Jonas Knox talks Tua's injury and rings in the New Year!

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seen this number being thrown out there that David Blow

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becomes the sixty four starting quarterback in the NFL this year. Right,
So I'm not great at math? Right? In fact, I
think that's part of the reason why I'm such a
horrendous gambler, because I'm not great at math. But I
would think that with thirty two NFL teams and sixty
four different starting quarterbacks on average, that means that each

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team started two quarterbacks this year on average. Okay, And
it just goes to show you that there's a simple
reality to the world of football that for some reason
people have forgotten this year. It's kind of violent. People
get hit, and bad things happen from time to time.

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Believe it or not, in the world of football, injuries happen,
bad stuff occurs. I know that's a stunning development for
a lot of people out there. I know that's a shocker.
Everybody wanted to safety the game up as much as possible.
You wanted to dump it down as much as possible.
There's a simple truth. It's a violent game. So when

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you see those numbers and how many different starting quarterbacks
have been and I'm not saying all of those are
because there's injuries. I mean, for example, in Las Vegas,
clearly not because of an injury. I just don't think
Derek Carr cried enough. To be honest with you, he
missed his cry quota and that's on him. And now
he went home and he left the team and they're
starting Jared Stidham. But we're not here to make jokes

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and bus balls. Here trying to do a serious sports
stock radio show. I'm just saying, when you see these
numbers that are out there, all this does to me
is show that the outrage and the pushback that the
Miami Dolphins got when to a tug of byloa suffered

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the head injury and went back into the game, and
everybody complained and everybody criticized the tactics and the methods
of the Miami Dolphins. Where's their hard at? Why aren't
they caring more about the player? Why aren't the Dolphins
doing this? You remember that whole thing. Remember they fired
an independent neurologists like that guy lost his job because

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somebody had to be held accountable. Yeah, you fast forward
all these weeks later and guess what, two has got
another concussion and guess what, he's still finished the game.
But you've got the NFL p A that comes out
and says, well, we're gonna investigate it. What are you
gonna do? It goes back to my point when this

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all happened. If the player on the field isn't being
upfront about what the injury is and he's not telling
you the truth, whose fault is that? Come on you
and I am in an honest conversation here. Ever lie
to your doctor before to kind of make things easier.

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Ever lie to your dentist. You want to know how
I know you've lied to your dentist. You keep san
back the appointment to clean your teeth. It's okay, you
know there's problems there. You don't want your mouth drilled
and sodden havel. I get it. Smells like a horror movie.

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Looks like a horror movie. At times. They're telling you
to spit in a little cup in front of you.
Half your faces numb, it's spraying everywhere like some broken
fountain at sea World. I get it. But sometimes you
don't tell the truth. So if all of a sudden
you go into the dentist finally and he says, hey,

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we got problems here, we gotta remove stuff, we gotta
take stuff out. It's gonna cost you thousands of dollars.
You got issues. Is that your dentist's fault for not
recognizing that or is that your fault for not flagging
him down and saying, hey, I got a problem here,
that's on me, Like to a tog of by Low
and some of these players, they don't they don't want

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to leave the game. Especially in to his case. People
forget this is somebody that dealt with injuries in college.
And I'm not talking about the last injury. I'm talking
about he had two surgeries on his ankles. He was
banged up going into that game against Mississippi State. I
think he goes down with the hip injury, and there

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was a lot of people out there that said, I
remember being on the air with Bucky Brooks when that
injury happened, and Bucky and I watched it during a
break and we looked at each other and said, oh boy,
there was a thought by a lot of people that
he was never gonna play again, that that was a
career ending type injury. So he finally gets back, he

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finally gets an opportunity to start in Miami. He gets
drafted in the top five anyways, based on his talent
and how how much people love the guy as a
leader and his accuracy, and he's got a coach who
throws him under the bus, doesn't let him finish games,
and Brian flores. So he finally gets an opportunity with

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a coaching staff that rallies around him, builds around him,
adds pieces around him. He goes out there and he's
playing well, and then he gets dinged. You think that
guy wants to come out like you think that guy
wants to just go ahead and sit on the sideline
and say, hey that guys, I don't feel well. Can
I sit this one out? Finally gets an opportunity, probably

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the best he's felt physically in years, because he's a
little bit further removed from the issues. He added, Alabama
gets an opportunity, gets dinged, and then gets dinged again,
and because the optics look bad, we gotta fire an
independent neurologist, and we gotta blame the Miami Dolphins. Dude.
Some players understand, and I got news for you of them,

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except the risks. They know what's involved. They understand, Hey,
this is a problem. But you know what, I love
the sport. I understand the physicality, and I understand what
comes along with it. Ask any former NFL player. I
work with two of them every week, LaVar Arrington and
Brady Quinn. Both have dealt with major injuries and still

(07:13):
feel the effects of some of those injuries. This show
you here every Saturday. Plexico Burris dealt with injuries. T
J Houshmnzada dealt with injuries. Ask any one of those guys, Hey,
if you could do it all over again, would would
you say? No? They look at you like you were crazy.
Of course I do it all over again. What do

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you mean? So when you see the pushback at all
the outrage and the fake takes and people that want
to that want to use it to act like they
all of a sudden they want to they want to
tell everybody they care about player safety, they care about
player safety. Meanwhile, they're the same people that bitch and
moment because they're starting player didn't start on their fantasy
team this week, like Derrick Henry, Like Tennessee is trying

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to save Derrick Henry because of all the wear and tear.
How many of those people out there that we're complaining
about the handling of two US concussion situation or some
of the safety of other players, we're sitting there bitching
and moaning because Derrick Henry wasn't out there, But they're
the same people weeks ago that we're like, oh, we
gotta do something more for the players. Stop. Everybody understands

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the risk. You know what's involved when you get into
this stuff, So cut the crap. So when you see
the number that comes out that sixty four different starting
quarterbacks are gonna take the field this year and we're
not even done with the season, it just goes to
show you there's a reality to all this, whether you
want to like it or not, whether it's an ugly

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thing to say, players get hurt, people get dinged up.
The numbers say so, And I got news for you
with the money that's being filtered in and how much
people are spending on TV contracts and YouTube's getting Sunday
ticket etcetera, etcetera, and ain't gonna stop anytime soon. You
think there's not gonna be extra games added on to

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the regular season at some point? Are you nuts? You
don't think there's gonna be another team added on to
the playoffs? You think you think we're gonna stay in
the seven team playoff format? You really think so? You
don't think you don't think the NFL is looking around,
going how can we add more teams. I mean, come on, man,

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you like use the bare eyes. It's obvious this is
the way the league is headed. And when you see
the injuries and when you see sixty four different starting quarterbacks,
all the guys on I are players being brought back, surgeries, etcetera, concussions,
you name it, all of that stuff. That's just the
reality of the sport. Jonas knocks here on Up on

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(11:58):
gonna see a little test here, all right, because I'm
going to, uh, I'm gonna call some people out because
I have my serious doubts. Because there's a lot like
a lot of people out there say that they're fans, like, oh,
I'm a die hard fan, die hard fan. I'm a
die hard fan. You know, love my team right and
die with my team. Okay, we're gonna put you to
the test. We're gonna put you to the test. We'll
get to that coming up here in a little over

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ten minutes from now on fs are. So you're looking
at college football and the big extravagance that coming up
later on today, which is the College Football Playoff. It's
finally here, all that build up, all that momentum. You've
got TCU in Michigan at four eastern time. At eight
eastern time, you've got George Ohio State. The prevailing wisdom

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is that George is gonna win, Michigan's gonna win, and
we're gonna get a rematch of last year's semi final game.
We're gonna get that in the College Football champion National
Championship game. And there's all all this stuff that's happening.
And look, I actually think both games are gonna be
a lot better than people anticipate. I have a rooting interest,
not that I prefer a team one team over the other.

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I prefer a matchup over another in a national championship.
But I'll get to that coming up later on. But
when you're watching the college Football Playoff, I just I
want to warn you what's going to happen, because I'm
telling you right now this is how this is going
to go down. And I'm gonna call my shot and
you're gonna be thinking about this when you see somebody

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say this stuff, or you might say it yourself, and
I just want you to know you heard it here. First,
you're gonna get people if either of these games is
a blowout, which happens from time to time, because there's
usually three teams you look at going okay, I can
see either one of those winning, and then there's a
fourth team that you go, okay, that's the long shot.

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They're here. Congratulations, that's a long shot, which would be TCU.
In this case, you're going to see people if there's
a blowout in either one of these games. Later on
are going to say, you see, this is why we
shouldn't expand the college football playoff. Yes, like this is

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the exact reason. They're proving us right. There's not there's
not even four good enough teams, so we're gonna add
on another eight. This is the problem. But college football
is greedy, Okay, a couple of things. Everybody's greedy. If
there's a chance to make a little bit more money,
you're probably gonna do it. Like ever pick up an

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extra shift at work, ever find you know, uh, you know,
five dollars laying on the ground and pick it up
and go, oh, I hope nobody saw me. Everybody's greedy.
So the idea that that all of a sudden, you're
looking at at at the college football playoff and you're

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looking at these games and if one of them is
a blowout, that all of a sudden is an indicator,
and all of a sudden is proof that we don't
need all all it's football playoff expansion is crazy because
you're having a you're having the wrong argument when it
comes to all this stuff, like, don't base how you

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feel about the college football playoff expansion on the college
football playoff as it's presently presented to you, because that's
not the point. Focus on the other games that would
be included, the five verse, the twelve, the six verse, eleven,
so on and so forth. And nobody wants to do that.

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They want to look at these this small sample size
and say this is why you shouldn't expand it based
on the performance of these four teams. That's not the point.
It's about the other teams involved. Have you not seen
some of the games this week in college football, some
of these bowl games, And I'm not saying all of
these teams are teams that would be included in the

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college football playoff expansion. But when you look at some
of the games we've gotten this week, they've been fantastic.
This is the week where I felt like, Okay, college
football bull seasons here. No disrespect to the previous bowls
that took place in the previous weeks. No disrespect because
I still I love bowl games. I love watching them,

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the middle of the week bowl games, the Bahamas Bowl
that starts at like four in the morning or whatever
it is. I love all that stuff. It's fun, it's fun,
and for a lot of those guys it's their last
opportunity to play. It's great, and it's fun for the
fan bases, and you can turn it into a vacation
and you can go. It's like you saw Toledo fans.

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They were they were they were in in Florida at
a bowl game, and you saw Toledo fans hanging out
at this game and they're just in T shirts and
they're dousing themselves in beer and they're just kind of
they're having the time of their lives. I can't get
enough of it. Like, hey, we're in Boca, We're at

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the Book of her Own Bowl. Yeah, we're playing Liberty.
We're not winning a national championship. But you know what
we got out of the cold. We went to Florida.
We got to see our team play. They had a blast.
It's fun. I love bowl games, it's great. But when
you watch the games that we've gotten this week, tell
me these haven't been barn burners. Like that Arkansas Kansas

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game that went into overtime, the Holiday Bowl between Oregon
and North Carolina, the game last night between South Carolina
and and Notre Dame, like just some of these games
that we've seen this week. This is why the college
Football Playoff is gonna work. The Sun Bowl yesterday, pitt

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in U c l A. None of those teams that
I've mentioned have a chance at winning a national championship.
None of them. And all of those performances were in
bowl games in which you could argue not a whole
lot to play for. What do you really get some swag?
You get a swag bag. I think you get it regardless,
Like if you if you're at the Sun Bowl, the

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Tony the Tiger sun Bowl, what are you get in
your swag bag? Like some frosted flakes and like uh,
tanning lotion, Like what do you get? Seriously, like if
you're at the Sun Bowl, Like, what do you actually get?
I'd love to know what the swag bag isn't at

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the Sun Bowl. I'd love to know. Like, these guys
aren't playing for anything, they're not playing for a national championship,
but that game was fantastic. Like I mean, you get
like some some El el Paso, like I think they
have El Paso salsa or something like that, like whatever,
whatever the case may be. But these games have been fantastic.

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And that is why the college Football Playoff expansion works
because don't focus on these four on the top four
teams in these two games coming up. Focus on games
like we saw yesterday, games that we've seen this week.
That's how you base the excitement level and the success
on it. When you talk about and I've said this before,
when you talk about the n c A tournament, nobody

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judges how exciting the n c A Tournament is based
on how good the final four games are. Nobody cares.
It's about the opening round matchups, and most of those
involve some nine verses eight seeds that have no chance
at winning a national championship. They're not cutting the nets
down at the end of this whole thing. But that's

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how we base our excitement level on all this for
for all the people that are gonna look at this.
If if one of these games is a blowout and say, well,
that's exactly why we shouldn't expand the playoff, stop, you're
having the wrong conversation. It's not about one through four,
it's about five through twelve. And I can almost guarantee
you just based on the games we've seen this week

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and how good those have been. And those are teams
that aren't playing for a damn thing and may not
even be in this five through twelve format when it expands.
Most of them won't be. But based on what we've seen,
it's gonna be fantastic when it gets here. And by
the way, you're gonna watch, don't pretend like you're not
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(21:21):
That was great. You you just forgot one elements. God,
you are unbelievable. Isaac's the guy who if you give
him a Hunter bucks, he bitches because it's all twenties. Um, Like,
I literally just ball wash you like you've never been
ball washed before. And you're sitting here and you're gonna
complain about it. Go ahead, what I do wrong this time?
How am I supposed to tip with with only twenties

(21:43):
for a haircut? Figure it out right? It's a holidays,
all right, because it's the holidays. I'll let it slide
that you forgot the traditional round of applause. What do
you mean I can't? I mean it it would sound
bad on air, like it's better in person. That is,

(22:04):
you know, it's actually a pleasant surprise that you're in today.
I didn't know. It's been too long. How about that?
Has how you been? Of course I did just see
you yesterday, Yeah you did. You were insulting yesterday as
well too. Oh yeah, if I knew you were gonna
be in today, I would have brought in cheese. It's cheese.
I mean it's a great cracker. I look best cracker
pound for pound of all times. You know, you're a fan.

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You're a fan of someone's work for a long time,
both on the air and off the air, and then
it hits you like a sledgehammer that they're into cheese.
It's instead of cheetos. I mean, look, for first of all,
it's not even compared. It's not even comparable. The idea
that you think cheetos are better than cheese. It's is
just revolting, like there's nothing about like, like, look at

(22:48):
your hands after you eat a bag of cheetos. I
have a hack for that, you eat cheetos with chopsticks.
Problems solved, You're welcome. That seems like a problem in itself.
Next time you have a cheese at party, look at
the Look at the ingredients on the box and see
how far down the list anything is that has to
do with cheese. But that's not the point. Look, football's football,

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you don't I mean, you're not playing with somebody's foot.
You're playing with the ball, you know what I mean. Like, listen,
if you want to play actual football, you gotta go
in Dahmer's freezer. Retty beautiful feet took a dark turn.
I'm saying a lot of stuff that doesn't you know,

(23:32):
it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Like basketball,
where's the basket, Well, it used to be any more.
It's it's a rim with a net. It's not anymore.
Like goodbine, this stuff makes sense, you know. I gotta
admit I can't argue with that sort of logic that
you brought to this debate. Listen, it's this hard hitting

(23:53):
logic that's got me where I'm at. By the way,
I apologize to our listeners out there who want to
know what's happening in the Sugar Bowl. But Jonas and
I have a lot of time for on air Grabhouse
to make up for because it it has been a
man of your right. Yeah, it's um. I mean I
was a little insulted that you said, and I quote,
I heard it from authorities here at Fox Sports Radio.

