Dan Beyer & Bucky Brooks Talk NBA Finals & Much More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
I kind of feel like the French open with Novak
Djokovic is the Manning Breeze Brady trio that we see
riding off into the sunset, where like Brady stuck around
for a while longer than Manning and Breeze did, And
it's going to be that way with Novak Djokovic. We'll
see if he gets it done today. Isaac Low and
crowd will have our updates on that throughout the morning.

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talk tennis, we will we do. There won't be a
lot of tennis talk today, buck No, unless something crazy

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happens on the clay. We'll rely at Isaac at the
newsdesk to Philliston on what's going on. Okay, so we're
not go pay attention to it, No, just like we
didn't really want to pay attention to the Nuggets, and
we have to because they are a game away from
the NBA NBA title up three to one on the
Miami Heat. And for those that are wondering, yet, no
game tonight, so there's no weekend game. Got to spread

(01:09):
it out. You have to because if you were to
go to seven games, you would want to fall on
a Sunday and you have to have the maximum rest
that you can get within that two two and a
half week window. So that's why we got a quick
quick turnaround between Game three and four. But the scene

(01:31):
shifts back to Denver from Monday night. So now you've
got the Nuggets with an ability to close out the
Miami Heat on Monday. I'm not a big prediction guy.
We'll give our predictions at the end of the show,
but I will also ask you a prediction. Now. Do
you think this Bad Boy is over? Do you think
that the NBA Finals is a rap? It's just a
matter of going through the motions, whether it be the

(01:52):
next forty eight minutes or maybe a game or two.
Do you think it is a wrap for the Denver
Nuggets that they are going to be the NBAH champions.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
No, I don't think it's a rep I don't think
it's a wrap. I think this is one that can
be extended. For all the praise that we can lavish
on the Denver Nuggets, and deservedly so.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
They played great.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
They have two of the best players in the world,
and Jamal Murray and Joker, they get it done. It's
been their role players who played really at a high level,
Aaron Gordon, Chris Brown, Ruce Brown.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Like they've they've gotten great contributions.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
The Miami Heat haven't shot will and the thing that
can always be their saving grace is whether they knock
down the three ball. And so at some point in
this series, we're going to see a game where they
hit fifteen to seventeen threes. That's kind of been their
trend throughout the postseason. And if they hit fifteen to
seventeen threes, they're gonna go back to Miami. And so
what they're opening on and I think a lot of

(02:46):
people are putting a lot on Jimmy Butler and expecting
Jimmy Butler to be like Joker, but that's not as
normal MO. They need their other players to knock down
three point shots because if they knock him down from distance.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
That will be the way that they can have an
opportunity exis into series. It's funny, It's not that I've
been on a roller coaster with Jimmy Butler. I just
I felt that the hype of Jimmy Butler throughout this playoff,
Jimmy buckets, yes, himmy, all of that, him and you know,
Jimmy Butler, that it's been a little overblown. Like I
think like it's been a little too much. I felt

(03:18):
like we were fast tracking Jimmy Butler to the top.
In his defense, Well, he hasn't been the Jimmy Butler
of the three steals in the final, you know, in
the fourth quarter or you know whatever it was against
the Boston Celtics, those amazing shots he locked forty five
minutes in Game four, still scored twenty five points. Like

(03:40):
there's he's doing what he can do and at some
point Water finds its level. And I think that's what
you're getting with the Miami Heat right now. Like there's
a reason. There's a reason they were the seventh seed
entering the playing tournament and then ended up getting the
eighth seed. And you take away Tyler Hero, which is
a big loss and somehow there able to navigate it,

(04:01):
and maybe their playoff runs is more about the Celtics,
Knicks and Bucks than anything. It's it's I think it's
a rap because even if if Denver has a collapse
like we maybe have seen at a time or two
in these playoffs, I just don't think. I don't think
that it's going to happen three times in this series.

(04:21):
And I think that there will be a Miami heat
We are an eight seed sort of game in the
next three. So I do think that it's an absolute
wrap for Denver. I don't know if it happens Monday,
very likely could in front of long crowd, could be
ready to go. But we've seen the Heat fare very
well in games where their backs are against the wall
and have been able to respond. Game sevens have been great.
But I do think that this finals is a is

(04:43):
a foregone conclusion that Denver's gonna win the NBA title,
And you may be right.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
And this series kind of reminds me of a quote
my son used to always go as Kevin Durantquoley talk
about harvork beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. And
I think the indictment on the previous series Milwaukee Bucks
and the Boston Celtics, respectively, was that you had talented teams,
but they didn't They weren't necessarily worker bees like the

(05:08):
Miami Heat. And because they allowed the Miami Heat to
outwork them, and keep in mind, Milwaukee didn't have Giannis
for a couple of those games, and so it changed
the outcome of the series. And because they didn't do that,
they got all worked by the Miami Heat. And what
you've seen and I will think that at the end
of the series if the Nuggets, when Mike Mulong will
say this that the Miami Heat forced the Nuggets to

(05:29):
be the best version of themselves, meaning not only did
they have to play and display the talent that they've
always shown, but.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
They had to play harder.

Speaker 3 (05:38):
Because you've heard the constant theme from the Nugget side
discipline and effort, disciplined and effort. We've got to be
more disciplined, more detailed, got to have the effort. And
because they were able to combine the work ethic the
worker be the discipline that hard knows mentality, but the
talent that they have because they are a superior talented team.
They have better players than the Miami Heat collectively. So

(06:00):
now you add that we're gonna play all the way
to the end. We go hustle, we can win the
fifty to fifty balls. That has been why they wont
And the only way that the Miami Heat really can
snatch the Nuggets down is if the Nuggets helped them
like the other teams help them turning the ball over,
not hustling, kind of being lazy in corners and allowing
the Heat to do it. If they don't do it,

(06:21):
it's gonna be very difficult for the Miami Heat to
navigate it.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I feel like I've given Denver their flowers in the
first seven eight minutes of the show. I feel like
I've done that. I think that they're gonna win the
NBA title. The party is over, Bucky Brooks, because I've
got something to say about these NBA finals, And I
want Ethan, I want Mark, and I want Isaac, and
I want all of you to listen up. If and

(06:44):
when the Denver Nuggets win this NBA title, it will
be the absolute no doubt. Numbers back it up, stats
prove it the easiest path to an NBA title. We
have ever seen, it is it is not even close
for what we have in a path to an NBA title.

(07:09):
And so when we look at what was accomplished by
Denver when they ultimately do win this series, because I
do think it is over. This is my way of
making no one happy. I've counted out the heat and
now I'm raining on the parade of the Denver Nuggets.
When you look at the rutten that the Denver Nuggets
have made to the NBA Finals and likely the Larry

(07:31):
O'Brien trophy hoisting at some point, the numbers prove it
out is it is the easiest run that you have
ever seen to an NBA championship. If you were to
play Bucky Okay, the lowest possible seed in every single
round of the NBA playoffs, the meaning the higher the number,

(07:57):
the easier the road is. The highest number seed wise
that you could get is twenty nine. You could be
a two or three seed. You would play a six
or seven in the first round, and then you'd play
a six or seven in the second round. The eight
seed would upset everyone and make it to the conference finals,
and then you would get another eight seed coming over

(08:17):
from the other side. Of the bracket. Twenty nine is
the most that you would get. Six plus seven is thirteen,
plus eight is twenty one, plus eight is twenty nine.
The Denver Nuggets seed total is twenty seven. Only the
Phoenix Suns winning their series as a four seed. Remember

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Denver beat Minnesota in five games as an eight seed.
Phoenix was a four seed, the Lakers were a seven seed,
and now you face the Miami Heat as an eight seed.
The absolute easiest route to an NBA title that we
have ever seen is being done by the Denver Nuggets
the San Antonio Spurs in nineteen ninety nine when they

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faced when they faced the eight seed of New York
Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals, their total was twenty two.
So it's not even close. It's set even close to
the twenty seven of the Denver Nuggets Golden State last year.
If you added up the seeds of their opponents on
their way to the title, it was fourteen. Denver played
two eight seeds, a seven seed, and a four seed

(09:22):
to win an NBA title. It will be the easiest
road to the NBA Championship we have ever seen. Go
to your phones, log into your computers. You are not
going to see any easier route than the Denver Nuggets,
so had to an NBA title.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
So the Nuggets are to blame for the lower seeds
in the rounds preceding them winning, and they are to
be blamed and so on their ring. I guess you
want to put a big asterisk that it wasn't deserved,
that they don't deserve full credit for that.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
Think of, like ever, everything that had to go their way.
By the way, speaking of tennis and Tom Brady, tom
Brady is at the French Open apparently, so there's that
to pass along. I am not blaming the Denver Nuggets,
but facts are facts, Bucky, that this road that Denver
has had has had very little resistance. So when we're

(10:20):
talking about NBA championships and we point the things out,
all this guy got hurt, that guy got hurt. Whatever. Yeah,
they went through Duranton Lebron. But is Lebron Lebron.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
About all time great, the all time leading scorer. Some
are calling him the goat.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, and we are, and we're going to dismiss, Yes,
we dismiss Lebron. Absolutely, we are. We absolutely they were.
They were a seven seed in these playoffs.

Speaker 3 (10:50):
But everyone were saying they were hot, they got hot
knocked off the Warriors.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Do you think do you think Denver would have swept
Golden State. I don't know if they would sweat I
don't think I don't think so either. I think it
would have been tougher series. Memphis had their own issues.
That's another whole conversation. Curious what would have happened with Sacramento.
But when you're talking about everything, but we're talking about
and and you could have taken you know, three or

(11:17):
four teams from the East and maybe have had a
better performance in the NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Light like from the m v P, the so called
m v P, Joe Embiid, the so called MVP.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Who won the award somehow.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
But now that we see Joker on the biggest stage,
we understand how crazy it was to not give him
the mv.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
This is and this is this is all I'm saying.
I think that Djokovic has been great, and excuse me
watching Djokovic. Nikola Jokic has been great. Oh it's gonna
be a tough morning. Yes, has been great, and Jamal
Murray has been great. But we've seen what happens with

(11:57):
teams when you only have two players and Denver gets
production from you know, you mentioned Bruce Brown game four,
it was nice and Aaron Gordan's been Salo had a
great fourth quarter, but he's been solid throughout. Christian Brown
with the performance in Game three, like Michael Porter Junior,
one of things that's been talked about, has not been

(12:18):
good at all these NBA Finals. They've been able to
navigate that. I just think that Denver, the duo of
Jokichen Murray is not good enough where they carry an
NBA title. You have to have a fuller team. And
the reason they're going to win the NBA title is
because this this path has been so easy. It has

(12:40):
been an easy path for Denver and the Nuggets. Seed
matchups bear it up. They've had to play a four seed,
a seventh seed, and two eight seeds on their way
to an NBA title. Maybe fortunate, but there's you cannot
argue it's the easiest road that we've ever seen. A
team that's now went away and likely will get it.
It's winning an MBA title. Sorry, Denver, It's true. It's

(13:03):
it's you can't. You can't back man.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
Someone just woke up on the wrong side of where
won't give credit to anybody.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You poet total he fans. Why even tune in tomorrow night?
It's over.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
I told you.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Mad, Now nobody likes me. That's like you give the
backhanded compliments. You say, yeah, but I said this nice
about your team. Nobody hears it. But it is true
about the Denver Nuggets. It will be looked upon and
looked back when they win the NBA title. Is the
easiest road to an NBA title that we've ever had
in history, and their path to the finals represents it.

(13:38):
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Speaker 3 (14:18):
So it's like, you can't judge me now because I
picked up a couple guys just so I could see
the tweets later. The quest so I'm still under I'm
at probably one twenty five now, but some are some
of that is just there reminders.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
I had it for a long time.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
It was at one seventeen after you and I had
to do that perch, and you know, had a lot
of coworkers who were not I heard about this, who
not happy with me because of your antics.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Well, when Bucky and I got together a couple of
years ago, he had about you were like had one
twenty or one thirty, and I'm like, why not just
get down to one hundred, Like you don't follow me.
I don't take it personal. I hold it against you,
but I don't a lot of people upset it. A
lot of coworker are mad that I didn't follow it.
So the quest was to get Bucky under one hundred.
But like he wouldn't unfollow the Miami Heat, which was

(15:08):
really really really weird. Is my team? Yeah, I know,
but it's a team. It's run by you know, some
twenty something social media. Yeah, that's that's my squad. And
I think now you can see can't hitch the Hamlet
and Ti Cats of the CFL. You can't do that.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
You can see how I headed the curve. I was
when it come to when it came to my.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Foendo, Uh, one twenty five is the number that bucket
is at. But we tried to get him down to
one hundred. So then he started, Oh, I don't know
if one hundred was ever the number. We were just
trying to get it under one twenty one. That's a
lot man, super skinned. I know the timeline, but I
wouldn't see anything. But but a coworker of his found

(15:50):
out that he didn't follow them anymore. It was not good,
But it was all because that it was not good.
It was it created a little bit of a contract,
had an All Star game. A Yeah, I was ostracized. Ah,
they'll get over, They're fine with it. Find me on
Twitter at Dan Byer on Fox and for dismantling the

(16:13):
Nuggets run to the title you can throw your hate
there and of just saying the Heat are who we
thought they were, you can put your venom at Dan
Byer on Fox there, all right. The story of Dalvin
Cook has been such an interesting story this offseason. I
think because we figured we knew how it was going
to play out. It was gonna end up that Dalvin

(16:35):
Cook was not going to be a member of the
Minnesota Vikings heading into the twenty twenty three season. We
just didn't know what path it was going to take,
whether it be trade or by via release. So a
trade unable to be worked out, reports a Broncos and
Dolphins were interested. I don't know if you want to
throw any more teams in there, but those were the
two prominent teams that we had heard that were interested

(16:56):
in maybe acquiring Cook. In the end, he is not traded.
He is released again, one of the options that we
thought was definitely a possibility with Dalvin Cook. And then
once Dalvin Cook is released, we hear, man, what is
happening with the NFL where a guy like Dalvin Cook
cannot stick around for a team and he's just twenty
seven years old. And I find that a bunch of

(17:19):
maloney like Dalvin Cook has been injured his entire career.
And it doesn't mean to say that he's only played
three or four games. That's not it. It's Dalvin Cook
would play thirteen or fourteen games. He was hurt at
Florida State. Last year was I think really the only
year that he wasn't hurt, and I still think he
played through things. So there's six years in Minnesota, six
very good and productive years, third all time leading rusher

(17:42):
in Vikings history, now going to be a free agent,
and people are up in arms over the running back
position in the National Football League. I find that silly. Look.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
I think it's I think it's funny, like the running
back position. I've long been a defender of running backs,
that's it. My philosophy is shaped by the fact that
when I was with the Carolina Panthers, John Fox and others,
we would talk about it. And this comes from an
old Jimmy Johnson thing. Draft a great running back high,
ride him to the wheels fall off, and then the

(18:14):
year before his deal ends, draft another running back high,
and say adios to the good one. There's a short
shelf lif for running backs. And so when you think
about Dalvin Cook at twenty eight. Yes, he's had like
a thousand yards the last four seasons.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
He's coming off the.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Season where he was healthy, I think for the first
time he played all the games on the on the schedule.
But he's twenty eight m you're talking about like he
was going to be eleven million dollars, fourteen million dollars.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
At some point you want to move on.

