Jonas Knox Explains How One Miserable NFL Franchise Won Big This Week

Jonas Knox reacts to the huge trade between the Panthers and Bears at the top of the NFL Draft, and explains how one team outside of the trade just found themselves in a perfect situation. Jonas reacts to the latest on Aaron Rodgers and rips Mark Murphy for his public comments on the situation. Jonas breaks down Lamar Jackson’s potential market. The WWE is getting into the betting business, and there is no reason for people to freak out about this. Plus, the latest editions of Do You Care and The Scraps!

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in an advantageous situation in the National Football League. Will
tell you who that is. Coming up here in just
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there is a moment that we've all been through, but
unfortunately you have to go through enough terrible moments in
order to really appreciate and enjoy that moment. For example,

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it's a real pain in the ass sometimes to find
parking in different situations in different places for all of us,
it's a pain in the ass. Now, you can do
Valet if you want to, but I'm not giving somebody
five or ten dollars just because I'm too lazy to
walk an extra distance to try and get to where
I want to go to. And that's not a shot

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at anybody park in Valet. But I'm just not willing
to fork out that kind of cash if I need
to get in and out somewhere, just to cut down
on whatever the time is, etc. Etc. Now, in certain situations,
if you're up against it or you're running a little
bit late, I understand everybody's got decisions to make. That's cool.

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But for the most part, I'd rather park my own
car and I'd rather walk, however far it is, into
whatever store or restaurant or wherever I need to go.
That's how I operate. And sometimes, like around the holidays,
it's a real pain in the ass to find parking.
And then there's that one moment, that one time where

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you're dreading the situation. It's the worst part of the
whole ordeal, having to find parking and then trying to
get in and out, and then you got to wait
for somebody, and then you got to try and identify
who's walking with bags to their car, and who's walking
to the car that just happened to forget something. And
then you got the one a hole who you think

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is leaving, but he's actually just reparking because he didn't
do it right the first time. We've all been through this,
all of us, and everybody has played that role, whatever
one it is that I just named off at certain
points in time. And then there's this one moment where
you're dreading the situation, you pull into the parking lot

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and voila, either somebody's leaving right in on you or
there's a spot sitting right there for the taking. You
appreciate that moment because you've been through a bunch of
crap because you know what it's like to have to
sit on your ass in a car and wait for
that spot to open up. And there it is one time,

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and somebody in the NFL just happen to pull in
at the right time and find themselves an open parking
spot and not have to go through all the crap
that they had to deal with so many times before.
And that somebody is the Houston Texans, The damn Houston Texans.

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The butt of every joke in the NFL for years.
The team that is right up there near the top
of the list getting their balls broken over and over
and over again, the damn Houston Texans. Because that trade
that went down yesterday in the NFL. There's a lot

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of different aspects to it. Okay, Now, if you're the
Chicago Bears, here's why this trade benefits you. You stay
in the top ten because you move down to nine
with this trade with the Carolina Panthers, and then you
pick up another first round pick. So now you've got
multiple first round picks next year, an opportunity to use

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those to move up if for whatever reason, Justin Fields
isn't the guy, and there's a team picking at the
top that isn't looking for a quarterback and you feel
like Caleb Williams or you feel like May out of
North Carolina is somebody that you look at and guard, Well,
that's the guy I want. Like those are two top
tier prospects. A lot of people feel like those will

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be one in two or one in one a in
this year's draft. At least it gives you some flexibility.
But you also pick up a second rounder this year
for Chicago, which you trade it away to acquire Chase Claypool,
and then you pick up a second rounder in twenty
twenty five. Oh and by the way, you pick up
another weapon for Justin Fields to go alongside Chase Claypool

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and Darnell Mooney and Cole Commet. And that's DJ More
out of Carolina, a really good wide receiver who's on
a contract that, in comparison to what some of the
other contracts are that receivers are getting in the NFL,
is very affordable. And you still have the most salary
cap space in the entire league by a pretty wide margin.

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So for Chicago makes a ton of sense, and Carolina
thinks they found their guy. But the Texans also won,
make no mistake about it. If the betting odds changed
the way they did, that's an indicator that Carolina has
a preference, and its preference is CJ. Straut out of

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Ohio State. Because everything told you that either the number
one overall pick was gonna be Bryce Young or the
first quarterback taken was gonna be Bryce Young. That's what
all the odds have told us. Everything has told us that,
and I don't want to hear anybody say anything, go
oh yeah. But the once he measured in, you know,

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I mean it was going to be a long shot,
my ass. They didn't move a touch, And in fact,
once Bryce Young measured in at five ten and one
eighth and two hundred and four pounds or whatever it was,
the odds actually slightly moved up that he was going
to be the first quarterback taken. He was the guy.
The fact that they've moved this much tells you Carolina

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like CJ. Stroud, that's why he's the overwhelming favorite to
go number one overall. And so who's sitting there at
number two for a team that would have taken him
at number one? Bryce Young to the Texans, The Texans
needed a couple of things to happen before the NFL Draft.

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They needed one of two things to happen. They either
needed the Bears to stay put and decide we're just
going to take best player available, whether that's Will Anderson
or Jalen Carter or whoever. Or you needed some other
team to move up because they fell in love with
somebody else not named Bryce Young, and one of those

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hit and it was the latter. This worked out brilliantly
for the Houston Texans. I know nobody wants to acknowledge
that the Texans did anything right. I know, listen, we've
been down this road before. They're easy to make fun of,
they're easy to pick on. I get it. Everyone wanted
to talk about, oh my god, look at you, Look

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at cal McNair on the sidelines, and how disgusted he
was with Loveie Smith. Good for Loveye Smith. He stuck
it to him, and he won a game that they
didn't want to win, and they lost the number one pick.
I know everybody's conditioned to want to play that game.
I get all that. You don't want to give them
any love, you don't want to give him any credit.
All the same people that were outraged by the Deshaun

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Watson allegations and all the stuff Deshaun Watson did on
the field. Trust me, I was here for all of
you saying that Deshaun Watson deserved better in Houston. I
was here for all that crap. You can delete all
the tweets you want, You can try and move it
in a different direction or pretend that we never had
those conversations. I was here for all that crap got

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ripped in half on social media and by people listening
to Fox Sports Radio when facts were called out. Said
it years ago, Deshaun Watson pretending like the Houston Texans
did him dirty by trading away DeAndre Hopkins, and everybody

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taken his side and not the Houston Texans when Deshaun
Watson signed a contract extension with Houston after they traded
away DeAndre Hopkins. I was here for all of that stuff,
all of it. So I know nobody wants to give
the Houston Texans any credit or wants to give the
Houston Texans any love. I know we've been through this
crap for years now, But the fact of the matter

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is the Houston. The Houston Texans came out of winner
yesterday that landed in their lap. They pulled into a
busy parking lot full of cars everywhere and valet prices
skyrocketing and people walking out with shopping bags thinking I'm
gonna have to wait my ass in my car for

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one to open up, and all of a sudden, there
it was sitting right in front of them. The Texans
are going to end up with their guy that they
would have taken number one overall had they done what
everybody thought was going to happen and lost that game.
So as it turns out, there were a couple of

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winners yesterday. The Bears feel like we've got our quarterback,
we picked up some picks, we got dj Or, we
added another weapon, we've got the most salary cat space,
and we feel like we're still going to get a
quality player sitting in the top ten wherever we are,
and we've got plenty to have to choose from because
we've got a roster that we need to improve on.
And then the Houston Texans are sitting there knowing the

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guy we would have taken at number one, we didn't
have to do a damn thing for he's going to
be sitting there at number two, so you might as
well get used to it. The Houston Texans also one yesterday,
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at
the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter, and
you can hang out with us as always on the
iHeartRadio app. So we're gonna have the usuals coming up
later on. We're gonna have another edition of Do You Care.

