Jonas Knox talks Dalvin Cook, is joined by Mike North and much more!

Jonas Knox discusses Dalvin Cook’s future, and Kirk Cousin’s appearance on Netflix’s Quarterback, and how it displays the leadership he has with the team. Legerndary Chicago radio host, and longtime friend Mike North joins the show to discuss the Bears outlook for this season, his podcast Raging Mouth, and much more! Plus another edition of “Do You Care?,”

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You know what the problem with social media is amongst
a ton of problems, all right, there's issues, not enough

(02:40):
if you've noticed it or not. Apparently there's always a
fight between Elon Musk and somebody about Twitter. There's this
new thing called threads that's out there. There's you know, Instagram,
and you know TikTok and snapchat and snapface and all
these other like you know stuff that's at MySpace. It's
like all these other things that were there in the

(03:02):
past and are still currently here and everybody fights and everybody.
But the problem with social media is that it's created
this illusion, you know, like this illusion that everything is fine.
You know, there's no there's no happy meeting. There's not
like a little bit of good news and a little

(03:23):
bit of bad news. And we'll just split the difference
it's everything's the best or everything's the worst. And it's
kind of like you go on people's pages and everybody's
got like some sort of like an Instagram video they're
putting up. But I get it. If you're promoting work
or you're promoting something like that, I get all that.
That's understandable.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
I do that. I'll send out tweets and links to
podcasts and things like that promoting the show if you
want to listen. If you don't want to listen, screw
you and kiss my ass. We'll double up on that.
But the point is to promote from a business standpoint,
I get it. The people though that constantly want to
put out their highlights, And by highlights, I mean it's

(04:04):
all the pictures they look great in. You notice nobody
ever puts the stuff they look bad in, Like, hey,
I looked awful yesterday. Check this out. You know, I'd
love to see the b sides of all that stuff.
Let's see all the recording sessions before you finally settle
on that. Can we see some rough drafts? Please, Let's
get a few of those. But nobody does that. It's
all an illusion. It's an act. And so when you

(04:29):
see some honesty, some real genuine throwback honesty. It's kind
of nice. You know, there is something about it. It's
like seeing a comedy show nowadays. You see a comedy
show nowadays, and they're joking about stuff that If you
joke about that anywhere else over the past couple of years,
oh my god, you will get canceled and you will

(04:50):
get destroyed. You watch a comedy show now, you're like, oh,
that's like the old days where you could bust somebody's
balls or crack a few jokes and not everybody would
take it per personal. Sometimes you'll get some throwback moments
and it's kind of nice. You know what a throwback
relationship is in the NFL? I got one for you.

(05:11):
How about Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson throwback relationship the
good old days where you could just be honest. You know,
there's no pretend crap going on with Kirk Cousins and
Justin Jefferson, not at all. Justin Jefferson recently asked, hey,
name your top five quarterbacks in the NFL. Patrick Mahomes,

(05:34):
Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Hurtz, Joe Burrow, Josh Allen. You know who.
He didn't name, Kirk Cousins, the guy he plays with,
the guy that he's you know, done some really great
things with early on in his career. The guy that's

(05:54):
partly responsible for why Justin Jefferson's going to be the
highest paid wide receiver very very soon, maybe is the
best wide receiver in the NFL. Didn't name Kirk Cousins.
Didn't name that guy. Kirk Cousins not on that list.
You know who? Was okay with that. Kirk Cousins. In fact,
he was asked about it. Spoke with one of our
Fox Sports radio affiliates, the Yalla Horn of the Twin

(06:18):
Cities kfan in Minneapolis, had just said, uh, yeah, you listen,
people have to be honest, you know, share what they think.
I'm not gonna tell somebody what they need to think.
And you know, we'll see what we can do this year.
Hopefully I'll be on his list. Totally fine, It's okay,

(06:38):
he was honest. I'll be honest. Not a problem whatsoever.
It's kind of nice, right. It reminds you when you
get together with old friends. There's some of those friends
in your life to where you get together and you
never missed a beat. It's like you just all of
a sudden reconnected and it wasn't five or ten years
since you last saw each other. For a couple of years,

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got families and kids and pulled in different directions. All
of a sudden, you get together and you can just
have honest conversations and nobody's going to be outraged by it.
Nobody's going to be offended by it. You're just being honest.
There's nothing wrong with that, And Justin Jefferson was being honest,
and there's nothing wrong with that. And the immediate reaction

(07:21):
from so many people who are so afraid to have
conversations like that, or spend all of their time with
their face buried in their phone, scrolling through stuff, liking stuff,
re editing pictures, adding new filters. The problem is you
miss out on all of this honesty around you. It's
right there. You can have honest conversations like this. You

(07:44):
go on social media. If you were to ask somebody, hey,
am I on your top five list of best people
in your life? They'd probably tell you. Some people would say, oh, yes, absolutely,
and then the other people would say, oh no, not
even not a shot in hell, because those people are
just miserable. Justin Jeffers said, hey, just just rattle off
my top five. He mentioned Kirk Cousins after the fact,
but yeah, that's my top five. And guess what, everybody's

(08:07):
okay with it. It's a throwback, and it is possible.
It is possible, believe it or not, to have those
sorts of conversations to still let those things be a
part of life. All you gotta do is take the
time and actually have real conversations, speak to somebody on
the phone, have real discussions about stuff. And guess what,

(08:30):
this isn't the first time those guys have done this.
If you think, well it's Justin Jefferson taking shots to
Kirk Cousins, no, no, no, no no. Last year, Justin
Jefferson got together with some receivers and skilled players with
the Vikings. They all wanted to get together and work
out in the offseason. That's like the cool thing, you know,
That's what everybody does nowadays. Jordan loves doing it in California, right,

(08:54):
He's got like all the Packers players in California. I
believe Deshaun Watson got everybody going to some some massage parlor. Probably,
I don't know. Listen. I don't know. I don't know
what Deshaun Watson's schedule is. All right, that's his business.
It's not my business. And I'm not trying to make
jokes here or this is serious stuff, right. He wants
to work out with his teammates. He's gonna go work
out with his teammates. I would just question how we're

(09:15):
going to relax afterwards. That would be my question for
Deshaun Watson. But again I ask follow ups. That's what
you do in this business. But you see players get together.
You know, Carson Wenz years ago got everybody together in
Philadelphia and took him up to North Dakota or wherever
you know, to Fargo. Apparently he wanted to show everybody,
you know, let's run some routes and then I'll show

(09:36):
you where Steve Bushemi got thrown into the woodshiper at
the end of the movie. It's right there, spoiler alert
like whatever, like listen, And apparently that didn't work out
all that great because he's not in Philadelphia or anywhere else.
But the point is people get together, they do these
off season workouts and they try and rally the team,
and everybody get together. So Justin Jefferson last year wanted

(09:58):
everybody to get together and wanted all the skill position
players to go. So, of course, he asked Kirk Cousins,
why wouldn't he It's his quarterback, you know what. Kirk
Cousins said, Nah, I'm good. No off seasons for family time.
I want to hang out with my family. That's it.

(10:20):
I guess who was okay with that. Justin Jefferson said
it himself. Listen, Kirk's a different guy, likes to be
with his family in the off season. Not offended by it.
It's okay, I offered. He declined, no problem, no worries
in the world. But the issue is you don't get
that when you live in the fake world. You only

(10:40):
get that in real life. So when I watch Kirk
Cousins and Justin Jefferson just be brutally honest about each other,
decline an invitation for an off season gathering, or list
the top five players at the position, and you're the
other guy's not on that list. To me, some people
could be outraged by it. Some people could look for drama.
I don't see any of that. I see brutal honesty.

