Andy Furman & Geoff Schwartz Talk Football!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
A coach, defensive quarterback, and a most unusual manner.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
We'll get that in just a minute.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Ear. Yes,
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(00:32):
he's my partner. I missed you.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm saying this from my heart.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
I missed you. How are you?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I am good. I'm glad to be back. We are
back from Hawaii. It was a little bit of an adventure. Uh,
just to the Red Eye. We got back. Last night
was our first night, sort of day and day night back.
Had some struggle sleeping, but glad to be here. Glad
to be back back on back on regular schedule. Because
it's football season. Man, it is like we're here. Hall

(00:58):
of Fame game is Thursday night. It's time we're playing football.
It's great. It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
But I got to ask you how hot wasn't in Hawaii?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
It was fine. It was much harder in Charlotte than
it is in Hawaii. It was We were in Mali,
in the western part of Mali, and it was Yeah,
it wasn't very It wasn't very hot. It was mid eighties.
I think there were times when I got out of
the pool. I know, you guys will feel very sorry
for me. I was like a man, it's kind of
cold outside when you're wet. I mean I know that,

(01:27):
I really I your thoughts and prayers, everyone is much
are much appreciated for me. But it was a good trip.
It was my We saw my college roommate and his wife.
There were three kids. We hadn't seen him in like
eight years. They live in the eastern part of Oregon,
so it's kind of hard to line up our schedules.
He coaches high school football and track and a teacher,

(01:48):
so it's hard to kind of match up schedules. So
we're able to get it done. Very happy. Kids had
a great time.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Great did you get burnt? A little sunburned?

Speaker 4 (01:57):
There?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
No, no good Okay, he has to big question I
have you know, you're a big guy, you're a celebrity
playing in the NFL for eight years. You go to
the restaurants in Honolulu, Hawaii, on the island, does anybody
stop he.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
Say, Hey, you're Jeff Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
You wrote the book, e My Schwartz, have your autograph,
can take a picture with you.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
How many people recognize you in Hawaii?

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Nobody. The thing that I like about, you know, places
that have a lot of tourists, they typically are unbothered
by someone who may who may sort of look like,
you know, they're they they they should, you know, they
should be famous, which I'm not terribly famous, but you know,
there's like they they they just kind of ignore you,

(02:40):
which is sort of nice.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
All right, Okay, I'll never ignore you.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
You know that I will leave you. I appreciate it. Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
I got a story here which I thought was humorous, interesting,
and really ingenious all in one. Earlier in the week,
the new coach of the Denver Broncos. Former Denver coach
Nathaniel Hackett was ripped called out by the new coach,
Sean Payton. All right, and then since then, I'm Peyton
back track the remarks. He said it was the worst

(03:07):
coaching jobs in the history of the NFL. I think
it was ingenius. Why I say that. I think it
was a way to pump up and defend his quarterback,
Russell Wilson, who's been maligned since the entire season last year,
he ripped his a fellow coach, and he backtracked. They
sort of apologized, okay, But I thought it was a
great deal. I thought it was a genius move to

(03:28):
kind of build up Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, you know, I was surprised that Sean Payne went
this direction because I think we'll get up. I thought
there was some beef between him and Robert Sala or
him personally the Jets, and there really isn't right. I mean,
he was with the States for so many years, never
really played the Jets. Maybe there was some beef with
Robert Sala, the DC, the Foryniners, and appeared to be

(03:51):
any beef. It just seemed odd to take a random
attack to the Jets when you're worried about your team
in training, can ye, And so I felt that that
that was just a for a veteran coach to take
that that route felt odd. Now I get the pushback
as well, he's defending his quarterback. Last year's over man,

(04:14):
Like we're now in twenty twenty three. You were a
brand new season. Why are we talking about last year still?
Why is that still a discussion for you to be having? Well?
Why are we so you know, focused on when I've
thought you. I heard the Kanasay Chiefs had the right
guard speak yesterday. I think Trade Smith spoke. You know
in training camp you might get you know one day
in off it's a lineman talks, right, so he kind

(04:35):
of have to listen to what to what that guy says.
And he said, Look, no one cares about what happened
last season. We're on to twenty twenty three. Now, Yeah
it's great we won, but like no one, no one
cares anymore. Right, we're on too, a new year. Well,
Sean Payne, you're onto a new year. Why was still
talking about last season? If I were him, I would
never talk about last season. I would never mention it.
I would not bring it up. I wouldn't use it

(04:56):
his motivation. I just would never talk about it. Never.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
But I think he can get away with it. I'll
tell you why he wasn't there last season. I mean,
there are coaches that have a bad season a year
ago and they're returning and they want to kind of
talk about what happened last year. They won't do it again.
He's coming with a clean slate. Last year was a mess,
but it wasn't his mess.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
I guess man. I played on Againty Chief's team that
had Andy Reid in the first year after they had
gone too and fourteen the year before, I played with
Ron Rivera and Carolina. The year after we went two
and fourteen in Carolina, those coaches never talked about the
previous year. I never heard about it once they got

(05:37):
in there, like there's you know, they mentioned it in
the opening meeting with us, but that's it. And for
Sean Payne to go out of his way to basically
knock the Jets, and really it's Nathaniel Hackett one than again,
I don't think the Hackets any good. He might be better
with Aaron Rodgers' quarterback than than Russell Wilson. I just

(05:58):
you know, the young kids, they use that term rent free,
right right free when you talk about something that you
shouldn't be and you're kind of living, you know, in
someone's head, right you're living rent for in someone's head. Right,
it feels like the Jets at that moment, we're rent
for Sean Payne's head. I didn't get it, man, I
get defending your quarterback. And maybe I missed the context

(06:19):
of the interview question. I don't think it had any
really much to do with with having to defend Russell Wilson.
I just don't understand why the attack on the Like, dude,
you focus on your own team, man, Like, what do
you worry about the Jets right now? Right?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
And the funny thing is, you know, in all the
years I've follow sports, no matter what the sport might be,
there's always sort of like a rule, like the fraternity
of coaches. I mean, one guy you know his pals
with the other guy, you would never attack, like you
may end up working on this staff, whatever it may be.
And he came out and said that Hackett quote was
one of the worst coaching jobs in the history of

(06:54):
the NFL.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
That's that's a pretty big indictment.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It really is. Even if you want to come back
and say I didn't mean I'm sorry, he said it,
and when he said it, he probably meant it. And
then he came back because well that that was like
my TV hat was on, come on, really, you meant
it all right? And then I thought I loved it
because you don't hear that.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
We absolutely meant it. I think he is apologizing more
to like Robert Solad than he is to Nate Hackett.
And I think he's apologizing for, you know, going in
that direction when again, he didn't really have to. But again,
my my thing is like, dude, worry about your team now,

(07:32):
like it's over. Last year's over, you're in the new year,
you're in training camp. Now, worry about what about your team?
Stop worrying about Nate Hackett what happened last season? And
I just I was, I don't see. You don't see
veteran coaches going in that direction very often, and he did.

(07:53):
He did very loudly well.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
And this is what makes the NFL great, the storylines,
the drama, the soap opera, all that stuff. Because now
everybody's circling Week five in the NFL October the eighth,
the Broncos who play the Jets in Week five, How
big is that going to be? And what kind of
a motivation does the coaching staff for the Jets use
now against Denver? Say hey, guys. He said I was
the worst coach in the league.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Could he shut?

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean, what do you do? What do you do
if you're a boat?

Speaker 1 (08:19):
I don't think. I mean, it doesn't matter very much.
And you know, if you're not motivated to play each game,
even problem, that's an extra motivation that week. Sure, it's
week four, you know. I think I think Nate Hackett
is going to look at that game and think, look,
let me show you what I can do with the
real quarterback, right Sean Payns, and look at and say, hey,
look what I can do with you know what Russell

(08:40):
Wilson is with a real offense. I think the thing
that is most fascinating about that, obviously is, you know,
Aaron Rodgers week four, like there's just a lot of
of of you know, new Aaron Rodgers at that time,
and seeing how he's, you know, how he's starting to
ramp up with this offense by the time of the year.
I don't expect. I don't have high helps Russell Wilson

(09:01):
this season, So anything better than than I guess what
we saw last year is a plus, which I think
we will see just by default having a better coach.
But I have no high helps for Russell Wilson this year.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know, the good news is that we have the
New York just now on Hard Knocks. We'll see if
this this comes up at all on Hard Knocks, maybe
the last and we'll see what happens. But you know
what you mentioned Hard Knocks, I think that's way way
beneath that Netflix series Quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
That was great.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
I watched them all Onners.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
I loved it.

Speaker 3 (09:32):
I don't know why they picked, you know, Marcus Mariota.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
So I think he was a late addition. I think
there was someone else that they had in mind to
do the show that backed out, so that Mario was
I think added late that so and the way they
kind of talked about him, it made it sort of
made sense that he was the late addition to that.
To add I was very disappointed as a fan of football.

(09:59):
Not very disappointed would be the wrong word, but disappointed
that Joe Burrow said no. I think Joe Burrow is
a perfect person to feature on this show, and he's
he backed out of it. You know, obviously, you know,
look at hindsight now, it maybe makes you know it's good.
He didn't have any cameras around the last week or
so as he got hurt. But man, Joe Burrow would
have been a lot of fun to have on the show.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Right, I'm with you on that.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
You know, it's funny you mentioned the term motivation, and
you know, I remember back in college, even in high school,
I was.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
A manager of the team.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
In high school, there was news clippings from one school
to another and coach put them up on the bulletin board.
That was motivation. I think that's overblown when it comes
to the pros. Am I crazy? But because I did.
I did some pr work with some pro teams. No
one cares. Everybody's barbing, everybody's talking, and no one ever
ever in a coaching or anybody puts stuff on bulletin
boards with clippings or whatever it may be.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
You're motivated, but you go out there. It's your job.
You got to get it done.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
Yeah, no one is going to, you know, put this
up on the bulletin We're in week four. If it
was that week, maybe, and Sean Payne made that comment.
I think maybe Robert Solo would say something about it.
But there's I mean, this is the NFL. Manly, you're
you're you're you're a professional. You're paid to to to
win these games and play well. Any little motivation I

(11:15):
think is helpful because it's a long season, right, it's
an eighteen week regular season now with seventeen games and
a bye, and so having different ways to motivate yourself
through the eighteen weeks, I think it's a really fabulous thing.
Like I think it's absolutely something that you need to have.
You need to have different ways to motivate yourself because
just a long, long season, right, But as far as

(11:36):
you know, does it does it change the way you
fundamentally play that week? No, It's nice to have something
to to mentally fire you up a little bit. But
I think again, a week four is so early in
the season, and you're gonna have you have two teams
in the Broncos who are going to be kind of
figuring out Sean Payne obviously, right, and and kind of
the way that you know how that's going in three

(12:00):
week four, And the same is absolutely true with what's
gonna happen with with with the Jets and Robert Salla
and Aaron Rodgers and the Hackets. You're gonna have two
teams that are so focused on themselves and the process
of building their offenses that they're gonna not gonna time
to focus on the opponent. You know what the opponent said,

(12:21):
you know, eight weeks before that.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
Right in your NFL career, could you recall any coach
that really really motivated you or did something to motivate
the team?

Speaker 1 (12:33):
Well, who was a great motivator as a coach. N
I don't get motivated by those things. Like when you
watch those pre game huddles, there's always the player right
in the middle, who's just the one who's doing the
who's given the sermon, you know, like you.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
Know Holmes was unbelievable on Netflix.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Yeah, really, So there's always that person who's given the
sermon in the in the huddle. If you looked at me,
I was always in the very back. None of that
motivated me. Never, nothing, It just it didn't. It didn't
do anything for me. And so it was never. I'm
not motivated by people other people's wards like that, So

(13:10):
none of it. I'm motivated by myself. I motivate myself
to play, to play football, So it's not something that
would even get me going. Man, I I don't I
don't care. I got my own things to worry about them.
I motivate myself and how you need to get ready
to play.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
There you go, and I'm motivated knowing that I'm working
with a pro that that motivates me on Sundays. It
really does, especially now when entering the football season. I
got to be on my toes because you've you've been there,
done that, you played the game, you strapped it up
on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
What do I do it couch? You know? So it's
just so different now, man, with training camp. I mean
they're in a week. You know, they're in the middle
of the just the isssume me the end of week
one essentially, and they barely had pads on. Man, It's
crazy and you're.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Still getting hurt and I'm still getting hurt.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, but see, injuries are part of football. I understand
the coaches are upset because I think the soft tissue
injuries are up a little bit because players, you know,
they they wanted this this less offseason program, right, which
I think to me, I never understood trading any sort
of money for the officeason program to be shorter because

(14:18):
often program is super easy. And I get coaches are
upset because they don't have the players in and understand
the idea that you know, players that do more football stuff,
you know, like their bodies do football things, they should
be better trained to not have these muscle tears and
these caff strains and things like that. But but guess what,

(14:41):
CBA is not changing. And so you as a coach
have to adapt to your surroundings. And if you cannot adapt,
if you can't figure out a way to get your
players most ready to play. And remember, now there's a
ramp up period. Right as you mentioned, there's no pads anymore.
We used to show up, you know this man, first day,
full pads, first practice. You'd show up today. Yeah, you

(15:03):
show up on a you know, on a Friday night.
Typically we started camping, it was on a Friday, and
then you know, you check in the dorm, you have
meetings that night, and you wake up and you go
hit each other in the morning at at nine am
in full pads first day. So there's a ramp up period. Now.
The coaches that adapt best to the new way the

(15:24):
NFL is is the new practice, that are the ones
that win. The ones that complain and moan, and you
can give coach Adam Schefter, they're the ones that lose
the way.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
And when the late Pool Brown coached the Cincinnati Bengals
and I first came to town in Cincinnati, he had
the team training up in Wilmington day. He would not
allow them to have air conditioning in their rooms. I
remember Reggie Williams Snook went in and he went nuts.
And they had to practice three times a day, but
they were only forty five to fifty minute practices, but
they went three times a day with pads.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
See, this is the thing that NFL coaches thought things
like condition made their teams tougher, right, But in fact
it made sure they didn't sleep as well, which is
which obviously, you know, players are more injured if they
can't rest properly and recover properly. Like all the things
that coaches used to do that they thought made their

(16:16):
teams tougher, right again, like like no water break, no
water breaks, Oh we're not going to give them, you know, uh,
air conditioning that made them less likely to play at
their at their their their highest, their best. And now
obviously no one would ever do that, right, they would
never take away someone's ability to sleep and recover properly.
And it's so funny how that's what used to be

(16:39):
considered tough and team building and and and look, I
you know, I've I kind of didn't play in that
era a little bit where like, you know, coaches looked
at you kind of funky if you're in the training
room or if you were doing this and that. But
I can you imagine the coach now being like, yeah,
I know air conditioning. I want you to sleep in
a hot room and.

