Jonas Knox talks realignment, Aaron Rodgers, and more!

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Here's Jonas Knocks scanning the fast playing Grandma.

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reminded me of something that's going on in sports. So
you ever met somebody who you come to find out
is just to kill joy? I guess the killjoy version
is the I guess the male version of Debbie Downer.

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You know, like you know how the term Karen. There's
people talking about how the name Karen is starting to
be phased out. It's like, you know, like going extinct, almost,
like nobody's naming their kids Karen anymore because there's this
negative connotation to it. I believe that the first version
of that was probably the name Debbie because of the
term Debbie Downer, Like nobody wanted that and nobody wants

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a killjoy. But you have to learn these things when
you get to know somebody. And so what usually happens
is the first time you get together, you hang out,
you're really excited about something, you're fired up about it,
you're really passionate about, like, hey, let's go get a beer,
let's go get let's go get a munch hew. You
want to come throw the ball around. And the response

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is eh uh yeah, I guess it's like, oh, come on,
and you try really hard to rally them. You try
really hard to like, come on, get fired up, let's go.
You know, we'll get some wings, we'll get a beer,
the game's on. You know, we'll go out to this
party afterwards. You know, we'll go bowling. Yeah whatever, that's cool,

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well cool, And then you just come to find out like, oh,
that's just that's that's who they are. I mean, they're
not a bad person, they just don't get fired up
about stuff. There's not this same level of excitement. It's
kind of a killjoy Debbie Downer. It's kind of like
what the Pac twelve has been. You know, you go

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to other parts of the country. You see how excited
the fans are. You go to a Big ten game.
There's ninety one hundred thousand people there watching this game.
You go to an SEC game, ninety one hundred thousand
people there. Tailgate starts at like five am. Even if

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it's a night game. Some people tailgate all the way
up until Friday. Like I used to live in the
South Man they go all out. You go to a
South Carolina game that kicks off at three thirty in
the afternoon, My ass kickoffs at three thirty in the afternoon.
They're prepping the food to grill, they're getting everything together.

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It's loaded up in the back of a truck the
night before and they are up at four in the
morning and they are driving out to Columbia, South Carolina
to go set up and start raging. It's a different level.
You go to Big ten country, different level. There's an
excitement to it. They're fired up about it. This is

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what they live for. We get what six seven of
these home games a year, and then sometimes you'll travel
sometimes you won't. You see how disappointed they are when
the game gets moved to a neutral site, even if
it's not that far of a drive. It's like, oh,
come on, man, but you know what, still gonna go,
Still gonna be there, go to a PAC twelve game. Okay,

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that's cool. Hey man, big game coming up Saturday. Come on,
what do you think, Eh, we'll be there. What time
you get in there? Game starts at you know, two
in the afternoon. What time are they going to be there?
One forty five, you know, one fifty depending on traffic,
might miss the opening kickoff? Okay, all right, uh, lesson,
learned all of this stuff that's happened with the PAC twelve,

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and we'll keep it just the football part of it.
And I know there's other sports that are involved, but
come on, it's going to be football season. Let's let's
focus in here. Not everybody get distracted by some of
the other stuff. Put the blinders on. Pretend like you're
one of those horses running a really prominent race. Put
the blinders on, and don't worry about all the people
that are gambling their asses off trying to bet on
who's going to finish first. Right, just put the blinders on.

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Let's focus on just the football aspect to it. When
you see what's happened to the PAC twelve, you got
what four teams remaining, Oregon State, Washington State callan Stanford.
When you see what's happened, and everybody running to the gates,
running to the exits to get away from the burning
building that is the PAC twelve, it's kind of par

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for the course if you think about it, and it
goes beyond just leadership and the Larry Scott's and everybody
else who had their hands on not getting a TV
deal done and not getting a media rights deal done
in time, and then presenting this bag of crap to
all of these people in the PAC twelve who looked
around and all these teams and people running their teams

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and running the programs. They're looking around going this is
all you got. Okay, we'll take a portion of whatever
the Big twelve and the Big ten has, just to
get away from this, because the thirty million dollars and
the one million dollar increment we get every year after
in the current TV deal, which is probably less than
what everybody else is getting, is better than some Apple

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streaming mumbo jumbo that you were trying to sell us.
Let's just get away from it. Like this goes even
above and beyond all of the people who made all
of that happen and chased all of those teams and
programs away. There's just not the same feel about PAC

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twelve football out here in southern California on the West coast.
There's not the same feel that there is in other
parts of the country. And that's just a fact. You
get out to a game in other parts of the country,
you get out to a Big ten game, you get
out to an SEC game, you go to an ACC

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game at Clemson, go to a Florida State game. There's
a different vibe. Man, it's a different feel, and people
can dismiss it and say, nah, nah, no, we don't
know what you're doing. This is a one a true story.
I remember being at a golf course in Birmingham, Alabama.

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This is back in two thousand and nine, twenty ten.
It was when Alabama and Texas were playing in the
National Championship Game. That game was in the Rose Bowl,
and I remember it just kind of, you know, throwing
out casually because I came from California. So I move
out to the South and I'm like, oh, you know,
I'm learning like right away. College football is everything here.

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And I remember having a conversation with some guy who
was working at the golf course, big Alabama fan, and
that was the game. I believe Colt McCoy got injured
early on and Alabama just ran away with it. Remember
talking to this guy and I was like, hey, you know,
so uh. He's like, oh, so, where are you from?
Oh La, and you know, southern California. He goes, oh, yeah,
I'll be there soon. I was like, what are you
going out for? He goes, oh, going out for the

(09:06):
National Championship game. Well, you're gonna make it out there,
he goes yeah. I was like, so nice. That's probably
pretty expensive. He goes, yeah, but you know, we got
like a little bit of a better deal. I was like, oh,
what deal is that? And he told me his travel plans.
And his travel plans were We're going to fly to
San Diego, then get a car the day of the
game and drive up to the Rose Bowl. And he

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had about a two hour window to get from the
airport all the way up to the game in a
rental car in rush hour traffic, just to be there.
And I said, hey, man, have you dealt with LA traffic.
Do you know what that's like. It's going to like
at a different level. He goes, yeah, yeah, we thought
about all that. I just got to be there. I
got to see my team. Saved up hundreds of dollars

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to do this, had to be out there, had to
see his team. It was important. It meant a lot.
That doesn't happen for a lot of people that are
living in southern California. A lot of people that are
fans of UCLA or USC that doesn't happen. You've got
loyal fans, but you don't have the fan base they do.

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It just means more. It's always felt like it meant more.
It always felt like it was different in other parts
of the country than it was here in Pac twelve country.
It just does. And when I come back and I
tell people that and they go out and experience an
SEC game, they go, you're right. There's somebody that works

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at a rival radio station and a radio network that
used to work at Fox Sports Radio I'm still friends
with them. They have grown up born and raised in
southern California. Die hard USC fan or UCLA fan. Rather,
excuse me, die hard UCLA fan. Love the program. I

(11:00):
mean season ticket hold you name it, love it. Grew
up born and raised, went to one SEC game last
year and texted me and said, Yep, you were right.
Different level, it just matters more so when you see
the Ashes that are left behind, and you see all
of the what is left behind of the PAC twelve

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and the disaster that it's been. It's because, by and large,
from the get go, it's not felt as important as
it is in other parts of the country. Oregon's been
a great program. There's been great programs. I feel bad
for Oregon State. I feel bad for Washington State fans
that show up. I feel bad for all of them.

