Jonas Knox on the Vikings, Carlos Correa & Robert Saleh's Mess!

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You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. So now it's all
starting to make sense. It's all starting to make sense.
It makes total sense. Now I am firmly a believer.
I didn't get it. Now I do. It's an NFL story,
and I gotta give credit where credit is due. Many
people spotted this, A lot of people called this. I
was not one of them, and yet here we are,

(00:22):
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. We'll get to that here
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felt like we've been talking about one half of the
NFL and somebody was getting disrespected. I mean, they were
getting left out. Like if you were to talk to somebody,
if you were to just you know, talk to I
don't know, like a degenerate gambler, or even the guys
that are good at gambling, or the guys that are
out there telling you what's going to happen and making

(01:25):
the right picks and all that. And by the way,
for those of you wondering, I'm definitely not one of those,
especially after that horse bleed performance I put together in
Knox Locks last week. But we'll get to that later
on and everybody can air me out for it again
because it's been an awful season. It is. In fact,
I would argue I'm worse at sports betting than anybody
is in anything. I would make that argument, and I'd

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be confident in that statement holding to form for the
rest of the season. But point being, if you're talking
to just people in the know, people that watch the
NFL or the NFL from an analytical standpoint, people that
just break down how this stuff all looks, and like
if you were to talk to anybody about the NFC

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over the past I don't know, six to eight weeks,
it's always Philadelphia is the best team. The Niners are
really dangerous if Dallas can just figure it out. Is
Tom Brady does he have enough magic still left in
him to give one more legitimate run there? What about

(02:32):
one of these wild card teams? What a feel good
story that Detroit Lions are? You know what? You never
hear man the Minnesota Vikings. Watch out for them because
they're gonna get at least one home game in the playoffs.
You never hear about the Vikings. It's weird, like for

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some reason, every time we talk about the NFC, we
just kind of skipped past him. You know, it's just
a lot of just kind of overlooked, like I didn't
see it. I guess that's what it's like. It's like
the guy who ran out onto the field. I think
it was with the Eagles. He ran out onto the
field with the Eagles as part of the team, Like,

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hows that happen? Like where's security at that point? What
about the homeless guy? The bum who showed up to
practice at USC. The guy was out there practicing fielding
punts at USC and you're thinking to yourself, how does
that happen? How does that just slip through the cracks?

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And you hear these breakdowns of the Minnesota Vikings and
you go, well, how did they keep slipping through the cracks? Here?
I mean, we're talking about the NFC and the Vikings
are sitting there at ten wins. Can't the Vikings get
a little bit of respect? They're not outside of the
realm of possibility of actually, you know, potentially making a
deep run in the postseason. And then you turn on

(03:58):
the game a short time ago and you're like, God,
I can't wait. This is gonna be a fun one.
Minnesota hosting Indianapolis. Clearly this, I mean the favorite in
this game. Obviously been a tough season for Indianapolis, and
all of a sudden you realize, does that say twenty
three nothing? Colts is eddie All? Now makes sense? Now?

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It makes sense because this went from the Minnesota Vikings
being a ten win team with a home game on
a Saturday. And for those of you that want to
go to Kirk Cousins O c D and talk about
how he's got O c D. And it's gotta be
Sunday at one p m. Eastern time, and that's the
only place that this could be. And by the way,
if you hear that conversation or narrative anywhere else, that

(04:43):
was originated at this network by Brady quinnin myself, and
if you don't believe me, you can kiss my ass.
Those are facts. We called it years ago and broke
down Kirk Cousins O c D and why Sunday at
one pm Eastern time was a real thing. But never
mind all that. But for the as you wondering if
that's what this is all about, it's not. Kirk Cousins

(05:04):
is actually undefeated on Saturday games. He's actually never thrown
a pick during Saturday games. But the special teams for
the Minnesota Vikings has been atrocious. Punt block returned for
a touchdown, fake punt on fourth and one, incomplete on

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the defense just can't seem to stop Indianapolis, and there's
been some turnovers other than that twenty three to nothing.
They're still in this thing. Don't worry about it. It's
a smooth start to a Saturday for the Minnesota Biking.
So I would like to apologize. I could not figure
out why Minnesota has been overlooked. I could not figure

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out while we're looking at the NFC and everybody's talking
about the forty Niners, who's got who's on their third
quarterback this season? In Brock Party, I couldn't figure out why,
with Kirk Cousins having a good year and a guy
who's been playing much better than a lot of people
give them credit for over the past couple of years,
I couldn't figure out why we think the final pick

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of the draft leading one team should be more favored
and should be it should be a better option than
the Kirk Cousins led Minnesota Vikings. And now I get it,
because this looks a hell of a lot like that
Dallas game did in which the Cowboys came in and
curb stopped Minnesota and everybody walked away going, oh, I

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guess maybe the game in Buffalo. I guess maybe that
game wasn't everything the Vikings are, and maybe it looks
a little bit more like this. But it's still early.
We got six and a half minutes left in the
first half, and we'll see how this finishes out. But
as of right now, all you Minnesota Vikings naysayers, you
are absolutely correct. They look awful right now. Jonas knocks

(06:50):
Fox Sports Radio. All right, here's the other thing. And
by the way, I've already seen it. It's this is
like dreading, like you know, the the songs Sweet Caroline
one of the worst songs in the history of music
at like not even I don't even think it's debatable
and atrocious song. I'd rather hear my dog gets shot

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then listen to Sweet Hairline. Every time it's about to
come on, I always know a few minutes before so
that that song is coming on. Always. I always know,
like whether it's I think it was at a Red
Sox game or like there's a certain stadiums they'll play it,
and it's like the second it comes on, or somebody

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starts playing it at a bar, I immediately get up
and walk out. On the wat side, I'll hang out
with the smokers. I'll hang out with the potheads who
are kicking a hackey sack around like like sitting like
you know, wander around with some of the homeless people.
Like I'll do whatever I can to not be a
part of any room that's playing Sweet Hairline. And I

(07:56):
already can tell the Jeff Saturday puns are already firing
off on Twitter I knew it. We talked about it
on the show yesterday morning. I knew it was going
to happen, and it's already starting. So if you've got
a Jeff Saturday pun because they're playing on Saturday, just
put it back in the holster. It's not original, it's
not funny, and it's not clever. Just leave it alone.

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But on the subject of Jeff Saturday, I'm telling you
right now, if this game continues to go the way
that it's gone in a standalone window on a Saturday,
there is zero chance Jeff Saturday doesn't return as head
coach of the Colts next year. Zero chance. Jim Mercy

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is already pot committed like he's he's already committed to it.
Now he can sit on the back of a golf
cart with a lung dart in his mouth and talk
about how he's going to go through the process, and
all these other candidate center out there. Outside of Jim Harbaugh,
there's zero chance anybody else is going to be the

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head coach of the Colts next year. Jeff Saturday has
already said he wants a gig. Now why he would
want to go through with this in a team that
feels like they're a long way off because they got
issues at quarterback and and you know the old Andrew
Luck thing. I mean, the guy walked away and kind
of left him in peril and they've been trying to
search for quarterbacks and stop gaps and band aids ever since.

