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buying should be. So DeAndre Hopkins is no longer an
Arizona cardinal. Right, they decide we're gonna go ahead and
cut him. They were trying to work on a trade. Apparently,
the Bills and the Chiefs were the only two that
seriously engaged in conversations with DeAndre Hopkins to try and
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make the move and pry him away from the Arizona Cardinals. Obviously,
the contract was something that teams. You know, there was
some stuff that Arizona was trying to do to where
they could offload some of it. But the way his
contract was constructed, you know, those are all the details
for people that are much smarter with the finances and
things like that. Point being, he got cut, he's no
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longer a cardinal. Now he can sign wherever he wants,
and so the conversation a lot of people are focusing
on is all right, so, now where's DeAndre Hopkins gonna
end up? Is it going to be Buffalo? What the
hell's going on with Stefan Diggs? Is it going to
be Kansas City? Is Baltimore potential landing spot? All of
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these other things. Because he's got this guy, Saint Omni,
who was also involved in the Roquan Smith negotiations, and
that's what derailed those negotiations with the Bay led to
him getting traded. So he's got this guy behind the scene.
So now everybody's focusing on what the speculation is going
to be like with that, and that's not really what
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the story is, because the real story is that while
DeAndre Hopkins is out of Arizona, you know what that means,
so is Kyler Murray. And that's a rap. And here's
why the Cardinals are the worst team in the league.
And it's not close. I mean, their season win total
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is four and a half and I'm trying to figure
out how they got that high, which considering they were
just in the playoffs a couple of years ago. And yes,
it went about as bad as possible as it possibly
could against the La Rams. It was the first of
a playoff run for the La Rams when they finally
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won a Super Bowl. The Cardinals were the first victim
on that list. And it was ugly and it was
so and it was played out on national TV and
they got embarrassed. But the feeling was, well, you at
least made strides every single year, like there was an
increase in wins every year from the time Cliff Kingsbury
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got there with Kyler Murray, and you felt like, all right,
they're at least descending. Yes they lost, but they're at
least descending. And then last year happened and everything fell apart.
But if you just look at the state of the
Cardinals right now, just look at where they are projected
to be the worst team in the NFL. And you
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can look at, you know, Houston as one of the
other contenders. But at least Houston's got some sort of direction,
you know, at least you look at the Houston Texans
and you go, all right, well, they think they got
their quarterback of the future. They moved up and took
Will Anderson. Like, Houston feels like they've got some sort
of a direction on top of the fact that they're
in a division that they feel like, Man, Jacksonville's on
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the rise, but Tennessee's a mess. Indianapolis, we don't know.
So at least Houston's got some Arizona's the worst team
in the league. So just from a from a team standpoint,
all the turnover d hop is gone. JJ Watt retires,
like all of these pieces that were there in Arizona.
Kyler Murray's got the injury, all of that stuff, they're gone.
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They've got a coaching change, you know, they bring in
some guy. He makes these weird sound effects when he's
talking to you know, Rondell Moore, Like he's like doing
these weird things. He was also a guy who apparently
may have been distracted coaching the Eagles defense in the
Super Bowl because he was interviewing for the Arizona job
while he was in Arizona getting prepared for that Super Bowl,
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So he got all that fun stuff going on. Oh
and let's not forget about the front office. There's been
major turnover there. I mean Steve Kime, who, by the way,
was part of Fox Sports Radio's draft coverage. Did a
phenomenal job, but he's now no longer the GM in Arizona.
And then you got Michael Bidwell, the owner, and you're
probably thinking, yeah, but you know what, at least he's
one of those owners that doesn't find himself in any controversy.
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Well except for the fact that you had somebody on
staff who filed a lawsuit against the Cardinals for wrongful termination.
And how did the Cardinals respond. They didn't even let
the ink dry on his lawsuit before they made a
counter statement and accused this guy of everything from alcoholism
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to domestic violence. Cause you know that's the move when
somebody goes after you with litigation. Oh yeah, you think
that's something you're a drunk and you beat your wife. Well,
that's nice. Sweet. So they got all that going on,
and now there's a defamation lawsuit. So all of that
is happening with Arizona and it's the quietest mess in
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the league. Everybody points to the Washington Commanders and everybody says,
oh my god, Daniel Snyder. They got to get rid
of him. I mean, that debt organization is run poorly. Houston,
those are and meanwhile the Arizona Cardinals, who just hosted
a Super Bowl are an inferno and nobody notices it.
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It's like when you're not really paying attention to the grill.
You forgot you hadn't cleaned it in a couple of months,
and you got the lid closed and you're like, man,
why is it smoking in there? I don't have any
meat on it. And then you open it up and
it's like the set of Backdraft in your backyard. That's
the Arizona Cardinals. So you get to Kyler Murray. He's
got the health issue now because he's coming off the
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ACL injury and he's not going to be ready for
a long time this upcoming season. And then you got
you know, last year he didn't play all that well
even before the injury, there were outbursts on the sidelines, frustration,
and keep in mind that was the offense designed around him.
You get all those different pieces going plus you got
the reputation. Some people say he's a pain in the ass.
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Like I don't want to name names, but I talked
with somebody that may or may not currently be a
member of the Arizona Cardinals and he says, you know,
Kyler Murray's a pain in the ass. Likes to play
video games a lot. That's a real thing. Would rather
be doing that. It's why they put in that studying
provision in his contract that everybody got outraged by. You
got all of that stuff going on. So let me
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ask you a question. If this season goes the way
it's projected to based on everything we just rattled off,
how the hell do you not entertain taking Caleb Williams
or Drake may if you've got the number one overall pick,
how do you not I mean, you could do what
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the Bears did this past year and this past draft.
You could sit there with the number one pick, maybe
make some teams think you're going to draft a quarterback,
and then all of a sudden traded away for a
haul with the Carolina Panthers moving up because everybody wants
to buy to the apple. But if you've got a
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prospect like Caleb Williams, which and I talked to people
that I actually trust about this stuff, because I'm not
going to sit here and bloviate and try and gas
anybody up and pretend like I know what the hell
I'm talking about. But I talk with Brady Quinn, who's
as good as anybody when it comes to evaluating quarterbacks,
and he covers college football, and Brady Quinn has said
for the longest time, man, if Caleb Williams was in
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this draft class, even with Bryce Young, who everybody loves,
that's the number one prospect and it's not close. Same
with Drake May. So if you're the Arizona Cardinals and
you've got all of these issues and you've got a
front office with no ties to Kyler Murray anymore, how
the hell are you not entertaining the idea of taking
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Caleb Williams or Drake may at the top of the draft.
How Like you've got an opportunity to reset this entire thing.
So while everybody's focusing on DeAndre Hopkins being out of
Arizona and where he's going to end up. I'm telling
you right now, this is a prelude into the future
Kyler Murray. He's also done in Arizona and it's only
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a matter of time. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. All right,
so let me just throw this out. I'm not saying
this is gonna happen because I don't feel like it is, right,
So I just want to preface this. But there, if
it was going to happen, this would be the moment
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and the time for to happen. So you've probably seen
that stat thrown out there where teams in the NBA
playoffs when they go down three are like zero to
one point fifty in coming back to win that series.
In fact, I think there's only been four teams that
have are three teams that have forced a Game seven,
you know something like that, some some crazy number. Basically,
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you go down three in the NBA playoffs and you
can go ahead and close the coffin. It's over. But
if it was gonna happen, if it was going to
be a possibility, if it was a real threat to happen,
wouldn't the Celtics Heat series make some sense, like if
you think about it, like, wouldn't that be the one
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that would make some sense? Again, I don't think it's
gonna happen. Gun to my head, I think Miami wins
later tonight and we're over with this and we can
move on to the NBA Finals, which, thankfully, according to
the NBA, is going to start in like three months.
I mean that's what I'm hearing. I mean, let's delight.
