Jonas Knox talks Sean Payton, Ezekiel Elliot, and more!

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don't mean it. And I'll tell you who that is

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you didn't really mean it, you know, like you'll say,
don't worry about it's all good, but you never really
meant it. It kind of sits at you, kind of
gnaws at you for a little while, and then it
persists and it goes on and it goes forward. It's
like those fights you have. I've talked about this before,
those fights you have in a relationship that you kind

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of never get over because it's always brought up later on.
You think you come to some sort of an understanding,
like ed, you know, listen, you know I could have
been better in that spot. You could have been better
in that spot. It's all good, I love you, everything
is fine, don't worry about it. And then three months
later you get in another argument and they go straight
to that one because you know, you say you're sorry,

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you say you're forgiven, but you don't really mean it.
That's gonna happen in the NFL, and I'm telling you
that right now in advance. It's going to happen. Somebody
is going to say, hey, it's all good, all is forgiven,
don't worry about it. Water under the bridge, and it's
a full blown lie. Now I'm not calling that personal liar,

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but I'm saying, Look, they will forgive you, but that
forgiveness they're showing you is not true. Robert Salah is
going to be this individual. The New York Jets are
going to be this individual. They are going to forgive
Sean Payton for what he said. They're going to forgive him,

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but they don't really mean it. Now, if you're wondering
why Sean Payton would need to apologize and why the
Jets would be in a position of forgiveness, well you
know it's because Sean Payton may or may not have
been sitting behind his desk, pulled out the bottom drawer,
had a bottle of scotch, started sipping and ripping. Jarrett

(03:39):
Bell of USA today is sitting in front of him
and Sean Payton decided, you know what, I got some
things I want to get off my chest and he
hammered everybody. I mean, the Jets got it. Nathaniel Hackett
got it, Russell Wilson got it, the offensive line got it,
front office got it. Everybody got They called Sean Payton

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the can man. Everybody can get it. Everybody caught astray
from Sean Payton when he sat down with jareded Bell
of USA Today and ripped into what happened before and
how bad the coaching wasn't all of that stuff, and
as predictable, Sean Payton decided that he was going to

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walk back his comments. So when this story came out
on Thursday, it didn't take long at all for Robert
Sala to acknowledge it and seem very fired up about it.
And it didn't take very long at all for Sean
Payton to walk back his statements to Jared Bell of
USA Today. Here was the now Broncos head coach on Friday.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
Yeah, listen, I had one of those moments where I
still had my Fox hat on and not my coaching
hat on. And you know I said this to the
team in the meeting yesterday. We've had a great off
season relative to that, you know, and I've been preaching
that message and here I am the better and you know,
stepping in it. And it was a learning experience for me.
It was a mistake. Obviously I needed a little bit

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more filter. You know, there's a pound of flesh for
these guys. As a coach, you stick up for him
and after a while, you know, we're past that season
last year, and you know, I said what I said,
and obviously I needed a little bit more restraint, and
I regret that. That being said, what I told the
team is, you know, if it can happen. And I

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think I'm pretty good relative to working with the media
and pretty savvy. And I just had one of those
moments to lattes in the morning. First first one, I see,
and forty minutes later, I'm regretting it. So it is
what it is.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Yeah, I got to be honest with you about the
whole latte thing. Look, I'm this is the coffee I
like to drink. I go espresso shot inside a black
coffee and nothing else. Now, I don't know. I think
they call that a red eye if I'm not mistaken.
I don't know, like I think it's called a red
eye whatever. Like I asked somebody at a coffee shop recently,
is that like the universal term or is that what

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Starbucks uses? I said, No, that's a universal term, because
I didn't want to be a douche and walk in
there and go Ltte frappa, mochiado, Chino la la, all
that other, all that jazz. I'm not into it. But
I gotta tell you when I drink coffee, and I
drink coffee for every single show, big coffee guy here
sipping on coffee right now, not at this moment because

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we're doing a show, I don't I don't start airing
out previous regimes that once had this time slot. You
know what I mean. That's it. I don't recall ever
doing that. I don't. I don't recall ever thinking to myself, God,
that would be a fun exercise. Who had this time
slot previously? Let me go ahead and air them out.

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But again, that was what Sean Payton had to say.
He also talked about apologize. He was going to reach
out to Robert Sala. He thinks the world of Robert Sala.
But the point of all of this is he can
say whatever he wants now he will ever be forgiven.
Like Robert Salah will say all the nice things publicly,

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and this may be caught on hard knocks cameras, who
the hell knows, but he may say all the right
things publicly and say, look, I mean, you know, I
spoke with Sean. It's all good. We have a season
to get ready for. Don't worry about it. Water under
the bridge, It happens. It's a learning experience, you know.
I think the world of Sean as well too, and
blah blah blah. And this is going to be talked

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about and discussed leading up into their game. And if
you don't think so, you haven't followed the NFL or
been around the NFL long enough. They're gonna accept the apology.
They're gonna say, we're focused on the season, and then
the clock will be ticking. And the clock's going to
be ticking all the way up until Week five in

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October in Denver, where the Jets are already gonna want
to exercise some demons because it was last year where
their season got derailed. If you go back and you
look at that game against the Broncos, even though the
Jets won, you had injuries to Elijah Vera Tucker, he
got injured, was out for the year, Breeze Hall got injured,

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was out for the year, and things sort of went
downhill for the Jets from there. Go back look at
the season. They were not the same football team coming
out of that game. So they were already going to
Denver looking to exercise some demons, and Nathaniel Hackett and
Aaron Rodgers were already saying, you know what, they don't
see the value and you we do. We love having

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you here. I love being back together with Nathaniel Hackett.
They were already motivated enough. Sean Payton took to a
whole nother level. Then he can try and blame that
he had his Fox hat on. What's wrong with having
a Fox had on? Let me tell you something, all right.
That's why I try and let people know Sean Payton
was doing stuff on the weekends. I try to tell

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people this all the time here in the Fox family.
The weekend and is filled with savages, right, and the
truth is going to be spoken. And Sean Payton spoke
his truth, and he had a lot to say about
the previous regime, and all he did was throw gas
on a fire that was already burning, and Robert Salah

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and that entire team's gonna use it as motivation. They'll
accept the apology. They'll say, hey, all good. It happens. Learning, mistake, learning,
this is this is the time to learn. It's everything's
going to be fine. It's a teachable moment. Don't worry
about it. We're focused on our season, they're focused on theirs,
and then what you know, all of that stuff will

(09:37):
play out. We're not worried about any of that stuff.
We love it. They're gonna say all the nice things.
Deep down, you are not forgiven and you will not
be forgiven. They're going to go into that game and
I and mark my words, I'm calling my shot right now.
If the Jets go in and win that game, there's

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going to be an over celebration of Nathaniel Hackett afterwards.
They might even put them on their shoulders. They might
go away above and beyond, especially if they go into
Denver and they whoop ass. You don't think for a
second they're gonna celebrate this moment and use this as
fuel and come on, man, So Sean Payton, you can

(10:18):
blame the latte. You can blame Fox. You could say
all the things you want now damage is done. The
people that you quote unquote offended, the Jets, Nathaniel Hackett,
Robert Sala, the organization, Aaron ra all of those people.
They're keeping those receipts. So say the pleasantries now, call

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them reach out like you said you were going to
say You're sorry. All you want come week five. It's
going down. The Jets know it, and so does Sean Payton,
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Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. Coming up in we'll call
about ten minutes from now here from the time dot
Com Studios. There is a reality to something in the
NFL and involves somebody who has got all the creditials
you could want, all pros, Pro Bowls, you name it,

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I mean, multi millionaire. But there is a reality to
this individual's career that is pretty wild when you think
about it. We'll get into that for you again coming
up here a little over ten minutes from now on
Fox Sports Radio. So let's let's have an honest conversation
right and I'm talking to you right now. If you

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are in a car, if you are an Uber driver,
a Lyft driver, if you are driving a cab, if
you are sitting with your better half, if you are
a father, if you are you know, and there's some
people in the car that maybe you don't want to
know about your past. Just understand that I'm going to

(13:54):
dance around it. But I'm talking to you and you
will get this. If you're alone, you're gonna nod your
head in agreement with what I'm about to say. Strip
clubs are really cool when you're younger, and then you
get older and you realize kind of a waste of

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time for most people. Now. The reason I say that
is because you realize that the payoff doesn't really meet
the initial bite, if you will, or the initial taste.