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But at the top, when it feels like it's not
as important, or you know, hey, we're not in so
much of a rush, Hey COVID's here, we'll try and
figure something else out. And meanwhile, you've got players in
the Big Ten marching and putting up protests and Justin
Fields and Jim Harb. But like all of these people
that are going to the wall to try and make

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a season happen, and out here for the for the
Pac twelve, they're just kind of like, well, you know,
we gotta wait and see, gotta wait what you've been
waiting to see, and now you see what happened. Everybody
left and they're going to places in which football is
a priority, athletics is a priority, and it just means
more in those parts of the country. And that's the
bottom line. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio. Get me on

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Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio. Coming up about ten minutes
from now, We're going to get some inside information on
the latest great sports scandal, So stick around for that.
That's coming up ten minutes from now here from the
tiraq dot com studio. So I have identified what I

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believe is the most secure job, the safest job in
all the land. Like there's a lot of people that
have been really concerned about what is everything going to
be done with when AI comes around, or all these
jobs gonna be showed up and spit out next thing,
you know, we're gonna have robots doing everything, and it
was a slow transition for a lot of people. You
go to a grocery store, next thing you know, there's

(14:28):
self checkout. I'd also like to say on the record,
nobody's a better self checkout guy than I am. I
am efficient, I'm fast, I bring my own bags. I'm
not willing to pay the ten cents, and I have
bags that are big enough that I can fit everything
in it and not have to worry about anybody trying
to run over and make sure that I've got enough bags,
or I need to throw another diamondo the pot so
I can get a plastic bag from the store. You

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don't have to worry about me. I'm in and out.
But there's a lot of people who try and use
self checkout, and they're the worst human beings in the
world in my opinion. Some would argue, you know, there's
people in prison that are terrible human beings. I think
if you take too long at a self checkout and
you've gotten more than the ten or fifteen items that
are allowed through there, you're a horrendous human being. And

(15:12):
I don't think ninety days in jail is outside the
realm of punishment for some of those people. But again
that's for another conversation, for another show. But I'd just
like to say this, a lot of people are concerned
about AI. They're concerned about what's going to happen to
their jobs. There's a lot of people that are really
concerned about whether or not they're going to be employed.
I've identified the safest job in all the land, and

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the reason it's safe is because of many of you comedian.
If you are a comedian, your job is safe. You
want to know how I know that because I watched
the Hall of Fame game on Thursday night. That's how

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I came to this conclusion. Do you want to know
what happened in the Hall of Fame game on Thursday night?
The lights went out? And what do you think everybody
did when they got on social media? Hey, look, hey,
look everybody. Aaron Rodgers is in the darkness again. Hey hey, can.

Speaker 8 (16:21):
You believe it? Guys, he wanted a darkness retreat. Little
did he know the darkness retreat was gonna happen in
an actual game. I thought he had crawled out of
his hobbit hole, and I thought he had seen the
light filey, but apparently somebody in Canton, Ohio had different story.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
For him, and they had a different result. The most cheesy, cornball,
low hanging fruit, bad comedy, and so many people took
part in it, and people I respect and people that
I'm friends with, and it's disgusting. And let me go
back on a previous statement when I said people at

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the self checkout stand that take too long and don't
know what they're doing are horrendous human beings and deserve
ninety days in jail. Anybody that made a darkness joke
on Twitter or x or whatever you want to call it,
or insta chat or snapface or MySpace or whatever you
want to call it. Anybody that made a joke like that,

(17:26):
I just want you to know you deserve ninety one
days in jail because you're not funny. Leave it up
to the professionals. Leave it up to some experts. It's
why I don't stand over my mechanics shoulders and tell
them what goes where and how to plug that in,
because they're the experts. I don't know what I'm doing.
Like I don't stand over a chef's shoulders and say, hey, buddy,

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could you make sure, you add a little bit more
of this and a little bit more of that, because
what the hell do I know? They're the ones putting
the meal together. Do what you do. You're the expert.
All of you bad comedians, everybody out there who thinks
they're funny and they're not. You were exposed on Thursday night.
But the good news is, if you are a great comedian,

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if you are a funny comedian, if you're somebody that
actually has talent when it comes to the field of comedy,
your job is safe. And I would argue the safest
job in all the land. So congratulations, there was some
good news that came out of all this. Jonas Knox,
Fox Sports Radio. All right, so speaking of what's not good,
there's a little bit of bad news here. The bad

(18:30):
news is the Las Vegas Raiders have a season coming up.
That's the bad news. Uh. Here's the latest on the
Josh Jacobs drama. So apparently, according to Pro Football Talk
and sources, that Mike Florio has had conversations with one

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of the possibilities and the possible outcomes, although it seems
like it's a bit of a long shot. One of
the possible outcomes is that the Raiders if Josh Jacobs
just seems intent on not wanting to play and not
showing up, the Raiders could rescind his franchise tag number,
so it would save them ten point one million dollars
and Josh Jacobs would lose that ten point one million.

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But apparently he's okay with it because he's that been
out of shape about the situation with Las Vegas, and
so if they were send the offer, he then becomes
a free agent. And you would think, all right, well,
this late in the game, he's probably not going to
get as much money as he would like the ten
million dollars on the franchise tag number, which is true.

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But apparently Josh Jacobs is okay with that. And there
are two teams that are interested in Josh Jacobs. Reportedly
the Chiefs and the Broncos would be very interested in
Josh Jacobs. So let me just ask you this, what
the hell is Davante Adams thinking he just got their
last march? Devonte Adams got their last march that he's

(20:00):
looking around going, hey man, there's a lot to like here.
I got the quarterback who I've always wanted to play with.
He's one of my close, dear friends. I played with
him in college, So I may be leaving Aaron Rodgers,
but at least I'm gonna play with Derek Carr. I
got a ton of weapons around me, guys like Darren
Waller and Josh Jacobs man, and I'm in Las Vegas.
This is gonna be fun, guys. And Derek Carr is gone,

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and Darren Waller's gone, and Josh Jacobs looks like he
might be gone, and DeVante Adams is looking around, going, Jesus,
what happened here. It's like a little kid walking around
with cotton candy at a carnival and he's looking the
other way. He's like two or three bites into it,

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and somebody spills a soda on his cotton candy and
it vanishes and the kid turns to take a bite
and it's all gone. He's just holding that little like
paper straw handle and he's looking at the cotton candy
and he's going, what happened here? He's like the Ordon
and shawshank man up and vanished like a fart in
the wind. DeVante Adams has got to be looking around, going,

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I didn't sign up for this. This is now what
I envisioned. I was expecting all pros around me. I
was expecting the quarterback I always wanted to play with,
and instead I ended up with Derek Carr, partway, Jared Stidham,

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and then Jimmy Garoppolo, who may or may not be healthy.
They say he is, he passed his figure the physical
and maybe he is and maybe, And you're clearly the
worst team in the division. That's why when you hear
these rumblings about, you know, DeVante Adams may I mean
he might be on his way out as well too.
He's got to be looking around him when he makes

(21:49):
those comments, and he's questioning the front office and the
organization and what the plan is and what's going on.
At this point, he might have every right to because
what he was expecting and what he's gotten in a
little over a year is wild. When you consider all
the optimism and all the hope that the Raiders had.

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Oh they rid themselves of John Gruden, the toxic culture
has gone, everything's fine, and here we are. The season's
a month away and they are clearly, by far and away,
the worst team of the division. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio,
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It is?

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My Frand.

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How about that.

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I love that drop right there. I'd say that's what
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Her reference day.

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I mean it's fram.

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By the way. That was you know, from his deathbed.
I mean, how about the fact that Iowa Sam got
up enough courage and strength to take a post hole
digger and dig up the rems of Doc Holiday to
have him give you a shout out here on national

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radio on a Saturday. I mean, he's a man of
many talents right there.

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So.

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Smells like someone died.

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That's about How could you wind up? It's my friend,
I know he is. We heard you, Doc, Hey, Doc,
if you crawl back down there, please are trying to
do an update.

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Thank you.

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Well.

