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my goodness, so much to get to tonight, so a
little time. We've got college football up. That took us.
We'll get into the NFL, a major NBA trade. Of course,
my trivia game at midnight, got a great guess in
about fifteen minutes, and I've got a subject matter I
want to tackle to start the show. And by the way,

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before I get the ball rolling, I was in Anaheim Monday,
attended the Angel game, grew up loving that team, managed
to get a credential once a year for old time sake,
And as I was coming off the field during batting practice,
ran into a gentleman, retired policeman stadium security. His name
is David Barons. Want to give him a shout out.

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He listens to our show. He likes the motown music
and had a great conversation with him, so David appreciated.
David Barons, thank you for your service and thanks for
listening to the Bernie Frattle Show before I dived. Well,
by the way, we'll get to this later. Lions have
now won six divisional games in a row, eleven and
three since starting one and six last year. Defense ranks eleventh,

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not thirtieth. Bottom of the hour. I'm going to get
into that a little bit more. I've been telling you
all year. There is a specific reason why the Lions
are no longer the Lions, and I am qualified to
say that. So hold, I thought I will get to it.
But something that's been on my mind all week because
there are a couple of names in the news. One
is perpetually in the news. The second one I'll get

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I will share with you and I will tell you why.
And they are both, as Jogi Barrett would say, they
have different similarities. Now you've heard me mention on the
show the phraseology. You know, we don't have royalty in
this country. You see, our athletes and our entertainment are
entertainers and such. They are in fact our royalty and

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there's an old saying, tell me a fact and I
will learn it. Tell me the truth and I believe it.
But give me a great story and it lives in
my heart the rest of my life. I want to
talk about Dion Sanders for a minute, because I'm a
big Dion fan and I love what's happening in Colorado,
every bit of it, and I'm not shocked that people
are triggered. People are triggered by Dion, and I want

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to touch on a thing or two about Dean so
we can maybe please stop the bull junk, which we
won't because it slays me to observe that Deanna's so polarizing.
People are rooting for him to fail or they resent
his success. You all know, the opposite of love is
not hate, it's indifference. You have to have that same emotion.

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There has to be that same level of caring. So
people hate Dion. I love Dion. And by the way,
it's all about the story. This whole story is riveting,
it's captivating, and for some I guess it's maddening. And yeah,
that's a you problem. Maybe you're angry because Dion jumped
the line, he didn't pay his dues, other coaches out

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there are are are railing on him. Okay, It's become
a circus act. It'll be a circus act in about
ten hours from now when they tee it up against
USC and all the cool people will be there because
they want to see and be seen. And if you
think Dion is merely a loud mouth, shameless self promoter,
what you're wrong, okay? And what creates I know it's

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against a lot of practice psychology without a license, but
what creates this phenomenon? It's quite simple. Most people that
grow up, they have dreams of wealth and fame and
happiness and style and social influence and so on. They
watch fairy tales as a kid. There's a deep seated
attraction to heroism in this country. And for some if

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other people achieve what you do not, then you become
very resentful. And that is I think the prevailing attitude
towards Dion Sanders. And I'm going to defend Dion Sanders.
He's not a perfect person, but I believe he's a
good person. Travis Hunter really wanted to play last week.

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A lesser coach might have. Dion didn't. And again, I
want to repeat this, if you think Diana is merely
a loudmouth, shameless self promoter. You're completely disavowing the hard
work and the tribulations he's been through in his life
to get to whatever juncture he's made it to, whether
it be the major leagues in the World Series or

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the NFL or what he did at Florida State. Did
you know Dion attempted suicide in nineteen ninety seven. Perhaps
I'll share that story in another day. He's led a
full life and it hasn't always been perfect. But there's
one backstory that stands out for me that speaks volumes
about Dion and his character. The Buffaloes frankly stunned the

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recruiting world. Probably guys like Aaron Torres would know this,
but most wouldn't. They landed were one of the best
recruits in college football heading into this last season. Dion
flipped a player by the name of Cormani McClain to
come to Colorado. Everybody else wanted him, Alabama, Florida, you
name it right. He's a defensive back put four games

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into McLean's freshman season, who is, by the way, the
third best recruit in Colorado history. According to twenty four
to seven sports. He hasn't even seen the field well
kind of last week Dion put him in garbage time
and you know their players heard and he allowed him
to jump into the game. But this is a kid,
six foot two corner from Lakland. He's got NFL written