Why not even though both series were on the verge
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of being sweeps, Like, why don't we let everybody no, no, no, no,
no no, our NBA Finals are starting June first, sweet awesome,
appreciate it. Thank you everybody. It's like that guy that
finally gets engaged and you're like, hey man, when's the wedding?
It's like, oh got and I know we're excited. Thank you,
Thank you everybody. So seriously, when's the wedding twenty thirty three? Okay,
sure she gonna be around that long or yeah no, no, no,
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it's fine, it's fine. We're gonna send that invitation shortly. Okay,
well I'm not gonna be here, so have fun with
all that. Like the NBA is letting everybody know June first. Cool.
So if there was going to be an three turnaround
and the team down three comes back and wins a
seven game series in the NBA playoffs, the Celtics Heat
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series makes some sense. And why because nothing about it
has made any sense whatsoever. Gamed a game, nobody thought
Miami had a chance in the series. Nobody, and in fact,
nobody thought Miami had a chance in this series, so
much so that it took until last game for them
to be favored, or game four rather, and then the
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Celtics are favored by eight and a half and then,
like if you go game by game, everything was telling you,
oh man, this is the Celtics bounce back. This is
a Celtics bounce back. It didn't take till the closeout
game at home for Miami to be a one and
a half point favorite. It's weird. None of it has
made sense. So if none of it has made sense
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so far, wouldn't it makes some sense that of all
the series for this to be a real possibility that
this will be the one again. I'm not saying it's
gonna happen. I do feel like Miami closes out later
on tonight, But as Charles Barkley and those guys on
TNT said after Game five, Game six for the Heat
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is Game seven, because the idea that they're gonna lose
this game, lose three in a row, and go back
to Boston and win Game seven. We saw Philly try
and pull it off and Jason Tatum hit a fifty burger.
But if it was going to happen, this feels like
the time for it. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get
me on Twitter at v Jonas Knox at the Jonas
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Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up in ten minutes
from now, I'm going to tell you about the one
move in the NFL that makes way too much sense. Now,
I don't know if it's actually gonna happen, but if
anybody within this organization is listening or within this fan base,
it makes too much sense and I think it needs
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to happen. So we'll get into that for you again
ten minutes from now here on FSR. So, if you're
a guy out there and you're looking to leave the house,
you got some great news, great news courtesy of the
NFL this week, and it took place on Thursday, so
it was announced because a lot of people have been panicking,
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there's a major change in the way we're going to
be watching the NFL. It's going to be turning to
YouTube TV. So YouTube TV is going to have the
rights to the NFL's Sunday Ticket and so YouTube TV
decided to let everybody know, Hey, so you can now
stream this on as many devices as you want. There
was some speculation, what does this mean? You know, if
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people are sharing an account, can they do you know
what's going on? And YouTube came out and said, no, no, no,
don't worry about it. If you had a bunch of
different TVs in the house, you can go ahead and
stream it on as many TV's as you want. Now,
for a lot of you, you're thinking, oh, that's awesome.
For me, I'm thinking, yeah, that's not possible because I
would love to be able to watch sports on multiple TVs.
But that's not possible in my house. And do you
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want to know why? Because my son is discovered trash
trucks and blippy some nimrod who wears suspenders with a
goofy hat on and glasses with no frames in them
or whatever they're called, just empty glasses, and this guy
runs around and like construction yards and like plays with
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toy trucks, and my kids obsessed with it. And so
I would love to tell you what's happening on a
random baseball game during the middle of the week, Like, Hey,
I feel like watching some baseball. No, no, that's not possible.
I got to watch the same trash truck videos fourteen
times in a row. That's my life. So first, a
lot of you out there, you're looking at these new
streaming options from YouTube TV, thinking, oh man, this is
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going to change the game.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I gotta watch a little bit on my phone, something
on the TV, and then I'll figure it out from there.
I gotta like sneak away. I'm gonna go run an
errand well, why did you take your keys with you?
If you're only going upstairs, don't worry about I'm gonna
hop out the window. That's my life. But a lot
of people out there thinking, okay, listen, problem solved. We've
got all our issues figured out. We're gonna be able
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to watch the NFL. And YouTube TV is gonna make
it possible to do what we did during DirecTV Sunday
Ticket Run. And then This little gem came out a
couple of days ago where apparently DirecTV is going to
be available and Sunday Ticket is going to be available
to restaurants and bars and hotels and establishments like that.
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And you're probably thinking to yourself, well, that's good news
for the bars, and I was thinking, no, no, no, no, no,
that's good news for guys who want to get the
hell out of the house. Because what was the excuse before. Honey,
I want to go with the guys to watch the
game at the bar. Why don't you just watch it here?
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I mean, okay, now, honey, I'm gonna go watch the
game with the guys at the bar. Why don't you
just watch it here? Well, because there's streaming issues with
YouTube TV. No, there's not. It works all the time.
What do you mean there was an NBA playoff game
that had streaming issues. Plus it's way too expensive, and
you know, I don't want to take the TV from
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you guys, So no, no, it's fine. I'm gonna go to
the bar. They have it there. It opened up a
brand new world for all of you. Now you can
get the hell out of the house. It's massive for
bar owners. Listen, my brother owns a bar in a restaurant.
I mean it's huge. Like trying to rely on Wi
Fi for some of these YouTube and streaming services, that
has been an issue, and people could say it's not
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it has been an issue for a lot of people
to where you've got to figure out, Okay, do I
have a strong enough Wi Fi to be able to
watch this stuff? Is this going to be like this
is the new game, and the new game has been
made a little bit difficult. But when DirecTV and Sunday
Ticket comes out and says no, no, no, no, we're gonna
keep it the same at bars, restaurants, all that stuff.
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Plus some people don't have multiple TVs to be able
to watch this stuff on anyways. And if you play
fantasy football, it's kind of a pain in the ass
to figure out what's happening or root for certain teams
or players if you only got to watch it on
one TV. It's why everybody lines up hungover, especially out
here on the West Coast when you got the ten
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am kickoffs. I can't even imagine what it's like in
Hawaii Mey. You imagine going on a bender on Saturday
night and trying to wake up at seven am when
the Hawaii football game just ended forty five minutes ago,
and you got to watch NFL games. I can't even imagine.
But now you got a reason to get out. You
don't have to sit around. Hope that the connection is
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strong enough, hope that YouTube is delivering the goods here.
I don't even know what the ads are gonna be, Like,
I don't even know if YouTube TV comes with ads.
But you're, like right in the middle of a game.
It's like a game winning touchdown pass, and next thing
you know, there's some ad for like a detergent you're
never gonna buy. Like this is phenomenal news. It's brilliant
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news for everybody out there. So if you are already
looking ahead, thinking, man and I gotta stay home now,
like I can't, you know, like I don't know what
I'm gonna do, Like I can't go to the bars
because their WiFi is worse than mine. Don't worry about it.
They got you covered Direct TV and Sunday Ticket is back,
and all it is is a nice little uber right away,
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your little weekend oasis. Put in your time during the week,
change all the diapers, do, all the chores, do all
the cooking with an understanding that once Sunday comes around,
you're out. You are a ghost in that home, and
that to me is good news for a lot of
people out there. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio again, get
me on Twitter at the Jonahs Knock the Jonas Knocks
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(20:21):
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Speaker 3 (20:33):
Jonas, I would give you two thumbs up for that,
but you have used that name before in the intro.
You need to get a little bit more diverse with
your knowledge of I would say, legendary tennis players.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, listen to Fenley. That's right at the top of
my list, you know, Like learning more about tennis is
right at the top of my list, right next to
learn how to make sushi. Like it's really important to me.
So as soon as I accomplish that goal, I'll get
to the tennis knowledge later after that. But don't worry
about it. It's right there at the top of the list.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Oh, Jonas, when you're talking about television and watching games,
I was surprised to hear that you had a television.
Speaker 5 (21:09):
Honestly, I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
You did, and if you did, it was one of
those rabbit ears black and white televisions.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
I get it, you know. I see what you're doing there. Friendly.