Speaker 9 (24:21):
There is a lot of lawlessness, it seems like, going
on in college athletics right now. We don't know who's
in charge or what things are going to look like
over the next few years. The Pac twelve circling the drain,
Oregon and Washington have accepted invitations to join the Big
Ten for the twenty twenty four season, and with that
conference all but dead, Arizona Arizona State, Utah applied for
and unanimously approved to join the Big Twelve. So California, Stanford,

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Oregon State, Washington State are the only remaining members of
what's still known as the Pac twelve, and with Florida State,
they made noise about leaving the ACC over the last
couple of days. So the situation at College Athletics NASHE
is just still very fluid. Baseball, We've got three games
in action right now in the Bronx the Yankees leading
the Astros two to one. They're in the top of

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the sixth inning. The Tigers with a three to one
lead over the Rays. They're in the bottom of the
fifth inning. Braves and Cubs just getting started at Wrigley Field.
They are scoreless in the bottom of the first In
the Women's World Cup, Spain knock Switzerland out of the
tournament with a five to one win. They advanced to
the quarterfinals Japan, bouncing Norway three to one to reach
the round of eight and one more round of sixteen

(25:26):
match set for tonight. The Netherlands will face South Africas
kickoff set for ten o'clock Eastern on Fox. And in
NFL News, Saints head coach Dennis Allen saying that running
back Ino Benjamin has been diagnosed with a torn achilles
and his season is likely over.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Back over to you, Jonas, Thank you, Kevin Jonas Knox
here Fox Sports Radios.

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My friend.

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I know he his doc. Please just close the lid
to the coffin. Please get back down there. Why we're
trying to do a radio show. Let me tell you something, though,
you know what you you got to look forward to do.
You're not getting showed up by mosquitos. The bottom of
my legs look like braille because these ankle biting mosquitoes.

(26:10):
Apparently that's a thing. It was a thing last year.
I've still got scars from it. They have just disintegrated
my body. That's the problem. Like when you've never smoked
a cigarette in your life, I think mosquitos identify you
and go, that's the one we're gonna chew on today.
You know, we don't want to. We don't want to.
If you're a mosquito, you don't want to be flying
around smelling like a pack of marlboros. So if you're
a mosquito, you just find whoever's got the freshest blood

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and say, you know what, that one works for me,
all right, I'm gonna go ahead and go with that one,
and apparently I'm the one, so I got to do
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Let's go live to our I happen to be an
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Speaker 11 (26:46):
Iowa Sam for the latest, Sam Jonas. I think it's
your soft, supple, pasty skin that they're after. You know,
you're always moisturizing. You got you know, you got that
nice soft skin. That's it's just like a tender piece
of meat.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
First of all, I don't always moisturize, and I never
moisturize my ankles. Well, LaVar says, you moisturize everywhere. We'll
say that one as a drop. That's bo if you
get F eight that behind the scenes. By the way,
for those of you non radio people who want to
know what F eight means, there's a recording program called

(27:19):
Adobe audition yboard. Yeah, and when you press the F
eight button, it automatically marks a piece of sound. And
so when you're trying to catch a host or somebody
on air say something that could be interpreted or misrepresented
later on to make them look foolish, you just hit
F eight, you save it in a file and then
you have a bunch of drops, and Iowa, Sam right

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now on his board can play a drop of somebody
here at Fox Sports Radio making a comment that sounds
weird when you play it back afterwards. And all of
that was done because of the F eight button. So
there's that, yeah, like right there, totally taken out of context.
That's the problem. You work with enough hooligans behind the

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scenes and they're going to make you sound like an
a hole later on. All right, So coming up in
we'll call it twelve minutes from now, we are going
to have another edition of Do You Care. It's where
you guys have been making a big fuss about a
lot of things in the world of sports, and we're
going to tell you why none of it matters. That's
coming up twelve minutes from now. But let's have a
discussion here about somebody that's got inside intimate knowledge of

(28:27):
a scandal in the world of sports.

Speaker 7 (28:29):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
A lot of people ask me when you think of
It's like, if you think of the you know, Buffalo,
New York, what do you think of when you think
of Buffalo? Oh, I think of wings and I think
of the bills, like, oh, okay, what do you think
of When you think of la Oh, I think of beaches,
and I think of Hollywood and entertainment. It's like, okay,
that's awesome. You know, what do you think of? What
do you think of Texas? I think of barbecue, and

(28:50):
I think like somebody, like a state or a city.
They represent something in your mind. And it used to
be that when people ask me about the state of Iowa,
I always had two go tos, and now I've got
to add a third because when you think of the
state of Iowa, you think of obviously Iowa Sam, that's

(29:11):
number one. Number two you think of crop circles, And
now we can add number three degenerate gamblers, because apparently
that's a thing in the state of Iowa. You got
Iowa State players, You've got Iowa Hawkeye players. You've got

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some players taking this degenerate gambling habit all the way
to the NFL and then getting popped another six games.
So we have got somebody with intimate knowledge, inside information
as to why Iowa is now the gambling hotbed on
planet Earth. None other than Iowa Sam live from a

(29:53):
crop circle next to a slot machine in the middle
of Des Moines, Iowa, Sam, Can you share your intel
on why you guys in Iowa are degenerate flunky gamblers
all of a sudden.

Speaker 11 (30:07):
Well, I wouldn't say I have inside knowledge, but from
what I've gathered, Iowa was one of the first states
after the US Supreme Court legalized sports betting across the
entire country, Iowa was one of the first states to
have legalized sports betting within the state, and they created
several sports books, and I think it just became a
thing in the state a little bit before other states

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got into this, and the rules weren't quite emphasized yet,
and the boundaries weren't set. And now these Iowa and
Iowa State players have kind of set or become an
example for what not to do when you're a college
athlete and your eligibility is at stake, because like Iowa
State quarterback Hunter Deckers, he placed a wager on Iowa

(30:53):
State one post. Well, no, it was several eye it
was you know, it's wrestlers, basketball players, football players, it
was quite a few student athletes from both schools. But
he placed a wager on Iowa State hosting Oklahoma State
back in twenty twenty one, a game in which Iowa
State one twenty four to twenty one to sort of
salvage their season, at least for the moment.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Yeah, because Oklahoma State was eighth in the country. They
were eighth, they were undefeated.

Speaker 11 (31:16):
Iowa State had already lost two games, one to Iowa
and I can't remember the other one. But that was
the year that you know, they had Breeze Hall Brock Party.
They were supposed to, you know, win the Big twelve
that year. A lot of expectations it was. It was
definitely a disappointing year. But hunder Deckers was the backup
quarterback to brock Party and he placed, I believe, a
five dollars wager on the Cyclones. And that is a

(31:37):
big no no. And several other these student athletes from
Iowa and Iowa State have also bet on their own
team and on their school and we're we're learning now
that that's a big, big no no.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
By the way, if you were wondering which one Iowa
Sam rooted for, you could obviously tell it's the Hawkeuys
because he clearly made sure to leave out the fact
that a kicker, Yes, I'm sorry, Iowa bet on the under. Well,
I actually, sy Hawk Bowl'll be tu, He'll be true.

Speaker 11 (32:04):
For I didn't know who this blomb character was. He
was the backup kicker, and I have to admit I
did not know. I don't really know who he was.

Speaker 1 (32:11):
But let me fill you in on why this guy's
a genius. Okay, he's a backup kicker. He bet on
the sy Hawk Bowl and for you knew he's out there.
I had to teach Iowa Sam this the sy Hawk
Bowl is cyclones and Hawkeye. Yeah, that's what I call it.
I appreciate you informing me on that. The fact that
they played early in the season is bothersome to me,
and it still bothers me. I don't like that it
should be later in the year, but who cares. But

(32:33):
point is this kicker bet on the under of that
game in twenty twenty one and it hit. It hit
by a point. So, like, I mean, are we really
going to crucify this kid because he's good at gambling?
I mean, what do you want from him?