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all over him, and seeing the field had to do
with the player. And Dian was asked and he was
quoted he said, I'll tell you why he doesn't study
and prepare. He's not on time for meetings, show up
to the Durham meetings and like I says Durn all
the time, understand the scheme. Coach Prime spoke why mclan
wasn't playing much, He would honestly say, understand what we're

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doing is this game. You want to play this game.
You have desered to play this game. You have deserve
to do the best of this game. Will show me
at practice, show me in the film room and on
your own time. You do know I checked film time
from each player so I can see who's preparing. And
it's not just about Cormani. So if I don't see
that you put it in the work, I'm going to
be I'd be a fool to put someone out there

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who's not prepared, can't do it, won't do it. I'm
old school. Mclan did to get a couple snaps in
the forty two six blowout against Oregon, and that's just
without you know, to Travis Hunter playing and McLain could
have been a natural fit to fill that void. He
he's that athletic. Now Colorado might be down Shiloh Sanders Saturday.

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I'm not sure each member of the secondary has also
suffered injuries. So these are guys that are sort of
internal organs to that Colorado defense. And we'll see if
McLean gets on the field Saturday. But credit Dion for
honoring the process. You have to earn it. Behind all
the historyonics which Dion has always seemed to back up
as a player, I believe Dean's a very serious individual

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and Dion Sanders has earned everything he's accomplished. So if
you're threatened by his success, that's a you problem. There's
more character there than you want to give him credit for.
And speaking of that, I'm going to take you back
to Tuesday night, Major League Baseball. The rest of the world,
we lost a very good man when Baltimore Orioles Hall
of fame third basement Brooks Robinson passed away. Robinson won

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sixteen Golden Gloves with the Baltimore Orioles, and he led
the America League and all third baseman in his career
and awards won. And obviously, you know there's a reason
why he was called the human vacuum cleaner. But the
Washington Posts did a nice homage and said, quote, his
moral compass was as splendid as his glove. And that's true.

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May Angelou always says, no one cares what you did,
what you said, They'll always remember how you made them feel.
Brooks Robinson was a walking masterclass at that. You know,
he had a magnetic glove. This is a man known
for his empathy, believe it or not. At the end
of an illustrious twenty two year career, people learned that

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Brooks Robinson had gone broke. He hadn't been tough enough
in running his sporty goods store in Baltimore. He kept
a lot of nice folks around, kept people on the cuff,
supplied youth teams that they couldn't afford it. And after
the story broke that Brooks Robinson basically went broke. He
was swamped with mail. People were sending ten dollars five dollars.

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One gentleman actually sent Brooks Robinson ten thousand dollars. You
know what Brooks Robinson did. He sent every dollar back
and paid for the postage. That tells you the kind
of man Brooks Robinson was. Robinson could have gotten a loan,
but he wouldn't take one from the Oriols. He didn't
shift blame. Brooks Robinson in twenty two years, earned less

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than one million dollars cumulative and salary before taxes in
his entire career twenty two years. He just missed free agency.
He retired in seventy seven. Now, in his tenth season
hews the American League gam VP, he earned a whopping
thirty five thousand dollars. Now here's the deal. Brooks Robinson
will forever be considered the greatest defensive third basement of

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all time, eighteen time All Star, sixteen Golden Gloves, two
hundred and seventy homers. Look, but his Hall of Fame
teammate Jim Palmer said, fighting back tears the other day,
he also happens to be one of the greatest human
beings you've ever met. As you've heard me say many times,
and I'll say it again, we don't have royalty in

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this country. Our athletes and our entertainers, and many times
they are one and the same, are in fact our royalty.
And on this moment, Dion Sanders and Brookes Robinson are
joined at the hip because in their own way they've
had that kind of impact on fandom and on pop
culture in American society that makes you care. Tonight show

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you ready for the college football slate, alongside Brian Know
and Rich Orenberger. It's are on, Jared Lee Smith, Jared,
how are you, buddy.

Speaker 7 (12:07):
I'm good, Bernie.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
It's great to be only. Hey, I'm glad to have you.
Jared a lot to talk about. Ever so quickly, Utah
goes down hard tonight. Cameron Rising warmed up before the
UCLA game but didn't play. How do you consider backing
Utah from here on out with this kind of wildcard situation?

Speaker 7 (12:27):
Yeah, I think it's tough. Kyle Whittingham is kind of
like the Maverick of college football mayor with that old
movie with Milk Gibson James Darner, one of my old favorites.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
But actually done with Yeah.