(11:03):
I see a throwback relationship. And might add a relationship
that's done pretty damn good thus far in Justin Jefferson's career.
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Gionas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up in We'll call
it a little over ten minutes from now from the
tire Rack dot Com studios. I'm gonna be accountable for
something I talked about the demise of one of the
I guess longest running I don't want to say bits

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or gags or I guess longest running aspects to sports media.
I called the demise of this at least a couple
of years ago, and I was wrong, absolutely wrong. So
I'm gonna own up to that. I'm gonna be accountable
for that. Coming up here in a little over ten
minutes from now on Fox Sports Radio. I would also
like to just welcome everybody out to what feels like

(13:20):
the first annual we've all got to deal with the
potential of bo Saturdays. I just want to let everybody, like,
I don't know anywhere in the country. I was watching
the Cubs game, the Cubs Red Sox game last night.
Cubs look great, by the way. I was watching the
Cubs Red Sox game and the weather was so bad

(13:42):
and was so awful. It's seventy degrees. People are wearing
T shirts and shorts in Wrigley Field that the rain
was coming. It's the old adage in Chicago. If you
don't like the weather, just wait a minute. So the
rain started coming in late in the game, like the
ninth inning, and it was running sideways because the wind
was so bad. But it's seventy degrees, so there was
thunderstorms in the area and all that stuff, so you know,

(14:04):
the humidity was just out of control, like mosquitoes flying around,
the size of trash can lids, like it just the
whole thing's just disturbing. And you've got trash blowing onto
the field at one point one of a picture for
the Red Sox picked up a dollar bill that blew
onto the field. So, you know, some guy was still
rocking cargo shorts and forgot to, you know, button up

(14:26):
the little latch on the side of his leg and
put all his cash in there when he went up
to go pay for a beer. And next thing you know,
he's out a dollar because it was all folded up
a certain way and it blew onto the field. It
just feels like we're all in this together, and it's
hot as balls all across the country, is the point
of the story. So there's usually one of these every

(14:47):
year that kind of kicks off unofficial got to worry
about bo season, and it feels like that is the
launch today. So I'd like to welcome everybody in. If
you're battling it, if you're dealing with it, you know,
just make sure you keep your arms too close to
your body because it's going to create like a swampy
substance there. You got to let those bad boys air
out a little bit. Now, not everybody wants to wear

(15:08):
tank tops or sleeveless shirts, but this is one of
those days where I feel like we shouldn't judge. Let
them do what they got to do, because unfortunately everybody's
dealing with the same issues here Ty Gene trying to
help people out here on the show and listen if
you disagree with that again at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter,
you can disagree all you want. That's fine, call what

(15:29):
it is. Just speaking for the masses here. All right,
let's get into this. So we have talked about this
is one of the every off season the NFL's got this.
I don't know if there's an outcry, if you want
to call it, because that feels a bit dramatic, But
there has been a discussion about the running back position,
and the running back position finds itself in a little

(15:50):
bit of an interesting spot because you've got two running
backs who haven't sent their franchise tag. You've got Saquon
Barkley and you got Josh Jacobs. They haven't signed it,
and there's a deadline Monday to get a long term
deal done or else they can't get a long term
deal done moving forward. Now, why that long term deal
has a deadline, I'm not quite sure. It feels like

(16:12):
you should be able to sign a deal whenever you
want to sign a deal, but that's what was negotiated
in from the CBA. That's what's in the in the agreement,
and so this is where we're at. But you've got
a lot of running backs who've been really vocal about
their issues and their complaints with how the position is
valued and how the position is paid, and all of

(16:33):
that we can agree on. In fact, Austin Eckler one
of those guys who was vocal about trying to get
a better deal done. He got one reworked with the
Chargers this offseason. But this is a guy who was
making six million dollars in change, and he's a fantastic player.
He was great for the Chargers last year. Some would
argue probably their MVP outside of Justin Herbert. They had

(16:53):
a lot of injuries at wide receiver. Austin Eckler was
a dependable guy, especially out of the backfield catching the ball.
He was great for the Chargers last year. He was
on with Rich Eyes in this week and he spoke
about his frustrations not only with the pay structure for
running backs, but also how the position is valued.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
If I'm looking at some of the backup receivers out
here that are still making more than me, And that's
going to piss me off, right, I'm a little bit.
I'm like, okay, wait a minute. So you're telling me
these people or the number three receiver is going to
make more than me, and I'm the starter. I'd get
more carries, I touched the ball more, I have more
of an impact. It causes us to question, right, we're
going to fight for that. We're going to fight for Hey,

(17:32):
I'm bringing more value to the team than this person.
I think I should be compensated for that. It seems
like it's about money, But it's about principle, right, It's
about the principle of adding value to a team. It's
going to take something, right, whether some guy stands out again,
whether this year some you know, one of these guys
holds out and get the big contract. But we need
that needle to move to push us over the edge.

(17:53):
Because here's the deal. The salary cap goes out every
single year, right, and so you see new highs and
every single position. And I'm not saying we've had another
Christian McCaffrey type guy who's gonna even you know, blow
up the market and the running back and put a
new high. We've had people that have been close for sure,
maybe you could justify that there has been, but there's
no one even been close to those contracts, not even close.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
So that was Austin Echler talking with rich Eisen very passionate. Obviously,
this is something that he's very interested in, being a
running back, wanting the position to be in a better
spot when it comes to financially and talking about guys
holding out, so on and so forth. Here's my question,
what do you do about evolution? Like what can you

(18:36):
do about it? Like what can you do about advancement
in technology or advancement in a product? I mean, what
can you do about it? Like this happens in every
walk of life. I'm sure when cell phones started coming out,
there was some guy who ran a pager store somewhere
in the country who was pounding the table, why are

(18:59):
we doing this? We're phasing out pagers. These are important.
If people want to get a hold of somebody, they
can buzz them on the hip. It goes instantly. And
then before that it was people that just had home phones,
and then before that It's like we could do this
all day long. It feels like the discussion with the
value of the running back. Isn't so much about whether

(19:22):
or not these guys are getting short changed. It's about
the reality that evolution has changed the NFL. Wide receivers
are making more than running backs because wide receivers are
valued more because they're used more Now. That's like, that's
not so much a slight on these individual players. Austin

(19:42):
Eckler's great, He's great, Dalvin Cook's great, Saquon Barkley's great,
Josh Jacobs was fantastic last year, Derrick Henry's great. Zeke
Elliott had monster years with the Cowboys. But the problem
isn't so much the position as it stands right now.

(20:05):
It's the fact that this position is getting left behind
because of the evolution of the game. It's just advanced.
Like if you go to some of these youth passing
leagues and some of these passing tournaments. I remember having
a conversation I've taught. We've talked about this with Brady Quinn,
LeVar Arrington, I've talked with Bucky Brooks about it. Man,

(20:26):
if I was a father and my son wanted to
play running back, and he was a younger player, and
he was coming up the ranks and going to these tournaments.
I would tell him, if you want to make it
to the NFL, stop for a couple of reasons. Number one,
the damage it does to your body. But number two,
there's going to be more opportunities for you if you

(20:47):
learn how to play the wide receiver position, Like if
you're not a factor out of the backfield catching the ball, like,
this isn't about the individual player. I don't look at
Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacob's not getting paid as so
much of a slight on the team's not paying them

(21:10):
because they'll pay wide receivers. They'll pay you know, tight ends.
They've done it like Darren Waller, you know, ironically was
a Raider, one of the highest paid tight ends. Now
he's a Giant. So it's not that they're not willing
to pay people. It's just that position doesn't have the

(21:30):
value it once did because of the evolution. So whose
fault is that? And if you don't like the franchise tag, listen,
this is negotiated into the CBA. I mean, why not
fight for that? How about you know, less time being
able to smoke weed and more time being able to
argue against the franchise tag. How about let like, there's

(21:51):
a lot of things that you could argue against that
are currently in the CBA practice times, things like that
practice a little more, maybe we can we can talk
about the franchise tag, Like there's things that you can
do that you can take out of the CBA if
you really want to go down that road. But to me,
the biggest issue here is evolution of the game. It's changed,

(22:12):
it's just it's advanced to a point to where it's
maybe not necessary. Like there's somebody somewhere who back in
the day, their job was they built payphones. That was
their gig. They would go around they would service payphones.
Like here's another one. I was in Vegas recently last weekend,

(22:35):
and I found myself when I needed a ride somewhere,
looking up Uber on my phone, going okay, well, I'll
just get an Uber. And then I realized, wait a second,
there's cabs right outside. Like that's the advancement of technology.
So I said, okay, well, I'd rather just like help
out the cab companies because those are local guys that
are driving. I'd rather help them out. So I just

(22:57):
started taking cabs if I needed to get somewhere. But
this is just the advancement of technology and the advancement
of the game, and the NFL's advanced to a point
to where the reason those guys are making more money
is because there's more value in those guys. So I
understand the complaint. I love the running back position. If
you grew up watching football in the late eighties or

(23:17):
early nineties, man, the running back position was king. Even
before that, if you grew up watching the NFL, the
running back position was king. Talked about this on the
show before. Anybody that's played fantasy football for an extended
amount of time. If you played fantasy football for like ten, twelve,
fifteen years, whatever it is, remember back in the day
where one of your first picks was always a running

(23:38):
back Ladanian Tomlinson. You know, you could like rattle off
like all of these great like that would be the
pick back in the if you had the number one
pick in the draft, everybody wanted la Danian Tomlinson. When's
the last time you had a fantasy football draft and
a running back went number one overall? Doesn't happen anymore.