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We're also going to have the scraps, and we're gonna
have the same old grab Ass in Shenanigans that we
provide you in a two hour extravaganza every single Saturday.
But coming up next. If you were wondering what one
of the great NFL mysteries was going to turn out
to be this offseason, don't worry about it. Somebody has

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already filled you in on how things will end involving
one Hall of Famer. The mystery solved, It's yours next year.
On FSR, Jonas went out and got himself some corporate sponsors.
Oh yeah, little Ramstein on a Saturday. Don't mind if
I do. Oh yeah, Lizzo sucks Stott, She not Ramstein.

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Go on to a Jonas go online, look up Lizzo
doing du host It's fantastic. Refuse to do. Lizzo sucks
and she's not Ramstein. Do wash me to floth do it?
What an underrated band? This? Who don't know what they're saying?

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Come on, mad Never, I know what that is. Never.
I think he's saying no no, he's nine saying never
saying no no no. True. Yeah, nine means never does it? Okay,
So a little behind the scene. All right, Jonas knocks
Fox Sports Radio. Right, let me just explain this so

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my buddies. I have a buddy, his family's German, and
his grandma I brought over. I remember this was in
high school because I loved Ramstein, but I never knew
what any of any of the words meant. And I
brought over a Ramstein album and she translated it for me.
So for some odd reason, I happen to know a

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decent amount of the lyrics when it comes to Ramstein,
I still remember it so I can count to ten.
I can like all these like I don't know why,
I have no idea, why I have no German blood
in me at all, whatsoever that I know. Yeah, I'm
not them. But Ramstein's quality band and a great live band,
I would like to point out. And you know who

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knows that. Ryan Berschinger knows that because he saw Ramstein
live and he looked like he had seen something inappropriate
after he talked about the concert. It's a quality band,
bursh It was fantastic. It's one of the bestows I've
ever been to. Yeah, they're fun. I mean it's we're
at the point though, to where some of the stuff
they do they're going to burn a building down, Like

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it's going to happen. They use pyro, they use all
sorts of stuff. It's very theatrical. But point is Ramstein
a quality band. I would also like to say this,
we're gonna get into this NFL story because if you
were wondering one of the great mysteries revealed in the NFL,
somebody spilled the beans on that coming up here just
a moment or two from now. But we were talking

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during the break, and I know that inflation is a
real thing, like everybody knows that. I mean, the gas
prices continue to fluctuate for those of you that are
living in other parts of the country, like you know,
when we were in Arizona for the Super Bowl, the
gas price is much more reasonable out here in California.
It's like five dollars a gallon again or something like that,
like five to sixty nine. You just have to wear it.

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It was up towards like six fifty at some places,
is seven dollars an other in California an absolute outrage.
The gas prices are ridiculous. And if you don't have
one of these teslas or one of these other you know,
really cars that care about the environment and all that crap,
and you're like me, and you've got a car that's

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approaching twenty years old and has like three hundred forty
thousand miles on it, you could probably guess that it
goes through gas quite frequently, so you know, kind of
taking it and then you know what when it comes
to gas prices out here, so I know, inflation is
a real thing and everything. The price of stuff has
gone up. You go get fast food at certain places,
and it's ridiculous what a hamburger that used to be
a dollar twenty five is in comparison to now. Ryan

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Burschinger was telling me about his experience this week with
a Hollywood street dog. Now, for those of you that
aren't familiar Hollywood hot dogs and Hollywood street dogs, bursh Like,
what's the best way to describe it is they have
a little cart outside these venues when you come out
of a concert or a game in La Correct. Yeah,

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pretty much a bunch of different vendors, all with their
own cards, will will kind of clog the exit area
of any sort of venue, whether it's at so Fi
or at the Hollywood Bowl or stables or Crypto dot
Com what have you. Yeah, it wouldn't be Dodger stadium
because that's the worst exit out of any sporting event
that you'll ever experience, and nobody wants to be a

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part of that and have to drive through a lesion
park where somebody's probably getting robbed. But point is, you go,
you go walk outside of these venues and they do
these Hollywood street dogs and they're phenomenal. They put like,
if you want bacon on them, they've got grilled onions
on them, They've got all that. And you walk right
outside the venue and there they are. And back in
the day, it was perfect because they were usually about

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three bucks, and you could even haggle the vendor and say, hey,
can you give me two for five And sometimes, depending
on how nice they are or how busy it is,
they'll float you two for five bucks. So you walk
out of an event you might have been you know,
thrown back a few liver bombs while you're inside the
venue and you've been paying over, you know, way over

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the top on some of these booze. Then you walk
out of an event like that and you can haggle
the street vendor for two Hollywood dogs for five bucks.
How much did you pay for the one you got earlier?
This week, Bush ten dollars. Ten dollars paying for that? Okay,
I'm not either Steve, who's Rob Parker's stunt double Steve

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de Sager, But ten dollars for a Hollywood street talk
I ain't paying, Thank you, Steve. I don't understand if
Steve Parker joining us here, I don't understand what is happening.
Ten dollars Bush, and you had to get two? Correct?
I tried When they said ten, I said for two. No,

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that's that's for one one? So what you and your
lady just split one? Yeah? Yeah, we did. It's unbelievable.
They used to be three dollars. Like. I don't know
the exact percentages on that, but if Hollywood hot dogs
are going from three to ten in the matter of
a couple of years, I can't even imagine what it's

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going to be like two or three years from now.
I could. This is a disgrace. What is happening, and
somebody's got to do something about it. Ten dollars for
a Hollywood hot dog. Like, we've understood what beer prices are.
When you go into a venue you want to get
a tall can of beer, you go to like, you know,

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some liquor store nearby, I mean not the one near
our studio. They keep jacking the prices up. But you
go to a liquor store or seven eleven nearby, you
can get a two pack of Tall Boys in some
places for like five bucks or four bucks. In some
places you go to you go to a sporting event,
and it's gonna be like ten to thirteen dollars, depending

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on where you're at. In some places maybe a little
bit higher. But if we're charging ten dollars for a
Hollywood hot dog that used to be three, I quit.
I quit. Like you want to know why more people
intermittent fast now because of that? It's not about health.
Do you think any of you losers on Instagram who
want to talk about fitness and wellness and want to

(18:17):
hand out advice that nobody asked you for and like
and I tell people, Hey, this is what you need
to do to have more positive day. This is what
you do. You think any of you zeros on insta
face or snap face giving out unasked for advice. You
think any of these people are following you in fasting
intermittently because they actually care about what you say. It's

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not we just can't afford it anymore. Okay, nobody can
afford it. So I hope you're happy whoever's charging ten
dollars for a Hollywood hot dog that you paid ingredients
included a dollar sixteen four. What a disgrace? All right,
Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio. By the way, coming up
in we'll call it about ten minutes from now we

(19:00):
are going to talk about one of the great characters
and legends in the NFL, and we're going to pay
the full proper respect to That'll be happening ten minutes
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save at Progressive dot com. All right. So, one of
the great mysteries of the NFL offseason is what the
hell's going to happen with Aaron Rodgers? Is there a
chance Aaron Rodgers is heading back to Green Bay? After all?
And if you were wondering that, and you were wondering, hey,
you know, I gotta know. Has Aaron Rodgers played his
last game in Green Bay. Well, you can go ahead

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and you can stop wondering. Because Packers president Mark Murphy
he wanted everybody to know exactly where things stand when
it comes to number twelve for the Green Bay Packers.
Here he was with Fox eleven Television in Green Bay.
Is there a scenario where Aaron is still the starting

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quarterback of the Packers next season? Um? Yeah, I mean
unless if things don't work out the way we would
want them. Yeah, was obviously a great player and uh,
you know, four time MVP and uh, but you know,
I think it's you know, trying to find uh, you know,
what what he wants and what we want and hopefully
we can find a win win situation. If he requests

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the trade, will you honor it? Um? Yeah, oh yeah
we would, yeah, okay, yeah, and that'll do it for
the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay. That'll go ahead
and wrap things up. I mean, you could not be
any more blunt about how things are with the Green
Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers. And we all kind of

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sensed that it was heading in this direction, and Mark
Murphy just said, oh no, it's over, Like, hey, you
want him back? Well no, not unless things don't work
in our favor. No, yeah, I mean we haven't. We
have a preference here and our preferences. We don't want
Aaron Rodgers back with this team. You cannot make it
anymore clear how this whole thing is going to finish up.