Oh listen, Uh, you got to work weekends. I see
what's going on here? You were you work six days
a week at Fox Sports Radio. What's I get it.
That's fine. Listen. You want to take pot shots at me,
because financially I'm not as stable as you, you know,
because I didn't you know, I didn't have dick Enberg
(21:35):
throwing me a hundred bucks every six minutes. Because you
grew up with the guy. Sorry, sorry for that friendly. Sorry,
we all didn't come from your wealth.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
I feel like I hit something there. I do want
to get to.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Judge me family, because I know, because my TV setup
isn't as great as yours.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No, I just think that you could, you know, upgrade
a little bit, but you know that'll come at some point.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Speaking of upgrades, does any anybody know and maybe John
Ramos can help us out here, John Ramos, who is
again filling in for Iowa Sam who's on vacation in Yugoslavia. John, Uh,
do you know what happened to the TV VCR combo
that was in the Fox Sports Radio Update anchor studio
for all those years? Is that still around or no?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
I believe it's on the pulvid Of Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
Okay, that's fine. That does make some sense, right next
to the vending machine that was refurbished. So yeah, all
of that is fine. Good now we figured that out.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
There are a pair of clown shoes here and they
have your name written on Jonas, So next time you're
in studio during the weekdays, I'll be sure to give.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Those back to you.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I know you've been busy working on your your bowling
shoes slash clawnch.
Speaker 6 (22:46):
Filly.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Your comedy is a sight to behold.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
I got yeah, yeah, you should open up for Rob
Parker next to he does one of his comedy shows,
like I think, guy like that the.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Comedy Store or the Haha House or one of those
places on Sunset Boulevard, Like you got to open up
for him, five to ten minutes to stand up. I'm
telling you can make it happen fainly.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
I'm gonna do that, and you better be there. And
speaking of making it happen, the Milwaukee Bucks are making
it happen with a new head coach. According to ESPN,
Toronto Raptors assistant Adrian Griffin is going to be the
new guy and they're still working on the final details
as far as the contract is concerned, but he was
a finalist alongside Warrior's assistant Kenny Atkinson for the job.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I did love it, I did love the album. The
Milwaukee Bucks are like, oh yeah, so you two are
played in the Eastern Conference finals. Watch this. We just
tired the Raptors assistant. Oo wait to rip the headlines
away from the Big Game six coming up later on tonight.
Come on, man, with a disaster.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Griffin, by the way, had spent the last sixteen seasons
as an assistant coach for five different teams. In the end,
he spent about a decade as a player in the NBA.
But Jonas he went undrafted as a player in nineteen
ninety six and got started in minor league professional basketball,
even playing in the CBA before making his way to
the NBA.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
By the way, the CBA is not around anymore. That's
what the G League took over. And guess what the
G League is, right?
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, that sounds about.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Right, Yeah, whatever, who cares point is congratulations of the
Milwaukee Bucks. You have a new head coach on the
day that the two best teams in the Eastern Conference,
one of which that embarrassed you in the first round,
are competing to go to the NBA Finals. So congratulations,
well said Jonas.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
And lastly, here we do have that game that you
mentioned coming up at eight thirty Eastern and it's Game
six Eastern Conference Finals between the Miami Heat and the
Boston Celtics. Celtics have won the last two games, ce
trying to close things out up three games to two,
and the Padres and Yankees and though, Jonas, you're focused
on this game some day Baseball one one is our score.
Top of the seventh inning, Fernando Doctees Junior has hit
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a home run. With that, let's get it back to
the bjorn Borg of sports radio updates and going on
and telling stories and doing monologues.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
It's Jonas knocks.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Let me tell you something friendly. Your sarcasm is noted. Also,
I'd like to point out that you can dismiss my
bjorn Borg reference, but I can assure you there's not
another show on the planet doing sports talk radio today
that mentioned the name beyond.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
I can assure you that well played.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
At least we've got that going forward. We'll play all right,
So thank you to Brian Finley. Here it is Jonas
Knox Fox Sports Radio. By the way, Coming up in
fifteen minutes from now, it's another edition of Do You Care,
where basically we're going to talk about a bunch of
stories and headlines that you were force fed during the
course of the week and tell you why they don't
matter at all. It's really fun, all right, It's a
fun venting session. To make sure you stick around for that.
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That's fifteen minutes from now. All right, so let's talk
about the one move in the NFL that makes so
much sense, but it's probably not going to happen. And
why is it not going to happen because I'm I'm
saying it should happen. That's why Adrian Peterson came out
and said recently he is not officially retired. Right. So, now,
last time we saw Adrian Peterson, he was getting knocked
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out in a boxing match by Le'Veon Bell. It was
very uncomfortable to watch, very disturbing, like a legitimate knockout.
He got cracked. And so he's not officially retired. And
so there's some talk about like, well, where would it
make some sense? Right, So, where if Adrian Peterson did
want to play again, And everybody recognizes that he's well
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past his prime, although he's a physical freak, that he's
not the same player he used to be, first ballot
Hall of Fame er, everybody acknowledges all of that stuff.
So where could Adrian Peterson sign that would make the
most sense. And it's really easy the Minnesota Vikings. I mean,
come on, man, no move in the NFL makes more
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sense than Adriane Peterson is a Minnesota Viking think about
it like this, You go back to where you started.
You go back home, and if you're a Vikings fan
and you're listening to this on the YALLAHRN of the
Twin Cities kfan, you're thinking, Man, we don't need Adrian Peterson.
We just need to figure out what the hell's happening
with Dalvin Cook. We don't need to go in that direction.
(27:16):
We've got the Kirk Cousin saga. It's you know, probably
gonna be his last year. We got all those justin
Jefferson needs to get paid. We got to fix our defense.
We get all this like, we don't need to worry
about Adrian Peterson. We need to turn the page and
focus on this next year. If for anything, just a
feel good positive story the guys eighty two yards away
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from fifteen thousand yards in his career. You mean to
tell me, if you're the Vikings offense, you can't find
eighty two yards for Adrian Peterson this upcoming season like
that can be found nowhere, like you like, there's nowhere
in the Vikings offense. If you're Kevin O'Connell, there's nowhere
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you could find eighty two rushing yards for Adrian Peterson.
Just give him the ball five six times a game.
He's good for a couple of yards of carry. And
if he rips off an eighty yard touchdown run in
Week one, and then you give it to him again
and he picks up three yards and you hit fifteen
thousand yards, cut him after the game. Problem solved, right,
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you got everybody excited about it. It's a weird year
for the Minnesota Vikings. There's a lot like everybody expects
that they should be the team that takes over in
the NFC North. That should be the team. That's the
expectation that they're the team. Now. Everybody's talking Lions because
the Lions had a really good year. The Lions are
the team that are favored right now. But if you're
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talking about established, you know, like who's a better quarterback?
I think Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback than Jared Goff.
So you finally get rid of Aaron Rodgers. He's finally
out of the division. Green Bay doesn't really have an
answer at quarterback outside of Jordan Love, and nobody knows
what that's going to like. Nobody knows what that's gonna be. Like,
we haven't really seen enough of Jordan Love and when
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we saw him, it's not like he lit up the world.
So if you're the Vikings and you're thinking, man, you know,
it's kind of a kind of an odd year. Rogers
is gone, the Bears are still the Bears, the Lions.
There's a lot of expectation, but they can't figure it
out because everybody on their team seems to gamble on games,
like all of that's like, get all of that. So
if you're the Vikings, the one thing you can depend
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on is some feel good stories. And so what are
you gonna do if you cut Dalvin Cook, roll out
Alexander Madison or Dwayne McBride and ty Chandler, or you're
gonna bring back Adrian Peterson? Are you gonna bring back
a Pete?
Speaker 1 (29:46):
All day?
