themselves and potentially two
hundred twenty two d thirty who knows two hundred forty
million dollars guaranteed later. Lamar Jackson's gonna prove a lot
of people wrong. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio, Get me

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up next. There's somebody that's really trying way too hard.
They are trying way too hard, and I don't know
if they're clowning us. I don't know if they're trying
to get some attention. Whatever it is, we'll get into
that for you. It's an NFL story and an NFL

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star involved in this story. That's coming up next. But
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Monsey I get, I get singing about that. It was
pretty good. Who gives you that, Monty? Who gives you
the Enrique Iglesias with your last name? I'm not gonna
I'm not gonna lie. I don't think so. LaVar did

(22:15):
do a little bit of his own thing as well,
but he didn't sing. He didn't sing I think every
time Monty comes on, should we play the Enrique Iglesias
that's great love that stop it right now? And then
when I don't talk right away, just know that I'm
dancing me in my studio. Give me like a second.

(22:35):
I love it. By the way, every time I hear
that song, I just want to drink. I don't know why.
It's just some of that's it's so gets so good,
like that that in the Narcos theme song. Like every
time I hear it, I just go, Danny, don't you
get like festive when you hear that? It just makes
you you sounded more like Ricky Martin in the middle
of a lawsuit. Hey listen, you know you make some
accusations and you get somebody's gotta pay for it. That's

(22:58):
oh man, Well that's Star alone absolutely for sure. For sure. Yeah,
that's messy, Just like Lamar Jackson situation. I think it's
a little messy. I have I feel that all the
owners have like talked to each other and they're like, guys,
none of us are going to do what they did
to Deshaun Watson, right, none of us are gonna do it.

(23:18):
I remember this was years ago. Remember Tommy Kelly for
the Raiders. Danny remember the d tackle Tommy Remember talking
to somebody and they gave him like a really big
contract at one point. I mean it was like Matt.
They massively overpaid, and owners around the league were piste
off at Al Davis because they're like, dude, you just
reset the market on a position that the market didn't

(23:40):
need to be reset on. And so then every d
tackle around the league who was coming up on a
contract was like, oh, yeah, well I'll take that, and
he screwed everybody over. So I do wonder if owners
are just bad one and I think they they've been
talking and they're like, none of us are going to
do that. You hear me. I mean, look at what
happened with Russell Wilson. Yeah. I don't know if like

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Lamar thinks he's gonna get something elsewhere, because I just
I just don't think it's gonna happen. I just I
want to know what the number is. I want to
know how far. No, I don't want to it's gonn
upset me, it's good upset me. Look, you've got an
Enrique I Glacier song that was named after you, and
it was literally written after right, what am I complaining about?
What am I complaining about? Well, I think maybe Alabama

(24:22):
might be complaining right now, but they are actually losing
to Texas Longhorns thirteen to ten. Four minutes left in
the third quarter. There was a crazy play in the
Alabama end zone that first they called roughing the passer,
then they said targeting, and then the referee came out
and they were like, it's none of that. I was

(24:43):
described something wrong. It's just an incomplete and it was
the most bizarre situation that went down. Bryce Young was
kind of tackled, but he didn't go down on the floor.
He like rolled on top of the player and so
he wasn't down, and then they hit him and then
he threw the ball and they were and they were like,
so it's not a safe to either because it seemed
like he was down. It was the most bizarre situations.

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Then the Longhorns came and hit a field goal, so
that's how they're up. Fun fact about a Texas fan
before the game was seen chugging a beer out of
the most disgustingly dirty shoe. That's right, he took his
shoe off, poured a beer in his disgustingly dirty Nike

(25:25):
and then drank the beer. Okay, well, let me just go.
It's called a shoey, al right, is that? Oh? Oh am?
I just not winning? Im I not winning? It's called
a shoe The first time I saw somebody do it,
I was at my brother's bar and a girl who
worked at the bar started dating dating an Australian guy,
and he literally pulled his sweaty vans off, like he

(25:46):
had like one of those old school vans with like
the white souls and the white laces. He pulled it off,
put the beer, Danny, this is that, this is that sunset,
poured the beer into the shoe and drank it. I
was mortified, like what are you doing, dude? And he
didn't have socks on a not oh yeah, and and

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then he and then he put it back on his
foot afterwards like like didn't skip a beat. And then
he was telling us, yeah, that's the thing. In Australia,
it's called a shoey. And what they do is they
take their shoe off. There's a UFC fighter tied to
a vassa who's from I believe Australia or New Zealand.
But he and by the way, that pisses them off
when you confused it too. But he came out. He

(26:27):
started doing that after he would win fights, and he
would grab somebody shoe from the audience and pound a
beer as he walked out of the cage. And then
he started marketing it. And it's called a shoe e vassa.
So he sells these things called a shoe e vasa
after his name to where it's it's like the it's
a replica of his shoe, similar to a beer bong,

(26:47):
and you just pour your beer in it and you
rip away. I'm going to throw up and I want
to cry. I want to cry and throw up in
the same time. Hearing this story. All right, listen, Ohio
stays killing it. They're up thirty eight tonight on Arkansas
with five minutes left in the third quarter. Miami is
up to seven on Southern Southern miss fourteen and a
half minutes left in the fourth quarter of that game.
Arkansas and South Carolina going at it. Arkansas is up

(27:10):
twenty one to sixteen four minutes left in the third
quarter of that game. Wake Forest up thirty five to
eighteen on Vanderbilt about two minutes left in the third
quarter Charleston Southern and NC State halftime. NC State is
killing a thirty eight to zero. Utah Southern Utah going
at it. Utas's up twenty one to seven. They just
kind of started the second quarter about eleven minutes left

(27:30):
in that back to you, I'm gonna go throw up
and I'm gonna cry because you know, absolutely not they
just cleanup. No I did, Okay, Yeah, I just gotta
because you know, there are bats that have been known
to fly into the studio here. We don't want to.
I've heard I wasn't here. Thank goodness. That's great. Try
I try to do it. Good morning radio show. There's

(27:52):
a bat flight around the studio, like, oh, you guys
are just making this up for radio. No, it's bad.
That's why I would have packed up my bags, just
walked out. Oh man, all right, it is Jonas knocks
here Fox Sports Radio. So Monsy's gonna go barf into
a trash can thinking about a shoey and coming up
in about twelve minutes from now, we are gonna have
another edition of Do You Care where we listen. It's