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is a little personal to you because they may call
it a Power five conference, but now they're down to
nine teams and the PAC twelve, let's face it, is
the weakest in football of all the Power fives. And
now Colorado was to give the conference a little bit
of life, a little bit of hype with the new
coach Dean Sanders. They're gonna boat right now. Going to
the Big twelve doesn't look good for your PAC twelve.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah, oh man, I don't know where to begin. So
for those who are new here, welcome. My nine to
five is PAC twelve Radio. I've done it for five
years now. I went to Oregon. My parents are Bruna Lums.
I know the conference very well. So a couple of
things that are the I don't even know where to
be kind to begin here. One. Okay, on the face

(18:56):
of it, Colorado leaving is not that big a deal.
On the face of denders is going out right. They've
been the conference is twenty twelve. They've never really felt
a part of the Pac twelve. They've won nothing. They've
won one Pac twelve South Football Championship in twenty sixteen,
then Laws that got blown out I believe in the
Pactal Championship game by Washington that year. They've been to

(19:21):
the men's basketball tournament champion one single time in since
twenty twelve. They've been the losiest football program in the conferences.
Twenty and then includes an Oregon State squad that wasn't
great over the previous nine years. They're very good last season.
Other schools have had gone through playing at coaches. Colorado

(19:42):
has gone through four or five during this time. So
on the face losing Colorado is not that big of
a deal if it's just them. Okay, The problem with
losing Colorado is that you're probably gonna lose one, right.
The reason Colorado left is they could not get a firm,

(20:06):
not even a firm an estimation of a television deal
from the pattrov Commissioner. They wanted to stay. All these
schools want to stay, but they couldn't even get Hey,
this is sort of where we're at right now. This
is what our number can be. Nothing. They've got nothing.
The pactol has been at this for nearly a year now,
I think actually over a year. They've been negotiating just

(20:29):
under a year now. They've been negotiating outside of ESPN
and Fox. They open it up to everyone at the
end of August last in twenty twenty two. And the
issue with Colorado leaving is that there's no numbers presented
still nothing Andy, no numbers presented for a new TV deal.
And if you're Arizona, if you're Arizona State or Utah,

(20:53):
these corner schools, they are called the four Corner schools
that have been involved and flirting with the Big twelve
now for a year. It makes me believe more schools
are on the way because all the Patrol presidents want
is numbers. The Pack Toeal presidents are risk adverse. Okay,
the best example of this was COVID. Right during COVID

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they were one of the really the two main conferences
them in the Big ten to not want to play
football early in that fall, right was in the SEC,
the ACC, the Big twelve all started head in full seasons.
The Pack twelven and Big ten did not. They're risk adverse, man,
they they liked the status quo. The pat Towel presidents

(21:38):
have these large research universities. The school budget for the
athletic department is relatively small for them. The care about
athletics is relatively small for them. Now they probably get
the most pushback from boosters and alumni about sports. Then

(21:59):
I can push back about what happens you know at
the at the social science you know a building, right,
But like you know, they again, like in the grand
scheme of things, the sports part of their life and
budget is small, So changing a conference. If your Arizona
has been in the Pac ten since the nineteen seventies,
late nineteen seventies, going to the Big twelve is not

(22:22):
something you really want to do. You'll do it if
there's no TV deal, if there's not even a whiff
of any of anything where you can say to any
of your boosters, any of your supports, hey guys, we
have something in the future, and staying with the conference,
like like the PAC twelve is going to benefit us.
Colorado again, never felt part of the PAC twelve. They've

(22:43):
been there since since twenty they have they have no rival.
They try like this, you talk aling arrivalry. They have
no rival. They've been the worst football program since they
came to the PAC twelve. They never felt integrated into
what the PAC twelve does. So them leaving again on
the face is not a problem. It's anything stating and
get a television contract, Andy, we won't even we won't

(23:04):
even notice.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
But here's my question to you. Though the Big twelve
has a TV contract with both Fox and ESPN. They
claim that's worth about two point two eight billion over
six years.

Speaker 1 (23:15):
They don't have to play. We know what it's worth.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yeah, okay, So the fact that you're going to have
an additional thirteenth member, is that going to change the
value of the deal that no facts, Hispian going to
go up money, I don't think they would.

Speaker 1 (23:26):
No, no, no, So here's so it's interesting. So the
Big twelve negotiated with with their deal, it's with Fox
and ESPN. The negotiated uh basically a pro rat number,
which is what everyone else is getting, that when a
team is added, they get added at the full price,

(23:47):
so thirty one point six million dollars a year when
they get added to the conference. The really ESPN agree
is Fox said they would, and Fox is giving less
than ESPN is for this thirty million dollars they're giving
I think like eleven million. It's been giving twenty. But
Fox agreed. So they they've agreed on paper and in

(24:07):
practicality that if a team joins the conference they get
a full share right away. We're in the Big Ten
for example, that's not the case if Oregon and Washington,
which are the two schools rumors to go to the
Big Ten at some point, they would get a half
share maybe, which is still you know, half of one
hundred million is fifty that's more than they would get
in the Pac twelve and obviously the Big twelve. So

(24:30):
the Big twelve negotiated the ability to add these teams
right now with as much money as everyone else. So
it is pretty curious to see what Arizona. If Arizona,
here's the deal. The PAC twelve right now is technically
quote fine, they're fine, Like there's no no one is.

(24:53):
They add saying state they'll get somewhere on some TV deal.
I don't know what it's gonna be, and it's gonna
be great, okay, but they're gonna be fine for now.
People when U c LA and you leave, if well
there already no, I'm talking about if they sat State
make a ten team conference and get a TV deal
for twenty twenty four and beyond, they're gonna be fine.
They will, they will be a Power five conference. Orgon

(25:14):
to Washington. Are better rands and better programs right now
historically then the remaining Big twelve programs right there's no
there's not a question about that at the moment. But
they they like, they'll be okay. If Arizona leaves, that's it.
If Arizona leaves, a conference is done. Because what it's

(25:34):
interesting everyone says that o're gonna wash. It will end
up in the Big ten. That's that's people assume. Any
people in the know, they're like, yeah, they'll end up
there eventually. The question is when is it now to
twenty six, is the twenty nine, is it thirty? The
the the the reasoning behind it is the Big Ten

(25:55):
doesn't want to seem like they destroyed the PAC twelve
conference for legal liability, even though let's be real, they had.
They took UC and USC. But if Arizona leaves now
you're down to eight schools in the PAC twelve. Four
have left in the last year. The Big ten might
feel more in clientate Oregon and Washington and then that's it,

(26:17):
right and then you're just adding you know, four four
to six Mound West teams to form a new PAC twelve.
So if Arizona leaves, which there's rumors that they're going
to leave soon, that's it. The Conference of Champions, the
conference I grew up in watching is done. And I
want to be very clear, I hate all of this,
not just because it affects the conference that I watch,

(26:37):
but you know, part of the reason we like college
football is we like the regionality of it, right right.
We like the scar tissue of the rivalries between all
these schools that play each other each year. Even if
you know Oregon and Washington State don't have a great
rivalry per se. There's so many years they've played, right,

(26:58):
whether it's you know USC and cal or UCLA and Stanford,
they play each season that you feel that there's a
bond between fan bases that play each year like that, Right,
they could list of any other conference, right. And the
regionality of the sport in the West Coast has not
been very good at football. I get that, Okay, I'm
not arguing against that, but there's still a fabric and

(27:18):
there's a scar tissue of playing these teams each season
and you lose the regionality of the sport. If the
Pac twelve dies now nationally, yeah, you get better games, UCO, Michigan, USC,
Ohio State, you know, the Oklahoma State now in Colorado,
and you get better games. I'm not arguing that nationally,

(27:40):
you get better games, but the regionality of the sport
is gone. And we actually like that, you know, as
much as we don't pick for Kevin.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Kevin Wyrett has all your sports on the ti raq
dot com studios and we'll pick this right up, keV O.

Speaker 6 (27:53):
Sorry, little Lake go right out, worries. We got the
game going on right now. They've actually reached halftime in
the Women's World Cup match between Germany and Columbia, and
this game is still scoreless. Switzerland New Zealand also played
to a scoreless draw. That game has concluded. One goal
scored to the Norway Philippines, but it was all one
sided in Norwegian's dominating from start to finish. They blank

(28:16):
him six nil and Morocco holds off South Korea one nil.
Big boxing matchup in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Terrence
Crawford now is forty to zero for his career and
he owns all four welterweight title belts. He beat erro
Spence in a ninth round technical knockout. Crawford becomes the
first undisputed one hundred and forty seven pound champion in

(28:38):
the four belt era. Major League Baseball the Mets trading
Max Scherzer to the Rangers in exchange for double a
short step Luis Angel Acunya, and if he sounds familiar,
it's because he's the brother of Braves player Ronald Acunya.
Acunya is rated as the number forty four prospect according
to MLB dot Com. Schuzer, waving his no trade clause,

(29:02):
he opted in for next season with the Rangers, the
Mets sending over thirty five million dollars to Texas to
help offset Schurzer's salary. The Braves beat the Brewers eleven
to five. Ronald Acunya with his twenty fourth homer. He
stole his fiftieth base of the season. The Cubs making
eight wins in a row. They beat the Cardinals five
to one, the Cardinals saying they're not trading Nolan Arenado.

(29:26):
Battle of the worst teams in the American and National Leagues,
the Athletics take down the Rockies eleven to three. Kansas
City Royals, They've had a difficult year, but they beat
the first place Twins ten to seven in the Al Central.
It's Minnesota game and a half ahead of the Cleveland
Guardians because they also lost to the Chicago White Sox
seven to two. The Yankees get home runs from both

(29:47):
gian Carlo Stanton and Aaron Judge. They beat the Orioles
eight three, the Yankees thirty and three when both Stanton
and Judge hit a home run in the same game.
The Giants over the Red Sox three to two as JD.
Davis hits a walk off solo home run. The Diamonback's
got to run in the eighth inning. They beat the
Mariners four to three. The Angels lose again to the

(30:08):
Blue Jays six to one. The Astros with the absolute
dismantling of the Ray seventeen to four. They hit five
home runs, and the Dodgers over the Reds three too,
despite the fact they only got two hits. Max Months
he got both of them. They were both home runs
and that was the difference in that game.

Speaker 1 (30:24):
Back to you guys, Thank you. keV.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
All right, we go rolling on right now.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
Talk about college expansion and there's another college conference looks
to expand this, well, we gotta eat my Schwartz come
up with a couple of minutes. But we'll talk about
the ACC. But the question I have for Jeff Schwartz
is that this PAC twelve situation, which is close to
home to you. They got some top coaches here, no
doubt about that, but football and that conference really falls
way below the Big twelve in the SEC. Why is
that they have some top athletes, but the football competition

(30:50):
is not on par.