Speaker 7 (12:39):
Well, he kind of reminds me him because he's not
afraid to bluff. And we've seen this a lot with Whittingham.
In fact, last year it was a Friday night game
I forget who it was again, and all of a sudden,
Cam Risen just didn't play and nobody knew about it
until literally the backup ran onto the field on the
first snat. So it wasn't surprised me if we get

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this game with Whittingham all season, and you have to
look at it from the players perspective. Now, it's not
only Rising, but it's also the tight end Kiethy. I mean,
these are both I think Keithy more so than Rising,
but these are both NFL prospects. And we've now reached
the point in Utah season where there's still you know,
everything's in front of them because they've only lost one game.

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But I think at some point the PAC twelfth Championship
probably you know, goes out the rearview mirror there and
you know, maybe those guys really start to focus on
the next level. So I wouldn't be surprised if we
get this game with Cameron Rising every week from here
on out, especially if Utah loses another game or two
and all of a sudden they're playing for you know,

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one of the lesser Bowls and not you know, one
of the college football championship games.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
A good, good, good point. All right, let's look ahead
in about nine and a half hours. We have to
talk about this game. First, it's the law Trojan's up
to minus twenty two at Colorado. The Buffs could only
muster ninety nine yards in total offense last week. What's
your quick take on this game?

Speaker 7 (14:05):
Yeah, I think you know, the game is priced similarly
to last week, you know, about a three touchdown spread
and I think if you analyze those two teams individually,
Oregon and USC Colorado's opponents, I think it's fair to
say that they offer different challenges. Oregon is a much
more physical team than USC is and I think right now,

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at their core, Colorado is talented at the top. I
think Shudors Sanders could start for a lot of Power
five teams, and I think they have a lot of
skill position players that probably could start for a lot
of Power five teams, but the depth isn't there. And
I think just the overall physicality.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Teams big and top.

Speaker 7 (14:42):
That play defense like Oregon, I think that's a bad
matchup for Colorado. But this is a different game, a
little bit more of a finesse game against USC. Caleb
Williams is going to run around and they're going to
try to make a lot of plays in the air,
and I'm sure he will, but they're not going to
try to pound it down Colorado's throws. And on the
defensive side of the ball, I think Colorado is going
to be able to, you know, protect a little bit

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longer to give Shad or Sanders that extra second to
make that play. Because UFC's front. You go watch the
airs on a state pape from Saturday. USC's front isn't
exactly gamebusters up there. So I think this is a
different game for Colorado, and I think they can keep
it within the number, you know, getting three touchdowns. There
will be a much different game than last week. Let's
just leave it at that.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I'm an agreement. I think you're going to get a
little different effort out of Colorado, and they aren home
and it feels like that back door could stay open.
I full this closer. I'm not involved in that game,
one game that I would have very little interested weeks ago.
But Florida is now looking better. They actually have a
win over Tennessee. They travel to Kentucky lay three. This

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is a tough game.

Speaker 7 (15:46):
Your thoughts, Yeah, Kentucky. I think I really like this
Kentucky team. I think they're starting to play a lot better.
And you know, they're four and over the third straight year,
so they're in a familiar spots here. And anytime you
get an unranked team that's favored against the ranked team.
We see this more in college basketball, but as college football,

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as does happen, you know, and I always favor the
unranked team that's laying points that's a very popular trend,
and it might be.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
The case here.

Speaker 7 (16:18):
We've seen a little money come in on Florida and
it's kind of moving back to a pick them. It's
definitely going to close under a field goal if we
do get some Kentucky take back Saturday morning. But I
think when you look at this team, I expect Kentucky
to own the trenches in this game. And I was
a little bit surprised with how physical Florida has been

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through the first few weeks of their year. They had
that tough game against Utah, and I know they didn't
face Cameron Rising, but Utah's front can still get after you.
And then they had that tough game against Tennessee where
they really out physicaled the balls and that's why they
won that game. But you look at their defense and
I think their defense is playing well above the expectation
so far. I didn't expect their defensive front to be

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able to up against the run. And that's important because
Ray David, the transfer from Bandy, who's averaging six yards
of kerry for Kentucky. That's a really tough matchup, I think.
But on quarterback position, I don't know what we're getting
from Devin Larry. He looks good point sub sixty completion percentage,
so I think that's an AWS up game. Bernie. I
think this is a good stay away spot for me.
I'm not really touching this one.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Okay, nicely done. I would lean to Kentucky and for
whatever reason, they've won uncovered their last two meetings. But
you bring up an excellent point about Devon Larry, the
transfer from North Carolina State. He looked terrible against Vanderbilt
last week, so you don't know what you're gonna get.
Think it's a very good analysis, Okay. Georgia lane fourteen
at Auburn not a road favorites here. You got a

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situation where Hugh Freeze could not heap enough praise about
Kirby Smart. Georgia has not looked like the great Georgia.
But I think they're just playing with their food right now.
It would not surprise me if they hung this number
at Auburn, Texas A and M beat them twenty seven
to ten. But again, I'm not willing to lay the
wood here. What are your thoughts?