(28:13):
fun to be negative. Sometimes sometimes you need to vent
a little bit. It's like the heavy bag of sports radio.
You just swing on it, punch it, kick it, do
whatever you gotta do. Get out that aggression, and we
do it at about twelve minutes from now here on
fs are UM. Let me just say this, Russell Wilson
is going to be a Hall of Famer. It's probably
gonna be a first ballot Hall of Famer. In fact,
that's a guarantee. It's gonna be a first ballot Hall

(28:35):
of Famer. He's already got his Super Bowl. He went
to another Super Bowl. Now he's with the Broncos. A
lot of optimism in Denver. Big time matchup coming up
against the Seattle Seahawks. It's the reunion. Him and Pete
Carroll hate each other. They can try and tell you
they don't, but they absolutely can't stand each other. It's
part of the reason why Russell Wilson is no longer
in Seattle. And then you're getting all these old reports

(28:57):
that have come up there being dug up for the
reunion coming up on Monday Night Football, where there was
a report that the Seattle Seahawks called the Cleveland Browns
back in offered Russell Wilson for the number one overall pick. Now,
Cleveland turned that down reportedly, but ended up taking Baker Mayfield.
And you know, four or five years later, they've now
got a guy who won't be participating in the first

(29:18):
eleven games of the season because he's got an issue
with massages and um and likes to uh to take
that approach. And we all know what that means. Just
ask his agent. Rusty Harden spelled it out for you.
Something called a happy ending. Made it seem like, oh,
it's a big deal. It's like going to get a
cup of coffee. Okay, sure, alright, So they've got a
weirdo at quarterback now. But the Cleveland Browns and the

(29:39):
Seattle Seahawks had that conversation. There was also some reports
that came out that the Seattle Seahawks were kicking the
tires on potentially Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen. They went
to Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen's workouts, they talked to
both guys, and Russell Wilson reportedly was upset about all that.
So we we have built this whole ing up. We

(30:00):
have got ourselves the reunion coming up on Monday Night football.
We've built it all up. It is here did I
see Russell Wilson walk out to the practice field and
practice his high fives? There is a video going around
where Russell Wilson is walking out to the practice field

(30:23):
full uniform and is practicing high fives with people in
the tunnel. And here's here's the best part. There was
nobody there. Nobody. It's like field of dreams. Like Russell
Wilson's like trying to high five ghosts. There's nobody there,
like Russ. Why don't you just walk into the patchrieck

(30:45):
Corn and then disappear? Okay, Yeah, I got news for you.
Nobody was there to build anything, all right, and nobody's
coming because nobody was there. There was nobody there. He
was high five and ghosts. I'm all four get real
time reps. I'm all for make it seem like a
game day scenario. Every team does that, all right, you

(31:08):
get in there. It's called, hey, let's work on our
two minute drill because if this happens in a game,
we want to be prepared for it. And then you'll
see a team execute or two minute drill and it's like, hey,
we worked on that in practice. I get it. Have
you ever heard of an athlete high fiving somebody and
then afterwards saying, I worked on that yesterday, worked on that,
just like walking out at work. This is like before

(31:30):
games last year when he was out with the thumb injury.
When Russell Wilson was going through the two minute drill
by himself, pregame, what are you doing, dude? Like? What
are we doing? Like this? It's method acting, which I
can't stand and I've talked about it before. I used
to be in an acting class. They would give you

(31:51):
a script from a movie. Usually the movie I would
get would be The Breakfast Club, and of course I
had to be Jonathan Bender, so I had to be
the jerk it. I couldn't be the nerd. I couldn't
be the principal who was the best character in the movie.
I had to be Jonathan Bender, some pothead druggie whose
dad put out cigarettes on his forearms Christmas every time smoke.

(32:16):
I did that scene multiple times. I remember seeing some
dude in full army fatigue because he had the role
of I think I forget the guy's name, uh private
pile off full metal jacket, so he was he He
showed up in full army fatigues. We're talking jacket patches

(32:36):
and everything, and he's yelling at himself in character outside
the acting class, and I wanted to walk over to
him and say, hey, dummy, we're in a strip mall
and Sherman Oaks. There's a laundry matt next door, and
there's a liquor store right around the corner. We're not
nam dude. There's no helicopters, all right, there's no real guns. Nothing.

(32:59):
Now they'll do they'll defend him, and they'll defend method
actors and say, well, they take their role seriously. Hey,
I took mind seriously too. But I also realized I'm
not Jonathan Bender. Okay, I don't have cigarette burns on
my forearm. Russell Wilson thinks he's a method actor. Oh
if I if I practice my high fives, that's gonna

(33:20):
get me prepared for the actual high five when I
walk out of the tunnel stop. It's easy either clowning us.
It's either all a ruse or he doesn't realize how
cheesy this all is. You've got the game you've been
looking forward to. You want to stick it to Pete
Carroll on Monday Night Football? Got it? All right, you

(33:43):
want to stick it to the Seattle Seahawks fans who
Pete Carroll kind of nudged into saying, Hey, you know,
why don't you a boot for him a little bit?
You know, why don't you get on him? Like whatever
the scene's gonna be, it's all gonna play out on
national television and it's gonna be fun for everybody to watch.
You're practicing your high fives like this one I want
everybody to do when you get up to go to
work on Monday. Before you go in coming up tomorrow

(34:08):
during a commercial of one of the NFL games, practice
tying your shoes, but don't actually tie your shoes. Just
go through the motion. Just see you can properly tie
your shoes when you get up to go to work
the next day. And if you need to stop and
get gas, pretend turn into a mime in your kitchen
and pretend like your refrigerator is the gas pump, and

(34:29):
pretend like you're taking the gas pump off and sticking
it into your car and then filling up. You just
want to make sure you're fully prepared, because that's how
Russell Wilson's getting prepared for Monday Night Football. You gotta
be kidding me. Let's trying way too hard, dude. All right,
Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at
the Jonas Knox coming up next year from the tire
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(34:49):
You Care? And it's yours right here on FS are
this socks stinks? Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You and
hang out. This is always on the I Heart Radio
app coming up top of next hour. A little over
ten minutes from now, we are gonna have the return
of Knox Locks. All right, So we're gonna have some
Knox Locks making some picks against the spread in the NFL.

(35:12):
Week one is upon us, so we will look ahead,
do us some games from Sunday, who knows, maybe even
Monday night. Maybe that's part of Knox Locks, but we
will have that for you here. I finished my best
year ever last year, well above five hundred. There's been
some years where a little dicey, things got a little
airy towards the end, and I would not recommend it.
But last year was was a better performance, which means

(35:34):
this year it's gonna be awful. But you do have options.
You could always fade me. You can just go against
me and you probably have more success. But we will
get into that for you here again. Top of next hour,
about ten minutes from now. Update quickly from Austin, where
Alabama and Texas are in the fourth quarter and Texas
has a sixteen to ten lead over the Crimson Tide.