(14:39):
It's like bubblicious gum. Not to air out Bubblicious gum,
But you get to a point when you're younger where
you love it. You get the watermelon flavor. I remember
going into like Save on Drugs. I don't even know
if that still exists, but there was a Save on
Drugs near my house, and they would have bubbleshes and
it would be like thirty five cents.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Tell me.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
I remember going in and getting a pack of Bubblicious
and I would get the watermelon flavor and it was
awesome that because I would save up my money and
it'd be like I would recycle cans. Man, if I
could go and I could afford a pack of bubblicious
gum from save On Drugs in thousand oakes, that would
be awesome. And then you realize when you get to

(15:20):
about like eight or nine years old, that the gum
just doesn't last. Like you end up putting a second
piece in and a third piece and the next thing
you know, you can't even talk because you got like
a mouthful of gum. It's disgusting. It's like you're being
you know, they're doing like you're on a spaceship and aliens.
You're doing some sort of like oral surgery on you,
and they're putting this like it's grow. But you realize

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that that sometimes that stuff just doesn't last. It's like
strip clubs, like guys realize when they get older, Yeah,
this stuff just doesn't last. Like it may be cool
in real time. It may be cool initially, but then
you get older you realize, man, the payoff just isn't there.
Why am I gonna go and have to sit through
all of this just to deal with the tees. And

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that's what ends up happening. You just end up dealing
with the tees. And the NFL is kind of like that.
The NFL's one giant tees. So here's why I say that.
The NFL rolls out hope and they present to you
this idea that everything's gonna be great this year. I mean,
the presentation is fantastic. Everybody shows up the training camp,

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everybody gets there. There's hope, there's excitement, you're fired up
about it. The seasons right around the corner, you've got
reporters from the NFL network at every single training camp
around the league. You've got reporters moving in and around.
They're going on their training camp tour. They're starting up
in northern California, they come south, they hop on a flight,
they get over to the Midwest, they go to the Northeast,
they go to the South, and they're reporting and it's awesome.

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It's a great time. It's every July, it's every August.
You mixing some preseason games. But then sometimes the reality
sets in that it's just a giant teas case in point, Bengals, Dolphins,
giant tees, hope, excitement, potential Super Bowl run. And we

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were in training camp for an armpit fart of time,
and the Bengals and Dolphins have already had their seasons
kind of derailed. Joe Burrow's going to be out several
weeks with a calf injury. Who knows what that turns into.
All Right, It's not like Joe Burrow has had nothing

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but one hundred percent health his entire career, which I
think is part of the story with Joe Burrow that
nobody really wants to talk about. Everybody focuses on Tua's
concussions and all that stuff, and all of that is real,
and Tua's got an injury history as well, but Joe
Burrow suffered a major knee injury early in his NFL career.

(18:00):
He's had stuff pop up. He had always like a
ruptured spleen or his appendix burst or something, or like
his eight like whatever it was. He had something going
on last year he missed time, Like There's been other
things that have popped up with Joe Burrow during the
course of his career. And now he's got a calf
strain and he goes down and the way he went
down in practice and the way that video looked. The

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first thing I thought of was Achilles glad it's not.
But that's a multiple week injury. What about the Miami Dolphins.
Jalen Ramsey gets there and that was one of the
big off season acquisitions. He was brought there because they're
trying to win a Super Bowl. They realize we've got
a window. It's now, let's go before we have to
decide on what we want to do with twatagabouy loa

(18:43):
long term financially. And we're in training camp again for
an armpit fart amount of time and Jalen Ramsey tweaks
his knee getting tangled up with Tyreek killing practice and
he's now going to be out until because it's a
full meniscus tear. Just like that Ultimate tease, you go

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into the season thinking, oh my god, this is going
to be great. We all have our hopes are high,
and I don't care what team you're a fan of,
I guarantee you you went into this season probably more
optimistic than you should have been. And at some point
before the season, or maybe one week in, the reality
is going to set in that that stuff just doesn't last.

(19:28):
It's why the NFL is great. I love the NFL.
We love the NFL. You love the NFL, but the
NFL is the ultimate teas because it doesn't take that
long for you to realize, Man, this just isn't smooth
at all, Like this just probably won't result in the
ending that I wanted. There's going to be an injury.

(19:49):
Like I can't recall one team and correct me if
I'm wrong. I can't recall one team that when the
final week of the regular season or the final game
of the season, whether it's Super Bowl whatever. I can't
recall one team that I look at and go, oh man,
that team was dealing with one hundred percent health, Like
that team was very fortunate. But that team, they were

(20:14):
pretty healthy, Like you know, that's that's a healthy football team.
Even the Chiefs, who won a Super Bowl last year.
Patrick Mahomes was banged up. Like it's not like the
Chiefs were sitting there going, oh, we're one hundred percent healthy.
Everything's fine. Mahomes was banged up. The Eagles were banged up.

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We know what happened to the forty nine ers. Of
course they were. In fact, the forty nine ers are
so banged up that Kyle Shanahan said this week on
the TK show that if they had made the Super Bowl,
they were going to call Philip Rivers to start the game.
You know, just think about that. It's just every single

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year this happens and it takes just a short amount
of time. The Chargers deal with injuries every year, and
it's like we know this going into it. We know
that injuries are going to pop up. We know that
teams are going to deal with stuff. Look at last year,
the Bills were the favorite to win the Super Bowl
going into the season. They were the favorite. That was

(21:19):
the team. They get to the first game of the
season and they annihilate the Rams Like I don't recall
ever seeing the first game of a season where the
defending Super Bowl champs looked as bad as they did,
and the Bills did that to them. You came out
of that game one weekend and you're thinking, man, they're

(21:40):
the Super Bowl favorites for a reason. And it took
a few weeks in what happened. Von Miller went down
with an injury, Josh Allen got dinged a little bit
and was never quite the same afterwards, and DeMar Hamlin
almost died on the field. It like the NFL is
the ultimate teas. We've got all this whole, all this optimism,

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and something happens like what happened with Joe Burrow or
Jalen Ramsey, and the payoff, ultimately for most of us
thirty one other teams never ends up being what you
think it is. And that's why when you get older,
you realize, man, these strip clubs are kind of a
waste of time. You better have a decent menu. You
better have some decent food. I'd better be able to

(22:23):
get a drink or two, and I'd have to pay
double for it. I better because I know if I'm
going there for what most people go for. When they're younger,
you realize you have that payoff that you're looking for.
At the end, you got to go elsewhere for something
like that. You know, next thing you know, you're in
a back alley behind the dumpster and you're like, all right,
what will twenty get me? All right? I got a

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ten and a five. Can we have a conversation here?
And then you got to deal with the repercussions afterwards.
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The Way tire buying should be So there is a
reality to a star in the NFL that is pretty
crazy to think about it if you actually just look

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at their career and look at where they're at. We'll
get into that story next for you on FSR, but
for all the latest from around the world of sports,
ladies and gentlemen, The Riley Opelka, wow Oox Sports Radio,
Brian Finlay.

Speaker 7 (24:02):
Jonas Crown, with how well schooled you are now in
tennis and being a scholar in that sport. I was
expecting you to drop in some pickleball pros or something
like that.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
Oh no, by the way, pickleball sucks. Let me just
say that. And I've never played. But it's like when
somebody says, well, don't knock it till you tried it. Okay,
Well I've never I've never done heroin, but I'm gonna
assume it's not for me, you know what I mean.
Like I've never I'm not playing pick a ball and
I'm never playing pickleball. Pickleball sucks. I'm not interested. It's
a it's a badminton knockoff, and badminton, to me is

(24:35):
the game of kings, right, That's what I think. In fact,
I would put badminton and cornhole neck and neck as
far as summer outdoor you know, kind of casual games,
you know what I mean, Like darts is a more
indoor game that feels like something you would want to
do indoors at a bar when it's cold out or
it's rainy. But man, cornhole, badminton horseshoes are okay, but

(25:00):
it's a little dangerous, like it feels like that could
go wrong. But badminton cornhole right near the top of
the list. What do you think about that?