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Why he would want to stick around for that and
not just want to do the TV deal with the ESPN,
I don't know. Maybe he was sick of the ESPN,
maybe he was sick of the job. Maybe he just
really wanted to be a football coach. But Jeff Saturday
has said this week, if they'll have me back, I
want to be here. I love it. I love what's happening.
I love being here. All you need is for it

(09:49):
to be justified. They're gonna they're gonna a dot the
eyes and cross the t s and go through the
formalities and do the Rooney rule stuff because they got
a lot of push back for it, and all of
that is nie and it's cute and that's fun. It's
all a charade. Jeff Saturday is going to be the
head coach, and if this game continues on in which
they're beating the hell out of the Vikings, a ten

(10:12):
win team at home in a standalone setting for everybody
to watch. This is all the ammo that Jimmer Say needs.
He's looking for any reason to want to keep Jeff
Saturday around. It was a bold move, It was a
ballsy pick. It was criticized by a lot of people.
It didn't make sense for a lot of people. First

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game out of the gate, they beat the Raiders in Vegas.
All you need is just a little bit patting it.
Just pad the stats a little bit here, you know,
a little bit, little little you know, put a little
topping on there, you know, like, dude, do a little something.
Just just make it more reasonable why we're gonna keep
Jeff Saturday. And if this goes the way that it's gone,

(10:55):
Jimmer Says gonna crow about it. He's gonna open his
mouth about it. He's gonna brag about that. They're gonna
go through the quote unquote process in the off season.
I can guarantee you Jeff Saturday will be the head
coach of the Colts next year. And all this game
is done so far is justify Jim Ursay's decision that
a lot of people gave him a hard time for

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(13:09):
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to also this because I tease this, then we care
about the form attics on this show. This isn't mail
at in time here on the weekends, like some of
these shows that you hear on Fox Sports Raded. They
don't care about the formattics, like for example, those Knobs
in the morning, two pros and a cup of Joe,
those guys those Yahoo's, Yeah, I haven't either. They don't

(13:54):
care about the formattics. The teasing is improper alright, not
not a big fan of theirs and outs. But never
mind that, we're not here to air anybody out here
on the network. We wouldn't do that here. But we
care about the formattics here. So coming up here, we
want to pay off the tease because I did tell
you that there's a mess, a situation in the NFL.
Somebody's created a mess and there's no way out of it.
They're gonna get dirty. We're gonna have that for you

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here in a couple of minutes. But we also care
about you, the listener, and you listening right now. Driving around,
you got things going on, You're you're running errand you're
doing some Christmas shopping whatever the case may be. You
may not have the Colts Vikings game on in front
of you right now. So what we wanted to do
is provide you an update. So let's go live to

(14:37):
Minnesota to see how this is going today between the
Colts and the Vikings taking away a cult radio network
Dallas Flowers beat, keep receiving, block up on, It's hanging
in the air, the Colt picking up House Horseline tin
the five but touchdown for the cults, how fat applesc
for the but with Joe Joe Dolman, we'll down eleven

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minutes to go and on the punt is Ryan likes
and they fake it to paint. They snapped it to
I believe the punter and check the replay. It was
the punter, Yes, that was Ryan Wright who threw it outside.
Cousins out of the gun, backs the throw, stands in
the pocket, throws it up, touchdown, secrets up score. Julian

(15:24):
Blackman picks it off and carries it into the inter
touch down in d Why it's so nothing? Could you imagine,
good Christ, Just imagine that you're a Vikings fan or

(15:45):
you go to this game. Imagine you're in Minneapolis today,
like you know what, it's cooled out, but at least
we're gonna sit indoors and watch your favorite football team play.
You walk in, you turn your head to cut a fart,
and your teams have thirty nothing before halftime. Good god man, No,
I don't not a fan. So there's that. That is

(16:09):
your your update there on the situation in Indianapolis, where
the or in Minnesota rather, where the Indianapolis Colts have
a thirty to nothing lead over the Minnesota Vikings. They're
still not halftime, still not halftime. Thirty to nothing is
the lead for Indianapolis. And I think I might a
Jinks Kirk Cousins as well too, because I said he
had never thrown a pick on Saturday games. He just

(16:31):
did and it turned into points for the other team.
So we'll keep you up to speed on that. Brian
Finley have an update on that game coming up here
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Big green egg dot com. So I remember having a
conversation ation with a buddy of mine years and years ago,
and he would tell me like he was in like
kind of this, this bad relationship, you know, kind of
this it was. They were always off and on. I
remember asking him, like, why are you guys always off

(17:14):
and on? It feels like every time I talk to you,
one minute you're broken up, the next minute you're not.
You know, one minute, you guys you're happy and everything's cool,
and then you're gonna marry her, and the next minute,
now you guys aren't getting along and she moved out
and all this stuff was like so, so, like what
what what's going on? Do you ever have an affair
on her? Do you ever? Do you ever cheat on her?
Like like, is that what this is? Or you're not

(17:35):
being faithful? He's a no, I've never cheated on her.
I'm always faithful. He goes, But if I feel like
I'm going to, then I'll break up with her, because
you know, if I meet somebody that I might be
a little bit interested in, I'll break up with my girlfriend.
Just so I never actually cheat on her. I remember

(17:57):
thinking of myself, why wait, how does that work? What? So,
so you come across somebody what in the grocery store,
like what what you're you're you're you know, picking up
you know, some supplies because you're gonna grill. And then
you run into somebody in the catchup aisle and you go, hey,

(18:19):
wait before we talk, let me call home break up
with my girlfriend, and then we could have a conversation
like how does that work? Like that just feels messy.
It feels like you're just creating a mess. Ultimately, they
ended up not staying together. It didn't work out. What
a shocker. But remember like there was like this logic
behind it that only made sense to him. Everybody else

(18:43):
on the outside was like, dude, it doesn't like what
what are you doing? That's how this works, Like you
don't get to just pause it and then pick it
up later on and you're convenience. That's how this works.
But for whatever reason he thought it made sense, everybody
was trying to tell him this is how the ending
is going. Ago he didn't believe anybody. And guess what,
that's how the ending went. That's kind of like what's

(19:06):
happening with the New York Jets with Robert Sala and
the mess that he has created at the quarterback spot
for the New York Jets, because that's exactly what this is.
It's a mess and somebody's getting dirty and there's no
way around it. So Zach Wilson is back, starting for

(19:26):
the New York Jets this weekend against the Detroit Lions.
He's back. Now. The good news is, I mean he
drafted him number two overall, so of course, I mean
a number two overall pick clearly should be the starting
quarterback for the Jets. The problem is, nobody really wants this,

(19:47):
especially on that team, but Robert Sali seems to think
he can just sort of interer weaves Zack Wilson back
into the starting lineup, even though it's due to injury,
because Mike White's got these rib issues and he's dealing
with and he hasn't been cleared to play, and reportedly
maybe he saw like eight or ten doctors to try
and go. But never mind, Zach Wilson's gonna be your starter.

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Here's how this is gonna go alright, because let's be
clear here, the team has already chosen Mike White, meaning
the locker room, as the guy they want starting when
he went out and sliced and diced a bad Bears team.
Didn't you notice all the receivers, all the guys on

(20:32):
that team, they seem to be really, really happy Mike
White was the starting quarterback. They I mean they seem
to be thrilled with the idea of Mike White being
their starting quarterback. I mean they were like every receiver
there had a big grin on they were. They were
dancing at every touchdown, every catch, every everything. There was
just like you couldn't deny it. And then like the

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next week they get off the plane, they're all wearing
Mike White T shirts they had made. It looked a
lot like back in was when Carson Wentz went down
with an injury again following the Super Bowl year, and
Nick Foles was announced the starting quarterback again because they
were gonna shut Carson Wentz down, and all of a sudden,
all the guys in the locker room had this candlelight

(21:17):
set up in their lockers, calling it st Nick st Nick,
And it was like, I don't remember you doing that
for Carson Wentz. It's weird. I don't remember ever anybody
having a candlelight vigil for Carson Wentz, but they sure
did with Nick Foles because they loved Nick Foles. So
all the guys on the Jets, everybody in that locker
room celebrated, They loved, loved Mike White. And Zach Wilson's

(21:43):
just been sitting there, inactive, inactive, inactive, and then all
of a sudden, he was promoted to back up quarterback
this week, and now he's going to be the starter.
So let's just see how this is gonna go. Let's say,
Zack Wilson play is somewhat decent coming up tomorrow, what

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do you do now? You make him the starting quarterback
moving forward? And what alienate the locker room guys that
that he piste off already earlier this season by saying
after the fact that no, he didn't feel like he
owed anybody in apology, even so much so that his
dad had to call him afterwards and say, what are
you saying, man, Like you kind of let the defense

(22:26):
down there. They've been playing their ass off. So if
Zach Wilson plays somewhat decent, are you you're just gonna
stick with him moving forward? Or or what if Zach
Wilson play somewhat decent are you gonna bench him your
number two overall pick and then bringing Mike White? So
then what do you do with Zach Wilson. You've already chosen,
I mean, you chose once, now you've chosen again. So