(35:54):
Bryce Young struggling as that Texas defense is playing their
ass off, so we will keep you a continue to
keep you updated on that throughout the course of the show.
Right now, though, it's time for this. There's so many
stories in the world of sports, and most of them
are a complete waste of time. DMZ reports. Let's get kinky.
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.

(36:17):
But Jonas the real question is and for that we
turn it over to the man with the best pipes
in all of radio, the one and only Danny g
tells happening Mr Knox. This morning, Connor McGregor was all
over Twitter. He said to his rival, congrats Nate Das
on making it to the end of your contract with
the UFC as a bona fide superstar. An incredible feat.

(36:39):
Fair play, our trilogy will happen. Do you care? Yeah?
I don't want to see UFC, so of course I care.
But also the whole this whole fight this weekend, what
a weird circumstance. So they had they had a different
cards set to where Nate Daz was supposed to be headlining,
and he was going to be taking on uh who's

(37:01):
gonna be looking at taking on hams At Chimaya, who's
like the Boogeyman of the UFC. And then there's an
altercation and Dana White has to call off a press conference,
and then Ham's at Mrs Waite by over eight pounds,
and then they reshuffle the card and they keep him
on the car, but he fights another guy who he
got into the altercation with Ham's at another guy, Kevin Holland.

(37:24):
And now Nate Diez is fighting Tony fergus Tony Ferguson
in the main event. The whole thing is odd, just
how how it broke down. There's a lot of conspiracy
theorists out there who think this was done to try
and generate more pay per view buys. So for what
it's worth. Next, all right, let's go back to earlier
in the week, Dubbo and Clemson agreed to a new
tenure on million dollar deal. Do you give a rats

(37:47):
as now? I don't listen? Good for Dabo um I.
I would like to know if Dabo has anything to
say about Deshaun Watson, who we told everybody you're making
a mistake if you passed on Deshaun Watson in the draft.
I would just I would love to are some feedback
on Dabbo on his former quarterback. Next, Mike Trout homeward
in his fifth straight game, tying a franchise record. Do

(38:07):
you care? No? Come on, I thought the Angels are
supposed to be better when they fired Joe Madden. Wasn't
that the plan? They fired Joe Madden. It was all
his fault, and yet they're still struggling. But you've got
Trout and Otani who you could watch play every single
night and it would be entertaining. As Hello, Tony's awesome,
But unfortunately this is the the l A Angels of

(38:29):
Anaheim slash Orange County slash five Freeway. Next your boy,
John Torderella says changing the culture will be one of
his first priorities as coach of the Philadelphia Flyers. Do
you care? Look? I love towards absolutely towards his great
sun like when Ben Maller has a favorite coach in

(38:52):
the NHL and it's John Tortoerella every year, that ought
to tell you that he is a content factory. When
when Mallard is like, hey, listen, I'm all for John Tortorella.
I'm on Ben Maller side. I love towards that guy's
fantastic next Raiders start side end. Darren Waller, who was
actually way underpaid, just received a three year, fifty one

(39:14):
million dollar contract extension. It's gonna compensate him finally, right
before the first NFL Sunday tomorrow. Do you care? Yeah,
because I was thinking about it earlier. Has Josh McDaniels
ever had the weapons that he has this year with
the Raiders. I mean, it's like day. It's not even
just Waller, It's not even just Davante Adams, Hunter, Renfro

(39:34):
I think is gonna have a monster year. So if
you're if you're Derek Carr, you gotta be looking around
going it's it's hard to do better than what he's
currently got as far as weapons go to throw too,
as far as Derek Carr goes, Danny, you've got to
be excited about this man. That's like that. That was
always the knock that Derek Carr didn't have enough around
him that they would try and they would bring in
somebody on a one or two year deal. And you're

(39:55):
not disappearing. But now you've got Waller, Renfro and Davante Adams.
Look at that and let's go, no excuses. It's an
arms race in the a f C West. Alright, our
two next we sucked, and we sucked at a time
that you can't suck. So we got ourselves a close
one in Austin. We'll get into that here coming up
in just a couple of moments from now. But it
is Alabama like you've never seen them before. That here momentarily,

(40:19):
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and in a short time here probably, Yeah, we'll go
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Knox Sox about twenty minutes from now. I want to

(41:04):
make sure we pay off the teas there for those
either are interested in losing money, just you know, follow
my bets, follow my betting advice as we get ready
for a week one of the NFL season. But this
is interesting what is playing out in Austin between Alabama
and Texas. So Alabama just went up. They've now taken
a seventeen to sixteen lead over over the Texas Longhorns.

(41:29):
Now Texas has been in this game. Uh, they've been
really competitive. They lost Quinn youers for those of you
just tuning in. He left in the first quarter with
a shoulder injury. It's what's being reported. And so Texas
has been playing really good defense. They've been battling Alabama.
It's been physical. You can see Alabama. I mean, guys
are getting cracked left and right. And so Texas is

(41:50):
out here putting on a good performance. And I said
it earlier in the show. If Texas just stays competitive,
that's all you're really hoping for. That's all Nobody thinks.
Texas is act no pun intended. Nobody thinks that Texas
is actually going to compete for national championship, are going
to be in the College Football Playoff or anything. You
just want to see that Texas is at least heading

(42:13):
in the right direction, that maybe they finally found their
head coach and their quarterback and there and their their
fan base is excited again. And that's where we're at
when it comes to Texas football. So the fact that
they're sitting here and we're holding on to a lead
in the fourth quarter over Alabama. Now Texas has just
punted the ball away, So Alabama's going to get back
after scoring on their last drive, and who knows, maybe

(42:33):
Alabama puts together another scoring drive and they end up
pulling away by double digits. But you look at what's
happening between Texas and Alabama, and it looks different than
what we've seen from Alabama because Alabama has got fifteen
penalties for a hundred yards. They've been penalized for a
hundred yards in this game. They look undisciplined. They look

(42:57):
like a vastly different Alabama team than you've seen, where
it's Nick Saban and he coaches his guy's hard and
they're always prepared and they're ready to go, and they
look almost you would want to say shook by the
scene or by the moment, and then you realize, Yeah,
they don't really play a lot of nonconference through road games.

