Jonas Knox talks Aaron Rodgers and the NBA Finals!

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More details emerging on the PGA Live Golf merger. The
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PGA employees the reason for the merger is because the
tour couldn't financially afford to continue fighting legal battles against
Live Golf and the Saudi Public Investment Fund while at
the same time increasing prize money for its own players.

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fifty million in legal fees and had dug deep into
their reserve funds. In a statement to ESPN, a PGA
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due to litigation costs and other uses of reserves is
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only a matter of time, you know. Apparently this was

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just eventually where we were gonna get. It just took
a little bit longer than I think a lot of
people recognized in the moment. So Aaron Rodgers is wrapping
up his first OTAs with the New York Jets, you know,
like he's uh finishing up there. He had a little
bit of a cafe shoe, but you know, it was
kind of a you know, kind of a fun little

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journey for Aaron Rodgers. Remember he was at all the
playoff games. Who was at a Rangers game one night
and then a Knicks game the next and he was
just like kind of floating back and forth. The thing
that was a little confusing for me at the time though,
was the Rangers were playing the Devils. The Devils are
in New Jersey. The Rangers are in New York, but
he plays for the Jets, yet they play their games

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in New Jersey. It's very confusing. Now, I don't know
if it's confusing as you know whether or not Jimmy
Hoffa's body was buried at the old Giant Stadium. But
it is confusing why this is happening with Aaron Rodgers.
But nonetheless, everybody I mean glowing reviews. I mean, it
feels like the leadership is already being felt. His relationship
with Zach Wilson is off to a good start. Like

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everybody's really really excited about what's currently happening. And when
somebody's really really excited about where they currently are, it
means because probably they're comparing it to where they were.
And if you don't believe me, just listen to Aaron
Rodgers talk about his short time as a New York

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Jets quarterback. The last six weeks have been about the
most fun I've had in a while. So it's fun
to come to work and be excited about what we're doing.
We've got a great quarterback room. Well, well let's do
the math here. Most fun I've had in a long time.
It's fun to be able to come into work and
where is he Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's

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because things weren't all all kosher with the X there.
Maybe that's why, you know, maybe maybe that's what this
is all about. You know, this is not the first
time Aaron Rodgers has taken a little bit of swipe
at where he was at. In fact, the article that
came out via The Athletic a couple of weeks ago, remember,
Aaron Rodgers pointed out that his relationship and his trust

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factor with the Jets is already better than where it
was with Brian guten Kunz and the Packers' front office
and all the other And he's been there for a
life twenty minutes and it's already significantly better than where
he was at, which tells me that it was only
a matter of time before this was going to happen.

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And it's not because he crawled into a gopher hole
in Oregon and you know, smoked a bunch of weed
or did whatever he did and fasted for seven days
and then crawled out and decided I want to play
again and all that stuff, like whatever he decided to do.
And listen Aaron Rodgers' methods to find happiness and peace.
A lot of people like to criticize him. A lot

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of people like to make fun of him. They like
to mock the guy. It's his business. He does what
he wants. Who cares personally, I'm not crawling underground, not
into it. I would just assume everything with caven around me. Look,
I watched the Tornado documentary. I commend those people for
crawling underground. When that thing's buzzing around up top, I

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would try and outrun it. Okay, I'm not taking the
chance on some of the soil I've seen across the
country in which you see a car get evaporated and
sucked down like that horse off the Never Ending Story
because somebody didn't fix a pothole, or there's some sort
of of a land issue somewhere. So I'm not taking
my chances there. I don't want to deal with sinkholes,

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and I just assume everything is. I prefer to be
up top, not down below. Aaron Rodgers had his own
little method, his own little path, and he can say
that when he crawled out of the gopher hole and
he realized that the packers had kind of wanted to
move on, that that's not where this happened. The clock
started on the breakup the second they drafted Jordan Love,

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and it's never been more evident, ever been more evident.
Once that happened that was the fight in the relationship
that he was never going to get over ever. And
I've said this before. Everybody's got one of those. You
can bicker back and forth, you can have bad feelings

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back and forth, you can bark at each other and
do what it like all but there are those fights
that you never get over. And you know how you
never get over him because you keep bringing them up
years later, Right when you think you've moved on, right
when you think everybody's found a new path to happiness,
somebody keeps bringing it up. And the fact that Aaron

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Rodgers keeps pointing out how much better it is here
than it was in Green Bay. That's not a direct
shot at the Packer fan base, which he's been very
supportive of and had nothing but good things to say.
That's not a direct shot at his teammates, some of
which are already in Green Bay. I mean, David Bachtiari's
talked about calling it a rebuild, and they can say
whatever they want, but this is what it feels like.

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That's not a direct shot at any of those guys.
It's the people that made the environment quote unquote not
a happy place for Aaron Rodgers when he was there,
Like him not showing up to OTA's in Green Bay
or any of the offseason work couch, yet he's had
perfect attendance in New York. Like all of that stuff

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is him letting everybody know I was in a bad spot.
Like you only know good once you've dealt with bad.
Like that's just the reality, Like a lot of us
don't know what we want until we've had something we
don't want. And Aaron Rodgers realized once they made the

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decision to draft Jordan Love and the way everything transpired,
and yes he signed the contract and all that stuff,
but once you got the vibe that they weren't exactly
on the same page, and the Packers waited until the
one non MVP season to start acting and separating themselves
from him. Once that happened, it was over. It was

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only a matter of time. And his remarks and his
reactions should tell you everything you know it need to
know about the relationship. It was fractured, it was never
going to be repaired, and this was always going to
be the end result. And thus Aaron Rodgers is now
the quarterback of the New York Jets, having quote unquote
the best time he's had in years in the world

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of football. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio, all Right, you
know the part in the movie Casino where Joe Peshi's
got that guy's head and device and he just keeps
cranking it and cranking it and cranking it. And then
finally at the end, the guy gives him the name

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and he says Charlie EM and then he cuts his
throat because he can't believe that he had to go
through all this for Charlie M. Like, I can't believe
we got to go through all this, and Charlie M
is just the Miami heat. I really can't believe it.
Can somebody put the Finals out of their misery? Please?

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Can somebody please end this whole charade that everybody wants
to act like as a legitimate an NBA championship. Can
we just stop? Let me tell you what happened. The
Denver Nuggets won the NBA Finals the second Jason Tatum
rolled his ankle in Game seven. Miami's got no shot.

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It's over. Like Eric Spolstra, Jimmy Butler and all of
them could say whatever they want, Wolla. Our focus is
getting this back to Miami. I don't know about you. Guys,
but I haven't seen them win a playoff game in
Miami in quite a while. You know. In fact, now
that we think about it, they've lost six of their
last eight playoff games. But okay, all right, hashtag heat culture.

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They're the cool kids everybody likes cheer for the eight.
Literally have lost six of their last eight playoff games,
and we're supposed to believe this is a legitimate contender
to the NBA title. The Denver Nuggets are the best
team in the league. That is a fact. They've got
the best player in the league and they're playing the best.
I don't know about you, but that feels like a
rest to be for success. I just you're watching these

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games going like now, I'm I'm offended. I'm actually pissed
off Denver didn't win Game two, because if they did,
we'd be done with this. This whole thing would be
wrapped up and we can move on with our lives.
The fact that they came out and laid an egg
late in that game in Game two, now you're looking
around going, dude, like all of that for this, Like

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that's what we're doing here, Like we gotta we had
to sit here with our heads and a vice because
Denver mailed it in in the late portion of Game
two when this was what it was going to be
the entire time, Like we went through all of that
where Charlie m like, what what what is happening here?