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what do you do? Shut him down for the rest
of the season so he doesn't get hurt, and then
try and trade him in the off season even though
his value is way down because he hasn't played well
and you've already shown that you're gonna take Mike White
over him. Or what if this what if this south
goes What if Zack Wilson plays really poorly and you

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have no choice but to go to Mike White after
the fact and make Mike White the starter moving forward
no matter what. Ah, that's right, we're back to the
original point. Now Zack Wilson doesn't there. Robert Salis made
a mess of this entire thing. The entire thing is
a disaster. Oh and by the way, remember when they

(23:35):
were projected to go to the playoffs. Oops, that's slipping
away in a hurry. And if part of the reason
was you bench Zack Wilson because you felt like you
had a team that could compete for a playoff spot.
And now you're looking around going, oh, there's some teams
in the a f C that are starting to get hot.
They're starting to be a clear difference between us and

(23:58):
everybody else in the a f C East. So if
all of this was to make a playoff run and
you felt like Mike White was a better solution, then
what do you do for Zack Wilson. This is a disaster.
There's no way that Robert Sala walks away from this
and doesn't get a little bit dirty. There's no way

(24:18):
you walk away from this mess. Once you made Zach
Wilson inactive, you just should have kept him there, kept
him healthy, and then tried to figure something out in
the off season. I mean, I understand Joe Flacco didn't
look great against the Bills and mop up or when
he was brought in because Mike White got hurt last week,

(24:38):
but it was the Bills and they were teeing off
on Mike White. That's why he was out of the game.
Guy got speared multiple times in that game. So like
like Joe Flaccoby put being put in that spot, I
don't know who would have excelled in that spot. The
Bills are teeing off. But this I don't see any
way out of this. For Robert Sala, that looks like, na,

(25:01):
everything's gonna be fine, Everything's gonna be okay. This is
a mess. It's been a mess for a few weeks.
The idea seemed like an awful one back then. It
seems like an awful one now, and apparently nobody else
seems to recognize it except for Robert Sala. Jonas Knocks
Fox Sports Radio, Get me on Twitter, at the Jonas
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(25:22):
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But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
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ears and make some noise for the man himself, Brian Fender,
Jonas knocks, thank you so much. So we're watching this
NFL game, and Colt said, coach Jeff Saturday is waddling

(25:45):
the sidelines with that bushy, unkempt beard with a ball
cap on and a bill that's slightly bent with a
little bit of a mullet coming out of the back
side of his helmets. Well, actually doesn't have a helmet on.
It's probably a hat. I'm the helmet right now. Well,
I mean, yeah, listen to mean you always do, especially,
you know, I mean, you never know what's going to
happen in that studio. Equipment falls apart. I mean, you

(26:08):
know there's bats flying around from time to time. It's
wild and there is this the first time Jeff Saturday's
warn a hat on the sideline. If it is, he
needs to continue this trend, don't you think you know? Well,
because he normally never wears a hat. He just lets
his hair flow. He's got these nice curly locks and
he just lets him flow. Similar to you, Finley, you
just let it flow. Sometimes there's nothing wrong with that,

(26:31):
you know, and maybe some of us a shaving studio,
you know. I don't know if you ever saw that picture,
but yeah, so I don't even want to get into
that fly needs a hat right now. You just see
the left side of his hair. Dude, it's like a wing.
I love it. Man. You know here, here's the one
thing I can say as a man. When you get older,

(26:53):
I don't care who you are, you start to thin,
your hair starts to thin a little bit, and you
saw all of a sudden have more of a preciation
for your hair as you get older, because it's like,
you know what, You're not sure how much longer are
you gonna have it? What? Just let it fly, you know,
do what you gotta do. Let it fly. Finley, I'm
good with it, man like. And you and you come
in and your rocket it, I'm all right with it,

(27:14):
you know, Jonas said, I'm great with the hair do
you got from Bosley? I think it looks great on you.
And I know we were supposed to keep that a secret,
but I'm sorry my friends by many. Yeah, so things
are a bit hairy, to say the least. Somebody got that.
When it comes to the Minnesota Vikings, they are down
to nothing here late in the second quarter of the

(27:37):
Cults are ahead. Now the Vikings coming into this game, Jonas,
they could have clinched the NFC North with the wind,
and that seems a long way away and just about
impossible here. Eight seconds to go after that most recent
field goal was made thirty three to nothing Colts, and
there was a Kirk Cousins pick six Matt Ryan touchdown
past some of the scoring. Also a block punt run
back for his score. And even the Vikings on four

(28:00):
with than one and went for a fake punt pass
and they could not get that done and pick up
the first down. And this is all with the mindset
that Colts running back Jonathan Taylor is not playing in
this game. He exted early with an ankle problem, so
there's that as well, and it doesn't seem to be
that much of an issue. Mitch Robinsky, one of your favorites,

(28:21):
Jonas and he doesn't well now, yes, hair, but sometimes
he goes shaved. So he is gonna be starting for
the Dealers in their game on Sunday against the Panthers.
Good news for Cowboys fans. The eight time Pro Bowl
tackle Tyron Smith is gonna be playing in his first
game this season. That's gonna be on Sunday against the
Jacksonville Jaguars. And he was just taken off injured reserve.
There are college football bowl games happening, believe it or not,

(28:44):
even though there are NFL games today as well. In
Louisville just sticks it to Cincinnati. It's a final score
to seven in the WASSABI Fenway Bowl out in Boston.
And this was a game where Cardinals Gear Jordan had
two touchdowns on one fifteen yards rushing. And we have
plenty of bowl games coming up later on, And I know, Jonas,
you will be intently watching a game that's just starting

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right now from Las Vegas. It's number fourteen organ State
against Florida six and six Gators team in the SRS
distribution Las Vegas Bowl game. Will I'll be watching that.
By the way, is the Jimmy Kimmel Bowl later on?
It is? Yeah, that's gonna be Jimmy Kimmel get a
bowl game? Does he does he know anything? I guess
he knows a little bit about football. I don't know

(29:25):
how much he knows about football, Like, don't you have
to be funny to get a bowl game? You do?
You do? The future? In other words, does not look
right for the Bolts. Well, he knows a lot about
smoking bowl. But yeah, oh cheez. And I'm not here
to make reckless accusations. I'm not calling the guy a pothead.
You know, I'm not telling I'm not telling you he's

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you know, he's on the hippie lettuce or any of that.
Green Wolf That's not what I'm about here. But if
you want to make accusations like that, that's fine. Why
can't Adam Corolla get a bowl game? You know, like
I mean, if you if you want somebody who's like funny,
why can't Adam Corolla get a ball game? Let's go
live to Are. I would like Adam Corolla to get
a bull game, insider Iowa, Sam for the later. Sam, Yes,

(30:05):
Adam Carolla should get a bull and it'd be sponsored
by Toyota. Oh wow, is that right? See what I
did there? I sure did. Thank you over yet Jesus Christ.
So Sam, Yeah, last thing to mention here, one basketball score?
I know, I know, Sam, I know that was the

(30:30):
last one to pick that one up. The first rule
of telling a joke, that's what it's wrong with you
always explain it afterwards. Oh man, what else? Finley got
some college basketball game nobody cares about. Yeah, exactly because
college basketball is king. In December, number eight Kansas dominating
from the start from the jump against number fourteen Indiana

(30:51):
eight four to sixty two. And that we'll do it here.
I know. We got through a ton of scores, got
a lot accomplished in this update, but it's gonna back
to Jonas Knocks and of course there's us say, I'm
running the board and Jos, I gotta tell you, I
was talking io Sam beforehand and after he gets off
his shift he has joined a Christmas Carol bunch and
they go around houses and they send Christmas Carol. So

(31:13):
I heard that, Yeah, yeah, I heard that. I'll be
at Ben Maller's house tonight doing that. Yeah there, I'll
see you there, all right. And that another Ben Mallard
party I wasn't invited to. That's awesome, all right. It
is Jonas Knocks here Fox Sports Trade from the entire
act dot Com studios. By the way, coming up in
about ten minutes from now, we're gonna have another edition
of Do You Care? Right, So for those of you

(31:35):
that are out there thinking, man, all you guys do
is like tell the like the negative side of stuff.
All you guys are so negative, not true? Do You
Care is coming up here. We're gonna have a little
bit of positivity for you, a little positivity here on
a Saturday for you maybe, depending on what the stories are,
we'll get into that for you. All right. So every
single week we're tired during a busy Sunday schedule or

(31:56):
Saturday schedule or Monday schedule in the NFL, whatever day
of the week it is, whatever week in the NFL
season it is. We're tired of certain games getting overlooked.
We're tired of it, you know, like like we look
at at the NFL, is like, man, everybody should get
a little bit of credit. Everybody should get some love
from time to time. It's like, why why are our
teams guaranteed prime time games? Because you know, it's unfair.