(43:17):
And it's not that Texas is a is a great team.
As we've said, I think Texas is on the rise.
I think they're heading in the right direction. But that
scene and that atmosphere, ala, I don't know when the
last time Alabama's really seen that. You'll get it when
during the Iron Bowl. You'll get it on some road
games in the SEC, but it's almost it's almost like
they're they're used to it. Yeah, we know what this

(43:37):
is like, We've taken this trip, we've traveled here before
to be playing at this time on national television against
Texas in Austin. Look, the heat is an issue showed
on the field. Temperatures approaching a hundred and twenty degrees
there in Austin. You just wonder if maybe Alabama is
getting a dose of what that true road on conference

(44:00):
game is like in a place that they're not familiar with,
and maybe that's leading to some of the struggles. But nonetheless,
Alabama does have the football back after a touchdown on
their last drive. So they are leading seventeen sixteen over
the Texas long Hoards under eight minutes to go in
a game that I think is a lot more competitive
than a lot of people realize. So we will again
keep you posted here throughout the rest of the hour

(44:22):
on Fox Sports Radio. You can also get me on
Twitter at the Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.
All Right, So, one of the things that I do
think is pretty fascinating about the Browns and the Panthers
game this weekend. A lot of people are are going
to say, well, you know, it's a Baker Mayfield and
then he's taken on his former team, and you know

(44:42):
there's gonna be a lot of buzz there, and of
course there is. Here's what I'm gathering just in seeing
this situation. It's very similar to what's happening between Denver
and Seattle to where you've got everybody kind of saying
the right things, and everybody kind of all you know
and nice and all that. But the reality is this,

(45:03):
Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll don't like each other. They don't.
But that's I mean, like you can, you can spin
it whatever way you want to spin it. Russe and
Pete don't like each other. They don't. That's why they're
in the situation there, and that's why Russell Wilson's in Denver,
and that's why Pete Carroll is still the head coach
of the Seattle Seahawks. I don't think there was any

(45:23):
way Pete Carroll was gonna let Russell Wilson outlast him
and outlast his tenure in Seattle. Wasn't happening. So you've
got Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll don't like each other.
They're they're playing this coming up on Monday night. Then
you've got Baker Mayfield and the Browns, and Baker Mayfield
can can say everything he wants about man. I appreciate

(45:44):
the city of Cleveland. I appreciate all my teammates. I
you know, look back and fond memories and etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Dude,
I don't think they liked Baker Bayfield. I really don't.
I don't, I don't. I don't know who on that
team was really a fan of Baker Mayfield, right or wrong.
But I don't recall a lot of guys coming out

(46:07):
and having Baker's back when all of the trade speculation started.
Maybe I'm missing somebody. I don't recall a lot of
those guys speaking up for Baker Mayfield. You know what
I do recall Chedevi and Clowneys saying yeah, I'm coming
back to Cleveland because I want to play with Deshaun Watson,
like you didn't like. Nick Chubb kind of scoffed at
it this week and said, well, you know, Baker's Baker.

(46:28):
You don't really know what to expect, you know, just
almost kind of one of those yeah, yeah, we know,
like he's just he's one of those guys, just just
just one of those guys. And so he's in Carolina
now and they can say all of the well, it's
just a game, and you know, it's Brown's versus Panthers,
and it's not about seeing Baker Mayfield. I don't think
they were really fond of the guy. Remember Odell Beckham

(46:49):
Jr's dad going to YouTube and and pointing out all
the bad throws Baker Mayfield made. There was that story
that was out there. I just the more that we
get away from this, the more that you start to
look back on some of the reporting. Mary Kake cabot
of of of Cleveland dot Com, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
she came out and said, well, you know, uh, Baker

(47:12):
Mayfield and Kevin Stefanski didn't see eye to eye. Now,
Kevin Stefanski seems like a good dude. He's not gonna
say anything publicly or even take debit on a story
like that. Remember Baker Mayfield came out and and was
getting on Mary Kake habit about the report. Now you
don't know what you're talking about, and he called everybody out.
Baker Mayfield had a run in with Tony Grossi, who
has been covering the Browns for years and years and years. Like,

(47:34):
you didn't see a lot of people sticking up for
Baker Mayfield after any of that stuff. And the more
that you hear these comments, whether it's Nick Chubb, sort
of dismissing Mayfield and then Baker Mayfield coming out with
you know, off the leash t shirts and and all
the other stuff that it's like at some point, let's
just call it what it is. They don't like each other,

(47:54):
like they're absolutely as bad blood there. It makes for
a fascinating matchup. It makes for a really really fun
game to watch. I would say amongst the early early
games on the early window coming up tomorrow, this is
by far and away the most anticipated just because of that.
And I just think it's it's similar to Denver and Seattle.
Call what it is, you don't like each other. There's

(48:17):
a reason nobody spoke out in defense of Baker Mayfield.
And look, I like Baker Mayfield. I like when he's
got a little red ass in him, all right. I
like when Baker Mayfield plants of flag and artificial turf
at the Horseshoe and Columbus it's fun. I like when
Baker Mayfield grabs his crotch after some guy doesn't shake
his hand against Kansas. I mean, don't you like it
when your quarterback runs from cops in Arkansas and he's

(48:39):
got pizza stains on his shirt? Who does he want
a quarterback like that? We come on, what do you
what do you want some bookworm? You want Andrew Luck?
Guy looks like Abe Lincoln. It sounds like Andre the Giant.
Give me Baker Mayfield. Guy runs from cops for no
reason at all. Hey, why did you run from police?
I don't know. I don't know. Was the drinking, Yeah,

(49:00):
probably had something to do with it. Listen, I've been
hammered before. I never thought about running from cops just
to see if they'll chase me down in Arkansas. And
I've been to Arkansas, right, I almost, you know, had
an accident in Arkansas, not the type of accident in
a car, but an accident in my pants because I
couldn't get to the heart ease and time. You know,
that was in Arkansas. True story in Arkansas, racing inside

(49:23):
a Hearty's restaurant with my trailer that I was towing
behind me because I was either going to the South
or moving back from the South. But whatever it was,
I had to turn off the interstate and run into
a heart He's praying to God there was nobody in
the bathroom, because if there was, I was going to
be arrested. Outside that there would have been a problem.
I've been there before, you know what. I didn't do though,

(49:44):
when I was in Arkansas thought hey see that cop
over there, I'm gonna go run from him. What for Baker,
I don't know. It seems fun, Okay, that's how I
like but quarterback. So I like Baker Mayfield that he's
got little red ass. But dude, don't get it twisted.
These these sides don't like each other. This is basically

(50:06):
what we're getting on Monday Night football. Pete and Russ
are being very diplomatic about it. They're being very passive, aggressive,
seemingly about it. Baker Mayfield and the Browns don't like
each other. And I've called my shot on this for
several weeks now. I am telling you, if you know
Baker Mayfield, you know how this is going to play out.
If he scores a touchdown or throws a touchdown, Mark