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That is a rap on Aaron Rodgers time in Green Bay.
It's over. I don't want to hear anybody talk about well,
you know if they men fences and you know, I mean,
media can make that. No, no, no, no no, no, no,
it's over. That wasn't a Packers fan. That wasn't somebody
who's still in love with Brett Farve because they're still

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wearing the same pair of wranglers he told them to
buy twenties two years ago, and their button fly which
is uncomfortable, and they wear the copper fit stuff. That
that Brett Farve and Jerry Rice slinging those commercials like listen.
That isn't somebody who dislikes Aaron Rodgers because he chose

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the word immunized and he outsmarted the media and the
media is still bitter about it. That's not somebody who's
straight edge and doesn't do drugs or drink and they
don't like the fact that Aaron Rodgers crawls underground with
rodents and smokes weed and like, you know, puts puts,
you know, psychedelic drugs on his Caesar salad and then

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just fades away and thinks he's flying between trees. Don't know. No, no,
that's the team president of the Green Bay Packers who
is saying, Oh, yeah, we don't want him back. Oh no, no,
we don't want him back. That's like when you're fishing
for compliments and you walk up to somebody and you say, God,

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I just I just don't I don't know what it is.
I just I feel like I'm I feel like I'm
getting fat. And your buddy says, we because you are,
Like what do you well? You are? I mean you
think is that what you think? Well? I congratulations, I
mean there is some good news to this whole story.

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The good news is your your gut feeling, your assumptions
about yourself. They're correct, you are fat. So once you
get your fat ass out of here and go find
a gym like that's that is exactly what just played out.
Mark Murphy just told you. Although we don't want him back,
that's it's over. So if you were trying to question

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whether or not Aaron Rodgers is going to be a
Green Bay Packer when they suit up next year, don't
question anymore. That's a rap. And as we've seen Aaron Rodgers,
what he's motivated or feelize it like he's been slided,
that's a really good player. Still. So the New York
Jets who are the overwhelming favorite to land Aaron Rodgers,

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because why the Green Bay Packers granted him permission to
go talk to the Jets and they flew out there
and they discuss stuff with him. The New York Jets
are going to get a player who can still play
at a high level and is highly motivated, and those
comments are going to go along towards that. And here's
the other part of this whole thing, because they're firm

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believers and Mark Murphy talked about that as well too,
and we've heard that they loved Jordan Love and they're
firm believers. And what he can do as a quarterback.
If the Green Bay Packers, for a third time in
a row, find a franchise quarterback and a potential Hall
of Famer and Jordan Love, I don't want to hear

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anybody talk about these success the Denver Broncos have had
in their history of quarterbacks, I don't want to hear
any of it. I don't want to hear about John
Elway to Peyton Manning. We're looking at the potential of
a team who's getting Hall of Fame quarterback or franchise
quarterback play in the NFL for thirty plus years straight.

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Just think about that, thirty straight plus years of potential
franchise quarterback play for one team in the NFL. Meanwhile,
you got a team that you're our tribal in the
Chicago Bears, who have never had a four thousand yard
passer in the history of the franchise in one season,
and that is a true statement. The Chicago Bears have

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never had a four thousand yard passer in the history
of the franchise. And the Green Bay Packers could be
on the verge of solidifying thirty plus years of franchise
quarterback play consecutively. So if you're wondering how this old
thing is going to play out, that remains to be seen.
What isn't a mystery anymore is whether or not Aaron

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Rodgers is playing for the Packers again. Because Mark Murphy
saw to it of it last night in Green Bay.
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at
the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter. All Right,
so we're gonna pay respect to somebody in the NFL
who deserves it. We'll get into that for you next
year on FSR. But for all the latest from around
the world of sports. Roll out the red carpet in

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your ears and shut your mouths because it's Kevin Warett.
That's a great infron jone like that. I would say
two of my favorite things in the world are college
basketball in March and La Street hot Dogs. So this
is already a great start we're having with the show today. Okay,
can you believe you remember when they were three dollars? Yeah,
although now they're ten. Although I did get a good deal.

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This was during the All Star Game when they had
all the festivities in Downstown in LA I got a
hot dog and a canad doctor Pepper for eight bucks
and I was I almost at my jaw how good
of a deal that sea? Nowadays? By the way, you're
speaking to Ryan Burshing or a Burush, isn't doctor Pepper
near the top of your list on soda on the
soda ranking. Yes, yeah, absolutely so so eight dollars for

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a Hollywood hot Dog and a Doctor Pepper. How about that?
How does that feel? Bursh It sounds fantastic in comparison
to what I had to go through. Wow, Kevin Wire,
just nee and you in the nuts right here on
the air. That's unfortunate for Brush. I'm really wow. Well
produe doing a similar thing to Ohio State right now
in the Big Ten semi final. The boiler Makers ahead
by fourteen. They're blown out the Buckeyes right now, it's

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fifty seven forty three. They've got about ten minutes ago
in the second half the SEC semifinal a bit closer,
fourth ranked Alabama in number twenty five Missouri. They've been
neck and neck all game long, and the Crimson Tide
leading by two forty one thirty nine twelve minutes ago
in that game. We've got three other games going on.
In the m EAC Tournament Final, it's Howard leading Norfolk

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State forty five to forty four, twelve to twenty to go.
In the Atlantic Ten, it's VCU on top of Saint
Louis seventy two to fifty three. This one no longer
really in doubt. We got nine minutes ago, but VCU
just scored again to put themselves up by twenty two
seventy five fifty three, nine minutes left it. In the
IVY League, it's one of my favorite tournaments they have
all season. Princeton Pennsylvania all knotted up at thirty four

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a piece, got a couple of games set to tip
off in the next hour. In the American Athletic Conference,
We're gonna have top rank Houston squaring off with Cincinnati
in that semi final. The other semifinal of the SEC
will also get going at three Eastern Number eighteen Texas
A and M and Underbilt will face off, and at
three thirty it'll be the second Big ten semifinal. Indiana

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and penn skate. As for the World Baseball Classic, one
game going on right now. This one pretty much over,
as Puerto Rico blowing out Nick ro Agra nine to one.
We had two other games take place earlier this morning.
Japan beat the Czech Republic ten to two, Taiwan over
the Netherlands nine to five, and some sad news as
four Vikings head coach Bud Grant has passed away at

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ninety five. He led Minnesota to four Super Bowl appearances.
Over you, Jonas. Thanks having Jonas Knox here on Fox
Sports Radio. Coming up and we'll call it ten minutes
from now, we are going to have another edition of
Do You Care? If you want brutal honesty? A lot
of people say they're going to be honest with you,
and they're lying, all right, So they really contradict themselves
because they'll say, oh, I'll tell you the truth, you know,