(32:19):
It's it's it's unfair that, you know, certain teams get
overlooked in the National Football League, and so you want
to give everybody an opportunity to shine. Well, with that
being said, we decided a few weeks ago we were
tired of teams getting overlooked, and so we wanted to
come up with an award every single week. And the

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award is the t g f G Game of the Week.
It's the Thank God for Gambling Game of the Week.
And the Thank God for Gambling Game of the Week
award in Week fifteen goes to Cardinals, said Broncos. Yeah, congratulation.
It's a four oh five Eastern time kickoff. On Fox.

(33:03):
Thank God for gambling, because if it wasn't for gambling,
who cares about this game? You got the Arizona Cardinals
and the Denver Broncos. I mean, we're gonna get a
Brent Ripping Colton McCoy matchup. It looks like now Colton
McCoy was on the injury report with some neck issue,
So who knows. Maybe we'll get Trace McSorley. Maybe they'll
go back and get Jake Plummer. Is Stoney Case still around?

(33:26):
Maybe Stony Case could play quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals.
But let's be honest here, nobody cares about either of
these teams. They've got seven wins between them. They're two
of the most disappointing teams in the National Football League.
And what's fascinating is Russell Wilson has been cleared of
his concussion, he cleared protocol, but the Denver Broncos have said, no, no, no,

(33:47):
we're still not playing you. But don't worry Broncos fans
and don't worry Cardinals fans. If you were wondering whether
or not you were going to get anything from this season,
you did in Week fifteen. You got the t G
f G Game of the Week award. The Thank God
for Gambling Game of the Week goes to Cardinals Broncos
because if not for sports betting or gambling, you wouldn't

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give a crap about this game. Congratulations everybody involved, all right,
Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at
the Jonas Knocks. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Yeah
Jesus all right. Coming up next, it's another addition of

(34:31):
do you care? And it's yours right here on fs
are Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You can hang out
with us as always on the I Heart Radio app.
Coming up top of next hour a little over ten
minutes from now from the entire act dot Com studios,
we are going to have another look ahead to the

(34:53):
weekend in the NFL with some Knox Locks, some Knox locks.
Coming off a bad week again last week, I just
can't seem to get over the mark. I can't seem
to get over. But I do feel really confident, probably
the best I've felt about games that I've picked this year.
Uh so, uh so heading into this week. Stick around
because you can make money. This is a great thing.

(35:14):
If you were a believer in Knox locks, you can
make money. All you gotta do is follow along or
just fade me, and you would have made more money.
So there's options here. It's not all negative like believe
it or not. We do give options. There's either or
here on Fox Sports Radio from time to time. And

(35:34):
so there we go. It's you know, we're not just
I'm not gonna hold you know, to our opinions and
just stick to them. I'll tell you right now. There
are certain weeks I don't have confidence. I've called myself
out for it, and those have been bad weeks and
you could have made money on those if you just
went the opposite. So there is options here for you.
And we'll get to Knox Locks coming up a little
over ten minutes from now. But right now it is
time for something we do every single week at this time,

(35:57):
and it's called this. There are so many stories in
the world of sports, and most of them are a
complete waste of time m reports. Let's get kinky. Here's
some of the big stories from the last week. But Jonas,
the real question is do you care? And for that
we turned it over to the man with the best
pipes in all of radio, the one and only Danny g.

(36:19):
Microphone throttler. Alright, j One of the seventeen poster boys
for cheating, Carlos Corea, signed a thirteen year, three hundred
fifty million dollar contract with the San Francisco Giants. Thirteen years.
Do you care? I do, because I think it's hilarious.

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Like literally, the guys part of a cheating scandal never
got suspended and only had to wait around for a
few years. And and by the by the way, by
the time his career is over, and this is the
best thing about baseball, he's gonna get every cent of that,
every penny of that three fifty million he's gonna get
by the time his careers over. For based on previous contracts,

(37:04):
he's probably gonna make close to a half billion dollars.
Just think about that, Diddy. The guy was part of
a cheating scandal, and he's gonna look back on his
Major League baseball career and walk away with almost a
half billion dollars in revenue. Man, I'm gonna have my
kids play baseball for sure. I swear to God, if

(37:25):
my kid touches a football, I'm gonna put him in
the basement for six months. Like stop, don't do it.
It's a bad way to go. Here's the question I
would ask you, though, Danny, as a Dodger fan, where
does Carlos carea rank, especially now that he's a San
Francisco giant amongst all time hated Dodger rivals right up

(37:47):
there because I mean instant, instant, top five easy because
like who would else would be Barry Bonds. Bonds would
be up there. But see with Machado, Yeah, he kind
of dogged it run into first and now he's with
the Padres. He wasn't part of a cheating scandal that
that screwed them out of the world. He just has
a really punchable face. Yeah, like but he was. There

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was no cheating scandal, Like there was no I'm telling
you Carlos Korea is neck and neck with Barry Bonds.
Now for Dodger rivals, he's gotta be next, alright. Leonel
Messi led Argentina to tomorrow mornings World Cup final with
one goal and one assist versus Croatia this past Tuesday.
Do you give a rats ass? No, I don't listen up.

(38:33):
It's for season. Blame the powers that be that had
the World Cup in November and December when it's always
a summer event, because they decided they would rather you know,
all the money that came in from Qatar, and then
they realized, well, it's too hot to play those games then,
so we're gonna go ahead and move it back a
little bit. I love the World Cup. I think Fox
has done an outstanding job covering the World Cup. But listen,

(38:56):
I told you last week I was out after that
screw job by Steve to say here in these scam
artists to put together the World Cup pool here, and
once that app and I was out. I mean, I'll
tune in. I'll see what the final score is. I
hope Messi win. If Messi wins this World Cup, it's
already arguable he's the greatest soccer player of all time.
If he wins this World Cup, it's a wrap. He'll
be the greatest of all time. Next, by the way,

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up there on top of that list of hated Dodger
rivals Alt But again, he's not a giant. Now I'm
telling you Correa like that. I guess, yeah, you said giant. Well,
then bum Gardner was a hated rival back in the day. Yeah,
I mean, I'm telling you Correa is right up there, man,
he's got to be there, number one or number two.

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All right, Let's move on to the other team in
the Bay Area, the Niners. Their star Nick Bosa, said
that his great health right now is because he no
longer eats carbs. Do you care? Yeah? I do. Let
me tell you something. Once you get older, you realize
some of the stuff you could take in you can
no longer take in anymore. And I've gone, like, I

(39:59):
don't eat a lot of carbs, like like hardly any
I'll have a cheat day every week. But you start
walking away from that stuff. When you go back, it
never sits the same. Next Avatar to landed and opening
day fifty three million dollars at the box office. Do
you care? No, I don't Avatar? Why was there an
Avatar one? I never saw the first one? I was.