(50:26):
my words, Baker Mayfield, whoever he throws the touchdown to,
is going to run over into the end zone and
pretend like he's giving them a massage. I'm telling you
right now, mark my words, It'll be a shoulder rub,
it'll be something on the bat. I'm telling you right now.
Baker Mayfield's touchdown celebration, I wish that was a prop
bet on DraftKings is going to be a fake massage

(50:49):
that he gives to a teammate. He throws a touchdown
past two, calling my shot right now, and if it
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(51:11):
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We are going to take you all the way up
through the end of the hour. Uh that's four pm
Eastern time, one o'clock Pacific. I believe that's ten am
in Hawaii. But stick around with us here as we
take you all the way through the end of this
game in Austin, where Alabama has a seventeen sixteen lead

(51:32):
over the Texas Long words coming up next though, We're
going to take our shot. This is a very difficult task.
It is called Knox locks. But it is week one
Knox locks. We have no idea who's good, We have
no idea who's bad. It is week one in the NFL,
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(51:55):
Fox Sports Radio. You can hang out with us as
always on the I Heart Radio app. It is getting
down to the wire in Austin, under two minutes to go.
Alabama holding onto a seventeen sixteen lead over the Texas Longhorns.
But Texas is driving. They have got the ball inside
Alabama territory, and so the Texas Longhorns looking to pull

(52:18):
off a shocker. Man, imagine if they actually won this game.
They were what twenty and a half point underdogs, twenty
and a half point underdogs the Texas Longhorns, and they
have got the football at the Alabama twenty five with
a second and four and a minute forty two on
the clock, and uh no matter what happens, here's here's

(52:39):
the worst part about playing for Alabama. All right, this
is the worst part. They might win this game and
they will have shown a lot of testicular fortitude in
winning this game. Going on the road. The it's hot
as hell out. There's two thousand people outside of the stadium,

(53:02):
another hundred k in the stadium. You were trailing a
lot of this game. You come back, you take a
lead in the fourth quarter. Let's just play this out.
Let's let's say Texas kicks a field goal here and
goes up by two. If Alabama goes down the field
and kicks a field goal, like this is the worst
part about Alabama football. Even if you win this game,

(53:23):
and you should be happy that you win this game
and you survive, you know, even after you win this game,
Nick Saban is going to lay into you for the
next several days. It will be reminder after reminder of
you're not as good as you think you are. You
thought you were just gonna walk through everybody, and here
we are and you're sitting one and one on the season,

(53:46):
and you're not number one in the country anymore. In
my eyes. You're saying, but coach, we won the game.
I don't care. Accounts is lost to me, Like Nick
Saban's gonna lay into these guys. So even if they
win this game, with everything going on. Alabama players are
going to get just completely destroyed by their head coach
based on their performance because they there's been way too
many penalties. There's been all sorts of other stuff happening

(54:08):
in this game that Nick Saban is not happy about.
And you've got Texas who they're starting quarterback again, Quinn
Yours has been out since the first quarter, So this
is gonna be fun to see how it plays out again.
Under two minutes to go, Texas is driving with the football.
They have a second down at the Alabama five down
seventeen sixteen, looking to pull off the shocker there in Austin.

(54:30):
All right, Jonas knocks me to here on FS. Sorry,
you can get me on Twitter at the Jonas knocks
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(54:51):
losers you all are. He said that, So I don't
even know what I I think I have, like an
iPhone seven or something like the case is busted, you know,
it's just like it's been dropped so many times, like
my my phone is so old. The protective covering on
the front of the phone actually has a crack in it,

(55:14):
like the protective covering. So look, listen, I'm not one
of those tech guys. I don't know where he got
that from, but you know, very very you know, fired up.
Apparently apparently I did something to piste him off. We
had another guy who wrote in earlier. He uh, he
criticized me because he said I tried to compare myself
to Lamar Jackson. Um what like I mean, I know

(55:40):
it's I know it's radio, but I'm nothing like Lamar Jackson.
I could assure you alright, even you can use your
imagination on that. I am nothing like Lamar Jackson. All
I simply said was if I were Lamar Jackson and
I was looking at potentially two million dollars, guaranteed, I'm
signing that contract. But again, I'm not him. Maybe he does.
He's gonna play this thing out and we are going

(56:01):
to get to see Lamar Jackson. Uh and uh, you know,
take on the New York Jets coming up, and maybe
Lamar Jackson goes out there and puts together another m
V p season and ends up getting two D fifty
million dollars. I'm just surprised that that this deal isn't
done yet. I'm surprised that we're sitting here talking about it.
If you would, if you would ask me, hey, who
gets a contract extension done for us, Kyler Murray, Lamar Jackson,

(56:22):
I would say Lamar Jackson. Yet, Kyler Murray has already
got his done, he's paid, he's good and and they
too had an issue publicly. I mean you even had
Kyler Murray who had language in his contract where he
had to, you know, study a certain amount of time
each week. I mean that that wasn't exactly like, uh,

(56:43):
the most friendly conversation. It played out publicly. You had
the owner involved, had GMS talking the GM, Steve Kim
talking about it. You had Kyler Murray and his agent
and scrubbing of social media and etcetera, etcetera. So it
wasn't like that was the most friendly negotiation either, But
somehow they got it done in Lamar Jackson sitting are
still without a contract. Jonas talks with you here on
fs ARE. So we do have h A and it's

(57:06):
up in good at forty nine yards a field goal
attempt for Texas is through the uprights. And now the
Longhorns have a nineteen seventeen lead over number one Alabama,
a minute twenty nine left to go, Alabama will be
getting the football back. And again, even if Alabama goes
down and scores and wins this game, they're going to

(57:27):
get their asses chewed by Nick Saban afterwards. It's just
how this is gonna go. That's what happens when you
played for Nick Saban, right, you get drafted the NFL,
you win national titles, and even if you do win,
you lose in the locker room afterwards. All right, So
without further one, Yeah, yeah, I've been to the zoo.
I know, very familiar there. Have you ever you ever

(57:49):
seen them in the act doing that. It's like it's
like it's raining bowling balls. Just telling you it's weird.
Al Right, Speaking of weird, it's time for this locked
it now, all right, and we you're gonna notice a
theme with this week one of the NFL season. You're

(58:10):
gonna notice the theme and I'll explain what the theme is.
But let's get to the first game. I'm gonna pick
three of these each and every week last year was
my most successful year. So I'm gonna pick three of
these each and every week, and I'm gonna go with
the New York Jets getting seven points at home against
the Baltimore Ravens. Look, I talked with a guy who's
one of the best sports betters in the country on