Speaker 3 (18:46):
And when you look at the market now, I think
the most money paid to a free agent running back
was six point three million to Miles Sanders. And so
Dalvin Cook is not going to get the money that
he's hoping on. Like now, he's playing for opportunity to
win a ring and legacy and those things, just like
is he Elliott is finding out the money's not there
for running back. It's unfortunate, but it's not there. And

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so unless you are a dynamic playmaker like a Christian McCaffrey,
and even Alvin Kamara is nearing the end of his time,
when it comes to premiere running back money, you have
to be able to be more of an offensive weapon
than just your quote quote unquote running back.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
I know that that Derrick Henry is kind of a
unicorn in who he is. But we like we talk
about Ezekiel Elliott, like there's there was a decline in
his game, There's no doubt about it. Not the same
back that he was Dalvin Cook. Like you can point
to the numbers. But again, like with everything that you

(19:49):
and I laid out of Dalvin Cook in his history
and what he's done, it's not worth the investment. But like,
and I know Derrick Henry's future in Tennessee was in
question at one point this offseason, at least leading up
to the draft or in the early months of this offseason,
of hey, there could be maybe something's going on with
Derrick Henry. But the fact of I think this is

(20:12):
a Dalvin Cook problem. That's probably a better way to
put it, Bucky, this isn't a this isn't a status
of the running back in the NFL. Because if Sakuon
Barkley performs great for the New York Giants in twenty
twenty three, like, there's going to be a reason why
they're going to want to sign him again or bring

(20:34):
him back for another year, maybe even pay more on
a franchised head. Like there's a reason that Sakuon Barkley
would stick around even with the injury history in the past.
So I think that this is a Dalvin Cook sort
of issue, and we are just trying to make Dalvin
Cook lump him in with all the running backs that
we look at. Alvin Kamara maybe is not the same

(20:58):
Alvin Kamara that we remember early on in his career.
Injuries could be something there as well. I'm just there.
This isn't a state of the NFL running back problem.
I think this is a state of Dalvin Cook problem,
and that's why he was released.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Well, I think it's a little bit of both. I
think it's the state of the running back problem. In
terms of when you're doing cost cutting, it's almost as
if you know what I'm saying, you at the house
and you're going through your your budget. You're trying to
figure out where, where, where can we save a little bit. Okay,
we probably don't need to go to Starbucks and have
as many lattes and those things like, we can cut sure,
we can save a little And so when you're the
Minnesota Vikings and you're looking at let's call it marquee

(21:36):
or premium positions, well, the premium positions in football are
now quarterback, your pass rushers, your wide receivers have now
become that defensive playmaker, whether it's a cornerback or a safety.
And then you go way down the line before you
get to running back. And the only running backs that
you can kind of lump into that marquee position category

(21:59):
have to be guys who are running backs who act
like wide receivers. So the old Levy and Beale RB
one wide receiver too. And so for Dalvin Cook, who
is an older player, he doesn't necessarily have those abilities
where you're using him like a wide receiver. And so
if you're Kevin O'Connell, you're that Minnesota Vikings front office,

(22:19):
you're looking where you can save a few coins.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
Running back is the first place that you go. And
they had a capable replacement, not the drafting of the
running back to Jimmy Madison. Well, yeah, he's filled in admirably. Gosh,
he's fine, but he's fine. But they haven't done the
Jimmy Johnson. No, it doesn't take a big time when
they did not They did not do that. But Madison

(22:44):
in this time that he's filled in, when when Cook
is better.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
He's I don't think he's had more than like four
hundred or five hundred yards. Like, I mean, you're the
fantasy guy, Like, well, if you won, you won games
because of Madison.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Hasn't been on my team because I haven't drafted Dell Cook.
Then I want Delvin Cook on my team because I
figured he would be interested. So because you don't take
Dalvin Cook, you can't take Madison. Just there's no reason.
There's no reason to handcuff and then there was. And
by the way, Cook Cook didn't miss, Like it wouldn't
be like ten games. It would be like Cook would
miss like a game or two and then he'd be
he'd be knocked out of the second quarter.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, he missed a game or two, probably in the
fantasy playoffs.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
See, it all comes back to that. It is probably
like a late seasons. There are times where I do
get jaded and I'm like, well, he's not so bad.
He scored thirty two points, and I'm like, yeah, he
threw four interceptions. He missed when you needed it. I
just I just I get I get the running back position.

(23:43):
I understand, I understand everything with it. But I do
think that if Dalvin Cook was healthy and UH showed
that throughout his career, I think it would be a
different story. I think that his name value, what he
would have provided if he was healthy, he would be
enough for Minnesota to be like, Yeah, he's our belcow,

(24:03):
he's our guy. He is the guy that we want
to give the rock to, just like Tennessee did with
Derrick Henry. And that is not That's not what happened
in Minnesota. So it is not completely a running back position.
It's just more of a as you said, salary with Dalvin
Cook where Minnesota is and I think everybody kind of

(24:25):
feels that Minnesota is going to take a step back,
at least record wise from what they were a year ago.
For those calls you believe it, you're not you're not
a believer, I'm It's not that I'm not a believer,
which I, by the way, am not a believer. But
I don't think you're not a swift Swift either. No,
I did not go and check out the concert, have

(24:46):
not at all. But I would think that a a
the ending of a Taylor Swift concert would probably be
somewhat like a Minnesota Vikings game because they always seem
to come down to the end and are very exciting
maybe there's parallels there, but other than that, I just
I don't think that Minnesota when you look at when
you look at when you're gonna make your NFC North predictions,

(25:07):
I think a lot of people are gonna put the
Lions there, and when you're looking for a team to regress,
there's just no way statistically that the Vikings can have
that many things go their way in the regular season.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
That's I mean, it's true. I think they had eleven
one score games, some ridiculous like where everything kind of
bounced their way, and dependent upon your feelings on Kirk Cousins,
it makes it very, very challenging and tricky to say
that they're going to go far with a quarterback who
can be up and down like him at times.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Yeah, curious to see as well the addition of Jordan
Addison Adam feeling no longer in Minnesota now in Carolina,
seeing how that ends up taking over. So you've got
some change in Minnesota offensively, but as you said, Kirk
Cousins is going to be there. Today's show is brought
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the news desk, giving us the latest of what's happening
on this Sunday morning. What's going on? Isaac?

Speaker 1 (26:19):
Sorry, I'm misinterpreted. I thought when you said how sexy
it was in natural segue, don't worry, it wasn't rude. However,
you know who is being rude right now, Casper, because
in the men's singles final at the French Open, Casper
Rude leads Novak Djokovic three games to none in the
opening set of the match. Here is the key statistic,

(26:41):
Dan and Bucky. The time of match so far twenty
four minutes time the TV cameras have shown the action,
seven minutes time the TV cameras have shown Tom Brady
in Novak Djokovic's box seventeen minutes. So that is your
key stat It was Brady Rerench Open final and social media,

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as you can probably imagine is flipping out. Meanwhile, in
Game four the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday night, the
Vegas Golden Knights one at Florida three to two, mind
a pair of goals by Chandler Stevenson, so Vegas takes
the three games to one lead and can win the
Cup on home ice on Tuesday. In Game five in
Major League Baseball on Saturday night, the Seattle Mariners defeated
the Angels in Anaheim six to two, a four hit

(27:23):
game for JP Crawford Shohey O'tani his third home run
in a five game spanning now is eighteen on the season.
Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs had a no hitter, going
for seven to two thirds innings until it was broken up.
They beat the Giants in San Francisco fourd to nothing.
Labor Torres and Willie Calhoun hit home runs for the
Yankees in their three to one win over the Red Sox,
and with that in mind, finally fellas a salute to

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longtime Yankees broadcaster John Sterling, who continued to broadcast last
night's game against the Red Sox after being hit in
the left eyebrow with a foul ball, which he described
live on the air without missing a beat. Listen closely.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
Now the three too swing on a pop fouls back here?

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Wow, oh wow, oh.

Speaker 4 (28:12):
It really hit me. I didn't know what was coming
back that far. So once again, it'll be a three
to two. Three too is grounded foul.

Speaker 1 (28:28):
You can't predict baseball, Susan.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Do they pop fly hit me in the eye? Major?

Speaker 1 (28:35):
Might we add jam Master John Sterling as I call
him eighty four years old, yet he shakes off a
foul ball to the eyebrow. Taylor Swift would be proud
of him shaking it off back to you. Oh very good, Isaac.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
While Isaac did that update, they showed Tom Brady again
in Djokovic's boxes, So Isaac is not being facetious. There's
a lot of maybe the time spent, but there is
a lot of Tom Brady. There's appears to be a
mystery woman next to Tom Brady. Do you know? Can
you solve this? Let's bring Isaac back in. Who is

(29:11):
the mystery woman?

Speaker 1 (29:12):
It's Djokovic's wife and that is the dominant story on Twitter,
including a tweet I just saw from a fan Novak
Djokovic is playing like someone who has Tom Brady sitting
next to their wife.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
I wonder what you're talking about. That's what he's doing.
That's why his server's off.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Hopefully hopefully it's not fifteen love.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, why are they're talking so much? Oh? Man, the
drama we will follow. Who decided to put Tom Brady
in the family box? I mean, who made that decision? Yeah,
they should have had name tags, like at a dinner plate,
and then they would have had at least a couple
of guys. There's some old bald guy next to her.
I don't know who that is, but you could have
at least put him in between, and maybe Djokovic would

(29:54):
be honest game Casper Rude, by the way, second straight
French Open final. I meant in the Brady Breeze Manning
trio somewhat like the Djokovic Federer Nadal trio, although I
do think it is more unique in tennis. But maybe
Casper Rude ends up being Joe Burrow, or ends up

(30:15):
being Josh Allen or Jalen Hurtz or Lamar Jackson or
someone that can end up breaking the old guys and
making his own name. All Right, he's Bucky Brooks. I'm
Dan Byer find Isaac on Twitter at Isaac Lowenkron As
we are live from the TIREC dot com studios. I
mentioned the Miami Dolphins and Dalvin Cook. You're loving some

(30:37):
Dolphins at least on paper. When it comes to the
Finns entering twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
May, they're sixty teeny. You'll see when little Dimond is big.
When you play video games, like, the first thing your
eyes go to is who's the explosive team that can
put a lot of points up on matten And then
as you take that to the field offsly, I mean
like all the firepower that they have, I mean it's
attracts tem Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle. Uh, you have two

(31:03):
when two is healthy and upright, not many better led
the league and passer rating, did a really good job
of pushing out. They also led the league and pass
yards per attempt. And so from an explosive standpoint, this
team has everything. And then if you don't like their offense,
what about their defense? Vic Fangio comes over, they bring
over Jalen Ramsey. You have brad Lee Chubb and emerging

(31:26):
Jalen Phillips, Javon Holland. Do you have a lot of
players on that Dolphins team that you like, So why
everyone heart everybody's hardest fluttering over Aaron Rodgers joining the
Jets and that stuff.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
I mean, the bully, But do they do? Then you
have to take over Buffalo's reign atop that division.

Speaker 3 (31:48):
Buffalo, Like we're talking about them still, like, don't we
feel like we're coming They're coming back to the pack?
I do, Actually I agree, Yeah, they're coming back to
the pack.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
So I think.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
So, you know, Josh Allen is great, but i've defensively
they're really one dimensional.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
They still haven't been able to run the football.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
You talk about Dalvin Cook, his younger brother James Cook
is their running back there. So they're still trying to
figure that out. So they come back to the pack.
The Jets were waiting to see if they can be good.
They have been to the playoffs in like twelve years.
Aaron Rodgers is coming off a look, man, he wasn't
great last year. He already has gotten hurt in mini
camp with his calf. He's forty years old, Like, what

(32:25):
can we count on him? And then the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
People say it's the toughest division in football. Why is
it tough? What's tough about the division? The Bills being
the division CHAMPI you had the Dolphins making the playoffs,
You've now added Aaron Rodgers, and the other the only
team we haven't talked about is coached by Bill Belichick.
I mean, yeah, all those things are nice on paper.
Last year I would say, okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
But to me, the tougher division would be the AFC
North because you have Joe Burrow sisty, you have Lamar
Jackson given free reign of the Baltimore Ravens offense. You
have Deshaun Watson poised to have a bounce.

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Back you okay, we'll see about that, and then you
have the Pittsburgh Stealers. You're so negative today? No, no,
well that's it is true. It is so negative today.
You can negative since we came in here forty five
minutes of negativity. In an hour and twenty minutes, I
rip on the Eagles, that is true. In eighteen minutes,
we'll talk about those jet spectations in New York. That's

(33:24):
how I'm That's how I'm labeling it. There's there's some
negativity towards Zion Williamson and John Morant, but there is
some good news. We do have a feud coming up
in the hour, and the feud is a fun thing.
Here on Fox Sports Sunday. Get Bucky on Twitter at
Bucky Brooks. You can find me on Twitter at Dan
Byer on Fox I like the Dolphins. I don't love
the Dolphins. I do think that the pieces on defense

(33:47):
and Vic Fangio's addition and running that defense will obviously help.
I think that we've just completely forgotten about to his health.
That is no longer a question, and it was the
only question that we had through most of last season
and then into the offseason, and now as we look
ahead to the season, maybe we aren't talking about that

(34:09):
as much anymore, and maybe we still should be. One
thing we aren't talking about is the XFL in a
good way. I'll tell you why. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
Dan Bayer live athetire Ac dot com Studios. That's next
year on Fox Sports Radio, Fox Sports Sunday. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Dan Byer talking some NFL is. There's some NFL stories,

(34:30):
but there's a football story that is out there. Forbes
reporting that the XFL in their first season, lost sixty
million dollars and the organization, like so many in this time,
have to cut some jobs throughout the season. But the

(34:51):
rock behind the XFL, his company in year one loses
sixty million dollars. I understand the long term play of it,
but there is also the long history bucket of spring
football just doesn't work, and the XFL season went on.

(35:12):
I can tell you in a proud manner, I did
not watch a game. I did not watch a half,
I did not watch a quarter, I did not watch
a snap. It is not for me. I actually feel
as a completely different sport than actual college and NFL football.
Just because of the timing of it. I don't know

(35:33):
how the XFL is going to build. I have empathy
for players who play football in college and maybe want
to extend their playing career and use their athletic ability
to make money in that way. I understand that aspect
of it, But other than that aspect, I just have

(35:54):
a difficult time in locking into any of these spring leagues. Therefore,
I have a difficult time I'm finding value in a
league like the XFL, So I.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Would say the league isn't necessarily built for the casual fan.
The league is primarily built for the gambling public because
you give them something that they can gamble on, and
so you're hoping that that is the primary driver of
I mean, that's that's.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
What it is. That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (36:23):
Yeah, like what that is legal, legalized, like so you
have that, uh in terms of you know, is it
a good thing? Yeah, Look, it may not be profitable,
but it's a good thing because we will see innovations
come from those spring leagues. If you go all the
way back and you look at some of the things
that are now kind of staples in the National Football League,

(36:44):
they came from those alternative leagues. You think about now
when you watch a game and how you have the whatever,
the cam that hovers over the middle of the field
that kind of tracks everything from behind, and now we've
seen cameramen on the field behind huddles and stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Those things started.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
In all leagues and so for development, research and development
of the game, those leagues are great. Ideally, what you
would like to see is some kind of loose partnership
between the XFL and maybe even the USFL and the
National Football League because what it does provide is an
opportunity for coaches who wouldn't have an opportunity to coach.

(37:22):
It provides an opportunity for players to develop quarterbacks and
particularly and so there is some value to that.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
It's just about how can you rectify the bottom line.
That's the issue that I have. Is I just everything
that you say there is. I can nod my head
and say that I understand. But in the end, is
it worth losing sixty million dollars over to have all
of those to have all of those things? Yes, it is?

Speaker 5 (37:49):
It is.

Speaker 3 (37:49):
I mean, if you're if it's the long play from
the rock to find a way to eventually generate a
partnership because with any of those leagues, the National Football
League has to be a buddy. And the National Football
League also needs some of the XFL's stuff XFL and
USFL stuff because it provides him with players that can
compete for things at the bottom of the roster. It

(38:11):
would provide them what they used to have with the NFL.
Europe owners didn't fully want to pay for it.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Any issue with player health, if players are playing, I
mean we really care about that. Wow about that? You
know some guy could be logging twenty seven games in
a calendar year, playing ten ten games in the XFL and.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
You know what, I'm gonna tell you what you tell
a little diamond when he falls out, You're fine, really fine,
all right, You're fine. Like those those tiers that are
well up, those are not even the real tiers. And
so for the players who are logging those games, and
it can be a ton, yeah, but they'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Like they're chasing the dreams that they want. So that's
part of the deal. As a Seahawks fan, I got
to tell you this. I bought my son a little
mini helmet set like the really like the small pocket
ones thirty Jersey. No, he's got a DK metcalf one though,
because the Russell Wilson one is not worn anymore. Of
all the thirty two teams. The helmet my son picks
first is the Rams because it's blue, like it's the

(39:12):
Royal Blue. As a Seahawks fan, it it hurts my heart.
He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Dan Bayer, relive Forth, Tireq dot
Com Studios. Any other helmet except maybe the forty nine
ers that that can't do any other helmet the jet
spectations Now with Aaron Rodgers, we talked about him next
on Fox Sports Sunday. I gotta be honest, I think

(39:33):
I'm getting mixed messages about one premier NFL team from
one Bucky Brooks. Good morning. It is Sunday, June eleventh,
French Open Men's Final on pace the last fourteen hours.
We're almost an hour in. We're still in the first set.