(24:14):
They said, hey, Isaac, you want to continue working with
Jonas and you're like, no, and I quote, I prefer
people that actually played, which was which I thought was rude.
But again I'm not here to judge. Well, my aim
was for you to not be a little insulted. It
was for you to be a lot insulted so I
couldn't have to go back to Okay, good. I mean,

(24:34):
I think you're discrediting my my high school career. Yeah, well,
I'm sure if you had a very fine Uh I wasn't.
It was terrible career. Yeah, I was terrible. It's your
high school gets accredited. Yeah, okay, listen. Uh they didn't
actually have a bad season this year. My nephew was
on that team. They got screwed. The c i F
screwed it, but I think the cf C i F

(24:57):
also were they were they respawned stable for the Holiday
Bowl Turf Or was that Petros Papadakis who was making
an erroneous allegation. Again, I don't know, because I don't
know where they played the c i F Championships down
in San Diego. I know where they play them here
in Los Angeles and in Orange County. However, interesting the

(25:19):
conditions at the Holiday Bowl at Peco was so bad.
They were so bad, and and I think Petros throughout
and it could have been just a direct shot at
the c i F and just said, uh, well, we
know who's responsible for these field conditions. So yeah, I'm
not quite sure. Okay, well I'll figure it out. I'll look,
I'll look a look into that. To you. Among the

(25:40):
bowls that are going on right now, the field conditions
have look pretty good right now at the Sugar Bowl,
where number five Alabama trails ninth rank Kansas State three
nothing six seventeen left to play in the first quarter
as Kansas State got on the board with a field goal.
Right now Alabama has a third down and four from
its thirty one yard line. And Nashville at the Music

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City Bowl, Kentucky and Iowa scoreless to fifty nine left
to play in the first quarter, Kentucky be getting a
drive at its to yard line. The College football Playoff
semifinals kicking off at four pm Eastern with the Fiesta
Bowl Number two Michigan against third ranked TCU. Then at
tonight at eight Eastern, Number one Georgia against fourth ranked
Ohio State in the Peach Bowl. Uh, Jonas, you were

(26:22):
talking about the tow a tongue of La situation earlier,
where we have some fresh news on that. A joint
investigation by the NFL and the NFL Players Association concluded
that there were no concussion protocol violations in the handling
of the concussion the tongue of volas suffered most recently
last week against the Green Bay Packers. Also today, the
Indianapolis Colts placed defensive end unique In Gockway on season

(26:44):
ending injury reserve because of a throat injury that he
suffered in last week's game against the Chargers. That's gonna
need surgery. And finally, Jonas, we do have a Tony
the Tiger Sun Bowl swag bag update just for you ready,
all right now, this is actually for last year's Sun Bowl.

(27:06):
It was Washington State against Miami then. But among the
items in the swag bag. A Majestic Pro Base fleece
pull over. It's unclear whether Majestic is the brand or
whether the pullover is so impressive that it's just Majestic period. Yes,
a quarters, if a half sip or just to pull over.

(27:28):
It just said pro base fleece pull over. No additional
details were available. A Timely Watch. No word yet on
whether Timely is the brand or whether it's Timely because
it keeps you on time. And Oggio Excelsior backpack. Not
sure I'm pronouncing that right, A cap of unnamed detail,

(27:51):
a souvenir coin and just like you predicted, boxes of
frosted flakes they go. See. I mean, everybody's a winner.
Come on, you want you want breakfast, you want to
know what time it is? You want to we we
have we have the every food group represented there, Isaac.

(28:13):
We have the Jimmy Kimmel bowl right in the hypothetical,
well not hypothetical. Five years from now, I promise you
you'll be so big that if you want, if you
so choose, there will be a Jonas Knox Bowl. What
would be in the swag bag for the Jonas Knox Bowl? Um?
Can I can? I think on that. It's your show. Okay,

(28:37):
all right, so let me think about that. What would
I give out a swag bag? Okay, that's a good question.
So we'll get to that here coming up. By the way,
in the Jimmy Kimmel swag bag for his Bowl game,
I hear you get a bad Joke book. That's what
I hear. Oh my god, I'm just saying. I'm just
saying to get a copy. He's probably he's probably a
fan of yours and you and you and you do

(28:57):
him like that on the holidays. Well, Mr Kimmel, you're
not funny. So I just just want to be clear
on that. By the way, this a disgrace that he
gets one, but Adam Carolla does it, but slag bag it.
Last year's give Jimmy Kimmel Bowl included quote a water bottle.

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But there's a shocker. Unbelievable. All right. So there. We
will keep you updated on swag bags throughout the course
of the show. This is the hard hitting content people
have been looking for. By the way, we are gonna
have another edition of Do You Care coming up here
at about ten minutes from now. It's a special edition
of Do You Care? If you've never heard it before,
stick around for that and to be yours here ten
minutes from now. Um, how well do you know your team?

(29:41):
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people out there that claim to be fans. They're a
die hard fan of their team, they support their team,
they're a writer or die with their team. So let's
go ahead and test it out. Iowa Sam, who is
our technical producer, and Iowa Sam who is the die

(30:23):
hard Iowa Hawkeye fan. He is the Iowa Hawkeye fan
you turn to when you want truth, honesty, and loyalty
to a program. So, Iowa Sam, I would ask you
this knowing the offense that Iowa has rolled out all
season long. How do you feel about the live bet

(30:45):
that is currently available if you're interested in Iowa to
score over thirteen and a half points in this game,
how do you feel about it? Do I like Iowa
to score more than thirteen in this game? Is that's what?
That's what you're asked? Yes, I would say take it.
I'd so there it is so somebody, So somebody has

(31:08):
some faith in the Iowa offense that is struggled in
this bowl game against Kentucky. So there's a little piece
of advice for you if you're interested that way. I
don't get blamed for some of the bad picks that
are handed out on this show. Okay, like I give
out bad picks all the time. I get mocked, ridicule
to my ball's broken for it. So therefore, if that
pick does not turn out to be true, you know

(31:30):
who to blame. But that's an indicator how well do
you trust your team? How supportive are you of your team?
Even in a bowl game like this with an offense
that struggled all season long. We like Iowa over the
thirteen points that is available to you. If you are
a degenera gambler who want to get one last bed
in before the end of the year. All Right, Jonas
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(31:50):
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(32:10):
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(32:31):
will get into that for you coming up here. Very
interesting stuff is the final couple of weeks of the
season are upon us, so we'll have that for you
here again top of next hour on fs ARE. By
the way, if you are wondering how Alabama's performing in
their bowl game now that they're not competing for a
national Championship. They are downten nothing to Kansas State. So
they are trailing Kansas State, but they do have the

(32:52):
football inside the ten yard line. Bryce Young looking to
score for Alabama. Get him on the board here and
he is. That's a touchdown pass for Bryce Young. And
right as we say that, Alabama is scored. And there's
a lot of hot takes that just went up and
smoke on the on on Twitter and beyond. So there's that.

(33:12):
That is the from the Sugar Bowl there, Alabama and
Kansas State. Um. All right. By the way, some guy
writes in you sound like a colossal douche. That's fair.
You can get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks
at the Jonas Knocks. Right now, it's time for this.

(33:36):
There's 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 turn it over to
the executive producer, Ryan Burr Shinger, who by the way,

(33:56):
is put together normally, will do a do you Care
in which we're gonna like basis on things that have
happened in the past few days, but we've put in
a best of a year in review? Do you care
here on the show to get to the truth, to
tell you the truth about some of these major topics
from the past twelve months of Birch. What do we got?
That's right. We'll start off with the of Aaron Rodgers,

(34:16):
who of course put the Packers through the ring or
throughout the off season. Then he signed an extension, then
he admitted to ayahuasca use, went on a wacky two
week therapeutic vomiting cleans and now they're just outside of
the playoff picture Jonas, do you care? I do? I
think this is fascinating. I don't like a vomiting cleanse.
So is that like? What was? I still am confused

(34:38):
on that. So he was like making himself throw up? Yes? Yes,
isn't there like a word for that which means somebody's
got problems? Yeah? Literally almost threw up. Thank you, coach.
By the way, Coach Petito, when was that was that
before or after that ins it in at the Italian restaurant?

(35:01):
Just curious, good have Rick Pettino with us here. By
the way, was that Rick Pettino I want to be
clear on that. Sam was that Rick Pettino that joined us. Okay,
thank you. That's how long Sam and I have worked together.
That he plays a drop like that and I know
immediately who it is. We got issues, all right. Next,
Aaron Judge and his sixty two home runs turned into
a debate of whether or not he is now the

(35:22):
new true single season home run king. Jonas, do you care? No,
I don't like. This is such a dumb story. Like
it's so dumb, like we're just gonna pretend like we
didn't see Barry Bonds and all all those baseballs. We're
gonna pretend like, oh, well, Aaron Judge was the American
League home run king. It's like, okay, alright, well yeah,
but Barry Bonds cheated. Okay, well cool, I know what

(35:45):
I saw, man, Like, I don't know what to tell
you like that, the idea that that all of a sudden,
we're gonna rewrite history. This is my problem with baseball.
They want to rewrite history while in real time they
were the one pushing it as historic like and knowing
what was going on. But there anybody that says they
didn't know what was going on. They didn't know that

(36:06):
so so was on the gas, or McGuire was on
the gas, or Barry Bonds might have been on the gas.
Like anybody that says they didn't know that. Like look
at Barry Bonds his head, like it looked like one
of those clown mouths you shoot a water gun at
at the carnival, Like you think it's just that just happens.
The guy's head just grows alright, like come on, man,

(36:26):
like everybody knew what was going on. Look at his
numbers they went through the roof. I do you tell me, sir,
But like the idea that like nobody knew what was
going on and so all you know. Like, but now
we've got to go back a time and Aaron Judge
is the real home run king. It's like okay, dude,
like whatever, like do whatever you need to do to

(36:47):
sell your product. And by the way, the guy who
had the home run ball, like he he was supposed
to get three million dollars, he put it up for
auction got a million and a half. I mean, come on, please, Next,
the Live Golf Tour spun off from the pg A
Tour and through tons of money at major stars. Jonas
do you care? Yes, this is great? You know, enough
of enough of the Like I love the idea of

(37:10):
people on the PGA tour being critical of where the
money comes from with live that's dirty money. Oh that's
dirty money. Heyah, didn't Nike sponsor you? Just curious, just
just wanting to be seen any of those videos that
have come out, like how that stuff gets made, Like
I get news for you, like if you want to

(37:31):
trace money back anywhere, Like, look, I'm looking right now,
I've got a single dollar bill on me. I'm looking
at the single dollar bill. I have no idea whether
that came from the liquor store down the street, the
bank across the street, or whether or not it came
from the medine cartel in Columbia. I have no idea,

(37:51):
no clue, and neither do you. Just stop getting hung
up on it. Next uh, the drama of the Lakers
throughout the season. Of course they had their shoes with
Russell Westbrook, and of course they struggled on the court. Jonas,
do you care? Nope, I'm so fed up with this crap.
And now it's and now that we've now moved the goalpost,

(38:13):
it's no longer about God. Can this team compete for
a championship? Now? It's like, can Anthony Davis have more
than a ten game stretch? Can Russell Wilson win six
Man of the Year off the bench for for the
l A Lakers? And can Lebron James continue his incredible
pace at the age that he's at. Because it's Lebron's
birthday last night, so everybody's got a ball washerman, blow

(38:33):
out a candle for him. Next. Uh, the Winter Olympics
happened this year? Jonas, do you care? Uh? Did the
Winter Olympics really happened this year? Did it really? Yea?
I swear to god I didn't. I don't remember the
Winter Olympics happening this year. There's somebody who's got a

(38:58):
gold medal mounted somewhere in their house from the Winter
Olympics that's probably driving arout of their car and going,
hey man, I'm a gold medalist. And there's people that
don't even recall it happened. I have no idea. I
completely forgot that the Winter Olympics happened when I mean,
I know in the winter, but we're like, when where

(39:18):
was it at? Where was the Winter Olympics? Next? Elon
Musk took over Twitter. Jonas, do you care? Absolutely? This
is just tremendous just to see how many people are
so worked up over Elon Musk taking over Twitter, blue
check marks, monthly fees, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. It's not real.

(39:44):
Twitter's fake. It's an app, and if you're getting worked
up about it, you are a loser. Happy New Year.
Interesting rumblings about a potential move in the off season,
We'll get into that for you coming up in the
NFL here in just a couple of moments from now.
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interesting rumblings from around the world of sports, most notably
in the NFL, because you got you got some some
scenarios that are playing out here, some stuff that's happening.
So instead of just looking at what we got in

(40:49):
the NFL this weekend, instead of just looking at where
we are when it comes to players and who's going
to be participating and playoff spots and jocking for position
in and draft picks and so on and so forth,
instead of just doing that, we got to turn it
into a long term view as to what's going to happen,
right like, like that's where we're at now. It's now

(41:11):
a long term view. So for example, Lamar Jackson is
now out for the Baltimore Ravens. He will not be
participating in their game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And by
the way, let me just say before we finish on
the Lamar Jackson stuff, is it me or does that
game just not feel like the way that it feel

(41:33):
felt years ago? Like there was something about Steelers Ravens
years ago, and I don't know what it is. I
don't think it's because they're maybe they're not as good
as they used to look. Baltimore is going to the playoffs.
I mean, Pittsburgh's got an outside chance. But Pittsburgh's not
a bad football team. Their game under five hundred. They're
trying to race and keep Mike Tomlins above five hundred

(41:56):
for his entire career and never have a losing season
Street going. So it's not like they're bad football teams.
But there's just something about it. It doesn't feel the same.
It's almost like the Steelers and the Ravens and the
a f C North is not meant for today's social
climate when it comes to outrage over violence in football,

(42:17):
because there was some Steelers Ravens games I can recall
back in the day that were uncomfortable at times to watch.
It was just, I mean uncomfortable, but in an awesome
way that you could call me a savage and say, well,
you're a meat head and you just want violence now. Man.
I just admire people who can do stuff that I

(42:37):
have no chance of ever doing. I'm sorry, Like they
throw on a Beethoven video, love to watch them because
I have no I I can't imagine being that good
at something like you just like how the a f c.
North used to be like I I can remember the
Monday Night game. The Monday Night game is my mic

(42:57):
just fell out, by the way, the Monday Night game
between the Bengals and the Steelers years ago, and this
is when John Gruden and Sean mcdonneh were calling the game,
and it one it was so physical and so violent.
That was the one where Juju Smith Schuster just annihilated.
I've got to forget who it was for Vont's Perfect.

(43:19):
I think it was just cleaned him out and Antonio
Brown got cracked. I think Vontes Perfect was involved in
that hit as well too. And I remember watching that
game and Sean mcdonnaugh and John Gruden were talking about
how disgusting it was and this has gone too far

(43:40):
and what are we doing here? And you could tell
Gruden didn't really mean it, like he loved every bit
of it because it was physical. It was the football
he grew up on. But Sean mcdonneh was all uncomfortable
with it. And I'm watching it, going, are you guys nuts?
This is one of the most fascinating football games I've
ever seen. It's like seeing a knockdown, drag out fight.
You ever see our turn O Gotti fight in boxing.