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Like if you're the Denver Nuggets and you're the Miami Heat,
you know the conclusion of this. We should have all
known the inclusion of this. This is how this was
going to go, much like the Aaron Rodgers saga. This
is how this was always going to go. And the
fact that it's not over feels like torture. And I

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can already tell you how this whole thing's gonna go.
They're gonna get to Game five. Okay, you're gonna get
everybody on the ESPN trying to talk about, ooh, what
are the Heat chances? You know, I mean, we just
we've seen it before. You know, the Cavs did it
in twenty sixteen. Member Lebron, Remember, like, we've seen this before.

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And they're gonna try and sell you on how this
is a legitimate possibility of it happening. And Miami's gonna
come out and they're probably gonna come out playing well,
and they might even have a little bit of a
lead at the end of the first quarter, just like
they did last night, and then Denver's just gonna do
what they do. They're gonna play at their same speed
because that's all Djokic knows, and they're gonna win that
game and they're gonna hoist the trophy and it's over with.

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And the fact that we got to sit through it
with our head and device all because of Charlie m
is a disgrace. Let's end this thing. Let's move on
and get ready for some more offseason football talk. Jonas
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on Fox Sports Radio. All Right, So I'm a firm
believer that there's hypocrisy all around us. Okay, like a
firm believer, and I think all of us are guilty
of it. So every single one of us has got
some level of hypocrisy, whether we want to acknowledge it
or not. It's like you'll get these people that get

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really really upset when somebody posts ado of them hunting.
You know, like like if one of these celebrities posts
a photo of the of them hunting a wild animal,
and they post the picture of them and they're catch
and all that they get I mean destroyed. You get
these people in their comments going, oh, how could you
you ought to be ashamed of yourself? I wish that

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animal would have turned on you. Ooh, big man with
the gun killing an animal while they're sitting in a
fast food line getting ready to have a cheeseburger. Okay,
so you'll eat it. You just don't want to see
how it ends up there, got it? Just want to
be clear. I want to know what's happening. I just

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want to know. So you're good with having a ribbi,
you just don't want to see where it came from. Okay,
that's fine, that's all good. Nope, I just I want
to be I want to know we're on the same
page here. You know. It's like the like the people
who say, I don't eat sweets, not a big sweet sky,

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I don't want the sugar. But give me a cold
cut or a ham sandwich on white bread. All right,
but you don't eat so you don't want the sugar.
Right Have you seen how much sugar is in white bread?
Just curious? Right when you pass up the donut for
a cold cut kinda you know, kind of I feel

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like we're not really doing much there. Or the people
that are like, hey, I'm eating super healthy, huge healthy eater.
All I'm doing is salads. Right now, I'm gonna salad
only diet as they pour a paint can full of
ranch dressing over the salad. Like there's just there's hypocrisy
all around us. It's everywhere. And the layers of hypocrisy

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that continue to pour out of this PGA Live Tour
Shenaniganfest that's happening are absolutely hilarious. Okay, So here's the latest.
So there's this report out from the Wall Street Journal
saying the Jay Monahan, the PGA Tour commissioner, he told

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players in this player's only meeting on Thursday that that
part of the reason why they accepted this deal to
join the live tours because they couldn't afford to keep
up their legal battle with Saudi's Public Investment Fund, Right,
so the legal fees were mounting their business model. They
couldn't you know, they were trying to work on bonuses
for players and all the other things. And he said, man,

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we just we couldn't. We couldn't fight the fight, you know,
just the legal battles. You know, it just wasn't part.
Now when somebody reached out from ESPN, they reached out
to a member of the PGA Tour, you know, the
the higher ups there and said, you know, any validity
to this report? They said, Wow, you know, it's a
bit overblown to say that we did all this because
we didn't want to deal with the legal fees. Okay,

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whatever the case may be. Here's where we are. And
then you've got a PGA Tour policy member, somebody that
helped broker the deal between the PGA and Live this week,
and he said that PGA Tour members who stayed loyal
to the tour will receive equity in the new company,

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kind of a make good, if you will, although it's
a yet to be determined formula. Okay, so it's yet
to be determined, right, We're gonna make this a make good,
all right, So let me ask you a question. Would
you rather have one hundred million dollars? What if? Or

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just one hundred million dollars? Right like like like what
if I told you, hey, I'm gonna hand you one
hundred million dollars. Or here's a stack of lotto scratchers.
And these aren't the rinky dink one dollar scratchers that
I hand out to people at Fox Sports Radio during

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the holidays. No, no, no, no, no, these are those
like five dollars scratchers, you know, the ones that never
sell out because nobody can really afford them. You go
into like a seven eleven or a circle k or
a wah wah or whatever that place is called on
the East coast, and you go in there and you
buy a lotto scratcher. It's the five dollar ones. They

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never sell out. They've been sitting there for thirty years
because nobody can afford them. But if I told you,
if you scratch enough of those, it might end up
being a hundred million dollars. Or I could just give
you one hundred million dollars. Which would you prefer? Because
I don't know about you. I'm not against grabbing a
nickel and scratching off a bunch of scratchers for a
hundred million dollars. But if you tell me I could

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save time and just take the one hundred million dollars,
I'll take one hundred million dollars. So that's what we're
being told here. Listen. It's a yet to be determined formula,
but we feel like there's gonna be some stuff, you know,
for all these players. But just so you know, anybody
that left the tour and went to the live golf
Association or whatever they're called. Those guys aren't eligible. They're

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not eligible for this. You yet to be determined amount
of money that these guys are going to get on
the back end. Possibly okay, but they can keep the
one hundred million. They just want to be clear. Here's
the best part about all this. So obviously there's the
hypocrisy from the PGA Tour and the blowhards that are
in the PGA Tour at every turn. You got j

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Monaghan who condemned the Live Tour on all this, and
then he ended up years later, you know, a couple
of years later, joining forces with them this week. There's
all that stuff. The other part about this that's so
funny is you got the players, guys like Rory McElroy
some of these other blowhards that are talking about their loyalty,

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and these guys stayed loyal to the PGA to they
took the moral approach like all of those guys who
have been ripping players to pieces. Tell them you were
wrong and it's blood money, and that all those guys
talking about it being blood money before but now that

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it's here are angry and the only way you can
make it up to him is with some of the
blood money that's now funding this joint effort. Okay, so
the blood money wasn't good two years ago, but if
you want to make it up to me, I'm willing
to accept it. Now, does anybody stay, like take a
step back and go, I mean, what are we doing here? Like,

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let's just let everybody listen. We understand you're embarrassed, you criticized.
I mean Greg Norman got destroyed, Phil Mickelson got destroyed,
Brooks Kopka got destroyed, Bryson, all these guys got buried.
And I know a lot of people don't like him,

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and a lot of people aren't gonna like this and
aren't happy about it. And apparently there's some other stuff
going on in the news. I don't really know anything
about politics, but I'll just say this. Donald Trump said
a while back, take the money because it's gonna end
up here eventually. Just take the money. It's all gonna

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come from the same pot sooner or later. And that's
one hundred plus million dollars you're turning down. And guess
what here we are, Like, Look, you took a calculated risk.
You wanted to stand on a soapbox and criticize people
and at the same time while criticizing them and where

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their money comes from. If you look through a list
of the sponsors for the PGA tour and you did
some background checks, some of that apparel they wear seems
like it's made in parts of the world that maybe
some people don't think too fondly of. I don't know
about you. If you do enough digging, you kind of
The whole point of this is there's hypocrisy everywhere, and

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if you want to stand on your soapbox and criticize
and point fingers and all the other people that are
doing things morally wrong with their money, there'd be a
bunch of fingers pointing straight back at you. We do
it all the time. We do it with our diets,
we do it with our relationships, we do it with
self help. We do it with all of us. I've