Speaker 1 (30:52):
Okay, So the ironic part about usc in moving to
the Big ten as they claim that the Pack twelve
at the conference did, didn't placate them, did didn't do
enough for them, didn't didn't go in and say, hey, USC,
please stay, We'll give you more money. It's like, hey,
hey Trojans, can you win some football games please? Because

(31:12):
you're supposed to be the leader of the conference and
y'all were largely irrelevant since Pete Carrol left, like USC
football has not held up their end of the bargain. Okay,
Oregon's tried. We've been the two championship games at twenty
ten and twenty fourteen. Washington where are you at? You
won your half championship in ninety one, been a one
playoff game since then, Washington hasn't won a game after

(31:37):
January for really after December thirty first since two thousand
to two thousand. So the schools that are supposed to
be these kind of Bell Kyle schools in our conference
haven't done that. They haven't done that. So that's kind
of where you begin. Now. The worst part about all
of this, Andy is that this season the PACKED is

(32:01):
gonna be the seconds conference after the SEC. Have you
seen the quarterbacks in our conference right now? Yeah? You
have Caleb Williams, Who's who's gonna be the number one
pick on the draft. He's he is and I saw
them packed on me to day. I was, I was there.
It was that week. Go now on Friday, you wouldn't
even know that he is a Heisman Trophy winner and
the number one pick on the draft. He's like the

(32:22):
coolest cat man. He was playing pick up ball with
Rollstone Junior, was watching defense like they're having the best time.
He's super I like Killer one was a lot. Michael
Pennox Washington's quarterback Jamian Heisman discussion bow knicks. Oregon's quarterback
is getting is getting first round grades after one good season. Oregon. Okay,
you have Sirdear Sanders. Obviously Colorado he's there only one

(32:44):
more year. But you know, obviously in the conference, let's
say you have Sare Sanders, you have you have you
have dju at Oregon State. Organ State is gonna win, uh,
you know in nine or ten games again this season.
You have a five star quarterback at UCLA's a true
freshman named Dante Moore. You have cam Ward at Washington
in year two of that program, Jane Dolor. Like you
have all these quarterbacks, We're gonna have a great conference. Season.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
This is right, and not to burst your bubb but
one of the major problems I've always felt about the
Pact twelve is at the time factor. I mean, the
game starts so late at least I live.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
I live on these coasts. I get this, Okay, I do.
But what are you gonna do about it? There's nothing
to do. You can't play. You're not gonna pay your
games at nine am. I'm sorry, you're just not. Now
they're doing some big newon Kickoff, right, Colorado, the first
two weeks the year is playing on Big newon Kickoff,
and those will be earlier games for Colorado ten am,
Central mount of time. I should say kickoffs, like, but

(33:40):
you can't do it any earlier, and just something that,
like you have to deal with it. Just it, just
it's part of it. It sucks. I again, I do
radio for the conference, and I don't get up, so
I don't stay up to watch past midnight. Essentially, I
just wake up in the morning and watch the rest
of the game. I get it.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
It stinks, but it's better than of what it used
to be because now, with the advent of the Internet,
you could get the information immediately. Because way back when
in twenty thirty years ago. You know they waited for
the East Coast papers to get the score. You couldn't
get it till Monday, couldn't get the score till monthy correct.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
But to be fair, this season, Utah Florida is on
national television APM Eastern week one, right TISU, Colorado Boys State, Washington,
Washington be a top ten team. They're on ABC at
three point thirty Eastern in week one. Oregon State's on
national TV. Actually, weirdly enough, on Sunday in week one.

(34:35):
The next week Oregon and Texas Tech national television during
the daytime. Colorado, Nebraska, Utah, Baylor. There's a ton of
these games early season. They're on national TV. So we
can't complain in the first couple of weekends or I
don't want to hear pose. I can't watch the pack up.
It's all on it's all national television. You can choose
to watch it. It's there to watch. There we go.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Andy Furman. This is Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He knows all and he
tells it on Eat My Schwartz next, Eat My Schwartz,
coming right up, it's about eleven minutes now before the
top of the hour. This is Fox Sports son that
he is Jeff Schwartz. I'm Andy Furman, and we are
live from the tiraq dot com studios. Mister Schwartz, are
you ready? If so, let's do it all right, Okay,

(35:17):
here we go. Now, you played in the NFL eight years.

Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I want to know if you've ever seen a coach
repeat his practice regiments exactly from year to year, day
to day in preseedon takes out the index cards say oh,
we did this the first day last year, We're gonna
do it again this year.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
Does that happen often in the coach I feel every
coach does that? Really? They just like yeah, they just
they just the insult schedule pretty much remains the same
and the practice. Yeah, I don't it doesn't change very much. No,
all right.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
I think because of the personnel, possibly it might change,
but I just the drills stay the same, so you
just keep on.

Speaker 1 (35:52):
I mean, especially if you're winning. Yeah, for the most part,
everything's the same. Why is there.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Someone who fixed if it ain't broke?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
There so one who who? Uh? Who does who? Admitted
that it's basically what they do.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
No, no, but but I've seen that when I watch
practice as that looks familiar, you know, and they just
do the same stuff every day.

Speaker 1 (36:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, because you basically install in the same
schedule every year. I mean, there's no reason to change
the install schedule for And.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
Now we talked about Sean Payton and his new team,
the Broncos. Can a coach really make a difference?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
Oh yeah, dude, it's oh yeah. I mean you can
tell right away a lot of times if a coach
like has the competence to be good. It's the way
they teach, right It's the way they adapt, It's the
way they're able to really teach all different types of players,
the way to play the game. It's how do you communicate,

(36:46):
how do your problem solve? I mean, there's all these
things that the great coaches do better than kind of
the ones that really honestly don't interesting.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Okay, now, speaking of coaches in your mind, Jeff Schwartz,
who might be on the hot seat this season?

Speaker 1 (37:03):
Oh good question. So people have mentioned, you know, Bill Belichick,
I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, I
don't know on the hot seats, who's on the hot
seat this year. Josh McDaniels is on the hot seat
if they don't win. I think in Vegas, I think
he's out pretty quickly. Dallas, Dallas, Yeah, I think Dallas
is gonna win, though I'm not really concerned about maybe

(37:26):
not win a championship, but they're gonna win where Jerry's
not gonna get rid of of Miche McCarthy. Just remember,
when you fire a coach, you have to you have
to hire someone who is better, like in the in theory, right,
who's better is is you know, is someone who's better
than who the're gonna hire that's better? Champagne's off off

(37:46):
the table now right, no longer there, So I just
don't know who they're gonna hire who's better than McCarthy.

Speaker 3 (37:53):
All right, let's listen a hot seat. Let's go with
the Jets.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
A lot of pressure over there to win New Culture
with Aaron Rodgers. Oh yeah, it could be on the
hot seat.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
I think Robert Sola. If they don't. The question is
to me, like, I think they have to make the
playoffs this season, like that's the floor. If that's not
the case, then he can survive sort of a quote
quote bad season. But to me, like they gotta win
a SAP like they gotta win, they gotta win now.
So I think he's on the hot seat too.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
Okay, we've heard about the Stefan Diggs, Josh Allen spat
and I've heard some rumors. I don't even know if
we should go public with it.

Speaker 1 (38:28):
No, we've heard. I think we will. Everyone by now,
I think has heard sort of the same rumors about
about maybe what happened in Buffalo. I've not mentioned them,
and I'm not going to do that because I think
it's their unfounded rumors and I don't think we should
go that direction. But I think most of the media
have heard the same things by now about about what
happened in Buffalo. Right.

Speaker 2 (38:47):
However, I got to ask, is that going to create
a problem with the Buffalo Bills moving forward?

Speaker 6 (38:53):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
No, if if they start losing again, yes, but I
you know they I don't know if they're gonna lose that.
I think there is some Look, Buffalo has gone backwards
now for three years, right from where they were, you
know they were. They need a running game, they need
their offensive line to play better. There's if they don't
win early in this season, maybe, but I think they're

(39:16):
gonna be good again, So I think a lot of
the concerns aren't going to be there.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
And last, but not least, do you see Jordan Love
now as the long term quarterback starter for the Green
Bay Packers?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Oh? Oh, man, I don't. I mean, I think the
Packers hope. I mean there's a lot of questions about
whether he's gonna end up being that guy.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Interesting, all right, any major changes anything that we're gonna say, Well,
I didn't expect that this year in the NFL early on, Like, wow,
look at that team where they come from.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
I think the Dolphins are the surprise team. Everyone thinks
they're a surprise team. I think the Panthers are gonna
be If Bryce Young can play a little bit, they're
gonna be really good. Here we go, all right, he's
Jeff Schwartz. I maybe for it.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
By the way, less turns out to be more for
one NFL quarterback and more. We're right here on Fox
Sports Sunday next. What a deal that's coming right up?
Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz, I'm Andy Furman, and we're
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be Jeff Schwartz, you know you got me crazy with
this college conference expansion. I want to continue if I may,
If you don't mind, because you're on top of it.
You're a packed one kind of guy. You do PAC
twelve radio during the week. I want to go to

(40:38):
the ACC for a segment. Was that Commissioner Jim Phillips
says he's looking to air teams and now they're saying
the potential targets for the ACC Oregon, Washington, SMU in
West Virginia.

Speaker 1 (40:51):
No, no, no, okay, So the ACC. Really the problem
with the ACC right now is there in this locked
grant of rights. So what's making some of these, you know,
some of these decisions for conference realignment difficult. Is that
the grant of rights, the contract you have with basically

(41:12):
the conference and its TV partner, You're you're locked in.
The agency right now is locked in now. Of course,
there's ways to get out of it. That's gonna be
very expensive and cost and costs a lot of money.
But you can get out of a grant of rights.
And right now, the PAC twelve granted rights is up
after this year because they don't have a new TV deal.

(41:33):
So Oregon and Washington are free agents. Essentially if they
would like to leave, they can leave without penalty. For example,
San Diego State, which was rumored to go to PAC twelve,
they can't leave the Mound West without paying a fee
of thirty four million dollars because they have a grand
rights deal. So it's like it's it's difficult to see
them leaving right now because the PAC twelve ain't paying
that either for them. So Oregon and Washington as free

(41:56):
agents are very you know, are like top of the line,
right Like if you look at around, who oh you're
a free agent or going to Washington, great, let me
snack you up. They're not called the ACC conference, all right.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
I don't see the advantage of leaving the PAC twelve
to go to the ACC.

Speaker 1 (42:14):
I don't see it the advantage for all this if
you are organ or Washington or Colorado, Arizona. Some of
the school's rumored to leave the pactoral conference. Is stability? Right?
Is stability? You know again, these conference presidents do not
like instability. They want stability and going to an ACC

(42:34):
a big twelve, a big ten, to have TV contracts
with firm numbers, with an ability to be on national television,
already slotted, already agreed upon. It fits. You know, a
president who's risk averse, who is who wants to be
able to make budgets and and ensure they're boosters. And

(42:57):
the people that are kind of there, not theirs per se,
but the ones that hear from the most are satisfied.
Is finding a conference home that has these things already
in place already.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
But the key here's my question to you, and you
know because you're on top of this stuff. Is the
key to conference alignment or moving from one conference to another?
Is the key money? Or is the key? Can we compete?
Because I can't see Alcohoma can't compete. I don't think
on a yearly basis, they will not dominate the SEC
like they did.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
To me. It's not about competing, because it's about it's
ideally it's both right, you would like to be able
to compete and win, but that that that that doesn't
happen very often. It's about money. It's about money, it's
about access, it's about being feeling like you're in you're
one of the big dog conferences, and visibility, invisibility, all

(43:49):
those things are important. And again the ACC right now
is looking to a grand Rail twenty thirty six. They
can try, you know, florest State, they're smoke, they're trying
to get out of Miami. I mean yet you can try,
I don't know, figuring to actually pull that off to
the end. You try to do it all you want,
But again, making it actually happen, you know, is again
these things move much slower than we think. You know,

(44:09):
Colorado has been talking the Big twelve for nearly a
year now. It just takes time, right, It takes time
to for these for these negotiations, and and and time
for these processes to happen. It doesn't happen as quickly
as you think it as you think it's going to happen.
So it just takes time. Man, Orgon's not go to
ACC all.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
Right, and at Florida State looking to lead the ACC.

Speaker 1 (44:31):
Right because they want to go to again a conference
with more TV money. But let's be let's be frank.
This is these decisions are not being driven by school
presidents and chancellors and border regions and whatnot. They're being
driven by the by the by the TV networks, by Foxing,
and I work for Fox, by Foxing and for ESPN.

(44:51):
So it's hard because obviously I really enjoy my time
working at Fox, but the kind of low key ruined
my favorite football conference. It's tough to scare those two
things away. These these is are being done, are being
made by those schools, right ESPN is saying, okay, you
know the Big twelve, we can add four schools right now,

(45:13):
the Big Ten. Okay, well we didn't, you know, initially
didn't want Orgon to wash it, and there was actually
there was. Oregon was one of the schools that was
considered to go with USC. They they chose U c A
and the end, I think because they wanted all California,
I mean all southern California, but Oregon, Oregon can be
the in the Big Ten. If Fox says tomorrow today,

(45:33):
Waves of Wan goes Okay, They're in. It's that simple.
That's the way this process works. Unfortunately, and I.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Understand that the competition level you know for football, they
want to say there or whatever it may be. What
I don't understand is how they can justify women's softball traveling,
golf team traveling, you know, the the so called minus
spots and non revenue sports. How did that? How does
Rutgers in New Jersey go to the Big Ten and
travel with their women basketball?

Speaker 3 (46:00):
I mean it so the money, the money has to
be draining, so.