Speaker 11 (32:48):
He clearly knows Iowa's a defensive style. And the fact that, yeah,
he picked the under for I think it was forty
five total and it was forty four.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
All right, all kidding aside. Here's where this will be problematic.
If he was a kicker who actually partook in games
and not like a couple here or there and made
a couple of appearances. But if he was a kicker
who was the starting kicker for that game and he
was betting on the under, then we got a problem
because that means he's probably missing extra points or kicks
because he's got money on the game. So that is

(33:19):
the latest from the sportsbook in the corn called Iowa
and Iowa State Football. I mean, it really is something, man,
I mean. And also I'd like to point out very
very strange how you picked the one week not to
show up and help us out on two pros and
a cup of Joe. The one week you picked to
not show up. You've been here for weeks and weeks

(33:41):
and weeks. The one week you pick is when this
story all of a sudden popped up. And I'm not
saying one has something to do with the other, but come.

Speaker 11 (33:48):
On, Joan is come on, okay. This story in truth
started to come out back in May, and you know,
now we've actually had some you know, charges that have
been and like criminal charges have been brought against some
of these guys because they tried to hide the fact
that they were on these apps, you know, and so
there's like tampering charges and you know, tampering with evidence

(34:11):
and stuff. So it's definitely come more to the forefront,
but it did the story to come out back in May.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
Now, let me ask you a question. Are these silos
in Iowa? Are they actually progressive slot machines and they're
just disguised as holding things that are good for the
environment or holding corn or whatever it is? Like are
the barnes? Is that actually Like when you open up
a barn door in Iowa, do you walk in there
and there's like a bunch of people playing Texas hold them? Like?

(34:37):
How far does this go when it comes to the
gambling in the state of Iowa, Like what are we
looking at? Like maybe in the movie Field to Dreams,
when James Earl Jones disappear into the corn, he walked
right into somebody playing Keino, Like maybe And also the
fact that Hey and Shoeless Joe Jackson was busted for
gambling and that took place in Iowa, It all makes sense.

(34:58):
Iowa's the new gambling hop. Bed Vegas can go screw itself. Yeah,
I mean, listen to some of these barns just out
in the middle of nowhere. Maybe there's no people aren't
living on that property anymore. You pull those big barn
doors back and it's a casino parlor in there. Yeah
that's great. Yeah, that's great.

Speaker 4 (35:14):
Man.

Speaker 11 (35:15):
Yeah, there's a for you guys economy on a whole
underground economy. Have you ever seen the movie boiler Room?
One of the opening scenes pull big uh big, you know,
blackjack uh and uh gambling and poke o Iiowa.

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Yeah, it all happened there with a new boilerroom. Yeah,
and all you haters out there, said man. All Iowa
was known for is cow tipping, crop circles and baseball movies.
Screw you known for gambling now too, Jonas Knox, Fox
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Speaker 11 (35:55):
There is something out there, Ray.

Speaker 10 (35:58):
And if I had the courage to go through it
is what a story it'll make shoot us. Joe Jackson comes.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
To Iowa Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio coming up in
a little over ten minutes from now from the tire
rack dot Com Studios. I'm gonna tell you why there
is something that many people in sports and in media
and in television and in radio, and they tell you
why it doesn't matter and it shouldn't matter. And I'm
going to tell you why it does and why you

(36:27):
should care. That's coming up here in a little over
ten minutes from now. But right now, speaking of caring,
it's time for a little something we do on the
show called this.

Speaker 5 (36:37):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.

Speaker 1 (36:43):
DMZ reports. Now let's get kinky.

Speaker 5 (36:45):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week.
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:53):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Bo Benson to find out what the hell people
have been talking about all week? Bo?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
All right, Jonas, So everybody's favorite, the Detroit Lions, say
they do not they feel energized by the fan pride
in the team, saying that the expectations are not a burden.

Speaker 1 (37:10):
Do you care? Yeah? I do. I love this for
the Lions. I love it for Lions fans. The fact
that they're the favorite to win the division, the fact
that there's expectations are going to be a playoff team,
and they've built this team the way they had through
the draft. They've brought back guys like Chris Spielman, they've
repaired relationships from players in the past, and they've built
this in a family type way to where they focused

(37:32):
on their roots as the Detroit Lions, going through all
of these losing seasons and these winless season and just
the awful look the Lions have given their fans, and
the fact that their season tickets have all sold out
and it's the first time in ford Field history. Go Lions.
I love Dan Campbell love the story.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Next, after choosing not to become sellers at the MLB
trade deadline, the Angels aren't sure when shoe Hao Tani
will make his next start. He had to leave early
due to cramping in his last star Do you care
at all?

Speaker 1 (38:01):
I don't care about any of it. Listen at Joiotilit
He's gonna be fine. You get a bunch of voyeurs
in Major League Baseball who realize the Angels have a
hot girlfriend and they want to know when she's going
to be single because they expect that they're going to
break up soon. Mind your business, and I hope he
resigns with the Angels.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Next, Alabama head coach Nick Saban shut down questions about
the Crimson Hides quarterback battle, saying there's been really good
competition among the quarterbacks and there's no starter named yet.
Do you care about this one?

Speaker 8 (38:27):
Not?

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Really listen, Nick Saban. I just want Nick Saban to
be asked this question more and more because the closer
we get to the season, the more agitated he gets,
and the better it is for us, because we're gonna
have drops from Nick Saban as he pounds the podium
and gives media members a look of just what's wrong
with you? Why you asking me that question? And it's
just his way of deflecting stuff. He's the master at it,

(38:49):
and I love me some red ass, Nick Saban, But
this story whatever next do doo is.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
LSU's head coach. Brian Kelly says that the team's new
injury reporting process is a proactive response to legalized sports gambling, citing,
you know, scenarios like gamblers hounding staff or inside information
that he wants to try to avoid that. Do you
care at all?

Speaker 1 (39:11):
I mean, yeah, I do. Listen. I'm a big fan
of sports betting. Everybody knows that I love me some
sports betting. I have newfound respect for the State of
Iowa now that I know that they're filled, I mean filling,
like overflowing with degenerate gamblers. I think it's a wonderful store. Yeah, listen,
whoever it is, whether you want to be a Cajun
sports gambler, whether you want to be sort of a

(39:33):
height hoity toity South Bend sports gambler, whatever you are,
you are all second place. And we've just learned that
this week to the State of Iowa.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Next, all right, Steve curR said. Questions about Chris Paul's
role with the team, We're going to have to wait
until training camp gets going so they can look at
how different combinations with the Warriors lineup looks together on
the floor.

Speaker 1 (39:52):
Do you care, No, I don't come, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
I'm leaving.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Good play. Football's right around the corner. Who gives a
rip about the NBA. That's right, trying to force feed
this stuff. Stop trying to put Dame Lillard new news
in some of the and some of the cycles that
are out there, Like mind your business, you had your run,
it ended in June. Now we move on to football.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Next, California celebrity Hank the Tank, a female black bear,
was captured in Lake Tahoe with her three cubs. She's
going to be safely relocated to Colorado to safeguard both
herself and the local community after her string of break ins.
Do you care why all the way to Colorado there's
not enough open land? There's a I guess it's a

(40:32):
wildlife sanctuary that she'll be going to.

Speaker 1 (40:35):
I mean, come on, man, I arur. Also, I love
how this is the priority for California. You know. It's
like that mountain lion that wanted to play bumper cars
on the one oh one a few weeks back and
got murdered. It's like, come on, don't isn't there other
things you can worry about in this state other than
bears and mountain lions. I don't care.

Speaker 9 (40:54):
The Pac twelve is circling the drain. Oregon, and Washington
have accepted invitations to join the Big Ten for the
twenty twenty four season, and with that conference all but dead,
Arizona and Arizona State, along with Utah, applied for and
were unanimously approved to join the Big Twelve. That leaves
just California, Stanford, Oregon State, and Washington State as the

(41:15):
only remaining members in what's still known as the Pac twelve.
Florida State also made noise about leaving the ACC over
the last couple of days, which means the situation in
college athletics nationally is still very fluid. Major League Baseball,
we have three games in action right now. In the Bronx,
the Yankees are a two to one lead over the Astros.
They are heading into the top of the eighth inning.