(58:33):
Planet Earth. I talked to this guy a couple of
months ago, and I asked him just about the differences
between Zach Wilson and Joe Flacco, and he said, there's
not much that. A lot of the bookies, a lot
of the sharp people out there in Vegas say that
Joe Flacco is basically damaged good. So there's nothing more left.
But in comparison to Zach Wilson, who who knows when

(58:53):
he's gonna be healthy. We heard one week, now, we're
here in four, etcetera. I look at Joe Flacco and
I say, in spots, I like him, and I like
the fact that he's getting seven points at home against
the Ravens. I do wonder if some of the contract conversation,
if some of the negotiations between Lamar and the Ravens,
are gonna have an impact early on here. Maybe he's
a little slow to play. Maybe Robert Sala and the

(59:15):
Jets have something, you know, carved up for him, and
Lamar Jackson gets battered a little bit. You saw what
happened to Josh Allen. Even though they won that game,
he took a little bit of a pounding. So I
look at this and I go Jets here getting seven points. Ultimately,
I think Baltimore has a really good year. I don't
see the Ravens struggling with injuries like they did last year.
Everybody's a snake bit at some point in time. Every

(59:36):
single season, we identify a snake bit team when it
comes to injuries. Baltimore was that team last year. I
think long term they're gonna be fine, But in the
short term I do like the New York Jets getting
seven points at home, Joe Flacco potentially getting a little
bit of revenge on his former team. From there, we
go to Chicago, where we've got the Niners at the Bears.

(59:57):
That is a one pm Eastern time kickoff on Box
and I am going to take the Chicago Bears also
getting seven points at home. Look, I've buried the Bears
all season. I've told everybody the Bears the problems there
in Chicago. They're getting rid of everybody. You've got Roquan Smith,
who wanted to get a contract done, couldn't get it done.

(01:00:17):
And so the Chicago Bears are sitting here with a
with their own player and star player playing out the
rest of his deal on a one year deal. There's
been a massive overhaul their offense, defense, obviously the front office.
I got a brand new head coach. But I also
look at San Franz and I go Trey Lance getting
this opportunity on the road. A lot of drama there.

(01:00:37):
Apparently he was upset or a little bit irked the
fact that Jimmy Garoppolo was coming back. I look at
this and I go, similar to Baltimore and the Jets,
I look at the Bears and I go long term,
I don't think they're a good team, But in the
short term, in the moment, I like the fact that
they're getting this many points at home, Trey Lance starting
on the road in this spot, I like Chicago plus
the seven next up and the final pick and the

(01:01:00):
final Knox lock. For Week one in the NFL, I'm
gonna take the Arizona Cardinals getting six and a half
points at home against the Chiefs. I like Arizona to
win that division. All right. I could be dead wrong
and probably will be, but I like Arizona to win
that division. I think Arizona is gonna be a sneaky
team this year. I think they're going to the playoffs
obviously by by winning the division, and I think they'll

(01:01:22):
be in conversations for potentially the one seat. A lot
of people focus on the downward slide of the Arizona Cardinals.
I think that's gonna get addressed this year, hopefully in
the eyes of Cliff Kingsbury and Kyler Murray does. But
I think in this spot, Kansas City has got some
new pieces. They're trying to incorporate some new wide receivers
and try and gel together all at the same time,
you're going on the road against what I think is

(01:01:44):
a good football team, and that good football teams getting
six and a half points at home. Give me the
Arizona Cardinals plus the six and a half and that
is your Week one edition of Knox Locks. And if
you notice the theme there, all home underdogs, all home underdogs.
I think it's a great spot Week one of the season,
Like we saw it play out a couple of years ago,

(01:02:05):
Jacksonville one Week one against the Indianapolis Colts right shocked
him and everybody said, oh my god, Jacksonville is for real.
I mean Jacksonville could actually be a competitive team. Look
at the way they played Indianapolis and Jacksonville went on
to lose fifteen straight games. So I think that could
happen for the jetson for the Bears specifically, But in
this spot getting points at home, I'll take my chances.

(01:02:26):
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter,
at the Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.
We have a major update in the game of the
day in college football, and for that we turn it
over to the great Moncy Bolanos Rhythm Take You Over, Bolanyos.

(01:02:47):
I love this too much. I don't know how this
hasn't happened before. How about it? Everybody needs a theme song?
You got it? I love this one. It couldn't have
been better. Great listen. I also love this game. We
are going down to the wire. Twenty four seconds left
between Alabama and Texas A and M, and Alabama is

(01:03:09):
getting closer and closer to hitting a field goal in
a really close range, but we're coming down to the wire.
They're down by two twenty four seconds to go. We'll
see what happened. Some games that already ended though. Number
fifteen Miami beat Southern Miss thirty seven. They scored twenty
points in the second half, holding Southern Miss to none
in the second half. Number twenty three Week four is

(01:03:30):
beat Vanderbilt forty five to twenty five. Quarterbacks Sam Hartman
completed eighteen of twenty seven passes for wake fours for
three hundred yards and four touchdowns. Number three Ohio State
dominated Arkansas State forty five to twelve. C J. Stroud,
Ohio State's quarterback through for three hundred and fifty one yards,
completing sixteen of twenty four passes for four touchdowns as well.

(01:03:53):
And the Longhorn fans look a little stress right now.
They look stressed, Sandy. Yeah, that guy looks like he's
wearing it. Man. Yeah, they're they're about to cry. They're
gonna they're gonna drink the beer out of the shoe again,
this time because they're sad, not because they're excited. And
the other games currently still going on, we do have
Arkansas beating South Carolina forty two to twenty four with

(01:04:15):
about four and a half minutes left in the fourth quarter,
and see State is dominating still Charles Charleston Southern fifty
five to three with thirteen minutes left in the fourth quarter.
But I think it's safe to say that that game
is over. Utah is up on Southern utap forty five
to seven. They just started the third quarter and Marshall
is up on Order Dame six zero. Ten minutes left

(01:04:36):
in the second quarter, and it looks like Alabama might
be going for the field goal as we speak. Fifteen
seconds left. There we go. Come on, you can do
this all right at a little uh, Come on, Alabama, Alabama.
Alabama is up a thirty three yard attempt. Good Alabama

(01:05:00):
up twenty to nineteen. Do they use the time they
used the time out they did? They still have I
think they still have one more. By the way, why
why is Texas burning the time out to freeze the
kicker if he makes this kick? Don't you want to
have a couple of those timeouts left the back? Yeah,
you're trying to make him nervous. I get it, okay,

(01:05:21):
I would think you'd probably want a couple of those
stoppages when you're getting the ball. There's fifteen seconds left
after the kickoff. I mean, you're gonna have the ball
and you know, make it, make a couple of throws downfield.
And maybe you should be coaching weird strategy. No, listen,
absolutely not. No, you could be a method actor coaching. No,
I'm not good at either, and I'm a worst coach

(01:05:43):
method actor. I'll tell you that. Yeah, I don't get method. Right.
Here we go, second of tip. Come on, monster, let's
go deliver the goods all right? Pickens right now and
the snap The kick is good. Alabama up twenty to
nineteen ten seconds left in regulation. Yea, A coach sark,

(01:06:04):
what happened to another time out? Dude should do it?
Oh wow, that's uh well, look, I mean they gave it,
they gave it their all, and now we get to
see what the kickoff is gonna be. I mean, look,
if anybody remembers the Iron Bowl, um, Alabama's lost in
crazy ways before. So we will see how this plays out.
The Great Monster Belong has got her own theme song.