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said this before. There's a reason why when Nick Saban
came out and was critical of Jimbo Fisher and the
nil money and his spending and all that, there's a
reason why Jimbo Fisher was so outraged by it, and
people in college football were so surprised by it, because
you normally don't hear that. Jimbo Fisher's first response to

(24:39):
Nick Saban was, what after he made those comments? Oh yeah,
I know things about you. The reason he was so
bothered is because you don't hear that from other coaches.
When there's a scandal in college football or college athletics,
you never hear the arch rival come out and speak
out against them. When USC has got everything from a

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cast member of full House going to prison for an
academic scandal, a bum fielding punts at practice, and all
the other things that have come along with it, and
athletic director or apparently may have fat shamed some employees
and all that stuff, and he had to be exited
out the door on a Friday afternoon, so nobody noticed.
You know, you've never heard anything from UCLA. It's weird

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like UCLA's never come out and publicly spoken out against someone.
Why do you think that is? Because glasshouses don't throw
stones for a reason. And if you dug deep enough,
you could find flaws with anything in the world a
college sports or in the world in general, you could
find something wrong with anybody. This is another example of

(25:48):
why just shut up, live and let live, No pun intended,
all right, everybody's got decisions to make, and I think
there was a reason why orient some of these other
people started getting real quiet towards the end over the
past couple of weeks because I think they felt like
the tables were turning. And now you've got a lot

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of people looking around going dude, if we were all
going to end up here in the same spot. Anyways,
what was the last two years about? Jonas Knox Fox
Sports Radio again, get me on Twitter at the Jonas
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which I think is very obvious. It's very obvious that's

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something that you like. The people in the NFL involved
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But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
make some noise for Nick Cope. So, Jonas, what's happening?

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Well, the other part, the other part of that report
I was going to add to Amanahn apparently told employees
the tour had already spent fifty million in legal fees
and then had dipped into its reserves for one hundred
million to get those increased purses for events to try
to keep players from going over to Live. And if
they were going to continue with that antitrust lawsuit, one

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person told ESPN that it would have cost a PGA
more than one hundred million in legal fees. So they
saw where things were going and decided to get out
in front of it.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
I mean, so, what were the last two years about,
you know what I mean? Yeah, exactly. I mean, at
some point, like people get to be this is what
it is. They made the deal. They didn't run it
by anybody. Just in the middle of the week. It
was like, all right, by the way, we're joining forces. Wait. Watch,
It's like you can't do anything about it now. It's
like they can complain about the money all they won,

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but just here we are and now you move forward.
And if it's really for the betterment of the sport,
it just feels like a lot of people are talking
about how they were let down as opposed to the
sport itself. I don't know, it's a bit much for me.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, And it seems like outside of the guys who
went to Live, the only people that are really winning
seeing these figures are the lawyers.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
Of course they always make out all right, Yeah, listen
they I mean, that's the way this world works. Yes, no, guys, Nick.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
We do have the third round of the RBC Canadian
Open in progress. Nick Taylor is the leader. He's got
a one shot lead at ten under. Many of the
leaders are about to tee off here over the course
of the next hour. In tennis, at the French Open,
world number one Egos Fiantek won the women's title for
the second straight year and now for the third time
in four years, defeating Carolina Mukova in three sets. Tomorrow,

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Novak Djokovic is in the men's final. He goes for
a record twenty third Grand Slam title. And baseball, he
got a few games going on. Diamondbacks are leading the
Tigers five nothing in the sixth inning. They've got home
runs from Nick Ahmed and Lord Escuriel Junior. A couple
other games have just gotten going the White Sox and
the Marlins, and as well we got the Cardinals and

(28:51):
the Reds. Those games just started in the last fifteen
to twenty minutes. Champions League coming up at the top
of the hour of Manchester City versus inter Milan City
to complete the treble today. They've already won the Premier League,
the FA Cup and now looking to finish off and
win the Champions League.

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It's really fun. Stick around for that twelve minutes from now.
Hear from the Tirak dot com studios. So the NFL
has got a little bit of a problem, and actually
I don't know if it's the NFL or is it HBO.
So Robert Sala came out on Friday and said, yeah,
we are not really all that interested in hard knocks.

(29:49):
We don't want to be featured, all right. So three
of the four candidates for hard Knocks have now publicly
said yeah, we're good, thank you, though the Jets don't
want to do it, but the Bears don't want to
do it, and the Saints don't want to do it,
and they've set it publicly. Now. The only team that
hasn't said it publicly is the Washington Commanders, and that

(30:10):
could be because Washington's got some other things they're trying
to figure out, like whether or not Dan Snyder's going
to finally sell this team, because I don't know. I've
been here and I don't know about you guys for
going on feels like four years now that there's a
sale pending. This has got to be the longest sale
process in the history of mankind. Like I've heard of
Can I get a rainsheck, I've heard of that before,
or lay away where you pay a portion of it

(30:32):
and you put it on layaway and then you come
back later on and you get like I get all that.
But this is going on way too long. Like I
could see like Black Friday, you go into a Walmart,
or you go into like a Toys r Us or
like a KB Toys, and you want to get this
like giant Monster truck for your kid. But it's like

(30:54):
four hundred bucks. Like, damn, I don't have four hundred
bucks right now. I mean I don't get paid till
the thirtieth. And it's we're not quite It's like, I mean, here,
can I give you a little bit and keep it
on layaway? Yeah, no problem, just come back, you know
your next paycheck like two weeks from now. We can
figure it out. I get that. I don't get this.
Speed it up. Let's go and let's move on from

(31:17):
the Dan Snyder era. And I firmly believe that if
it was already finalized and Dan Snyder was out, the
Commanders would be the team that would be featured on
Hard Knocks. I firmly believe that. But I don't think
the NFL really wants to showcase all the flaws and
everything going on there in Washington. So you got a
couple of choices here. There are two choices for the NFL.

(31:39):
Either you get rid of this formula that you've come
up with, which I don't know if you guys are
up to speed on the formula. So teams don't have
to be on the show if any of these rules
apply to them. Right, if you have a first year
head coach in place. You don't have to be on
Hard Knocks. If you have a playoff berth in the

(32:03):
past two seasons, you don't have to be on Hard Knocks.
And if you've appeared on the show in the past
ten years, you don't have to be on Hard Knocks. Okay,
So you can either get rid of that and just
open it up to everybody and say who wants in.
Jerry Jones will be the first one to raise his
hand and say I'd like to be a part of this.
Then I'm sure there's a couple others out there who

(32:24):
want to be showcased, maybe the Indianapolis Colts and Jim
mursay or so. You could do that, or you could
just get rid of it all together. You could also
do that as well too, because it does feel like
the appeal of Hard Knocks has kind of run its course.
We get so much access and we get so much
information when it comes to the NFL, and it comes

(32:47):
to teams and reality versions of the NFL and shows, etc.
We get so much of it that I don't think
it's got the ooh, look behind the curtain appeal that
it normally did. I mean, they're doing hard Knocks in
season now it's like, what do we like? Who's watching that?
I think like the last year was the Cardinals, the

(33:11):
year before it was the Colts'. I don't know if
I watched any of it, Like, I don't mean, what
are we doing here? There's so much access to the
NFL now that I just don't think Hard Knocks is
really what it once was. It's like when inside the NFL,
I think it moved to the CW network, but inside

(33:31):
the NFL left showtime recently, everyone's like, oh, Man, end
of an era, And you're right, it is an end
of an era. But inside the NFL, the appeal of
it isn't what it used to be because people can
get their highlights and their breakdowns in real time, so
there's no longer the appeal to stick around and wait
to see what inside the NFL is doing. And I