(41:35):
In Detroit, the Tigers on top of the race four
to one. They are heading into the seventh. The Cubs
with an early lead over the Braves five to one.
They're in the bottom of the second inning. And in
the NFL, running back Eno Benjamin of the Saints has
been diagnosed with a torn achilles.

Speaker 1 (41:48):
I'm Kevin wired, what a title?

Speaker 7 (41:53):
Are you ready for?

Speaker 1 (41:54):
The Gardner The Prince of Darkness, the prints of Darknesses.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
In the house.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I'm the man up in his face, Jonahs Knocks. I
don't Shane choose anymore?

Speaker 3 (42:04):
Yeah, James, Well, big guys, Jonahs Knocks is coming through
your speakers like the right cross from a boxer that
you've never heard of.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
They run through our ass like through a tin horn man,
and we could not stop.

Speaker 5 (42:16):
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Speaker 1 (42:19):
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Speaker 4 (42:21):
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Speaker 5 (42:24):
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Speaker 1 (42:27):
The bingo game is running the roll. So there's something
that I've realized then, I believe a lot of us
have in common. It involves football and it involves vacation.

(42:50):
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I've noticed something about myself, and I'll start off by saying,

(43:32):
I believe that I'm going to be in the minority
on this, or at least the minority when it comes
to the media, and maybe yourself as well too. But
the older I get, the more I enjoy preseason football,
and I can't figure I was trying to. I was
thinking about it because I was really excited for the
Hall of Fame game when it came up, and look,

(43:53):
I acknowledge, Look, the starters aren't going to be playing
most of the time. You're not going to get the stars.
Going to be some guys who are going to be
playing in these games that aren't going to sniff an
NFL roster when it comes to the regular season. Most
of these guys are getting camp tryouts and then they'll
get dwindled down, especially the early preseason games, you get

(44:13):
a lot of guys who aren't gonna make the first
cut or the second cut, let alone be a practice
squad player or even on an active roster. And so
this is it for those guys, which, look, there is
something to that as well too. I'm happy for those
players because you can say whatever you want about yeah,
well you never actually played in an NFL game. It's
kind of cool when you can say, yeah, I didn't

(44:34):
play in a regular season game, but at least I
got to play in an NFL game, and you can
go back and look at the highlights and all that.
So I think that stuff is cool, but it goes
beyond that. I couldn't figure out why am I excited
about this? And then it occurred to me, you know,
preseason football is like it's like that beer you have
in the airport when you're waiting for your flight. Everybody

(44:58):
loves that beer, and you want to know why you
love that beer, because it's a signed that vacation is
right around the corner. Now, you could go one step
further and say, well, what about packing for your trip.
I don't know about you. I'm terrible packing. I can't
figure out how people can fit all that stuff into

(45:20):
one bag and just use a carry on. I try
my damnedest. I've gotten better at it. I've actually looked
at YouTube videos to see how people professionally pack, how
they navigate through stuff and clothes inside their shoes, how
they roll their clothes instead of folding it. Why I've tried,
I'm still not great at it. I'm trying to get better.
I don't vacation that much anyways, or travel that much anyway,

(45:41):
so it's not like it's a problem that's at the
first thing I think of every day. But I'm not
good at it. So I'm not going to go as
far as say it's like packing for a trip. But
there is something too. You get to the airport, you
park if you don't want to pay the ridiculous airport
parking prices at one of those places that's away from

(46:01):
the airport. You take a shuttle to get there. You
grab your bags, you hop on the shuttle, You get
to the airport, you go through security, you check your bag,
you do what you do. Just everything's out. They're going through.
They've got a wand here and this here, and you
don't have tsa pre check and you always meant to
get it, but you forgot this time. Finally, you get
through all that crap and you have whatever you're taking

(46:22):
with you on the plane, and you look down at
your phone and you realize, we got like an hour
ten until our flight's here, which means we got like
forty minutes until we bord, which means we got forty
minutes to have cocktails. And so what do you do.

(46:44):
You pull up to one of those crummy little restaurants
in which I'm not even sure if anybody actually ever
cleans those tables when anybody leaves, because they turn and
burn them so fast. It's like a rush hour lunch
at a restaurant all day long in an airport, so
they're just turned and burning real quick, so you don't
even know if they've been cleaned, and you don't care.

(47:04):
You sit down there, you get yourself a nice cold beer,
and it goes down and you're thinking to yourself, it's
all gravy from here. All we gotta do is sit
on a plane and we're off and running, and we
are away on vacation. It's not quite vacation, but that
airport beer, that cocktail in the airport when you're waiting

(47:27):
to go on vacation. Isn't it glorious? Some would argue
it's the greatest beer or cocktail you'll ever have. Some
could make that case. And do you want to know
why because you know everything beyond that point is vacation.
Do you want to know why I like preseason football
because I know everything beyond this point is vacation. Yeah,

(47:52):
it's not ideal. I get so the table hasn't been cleaned,
so they don't even paint the end zones in most
of the stadium, so you're not going to get the starters.
And yet maybe it's not the best beer that you've
ever seen in the beer lineup you've ever seen on draft.
You prefer something else, and maybe they don't have all that.
But you know what it is. It's a signal. It's

(48:13):
a flare gun shot into the sky from the gods
walking amongst us, saying football is right around the corner.
You got no worries, You don't have to You don't
have to sit through another bad baseball game or some
awful NBA playoff game and get people at certain networks
to try and sell youain why this is these so important?

(48:34):
And it's earth shattering, and it's the most important thing
you'll talk about all day long. You don't have to
worry about any of that crap anymore. You just sit back,
you enjoy something. You enjoy a nice cold beer at
an airport lounge. You watch people coming and going. Some
people are scurrying to their gate because they're afraid they're
going to miss their flight. Other people are haggling with
the person at the front gate, wanting to know, why

(48:56):
can't we get on that plane? Why won't you just
let us on, even though the plane's already already departing.
And what are they gonna do, like pull an rgo
and try and jump on the runway and see if
you can get there in time. No, no, no, you're
just sitting back and you're relaxing, getting a little bit
of a buzz on so you can take a little
bit of a nap. And then once you land, you
were off and running. You're on vacation. The NFL season

(49:18):
is vacation and preseason football. Those are those airport beers,
those airport cocktails. Maybe a bloody Mary if you will,
maybe a Mitchellatta if you're in the mood. But all
it is is a signal that football's right around the corner.
And I didn't realize it until Thursday night when I
was thinking, why am I excited about this game? Aaron

(49:40):
Rodgers isn't playing, Massage Watson's not playing. Why am I
getting excited about the Jets and the Browns? I'm not
a Jets are a Browns fan? What do I care
about this? They don't even have proper electricity at these games.
A few years ago, the turf was melting at the
Hall of Fame game. I mean you had the shower's

(50:01):
breaking after the game, like it is the most nickel
and dime football setup we've ever seen. They didn't even
sell it out. And yet I'm sitting here excited about
it because I realize, oh, that's the beer before we
depart to have more beers. And I'm into it and
you should be too. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio at

(50:24):
the Jonas Knox, a lot of people fired up, man,
A lot of people really really really excited about what
we've done so far in the program. If you are
new to this program and you're trying to figure out, like, well,
what's your gauge? Do you have any proof on that
you got some ratings now got some positive feedback, though,
like Paul Ohu writes in, and he made sure to

(50:46):
include Nate Diaz and Jake Paul in this tweet. Hey,
Nate Diaz, after you stomp the bleep out of that
bleepwad Jake Paul, can you do us all a favor
and do the same to this dealiss bleep smoker want
to clout chasing bleep, Come at me, bro Troy writes
in the pasty ass Bandit Jonas Knox and your group

(51:11):
of bleeps can finally sit out in the Sofi parking
lot during your bleep t swift concerts, trading worthless eraslet
bracelets and doing useless TikTok dances since you broke bum
asses can't afford tickets. You said that, Brian writes in,
You bleep and demented bleep get back into your fetal