(39:53):
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four games apiece in that first set, Novak Djokovic and

(40:15):
Caspar Rude. Something to keep our eye on. We've got
the US Open coming up in La right in our backyard.
US Open Week starts tomorrow. Tournament starts on Thursday. Victor
Hovland a Norwegian and recent winner on the PGA Tour
from Norway, and you have Casper rud here trying to
break through on the men's side. I am a quarter

(40:38):
to Norwegian. Did you know that I did not know that? Yes, yes,
I am my grandfather on my mother's side, of Norwegian descent,
So there's always a little special place in my heart
for Norwegian's Casper Ruder Novak Djokovic right now again in
that match, also a little space in my heart for

(41:00):
hate and anger, which I usually take out on various
NBA teams. And the Heat and Nuggets were really both
in my crosshairs today. The Heat weren't good enough and
the Nuggets again, this is my theme for today's show.
I think Denver's on the verge of winning the NBA title.
If it doesn't happen Monday night, it's gonna happen Thursday night,

(41:21):
or it's going to happen Sunday in Game seven. I
truly believe that. And if and when they do, it
will be the easiest NBA title path that any team
has faced in the history of the NBA. And again
the numbers back it up. When you take the seeds
that Denver beat, not the team names, not the player

(41:43):
names that they went through. When you take the actual
seed numbers and add them up, the easiest path to
an NBA title would be a total of twenty nine points.
The higher the number, the easier the path. Denver's path
totals twenty seven. The Houston Rockets in nineteen ninety five
is a six seed. Bucky had the most difficult path

(42:07):
to an NBA title in history, beating a three seed,
a two seed, and then two number ones for a
total of seven points. Not even in the same stratosphere.
Those will be your two ends of the spectrum. You'll
have the Rockets of ninety five, toughest path ever to
an NBA title, and then the Nuggets of twenty twenty three,

(42:31):
easiest path to an NBA title in history. And don't
argue with me, argue with the numbers because you can't.
I mean, and again Bucky's gonna say, like what I mean,
what are they supposed to do? Yeah, yeah, it's not
their fault.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
They only can play the teams that are lined up,
the teams that are able to advance. And because the
higher seeds didn't take care of their business, they played
a bunch of lower seeds on the way to a
potential title. That's not the Nuggets fault. They shouldn't have
to apologize for who is in their path.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
You know what I've had to apologize for as a
Bucks fan for two years. Kevin Durant shoe size of
of of Kevin Durant's shoe being told being on the
line of the Eastern Conference Semi Finals Game seven, you
should tell them what Patrick Wild used to tell people.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
I can't hear you because of the Stanley Cup mariens
that are stuffed in my ears.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
About Oh that was funny and like the Avalanche last year,
the Mile High City close to getting another title. We
are broadcasting live from the Tireq dot com studios. Get
Bucky on Twitter at Bucky Brooks. You can find me
on Twitter at dan Byer. On Fox coming soon to
a piece by Bucky Brooks either for foxsports dot Com

(43:46):
or for NFL dot com or maybe on the move.
The Sticks podcast that you do with Daniel Jeremiah is
the term Great Jet Spectations. And I'm getting mixed messages
from you because a known anti known anti Aaron Rodgers
person as you are.

Speaker 3 (44:04):
I'm an Aaron Anti Rodgers or should I be properly
cast as a truth teller?

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Hey? All right, I go to NFL dot com and
I see this article lookout world, Aaron Rodgers and Garrett
Wilson about to do this. They are a top top
five connection in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
Well, I think I was speaking specifically about Garrett Wilson
being a top five wide receiver. Okay, all right, he
was offensive rookie of the year with a collection of
quarterbacks that you probably couldn't rattle off right now, Zach Wilson,
Joe Flacco, Mike White, and in Clint Streever. Like I mean,
he had over a one thousand yards with those four guys.

(44:47):
And so if you now give him a competent quarterback,
a quarterback who's been a four time MVP, not saying
that he's playing at an MVP level, but someone that
is just better than those four guys that I just mentioned. Yes,
he's going to be a top five player.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I remember a YouTube clip, excuse me, that just showed
my not my age, but a TikTok clip of Garrett
Wilson last training camp talking about how the ball is
different from Joe Flacco, like he throws it like a
pro quarterback, And that was Joe Flacco like that we
were talking about. We saw Joe Flacco and what he
did against the Cleveland Browns in Week two, but that

(45:24):
may have been just the Swan song. But you like
Garrett Wilson being a top five guy, But you don't
see because of Rogers. But you still think that we
have to temper our expectations for the Jets because of
Rogers half strain that he had in Ota.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Well, just because of what we've seen. We've seen him
get beat up now more than ever. And so look, man,
you're not supposed to play football at forty and so
because of that, that certainly can have an impact. And
also let's see if he can play at a high
level outside of the comfy confines of Green Bay. It's
all new Nathaniel Hackett. The last time we saw called
plays in Denver didn't look great. And so how does

(46:09):
this offense look beyond the one on one matchups that
Garret Wilson can win on the outside.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
Okay, so does Garrett Wilson have to be DeVante Adams
in Green Bay? Can he be DeVante Adams in Green Bay?

Speaker 3 (46:22):
I think they're very similar. Okay, he's a faster version
of DeVante Adams. Davanti Adams doesn't have his like flat
out pure speed, but in terms of route running ability,
playmaking ability, he certainly has things that remind you of
DeVante Adams and what he was able to do first
in Green Bay and now with the Las Vegas Raiders.
And because Aaron Rodgers had a comfort in playing with

(46:43):
the receiver like that, he is going to give Gary
Wilson all of the things that he and DeVante Adams
worked on. And so that makes him a very scary player.
And I'm not saying Alan Lazard is a great player,
but Allen Lazzant, Allen Lazzard would be properly cast as
a number two, number three in that offense to clear
number one playmaker in that offense would be Gary Wilson,

(47:06):
and in breeze Hall will be your second best playmaker
if he's healthy in those things.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
And that if he's healthy. As a question, but even
if you go down to pass Lazard, you know you
brought him Mkole Hardman from Kansas City, I would say
that he would probably be an upgrade for whoever had
Green Bay had at their wide receiver three.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
I mean, oh yeah, I mean he would be an
upgrade over Rand a cop who is now in New
York with Aaron Rodgers doing ye what he did for
the Backers.

Speaker 2 (47:35):
Yeah, yes, and listen, I'm not an Aaron Rodgers supporter, yeah, defender, Yeah,
But if you lay this out as it is and
their defense, well, their defense should be better than Green
Bay's last year. You expect that to be the case.
You actually expect the Jets defense to be very good. Right,

(47:57):
then why are we down? Then? Why is Bucky Brooks
having low Jets spectations? Is the question? Because if the
low expectations come from Jet spectations, Jets spectations, I'll have
to see if I can put that in. The jetstartations
are low, I think we have to question the coaching staff.

(48:18):
Like you got to remember, now, Nathan you Hackett came
over from Denver where first time head coach, he did
make it through his first season. That offense that we
saw at Denver was absolutely abysmal. Then when we think.

Speaker 3 (48:29):
About Robert Salad and a defense, the defense has been fine.
But remember this is a defense that is very simplistic
in design, and so do they have enough tricks to
deal with the high powered offenses that you have to
contend with in the AFC? Because remember, when we're looking
at the AFC, it's always about the quarterbacks. Man, when
we were all left the list to quarterbacks, where does

(48:50):
Aaron Rodgers falling at the Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen,
you have justin Herbert Lebar Jackson comes back, Trevor Lawrence
is emerging. I mean we didn't even talk about like
what Deshaun Watson could be, what some of these other
quarterbacks would be. I mean Russell Wilson, maybe he gets
up both the man.

Speaker 2 (49:08):
Where's Kenny Pickett and all this? I mean Kenny Pickett,
young guy, breakout Kenny, breakout, Yeah, breakout guy. Pittsburgh never lose,
they never losed, no losing seasons. I listen, I and
the AFC is loaded. Yeah at the obviously, but you
just earlier in the show, and I agree with I

(49:30):
agree with you on the stands of the AFC East.
I think Buffalo takes a step back, but we were
using it in the framework of talking about the Dolphins,
Miami moving up, moving sexy. But everything that like we've
got here on paper with the Jets is better than
what Green Bay had in years when they went to
the NFC Championship game. Is it really better? I think

(49:53):
their defense is better, definitely better than it was last year.
But when if you really want to compare to what
it was two years ago, I think so the weapons. Okay,
breist Hall coming back from his knee injury is a question.
It's maybe not the AJ Dillon Jones.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Showtime in Quadzilla, they had two cable running backs. They
don't run the football, like that's the biggest issue, the
biggest issue in Green Bay. They didn't run the football.
They put too much on an older quarterback to win.
And then yet and still they got the two championship games.
They won what thirteen games and back to back seasons,
had the number more seed they were positioned to do it.

(50:32):
I can't confidently say that the Jets are better positioned
to do.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
What they did. I'm not asking you to judge their
playoff performance because when it comes to the playoffs, who knows.
I think that's it's actually I think a flaw that
sometimes that we do a lot. Like all all I
know is I can tell you what I think is
going to happen to get them into the dance. And

(50:56):
I just think that the Jets are going to be
pretty good. And I hate to say this because again
he's not the Aaron Rodgers defender, but he does play
magnificently well when there's a chip on his shoulder.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
I mean, yeah, you would like to see that, like,
so that doesn't there's you that he's not always motivated
to play at the highest I think that.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
I think that's I do think that that is a
that is an I think that is an issue. Like
if you were to look at it as a whole,
I don't think it will be an issue. When we
talk about his legacy, there is a there is an
engaged Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron Rodgers that is making an
ultimate effort. Yes, he's done more.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
Imagine how much better the packers he would have shown
up to the OTAs last year with the young guys.
So when you're talking about and I agree, imagine how
much better Christian Watson and Romeo Dobs and some other
guess if he was engaged. But now he's he's all in,
he's what he's he's paintball and he's going to swifty
concerts at everything.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
He's all over the place.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
Imagine if you to put the same kind of effort
into the young guys with the backers.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Don't disagree with that, but that also then tells you
that you have expectations that if Aaron Rodgers would have
done that for Green Bay, maybe they wouldn't have missed
the playoffs. Maybe there wouldn't have been this.

Speaker 3 (52:16):
Imagine, Yeah, because the imagine so you saw how well
Christian Watson was playing at the end of the year.
Imagine if they didn't have to waste those first seven
games getting chemistry, if they had developed some of that in.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
The off season. Dropped the first drop one, so you
go back to one. He's a ricky his first game.

Speaker 3 (52:33):
You go back like like so like so that's the
thing that that bothers me about it, Like he had
young guys, Christian Watson is a capable receiver.

Speaker 2 (52:43):
We are we are on the same page, We are
on the same road. It's just you would love you
love the Jets. You want to know I don't at all.
You just want to turn into the gas station on
the right and I want to go to the one
on the left. That's what it is, and I I
just I think that there's would we lay it out
like all of that, Everything that we have talked about
sets up for the Jets to be a better team

(53:06):
and to be that team. So when we talk about
Jets spectations, I'm gonna ram into your your your psyche memories.
They have to be high because of the talent, because
of what they've got. I do think that their defense.
Their defenses, you know, kept Josh Allen in check. If
you will force turnovers, you can do that. There's questions

(53:30):
about nice England. They have nice talent. They have nice talent.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
Sauce Garden is a stud Quentin Williams who is holding
out like he hasn't been at voluntary workoutse and things
because he wants a new contract. They got to get
that done. They have a ton of first round picks
that are playing on this side. They have to play
up to par while they're adjusting to Aaron Rodgers on offense.
But yeah, on paper, looks great, but we have to

(53:54):
see it play out in real time, and we'll get
a chance to see opening game. They open up with
the Buffalo Bills, who will certainly be smarting after everyone
dismisses them, like I dismissed him early, Like yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
But you're putting the Miami Dolphins on sexy Miami Dolphin. Yeah,
the sexy Miami Dolphins. I feel like you're giving preferential
treatment to the Dolphins when there may be just as
many questions in Miami.

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Oh, there are questions. I mean, look, there are questions
about the quarterback. I mean, yeah, the quarterback. And if
he gets hit, will he be able to get up?
Like that's a huge concern. I mean, based on what
we saw. I mean, he's a big concern.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
There's an enormous concern because if it happens again, happens again,
how do you see him on the football field again? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:41):
I mean there was the thing and my biggest concern
with them did they do enough to upgrade quarterback? And
so I just took a shot at Garrett Wilson into
four quarterbacks he played with the QB two is one
of those four.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, Mike White, I love Garrett Wilson, Moony, I can't
do it that you love him? You sitting here questioning
whether he's a top look. I watched divy game he
played in college. Loved him. He's magnificent. Only Michael Thomas
looked more like a pro receiver at Ohio State than
Garrett Wilson did. He just did love was smooth, you know,

(55:18):
and a lotos great New Orleans. But like Garrett Wilson
looked the part. Only Michael Thomas when he played in
college looked more like a pro receiver.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
And am I wrong? I mean you're the draft. I mean,
they they're good players. I love what Ohio State has done.
And the bad thing about all of this is the
player that they have there, Marvin Harrison Junior is better
than all of them, so we get a chance to
see him with the buck eyes.

Speaker 2 (55:44):
Sam's giving me the rap sign as soon as.

Speaker 3 (55:46):
We started, I know, because he knew I was about
to say something about the Wolverine. He didn't want me
to say anything.

Speaker 2 (55:50):
Coming up next, we're going to talk about Iowa's punt team.
That's next year on Fox Sports Sunday. He's Bucky Brooks.
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All right, whose future do you like better? Not Dolphins
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Sports Sunday. It hasn't hasn't been easy in the French

(56:33):
Open first set. We're an hour into it now and
it's high break. Isaac Say, Isaac Low and kronell give
us an update on what's happening with the Novak Djokovic
Casper Rude. I haven't called Djokovic Nicola Jokich yet, but
I did call Jokic Novak Djokovic earlier today, so there's

(56:54):
still time in the show. He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Dan Byer.
It's Fox Sports Sunday, Mi Karma getting the Son Day Office.
We were live from the Tiraq dot com studios. Isaac
will be with us just a matter of minutes to
let us know what's happening in this first set tiebreak.
I want to know what's happening in the the n
b A and I think one of the true dilemmas.
And it's amazing on how this story has unfolded because

(57:18):
it was just just, uh, you know, four years or
so ago that we were looking at an NBA draft
that had just some some some big names in it,
franchise level names, Zion Williamson, John Morant, one two. There

(57:39):
wasn't really an argument that one that that job would
go number one. Kind of reminds me of Greg Oden
and Kevin Durant. You figure that Odin was going one
and Durant was going too, and we obviously know how
that played out in history and how we look back
on it. But this Zion Williamson John Morant discussion now
is taking a completely different turn from what we thought

(58:02):
when they were picked in the draft in twenty nineteen.
At that time, you're wondering, all right, who's gonna be
the star. Probably gonna be Zion just because of a
skill set, but there were questions about his weight and
we didn't know, all right, his job going to be
able to transition from playing at Murray State? Is he
going to be able to handle the rigors of NBA
competition when they are playing in job more so than Zion.

(58:26):
They have shown that they can handle it, and they
can handle it very well. It's the off court stuff
and Zion Williamson in the news and listen, Zion's personal
life right now, maybe on some choppy waters, wouldn't be
the first NBA player. So not judging in whatever hot
water he's got himself into. But we know about John

(58:48):
Morant's situation and we expect once the NBA Finals are
over and In fact, Bucky, I think immediately after the
finals are over, like within forty eight hours of the
finals ending, I think we will find, doubt what John
Morant's suspension will be by the NBA following their investigation.
As we sit almost four years to the night of

(59:10):
when John Morant and Zion Williamson were drafted one two,
Williamson going to the Pelicans and Job going to the
Memphis Grizzlies. Whose future do you like better looking ahead
in the NBA.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
As crazy as it may sound right now because it's
a low moment, but I'm gonna go with John Morant
having a brighter future. John Morant has to control his
urges to pop on Instagram live and to play with
guns and all that for the public to see. But
I believe with time and maturity he should be able

(59:41):
to work through that. Zion Williamson's issues, he has his availability,
He's not able to get on the court, He's not
healthy enough to perform. The flashes are great, but we're
used to seeing Zion Williamson always on the sideline, and
so for me, I will bet on the player who
is more likely to be on the court.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
And as Ja Moran, yeah, I think this, this story
that surfaced is very scandalous and you know story yes
about which one's I yes, yes it is. It is
very scandalous. He's going to be a father and uh girl, yes, yeah,
can congrats on that. But then we found out that

(01:00:23):
maybe he had also had uh you know relations with
uh with professional someone else, a professional with a professional.
But that again, that is that is nothing new to
the NBA, just like uh it's basically the not calling
traveling in the NBA. It's it's probably so common. The

(01:00:44):
Jamran thing is is the interesting part. I just wonder
how long this sticks with Jaw. I think that, like
Zion needs to shed the weight. I am curious on
how Jaw sheds this label, which I think is much
more difficult to do, but is actually doable. From everything

(01:01:06):
that you have said, if jahn Morant shows remorse, shows progress,
shows that he has grown. Because and I've been on record,
you and I haven't gotten together recently, but I've been
very critical of not only Ja Morant, but the NBA
and espno they've handled this Jah Morant situation because I

(01:01:28):
felt they've just tried to fast track it. Now there's
going to be a sizeable suspension. I think anywhere between
eighteen to forty games is I think the range that
you're gonna see for the suspension. But Jahn Morant would
now have an opportunity to kind of change who he is,
and he's got plenty of time to do so. If
Zion doesn't lose the weight, there's no way that it's

(01:01:51):
ever going to happen there. And even if he does,
it may just be it may just be an injury
prone guy, not unlike we saw in two thousand and
seven with Greg Godin and Kevin Durant. So just that
fact of the matter, I actually agree with you that
I see sey more prospect with John Morant than I
do with Zion Williamson. Even with the most recent transgressions

(01:02:15):
of the Grizzlies card.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Yeah, Jah Moran has a chance to still get it right.
Despite all the missteps that he's taken the last year
or so, he can still kind of figured it out
and make himself available. They had to hit him hard
with this punishment. I expected to be what you talked
about forty or so games, because it has to be
significant to kind of wake him up. And Adam Siver

(01:02:38):
has talked about like, hey, this is not us sending
a message to everybody else, but it is because you can't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Have your star player.

Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Acting out this way for public suption, because the tarnish
is the brand, regardless of where you sit with gun
laws and dose thing, it tarnishes the brand when you
see a player acting what appears to be irresponsibly with
a gun because young people in those things, so they're
going to come down at him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:03):
And Zion Williamson is lo We can talk about his
personal life is his personal life, but in terms of
his availability being able to get on the court and
do all the things that everyone was so excited to see,
and when he's played, he's been terrific. But can he
ever get in shape?

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
Can he ever play long stretches of the season where
you can feel good about him as a franchise player.
Those are the major things that you have to address
if you're the publicans.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I think it's gonna be an interesting offseason for the
Memphis Christlies as well, because it just seems like the
Dylan Brooks era is over.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
With unfairly dubbed I mean man, just like unfairly he
just thrown out there because he made a bold prediction. Like,
imagine if the Miami he treated Jimmy Butler that way
when he guaranteed wins in games four or five, six
in the last series before they finally won in Game seven.

(01:03:55):
I mean this like Dylan Brooks got in trouble because
he basically all the Lakers and Lebron James Old and
Lebron James responded accordingly.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Yeah, yeah, there's there's more. I think there's more than that.
There's also biting off more than you can chew. There's
also playing within and there's been instances throughout the year.
I mean, he likes to shoot. He and Shannon Sharp
are having words. I think the you know, the the
culture has to change. They aren't grind city like they

(01:04:29):
were with Tony Allen and Marcussol and Mike Conley. Yeah.
They that's that. That was that was fun. You like that,
You like that slug? Yeah, fit it worked. This is
just you know, being being jerky and yeah, being jerks
and being petty and trying to be tough. Those guys

(01:04:51):
were tough, like like they were.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
I don't have gritty team. They were fun to watch
the teams. Yeah, and and so they they had all that.
It was, Hey, we're gonna take him to the grindhouse
and go to work and do all this stuff, and
they did that. They're not the same team. My only
thing with Dylan Brooks is I feel like he is
being kind of made to be the scapegoat when there's

(01:05:16):
so many other issues with the team. So he gets
the bad boy labeling for the general manager to come
out like on the note uncertain terms.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
Will he be back?

Speaker 3 (01:05:25):
Whoa what did he do besides like at a bass
Sears and ran his mouth off like that, that's nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Coach K was right all along. Remember that, Remember when
Coach K got mad at him the Elite A game salty.
He was salty. Coach K was salty. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Dan Byer, kind of like Bucky Brooks at times
when talking about certain teams from the AFC and quarterbacks
a little salty. We are live at the tireq dot
Com Studios. Hit Bucky up on Twitter at Bucky Brooks.

(01:05:51):
You can find me on Twitter at dan Byer. On Fox,
I think the first set has finally come to an end.
Let's go over to the news task guysich Loo and
Crime giving us the lay so what's happening from Roland Garros.

Speaker 1 (01:06:02):
After one hour and twenty one excruciating minutes. Not only
is it over, but the final point coincided with the
Roland Garros radio commentators noticing tom Brady in the stand.
So let's listen. This is Novak djoke of Its serving

(01:06:23):
in a first set tie break versus set point against
Caspar Rude tom Brady in Djokovic's box.

Speaker 6 (01:06:30):
It's got a legend in the box, a legend.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
On the court.

Speaker 1 (01:06:33):
Oh, we can see him now.

Speaker 7 (01:06:33):
They're top Brady looking at the sunglasses of looking down,
got some goats. Aaron's well, he's good golfer, isn't he?

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
Now he's working on it.

Speaker 7 (01:06:46):
Set points Quiz takes this early backhand to the feet
of the back end of route Jokovic with set points
in her up an hour and twenty one minutes, backhand
to the forehand inside in from route amline. Go Joco
to pick up floated ball from his short point.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Jocovi to tags any he gets it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:01):
So Novak Djokovic, after an hour and twenty one minutes,
takes the first set of the French Open final over
Casperuds seven to six. He wins the tie break seven
to one. And in fact, here was Tom Brady's reaction
from Djokovic's box to Novak winning the first set, rallying
income from behind fashion.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
Just like we drew it up. This is funny by Isaac.
That actually was funny.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
That's a big Fox Sports Radio insight it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:31):
Jon Stewart hates it.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
It came for the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday night,
the Vegas Golden Knights one at Florida three to two.
Chandler Stevenson scored two goals, so Vegas leads the series
three games to one. They can win the Stanley Cup
in Game five on their home ice on Tuesday night.
While in Major League Baseball on Saturday night, the Seattle
Maritis defeated the Angels in Anaheim six to two. Show

(01:07:53):
Hey Otani and the loss his third home run in
five games. He now has eighteen on the season, and
Kyle Hendricks of the Cubs had a no hit. Are
going for seven and two thirds that is at San
Francisco until it was broken up, comes beat the Giants
four to nothing. Fellas, I look forward to recapping the
first third of the second set in another half hour
back to you.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
You know where I thought you were going with the
Brady stuff. Was this, uh this legendary sound bite that
was was Super Bowl right, Yeah, this was not my response,
by the way, when that happened.

Speaker 1 (01:08:31):
Sorry about that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
Yeah, No, I am too soon, Dan, still too soon,
Isaac Low and crowd. It's gonna be with us in
the feud in this sec He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer.
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(01:08:53):
dot Com. Don't worry, Bucky. An hour from now, Brooks
and Dunn will be here. I love it. Yes, not
the duo, the segment that we always do when Bucky
and I team upright, but coming up next, this is
your first ever time being a part of the Fox
family when we play the feud. And here's a little hint.

(01:09:17):
Okay in the NBA, It's happened over and over again.
We'll let you try to decipher what that is. Feud's next.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer Live fromthetirereq dot com studios. Yeah,
it's coming up here on FSR. Can't wait. Fox Sports Sunday.
I'm Dan Byer. He's Bucky Brooks, the NFL vent. I

(01:09:38):
also read him on Fox sports dot Com, NFL dot Com,
see him on the NFL Network. Hear him on the
sidelines during Jacksonville Jaguar games during the regular season and
then doing more any Jake's pre and post what's.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
Yeah Jaguars preseason games? I'll be doing to call it
for the TV stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
All right, A busy, busy guy. And last, but definitely
not least, head coach of the Granada Hills. Are they
the Granada Hills Charter Buses or what's the what's the
nickname Highlanders? Highlanders? Oh? Yes, and that L eight number

(01:10:17):
seven jersey hanging in the end zone, right, that's that's
I told you. I told you this a hundred times.
I take it up every time I told you, I
didn't you wanted to, did you? Wait?

Speaker 8 (01:10:28):
So, John?

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
I wanted to honor them, you want so.

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
I didn't put the number in rotation because I assumed
that's his number and he.

Speaker 2 (01:10:35):
Was number seven. Yeah, he's number eleven.

Speaker 3 (01:10:37):
So for the last The last four years have been
guys running around with his number on.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
Hey, what's gonna wear? I didn't even order it? Yeah,
I didn't even order it. So miss print here you
know number seven, No six, eight, nine, No seven, ten,
eleven if you wanted to retire John Elway's number seven,
only to find out Lay actually wore eleven in high school.

(01:11:05):
All right, let's get the Fox family together and play
the feud. Bucky welcome, it's your first feud ever. Yes, Iowa,
Sam is here, Ethan Miller, our executive producer, Isaac Lohenkron,
and you will make up the Foxfamily as we are
live from the TIREC dot Com studios. Top twelve answers
on the board, so we got a lot of time.

(01:11:27):
Top twelve answers. Oh, In fact, we have three strikes
and we have a pass here. If you don't know
the answer, you could use the pass and then I'll
reveal an answer. But no one can use the pass.
But here's the deal. Once we reach five correct answers,
I'll reveal a correct answer, and once we reach ten,

(01:11:48):
I'll reveal another correct answer. That is how because there's
twelve answers on the board, all right, you ready? Yes,
I want to know the NBA Finals matchups that have
been repeated more than one So a matchup that we
have seen multiple times in the NBA Finals in the

(01:12:09):
history of the NBA. Twelve times we've had a rematch
of a previous final. I want to know what twelve
Bucky Brooks. We start with you, Lakers versus Celtics.

Speaker 8 (01:12:20):
Pack.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
They made a video game about it. Show me Lakers
versus Celtics, didn't they? Or is that who who cares? Yes?
Twelve times, twelve times Lakers versus Celtics. Over to Ethan Miller,
our executive producer. NBA Finals rematches, All.

Speaker 9 (01:12:36):
Right, I'm gonna go with the Heat versus the Spurs, The.

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Heat versus the Spurs. We saw Lebron on the final answer,
very good answer, show me Heat and Spurs. Yeah, it
happened twice. Fourteen Over to Aowa Sam. Oh boy, jeez.
NBA Finals. Yes, rematches, rematches, matches. Yes, Yes, I'm gonna

(01:13:02):
take a pass. I'm just drawing blanks right now. Yeah.
Sorry on the faces of his fellow Fox. Oh my gosh,
I'm gonna be kind to you. The Boston Celtics and
Saint Louis Hawks played four times in the NBA finals. Oh,
that was just on the tip of my eyes. The

(01:13:23):
Saint Louis Hawks. Yes, that is off the board. The
pass is gone. But we've now reached three. So you
get two more and we'll reveal another answer. Over to
Isaac lohinkron.

Speaker 1 (01:13:34):
That jazz ninety seven ninety eight, the Chicago Bulls and Utah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
Show me the Bulls in jazz.

Speaker 10 (01:13:42):
There it is, good answer, good answer twice like the team.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Good answers. All right, Bucky Brooks, back around to you.
So the Lakers and the Pistons, The Lakers and the Pistons.
All right, show me the Lakers and the Pistons. There
it is on the board. It was eighty seven, eighty

(01:14:08):
eight and then eighty eight eighty nine. Yeah, back to back. Yes, yes,
all right, Iyowa Sam, excuse me. Over to Ethan Miller.
Actually new rule. Sorry, that's what what messed me up.
I got a reveal one sonics bullets. Yes, happened in
the seventies. Happened twice. There you go, all right over

(01:14:29):
to Ethan Miller.

Speaker 9 (01:14:30):
Oh man, do you guys want me to take a
pass or take a shot here?

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Well, the pass is gone, so we need to take
Come on.

Speaker 9 (01:14:38):
All right, here we go, Here we go. I'm gonna
go Bucks. Well would the Bucks be one? Am I
on the right track?

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
I don't know. You tell me you have said the
other team, by the way, while they're thinking I left
out the Lakers Pistons four. I left out in that one.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
Yea, so did the Lakers.

Speaker 11 (01:14:56):
Yeah, out work, damn. Honestly, I was gonna go those rematches. Yeah,
I was gonna go Bucks Lakers. But I don't know
if the if that just two free Bucks Lakers? Yeah,
I do, Is it Bucks Lakers?

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
It is not? It is none Bucks Championships. You remind
me real quick with the Suns and then uh in
seventy one? I right, I know, yeah, I can't even remember. Honestly.
Maybe they're on the West at that point. I think
they beat the Celtics actually over to Iowa. Sam, we'll
if somebody look it up. I'm just not an NBA guy.

(01:15:33):
This is bad. My brain's not working this morning. I know.
I know. Strike looking for NBA Finals rematches twelve times.
We've had the same matchup in the NBA Finals twelve
times so far. On the board, we've got Lakers, Celtics
twelve times, Celtics and the Saint Louis Hawks four times,
Piston's Lakers three times, Sonics, Bullets twice, Bowls Jazz twice,

(01:15:56):
Heat and Spurs twice. Okay, we're gonna need an answer, Iowa, Sam.

Speaker 9 (01:16:02):
Oh my gosh, let's go Rockets Nicks, Rockets Nicks.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
We know that it happened in nineteen ninety four. Did
it happen again? Is it Rockets Nicks? It is not,
it is not. I'll tell you what those guys are
gonna be kicking themselves over to. ISAA glowing cross?

Speaker 1 (01:16:21):
Yeah, there's one that's enormously obvious. How soon we forget?
But I'm gonna strategize. I almost said strategicy. I'm gonna
strategize and hope that one of you else, one of
you other people gets it. So I'm gonna go with
nineteen eighty one and nineteen eighty six, the Rockets and
the Celtics, the.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Old Suns, all right, sure, the Celtics Rockets. Bucky haven't
written down?

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Sorry, Bucky.

Speaker 2 (01:16:49):
By the way, the number two, number three, and number
five answers are still available for like frequency wow, yes Wow,
celt number two Rockets, number two, number three, and number
five still available in ten and twelve if you will,
but number all right, back around to Bucky Brooks looking
for repeat matchups in the NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
Number two, number five, Hmmm, yeah, it just happened.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
Had to happen multiple times, could happened, three, could have happened, four,
could happened five or six. Man, all right, Bucky, we're
running out of time here. I am. I am really
stuck right now because Chicago play Seattle. All right, we're
gonna need an answer. Just give me two teams.

Speaker 10 (01:17:38):
Just give me two teams like like, man, Isaac, let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:17:53):
On the oh we got a buzz them. We got
to buzz them. Sorry, who do we miss?

Speaker 9 (01:18:01):
Heythan, It's gonna be Golden State Warriors, Cleveland Cavaliers.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Yes, times, we all assume we forget. We also missed.
Lakers sixers happened six times, Lakers nicks happened five times.
How dare you guys forget heat mavericks happened? Yes, I
was trying to figure who. Then finally, Warrior Celtics. Yeah,
it happened last year. That also happened in the nineteen sixties, So.

Speaker 1 (01:18:28):
That was a good one. That was a good one.

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Repeat NBA Finals mag He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Bayer.
I got good news and bad news for the Philadelphia Eagles.
That's next year on Fox Sports Sunday, on Fox Sports Radio.
Eyes on the French Open, so we can tell your
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(01:19:16):
that we have ever seen. Don't be mad at me,
be mad at the numbers. In reality, we'll get to
that in about twenty minutes or so when somebody asks you.
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that's b e y e er. That's the hang up

(01:19:37):
sometimes is the spelling of the last name. But if
I were to say to you, Bucky, Bucky, I got
some good news and then got some bad news, what
do you want first? It's always bad news, right, bad news,
bad news. That's not what we're gonna do here on
Fox Sports Radio. I have some good news and bad
news for the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh yes, in those Philadelphia Eagles.