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Purple Jesus. I didn't make that last one up. That's
a real name. If you think I'm lying, go to
Pro Football Reference. It's right up there, all day in
Purple Jesus. Like, you got an opportunity here to round
out the career of one of the great running backs
we've seen in recent memory. He's eighty two yards away
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from fifteen thousand and the place to get it at
is in Minnesota. And if you're listening on Kfan right now,
you know I'm right. Let Purple Jesus come back home.
Open up the gates, let him come back in, let
him get his eighty two yards and send him off
in the right way. That's the move that should make sense.
(30:30):
That's the move that should happen. That's the move that
should be done. And that's the move that probably won't
be done because I just talked about it on the air.
Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio from the tire rack dot
Com studios. You can get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox. All right, it's coming
up next. We are going to talk about several stories
in the world of sports that you've been force fed
(30:51):
over the past several days, and we're going to tell
you why they don't matter. It's another edition of do
You Careen? It's yours here on FSR. She leave me
the hell long own, John. We're trying to get stuff
done during the break. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. By
the way, coming up top of next hour a little
over ten minutes from now from or excuse me, fifteen
(31:12):
minutes from now rather from the tire rack dot Com studios.
We are going to get into what is I don't
know if this is an indictment on one player, but
it is kind of a bad look on one player
in the NFL. I'll just say that, kind of a
bad look for one player in the NFL. And we'll
have that for you here coming up in about fifteen
minutes from now here on FSR. But right now it
(31:32):
is time for something we do every single week at
this time, and it's another edition of this.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.
DMZRE 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?
Speaker 2 (31:53):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson, who, by the way, is a man
who's dared Twitter square in the eyes, grabbed his crotch,
threw up a middle finger and said, screw you. I'm out. Yep,
Bo Benson, no more, congratulations, thanks man, I appreciate it. Listen,
if I if I didn't have the show, if it
(32:16):
wasn't for work, I wouldn't be on social media either Yeah,
it's a plague. It's an absolute plague.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (32:22):
By the way, get me on Twitter after jonahs Sox.
Speaker 8 (32:25):
But it's interested ah New Giants tight end Darren Waller.
He issued a rather blunt statement this week, seeing the
coach Brian Dable empowers his players and that they value
your opinions here, Jonas, do you care?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Okay, I kind of do it. Here's why because this
is Darren Waller who came from the Raiders, who just
had a guy in Davante Adams air out the front
office and the strategy and the planning and what the
what the what they were planning on doing with the quarterback,
et cetera, et cetera. And then you had Josh McDaniels
come out and say, well, yeah, listen, I mean I
(33:01):
want our guys to be able to speak up. I
want a guy like Davonte to have full autonomy to
speak up and say how he feels. And you know,
have you know, some input here. And you got a
guy who has just dealt from the Raiders who's sitting
there going yeah, I didn't have that. So who's telling
the truth here? Or was Josh McDaniel saying Deavante Adams
can do it, but Darren Waller can't have fun with
(33:22):
the Giants. It's very, very interesting to see how this
whole thing is played out in Vegas with their brand
new owner Tom Brady allegedly.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
Next speaking of Vegas, a bill introduced in Nevada would
see the state pay three hundred and eighty million dollars
in order to build a new stadium to lure the
Oakland A's to Las Vegas. Do you care?
Speaker 2 (33:41):
No, I don't care about this. I don't care who
pays for it, all right, how the finances get done,
I couldn't care less. I don't I don't care. If
there's a body buried in the desert that's got four
hundred million dollars in the coffin with it, dig that
dead body up, roll them out of the coffin, grab
the cash, run over to state legislation or whoever's handling
(34:05):
this whole construction site. I know some construction guys in Vegas.
They could probably get this done as well too, and
just get the stadium done. The idea that we could
have NFL, NHL, and Major League Baseball on the strip
in Vegas is so awesome. I can't even begin to
(34:25):
tell you. I just Vegas is awesome to begin with. Now, look,
the smoke in the casinos a little bit bother some
when when I was there for the Draft last April, Like,
I didn't realize how much it was gonna affect me.
I swear to God, because like you know, nobody smokes
where I'm at. It's just not a thing like if
you see somebody with a cigarette, it's like somebody you know,
walking around with a pipe bomb, like, oh, stay away.
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But like you see, like you walk into a casino
in Vegas and people are just hanging out with lung
darts and playing penny slots. It's weird. So all of
that is just uncomfortable for me, not a fan of
it at all. But major League Baseball, like John Rahm was,
you're a major League Baseball fan, I love, Oh my gud.
Can you imagine, Like even though it's the A's and
(35:08):
they're awful, but in Vegas, going to see a Dodgers
A's game on the strip in Vegas, the whole thing
is tremendous. So I don't care how much money it
costs or who's got to pay for it, just somebody
get it done. There's enough money in that city and
enough money in that state to get it done. And
let's get some MLB on the strip in Vegas next.
Speaker 8 (35:27):
Yeah. I support it because we might finally find Jimmy Hoffa.
Speaker 9 (35:30):
Oh yeah, Jesus bo what here you go there? How
could you just set it field? You imagine that John
full about and there's a high fly by. All of
a sudden, back at the track is Bellinger and he
seems to have disappeared. What Bellinger has just tripped over
is that.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
It is that a corpse. We have a dead body
in center field and gameplay has been suspended. We'll be
back here all the Yas Radio network. You imagine that
like that, that would be something, all right? But again
they had that out that little hill in Houston. If
everybody remembers that was a fun idea. What they call
that like Tows Hill? Like who designed the stadium there
(36:16):
in Houston where they're like, we really got to make
some changes. The astrodome is way out of the date.
Speaker 8 (36:21):
Given what we know now about the Astros, it could
have been satan. I mean, oh.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Yeah, by the way, for anybody that was offended by
that statement, anybody that's religious or as a fan of
the Houston Astros. You can get bow on Twitter at
js Ramo zero six. A problem with anything that Bo
Benson has just said on the air? All right, what
else we got?
Speaker 10 (36:41):
Bo?
Speaker 8 (36:42):
Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, he said it's been refreshing to
work with Mike Mike McCarthy on the offense every day.
He's apparently also been giving more control of the team's playbook,
being allowed to take out plays. He doesn't like. Do
you care about this at all?
Speaker 6 (36:55):
No?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I don't. I'm sorry. Listen, we're gonna get inundated with
Cowboys coverage just because it's the Cowboys, and there's certain
shows that can't go an entire hour without talking about
the Cowboys. I really don't care about Dak Prescott and
Mike McCarthy's relationship. All I care about is the fact
that if this doesn't work this year, there's going to
be major changes, and the Dallas Cowboys are looking at
a division where they've got the Giants who are in
(37:17):
the playoffs, the Eagles who are just in a super Bowl,
and there's a lot on the line. That's the important
story here.
Speaker 8 (37:22):
Next, all right, Antonio Brown. You remember him. He's his
agent is letting it be known that the former star
wide receiver has been generating genuine interest from teams around
the NFL. Do you care, No, listen Antonio Brown.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
I don't know how they think anybody in the league
would be open to signing him. Like I like you
imagine Antonio Brown and his agent sitting down with a
couple of executives in the NFL and trying to sell
them on signing him. So, tell us, what have you
been up to lately? Well, I'm glad you asked. I've
got this arena team in Albany or Albany, whatever you
(38:01):
want to call it, because I got yelled at by
some guy listening in Albany because I pronounced at Albany
and they said, well, you should know it's Albany. I
was like, yeah, because there's two l's in the front
of it. Come on, dude. But point being, Antonio Brown
and his representative sits down with an NFL executive and
they say, so, what have you been up to lately? Well,
I got this arena team. I've played a game there. Okay,
what about before that? Well, I hid in my house
(38:23):
because there was a domestic violence case against me that
later got dismissed. Okay, that didn't sound promising. What about that?
Oh I swam nude in a pool and showed everybody
my crank next to some woman who felt very uncomfortable
about it. There was that out there. Okay, so none
of those are selling us here. But what about like
your NFL experience before that?