(44:01):
If you haven't, go watch our Turro Gotti Mickey Ward
and go watch the ninth round in their first fight
might be the most entertaining and violent three minutes you've
ever seen in your life. It's incredible. That's what that
game looks like years ago. So when I see the
Steelers and Ravens play this weekend, I go kind of

(44:22):
just doesn't feel the same. Late in the season in
prime time, these teams were gonna get after it. I'm
hoping that's how it plays out. I'm hoping that's what
we get. But it's unfortunate because it feels like it's
a different climate and a different era. So maybe we're
not going to get that game that we're we're used
to seeing. But when it comes to the Baltimore Ravens,
we've all of a sudden, Instead of taking Lamar Jackson

(44:46):
status for the season and looking at that, we're all
of a sudden now talking about what the future for
Lamar Jackson's gonna look like. The handling of the whole
injury has been a little odd, all right, Tyler Hunt,
He's gonna start again. Lamar's now miss what four straight
games for the Ravens and John Harbors kind of you know, listen,

(45:07):
I mean we're we're we're gonna give you an update.
We're gonna do what we can. It's uh, you know,
like I mean this, this is where Lamar is at.
And then it comes out on Friday He's not going
to be participating in the game, which is not a shock.
I don't think a lot of people expected into play.
You should beat Pittsburgh without Lamar Jackson. Again, not an
easy task because Pittsburgh is not a bad football team,

(45:28):
but you should be able to beat Pittsburgh. It's at home,
it's in prime time, you're playing against a rookie quarterback.
You should be able to beat Pittsburgh. So if I'm Baltimore,
I have no issue sitting Lamar Jackson for another week.
And then you get to week eighteen, it's a possible
divisional title on the line depending on what happens was

(45:50):
since and if you look at where the winner of
the or the loser of the a f C North
is going to finish, you might finish in that five spot,
which might be a benefit to you. So maybe you
don't mind the fact that Lamar is gonna have to
sit out the remainder of the regular season, and then
you get into the five spot, and what do you know,
You're taking on the a f C South winner, and

(46:11):
that's either gonna be Jacksonville most likely, or Tennessee. And
I like my chances. If I've got Lamar Jackson coming
off the injury, and I don't care that it's on
the road, I gotta play that team in the first round.
It's not the worst case scenario. It's not the worst
thing in the world to have Lamar Jackson missed this
much time and then have him back for the playoffs.
The part that is that is a little puzzling to

(46:31):
me is how people are taking what's happening now and
applying that to what's going to go on in the
off season, Like, hey, you know, maybe maybe Lamar Jackson's
kind of playing it safe because he's got a contract
to look after. Okay, then why did he play this
season at all? I mean, if this was all about

(46:54):
playing it safe, it's not like they can't sign him.
If he was so worried about the physical component to
all this about him staying healthy, why didn't he sign
the contract? They've been discussing all along if if that's
really what this is about, and maybe Lamar Jackson's trying
to play it safe towards towards the end of the

(47:14):
season because he wants to look after his health long term,
because he hasn't signed his extension. If health was a
priority for him, why didn't he sign the extension already.
It's not like they hadn't had conversations. They've had conversations.
There's been an offer made, like like it's not up
to to what he wanted at the time, but there's

(47:35):
been an offer made. And reportedly Lamar Jackson was holding
out for something like Deshaun Watson, like he wanted that
fully guaranteed deal and Baltimore is like, not gonna happen.
That's why you know the Baltimore's owner, Steve Baschatti, was
one of the most critical and vocal about Cleveland giving
Deshaun Watson that contract. Are we sure we should really
give that guy at the deal because he realized, I

(47:58):
got a guy who wants to contract, and now they've
just reset the market for some guy who's a weirdo
who can't stop going to the grab lab, and now
we're gonna be suspended for the first eleven games of
the season, like you've now reset the market. So the
idea that that that any of this has to do
with Lamar Jackson's contract long term and what's happening now,

(48:20):
I don't like. You couldn't be more wrong. Whether Baltimore
wants to re engage or rethink their investment in Lamar
Jackson after this year based on another injury season and
another injury like this, that's a whole different discussion. But
from my understanding and everything that we've heard, it isn't

(48:43):
about whether or not Baltimore wants Lamar Jackson. It's about
whether or not he wants the contract that's been offered.
That's it. What's happening now has nothing to do with
that from Lamar Jackson standpoint. In fact, seeing how this
year has gone for Lamar Jackson, I think it's more
likely now he signs the deal with Baltimore in the

(49:05):
offseason than before, because now he looks around and sees
his own mortality in front of his eyes and goes, look,
I get it. It's not what I wanted, but it's
a compromise. Nobody gets everything they want in a contract
from a team unless you're Dak Prescott in the Dallas Cowboys.
If you're Dak Prescott and you're negotiating, you got everything
you wanted and then some. You got the length of

(49:26):
the contract, you got more money than you expected, you
got the guarantees. He's good. Dak Prescott beat Jerry Jones
and he knows it. So did Ezekiel Elliott. And Jerry
Jones knows that too. That's why Jerry Jones keeps pumping
up Ezekiel Elliott like it's the same Zeke we saw
three or four years ago. It's not, and it hasn't
in since he signed the contract. But Jerry knows. I

(49:48):
lost my ass on both those deals. So I think
it's more likely now Lamar Jackson looks at this and goes,
all right, I'd like to get something long term done.
I'd like to get something done here because now I
see this is multiple years in a row. I've dealt
with an issue, and I've dealt with an injury. So
I think this idea that what do they do long term?

(50:10):
How's this going to play out? And and look, do
you think Baltimore? Do you think Baltimore looks at Lamar
Jackson says Na, Na, no, no, no, we're gonna deal
him in the off season if he doesn't take this contract. No,
they're not. Baltimore is and win now mode. You've got
an m v P. I want an m v P
of the league. Like if anything, Baltimore, worst case scenario,

(50:34):
franchises him and then possibly franchises him again and then
we play this whole thing out for a couple of years.
But whatever is happening now, his health. So I understand
why people want to move the story forward. I get
all that. I don't think now is the time. I
think Baltimore looks at where they're at and they say,
you know what, We're gonna play it safe. If it's
up for grabs the division next week, we'll roll with

(50:56):
Lamar Jackson and then we'll get him out there. If not,
we'll take car chances in the first round of the playoffs.
And I got news for you, Baltimore is a playoff
team and a wild card team on the road. That's
a scary proposition. There's not a team in the a
f C that wants Baltimore in the first round because
if Lamar is anywhere close to being healthy, he's the
wild card. That's like having that one great player on

(51:18):
an NBA team that gets hot in a playoff game
and you win that playoff game because of that performance.
Allen Iverson had no business on that Philly team winning
a single game against the Lakers in the finals, had
no business. Why did they win that game? Because he
was lights out and was stepping over bodies literally like

(51:41):
tylu in the corner because he was so good in
that playoff game. That's what she kind of deal with
with Lamar Jackson. So if you're a Ravens fan, it's
gonna be okay. Everybody relaxed. You get to the postseason,
you roll the dice, you get Lamar a little healthy,
and we're gonna be fine. Jonas knocks here up on
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(54:12):
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the way. Keeping me up to speed on the bowl
games that are currently underway. Obviously, we've got the College
Football Playoff coming up later on, but we've got Alabama
who's got a fourteen ten lead over Kansas State at
the Sugar Bowl. They were approaching halftime there, a lot
of people ran the social media and Alabama went down

(54:34):
ten nothing. And we're poking fun at the Crimson Tide,
and they're probably gonna still be poking fun at the
Crimson tide. If Kansas State does score here and they
are near the goal line with an opportunity to take
the lead, They've got a fourth and goal coming up
here with again halftime approaching there and a game of
note here on this show because a certain somebody told

(54:57):
you to take the o over. There was a live
bet that was available for you degenerate flunkey gamblers, and
a certain somebody told you take the over on Iowa
to score more than thirteen and a half points. So,
ladies and gentlemen, make some noise. Iowa Sam has done
it because the Hawkeyes have a fourteen nothing laid. So,

(55:21):
so I away saying, I'm assuming they scored all of
those points on offense. I'm assuming here correct your assumption
is incorrect. They have a touchdown from Joey Lobbis to
Lukelich the tight end, and then they had a pick
six by Xavier Noampa. Hey, you know what still pays
the same, doesn't matter, that's all that that pays the same.

(55:44):
By the way, maybe the tweet of the year from
a guy who writes in quote, hey f wad, the
Hawk guy has scored more than you this year, So
take your Tipsie roll Appendage and go kick rocks and traffic.
He said that Appendage is a great consult. It's just

(56:12):
phenomenal like this, like it's good. This is why I
tell people. If you're if you're a sensitive individual and
you get really uptight about certain things and you can't
and you take yourself too serious and everything is doom
and gloom, and you're like always always worried about like

(56:33):
you know, uh, language and all these sorts. If you
don't have a sense of humor, this is just not
the show for you. I don't want to tell you. Like, look,
if you don't have thick skin and you can't handle
a little bit of criticism, this is just not the
show for you. If you block people on Twitter, not
the show for you. It's just not if you meet people,

(56:54):
if you if you hit back and get upset about things,
this is not the show for you. It's it's not.
I don't have to tell you. Find something else. But
if you do have a sense of humor and you
don't take yourself too seriously, if you're not a tool
and you like to have a little bit of fun.
As we approached New Year's Eve and you're getting ready

(57:15):
to spend a bunch of money on some crumby champagne
that's gonna go bad in two days anyways, and you're
gonna get that champagne headache, which, by the way, at
a guy tell me that the reason I always get
a headache when I drink champagne is because I'm drinking
like sparkling something. I forget what the exact reasoning was,
but he gave me a reason why, and it was
basically because I buy the cheap stuff. That's really what

(57:35):
it came down to. I buy the cheap stuff. But
if you're one of those people who can't handle a
little bit of a good time as we head into
the new year, not the show for you. So I'm sorry,
and I like this. This is the way this goes.
But there's a valuable lesson here. And by the way,
you can tweet me at the ajonas knocks at the
ajonas socks on Twitter. We don't get offended, not offended

(57:59):
at all. Let it fly, let it rip better. If
it's funny. It's funny. It's like a roast every weekend
here on fs are. But there is a valuable lesson here,
and I do feel like a lot of people have
learned this valuable lesson. So Iowa saying, for example, comes
on the air, gives out I would have scored more

(58:21):
than thirteen and a half points right like this, and
it hits and it already hits big time winner. Here's
the problem. And there's more and more people that are
finding out about this problem and are having to deal
with this problem. If you get into something for the
first time and you have success, sometimes it can trick

(58:44):
you into thinking, oh, this is easy, wife. I mean,
I don't know why I didn't do this more often,
like like sometimes you'll think to yourself, I've got anybody
could do this. I mean, this is this is easy.
Like gambling for example. All right, there's a lot of
you that are just getting into sports betting, just getting
into sports gambling, just you know, kind of you know,

(59:07):
putting your toe in the water, so to speak. I mean,
you're getting great advice here on Fox Sports Radio Countdown
to Kickoff every weekend. You're getting great advice from those guys.
Those guys know what the hell they're talking about. There's
gonna be some of you that will take your own
advice and will think to yourself, you know what like Iowa,

(59:27):
Sam did, I like Iowa over thirteen and a half points.
And let me tell you how this is gonna go.
You're gonna have early success and then you're gonna get
humbled in a real quick way. Because I've been there.
I can remember playing three card poker in Vegas for
the first time, sat down played. I'd never played my

(59:49):
life firsthand I ever played. I hit three eight, I
won like three. I looked. I looked to my girlfriend
at the time. I was like, it's it's easy, let's
do it again. I was out on my ass in
ten minutes. God God made up advantash like a fart

(01:00:10):
in the wind. I had nothing. Hey, you know that
sushi we're gonna get. But we go up to the Excalibur.
I think there's a McDonald's next to a Crispy Cream.
Let's see what. Let's see what they got thrown in
the trash. They're gone. It's like, look, you're gonna get humbled.
Do you have some early success. All of a sudden,
it tricks you into thinking, you know, um, I mean

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anybody could do this, and then the reality hit said, okay,
well you know that this isn't exactly what it's all
cracked up to be, and that's how this stuff is
gonna work out. So I'm just telling you, if you're
dabbling in this stuff, if you're getting involved in it,
don't be tricked by the early success. You gotta be
smart about it. And then after that, if you don't
take my advice, I don't want to tell you. I

(01:00:54):
tried to warn you this how this stuff goes. Jonah
Stocks here Fox Sports Radio and for the guys on
up on game here on fs are by the way,
I do. I think we have another major update in
the world of college football that just took place. So
for that we turn it over to the man himself
that manage sits high atop the mountain of sports talk radio.
As we mentioned earlier, he's got a scepter with a

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mike at the end of it in one hand, and
when a bolt of lightning strikes from the sky on air,
light goes on and he delivers you the goods, Sir
Isaac Bow and crown Well Jonas. At the Sugar Bowl
moments ago, Kansas State it had a chance to deliver

(01:01:36):
the goods. Trailing Alabama fourteen to ten, Kansas State went
forward on fourth and goal from the Alabama two yard line,
but Alabama stopped them, so the fifth rank Crimson Tide
preserves a fourteen to ten lead over ninth rank Kansas State.
Forty seven seconds left to play in the first half
at the Sugar Bowl is right now. Alabama has a

(01:01:58):
second down and ten at its twenty six yard line.
At the Music City Bowl, all Iowa. The Hawkeyes up
twenty one to nothing over Kentucky, one thirty six left
to play in the first half, and the Hawkeyes thirsty
for more. They have a first down and goal to
go at the Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Do

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you know the lyrics say this, Isaac, I'll sing him
to you. Let it fly, Sam, let's do it. I
have a fine song. The crop circle silos and Sam,
crop circles silos and Sam, get off the corn. It's
not field of dreams. And when you see Iowa you

(01:02:42):
wanna peaa come on? Is it good? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
I'm actually very impressed. I'm very impressed. They called that
damn free styling in the hip hop game. Sam. That
isn't any of that wrong, That that that accurate. That
was the alternate version, that was the absolute trademarked official

(01:03:06):
alternate version of the Iowa theme song crop Circle, Silos
and Sam. I'm telling you, man, that's not something there.
If if I were you, I would not check. I
would not check your mentions. Jonas, I just would not
check your mentions. People kiss my ass. It's been apparent
that a lot of people are listening right now in
Iowa and not to the game. Yeah, I imagine that

(01:03:28):
if they tuned into this show instead of watching the game.
According to social media, that's what's going on. So twenty
one to nothing, Iowa over Kentucky one thirty two left
in the second quarter Music City Bowl. A joint investigation
by the NFL and the NFL Players Association today concluded
that there were no concussion protocol violations in the handling
of the concussion that Miami Dolphins quarterback to a tongue

(01:03:50):
of by Lois suffered last week against Green Bay. Pittsburgh
Steelers defensive tackle Larry Ogan Job will play tomorrow night
at Baltimore. He'd previously been listed as questionable because of
a toe injury. One other NFL note, the Jacksonville Jaguars
a short time ago elevated offensive lineman Koi Kronk from
the practice squad for tomorrow's game against Houston Jonas. That's

(01:04:13):
not really huge news. I just think that Koi Kronk
is a fun name to say. And by the way,
guess where you played his college football at? Where's that Iowa? Yeah?
And finally, we do have some prospective items for the
forthcoming Jonas Knox Bowl bag. You're ready? Yeah, Well, first

(01:04:37):
we gotta pick a venue where we're gonna have the
venue for this bowl game. Now, Rundown High School football
field that is in disrepair. I mean, okay, great point
Sam Aloha Stadium works the abandoned and uh what is
the award? Uh? Literally condemned because it's unsafe. Let me
tell you something. It's somebody who has been to a

(01:04:58):
couple of games at Looha Stadium. Our friends listening on
the great Fox Sports all right on the Hawaiian Islands,
the blowtorch of the Hawaiian Islands, and our friends out there,
John Matthews, Rick Amada, those guys over there on our
fine affiliate, great people. Got to hang out with him
a few months ago, had a beer with them, great guys.