Speaker 7 (25:07):
You strike me as an axe thrower too, so let's
not forget about that. But I have to say, Jonas,
as far as pickleball, it's fun to play, but I
just don't get the allure of everybody wanting to air
it on television because it's it's a whiffle ball, Jonas,
and it doesn't go that fast, and the court is small.
It makes people think they're working out by breaking a sweat,

(25:28):
but agreed, court is so small that we're really not
burning any calories.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know what I've always wondered. Okay, because it is
a whiffleball, but there's also another whiffle ball that comes in,
like the whiffleball yellow bat combo pack, that's completely different
than that one. Like that one's got holes all over it.
This other whiffleball, you can actually throw sliders, you could
throw change ups, rising fastballs with that. With that one

(25:54):
they play with the pickleball, it's just like it's a
plastic ball with holes in it. But growing up to
your point, they always called it whipplet ball, but the
other whipple ball you get with the yellow bat looks
completely different. The whole thing is confusing, Finley.

Speaker 7 (26:08):
It is, and it goes to show you that you're
always carrying a baseball bat in your car, and that
might be a different story for I'll.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
Be honest with I thought you were going to say
something else, and I'm glad you cleaned it up for
the weekend audience. Yes, yes, he tells me. If this
or the middle of the night, you would have said
something else. Yes, that is fair. Whoop football in the car?
Sure you got it. I don't know what you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
We do know, Jonas, that NFL journeyman in long tenured
running back Frank Gore, who presumably could have played till
he was sixty out there on the gridiron. But he's
going to take a job in the forty nine ers
front office as a football advisor. Free agent ball carrier
Exekiel Elliott paid a visit with the Patriots. Sandy Espana's
reporting that pat said coach Bill Belichick actually directly reached

(26:52):
out to Cowboys' executive vice president Stephen Jones for background
info on Elliott before asking him to come by, although
there is no deal done yet, the Vikings are reportedly
open to trading a salty linebacker Daniel Hunter, who was
dissatisfied with the four point nine million dollar base salary
this year, which is nowhere near Jonas's yearly salary. The Bengals,

(27:16):
since Joe Burrow is going to miss a few weeks
with the CAF strainer actually trying not to XFL quarterbacks
Read Sennett and Drew plipp and Phil Nevin, the Angels manager,
is going to serve a one day suspension and received
some fines as well for his belligerent temper tantrum, his
emotional outburst pulled a Jonas there after leaving the bar

(27:39):
at two am, just completely lost control And this was
in a game last night, and it was aimed at
the umpires that for for lastly.

Speaker 2 (27:47):
We do a boot. Wait who did that? This was
Phil Nevin.

Speaker 7 (27:51):
So as the umpires were leaving the game last night,
he just lost it, called them out, got really incensed
with some of the things they were doing and made
such a scene that he's going to miss today's game
and get fined.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Yeah, well that I mean, listen, that's that's a sad tale.
You know, but I mean, we're at the point in
the season where you got teams in Major League Baseball
that are very stressed out. Are they buyers? Are they sellers?
And a lot of people are making decisions now and
just decided. They're saying, you know what, We're gonna go
ahead and sell here. And it's sad, it's but hey,
tough ball. She got to get over Phil. Yeah, that

(28:24):
you do.

Speaker 7 (28:25):
In lastly, the three m Open PG to or Lee Hodges,
I know you're high on him. He is your leader
sixteen under for the tournament. They're in progressing their third
round one hundred today through six holes, sixteen hunderd two
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back to America's most lovable fire breathing dragon, Jonas Knox.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Thank you right, I appreciated that. That was a thank
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(29:34):
So let's talk about what is a wild realization in
the NFL. So, as Brian Finley mentioned, Ezekiel Elliott is
going to try out with the New England Patriots, right, So,
the Patriots have been flirting with the running back position.
Dalvin Cook is out there. He's reportedly going to visit

(29:54):
with the Patriots, maybe depending on how his scheduled visit
goes with the Jets, because the Jets are the in
the clubhouse, and then the Dolphins have been rumored, and
then the Patriots are apparently in the mix as well too.
So the Patriots are kicking the tires and some running backs,
you know, trying to add a little bit of talent
around Mac Jones. They were looking at DeAndre Hopkins all
of that. Here's what's wild about Ezekiel Elliott. His career

(30:21):
is like probably over. And he's twenty eight. He just
turned twenty eight years old. Like he was an All Pro,
multiple Pro Bowls, Rookie of the Year stud in college.

(30:43):
He just turned twenty eight, and it feels like it's over.
Like all of this conversation about the running back position
and how devalued they are, and Eve had all these
talks about, you know, Saquon Barkley and Josh Jacobs and
why they get Ekwan's epiphany and Jonathan like all this stuff.

(31:04):
And see, Kelly, it's just kind of sitting quietly in
the background, just waiting to get an opportunity. I'm gonna go,
And it just feels like if it doesn't work out
with the Patriots, it's over. And he's twenty eight and
he just turned twenty eight like a week ago. Just like,
what do you do for a living? Just imagine if
somebody told you you don't have the ability and will

(31:27):
not get an opportunity at twenty eight years old, and
it's not because you're an a hole. It's not because
you did anything wrong, Like I got understand twenty eight
years old and you ruin your career because you're an alcoholic.
I get all that. I can understand that. Boss says
to you, Hey, appreciate what you've done for us, But well, Boss,

(31:48):
what seems to be the problem? I mean, I've performed
at a high level. I was the best, you know,
at the job in my skill set at one time
I've been. I mean, I don't understand what's the issue here? Well,
you know you're an alcoholic. I mean there's that. I mean, well,
where's your proof? Oh okay? You know you you reached
into your glove box to get your sunglasses out and

(32:09):
a bottle of Jack Daniels fell out. I mean, I
don't tell you, like, you know, you seem to always
have like a little little like bottle of arrowhead water
next to you and somebody you know walked by and
went to go, you know, throw it out, and they
smelled that it was pop off, and you just keep
refieling the same thing, and it just like that. That's
why we've got to move on. You're a full blown drunk,

(32:31):
and we Zek's on any of that. He's not an
a hole. There's no substance abuse problem, there's no it's
just over at twenty eight, and I just I don't
think that's a reality that any of us could ever
relate to. I just don't, Like there are some doctors,
like there's some people that don't actually have success in

(32:54):
their career until twenty eight. I didn't have it until
after I turned thirty. When I was twenty eight, I
was still just trying to get a sniff, Hey, can
I get anything? Like driving my resume out to the
Inland Empire here in southern California, like two and a
half hours out of the way from where I live

(33:14):
for a technical producer job, and I could never hear
back from anybody. I couldn't get a sniff from anybody.
Zeke was the best at his position, number one, nobody better,
First Team, All Pro, Pro Bowls, you name it, made millions,
and at twenty seven years old, they're like, Yeah, that's it,

(33:36):
and that's where he's at, Like that's the reality to
his situation that he's going to try out for the
Patriots and if he doesn't make the Patriots then what
it feels like the end, and at twenty eight years old,
I just don't think there's a lot of people that
can actually grasp that concept, considering where he was and
how soon it ended. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio, Get

(33:57):
me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the Jonas
Knox on Twitter. Coming up next here from the tire
rack dot Com Studios. It's a little positivity here on
a Saturday, all right, And some people would take this
positivity as you know, maybe below the belt, maybe you know,
taking shots of people that don't deserve it. But the
point of it is, we are going to have truthful

(34:17):
positivity in another edition of something we call Do You Care?
And it's yours right here on FSR. You slip me
a bottle of bourbon, little glass and some Mie. 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. We are going to talk about a

(34:37):
missed opportunity in the National Football League and it's something
I feel as possible. I think they could do it,
but I don't think they will do it. And it's
at the detriment of all of us. We are the
losers here. I'll tell you why that is coming up
a little over ten minutes from now here on FSR.
By the way, the great, the stinking genius Arnie Spanier

(34:58):
sending me over misinformation. Wow you, I mean listen, I
thought we add something here. I thought there was, you know,
an opportunity to have a really fun story. But Arnie
Spanier is sent over misinformation off a parody account he
saw on like Twitter x or whatever it's called. So

(35:21):
very disappointing performance thus far from Arnie Spanier this weekend.
You are fake news. Yeah, very unfortunate. Wow span your
that damn stow all right right now, though, it is
time for something we do on the show every single week,
and it's called this.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Time DMS reports.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
Let's get kinky. Here's some of the big stories from
the last week. But Jonas, the real question is do
you care?