(01:06:26):
She got entrance music now basically WrestleMania every time mons
he's on the air. Now we've created here, I love
all that. I'm gonna need a big belt. Yeah, absolutely
all right. It is Jonas Knocks here on fs are
you can hang out with us. Is always on the
I Heart Radio Appen. You can get me on Twitter
at the Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.
We are gonna have the scraps coming up in about

(01:06:47):
twelve minutes from now. Things in the world of sports
and beyond we have not had a chance to get to.
We will clean everything up with those as we keep
all eyes here on Austin, Texas, where the fans look dejected.
Let me tell you something. If you're a Texas Longhorn fan,
be realistic, dude, and they're they're showing Quinn yours on
the sideline. That dude's got a mullet from out of space.

(01:07:09):
Good for him. And you can tell that the humidity
has really gotten to his mullet also because even like
the longer it hangs down below like it just looks like, yeah,
it's like like doll hair with like glue spilled on it.
You know, it's like all the tangled up at the bottom.
So Alabama's kicking off now to Texas, Alabama holding onto

(01:07:30):
a twenty to nineteen lead, ten seconds to go here
in the fourth quarter, as they kick away and Texas
will bring it out of the end zone. Texas has
brought it out of the end zone. Uh, And I
don't know why. So why would you eat up five
seconds of the clock. This is some questionable clock management

(01:07:51):
by Texas here. So they just they brought the ball
out of the end zone, take a knee, pick up
an extra some extra yardage, and then see what you're
working with and don't lose any time on the clock.
But instead they brought the ball out. Now there's five
seconds on the clock. Texas has the football deep in
their own territory and they have one time out remaining,

(01:08:15):
because Steve Sarkaesian thought it was important to burn that
second time out with fifteen seconds on the clock to
try and ice the kicker like you should. I'd be
icing the kicker in my mind only if there's no
time remaining and you're not going to use those time
outs or need those time outs. But Texas nonetheless has
the ball at their own twenty four yard line. Again,

(01:08:35):
five seconds left on the clock. They will try I'm
assuming a little hook and ladder play here. Uh. And Texas,
uh ball down field, it is caught dropped and Alabama
is going to survive. Twenty to nineteen is the final,
the Alabama Crimson Tide twenty to nineteen winners in an
absolute dog fight. But if you're Steve Sarkaesian in Texas,

(01:08:56):
feel good about it. You competed. If you're Texas fans,
give me a round of applause. Go out there, drink
more out of a shoe and uh and whatever you do.
Tell everybody we're not back yet, but we're kind of back.
And the Alabama Crimson Tide are two and o on
the year, and I'm assuming, uh, well, who knows. I mean,

(01:09:18):
they may drop out of the top ranking depending on
what happens this week below them, but Alabama Nick Saban survive.
And Saban is talking with the great Jenny Taft on
the field there in Austin, and he looks like he
is full of p n V. He is piste, he
is not happy. He's gonna let those guys have it
when he gets in there. So have fun with that.
If you're an Alabama player, all right, Jonas knocks with

(01:09:39):
you here on fs are you can hang out with
us as always on the I Heart Radio app and
we do this all live from the tire Rack dot
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get to the scraps things in the world of sports
and beyond we have not had a chance to get
to yet. It is yours right here on fs are
Jonas and Box Fox Sports Radio from the entire act

(01:10:02):
dot com studios. Coming up top of next hour. About
fifteen minutes from now, the great Steve hartman E from
salam will be taking over the airwaves here. Make sure
you stick around. Always a good listen with those guys,
and uh, you know they'll be they'll be having some
fun talking about what happened in Austin, Texas where the
Alabama Crimson tied get it done twenty to nineteen. The

(01:10:23):
final a field goal, a game winning field goal with
about fifteen seconds left in the game, and Alabama survives
there in Austin, Texas. But it was a fun seen,
fun atmosphere if you're sark, if you're the Texas Longhorns,
the Texas fan base, that's a that's a hell of
a showing there on national television with the big new
Kickoff crew there with Gus Johnson, and Joe clad on

(01:10:45):
the call, Jenny Taft on the field, like the scenes
were there and uh and it was a hell of
a presentation and I think I think they won over
a lot of people. And the direction the program is
headed in Steve Sarkisian and they've gotta be feeling good
about things. So congrats to the Texas long oarns you lost,
but a you covered the spread, alright, So it's a
twenty and a half point spread. And Hella was showing alright,

(01:11:08):
Hella was showing there. Let everybody see what the what
the sceneries like there in Austin, Texas. Drunk fans drinking
out of shoes was wild, alright. So so Steve Hartman
and from Salam will be back. We'll be on the
air here, coming up again fifteen minutes from now on
fs ARE. You can get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knocks. If you miss any of this show, you
can check out the podcast after we go off the air.

(01:11:29):
Right now, though, it is time to put a ball
on this bad boy with a little something called this Jonas.
How could you not get to? These stories are the
scraps And for that we turn it over to the
man with the best pipes in all of radio, the
one and only Danny g Jonas. We don't hear this
too often, but you know, Yankee fans, do you feel

(01:11:54):
sorry for Yankees? Sorry now? I mean I have a
couple of friends who fly the Yankees flag, and I'm
us feel sorry for him right now because as a
sports fan, you know what it's like for one of
your teams to start really, really good and then be
holding on for dear life. Yeah, they like they bring
you in and you're like, oh, man, we got this,
we got this, and then you just come to find
out way I'm like, I'm losing money. You know. It's

(01:12:16):
like it's like being on a boat out in the
middle of the ocean and you're like, man, this sure
feels like the water is getting close and you realize, oh,
there's a hole. Okay, well we got a problem here.
So that's what it feels like. Checked the scene from
New York where Yankees left fielder Aaron Hicks was pulled
from the team's four to two loss to the Rays
Friday night after a pair of defensive what are being

(01:12:37):
called quote unquote misques led to him being pulled out
of the game and a bunch of booze from the
fans there and the Bronx. The problems for Hicks started
with two ounce in the fourth inning, Franco slice the
liner to left field. Hicks tracked it down, watched it
bounce off his glove, and then he stopped. He said
later that he thought it was foul with foul ball.