(28:50):
I'll give it to you one hundred and then they
give you some you know, cookie cutter crap that you
can hear anywhere or read anywhere. Well, that's why he
invented this little segment called do You Care? Because it
is the brutal honesty about major quote unquote stories in
the world of sports and beyond, and it's yours every
single Saturday here. So we'll get that for you coming

(29:11):
up here at about ten minutes from now. But as
Kevin mentioned, Bud Grant passing away announced earlier today, went
to obviously four Super Bowls as head coach of the
Minnesota Vikings Hall of Famer, all the credentials in the
world two sport athlete etc. Etc. And a guy that's
universally loved by a lot of people. One of my

(29:34):
favorite things about Bud Grant is he would have a
garage sale every year. That was his thing. He would
have a karage sale every year, and he would like
sell Minnesota Vikings memorabilia at his house because he still
lived in and around the area. And so Bud Grant
would have this garad sale. And they used to do

(29:56):
this thing where they would bring him on Dan Lebotard
Show back in the day and have Bud Grant talk
about his garage sale. And Bud Grant would not give
anybody a break on any of the prices, like normally
if you go to a garage sale. And I know this,
and I've talked about this before. I was raised on
garage sales. My mom loved garage sales, and so we

(30:18):
would look around in the newspaper because back in the day,
a lot of people would promote they'd be having a
garage sale that week in the paper or they would
put a sign up that would say yard sale or
garage sale here. And so my mom always knew how
to get good deals at the garage show because we
didn't have a lot of money. But we knew if
we needed new stuff we couldn't go to a department
store anyplace like that. We would have to go to

(30:40):
a garage sale or go to a thrift store and
all that stuff. So she always taught me how to
shop smart cut coupons, where to go get stuff, buy
store brand this. If it's got the same ingredients, just
compare it to what the name brand is. And at
garage sales, she always told me, if there's something at
the garage sale early that we really but they're asking

(31:00):
too much money for it, we'll go back later in
the day and then ask them again, because at that
point people are tired of standing in their garage or
in their front yard trying to sling this stuff they
don't want anymore, and they'll just give stuff away because
you're going to get a better deal on it at
Bud Grant's garage sale. That didn't exist. If you came

(31:23):
back to Bud Grant and said, hey, I know you
were asking you know, one hundred bucks for that vintage
you know Fuad Revez Vikings jersey from back in the day.
I mean, what do you think, how about how about
seventy five now? Bud Grant would look at you and say,
how about you take your ass out of here. It's

(31:43):
one hundred dollars and if you come back again, I'll
make it one hundred ten, no breaks whatsoever not at
the Bud Grant Garage sale. And so we say goodbye
and rest in peace to a legend that is Bud Grant,
one of the all timers in the world of the
NFL and beyond. Just a great career, a great life,
and thoughts and prayers to his family. Jonas Knox Fox

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Sports Radio, Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox.
All right, it's coming up next here from the Tiract
dot com Studios, The Brutal Truth about a lot of
stories in the world of sports and beyond. It's yours
here on FSR. Hey, it's Ben, host of the Fifth
Hour with Ben Maller with meet a lot to have
you join us on our weekly auditory journey. You're asking
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(32:26):
you it's a spin off of the Ben Maller Show.
Could hit overnights on FSR. Why should you listen? Picture
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(32:48):
Fox Sports Radio. Coming up top of next hour, little
over ten minutes from now from the Tireract dot Com Studios.
There's a team in the NFL that lie to you yesterday.
They think you're an idiot. I'll tell you who that

(33:08):
team is again a little over ten minutes from now
on FSR. Right now, though, it is time for something
we do every single Saturday on this show. It's always fun,
it's upbeat, always positive, and it's something called this. There
are so many stories in the world of sports, and
most of them are a complete waste of time. Ms

(33:29):
her 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 our executive producer, Ryan Burschinger to find out
what the hell's going on. Verse Well, Jim Beheim is
done at Syracuse after forty seven years. Jonas, do you care? Yeah?

(33:50):
I do? I know people want to point to you, well,
he only had one national title, and you know they
came up short a lot and they were disappointing in
the tournament. All Right, we can focus on that. But
he did win a national title. I know it was one,
and I know everybody goes, well, if he didn't have
Carmelo Anthony, I mean, I feel like that's a slight
of Jerry McNamara, who hit like six threes in that final.

(34:12):
But never mind all that, Jim Beheim was one of
the all time grades to do it, and the fact
that he had one losing season and I believe it
was last year in his entire career at Syracuse is
an incredible run. How things ended felt a little choppy.
Jim Beheim can say, well, I'm thrilled to be retired,

(34:33):
but it felt like it was really rushed. So I
don't know what the behind the scenes stuff was going
on there with Jim Beheim. But nonetheless, one of the
all time grades. Next, the Lakers have won three in
a row. Jonas, do you care? No, I don't. I
don't give up with this crap. I'm so tired of it.
It just it doesn't stop. I mean, I'll give him
credit for continuing to be one of the top stories

(34:56):
in the National Basketball Association even when they're bad. But
the idea that people are going through hoops to try
and make the math work on why the Lakers are
a legitimate contender and why the Lakers are They're the
nine seed right now. They're the nine seed, like like
they're two games away from being like the fourteen seed.

(35:19):
Like everybody trying to force this to work and make
it all man, ma'am. When Lebron comes back and when
you know Anthony Davis has turned things around, it's like,
this is where we're at now. Success is a three
game winning streak in March and still in the playing
tournament as right now the nine seed in the Western Conference.

(35:42):
I'm tired of it, and I'm not going to sit
here and fall for it. Next, the United States kicks
off their World Baseball Classic title defense tonight against Great Britain.
Jonas Do you care? Kind of yeah, I guess. Look,
I wasn't. Now I've said this. If I was one
of these owners of Major League Baseball and I knew
the World Baseball Classic was coming up, I would not

(36:05):
want any of my players to participate. None of them.
It's great. They want to show, you know, pride for
their country and it's a fun event. And if we're
going to be truthful about it, it gives, you know,
Major League Baseball an opportunity to make some more money
on some of the memorabilia, because that's what they like
to do. A Major League Baseball man. You ever noticed

(36:26):
Major League Baseball's got a brand new hat for every occasion,
whether it's Fourth of July, Memorial Day, whether it's Mother's Day,
Father's Day, whether it's the All Star Game, now the
World Baseball Classic, They've always got some new merchandise they're
trying to shell out there. Like you go to a
hat store like Lids and you're looking for your favorite team.

(36:47):
Don't worry, they've probably got it. Depending on what city
you're in, they've just got about ninety five different versions
of them. So if you're Major League Baseball, they're putting
it on. It's a unique event. I'll participate. Fox to
a great job covering it and I'll watch it. But
I mean, and also I think you can gamble on it.
If you can gamble on it, I'm in next Daylight

(37:08):
Saving Time begins tomorrow, Jonas unless you're in Arizona, do
you care? Not? Really? No give. And by the way,
it is like one of the tired takes that you'll
hear on sports radio and other places every time it
comes around. Oh bad, daylight savings is so dumb, Like

(37:29):
what are we doing here? There should be a petition
that we get rid of daylight savings? Like who cares? Dude?
Like who? Like? Who cares? Like petitioning for daylight savings
is right up there with the losers who did a
memorial walk for that Mountain lion who played bumper cars
on a freeway out here in California a couple of

(37:50):
weeks ago, Like what are we doing here? Like like
like who cares? Like? You know, like there's not enough
things to worry about, Like like we're like we don't
have enough things to worry about. You know. Gas prices
we mentioned earlier are are skyrocketing in certain places again,
and people want to bitch about daylight savings. What does
it matter? Wha, Well, we're losing an hour asleep. You're