(40:22):
I was never into it? Is that? Like? What is it? Like?
The Blue Man group at Aliens? Aliens? Okay, Pocahona. But yeah,
I'm sorry, I'm out. It's football season, get a life.
People come out. So it's not exactly what you want.
It's not exactly what you want heading into a pivotal

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stretch during the football season, but Nonetheless, it's where we are.
We'll get into the very latest on just the up
and down roller coaster that is Knox locks here coming
up in just a couple of moments from now, Jonas
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(41:05):
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Ti irac dot com the way tire buying should be. So,
I've seen some people throw this out there, and normally,
under normal circumstances, I'd be like, alright, I get it.
You know, safety first, let's take precaution makes all the
sense in the world. I totally get it. Unfortunately, we

(41:50):
are owed something by the National Football League. They owe
us something right, and so because of that, I'm now
no longer going to take the let's play it safe here,
Let's do the right thing. It's an unfair advantage. It's
not right for certain people who might have certain financial

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interests in this game. Allah, fantasy football, betting, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
We're owed a snow a snow globe game. I mean,
I'm like, it's just it is what it is. We're
owed to snow game. The NFL owes this to us,
the city of Buffalo owes this to us, and so
we're gonna get one later tonight between the Dolphins and

(42:32):
the Bills. It's just what it is. Now. For those
of you wondering, all right now, do you guys have
an actual reporter there live in Buffalo at Orchard Park
at high Mark Stadium, was going to tell us the
very latest on what the weather conditions are like, not exactly,
but I can't tell you as of right now. I
am looking at my Doppler radar. I have a Doppler

(42:52):
radar here live from the tire act dot Com studios,
and the Doppler radar at high Mark Stadium in Orchard
Park is telling me that as it stands right now,
we have got ourselves thirty degrees snow and wins coming
out of the southwest at eleven miles an hour for

(43:15):
kickoff between the Dolphins and the Bills coming up later
on tonight. So we're gonna have snow showers. We're gonna
get our snow game. This is a game we should
have had weeks ago, but the NFL decided, well, no, no, no, no,
we gotta play it safe. Let's move it to Detroit.
Let's go make the Bills play three straight road games.
We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna move this game
to Detroit and then we'll figure it out from there.

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You owed us a game back then we didn't get
our game, and now we finally got one, and it's
coming up later on tonight. I know there's been some
discussions about unfair advantages and what if you've got fantasy
football interests in this game, if you're one of these
people that's got to uh or you've got tyree kill,
if you're one of these people that's got Josh Allen.
I don't care about any of that crap. It's there's

(43:58):
a time and a place to be selfish. This is
one of those we are otis snow game. We're gonna
get a snow game. It's amazing television. There's nothing you'd
rather be watching on a Saturday night than what's gonna
happen later on in Buffalo between the Dolphins and Bills.
So I'm happy about it. And if you're not tough, boss,
that's the way we work, all right. Jonas knocks here

(44:18):
Fox Sports Radio. By the way, quick update from Minnesota
for the first time all game. The Minnesota Vikings are
on the board. The Vikings are on the board. We
have ourselves a touchdown for the Minnesota Vikings. The extra
point is up and good by Greg Joseph. The Vikings
are on the board. Kirk Cousins has just thrown a

(44:43):
touchdown pass. We're getting the particulars on k j Osborne
on a two yard touchdown catch from Kirk Cousins. A
seven play, eighty eight yard drive here in the third quarter,
and the Vikings on the board. Twenty left to go
in the third Colt still leading Minnesota thirty three to seven.

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We'll keep you up to speed on that game as
it progresses throughout the course of the show. Now for
those of you wondering, all right, so how did Knox
Locks do last week? Thank you for asking, first of all. Secondly,
not very good. Now that has been a common theme
throughout the course of the season. Now, most of these
egomaniacs that do sports talk radio, when they get something wrong,
what they'll do is they'll block you if you call

(45:28):
them out for it, Hey, nice pick, you screw that up.
They'll block you, or they'll get that they'll get in
their feelings because they're too sensitive and they're a bunch
of insecure egomaniacs, and so they start battling back and
forth with you on Twitter and they get really upset
about it. I don't call me out for it. I
got thick skin. I don't care if I make a bat.

(45:48):
If I make a mistake, expose me for it. If
I make a bad pick, expose me for it. Like,
for example, me going against the Grain last week and saying,
I don't understand why the Vikings are under dogs at Detroit.
It doesn't make any sense to me. The Vikings are
the better team. They should be favored. And since you're
giving me to an half points, I'll take it. I

(46:09):
was wrong. Majority everybody else was right. I was wrong.
Another example, I'm looking at Tampa Bay at San fran
last week and I'm thinking myself, hold on a second,
you're gonna take brock Purty, brock Purty, You're gonna take
him over Tom Brady. That didn't make any sense, and

(46:31):
I'm getting three and a half points. I'll gladly take
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Awful pick. That's a terrible pick.
But you don't see me getting all sensitive about it.
You don't see me blocking people because he disagree with me,
or getting all upset about it. No, this is the
way this works. If I make a bad pick, if

(46:53):
I make a mistake, get on me for it, kick
me in the nuts, let me know I was wrong.
I was wrong twice last week. Now, I did call
the Bengals of of the Browns. That felt good, all right,
So I did call that one. So it was another
one in two performance last week. Every time I'm about
to go above five, I always fall apart this year,
so that puts us at nineteen twenty one and two

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on the season. It's nothing to brag about, but it
is what it is. You've got to own up to
your mistakes and thus far this season, my mistakes have
been betting on sports. I have been terrible at it.
I've been terrible at betting on the NFL. But here
we go. It's time for the Week fifteen edition of
this No Knocks Locks. Dolphins said, Bills, Oh you bet

(47:42):
your sweet asked the snow game. We were just talking about.
It's the Dolphins at the Bills coming up later on tonight.
And you've got the Miami Dolphins who reportedly we're getting
prepared for this game and the snow by turning up
the A C inside the practice facility to get up
to a frigid sixty degrees. Now you're just like thirty

(48:03):
five degrees off with snow flurries, and you're on the
road with like, you know, seventy thousand people. They're screaming
their ass off and jumping through tables before the game.
But now, other than that, that's a perfect simulation. I'm
gonna take the Bills. I understand that the Bills like
to throw the football too, and they're not exactly the

(48:24):
most committed to a run team. And you look at
this and go, man, this is gonna be tough for
Josh Allen. These are not ideal circumstances. But I think
Miami is really really been exposed a little bit here
in the past couple of weeks. I'm a big to
a fan. I like what Miami has done, but teams
are starting to figure out whatever the hell McDaniels drawn
up for that for the Miami Dolphins this year, and

(48:45):
they're starting to get after him a little bit. And
they've also been dealing with, you know, some injuries, guys
banged up a little bit for the Miami Dolphins, and
so they come into this game. It's the worst possible
time for Miami as they walk in off a losing
streak to have to take on the Buffalo Bills, who,
by the way, are gonna be looking for revenge. Remember
that situation that shot up in the booth where the

(49:05):
Bills offensive coordinator Ken Dorsey was slamming his headset around
and everyone's like, my gosh, show some composure. Well that
was during the Dolphins game because the Bills had an
opportunity to try and tie or win that game late
and they couldn't get the playoff and that's why he
was frustrated. They've got revenge on their mind. I think
the Bills are gonna get that revenge. I like Buffalo

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minus seven at home, Cowboys and Jaguars. I'm gonna take
Dallas now. It's hard to do on the road, especially
after what we saw last week. He gets the Houston Texans.
You want to talk about a team that had no

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business winning a game, that was the Dallas Cowboys last week.
They had no business winning the game. And if Houston
scores on that goal to ghost situation, We're having a
much different versation about Dallas and what things look like
for them moving into the postseason. But I'm gonna take
the Dallas Cowboys here. I think they're way too talented.
I like what Jacksonville is developing there. I like where

(50:11):
where Jacksonville's headed. Doug Peterson seems to have stabilized things.
Trevor Lawrence has looked pretty good recently, a little banged up,
but pretty good recently. I like where Jacksonville's headed. But
I think the Cowboys bounce back. I think the Cowboys
get it done. I think they get it done on
the road. I will take Dallas minus four Rams and Packers.