(24:00):
There's a reason for that. It is changed. The evolution
of the game has gone in a direction away from
the running backs, and I don't know if there's a
solution to it other than the fact that these guys
are just going to continue to be underpaid in the
eyes of other running backs. And this is just where
we're at. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, get me on
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Speaker 2 (24:38):
Nick Kbe what's up, Jonas? Hey, remember when Larry Johnson
was like the best fantasy running back for like a
hot second.

Speaker 1 (24:44):
He was fit, and let me tell you something. The
year that I think he came in and he blew
up one year and I got him in my fantasy
football league. I did too. I drafted him later on
and everyone's like, who is this? Why are you taking
Larry Johnson? Because I think Priest Holmes might have still
been there or something. I forget what the deal was,
but I remember taking Larry Johnson. The following year he
went number one overall.

Speaker 2 (25:04):
He had twenty touchdowns in two thousand and five and
seventeen in two thousand and six.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
All those Sean Alexander, all those guys, because that position
and that's what ten, twelve, fifteen years ago. It's just
it's a different game now. Yeah, it's different.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
Well, well, talking about running backs, there was some news
last night Joe Mixon, the running back for the Bengals.
He's trying to preserve his job here for a couple
of years. He agreed with Cincinnati on a restructured deal.
He's taken a pay cut of nearly fifty percent over
the next two seasons. He was due to make about
nineteen million or so between this year and next year,

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and he took a pay cut that amounts to about
nine million over the next two years. So Mixon trying
to keep his role there, make himself more affordable for Cincinnati.
At Wimbledon, we had an upset here. Marquette Vandrosova is
the Ladies champion. She downed six seed one de Burn
straight sets for her first major title. Vondro's was the
first unseated woman to ever win Wimbledon, just the third

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person to do it, joining Boris Becker and gorn Evana Sevitch.
Got the men's final tomorrow with the top two players
in the world Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alkaraz.

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Djokovic will be going for his fifth.

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Straight Wimbledon title, eighth overall in Grand Slam title number
twenty four. Baseball got a few games going on p
Andres lead the Phillies three to nothing. In the fifth inning,
Trent Grisham hit a home run, providing those runs for
San Diego Cardinals and Nationals title one on the fourth inning.
They're resuming last night's game that was suspended due to rain,
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would always find it interesting in the American Century Championship
with all the athletes and the celebrities. Steph Curry at
the top of the leader board. Right now, back to you, man.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Is that the one where Bill Murray. Yeah, you get
runs around on the course and like tries to jokes
and he throws this club in the water.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
I don't think he's I don't think he's in it
this year. But you got guys like a lot of
baseball guys, Mark Mulder, Derek Low, Kevin Malar all all
in the top Brian Urlacher, Tony Romo, and even Doug
Peterson is in the top ten right now?

Speaker 1 (27:17):
Is so? Is it now? Is it celebrities and athletes? Yes?
Or is it okay?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Like you've got like Don Cheetle was in it, he
was brutal and then he Withdrew. You've got the Miz
is in second to last place. The wrestler Catherine Tappan,
who's a who's a broadcaster? Yeah, Brian Baumgardner, who played
Kevin on The Office.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Yea, all these all these are are down near the bottom,
by the way. The athletes are the best ones. Can
I tell you a story? Do you ever you're married, right, Nick?

Speaker 5 (27:47):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Okay? So you ever go out to dinner with your
wife and you don't really notice what's on TV, but
sometimes something will jump out to you, like you'll be
at a bar, canteena or a restaurant, there'll be something
on TV. Like I normally don't ask them to change
anything because I just assume somebody's already watching something and
I don't care. I don't go out to watch TV.

(28:08):
I just I'd rather go out and just spend some time.
There's maybe a handful of times that I've asked something
to be changed because it was annoying me. And one
of them was a celebrity golf tournament. Here. Why, I
swear to God, this is a true story. My wife
and I were sitting at like this Mexican canteena not
far from the house, and we're just kind of having lunch.

(28:31):
It was like a weekend day, like maybe a Saturday
or Sunday whatever, and we're just, you know, having lunch,
having a drink, and I look up and I see
Justin Timberlake and one of the guys from Fresh Prince
of bel Air doing the Carlton also. Yeah, so they're
dancing together as they just hit like a t shot

(28:53):
and I literally said to the bartender, would you mind
turning this?

Speaker 4 (28:57):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (28:57):
What do you want me to turn it to? I
was like anything, any care I don't care what. You
could turn on the seven hundred Club, you could turn
on Joel Osteen, you could do whatever you want. Find
something on television that isn't this, because I was so
bothered by it, and from that moment moving forward, I'm
out on these celebrity golf tournaments. Can't stand it. In fact,

(29:17):
it made me not want to play golf. Yeah, just
totally ruined golfer ultimate. So so blame Justin Timberlake and
that stupid dance he did at a tournament years ago,
I think in Tahoe or some crap like that one. Yeah,
that's where they are this weekend. Okay, yeah, wow, I
am too, Tom See Tom Brady knows right. Thanks Nick
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Listen Upbeat positive stories. A lot of stuff you've been

(29:59):
forced for over the past several days in the world
of sports. We're going to tell you the truth about
all those again, coming up twelve minutes from now here
on FSR. So let me just say this. I was
under the impression that the Friday news dump was dead, dead,
gone over, finished, didn't exist anymore. And the reason I

(30:22):
say that it wasn't because I was like looking into
the future and projecting things.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
No.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
No, I was trying to make myself feel more important.
I really was, but I got to be accountable for something.
It was self involved. It was selfish. I would predict
that the Friday news dump no longer existed anymore. And
in fact, I predicted that the Friday news dump wasn't

(30:51):
effective anymore. I said it for years on this show.
And the reason I said it was because myself and
the other savages that make up the weekend lineup here
at Fox Sports Radio, you weren't gonna get anything by us.
It's murderer's row on this network. You think, just because
the weekdays are over, that all of a sudden, it's
safe to come out and bury stories on a Friday. No, no, no, no, no,

(31:16):
not with the lineup of wholigans. Are this network the
out and out savages who get their hands on these
stories and chew them up and spin them out and
spin them all over the nation, all over the country,
on hundreds of affiliates every single weekend. You think you're
gonna get anything by us in the coal mines of
sportstock Radio. Not a chance. So years ago, I said,

(31:37):
the Friday news dump has been ruined by Fox Sports Radio.
We ruined it. Nothing gets by us because all the
people that do these weekday shows, you know, like those
nickel and dime shows, like Two Pros and a Cup
of Joe and those yahoos in the mornings, you know,
all those guys then like we get those stories, and
then they take those stories and they run with them

(31:59):
after we pass him on. I was wrong, dead wrong,
not pointing the finger. I'm going to point the thumb.
A couple weeks ago on this show, I said, listen, nice,
try nice, try trying to bury this thing on a
Friday news thinking that you're going to get by us here, No, no, no,

(32:22):
I'll take it, and in fact I'll take it and
I'll hand it off to everybody else, and everybody else
can run with this story. Remember Mark Murphy, the president
of the Packers a couple of years, a couple of
weeks ago. You know Mark Murphy, who just he doesn't
realize that when he's talking that people might actually listen
or read this stuff that he says. He's got this
little newsletter he does on the Packers website, and so

(32:46):
he started talking about Hard Knocks on HBO and basically
just said, two weeks ago, I look forward to seeing
Aaron Rodgers and all the other former Packers on Hard
Knocks this upcoming year. I saw it and said, oh,
way to go. Mark spilled the beans yet again, just

(33:07):
like he did with your plans with Aaron Rodgers this offseason,
just like he did the last offseason and the off
season before. It's every single time you ask Mark Murphy
a question, he can't help himself. We talked about it
on this show, and I guess I was the only
one talking about it. And apparently the Friday news dump

(33:27):
is still as still an effective strategy because Mark Murphy
wrote about it on a Friday. I got my hands
on it on a Saturday, and then it died and
then what do you know? This week? What happens well
in the NFL announces that Hard Knocks will be starring
the New York Jets, and you've got Aaron Rodgers saying
that it was forced down their throats. This happen two

(33:49):
weeks ago. You think Mark Murphy's just gonna say, well,
the Jets are gonna be on Hard Knocks and I
look forward to seeing all the Packers players because he's
got bad info. You don't think he knew about this.
You don't think he wasn't made aware of all this.
But it went out on a Friday, and I thought, okay,

(34:09):
here we go. Now we got an announcement. I mean,
way to ruin it, Mark Murphy. We'll have some fun.
We'll kind of google, you know, weekend at Murphy's. He's back,
blah blah blah haha, ha, everybody have a good time.
It died. Nobody saw it, nobody heard it. And I'm thinking,
wait a second, we discussed this. I might have even
mentioned it the following Monday, July third, on the Morning show.