(01:05:19):
Let me tell you something. A lot of people want
to make jokes about a Loha Stadium, and I get it.
You gotta take an elevator to get up to certain levels,
and it doesn't feel like the safest elevator in the world.
And I haven't seen what the conditions are like now,
but I'm assuming there's some sort of a hibiscus tumble
weed and like a you know, like a random cockatoo

(01:05:41):
and maybe a flamingo or two walking around that place
taking a dump. Look, I will put on a bowl
game there, and we will get people to that bowl game.
Let me tell you that right now. Actually, I'm just
checking social media. We do have Jonas Knox Bowl Aloha Stadium. Update.
A bid has been accepted to the augural forthcoming Jonas

(01:06:01):
Knox Bowl by Johns Hopkins University, which at this time
does not even have a football team, but the Johns
Hopkins University Fighting Urologists will be one of the teams
in the inaugural Jonas Knox Bowl. Well, I mean, listen,
it's only fair that the other team would be Hawaii
because they could finally win a game. So, oh boy,

(01:06:22):
that's you're really rolling the dice with your mentions today.
Timmy Chang's got that program turned in the right directions
better than Todd Graham, who's own son transferred. You do
have a point there, all right. So here's some items,
and and look it's your bowl. So you say yea
or nay. First of all, to honor your background, a

(01:06:43):
gift certificate to Chuck E Cheese because you used to
work there. You were the rat. Uh. That's fine, I'll
accept that, all right. Next item a package of Norwegian
smoked sam in a k A. Knocks Locks l X

(01:07:04):
Knox Locks. It's a great call izing thank you, that's great. Listen,
you're on it today. Next item, try and keep us
apart from each other. A by the way, Isaac told
me during the break, I wish I could quit you.
I don't know what he was referring to you, but
that's what he said. I can't know. I mean, I
tell you that. I tell you that on the airplane. Whatever.
Let us on the air together. Isaac said, Hey, this

(01:07:27):
is a quote from my favorite movie. I wish I
knew how to quit you. I don't know what he's
talking about, but that's what Isaac said. What do you
think of the picture I sent? I don't know, all right?
Next item? What? Next item a pink microphone cover. Well, no,
I already have that. That's what I mean. It's your
it's your signature pink microphone hand out to them. Yeah, okay,

(01:07:50):
that's fine. I mean, we have aspiring radio broadcasters across
the country now using pink microphone covers just because they think,
you know, it worked for you, it might work for them. Well,
can I explain to you my logic behind the pink
microphone cover. She's asking permission to do things on a
show that's literally your show because I practice politeness. I mean,

(01:08:11):
I don't you know, some people preach it and that'll
get that'll get you nowhere. Uh. The reason I use
a pink microphone cover is because like a lot of
like you use these, I call him a mike condom
because I'm an adult. So you use these things to
cover up the bike so that way you're not sharing germs.
And also it sounds better. It sounds like a cleaner

(01:08:32):
broadcast if you do that. And so the reason I
use a pink one is because that way, a they're
gonna know it's mine because nobody else likes pink, and
be nobody else is going to take that because a
lot of people are are offended or a lot of
people are embarrassed rather that they would be seen with
a pink microphone cover or a mike condom. Again, that's
what I say because I'm an adult, and so that's
why I go with the pink. Finally, this final item

(01:08:55):
was just inspired within the last ten minutes thanks to
one of your numerous fans on social media, a bag
of tutsi rolls. Jesus Christ, you said that. Oh man,
Uh yeah, listen for those of you that are wondering

(01:09:15):
what the tutsi roll references to, um, you can. You
can go on my Twitter account, or you can just
understand that somebody wrote in who was not a fan
of the show that said, uh, I have a tutsi
roll appendage and I should go kick rocks and traffic.
So that's how smooth this show has gone thus far.
Let's go live to our I'd also like to put
something else in your swag bag for the Bowl Game Insider,

(01:09:38):
Iowa Sam for the latest Sam. Okay, so we found
a couple more items in the swag bag. There's actually
a secret pocket in the free backpack. Um okay, so
here we go. We got a plunging v neck white
T shirt. All right, we got hair gel, we have
a Gillette beard trimmer, we have a Gillette groin trimmer. Yeah,
we have Puma tennis shoes. And we have an air

(01:09:58):
freshener tree for your two thousand three Toyota Tundra. How
does that work? Okay? Well, a couple of things, A
couple of pretty nice grab bag right there. Number one,
it's a two thousand six and it and it's got
three d and thirty something thousand miles on it. Okay,
because I'm loyal and I'm also frugal. All right, So
so all that is fine, and I would just encourage

(01:10:21):
people don't confuse the Gillette beard for the groin shrimmer
at any point in time. Hopefully they're marked as such. Yes, No,
I think that would be more fun if we did
not label them, so they would have to guess which
one went where. Yeah, because if anybody's seen Jackass, the
terrorist scene where the guy has to put on the

(01:10:42):
fake beard and then he comes to find out where
that hair came from, you don't want that to happen
in your own bathroom. I'm just saying again, I'm just
I'm just letting people know what not to do. It's similarly,
it's like gambling advice, what to do, what not to do.
I'm letting people know what to do what not to do.
Other than that, I love the swag bag. I think
I think every he has represented there's something there for everybody. See,

(01:11:02):
we did it. We got a venue, we got our teams,
we got our swag bag, we got it all covered here.
It's all easy. If Jimmy Kimmel can do this, we
can do this too, I'm talking about all right. Uh,
it is Jonas Knocks here and for the guys on
up on game here on Fox Sports Radio, you can
Radio app. We're gonna take you all the way up

(01:11:24):
through the end of this hour and then we take over.
It's another two hour edition of the show here like normal,
per normal, per usual. So we'll get into that for
you here on Fox Sports Radio. All right, it's coming up.
There's something that's happening in the National Football League that
is actually, if you take a step back and you
say it out loud to yourself, it doesn't make any

(01:11:47):
sense whatsoever. Yet everybody is still doing it. And it's
in regards to a team that could be winning a
Super Bowl in the next couple of months. I'll tell
you what that is. That's next Jonas Knox, Fox Sports
Radio and for the guys here on up on game
coming up top of the next hour, about fifteen minutes

(01:12:08):
from now here on the entire act dot com studios.
There's been a story that's been making arounds in the
NFL for the past few weeks and there's one team
not being mentioned that I think is a sleeper to
watch for and if and it does make a little
bit of sense when you start to look at some
of the details involved in this story. So we'll get

(01:12:28):
into that for you again coming up here a little
over ten minutes from now on fs R. All Right,
So I was just sort of looking around the landscape
of the National Football League and when you talk about
the teams that people view as legitimate contenders to win
a Super Bowl, right, these are the teams that you're
hearing people discuss, or it might even be yourself as well,

(01:12:49):
to talk about, well, this team is a legitimate Super
Bowl contender, in this team is not. This team can
compete for a Super Bowl. In this team can't. And
there are those teams that are that are are that
we're seeing now sort of kind of distance themselves from
every from everybody else. So the Bills obviously a super
Bowl contender. We know that Kansas City super Bowl contender,

(01:13:11):
Cincinnati super Bowl contender. Now after that in the a
f C, I think it's kind of a for grabs. Obviously,
we don't buy anybody in the a f C. South
No offense. Listen, no offense. I understand everybody. You know,
it's a feel good story, and and and listen. I
love Mike Rabel, but he's up against it. I think
he probably knows that Jacksonville is a fun story. Nobody

(01:13:33):
looks at them and says that's a legitimate super Bowl contender.
The Chargers maybe a dark course if Justin Herbert gets hot.
But ultimately I think it comes down to Buffalo, Kansas City,
Cincinnati are the teams that you look at and go
those teams can win a super Bowl. And then when
you go to the NFC, you've got Philly, and you've

(01:13:53):
got San Francisco and maybe Dallas as as one of
those other teams that you look at and go, Okay,
maybe they could win a super Bowl. Maybe Dallas could
win a game, win a game late in January early February,
and get to a super Bowl. Here's what's fascinating about
the NFC side of things, all right, And if we

(01:14:13):
want to include the a f C, here's what's fascinating.
The forty Niners are being talked about as one of
these teams. I just mentioned them. Yet when you actually
use what we've always used in looking ahead and identifying

(01:14:34):
a real contender in the NFL, the forty Niners don't qualify.
If it's all about quarterback and it's all about quarterback play,
and you've got to have a dude, if you want
to win a super Bowl, how do the forty Niners qualify?

(01:14:54):
And I look, and I'm just saying, as of right now,
what we know right now, brock Party has been grea
eight and maybe Jimmy Garoppolo comes back, but I'm a
little skeptical as as to if that's actually gonna happen.
Brock Purty has been been been perfect for the forty Niners,
but it's not like he's stepping in and lighting the
league up like Mahomes did his first year as a starter.

(01:15:16):
Let's let's let's be honest about it. If you were
to just go through the NFL and go through the
playoff teams, how many teams that are currently set to
be a playoff team do you have to get to
before brock Purty is the best quarterback amongst the bunch?

(01:15:36):
Like just think about it like this, You're taking Josh
Allen or brock Purty. You're taking Josh Allen, Mahomes obviously,
Joe Burrow obviously, Trevor Lawrence, Lamar Jackson, Justin Herbert. These
are all teams that are projected to be in the
playoffs right now. And those are some teams I mentioned

(01:15:57):
that we're that we didn't even mention as legitimate Super
Bowl teams. Jalen Hurts brock Purty, Come on, Jalen Hurts
was up for the m v P. Before you get
stuff with this injury. Kirk Cousins or brock Purty. I
mean you can. You can make fun of Kirk Cousins
all you want. Numbers don't lie. Who do you trust

(01:16:19):
in the playoffs, Kirk Cousins or brock Purty. Kirk Cousins
has won a game. I know you don't like him.
I know you don't don't like his weirdo O c D.
I can't perform outside of the one Eastern time windows stuff.
I get all that, but I'll take Kirk Kirk Kirk
Cousins over Brock Purty, Brady, Dak Prescott. Like you gotta
go a long way down the list of playoff teams

(01:16:41):
in the NFL before you get to the Niners and
go all right, that's where their quarterback comes in. Yet
for some reason, we ignore all of that, and the
Niners are looked at is the boogeyman of the NFC,
that's the team you gotta watch out for. They were
in an NFC title game best year, Like Brock Prudy

(01:17:03):
is not even like he may not even be the
second best quarterback on his own team. Like if you
and and look, he could go into the postseason, he
could light up the NFL and it could be Tom
Brady all over again from the early two thousand's. All
of that could happen, But what are the chances and

(01:17:24):
odds and likelihood that's actually going to happen. I think
it's I think it's a long shot for a reason.
So when we're looking at the forty Niners, it's almost
like Jimmy Garoppolo went down, brock Prudy came in and
it was like, they're gonna be fine. It's okay, they'll
be fine. Really like a you're going to discredit Garoppolo

(01:17:47):
like that, a guy who when he's healthy, which is
always the big if, but when he's healthy, all he
does is win a bunch of football games, go to
conference championship games, or go to Super Bowls. That's a fact,
look at his resume. But we're looking around the NFL,
we're looking around the playoff picture. And it's not even
just you or I that think San Francisco's a legitimate contender.

(01:18:12):
The odds would tell you so. In Vegas, you want
to know whose favored to win a Super Bowl? Buffalo,
Kansas City, Philly and then the Niners. If you're just
going by quarterback, why would you trust brock Purty and
the Niners over Joe Burrow and the Bengals, or Doc
and the Cowboys, or even Kirk Cousins and the Vikings

(01:18:34):
if you actually step back and look at it, and
quarterback is the barometer in court. And if you don't
have a good quarterback, or a legitimate franchise quarterback, you're
not winning a Super Bowl. If that's the case, why
are the Niners in the discussion? So I think one
of two things is gonna happen. Either brock Purty balls
out and proves a lot of people right or a
lot of people wrong, or he gets exposed in San

(01:18:56):
fran as an early exit in the playoffs. So we've
got our selves a situation in the NFL we're gonna
get to. It's a rumor somebody's behind it. We think
we know why they're behind it, but there's a team
not being mentioned that we're going to discuss here coming
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(01:19:39):
already knocked out a couple So if you missed any
of those, you can check out the podcast after we
go off the air. But let's get into this story.
Who I'm sure there's gonna be another layer to this
rumor that's gonna come out before the end of this show,
because if you've been paying close enough attention to the
National Football League over the past several weeks, this story
does not seem to be going away. And we think
we kind of know why. So the Sean Payton rumors

(01:20:04):
started basically after he and the New Orleans Saints decided,
you know what, we're gonna kind of reset this whole
thing and go in a different direction. Now New Orleans
still owns Sean Payton's rights, but over the past month
and a half to two months, you're starting to hear
more of the buzz when it comes to Sean Payton.
You're starting to hear it. You've got all these different

(01:20:27):
rumors that are out there. Most of them are you
probably coming from Sean Payton side, but you're hearing teams
that Sean Payton would be interested in coaching for the Chargers,
the Rams, You've heard the Saints being thrown into the
mix again. The Dallas Cowboys is the worst kept secret

(01:20:47):
in the world. We did. We did. We're talking last
week on the show about the Dallas Cowboy rumors starting
back up again. If Mike McCarthy McCarthy falters in the postseason,
Sean Payton could be a candidate, Aaron Dallas will no kidding.
I mean that that story has been out there for years.
Jerry Jones loves Sean Payton. We get all that. So

(01:21:08):
it's all about what Mike McCarthy does in the postseason. Uh.
The Denver Broncos name was mentioned, but apparently he's not
interested in that job. The Carolina Panthers were mentioned, but
he's not interested in that job. It's funny. Sean Payton's
name hasn't really been rumored to go with the Indianapolis Colts.
You know that. I mean that really hasn't happened. But
who knows. Like I said before the end of this show,

(01:21:29):
all of that could change, especially with an impulsive owner
like Jimmer Say, who every ten minutes decides on something different.
I don't know what's quarterback I wanted. I know which
coach I want. I don't know if I want Jeff
Saturday here long term. Now there's reports that maybe we'll
be back, whatever you want to call it. But all
of this stuff surrounding Sean Payton, the only thing that
we know for sure is that Sean Payton wants to

(01:21:51):
coach again. That's what we know. That's the only thing
we've got from all of this, because if you look
at the teams that have been mentioned with Sean Payton,
none of them are really available. The Chargers aren't firing
Brandon Staley. They just got to the playoffs. They're gonna
fire Brandon Staley. Why that doesn't make any sense. Is

(01:22:17):
Sean McVeigh really gonna walk away from the Rams after
this year? Does he really want to leave? On that note?
I find that hard to believe. And the way Baker
Mayfield's played at times in limited duty with with a
limited amount of knowledge of that playbook and working with
Sean McVeigh, you don't think Sean McVeigh looks at that
and says, hey, if Matt Stafford can't go next year,

(01:22:39):
or if he decides he wants to retire after this season,
which also probably a long shot based on the contract,
Sean mcveigh's looking at Baker Mayfield go on, I could
go with that for long for another couple of years.
That actually might extend his time. You look at Dallas. Look,
let's call it what it is. Mike McCarthy and the
Cowboys are probably opening up on the road at Tampa

(01:23:01):
Bay in the first round of the playoffs. I'll take Dallas,
thank you. And then if they go into the second
round and they and they pull off a win, like,
are you really going to walk away from Mike McCarthy
after that? I just I find that hard to believe.
New Orleans. That doesn't make a lot of sense. Why
did you leave if you're just gonna go back? Why
did you leave? But we do know that Sean Payton
wants to coach again. So let me just throw a

(01:23:23):
team out there for you, and you tell me if
I'm crazy. What about the Bears? Here's why I say
that they do meet the criteria. Sean Payton does have
a history with the Chicago Bears in these strikes shortened

(01:23:46):
season back in the eighties, Sean Payton was the quarterback
for the Bears. Like that that happened, Sean Payton played
for the organization. Now you can call it, well, you
know they were they were in a strike, and does
that really count whatever. I mean. Look, call it whatever
you want. I mean, Sean Payton's got a history there,
He's got a past. He went to high school in Naperville,

(01:24:12):
which is not far from Chicago. He went to college
at Eastern Illinois. Like, it's not like this is just
you know, thrown out there and he's got no ties
to it, and this is all about location. Well does
anybody know the location better than Sean Payton went to
high school there, played professionally there, played in college in Illinois.