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This is the game I don't feel great about. I'm
gonna take Green Bay now. If you shop around in
some places, you can find a line at about five
and a half. I still am not that confident in
that game, but I will take Green Bay in this
spot because there's been a lot of hype, a lot
of celebrating of Baker Mayfield and his performance for the

(50:52):
l A Rams and what happened against the Raiders and that,
you know, but let's not forget for the first three
plus quarters of that game, the offense wasn't really getting
anything done. I know he's had more time to prepare,
but this is a banged up football team there without
almost all of their major stars, and to expect them
to go on the road in primetime at night, in

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that kind of weather and perform and keep this game
competitive against the Green Bay Packers, who are all of
a sudden starting to feel better about themselves. And you've
got Aaron Rodgers starting to smile a little bit more.
He even brought up ayahuasca lately. He's talking about ayahuasca
and and you know, now he doesn't have a fear
of death because of ayahuasca. This guy's licking toads in
the off season and now he's throwing touchdowns. You got

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Watson catching touchdowns every week. I like Green Bay at home.
I don't feel great about it, but give me the
pack at home. And that is the week fifteen edition
of Knox Locks. I mean I feel to and one
feels doable. By the way, for what it's worth. For

(51:56):
what it's worth, because again I'm not gonna go back
in time and try and tell you a different story
that wasn't the actual story in real time. For what
it's worth. For those of you wondering, well, like who
would you have bet in this Vikings Colts game? Like,
like if you if you were betting on this game,
who would you have bet? I loved, absolutely loved Minnesota

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minus three and a half and Minnesota is currently trailing
thirty six to seven with four minutes and fifty three
seconds to go in the third quarter. So if that's
any sort of an indicator as to how this week
is going to go, I think we're gonna be fine.
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter
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(53:03):
the NFL has got a problem. They're telling you they're
gonna look into it. Everything's gonna be fine. I'll believe
it when I see it. We'll have that for you
next year. On fs are Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
We've got a touchdown. We've got another Minnesota Vikings touchdown

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c J. Ham on a one yard carry, and the
Vikings have now cut the Colts lead to thirty six
fourteen with a minute and change left to go on
the third quarter there in Minneapolis, So at least they're
staying somewhat competitive. Now for those you degenerate live betters
at halftime when they were trailing thirty to nothing, or

(53:51):
excuse me, thirty three to nothing where the Minnesota Vikings
they were plus twenty six and a half. So if
you wanted to do an in game bet. At halftime,
the Minnesota Vikings were getting twenty six and a half points,
So you're feeling good about that at least, I mean,
they're covering that up to this point. So it's thirty
fen a minute thirteen to go in the third quarter,
and now we'll see extra point up and good obviously

(54:13):
with the four teen added on. And now we'll go
ahead and we'll see how how things progress here and
we'll have updates on that throughout the course of the show.
So again, thirty six fourteen Colts lead the Vikings in
the first of three, the first of three Saturday games
here in the NFL, which is just awesome. You're gonna
have Ravens Browns coming up later on. That's the four

(54:36):
thirty Eastern time kickoff, and then obviously we've got the
snow game we talked about earlier between the Dolphins and
the Bills. Let me just say this, I get a
weird feeling about the Ravens Browns game. I feel like
Cleveland might run it up on him. I get this
weird feeling that Cleveland is gonna play really well later

(54:57):
on today. I don't know why. Now, reportedly there's been
there's some speculation that obviously Tyler Huntley is starting for
the Baltimore Ravens, but there's some speculation out there that
potentially Lamar Jackson could be back for this team against
the Falcons next weekend, right, So that is that is
one of the reports that's out there that's been floated out.

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So this could be the last start for for Tyler
Huntley and Baltimore can't afford to lose any more ground.
Cincinnati looks like the hottest team in the a f
C and Baltimore is just up and down, sputtering. Lamar
Jackson has not been great this year, and now he's
banged up. It feels like Baltimore yet again, is kind
of limping towards the finish line here and maybe they'll

(55:40):
get in, maybe they won't. But of course they've got
to the Browns and Deshaun Watson's first home game. So
Deshaun Watson's first home game as a Brown's quarterback is
coming up later on not I don't know if if
they're gonna be any of the tailgate devices or props
that we're seeing at last week's game against the Bengals.
I don't know if anybody saw that somebody had a
a massage table out with a person under the massage table,

(56:05):
and um, I mean I don't I don't want to say,
you know explicitly what it was, but it looked like
they were pitching a tent. Just put it that way. Yeah,
I mean, that's what it looks. Listen. I didn't make
the table. I didn't make it. I didn't tell anybody
to make it. But if you know, that was happening
in Cincinnati, so maybe he'll be treated nicer from the
fans in Cleveland. We'll see, all right, Jonas Knox here,

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(56:49):
In about ten minutes from now. There's a wild conspiracy
theory in the NFL going on right now. It's uh,
I'm not saying I believe it. I'm not saying I
believe it, but it's at least interesting. It would add
another spin on a story that made the rounds in
the National Football League this week. So we'll get to

(57:09):
that here coming up in about ten minutes from now
here on fs are. So this is great. So the
NFL is trying to tell you that they're aware of
an issue and aware of a problem, and that they're
going to get it fixed, and that it needs to
be fixed. That's what they're telling you right now. The
problem that the NFL has is these roughing the passer calls.

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I mean, there's been some roughing the passer calls that
have been brutal. The latest one on Nick Bosa that
made the rounds. This happened on Thursday night where Nick
Bosa sack Geno Smith. Geno Smith threw a pick six
and it was called back because of roughing the passer,
and then you look at it and you go seriously,
like we're calling that too. Nick Bosa was kind of passive,

(57:55):
aggressive and a little bit snarky after the game, saying,
I guess they got the call, right. I get s
kind of like I don't know what else I'm supposed
to do. I I thought I I didn't actually you know,
slam him to the ground, but I guess that's a
roughing the passer. Everybody remembers the one Chris Jones on
Derek Carr earlier this season. That was a rough one.

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I mean, you gelt like there's been examples seemingly every
week of roughing the pastor calls. Now the NFL's excuse,
and what they're gonna tell you is that, well, roughing
the pastor calls are down from last year because they are, like,
they're down by quite a bit. There haven't been as
many roughing the pastor calls this year as they have
been last year. But you've got Troy Vincent, who's the

(58:37):
executive VP, who's telling you this is gonna be a
conversation we're gonna have during the off season. We're definitely
gonna look into this. There's been some discussions about maybe
making it reviewable, etcetera, etcetera. Here's the problem. We've tried
this before, Like we tried this remember when past interference
was reviewable. But remember that one because the NFC Championship game,

(59:03):
the Saints got screwed. There was the p I call
that wasn't made. Otherwise the Saints would have gone down
and probably gone onto the Super Bowl and we would
have gotten a Drew Brees Tom Brady super Bowl. It
didn't happen. The Rams one and overtime and we got
a Rams Patriots super Bowl that was like thirteen three
or something like that, one of I think the lowest

(59:24):
scoring super Bowl of all time. We would have gotten
a Drew Brees Tom Brady super Bowl. And who knows,
had Drew Brees gotten to another Super Bowl, maybe he
wouldn't pretend to be struck by lightning via a betting
website commercial they do was filming in Venezuela a couple
of weeks ago. I mean, who knows. They could have
changed the course of history, could have changed the course
of history. Drew Brees wouldn't be coaching pre doing a

(59:45):
Bowl game right now, or pretending to be struck by
lightning in Venezuela. Drew Brees would have been talked about
is maybe a two time Super Bowl winner. But again,
that changed history. So what did the NFL do? All Right,
we're gonna make pastor fearance reviewable. And guess happened about
eight weeks into the season. It was a sham. Coaches
just stopped challenging, because what was the point that we're

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going to change the call? There was no point. So
why even go down the rabbit hole of wanting to
challenge it and hope that they because you're basically asking
these officials to admit wrong in the moment. It's not happening.
It's a judgment call. It's not happening. So there's been
some discussion we're gonna make roughing the pastor reviewable because

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of all the outrage. This is only going to happen
if there's a bad roughing the pastor call in a
playoff game that changes the outcome of a game, much
like the past interference call in the NFC title game
a couple of years ago. That's the only way this happens. Like,
if you want to see roughing the pastor reviewable, the

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only way that's going to happen is if it impacts
a major playoff impacts a playoff game in a major way.
That's it, just like the past interference in that NFC
title game. Other than that, they'll say they'll look into it,
they'll say they'll have conversations about it. It's not happening, Like,
what's the worst rule in football? The worst rule in

(01:01:12):
football is the guy fumbles the ball out of the
end zone and not only does he lose possession, you
give the other team twenty yards. So even when the
other team doesn't recover the fumble, they get the football
and twenty yards. Like, think about that doesn't even make sense,
Like that's something that should have been changed years ago.