Speaker 1 (46:04):
It's not unfortunately, you know, it's it's not really about
those programs, right, I mean, thesecisis are being made about
football and really it's a little bit of basketball. But
or you know, they're made they're made about football, and
so if you are, if you're one of those sports,
I do feel sorry for you. The travel is is
is tremendous. It's a lot of travel. It's like there's

(46:26):
a lot. It's it's a it's very taxing on.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Your maybe four or five trips a year, that's it.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
Yeah, thesecisis are not made about those Olympic sports. They're
made about everything else, and it's going to be And
I understand why it's difficult for those schools and and
and those programs to to make these moves and and
have these flights and be gone from campus for so long.
But unfortunately there's not much generation given to those those

(46:53):
non revenue sports, those Olympic sports, because again, they're not
the reason why your school is getting all one hundred.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
But let's say Oklahoma is going to have a soccer
match against Vanderbilt one day, right, not on a Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
That's probably not the best example to use because Nashville
and and Norman aren't that far away from each other.
It's more like West Virginia is going to be playing,
you know, a soccer match against Arizona in a conference
you know, match up one day. It's a long way
from Tucson, right, I mean, USC is gonna have to
travel to Rutgers to you know, to to you know
for women's you know, for a women's college basketball game,

(47:27):
or for a volleyball game or those those are it's
a long it's a long way to go.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Wouldn't it be nice if someone had an edict saying
that there should be a law really maybe by the
government that no college conference could be in more than
two different time zones. That really it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (47:45):
Uh yeah, I mean and that think about you know,
talk about time zones, you know, these TV networks, they
want to have a presence, you know, if you are
right now, if you are Fox or ESPN, you know,
if you have a presence, if you're a big you know,
in the big ten and four time zones, right yeah,
I actually I think it's three because I don't know
if you have the Mountain time zone right now. I

(48:07):
think Nebraska's a center time zone. It doesn't even matter.
You can you can air you know, you're gonna be
able to air you know, to air games just all
day right not you know, twelve twelve eastern to to
one am Eastern to You're gonna have That's that is
what is valuable to these pro to to these executives,
and it's it's the way, it's the way. It's the

(48:29):
new world of college sports. And now with n i
L and the focus on some of these you know,
these players getting all these you know how you how
that how they gonna work that out because there's a
discussion about should the players get a cut of the
TV revenue now, which will change the equation obviously heavily
for recruiting for n i L. For things like that.

(48:51):
I mean, that's certainly possible. These things happen, so you know,
it's gonna be fascinating to see where this all goes.
It's gonna happen to Fast Man, It's happened to Fast
it really is.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
And as somebody, these coaches can't adapt to it. And
that's why I think somebody these coaches have resigned them
and quick early. I think coach k at Duke cannot
handle the new nil and what it may be and
the transfer portal and things like that. Coaches like that left.
I really believe they can't adapt.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
Oh no, no, you're absolutely correct. Coaches that have coached
for a long period of time do not like where
the sport is at right now, and you can either
adapt and look there. And to be fair, there are
coaches who say they don't like it, but they participate
in all aspects of this. But for the most part,
you know, there are coaches that have left because the

(49:36):
sport has changed so much and they do not like
where the sport's at. And I commend them for leaving,
right if they don't like it, get out of here,
be done with it. I appreciate them admitting it. But
you adapt, you adapted, or that's it. And some coaches
have failed to adapt, and that's okay, it happens. Yeah,

(49:57):
but yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I got some You just changed the page a little bit.
Going back to football, and we talked about that quarterback
series on Netflix, and all of a sudden, I started looking.
I've changed my whole stance on Kirk Cousins. I thought
he was a jerk. I didn't like the whole situation.
He wanted to take COVID shot whatever. I watched him.
I love the guy. He's a family guy, takes the
Tuesdays off with his family, goes to the zoo with

(50:20):
his kid. I have the utmost respect for Kirk Cousins.
I hope he wins. So I go back. I'm checking
stats now. I'm asking you a question. You're an NFL drafter,
you're making a draft pick. You had a choice between
Kirk Cousins or Dak Prescott. Who would you pick as
a quarterback for your team?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
I know there are stats are strikingly similar.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I know That's why I pring it. I'm shocked. I mean, look,
they both have a completion rate. Cousins is sixty six
point eight, Prescott sixty six point six, and the quarterback
right is right identical ninety seven point eight. Who would
have thunk it? Really?

Speaker 1 (50:54):
So Quarterback Series on Netflix was fabulous, Okay, And I'm
glad you mentioned Cousins because I came out of it
thinking to myself, Man, I kind of I'm kind of
rooting for Cousins, like I don't don't I don't change,
I don't change the way I feel about him as
a quarterback. I think he's he is what he is
as a quarterback, and you could certainly see why he's
not Patrick Mahomes right in the just you can tell
he's mob you know, no, but also just the mental makeup, right,

(51:20):
you know, Cousins is, you know, attaching electrical stems to
his brain to like his brain wired, just like Mahomes
ain't doing those things right.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
He's a little bit of a geek, really, he really is.

Speaker 1 (51:30):
He just built differently. Okay, But I think I just
found myself rooting for Cousins, Like I just come out
of that. But I'll tell you what, man, that was
just it was a great look at the NFL quarterback
Like it's a great look at the psyche of these
guys about what makes these guys tick. You know, again
for Mahomes, like very Mahomes offered too much on TV
because everybody's watching that you think he did.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
No, Okay, because they had that play when they did
dancing around, they say it looked like the Jewish hora
over there.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
You know. No, I loved that. It was great. I
mean I I loved dude. It's the best look I've
seen into into kind of the industry at the quarterback play,
into all those things. Loved it. It was fabulous. The
family aspect of it was great. You heard the play
calling for like half a show was just to hear
what the quarterbacks go through. But I came away thinking myself,

(52:22):
but I know, I let this Cousin's guy more. I
don't not as a quarterbacks, as a person, family man.
It's almost Mahomes by the way, he's a big family
guy too. But there was a clear, a clear difference
in kind of mentality. Now Mahomes is better player between

(52:44):
him and Cousins. Uh. The other thing that I found
so fasting about this is, and I mentioned on my podcast,
Josh wich is smarting you. If you want to come,
you can come, you know, go check it out on
where your podcast is at. Did you notice, by any
chance when Patrick Mahomes came off the field and was

(53:04):
talking to coaches and preparing for the next series and
really just practice. Who he was talking to and who
he wasn't talking to. Never talked to the enemy. Never
talked to the enemy.

Speaker 2 (53:16):
One time I saw that, I scratched my head as
a way in a minute, I thought he was the genius.
I thought he's calling the plays. He never taught to
the quarterband coach at the Andy Reid, He's never.

Speaker 1 (53:25):
By the way, air Bamy has never called the plays.
I don't know why this is a thing that we
talked at. The narrative is always Andy Reid, now be
enemy physic. Now bene me physically radio the plays to
Patrick Mahomes and his helmet. But Andy Reed calls the
place now as this for years. It's very true, Andy Reid.
It's a it's a collaborative process. Okay. So there are
parts of the offense that are that are you know,

(53:50):
a coach does right, like for example, the offensive line
coach does the run game, and so Andy Reid a
radio in, Hey, what run play do you want here? Right?
Bne me. Let's say he's in charge of a third down, Hey,
eb what run play? Do you want here? Like it's
a collaborative process, but it's Andy Reid's offense. I thought.
The one thing that I found most interesting, and I'm

(54:11):
a Chiefs fan and just kind of obviously is an
I root for K B Enemy. I hope he does
well in Washington is that him and Mahomes did not talk.

Speaker 2 (54:19):
I noticed that as well. I mean he sat next
to him on the bench. He may have shown him
his iPad a little bit, but never made a final decision.
From Eric the Enemy to Patrick Mahomes, it was always
the quarterback coach and Andy Reed in the huddle.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Very very fascinating, right, Like, I'm that dynamic was very glaring.
It was like they went out of their way to
show that those guys did not talk at all.

Speaker 2 (54:39):
Right, And Eric the Enemy almost looked like he's a
big time subservient to Andy Reid, no doubt about that.
I mean, he wasn't an equal, he wasn't on par
with Andy Reid. Like Andy Ree would never call him
and say, eb, what do you think we ought to
do now? No way, I never saw that.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Yeah, so very very very curious. I thought too, you know,
the different coaches house between you know, Kevin O'Connell and
Aye Reid. Now Kevin O'Collins in his first year. I thought,
you know, you could tell throughout the season he was
struggling with how to coach Kirk Cousins. I found that
exchange at the end of Buffalo game very interesting because

(55:14):
Cousin just went rogue right, he went a quarterback seeking
was short and Kevin O'Connell kind of figuring out how
to process that as a coach for the first time.
And then you know, he mentioned it at a point like, hey,
you just have to let Cousin sulk by himself before
I know it. Just the dynamic of figuring out how

(55:36):
to coach a player and were watching that in real
time because they had never coached together before. It does
take half a season.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
And the funny thing is, I mean, I think there
are ways to motivate a team, you know, like if
you're a player, and I watched Patrick Mahomes, I mean,
if you're not motivated by him and his language and
he's dropping a couple of f bombs on the field
in the locker room and Kirk Cousins, to me was
almost like a gentleman. I didn't hear him kurse one time.
I don't think he did.

Speaker 1 (56:01):
Yeah he didn't, because it's just that's just not who
personality is. Again, you could you can tell why Mahomes
and Cousins are not outside of the talent. Okay, now
you don't have to be. I put Eli Manning eln
Mann's on a yeller and screamer. He leads by actions.

(56:22):
But I'll tell you what. When Eli wanted to make
a point, he made the point like you you understood,
Like when Eli Gotpin spoke to you, He's like he
spoke to you like you knew. There was an impactful,
you know moment when when Eli was speaking, I didn't
get that sense with when Cousins was talking. The player

(56:42):
sort of felt quite the same way. I'm hearing you.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Yeah, he's Jeff Schwartz. Get him on Twitter at Jeff
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Speaker 1 (57:13):
That's next.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
They can't be alone. We'll explain that in just about
a minute. He's Jeff Schwartz and Andy Furman. We have
Fox Sports Sunny A Fox Sports Radio on Jeff. We
have to mention this man's name. We have to mention
Aaron Rodgers at least for a second. Okay, he took
a thirty three point seven million dollars shave. According to reports,
he was trying to get paid without receiving any cash.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
How was you going to do that? He was trying to.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
Get ownership equity with the New York Jets, but the
NFL owners voted last week to put a ban on
giving ownership equity to players or team employees. So interesting
right there what he tried to do. But you know
the pressure is on him, and I guess he wants
to play that second year right now rather than one
year in New York.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Well, this is good because you know for the Jets
specific loves you saved money, but it locks him in
for an extra year. Right, there's always this cus about
whether or not he was gonna play more than one season,
you know, as your quarterback. Now that kind of tells
you and look to you know, you have I guess
more money. Now it's been other players, which is great.
You know, the equity stake thing was something that we
saw happen and I think in baseball didn Albert Pooles

(58:15):
get like a stake of Angels and and the ownership
was like, yeah, we're not doing that anymore. So it's
nothing that I sports franchises I think do much anymore
is give ownership stakes to players. But nonetheless, you know,
imagine being a Packers fan right now and Aaron Rodgers
just you know, he took less money to take the

(58:37):
Jets better. What for so many years he refused to
basically do anything like this to help the Packers. It's
kind of a slap in the face, you know, to
the package organization that that Rogers was so willing to
do this for the Jets, isn't it? Like that's the
the way I've.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Felt about this, right, And you know what to a man,
I would say, if you're a Green Bay package fan.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
I think most of them are saying good riddance.

Speaker 1 (58:59):
They glarse. No, they're very happy he's gone. There's there's
there's we know that. But I'm talking about just from
hey man, like, why do you do this when you
were with us? Wow? Yeah, we could have used some
of this restructuring to make sure that we had better players.
And maybe there was a thought that to Rogers that
the Packers were never going to get the players he wanted,

(59:20):
and so therefore he didn't make you know, he go
out of his way to help them save money. Fair fair,
And I'm not saying players that ever have to take
less than Rogers did, because it helps teams build. Even
though we know that Mahomes has taken less and that's
really helped the Chiefs build their roster around him. But
if you're a Packers fan, you probably feel a little
bit pissed that he didn't do this when he was

(59:43):
in Green Bay.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
No, you're exactly right, Dan, we'll see what happened. I mean,
the pressure is on him and the Jets, Like you say,
playoffs are bust. I would think that that's gonna be this,
that's going to be the NA mantra this year. For
that team. You talk about pressure, I'm talking about in college. Now,
Northwestern University, they I fired the football coach Pat Fitzgerald
on the tenth of July after announcing findings of a

(01:00:04):
University commission hazing investigation. I'm sure it's not the only
school in the country with hazing. But now there's not
a coming out of the woodwork for a payday. Linebacker
simber short because the fifth, the fifth ex football player
for Northwestern to file the lawsuit against the school. He said,
now he suffered emotional and psychological trauma after being hazed
and bullied while in the program. You know what, So

(01:00:26):
don't don't go along with the pack. You don't have
to be hazed, right, I gotta tell me about this.

Speaker 1 (01:00:32):
Let's talk about this. Hazing can be the term sounds
and most awful. We hear stories like in Northwestern, how
terrible you know hazing can be, And it really can be.
But I think a lot of us, for a lot
of players, hazing was a team bonding experience, right, you know,

(01:00:52):
and again for the kind of benign haze. Right, hey, rookie,
go get me something.

Speaker 3 (01:00:57):
And carry my page, right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:58):
Like there's really some team bonding.