(01:24:32):
And then you're thinking to yourself, we have But Matt
Aberflus just got there. I mean, this his first year.
You're really gonna walk away from him. Look, I think
it's a long shot as well, too, But I think
it's more realistic than the Chargers. I think it's more
realistic than the Rams. I think it's more realistic than
the Cowboys, more realistic than the Saints. Majority of those

(01:24:54):
jobs aren't open, and if he doesn't want to coach,
the Broncos and the Colts aren't interesting. Look around the league.
It's not like Matt Eberflus, And I like Matt Eiberflus,
And there's a lot of positive feedback. You hear from
people in and around the organization. But it's not like
they're a good football team. They're three and twelve. They're

(01:25:18):
the worst team in the NFC. They might be picking
number one overall in the draft because they're awful. So
it wouldn't be the craziest thought in the world to
think that Ryan Poles, who does you know he is
fond of matt eberflus like, like they do have a

(01:25:39):
little bit of a connection, a little bit of a
history themselves. It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world.
If you're looking at the Bears and they decide after
one season, you know what, some mental mistakes, we get
penalized a lot, some dumb stuff happens three and twelve,
potentially three and fourteen in your first season. Coaches have

(01:26:02):
been fired after one year with much better records than
what Mattieberfluce has rolled out in Chicago. And again I'm
not saying it's likely, but if we're gonna throw out
unlikely spots and teams that are actually good and going
to the playoffs, what about an unlikely spot and a
team who qualifies for having a reason to maybe part

(01:26:24):
ways with a head coach after one season. He's got
ties to the area, He's got connections to the organization.
And by the way, they got a quarterback. You don't
think Sean Payton looks at Justin Fields and goes, oh,
that I could do something with that. I I oh,

(01:26:45):
and they got a bunch of draft picks, and they
got a bunch of salary cap room, and I know
the area, and it's a fresh start and it's a
winnable division if I get things turned around there. We
don't know how much longer Rogers is gonna play, and
even when he is playing there below five, we don't

(01:27:08):
know what Minnesota is gonna look like. Detroit is on
is you know, up and coming, But we don't know
if they buy totally into Jared Goff. We have no idea.
If I'm Sean Payton and I'm looking around at spots
and all of a sudden, I get a phone call
and somebody says, hey, would you be interested, It's not
the craziest thought in the world to think that the
Bears could look at Sean Payton and say, listen, it's

(01:27:32):
not fair to Matt ebra Flus. It sucks. We put
him in a bad spot. We stripped down the team
to the studs. But if we've got an opportunity to
get a guy like Sean Payton, sometimes you gotta make
difficult decisions. Again, I don't think it's likely. I do
think it's a long shot. But I also think the Chargers,

(01:27:53):
the Rams, the Cowboys, the Saints, I think those are
all long shots as well too. Oh and by the way,
he's already putting together this all star staff. You know
his defensive coordinator is gonna be Vic Fangio. Where was
Vic Fangio coaching before he got his only head coaching
opportunity in the NFL in Chicago. It's not the craziest

(01:28:16):
thought in the world. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio.
You can get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks
at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter, and you can hang
out with us. Is always on the I Heart Radio app.
So it's a special four hour edition here obviously filling
in for the guys on up on Game for a
couple of hours, and now we've got two hours to
play with here as we take you all the way
up here for the next couple of hours, the final

(01:28:37):
show of two. By the way, the final show of
the year. So we're gonna have some fun little grabass
for you here on fs are. We got some Knox locks.
Don't even get me started on Knox locks, just an
absolute embarrassment. We'll get to that later on. We get
the scraps, we've got our thank God for gambling Game
of the Week. We're handing at awards, you name it,
it's all yours here for the next two hours. Coming
up next though, from the entire act dot Com studios,

(01:29:00):
we have an update a major story in the NFL,
and we have an update maybe a glimpse into the
future for one franchise and one quarterback. We'll tell you
what that is right here on Fox Sports Radio Jonas
Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You can hang out with us
as always on the I Heart Radio app. Coming up
a little over ten minutes from now, We're gonna hand

(01:29:24):
out an award. That's right, We're gonna hand out an
award on this show. There's a lot of you out
there that what do you mean you're gonna hand out
an award? All the awards are already gone. It's the
end of the year. No no no, no, no, no no.
For the final time in the year that is not
the NFL season. We're gonna hand out an NFL award
will give to you. We'll give it to you. Coming

(01:29:44):
up here again a little over ten minutes from now
from the tire i Rack dot Com studios, giving you
an update on the Bowl action that is currently underway. Man,
there was for some reason, like it's real quiet. I
don't know why that is. I'm looking around and for
summer it's gotten really quiet. Like there was like Kansas

(01:30:05):
State went up tend nothing over Alabama, and you've got
all these smartasses like to poke fun at Alabama because
you know they're not in one of the college football
playoff games, and they're like, oh my god, look at Alabama.
They're playing in the morning on December thirty one, Like
oh my god, what happened Alabama? What an embarrassment? Blah
blah blah. And then they go down and tend nothing
to Kansas State. And then you're like, Okay, so I'm

(01:30:27):
looking around and I'm for some reason people got quiet,
and then I look up and go, oh, Alabama scored
thirty five unanswered and Bryce Young's got four touchdowns. Okay, yeah,
I was just curious. It's the Alabama hate is so
funny to me, man, Like, it's so funny. What about
their non conference schedule? What do I mean? Long? We

(01:30:50):
love to see Alabama, look like, what's the problem because
Nick Saban pounds the podium and and plays soft games
at times, and like, dude, the guys hung out how
many national championships? Seven might end up with like ten?
It's the greatest college football coach of all time. Then

(01:31:12):
everybody's poking fun at Alabama about when they're playing, and
then they go down tend nothing and it's like, oh, well,
somebody's going to use the excuse Alabama didn't care, that's
why they're playing like this, and then they rip off
thirty five unanswered. I just think the I get it.
If you're an Auburn fan, I get it. You don't
like Alabama, that's cool, right, you don't like the fact

(01:31:35):
that you know some weirdo poison your tree back in
the day. I get it. But for everybody else, it
can't just sit back and look at what they've done
and go that's a hell of a program. It's a
little bizarre. Also, the Iowa Hawkeyes are a powerhouse twenty
one nothing. Iowa has a lead over the Kentucky Wildcats,

(01:31:59):
by the way, a basketball school. According to John Calipari,
Iowa in the in the Music City Bowl. So this
is just a stunning development. Um, let's go live to aur.
Are you surprised by Iowa leading twenty one to nothing
over an SEC team insider? Iowa Sam for the latest
Sam slightly? Okay? I thought that they win this game,

(01:32:20):
but maybe not, maybe not be up by twenty one.
Don't you feel good about it? Though? Yeah? I've calmed
down and yeah, just taking it all in now. And
let me tell you something. Some of these candy asses
out there are gonna tell you, well, these games don't matter.
It's all about the playoff games. But my ass, do
you think Iowa Iowa players are gonna be excited about this?
Played in the Music City Bowl? But I wonder what's

(01:32:42):
in the swag bag of the Music City Bowl? Like
an Elvis costume? What do you get? Like a peanut
butter and uh and banana sandwich? Just like Go to
Lifetime pass the Grand ol Opry. Finally, did you know
that that Elvis is go to Sam? Which was peanut
butter and banana and jelly and butter, wasn't it? Inside

(01:33:04):
of a sour dough roll. Yeah, it was like two
thousand calories pop. I mean, listen, it's in Nashville. It's
not Memphis, but what do you want. I mean, it's
you know, it's right up the road, basically, maybe not
have you been to either, Jonas, No, I want to
go to Nashville. They make Nashville looks so awesome on TV.
I've talked about it before. I've I've driven through Memphis,
but I've never stopped and really enjoyed it. But I've

(01:33:25):
never been to Nashville. I want to go to Nashville.
Looks fun. That stadium looks like a dump though, No
wonder they want to do a new stadium there. What
a dump? Is that? The same stadium? The Music City
Miracle happened in that stadium was gross back then. They're
still playing games there, Nissan Stadium, whatever it is? Who
I drove a Toyota? All right? Uh it is? You

(01:33:47):
can get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks at
the Jonas Kocks on Twitter. Alright, So we do have
a little bit of an update for you, because a
lot of this is looking ahead to what's going to
happen moving forward and how do we handle this stuff
moving forward? And I talked about this earlier when when
I first started the show. Here back an hour one
of the program. You can check out the podcast at

(01:34:07):
Fox Sports Radio dot com after we're After we're finished here,
I'll be posted shortly. I was filling in for the
guys on up on game and and my point was,
when you see that David Blow is starting for Arizona
and you're looking at the number of quarterbacks that have
played or started a game in the NFL, and it's
up to sixty four, that ought to tell you that, yes,

(01:34:31):
there's some issues with guys getting benched, teams going in
different directions. All of that is fair, but it's also injuries.
Guys are getting banged up, and so the quarterback that's
been injured that's been under the most scrutiny everything around
it has been to a tuck of Iloa. And my
whole point on it is, look, these guys know what
they're doing, like they want to play. I get that

(01:34:56):
some people are uncomfortable about the idea of a quarterback
going out there and offering a head injury. I get it.
Nobody's rooting for that, but it's just part of the
reality that is football. It just it is what it
is at a certain point. I mean like that, that's
that's how this goes. Injuries happened. There's gonna be an
injury in every single bowl game you watch, every single

(01:35:16):
NFL game this weekend, there's gonna be an injury. The
to A thing played out nationally because it was a
scary look. It was an optic reaction. People didn't like
how it looked, and I agree, it didn't look bad.
It didn't look good. But then it's like, okay, so
what every time to it takes the field, we're gonna
have concern over. They fired an independent neurologist, and they

(01:35:38):
were blaming the Dolphins. It's like, dude, to if he
tells you, he's okay, what do you want? And so
now they've done their digging and their research and their investigation,
the NFL, the NFL p A, and they've concluded that
the concussion protocol with TA was handled properly. This latest concussion.
They handled him right like because he didn't show any

(01:36:02):
symptoms at the time, and in fact, it wasn't until
Mike McDaniel was talking with two uh inside a team
meeting going over some film with him a couple of
days later that he recognized something's wrong. It might have
been the next day. Actually, he was talking with two
of the next day and to his responses, flagged him

(01:36:22):
that something was up, and Mike McDaniel said, you need
to go talk to a doctor. You don't seem right.
And it turns out he had a concussion. And it's like,
this is like, I don't like, I don't know what
people were expecting, Like all the Dolphins again, it's it's Miami,
Like this is part of the deal, man, this is
how this works. In the NFL. You're gonna take hits.

(01:36:46):
You're gonna get banged up. Guys are gonna get concussed.
You've got an offensive lineman for the Bills who was
coming back from his sixth concussion. What are you gonna
tell that guy? If he passes all your tests and
he's good to go, what are you gonna tell him, Hey,
you hit your quota. We're gonna treat it like personal fouls.
In the NBA. You get to six, y're ejected for
the rest of the year. Like there's no easy way

(01:37:09):
to fix all this, because there's no way you're going
to fix all this. You can try and dumb down
the game all you want and make it as safe
as you want. You've got a bunch of super athletes
that are jacked running full speed getting in car accidents
every single week. This is how this goes, and this

(01:37:31):
is part of the the sad reality unfortunately for some
people in the NFL that they're they're dealing with this
stuff all the time, and there's some players that have
to walk away because of the concussions. It sucks, man,
especially for a guy like Toa who dealt with injuries
at Alabama's career was in jeopardy after the hip issue,
gets back, gets an opportunity, and then has this happen

(01:37:53):
and he's got to come out. It sucks, but players
like these guys want to play. What's interesting about Miami
if you actually look at where the Dolphins are at
just in looking from a team standpoint, the discussion about
Miami is much different than other teams who are in
the same exact spot as them, which is odd. So

(01:38:18):
Miami's at New England this weekend two is out. As
we've discussed New England's favored which is saying they should
win the game if New England wins that game, and
the Jets win on the road at Seattle, which is

(01:38:39):
going to be a close game. The Patriots, Jets, and
the Dolphins all would be eight and eight after this weekend.
Yet the narrative surrounding the Miami Dolphins and those other
two team teams couldn't be further from the from different.
Like you couldn't be more opposite than the narrative surrounding

(01:38:59):
those three teams. When you talk about Miami, it's like, man, fun,
love and run and gun man. You know, Miami get
him in the playoffs. That's a fun team. The two
issues there, But you got tyreek Kill and Waddle and
Mike McDaniel and all that stuff. There's optimism and there's excitement.
When you talk about the Patriots and Jets this season,
you go, oh god, like, yet they're all sitting with

(01:39:20):
the almost the identical record in the same division. But
the narrative and the tone and the discussion and the
attitude surrounding all three teams is completely different. Like the
Patriots and Jets have a depressing feel to him. When
you talk about the Patriots, you go, oh, man, Like
Robert Krafts got to invite a fan who was bullied

(01:39:41):
by some slab at a Raider game to a home
game the next week because they lost on one of
the worst plays ever. And then they lose on a
fumble inside the ten yard line from Romandi Rmandre Stevenson
last week. It's depressing, man, Like you talk about the
Patriots is like, oh my god, what in an awful season?
What's Mac Jones is future? Does Belichick still have it?

(01:40:03):
So on and so forth. You talk about the Jets,
the quarterback situations of Mega that Zach Wilson would rather
hook up with somebody's mom than learn how to play
quarter like this is all the discussion you hear about him.
But with the Dolphins it's different. Optimism, fun loving, high
octane offense. Waddle and Tyreek Kill and Mike McDaniel and
Tua and they're all gonna be sitting potentially with the

(01:40:25):
same record after this weekend. It's weird how that works.
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(01:40:48):
So we are going to hand out an award, all right.
We're not negative like the rest of the sports dock
radio shows. We're heading on an award in the NFL
that's coming up here shortly. But for all the latest
from around the world of sports ladies and gental, make
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(01:41:09):
thank you, Jonas, and as a man like yourself all
about positivity, there are some really positive things being said
about you on Twitter and just just a bright shining
light of this earth is Jonas. And yeah, exactly. And
to your point about Alabama and giving teams hope and
then just racing past them, it's like a Venus fly trap.

(01:41:29):
Kentucky State or not Kentucky State, Kansas State came in
today and the number nine team of the country here
at the Sugar Bowl went up tend to nothing and
now thirty five. But answered followed by a field goal
from the Wildcats. A Right now, with about six thirty
three left in the third quarter, Number five Alabama is
owning a thirty five to thirteen lead and quarterback Bryce

(01:41:49):
Young for the Crimson Tide has three, make that four
touchdown tosses. Iowa has a twenty one and nothing advantage
against Kentucky and that one is late stages of the
third quarter and the Hot Eyes, of course, scoring most
of their points on defense. No surprise those two pick
six is and they have gone scoreless in the first
and third quarters again no surprise. National semifinals get underway

(01:42:13):
later on today for Eastern number two Michigan is set
to duel with number three t c at the Fiesta Bowl,
and then later on this evening it is eight Eastern
Jonas knocks number one Georgia Bulldogs as they will go
toe to toe with the fourth ranked Ohio State, that
game being played at the Peach Bowl. As Jonas mentioned
in NFL and nfl P a lead investigation found that

(01:42:35):
Dolphins quarter about two a tongue of boto experience no
symptoms during that last Sunday game when he got concussed,
so he was able to play through that because there
were no symptoms detected at the time. The Cardinals have
dropped wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins two out for their game
upcoming in week seventeen against the Falcon says he is
dealing with a knee injury, so downgraded to Auts Bangles.