(33:53):
grew up on inside the NFL. I loved inside the NFL.
Len Dawson and Nick Bonakhani and all these like, I
mean legends. Chris Collinsworth was on it. Dan Marino had
a meltdown on set where he pounded the desk because
he screwed up one of his lines. It's fantastic, loved
inside the NFL. But because the access to football on

(34:14):
highlights and information is so much more now, the appeal
to it is kind of diminished. And I feel like
that's where we're at when it comes to hard knocks.
So the fact that you've got all of these people
that are candidates because they fit the formula they've put together,
and none of them want to do it. You got
two choices here, open it up to everybody, or get
rid of it all together. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio again,

(34:37):
get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the
Jonas Knox on Twitter, and coming up next here from
the Tirac dot com studios, it's another edition of do
You Care. You have been told so many things about
major stories in the world of sports and beyond, and
we're going to tell you why some of them means
zilch and it's yours here on FSR. Jonas Knox Fox

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Sports Radio coming up top of next do We'll call
it about fifteen minutes from now from the ti Raq
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that may be even worse than we all realize. You
included we'll get into that for you here again a
little over ten minutes from now here on FSR. But

(35:20):
right now it is time for a Saturday tradition unlike
any other. It's another edition of this.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time
DMG reports.

Speaker 3 (35:35):
Let's get kinky.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week. Bo, Yeah, Jonas, real quick,
Sam's back? Do you care? Oh god? No? Yeah, right,
we're supposed to, like, we're supposed to throw them some
wake because Sam missed two weeks vacationing on a yacht

(36:05):
and Istanbul. So we've got to like let Ramos go
through all the painstaking tasks of you know, trying to
piece together the show and all the show elements because
Sam wants to disappear and you know, hang out in
Indonesia somewhere with his family because they've got so much
money from farming in Iowa. This is I'm sick of it, man,

(36:25):
shameful yeah, truly, he's got a gold silo, I know. Yeah, yeah.
He kept bragging all week.

Speaker 7 (36:33):
Forty nine Ers Enterprises, the investment arm of the San
Francisco forty nine Ers, purchased the recently relegated Premier League
Premier League club Leeds United.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Do you care? No, I don't not at all. Oh well,
and I really don't care if that bothers any soccer
freaks out there. Everybody jumping for joy because Messi's coming
over to play for Inter Miami or whatever. Listen, last
time I heard any issue with Messi either it was
like tax evasion and then he pissed off Canelo because

(37:05):
he like wiped himself with the Mexican flag and like
I'm supposed to like sit like that was like one
of the things. And like I think Canelo like threatened
to beat his ass or something like that. So like
everyone's like celebrating all my god, ticket prices have skyrocketed
for Messi's are return on to the US and he's
gonna be playing for Miami. It's like, okay, cool. It's
like can I watch it on TV? If I Fox

(37:28):
is putting it on, I'll watch it. If not, who cares? Next?

Speaker 7 (37:31):
The recent closure of part of crypto dot COM's business
won't affect the naming rights that currently are held its
former Staples Center down in downtown LA. Do you care
of it all?

Speaker 3 (37:43):
No, not at all. Listen, I think I'm gonna try
it out, calling it like I don't even know. I
think the field in Washington where the Commanders play, I
think it's called FedEx Field. I think I have that right.
I still call it RFK Stadium, call whatever I want. Well,
that's not what it's called anymore to me. It is

(38:04):
like where the Dolphins play. You think I'm calling it
hard Rock. No, it's Joe Robbie. That's what I Where
the Bills play, Rich Stadium, That's how I operate. I'll
call whatever I want to call it. And if I
want to call it crypto dot Org or the Staple
Center or Office Depot, Dome or whatever they want to
put together, I'll call whatever I want. I just want
to know who's responsible for Taylor Swift's banner being put

(38:28):
up there. That's all I want to know, and why
I needed to stare at that while I was trying
to watch Tool play there the last time I was there.
Next Dolphins wide receiver. Tyreek Kill believes that he can
become the NFL's first two thousand yard wide receiver, surpassing
lines wide receiver Calin Johnson's twenty twelve season where he
finished with nineteen hundred and sixty four yards. Do you

(38:50):
care at all? Yes? I do. Yeah. First of all,
did Calvin Johnson? Like didn't he lose a portion of
his finger? Like that's a lot, Like I think Ronnie
Lott did the same thing. Like that. That's a lot
to endure just to catch a lot of balls, you
know what I mean. It's like one of those It's
like that that lady who got her arm ripped off

(39:11):
and uh was it Tiger King whatever that show was
called back in the day. It's like, man, was it
worth all that? You know what I mean? It like
that was really worth it? Like somebody goes to high
five you and they got to borrow your foot, you know,
like just so you could help some drug addict and
his lines like listen, whatever. I mean. People have decisions
to make, and I'm not here to criticize anybody's sacrifices.

(39:33):
But the point is, like Tyreek Hill going for this
is not that far fetched and Here's the other thing
that's amazing about that trade. Now that we look back,
a lot of people assumed, God, who's gonna win. Who's
gonna win the breakup between Tyreek Hill and Patrick Mahomes. Dude,
they both had phenomenal years. Tyreek Hill was phenomenal and

(39:54):
it was a revolving door quarterback in Miami, and Patrick
Mahomes won a Super Bowl. So it's one of those
deals that worked out for both sides, and I hope
Tyreek Hill does it next. Former Lakers point guard Magic
Johnson offered his thoughts on the NBA Finals, tweeting at
the end of the day, this final series boils down
to the fact that the Nuggets are a more talented
team than the Heat. Jonas, do you care about this

(40:16):
incredibly revealing insight from one of the greatest players of
all time. No, I don't, and I've never cared about it,
Like listen, I would just I want to reply back
to Magic and be like, Hey, what happened to Lonzo
balls Jersey being hung up in the rafters in LA
What happened to that? Because I remember Magic Johnson said
all that as well too. And it's to the point

(40:38):
now where I think Magic Johnson's trolling everybody. I swear
to God, there's there's no possible way he thinks that
this is like revealing stuff. I think he sends it
and he's laughing while he's sending it. Or is this
like one of those chat GPTs or whatever they are,
where it's like AI who's running the Twitter account of
Magic Johnson and now he can just it's like one

(41:01):
of those cars that drives itself. And now he's not
like anywhere nearest Twitter account and they're firing off bad takes,
whatever it is. I'm not interested next.

Speaker 7 (41:09):
All right, last, but lot, not least this time. Next week,
I will hopefully not be here because I will have
noted Blink one ay two off of my concert bucket
list on Friday night.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Jonas, do you care? No, not at all. Listen, Oh
I love you. But there are better ways to spend
your weekends, like like put on Blippy on YouTube or
whatever for the little one. But I'd like to go
to Blink one eighty. First of all, the band stinks,
the drummer's very talented, and one of the guys is
a UFO freak. Other than that, I'm not interested in

(41:41):
that either.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
More details emerging on the PGA Live Golf merger, The
Wall Street Journal reporting today that PGA Commissioner jayme Onahan
told pg employees the reason for the merger is because
the tour could not financially afford to continue fighting legal
battles against the Live Golf and the soundy publican has
been fun while at the same time increasing prize money

(42:03):
for its own players. The journal also said that Monaghan
claimed the tour spent fifty million in legal fees and
had used one hundred million of its reserve funds. Third
round of the Canadian Opening progress Nick Taylor's at the
top of the leader board of the two shot lead
at eleven under. In tennis, at the French Open, world
number one Egos Fiantec won the women's title for the

(42:23):
second straight year and for the third time in four years,
defeating Carolina Mukova in three sets. Tomorrow, Novak Djokovic goes
for a record twenty third Grand Slam title. Baseball, d
Backs lead the Tigers five nothing reds on top of
the Cardinals five nothing as well. I'm Nick Cope, what
a title?