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Yeah, I don't worry about it. So I disrobed and
walked off the field in the middle of a game,
and then I burn a body part in a cryo
chamber as I got ready for the season. Yeah, so,
what would you like a two or three year deal.
Let's go in and see if we can make that way.
There's no chance, dude, it's over. He was a potential
Hall of Famer, and that ship is sailed. Antonio Brown's
(39:04):
career in the NFL is done.
Speaker 8 (39:06):
Next Bill's quarterback Josh Allen has maybe made the biggest
deal of the offseason. He's reportedly dating actress Hailey Steinfeld,
known for her roles in Marvel's Hawkeye and the Transformers
spinoff Bumblebee.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
Wait, what like, there's don't have forget pitch perfect?
Speaker 8 (39:26):
That's right, Yeah, pitch perfect.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Hold on, say, first of all, I don't know who
that this is. Secondly, Marvel's Hawkeye and Transformer spinoff Bumblebee.
Speaker 8 (39:37):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
Isn't Transformers supposed to be like an intimidating show? You
went Bumblebee? What's the matter? Cotton Candy was copyrighted? You
couldn't get that one. So you talk about a string
of bad luck that's happened to somebody in the NFL.
I'm not saying it's an indictment on them as a
player or them as a person, but it has happened,
and I don't know that we've seen it happen like
(39:58):
this ever before. We'll get into that for you. Coming
up here just a couple of moments from now, Jonas
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(40:41):
the Arizona Cardinals. DeAndre Hopkins is out. I think this
is a prelude to what is going to happen with
Kyler Murray. I think there's going to be an opportunity
for the Arizona Cardinals to take the top quarterback in
next year's draft, because I think they're going to be
the worst team in the league. And if that is
a guy like Caleb Williams, who everybody says has the
good or a Drake May, I think the Cardinals go
(41:02):
in that direction. You turn the page, there's a lot
that hasn't worked there, and that's the move that they make.
I think it also should be pointed out if we're
going to look at kind of where the Arizona Cardinals
are and their situation, I wonder if there's going to
be teams around the NFL. And I kind of threw
this out because we were talking about the USC mess
(41:22):
and Mike Bohene, the athletic director who departed, and apparently
there was all this stuff going on behind the scenes,
maybe even at Cincinnati before he got to USC. Like,
I also wonder if if Caleb Williams when he leaves
and gets drafted, if he comes alone, because there has
been some speculation that Lincoln Riley has been getting some
(41:43):
sniffs and some looks at by different NFL teams that
he's been looked at like that has been some conversation.
There was a Cowboys rumor a few years ago that
the Dallas Cowboys were a team that was possibly interested
in a Lincoln Riley based on what he's done with
quarterbacks at the college level. I mean, Heisman Trophy winner
after Heisman Trophy winner, you know, Jalen Hurts' development at Oklahoma.
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A lot of people feel like Lincoln Riley had a
major influence and impact on that. And so you look
at just sort of his track record, and if you're
a team in the NFL who's picking high atop the
draft and you've got an opportunity to bring in Caleb Williams,
say what you want about Kyler Murray and Cliff Kingsbury,
and their relationship and wanting to work together from college.
(42:28):
Like it did work for a couple of years at least.
I mean there was success there. They improved win wise
throughout the course of their career. Like if you're a
team like and I don't know, I don't think Arizona
would go this route. But if you're a team like Washington,
if you're the Commanders and you've got a new owner
and you want to turn the page, and Ron Rivera
has already kind of hinted at it and said, look,
(42:50):
I'm either going to win or they're going to fire
me and find somebody else. I mean, their planet quarterback
doesn't appear to exist. It's Sam Howell, it's you know whatever.
I mean, Taylor Heineke's not even there anymore, Like Carson
Wentz is gone. Like, if you're a team like Washington
and you're looking to turn the page and you got
(43:11):
a guy like Caleb Williams who's from the area, he's
from that part of the country, if you wanted to
ensure that it was going to work, Lincoln Riley's not
a bad addition to the Caleb Williams package. Like, that's
the one that I look at and go. That could
really make some sense, especially if you're Lincoln Riley and
(43:33):
you're looking around at USC going what the hell's going
on here? And on top of that, we're going to
the Big Ten. We're going to the Big Ten and
dealing with the gauntlet that is Big Ten football. Initially,
maybe I don't want to be a part of that.
I'd rather take my chances. I'd rather strike while my
stock is as high as it's ever going to be.
I don't think Caleb Williams is coming alone, and a
(43:54):
team like Washington does make some sense if they were
going to turn the page from own owner to coach
to quarterback and start this thing new. Caleb Williams and
Lincoln Riley and Washington do make some sense. But here's
what I would like to say about this whole Arizona Cardinals.
You know mess. DeAndre Hopkins has had a real string
(44:17):
of luck, hasn't he. I mean, first, he starts at
his career in Houston, and I don't know if you're
aware of this, but Houston's kind of a little bit
of a little bit of a mess themselves. Now. Whether
you want to talk about the front office, whether you
want to talk about all the discussions about Cal McNair
and his ability to run a franchise. Whether you want
(44:39):
to talk about Deshaun Watson or is you know we
called him this week on two Pros and a cup
of Joe massage Watson, whether you want to talk about
all that stuff that happened with him and everything else
that came along with it, Like Deshaun Watson got out
of there, or excuse me, DeAndre Hopkins rather got out
of there and ended up in Arizona, probably thinking to himself, Okay, well, Lisa,
this is a team on and then they proceeded to
(45:03):
get the doors blown off in a playoff game. Then
he got suspended for PEDS. I think his excuse was
it was something in the shampoo. Again, I'm not a
shampoo expert, all right, not a shampoo expert at all.
But I don't recall when some of these guys in
(45:25):
Major League Baseball tested positive for PEDS. I don't recall
them saying, hey, the reason why I pissed hot is
because of my VO five. Like, I don't recall that personally. Now,
I'm not saying that tanted substances aren't aren't a real thing,
because they are talked about it before. There are several
countless UFC and MMA fighters who have tested positive for
(45:51):
a banned substance, been punished for it, have claimed innocence,
and then they went back and discovered that it was
a tainted substance, that the vats that they were used
at some of these labs to mix them in had
a substance from outside what was in the supplement that
they took, and it did flag for a PD violation.
(46:14):
So again I'm not saying that it's not a possibility,
but I just I wasn't aware that, you know, PERP
plus could trigger a positive warrant, a positive test for PEDS.
I wasn't aware of that. So, you know, DeAndre Hopkins
has got all that happening. He gets to the Arizona
Cardinals and they just completely melt down, and now he's
(46:35):
on the free agent market. I'm not telling any team
not to sign DeAndre Hopkins. I'm just saying wherever he goes,
bad things seem to follow. It's the equivalent to a
guy stepping on a lego first thing in the morning
and then later in the day takes an axe to
(46:57):
his own shin when he's trying to cut Wood. You know,
just like you think the worst is out of it.
You think you got away from Houston, you got everything
figured out, now we're all gonna be fine. Now we
move on, and then you get to Arizona and that
place falls apart as well too. So if you were
looking to see which team was going to melt down
in the next two or three years, it may or
(47:19):
may not be whatever team signs DeAndre Hopkins. And I
love DeAndre Hopkins and his story with his mom's it's fantastic.
If you don't know about it, it's it's really like
there's a lot there and it's pretty inspirational. But it
does feel like wherever Dean DeAndre Hopkins goes, that team
seems to struggle. I don't know, just that's listen, that's
(47:39):
how it feels to me. I could be wrong. Maybe
it's just Houston and Arizona, but there is a trend
there and it feels like it's DeAndre Hopkins. Jonas Knox
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I think the love for you is just overwhelming. That's
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Yeah, it is fun listen. Like positive comments I like
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your own issues before you make accusations of me. All right,
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It's yours next here on FSR Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
So we are going to get into what is almost
(51:40):
like a magic trick. At a certain point, you've got
to start asking yourself whether or not you're falling for
the trick as well too. If you're in on the act.