(01:13:00):
What's a foul play? Um? You know, of course it wasn't.
It was a fairball. And then he had another incident
where a long flyball went his way. He was unable
to corral it. It bounced off his glove again, and
the fans really let him here. They showered the veteran
outfielder with booze and even some Joey gallow chance. Oh no,

(01:13:22):
is there anything worse than hearing a Joey gallow chant
directed in your way in New York. I mean, listen,
Joey Gallows, you know, I mean he got some good
They're getting rid of the shift. I mean, it feels
like everything's coming up aces for Joey Gallo. I mean,
come on, now, this is this, here's the whenever I
think of outfield mishaps or defensive plays. And this is

(01:13:44):
probably not right for me to do. A lot of
people go like, oh, what about Buckner at first base?
And a lot of I still think of Nelson Cruise.
Nelson Cruise in that World Series when the Rangers had
that World Series in the bag and he dropped that
flyball against the Cardinals. To this day, I don't think
that that World Series lost gets talked about enough. Like

(01:14:05):
Ron Washington literally had a World Series. He was, they were,
they were one strike away multiple times and lost. So yeah,
it's it's unfortunate, but we've seen this happen before. What
else we got? All Right, finally, I will let you
rep your Chicago Bears really quick. Alright, Bears. Yeah, there's
an article thirty two possible breakout stars for each NFL team,

(01:14:27):
and for Chicago Khalil Herbert is the main attraction of
backup running back. Yeah, first of all, how is he
not uh l a charger? Khalil Hermer hidding Man Montgomery
that your starter is in the final year of his
rookie deal and the new front office with Ryan Poles
doesn't have any allegiance to him. Montgomery has put up

(01:14:47):
some decent numbers, but his efficiency hasn't been awesome. Last
year he averaged just three point eight yards per carry
and five point nine yards per target, whereas Herbert slightly
better in both categories. And the Bears think that he's
got a high ceiling. What says you, the biggest Bears
fan on the network, that that is that is a
false statement. I will give that to my Carmen. Uh. Look,

(01:15:10):
I did grow up a Bears fan, but luckily for
my own sanity, I put the fanboy stuff down years
ago because tattoos, there's no tattoo. You imagine if I
did have a Chicago Bears tattoo, how could I How
could I look at anybody square in the eyes and
say I'm giving a legitimate take on the Bears if
I had like a Bears tattoo? Imagine that. But here's

(01:15:30):
like this a lot to tell you everything you need
to know about the Bears. Their breakout star quote unquote
is their backup running back? Do you ever think about
the Bears? Because the problem with the Bears, and anytime
the Bears have been good, they've run the football. They
didn't run the football under Matt Maggy And the only
time they did is when he would get desperate towards

(01:15:51):
the end of the year, and it was like, oh,
I better establish a run game. It was like, oh, yeah,
you should have probably done that Week one. And then
David Montgomery when he got opportunities and they actually used
him the right way, he started putting up numbers and
I was like, oh, he's actually a pretty good running back.
I mean, the best thing about David Montgomery is the
fact that he went to Iowa State and not Iowa.
I think that's the most important part about all this, Uh,

(01:16:13):
the fact that he that he burned the Iowa Hawk
Eyes because I remember Iowa Sam was telling me the
story that that David Montgomery uh said no to the
Iowa Hawk Eyes because he just wasn't very fond of
their fan base. Some about you guys and drinking and
uh issues with I said that, Yeah, you were telling
me that that there there's a reason he burned the

(01:16:33):
Iowa Hawk Eyes and went to Iowa State. If I'm not,
I don't know. I don't know if they offered him.
By the way, SI Hawk Bowl today coming up in
about fifteen minutes, all right, I can't wait to not
watch that. What is your what is your Sunday? Your
first NFL Sunday gonna look like at home tomorrow, jonas well,
get up, Maybe go to church. Maybe we'll see if

(01:16:53):
if I can get there on time. Uh you know,
God comes second behind football. Listen that in my house,
it's like there's a cross every return. Very my wife's
very very religious, and which is it's all good? Um,
and so yeah, maybe go to a church. But it's
she doesn't get it. She doesn't understand how much fun

(01:17:14):
this is for everybody. Like especially the older you get,
you appreciate it more becau remember back of the day, Danny,
you would be like, oh man, the weekends here, like
let's go out club and let's go I have no
interest in doing any of that. I just want to
watch football. Like literally, you just want to watch football.
Vegg out. And once it's like the football season gets here,
everything is predicated around football. Your Monday nights are chewed up,

(01:17:38):
Thursday nights are tuwed up, Sunday nights are chewed up
entire Sundays. Now you've got college football here on Saturdays.
Like this is why I tell people football season is
like our tax season. Like if you're an accountant, tax
season is brutal. Once football hits, it's over, Like get
your vacations in get your days off, because once it's here,

(01:17:58):
you're just gonna we're gonna have fun for the next
few months. Man. And by the way, in case my
mom happens to be listening right now, it's just kidding
about that earlier comment. I'll go to church early to
yeah listen, and uh, you know, missus g I've seen
him at church. I've seen him there many times. He
is there. He is the first one in the communion line.
He is a you know, a very very religious man.

(01:18:20):
So whatever you think you heard, you did not hear.
It was a glitch in the in the audio. And
that we we put that all on Iowa. Sam. There
was a glitch in the system. And that's when we're
at what's my fault? By the way, Sam, you gotta
pick on Iowa, Iowa State. Who do you got here?
I think I was gonna muster some points and win seven. Okay, Now,
I I might have to go to the DraftKings window

(01:18:40):
to take a look at this because Iowa is sitting
at three and a half point. Favorite line really hasn't
moved all week. It's no action both ways, sitting at
three and half. By the way, the over unders at
thirty eight and a half. If anybody watched Iowa last week,
I would probably encourage you to fet the under. I
think with my score, I took the under, so we
need to seven. That was the best game of the
week at least league fascinating. Trying to do a show

(01:19:02):
with Iowa, Sam wanting to rip his hair out like
a piece of corn because he couldn't figure out why
i was offense was still so bad. Shown us the
son of a bit

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