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The bingo game is running to them all. So could
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a like a hypothetical scenario for you, kind of a
what if, right, I just want to put you in

(44:23):
a situation. I want you to just kind of tell
me how you would how you would feel about it. So,
say you had a stovefire, you know, a little flare
up on the stove. Not a big deal, right, not
a big deal whatsoever. I mean everybody's had that at
some point in time. Or maybe a flare up on
the grill, Like, how would you handle that? I mean

(44:45):
you would probably kind of wave it off, maybe maybe
close the grill lid, maybe turn it off, you know
first and just kind of make sure everything cools down,
like you know, that would be step one into how
you would handle like a grill fire or a stovefire.
You turn it off, you know, make sure you're like, hey, listen,
the food might get burnt, but whatever, And then step

(45:08):
two would be like one of those like household fire extinguishers.
You you go grab one and kind of spray it
all off and all that like that. That would be
step two. And then like step three maybe would be
something more drastic. But if it wasn't as bad, you know,

(45:28):
like a real serious issue, you wouldn't really need to
go all the way out. Like but if somebody told you, like, hey,
trust us, we'll take care of this, you would assume
they would follow one of those two steps. They'd turn
the stove off, they'd grab a fire extinguisher, like not
a problem. But if all of a sudden you looked
overhead and there was an air tanker getting ready to

(45:55):
drop fire retardant out of the sky onto your home,
wouldn't that be kind of a red flag to you
that maybe this was worse than what you initially thought.
Because if it's just a stovefire, if it's just a
little bit of a flare up on the grill, that
seems like something you can handle. You know, we've all
been there. But if all of a sudden, a giant

(46:17):
plane drops a bunch of pink stuff onto your house
to put out the fire, that would tell me, oh, boy,
this is worse than we all realize. And I say
all that to say this, Why did the NFL ask
Tom Brady to send a video to players urging them
not to gamble this week? Why did that happen? Why

(46:41):
was that necessary? I mean, I understand that. You know,
there's been a couple of people that have been popped
for gambling. I get all that. You know, Isaiah Rodgers
was the latest this week from the Colts. You know,
he basically acknowledged like, hey, you know I did this.
There's some stuff out there that there were a hun
of bets. It was somebody who was associated with him,

(47:03):
but not exactly him, that plays these bets, some of
which were on the Colts games and all that. I mean,
you know I feel about it. Isaiah Rodgers returns kicks.
I blame the NFL for this because you know the
fact that he's returned kicks in his career. He saw
where the NFL was going with kickoffs, and he said,
I've got to supplement my income, so I got to
start placing wagers, all right. So I blame the NFL

(47:25):
for that. So to me, he should be exonerated on
all charges because of their dumb kickoff rule changes, Like
this is how bad it is. You got guys having
to pick up side jobs to try and make ends meet.
You know, it's like somebody who's waiting tables during the
day and also a stripper at night. You can criticize
them all you want, but I got to pay the bills,
all right, I'm going I'm not going to be judged here,

(47:47):
so I don't judge Isaiah Rodgers. But the point being,
the NFL's got all these little like gambling flare ups,
you know, like things are popping up, and it feels
like you could put these out on your own, like
you don't. I mean, it's not like, you know, it's easy,
just like hand out some punishments and everything. But no, no, no, no, no, no,
you got to bring in Tom Brady. Tom Brady, the

(48:10):
greatest player in the history of the sport, is the
guy you got to bring in to urge players on
a video about not gambling. Like that's like, that's the
approach we're taking if you're the NFL. Why do I
get the feeling that this is much worse than we're

(48:34):
hearing about. Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated of the MMQB
you can hear him every Thursday on Two Pros and
a Cup of Joe with those yahoos who do the
shit morning show. Albert Breer talked about listen man, there's
a there's a feeling that there's more of this stuff

(48:54):
out here. The NFL is investigating more issues and more
players and more like there's there's other things going on here.
But why do I get the feeling that it's much worse?
In fact? Why do I get the feeling that maybe
there's some names that are out there that maybe we'll
never hear about because maybe those names are so big

(49:17):
that the NFL doesn't want that to get out. And
I'm not trying to be conspiracy theorists here. I'm not
trying to go down that road. But it does feel
to me like bringing in Tom Brady for a video
on not gambling because of what it'll do to your
NFL career. Why wouldn't you just bring in Calvin Ridley?

(49:38):
The guy lost a year of his career and all
he did was some goofy seven leg parlay bets for
fifteen hundred dollars. But he's been punished for gambling. Bring
in Calvin Ridley. He's not enough to talk to some
of these players. Why do you need to bring in
the greatest player in the history of the game to

(49:58):
make a video urging players not to gamble. I got
a feeling there's some names that are out there that
are much bigger than your Calvin Ridley's or you're Isaiah
Rodgers and some of these at Jamison Williams. I think
there's some names out there that the NFL is looking

(50:19):
at right now on a piece of paper through their investigation,
going oh god, this would look bad. Oh god, we know, yeah,
this is not okay. So why don't we figure out
how we can keep that away from everybody else? And hey, Tom,
would you mind as the greatest player in the history
of the NFL making a video urging players around the

(50:39):
league not to gamble? I think this is so much
worse than the NFL is letting on. And I don't
feel the least bit bad for the NFL because I
think the NFL didn't button up all the potential dangers
of this before they took the money. We can sit

(51:00):
here and say, well, players should know better. It's like, dude,
if I'm a player and I'm sitting in a training
room getting work done toer my knee? Do I really
know that I'm gonna get popped six games because I
bet on some college football over under. Like if I'm
an NFL player and I'm sitting on the training table

(51:20):
on a Saturday and the Ohio State and Michigan games on,
if somebody tells me, hey, you know what, Michigan's favored
to win this game by four points right now and
they're up by ten, I'd be like, wait, so, so
Ohio State can still lose. They can still lose the game,
but I can still win money. Oh dude, give me

(51:41):
Ohio State. Like that's going to cost me six games.
Whether you want to say it's the coaches who didn't
pass the note along, whether you want to say it
was the NFLPA, whether it was the NFL Roger Goodell, whoever.
The fact that you're bringing in Tom Brady to have
to make some video about what not to do, Like

(52:03):
why not Ridley, why not Jamison Williams, why not somebody else?
Why wouldn't you bring in Tim Donahey, Like, bring in
somebody who's the fact that you're going this direction letting
everybody know, Hey, look at my great career. This is
how great I was. Look at everything that came along
with it. You're gonna lose all of it if you

(52:24):
gamble to me. I think there's some people who got popped,
and I think we're never going to find out the
names because the NFL knows what an awful look that
would be. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get me on
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(54:19):
coming up next. There are a bunch of teams in
the NFL taking one approach, and then you get a
handful of teams taking another approach. And it's weird. The
handful of teams. They're actually good. I'll tell you why
that is. That's next. Hey, you know you're not a
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Mister gallis not bad living at all.