(34:31):
I was working with a loan and I might have
mentioned it there. And now all of a sudden it
pops up this week and everyone's like, oh, okay, well,
at least now it's official. What did you think Mark
Murphy was just going to hand out bad information? He
was going to write on the team website and the newsletter.
I look forward to seeing all the former Packers. Do

(34:52):
you think this wasn't the plan all longer? Course it was.
And Robert Sala and all these guys could say, well,
we didn't want it, and Aaron Rodgers can say, well
was forced down our throat. I got news for you.
The Jets have been forced down our throats all off
season so two could play this game. So this is
what comes with it. But apparently nobody was paying attention,

(35:12):
or at least nobody took it serious at the time.
When Mark Murphy made this prediction, he called his shot
weeks ago, and just now it's popped up in the
news cycle and now people are getting their hands on
it this week. Again I'm wrong, I think corrected. The
Friday news stump is apparently a real thing. It happened again,
and it happened two weeks ago. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports

(35:34):
Radio at the Jonas Knox on Twitter. Up next, stories
in the world of sports you have been told are really,
really important, and we're going to try and tell you
why they're not. It's another edition of Do You Care?
Right here on Fox Sports Radio, Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio.
Coming up top of next hour a little over ten
minutes from now from the tire rack dot Com studios,

(35:56):
we are going to have more conversations involving the NFL.
You know, like, uh, you know, there's this one about
how a player's really happy about some things that have
happened this offseason. Unfortunately, it could be a prelude to
what happens with him next off season. We'll explain coming
up here at a little over ten minutes from now here,

(36:17):
again from the tire Raq dot Com studios. But right now,
it is time for a little something we do on
the show every single week, and it's called this.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of.

Speaker 1 (36:31):
Time DMZ reports.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
Now let's get kinky. Here's some of the big stories
from the last week. But Jonas, the real question is
do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:41):
And for that we turn it over to our executive producer,
Brandon Truth And to find out what the hell people
have been talking about.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
Brandon Jonas, Let's start in Cleveland, Ohio, where yesterday Cleveland's Guardians,
brothers Bo Naylor and josh A. Naylor, homered in the
same inning yesterday. They actually both had two home runs,
marking the first time brothers have had multi home run
games in MWA history. Jonas, do you care.

Speaker 1 (37:06):
No, I definitely, I don't care. But I will say this,
whenever I see Josh Naylor, like, there's certain I don't
know if anybody's like this. I don't know if you're
like this, Brandon, but what like, there's doesn't it seem
like certain players no matter when you turn on the
TV or when you watch a highlight, it's always them homering. Yes, Like,
I don't know what, Like, there's two guys every time

(37:29):
I turn on the TV or happened a glance, they're
hitting a home run or or they've got an extra
base hit, and it's Josh Naylor and Max Muncy. Every
time I turn, like, oh, another home run, And then
I look and I go, oh, they're like not even
near the top of the league. And Naylor's had a
good year. But whenever I think of Josh Naylor, that's
what I think of. I mean, this is great that

(37:49):
him and his brother did this. I mean, that's that's
super cool. Unfortunately for purposes on this segment, No, I
don't care.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
Next, all right, Sabrina I and Escu And yesterday's w
NBA three point cunt test hit thirty seven of forty
three pointers, shattering the NBA record of thirty one set
by Steph Curry. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (38:09):
Nope? Mere all right? Busterer Only has.

Speaker 8 (38:15):
Reported that the Yank that the Yankee all right, hold on,
let me start this one over.

Speaker 1 (38:22):
Buster Only has reported, Oh like, can I count you down?
Let me cut you down first? All right? In three two,
one go? Okay.

Speaker 8 (38:29):
Busterer Only has reported that the Yankees are the most
motivated team to pursue Show Hey Otani at the trade deadline. Jonas,
do you care?

Speaker 1 (38:37):
Yes, because I think everybody else is looking at this
I and they obviously want to see show Heyo Tani
either move or stay put or the free agency run.
I don't think he's getting dealt I personally, I look
at it and I go, if I'm the Angels, I
understand what I could get in return. But if I'm

(38:58):
the Angels, I look at it and I go, I
got one of the greatest players talent wise of all time.
I don't know that I'm moving on from this guy,
and I realize that we've got some other holes to phill,
but I'd rather take my chances with sho Hey Otani
and or Mike Trout and then figure it out from there.
I don't know that I'm trading him away. I don't
think this is something the fan base and again, believe

(39:20):
it or not, and I want to clear this up
so everybody understands there are angels, fans. They exist. I
swear to God they exist. Okay, that is a true story.
They exist. I don't know if the fan base it's there. Whatever.
Forgive them if they walked away from one of the
great talents of all time. If you've got the ability
to sign him, you make it happen in the offseason.

(39:41):
If he's given you an indication he doesn't plan on
it no matter what, then we have another conversation to
be had. I just don't see him getting dealt next.

Speaker 8 (39:48):
All right, Jimmy Butler has reportedly started dating international pop
stars Shakira Jonas.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Do you care?

Speaker 4 (39:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (39:55):
I do. This is great. First of all, congrat to
Jimmy Butler. And now this rumor was kind of floated
out there weeks and weeks ago during the NBA Finals
in the Eastern Conference Finals, but during the playoffs, no doubt.
And look, I think that the moral of this story
is don't be disrespectful and don't clown people, or don't

(40:17):
try and make an example of people just to look
like the cool guy in the middle of a pandemic.
And let me explain Tom Cruise. And the video got
leaked or the audio got leaked of him airing out
somebody on the set of some movie he did where
he does his own stunts because he's a weirdo. Tom
Cruise aired out somebody that was on the set because

(40:39):
they weren't following the quote unquote proper COVID protocols on
set that he demanded everybody follow to do the movie.
And so this video or audio got released of Tom
Cruise just airing this person out, I mean, embarrassing them,
humiliating them. And so it's kind of nice to get
a little bit of revenge because all these years later,
Tom Cruise was in hot pursuit of Shakira and she said, no,

(41:03):
I'm good. I'm not really interested in, you know, like
having anything to do with a weirdo who likes to
expose people during a pandemic. So I'm gonna go to
the Jimmy Butler route. So I'm a big fan of
this move. Next.

Speaker 8 (41:14):
Jonas Twitter was in an uproar last night as multiple
men were throwing out the hot take that Australian actors
Margot Robbie is quote mid, Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (41:25):
No, I don't listen. These people are losers. There's not
one single one of them who called her mid. That
would deny entry into club Margot Robbie if she invited
him in.

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Speaker 1 (42:01):
I don't Shane Choos anymore.

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never heard of.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
They run through our ass like through a tin horn man,
and we could not stop.