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to Vegas, and I don't know if it's a question
(52:33):
of whether or not they can get the funding for it.
I just wonder whether or not Vegas is gonna want
the A's. Apparently they've got fifty three losses. It's a
record through the first what sixty three games, they're ten
and fifty three. You imagine being an A's fan. I
had a buddy who had season tickets at that hell
hole up in the Bay Area that they play at
(52:54):
that dump and like, I don't even I'm almost pasi
he still has him, but I don't even know if
he bothers to even put him on the resale market.
So I don't know the name of who wants those.
I mean, it's just like you imagine, like Michigan football
is like one of the great powerhouse college programs of
(53:14):
all time, and there was a point in time where
if you went to ann Arbor, they couldn't get anybody
to go to the games, so much so that for
a Minnesota Michigan game one week, they were giving out
two tickets when you bought like a two liter bottle
of soda in the store, Like you imagine walking into
a supermarket and you're not grabbing much. You grab like
(53:37):
a bag of funions, you know, loaf of bread, you know,
some some like Carl Buddy lunch beat, some of the
store brand cheese. Man, what am I gonna wash it
down with? Huh? You know, I feel like mister pib
You walk up to the cash register, you put it
all down, last thing to slide across the conveyor belt
(53:58):
was the mister Pib and all all of a sudden,
the light starts going off and the Michigan theme song
starts playing, and they go, congratulations, you're going to the
Golfers Wolverines game this Saturday. Why because you bought the
mister Pib two leader Like that was Michigan and that
was happening, Like like, what would it take to get
you to go to an A's game at this point?
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Like like what would it take? Like, I how about
a couple hundred bucks? No, I'm fine, how about this,
We'll buy you an apartment in Oakland. Now I've seen Oakland.
I think I'm good here. We're gonna go ahead and
just kind of skip that one and just get ready
for them to move to Vegas. Like at this point,
I'd rather just move to Vegas. Like if I was
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an A's fan and I lived two blocks from the
stadium in Oakland, I'd rather walk to the new stadium
in Vegas to watch them play than walk fifteen feet
to watch them play in my own backyard.
Speaker 11 (54:54):
They are awful, But do you think they should keep
the name the A's They should change that. Yeah, keep
the A's Okay, So Las Vegas l LVA, you know,
and I'm glad.
Speaker 2 (55:05):
He brought this up. John. By the way, John Ramos
is in for us here and no, no, no, I
am glad you brought this up because because people thought
I was crazy when I said this. By the way,
if you're wondering where's Iowa Sam, don't worry about it.
He's currently vacation. He's on a yacht in Siberia, so
it let him do his thing. Everybody leave him alone.
He's having fun with the family. But the Vegas Golden
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Knights is one of the worst names in the history
of sports. All Right, this is a team that's one
game away from going to another Stanley Cup. They've been
a tremendous story there, the Golden Knights. Of all the
things that you could roll out Vegas themed as a
team name the Golden Knights, you couldn't. Like the w
NBA team has the better name, The Aces, that's a
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better name. Like, think about all the things you could
do with Vegas, the Gamblers, the Las Vegas dice, the
Las Vegas Blackjacks, you know, like the Las Vegas one
dollar slots, Like there's all these possibilities, like the Las
Vegas Thunder from down Unders, like all of these team
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names you could roll out that would have been better
than the Golden Knights, and that's the one they stuck with.
So based on what they've done with the hockey team,
if I were the Oakland A's soon to be Las
Vegas A's, I just keep the name. Just keep the
name and let everybody everything be fine. It's like the
Utah Jazz kept the Jazz. Like, does anybody play jazz
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in the entire state of Utah? Anybody?
Speaker 8 (56:37):
I don't think they're allowed to.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Yeah, like I don't that I don't. Yeah, it's not
happening there. But for some reason, I think I will
just keep the name. Nobody plays jazz there. It's like
walking up to an Amish guy and say, hey, man,
can I borrow your drill? Drill? We still make our
own butter in the front yard. What do you mean?
Like there's no power tools here. But for some reason
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they thought, hey, we should just keep the jazz. We'll
keep the name. It doesn't make sense, but in this
case it makes sense based on what they've done with
other team names there in the city. All right, get
me on Twitter if you're outraged by that at Jonas
Knox at The Jonas Knocks on Twitter, and again you
can listen to this show from the Tyraq dot com
studios on the iHeartRadio app as well. So there was
(57:20):
a great quote back in the day from Bill Parcells.
Bill Parcells was coaching the Dallas Cowboys and Terrell Owens
was on the Cowboys at that time, and there was
sort of this weird dynamic between Parcels and Terrell Owens,
and the media was asking Bill Parcells questions about it
and just sort of you know, when Terrell's Terrell Owens
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says this, he apparently didn't hear your comments here, and
apparently Terrell Owens they just saw this back and forth
being played out in the media. And so Bill Parcells
said this, and I think it's appropriate because it actually
applies to what is currently happening between members of the
media and one player in the Let's take it away
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vintage Bill Parcells as coach of the Dallas Cowboys. He
sucks you guys in.
Speaker 6 (58:06):
He hears everything I say, okay, and he can tell
me three weeks from now what I said today.
Speaker 3 (58:11):
So he sucks you guys right in. So consider yourself sucked.
Speaker 2 (58:17):
That's what Lebron James is doing to everybody in the media.
It's hilarious, like they're gone, they just got swept. And
yet for some reason, people are fixated on making this
the debate. And I'm not here to shout down on
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Lebron James. I'm not here to rip the guy. I'm
here to celebrate that guy. It's like a magic trick.
They get swept, and the story is Lebron whether or
not he's going to retire, where he wants to play,
is he going to play with his son? What's the
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next move for the lake? And then on the flip
side of that, you got everybody arguing against why is
Lebron the story? The Denver Nuggets need to be the story.
They're not getting any respect. Blah blah blah. It's a
magic trick. And you could tell that guy grew up
a Dallas Cowboys fan. And I'm not even talking about
the fact that he sucks you guys in so consider
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yourself sucked. I'm talking about the fact that this is
something that Dallas Cowboys have pulled off for years. They've
been a mediocre football team that hasn't been to a
conference final, in going on three decades, and still they're
the team that gets talked about the most. It's incredible,
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and everybody once a while, we're sick of the Dallas Cowboys.
That's sick of the Dallas Cowboys. Well, apparently you're not,
because the ratings would indicate that the Dallas Cowboys are
a draw. Like those shows that you don't like that
you're tired of hearing about the the Cowboys that forced
the Cowboys into existence every three minutes. Seemingly those shows
(01:00:06):
are still on the air, and it's not on the
air because no one's watching. Like, I get it. You
got Lebron fatigue. You think it was disrespectful to the
Denver Nuggets, You think, dude, whatever you want to call it,
it's working. Whatever his strategy and his move and whatever
he's doing, it's working. And the back and forth and
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the conversation it is generated on TV, Sports, radio, Twitter, Snapface, Insecure, Graham,
take Talk or whatever it's called. Whatever this is generating
and whatever it's done via social media and in the
media over the past seven to ten days. I commend
Lebron James. It is a magic trick. He has sucked
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you guys in consider yourself sucked. Mission accomplished from Lebron
James Jonas, Knox Fox Sports Radio, from the Ti rack
dot Com studios. And up next, I'm gonna tell you
why there is one thing in the world of sports
that is now a terrible idea, terrible idea, and we're
all to blame you included. That's next here on FSR.
(01:01:13):
But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
never a terrible idea to bring in the great Brian Finley.
Speaker 3 (01:01:19):
Jonas, I thought you were going to say, from one
terrible idea to another, let's get it over to Brian Finley.
Speaker 2 (01:01:23):
No negativity here, no, not at all.
Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
And you've gotten so much love on social media. I
just did not realize how many fans that you have, Jonas.
It's so admirable to see how adored you are by
so many.
Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
By the way, how about the one guy who said
that he was shocked that I found some woman do
im pregnancy That one was the best. By the way, Hey, buddy,
you're not alone. I'm right af there with you. But
my mirror work's too, trust me, I'm well aware.
Speaker 5 (01:01:51):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Well, on that note, we do make our way over
to the NBA, and we do know that Adrian Griffin,
who's going to be receiving a lot of love on
social media himself, just like you, Jonas, because he and
Griffin has come the next head coach for the Milwaukee Bucks.
At according to reports, hasn't been made official, but Griffin
to pass the test, if you will, had to have
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an individual meeting with Giannasidenta Koumpo to get his approval.
Once that was done, then it seemed as if Griffin
was going to get the job. He beat out finalist
in Warriors assistant Kenny Atkinson. Griffin spending the last sixteen
season really putting in his time as an assistant coach
in the Association those sixteen years with five different teams
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spanning that time period, and now gets his first chance.
Speaker 5 (01:02:38):
To be an NBA head coach.
Speaker 3 (01:02:40):
Speaking of the Association, Game six of the Eastern Conference
Finals is tonight eight thirty Eastern time from Miami. Miami
is up three games to two. They have lost the
last two games of the Celtics trying is Boston to
force a game seven after fighting off a sweep elsewhere
in Major League Baseball, here we've out the Twins and
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the Blue Jays. They are all square at four in
the top of the fifth inning. Well, things are pretty
tight here between the Padres and the Yankees. With a
Dj Lemayhew home run in the bottom of the seventh,
it is two to two Padres and the Yankees in
the top of the tenth, and now it's actually the
bottom of the tenth, so with one out, San Diego
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has their offense out there trying to get something going here. Meanwhile,
or excuse me, it is top of the tenth because
the Padres are on the road. And then lastly, Jonas,
we do have some PG two reaction going on. Yeah, Harry,
Harry Hall. Yeah, twelve under is his total right now
through five holes, he's got a one shot lead. And
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you remember that guy Michael Scott made all that news
last week after finishing time fifteenth of the PGA Championship.
Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
As a teaching crew.
Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Michael Block.
Speaker 5 (01:03:54):
Michael Block, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
Yeah, Michael Scott's the guy from the office.
Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
Oh did I say, Michael Scott my apology. First of all,
I was thinking about Michael Boublay for a second too.
Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
I got news for you, Michael Blay, Michael Scott and
Michael Linguard all had better rounds and Michael Block at
the Charles Schwab Invitational.
Speaker 5 (01:04:11):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Challenge whatever they want to.
Speaker 5 (01:04:13):
Yeah, let me tell you something.
Speaker 3 (01:04:14):
I've actually played golf once with Lyndinguard and we were
playing a par three course and he put three t
shots in the water and it was an eighty yard
par three and then his fourth goes over the green
and then he chips it back, goes in the water.
He got a twelve and he said, just put me
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down for a five. Oh, and like, what are you
talking about, kid? She like that, that's not what he said.
I know exactly what he said.
Speaker 2 (01:04:41):
Actually, I have a sound of Big Mike Linguard claiming
that he got a five. Are you ready for it?
Speaker 5 (01:04:47):
Yeah, let's hear it.
Speaker 6 (01:04:51):
That water wasn't supposed to be there marked out as
a five. And if not, go after yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:04:59):
Well done, Jonas.
Speaker 5 (01:05:00):
I'm very impressed with your lening guard impression.
Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
I love Big Mike.
Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
We do. He's a big teddy beer out here.
Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
Oh man, by the way, a star of Supermarket Sweep.
I don't know if anybody's seen that video on YouTube.
A big Mike Linguard who runs the editing department the
end does a fine job at that. He was actually
featured on the great TV game show Supermarket Sweep back
in the day. A lot of a lot of interesting stuff.
Like I always what like I thought, this is what
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an idiot I am? I didn't really like there was.
There was two times that I realized I was an idiot,
which is actually less than normal over the past like
a week and a half or so. So like Brady
Quinn filmed the commercial for Wendy's and I didn't realize
that there was a food spit bucket on set. I
didn't realize that. You know, when you there's like a
(01:05:50):
commercial where somebody's eating, there's like a bucket on set
where you spit the food in. Because they've got to
do different takes. I never put two and two together.
So I thought, what is it like the you know,
the fat guy on the movie seven who had that
barf bucket underneath the table when they came in and
found him dead. So I was thinking that. And then
the other time that I realized I was an idiot
(01:06:10):
is I'm talking to Big Mike Linguard about the show
Supermarket Sweep, and he was saying, yeah, so you know, like,
you know, they've got a couple of aisles there, but
it's I was like, wait, you're not really at a supermarket.
He goes No. I just thought, oh, yeah, you're right.
That makes sense. Like, imagine a supermarket telling all their customers, hey,
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can you sit out in the parking lot for a
couple hours. Big Mike's gotta grab some honey bake Hams
for a TV show or filmmaking. Like I never put
two or two together, but apparently it's not actually in
a supermarket. The things you learn here on this show
Brian Finley.
Speaker 3 (01:06:44):
Huh Jonas by the way, and you know Mike, he's
very adamant about bike riding. That's usually how he spends
his weekends. If you are driving down pch and you
see a bald man on a unicycle, chances it's Mike Lingard.
Speaker 6 (01:07:00):
Yea friendly how about I turned this unicycle upside down
and not show you how to confront it?
Speaker 2 (01:07:10):
Big Micaelogue Man's a legend. That man went sailing one
weekend with padd O'Brien back in the day. You know,
I was then, well, I wonder how many of those
conversations were about anybody other than padd O'Brien. That's what
I want to hear. But again, you know, we're just
talking old school Fox Sports Radio stuff here. All right,
(01:07:32):
it is Jonas Knox again here on FSR. Coming up,
we are going to have another edition of the Scraps.
Things in the world of sports and beyond we have
not had a chance to get to. We will touch
on those coming up here shortly that in about we'll
call it twelve minutes from now. It may start, at
some point, very very quickly to become a bad idea
(01:07:55):
to go to sporting events. I'm just telling you because
there's a couple of things that sporting events and attending
sporting events have going against them. The fact that the
leagues are telling you we don't really care about you.
We care about the people that aren't here, the people
that are watching at home. They're telling you that they're
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they're letting you know, and we don't like, you don't
matter to us. It's cool, it's a great backdrop, but
you're like the extras on a movie set, you know, really,
I mean, it's kind of whatever we'll give you, you know,
two hundred three hundred bucks a day to be here,
you know, maybe give you some free catering. You know,
you might get your SAG card, and then you know
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it's over. We don't care about you. We care about
the people that are watching at home. And it's been
really evident over the past several weeks the NFL's decision
to flex out Thursday night games. But then they come
out and they say, oh, don't worry about it, We're
gonna give you twenty eight days notice. Cool, Like, it's
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not about how much notice you give me, it's about
the fact that I'm now sitting here having a trip
ruined because you decided it's more important to feature a
better matchup on TV. And for the vast majority of us, like,
if there's a packed football stadium, it's what seventy seventy
five eighty thousand people, you know, sixty five in certain places.
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So it does make sense from a number standpoint that
the NFL would care more about the millions of people
watching at home as opposed to the sixty five seventy
thousand people in attendance. But if you're one of those
people that's buying tickets to go to sporting events, at
some point you got to start maybe thinking about whether
or not. That's the wisest investment in the world when
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everything is being told to you that they don't care
about you. They don't care. They care about the TV product.
That's what they care about. They're not really worried about
whether or not this works for you. It slowly started
with the flexing games, they started to try and position
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games here. It's even gotten over to college football is
now well too. Like hear what happened to Michigan State
Penn State this week. Michigan State Penn State has now
been moved from East Lansing to Ford Field on Black
Friday and featured at nighttime. And so if you're a
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Michigan State fan and you got tickets to a Penn
State game coming up, who's a really good team, and
now all of a sudden, you're being told on a
holiday weekend, Yeah, so that's no longer going to happen,
but you can purchase tickets if you want to drive
all the way to Ford Field. You're looking around going wait,
why when when do we count? And what sports leagues
(01:10:54):
are telling you is you don't really count, like we
figured out And I don't know if this co in
sides with COVID or the pandemic. We figured out that
we can put these games on whether you're there or not.