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
Hazing because we see in the NFL on Hard Knocks
they made the rookies go up and sing.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Right, well, it's a shared experience, right, like I've done it,
you've done it, We've all done it together. It's a
shared experience. There can be some benefits to hazing where
it gets out of controls what we see in Northwestern.
To be honest with you, I don't know, this is
not even hazing. It's a weird sexual thing. Like I
don't really understand, Like I don't really get it. To
be honest with you, I don't know why players Like

(01:01:27):
why would you do it? I don't know why they
would do this. It's it's very this this you can
look up the details of it. It's very sexual. And
I don't I honestly don't understand why they went in
this direction with the hazing. It's it's obviously some some
group of players did it, and then the younger players
who were Hayes just continued the tradition. The question with Northwestern,

(01:01:52):
it's creepy hazing. It shouldn't happen, right, I'm very much
against what happened with the type of hazing they did.
Their is what do the coaches know and should they
have stopped it? And when you're a head coach for
seventeen years, you know what's happening in your building. And
so I don't buy that the Patzer Joe did not

(01:02:12):
know what was happening there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
So could assume that Patrick Fitzgerald knew that hazing was
going on, not just this year but for many years.

Speaker 1 (01:02:20):
Yes, again, this is beyond the scope of what general
hazing is, which tends to be very benign. It's team building,
it's you know, just you have a shared experience with
with with younger players, and there's a lot of value
I think in those shared experiences. This again, the sexual
nature of what this was, that that's not a shared

(01:02:42):
experience like that. That's just wrong. It's wrong. And again,
if coach knew about it, is going to answer for it.
We've heard players talk about the trauma, and I get it.
If you're being you have ten twelve players dressed up
in masks like it's it's it's just it's to me,

(01:03:03):
it's it's odd. Man. I don't get why players would
want to be involved in this type hazing like I
would have if this happened to organ. Man. I promise
you my class would have done it to the younger players,
because I would be like at doing that. That's not
something that we're doing here. It's and if patha show

(01:03:25):
knew about it and didn't stop it to me, to
me that that's what the problem is at it's like me.

Speaker 3 (01:03:31):
But but this is cool. They fired the baseball coach.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
You have to fitzgerald them and the things these are
going on in the baseball and now the athletic direct
I read this the other day in the USA today.
Derek Gragg, the athletic direct that has written a book,
Forty Days of Direction, and in the book has a
passage it says, quote, there is nothing worse than seeing
a beautiful, intelligent woman disrespect herself and those around that.
All you have to do is turn on a hip
hop music video or one of those several awful reality

(01:03:55):
television shows. You see women degrading themselves. I mean not great,
not great. And he's going to be gone next one
to go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Well, so Northwestern as a new president. I was actually
the president formerly an organ. He's only been there a year.
I mean, she's he's got to deal with a message
here to clean up. Also, what I find interesting about
these stories. Is Northwestern like every kind of let's let's

(01:04:24):
call a major corporation. Okay, they pay a lot of
money to have PR firms right and to have people
help them with their public relations, and I find it
so fascinating how often they screw up the message.

Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Crisis management correct.

Speaker 1 (01:04:41):
Like to suspend Patitzgerald two weeks during during really non
football like times right because there's no football right now.
Is was a mistake. Obviously, if you had suspended him
appropriately the first time, then maybe you're not here. If

(01:05:02):
you say, okay, patas Joe, you're suspended a month, I
don't think you're in this situation. You are now. But
instead you didn't You suspended him two weeks during non
football activities, and now the players have revolted. They could
have easily handled this differently and they wouldn't be in
the situation, but they just didn't punish patash like they

(01:05:24):
should have. They did not te players that there were
Now do I think there's a little bit of some
players probably using this opportunity make a quick book, Sure,
but I do think there's real emotional trauma here with
some of the hazing. If the reports are correct, Okay,
this is beyond the typical hazing we see.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
And remember the initial The initial story came out in
the school newspaper. I don't know how credible that is,
the Northwestern Daily newspaper, and that's where they thought it.
They're in president, I guess got their information from without
a true investigation.

Speaker 1 (01:05:56):
Really well, the reason why the school newspaper played in
port role here is because the North Northwestern didnt appear
to be doing anything themselves, and so the school newspaper
ended up being the one who the who, the the
you know who the students got in contact with, who
shared the story right, And I.

Speaker 2 (01:06:18):
Think to some extent that the administration wheted. They turn
their heads a little bit on Patrick Fitzgerald. Give him
a break because he's a favorite son. He played football
there and coached there sixteen seventeen years.

Speaker 1 (01:06:27):
Yeah, perhaps, yeah, well no, perhaps, I think that's exactly
what happened.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Yeah, you know, you're right, exactly right, and we'll see
what happens. But again, it'll be tough for him to
hook on with another school round. I think I think
eventually he will be an assistant coach somewhere, but time
will heal.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
He will be he'll be analysts first somewhere. He'll be
fine eventually.

Speaker 2 (01:06:48):
Yeah, there we go, all right, Jeff Schwartz, Andy Furman,
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Right now, Why is
this team becoming so hard to root for? That's coming
up next ride in a Fox Sports Sunday Live for
the Tiraq dot com studio. But first it's Kevin Wyatt
with the update.

Speaker 6 (01:07:04):
Well the FIFA Women's World Cup in action, a thrilling
matchup between Germany and Columbia. Columbia took the lead in
the fifty third minute one nil. Germany would tie things up.
It would be in the eighty ninth minute on a
penalty kick to make it one to one. But in
the ninety seventh minute, in stoppage time, Columbia re seizing

(01:07:25):
the lead, and that's where they lead it now to one.
They are in stoppage time, so they're playing until the
whistle blows. And actually now the whistle has just blown
and Columbia finishes off Germany two to one. Everything else
on Sunday has gone final. Norway dismantling the Philippines six nil. Switzerland.
New Zealand played to a scoreless draw. Morocco hoods off

(01:07:47):
South Korea one nil. The US women's national team. They'll
be back in action next on Monday. They will play Portugal.
As for boxing big matchup in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Terrence Crawford is now forty to zero. He owns all
four welterweight title belts after he beat Nyl Spence in

(01:08:07):
a ninth round technical knockout. The fight ended after a
he knocked out his opponent both on the second round,
twice in the seventh, and then another knockdown on the
ninth ended it. There, Crawford the first undisputed one hundred
and forty seven pound champion in the four belt era.
In Major League Baseball, the Mets sending Max Serzer to
the Rangers in exchange FORAA short step Louis Angel Acunya,

(01:08:29):
who is the brother of Royal Lucunya Sirsar. Waving his
no trade clause, he did opt in for next season
with the Rangers. The Mets paying Texas over thirty five
million dollars to help offset Shuzer's salary. Major League Baseball
scores from Saturday, the Braves beat the Brewers eleven to five.
Acunya hitting his twenty fourth homer and stealing his fiftieth

(01:08:50):
base this season. The Cubs now make it eight straight wins.
They beat the Cardinals five to one. The Cardinals also
saying that they will not be trading Nolan Arenada. Battle
of the worst in the AL in the National League,
Oakland beats Colorado eleven to three. Kansas City they hold
on to beat the first place Twins ten to seven.
Minnesota is still a game and a half ahead of

(01:09:11):
the Cleveland Guardians, and that's because they lost seven to
two to the White Sox. Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles
eight three. That's because they got home runs from gen
Carlos Stanton Aarren Judge the Yankees thirty and three. When
that happens when they both hit a home run in
the same game. The Giants and Boston's five game winning
streak as they get a walk off home run from JD. Davis,
they win that one three to two. Diamondbacks get a

(01:09:34):
run in the eighth, they had to beat the Mariners
four to three. Angels lose to the Blue Jays again
six to one. The Astros with a destruction of the
race seventeen to four. They had five home runs and
the Dodgers edged the Reds three two. They only got
two hits in that game, but they were two Max
Munsey home runs that proved to be the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Back to you guys, all right, thanks Kevin. Yeah, you're
a boxing guy, right, did you? Did you enjoy the
fight last night? Was it? That's in? Are you taught
to capito me? I thought you're a boxing fan. No, no,
not really. I thought you were thought like, you know,
no offense, but people of your of your age had
to be boxing fans because so you kind of grew
up with you.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
Yeah, you're right about that, But there was a time
when I really did enjoy it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
But right now I thought you were a boxing fan.
I watched a little bit of the highlights this morning,
look at Oh yeah, this morning I saw of highlights.
But yeah, no, I was. I went to bed. I legit.
We went to the legit bed last night at seven
pm Eastern Wow, because it fact from Hawaii. Well, well,
we flew the red We flew the Red Eye back
from Hawaii Friday night, landing in Dallas at eight am,

(01:10:36):
seven am Central time, landed back in Charlotte at one pm.
Ended being like a twelve hour trip and I slept
for two hours of the twelve, so we it's been
a struggle. We were up for like two hours in
the middle of the night last night with my son,
who didn't sleep very well. But nonetheless, I saw a
lot of the highlights look like fun. I thought, thought

(01:10:56):
you thought you were a boxing guy. My bad. I
thought you were. That's okay, enjoyed the box and matches.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
I'm not a violent individual, really, that's you know what
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:11:05):
You know, if you be a violent person to a
good fight. I saw the knockout last night, a couple
of those knockouts. I mean the Lewis guy knocked that
guy on thirty seconds. It was awesome. He did.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
It's very It's unbelievable, it really is. I just I
don't know how they do it. I don't know why
you would do it. I don't know how they do it,
but they do it, and that's fine. But by the way,
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minutes from now. We want to talk about the US
women's soccer team. And I didn't give it a second though,
really until I read my buddy Phil Mushnick and Friday's
New York Post. He wrote that it's very hard to
root for the girls. Okay, he's saying that they're conceded,

(01:12:01):
they're vulgar, they're selfish, they call them the team team obnoxious,
they're there a turnoff. They're all about me antics, Meghan Rappino.
I mean twenty nineteen when the US beat England, Alex
Morgan scored, then she ran to the sidelines so everybody
can see her mocked the opponents by momming English tea time.
It was classless. You know, I never thought of it

(01:12:22):
in that regard. I watched the game as a game,
and you know, maybe they are vulgar, maybe they are selfish,
but and conceded. But it didn't bother me. Until I
read that. What's your take on the women's team?

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Well, if the men did any of those things, would
they be conceded in vulgar and would they be looked
at any negative lights? No, asking if the men's team
would be expecting.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
I would think what it would be expected out of
the men.

Speaker 1 (01:12:47):
I think, right, So, why can't the women do that?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Because maybe they're women. Maybe that's why he's looking at
in that manner he's running in that sense that women
shouldn't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:12:57):
But they're athletes. Their athletes said, I I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
I saw that girl Horan I think her name was,
and she got into it with that with that girl
from the from from the Netherlands the other night. I
loved it. Actually came right back and headed a goal
and I watched a game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
If it's affecting their play, then that's a problem. But
if they're just being brash and talking to their opponents
and cocky enjoying there, they're the one team in the world.
Like again, if the men did this, it's the same
article being read in the answer is no, okay, So

(01:13:33):
I think that you need to let it go whoever
this writer is, and you need to just accept that
the young women now don't act in a way that
maybe you thought they should, but that if the men
did this, you never ever in this article, And I
think it's an air of confidence.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
You've won back to back World Cups going for the third,
no one's ever done that. It's you should be fresh
and confident, really, And because.

Speaker 1 (01:14:02):
Of the time difference. I did not watch much of
the match against the Netherlands. I know that I read
about it and there were some reports. You know, the
US was a little cocky maybe and it kind of
didn't play as they should. Will find out obviously in
their next match. Whether they learn their lesson if you
want to write about that, be my guest. But to
say that they're they're too confident, they talk come on,

(01:14:25):
grow up, okay here. If the men did this, you
would have no problem with it. But because it's the women,
because you expect women to act a certain way on
the field, the pitch, it's those ways have changed.

Speaker 3 (01:14:37):
You know what a pitch it's any spot.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I've seen it when the women were playing the n
Cuba Women's basketball tournament, same thing. I mean, that's the
way it is. When you're an athlete, you you you
beat to a different drum. Your cocky you are, you
are Urgan. I think that's what separates you from from
winning and losing sometimes.

Speaker 1 (01:14:53):
Yeah, so all four it me too. The women keep
keep being your right, keep keep you know, show your personalities,
play your butts off, and I and witness. I just
think it's to me. I I this is not the
direction that I would have gone if I was talking
about this US. Thank you, I'm with you, and I'm

(01:15:14):
rooting for them. I am.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I am rooting for them. Joh I'm ruining for you too.
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Speaker 2 (01:16:14):
Bottom Beryl Betting coming right up. It's about ten minutes
before the top of the hour. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm
Andy Fermerwell live from the tiraq dot com studios, and
right now it's time to play.

Speaker 1 (01:16:23):
So let's do it. It's Bottom Bottom mil put my
money to sleep, people, get my money.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
I'll put your brain to sleep, Betting.

Speaker 2 (01:16:32):
Yes, it is it. There is only one man, one
man who could handle a game of this magnitude.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
His name is Ethan Miller.

Speaker 8 (01:16:39):
Here he is, Hey, guys, how you doing there?

Speaker 1 (01:16:42):
What's up? What's up? E?

Speaker 4 (01:16:43):
You know, just you know, hanging here with you guys,
getting my getting my document up.

Speaker 8 (01:16:51):
Of course. So last week you both went.

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
Three and two, which is well he wasn't here.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
I mean sorry, you and your son went three he
was who was here? I forget who was here?

Speaker 8 (01:17:05):
Was it plank?

Speaker 1 (01:17:05):
Last week? It was playing?

Speaker 8 (01:17:08):
Yeah, well I have planking.

Speaker 4 (01:17:09):
You you both went three and two. That's really exciting.
Here we go. Aren't to the World Cup Women's World Cup?
Because why not? Nice little segment you guys had there. Yep,
here we go. I got Costa Rica vers the You

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know what, let's do Japan versus Spain both to pick them.