Speaker 7 (18:04):
Yeah, I think eventually, and I feel the same way
about Michigan too. I don't have a ton of analytical
thoughts on this game. I haven't watched a ton of
Auburn yet. I think with Georgia and with the other
top ranked teams, we haven't seen the A plus stuff yet.
In fact, Georgia and Michigan the two top ranked teams,
they're eight no straight up, they're O and eight against

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the spread. And it's interesting to kind of see that
discrepancy through the first month of the season that these
great teams, Right, what is the good teams win, great
teams cover? Well, if that's the case, and is Georgia
any good? And is Michigan any good? You know, I
think we're gonna find out a lot over the next
few weeks as these teams go into conference play and
kind of, you know, it tests the waters in a

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different way. Very few of these teams challenge themselves in
non conference, so it's really hard to grade what they
are in September. We've had a few good games so far,
but we haven't had any good games. For Georgia, I
haven't seen them really stretch their legs, and I hope
it happens at some point. They certainly had the talent
to do so. And that's really the only analysis that
can provide. Georgia on their best day beat Auburn by forty.

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But I just we don't know if it's going to
be their best day. It makes them a very tough
bet to the first two league exactly right.

Speaker 2 (19:12):
So I was gonna save Michigan for last. Obviously, I
lived in that market, covered those teams for fourteen years.
My opinion on Michigan this year is not popular. I
will just tell you I think this is going to
be like the sixteen team where there were all kinds
of expectations and they choked it down against Iowa and
then finished the season poorly. And I think this could

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is going to end up like the Chase. Oh goodness,
he's playing playing for New England. Now did the Chase
revenge year? Remember that year? And they did that did well.
So anyway, here'shere I'm going with that. Michigan is very
deliberate on offense, and there their offensive playbooks about a
two page pamphlets, the same four plays over Nome. Nebraska's

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got a decent run defense. In Michigan, run the ball
and they're gonna be twenty mile an hour wins in
there and at Lincoln on Saturday. So here's my question
to you, Jared. I cannot take the eighteam the way
I've seen Nebraska play and fits and starts, but I
sure can't lay it either. I like to get your
thoughts on Michigan lane eighteen in Nebraska.

Speaker 5 (20:18):
So I think this is a good spot for Michigan.

Speaker 7 (20:21):
And I think, unlike Georgia, where you're right the weather
is going to play a factor, it's not gonna affect
Michigan's offense because they're right, they run the ball so much,
and frankly, both teams have to play in the win.
So I think Nebraska, if you were going to ask me,
you take away the passing games for both teams and
both teams are just running the ball, I would take

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Michigan's run game over over Nebraska's run game. And frankly,
I think it's Michigan's defense that's really the key here.
Now Nebraska quarterback situation is another disaster and that's where
I think, really when I handicap this game, I see
a real edge. It's just the not catch the snap
against Colorado that he could not feel the snack, and

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I don't know if there was something going on there,
but if it's not him, and he offers the best
mobility of the quarterbacks for Nebraska. Then the backups are
more thrower types, so then you bring in the thrower
type who can't run in the mile an hour wins
that you just mentioned. It's just this feels like a
game where Michigan has been in their cozy little dan
in Ann Arbor for a month. They haven't had their

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coach on the sidelines for three of those four games.
Now they go to a hostile environment. If we haven't
seen the Wolverines wake up, I think this is the
game that we're going to see it because they've got
a couple of interesting spots again they I think this
Michigan team is kind of in cruise control for the
next month. But this is the one game where you

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go to Lincoln and I think you show people that
you're a good team.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
Because you go to.

Speaker 7 (21:52):
Minnesota, you play Indiana, you play Michigan State, you played Purdue.
Over the next month, there's no prove it games here
and I think this is this is a a spot
for them on the road to kind of come together
as a team. Eventually, Georgia Michigan, one of them is
going to cover a number and I ope it this
weekend because I did bet Michigan. I like seventeen.