(01:20:01):
And I know if you're driving in your car, maybe
you're coming home from church service, maybe you're going to church,
maybe you're wrapping up the weekend and trying to just
get out of you know, get out of the lake
house quickly, try to beat the traffic that's going to
back up later on because you know there's construction you
got to deal with and get all that. But if

(01:20:21):
you're an Eagles fan, I've got some good news and
some bad news for you. The good news is, Bucky
their throwback uniforms leaked on social media this week. Have
you seen the throwback leaks? I have not seen the
throwback leaks. All right, I'm gonna show you. And in fact,
I'm going to retweet an article UNI Watch had them,

(01:20:45):
and it was the throwback uniforms the Eagles you're gonna
wear in their twenty in the twenty twenty three season,
which again are like the Randall Cunningham Eagle. Yeah jerseys,
they are they are sharp and you you watch had this.
There was someone at a at a store that saw

(01:21:08):
I Jalen Hurts jersey. If you look at my phone
right here, Bucky, this is what this is what we've got,
very very sharp with the with the eagle on the sleeve,
like the full wing flying eagle with the football in
its talons. That is what we've got. I think it
is a It is a great, great look, classic uniform,

(01:21:29):
classic classic look. I just retweeted it, so it should
be near the top or at the top of my timeline.
Look at it at Dan Byron Fox. That's the good
news for the Philadelphia Eagles. Great uniforms, look good, play good.
Bad news, bad news. And I hear this all the time.
Who else is in the NFC? Yeah, who else is doing? Yeah?
There's fifteen other teams. Yeah that don't So we're talking

(01:21:52):
that don't have the uh the hiccups that I think
the Eagles could have. I got bad news. I think
the Philadelphia Eagles take a major step. This has been
my theme this entire offseason of all the teams we mentioned,
you know, Buffalo maybe falling back to the pack a
little bit. I think that there are warning signs that
appear that show you that, you know what, that isn't

(01:22:15):
sustainable or guess what, that's not good. And I'm taking
this opportunity, Bucky, because you and I haven't teamed up
in a while to present this to you, because I
think there are many people who are high on the
Philadelphia Eagles, especially compared to what is happening in the AFC.
You just rattled off six, seven, eight teams that you
think could maybe make the playoffs or be in the

(01:22:38):
playoffs in the AFC, and you do that in the NFC,
and it's more of the opposite of not who's the
odd team left out? It's all right, which of these
seven are actually going to be good enough to win
a division or have a wild card? And you say, well,
the Eagles are the ones with the really the least
amount of questions. Even the forty nine ers in their
quarterback situation, you have questions, but I think that they

(01:23:00):
are destined for a step back. Do you want to
know why? Why? Here's some of the bad news. I
believe that the super Bowl hangover is real. That's point
number one when you lose a Super Bowl. And I
actually think that are you diagramming plays right now as
I'm about to break this down? What do we have
a run play? Defensive flight? Okay? I had a thought

(01:23:22):
in my head, so I want to make sure. Okay,
that's actually I don't care, that's totally fine. I know
you're listening to me. If you take the Philadelphia Eagles
and you look at what happened last year, the quarterback
playing like a top five quarterback, sure, absolutely. How about
you know defense injuring brock Perty's arm could be one

(01:23:43):
one play getting after the quarterback running game AJ Brown,
DeVante Smith, you know, becoming a tandem Smith. But but
when you look at when you look at I think
this is what tells you about why the Cincinnati Bengals
are different team. Because they were able to lose a
Super Bowl and then respond to the way that they did.

(01:24:07):
I think that takes a lot. I think losing a
Super Bowl takes a lot out of you to get
that close. And this is a team that at what
ten point leader at halftime? Heck, the game's airing on
NFL Network right now for Football fifty seven. But you
get that close, you go through all the work, you
have all the breaks, everything happens. Get off of that
hot start. You're the last undefeated team in the league.
Keep rolling, just rolling to the playoffs. Roll over this

(01:24:28):
forty nine ers, to have a quarterback, go to the
Super Bowl, get a half time lead. You do all
of that, and then you fall short and to have
to go through everything that you just went through again,
I think is I would say this with the Eagles.
I would have said it with the Bengals, even though
they proved it to not be true. I think it
is a heavy heavy burden to carry, and I think

(01:24:51):
it will be a heavy burden for the Philadelphia Eagles.
That's point number one of my bad news. Do you
agree with that? I do not agree with that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
This is the best team in the NFC, the Philadelphia
Eagles and the San Francisco forty nine ers. But you
tip the skills in the eagles favor because the quarterback,
Jalen Hurts, is the best quarterback in the NFC. And
so we think about the correlation between quarterback play and
title contention, that puts them ahead of the curve. Then

(01:25:22):
when you look at this team and just the talent,
the depth of talent that they have, not only what
they had already, but now they go and get the
best defender in the draft in Jalen Carter. They able
to put them alongside another first round pick last year
that they basically red shirted in Jordan Davis. The Kobe
Dean steps in, you still have Hassan Reddick coming off

(01:25:43):
the edge, Brendon Ingram and all these other guys for
ta Cox and all of this stuff. Defensively, they're loaded,
and you already spoke to what the offense is with
aj Brown and DeVonta Smith and Jalen Hurts running a
very unique and difficult running game rushing offense.

Speaker 2 (01:26:01):
I just don't know how you can slow them down. Okay,
all right, you mentioned Jalen Carter. That's point number two.
There is a reason he slipped to nine in the draft.
And I don't think it was the traffic charges that
resulted in the deaths of two people, including a former teammate.
I don't believe that that was entirely the case. I

(01:26:21):
think that there's stuff on film where you have concerns
about Jalen Carter, and I just it's a complete double
standard to talk about a player and you say this
guy could fall, and then when a team drafts him,
you go unbelievable value and you know, you know who
the poster child of this was Randy Gregory. Two different players,
but it was Randy Gregory is falling, you know, fail

(01:26:45):
the drug test at the Combine. Cowboys draft them, unbelievable
value for the Dallas Cowboys and getting Randy Gregory. There's
a reason Jalen Carter fell to ninth in the NFL draft. Yeah,
I think they're two different players. I think Randy Gregor
as a player in Nebraska was different. I'm not comparing
the players, but what I'm saying is there's a reason

(01:27:06):
that he fell tonight. There is absolutely a reason.

Speaker 3 (01:27:09):
There were reasons in terms of what was transferring off
the field, and then some would say that there are
some reasons on the field in terms of effort level
in those things. But you just talk about size, dominance,
all of those things to flashes. Those flashes keep you captivated,

(01:27:29):
all right, Okay, even if you take him aside, when
you look at this team offensive line, you could say,
arguably the best offensive line in the NFC, maybe the
best offensive line in ball. The way they were able
to get it. I mean, just enjoyed my my auta.
And then you have Lane Johnson up front. Kelsey comes
back to spark it, and then they have guys already

(01:27:53):
in the stable to replace those guys when they depart.
It's just hard to find a serious weakness.

Speaker 2 (01:28:00):
If you'll aft Yougoslana, if your high school football team
that you led to the CIF State championship game, if
there was a player after your semi final win that
was sulking on the bench because they didn't get their touches,
what would you say to that player?

Speaker 3 (01:28:18):
That's common, it's high school like, like that's what happens.
I would tell them, like, look, you worry about the team.
You can't you can't have your own individual agenda ahead
of what we're trying to accomplish as a team.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
Yeah, but some of that is a conversation. So when
a J. Brown does it after a divisional playoff win,
that's that's the nature of the position. That is that
is that is the every heat culture. It would not
happened to the Miami Heats. Well, it's a good thing.

Speaker 3 (01:28:44):
Miami's a basketball team, not a football team, because if
you're dealing with wide receivers, that's part.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
Of the deal. Every great, every great wide receiver from
Jerry Rice to Marvin Harrison, not to true Michael.

Speaker 3 (01:28:56):
It is true to Michael Irvin. When you don't the ball,
it is like being in a track meet. You're not engaged.
You're not in the game.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
So that is why you have to make sure that
as a play caller that you have design touches to
make sure that you keep them engaged, because if not,
they will wander. It's the hardest position because you're dependent
upon somebody else giving you the ball. So you're gonna
have an opportunity to make an impact for those that forget.
The Eagles completely dominated the New York Giants in the
divisional playoff and aj Brown sat on the bench sulking

(01:29:29):
because he only had like four targets and three catches.

Speaker 3 (01:29:32):
I mean, Dan, it's almost like running a track meet.
Who wants to run up and down the up and
down the field and never get a touch. You want
to you want to bone, you need.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Aju was in Tennessee did not like the contract that
they offered him. It was disrespectful, it was it was
So he goes to Philadelphia and guess what gets What
he wants makes the Pro Bowl, makes the Pro So.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
I imagine if you have what he had over fourteen
hundred receiving yards, they you're one of the top receivers
in the league, You're arguably the number one playmaker on
the team, and you only had four opportunities.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
You win your and it was six targets, three catches
on six targets. I just brought it up as well,
for twenty two yards. They were up twenty eight to
nothing at halftime. He wins a playoff game. He's about
to go to a conference championship game, places that he
had not been in Tennessee. Heck, the year before in Tennessee,
they lost in the conference semi finals when they were

(01:30:38):
the number one seed to the Cincinnati Bengals. So he
accomplished something as a teammate that he had never accomplished
in his career and was sulking on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (01:30:50):
Okay, this is because you brought up he Coulture, and
you brought up Himmy Butler, because you've been on Jimmy
Butler because he hasn't scored a ton.

Speaker 2 (01:31:00):
Of points, and so I actually gave your Butler passed.
I think people were fast tracking Butler to the rankings.

Speaker 3 (01:31:08):
You're aj Brown, and you know after the game you
have to sit in front of the podiumn have to
answer these questions and they may say, hey, man, like
your head to go on, But why did you.

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
Only have two or three catches because we were up
twenty eight to nothing at halftime? Would be my answer.
And I'm about to I'm about to play in the
conference championship game and I've never done in my career.
So what do you have his numbers from the Conference
championship game? I'll bring him up right now. One Did
he have any touches? And they tell you what they did?
Do you know what they did?

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
Do?

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
They threw it to him on the first series? I
think it was even the first play of the game.
Do you know why you had four receptions for twenty
eight yards in that yard? I'm target, but you know
what he did? He set the table.

Speaker 3 (01:31:50):
Because you know what happens in life, The squeaky wheel
gets de grease, and so sometimes you have to let
it be known that you're not happy with your current situation.

Speaker 2 (01:32:01):
You can do that throughout the week. You don't do
it immediately after a game that you just won by
thirty one points. He was he was in a worse
mood than the Giants were and they just lost by
thirty one. You know what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:32:15):
I like, I like to appeal to your sensibilities as
a parent. And so you know what happens when little
Diamond comes you think you know, I'm right his face
with his face poked out and his lips all pouty.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Hey little guy, what's wrong? Nothing?

Speaker 1 (01:32:31):
Hey, no, no, no.

Speaker 2 (01:32:34):
I'm fine. I'm fine. Oh your lips is poked out.
You want lollipop? You want something?

Speaker 3 (01:32:40):
So AJ Brown knew exactly when Nick Sirianni looked over
there after celebrating, like, hey man, hey.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Good to football, good football. We win a game, right football?
Oh you know what, it's a problem. You're right, Aj Brown?
You know what? How makes you? We get right on that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
And first play, we're going to make sure that we
come to you keep you engaged. What happens, man, Yeah,
we're up twenty eight.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
Nothing. We had no reason to throw the football at
it that. That's that's what we say. The final board. Finally,
the final reason, the bad news of why I'm not
high on the Philadelphia Eagles. And it's a name that
you just mentioned. When the adult in the room is
your quarterback and not your head coach, Oh my gosh,
you can't. We can't have no fun guy, No fun guy,
We can't have any fun. No, you can have fun

(01:33:30):
when your quarterback is telling your coach in the Super
Bowl that, hey, settle down, quit popping off to the
officials or the chiefs. We need to focus on. There's this.
This is combustible. This is combustible. This is this. There
is no fun guy over here. No, there's there's a

(01:33:52):
lot of stuff because because Georgia Bulldogs may not be
a good thing. As crazy as that some man like
when gets and balances. No winners like winners.

Speaker 3 (01:34:03):
You don't like my guy, Nick Sirianni to look at
the camera and pop his pop off, not his head like, yeah,
we bad and.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
You don't like that, No, I don't.

Speaker 8 (01:34:11):
You don't like that.

Speaker 2 (01:34:12):
Little Let the celebratory, Yeah, let the celebratory. Well, they're
not sulking on the bench after a thirty one point win.
Come on, we gotta gotta have fun. There's there's a
listen these I think these things are real. One of
the reasons I think Buffalo aside from the obvious issues
and I didn't miss Von Miller a super Bowl, but
one of the reasons why I think they also the

(01:34:34):
Stefan Diggs Josh Allen thing in the in the Bengals game,
like that may just be frustration and maybe they can
work it out. I don't know, but that seemed very
odd to me. All of these things with the Eagles
seem very odd to me. And you can go back
to the best roster and but super Bowl hangovers a
real thing. We see how things turn over in the NFL.

(01:34:56):
That's why I am not a as big of an Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Are you fa of anybody? It's just been all on
negativity for two. Can we get some positive Can we
have a positive story?

Speaker 2 (01:35:05):
You know what? Yes? And I'm going to say something
positive about the NBA Finals, And I didn't say something
positive about the Eagles throwback uniforms, which look absolutely marvelous.
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(01:36:14):
But practice rounds getting underway. Heck, practice runds are happening
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(01:36:38):
Pacific for four hours Sunday morning for the found around
of the US Open Championship. Director Charlie Howe is going
to join the show. He basically sets up camp for
eighteen months and LA Country Club is his home. It's
a unique venue. Not only is it a unique golf course,

(01:36:58):
but just the location of the actual golf course bordering
Beverly Hills, smack dab in the middle of one of
the busiest spots that you would say in the country.
First t box, you see the Beverly Hilton off in
the distance. So you played it. Played it twice, yea twice?
Played it a month ago, month ago. May first was

(01:37:22):
when it was so a little over a month ago.
We had a contest here on Fox Sports Radio taking
two of my scores from like from the fifteenth hole,
in the sixth hole, and if a listener was able
to guess it correctly, they'd be putting the running for
a US Open prize pack part of the first one.
And then had a quad yeah, quadruple somebody wouldn't bring

(01:37:45):
it up. Snow, I'm the one that brought danger. All
I had to do was take my medicine and I
and I and actually I did and then I just
hit some really bad shots. So we don't have to
get into the details. But US Open week, uh is
practically here in the twenty twenty three US Open tournament
director they it's called Championship director. Charlie House can have

(01:38:07):
joined us in an hour. So that's fun. That's exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Like, so will you finacle your way in to make
sure that you and Charlie have a nice little relationship.
So if you need to to get on there, to
get on t box a, Charlie, I got a.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Couple coming to you get it?

Speaker 12 (01:38:20):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Can you? Can you hook me up like that? That
should be like the goal out of this conversation, Like
everything you do should be with an intention, Like oh,
by the way, Charlie, like you put them on the hook,
like right on the radio, like hey, Charlie, Like I
think I got like a like a foursome that I
kind of like to come through Monday after they I
think they I don't know if they still do that
or not. I have the opportunity to play US Open

(01:38:41):
courses the day after the tournament. The only the only
hang up was, first of all, it was a media lottery,
so you had to be picked. But if the back
then it was when the US Open would have an
eighteen hole playoff the next day. If they had a playoff,
your round would be canceled. You would be unable to play.

(01:39:03):
I was fortunate enough to go through a string where
there were no playoffs, there were no Monday playoffs. And
now a few years ago they changed the rules where
you will have a two hole sudden death playoff on
Sunday night if there is a tie after seventy two holes.
But I don't know if they still have a media

(01:39:24):
lottery afterwards. With COVID and everything, you know, things have changed.
So attending the US Open it's kind of your thing,
like that's your thing. Yeah, And it helped, honestly, just
to be candid. When Fox had the broadcast rights, we
had you know, we did more. You weren't your way
with there weren't getty email. There was something listen I

(01:39:44):
had gone to prior to Fox having the TV contract,
I had gone to multiple US Opens, and then when
Fox did, we sent multiple shows. We were at Chambers
Bay in Tacoma, Washington University Place, Washington, to be ex act,
I think is the location. We went to Oakmont, which
is like one of my favorite courses in the entire world,

(01:40:06):
just outside of Pittsburgh, which I loved. In twenty sixteen.
Twenty seventeen was in my home state of Wisconsin at
Aaron Hills. That was great. Twenty eighteen at Shinnecock. We
oh a couple of shows out there as well, so
lived dis kind of your thing. Yeah, well again, you know,
Fox had the TV rights at that point. That changed
after twenty nineteen went back to NBC. But we still

(01:40:27):
we still will take advantage of a great event coming
to our town and we'll yeah, we'll be there on Thursday,
I'll be there various times throughout the week and then
a week from today this show for four hours. Yeah,
Live from the US Open, Although that title is taken
by the Golf Channel because of their show Live from
the US Open. We aren't going to say it's Live
from the US Open because that would be stealing their title.