Speaker 1 (01:17:37):
I'll take Japan to be really good.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
I don't know, I think you know what, I don't
think so, I don't think they are.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
I got Spain. I think Spain's the teeth to beat.
And in this game, not not in the tournament, but
in this game. I think I got Spain. When did
they play, by the way, played.

Speaker 4 (01:17:54):
To play tomorrow at twelve am?

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
They got it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
They got every game on serious XM eight three. You
know they do every single game.

Speaker 4 (01:18:04):
I actually have to get those, uh, get those games
for the for the station.

Speaker 8 (01:18:10):
Very exciting.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
Okay, let's go to cricket. Could you guys love that
the Ashes? The Ashes tournament, it's England versus Australia. Sounds
like a good one in cricket, you said, yeah, in cricket.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
I think I think I'll tell Australia this one. Yeah,
Australia is a better, better cricket squad.

Speaker 2 (01:18:32):
Do they really have? I mean, are you just saying
that because I mean, I respect you cricket knowledge.

Speaker 1 (01:18:37):
This is something I have not way Jon personally.

Speaker 2 (01:18:39):
Yeah, okay, So I'm going with England then, because you
don't know, I'm going with England.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
Take a draw.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
They have a longer history in cricket. I think England
does in Australia.

Speaker 8 (01:18:48):
Just saying the draw is there too if you want
to take that.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
No, no, we don't. But it's pay draws country.

Speaker 8 (01:18:55):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
I got England, all right?

Speaker 8 (01:18:56):
Next next, next onto the w n b A.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
We're going to go with the New York Liberty versus
the LA Sparks today.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
Let me just say one thing. This is bottom berrel
betting to put the New York Liberty and bottom barrel.
That's almost like a slap in the face. But that's okay.

Speaker 8 (01:19:11):
What is it like? Is that like a violation to
you or something?

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
No, No, I'm just saying I think they deserve a
little more respect with that, so I shove them in there?

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
Are you shaming? Am I getting shamed right now?

Speaker 1 (01:19:20):
A little bit?

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
You will ask I'm untrusting you.

Speaker 8 (01:19:23):
Hey, you know what, I'm sorry? Women playing again.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
It's the Liberties versus the sparks plus nine.

Speaker 8 (01:19:34):
The sparks are plus nine.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
I should take my hometown, my hometown sparks here as
an l A guy. However, the New York Liberty have
Sabrina a Nescu and so she's the goat of all
time at Organ school. I'm taking I'm taking the Liberty here.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
And they also have Brianna Stewart.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
Yeah, and they're Ruth the heberd I believe it was. Also,
By the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Way, where's this game being where's this game being played at?

Speaker 8 (01:19:59):
It's in l A.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
There's a big home. Yeah. The sports taking the spots
with nine? I take the spots with nine?

Speaker 8 (01:20:04):
All right, very exciting. Yes, On to lacrosse? Is that alright?

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Is lacrosse?

Speaker 8 (01:20:11):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
Sure?

Speaker 8 (01:20:12):
And they're men.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
So it's the water Dogs versus the Archers plus one
and a half the water Dogs.

Speaker 1 (01:20:17):
Good, got'll be the water Dogs. Okay, the Arches. That'll
be it? All right? Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
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Speaker 1 (01:20:58):
Fill full this week. Baby can wait? I can't wait?

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
And you know, I guess you a different mindset right now,
and it's bad news for the sport of Major League
Baseball because all of a sudden, they're pushed to the background.
It's all football right now now till February.

Speaker 1 (01:21:13):
Which is crazy because right now baseball has like the
best player of all time right now in Shoheo Tani
who through a complete game that hit two home runs
in the next game. It's crazy, right it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
I mean, look, I don't want to get involved too
heavily in baseball right now, but they don't do much
to help themselves. They have the Hall of Fame induction
last week on a Sunday at one o'clock. Why can't
they do it on a separate day when no one's playing,
because everybody's playing baseball that day. I have it in
the evening so National TV could see it in primetime.
I mean, they stubbed their own tow every time they

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try to do something correct.

Speaker 1 (01:21:47):
It's not great. Baseball just doesn't market themselves as well
as they should, you know. Plus again, like having Otawni
be as good as he is and the Angels basically
fighting desperately for playoff birth is not great, but that's
where they're at. I mean, it just it's hard. Yeah,
it's hard to care until the postseason a long that's
a long it's a long season. Matter.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Yeah, it's amazing because the pennant races in Major League
Baseball and Otani, which is a great story in itself,
is taking a second seat to running backs in the
National Football which happens to be the big story right
now because Titans running back Derek Henry he's not happy
with the way his position is being treated, and look,
it's not being treated fairly. The franchise tags are placed

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on Tony Pollad in Dallas. Josh Jacobs, the guy who
led the league in rushing and Saquon Barkley who just
signed the one year deal with the Giants, and the
Giants didn't do him any favors because they can tag
him again next year with the way he signed that deal.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
Yeah, running backs right now are in a very tough spot.
And I feel bad for them because you know, you
would you would love for everything to be equal and
all players to get paid exactly what there were, you know,
not what they're worth, but exactly kind of what they want.
And everyone makes a ton of money and everyone's happy

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and and whatnot, and there's you know, never any issues
with with contracts. But what's happening right now is NFL
teams are looking around and saying, look, man, the numbers.
And you can blame analytics all you want, but you
just your eyeballs and the and the results each year
tell us that paying these running backs it doesn't seem

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to be worth. You know, the squeeze is not worth
It's not the Jews is not worth the squeeze, right.
And there's so many examples of this, whether it's Zeke Elliott,
whether you know it's Dalvin Cook, whether it's you know,
it's it's even you know, the extent of Derek Henry, Like, yeah,
Derek Henry got paid a lot of money, but how
much winning of the Titans done? How much winning have

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they done? Like has that been justified? In Super Bowl?
Even Super Bowl appearances, even Super Bowl births? The last
ten super Bowl champions. They're running back are making next
to nothing right there, They're free agents, their seventh round
draft picks. There's nothing that shows running backs are worth
what they hope they're worth. And it sucks, it's not fun.

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It stings for them, right, I hope. But I thinks
for the position.

Speaker 2 (01:24:18):
If I'm a high school football player, I tell my
coach I don't want to be a running back. If
I have any sort of talent. I'm an old state
player and I have an opportunity maybe to go to
the NFL, I don't want to be a running back,
to be a cornerback.

Speaker 1 (01:24:28):
But but Andy, the issue I think with that, as
I know some of guys are natural gifted running back,
is what is the solution? Right? Because I know that
running backs are saying, hey, you know, we need to
be a union, we need to do this, and that,
like they need to pay us more. Well, I can
make the argument very easily. They're like centers. Offensive centers
don't get paid enough money. They don't look at how

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much centers make. It's actually less than running backs. There's
all like you know, thirty two of them, and half
of them are probably pretty good, should be paid a
lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:24:59):
But I hate to dumb on that position. But there's
not considered a quote skilled position. I mean, right, I
mean running back, receiver, quarterback skill position.

Speaker 1 (01:25:08):
Look at the best offenses in the NFL. How many
of them have have one of the top centers in
the league.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
Well, right, the Chiefs. Yeah, No, you're right, I'm not
the position tight end.

Speaker 1 (01:25:20):
By the way, tight ends are extremely underpaid. Okay, they
get tagged and Titan gets tagged. Now, it's a tight end,
not a wide receiver. And though most of those guys
play wide receiver. I don't know what the solution is
other than having a running back sort of be the
reason why you win. Now, Christian McCaffrey is the closest

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right now, right.

Speaker 3 (01:25:43):
But he's more than a running back. He's a receiver
to the bothie.

Speaker 1 (01:25:46):
No, right, he's both. He's dual. He's dual. He's the
guy that does both and most running backs now are
kind of these dual.

Speaker 2 (01:25:53):
Threat guys, right, and you go back to the tight end.
You just mentioned that tight end position is more from
just a blocker to a receiver. Years ago was just
a blocking position.

Speaker 1 (01:26:01):
Yeah, now it's not anymore obviously, So I feel awful
for that. I played with Adrian Peterson, I played with
Jamal Charles, Jonathan Stewart, Dan Joe Williams, like great running backs,
guys that really helped my career. They absolutely did. But
I don't know what the argument is for them to

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get more than what the market says they're worth.

Speaker 2 (01:26:25):
Well, you know what, there's a lot of information coming
out right now to dump on running backs because of
the past six Super Bowl champions, none of them had
a thousand yard runner. In fact, those teams leading rushes
have averaged eight hundred eight yards.

Speaker 1 (01:26:40):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:26:40):
Of the past fifteen champions, three had a thousand yard
russia only one of them, the Seahawks Marshawn Lynch in
twenty thirteen, with as many as twelve hundred yards. So
they're dumping on the position right now. Statistically, that's what
they're doing right now.

Speaker 1 (01:26:53):
So Jonathan, I woke up this morning to the news
that Jonathan Taylor, the cold trunning back, has requested a trade,
and he says, I'm not letting him go. Right, he says,
I'm not letting him go. But I also find interesting
is Ersam pulled up the quote down to make sure
this is correct. Said. He also said, if I die

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to this er, I said right quote. If I die
tonight and Jonathan Taylor is out of the league, no
one's going to miss us. The league goes on. So
obviously Jonathan Taylor asked for more money and he said
no for that reason. And I don't know what happens

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next because I was I was hopeful Jonathan Taylor would
be the player who reset this discussion. Oh okay, well
they paid Jonathan Taylor. That must mean these other guys
are gonna get paid. It doesn't sound that it's going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Because you know why, they do deserve they get paid.
But I think pay him. But nobody wants to blink.
Nobody wants to be the first one, because every owner
is going to point the say you did it. You
are the reason why we have to pay these guys
more money.

Speaker 1 (01:28:04):
Here exactly right. You know, running backs, they're in a
tough spot man, You could really a couple of things
that the trace back to the issues that they're in.
What is the rookie wage scale, which got implemented I
believe after the twenty eleven CBA that really that really
really hurt the entire sport, honestly because it gave fixed

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cost for rookies and guys outperform, their deals really are
now stuck. If you're running back in the first round,
you have a five year contract, then two franchise tag years,
you're not a free agent n till year eight. Not great, right,
And the fixed cost of first round draft picks essentially

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drives down the price of franchise tags, drives down the
price of general fregency deals. It was not a good
thing that that, you know, this rookie wage skiale kind
of locked in the prices for these young players and
they're at a difficult spot man. Is it is? The
union is not doing about it because it's only affects

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a handful of running backs well.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
And part of the situation, I think maybe I'm off
based on this that they realize that the average running
back is only good for me two to two and
a half years, and that's it. Good look Arizona Connells.
They signed David Johnson three years, thirty nine million, an
extension of twenty eighteen. This guy hasn't rushed for one
thousand US since and he's dumped by the.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Car back in twenty twenty. I mean, he couldn't get
it done.

Speaker 1 (01:29:37):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:37):
Obviously, if you have a poor offensive line, you know
that you are an offensive lineman. That that's a big
fact with their running back. But other than that, it
is okay.

Speaker 1 (01:29:46):
Think about the average game a little bit. Is that
the average length of you, that's the average length of
NFL career is three years. Right? The running back is
no different than any other position. The issue is that
the high end player, right, the Tae Kwon Barclays, the
Jonathan Taylor's, is that when you're that good Christian McCaffrey

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for that many years and other positions, you play to
your thirty five to forty years old, right, Like we're
seeing off of the tackles. Now, you know they're thirty
five years old and they're prime, thirty four years old
in their prime, still going to play for three to
five more seasons. Quarterbacks obviously playing to their forty defensive
end pass rushers playing into their into their mid to

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late thirties all over the field, right, these these these
these these premium positions, and they're making money from the
time they enter league at twenty one, twenty two, twenty
three years old to their forty. The problem for running
backs is that you get to like thirty men and
your body is broken and you're not able to play

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that extra ten years. The rest of the NFL is
able to play, So it's not really the average. You know,
the counting with the four string running back, you know
how counting his his his time in the NFL against
the average of a starting running back. Is that the
length and the earning ability for so many years after
you're thirty kind of stops if you're running back, because

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you know how, it's productive. The numbers show that, right
the way.

Speaker 2 (01:31:16):
It reminds me when you're telling me this, it reminds
me of going back to the Netflix series on Quarterbacks
when Kirk Cousins keeps on getting hit and you hear
him saying, oh, oh, I mean the pain that he
was laying on the ground, and it amazed me, really,
I mean, how much pain could one one person take?
I mean, I don't think it's good for a body
to be hit like that. And he was hit pretty

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good well, but said it hurt when he breathed.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
The rib injuries, by the way, are extremely painful, and
so I'm glad he's he's doing fine. I mean, you'd
be surprised even just like I would sometimes, you know,
every couple of years, get a little cartilage, you know,
Carlage would be hitting the rib underneath the shoulder paths.
It would just hurt like heck, man, oh it hurt
a lot, way more than you think a little rib
cartilage would would would would hurt you. But yeah, you

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play through pain. I mean it's part of the NFL.
I mean, cousins, you know, yeah he was in pain,
but he also didn't miss a practice or a game.
So the pain, you know, you're able to manage. Obviously,
you mentally kind of you're over and you manage it.
So running backs obviously the pain they go through.