Speaker 2 (22:12):
You may well be right, Jared. They beat Nebraska thirty
four to three last year. It is a mismatch of
Michigan brings their best and you're not wrong there. Chase
Winnovich was the guy couldn't get out of my mouth
a minute ago. Oh yeah, A couple more quickies for you,
because one game I'm mostly interested is Notre Dame Land
six at Duke, another road favorite. Duke really impressed me

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that opening night against Clemson, and I want to see
how the fighting Irish rebound against a pretty good team.
Mike Elko has just done a phenomenal job. There your
thoughts on that game.

Speaker 5 (22:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (22:45):
So the first thing that stood out to me this
week is when I was going through Marcus Freeman's press
conference and it was a somber one. And I've got
a buddy here in town, Tim Murray, worked for one
of the local networks, and you know, he's a big
Notre Dame fan, and he was the game and we
were talking. We actually did a show together today and
we were talking about just you know, it was a rough.

Speaker 2 (23:05):
Week for Irish fans.

Speaker 7 (23:06):
They they really had this game, they had the bowl
by the horn, right, and they just let them off,
let them off the hook. And I think the one
thing I that, you know, you go to the next
week and you focus on the next week. And the
one thing that stood out to me when I was watching,
you know, listening to Marcus Trumans fresh conference, is he
actually mentioned the hon State game last year and then
the week after he got asked the question. The week

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after that game, remember that game was tight, not it
name really never challenged to win that game. But they
battled in that game. Remember that was the opener and
it was a big labor Yeah, yeah, that Sunday Night
of Labor.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (23:41):
Notre Dame covered that game. But they didn't win out
but they didn't win. But then the following week they
lost outright as a three touchdown favorite to Marshall. So
it was like the hangover lasted and it really started there.
You know, they started owing too, and it really changed
the course of their season. And I think it was
noteworthy that he mentioned that, and it's obviously been mentioned
a lot. I think that'll help. I think at their

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core under name is much better. They're much more physical
than Duke. They should be able to run the ball
in this game estimates than a beast. I really like
this Duke squad. I think Mike Elkos done arguably the
best job you could possibly ask for. He's thirteen and
four in his first seventeen games a head coach at
Duke football, not basketball. So I just think the defense
and the way they're coached is it's solid. But you're

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playing a different level in this game, and I don't
know if they'll be able to hang physically. And that's
why I think Notre Dame has the edge, but you
gotta put the ball on Sam Martin's hands. Only twenty
five throws against Ohio State. Granted, I know they're a
little depleted in the wide receiver group. They ran it
thirty nine times in that game. I think if those
numbers were flipped, I think Notre Dame might end up
beating Ohio State, but they were a little conservative. We'll
see what the game plan is this week, but they

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should be able to bully ball the Blue Devils.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Jared, great stuff. I really appreciate you coming on. I
know you're a busy guy and you'll be back on
these airways and about what six and a half hours.

Speaker 7 (24:55):
Right, Yeah, I'm gonna I'm usually up around this time
and then you know, I appreciate you asking me on, Bernie,
because I do love the show. I'm a big fan,
and I'll get a little nap in and then we'll
do the show about five and a half hours.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
I appreciate that because as we get into the real
meat and potatoes, when the Michigan start to play the
Penn States, et cetera, November, I'd like to get you
back on again because YEH had part.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
That's a very big game.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Oh fantastic, what a great school. All right, Jared, listen, Bud,
get some rest, Appreciate all you do for the network,
and enjoy your Saturday.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Bernie, have a good one. Thank you. As Jared Lee Smith,
you hear him. Saturday Morning's Countown to kick off with
Rich Orenberger and Brian Knowle. These guys do a great job.
Coming up, I teased my beloved Detroit Lions. These are
not your father's Detroit Lions, and I've got receipts and yeah,
I covered that team for ten years, including the H

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and sixteen teams, so these are not empty words. All right.
If you watch a little Thursday night football Thursday Night,
it's the Department of Redundancy department. You notice that the
Lions beat Green Bay this deively thirty four to twenty.
The Lions have now won six divisional games in a row.
There are eleven and three since starting one and six

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last year. And yes, that defense ranked thirtieth last year.
Now they rank eleventh. If you don't think the Lions
are for real, you've got a different agenda. They are
for real. By the way, it's setting up ever so nicely.
The Bears can't get out of their own way. They're
zero and three. The Vikings are oh and three, and oh,
by the way, green Bay, yes they're now what what's