(01:42:57):
Titan Haidan Hurst, who has missed some time because of
a calf injury, is off Cincinnati's injury report, meaning that
he should be good to go Monday night against the Bills. Jonas,
I'll leave you with this interesting story that is just
coming out Atlanta Falcons practice squad wide receiver Cameron Batson.
He was arrested this morning around two am in the

(01:43:18):
Atlanta area after reportedly fighting with police and then trying
to run away after a traffic stop. Police in Atlanta
say through their reporting that he was speeding and driving
recklessly on the freeway and was drunk resisting arrest, and
now he is behind bars after all of that, getting

(01:43:41):
himself in a little bit of trouble. Jonas, hold on
a second, who is this again? So it's an Atlanta
Falcons practice squad wide receiver Cameron Batson, and he goes
out on a binge of drinking and drinking, and he's driving.
He's not staying in his lane on the interstate. He's
weaving all over the place. He gets up, he gets

(01:44:03):
pulled over, and then it gets physical. According to the reports,
confrontational things start to manifest into a fight that doesn't
go so well. So what does he do. He tries
to flee the scene, only to then get run down
by the police. Finally get him down and they arrest him,
and now he is incarcerated at the moment. So hold

(01:44:25):
on a second, Like here, now, look, all of that
is bad. I don't listen, don't drink and drive. Don't
be an idiot with with ubers and lifts and caves.
You have no excuse anymore if you drink and drive,
your moron. But let me just say this also right
up there, neck and neck with stupidity and just bad.
Look all all around is this guy is an NFL
wide receiver and he got chased down by cops. Yeah,

(01:44:49):
I mean you, I mean I understand Baker Mayfield getting
run down by cops in Arkansas when he had pizza
stains on his shirt and he was blasted. I get that.
Baker Mayfield is not the fastest guy in the world.
I mean, know he's it's not he's not slow, but
he's not. This guy's a wide receiver. And by the way,
he's I mean, he's played in the NFL. He's not
just a practice squad. Got I'm looking at it. I mean,
he's got twenty two catches. He's got a couple of

(01:45:11):
touchdowns with the Titans early in his career. I mean, like,
what are we doing here? Dude? It sounds like his
career might just be over, not just because of the arrest,
but the realization that maybe he's not as athletic as
he once was. And all, yeah, that's true. I mean,
that's a that's just a bad look. I mean. And

(01:45:31):
and by the way, for anybody out there who wants
to blame, like where, I don't know where he was at.
Does this say what establishment he was at? So he
was found on the inner State, he doesn't say what establishment,
But the police report from the Atlanta Police Department saying
that they detected him just weaving incontrollably between lane to
lane on the interstate. He was weaving like through traffic cones,

(01:45:54):
although there were no traffic cones, and he was just
all over the place, could not hold a lane, was
just weaving back and forth. Yeah, it's uh. I see
the reason why I asked what establishment he's at, because
there's this lazy thing that people do where somebody gets
pot for a d u I or somebody does something
stupid leaving a bar, and everybody goes well, maybe they
were overserved, you know, maybe maybe it's the bartender's fault. Yeah,

(01:46:17):
it's the bartender's fault. You can't handle your booze. Yeah,
that's the bartender's fault. Let me stick up for my
bartender friends. When people with some guys, some people hide
their drunkenness really well. All right, So if this guy
went to someplace locally and got annihilated and then got
in his car and drove out, it's not the bartender's fault,
all right. If you if somebody goes out later on

(01:46:38):
tonight at a New Year's Eve party and next thing
you know, you're throwing up in your hands and wiping
your face with it because you think it's you're at
a sink in the bathroom. That's not the bartender's fault.
You're a slob and you can't handle your booze. To
add on to what you said, and I'm reading more
on the report. The officer that was trying to chase
him actually fired his gun at him. Jesus did not

(01:47:01):
hit anyone. Then beps and after they got into its
also got back into his truck, drove away, crashed the truck,
then started to run once he got out of the truck,
and then was found hiding by police and they arrested him.
So there's more to the story, disaster. Well, hey listen, UH,
that'll probably wrap that career up. So there's that, uh,

(01:47:23):
and and we'll keep you updated as to uh, the
latest scandal in the NFL. Some guy running from the cops.
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio from the entire rack
dot com studios. You can hang out with us as
always on the I Heart Radio app. So a player
in the NFL, a quarterback in the NFL. He has
made a statement. He has made a statement. It's a
controversial story and this guy has made a statement. We'll

(01:47:46):
get to that here coming up ten minutes from now.
But you know what, we like to do this every
single week on the program. We don't want to send
anybody on empty handed. We want everybody to feel good
about themselves. We try and identify who needs a feel
good moment, who needs an award. It is our t
G f G Game of the Week and it goes

(01:48:06):
to Jaguars in Texas. Yes, congratulations. I'm almost positive this
is a second or third time getting this award for
either the Jags and or the Texans. But it is
our thank God for gambling game of the week. Is

(01:48:27):
if not for gambling, nobody's watching. The game doesn't mean anything.
I mean, it really doesn't. Tennessee told you there game
against Dallas didn't mean anything a couple of nights ago.
That's why they benched a bunch of players and started
Josh Dobbs. And listen, the Jacksonville Jaguars are in the
same spot. Houston is gonna be picking number one in

(01:48:48):
the draft. That's just a fact. And don't worry, Houston.
You're gonna get the quarterback of your choice, because if
it's not you picking one, it's probably gonna be the
Bears and they're not taking a quarterback. So Houston is
gonna be fine. This game doesn't matter at all at all.
It's a winner take all for the division. Coming up
next week between the Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans. So

(01:49:09):
when you look at this matchup and you look at
this game, what's the point? Really, honestly, what is the point?
Like that's the definition of a t G f G
because if not for gambling, who cares? I mean, you
might have a fantasy football interest. You might have some
of these guys starting and ready to go for your

(01:49:30):
fantasy football championship weekend. Maybe that's something for you, But
fantasy football's gambling. So by rule, by definition, are thank
God for gambling. Game of the Week goes most appropriately
to the game that doesn't mean anything at all to
anybody at all. It's the Jags and the Titans, one
Eastern time tomorrow in Houston. So congratulations. Jonas Knox here

(01:49:53):
Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the Jonas
Knock Coming up next though, we do have a quarterback
in the NFL who has made a statement, a statement
and it's a story layered in controversy. At yours coming
up next year on FS are Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
You can hang out with us as always on the

(01:50:15):
I Heart Radio app. As we come to you here
from the entire rack dot Com studios try to do
a professional show here and I get zero help from
people behind the scenes. Can't do it. It's like it
really is, like Okay, so if anybody's ever seen like

(01:50:38):
I think it's Arizona State College basketball. By the way,
we are gonna have another edition of Knox Locks coming
up here in a little over ten minutes from now.
We got a lot to talk about Knox Locks. Also
a gambling controversy in the NFL as well too, We're
gonna get into that. So that's happening here a little
over ten minutes from now. But let me just say this.
If you watch Arizona State basketball, they got this thing
where they opened like a hurting behind the basket. I

(01:51:01):
think they used to. I don't know if COVID changed
all that tour Like now you've got to wear like,
you know, a mask with a with a cactus in
front of you there. I have no idea how they
do it, but like they opened this thing, there's like
a curtain and then somebody jumps out. I think Michael
Phelps jumped out at one point. He was wearing a
speedo and all this stuff. Because you're trying to distract
the guy at the free throw line. The oldest trick
in the book. Like Larry Bird, I remember hearing a story,

(01:51:24):
Um my brothers went to a Celtics Clippers game at
the old I think it was the San Diego Sports Arena.
It might have been San Diego, might have been I forget,
and furthermore, who cares. But the point being, somebody rolled
out a couple of posters of these women basically fully nude,

(01:51:45):
like they are almost fully new, like in bikinis, but
like string bikinis to try and distract Bird. But as
he was shooting a free throw late in the game,
and Bird literally stopped, told the crowd to make more noise,
and sunk both free throws and they won the game.
Like that was Larry Bird. You could not distract him

(01:52:06):
in the moment. Ice in his veins. It's like Adam
then a Terry. Get him in a Super Bowl, gotta
win a Super Bowl Ice in his veins. I don't
have that ability, because when I'm coming back on the
air and I get called the name that I was
just called by Iowa Sam during the break, I can't

(01:52:28):
keep it together. I don't have that ability. So I'm
one of those people that if you made some noise
or distracted me behind the foul line, I would miss
that shot. Like if you made some noise or started
yelling at me as I was trying to make a
game winning kick, I'd probably sprained both ankles and missed

(01:52:49):
the ball completely trying to hit a field goal. Based
on what Iowa Sam just said to me as we
came back from breaks, I hope you're happy, Sam, I
hope you're proud of yourself. You're a class. All that
I said was your great person is your microphone is
now on national air wheels. Yes, I said Jonas that
you're just a great dude. Go take away this segment. Yeah,

(01:53:12):
that's all. That's all that you said. It was nothing more,
nothing else. By the way, for those of you listening.
A couple of hours ago, I had some guy on
Twitter say I had a TUTSI roll appendage. So there's that.
Another guy writes in, you insufferable gas bag. You put
the Knox and obnoxious. I can't believe during the holiday
season the big wigs at FSR would be okay with

(01:53:33):
subjecting it's loyal listeners to four consecutive hours of this slop.
Let's Rob on Twitter, all right, so you can get
to me on Twitter as the compliments come flowing into
and two at the Jonas Knocks. At the Jonas Knocks
on Twitter, we do have a little bit of an update.
One of the big stories in the NFL over the

(01:53:54):
past several days has been the decision by the Las
Vegas Raiders to bench Derek Carr. In fact, they and
even bench him, they made him inactive. Jared Stidham is
the starting quarterback for your Las Vegas Raiders. And there's
a lot of people out there that are wondering, all right,
what's Derek Carr's response gonna be? What's gonna happen? How
is he gonna handle this? Well? I mean, he left
the team they thought it was gonna be best for

(01:54:15):
both sides. It looks like he's played his final game
with the Las Vegas Raiders after many years and many
different coaches and many bad defenses and not a whole
lot around him. I'm not saying he's a top ten quarterback,
but you can definitely do a lot worse than the
league than Derek Carr. According to reports out there, Derek
Carr has made a statement. Drumroll please, what is the

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statement from Derek Carr? In response to the move made
by the Las Vegas Raiders de bench him and move on.
Derek Carr has reportedly unfollowed the Raiders on social media.
Yeah there, it is welcome to I want to know

(01:55:03):
how mad I am I unfollowed you on Twitter and
snap face. But then'll do it. That's gonna show them
what are we doing, dude. I mean, I get it.
I understand people are upset and they're a little bit bothered,
but come on, like and and I refuse to go

(01:55:24):
through and look at who Derek carrs following. But this
is some people who took the time to do the
research on this stuff, and they've passed these notes along.
So if any of this is inaccurate or it's false,
we're taken out of the podcast. It's not that difficult,
all right. We just taken out of the podcast. And
if it turns out Derek Carr is still following the
Raiders on snap face or instant book or whatever it's called,

(01:55:48):
if that's still the case and you want to call
me out on it, I'll just lie and say I
never said that. There's options here, there's solutions. But Derek
Carr's responded it and reportedly is unfollowed the Raiders on
social media. Neat here's the facts. The Raiders are moving on.

(01:56:09):
They want to go in a different direction. They feel
they can upgrade at the position, and good luck to them.
I know there's gonna be teams that would absolutely what
Derek Carr and their roster. Derek Carr has talked about
not want to play for anybody else other than the Raiders.
You're telling me the New York Jets wouldn't like to
have Derek cart quarterback. He's gonna have plenty of options
and everybody on both sides are gonna be okay, and
this might actually be a good thing for Derek car

(01:56:31):
and his reputation. Moving forward, our to next. I'm not
on snap face and all that instant shot or whatever
it is. So we got ourselves a little bit of
a scandal. A little bit of a scandal the NFL
involving a future Hall of Famer. We'll get into that
for you coming up here just a couple of moments
from now. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. You can hang
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(01:57:35):
it's our four if you think of it. Regardless, all
of anything you missed will be up at Fox Sports
Radio dot com after we go off the air, and
you've probably missed a lot. There's been a lot of
upbeat people the feedback so far. A lot of people
are really upbeat, excited about things, really positive. Charles writes

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in says fill in bleep on New Year's Eve because
your ass has nowhere to go like all the cool people.
So you'll be sitting in your bleep basement watching these
unwatchable playoff games, followed by bleep ass ball drop with
your twink Man crush, Ryan Seacrest enjoy f boy. Another guy.

(01:58:24):
Another guy on Twitter earlier said take your Tootsie roll
appendage and go kick rocks and traffic. I mean, like,
this is the good stuff. This makes you feel great,
you know what I mean? Like the holidays coming up,
it's like, hey, what's your new Year's resolution. My new
Year's resolution is I want to feel great, just like
I do now reading those let me tell you something.