(01:40:48):
But Mike Carmen and myself Fox Sports Sunday at the
US Open on Sunday, Sunday. Yes it is okay. I
didn't know. I mean I knew you were Are you
are you going? Are you going at all? I hadn't played,
I hadn't hadn't planned on going. But sometimes I get
like these things come through the email where kind of go.
But I sure heard that you were the guy. Like
then we can talk to them and they talk to you.

(01:41:11):
Talk to the guy. You see what he can do.
I don't know, like the guy actually he hooked it up.
Ethan's oh yeah, Ethan, Ethan, Charlie, all of it. Very good,
very good job shut up. For the US Open, the
par three is are going to be the thing to
watch because you could have one play. It's short of

(01:41:34):
seventy nine yards. No, I mean just that nice little
it's not some control, Yeah, some control I can. I can.
I can try to hit a seventy nine. It may
go eighty nine. But that's that's the way it is.

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
But but but but I'm sure you got like the
control where you spin it back and all that other.

Speaker 5 (01:41:55):
Stuff, right, But when where they put the pin off
his runner back, Well, because of this location and how
short it is, it's it's gonna be difficult, like there's
a there's a way to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
You will have to spin it back, I think to
get it close. If it plays seventy nine years.

Speaker 3 (01:42:10):
Take a little bit off the swing. You can't you
can't go out there trying to knock it off like
you're in top golf. You gotta make sure you correct. Yes,
it will be interesting. Yeah, you could see some little
you know, dead hands, some little I don't know. But
that's that's that's dangerous. That's dangerous as well. I think
you want to make sure it's on the surface because
there's trouble around. But seventy nine yards could be one

(01:42:32):
of the holes. They could have the par three eleventh
play over three hundred yards if you needed. It's downhill.

Speaker 2 (01:42:41):
Are you a big hitter? No, I wouldn't say that.
I'm a big hit Yeah, you just hit it straight,
like if it's three oh three, I'm not reaching the green.
So there there's there's that it is downhill, which would help.
That takes that takes it, that takes twenty yards. Here's
something else, here's something else to watch with this. And

(01:43:01):
they mentioned this when we went to the media event
last month. There could be a day over the next
over the four days, where the par four to sixth
hole plays shorter than the par three eleventh hole. So
the par three sixth hole may only play at two
eighty two ninety, where the par three ends up playing
at three hundred. But it's a different yeah, different par

(01:43:24):
So you.

Speaker 3 (01:43:24):
Get those fancy clubs in your bag. That's where you
have all the graphite chefs.

Speaker 9 (01:43:28):
And all that.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
No, I don't know. I cannot not graphite chests definitely
now in my irons. I need steel chefts. Okay, I'm
a steel chef guy. Yeah, you have like the oversized
clubs or you're like a program. No, I do not
have blades. I do not have blades. I need the game.
I need the game improvement. Yeah, I haven't improved since
I was six. So there there's your little gulf. There's

(01:43:49):
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Speaker 1 (01:44:10):
Away Fella's men's singles final at the French Open. It
saw Novak Djokovic win the first set over Castperud seven
to six, winning the tie break seven points to one
that took an hour and twenty one minutes. The second set, however,
considerably easier for Djokovic.

Speaker 12 (01:44:28):
Serving out white to the backhand of Rude, shortish ball
and up the line as comfortably as you like, which
Lovak hits his backhand with her and imperiously After two
and thirteen minutes moves into a two set deep.

Speaker 1 (01:44:43):
The call on Roll on Garos Radio, and another record
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in the third set, Rude leads Djokovic one game to none,
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(01:45:05):
Sox today placed All Star reliever Liam Hendricks on the
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Hendrix said just returned to action in late May after
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the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday night, the Vegas Golden
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(01:45:25):
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NBA Finals will resume Monday night with Game five in
Denver Nuggets home to the Heat. Four games in, maybe

(01:45:57):
just one game left of the NBA season. What if
we learned from these NBA Finals. I took some things
away when you've watched these four games, what have you learned,
whether it be about Nikola jokicch Jamal Murray, the Denver
Nuggets the Miami Heat. What is going to be your
takeaway and what you took from these NBA Finals.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
If you can get a talented team to play with
effort and discipline, you can win a lot of games.
And there's always talent in the league. But if you
can get a team that has a level players to
buy into a bit of an old school mentality, you
can really unlock their potential. And what Mike Malone has
done is he's gotten his players to absolutely buy into

(01:46:37):
some of the grittiness that their opponent displays. And because
of that, I think we've seen the Nuggets game the
collectively go from good to great in this series.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
I think we've also learned that there are more people
that now are exposed to Nikola jokicch and the great
basketball player that he is. It is sometimes you are
the prisoner of the moment, but his skill set in
what he uh what he can do and now is
doing so on the biggest stage. I think uh lends

(01:47:07):
the if you will title of best player in the game.
I think there's more people that now feel that Jokic
is the best player in the game. Mmm, like withes
that paying you no because Yiannis doesn't have the shot
that Jokic does. Yeah, like Giannis is just just me.

(01:47:30):
He's his nickname. You know, he's the freak his Nike stuff,
you know, a freak. He's, you know, a freak. In
Jokic's skill, passing, shooting, Yannis can get a bucket when
he needs it. There's no doubt about that. A lot
of different conversations that you can you can have with players.
But I do think that that Jokic is, you know,

(01:47:51):
put himself as the best player in the game. That
could change next season, really could depending on how Guy's development.
You never know, but he is he has now emerged.
I think that is one thing I've learned. I have
also learned that I think I do have to believe
in heat culture. I would mock it previously. Oh, you
had jokes for it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:09):
Yes, that's what it is. That's why you wanted it
off my Twitter. Now, you didn't want to believe. You
didn't believe in all I think you didn't believe in
the work. You didn't believe in all of the stuff
that they talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
I think that there's there's something there. I think there's
something to it. So I believe in that. I also
believe it pays in developing players, and the Heat probably
do it better than anyone else. But even on the
Nuggets point of view, you know, as as a Milwaukee
Bucks fan, as you know you've mentioned throughout the show,
and the Bucks aren't the only ones, but the Bucks
have a championship window. So you know what you do,

(01:48:42):
you try to you try to fulfill that window, Bucky,
And sometimes I think you neglect developing your own players,
or developing your own talent, or trying to draft for talent.
For what Christian Brown has done just as a rookie
and for Denver to utilize him and put him in
the position that they have, I think, you know, it
does wonders. I think Milwaukee, you know, tried to do

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so for a while with Dante DiVincenzo and then ended
up you know, training him and he's now a member
of the Warriors. But when you look at the makeup
of just that team specifically, it's okay, well, let's trade
for this guy, let's sign this veteran, let's bring him in.
And other teams do that as well, and you know
the Lakers did that for you know, for how long.
And now you look at the success that you know

(01:49:25):
they had with Austin Reeves, and I think that there's
something to that, I think, But I think like the
Christian Brown aspect of he doesn't have to have twenty
every single night, but if he's a part of the
program and incorporated and he does have a nineteen point
game in the biggest setting, it can do a lot.
And then it just you know, with the development that

(01:49:45):
they he'd have had, I think that speaks for themselves.
The guys like you know, Caleb Martin who hasn't had
a good Finals, but gave Vincent as well.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
Yeah, gave Vincent Maxtrous, all those guys. Yeah, the development
is certainly there. And you also see with the Denver
Nuggas they're young guys are playing and playing well. Chris
Brown being able to get up and make plays early
in the mix. And I mean, let's just think about
joking Jamal Murray being at it together seven eight years.
How they started out as rotational players. They've worked their

(01:50:16):
way into the lineup, not giving stuff early, and so
because they've had to earn it. There's a little, i
would say, maybe a little more of a blue collar
spirit from this team because you kind of go as
your stars go, which is why the Nuggets are well
positioned to pull off a championship for a long for
the first time in long time.

Speaker 2 (01:50:35):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer. My Nuggets take on
where their seating is. Getting some feedback on that if
you'd like to chime in. It is the easiest path
that we've ever seen in the NBA Finals. Twitter at
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Find Bucky on Twitter at Bucky Brooks. One guy actually

(01:50:57):
tweeted at you to tell me, and then he found
me because he figured out where my address was. It's
b E y E R. But the numbers add up.
But we'll talk more about that at the top of
the hour. Coming up next though, here on Fox Sports Sunday.
It's a tradition unlike any other, and we take one
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on the fun that's next here on Fox Sports Radio,
Fox Sports Sunday. Good morning to you, about to turn
afternoon on the East Coast. You're out traveling, Be safe.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer. As we are alive
from the tireq dot Com studios get more NBA Finals talk.
The response to just they're not arguing with me, Bucky,

(01:51:41):
They're arguing with math. And now it's the easiest path
that we have seen for an NBA champion. If the
Nuggets get this done, You're not arguing with me, You're
arguing with numbers and facts and data, and it just
you can't argue with that. So, as mad as you are,
if the Nuggets get it done in one of these
five three games of the NBA Finals, it will be

(01:52:02):
the easiest throughout for an NBA championship team in the
history of the NBA Finals in playoffs. Man, it will
just for an eventual champion.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
Just diminishing the accomplishment of the Nuggets if they pull
it off, just diminishing that because of as you say,
a path that's traveled. They can't help who's in front
of them. They only can knock off those teams. They
don't have any control over the area.

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
You're right, but the numbers are the numbers, and it
would be the easiest. And if you want to say
that they aren't deserving, that's a different story. But it
is the easiest path. You want them to put an
asterisk on their rings if they win. Just like that.
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All right, strike it up. It's time to put on
the boots. Let a boot, scoot and buggie. We'd only
done this segment twenty times before Bucky realized that there
was a country group named Books. Done. But this is

(01:53:13):
this is Brooks and done. So I will give Bucky
a topic and he can tell me if that team
is a live or player is alive, or if they're done.
I want to know possible fits for free agent wide
receiver DeAndre Hopkins visits with the Titan, Titans and Patriots.

(01:53:34):
We know about. We had this list of quarterbacks that
he wanted to play for. There's his former quarterback that's
in a new spot. Let's get to it, all right.
Let's start out with the Tennessee Titans. Of visits by
DeAndre Hopkins to the Titans you're good with that? Or
are you done with that? I am done with that.
I am done, done, done.

Speaker 3 (01:53:54):
If I'm DeAndre Hopkins, I've expressed all the concerns about
the quarterback play. It would almost be like going back
to the future if Ryan Tanneerhill was't playing. You have
a choice between Malik Willis and Will Levis. I don't
know if you saw the video, but if they have
a tough time hitting the net, how are they going
to hit DeAndre Hopkins.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
I didn't realize that Levis and Lewis were so close
alphabetically until you just said it. Right now? What about
going back to the Texans? How about that? I mean,
I'm okay with that.

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
If he's in it because he doesn't have to move
and incur additional cost because stay at his home, Yes,
I can get it, but I don't see a lot
of winning that's going to take place with the textive.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
How about the reuniting possibility with Bill O'Brien expected to
meet with the Patriots tomorrow, I mean, I can see
it now.

Speaker 3 (01:54:38):
I don't know how much DeAndre Hopkins has left, but
Bill Belichick typically likes guys that he respects. That he
had a tough time covering, so maybe, just maybe DeAndre
Hopkins would fit in New England.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
Speaking of Bill, what about the Buffalo Bill's Josh Allen
was on that quarterback list that he mentioned.

Speaker 3 (01:54:55):
Yeah, I don't see that. I would see. I wanted
something different. I'm done with that.

Speaker 2 (01:54:59):
Done with the What about Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
I'm done It looked that like all of a sudden,
it go from ground and pounds and now they're aired out.

Speaker 2 (01:55:07):
They have Odell, he's better than Odell? Right, Yeah, he's
not available, is he? We'll see? But even with that,
Zay Flowers, Odell, Mark Andrews, you have too many miles
to feed. You can't bring another one in. What about
Kansas City and the Chiefs? Kansas City's interesting. He's not
a role runner, but he's a playmaker. Pat Mahomes is

(01:55:29):
the best quarterback in football. He makes anybody better. I
could see it, but the money has to be right.
But I could be okay with it. He mentioned Justin
Herbert and the Chargers. What about the Bolts, No, I'm
done with that.

Speaker 3 (01:55:39):
Like what we have Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, we have
a lot of receivers that are already sitting on the sideline.

Speaker 2 (01:55:45):
So now you had another one. I'm done. What about
Jalen Hurts in those Philadelphia Eagles, he was one of
the quarterbacks he mentioned he is one of the quarterbacks
that I could see. But if you think A. J.
Brown is sulking, now, can you imagine how bad it
would be if DeAndre Hopkins is taking away some of
his targets. And how about them Cowboys? Yeah? I mean no, done, done, done,

(01:56:09):
done done. I thought DeAndre Hopkins had lost his stuff,
which understandably so now you're in your early thirties. I
did think that when he came back from suspension, maybe
it was the only good thing that Arizona had. But
I felt that there was some value there. So I

(01:56:30):
don't think that DeAndre Hopkins is washed by any means.
I think that he'd be a great red zone target.
I think he'd be a great guy. When you have
third and eight, that's where you go to. So I
do find value in DeAndre Hopkins. How much you're willing
to pay for that? Though? Are you going to pay
nineteen million dollars annually for that?

Speaker 3 (01:56:50):
Or are we talking about Hey, I like you but
I'll pay eight for that.

Speaker 2 (01:56:54):
Yeah, I would. Yeah, I wouldn't pay nineteen, No way,
I'd pay eight. And that's that is the question at
hand of all those. Honestly, I think the Chiefs would
probably be the best fit. You said the Chiefs say yeah,
I mean Patrick Mahomes has proven he can make anything work.
They don't have an established number one, despite them trying
out Cadirs.

Speaker 3 (01:57:14):
Tony is a number one. He has improven that he
can handle it. So I can understand why there would
get some consideration. I just don't know if I'm the
Chiefs or I would take that on.

Speaker 2 (01:57:24):
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the show and we've revisited at times Bucky things that

(01:58:07):
it's no fault on the Nuggets. They just accomplished what
they had in front of them. That was beating the
Timberwolves and beating the Chris paul Less Suns, and beating
the Jeers Lebron James and beating the shorthanded Miami Heat.
That's me playing dirty pool right there. And you could
make arguments like, yeah, Lebron James is aging, but how

(01:58:30):
good is he? And the son still had Devin Booker
and Kevin Durant and you know, Jimmy Butler was good
enough to knock off the Celtics and Nicks and Bucks.
But I don't want you to argue with that. I
want you to argue with the numbers because it's going
to be impossible for you to do so.

Speaker 3 (01:58:46):
I mean, just because we're telling up the seedings, that's
the easiest.

Speaker 2 (01:58:50):
That's the easiest way. Because you were seated as whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:58:53):
I think it would be a more I mean, if
you're going to use analytics and data, I think you
would have to show me shooting percentage is advanced numbers,
points per possession.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
The teams that we that they played were ineft in
those areas.

Speaker 3 (01:59:08):
By going through just the record and saying, way, hey, way,
this team was seating eighth and this team of seating.

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
Dead Like to me, I need more than that. This
only surface level only. I believe one NBA team has
faced two, not one, but two eight seeds during an
NBA playoffs and that's because an eight seed has only
made the NBA finals one other time with the New

(01:59:34):
York Knicks in this modern day of the NBA. So
is that is that the Nuggets fault? That it is
not the Nuggets fault. But when we talk about championships
and we talk about teams, and this is where I
will go and vary, I don't believe that the Nuggets

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are a good enough team. If they had a normal
path to an NBA playoff where you had your seated
teams hold serve and you had chalk in the bracket,
I don't think that the Denver Nuggets would win the
NBA title.

Speaker 3 (02:00:15):
Well, it doesn't work like that. That's why you play
the games. The Boston Celtics were, I mean the Milwaukee Bucks.
They started with them, they had number one seed, they
didn't take care of their business, and then the bostonselves
had an opportunity to write it and correct it and
maybe it would have been a different series. And they
were there, but they couldn't do it as well.

Speaker 2 (02:00:34):
And I'm glad that you mentioned that, because you are right.
And in the NFL either there's the teammate get off
to an eight no start and they like, well, they
haven't played anybody. Maybe so, but there are teams that
are losing to two and four teams and one in
five teams when maybe they shouldn't be. So you had
to have to give some credit. Chad Brown tweeted earlier
in the show, tweet it to you to tell that

(02:00:57):
clown to shut it. That was me, that me, I
was the clown. If you look hard enough, you can
probably find some dumb, random stat to argue against every
championship team. Denver has been dominant and swept the Lakers,
so disrespectful, very my opinion that I don't think the

(02:01:17):
Nuggets are a good enough team to win a normal bracket.
That is disrespectful. That is opinion. What is not opinion, again,
are the numbers and the teams that they have played
it seated wise.