(51:34):
and ass position, bitching more about irrelevant college football changing
and how you're gonna boycott and protest you bleep packing
Puffer oh a guy who has a Twitter account by
the name of Eat bleep and Die, writes in, while

(51:55):
most of your takes reek like hot garbage, I wholeheartedly
concur with your self checkout observation. The great flaw and
self checkout is having to rely on the competency of
your fellow Americans, which is an exercise in futility. Have
you seen those people? I am outrighty. First things. First,
appreciate the positive feedback from eat s and die. Secondly,

(52:21):
I have seen those people, and they disgusted me. If
you take too long at self checkout, if you're like
if you grab four avocados and you don't know where
the sticker is to scan it across, just go to
a professional. Let the rest of us borderline professionals who

(52:41):
have the intelligence to get through a self checkout line
in a fast fashion, let us get through there so
we're not waiting in line for you to figure out
how to spell tomatoes as you try and type in
the bag that you grab from the produce section.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Let's go while we're young.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
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Thank you, Coach Bill Belichick joining us here from a
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Coming up next, though, we're going to talk about how

(53:21):
a lot of people were exposed. There's a lot of
people out there, a lot of haters. You might even
be one of them. You were exposed just a couple
of days ago by an NFL star. That's next, Yeah,
gotta have fun with that, Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio.
The hell is this? All right? So coming up in

(53:44):
we'll call it a little over ten minutes from now,
there is I feel like there's a certain group in
the world of football that is being left out, and
I think they're being left out because of nerds. So
we will explain why that is again, coming up here
in a little over ten minutes from now from the
tire rack dot Com Studios. So I thought that there

(54:07):
was a bunch of people who got exposed over the
last couple of days by an NFL star. And it's
so obvious when this stuff happens because you can pinpoint
it and you can see how this is all going.
So everybody acknowledges and understands that this is a really

(54:27):
pivotal year for the Dallas Cowboys, all right, And it's
a pivotal year for the Dallas Cowboys because there's really
no more excuses A right, there's no more scapegoats, there's
no more well it was Kellen Moore, Well it was this, Like,
there's a reason why the odds have the Dallas Cowboys
as one of the favorites if you're looking at favorites

(54:48):
to win it all, Like if you're just looking if
you were to go to the NFL and you were
to say, all right, so who are the teams that
are most likely to win a Super Bowl? Like if
you just like looked around the NFL and you were
to say, all right, so what teams are most likely
to win a Super Bowl? One of the teams that's
in the top five or six or seven, depending on

(55:09):
where you look, is the Dallas Cowboys, according to the odds.
So the Cowboys are fourteen to one to win the
Super Bowl, which puts them in the family of the
Bengals and the Jets and the Ravens and teams like that.
And the reason Dallas is that high up, or the
reason why it wouldn't be that much of a surprise
if the Cowboys actually did pull it off, even though

(55:31):
I don't believe it's gonna happen. But they're a team
that is, at least in the conversation is because say
whatever you want about them. They're really talented, like they
have a lot of really good football players, but because
they're the Dallas Cowboys, the way we judge them and
look at them is kind of skewed a little bit

(55:52):
because you're either on one side or you're the other.
You either fanboy out for the Cowboys and you either
love the Dallas Cowboys and they're America's team and you
were all about Dallas and you were all about or
you're on the other side and you're sick of hearing
about them and you're sick of hearing about what they're

(56:13):
expected to do, and you're sick of hearing Jerry Jones,
and you're sick of America's team and all that stuff,
and you root for them to fail so much so
there have been television shows that have stood the test
of time based on the Dallas Cowboys making up sixty
to sixty five or seventy percent of their material even
in non NFL weeks, like they they're the lightning raw

(56:39):
team and credit to Jerry Jones for doing it, but
everybody acknowledges that this is a pivotal year because they're loaded.
There's no more scapegoats. Yes, Philadelphia is very good. They
were just in a Super Bowl. But if you believe
in Super Bowl hangovers, that would stand a reason that
would be good news for the Cowboys. I'm not a
believer in the Giants this year. I think the Giants

(57:00):
won some games and had some things go their way
last year. I think they're going to take a step back.
And I definitely don't believe in Washington. But I think
Dallas is a playoff team and it would not shock
me if Dallas won the division. Would not shock me
at all. So there's a reason why there is some
hype about the Cowboys this year. But it is a
pivotal year. And so it goes back to the same

(57:23):
old question of Dak Prescott. And I feel like there
were a lot of Dak Prescott haters that got exposed
this week because one of the stories that made its
rounds in the NFL was it Cowboys training camp in
Oxnard or some people call it Knoxnard, depending on who
you ask. Ye At Cowboys training camp, Trayvon Diggs was

(57:49):
heard saying to Dak Prescott quote, shut your bitch ass up.
Now what do you think that meant for? Cowboy haters?
And Dak Prescott haters? Even his own teammates don't respect him.
Nobody would talk to Tom Brady like that. Haha. You know,

(58:12):
could you imagine anybody saying that to Patrick Mahomes on
the Chiefs. That would never happen. Ma, there's no respect
for Dak Prescott. And so they asked Dak Prescott about it.
He didn't think it was that big of a deal.
And then they asked Trey Von Diggs about it, and
he had this to say.

Speaker 10 (58:32):
Yeah, it's just practice. I don't know why everybody's making
that such a big thing, like it's football is what
we do. This is what goes on on the field.
I don't know why people are in the business anyway.
It's all love, it's friendly like, it's nothing against him,
it's nothing like, it's nothing like that. So, you know,
just you know, people just want something to talk about.
You know, people create narratives of how they want to
justify a situation. But at the end of you know,

(58:53):
that's my guy. You know, we got his back one
hundred percent. No one can say anything to us about anything.
You know, we're going on out there every day and
plan for each other every Sunday. So like regards what
happens on a pridet's been what we're doing. We making
each other better. We're trying to get better.

Speaker 8 (59:07):
People.

Speaker 10 (59:07):
Didn't need to mind a business period.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
He's one hundred percent right. It's a non story. Who cares?
So he said, shut your bitch ass, who cares? It's
not a sign of disrespect. I got news for you.
I have been called a son of a bee thousands
of times in my life. I've been called the son

(59:33):
of a bee by friends, people that I piss off
in traffic, co workers. I think my dad even called
me a son of a bee one time. Did I
take it literally? Was my dad calling my mom a
name when he was calling me a name? No? And

(59:55):
were my friends calling my mom a name when they work. No.
They know how I feel about my mom, my best
friend in the world. They're my hero, like right up
there with over everybody else in my life as far
as influence and what inspires me and all of that stuff.
I never one time took it as oh, that's disrespect

(01:00:18):
and they're calling her a name.

Speaker 10 (01:00:20):
No, they're not.

Speaker 1 (01:00:22):
And if my friends are doing it, they're busting balls.
And sometimes if you're not busting balls, things get contentious.
And so what him and Dak Prescott were talking trash
to each other. Dak was talking trash to him too.
Neither one of them cared. Nobody cared. You know who cared?
Dak Prescott haters. I actually think what happened with Ryan

(01:00:45):
Tannehill years ago at a Dolphins practice was much worse.
Ryan Tannehill years ago in a Dolphins practice and this
came out. It might have been Armando salgea of the
Miami Hero and I forget who wasn't reported on this,
And if it wasn't Armando, my apologies by the way,
he does a great job. But there was a report out.

(01:01:06):
That's how things got contentious at Dolphin's practice. And some
of the practice, like one of the practice squad players
ended up intercepting a pass from Ryan Tannehill and ended
up playing really well into practice, so much so that
Tannehill made a comment to him something like that's why
you're not a real player, or you're not a real player,

(01:01:27):
or that that's why you don't make game checks, or
there was something along those lines, but but in the
tone of you're less than us because we're players who
play on Sundays and you don't. And to me, that
just comes off as kind of douchey. You know, that's
that's that's just douchey. That's like when Tyreek Hill tells

(01:01:50):
the guy at the marina in Miami that he slapped like,
you know, I could buy this boat and you too.
It's like, okay, dude, what are you? That's just to me,
that's worse Trayvon Diggs talking trash back and forth with
Dak Prescott, and that's a story. It's a story because

(01:02:11):
people don't like Dak Prescott. People want him to fail.
People want to make sure that their argument is on
the right side of things, and so they look for
every little thing to pick a part to say, oh, yeah,
we knew it all along. And see here's the proof.
Even his own teammates don't respect him. Dude, they're talking trash.