Speaker 4 (42:15):
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Speaker 1 (42:26):
The Bingo game is running them all. So apparently somebody

(42:47):
in the NFL. We're talking like a really talented player.
We're talking a pretty good player who's done some pretty
good things in the league and already gotten paid. Apparently
they don't see necessarily that the writing is on the
wall and the potential of their demise within their own organization.
And we've got the proof for you coming up here
in just a couple of moments from now. It's Jonas

(43:08):
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buying should be. So I don't know if maybe somebody
has included Kyler Murray into just sort of what's happening

(43:50):
with the Arizona Cardinals. But we'll try and just break
this down if we could. So Kyler Murray was talking
recently about the situation in there his own and you know,
he's pretty happy about sort of the direction of the organization,
and he's just kind of saying that, you know, he's
noticed mostly just some of the changes upstairs. You know

(44:10):
that the changes upstairs he felt like, you know, really
have got the team headed in the right direction and
just was really really happy about all of those changes
there within the Arizona Cardinals. And well, there's just like
like one problem. All of those people that are now
gone are the same people who are the reason why

(44:34):
you're there and why you got paid, like the front
office guys and the head coach and like that. That's
like part of the reason why you were the number
one pick and you got paid all that money. And
and again I know the video game clause and the
contract and all that. I know, that's you know what

(44:55):
was kind of embarrassing and all that, Like, totally on
board with that, I get all that. But if everybody
who believed in you, which led to you being a
part of the organization are no longer there, don't you
think the writing might be on the wall that there
could be some changes happening very very soon. And maybe
those aren't the only ones. I mean, let's look at

(45:18):
it like this, because I was making this point earlier,
like a few weeks ago during the offseason, like if
you just a big picture took a step back, we
all agree the Arizona Cardinals are going to be awful
this year. If you're a Cardinals fan, I don't think
I'm breaking any news, Like the optimism for your team

(45:39):
going into this season should not be high at all.
And if you just look around and consider where you
were as an organization a couple of years ago, and
how bad that playoff game went against the Rams, and
how bad last season was injuries and all that included. Yes,
I mean you feel like, well, we've got the quarterback
of the few, but he's coming off an injury and

(46:01):
all of the people that believed in him were gone.
And it's not like I'm speaking out of school here,
the expectations for the Arizona Cardinals are not high. And
the proof is if you look at the season win
totals this upcoming year, the Cardinals are at four and
a half. Okay, So, like what that tells me is

(46:23):
that the expectation is, well, they're probably going to be
like four and thirteen or maybe five and twelve. And
if five and twelve is considered an overachievement for your
football team, that's not great, okay, like just not an
ideal spot. So if you're a four win or five
win team and you're one of the bottom teams in

(46:46):
the NFL, it means that you're going to be picking
high atop the draft. And it means that you may
be picking so high in the draft that you're going
to have your pick of whoever is there. And if
you believe enough of the people that are talking around
the scouting world, in the NFL, in the college football world,

(47:06):
everybody's talking about Caleb Williams like he's one of those
Trevor Lawrence slash John Elway slash Andrew Luck type talents,
can't miss generational. Whoever gets him, you're good to go.
How in the hell if I'm Kyler Murray. Am I

(47:29):
thrilled about the upstairs editions and all of that stuff
when I know all it did was bring me one
step closer to no longer being the quarterback of the
Arizona Cardinals, like I would love to know. We've seen
kind of a recent example of this, but it actually
ended up going in the way of the current quarterback.

(47:52):
Like we've seen a recent example in Chicago where the
Bears had an opportunity to either draft a quarterback number
one overall with the number one pick and move on
from Justin Fields, or stay with their guy. They've stayed
with their guy, and there's a lot of optimism in
Justin Fields. I would love to know what the decision

(48:15):
would have been if Caleb Williams was there. Do the
Bears still make that same choice, because I don't know
that they do. That is how highly people are speaking
of Caleb Williams. And so if you're Kyler Murray and
you're on a bad football team and you've got injury issues,
and you've got the character stuff that's popped up that

(48:35):
we've talked about on this show before and all of
the other things to go along with it, and on
top of that, your team now has new decision makers
in charge, a new head coach. It's all new, and
they're looking to turn around the franchise. If that generational
quarterback talent is sitting there and number one overall and
you've got an opportunity to take him, how the hell

(48:57):
are you not doing that? So Kyler Murray can be
as optimistic and speak as glowingly about the front office
as he wants, But if they turn their back on
Steve Kime and Cliff Kingsbury, why the hell wouldn't they
do the same thing to Kyler Murray. Well, the contract
and it would cost him a lot. Okay, it's a rebuild,

(49:20):
it's going to cost you some things. But if you
wanted to move on from Kyler Murray because you had
an opportunity to get a guy who's considered the next
John Elway, the next Andrew Like, why wouldn't you do it?
So I understand the feeling there. I get why Murray
looks at it and says, oh, you know, I'm happy

(49:40):
with where we're headed, and you know, I feel like
there's been a change in the culture. But dude, like
part of that culture was him, and I've said this
before I had a comment, and I don't want to
air this guy out because I would I would never
do that. But somebody who's a teammate of Kyler Murray,
somebody pretty connected with the Arizona Cardinals, and I straight

(50:01):
up asked the guy, said, hey, is he is? He
like kind of a pain in the ass and he said, yeah,
loves video games. Like if you play video games, you're cool.
But that's kind of his thing. He's just I mean,
he's just a different guy. So, like all of those
changes were made, Kyler Murray was a part of all
those changes, and the reason he's there is because of

(50:24):
the people who made those choices. So the idea that
everything's safe and now we move on and he's got
his contract and he's good to go in Arizona, I
just think we could be looking at the final days
of Kyler Murray as a quarterback with the Arizona Cardinals.
And I've said it before, Man, when you hear how
people are talking about Caleb Williams and then we haven't
even mentioned Drake May. If they're sitting at two and

(50:45):
Drake May's there, if they've got an evaluation on Drake May,
where they go, that's the guy. I mean, we think
that he is just one notch below Caleb Williams. I
think there's a real potential we could see even more
changes with the Arizona Cardinals. Jonas Knox he or Fox
Sports Radio. By the way, we did talk about earlier
the situation in Minnesota. You talk about a brutally honest

(51:07):
relationship between Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson. Justin Jefferson listed
his top five quarterbacks recently. Kirk Cousins wasn't on the list.
They asked Kirk Cousins about it. He said, hey, listen,
I wanted to be honest. It's fine. And then last year,
Justin Jefferson invited kirk Cousins to work out with the
teammates in the off season, like, hey, let's get together,
throw the ball around, and kirk Cousins said, nah, good,

(51:28):
all good here hanging out with the family. It's just
like brutally honest relationship. All right, nobody's offended. It's all good.
We'll still go out and set a bunch of records
and throw for a bunch of yards and you know,
receptions and touchdowns and all good here. Like it is
It is kind of interesting how we view Kirk Cousins,
Like I still can't get over that. Like if you

(51:50):
were to just and if you think I'm nuts, if
you were to just go down a list of quarterbacks
in the NFC, how many are you, without a shadow
of a doubt taken before you get to Kirk Cousins.
Like if you just if you did an entire list,
how many are you doing before you get to Kirk Cousins.

(52:12):
I mean, are you taking Sam Howell before Kirk Cousins?

Speaker 7 (52:15):
No?

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Are you taking Daniel Jones before Kirk Cousins. No, I
wouldn't take anybody else in the NFC North, Justin Jefferson
or Justin Fields is unproven. Jared Goff had a good year,
but I think there's a lot of people who look
at Jared Goff and may kind of question that. Jordan
Love unproven, Desmond Ritter, Bryce Young unproven. Maybe Derek Carr

(52:41):
although he hasn't done it in the postseason, like Kirk
Cousins has Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray's injured. Matt Stafford Apparently
the Rams were trying to trade him, like you gotta
go Gino Smith, Like we're talking about one of the
top quarterbacks in the NFC. And yes, you could say, well,
the quarterbacking is down, so that's why he's there. I

(53:02):
don't care. Give me the top player at his position
at quarterback and a conference and I'll take my chances.
That's why I still look at the reasoning find getting
rid of Dalvin Cook, and I still scratch my head
because it feels like there was a little bit of
a window for Kirk Cousins and the Vikings, and it
feels like the window may have been shut by the
Vikings himself. Jonas Knox here on FSR. By the way,
we do have some positive feedback here on the show,

(53:25):
a lot of people chiming in. Now, somebody did send
in a tweet about that reference Northwestern. I'm not going
to read that. I'm not going to get into that.
I don't want to, you know, very disturbing that tweet
that was sent out earlier. But David did write in
and says, quote, your pasty flaming ass is so insignificant

(53:48):
you're not even unallowed to cover the low rent espies
so you could watch your boyfriend Lefraud James and Kermit
Mahomes when bleep made up awards Boardop Knox the bleep
he said that. By the way, it's not boardop, it's
a technical producer. Hey, you're damn right, Brian writes in

(54:15):
since Rod Smoker Jonas Knox is basically an insignificant boardop
who's just there to fill a spot until Scott Shapiro
finds an actual on air talent. Nothing would be more
riveting than more top notch Otani to the Dodgers. And
he's already on a mount rushmore. Wow, another boardop, And

(54:36):
so I don't understand. Wow, it's a technical producer, all right,
And yes I've done that before as well too. All right, Oh,
dare you? That's a difficult job. I get news for you,
for you candy asses that are listening to the show here,
If not for the technical producers who you like to
swipe by saying Bardop. If not for them, nothing gets

(54:59):
on the air, literally, the most important job at the
entire network. Nothing gets on the air. It's like being
demeaning to the pilot of a plane a gear turner. Hey,
what are you doing up there? I don't know, trying
to get you away from this mountain that's fast approaching.