Speaker 2 (35:59):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week?

Speaker 8 (36:05):
Oh yeah, just real quick, I did have my morning
coffee today, so I would like to unleash on Ryan
Berschinger if possible.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Oh, I mean, who wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (36:15):
Yeah right, just on, Thank you, Sean Payton, thank you
for that. Excuse what what the hell?

Speaker 2 (36:19):
By the ways to? You did so Burush is engaged now? Correct? Uh?

Speaker 8 (36:25):
Well, I guess he posted it, so I guess we
can say he is. I mean, okay, it's on Instagram.
Oh dude, Sam was so mad by.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Well, I'm already I'm already preparad for not getting I guarantee,
I guarantee I don't get an invite to the wedding. Sam,
I'm already getting the vibe.

Speaker 8 (36:44):
Sam was furious that I knew before he did.

Speaker 2 (36:46):
You should have seen him.

Speaker 8 (36:47):
It was he was, Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Why were you so pissed? Sam? He just made that up.
That's more in misinformation. I mean, I don't even if
I don't get invited.

Speaker 8 (36:56):
Well, number one, I was surprised Sam was even here.
He could have been, you know, in Europe or something.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
But hold on a second. So Sam, you get a
pair of E T shoes and all of a sudden
you think you can just complain about somebody getting engaged.

Speaker 5 (37:08):
This is completely fabricated from both all right. If I
don't get invited to Bushinger's wedding, then I'll be upset.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
Yeah, I'm telling you right now, I already have the
vibe that I'm not going to get invited to them.
You wouldn't go anyway? Well, yeah, I don't like weddings. Yeah,
Like my one of my best friends got married last
weekend and I faked an injury to leave, like I
don't want Wow, Yeah, I didn't want to be there, like, oh,
my kid's I gotta go, my kid needs me. It's
like I don't even know if I have a kid,

(37:35):
So I just I wanted to get the hell out
of there. I don't like weddings, so yeah, I've got
to come up with an excuse as to why I'm
not going. But that's the great thing about weddings, too,
is the guilt trips you can put people on. Because
I love I love the people that get offended when
they don't get invited to a wedding. It's like, so
they he got invited and I didn't like, dude, you
really want to go sit in some place to take turns,

(37:58):
to stand in line for bad food and like, you
know some drinks that you've got to still tip on
after everybody tells you a free open bar, but you
still got to leave money. You really want to sit
there in some clothes you don't want to wear in
the middle of summer. I'll pass, all right. So what
do we got this week?

Speaker 3 (38:15):
On?

Speaker 8 (38:15):
So, the Vikings are reportedly willing to trade pass Rusher
Daniel Hunter due to a contract dispute. Do you care
about this at all?

Speaker 2 (38:22):
No, I don't. Listen, the Vikings have already told you
what they feel about their team and what this season
looks like. In the fact that they decided to part
ways with Dalvin Cook, there's an opportunity to actually do
damage in the NFC this year, and in that division
with Aaron Rodgers out. You already won the division last year.
And they decide we're going to get rid of, you know,

(38:43):
maybe one of our better players on offense and just say, yeah,
you know, cost cutting. I just doesn't make any sense
to me. But that's the Vikings as the stands right now.

Speaker 8 (38:51):
Next Mets starter Max Scherzer is reportedly unhappy with the
team trading closer David Robertson, saying he's going to have
to speak with team management. About the future, and there's
rumors today that Justin Verlander might be on the move
as well. So do you care about this at all?

Speaker 2 (39:06):
No? I don't listen, I don't care. They won the
off season, congratulations, and then they get to the regular
season and it's a full blown meltdown by the New
York Mets. This is just a par for the course
when it comes to being a Mets fan.

Speaker 8 (39:19):
Next, Bears offensive lineman Darnell Wright crushed his conditioning test
because he accidentally spent the off season training for the
wide receivers test. Do you care about this at all?

Speaker 2 (39:29):
I kind of do, because I don't know how that happens.
I love it, Like there's so many layers to that,
Like I'd love to see the requirements for each position
and then try and figure out how he assumed that
one would be, Like wouldn't the dead giveaway be? All right,
you've got to be under two twenty by the time
training camp starts, Like, wouldn't that be a giveaway that

(39:50):
maybe you're in the wrong position group? Looking at the
conditionings and everything else that comes along it, just like that,
I'm still trying to figure out how that happens. Next,
all right.

Speaker 8 (39:58):
Barbenheimer's moment has continued into the second week in theaters,
as Barbie and Oppenheimer are still at the top of
the box office. Do you care at all about this?

Speaker 2 (40:08):
No? I don't. I don't care. I don't have time
to sit in a theater for five hours? Okay, so
Oppenheimer's three hours? How long is Barbie bo? Just undertwo? Yeah?
I did go see it. Yeah, So people have got
five hours to sit in a theater, like, don't you
guys have lives, Like, don't you want to see what
else is out there and not sit in a theater
with popcorn juice all over your face.

Speaker 7 (40:33):
NFL journeyman running back Frank Gore has a new opportunity.
He's going to be moving into the forty nine ers
front office as a football advisor. Free agent ball carrier
Ezekiel Elliott still looking for a job, and he paid
a visit to the Patriots, and this was made possible,
according to ESPN, because new England head coach Bill Belichick
actually asked directly to speak with Cowboys executive vice president

(40:57):
Stephen Jones about Elliott in his background and as far
as his personality and what he could bring and his
experiences with him, so that conversation is what convinced Elliott
to come to the Patriots at least for a visit.
According to reports, No deal, though, has been done yet
in regards to Elliott, who was just about twenty eight
years old and has been a Pro Bowl player. Meanwhile,

(41:20):
Angels manager Phil Nevin will serve a one game suspension
and receiver fined for his emotional outbursts last night directed
at umpires. I'm Brian Finley, what a title?

Speaker 8 (41:31):
Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Gardner?

Speaker 2 (41:33):
The Prince of Darkness?

Speaker 1 (41:35):
The Prince of Darkness is in the house on the
man up in his face.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Jonahs knocks, I don't shine shooes in the morning.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
Shape well, big God, jonahs Knocks is coming through your
speakers like a right cross from a boxer that you've
never heard of.