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I remember asking Mike Prayer, I said, Mike, has he
ever talked about like, like when you guys have discussions
like his VP of officiating years ago and now is
the rules analysts for Fox, Like, do you ever like,
do you guys ever talk about that one? He goes, Yeah,
it's brought up every year. They never do anything about it.
And that's the most obvious one of ball. Never do

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anything about it. That's the one that makes no sense whatsoever.
Fumble the ball out of the end zone and the
other team gets the ball and twenty yards doesn't make sense.
That's talked about every year. They don't do anything about it.
So the idea that roughling the past or a judgment
call is gonna be the one that they're gonna look

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into this offseason. I'll believe it when I see it.
The only way that gets looked at legitimately looked at
is if there's an egregious miss in the postseason that
dictates the outcome of a game, and then they've got
no choice because of the public backlash to look into it.
That's how this works. And then what's gonna happen when

(01:02:37):
they look into it. You're gonna make it reveal. Like
I'm on record is saying, I think everything should be reviewable.
I think coaches should have the option up to a
certain number of challenges to be able to challenge anything.
You want to challenge a holding call, you want to
challenge a past interference, you want to challenge a face mask,
you name it. Coaches should have the ability to challenge everything.

(01:02:59):
You get only two challenges a game, but they should
have the ability. Oh it's gonna take too long, Get
out of here. What else you got to do? All right,
figure out a way to to speed up the process.
Put sixty seconds on the clock. A sixty seconds out
of your time isn't gonna hurt anybody. Fast track these
replays and make a decision in sixty seconds. That's what

(01:03:20):
they should do, But it's not happening. Belichick has been
on board with that for years. I think everything should
be reviewable, everything should be challengeable, but it's not. And
so when the NFL comes out and says we're gonna
definitely have conversations in the off season about roughing the
passer calls, I'll believe it when I see it. Jonas
Knocks Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, and you

(01:03:42):
can hang out with us as always on the I
Heart Radio app. All right, it's coming up next. We've
got a wild conspiracy theory in the National Football League.
Will get into that for you, but for all the
latest from around the world of sports, a wild man himself,
the one Brian Fenner. Jonas, I thought you're gonna say,
here is a walking conspiracy theory, the one Brian Fenley It. Hey,
we have a game. Is it really a game? Is

(01:04:03):
it something where we can Okay, so the game might
be over anyway. It was thirty three to nothing in
favor of the Colts going into the second half. Now
two touchdowns for the Vikings and they are still behind
now thirty six to fourteen. They're just getting this fourth
quarter underway, and it's Kirk Cousins in plus territory here,

(01:04:23):
so a chance to maybe add on to to the
point total and get it a little bit closer. Cousins
already threw a pick six in this game, and he's
got a first down into the red zone of the
Colts as we speak right now. And if somehow Minnesota
is able to pull this one off at home and
come back from this major deposit, they would clinch the
NFC North. They can also clinch it with a loss

(01:04:45):
by the Lions tomorrow, and you know lines losing that
happens from time to time. Meanwhile, quarterback Mitch Dubinski will
start Sunday's game against the Panthers. That's because Kenny Pickett
is out with a concussion. Dallas Cowboys eight time Pro
old tackle Tyron Smith is going to be making his
season debut. That would be tomorrow against the Jacksonville Jaguars.

(01:05:05):
He was taken off injured reserve. The ESPN reporting the
Broncos replacing starting defensive I'm and Draymont Jones on season
ending i R without hip injury. But good news for Denver,
they have activated outside linebacker Randy Gregory, an offensive line
and Billy Turner from i R. So they're soon to
have their services Returning college football ball games happening one

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Marquee one involving a top twenty five team, Number fourteen.
Oregon State has a seventh to nothing lead against Billy Napiers,
Florida's seven and nothing, yes, seven minutes ago in the
second quarter at the SRS Distribution, Las Vegas. But we
do know the Jonas will be on site or at
least his spirit will be on site for the Jimmy

(01:05:48):
Kimmel l a bulb presented by Stifle whatever that is
at the so Fie Stadium Washington State at Fresno States.
There was an earlier game Louisville handing it to Cincinnati
Jimmy Kimmel Bowl. Hey, Hey, by the way, what comes
in the swag bag at the Jimmy KIMMELBWL Like a
whoopee cushion and fake dog crap? Like what what do

(01:06:09):
you get? Like a bad joke book? It comes with
an awkward interview during Monday night football? Did you see that?
You remember that? I just I I listen. I don't know,
he just he seems like he cries a lot too.
I'm not into it, Like it just what he wasn't
a part of The Man Show, like he was a
part of The Man Show with Adam Corolla and some
of the stuff that was going on during that show

(01:06:31):
and some of the bits that they did. For whatever reason,
you know, that's just sort of disappeared from Jimmy Kimmel.
I don't know why. I just like, for you know,
he's completely changed his his two Let's go live or
I'd like to defend Jimmy Kimmel insideer Iowa Sam for
the latest Sam not really defending here, but I do.
Do you remember the show a Win ben Stein's Money.
That was actually a pretty entertaining show, and he was

(01:06:52):
the he was the host of that with Ben Stein.
Of course that's it. By the way, Ben Stein is
the guy who did the clear Eyes commercials yea, And
he was at Bueller Bueller yea. Was he the guy
that did the infommercials with the question marks all over
his sports jacket? Remember that guy? That's uh, that's the

(01:07:16):
that's I have to look his name up. Yeah, you
guys know what I'm talking about, right You remember that guy?
I thought that was question mark or he's selling you
government tips for like yahs and stuff. Hey what are
you talking about? And uh fendly bank roll first so
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(01:07:36):
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All right, yes, nice family Steel love them. They're great,
nice work Fly. Yes, they are a good company, so
thank you for repping them. Fly. You're great, Brian family
there they have no idea? Who say their company named
five times now family full Steve f Steful, Steeple stifle.

(01:07:57):
They they wouldn't know me from from an ant. But yeah, Fley.
By the way, it's Matthew LESCo. Just type in Matthew
Lesko you'll see the question marks suit massive phone books
of information on how to like get money from the government. Okay,
I thought it was like Andy Coconakus or something like that.
I'm not I wasn't sure Andy cocon Matthew Lesko. He

(01:08:20):
who's Andy Coconakus? That guy from you mean Andy Millanachus?
I got? Is that like I got Bruce K's on
my head? Is that like his his drug name? Andy Copanakus, Jesus,
Matthew nothing in common fainly. You're a wild man today.

(01:08:42):
You really are. Anytime around you, I feel like I
get wild. Everybody got to pay this year, so we clear.
Yeah right, there was Andy Coconakus. Oh my gosh. I'll
leave you with this twenty four to seven Louisville overs today.
That was the was Sambie Fenway Bowl and ar Jordan's

(01:09:04):
had one fifteen yards rushing in those two scores. Jonases,
I send it back to you in all seriousness. I
think you could do some stand up comedy. I really do,
and I mean that. I know that we joke around here,
but I'm actually being honest and straightforward with you and
saying that I think you could really pull off a
career there. I just if I gotta force it, I

(01:09:24):
can't do. I know Rob Parker did it, and like
Rob Parker actually did really well, but I just I
don't know if I could write it because it would
just feel too choreographed. I don't know, just I feel
awkward doing that stuff because I'm just I'm just trying
to hang out and figure out who Andy Coconakus is family,
Like that's that's the goal of this show here, So
we will. I can't wait to put that in the
tweet when I sent the show out, Andy Coconakus. That's

(01:09:50):
like when Mike North I was trying to say David
Gascon's name on the air and he called him David
gag On, which lived on in empathy and David Gascon
try to get it deleted from the system. And you
know what we did. We went back to podcasts and
pulled it out and then put it back in there.
He deleted it from this for the entire system, but

(01:10:12):
we had to go back and like like basically dig
up the dead body that was that drop could have
it at the network. So good, all right, Jonas Knocks
Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at the Jonas
Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. All right. So
the Vikings again have cut the lead to thirty one.