(55:20):
But I don't know. What do you think? Why don't
you come try it out? These people are idiots. Look,
you can insult me all you want, don't insult the
fine technical producers that literally makes sportstock radio happen.

Speaker 7 (55:34):
I am outraging, all right.

Speaker 1 (55:37):
At the Jonas Knox on Twitter, at the Jonas Knocks
on Twitter, by the way, if you also want to
be a nice person at Iowa Sam ninety nine on Twitter.
Iowa Sam, by the way, is back from vacation. A
month ago was Istanbul, and then last week he was
partaking in the forty second annual cow Apple Toss at

(55:59):
the Cedar Rap It's fair. So yeah, no, no that
made sense. I did chreck into Illinois, your your ancestral grounds,
damn right. Yeah, a little bit passed by old Monmouth. Yeah,
go through mommth Yeah no I did. No, didn't go
to Knox County and Gailsburg. Yeah we shirt I gave you, huh,

(56:21):
Yeah I do. I still wear it Ward in Vegas.
No you didn't, Yes, I did. Penny slots all right,
it is give me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox,
at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. By the way, you
can see the United unedited versions. Easy for me to
say of those tweets that were sent in those fine
compliments from people disrespecting, uh, the great technical producing work

(56:41):
here at FSR. All right, come on, we've cut ourselves
a legend, a sports talk radio legend. The Great Mike
North is going to stop buy and yours right here
on f SR. Jonas knocks Fox Sports Radio. Coming up
a little over ten minutes from now out here from
the tiraq dot com studios, we are going to talk

(57:03):
about somebody who's getting some buzz. There's a lot of
love being thrown the way of one quarterback in the
NFL for a potential MVP case. We'll get into that
for you again, coming up in about ten minutes from
now here, Fox Sports Radio. But right now we must
welcome in a legend, a sports talk radio legend, a
Fox Sports Radio alum. He is the pride of Chicago.

(57:29):
Make some noise for the great Mike North. What's up, handsome?

Speaker 3 (57:34):
What's going on? Jonas? It's good to talk. It's been
a while my Fred at least on the airwaves sounding
goodness always. I know you would, and we're ready getting
ready to roll.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
Now listen, let's just go now. I want everybody and
I'm not trying to air anybody out here, all right,
but I want everybody to understand that I have been
inundated with text messages and phone calls and voicemails. Mike,
Mike North is been saying for months now, Justin Field's MVP,
the Bears are back, the Bears are back. Like it's

(58:07):
just typical Bears propaganda from you North. You but apparently
the Bears are back. Oh that's what everybody's saying.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
Yeah, there's no doubt. I'm gonna put my house on
the one in the NFCA, there's no question. I mean,
after we get the guy like I've been through it.
I mean I've been I think credibility is the main
thing when it comes to talk show hosts or writers
or what have you. But I mean, when you're doing
media and you're in a town and you've picked every

(58:33):
quarterback from Cutler to glennon the Foles to Dalton in
the fields, and the only guy you don't like is Trubisky,
I stopped listening to you. I mean, I mean, I
don't think there's ever been a more beloved quarterback that's
lost ninth straight games. In the history of the league
than justin Field. So it's going to be interesting to

(58:58):
see what happens. You know, somebody said, you think they
could win the North Division. I said, I'd like to say,
win two games in a row. I'd like to win
a game. That's where That's where we're at right now.
And these are some of the things that got me
in trouble and that's why. But we're doing in my episode,
my five episode deal with Raging Mouth, of which Fox

(59:22):
Sports Radio is going to be an episode four that
should be playing in about a probably about a month
because we're going to release the first one on Monday.
But uh, you're you're going to be in it. Andy's
going to be in it. And you know, the great
show that we had one of my fun times of
my career, working six years there and working with you

(59:43):
and Andy and Frank Pollock and Eddie Garcia and all
those people over there, Annie and Don Martin and Shapiro
and Bruce Gilbert and Jeff Schwartz. That was that was
a special time. So I just wanted to tell you that,
and I wanted to get my play again. You'll get
on North to North on Twitter if you want or

(01:00:05):
you can get it on Spotify. You can get it
on aney of those YouTube, Mortify, objectify, whatever you want
to do.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
So it's raging Mouth. It's going to be again as
you mentioned on YouTube, and it's going over your entire career.
Just start to finish how you got involved in it all.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
I mean, what starts with my books. It starts with
my booth, the doctor handing me a pirelay card and
said good luck to you. You know, So it's going
to go. It goes from basically my childhood all the
way till now where I'm working for ESPN. But it
covers the box years, covers you know, the four years

(01:00:44):
in Chicago, the stuff that happened, the twenty tons of
interviews I did, the parody songs, all the good stuff
that I did so and in some of the nonsense
and some of the bad stuff that happened too. So
it's going to be a lot of fun and it's
something we've been wanting to doing. Bebe. My wife and
a Gdhi are the producers of the of the project.

(01:01:06):
So you know, I said, make sure you get Jonason,
by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
And I appreciate it, you know how I feel about
you and bebe. Also the best best brownies I've ever
had for my wife Bobe, just unbelievable. She she even
mailed them out and they were still fresh and still great,
like mailed out all the way from Chicago. Oh god,
they're fantastic. Yeah they are. Fan those didn't like those

(01:01:29):
didn't stand a chance in our house. My wife and
I took a quick work of those. But I do
want to ask you though, because and obviously you're gonna
have and and I did watch the preview of the
five parter and I'll say this. I mean that that's
a great thing. Curse words included. So if you want
to hear Ozzy g and the United version that wasn't

(01:01:50):
played over the air because they got dumbed, you will
hear that. But what is if you had to pick
over your time covering sports in Chicago, what's the worst
take of them all? That's the general consensus general of
people in the media and how they feel about either
a player or a team. What is the worst take
that you can remember that you go, this is the

(01:02:11):
one where I realized everybody around me has lost their mind.

Speaker 3 (01:02:15):
Wow, I mean I can go back to my first
year the Cubs signed a guy named Candy Maldonado. I
thought we signed Willie Mays, you know, I mean, and
just a nonsense from from Jay Cutler who was fifty
seven and fifty seven and going through a mediocre fifty
seven and fifty seventh career, one playoff appearance, and you

(01:02:38):
know what they gave I think your deal and spent
one hundred and eighteen million. That was a horrible take.
The Tony and the RUSSA can't manage. Let's get paid
for a Griffoyle. I mean, there's horrible takes every day
in the town. There's nothing, there's no rest. Justin Fields
is an MVP, a future MVP er. I mean, the
nonsense that you're the rebail of Iago White, Sox rebuilt,

(01:03:01):
We're gonna run it. I would say, you're not, and
they don't. What do you know? And then the next thing,
you know, we're thirty eight and fifty six, you know.
So it's just a one mistake, one misread after another. Career.
Media people keeping their jobs. They don't work really for
the papers anymore or even for some of the stations.

(01:03:23):
They work for the teams because if they've left the
team and they're covering it, they ain't gonna be there
for long, at least in this time.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
Yeah, you almost can't be critical anymore because because you'll
you'll get you'll get shot down. It's almost like I remember,
like if you covered, like I always felt bad for
people who covered you know, maybe like an Alabama. If
you cover Alabama and you write for the TUSCALOUCID times,
are you right and that and your whole job is
covering the team. It's difficult to do your job in

(01:03:52):
a way because that's that's the priority, that's the team
that's there.