Speaker 7 (41:51):
They run through our ass like through a Tan horn Man,
and we could not stop ted.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
Now live from the ti iraq dot com studio. So
Fox Sports Radio, what.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Are you talking about? What is this your first day
on the job. Here's Jonas Knock getting the fast playing Grandma,
the Bingo gament running them all. So it feels like

(42:22):
a real missed opportunity here in the National Football League.
I mean, it's just terrible what has happened. This whole story.
You could have had a happy ending for everybody involved.
We could have gotten our entertainment value up right away
with the NFL schedule, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to
be the case. We will get into that for you
coming up here in just a couple of moments from now,

(42:42):
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go to a place it could be like a car
dealership or like a restaurant, and they'll give you the
run around and they'll tell you they're doing everything they
can and they're not. And I know this because I've
done sales before, so I know, like how some of
these like some look some of these people that do
sales or just scumbags. All right, let's just call what
it is. They're scumbags. Like they'll feed you a bunch

(43:47):
of crap, and it's you know, I'm doing everything I can.
You know, I'll see what I can do, but you know,
I no promises. You know, I'll see It's like, okay, dude,
we know what sort of power you have. We know
what you can do. You can do more than you doing.
That's what we know. It's like you go to a
restaurant and they make a mistake on the order and like, hey,

(44:09):
you know, so you know we we went ahead and
we took off, you know, the appetizers off the check,
so we should be good here. It's like, okay, thank
you for taking the appetizers off the check. Could you
remove the sewer wrap from the tortilla whenever you get
a second, because I'd liked not bite into that. I
saw that out back while it was still alive, and

(44:31):
it ended up popping in, you know, the the tray
of whatever you were making on the stove and heating
up and next thing, you know, ended up in my tortilla.
I'd like for you to remove the sewer rat and
then also if you could also you know, pay for
my medical bills because I already took a bite out
of it and everything else to go along with it.
If you could do that, that'd be great. It's like they
could do more, they just don't do it. It's like, hey,

(44:53):
you know, feel bad about what happened here, went ahead
and took the drinks off. The final check is that it? Yeah, yeah,
that's all I can do. There's nothing more I can
do that You go to a car dealership, all right,
So here's what we're thinking. This is what I can
offer you is the this is what we got for
you here, and you know hope that this is you know,

(45:14):
you know, if I'm able to get this done with
my boss, can I have your initials here and then
we're good to go. So that's the best you can do. Yeah, Unfortunately,
with the way things are, that's the best I could do.
Then you find out, you negotiate a little bit more.
They could do more. There's more that they could do,
And it's fine if you're a car salesman and that's

(45:34):
your thing. I got you. I've done sales before. I
get it, like I've watched people in a cubicle tell
someone on the phone doing over the phone sales. Hey,
I don't know that I can get you this deal.
I don't know if I'm able to get fifteen percent

(45:58):
off the sale price that I'm quoting you. I'll talk
with my boss, but I don't know that I'm going
to get that approval from him. So I mean, if
I'm able to, and I don't want to make any promises.
But if I'm able to, are you interested in buying?
Or like if I and again I don't want to
make any promises, Well yeah, I mean if you can

(46:20):
do that for me, I'd be willing to pull the
trigger right now and make a purchase. Okay, can you
just bear with me. I'm gonna run over there. He's
in a meeting. It'll take, you know, a couple of minutes.
If you could just hold on for a couple of minutes,
I'll see what I can do. Can you please hold, yell, hold.
They put you on hold, and they sit in their

(46:42):
chair and they might take a sip of their coffee.
They might check their Instagram. They might go heat up
some cup of noodles. They might finish the conversation they
were having with a person across from him before the
phone calls starts guarded. They might do a bunch of stuff.

(47:02):
You know what they're not doing. They're not running to
their boss to see if they can get fifteen percent
off the final sale price. And then they hit mute
and they say, okay, all right, I just ran over there.
He said, yeah, he can do it, but just this
one time if you're interested. Okay, great, yeah, let's do it.
Here's my credit card number. It's like, dude, you could

(47:24):
have done that the whole time, and you could have
probably done more, but you don't. I feel like the
NFL's got an opportunity to do something more here and
they're not going.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Why can't you flex the Jets and the Broncos from
week five and put it week one to open up
the season. Oh, let me guess. Well, you know TV,
and we've got all these contractual obligations and you know
that the Jets are opening up Monday night and you've
got the Broncos are playing the Raiders. Okay, okay, okay.

(48:00):
The problem is with everything that you did during COVID
and everything we've seen with flexing since, and the fact
that you can now be flexed multiple times, and you
could be flexed late to a Thursday game the flat.
You can do all of that stuff, but you can't
figure this one out. Tells me missed opportunity. Like you

(48:20):
had teams playing on Wednesdays during COVID, you had teams
playing games, you know, like all of a sudden, we're
gonna flip this game, or we're gonna go ahead and
flex this when I like, if you're the NFL, you
got an opportunity here, all right. You got Sean Payton
airing out another organization. You got him airing out his

(48:42):
own organization. You got him marrying out his own offensive line,
his quarterback, and he ripped into an offensive coordinator who
was previously coaching the Denver Broncos, who's now with the
team that's gotten the most coverage of any team in
the NFL offseason, who's being featured on Hard Knocks. You've

(49:03):
got an opportunity here, and you've got time on your hands,
and you mean to tell me you can't pull a
little switcher rou and get this game to week one?
Who wouldn't be into that? I'll ask you right now.
Would you rather see the Broncos play the Jets week one?
Or the Raiders? Like you're if you're a Raider fan,

(49:24):
you don't even want to see that, Like that's not
even something that you're interested in. Like, Okavy, look there's
some something going on here, like we got this is
like a fun, fun little matchup we got here, Like
I feel like this, this is something that we could
make happen. It's possible. Come on, and I know the
Jets are getting the bills. I get all that, but

(49:45):
these are divisional games. You can't flip those around. You
can't find some way in the schedule to kind of
make this whole thing work. You can flex out teams
multiple times, you can have teams play short weeks multiple times.
You can play a Wednesday game during COVID. You could
do all of those things. But you can't figure out
a way with a month and a half to go

(50:08):
to try and get the Jets and the Broncos to
play week one, and I know this is something that's
never gonna happen, and I get all that, but I
feel like it could happen. That's the point. I feel
like there's the potential here, Like there's a possibility this
could happen, and it's a missed opportunity. Sean Payton walking
back his comments, blaming it on being a Fox analyst

(50:32):
for a year and he had his Fox hat on
and that's why he said the things he said. You
know all of that. You know, you got Robert Sala
saying if you ain't got no haters, you ain't popping
and getting real fired up about it. You got Nathaniel Hackett,
who's probably sitting quietly being consoled by Aaron Rodgers during

(50:52):
this whole thing. You got all you got Jets players
who were in Denver ripping, Sean Payton, like, you got
all this stuff that's happening, all this juice here, everything's there.
All you gotta do is squeeze, and the NFL doesn't
want to squeeze. Hey, I'm doing everything I can, but
unfortunately you can't do any more for me. You can't

(51:12):
get the price downe and even nah, I just don't
I mean I could, I could see if I could
talk with my boss, But yeah, I just don't think
there's anything more I could do. Really, there's nothing more
you could do yet, all this time, all this opportunity,
there's nothing you could do about now. Sorry, you just
gonna have to wait until week five. Wait, how do
we know anybody's gonna be there week five? God forbid?

(51:35):
There's an injury, God forbid. There's some sort of a
demotion for Nathaniel Hackett. God forbid, something like, we gotta
wait until week five to get this matchup. I feel
like the NFL could do more. We've seen them do more.
We've seen them pull strings before and get get better
deals and better matchups for us before. But this time

(51:55):
they're telling you they're doing everything they can. Give me
a break. Blown opportunity, missed opportunity, and we're the victims
because of it. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. By
the way, you can get me on Twitter at the
Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter. A lot
of positive feedback here, people really really excited about the show.