Now it looked a little goofy in front of empty stadiums,
and it looked a little weird, but we don't really
like that. That's not the important thing. The important thing
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is getting our products seen on television or on streaming sites.
It's not really about whether or not you're in attendance.
So if I was somebody who liked to go to
sporting events and liked to go to games, and liked
to be there and wanted to put I'm thinking long
and hard about whether or not I want to be
a part of that world anymore, because that world's telling
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me I'm not nearly as important as everybody else who's
watching the TV and not making the commitment to drive
all the way out here to wait in line, to
sit in inclement weather, and to want to watch this
game in person. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio, get me
on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox
on Twitter, and again you can hang out with us
(01:11:54):
here on from the Tirak dot com studios on the
iHeartRadio app. But coming up next, we are going to
get to some things in the world of sports and
beyond we have not had a chance to talk about.
As we close up shop here on a Saturday, it's
another edition of the Scraps and it's next here on FSR.
God leave me alone, John trying to get ready for
the segment Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up in
(01:12:19):
fifteen minutes from now here from the tiraq dot com studios.
Make sure you stick around. It's Steve Hartman and Bucky Brooks.
They will take you throughout the next several hours here
on FSR, lots to get to NBA NFL discussion, some
fun stuff out there with Hartman and Bucky Brooks here
coming up again fifteen minutes from now. If you missed
any of this show, it'll be put up at our
(01:12:41):
podcast link at Fox Sports Radio dot com. I will
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That's at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter where you can
find all sorts of positive feedback. Also this little gem
which is pretty appropriate here for the listening audience. I
was mentioning how I wasn't aware that there was this
thing called a spit bucket on set when you film
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commercials or movies where people are eating to where you know,
they've got to do a bunch of different takes. So
if they're eating something that they have to spit it
out so they don't get full obviously as they're shooting,
and so they spit it out in like this little
spit bucket. I didn't realize that was a thing. And
Paul writes in and says, I don't want to see
what Jenna Jamison's spit bucket looks like. So again at
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the Jonas Knox where you can find all that wholesome
content here as we wax poetically about professional sports here
on a Saturday, for a Memorial Day weekend. All right,
right now, though, it is time for a little something
we do to close up shop every weekend.
Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
It's called this Jonas you, moron, how could you not
get to these stories?
Speaker 4 (01:13:48):
Moron?
Speaker 1 (01:13:49):
These are the scraps.
Speaker 2 (01:13:52):
And for that we turn it over to Bo Benson
to find out what the hell we've missed so far. Bo.
Speaker 8 (01:13:56):
Yeah, So, the famously stable franchise the Las Vegas Raiders.
A couple of weeks ago, DeVante Adams their star wide receiver.
He threw some criticisms towards the front office and the
way they handled the departure of Derek Carr. Josh McDaniel
is the head coach. He said this week that DeVante
Adams has earned the right to vent his frustrations with
the Raiders. And then for good measure, it came out
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that Jimmy Garoppolo had already gotten surgery while a member
of the Raiders. So things are going just wonderful for
Las Vegas right now.
Speaker 2 (01:14:24):
Well, it does make some sense now that Jimmy Garoppolo
there was that delay in him signing his deal because
remember they were they were set to announce that he
was going to have a news conference, and then like
an hour or two hours before the news conference, it
got canceled, And so what's going on here? So I
just I wonder if that was the final sticking point,
if Garoppolo wanted to get this surgery done, they said,
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no chance, it's not going to happen. And then you've got,
you know, the Raiders and Jimmy Garoppolo going back and
forth over language of the deal, and then finally they
have the surgery or they signed the deal and he
gets you know, the surgery taking care of plus their
first round pick, Tyree Wilson. He also is rehabbing surgery,
so he hasn't been part of OTA. So if you
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just look at that division, I think it's pretty obvious
that the Raiders are the worst team in that division.
I just I don't know what the plan is. I
just I don't like, I don't understand. And then Tom
Brady's and you know, back in the mix, and I
don't know. It just it feels like they're in sort
of no man's land where you've got the Chiefs. I
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think the Broncos are going to be better. The Chargers
were a playoff team a year ago. It just feels
like the Raiders are a long shot there in the
AFC West.
Speaker 8 (01:15:37):
Does does the NFL allow owner players?
Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
No, I don't think we were talking about that.
Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
I mean, if there's one guy that was going to
get it red, it would probably be Tom Brady. But
and if you're Jimmy Garoppolo, you can't catch a break
man like you think. I'm finally I've finally gotten rid
of this guy. And in fact, I got to play
for his boyhood team. And now he's so bitter about
it that he's got to come and own the team
that I'm playing for. It's just a miserable life for
Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean not really, but right, yeah, for
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in context. Sure, yes, the Milwaukee Bucks, they completed their
coaching search. They hired a Raptors assistant, Adrian Griffin, to
be their next head coach, which leaves Nick Nurse, the
former Raptors head coach, on the market, and I have
to imagine he's going to end up somewhere pretty soon,
either Philadelphia or Phoenix. Also, I think him and Doc
Rivers that advanced to the next stage of interviews when
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it came to the Phoenix Suns.
Speaker 8 (01:16:32):
Can you imagine that the Sun's hiring Doc Rivers if
I was after they fired Monny Williams for what he did.
Speaker 2 (01:16:38):
I can't believe Doc Rivers still wants to coach. And
I'm like, not even from the standpoint that he Look,
he won a title, but he's had a lot of
bad losses. There's been a lot of collapses. He's lost
a bunch of Game sevens like or elimination games. He's
got like a seventeen and forty record when it comes
to elimination game like. It's an awful record, But just
(01:16:59):
from the standpoint that, like, why not go broadcast. He's
a great broadcaster, Like people forget when Doc Rivers was
calling games. He's fantastic. He did, like I think, I
don't know if Laker fans remember this or John Ramush,
you remember that Doc Rivers and Al Michaels were on
the call for the Derek Fisher point four shot in
the playoffs. That was the broadcast team that called that. Like,
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Doc Rivers was amazing as a broadcaster. If I were him,
it's less stress. You make some coin, You've already got
your NBA championship, Like, screw it, just get out of
the coaching world. Unless he gets it's what his passion
is and he loves it and he doesn't want to
go out like the way he did. But if I
were Doc Rivers, like, go be a broadcaster, man. He's
great at it.
Speaker 8 (01:17:39):
Yeah, especially going to a team that has Kevin Durant
and Devin Booker and is going to have all the
eyeballs and everything. Like, if I'm Doc Rivers, I'm going
to coach again. Just give me a team that is
out of the you know, national eye. Let me just
live my life and win. Ike thirty five games a year.
I still can't believe they fired Manty Williams. Yeah that's insane. Yeah,
I kind of get it the way they exited the
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season two years in a row. But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
I mean, you know, adding Kevin Durant and then him
turning his ankle on a layup line his first game,
Like it's like, are we blaming Monty Williams for that?
He shouldn't have had him in layup lines, Like come on, dude,
Like I just feel like he was the fall guy there.
Speaker 8 (01:18:17):
Yeah. So a Compton woman she won the California lottery
for the second time, apparently taking home two million dollars
in winnings. This is also apparently the third time she's
won the lottery. She claims, so, uh, where's where's my money?
Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
She's won the lottery three times?
Speaker 8 (01:18:33):
Yeah, that's what she's claiming.
Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
Yeah, Like, at some point, like you're counting cards, you
know what I mean. Like in the movie Casino, when
they knew that some guys were cheating because they were
winning too much, they they broke some guy's hand with
a hammer. I'm not saying that applies here, but at
some point, share the wealth lady, And if you blow
through all that money, you don't deserve to ever get
to play again.