Speaker 2 (01:32:25):
And but the one thing I don't understand that there
is no one at least in the media defending the
running backs because the situation right now, whether you are
getting done.

Speaker 1 (01:32:34):
What are you gonna what are you gonna say?

Speaker 2 (01:32:36):
Well, you would think that someone would come out and say, wait,
it's not right, it's not fair.

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Well, plenty of said, plenty of said that on a
personal level, right, on a personal level, get paid. But
on a practical level, what argument do I have to
make because you mentioned it? If you say, well, they're
important to the run game, okay, well, I would argue
offensive line is more import been running back in general, right, Like,

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if you have a poor offensive on your running back
is not gonna do anything good. Offensive lines can make
running backs look better than they are, right, And I
guess and vice versa other's running backs at times, but
for the most part, if he can't if he can't block,
you won't have a good.

Speaker 2 (01:33:14):
No, I'm here with you saying, but what I'm reading
and hearing and commentators and talk show hosts, they're basically
giving me all the information why the running backs should
not get paid, Like I read this of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:33:26):
Any My point is that what is the argument for
them getting paid?

Speaker 2 (01:33:31):
I have value the value of an offensive unit to
run out the clock when you were ahead, to.

Speaker 1 (01:33:37):
Sure, but that's but I could say the same. But
I can say, well, look at the seven other examples
of teams that didn't have those guys and ran the
clock out right, you know you're right?

Speaker 2 (01:33:46):
Yeah, And only five running backs in the last forty
years have been the best player on Super Bowl Day,
mostly SI Terrell Davis super Bowl forty two, Yeah, nineteen
ninety seven. But comparison, five receivers have been Super Bowl MVP.

Speaker 1 (01:34:01):
Here's the way to look at this too, is that
so Adrian Peterson will be in the Hall of Fame, right,
I don't think he has yet. Derek Henry will be
in the Hall of Fame. And then who's the next
running back to be in the Hall of Fame? Christian McCaffrey. Maybe, maybe,
maybe maybe, Like we're at a point now where that
position is so devalued that we'ren't even to have like

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players on rosters who we think are going to be
Hall of famers.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
But another position that was deval was the fullback. I
no one made a big whoop about that. I mean,
what two teams have fullbacks right now? What the Rams
and the and the Ravens, Right, that's about it?

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
No, the Chiefs, the Chiefs Chiefs full back typically, but
no one made a big to do about obviously. I
think by Rams, you met Niners right because the rams.
Oh yeah, okay, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:34:48):
Think anybody made a big to do about the fullback
position being illimini.

Speaker 1 (01:34:53):
Yeah, but they're not as flashy. You'll get fantasy points
for having a fallback as your unless you have you know,
college juice deck music check. I should say so, I
understand again, it's hard to make any argument with facts
of what we see on Sunday and what we know

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the analytics tell us, and I hate blame it. Do
not blame analytics for this, So don't don't be that
personal like analytics the reason why. Yeah maybe, but also
your our eyeballs and the results in the field tell
us that we don't need analytics to tell us that.
So there's a feelings argument. I feel like running backs
should get more money because I like the running back position.
I like the players that play that position. They put

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a lot of time and effort and body, you know,
and their bodies in the law, you know, in the way,
in harm's way to be good. And there's no but
there's no fact argument. There's nothing you can say where
you're like, this is the reason why, then here here's
here's on the field reason why these guys should get paid,
there's not one to be made.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Well, the funny thing is, I mean, and I don't
know what's going to happen with this, but Derek Henry,
who is going to have a zoom call to generate
some dialogue to get the message out that running backs
aren't happy with the position and how the position is
being viewed. So what could he possibly do. You's got
to stick his handy, you gotta get you gotta stick
your hand and the owner's wallet.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
That's how you change it. And it ain't gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (01:36:16):
Well, because if if the running backs all sit out,
let's just say they all sit out. Okay, let's just
like use let's just the well, just find other guys.
The Chiefs have some of the Chiefs have to the
running back in the first round, clide Ord Hilaire, who
has not been any good. They're playing with a seven
running back who was who was, who's been? Who's pretty incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:36:39):
Yeah, that's never gonna happen because they look at it
this way. After two years, they didn't want to give
the guy a second contract. They figured his legs and
bodies worn, the treads and the tire are gone. Get
a new kid for a lot less money out of college.
He could do the same thing. That's it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:55):
Yeah, again, I feel for the running backs. It just
is not great. It's their livelihood. They want to get paid.
I'm with I get all these arguments, but it's hard
otherwise to make it our factual argument to why this
year paid more money.

Speaker 2 (01:37:11):
We do have an argument coming up. We'll get that
in the next segment. Right now, he's Jeff Schwartz, I'm
Andy Furman. Get us on Twitter at Jeff Schwartz, GEO f F. Schwartz.
I'll read them, retweet him whatever you want us to
do at Andy Furman FSR bet. He had eight seven
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eight if you're a running back, if you're a high
school kid playing football, tell your coach I don't want
to play running back anymore.

Speaker 1 (01:37:31):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
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One guy, one general manager in the NFL had something
to say about it. That was the Steelers general manager
Omar Khan. He says, running backs are being devalued because
of a massive new quarterback contract. Duh, we knew that,
But why cut out the running back Jeff Schwartz? Why
not some of the defensive side of the ball?

Speaker 1 (01:38:29):
Well was he? I don't think he was there with
Lady on Bell. I mean, you've had opportunities to pay
running backs in Pittsburgh and haven't. Is he gonna pay?
Naji Harris Like, it's all great to talk about those things,
but are you gonna Are you gonna quote unquote fix
the problem? Right? I just know they're could do any
of that. So it's great to say that, but are
you going to pay the running back in Pittsburgh? Are

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gonna pay Naujis after the season? Is that mething that
you're willing to know?

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
He said that I quoted the I've not talked to
Nagi specifically about that.

Speaker 1 (01:38:59):
He says.

Speaker 2 (01:38:59):
We talk the time. I don't think Nagi wants to
talk to him about the weather. He wants to talk
to you about his contract. I see him every day.
This is what Con said. We just have enough conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
I don't think he's no. I don't think that's the
case where he's He's like not, they don't. They're not
talking twenty four to seven about.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
Well in his agent's gonna do talking not Nagy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
But like they're definitely not talking about extending him right now.
Put it like that, and.

Speaker 2 (01:39:25):
Why would they? All Right, But here's the thing, it
doesn't make a lot of sense. The Raiders quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo,
he's the eighteenth highest paid quarterback. The Raiders gave their
leading rusher in the lead, Josh Jacobs, the franchise tag.
So basically what Con said, you know, it kind of
sounds nice on the service. But it's not entirely true
because Garoppolo is not making a hell of a lot

(01:39:46):
of money and they got the leading rusher in the
National Football League with the franchise tag.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
That doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 1 (01:39:52):
No, it makes no sense. But again I keep bringing
this up. Is it I need it? You have to
show me if you're the Raiders, what's more important to
your success this season? Is it? Is not? Is it?
Excuse me, Josh Jacobs being really really good again or
Jimmy Garoppolo being good?

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
I would have to say Garoppolo. If I say, what
did they do with Josh Jacobs? Think about it?

Speaker 1 (01:40:15):
Right? So that's the point that that's the issue here,
is that the position has really, unfortunately not been shown
to be the determining factor of whether or not. Like
if the Raiders offensive line is better, if the Raiders
and you know, if Jimmy Garoppolo is better, then the
Raiders will be better. But it's not Josh Jacobs. He's

(01:40:38):
a fabulous football player. He's really good in Like, if
you were you know, in you would think that a
player like that should be paid a lot of money
because he helps his team win.

Speaker 3 (01:40:54):
And say, but true, he would have been ten years ago,
eight years ago.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
Correct, but not eymore. It's unfortunate. It's the way it is, though.

Speaker 2 (01:41:03):
Yeah, and it's and people tell me, they'll say, well,
you know, it's a passing game. You know what, It
was a passing game when Dan Marino started throwing passes.
That's when it's that's when football changed. He he was
the godfather of the forward pass, Dan Marino. So don't
tell me all of a sudden now because of the
passing game and quarterbacks, that's why running backs are being
phased down.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
No, that's not the reason.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
The reason is the big salaries that the quarterbacks are
getting and there's no money left. That's the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:41:29):
Look, there's it's not really the quarterbacks getting paid as much.
It's do you have to pay a left tackle, a cornerback,
a pass rusher. It's not the quarter it's not your receiver.
It's that there's nine other positions that are the ones
where you're trying to pay them more money because you

(01:41:50):
because they're more important. Again, it's nothing to do with
you hate running backs, you know. That's the reason why.
That's the reason why. It's all the positions that are
more important than running back. That you feel you have
to pay. That is why running backs don't get the
money that they deserve to get.

Speaker 2 (01:42:09):
Well, I will tell you this much money, as they say,
is the root of all evil, and it's going to
explode it. It's just the way it is. You know,
everybody's got their hand out. Everybody's getting a lot of money.
Nobody who play, no one who puts on a uniform
in the National Football League is looking for their next meal.

Speaker 1 (01:42:27):
That we know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
All right, there's plenty of money. I guess the quarterbacks
are getting a good chunk of it. But still in
all you know, you can't win without a quarterback. That's
the key, you know. But again, I don't think a
great running back should be slapped around like he's being
slapped around right now.

Speaker 1 (01:42:41):
It's not right.

Speaker 2 (01:42:42):
You know what what they do with the Josh Jacobs
is is a crime. You know what they did to
Sakwon Barkley is a crime. You know he's gonna be
tagged again to give them the franchise take again next year, Okay, said.

Speaker 1 (01:42:54):
Okay, Eddie. If if Sakuon Barkley was on the free
market right now and just said, hey I am I'm
a free agent who's paying him more than Timar's here?
No one.

Speaker 2 (01:43:08):
Dalvin Cook can't get a job. He's out there. Ezegiel Elliott,
although he was at the Patriots yesterday, Patriots didn't sign him.

Speaker 1 (01:43:15):
I was surprised. Yes, that was it money, you think
or just skill? What Elliott? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Probably probably money. I guess it is money.

Speaker 1 (01:43:26):
That's what it is. But we'll see. But that's that's
the nature of the beast.

Speaker 2 (01:43:29):
So again, warning to those who are great running backs
in high school, get out of that position now, really,
because that's the way it is. That's you know, when
I ask you this, Jeff Schwartz, what's the next position
that will be hit? That was somewhat phased out with money,
Because it's gonna happen. That's the way it is.

Speaker 1 (01:43:49):
I don't think there's any I don't think right now
there's that's probably I don't think there's anymore right now?
All right, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
All right, he's Jeff Schwartz. Im Andy Furman. This is
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Some major questions
that need to be answered.

Speaker 1 (01:44:03):
That's next.

Speaker 3 (01:44:04):
But first, Kevin Wyatt with all your sports.

Speaker 6 (01:44:07):
Yeah, the women's World Cup has actually concluded for the day,
but we had a really thrilling match to finish off
the slate of games, Colombia and Germany. There was no
score until the fifty second minute at Columbia took the
one nil lead, but then Germany in the eighty ninth
minute tied it up and we thought, okay, maybe that
game would end in a draw. But then Colombia in

(01:44:27):
stoppage time the ninety seventh minute takes the lead and
they'd end up winning it two to one. Norway had
a much easier time with the Philippines. They destroy them
six nil. Switzerland, New Zealand plays to a nil nil draw.
Morocco holds off South Korea one nil. In boxing. A
big match in Las Vegas on Saturday night, Terrence Crawford,

(01:44:48):
now forty to zero in his career, he beats Errol
Spence in a ninth round technical knockout, and he becomes
the first undisputed one hundred and forty seven pound champion
in the four bell era. Major League Baseball, the Mets
sending Max Schurzer to the Rangers in exchange FORAA shortstop
Lewis Engel. Louis Angel Acunya who's the brother of Ronald Acunya.

(01:45:09):
Sures are waving his no trade clause and he opted
in for next season with the Rangers. The Mets sending
Texas thirty five million dollars to help off set Schurzer's salary.
And some scores from Saturday in Major League Baseball, the
Braves over the Brewers eleven to five. Acunya with his
twenty fourth homer and fiftieth stolen base to this season.
The Cubs making eight straight wins. They beat the Cardinals

(01:45:30):
five to one, the Cardinals saying on Saturday they're not
trading Nolan Arnado. In a battle of the worst in
the ALE and the worst in the NL, it's the
Athletics over the Rockies eleven to three. The Kansas City,
one of the worst teams in the American League, beats
the first place Twins ten to seven, and the Guardians
lose seven to two to the White Sox, so Minnesota
is still a game and a half up in the

(01:45:52):
AL Central. The Yankees beat the Orioles eight three behind
a home run each from gian Carlo Stanton Aarron judge
the Yankee he's thirty and three when that happens when
both judges. Stanton hit a home run in the same game,
and the Giants get a walk off home run from JD.
Davis three to two over the Boston Red Sox as
their five game winning streak comes to an end. Divingbacks

(01:46:15):
beat the Mariners four to three, Angels lose to the
Blue Jay six to one, the Astros with a blowout
win against the Race seventeen to four to five home
runs for Houston in that game, and the Dodgers beat
the Reds three two despite only getting two hits, but
they were two Max Mounsey home runs and that was
the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
Back to you guys, Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:46:31):
KeV have a great day. Now we need answers. There's
only one person who give them. That's Jeff Schwartz. We'll
get to that in just about a minute. This is
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and save at Progressive Dot com all right, I'm gonna
use your your genius, Jeff Schwartz between your ears, because
you played the game. Only you can answer these questions.
We've got the playing game coming up in about ten minutes.
No big news in Cincinnati this week, Joe Burrow, that
quarterback the franchise goes down and practice on a scramble,
no less a camp sprain.