(01:02:31):
My teammates fight in practice. I guess like the fact
that this was run with it just told me everything
I needed to know about who really makes up a
large majority of what we do. It's cowboy haters. It's
Dak Prescott haters like fans running with it with all.

(01:02:53):
But but you think anybody on the Bengals would say
this to Joe Burrow. If they did, who care? And
I got news for you. If they did, we'd probably
never hear about it. And you want to know why,
because they're not the Cowboys and they're not Dak Prescott.
This is also we were talking about this on Two
Pros and a Cup of Joe on Friday. This is

(01:03:16):
also why I'm a firm believer. I don't think cameras
or media action access should be allowed at training camp practices.
I really don't. And I don't care that you're trying
to build your brand and you're trying to get notoriety
and you want to drive stories and you want to
make sure that everything is covered. I don't care about

(01:03:37):
any of that crap. It's when people take moments like
this and run with it. When you're not in the
practice and you're not involved, nobody goes to you on
your commute to work and judge you on your work
based on your commute. Like if you're driving to work

(01:04:01):
and you go to cut a fart and next thing
you know, you got to pull off to the side
of the road and you're ringing out your Dockers foop
fast and dumping a bottle of aquafena on him because
you don't want anybody to notice when you get into
the office. Is anybody at your work judging you on
your performance that day based on the fact that you

(01:04:21):
crapped yourself on accident on the way in. No, and
you want to know why because you weren't actually working
or clocked in or in the office. That was your commute,
This is their commute to the season. Who gives a rip?
What goes on? Who cares if somebody throws an interception
or fumbles a snap? Who cares? You don't think Tom

(01:04:45):
Brady ever threw a pick or ever got into a
jawing match with one of his teammates. Is he judged
on that? Man, Tom Brady, those seven Super Bowls, all
of that's great, But man, what about that one time
he had a bad practice and threw a bad interception.
Nobody cares? They don't care. So the idea that all
of this stuff sparked up and made stories and we

(01:05:07):
did headlines about it and people did full segments on it.
You know what that tells me. That tells me those
Dak Prescott haters are out in full force and they
are waiting for him to stumble this year so they
can pounce on him yet again. Jonas Knox, Fox Sports Radio,
Get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the

(01:05:28):
Jonas Knox on Twitter. All right, so coming up next here,
we are going to have a discussion about how nerds
have ruined it for an entire group of football players.
We'll tell you why that is here on FSR. But
for all the latest from around the world of sports.
Walking through a swinging barn door with a side piece,

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a sheriff's badge and a mustache that won't quit, we
present to you, Kevin Wireder what.

Speaker 9 (01:05:58):
It is my friend, kicking that barn door open with
my boot right there, damn right, and you got a
spur on the back.

Speaker 1 (01:06:05):
Yeah, and it spins in the wind.

Speaker 9 (01:06:08):
Well, speaking of lawlessness out west, the Pac twelve College
Athletics just seems to be in complete disarray right now.
The Pac twelve all but dead, as Oregon Washington accepting
invitations to join the Big Ten for the twenty twenty
four season, and with that conference circling the drain, Arizona,
Arizona State, Utah applying for and unanimously approved to join

(01:06:29):
the Big Twelve. So it's just California stand for Oregon
State and Washington State that is left and what at
least is still for now known as the Big Twelve.
Also Florida State making some noise they are talking about
possibly leaving the ACC. They've been saying that over the
last couple of days. So right now, the situation in
college athletics is just incredibly fluid. In Major League baseball,

(01:06:51):
We've had one game go final already today the Yankees
hold off the ass Throws three to one. Over in
the Bronx. We've got a couple more games in action
right now. Tigers on top of the Rays four to two.
They're heading into the eighth inning in Detroit, comes with
a five to two lead over the Braves in the
top of the fourth. We have another game coming up, actually,
we have three games coming up at four o'clock Eastern

(01:07:12):
Marlins and Rangers in Arlington. Blue Jays will face the
Red Sox in Boston, and the Nationals will square off
with the Reds in Cincinnati. Women's World Cup action on Saturday,
Spain knocking Switzerland out of the tournament with a five
to one win. They advanced to the quarterfinals. Japan bounces
Norway three to one to reach the round of eight
and one more round of sixteen match set for tonight.

(01:07:33):
The Netherlands will face South Africa. Kickoff set for ten
o'clock Eastern on Fox and in NFL News, SAME's head
coach Dennis Allen saying that running back EEno Benjamin has
been diagnosed with the torn achilles his season is likely over.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Back to you Jonas. Thanks Kevin Jonas Knox here on
Fox Sports Radiope.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
This is my friend.

Speaker 1 (01:07:52):
Yes he is, Thank you. Doc. By the way, somebody
woke Doc Holiday back up and he is still joining
us here, which is interesting. Hello. A guest list though,
shout out to Bo Benz and our executive producer working
hard on the weekend. So far we have heard from
Bill Belichick, Jason Smith, and Doc Holiday's corpse here on

(01:08:17):
the show. So a full guest list here on a
Saturday of Sports Talk Radio in August. All right, so
we are going to have the scraps coming up at
about fifteen minutes from now here on FSR and in
this edition of the scraps. I'm going to talk to
you about how there is something that everybody is really

(01:08:38):
really looking forward to. I mean everybody, And I don't
care if you are a celebrity, I don't care if
you're an average person. I don't care if you are,
like whoever you are listening to this right now. This
is something you partake in and it really doesn't make
a lot of sense. So we were going to get
into that for you again in about fifteen minutes from now.
So let's add this this fun discussion about why nerds

(01:09:05):
have ruined it for entire group of football players. Joe
Thomas gets into the Hall of Fame, which not a
surprise first ballot. Everybody agrees one of the all time
great offensive tackles played his entire career in Cleveland, just
from day one. Throw him out there, not a problem

(01:09:25):
in the world. He's got you covered for a decade
plus all good even on a bad team. No problem,
No questions asked, Joe Thomas, Hall of Famer. But if
I were to say to you, make an argument for
another offensive lineman who isn't in the Hall of Fame
to be in the Hall of Fame, what's your go

(01:09:46):
to what do you got, Yeah, me neither. And that's
the problem. Nerds have ruined it for offensive linemen. And
do you know why, because there's no statistical category you

(01:10:06):
can point to in order to make an argument for
a Hall of famer, like I believe that Olan Krutz
should be a Hall of Famer. Olin Kreutz, longtime Chicago Bear,
finished his career with the New Orleans Saints. May or
may not have, you know, roughed up Drew Brees who

(01:10:28):
tried to interject with Olan Crutz wanting to beat up
an assistant coach for the New Orleans Saints. That may
or may not have happened. Olin Kreutz also the same
guy who may or may not have gotten into a
fight with a teammate and broke his jaw during the
season at a gun range. That may or may not
have happened, you know. But again, Olin is a He's

(01:10:50):
a Hawaiian. You don't messle with Hawaiians. It may be
beaches and sunshine and rainbows and surfing and all that,
but the one thing it is Hawaiians will throw down
at any moment. They don't care. They're all about it.
Most relaxed people in the world, and next thing you know,
you're getting your ass beat by somebody with a great

(01:11:12):
tan who's wearing a pair of flip flops. It just
is what it is. Own cruits, don't mess with the guy.
I believe he should be a Hall of Famer, but
I don't know what I can point to other than
reputation to make the case. And I wonder how many
great offensive linemen there are out there who aren't in

(01:11:33):
the Hall of Fame and may never get in the
Hall of Fame because there's no real statistical category to
point to. And so why haven't the geeks or the nerds,
or the dwebs, or the pip squeaks or the pocket
protector wears. Why haven't you guys figured out some sort

(01:11:56):
of statistical category or two or three so that we
can start identifying who is really great and who's not.
You could go to like Pro Football Focus or someplace
like that. There's probably advanced data on ESPN or someplace
like that that will put together well, you know, I mean,
they were their past protection. At this rate, we need

(01:12:19):
statistical categories. We need something for people like me, you know,
dummies like I need to know, Hey, I can make
a case for this guy because he had this many
sacks or through this many touchdowns, or led the league
in passing this many years, or did this or did that,
or I mean, what are we going with all pros?