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So why don't the Minnesota Vikings just come out and say, yeah,
we don't believe in Kirk Cousins is our quarterback? Just
say that, like we could save a lot. It's like
I was talking about the NBA Finals, like we got
to actually sit through another game to find out whether

(55:24):
or not the Denver Nuggets are better than the Miami Heat.
I feel like we kind of already know. We kind
of we realize that in Game one, so like we're all,
you know, we're sitting on it. We're like, you know,
the guy in casino with his head and device and
at the end, what was it for Charlie m Like
I feel like we're all Charlie em having to sit
and watch the NBA Finals, which like at some point

(55:46):
Kirk Cousins has got to feel the same way, like
why don't you guys just tell me you don't believe
in me and we could just move on. Let's go.
Because the Minnesota Vikings made the decision to release Dalvin Cook,
and it was like the worst kept secret in the NFL.
That and DeAndre Hopkins, DeAndre Hopkins being let go from

(56:07):
the Arizona Cardinals like worst kept secrets in the NFL,
Like everybody knew this is where this was eventually going
to go. And the reasoning for the Minnesota Vikings, if
you talk to people in and around Minnesota, is for
financial reasons that the Vikings like Dalvin Cook as a player,
love his production, but Dalvin Cook and what it was

(56:28):
going to cost. It was going to be eleven million
dollars to keep him this year, and so because they
release him, they're going to save nine million dollars. So
they own an extra two million dollars because of the Cup,
but it was fourteen million against the Cats. It's all
the financial stuff. But then you just look at kind
of where the Vikings are at and you go, okay,
so it's all for financial But if I'm a Vikings fan,

(56:51):
I'm looking at this whole thing going. So Aaron Rodgers
finally leaves a division, a division we won last year,
and we're like getting rid of Dalvin Cook, like one
of our better players, Like he's got to go, what's
the plan here? Like, to me, the NFC is more

(57:12):
wide open than a lot of people want to acknowledge.
Philadelphia is clearly atop the NFC. But super Bowl hangovers
are real. Everyone can try and dismiss it all they want,
but they're real. It's a reason why it's rare that
a team gets to a Super Bowl and then it's
back at that very point the next year. So if

(57:32):
I'm Minnesota, I'm looking around at the rest of the
NFC going outside of Philly, who's really a threat? The
forty nine ers have issues at quarterback, they're both injured,
and they have Sam Darnold, Like Green Bay was a threat.
Aaron Rodgers is gone. Just in your own division, Yeah,

(57:53):
Detroit feels like they're on the rise, but Detroit wasn't
a playoff team a year ago, like the Bears are
still rebuilding. Like you just go up and down the NFC,
and for me, it's hard to find anybody outside of
Philadelphia that I go, oh, yeah, yeah, that's the one. Dallas.
I mean, at what point in the last thirty years

(58:14):
has Dallas giving you any indication that they're the team
they were when they were going to Super Bowls in
the nineties, because they haven't even been back to a
conference championship. I think the Giants are going to take
a step back. You go to the NFC South, who
the hell knows what's happening there. It's a fun division
because it's kind of up for grabs as well too.
Carolina loves Bryce Young he's now the starter, as if

(58:35):
that wasn't gonna happen anyways. And then you go to
the NFC West and you're like, outside of the Niners,
Seattle feels good, Arizona's the worst team in the league
by far. And by the way, there are odds out
there on the Cardinals going ZH to seventeen, which is
just tremendous, tremendous considering less than two years ago they
were in a playoff game. That's how fast this stuff

(58:56):
can turn. And then the Rams, nobody knows is Matt
Stafford can't stay healthy. So you're just looking around the
NFC and it's hard to find a better quarterback than
Kirk Cousins. Yet everything the Vikings are saying is telling you,
we don't believe that he's the guy. Their GM came

(59:17):
out a couple of years ago and said when he
took the job. Yeah, we don't have a Patrick Mahomes.
We don't have one of those. Say okay, but I
mean he's not bad. Like you could do a lot
worse than the NFL than Kirk Cousins. Like, if you
want to do the quarterback game in the NFC, if
you just look around. We've talked about it on this

(59:37):
show before, like who are you taking before you take
Kirk Cousins just in the NFC, Jalen Hurts, And that's
really based off one year and who else because I'll
take Cousins over just about anybody else in the NFC,
Dak Prescott, maybe Jared Goff, Matt Stafford. So if I'm

(01:00:00):
a Vikings fan, I'm looking at this window of opportunity going, yeah,
maybe we can't win a Super Bowl, but at least
could we get there and see what happens? Wait, get
to that point and then you see where we're at.
So that to me feels like it's frustrating if I'm
a Vikings fan, because I'm looking around going, dude, like

(01:00:20):
Rogers is gone, this division could be ours, and it
could be ours for another couple of years. If Justin
Fields takes longer to develop, if Detroit takes a step back,
or if Detroit's just sort of where they were a
year ago and Jordan Love isn't the guy we could
run this division for a little while here. And it
just feels like they want to call it. And Tom
Pelisero spoke about this and said, well, they're calling it

(01:00:43):
a competitive rebuild, so okay, you call whatever you want
to me. This feels like a missed opportunity and I
think the Vikings got worse by getting rid of Dalvin Cook,
not better whatever this does financially for him. Now that
being said, have you seen who's rumored to be kind
of sniffing around potentially as a landing spot for Dalvin

(01:01:04):
Cook to Miami Dolphins. You see that, Like Mike McDaniel
tried to explain it, and he's like all over the place,
but it's really entertaining, and everybody likes Mike McDaniel. But
you're just like you're seeing like the Dolphins, you know,
the Dolphins are kind of popping up. And then I
started thinking about this. I've noticed that the Dolphins are
popping up a lot lately when it comes to landing

(01:01:27):
big names that are available in the open market, Like
I feel like we're seeing Miami's name a lot. You know.
It also seems like every time there's a big name
on the open market or something like that, or there's
a big name out there that the Eagles are making moves.
You know, like whether it's Jalen Carter or every other
player that comes out of Georgia. DeAndre Swift is available

(01:01:51):
because the Lions took Jamir Gibbs, and so of course
where would DeAndre Swift end up. Of course he'd end
up in Philadelphia. Why wouldn't he be of course that
would make some sense. Titans are shopping aj Brown, Hey
who of course it's Philadelphia. Of course they would be
the team. It's kind of like what the Rams did previously.
Now they're having to kind of replenish the draft picks

(01:02:12):
and all that stuff now. But remember when, like every
time there was a big name on the market, a
Jalen Ramsey and Matt Stafford, like it was always the
Rams who were the team making the move. Like it
feels like the same old teams are always the most aggressive.
And you know what I noticed about the Rams back
then and the Eagles now and the Dolphins now all

(01:02:36):
of those teams playoff teams, and in fact, one won
a Super Bowl, another maybe should have won a super Bowl,
and the Dolphins would have gotten even further than a
playoff spot had their quarterback not been dealing with concussion issues. Like,
it's always the same team, seemingly. There's like a handful

(01:02:58):
of teams that are always the most aggressive, and then
there's kind of everybody else that's like the Cowboys are
a perfect example of it. It's all smoke. There's no
real fire. It's just kind of smoke because every time
there's a big name out there, Jerry Jones is always
commenting on that big name potentially being a Cowboy. Like

(01:03:20):
whenever the betting odds come out for hey, where's if
so and so doesn't play for this team, where's he
most likely to end up? You notice the Cowboys are
always there because their fan base gets really excited and
they're trying to work them into some of these betting lines.
But if you want to set a real line, the
real line is the Cowboys probably aren't interested and they're
probably not going to make that move. But if you

(01:03:42):
wanted the most sure bet you could possibly make, seemingly
anytime there's a big name out there, a veteran looking
to go elsewhere. Look at it seems like it's always
the Dolphins, or it's always the Eagles, and in a
couple of years ago, it was always the Rams and
the most aggressive teams we've seen. And people can mock
Less Snead and his approach in LA all you want.