(01:10:32):
So uh, I mean, listen, listen, starting to make a
little bit interesting. Justin Jefferson on the touchdown catch and
it's thirty colts over the Vikings, twelve minutes forty nine
seconds left to go in the game there. So we
will keep you up to speed on that as to
how it progresses throughout the course of the show and beyond.
By the way, we're gonna have the scraps coming up
here in about ten minutes from now on fs are.

(01:10:53):
But let's get into this. There's a conspiracy theory that's
making the rounds that's really interesting. So you remember that
story at of Mexico a few weeks ago, the story
out of Mexico where Sean Coogler, the Cardinals offensive line coach,
he got fired. He was sent home before their Monday

(01:11:14):
night game against the Niners, and he got fired because
there was some sort of an issue that popped up.
Apparently he had groped a woman or something like that
and she had gotten upset by it, and he was
out of line and and so the Cardinals had a
conversation and sent him home Sunday morning, and and he

(01:11:35):
was fired and he lost his job and all that.
So well, apparently Sean Coogler is back, uh, And he's
back because he's filed an arbitration lawsuit against the Arizona
Cardinals and he's hired a law firm and they're saying

(01:11:55):
that there was a potential mistaken identity as the reason
why Coogler was accused of what happened in Mexico and
why he was sent home, So they're saying that he
was there was a mistaken identity. And so it's interesting
because this was filed this arbitration claim on the same

(01:12:19):
day that GM Steve Kim of the Cardinals took a
leave of absence. And you're probably wondering, well, what do
those two things have to do with each other, because
Steve Kim there was reportedly health related reasons behind it. Well,
Doug Samuels of Football scoop dot Com kind of little

(01:12:41):
did a little bit of a deep dive here, and
he's saying, what if the reason Steve Kim took a
leave of absence is because maybe this mistaken identity happened
to be Steve Kim himself. And if you do a
side by side picture between Sean Coogler and Steve Kim,

(01:13:05):
not that far off. And so the speculation in the
conspiracy theory, and this isn't just some you know, crackpot
guy throwing this stuff out there and he's got a
tinfoil hat on and he's a flat Earth and all this.
He's simply just looking around saying the timing of it
is a little bit odd. Ian Rappaport of the NFL

(01:13:25):
Network I mean he first of all, conspiracy music has
to be unsolved mysteries. It cannot be the X files
to stake bad style, It's got to be unsolved mysteries.
That's the real conspiracy music on this show. Yes, thank you,
that is conspiracy theory music. But football scoop dot com
is saying, look, it's kind of odd arbitration claim comes

(01:13:49):
out that there's a mistaken identity on the same day
that all of a sudden, Steve come takes a leave
of absence. Coincidence maybe not. Ian rapp Aboard of the
NFL Network kind of you know, tweeted out a little
bit something pointing towards the article as well to not
saying that the article is factual, just simply noting that

(01:14:13):
he is aware of this article and this conspiracy theory
that is out there. So I don't know that I
believe it. It seems pretty far fetched. And the idea
that they mistakenly identified the offensive line coach with their
general manager and they sent the wrong guy home and
then it I'm not saying I believe it, but at

(01:14:34):
least that's the speculation that's out there, so it's something
to keep an eye on it. Is a wild conspiracy
theory that has been thrown out there, and we'll see
how things developed there with the Arizona Cardinals. Jonas Knocks
Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the Jonas
Knocks at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. Coming up next,
We're gonna put a bow on this bad boy. It's
the scraps that it's yours right here on fs ARE.

(01:14:55):
I got a thing about dead bodies, David Gag Jonas Knocks,
Fox Sports Radio. If you missed any of this show,
you can check out the podcast. It'll be up shortly
after we go off the air. I'll tweet out a
link to that as well to make sure you stick around.
In a little over ten minutes from now, it's Steve
Hartman and E from Salam They will have the conclusion

(01:15:16):
of this Vikings Colts game where Minnesota is trying to
make it close, but Kirk Cousins has just been picked off.
He went deep picked off at about the two yard
line by the Indianapolis Colts after they got to stop
things where they had a bunch of momentum. The Indianapolis
Colts have been running away with this game, but Minnesota
is starting to starting to fire off and next thing

(01:15:37):
you know, it's thirte with momentum and Kirk Cousins throws
a pick. So they'll keep you up to speed and
have the conclusion of that game coming up here from
the entire act dot Com studios. But right now it
is time for something we do to put a bowl
on this show. Every single week it is called this Jonas,
how could you not get to these stories? See are

(01:16:00):
the scraps? And for that we turn it over to
our executive producer, Danny g to find out what the
hell is going on? D Well listening to you, Jonas,
we all know that you're a little bitter towards the
World Cup in soccer right now for good reason. Right,
and gave a shout out to Steve Disagar last weekend,
Steve the screw job to Sager. Yeah, there was a

(01:16:21):
soccer pool and Jonas didn't affair very well, So I'm
surprised you missed this headline. Australian A League Melbourne derby
abandoned after violent pitch invasion. What Yeah. The Melbourne victory
team said that it's devastated. They issued a formal apology
after their fans forced the abandonment of a clash with

(01:16:42):
local rivals Melbourne City. They staged a violent pitch invasion
and Football Australia that's their version of soccer. They've promised
that it's gonna lead to strong sanctions. Fans ignited flares
and threw small fireworks onto the field. The missiles hurled
in the twentieth minute kick started a spiraling series of

(01:17:05):
events that saw the City goalkeeper Tom Glover get hit
in the head with a bucket. He was He was
swiftly taken off the pitch with blood pouring down his head,
and as fans converged onto the field, another guy, a
ref this time had a cash he was bleeding from

(01:17:27):
the head, also hit by a bucket. I mean, you
know this, here's what's funny about this, all right. First
of all, violence of games not okay, But whenever I
see these brawls at games out here here in the States,
like there was a fight at a Bruins game where
a guy got his fingertip bitten off recently, and when

(01:17:47):
people like take videos of these fights, whether it be
a Dodger stadium or you know, there there's some you know,
there's there was a Raiders game there was a fight.
Whether I'll see these brawls at the game of Steelers game,
there was a fight there. I go, that's a fight.
This is really a fight. They're throwing buckets at players
and shooting off flare guns at soccer games. There's a

(01:18:09):
clear difference between a fight out here and in a
fight in Australia and some of these soccer events that
go on. By the way, these metal buckets were filled
with sand designed to extinguish flares early on the field,
so they were metal. They were metal buckets too, so
not like one of those like like plastic buckets you
get like a CBS to go trick or treating. We're

(01:18:31):
talking like metal buckets with sand. Oh my god, thank you.
And that was Elvis Presley U our official for the show. Alright.
Finally the headline squirrel hides out in North Carolina family's
Christmas tree. A North Carolina family shared video from an

(01:18:53):
unusual visitor. He got into the house through some damaged
roof piece of roof tile, they ad and the dog
chased them. Says that he ran into their Christmas tree
and hung out there for an entire day, hiding in
the tree. They shared this on Facebook, which obviously blew
up when viral commenters online say the video gives them

(01:19:15):
memories of the famous Christmas tree squirrel from National Christmas Vacation.
I was just thinking about that. So it crawled into
the tree. Now did it ever come out? Ever? They
finally were able to get it out. Here's how they
did it. The mom used a dust mop to give
the squirrel an extra push out of the tree finally,
and it ran out their window and returned to the wild.

(01:19:37):
How do you feel about squirrels? As the author of
the successful animal thunder Dumb, how do you feel about squirrels?
Because I got a very controversial take. I think there
are rats with better tails. I think they're disgusting, but
they look better than rats, so they get a free pass.
You know what I mean? Like rats are bald, because

(01:19:58):
squirrels have better hair, they get a free pass. I
think they're foul animals and they deserve to be extinguished.
Jonas the son of a Bit

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