(38:13):
gonna get it back later in the years. Stop bitching.
Let's go live to our I have a thought on
daylight savings inside or Iowa stamp for the later Sam,
it's the same amount of daylight either way, whether you
change your clocks or not. It's I like, okay, here's
what we could do, just to appeal to everybody here.
Don't change your clocks, all right, don't change your clocks

(38:34):
and then show up an hour late to work and
then tell your boss I'm not a fan of daylight
savings and they'll say, well, I'm not a fan of
your employment, So kiss my ass. Next you're fired. Get fired. Finally, Jonas,
the oscars are tomorrow night. Do you care? No? Like, like,

(38:55):
like what what are I don't even know what's up
for Best Picture? I can't even like everything. And somebody
you wanted anything or like some movie like that. And
then there's this other movie where Encino Man it plays
like some seven hundred pounds slob like I like, I
don't like what am I supposed to do with that?
Like I'm supposed to get worked up because Brendan Frasier,

(39:17):
who once played a guy frozen in a block of
ice in the San Fernando Valley, now gained a bunch
of weight and is some hoarder. I'm supposed to get
excited about that? I've seen Encino, man, I don't want
to see it again. I don't care how fat the
guy is. I'm out unless again you can gamble on it.
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an entire team that's lying, an entire organization. We'll tell
you who that is. Coming up here just a couple

(40:01):
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So we were talking earlier in the show about the
big trade in the NFL yesterday, and my thought on

(40:44):
it was the Houston Texans One. Also, like everybody looks
at the Bears and they say, look, you're still in
the top ten. Trading down from one, you pick up
another first round pick next year. You pick up a
second round pick this year, even though it's late in
the second round. You lost your second round pick. You
use that to trade away to Pittsburgh to get Chase
Claypool during the season. You also pick up a second

(41:05):
rounder in twenty twenty five, and you get Dj Moore,
who's on a really good contract for the next couple
of years, and he's been a really productive wide receiver,
even in a situation like Carolina where the quarterback situation
has been all over the place. Now you've got him,
You've got Chase Claypools we mentioned, you've got Darnell Mooney,

(41:26):
You've got Cole comment. It remains to be seen what
they do at running back. They obviously need to improve
the offensive line. So you pick up picks and you've
still got by a wide margin, the most salary cap
space in the entire league. So for the Bears, this
is a good deal. For Houston, it works because they're
going to end up getting their guy that they were
probably going to take if they were number one anyways,

(41:47):
which is Bryce Young, So this lands in their lap.
If anything, you can look at the Indianapolis Colts and say, well,
they might be the losers here because now you've got
for sure two teams in front of you who are
going to be trading up who are going to be
drafting a quarterback named Carolina and Houston. And Carolina and Houston.
Houston's in your division. So now Indianapolis is sitting at four,

(42:11):
and if they only like those top two quarterbacks, they're
gonna have to settle for either Will Levis or Anthony Richardson.
And a lot of people feel like Anthony Richardson's not
ready to go right away. He's got a ton of upside,
but that's a raw prospect, which is why I look.
I think Anthony Richardson at five to the Seahawks makes
a ton of sense, despite them resigning Geno Smith to

(42:32):
the contract they gave him. If you do the f
you know, look and dig a little bit deeper. They
can get out of that after one year. I said
it last week. Anthony Richardson at five makes a ton
of sense because they don't need him to play right away.
So if you're Indianapolis, unless you love Will Levis, this
wasn't a good day for you yesterday when it came
to the trade and all that it impacts. But if

(42:54):
you just look at what is happening in Carolina, Carolina,
do you right they lied like Carolina, it thinks that
you're dumb. And let me explain. There was a report
from Joe Person who covers the Panthers for the Athletic

(43:15):
and does a great job. And this is not to
say that he's lying or he's full of it, because
all he is is reporting the information that has passed
along to him. This isn't he's not making this up.
He's reporting this and he does a good job and
he's been covering the Panthers for a while now. But
he reported yesterday that Carolina is open to trading back

(43:38):
down from number one if they fall in love with
multiple quarterbacks and can recoup some picks that they had
to give up for the trade. Yesterday and that is
the report from Joe person who covers the Panthers from
the athletic And again this is not at him, this
is just whoever told him this. You are full of crap.

(44:00):
That is a bunch of crap. You don't do this
deal and you don't move up to number one and
give up what you gave up unless you are absolutely
certain you've identified a guy. They can say, well, we're
gonna go through the process and we're gonna, you know,

(44:20):
talk to each of these quarterbacks and we're gonna stop
you like CJ. Stroud. CJ. Stroud's gonna be the pick.
That's where this is headed. Like, nobody does this deal
unless they're absolutely certain that you've identified a guy, not
two guys. It look, it's like the old adage, if

(44:41):
you've got two quarterbacks, you don't have one. Like the
idea that you can be in love with two people
at the same time. Really, okay, I'm madly in love
with you. What about her her too? It doesn't work
that way. You know, at some point, you know somebody's
got the edge, and you don't make this move and

(45:03):
get this aggressive and trade away a very good player
unless you've identified that there is somebody you like above
all else, So this whole well, they'd be open to
trading back down. Who are you going to trade back
down with but Houston? You think Houston believes you're taking
anybody other than c J. Stroud? Who are you gonna

(45:25):
trade back down with Arizona at three? Oh? Because Arizona
is in the market for a quarterback? Oh okay, why
would Arizona move They're not drafting a quarterback and they
know the teams in front of them are drafting a quarterback. Like,
who are you trading back down with Indianapolis? Oh? So
you can lose the quarterback that you were that you
moved up to draft anyways, just to go with the

(45:48):
third quarterback? Like, none of it makes sense. It's a lie.
It's a bunch of crap. You don't do the deal
unless you've identified your guy. And the betting line movement
tells everything about who Carolina is drafting. CJ. Stroud was
an overwhelming underdog to be the first quarterback taken and

(46:08):
to go number one overall. The odds have completely changed.
He's now an overwhelming favorite to go number one overall
and to the Carolina Panthers. And I got news for you.
That's not a line move that's based on well, it
feels like that could be where there no no. That
line movement and it moving that much is based on information.

(46:33):
Somebody knows what Carolina likes and what Carolina is going
to do. And that's why we saw the drastic change
and the odds for the number one pick go so
heavily in the favor of CJ. Stroud. That line movement
that's based on information. We've had examples of that in

(46:54):
the NFL Draft before. Member back in twenty eighteen, remember
the reports coming out about who Cleveland was going to
be taken with the number one pick. Nobody could figure
it out because you had this legendary quarterback draft class.
You had Sam Darnold, and you had Baker Mayfield and
Josh Rosen and Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. And the

(47:17):
feeling going into draft week, all the way up until
Wednesday of that week was that Josh Allen was going
to be the guy. He was the favorite to go
number one overall. And then this weird thing happened Thursday morning,
the day of the first round of the NFL Draft.
All of a sudden, Baker Mayfield became the favorite. Huh,

(47:38):
I wonder why that was. Wouldn't you know it? Baker
Mayfield went number one overall. You don't say it was
based on information. Remember when Kyler Murray was up for
the Heisman. All of a sudden, you came in on
one Monday in the fall that year and Kyler Murray
was the overwhelming favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. Gosh,

(48:01):
I wonder why that was? God would Oh, that's right.
Somebody talked to enough voters and got a little bit
of a feeling that, yeah, we're going to go in
the direction of Kyler Murray, and wouldn't you know it,
Kyler Murray won the Heisman. God, what a what a shocker.
We've seen it in the NBA, Like we've seen this
happen in the NBA. Before Kawhi Leonard wanted out of

(48:24):
San Antonio. Everybody had him pegged for the Lakers. It's
going to be an La Laker. He's going to go
back to Southern California. And then all of a sudden,
it was weird. This betting line came out and the
Toronto Raptors were the favorite to land Kawhila. Why the
hell are the Raptors. He wants to go to La

(48:46):
doesn't want to go to Canada. Who's saying, oh, wouldn't
you know it? The Toronto Raptors ended up getting Kawhie.
We've seen this before. Stuff like that happens, and it's
based on information. So the fact that this line move
the way that it did just shows you CJ. Strout's
the pick. So Caroline is saying, we're open to trading

(49:06):
back if we fall in love with multiple quarterbacks. You know,
we're open to moving back in the draft. You know,
we really think, you know, there could be a couple
of guys. It's all bogus. They moved up for a reason,
and the reason was to draft CJ. Stroud, and the
betting odds are an indicator of that. Jonas Knox, Fox
Sports Radio. By the way, we do have some positive

(49:27):
feedback here on the show, I mean, and that's what
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point out some of the compliments we get from some
of our loyal listeners here. So some positive feedback so
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(49:47):
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(50:16):
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You f boy. He said that that was Dan on Twitter.