Speaker 3 (02:01:28):
Yeah, the seating. The seating is something that you have
to talk around. However, you have to dig deeper than
if you go make a blanket statement like that. You
have to dig deeper. You have to give me more.
This is the worst shooting team, what the worst set
of shooting.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
Like there's there's that is true. They they they really
they aren't that good. And when you lose Tyler hero
like they you know, they were one of the lowest
scoring teams in the league, twenty four score almost so
you know you're dealing with a big three point shooter.
It's been a huge loss, and it's one thing, but
you can't make excuses. Everybody's dealing with something. Joker twisted

(02:02:04):
his ankle the other day. The longer you play, the
more likely somebody significant is going to have to sit
on the sideline.

Speaker 3 (02:02:12):
And so if you're the next you want to wrap
this up. You don't want to play extra games.

Speaker 2 (02:02:17):
I agree with you. If you're on the other side,
you're just trying to get one more game, one more quarter,
one more lifetime. That's all you're trying to do. Eli
tweets in your national media doesn't want to admit the
Nuggets are the best team in the NBA. You sit
there and say, they have the easiest schedule now, but
you had no problem counting them out against the Suns
and Lakers. Oh and then he capped it off with

(02:02:40):
a year pathetic. Oh again, it's called the math pathetic.
It's true if you could, if you could have picked
if if you were the Nuggets and at the start
of the playoffs you said, all right, you're gonna have
to play the Timberwolves first. That's so you're going to
have to play pick whoever else you want to play.

(02:03:03):
The only team that they probably wouldn't have picked. I'm serious.
They probably wouldn't have picked the Suns, but at some
point in their five picks, they would have picked the
Heat they had to play the Timberwolves, and they would
have picked the Lakers. There is you know, the Lakers
were playing better basketball at the end of the year.

(02:03:23):
But again, this is a team that the Nuggets then
ended up sweeping. Like you would have you would have
picked that team. I think at the beginning of the playoffs,
before the Dylan Brooks and John Morant, you know, Grizzlies
squad like when you you would you would not have
picked the Warriors, even though they were a six seed.
But I do think that you would have picked the
Lakers from that. Kawhi Leonard getting injured for the Clippers

(02:03:45):
different story, but you wouldn't have picked the You wouldn't
have wanted to play the Clippers in the playoffs, just
wouldn't have happened. But you would have wanted to play
the Lakers. And that's and they got to and they
got to play the heat and the heat. You would
have said, I'll play the heater Hawks, maybe Brooklyn, but those,
you know, maybe those are the teams that we're going
to look at. That that's the That's how again, it's

(02:04:09):
just numbers. I think you're gonna see it. I think
Denver wins tomorrow night. But now is the time to
do it because I don't want to ran on their
parade whenever they have their parade, whether it be on
Wednesday or Thursday. So if the season does end, what
is your biggest takeaway from this NBA campaign?

Speaker 3 (02:04:26):
Biggest takeaway that it takes a team to win a title.
As much as we talk about superstars and those things,
it takes a complete a complete team. When I look
at the Denver Nuggets, everyone has really pointed out, joking
Jamal Murray, but it's been the.

Speaker 2 (02:04:43):
Others that have really carried it. And it used to
be a you need three of those guys. Uh, if
you're not going to do it that way, you need like,
you know, five or six guys that can play. But
now it's proven you need eight or nine guys because
you have to have guys that can come off the
bench and thrive in certain roles. And so I've learned that, man,
it takes a complete effort, no matter what you have

(02:05:05):
with two stars, hard for you to win without all
the backups, all the role players, all the support. I
think there are a lot of things that happened in
the NBA this year. I mean, Russell Westbrook was the
topic of conversation for how many months, and usually usually
not in a good way, although he did provide the
Lakers with good things at times, and then during his

(02:05:26):
time with the Clippers, I guess better than expected, you know,
in the tougher situations they were in. I think when
we look back at this season, the two things that
stand out and I can't I think the Jamrant story
is just enormous because I think the Ja Morant story
will also carry over into next season because of the

(02:05:49):
suspension and carry on throughout his career as well. The
other story that I think would be the story that
I remember if it wasn't jaw it's the break up
of the Brooklyn Nets. O, man, like that is how crazy?
Was that? Seriously? Like like when you and now like
you look at what the Phoenix Suns are trying to

(02:06:10):
do and Chris Paul uh likely gonna play elsewhere. I
think Phoenix is in a tough spot. They gave up
so much for Durant, But I think, like, like that
storyline is another one that can carry through because the
Mavericks also made their trade, gave away pieces, and now
Kyrie could just go and play elsewhere. They didn't give

(02:06:31):
up nearly as much as Phoenix obviously did for Durant.
But I think just the breakdown of the of the
Brooklyn Nets, not the nets specifically, but just of now
what happens with Phoenix. Is Phoenix the legit contender or
did they just trade for you know, older goods and
Kevin Durant and you know, did Kyrie Irving give Mark

(02:06:53):
Cuban and the Mavericks and Luka Dnci is another setback.
I think like those those are the two things that
I will take the most from the season, taking away
the Nuggets maybe winning a title or Miami coming back obviously,
but when I look back at the actual season, it's
either Jaws situation or the trades that the Brooklyn Nets
had to make. Yeah, last thing would be just inconsistent
of the officiating. Officiating. Oh yeah, interesting, I mean that's

(02:07:14):
been horrible, Like it's hard to watch a game with
a rooting interest just because it's so bad. So that
would be the thing, not knowing what I'm gonna get
on a week by week, game by game basis. I
think it's this, This is the thing that I think
has changed about the officiating. And it may not be

(02:07:36):
it may not be apples to oranges, but I felt
like we always felt that the NBA was rigged for
the better teams, and so that's why we didn't like officiating.
And so the Tim Donahue are like, oh the games
are rigged. Now We're just like, well, this is just bad.
This is just this is not it's not consistent from
game to game. Not that the Lakers and the Celtics.

(02:07:56):
The brand teams are getting all calls. It's just that
there's something that has to be done on why certain
cruis a certain guys call one thing and certain cruise
and guys call a completely different thing. I think they're
apples to oranges when you talk about the officiating and
what it used to be talked about and now what
is being talked about. So yeah, absolutely, he's Bucky Brooks.

(02:08:17):
I'm Dan Byer. It is Fox Sports Sunday, coming up
next to US Open a week almost here, we head
to LA Country Club for a guy who's been on
site for almost two years, who's gonna give us all
the ins and outs. Get Bucky on Twitter at Bucky Brooks.
Find me on Twitter at Dan Byer. On Fox that's
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(02:08:40):
we are guiding the ship and we got it to
LA Country Club. At the side of the twenty twenty
three US Open, we are a live for the tirec
dot Com studios joining us now who's basically had to
set up camp in West LA for the last I
don't know, eighteen months to two years or so getting
ready for this champion Jim. He's the twenty twenty three

(02:09:01):
US Open Championship Director and Championship Director for the USGA.
Charlie Howe joints the program here on this Sunday. Charlie,
I know it is busy. We are very, very grateful.
My first question grateful of your time. My first question
is do you have a countdown clock anywhere that now
has zero days to like US Open week? Is there

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is there a countdown clock that you have had for
like the last eighteen months that has finally reached the
zero days mark.

Speaker 8 (02:09:30):
It certainly has. We've got one, I know in close
proximity and certainly in our golf course maintenance area Chris Wilson,
the superintendent here as well as upstairs in the club's administration.
But I remember when it used to say five hundred
so days, so hard to believe. We're right on the doorstep, true, Charlie.

Speaker 3 (02:09:48):
What's the most nerve wracking part of putting together a
big tournament like this?

Speaker 8 (02:09:53):
Well, it's just the coordination and all the folks that
it takes to put this together. You know, there's easy
things you think we've got eighteen all of it off.
We've got our one hundred and fifty six players and caddies.
You know, you have your print media, you're broadcast partners,
you know, every department back at Golf House in New Jersey.
You know we'll descend upon you know, Los Angeles for
really the first time. So it's just the coordination of

(02:10:15):
all the different moving pieces. And we are a major event,
but we aren't like Sofi Stadium here down the road
in Inglewood, where you can kind of plug and play.
It's permanent infrastructure. We have to build this entirety or
this entire small city. But calling it small, isn't it.
We had to deliver this venue to be able to
put our championship on.

Speaker 2 (02:10:34):
Charlie how Jody goes here on Fox Sports Radio in
advance of the twenty twenty three US Open. The twenty
twenty three tournament director for the third major of the year.
I've been fortunate enough to attend many US Opens over
the last ten to fifteen years. I've was at Olympic
in twenty twelve, I was at Marion in twenty thirteen.
I understand that those are maybe similar to what you're

(02:10:57):
dealing with but not similar in the way where you
are born, ordering Beverly Hills. You're in a busy West LA.
What about the location of this course and how it's
I mean, heck it's it's in the city. How difficult
is that maybe, dealing with just traffic and normal operations
in the second biggest city in the country and now

(02:11:17):
having to host this US Open. How has the location
of LACC been for you guys in planning this event.

Speaker 8 (02:11:25):
Well, you said it, I mean, it's second largest city
in this country. We've handed out our trophy one hundred
and twenty two times. Never before have we had a
venue that is just in the middle of a metropolis,
if you will, with La so city of Beverly Hills
bordering you know, four oh five, the ten, the traffic,

(02:11:46):
it's just a special property. We can't wait to show
it off and kind of share it with the world.
But you can have to realize Los Angeles is, in
my opinion, the sports and entertainment, you know, capital of
the world. And you think about the Super Bowl that
was just here, Major League Baseball, All Star Game, College
Football Champion, National Championship Game, World Cup, sites coming like
they're no stranger to major events. So we have great

(02:12:07):
partners with the City of Los Angeles or LAPD from
the public safety your services side of things, you know,
So all those coordinated efforts, but for us to and
for the USGA to bring our national championship only for
the second time to the city of Los Angeles under
the circumstances that I just spoke to, that's what has
us most excited. And there's no shorts of people who
love the game here and then getting to see again

(02:12:29):
the national championship in their backyard, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:12:32):
Charlie, you you pointed out that LA's the city of
entertainment and those things. What's that delicate balance or fine
line that you have to negotiate when you're trying to
make the golf course challenging but you wanted to be
an entertaining product on TV with scoring.

Speaker 2 (02:12:46):
And de stuff.

Speaker 8 (02:12:48):
It is a balance. And what we love and about
the US Open is we're taking our championship to the
most iconic venues, the cathedrals of the game, whether they've
been around or a club founded like LACC in eighteen
ninety seven, or you mentioned Marion, you mentioned the Olympic club.
Places that are just renowned in the game of golf,
so that a and have great golf courses that test

(02:13:11):
the best players in the world, but in combination in
the city of Los Angeles and getting people here to
make sure they have an enjoyable experience with viewing areas
with grand stands. We've got a US Open showcase at
Westfield Mall in Century City, which is literally across the
street Santa Monica Boulevard from the country Club South Course,
So we've kind of had this whole campus here of
just the light being shine.

Speaker 2 (02:13:32):
Charlie how joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. He's
Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer. It's Fox Sports Sunday. Charlie
the tournament director for the twenty twenty three US Open.
I've been fortunate enough to be on site two or
three times at La country Club and was shocked by
the terrain. But now I also think, how are you
going to fit twenty thousand people on this property? How

(02:13:55):
do you do that? Because you know, we've seen corporate tense,
We've seen you know, bleachers. It's not the easiest course
to get around. How do you navigate it at this
year's tournament.

Speaker 8 (02:14:07):
Well, you first start with the governing the amount of
people that you put on the property. You know, at
twenty two thousand paid tickets per day, that will be
our lowest US open total really and then certainly the
modern day history. You know, Marion Golf Club in twenty
thirteen we had twenty five thousand. You know, even last
year at Brooklyn we were at twenty two thousand Monday

(02:14:28):
through Friday and then went up to twenty five thousand
over the weekend. So the venue dictates that we look about.
We look at things of how the fan experience, and
we don't want to impact or over sell it, even
though you would have no problem with the attention and
the scarcity of kind of tickets. But it's first time
back in la in seventy five years. So that's the
challenge that we have to address. But like you mentioned,

(02:14:49):
the topography here, in the ruggedness of LACC, there are
areas you know, as you get down to the Baranka
which I never even heard that word, and tell me
about here I'm back east where I group from be
like a dried out creek bit but the brank of
that just naturally goes through almost every single hole here.
It does limit where we can move fans around. But

(02:15:11):
that's where you give credit to our operations team and
you think about the ropeline set, placement of facilities, signage,
you know, just really anything that we can do to
help our fans navigate this historic property.

Speaker 3 (02:15:23):
Charlie, For the casual fan, how do you explain to
them where the US Open kind of fits in the
golf landscape? What would you tell a novice who's just
paying attention to golf for the first time.

Speaker 8 (02:15:34):
Well, for US, I mean being in the United States
Golf Association, I mean, we do look at it this
as our national championship, but make no mistake about it,
it's a global event. It's a large sporting spectacle. We
fit right into that fabric of being here in LA
That's why we're so excited to share that with this
community in this region. But if you're unfamiliar with golf,

(02:15:55):
just to understand there's four majors a year. You know,
we think we have just the the greatest championship because
it is the ultimate meritocracy. We had ten and eighty
seven people with a one point four handicapp index submit
an application to compete in this year's this year's US Open.
That's the most ever breaking the previous record at Pineers
in twenty fourteen. There's not another championship in golf where

(02:16:19):
you really anyone who can put the ball in the hole,
no matter professional or amateur. We've got eighteen amateurs in
the field making up of our one hundred and fifty
six players.

Speaker 2 (02:16:26):
So that's what's.

Speaker 8 (02:16:28):
Unique about the US Open and the pride of every
single one of those one hundred and twenty two champions
today having their name etched in the US Open trophy
that we've been giving out since eighteen ninety five when
Horace Rollins won a Newport Country Club.

Speaker 2 (02:16:41):
Charlie how joining us here on Fox Sports Radio a
couple more. I know you got to run because the
gates are going to open tomorrow, But I am curious
on your neighbors. And when I talk about your neighbors,
I'm talking about I think it's Lonel Richie's house. I
think I know the Playboy mansion is on the fourteen.
It's not the Playboy mansion that it once was. But

(02:17:03):
with this real estate, Charlie, has there been any you know,
loopholes or things, because you know, like we're talking about
high end homes that this course is on has that
provided any issues with you guys unveiling this course now
really to the world for the first time.

Speaker 8 (02:17:22):
I think it's a great question and not something we're
unfamiliar with. You look back to last year in the
town of Brookline and where the country club sits in
that community, you probably argue there was probably more homes
that bordered Brookline at least that maybe had a view
of golf through their backyards. Really, the topography and the
way that the trees are, you don't really see many
of the homes outside of maybe when you're playing the
fourth hole in Lionel Richie's house is on the players

(02:17:45):
right of the fourth green, and of course you mentioned
the former Playboy mansion that is kind of behind the
fourteenth tea of the property. But other than that, you
really don't see any homes. But they're there, obviously, Beverly Hills,
you know, Westwood, the immediate surround and communities. But we
have incredible support of those communities. When I've got here
a year and a half or eighteen months ago, you know,

(02:18:06):
you build relationships with those hoa's or those POAs and
communicate them, inform them of the planning, make them a
part of it, which they are, and they've been terrific
to work with. But it's all a coordinated effort to
make sure that everyone is in this together so that
we can just showcase the best that we have for
the city of Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (02:18:26):
You know, Charlie, I know you were a soccer player
at Virginia Tech. I'm a tar heel by nature, so
I appreciate you doing acc guys.

Speaker 8 (02:18:35):
In common.

Speaker 3 (02:18:36):
So I think it's fascinating when I see guys from
one sport kind of transition to another sport. Why is
it important for young people to take up the sport
of golf? What can they benefit from playing the game?