(52:17):
You don't think so, you don't think I got proof? Please,
Derek writes in you in the flaming squad of bleeps bleeps,
cry more and be outraged about bleep Twitter changing to
X and announce your boycott and hope that two could

(52:38):
and hope the two cadavers that follow you will go
to threads you bleep bleep Wow. By the way, if
you do have a cadaver that's following you on Twitter
or X, that's impressive, man, that is impressive. Like it's
one thing to be followed by a dead body, it's
another thing to be followed by a cadaver. Because it's

(53:00):
been like pick dad and prodded, and I got a
thing about dead bodies. It's like that lego set you
never finished yet, like this, like elaborate lego set. It's
like a you know, it's like an entire village. You know,
you got to put together this entire village, and you
swear you're gonna finish it, but you just keep picking

(53:20):
at it, like does this go here? Does that go there?
Where's this go? Struggling you imagine being a canaver. You're
just sitting there. People are just picking you apart, looking
at you like Pulley, what happens if we twist this here?
I don't know. Let's try it out. Why don't you
do it on you and not hurts too much. We'll
use this guy that's awful. But if that, if you

(53:41):
have two of those following you on Twitter, you're doing something.
David writes in your soft pasty cracker ass needs an
absolute mauling and bleep kicking by a rear one while
your bleep ass is doing shadow boxing videos and stayed
TikTok dances. He said that Brian writes in j Off

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Jonas Knox get back to flipping out about your fantasy
bleep TB twelve and his supermodel piece that's looking for clout,
wishing it was he that was ravaging you like a
stallion in the sack. I am outraged at the Jonas
knocks on Twitter, at the Jonas knocks on Twitter again,

(54:28):
only the positive stuff here. If you got anything negative
to say, we're not going to read it on the air.
We look for positivity on the show. We're trying to
make people feel good about themselves. We're not gonna, you know,
swim in the mud and play in the mud and
you know, steer this show into a ditch like many
of you want us to, not going to do that
in our show, all right, coming up next here from

(54:50):
the Tireraq dot com studios. Sure guess we have got
proof that somebody in the NFL did not think ahead.
They did not think ahead, they did not use their
brain when they made a comment about something. And we'll
share that proof with you next here on FSR. Jonas

(55:11):
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. We are going to talk about
why it's a very special night in the world of sports.
It is a special night. We get a few of
these every single year, just a few of them, and
tonight is one of those. We'll get into that for
you again coming up here about ten minutes from now

(55:31):
here on FSR. By the way, I'd like to give
a shout out here. You know, I mentioned the ie
the Inland Empire. People listening nationally look it up. It's
the Inland Empire here in southern California. It's very hot
out there, and I'd like to give a little bit
of a shout out because they gave me a shout
out on Twitter. Coach B who's listening on our phenomenal

(55:55):
Fox Sports Radio affiliate AM thirteen fifty in Riverside and
Bernardino a little shout out there. I told you hundreds
of affiliates. I'm not making that up. We're all over
the place, right all over the place, so so cal
back each you name it. People listening all over the country.
So appreciate the love and thank you for making us

(56:17):
a part of your Saturday afternoon here on FSR. And
by the way, it's still Saturday morning for people listening
on the blowtorch of the Hawaiian Islands. Fox Sports nine
ninety right. Oh, they still have some AM listeners. Steve
Hartman joining us here via field tap. So good to
hear from Steve. All right, so, oh man, so we

(56:46):
have got proof somebody in the NFL didn't really think
this one through. This is bad planning, all right, like
we all have. And at some point in time you've
done this in your life. You've just been a bad
planner or you know, bad planners. Right now, You go
through this stuff one time and usually the second time

(57:06):
you'll figure things out. But everybody knows a bad planner
in their life. You know, a lot of times it's
people when they get ready for travel. You know, there's
somebody who just like like, oh, yeah, I did this,
I did that, And then you realize, wait, hold on
a second, you're trying to bring that in your carry on. Yeah,
what's the problem, Well, it's a giant bottle of mouthwash.
I don't know, what do you think? Probably bad planning, right,

(57:31):
It's why they have travel aisles in the store. You know,
everything is allowed in your carry on for those of
you that don't like to check bags and you want
to bring everything on the carry on, especially with the
way air travel is today, Like, there's a reason why
they make all that stuff so it fits you. Walking

(57:54):
on to a plane with your travel bag and your
carry on bag and a seventy ounce bottle of scope
doesn't really work. So you get stopped. They make you
take it out. They make you either you can check
the bag or you can leave it and come back

(58:15):
for it. Like, that's just poor planning. Everybody knows a
poor planner. They don't think ahead. You gotta think ahead.
Jim Mersay is a bad planner. I would venture to
guess now he probably flies private, but I'm gonna go
ahead and say that Jim Mersay at least a couple
of times in his life. If he hasn't flown private
and he's flown commercial, I'm gonna go ahead and say

(58:36):
that Jim Irsay has probably been stopped trying to carry
something in his carry on that exceeded the three point
four ounce limit because he doesn't think ahead. Here's my proof.

(58:58):
He decided to chime in on the whole running back debate.
This happened this week on social media. Jim Mersey decided
to go to Twitter. And this is somebody who likes
to share his thoughts on Twitter and all things that
happened in the world of the NFL and other things
he'll send out lyrics to, like bad rock songs and

(59:20):
things like that. Jimmers Jim Mersey said on Twitter the
NFL running back situation. We have negotiated a CBA that
took years of effort and hard work and compromise in
good faith by both sides. To say now that a
specific player category once another negotiation after the fact is inappropriate.
Some agents are selling bad faith. Now he's not wrong.

(59:46):
You did negotiate this into the CBA. That CBA is
going to be around for another seventy years. If you
didn't like the way something was, you should have negotiated
harder for it during the initial CBA talk. That's why
you had veteran players who were upset with the deal
that was signed and spoke out about it afterwards. But

(01:00:08):
in regards to this tweet about the running back position,
Jim Mersay clearly not thinking ahead, clearly exceeded the three
point four ounce carry on limit with this tweet because
one of the first people to respond to Jim Irsay
talking about bad faith was an agent of an NFL player.

(01:00:35):
That agent happens to represent Jonathan Taylor, who just happens
to play for Jim Mersey's Indianapolis Colts, and who just
happens to be coming up on the final year of.

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
His deal.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
And is now apparently not happy with the comments from
Jim Irsay and where the conversations are heading and what
direction those are going when it comes to him as
an Indianapolis Colts running back and Stephen Holder, who covers
the Indianapolis Colts, has been covering him a long time.
He pointed this out and said, Yeah, things are not
all that great between Jonathan Taylor and the Indianapolis Colts

(01:01:18):
right now. I'm not saying that there's a trade imminent,
but it's not outside the realm of possibility that Jonathan
Taylor could get dealt. So Jim mersay, and look, he
was right, all points taken, very good point. But that's
one of those times where you just think it through
and think another step ahead. Hey, if I do this,

(01:01:40):
what are the ramifications on the back end? And you
should have clearly recognized, Hey, I got a guy who's
in this spot. Although what I'm saying is correct, maybe
I should sit this one out because I'm not trying
to make things any more difficult on anybody here. It's
been hard enough here the past few years. It's been
difficult enough here the past few years. I don't want

(01:02:00):
to make things any more awkward or make things any
more trying here with the organization. I mean, whether it's
hiring a buddy of mine to be the GM years
ago because we lifted weights together. That was a disaster.
You had a quarterback who retired in a preseason because
he got beat up too much, retired on the sidelines
of a preseason game. You had a revolving dork quarterback

(01:02:24):
Frank Reich was told to get lost last year. Then
you brought in Jeff Saturday. That was a disaster. Like,
There's been a lot of things that Jim Mersey has
touched within this organization over the past few years that
have not gone well. And I'm not saying that he's
fully to blame, but his fingerprints are kind of on
all of those all those stories we just mentioned, his
fingerprints are all over them. It's like, dude, this is

(01:02:47):
a situation that needs to be monitored. Jonathan Taylor is
maybe the best player you've got on offense outside Quentin Nelson,
but as far as the old positions go, Jonathan Taylor's
your best player. It's a touchy subject for everybody involved.

(01:03:07):
I'm pretty sure Jonathan Taylor was on that zoom call
that Austin Eckler put together. If he wasn't, just for
the sake of this take, let's go ahead and say
he was. Clearly Jonathan Taylor has got a vested interest
into this whole thing. And the fact that his own
owner comes out and says that on Twitter, it's like, dude,
what are you doing? Like like part of the cell

(01:03:33):
is yeah, it's a business, but you know, we love you,
like like you, like the fact that you like you're
showing like why did Saquon Barkley go back to the Giants? Yeah,
he wanted to get you want to do at least
make something this year, But it's also because it's the Giants.
They have a pretty good relationship, Like there's you know,
Saquon Barkley doesn't want to leave, Like why would you

(01:03:54):
run the risk of Jonathan Taylor just saying all right,
I don't want to be here, or I'll just sit
this one out, or or I don't you know, this
is disgusting the behavior of our owner and the comments
he made, and I'll just go ahead and make things
difficult on everybody. Now, Jonathan Daylor doesn't strike me as
that type of guy, But why even broach the poet?