(01:04:04):
You could say whatever you want about those guys, and
you could poke as much fun at them for last
year and poke as much fun for them for what
they are this year. The reality is in their approach.
They went to two Super Bowls and they won one,
and Philadelphia and Miami are doing the same thing, and
thus far it's working because Philadelphia feels like they've gotten
even better. Whether that translates into another Super Bowl run,

(01:04:28):
who knows. Again, super Bowl hangovers are real, but I
don't think they've gotten worse. And Miami feels like they're
on the cusp of being a really dangerous team. And
if Tua stays healthy, they already showed they could beat
Buffalo and play with them in a playoff game. That
to me feels like another threat. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio,
Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the
Jonas Knox on Twitter and coming up next year, we're

(01:04:50):
gonna tell you about how somebody's like trying to convince
you of something. They're trying to convince you. They're trying
to tell you, hey, we care unfortunate if you have
a good enough memory, there's glaring examples of them not
telling the truth. We'll get into that for you here
coming up shortly. But for all the latest from around
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(01:05:12):
In golf. We had more details coming out this morning
on the PGA Live Golf merger. The Wall Street Journal
with a report that says PGA Commissioner j Monahan told
pg employees the reason for the merger is because the
tour could non financially afford to continue fighting legal battles
against Live Golf and the Saundi Public Investment Fund while

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at the same time increasing prize money for its own players.
Journal also said that Monahan claimed the tour spent fifty
million in legal fees and had used one hundred million
of its reserve funds. In a statement to ESPNAPGA spokesperson
said quote to characterize that this agreement was made due
to litigation costs and other uses of reserves is an

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oversimplification end quote. We do have the third round of
the Canadian Opening progress. Nick Taylor is at the top
of the leaderboard. He's got a one shot lead at
eleven under. Rory McRoy has had a nice round so far.
He is two under and three shots off the pace.
Live scores in baseball, Diamondbacks on the verge of closing
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Man City and inter Milan are scoreless matches. Currently in
the thirty first minute, Jonas back to you by the way,
Nick We've got to talk about this briefly because you
and I were discussing it off the air. So there
was this story that came out where the Seahawks we're

(01:06:57):
planning on bringing back the old retro year I think
for at least a game this year, and you and
I were talking about how look. I love what Pete
Carroll's done. I'm happy for the seahawks success post Russell Wilson.
It feels like they are on the rise. Dude, the
vintage Seahawks jersey should be the ones they go with
every single week. I am not a fan of this

(01:07:18):
color scheme they roll out. Don't they feel like Oregon
like they got to roll out a different It seems
like it's some Neon color. It just feels weird. I
feel like Seattle's in a better place with the vintage jerseys,
much like the Giants last year when they brought out
those old eighties nineteen eighties Giants jerseys. I feel like,
much better look than what they're currently working with majority

(01:07:39):
of the season. That highlighter green just ruins the whole thing.
If they tone that down, they might be able to
make it work. But I think they're going to get
a strong push to bring back those old school colors
because they are going to look so much better. Awesome,
It's so awesome, like it just the Giants, even the
old like the Jets logo, like the old the one

(01:08:00):
went across the helmet, like I was never a fan of,
like the the oval and why that the Jets would
have like I was never a fan of that. Even
when the Niners bring back the old nineteen eighties, like god,
those are so badass, man, it just makes you yearn
for the past. You know, for anybody to play Tech
Mobile growing up, that's probably what they were wearing, although
you couldn't tell because the graphics are so bad. Yeah,

(01:08:20):
so it's unfortunate. All right. It is Jonas Knox here
on Fox Sports Radio. By the way, we're gonna have
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And as somebody was tweeting at me earlier and they said,
didn't you predict the Denver Nuggets in five games? And yeah,
I did? But I don't even care about that. I
just want the series to be over. In fact, I
wish there was some way you could just call Adam
Silver and be like, all right, what do you think dude?

(01:09:25):
Like can we just like, uh, is there anything we
can do? Like if we promised to talk more NBA
in the offseason, will they just end this series already
so we can move on with our lives. Like it's
just it's it's just painfully obvious. And like for all
this talk about Miami heat and the run that they've
been on, and they haven't played real good basketball in

(01:09:48):
a little while here. It's been like, at least a
couple of weeks, they lost three of the last four
to the Celtics, and they've lost three of four so
far to the Denver Nuggets. When you're two and six
in your last eight, I don't care what time of
year it is. That's not good. And we got to
sit through yet another game coming up on Monday. So
hopefully we can just get it done and then move on,

(01:10:12):
and then we'll see whether or not Dame Lillard or
one of these other big free agents wants to or
potential trade acquisitions want to go to Miami and team
up with Butler and Bam and Eric Spolstra, and then
we could try this whole thing over again. But as
it stands right now, I'm done with it. I'm done
with the NBA. Let's wrap this stuff up and move
on with our lives, all right. Jonas Knox here, Fox

(01:10:32):
Sports Radio. Okay, So let me as I did find
we were talking about the hypocrisy, because there's a little
bit of hypocrisy when it comes to the PGA and
the Live Tour and all the other stuff that comes
along with it. It's like all these guys crying about
not getting money, that you're turning down money and now
being upset. You know, it's like, all right, so is
it your morals that you were a big fan of?

(01:10:54):
Like is that what you were you were stuck on?
Or was it the money? Like? Which is it? Because
if this was all about morals, then the money wouldn't
even be a factor. You wouldn't need any sort of
equity stake or any sort of you know, options financially
with this new partnership. It would just be like, hey,
I stood my ground, I stood up for what I
believe in. I disagree, but whatever, we move on. It

(01:11:15):
feels like a lot of guys now want theirs right,
which is weird because theirs was blood money two years ago.
But now it's okay because it's just like the whole
thing is is comedy when it comes to the hypocrisy
of it. Here's the other thing that I thought was
kind of interesting this week. So there were a lot
of sporting events that were being canceled in the Northeast,

(01:11:37):
in the New York area because of the wildfires in Canada,
and so you had the Yankees cancel a game. I
believe the Nationals did as well too. The Giants had
an OTA practice that they had to cancel, which really
not that big of a deal considering everybody seemingly was
canceling OTAs over the past few days. I mean, the

(01:12:00):
Jets canceled like their last week. The Jaguars were so
over OTAs. They had a paintball tournament. Not making that up.
That's a real thing, that a paintball tournament, which, by
the way, I'd like to point out here Doug Peterson
could have a paintball tournament and cancel practices. Imagine if
urban Meyer had done that when he was head coach,

(01:12:20):
Just saying, imagine if urban Meyer does that when he
said coach of the Jaguars, how that would land with
some people. But nonetheless, hey, listen, everybody likes paintballing. I
had a bunch of buddies back in the day we
used to paintball. They were a bunch of savages. Though.
They would freeze the paintballs and then put them in
their guns and then rifle them off when they'd go
and play. It's dangerous. It's like shooting rocks. But you know,

(01:12:43):
the Giants, you're not playing and not participating in OTAs
because of the fires and all that. All of that
makes sense. Here's the one that doesn't make sense. The
Belmont steaks because there was a chance that they were
going to cancel the Belmont Stakes later on today. And
the reason they were going to cancel the Belmont Stakes

(01:13:03):
later on today is because if the air quality wasn't
healthy enough for the horses, they were absolutely not going
to run this race. Can you believe that? Good for them?
The health and safety of the horses is the most
important thing as we step over dead bodies to continue

(01:13:28):
the Kentucky Derby. Okay, so just let's be clear here.
All right, let's be clear. It is about health and safety.
We need these horses to be at one hundred percent.
All right, Hey, what about those other seven that died
a couple of weeks ago. Well, listen, you know, stuff happens.
That's one of those things. It's a dangerous sport. But listen,

(01:13:50):
we are all about the health and safety of the horses.
As they pull out a javelin full of peds and
then blame it on a horse eating contaminated Hey, that
one of the workers urinated on a couple of years ago.
According to Bob Bafford. But again, this is all about

(01:14:11):
the health and safety of the horses, and we are
ready for the Belmont Stakes. Coming up later on today,
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beyond we have not had a chance to get to.