Speaker 3 (01:03:57):
The Bears, they're in a one in thirteen with George
hallis up there and you're trying to keep your job
and he's trying to get rid of of because you're
telling the truth. Yeah, this has been going on for decades.

Speaker 1 (01:04:09):
And that's why I feel like those gigs are difficult
the people that can do those and can have the
relationships with them, because so many people are sensitive now
to where if you try and be critical of a
team or of a player, like they'll just they'll shut
you down. You won't get to speak to them you.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
Want to tell you to them. I'll give you a
perfect example. There were guys that could take it. And
I was friends with the Mark Race. Hey, legit if
you criticized them, Jeremy Ronick, legit. Now they were good players,
but they made mistakes. Like a Chris Zorich, great guy,
he could take the heat. But then the other guys,
Brian Cox, Mark Carrier, I mean the list. I got

(01:04:48):
a list that would go around the block, you know
what I mean of people that can't take it. So
it's just nowadays it's different than it was. But I
remember when we did our show, we had two hundred
some affiliates when I weren't on next them at that point,
but we took he from from schools, from affiliates. So uh,

(01:05:09):
and look at what happened with the Brady recently. With
you know, you're getting it from your peers because you
have an opinion about a quarterback that might be accurate.
So it's just gotten a little bit crazy where you
got to almost holl the line. I'm I'm one of
the few Justin Field good directors and folks. He's five
and twenty five in his career.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
And got that. And here's here's the thing though, that
I'll say about you, is that if Justin fields goes
out and does have an MVP season, you'd be the first.
You'd be the first one to raise your hand and say,
all right, I got that one wrong, Like that's there's.

Speaker 3 (01:05:44):
One of the Bears. But you know what I would
say to him, it's the first one I've gotten wrong,
because I mean, because from Coupler, even before color do
you have The worst read I ever had on a
Bear quarterback was Kate mcdown. I thought he was going
to make it and he didn't. That was my bad
read by running back bad read Curtisinus. I thought he

(01:06:06):
was going to be a bulldog, you know, from Penn
State for the Bears. But I mean when it comes
to the quarterback, I have dominated. All I did was
say we should have never gotten rid of Grid Truviski
twenty nine and twenty one two playoff appearances and we
go to this. So the nonsense has been going on.

(01:06:26):
We'll see what happens. This is a legit year for him.
He's got to win his first DATE games. Not only him,
but the Bears got to play the first AI games.
He's got to show up. He can't go two and six.
I think he's going to be on a short niche
after eight games, Joe, because they decided to take somebody
of the new regime to try and stay with Justin Field.

(01:06:48):
But I think the leach will be short now if
he goes six and two, like you said, we'll be
thrown for the kid.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
Yeah. And also if it turns out that Justin Field
struggles but Bryce Young light up the league. I mean
Ryan Ryan Poles is on notice like that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
Like that's not because I mean they got a beating
because Trubisky. It's not that Trubisky was a bad quarterback
because I'm gonna I was here, nobody, no Bead fans
or Bear media. So we need Mahomes to be drafted second.
Nobody nobody wanted Watson. I wanted Watson. But since Mahomes
took off, all these Bleacher features are sitting out there

(01:07:28):
going we should have taken Mahomes. Nobody at that point
from the Bears was going to take Mahomes, and as
it turned out, Mitch paid the price worth because he
couldn't match them.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Yeah. It's also like, you know, the one of the
comps that I look at, so look to uh, I
think TWOA is a good quarterback. I mean the concussion
issues are there. But the problem is he was taken
in the same draft as Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert,
and so no matter what he does, there's gonna be
the comps that are done to those other two guys.
And so no matter what Trubisky did, there's going to

(01:08:00):
be Compstatlehomes into Deshaun Watson, and that wasn't fair to Trubisky.

Speaker 3 (01:08:04):
I talked to Cole Combe Thatt as my cousin, and
I talked to good friends with his dad, Frank, and
Frank played for the Bears and he played for Purdue.
He's a hactive ball player. But he told me Trubisky's
mistake wasn't his. He was drafted second. If he was
drafted eight for ninth, he would have been fine. And

(01:08:26):
they go twenty nine to twenty one. It just seems
like the media went against them. I mean, I can't understand.
You know, people praise Kyler Murray and these other guys,
not that they don't get some criticism, but I mean
even the Garoppolo stuff, you know, where he's been to
the Super Bowl and in the finals, and the nonsense.

(01:08:49):
You know, let's bring in this trade lance. What is
going on with everybody. You have a winning quarterback and
you see that. So I just see some bad decisions
being made. I will give San Francisco credit. As much
as they try to stub their toll, they find somebody
that gets the job done.

Speaker 1 (01:09:06):
Mike North joining us here on Fox Sports Radio. So Northe,
before we let you go again, talk to us, Raging Mouth.
It's going to be on YouTube. Tell it's a five
part series chronicle in your entire life, your career, and
so when can people see this? When can they expect
I know you'll be here.

Speaker 3 (01:09:23):
Well, gave us up right now, Joe, and we have
bonus pics, bonus features also to go up. The best
place to get it, seriously is to follow me because
you know I'll put it up right away. North to North,
I know our thh to I know our thh and
go to North to North and then or YouTube, Spotify,
like I said, all those other platforms. But we are

(01:09:46):
going to release it on Monday. I'm not sure the
time yet. I don't want to give anybody the wrong time.
Sometime during the midday and we want to thank Ral Jewelers.
I mean I got a sponsor, beautiful sponsor. For people
that like like the story, and hopefully it's going to
be turned into a screenplay. We've had too rewrits by
Adam Ripkin, who's going to help us out, who directed

(01:10:09):
Detroit Rock City and some other great great the Last
Movie Star. So we're looking forward to this show. And
like I said, even Andy's included. So, uh, you know
we haven't mentioned Andy. I'm missing Andy two and I
talked to Andy every so often.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Yeah, the great Andy Furman, who no doubt is sitting
by the pool betting on some horse race. Uh something
like that. That's that's what he does. Uh, Northy, We
appreciate it. We love you at North to North on Twitter.
So we look forward to seeing the FSR years and
your entire journey chronicled and raging mouth on YouTube. That'll
be fun.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
Hey, johnnys Gank, buddy, I appreciate it. Great to be
out with you again. An advice here, it's Dan Auto
listeners for me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:50):
See. Of course, of course there he is a great
mic North FSR alum, sports talk radio legend, the pride
and joy of Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. Why did I
just leave an asset at the end of Illinois we
don't need to bring Jonas, I just sounded like a rookie.
I just said Illinois. Illinois. Yes, is silent our ancestral homeland. Jonas,

(01:11:14):
I know what the hell was that? Why did I
do that? It would like be like you calling it
Iowa and not Iowa. You know, we don't. We are
going to have ourselves a discussion about some momentum for
the MVP in the NFL this upcoming year. We'll get
into that here coming up shortly. But for all the
latest from around the world of sports, it's Nicko. Thank

(01:11:35):
you Jonas.

Speaker 2 (01:11:35):
Speaking of Chicago, the Cubs have opened up an eight
to one lead on the Red Sox in the fourth inning,
and actually they're just heading to the fifth inning now.
Cody Bellinger hit a Grand Slam as part of a
six run third. Other ball games going on, Phillies and
Padres are trading home runs. Phillies tied it up with
Kyle Schwarver's twenty third bomb of the year. Now San
Diego bank in front four to three on a Manny

(01:11:56):
Machana home run. Theer on the eighth inning there raised
Lely the Royals.

Speaker 1 (01:11:59):
Two to one.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
In the sixth Cardinals now tied with the Nats four
to four. In the seventh, Brendon Donovan hit a three
run homer hit a couple of first place teams just
getting going in Toronto, Diamondbacks and Blue Jays scoreless in
the second off the field. The Guardians have play starting
pitcher Shane Bieber on the fifteen day injured list with
right elbow inflammation. At Wimbledon, Marquette Androsova is your Ladies Champion,

(01:12:21):
downing six seed on Shaburn straight sets for her first
major title. If Androsova is the first unseeded woman to
ever win Wimbledon, just the third person ever, joining Boris
Becker in eighty five and Gornovana Sevitch in two thousand
and one and Gulf Roy McRoy holds a one shot
lead at the end of the third round at the
Scanish Open and at the American Century Championship in Tahoe,

(01:12:42):
Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 (01:12:43):
At the top of the leaderboard.