(01:12:41):
I mean, are we sure that the people that are
voting on All pro know what they're looking at when
it comes to an offensive lineman? I don't know, but
it just feels like there's probably a lot of guys
that are waiting their turn going. Am I ever going
to get a little bit of love? Like Joe Thomas,
you knew, all right that guy is going to be
in the Hall of Fame just based on reputation, Like

(01:13:02):
we know Quintin Nelson's going to be in the Hall
of Fame based on reputation, like nobody can point to
his stat there's no statistical category. Zach Martin going to
be in the Hall of Fame. We know that reputation,
but there's no real statistical category you can point to.
And because of that, I feel like there's a lot
of guys getting left out that are probably deserving to

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(01:14:49):
I want to give it thank you to Iowa Sam.
He is the pride of Iowa, which is now the
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Benz and our executive producer, We get Kevin Wireder on
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we appreciate everybody hanging out with us here and you

(01:15:10):
as well too. But before we go, it's time to
close up shop with a little something we do called
this Jonas, how could you not get to these stories?
These are the scraps And for that we turn it
over to our executive producer, Bo Benson to find out
what the hell we've missed so far.

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Bo all right, so since everything sucks nowadays, Jake Paul
still fighting He's going to take on Nate Diaz tonight,
and Jake Paul is the betting favorite for that one.

Speaker 1 (01:15:40):
So heavy favorite by the way, and you know what, Look,
he's probably gonna win because Nate Diaz is not a boxer.
Nate Diez has been through a lot of wars and
his fighting style probably isn't conducive to boxing, especially a
guy like Jake Paul, who's explosive. And listen, there's there's
there's a lot of people who want to hate on

(01:16:01):
Jake Paul. I get it. Some people think he's obnoxious.
Some people think Logan Paul's obnoxious. Man, everything those guys touch,
I don't know, seems to be pretty successful. Logan Paul's
going to be at SummerSlam for the WWE later on.
He's turned out to be a phenomenal professional wrestler. They've
got you know, Prime, the Prime drink. You know, they've

(01:16:24):
got that that's taken off, that's being sponsored in the UFC.
They're doing this boxing stuff and there's a chance that
a Jake Paul fight might out sell Terence Crawford and
Eryl Spence, which took place last weekend, which is this
generation's Pacquiao Mayweather and it might outdo that fight from

(01:16:45):
last weekend, which is pretty wild to think about. So
kudos to Jake Paul. Big fan of Jake Paul.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
There are you Bo Benson or oh yeah, I mean
everything you said is true, but it's just I wish
you would I wish you would fight actual boxers. And yeah,
although he did say that there's a ten million dollar
offer on the table to fight Nate Diez in MMA
because Jake Paul they do have a wrestling background, so
they feel like, well, you know, because of our wrestling background.

Speaker 1 (01:17:14):
The problem is Nate Diaz. He's one of the one
of the legends of MMA, and you're more likely to
get down on the ground and then get strangled because
his jiu jitsu is just on another level. And everybody
else is that he would be fight that he'd be
dealing with outside of the UFC. So what else we got?

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Yeah, so nobody won the Mega millions. The jackpot now
sits at one and a half billion dollars, So I
might start playing the lotto here.

Speaker 1 (01:17:41):
You know what, So you don't play the lotto, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
My wife is in a pool at an old job
that she's still in so got a reminder to keep
checking those tickets, all right.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
So here's here. There are a couple of things that
are kind of funny about and bids. Thank you, it's
just an idiot.

Speaker 12 (01:18:01):
There are millions, and there are a couple of things
that are that are kind of funny when you think
about like when these jackpots get really large, like Mega
millions or powerball.

Speaker 1 (01:18:14):
Like one of them is the subtle arrogance of people
like me and probably a lot of people out there
who they'll play Mega millions or Powerball, but only if
it gets up to like seven hundred or eight hundred
million or one point five billion, you know, because when
it's normally the fifteen or sixteen million, that's not worth
our time.

Speaker 2 (01:18:34):
No, you have self respect.

Speaker 1 (01:18:36):
Yeah, you're not getting my two dollars quick pick money
if it's only fifteen to sixteen million. No, no, no,
you need to get up to like six hundred or
seven hundred million if you want to get my attention.
There's that which I find kind of kind of funny.
And then also the fact that people are broke in
this country, like inflation, the prices at a supermarket, housing costs,

(01:19:00):
gas prices, all of that stuff. There doesn't appear to
be enough money for everybody in this country. But here,
here's one point five billion, and it can be yours
if you give us two dollars. What am I missing here?
Can't you take that money and spread it out over
supermarkets so that I don't have to go in and

(01:19:21):
pay nineteen dollars for a loaf of bread if I
wanted one?

Speaker 4 (01:19:24):
Like it?

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
Just that part of it just doesn't make a lot
of sense to me. But apparently there are decisions that
are made that I'm not privy to, and this is
one of those decisions that is still mind boggling to
me after all these years. It's a confusing story.

Speaker 4 (01:19:37):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yeah, Speaking of mind boggling, Brandon Winston, a thirty one
year old Eagles fan from West Virginia, was trying to
buy tickets to an Eagles game, I think a week
two against the Vikings. He saw a tab on the
app that said go green, and he thought it was
related to, you know, recycling initiatives or something like that.
He actually just became the first person to see the

(01:19:58):
return of the Kelly Green jerseys Eagles had been hyping
up for about a week. He took screenshots of everything
leaked it all on social media. The Eagles actually had
to go ahead and release everything way ahead of schedule.
So yeah, thanks to that guy, we all got to
see those Kelly Green jerseys a few days early.

Speaker 1 (01:20:15):
How did not happen?

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
Yeah? You know, I love those random things where it's
just you see something you're not supposed to see. And
also the jerseys are perfect, So I want to thank
this guy.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
It's kind of like when I was a kid and
I was in the mall and I saw the guy
who was playing the Easter Bunny in the mall smoking
a heater in the breakroom because somebody left the door
to the breakroom open at the Thousand Oaks mall. And
I'm standing there wondering where the Easter Bunny is. And
I look and he's got he's smoking, he's got a
lung dart in his mouth, you know, catching a ten

(01:20:48):
minute break. And I'm thinking, I don't know that's how
it worked. But not that the Easter Bunny is fake.
I don't want any any kids listening. It's real. Just
that guy was pretending to be one in the mall,
you know what I mean. Yeah, but yeah, look, these
Eagles jerseys are so phenomenal. Bo and I were talking
about this during the break. Bo, how many of you ordered?

(01:21:08):
You are an Eagles fan, how many spintage Eagles jerseys?

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Because it's you asking me, I will say three.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Do you have a Randall Cunningham?

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
I do, yeah, I even I got a Michael Vick
one too. They released those recently.

Speaker 1 (01:21:22):
You gotta get a you want to make Anthony Gargano smile,
you got to drop a Bisickahema reference. Just say hey,
I'm thinking about getting a bi Sickahema jersey. What do
you think? And Gargana will go on for an hour
and a half about the great Eagles from the past.
So congratulations to that guy forgetting a sneak peek. Bring
those back permanently. Philly Jonas, son of a Bitch,

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