(01:14:31):
And it's yours right here on FSR. Jonas Knox Fox
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(01:14:51):
make sure you stick around for that here again, about
fifteen minutes from now By the way, I was talking
to Steve Hartman a little while back. I was in
San Diego last week. I gotta tell you, Man, I
brought it up this week. Thank you et joining us
here our straight off the spacecraft. He just picked up
an entire line of Reese's pieces, so he's joining us here.

(01:15:14):
So mister, mister terrestrial, what is the name of the
guy working with Bucky Brooks coming up at about fifteen
minutes from now, thank you. But he was telling me
about how great the Petco Park was where the Padres play. Man.

(01:15:39):
It is fantastic, absolutely tremendous. So if you're a Padre fan,
and if you are not, a lot to celebrate because
you don't really win like all that much. But the
point is, like the stadium, the ballpark, tremendous job, well done.
So when I was there, I was like, damn, damn,
this is where Steve Hartman used to call home. What

(01:16:02):
a spot. That is so so good stuff. They're down
in San Diego, all right, so right now it is
time for something we do on the show. By the way,
also guy writes him before we get to this, and
he says, he asked me a question. He's well, how
come we have to focus on the morals of the
live tour and not if Bryson Deshambeau is on the gas. Well,

(01:16:24):
I mean there's a fair question. I don't know if
Bryson de Shambeau is gonna piss hot if they were
to give him a PD test. I have no idea
and if the guy's on the gas, he's on the gas. Look,
I think there's a lot of people that are on
the gas. I don't know, and I'm not about to ask.
Golf's got bigger problems, but we don't because it's time
for this, Jonas, how.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Could you not get to these stories? Are there scraps?

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Bo Benson to find out what the hell we've missed
so far on the show, Bo all Right.

Speaker 7 (01:17:01):
New Panthers running back Miles Sanders spoke at OTA's this
past week and when asked if the Panthers uh after Wow.
When asked if he was upset by his usage and
the Eagles final loss of the season in the Super Bowl,
Sanders did not mint words. He said, last game of
the season for all the marbles. Everybody can answer that question,
and it put some If they put themselves in my shoes,

(01:17:21):
would they be happy? I don't want to make headlines,
but if it does, I don't care. Miles Sanders did,
of course fumble and that Super Bowl and cost those points.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
So I mean I wonder like what if they had won? Yeah,
what he would have said? You know he'd still be
upset because they would not have resigned him. Okay, yeah,
it's weird because you know, Juju smith Schuster was on
the winning team. I wonder if they asked Juju smith Shuster, Hey,
I mean, he had a pretty good game, but you know,
it kind of bummed out about your usage. And it's funny,

(01:17:49):
I don't think he would complain about it because he
would have won the game. It's like you lost the game.
You know, the defense couldn't make adjustments, and as it
turns out, possibly because the defense would. Ordinator was interviewing
for jobs in the city that he eventually took the
head coaching job at, So you know, it feels like
that's more of the story here and not whether or

(01:18:09):
not you know he's bitter about his usage. You know,
good feel I'll say this though, Jalen Hurts and Nick
Sirianni was talking this week about how he's the most
coachable player he's ever had. Jalen Hurts and we were
talking about it. If you go back just five years
ago where he was at getting benched in the National

(01:18:32):
Championship game for Tuatukabaila, and then five years later he's
out playing Patrick Mahomes in a Super Bowl. If you're Philadelphia,
you gotta feel pretty good about Himyeah, I mean I
even last season, I wasn't sure if they should give
him a massive extension. And it's very very well earned
by Johen Hurts. That best player on the field in
the Super Bowl, and it wasn't close. Yeah, not a far.
Most far.

Speaker 7 (01:18:53):
Reports came out over the last week that these sons
and Chris Paul could be headed for a divorce, and
of course the the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los
Angeles Clippers are among the teams that could be interested
in his possible services.

Speaker 3 (01:19:07):
A little surprised. First of all, I'd be surprised if
Chris Paul went to either considering you know, I think
it was Kanye West who throughout the you know, the
rumor that Chris Paul had had, you know, he had
some sort of relationship with Kim Kardashian. Yeah, I forgot
about that. Yeah, I'm not sure, Like I would want
to get as far away from La as possible if
I was Chris Paul.

Speaker 7 (01:19:26):
You know, I thought the interesting part of this story
was that it's such a good microcosm of how the
NBA information economy works because Chris Haynes has said multiple
times that he's buddies with Chris Paul, So if he's
the one saying that, then that's Chris Paul saying, yeah,
they're gonna cut me. But then you have Adrian wojen Rowski,
who everybody knows is comfortable with the front offices, and
he's like, well, well they could, but they're going to

(01:19:47):
look to trade him or they might keep him, blah
blah blah. So yeah, Chris Paul jumped the gun and
got his side out there. The Sun's got to have
their say too, So just a whole mess.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
But yeah, yeah, because Chris Paul wants to be able
to pick where he wants to go and not get
traded somewhere and then have to, you know, maybe there
would be a buy out like we see in the
middle of the season. Sometimes it's just like if you're
a Laker fan, dude, like the last thing you need
is another aging superstar can't stay healthy. Like you found
something this year in a bunch of younger players who

(01:20:21):
don't have the health issues in the middle of the year,
and you made a run all the way to the
Western Conference finals, Like the last thing they need is
another veteran. And I know Lebron James movie doesn't want
to have to, you know, use younger players or rely
on them, But dude, Anthony Davis's got issue staying healthy.
Lebron James has got issues staying healthy recently, and Chris
Paul always says issues staying healthy. I know they're good

(01:20:43):
buddies and they were on like some banana boat together
back in the day, But dude, figure it out and
go in another direction.

Speaker 7 (01:20:50):
I have never been more sure of anything in my life.
But if he's a free agent, the Lakers are going
to sign him, and I don't think I'm gonna be happy.
Lion's legend Calvin Johnson's said recently that he's willing to
do anything to help a wide receiver Jamison Williams, And
it's just pretty cool to see Calvin Johnson be a
part of the Lions again. Yeah, I mean, if he

(01:21:10):
really wants to help him, you know, play some bets.

Speaker 3 (01:21:14):
Yeah, Like if you like, here's the other part of
this whole gambling fiasco in the NFL. I don't think
the punishment should be as harsh if you win the bet, Like, like,
why should I be punished if I called my shot correctly,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 7 (01:21:27):
You know what, and if you hit a crazy parlay,
they should just give you a win.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
I'm telling you. Like Calvin Ridley, he was doing seven
game parlays, which is basically you know you're doing. You're
looking down a line of games in the NFL, going,
I think that team's gonna win, that team's gonna win.
You pick seven of them like everybody does every week,
and then somebody gets near and says, hey, if all
of those hit, it pays out even more, and you're like, wait, really, okay,
I'll do that. Like if Calvin Ridley hit a seven

(01:21:52):
game parlay, not only should he have not been suspended,
there should be a statue of Calvin Ridley erected outside
NFL headquarters in New York like that. That's what I've
been and gambling headquarters everywhere. In fact, they should build
a casino for Calvin Ridley in Las Vegas if this
guy's hitting seven game parlays, like somebody, some of you

(01:22:14):
nerds got to start wrapping your arms around the idea
of gambling. All right, everything's in life is a gamble.
If you hop in your car to go to work.
Who knows roll of the dice? Like everything's a gamble
and I'm not gonna sit here and judge. A bunch
of guys in the NFL, like Isaiah Rodgers is having
the kickoff eliminated from the game because they've got to

(01:22:34):
try and supplement their income keep gambling. It provides content
for

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
Us, jonas the son of a bitch,

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