(01:58:46):
It's that sort of positivity that you look for when
you tune into this program every Saturday. Tell you that
right now. All right, So we've got a lot to
get to. A Knox locks by the way, at the
Jonas Knocks on Twitter if you want to see the
unedited versions of either one of those, I did retweet them.
But so we've got you know, you've got a lot
to get to. A Knox Los a lot to get
to because it's been awful, you know, like this has

(01:59:09):
not been a great year. But I do feel as
good as I felt about picks for this weekend's games
this week is right up there with as good as
I felt about any picks this year. So we will
have those for you here shortly. But I didn't see
this story that came out very bizarre. So Drew Brees

(01:59:29):
is back in the news. Apparently some sports books in
New Jersey on Friday, we're to we're told to halt
betting on the Citrus Bowl between Purdue and l s
U because somebody associated with the Purdue football team was
in violation of state regulations. That was a report that
came out from ESPN, and apparently that person involved as

(01:59:52):
Drew Brees. So Drew Brees is on the produced staff
for this bowl game, and so he was gonna, you know,
just kind of hang out and and you know, take
part in this bowl game, and you know, just wanted
to help coach the team and and just kind of
wanted to, you know, be a part of everything. You know,
he's looking around like, you know, I'm one of the

(02:00:13):
Purdue greats. You saw him when the college football season
kicked off. He saw Drew Brees was out there when
Penn State was playing Perdue. He was on the set
with the guys on Big New Kickoff and they were
chumming it up and him and Reggie Bush were having
a good time and it was, I mean, like everyone was.
It was a few good day. Drew Brees is back.
That's awesome. Drew Brees is back. And so you're looking

(02:00:35):
at it, You're going, okay, well, this would be a
great thing to have him back on the team, back
on the roster. The problem is, and back on that
coaching staff. Drew Brees had an affiliation with a sports
book called Points Bet, some sort of a a business
relationship or something like that. Remember that was when that
old fake lightning strike video came out where some people

(02:00:58):
were like, what's with this? Did Drew Bree's really get
struck by lightning in Venezuela. It's like, wait what And
then you look at the video and you go, well,
that looks fake. And then Drew Brees got a bunch
of pushback for that because it's like one of the
most volatile lightning strike areas in the world, apparently someplace
in Venezuela. I have no idea. The only thing I

(02:01:18):
know about Venezuela is baseball, and they got those giant
bird eating spiders which are just terrifying. I mean, like
they look like lawnmowers and they just walk up and
they'll snatch something out of a tree and just devour it.
You imagine waking up next to a Venezuelan bird eating spider.
You imagine camping in Venezuela, like you're on the set

(02:01:39):
of that. Just imagine that you're on the set of
that that that fake lightning strike video Drew Brees is
putting together. And so you wake up, You've got like
a Drew Brees bobble head next to you, and all
of a sudden it tips over and you're like, well,
there's no real wind out right now, what's going on there?
And you look over and there is a spider the

(02:02:01):
size of a volvo next to your head. What do
you do? Seriously, what do you do? But I'll tell
you what I do. I would just grab a sowd
off and disappear in the woods and just say I'll
take my chances and let me tell you something. If
if Tom Hanks can survive on an island, eating his

(02:02:23):
fingernails and having a sexual relationship potentially with a volleyball.
I'll take my chances in the woods with with a
sawd off alright, But the point being, Drew Brees has
had sort of an awkward post NFL career. Can we
all agree on that. Now he's got this little gambling thing. Look,
they just don't want him affiliated with the game. There's
been some movement in the game, so I don't think

(02:02:44):
Drew Brees is betting on produe football, but it has
been kind of a weird post NFL career. Now goes
to NBC that didn't work, through his name in the
hat for maybe some pickleball, or may making a return
to NFL that hasn't really worked. I wanted to get
involved with points bet that didn't really work. I wanted

(02:03:08):
to just go ahead and be an assistant coach for Purdue.
What's the worst that can happen? Well, maybe a gambling
scandal that hasn't worked. It's just been really choppy. It's
been really awkward, so we'll keep an eye on it.
I don't know that anything's gonna come with this, but
apparently you know that. And this is what teams and
this is what sports books and people have to do nowadays,

(02:03:29):
anybody that's got any sort of affiliation. It's like Miles
Austin guy was betting on games that weren't even football
games and he got suspended. Calvin Ridley wasn't even playing.
He was betting on games his team wasn't in. And
that I was doing, like goofy seven team parlays. Nobody
hits seven team parlay's. That's like playing penny slots hoping

(02:03:51):
to win big in Vegas. Like you put a bill
in a penny slot, You're gonna be there for forty
five minutes, and nobody's winning big on that. But how
real least not making money on a seven team parlay
that he placed a couple of them, but he got
pop for a year because they gotta make an example
of people. So now the gambling is here and gamblings
amongst us in the world of sports, and it's part

(02:04:12):
of everybody's been ocular now. Like I've been around it
for a lot longer than a lot of people. Because look,
I remember talking about sports betting on the air and
people would give me a hard time, like are you
allowed to be doing that? Should you be doing that?
It's like, come on, man, everybody does it. What are
we talking about here, Like, what are we really talking about?
Everybody gambles, You don't go to Vegas, you don't gamble.

(02:04:32):
Like everybody's been doing this for a long time. But
now it's starting to be accepted. And so now everybody's
feels like they're more comfortable and talking about it. And
so you've got these teams in these leagues. I gotta
let everybody know there's no funny business. Everything's on the
up and up. So they got to go above and
beyond to let everybody know there's no issues here. So
when the sports book or the people in New Jersey

(02:04:53):
decide we're not taking any more action on this Bowl
game because Drew Brees is involved and he had some
prior affiliation with a gambling site, this is just part
of the course. This is how things are going to
be for the short time now that gambling is here
in the world of professional sports. Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio.
All right, so get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox.
But let's talk about Knox Locks. It's been terrible, speaking

(02:05:14):
of gambling, it's been terrible. Alright. I'm not I'm not
gonna sit here and lie to you I want to
be as honest as possible. Winless last week. Now, to
my defense, it was a holiday weekend. By the time
we did Knox locks. All the good games have been
chewed up and spit out. I loved Caroline against Detroit
last week. I was all over it, chewed up, spit out.

(02:05:36):
Couldn't get it in in time because our show came
on after all these games took place. I got screwed.
So I had a limited menu to choose from, and
I went with whatever was there. It's like eating at
an airport. You gotta catch a flight. What are your options?
A tuna fish sandwich has been sitting there for two days,

(02:05:57):
and orange juice and some eggs benedict that the guy
just put together after he dropped it on the floor.
You don't have a lot of options. You take what
you can get, or you can go get a bag
of rolled golds for eight dollars next to the magazine
standing go on your plane. Right, not a lot to
choose from. I did the best I could. I pushed

(02:06:17):
on the Eagles game. I lost my ass on the
Dolphins and the and the Packers. I'm not gonna blame
it on to us condition in that game. Not doing that,
that's a that's an easy way out. I would say
I would feel a little bit better about things that
he not suffered the injury. And then as far as
the Broncos and the Rams, of course, I took the
Broncos minus three. I couldn't figure out why they were favorite.

(02:06:39):
I thought somebody must have known something and they did.
That team sucks and so there we are, a winless performance.
I didn't go oh and three, I pushed, but for
the season, I'm twenty twenty five and three, the worst
I've ever done. But it's set never say die attitude,
which is why you love this show. And it's time
for this No knocks locks cold, said Giants. I mean,

(02:07:11):
come on, man, come on, Indianapolis stinks. Give me the
Giants minus the five and a half at home. If
the Giants win this game, they will have clinched a
playoff spot for the first time in like five or
six years. You remember that Odell Beckham yacht gate boat
gate picture where he was wearing some timberland standing on

(02:07:33):
a boat, and then they went out and lost to
Green Bay a few days later. Remember that picture. That
was the last time the Giants were in the playoffs.
They're getting it done this weekend. I love the Giants,
and if the Giants get into the postseason, and they
will this weekend, Brian dave Ball should be coach of
the year if you look at where they've been over
the past decade as an organization, the failures of the

(02:07:56):
previous two coaches when it came to Daniel Jones and
this roster. To see what they've done this year, I
think they get it done again on Sunday. I like
the Giants minus the five and a half. They will
take care of business with the Indianapolis Colts. That team's
going to the playoffs and we're winning on this bet. Panthers,
give me Tampa Bay. Come on, give me Tampa Bay

(02:08:18):
minus the three and a half. I'll take Tampa Bay.
At some point, don't you have to look somewhat like
what anybody thought you were gonna be. You mean to
tell me this late in the season at home, with
all that experience, all those credentials, Tom Brady as your quarterback,
you still got talent there. You mean to tell me

(02:08:39):
you can't beat Carolina by more than three points. You can't.
You just can't do it. I mean, the line's already
moved in some places. In some places, Tampa Bay is
now four point favorite that out of tell you people
feel the same way. I mean, they've been one of
the most disappointing teams in the league. I get it.
But I like the Buccaneers here. They've got an opportunity
to win the division. They got an opportunity to get

(02:09:01):
a little bit of momentum as we headed to the
final week of the season and head into the playoffs.
Give me the Tampa Bay Buccaneers minus the three and
a half. Although I will say Steve Wilkes absolutely deserves
a shot to be the full time coach of the
Carolina Panthers based on his performance this season, but it
ain't gonna help him here. I like Tampa Bay Jets,
said Seahawks little Geno Smith revenge game. Come on, now,

(02:09:24):
the Jets are a mess. Let's just say it. Their mess.
Like you move on from Zach Wilson. He's now inactive,
he's probably done in New York, and now you're going
back to Mike White, and everybody's like, Okay, finally an
upgraded quarterback. It's not like Mike White has lit up
the league. He had that one really good game against
the Bears, who were riddled with injuries, and then look

(02:09:46):
at his other performances. I mean, they've got talent around him.
They're probably gonna have the rookie of the year on
defense and Sauce Gardner and the rookie of the year
on offense and Garrett Wilson. Think about that. There's talent there.
I'm not disputing that they're heading in the right direction.
But when I look at the Jets, I go, you're
gonna go all that way to Seattle. It's been up
and down this year. I'm looking at the Seahawks. I'm

(02:10:07):
looking at Geno Smith. I'm seeing Seattle's getting a point
in a half at home this late in the season.
I'll take my chances. Give me the Seahawks to take
care of the Jets. And that is your week seventeen
edition of Knox Locks. Feel good about those, get me
on Twitter at the Jonas Knocks. If you don't at

(02:10:29):
the Jonas Snucks on Twitter. And by the way, you
do have you do have an option here. If you
don't like any of those bets, just fade me go
the opposite way. If you've done that all year, you'd
be five games over five, so there's some positivity for you,
all right. So coming up next, there is one scenario
that a lot of you, upon hearing it, initially, want
no part of. In the world of football. You don't

(02:10:51):
want any part of this, But if you actually just
take a second and think about the potential, you should
all want this to happen in the world of football.
This weekend, we'll get into that for you right here
on fs ARE Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You can
Radio app. So we're gonna get to this story in

(02:11:15):
the world of football. Look, if you are a fan
of football, if you are a fan of interesting and
you want like a really good matchup, we're gonna get
to that story coming up here in just a couple
of moments from here. From now on fs ARE, because
I think there's one way for this to go that's
gonna gonna appeal to everybody. Unfortunately, some of you were
gonna hate it upon hearing it initially, which is unfair,

(02:11:36):
But we'll get to that here coming up just a
couple of moments from now. By the way, this was
sent out courtesy of the Yahoo Sports College Football Twitter account.
This is great, so Iowa, and congratulations to our own
Iowa Sam, the voice of Iowa Hawkeye football. By the way,
who's the is it? Is it? Uh? Gary Porpoise? What

(02:12:00):
that guy's name? Will calls the Iowa games? What's his name?
Another mammal of a similar distinction, Gary Dolphin? Yeah, Porpoise
and dolphin. Very, They're they're related, They're very. But he's fantastic.
It doesn't he call these basketball games to or No? Yeah,
men's basketball. Yeah, alright, So he's he does a great job.
And you know, he's one of those like to be
able to call both is just phenomenal. And uh, he

(02:12:21):
does a great job. But I would just simply like to,
uh to point this as of congratulations because him and
Iowa Sam are the the college football voices of the
Iowa Hawkeyes, like they're the voice of the Hawk. Kind
of you to say. Yahoo Sports College Football account just
sent this out quote. Iowa was over eleven on third down,

(02:12:44):
over two on fourth down, punted eight times, average four
point two yards per play, and one by twenty one points.
I mean, would you say it like that? I mean,
it's hard to complain and Kirk Ference is on the
stage at the awards ceremony, crying like a baby like
he always does, which we love you. They started the

(02:13:07):
year three and four, they finished five. You know it's great,
Like like people can mock Iowa and they'll make fun
of all. Kirk Ference has been there too long, you
know how Like when all these rumors about like college
coaches jumping to the NFL, we're around. Kirk Ference was
one of the original guys that a lot of people
looked at and said that would work in the NFL,
because people forget Kirk Ference was on Bill Belichick staff

(02:13:30):
with the Browns. Like if you go back and look
at the number of assistant coaches on that on that
staff with the Cleveland Browns back then, it was Kirk Ferens,
it was Nick Saban, Like you had a ton of
guys on that staff back when when the Browns were
around in the mid nineties. And so yeah, people can
poke fun at the offense and whatever they want to

(02:13:50):
call it, but hey, man, Iowa football, Oh for eleven
on third down, still win twenty one nothing. I mean
they still have to make a change. I think get
offensive coordinator the sun involved, because you just trademark now
just yeah, yeah, it's Sickos committee kind of. That's it's
like the you know, the running shoot offense back in

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the day. It's like the k gun for the Bills.
That's Iowa football. It's the best players, your punter, running punt, Yeah,
running punt, run from run from minus one yard, in
complete pass punt, have a great punter, Yeah, running punt.
That's the That's the Iowa slogan from now and see
you just get there. It is say, yeah, you gave
out a winner. You said they were going to score

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more than thirteen and a half points this game. They did.
They easily did that in the first quarter. And now
running punt the story of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Yeah, hey, man,
I like it. I'm into it. It's a little it's
a breath of fresh air. It's not like this this,
you know, fifty five fifty three shootout that we see
between Kansas and Arkansas. Whatever the hell, whatever the hell

(02:14:52):
that final throw was from Jason being Jesus dude. I'm
assuming the ball slipped. Maybe he got confused, but it
was the two point conversion. I don't know why you're
throwing it out of bounds, but never mind that that's
neither here nor there. Jonas knocks with the here on
Fox Sports rading. So congratulations of the Iowa Hawkeyes. Also,
congratulations are in order for um the Alabama Crimson Tide.

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That is the final forty five to twenty for the
Alabama Crimson Tide. They were downten nothing and they went
on to absolutely blast the Kansas State Wildcats Bryce Young
five touchdowns in that game. So Alabama gets it done
the final here and obviously we got the college Football
Playoff coming up. Uh we'll call it, uh, you know,

(02:15:39):
top of the hour, so a little over half hour
from now, So we'll have all that stuff and all
that fun stuff for you here on fs ARE. But
there is a and I would just like to say this,
there's one way that this weekend goes that's gonna be
the best possible outcome for everybody involved. There's one way

(02:15:59):
this gos and it's for Ohio State in Michigan to win. Now,
before you get pissy, before you turn off the radio,
before you throw something, before you get angry, if you're
a TCU fan, you're a Georgia fan, or if you
just hate Ohio State in Michigan, or you hate the
Big Ten, whatever you want to say. Before you do

(02:16:19):
all that, ask yourself, this, what would make for the
most interesting and best possible matchup in the National Championship game.
It's a rematch of the game. Like it's like, that's
just the truth. Like, what what is the argument against it?

(02:16:41):
We've already seen the game. Cool, you've already seen Georgia
and Michigan in the College Football Playoff. Okay, well yeah,
but we get that in the SEC. Yeah, we've had
it in the SEC. We've never had in the Big Ten.
And if you're going to argue, what's the best rivalry
in all of college football? And in fact, I would
say best rivalry in college sports apologies to Duke North

(02:17:04):
Carolina and basketball, Ohio State Michigan, by far and away
is the best rivalry in college football and in college sports.
You could have argued back in the day, Miami, Florida State.
You could argue USC, Notre Dame, the Iron Bowl, all
these other you know, the Sside Hawk Bowl, like the

(02:17:25):
Palmetto Bowl. Like you argue whatever you want, Georgia, Georgia Tech,
whatever you want to argue. The game Ohio State Michigan
not even closed best rivalry in all of college sports
and one of the best rivalries in all of sports period.
So you've got an opportunity for that, and to get
that a second time. Why would you not want it?

(02:17:48):
Like Alabama Georgia meeting again. I get all that. You
were fatigued with Alabama and Clemson playing in the National Championship.
I get all that, And it's gonna take a lot
for Ohio State to be Georgia. But if you're looking
at like what's gonna be the most interesting, what's gonna
be the best possible matchup to me, it's Ohio State Michigan.

(02:18:08):
Like if TCU were to go out and beat Michigan,
you know what's gonna happen. And TCU is a great team,
you know what's gonna happen. If TCU upsets Michigan, they're
gonna go to the National Championship and they're gonna get smoked.
Like it's just like you, like you don't have to
watch every down of TCU or c Max dug In

(02:18:29):
play already. You just know that's how this goes. Feel
good story. Upset early on, then they get to the
big dance, they get smoked. You know, how this goes.
And it's gonna take a hell of a lot for
Ohio State to beat Georgia. I get it. George has
been the best team in college football all year. I
totally get it. Like this is the first game Ohio State.