(01:04:14):
Why even go near this unless you just didn't think
it through. And it's almost like Jim Irsay sent the
tweet and then like the next day somebody knocked on
his office and said, and mister ersay, yeah, Jonathan Taylor
plays running back his contracts coming up after this year. Ooh, well,

(01:04:36):
I don't remember my password to Twitter, so we'll leave
it as is, okay, But he just didn't think it through.
And so now he's gonna have to deal with the
fact that you got a running back who apparently is
pissed off, and it could be the end of the
Jonathan Taylor era in Indianapolis if you believe some of
the reporting that came out from Stephen Holder does a
great job covering the team. Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio,

(01:04:57):
get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the
Jonas on Twitter. So coming up next, it is a
rare night in the world of sports. We don't get
these a lot. We do not get these a lot,
but we are going to have these coming up later
on tonight. We'll tell you what that is here on FSR.
But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
I mean, forget tennis. Yeah, this man is the whiffle

(01:05:19):
ball of sports talk radio. He has stood the test
of time and still getting it done all these years later.
He's Brian Finley, Jonas, thank you and something about that family.
That was well done.

Speaker 7 (01:05:33):
Although I think considering the hate that you're getting on
social media, I feel like you're the whiffle ball on
at tea and everybody's taking a swing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
That's all right, I got thick skin. I can deal
with it, do you?

Speaker 7 (01:05:44):
Yeah, because you give off the impression that your strong
willed and that you can take it and shove it
all the people out there. But are you really feeling
that when you go home and you turn the radio
off and you're sitting with your thoughts.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
Oh yeah, come on, man, Like, here's here's the great
thing about me? Like, and this is why I don't
get bothered by when people say bad things about me
on Twitter. That's why I don't care whatever you think
of me. It's nothing in comparison to how little I
think of myself, like.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
I am I.

Speaker 2 (01:06:20):
I am so negative when it comes to me that
I'm impervious to pain. Like nothing anybody can say about
me outside of me is going to do any damage
because of how bad I beat myself up internally. And
that's the truth. A little bit of a little we
call that a fact bomb being thrown in your lap there, family,
What do you think about that? Some would say that's

(01:06:42):
a little bit depressing, it's not. It's it's how I operate.

Speaker 7 (01:06:46):
Has that fluctuated? No, as your career has flourished in radio.

Speaker 2 (01:06:52):
No, No, it's awful. You can ask our boss Scot Shapiro, Like,
I've I've had conversations with him about stuff to where
he goes, Yeah, man, it really wasn't that bad. But
I assume everything is awful. I think everything I do
is bad, and I need to get better, and I'm
in pursuit of the perfect show and it's just never
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
We don't need to bring Jonas six.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Thank you. This was my wife. That was your wife talking. Yes,
ye keep my right, you're talking about man. Yeah, so
Michelle North, No, that is not that's not Michelle Norton,
but that is That's just the way I operate. That's
the way I think. That's why my psychology is. I
think everything I do sucks. So if anybody tells me
something bad about myself, it's like, oh, that's nothing. You

(01:07:35):
should hear what I say about myself. If you could
get inside me, that's sounded. Just leave it alone. Just
leave it alone. Moving on, So, what's the score that
Twins game? By the way, all those stories, you know,
they came.

Speaker 7 (01:07:49):
Out in our conversation on the podcast that we did,
so a lot of your fans would love that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
By the way, psychology of you, I thought you were
gonna have Neil Everett on when's that appen.

Speaker 7 (01:07:58):
He's coming he said, first week of August. Okay, so
we're working on that. Obviously has a lot to talk about.
So I'm no longer with ESPN.

Speaker 2 (01:08:09):
He doesn't see he won't do this because he seems
like a good guy. He's going to be great if
he just laid out ESPN, I mean, just wore them out.
I didn't like this. I don't like that, I didn't
like the treatment of this. I don't give a crap
about this. Sport like it'd be great. Like what if
Neil Everett just came on and he's like, oh god,
it's great to join you, Brian Man. I'm sure, I'm

(01:08:30):
glad that I'm talking sports and it doesn't have to
be the WNBA, Like would be great if he said that.

Speaker 7 (01:08:34):
So sort of like you were talking about the first
hour when Sean Payton just went off, Oh yeah, I
had a filter.

Speaker 2 (01:08:40):
Yeah yeah. But then he's blamed on he blamed on
a latte, which is the worst excuse in the world.
Neil Everett, just have whatever you want to have. He's like,
he's a big Hawaii guy. Get yourself a ConA beer,
maybe a big wave or a gold cliff. I PA,
throw a couple of those back and just start opening
up firing off on ESPN. Did you hire what?

Speaker 1 (01:09:01):
I said?

Speaker 7 (01:09:05):
Oh, Jonas, I love it. I also love the fact
that we are now learning that ageless NFL running back
Frank Gore is going to get a cubicle in the
forty nine ers front office.

Speaker 2 (01:09:14):
As a football advisor.

Speaker 7 (01:09:16):
How about that we also are learning the free agent
ball carrier Ezekiel Elliott met with Patriots leadership in espianage
reporting that new England head coach Bill Belichick invited Elliott
on the stipulation that this came after consulting with Cowboys
EVP Stephen Jones for Inside Intel on that free agent

(01:09:36):
no deal though, though has been done yet. Cowboys owner
Jerry Jones always likes to put himself in front of
the cameras, said the bruise tow of one Trayvon Diggs,
which he suffered, might keep him out of training camp
until the team moves its practice schedule from Oxnard to Dallas.
I know we were all concerned about that the Bengals
are trying out a couple of XFL quarterbacks Reed Sennett

(01:10:00):
and Drew Plitt. Angels manager Phil Nevin is serving that
one game suspension because of his antics last night. And
the Angels are playing right now, the first of many
games to get underway in the MEMLB scoreboard, and it's
scoreless against the Blue Jayson Toronto, top of the second.
And I know, Jonas, you are very intent on what's
happening here in Minnesota where there was a PGA Tour

(01:10:22):
event Lee Hodges, remember that name, sixteen under for the tournament,
one under today through ten holes as a three shot
lead over JT. Posting with that, Let's get it back
to a guy that if he held a golf club
in his hands, he would use it as a self
defense tool because that's the only thing he knows how

(01:10:44):
to do with the golf club.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
It's Jonas Knox, and it's very effective. You saw what
happened at Tiger Woods. Geez just saying. I'm just saying, man, Look,
if you got some stuff you're worried about people finding
out about, you know, make sure you lock your phone. Dude, Like,
next thing you know, he wakes up, he's got a
callaway right across the bridge of his nose.

Speaker 7 (01:11:06):
Is that when I see a Louisville slugger baseball bat
and an old callaway driver in the passenger seat of
your Lincoln town car that you drive to work every day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
First of all, that is insulting disrespect. Don't you disrespect
my two thousand and six truck? All right? I drive
a truck that's got three hundred and fifty thousand miles.

Speaker 7 (01:11:27):
What do you put in the back of the truck?
Why do you have a truck if you don't put
anything in the back of it. If I need to
carry stuff, I carry stuff. I always like trucks growing up.
I don't know I wanted a truck.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
And there's a lot of people who between you know,
in the last seventeen years, I've had a lot of
different cars, not me. So we call it the Sanford
and Sun truck. So every time I pull up, LeVar
sees me and I just go there because, yeah, it's
the way I work. I'm a simple man family, all right.
I don't have no Lincoln town car. Hey, Brian, I

(01:11:58):
don't have no Jordan's Brian. I asked Jonas to help
me move once and he told me to kick sand.
He liked to face to move, like in the parking
lot or something. No to move, help me move from
one place to the other. And he said, uh, because
you know you want to have that friend who has
a truck. He said, oh yeah, there's no chance.