(50:39):
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(51:03):
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(51:23):
But another Saturday of Sports Stock Radio all right, coming
up next here Joni Tirac dot Com Studios. It will
not end. The pity party for somebody in the world
of sports will not end, and it gets more comical
every single day. We'll have that for you right here
on FSR Jonas Knocks Fox Sports Radio. All right. You

(51:46):
can hang out with us as always on the iHeartRadio
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to this pity party in the NFL. We will have
that for you here coming up in just a moment
from now. But right now, it is time for the
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(52:07):
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soft spot in our heart. A lot of people at
the Fox Sports Radio network are big fans of Vermont.
And you're probably thinking, well, why is that? Because every

(53:09):
single year we get gifts from the Great State of Vermont. Now,
I know what you're saying, Man, isn't that Arnie Spanier
a great guy for him to put all that stuff
together and send to you guys every single year. Oh No,
it's not Arnie. It's missus Spanier, a wonderful, wonderful human

(53:30):
being who goes out of her way to put together
all of these Christmas gifts and these entire packages to
send to everybody. Behind the scenes at Fox Sports Radio.
You might even get like you'll get Vermont syrup, you'll
get like a Vermont hat. You'll get at maybe a
T shirt. They'll throw on some Vermont spices, Vermont pancake makes.
I mean, she puts it all together. And then Arnie

(53:52):
Spanier tries to claim that he did it, which is
a lie. He did not do it. That's his wonderful
wife who does it. It's also the same woman that
Arnie makes shovel the snow every time they get dumped
on because he doesn't want to go do it now.
It's a little truth. Hey, Arnie, it's the truth here, buddy.
I don't have to tell you. Wow, that is the truth?

(54:14):
Am I lying? Sam Burschinger? Am I lying? Am I?
Am I telling one ounce of a lie there at all? Nope? Nope,
not at all. I didn't know it was his wife
doing it. I sent I sent Arnie a thank you
card one year. The best part of you think Arnie
would put that together. That's that's like seeing Jeffrey Dahmer

(54:35):
order a salad. Come on, it doesn't makes sense. The
best part about the the gifts from Vermont is that
when I first started producing here at the Network, one
of the first shows I was working on was Arnie's show,
and that year I did not receive a gift from Arnie,
despite the fact that I was his producer. Everybody else

(54:56):
here at the network god gift bags from Arnie except
for me, of course. And don't worry. When you finally
got it, he probably either misspelled your name or called
you Robert or something like you just yeah, that's that's
the Arties. That's the stinking genius right there, one of
the all time radio legends. But that is the true
essence of the stinking genius right there. Yeah, that's that's

(55:19):
how things operate. So congratulations to Vermont a big win.
Earlier today, Jonas. One quick thing, Yeah, so you know
I went to University of Vermont for one semester, did
you really? Yeah? And it was just really I was
really homes homesick and it was like cloudy every single day.
I swear I was there, and uh yeah, And it
was really really hard to get a ticket to those
Vermont men's basketball games and the hot game listen you

(55:42):
get like the Catamounts are are. I had to get
out of there. I had to get out, man. I
had to get out of there. Man, go back to Iowa,
so so io. So, what you're saying, for everybody listening
on our great affiliate in the wonderful state of Vermont
on the game nine to sixty, what you're saying is
that Iowa is better than Vermont, a little closer to home.
The university campus University of Iia campus, So Iowa Sam

(56:05):
at Iowa Sam ninety nine on Twitter, Laine who have
an issue with what he just said? There, cool Tam
So he traded in syrup for silos. That's right, that's see.
That is the story of Osowa Sam. It was somehow
more overcast than Iowa. So I was just I was
bummed out. I mean, I have it. I think it's
a wonderful place. So I'm not going to sit here

(56:27):
and trash the great state of Vermont like you just
did again at Iowa Sam ninety nine For people listening
in Vermont, I want to know. All right, So we
are going to, by the way, get into a story
that we were and I'm not exaggerating. This show was
close to a decade ahead of its time. If you
think I'm lying, I've got the proof that'll be happening

(56:48):
here in about ten minutes from now this, I'll be
honest with you, it's now becoming comical and borderline pathetic,
the coverage and the pity party that Lamar Jackson is
getting from people in and around the league. Look, I

(57:08):
understand that people like Lamar Jackson. I love Lamar Jackson.
He's one of my favorite players in the NFL. I
love Lamar Jackson. Love everything about the guy, no issues
off the field, great player, exciting as hell to watch.
He was exciting in college. You can actually argue the
year he came back after the Heisman he had a
better season than he did the year before. He is phenomenal.

(57:33):
Love Lamar Jackson, Love him, and if anybody between the two,
Lamar Jackson or Deshaun Watson deserved a fully guaranteed contract,
it was Lamar Jackson over Deshaun Watson. He's had a
better career than Deshaun Watson. So look, I have defended
Lamar Jackson. I love Lamar Jackson. This pity party where

(57:58):
people are breaking out the violin for how Lamar Jackson
has been wronged by the Baltimore Ravens, how teams, how
there's collusion around the league. The owners are getting together
and say ooh, Lamarie, Oh, he was wronged by the
Baltimore Ravens. Oh, okay, you mean the same organization who
moved up in the draft to make sure they drafted him. Okay, okay,

(58:21):
that organization. You know, the same organization who designed the
entire offense and team around him so that he could
flourish and even have an MVP season. Oh okay, okay, yeah,
they wronged him, everybody, the same organization who reportedly is
ready and was ready to give him one hundred eighty

(58:42):
million dollars guaranteed. Oh, he was wronged by the Baltimore
ra No, he wasn't they negotiated. He didn't want to
meet them in the middle. He was dead set on,
Hi'm gonna get a fully guaranteed contract. I want a
fully guaranteed contract. The Baltimore Ravens and said, we don't
want to give you a fully guaranteed contract, but we're

(59:03):
willing to do this, and he said, nope, I want
a fully guaranteed contract. And the raven said, Okay, we
don't want to do this. We would like to sign
you long term. We don't want but since you think
we're short changing you, and since you think that we're
the bad guys here. We'll let you go and see
what else is out there if you think we're so bad.