Speaker 2 (01:12:44):
He actually hit a hole in one on the part
of three seventh, about one hundred and fifty yards second
hole and one in his golf career. Jonas back to you,
Thanks Nick Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio and Right
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and save at Progressive dot com. All right, So coming up,
we are going to pay off this teeth because there's
some momentum in the NFL for the MVP. And I'll
tell you why. Somebody needs to get some more love.
And it's yours right here Fox Sports Radio. I'm checked
up about it. Oh yeah, get tropical. Nothing wrong with

(01:13:47):
listening to a song you don't know the lyrics too,
because it's in another language. Just get yourself a cocktail,
nice cold one. Get yourself a nice cold beer. My
brother calls it the jellyfish because at his restaurant he

(01:14:08):
serves these beers to where the glass is so cold
that when you pour the beer into the glass, the
ice rises up from the bottom and it looks like
a jellyfish. Bet your ass all right. By the way,
for those of you listening on the podcast, I can't
hear the music. It's Celia Cruz s oon Carnival. I

(01:14:29):
think it's called whatever. Yeah, that carnival, Carnival, Carnivals, who cares?
Point is great song and we're having a good time
here on a Saturday. All right, stick around here. Coming
up in a little over ten minutes from now, top
of next hour, it is Steve Hartman and Bucky Brooks.
They will be taking over there, all right, So it's
Kerry Rhodes. All right, sorry, bad information. Clean that up

(01:14:51):
in the podcast. Make sure we clean that up. So
professional show here. I want to go ahead and clean
this up. Clean that up, please, Rhodes and Hartman. It's
a mess, all right, So we're good to go here.
But point is stick around, always a fun conversation. Steve
and carry are going to take you guys up for
the next couple hours here on many of these Fox

(01:15:11):
Sports Radio affiliates. If you missed any of this show there,
you can check out the podcast at Fox sports radio
dot com. I will tweet out a link to that
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check that out, click it, make it easy and you know,
leave a review if you want to, or just rip
me to pieces if you don't like the show. That's
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can get it done there at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter.

(01:15:32):
But right now it is time to close up shop
here on a Saturday like we do every single week.
And it's called this.

Speaker 4 (01:15:38):
Jonas, You moron, How could you not get to these stories?

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
You morons are the scraps. And for that we turn
it over to our executive producer, Brandon True and to
find out what the hell we've missed so far in
the show. Brandon Jonas, there's.

Speaker 8 (01:15:52):
A report out right now that Pro Football Focus believes
that Trevor Lawrence, Jaguars quarterback could be a legitimate MVP
candidate entering twenty twenty three. Now. I looked it up
and currently the odds for Lawrence to win the MVP
are plus fourteen hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Yeah, listen there, he's starting to get some love. I
think people look at it and they go, this is
a team that's on the rise. They've seemingly only gotten
better in the offseason. They've gotten healthier, They've got another
year of experience. They had playoff experience last year. You're
also bringing in Calvin Ridley, America's wide receiver. Who listen.

(01:16:29):
It is interesting every time we talk gambling odds. When
Calvin Ridley is a part of the team, That's always
a fun topic of conversation. It's fun to see everybody
get a little bit weird about it. But I can
understand the appeal to Trevor Lawrence. I think people look
at him as the next guy who's going to make
the leap and become the MVP of the league. I
still will take my chances of Aaron Rodgers because if

(01:16:50):
it's all about the story, to me, the difference between
the Jets and what they do this year and what
they did last year as a Teaho finished last in
the AFC East are going to be because of Aaron Rodgers. Now,
do I believe that he's going to win it? No,
because I think there are people in the media it's
a narrative driven award. I think they're sick of Aaron Rodgers.

(01:17:12):
They don't like it. They still hold a grudge about
the immunization story from a couple of years ago. But
for me, if I were voting on it, if the
Jets are who a lot of people think they're going
to be, it's going to be because of the quarterback
that feels like the MVP. What else we got?

Speaker 8 (01:17:26):
All right? So, earlier this offseason, the Phoenix Coyotes signed
Alex Kalchenyak, who actually played for your Pittsford Penguins, at
one point to one year, seven hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars contract, and they repeated they reportedly dropped him.
They reass seriously. Last week, well it's come out. He

(01:17:46):
was arrested, and he was arrested for crashing a car
into a sign. He said that police found him, he
was very erratic and aggressive toward officers. He apparently hurled
racial slurs at them, and he threatened them, saying he's rushing.
By the way. He said to the cops, I'm gonna
chop you, your wife, your daughter, one phone call and

(01:18:09):
you're all dead. Your whole family, your bloodline is dead.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
It's amazing. My favorite part about this story is afterwards
when he said that he was just joking. That's always good,
Like I've been pulled over before. I've actually been pulled
over on my way into work where you know, they
thought I was driving a little bit too fast. I wasn't.
There was a dip in the road on the freeway
where I go. I mean, the whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:29):
Was a joke.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
My point is I've been pulled up. I've never thought
to tell the cop on my way in to do
a radio show, you know what, I'm gonna dismember your family.
Never thought that. For some reason, I don't know. I
don't know why that never enters into my mind when
a cop pulls me over. I'm more likely to do
the move on Groundhog Day where Bill Murray gets pulled
over with the two drunk guys in the car and

(01:18:51):
when the cop walks up to the window, he starts
ordering fast food. Can I get a large, large fries
two cheeseburger, like I'm likely to do that the tell
a police officer I'm gonna dismember your family because I
went out, had a little bit too much of the
liverloop and decided to play bumper cars in the middle
of the public and then look around and go I

(01:19:11):
can't believe they got rid of they get rid of
my contract what happened here? Come on, dude, get it together.
What else we got? All right?

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
So the SP's were this past week, as you know,
and breaking news man Lebron James has confirmed he will
return for his twenty first NBA season. This comes after
he teased retirement in that press conference after the Lakers
were swept by the Denver Nuggets. Jonas, are you surprised

(01:19:39):
that James is coming back for season number twenty one?

Speaker 1 (01:19:41):
It's just nauseating, man, It's just this constant need for attention,
constant need to it just oh god, man, it's just
so tiresome. Like what a great player, what an all
time great player, what a eight athlete? What a guy like?
Great dad, great husband like, great example, great role model.

(01:20:06):
He's like tremendous like and one of the greatest, most
respectful things you can say about Lebron James. Guy lived
up to all the hype, like literally lived up to
every single ounce of the hype and then some, which
is so rare, Like he lived up to all of it.
No issues off the court, but just such a blowhard

(01:20:30):
god hold me, yes, can't help himself. Oh, I've decided
I'm gonna return next year. Okay, that's like, that's like
me saying I've decided I'm gonna come back after break. Okay,
where were you gonna leave? Just gonna take off like
do it to do a big giant teas and then
just just vanish from the tire rack dot Com studios

(01:20:53):
and just say that I'm out of here. No, no, no,
of course you're coming back. Like that's kind of unset,
It was unspoken. Nobody thought he was gonna retire. Him
forcing this down everybody's throats is just another example of
somebody who clearly just doesn't like there's no self awareness
or I don't know what it is, but just doesn't
see how that lands with a lot of people. What

(01:21:16):
else we got, Brandon?

Speaker 8 (01:21:17):
All right, let's end it off in Belgium where Machine
Gun Kelly was playing at the rock Werchter Festival and
he spotted a fan with a sign that said I
just came from Mexico for you to punch me some
Machine Gun Kelly asked, why do you want me to
punch me so bad? The guy said, I love you.
He's got I got rings on, dude, it's gonna hurt.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
I don't know, it's to lose loose for me.

Speaker 8 (01:21:38):
But eventually he fulfilled the fans wishes he punched him
in the face.

Speaker 1 (01:21:43):
Hey man, people got some weird fetishes.

Speaker 7 (01:21:45):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:21:46):
There's some people who crawl under coffee tables and well
that's not for here. But the point is stop getting punched.
Jonas the son of a bitch,