Speaker 8 (02:18:48):
You mentioned that unbelievable career kind of growing up being
a soccer player but also played basketball and baseball and
just every sport that I could, playing with friends and
kind of being an athlete. But I didn't play eighteen
of golf until I was a freshman or sophomore Averaginia Tech.
Stayed over the summer with some friends, just picking up
the game when we weren't in the gym or doing
some fitness things getting ready for the fall season. This

(02:19:11):
game has kind of just changed my life, not only
from a career standpoint, But there's no game that allows
you to play it at such a young age to
such an older age with the handicap system that the
USGA really now has over the world, the wool handicap system,
being able to compete, have that competitive juice fulfilled, and
not maybe have the fear of, you know, being able

(02:19:34):
to not go to work the next day because of
some injury playing basketball or soccer. So that's what's special.
I think the relationships that you build on the golf course.
You can learn a lot about a person in four
hours and getting around a golf course. But you know,
the family aspect, the friends aspect, that's what's so special
special about this sport and what that you know, I
wish I was introduced to a lot sooner in life,
to your point, So if anyone's on the fence of

(02:19:56):
picking up this game, whether it's at a green grass
facility playing nine home or eighteen hals or you know,
visiting the drive Shock and top golfs of the world,
there's just a great entertainment and buzz around golf right now.
So any way shape or form people can get introduced
to the game is better for overall community.

Speaker 2 (02:20:13):
He's Charlie Hollot, twenty twenty three US Soaping Championship director,
joining us on Fox Sports Radio. Bucky didn't want to
ask because the ACC rivalry, but he wants to know
if we can get a tea time the day after
the US soap and on that Monday. Is there any opportunity, Charlie,
I think you could pull some strings for us.

Speaker 8 (02:20:29):
You know, see, oh see how cluch you are to
get into Los Angeles. You know you have my number.

Speaker 2 (02:20:34):
Yeah, we are right here, right here. We're actually broadcasting
for the Media Center Sunday morning, a week from today
on Fathers Day. We'll be there Thursday, I'll be there tomorrow.
I'll be there about five days this week. So yeah,
maybe Bucky didn't want to ask the whole ACC. So
I'm like, all right, Bucky, I'll take care of it. Charlie.
We appreciate it. We know it's a crazy, crazy week
and uh we appreciate the time and can't wait to

(02:20:56):
take it all in. Thanks so much.

Speaker 8 (02:20:58):
I appreciate it, guys, Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 2 (02:21:00):
Get him on Twitter at how four that's h o
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no no, don't don't say we, don't say we Maybe
you don't see. Oh yeah, Bucky on the straight and
there he's always in the fairway, never in the rough.
We are coming to you live withthe Tirek dot Com Studios.

(02:21:20):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer. It is Fox Sports Sunday.
Let's go to the news desk and U yeah, I
guess some some sort of breaking news Isaac long Prawn
if you will.

Speaker 1 (02:21:31):
Indeed, it's Roland Garos. That is the date line because
moments ago we had more history made in the final
of the French Open, Novak Djokovic facing Caspar Rude and guys.
Just to give the background for people who might have
just tuned in the first set of the match, took

(02:21:54):
serving for the match and the French Open Championship. Here
is Gigi Salman on Roller, on Giros radio sleep.

Speaker 7 (02:22:02):
Silence within Philip Shatri. All the phones are held up,
the camera lenses are trained on Djokovic Champ two point two.
He serves down the tea cuspood run around, hits the
forehand and opens up the down the line. The backhand
cross court, spinning ball from Ruback in crosscot from Jokovics
cross court goes route cross cork goes.

Speaker 1 (02:22:17):
Jokovic, who makes it up.

Speaker 7 (02:22:18):
The slice from Rude all the inside out, fourhand from Jocko.
Jokovic from the fourth goes inside in. Rude is there
and he spins that ball off and it.

Speaker 1 (02:22:25):
Goes wide foot on over your bag.

Speaker 6 (02:22:28):
I know that Djokovic is flat on his back on court.
Philip Shatri, having just made history his twenty third Grand
Slam title, holy the solo record for most Grand Slam
singles titles in men's tennis history level now with Serena.

Speaker 1 (02:22:43):
Williams incredible twenty three Grand Slams. In Major League Baseball, today,
the White Sox placed All Star reliever Liam Hendricks on
the fifteen day injured list due to right elbow inflammation. Finally,
Dan and Buckett, we have an NBA Finals injury update
of sorts. The Athletic reports that the man who portrays
Bernie Bernie with a You, the mascot of the Miami Heat,

(02:23:08):
is back home and doing well after being treated at
the emergency room of a local hospital. Went while performing
a skit during Game four, he was punched just a
little too hard by former UFC champion Connor McGregor, who
was there to promote a pain relief spray product. And
so the skit called for McGregor to punch Bernie and

(02:23:29):
then administer the pain relief spray. But again the punch
was clearly just a bit too hard. Wow, couldn't have
predicted that outcome back to you.

Speaker 2 (02:23:40):
I heard Bernie's gonna fight Floyd Mayweather maybe in the fall.
That could be the case.

Speaker 1 (02:23:45):
I'm not sure more entertaining than Mayweather Pakia back.

Speaker 2 (02:23:48):
In the day. Ah, thank you very much, Isaac Lowan Kron.
Get him on Twitter at Isaac Loan Kron. By the way,
we have asked Isaac for like the last seven shows,
and I wasn't here last week to incorporate some sort
of saying in his Angel City FC games. Are we
all for seven Isaac long Crown?

Speaker 1 (02:24:03):
Oh for seven?

Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Baby?

Speaker 1 (02:24:05):
We're going for oh for a oh? And here here
here's the thing. I have a colleague, the excellent Mike
Watts of CBS Sports Network and Paramount Plus, and I
was chatting with him about a clever remark that he
that he had made in a previous broadcast and he said, well,
the only reason I said that was because it was
a word drop. And I said, what do you mean?
And he says, people on social media challenged me to

(02:24:28):
do random word drops, just like you do in the
middle of games. The only problem is he's good at
it and I'm not so. The word drop that he
was successfully was Winter Winter Chicken dinner, and the one
that he dropped last week in the mutual game we
were doing was even more impressive on a monopea while
I'm zero for seven and counting now with a very
simple YadA YadA.

Speaker 2 (02:24:49):
YadA, so some point we'll get it. And yeah, you're right,
it has gone on. I know the Florida Panthers play
by play guy at one time did that. I don't
know if he is still there or not, but would
have things said to him and they it was great.
But we are zero for seven. We are the Oakland
A's actually I shouldn't say that, they're on a four
game win streaks, but of trying to get this done, Isaac,

(02:25:10):
we will talk to you next week.

Speaker 1 (02:25:12):
I'm gonna go hang my head in shame.

Speaker 2 (02:25:14):
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It was such a huge story. This week's gonna change
the way golf is. I'm curious to see how it

(02:25:36):
all plays out. I like some of the things about
the Live Tour. Steve Harman and I talked about it
before on shows where we talked about who doesn't want
to work less and make more? So that's a huge
benefit for all the golfers. I feel bad for all
of the guys on the PGA Tour who took the stand,
had solidarity with the PGA, turned down the money to Holly.

(02:26:01):
Now I have to go.

Speaker 3 (02:26:02):
Back and work for the people that they could have
taken the big checks from.

Speaker 2 (02:26:04):
I agree. I think it's that part of it. I hope.
I don't know if they'll be made whole or they'll
be made them.

Speaker 3 (02:26:12):
You can't make them hole if you're if you're the
live toward the probably to go, why would you make
them hole?

Speaker 2 (02:26:17):
Like, what's the point.

Speaker 3 (02:26:19):
Yeah, I gave you an opportunity to come join us,
you declined, and now I'm going to give you no.

Speaker 2 (02:26:26):
You don't get that he's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer.
It is Fox Sports Sunday. Get Bucky on Twitter at
Bucky Brooks. You can find me on Twitter at Dan
Byer on Fox. Although some of the comments that I'm
getting from the Mile High City, I don't know if
I want them to know what my Twitter handle is. Uh,
we'll read some of those, at least the ones that
we can keep clean and who wanted our Eagles debate
that has been debated. I think the Eagles are set

(02:26:50):
up for uh, for a fall of the twenty twenty
three NFL season. Bucky is as high as fly Eagles Fly.
It's all next year. On Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 13 (02:27:03):
Reinhart shots flats, white cloud stick breeks centering pass kicked
away by Carlson five seconds to the right, A shot
walks by mcnam rightboun is loose, push to the corner
and time runs out.

Speaker 2 (02:27:14):
The game is over. The night Survive now up, Dick
pil in front of the goal.

Speaker 1 (02:27:20):
Hell jumps in as well.

Speaker 13 (02:27:22):
Has helmet is off several players tackling each other, the
linesman now restrained hill. Several things are being thrown onto
the ice as we speak. The Knights have one game four,
fairly surviving.

Speaker 2 (02:27:37):
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(02:28:02):
He's Bucky Brooks. It is Fox Sports Sunday. Wrapping things up.
Novak Djokovic, the winner of the French Open, a Grand
Slam title number twenty three, the most of any man,
breaking his tie of twenty two with Rafael Nadal, maybe
fittingly show doing it on clay, where Nadal was such
a master but obviously couldn't compete because of injury. Nadal

(02:28:25):
twenty twenty four likely going to be his last year
playing professional tennis. Roger Federer is retired, so now Djokovic,
seemingly what's ahead of him is just adding to this total.
He had a jacket that he wore Bucky and is
wearing it right now while he is singing the national
anthem of his home country with the number twenty three

(02:28:47):
on it signifying his twenty third victory. Are you a
fan of that bravado of Novak Djokovic, I mean having
the gear. I mean he's a great player. I think
he's he's a little extra, but he's fine. I mean
he's fine, He's fine. It is it is, it is

(02:29:08):
what it is.

Speaker 3 (02:29:09):
He he deserves to be able to wear it because
he's been a dominant player and he wins and he
wins and he wins.

Speaker 2 (02:29:16):
But what do you have more of a problem with
Djokovic wearing number twenty three or Tom Brady seemingly going
to this by himself because he Djokovic went into his
box and if you're just tuning in, Tom Brady not
only sat in Djokovic's box, but sat next to Djokovic's
wife throughout the match. And then when the joker won,

(02:29:38):
Novak Djokovic, not Nikolai Jokic. But when Djokovic won went
into his box and Brady was like just standing there
hanging out like there was nobody there for him to
talk to, gave a hug to Novak, and then moved on,
Do you have more of a problem with Brady going
solo or with Djokovic wearing a jacket that has number
twenty three on it?

Speaker 3 (02:29:58):
I actually like Brady going solo, Like that's kind of cool.
He doesn't who doesn't who doesn't want to travel internationally
by himself and kind of be the international man of leisure.
That's Tom Brady is uh, Look, Djokovic wearing twenty three?
It is I mean it's fine, Like I guess like
we didn't know that this was the twenty third, like
it's only been a storyline.

Speaker 2 (02:30:18):
Like here's the thing is, I don't know if other
people can wear it, Like this would be something that
marketing wise, you'd be like, oh, I got to get
that twenty three pullover for Novak. Djokovic the number one.
If he wins again, then it changes to twenty four.
So it's kind of kind of dated special. Maybe maybe
he just wanted it for the photo op I but

(02:30:41):
I did find it interesting and Isaac Lohnkrown played it
on the final call that we had earlier. It's not
the most of any tennis players he tied Serena Williams,
and the ladies said, and Margaret Court holds the mark
for twenty four. But you wonder if Novak now will
try to try to go after twenty five and again
he is. It is fitting because he is the Brady

(02:31:02):
of the Brady Manning breeze. He's the one that is
still playing Grannity. He was younger than Federer, but Brady
was younger than Manning. But Djokovic is going to try
to add to his titles, just like Brady did when
Manning stepped away and then Drew Brees. So it's fitting
that Tom Brady was there with him today.

Speaker 3 (02:31:19):
Yeah, I mean, it is fitting. All those things are
all nice. He's a great player. He's done it for
a long time. He's outlasted the other guys you talked
about early. You're the Manning, Brady Rovaly and how he's
been able to do it with Nadal and Confederer, and
so he deserves all the credit, even though the twenty
three jacket is a little corny.

Speaker 2 (02:31:40):
We had a fun day today. One of the things
I wanted to point out. In Bucky's most recent piece
on NFL dot com, Alex Smith made some headlines with
some comments of saying this offseason, defensive coaches maybe hindering
the young quarterbacks in the National Football League. It's something
that you addressed in your article that you wrote. But

(02:32:01):
should we be getting defensive about defensive coaches or does
Alex Smith have a point?

Speaker 3 (02:32:07):
He has a point to a certain degree, because sometimes
when you're a defensive minded coach, you think about, how
can I make sure that we don't give away the game,
don't make mistakes, don't turn the ball over? A little
more conservative in your approach. That said, some of the
best head coaches in the National Football League who have
done it with young quarterbacks have been from the defensive
side of the ball. You have talked about Bill Belichick

(02:32:30):
and what he was able to do with Tom Brady.
Tom Brady kind of, I want say, wrote the coattails,
but he leaned heavily on a defense for the first
three of his Super Bowl rings before kind of becoming
the man and demanding it.

Speaker 2 (02:32:41):
And then we have in Pittsburgh.

Speaker 3 (02:32:43):
Mike Tomlin in the job that he is doing and
going to do with Kenny Pickett, you know, helping Kenny
Pickett take over for Ben Roethlisberg and do those things.
And so it is not a death sentence that if
you're from the defense side of the ball that you
can't help a young quarterback come in and flourish.

Speaker 2 (02:32:58):
But when you look at the final four teams that
made the the NFL bracket, you know, the forty nine Ers,
Kyle Shanahan offense, Nick Sirianni Eagles offense, Zach Taylor Bengals offense,
Andy Reid Chiefs offense, they're all offensive coaches. Yeah, because
the league is all offensive coaches, with the exception of

(02:33:19):
those guys. Because as you have done with the Nuggets
thing or whatever, using these numbers, Yeah, those numbers are
going to be that. I think there's only what four
defensive coaches in the entire league, and so the odds
suggest that an offensive guy is going to be representative four. Right.
I mean you got.

Speaker 3 (02:33:39):
Robert Salad, you got Mike Tomlin, you have Bill Belichick,
Sala did you say him?

Speaker 2 (02:33:46):
Yeah? So Salad, Tever Flues, Belichick, Pete Carroll. Okay, so
we're up to five, right to five? That like who else?
Like who else is there? Oh? Brandon Staley, smart, smarty guys,
Todd Bowles. Seven. Yeah, so it's more than five.

Speaker 3 (02:34:05):
There we go, okay, seven, so we have one quarter
of the league roughly defensive guys.

Speaker 2 (02:34:09):
But if you you know, and I know Mike Florio
said this and others have said it as well, where
if you're hiring coaches that doesn't like people say this.

Speaker 3 (02:34:18):
So here's the thing about that, right, So people say
that if you're hiring coaches, and then if you got
a defensive guy and the offensive coordinator gets going, you're
going to lose him. Well, here's what I know. There's
a playbook, and the playbook is of the team. It's
not just the coordinator's playbook. So what you do, as
you're the head coach and you understand that, you build
a playbook that here's.

Speaker 2 (02:34:38):
What we do. And so when you hire a new coordinator,
the new coordinator adjusts to what you do. He adds
his wrinkles, but he doesn't completely overall the system because
now you're making it hard for the players who always
have to learn new verbage and new stuff. Brandon Staley,
did we mention him? We did, Amigo Ryans, We mention
we had him. So now we have to eight.

Speaker 8 (02:34:57):
So there.

Speaker 2 (02:35:00):
Very closer mister Rottenhouse used cleed language this time, saying,
anything you can do to not give credit to the
Nuggets because they aren't trendy on a national scale is
all you're doing. Schedule has nothing to do with it.
They beat every team that would have changed your narrative
if they were in it. I get it. Don't argue
with me. I'm just saying, when you're adding the numbers,

(02:35:20):
the Houston Rockets in nineteen ninety five are the toughest
road to an NBA title where they beat a three seed,
a two seed, and two ones. So it's that's it.
Seven seven was the total number the The Nuggets have
their seeds out up to twenty seven, the most that
you can get, and having the easiest path to what
title is actually twenty nine. They got to face two

(02:35:43):
eight seeds and and a seven seed. That is unheard of.
I'm sorry, I love I feel like the Nuggets and
Bucks are like kindred spirits because of there are a
lot of parallels, and as a Bucks fan, I like
I feel for that. So that's why you're trying to
take down. I'm not trying to take down. I'm saying
that I can relate. But you can't argue with the numbers.

(02:36:04):
You can't argue with the math, push the names aside
the seeds that they think this. I think I've heard
people say this, what numbers are for losers or whatever stats?
Oh sure, that's all the sports is now are numbers.

Speaker 3 (02:36:17):
So now you're over here diminishing the accomplishments of Mike
Malone and the Nuggets because the numbers say that they
had the easiest path.

Speaker 2 (02:36:25):
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Dan Byer. I also want our
argument over the Philadelphia Eagles. It's been fun, have a
great Sunday. We'll talk to you next time on Fox
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