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That's all they did. That's all they did. All the
other teams that have said they're not interested in Lamar Jackson,
remember that, Like that was so right away. You had
the Atlanta Falcons. You had a couple other teams like
Miami come out and say, yeah, we're not interested in

(59:45):
trading for Lamar Jackson, Like we're not interested. Carolina was
one of them. See what happened. A couple of days later,
Carolina traded up for the number one pick and the
Miami Dolphins picked up the fifth year option on two otago,
probably because they saw what happened with the Giants and
Daniel Jones and they didn't want that situation. Huh, Well,

(01:00:06):
that's interesting. So maybe the reason they weren't interested in
Lamar Jackson is because they were already working on stuff.
Like you can get upset about as many things as
you want in the NFL, officiating contracts, the schedule, Thursday games,
Al Michael's behavior on Amazon Prime, blah blah blah. You

(01:00:27):
can get upset about a ton of stuff in the
NFL that's fine. Trying to paint Baltimore out to be
the bad guy in this whole situation is ridiculous. And
anybody out there trying to say, well, Lamar Jackson was wronged,
and man, you know these owners and you got all
these players coming out and saying, oh, well there was

(01:00:48):
collusion now though they're out to get Lamar Jackson. No,
they're not. The Deshaun Watson contract was the exception, not
the rule. It'd be nice if players got full guaranteed deals.
We've only seen it a couple of times, Kirk Cousins
and Deshaun Watson. Yeah, but there's race involved. Okay, I

(01:01:10):
didn't know Deshaun Watson was white. Who gosh, I don't know.
I gotta get my TV fixed. I had no idea, like,
stop trying to force certain narratives in because you're used
to having the same tired complaints about teams in the NFL.
The Ravens want Lamar Jackson. It's not like they don't

(01:01:32):
want him. They want him as their quarterback. They're not
like they're not out here disapparage. It's not like the
Packers and Mark Murphy, who on a Friday night in
Green Bay talks to Fox and Green Band says, Oh, yeah,
we don't want Aaron Rodgers back. Yeah, No, I mean, well,
it'll take him back. He's a great player, but yeah,
if we have our way, he's definitely not here next year. Look,

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none of that has happened at all. John Harpop publicly
back Lamar Jackson the entire time. Eric da Costa, who
was there in the room when the decision was made
to draft Lamar Jackson, he was there with the team
when they turned the reins over to Lamar Jackson and
built everything around him. You think those guys all of

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a sudden are like that we don't want Lamarin. No,
they're just telling him, hey, ghost, see what else is
out there? That's fine. Like, if anything, this is on
Lamar Jackson, this is his fault for not recognizing what
the market is. Because guess what's gonna happen now, Either
he comes back and there's a thirty two point four

(01:02:39):
million dollar tag, or he gets an offer from some
team elsewhere that's probably going to be a lot less
than what the Ravens offered him, and there's a chance
he's gonna lose twenty thirty million dollars because he didn't
recognize what the true market was for this. And you
can say, well, it's the owners, it's this is how

(01:03:00):
it works. Man like Jimmy HASLM. If you want to
have any sort of deep discussions about decisions and owners
in the NFL, why don't you have one about the
fact that Jimmy HASLM gave Deshaun Watson two hundred and
thirty million, fully guaranteed dollars when that guy was visiting
grab Labs in Houston and other areas of the country

(01:03:22):
for two years and was suspended eleven games for it.
Why don't you do an investigation into that? Why don't
you search around and say, hey, Jimmy, what are you doing, dude,
what's happening here? Like that should be the conversation. Focus
on that. But everybody trying to paint the Ravens out
to be the bad guy. All they did was utilize

(01:03:42):
a tool that they had that they didn't want to use.
They have two final options here. We can use the
exclusive tag, maybe you'll see what else is out there
and you come back and we make this thing work,
or go see what else is out there. If you're
that unhappy with us, Unfortunately we got to move on.
But it's like Baltimore didn't try and get a deal done,
and the narrative and all the pity parties and the

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crap out there about this whole thing is ridiculous. There's
a lot of stuff you can complain about. Players have
been wronged in the NFL for a long time. I
get it. But players have also been very, very rich
in the NFL for a long time, and teams have actually,
believe it or not, done a solid for a lot
of guys in this league. And I think the Ravens

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are trying to do that with Lamar Jackson, and unfortunately
this is where we've ended up. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio,
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show was years ahead of its time. It's yours right
here on FSR. But for all the latest from around
the world of sports, It's Kevin Wyer Conference tournaments Saturday
in a full swing, It's Selection Sunday, even we had
several games go final today. In the first SEC semifinal,
Number four Alabama, number twenty five Missouri, We're neck and
neck for about the first thirty minutes, but the Crimson

(01:05:07):
Tide able to pull away and win it by eleven
seventy two sixty one the final as they advanced to
the SEC championship game. In the Big Ten, it was
per Due blowing out Ohio State eighty to sixty six,
as the Boilermakers now advanced to the Big Ten championship.
In the MEAC Final, punching their ticket into March Madness.

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Howard beats Norfolk State a close one, sixty five to
sixty four. In the Atlantic Ten semifinals. Vcuat beats St.
Louis ninety to seventy eight. We had a couple of
Ivy League semifinal games take place today. Princeton takes down
Pennsylvania seventy seven to seventy. Yale with a blow it
win over Cornell eighty to sixties. It will be Yale
and Princeton for the Ivy League Championship, putching their ticket

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into March Madness. Early today, Vermont over UMass Lowell seventy
two to fifty nine as they win the American East
Conference championship. We do have a couple of games in
progress right now. Actually one game going on top Franked
Houston ahead of Cincinnati twenty to twelve. That game's got
about eight minutes left in the first half. Coming up
after that at five to thirty Easter will be the

(01:06:09):
other semifinal game in the American Athletic Conference, and I'll
be two Lane and Memphis. The second SEC semifinal game
about to tip off any moment. That'll be between number
eighteen Texas A and M and Vanderbilt, say four, the
Big Ten semifinal, Number nineteen Indiana and Penn State will
square off. As for the World Baseball Classic, we've had

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three games played already today. Japan beat to Czech Republic
ten to two, Puerto Rico over Nick roaugu' On nine
to one. Taiwan beats the Netherlands nine to five. One
game in action right now, Mexico and Columbia scoreless in
the fourth inning. And some somber news as former Minnesota
Viking head coach Bud Grant has passed away at age
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(01:06:51):
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(01:07:13):
about twelve minutes from now in another edition of the
Scraps here, So stick around for that. If you wanted
proof that this show was ahead of its time, we
got it. This week, there was a report out there
that the WWE Professional Wrestling World Wrestling Entertainment is in

(01:07:35):
conversations with gambling sites about trying to partner up with
a gaming site allowing people the ability to gamble on
WWE events. Now, a lot of people out there are
very confused by that. Well, it's a scripted event, how
can you gamble on it? A lot of people out

(01:07:57):
there see this as the beginning of the end. We've
now gone way over the top with sports betting and
gambling and all this stuff. It has become a nuisance.
This has become a problem. This is way over the top.
And to all of you, I say, you're a loser.
And by the way, where the hell you've been? This

(01:08:18):
show has done WWE gambling segments for years. Mike Mayer
former executive producer here at Fox Sports Radio before he
went on to other things. Still working in the radio industry,

(01:08:39):
Mike Mayer appears periodically and he will be appearing before
WrestleMania next month. He appears and gives us his WWE
gambling picks, and people have won money on those picks
because these betting lines have been available on various sites
the entire time. I know that you're new to this

(01:09:00):
whole thing, and you sports betting virgins out there aren't
familiar with what your options are. I get all that,
but yes, believe it or not, this is nothing new.
You've you've been able to do this the entire time. Well,
why would you want to bet on a scripted sporting event?
You think this is even odds? You think like if

(01:09:23):
you know somebody's gonna win a wrestling match, that the
odds are gonna be even. No, the the line is
an indicator is who the favorite is. It's like anything else. CJ. Stroud,
you think he's gonna be the number one overall pick
you think you're gonna get even odds at that. No,
that's why the that's why the line movement is what