Speaker 3 (01:47:15):
Tell us how serious this might be?

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
Well, I'm glad to not achilles, which would have been
obviously much worse, which would have looked like I know,
he's wearing the the have a sleeve on, this sleeve on,
so there was an obvious issue there beforehand. It really
depends on, you know, is he able to have a
full rehab before coming back, because if you allow it

(01:47:43):
to fully heal, he should be fine. There should be
no problem. So that means you won't see him in
any preseason games. Oh no, no, absolutely not, which is a
good thing. Yeah, but if if he comes back too
early and has a setback, that's where the problem comes, right, So, like,
do you do you basically let him even miss week

(01:48:05):
one or week two if it's not fully healthy, to
allow him to make sure that he is fully backed
one hundred, no setback whatsoever. That that's the question.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Well, I have a question for you. He was scrambling
to his right, no one touched him, and he went
down holding it, not really in grimacing pain, but holding it.
What happens when he gets on the center in a
game and someone hits him?

Speaker 1 (01:48:32):
That's the question, right, Yeah, But it's a it's a
it's a it's not an impact injury. It's a it's
a it's a you know, a muscle, a soft tissue injury.
So the impact he would get in the pocket I
don't think matters very much to this injury. Now. The
being able to move and and the ability to to
to not get hit I think is the issue here.

(01:48:54):
But again, if they allow him the full the full
time to recover, then I think he's gonna be just
absolutely fine. The problem is if they rush him back
at all and he plays before he's one hundred percent healthy,
he has a setback. If he doesn't, then he'll be fine.

Speaker 2 (01:49:14):
It won't be a problem this year, good news, all right.
Next this will have season. The Miami Dolphins high vit
Fangio to be their defensive How valuable will this hire
be for the.

Speaker 1 (01:49:24):
For the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
It's huge, man, because he's changed defense is at various time.

Speaker 1 (01:49:28):
Yes, Vic Fangio is just an excellent defensive coordinator. Yeah.
And the unfortunate you know, Jayalen Ramsey unfortunately being hurt
you know, early in this in this year is not great. Right,
that kind of hurts their ability to do I think
what Fangio wants to do. But it seems like a
very underrated hire man. He's such a good defensive coordinator.
If Tua can stay healthy, the Dolphins gonna be really good.

(01:49:51):
Upgrade offensive line. Second year in the offense, Vic Fangio
on defense will change the way they do things there.
It's a really really underrated higher it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:50:02):
And we'll see what happened because I think everything is
about tool right now. But I think he will make
a difference, a big difference. Now on the other side
of the ball, the Patriots hired Bill O'Brien as the
offensive coordinator. Will he make a major difference on the
offensive start of the football.

Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
Really Okay, he's a real offensive coach. I think we
looked at what happened in Houston with with Bill O'Brien
and think he's a He's a bum coach. There's two
different ways to evaluate coaches, right that become general managers,
which Bill O'Brien did, is the coach and the general manager,
because often the downfall of the coach when they become

(01:50:36):
general manager is their general managering. Right and right, he
was a bad general manager. He was a real good cook.
They made They made the playoffs. They want to vision
four of six years he was there. He coached offense
Alabama with Bryce Young. Dude can coach offense. He's going
back to New England to just coach offense. I think
England offensively is even much better now. Mac Jones is

(01:50:59):
maybe the fourth most talented quarterback in that division, but
doesn't change. I think that they can win nine or
ten or eleven games with a decent offense.

Speaker 2 (01:51:10):
You know, I was hoping that somebody somewhere would get
a hold of Bill Belichick and ask him what was
on his mind when he hired Patricia as the offensive coordinator.
Who this guy was a defensive guy his entire career.
Why would he do that? And it showed? It hurt,
It hurt their their offensive last yea. And I think
mac Jones basically was somewhat vocal about that as well.

Speaker 1 (01:51:35):
I think it was Hubris, it was it was Ego.
I can make sure we do it correctly. I can
make sure it's right, and they made a mistake obviously. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:51:46):
Yeah, I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
I don't think Belichick will ever First, I don't think
anybody will have the guts to ask him that.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
But I don't think.

Speaker 2 (01:51:52):
I don't think Belichick will ever answer that question because
right now some of the media breathing heavily on him,
saying he's on the hot seat. So I don't think
he's gonna be too cordial to media people and questions
this year, especially if he starts this season like one
in three, you know, zero to four. I mean, it'll
it'll get real ugly fast.

Speaker 1 (01:52:12):
It'll get ugly fast. But I don't think they're gonna
start that slow. I hope not really.

Speaker 2 (01:52:17):
Okay, last, but not least questions for Jeff Schwartz here,
Eric b Enemy may have been the higher, the entire
higher of the entire offseason. He's at a call place
for the Washington command. This last year, this Washington team
averaged eighteen point eight points a game, which is twenty
fourth in the league on the O c Scott Turner.

Speaker 1 (01:52:36):
Can he be changed things? Well, the problem for them
is just a talented quarterback. If they're going with Sam Howell, yikes,
Like that's the problem, right, It's not to me. It's
not really Eric b enemy. It's not the offensive line.
They have running backs, they have wide receivers. It's quarterback.

(01:52:56):
I mean sometimes you just can't overcome quarterback that's not
talent enough to play the position. I don't know if
Sam How's that guy, I would say no, I don't
think Somehow's that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:53:06):
And if he fails, or if the Washington commanders fail,
you know, he's gonna be very very difficult for him
to obtain a head coaching job.

Speaker 1 (01:53:14):
Very difficult. Yeah, that's the problem. Ron Rivera's gonna be
out of a job in.

Speaker 2 (01:53:19):
Washington and then he fire. They're not gonna fire Rivera
a midseas. I don't think they would. Well, if they did,
they may make the be enemy like interim coach.

Speaker 1 (01:53:28):
Maybe here's the here's the thing about Washington right now,
a new owner has no connection to Ron Rivera, and
he's surely going to get rid of him as soon
as he can.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
He's already changed in front office position.

Speaker 1 (01:53:43):
It's not again, it's not Ron Rivera's fault that he
was there with Daniel Snyder. Like, that's not that should
be held against him. But the new owner, Josh Harris
is gonna get rid of every single person with any
ties of Daniel Snyder, and unfortunately is Ron Rivera unless
they have it a ten one season but they don't

(01:54:03):
make the playoffs. Room, the broom comes out. It's everyone's gone, yeah, no,
you're right right, I'm here what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (01:54:12):
All right, We appreciate your input, of course, your intelligence
and your football knowledge because some of those questions really
and truly are big NFL questions. Maybe we'll continue more
so next week as we get closer and deeper into
the season. We'll do that, all right. He is Jeff
Schwarz and Andy Furman. This is Fox Sports Sunday, and
Fox Sport's ready. It is time.

Speaker 3 (01:54:31):
It is time to finger point. The blame game is
freaking next.

Speaker 2 (01:54:36):
The blame game coming right up right here on Fox
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Speaker 1 (01:55:05):
But now it's time for the blame game. You ruined me.

Speaker 3 (01:55:09):
It's all your fault, it's your fault. Is all your fault.

Speaker 1 (01:55:16):
Maybe it's everyone's fault. Who the liar?

Speaker 5 (01:55:20):
That's there's the blame game, the blame game.

Speaker 1 (01:55:22):
Let's figure out who to blame.

Speaker 3 (01:55:25):
Let's blame the biggie.

Speaker 2 (01:55:26):
Ethan Millers handling the blame game today.

Speaker 1 (01:55:28):
It's the biggie.

Speaker 4 (01:55:29):
All right, guys, here we go. A lot of guys
are getting injured in training camp. My god, Joey b
obviously we know is calf. I got a question? Can
we blame training camp for these injuries in the NFL?
Like specifically, like it's the training camp the main reason
these guys are getting injured?

Speaker 1 (01:55:48):
So, like long, Jevy, football is at one injury rate sports.
You couldn't get hurt. Would do this every year. Oh
my god, training camp injuries. You're like, yeah, that's football, Like,
there's no one to blame. It's football. Football is to blame,
you know what the deal is.

Speaker 2 (01:56:08):
I mean it's like if you're a boxer, you gotta
you just can't go into the ring.

Speaker 1 (01:56:12):
You gotta practice.

Speaker 2 (01:56:13):
And I think that the bottom line is that there's
not enough practice time. I get it. Some people are
just injury prone. I get that, but I think you
have to practice to somewhat avoid injury or is that correct?
And I think the fact is that the football, the
Football Association, the players associated, the PA, they just deem

(01:56:34):
that they don't need you, they don't need pads, they
don't need to practice. That's fine, you don't want to practice,
you know, Fine, you're gonna get injured.

Speaker 3 (01:56:41):
As the bottom line.

Speaker 1 (01:56:43):
Yeah, I mean that's that you can make the case
that that happens that you know, the less practice time
you spend, the less opportunity you know, the less ready
you are right for to play your sports. You're exactly right,
that's it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:57):
Next, So I always just thinking about how I spent
a quarter of my paycheck last night on the fight
and for pay per.

Speaker 1 (01:57:07):
View, which which fight the boxer?

Speaker 5 (01:57:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:57:10):
Oh yeah, because there was the I blame you. You
need to see some professional hill.

Speaker 4 (01:57:13):
Yeah yeah, what a great night you've fighting. But yeah,
so I paid for the Crawford one. And I'm just curious,
why are we in twenty twenty three and we're still
paying pay per view and the networks haven't like paid
out to make it like a cable.

Speaker 1 (01:57:28):
Got fools like you that'll do it. Because you're still
doing it. Man, you're trying for it but not doing it.
It's you.

Speaker 8 (01:57:34):
I'm the problem.

Speaker 1 (01:57:36):
Yeah, you are you a fool? Blame on you.

Speaker 8 (01:57:39):
All right, Good, that's the first time I'm happy for that.

Speaker 1 (01:57:41):
All right.

Speaker 4 (01:57:42):
Uh, the PAC twelve, you know a lot of chatter
going on on the air way. It's about how they're
you know, taking a taking a beating right now. I
guess you could say, who's who's to blame for this?

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
Is it them?

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
Or is it jeez?

Speaker 8 (01:57:54):
I'm sorry, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:57:55):
We'll have like two minutes left on the show. Ultimately,
it is the I would say that the presidents who
have hired commissioners, at least a particular commissioner who just
didn't get it Larry.

Speaker 3 (01:58:13):
Scott, he was, he ruled them, the former commissioner.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
But also seems like USC played a big role in
this by not wanting to expand at any point and
kind of held back expansion, which I think has really
hurt the conference. And then they just bounced, which is again,
I mean, feels very USC.

Speaker 2 (01:58:31):
Wasn't Larry Scott the clown that said he wanted to
put up a big ad like on forty second Street
in New York City about the PAC twelve conference. I mean,
come on, I mean, yeah, he ruled them. He ruined
the PAC twelve. Uh, the PAC twelve is bigger than
Larry Scott though.

Speaker 1 (01:58:49):
It is, but he seems to have not done a
good job of keeping us together. Right right there?

Speaker 4 (01:58:54):
It goes next, all right, so I recently just got
Starbucks for the team here, and you treated you bought yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:59:03):
Just for the you know, and you have money left
from your paycheck from the.

Speaker 8 (01:59:07):
Well, actually, Shay bought today, so you can thank Shay. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:59:11):
And I was Mark like Starbucks hot chocolate more than
Dunkin Donuts. So who's the blame in Mark's life for
that analysis?

Speaker 1 (01:59:19):
And that.

Speaker 4 (01:59:22):
He likes Starbucks coffee or Starbucks hot chocolate over Dunkin Donuts.

Speaker 8 (01:59:26):
And I find that as a violation because I like
Dunkin Donuts.

Speaker 1 (01:59:29):
I like better too.

Speaker 2 (01:59:30):
There's none better than Duncan Donuts. And the price is
right too, That's right. Come on, Mark, really, he's get
with it. Get with the program, Mark Ramsey, please, I
don't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
Yeah, I don't believe what I'm hearing.

Speaker 8 (01:59:42):
I'll be sipping on his hot chocolate.

Speaker 3 (01:59:44):
You hope you burn your tongue on it, I really do.

Speaker 2 (01:59:47):
It's a it's a sin, it really, it's a sin
that you would like Starbucks, if anything, Starbucks coffee maybe
Maybecks coffee. I don't. I don't like Starbucks cofee to feel.
It tastes like it's burnt.

Speaker 1 (02:00:01):
Exactly.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
There's nothing d Donuts. I wish Duncle Donuts was a
sponsor of ours. I really do.

Speaker 1 (02:00:07):
I agree with you there, Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 2 (02:00:10):
All right with that, We're gonna go Mark, cool off
your tongue on that. We'll see you next week. Have
a great day.

Speaker 1 (02:00:16):
We love you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:17):
Stay tuned for the Dynamic Duo.

Speaker 1 (02:00:19):
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