Speaker 7 (01:12:15):
So, Jonas, you were talking in the last hour it
sucks about worst cadavers, and then I'm thinking pickup truck
transportation and my mind just goes into some dark places.

Speaker 2 (01:12:25):
Oh you think, do I move bodies with it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
No, it's not no country for old men where I'm
driving around with corpses in the back of my car
on an interstate and Tommy Lee Jones pulls me over, like,
what's wrong with you? I got a thing about dead bodies,
just like trucks, and I haven't gotten a new one
since two thousand and six. Told you I'm a man
of the people. All right, it is uh Jonas Knox
here on Fox Sports Radio, and right now it's time

(01:12:50):
for the progressive play of.

Speaker 9 (01:12:51):
The day and the pitch fly balls center field and
deep that goes talking on the warning track.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
What did he make? The catch? He did? What a plue.

Speaker 9 (01:13:04):
Talkman took a home run away from Burlison.

Speaker 2 (01:13:08):
Cubs win the ball game.

Speaker 9 (01:13:11):
A fantastic catch by Mike Talkmaney jumping up, putting his
glove over the top of the center field fence and
pulling it back. What a finish.

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
And that's what it sounds like when you go one
game above five hundred for the first time. Sin's nineteen
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(01:13:47):
Progressive dot com. All right, So coming up next, we
get a couple of these every single year. It is
a rare night in the world of sports. And I'll
tell you why that is right here on FSR. Jonas
Knocks Fox Sports Radio. You need to lose weight, fat boy.

(01:14:07):
What a stupid song? What a dumb song? You imagined?
Rolled this one out to your record label. Hey, what
do you got for us? I got a song where
I'm depressed, I'm calling myself fat What do you think? Oh,
let's roll with it. That'll be a hit. And it
worked so good for them. Is this bronze stool or whatever?

(01:14:31):
They're called what band is this? Sam? Is this like
a platinum platinum bar top or something? What are they called, uh,
Bronze thrown? No, what are they called? Seriously, Lebron's thrown?
What are they called? Sam? Silverchair? This is a good song.

Speaker 5 (01:14:47):
Okay, I didn't even know you're saying fat boy. I
thought he was saying like atta boy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
No, I think you're saying fat But I think he's
saying fat.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
I think you're right now that I listen to it.
We got other stuff to do. Let's go, come on,
Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Let's way if you anyway, if you missed any of
this program, you can check out the podcast at Fox
Sports radio dot com. It'll be posted up shortly after
we go off the air. We are going to be
back on the air next week as we get excited
for more training camp talk and all the other fun
stuff to go along with it. Keep it here though,
in about ten minutes from now, a little over ten
minutes from now, it is Steve Hartman and Bucky Brooks.

(01:15:22):
So it's Carrie Rhodes and Steve Hartman. So bad information again,
last two out of three weeks. So apologies to Kerry Rhoads.
Bad information, bad information handed along here, but stick around.
Steve Hartman and Carry Rhodes will be on the air
as soon as Steve decides to show up the studio.
I mean, Jesus, why does this guy cut it so
close every week? I don't get it. I'm the devil.

(01:15:43):
Well that's a bit much, Steve. Also, by the way,
thank you to Iowa Sam and Bo Benson and Brian
Finley Ian Roddy who's cutting up all the sound in
the back making a sound all pretty job well done
by all involved. And now it is time to put
a bow on this bad boy with a little something

(01:16:03):
we do every single week at this time, and it's
called this.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
Jonas, How could you not get to these stories?

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Are there scraps? All right? Bo Benson? What do we got?

Speaker 8 (01:16:18):
Well, what we do have tonight is a big night
in boxing and UFC frecher rash.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
Let me tell you something. You get You get this
a couple of times during the year. I call it
double barrel TV night in the world of sports where
it's not one of those all right, well you you
just uh you can watch have something on in the
other room, have suing, No you gotta have visibility on
multiple TVs or devices, whether it's an iPad, your phone,

(01:16:47):
whatever the case may be. You've got to have double
barrel action going on here. You get it in college
football a couple of times during the year. Well, there'll
be two games on at the same time. You want
to watch both of them. You don't you don't want
to have to, you know, miss any of it. You
don't want you don't want to worry about spoilers, so
you watch both at the same time. And that's what
the UFC and boxing have. We've got Spence Crawford, one

(01:17:09):
of the best fights in boxing we've had in years,
which is set to take place coming up later on.
Then you've got the rematch and the UFC Pourier gai Chie.
The first fight was a bloodbath. The fact that we've
got Dustin Pourier justin Gaichie on the same time that
we've got Spence and Crawford, double barrel action on your

(01:17:29):
viewing devices. Don't worry about spoilers. You just watch them
both and you deal with it after the fact.

Speaker 1 (01:17:36):
It's fun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
It's a lot to manage, but it's going to be
a damn good time coming up later on tonight and
boxing and in the UFC. What else we got bo.

Speaker 8 (01:17:42):
Wide receiver Chris Henry Junior, the son of the late
former NFL wide receiver Chris Henry and the adopted son
of Adam Pacman Jones. He's committed to wide. He's committed
to Ohio State where he will play wide receiver like
his father did before him. So that's a cool story.

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
It is cool And if anybody followed along with that,
Adam Pacman Jones has taken care of them and stepped
in and done a really admirable job. And obviously he was,
you know, friends with Chris Henry and so to be
able to take over after that tragedy and then to
see all the success that they've had together and now

(01:18:19):
he's going to Ohio State, that's that's outstanding. So credit
to Adam pac Man Jones to a lot of people
have had a lot of things to say about him
over the course of his time in the NFL and
before that and the off field stuff. This one though,
has been fantastic and the way he's stepped up for
the Henry family has been awesome. What else we got on?

Speaker 8 (01:18:36):
Yeah, So one thing that I don't care for is
people like Arnie Spanner who pedal misinformation.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Other people.

Speaker 8 (01:18:45):
You're it's ridiculous. So this is the real story that
he sent you to try to make you look bad
or whatever it is Arnie was trying to do. I
don't know, Subways offering free sandwiches for life to one
lucky contest winner who legally changes their first name to Subway.
So if you yeah, that's the real thing. Yeah, that's

(01:19:09):
what that's that's that's good for Subway. Definitely one of
their better promotions. Yeah, so let me get this straight.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
So you get free Subway sandwiches if you legally change
your name to Subway.

Speaker 8 (01:19:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Yes, So nobody's going to do that, right, Let's just
let's call that one.

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
No, Yeah, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
And also, I look, I'm not trying to just Subway
has had kind of a checker past when it comes
to how to represent themselves, you know what I mean?

Speaker 8 (01:19:37):
Yeah, Like there's you know, I don't know that. I'm
glad you said it because I was I was going to.

Speaker 2 (01:19:41):
So Yeah, I don't know that that's I don't know
that's necessarily where like, are you more likely to change
your name to subway or to Jared, like, what's more
likely to happen. Let's let's ask that question. Yeah, but
you know, you gotta do what you gotta do to
try and build some promotion for what you're doing. Now,

(01:20:03):
I will tell a fun tale on the air here
when I got my first tattoo, and in fact, I
don't even know, I don't even think it was a tattoo.
I think when I got my first piercing. So I
went to this tattoo shop that was called I think
it's called Jimmy's Tattoos in Portwainimi, California, not far from

(01:20:23):
where the Cowboys training camp is. And you walk in there,
and if you go to a tattoo shop, you know,
they've got all sorts of tattoos on the wall, they've
got different designs, they've got books you can look at.
We've got this, We've got that, they've got you know,
all their previous work. It's like all of this artwork
that's up of all the things that they've done in
the past. And so you're just kind of looking around

(01:20:44):
and you start talking pricing, and they say, well, this
is what we charge an hour, and this is what
a piercing is and they said there's one tattoo here
that we do for free if you get it. And
I'm like, what's that and they're like, look over there,
and I go and look on the wall and it's
OJ's mug shot. I swear to God on

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
That Jonas son of a bitch.

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