(01:09:46):
it is. You're gonna have to lay three hundred and
fifty dollars if you want to win one hundred dollars
to bet on CJ. Stroud to go number one overall.
It's gonna cost you a little bit. But if you're
pretty certain of that's how betting works. Like you get
the people out there's oh, by god, this is a
bad sign for everybody involved. Stop. And then the WWE

(01:10:06):
and its press release like like made it even worse
because they're saying, well, what we're gonna do is if
we know the results of these we're gonna keep them
locked away for months and then we're not going to
release it until right before the event. Oh I even
say that that you want to make it easier for everybody,
put a betting limit on it. That's it, like just

(01:10:26):
like maybe put a betting limit on it. It's like
props for the super Bowl, Like there's certain super Bowl
props where you can bet on the length of the
national anthem or the color of the gatorade, or you
don't think somebody down on the field couldn't walk by
and peek inside the top of the gatorade and see
what the sue what color it is, and they could
probably call a bunch of people and say, hey, by

(01:10:48):
the way, it's orange, I just looked inside. You don't
think people, of course they could, But you want to
know how you combat that you put a limit on it.
It's like going to a place that's got a salad bar.
They'll tell you only one trip or only two trips
to the salad bar. You know. It's like it's like

(01:11:10):
going to a place that says no free refills, Like
they'll tell you or one refill, but you can't have
a second. They'll tell you like, yeah, we're willing to
give you away something for free, but at a certain point.
So if you really want to calm everybody down, just
say listen, you can bet on these, but you can
only bet up to five hundred dollars. That's what a
lot of places do. You put a limit on it.

(01:11:31):
We're willing to lose if you are. If you're that
confident in it, but we're not going to lose that
much because we know you're gonna come back for more
and you're probably gonna lose there and in the end
we're gonna come out on top. But like people come,
oh my god, they're offering gambling on WWE Where the
hell you've been? What's taken you so long? That's like

(01:11:55):
somebody coming up to you and saying, Hey, did you
know you can pump your own gas? Not no kidding, well,
you don't say what? Hey, can you believe it? This
place around the corner, like you're you're not even gonna
get this? What's going on? It's the most amazing this
place right around the corner. They have a drive through,
Like you don't even have to get any Craig, you
get drive ready. Oh you don't say, And let me

(01:12:17):
guess you could probably order a head on your phone
too if you wanted to. Yeah, had you know? I
don't know. I've opened it by eyes a couple of times.
I'm coherent. This has been going on for years. This
show has been doing it for years, and if you're
just now learning about it, you're way behind the game.
We've been telling you about this years ago. Jonas Knocks
Fox Sports Radio. Get me on Twitter at the Jonas

(01:12:38):
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will be taking over. Always a good listen, tons of

(01:13:19):
NFL conversation to be had, to make sure you stick
around for that as well. And right now it's time
to put a bowl on this bad boy with a
little something we do each week called this Jonas, How
could you not get to these stories more? These are
the scraps and for that we turn it over to
our executive producer, Ryan Bershinger to find out what the

(01:13:40):
hell we missed bursh Well. Earlier today, there was a
report out of SNY that the Jets and Packers had
agreed on the framework of an Aaron Rodgers deal, but
Tom Pellicero about an hour ago refuted these claims. He
tweeted out, despite a report to the contrary, the Packers
and Jets have not agreed to the framework of an
Aaron Rodgers trade, per sources. Both sides continue to await

(01:14:01):
word from Rogers on his plans. If he decides he
wants to go to New York, then the teams will
work out will work to hammer out a deal. Well,
I think there's also some speculation, well maybe he'll just retire. Okay,
what does he do? Like sixty million dollars? I mean,
look at mean, the Jets have not been the most
ideal place for quarterbacks to go to, but sixty million

(01:14:24):
dollars and probably going to be highly motivated. As we
talked about earlier, Now that Mark Murphy, the team president
in Green Bay, has basically come out and said, oh, yeah,
we don't want him back. Not interested. I mean, Burch,
you're a you're a Green Bay Packers fan. I mean,
what's your preference at this point? Honestly, I'm cool with
moving on from him at this point. You have a

(01:14:46):
Rogers jersey? I do, actually, Okay, so what are you
going to do with that? I don't know. It's gonna
hang out in my club. I also have true story, Jonas,
I have a Cleveland Browns number three. You know who
Who's jersey? That was a Cleveland the number correct, it's
a Brady quin jersey, the number ten, number three. I
was gonna say, Brandon Weed, you have a Brandon Weeden jersey.

(01:15:10):
Well listen, I mean, if you want, why don't you
have Brady autograph that for you? I should? I should,
quite frankly. I mean, I'll see if I've got I mean,
I don't have any like direct connection with him, but
I'll see what I can pull. Maybe I know somebody
who knows somebody who wants bumped into him at some
weight room in Dublin, Ohio somewhere, and maybe I could
see about getting getting that autographed. It was at a
Buffalo exchange in Ventura for like ten dollars on the

(01:15:34):
like on Main Street. Yeah. Yeah, I've been to that
Buffalo Exchange. Find good stuff there? Actually? How about that? Yeah? No,
I am done? All right? What else we got? Well,
Jonas you've said multiple times throughout today's show, your interest
in things depends on whether or not you can bet
on them, right, Yes, if I can. I ask you
a quick follow up? Is it is it the road

(01:15:55):
or the home Browns Jersey? It's the white, so it's
that one's better in anyways? Great? All right? Continue? Sorry,
Well here's something you can bet on. This came out
this weekend on bet online. You can bet on Tiger
Woods his next girlfriend. All right? Would you like to
take a stab at who is the odds on favorite?

(01:16:18):
Right now? Oh? Let me see, let me see, let
me see Tiger Woods his next girlfriend? Now he has
he seems to have a type. Um god, who would
have be it? You know, I would say, I mean
this is always I mean he's he's obviously very famous,

(01:16:40):
he's an athlete, so I mean, this is this to
me that feels like it would be an odds on
favorite just because he fits all that criteria. I'm gonna
go with a Kardashian. Kim Kardashian is second in the
odd plus thirty five hundred the favorite. Let me give
you a hint, Jonas. You know that this woman became
single within the last year. It's a very prominent celebrity

(01:17:01):
and has also been with an athlete previously. Oh, Giselle,
it's Giselle. Yeahs at plus twenty five hundred. God, could
you imagine that that's my wife you're talking about? Man? Like,
I mean, first of all, Tom Brady doesn't have many
equals as far as how great he is at his sport.

(01:17:22):
And then there's like Tiger Woods in Michael Jordan Andy go,
all right, well, now maybe things kind of even out
a little bit. That would be something. Now, I believe
Tiger Woods does live in Florida. I'm almost possibly still
lives in Florida, so that might make some sense. But man,
oh many. And also that kind of sucks as well
too for Tom Brady. You imagine, like you go through
a breakup. You've been with somebody a long time, and

(01:17:44):
it's like, hey, what's your ex up to? I don't
worry about it. She's just the odds on favorite to
be Tiger's next girlfriend. Oh that's cool, but that makes
getting over that much easier. Come on, man, out of sight,
out of mind. Somebody leave Tom Brady alone. What else
we got personal and not much as personal with you, buddy.
We've seen the pictures at eighty two year old Colorado

(01:18:05):
man a human gas ones day with selling and trading
fake Michael Jordan basketball cards in a scheme that prosecutors
said resulted in him making more than eight hundred thousand
dollars over four years old. He's eighty two years old.
His name is Mayo Gilbert McNeil. His first name is Mayo.
And when has to comment about it, he said, quote,

(01:18:27):
I did nothing wrong, Okay, at eighty two years old,
if you're telling me as a retirement plan you can
make eight hundred thousand dollars selling fake cards. I mean,
let the guy go on that, on that alone. Please
show this son of a bitch,