(02:18:51):
Ohio State has been an underdog since the National title
game of the COVID year. Think about that, twenty five
straight games Ohio State was avered until this game against Georgia.
So it's gonna take a lot. But if you're asking me,
just looking ahead, from an entertainment standpoint, from a storyline standpoint,

(02:19:13):
from a matchup standpoint, what's the better possible matchup than
Ohio State Michigan in the National Title Game and all
Big Ten rematch of the greatest rivalry in all of
college sports. You mean to tell me you're not signing
up for that? Personally? I am so. I have a
rooting interest in this game. I'm looking at it and

(02:19:35):
I'm going give me Ohio State. That's gonna be a
major upset and you just need Michigan to do what
they need to do and then we get the game
Part two. Who the hell wouldn't be into that? Jonas
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So coming up here next, we're gonna give you an update.
There are some storylines, some injuries, the status is of
several key players in the National Football League and what
it means moving forward, including one that under the radar,

(02:20:19):
maybe worse than one team is letting on. We'll have
that for you next on the other side. But for
all the latest from around the world of sports, ladies
and gentlemen. Makes some noise, but not too much noise.
For Brian Fenlayer, it's it's nice that we have an
in studio crowd on hand. Really appreciate them for showing
up van and doing their time work. We'll get this.

(02:20:40):
It's unbelievable, the ensemble, the cast. We have Jonahs. Maybe
they can take out the trash during the holiday weekends
when nobody does it and they can do that studio. Well,
I mean there's a few people that will you have
been food in there and it just sits and stinks
and rots, and and then you wonder why you smell
when you come out of studio. By the way, have
you opened up that fridge and the gosh, I would

(02:21:01):
not touch some of those things have been in there
for six months. It's like opening up a coffin. God,
and I get like, oh yeah, I like you almost
get a whiff of it before you actually open the
coffin lid. It's that smell jonas of like vegetables that
have gone bad. And then yeah, it's really gross. It's

(02:21:23):
really gross. Yeah. I mean we know that Alex Steicher,
he likes a lot of vegetables and greens. I think
he's got some stuff in there from back in March
where he had did this mixture of like wheat grass
and a couple of acorns off the tree and then
turned it into a smoothie and it just that think
stinks man. Yeah, it's listen, uh look tie shirt. He's

(02:21:43):
he's all about the He eats a lot of vegetables.
I eat a lot of vegetables too, Like I eat
vegetables every single day, but I don't do it at
work because also the time that i'm that, I'm you know,
in studio, Yes you do, it's two in the morning.
I don't need it work. You used to. I've seen
you eat some bell peppers here and the over nights. Yeah,
when I needed a snack and I didn't want anything
that was bad, Like I don't. It blows my mind

(02:22:06):
when somebody is doing radio and they can eat like
pizza or something like that. I think that's insane. How
do you do it? I don't know how you do it? Jonas,
You're the guy that eats bill peppers and carries around
the gallon sized water bottle while wearing a v NEX shirt,
right and just got done? Yeah, what's wrong with that?

(02:22:28):
And by the way, you wear a V neck shirt,
you never spill anything that's telling you because like your
shirt never gets dirty, goes right in your chest. Yeah.
Good to know. So that doesn't make any sense, but
with anywhere, Yeah, yeah, we'll definitely roll with that. Hey,
we are about thirty minutes away from that first of
two national semifinal college football playoff games where number three

(02:22:49):
TCU is gonna be battling with number two Michigan at
the Fiesta Vole and then coming up of course after
that at eight p m. Eastern time, it's number four
Ohio States e J. Stroud. You're ready to do battle
against number one Georgia thirteen and go on the season.
Are those bulldogs that one at the Peach Bowl. We
are now currently watching Nick Saban with confetti falling on

(02:23:11):
the field there at the Sugar Bowl celebrating with the
trophy presentation winning the Sugar Bowl forty five to twenty
the number five Crimson Tide over number nine Kansas State,
and Jonas I know that you were scared about the
the tides chances after they were down ten and nothing
against the Kansas State terrified man, Like, man, Alabama is
just not ready to play this game. It's not up

(02:23:33):
for it. Yeah, people are such losers. Like if if
they go back and look at some of the tweets
from people in real time, why don't you just let
let it bake before you go, Hey, this cake is
no good, dude, let it bake, all right? The game
it just kicked off. Alabama's down ten nothing and everyone's like,
oh god, here's Alabama and you guys wanted them in
the playoff get out of here. Well, that's why they

(02:23:55):
invented the delete option on Twitter, so that those takes
can all of us ad in disappear. By the way,
is there an edit button on Twitter? Is there yet?
I don't. I don't think there is. I think they've
toyed with it. They flirted with it. Other social media
outlets and places and platforms do, but I don't think
Twitter does. That wouldn't come in handy for a lot
of people, A lot of people, a lot of people

(02:24:17):
we we won't name names on this show, of course. No. No,
speaking of somebody who's working on this show who's pretty
happy about a college football resold Iowa Sam It's Hot
guys twenty one to nothing. They get it done against
a hapless Kentucky squad where there wasn't a whole lot
of offense and no surprise, those two pick sixes from
the Hot guys. That was the difference there, as the

(02:24:39):
offense was a bit lack luster, although they did get
a touchdown pass from Lebs, their quarterback who was starting
this game for Iowa, so something encouraging there on the
offensive side for them. Atlanta Falcons practice squad wide receiver
Cameron Batson was arrested early Saturday morning in the Atlanta
area after fighting the police and then trying to flee

(02:24:59):
this an affort traffic stop where law enforcements say he
was speeding and driving rightlessly on the freeway while he
was under the influence of alcohol. According to this police report,
even the police fired shots at him, then he in.
Batson got back into his car. His truck then crashed it,
then started running again only to hide and then was

(02:25:20):
found and discovered by police where he ultimately was arrested.
The finally last nugget here, Jonas, the NFL and the
nfl p A led investigation found that Dolphins quarterback to
a Tongue of Valoa experienced no symptoms during last Sunday's
game when he got concussed, and that's the reason for
why he was able to play. But as you know, Jonas,
this is the second time where the the head injury

(02:25:42):
status of two a tongue of Valo has been in
question based upon how the organization, the commenty Dolphins have
handled things. So it just kind of perks your attention
a little bit. But according to to both sides, there
apparently there was no funny business in allowing to it
to play, because the symptoms, of course, did not show
up until the day after the game. Yeah. Well, I mean,

(02:26:02):
everybody's a doctor. They know how concussion symptoms work. Now,
I think that's that's that's the new rule. Everybody's a doctor.
But I also like how people go. But you know,
this is the problem when you pay a mobile quarterback
like two dude, he got sacked, he and he got
drugged to the ground and hit his head on the turf.
Like it's not like he was running and initiated contact

(02:26:24):
with somebody. Like, it's just it's a violent game. This
stuff happens. People got to relax. I mean, it's not ideal,
nobody's rooting for it, but it is what it is.
All Right, thank you, well, said Jones. By the way, family,
what do you got going on for New Year's You're
gonna get ripped? You know what I'm gonna do. I
don't drink, so I might get a six pack of o'duel's. No,

(02:26:44):
but what I am going to do is I'm gonna
get a massage. How about that? How about that? But
where you going Cleveland? Uh? Yeah, something like that. And
then tomorrow they're doing this Corgy Nationals at Santity. Yeah, yeah,
so I got a quarky. Yeah, well, we know what
happens to corgy nationals. Excuse me, A tanna need a

(02:27:06):
race track with the horses, and he doesn't usually add
well for them. But hopefully the Corgies are going to
end up a little bit better. They're gonna have some
fun activities at the race track, and they're gonna be
hundreds of corgies. People's people bringing them and wasting them,
so it'll be fun. Jonas, Um do they race on
the actual track? They do kind of a long track
for a corgy, isn't it. They cut it too, I

(02:27:27):
would say about fifty yards and they just let them
out and then their owners are screaming at the finish line.
Some go backwards, some go sideways, some don't even make
it to the finish. It is so good. I'm looking
at I'm looking at a corgy right now. They like
little cigars with the ears. They're like little potatoes, and
you try to you try racing them, and it's just

(02:27:48):
the best entertainment for about tens. How fast can they
actually go? I mean they like speedy year. Now there's
leg size, Brian, what would you say, I would say
about fifteen miles an hour. You know they would be
despite the fact the way that they are built, they
can go a lot faster than you would think because
those little feet, although they're short, Yeah, they can zoom

(02:28:10):
and they can run after things like squirrels, although they
can't climb trees like squirrels, so which kind of defeats
the purpose. You know that guy for the falcons can't
get away from a cop. They're like Harry pigs. That's
why I like Fox, a baron, a pig, all combined
into one. What a compliment. You're like a Harry pig. Well,
I grew up with corgies to Brian, and I have
a kinship for Corgies, and they're just ridiculous dogs, like

(02:28:32):
they're they have such incredible personalities. But by the way, bo,
are you getting all this? Please? Please tell me you're
rolling got all this stuff? Sam and Finley like fondling
each other's Corgis on the air. I don't have a
corgy anymore, so I'll be fondling Findley's Corky when I
get a chance. That sound weird? That did so say, hey, bo,

(02:28:54):
please tell me you got that F eight that that's
what that drop will stay in the system for the
next decade, so that'll work. Well. Listen, that sounds like
fun family. I mean, look, you're gonna feel a lot
better than a lot of people are come up tomorrow
morning because you're not gonna get ripped Jones, what are
you gonna be doing? Nothing? I don't do anything, man,
I I um hit, well, yeah, but that's nothing special.

(02:29:15):
Already did that earlier. But here's I haven't watched the
English version of the New Year's Eve Show on whatever
channel it's on in years because my wife is Hispanic,
and so she always watches the Hispanic version and they
usually bring it to you in like different parts of
the country. There's somebody in Miami, somebody at times Squares,

(02:29:36):
somebody in California, somebody in Mexico. So so I don't
even know what's being said, but without giving away anything else,
it looks pretty good, if you know what I mean.
So we'll just we'll kind of work with that and
uh and just try and decipher what the hell is
going on and then have a couple of beers and
then that's it. I think it's a lot of football Jones.

(02:29:57):
It is so overrated, these New Year's shows on the network.
I mean, you and I we'd rather watch a couple
episodes of Paw Patrol than Yeah, probably watch that tonight. Yeah,
probably not. I'm gonna go with probably not on that. Um,
but listen, I mean, I'll take your word for it.
It sounds like a like a fun show. So you know, hey,
nothing wrong. Yeah, thank you Dan dan Buyer joining us

(02:30:19):
here on com Rex three. So we appreciate Dann Dan
taking part in the problem. All right, it is unbelievable.
I agree it is. Jonas knocks Fox Sports Trading. We're
gonna have the scraps to his n'ee always Andy, We're
gonna have the scraps here coming up next on FSR.
That'll be uh, we'll call it about a little over

(02:30:40):
less than ten minutes from now. I do want to
mention this though, So it does look like Jalen Hurts
is doubtful for this game. It gets the Saint. It's
not a surprise. It was probably gonna be Gardner Minchew anyways,
and they should have no problem with New Orleans. Philly
should win this game. They should wrap everything up. Gardner
Minshew played well last week. They should be fine in

(02:31:00):
this game coming up on Sunday against New Orleans. I
do wonder, though, if this Jalen Hurts injury is maybe
a little worse than they're letting on because it was
his throwing shoulder, and I know he finished the game
against the Bears when it happened. But I just I
wonder if Nick Sirianni and kind of his you know,

(02:31:24):
you know, smartass responses and talking about Jalen Hurts being
built different. I just wonder if Philly wraps us up
and say Jalen Hurts is not going to play next week,
and then you've got another week off because you're gonna
have the bye week. I wonder a couple of things. A.
Is that an indicator that this is worse than he's

(02:31:44):
letting on And the only way Jalen Hurts is playing
is if they absolutely need to win and be do.
We also see what happened with Lamar Jackson and the
Ravens a few years ago, who they had to buy
in the first round of the playoffs. They rested everybody
Week seven teen, and Lamar Jackson came out against Tennessee
in that game and was awful, and you had John

(02:32:05):
Harbaugh and Lamar Jackson and everybody after the facts say yeah,
that time off really hurt us and impacted our performance
in the playoff game. So it's just something to monitor there.
Is it more significant than the Eagles are letting on
and will it impact how this team plays, especially in
the first game they play in the postseason? Coming up,
Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter

(02:32:25):
at the Jonas Knocks. So next here on the show,
we're gonna have the scraps things in the world of
sports and beyond we have not had a chance to
get to us. We put a bow on this bad
boy at yours right here on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas Knox,
Fox Sports Radio from the entire act dot Com studios
we're in about ten minutes from now. Steve Hartman and
I from salam will take over the airwaves and they

(02:32:47):
will have you covered in real time. Is the college
football playoff is getting underway coming up here shortly between
TCU and Michigan, and then we've got Ohio State and Georgia. Afterwards,
we've got a full slate of juicy football in the
world of college football coming up later on and Stephen
E from We'll have You Covered on All That again

(02:33:09):
coming up a little over ten minutes from now. If
you missed any of this program, you can check out
the podcast at Fox Sports Radio dot com. It's the
final show of the year for us. We appreciate all
you guys hanging out with us, laughing with us, breaking
our balls, doing what you do. It's always appreciated and listen.
We like a lot of people will say, well, you know, look,

(02:33:30):
you get me through these hard times, or you know,
we appreciate you guys, you know, being on the air
during the holidays. First of all, it's an honor this
This isn't a real job, like we do this because
we love it, and we appreciate you guys even making
us any part of your day and taking the time
to listen or checking out the podcast, whether you're critical,
whether you're a fan of the show, whether you want

(02:33:52):
to tease somebody or call somebody names, whatever. To me,
it's always a good time and it's always an honor
to be doing this with you guys. I look at
it as one big fan. It's not just us doing
the radio show, it's you listening wherever you are. We're
all in this together. We stay out of the all
the other drama, all the other bad stuff that goes
on in real life that a lot of people will
get focused on. We try and have a good time

(02:34:13):
here and so we're looking forward to and continuing to
do so. So thank you from all of us to
all of you. You make all this possible and we
appreciate it. So, without further ado, it's time to put
a bow on this thing, Jonas, how could you not
get to these stories? These are the scraps, and literally

(02:34:35):
a bow on these things, because it's bow Benson, our
executive producer, to tell us what the hell we've missed
so far on the show. What's happening alright, Jonas? So, Uh,
Bengals running back Joe Mixon. The Bengals take on the
Bills in a massive game on Monday. Joe Mixon center
reminder to the Bills that the Bengals are the big
dog in the a f C. I'm assuming because they
went to the Super Bowl last year. It's a little

(02:34:57):
bit of a little bit of trash talk ahead of this. Uh,
this big old game, by the way, that's gonna be
a phenomenal game like that. That's that's one of the
more anticipated Monday Night games. I can recall bills and
bills and bangles like I can't think of another one
that we've looked ahead and gone that we everybody's watching them.
I know. That's I think that's definitely the biggest game
of this year. So it's gonna be massive. Look, the

(02:35:18):
Bengals and the Niners are the hottest teams in the NFL,
and the Bengals are full of confidence, and they should
be because I think a lot of people look at
it and say, well, it's a foregone conclusion. It's Kansas City,
It's Buffalo Man, super Bowl, hangover my ass. Cincinnati has
been on a roll. That's gonna be a fun one,
all right. The cold Ciannick and go Way will undergo
throat surgery to fix an injury he suffered during Monday's

(02:35:41):
loss to the Los Angeles Chargers. So that's Jesus, yeah,
throat surgery. I mean, like, I know singers get throat surgery,
but like someone somebody like like gouge him in the throat.
I don't understand, Like they stab his neck, Like what
the hell happened there? That's that's a rough to go.
I don't want anybody going near me. I was, I

(02:36:02):
was about to say something there, and I'm not gonna
get dumped. I refused to finish the year like that
shown us, son of a bitch,

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