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their record now? Two and two? I guess so the Lions.
And they've already got one divisional road win under their
belt against Green Bay. So we'll see. Let's not fast forward,
let's talk. Let's stay with it here and now, and
in a minute I will share with you what the
Lions did to completely change the complexion of that defense.
And it actually started Week seven last year with a

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command decision, an executive decision that Dan Campbell made. And again,
if you don't think Dan Campbell's a good coach. You're
just stubborn. You just you got a different agenda for
a brief period last night. I'll give it up to
just a second because of what Green Bay did against
New Orleans the week before, where they look halpless earlier
than they come back and win. By the way, I

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don't think New Orleans is that good. They haven't even
scored more than twenty points in any other three games.
And know Derek Carr is not the answer, but don't
get me started. It looked like the Packers might come
back twice in a row from big halftime deficits. Right,
we don't know if those cens are that good, but
the Lions are. You have the data, especially after last

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night's thirty four to twenty win. Okay, this is a
very good football team. Number one. Detroit is a fluky
overtime loss away from being four to zero. Now, if
you look, if you watch the Lions objectively on offense, defense,
special teams, if you watch the line of scrimmage, if
you watch their skilled players, if you watch Jared Goff,

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they've been the most impressive team. Now I think the
Niners are the best team. I'm not predicted the Lions
are going to the super Bowl or anything like that.
But they've been impressive. All right. The Chiefs, Bills forty
nine ers, they have better data, but Detroit is just
this combination of skill and grit and through four weeks. Now, listen,

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this is your headline the seat. We're not out of
September yet, and the Lions already have road winds at
Kansas City and Green Bay. You can spend that any
way you want, or you can throw cold water on
it any way you want. The Lions have road winds
in Kansas City and Green Bay. The Lions win on
both sides of the ball. Their offensive coordinator Ben Johnson
and their defensive coordinator Aaron gleed they're gonna get head

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coaching interviews next year because they've done that. Well. Don't
let the finals score full you. By the way, this
was a beatdown from the jump twenty seven to three
eight a half. Oh yeah, Jordan Love. Please stop trying
to forest feet at Jordan Love. He's okay, he's a
serviceable quarterback. He's okay. Maybe it was the constant pressure
from Aaron Glenn and their defensive unit, but he was

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flat out stinky in the first half and only saved
some face in the second half. He's only completing fifty
six percent of his passes and that ranks him twenty
ninth in the league. Too early to say, you know
that he is.

Speaker 7 (29:19):
What.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
He's not a bust and he's not a failure. But
too early to say whether or not he is going
to be a serviceable replacement for Aaron Rodgers and Brett
Favre because Green Bay has been spoiled for thirty years.
But it's not too early to say. The Lion's team
is legit. And I said a minute ago their defense
was thirtieth last year. Now they're eleventh. After the Lions
started one and six, Dan Campbell called his friend and

(29:43):
dB coach into the office, Aubrey Pleasant. He said, I
gotta let you go. This is a results business and
we're not getting results. Aubrey Pleasant, with his defensive backs,
ran this pretty intricate risk rewards scheme. It was ineffective,
caused all kinds of communications. Probably Elmes the Lions what
they do. They installed the simpler system. It worked. Lions

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were eight and two down the stretcher three and one
this year. Additionally, the Lions give it up to Brad Holmes.
Their GM long gone from the Matt Millen days. They
needed to get better in the secondary. They knew it.
So they went out and got Cam Sutton from the Steelers.
They got Chauncey Gardner Johnson from the Eagles. They got
Emmanuel Moseley from the forty nine Ers, all big upgrades.

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They draft incredibly well Jack Campbell out of Iowa, great
open field tackler. They draft Jamiir Gibbs, They draft the
port of Matt Laporta out of As. They're tied end
plus did I mentioned Oh, by the way, the Lions
have the ninth easiest schedule. Brian Branch two from Alabama.
They're all contributing right away. Lions also have the ninth

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easiest schedule in the National Football League this year. The
teams they play have accumulative four ninety two winning percentage.
Those are their opponents. So look, I have seen good
Lions teams in the past. People think I got it
in for Matt Stafford, although I did tell you he'd
be picked off twice Monday Night against lou Anarumo's defense.

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Sure enough, he was, and that costs the Rams a game.
Same with the week before. That's our guy. He'll get
Hall of Fame votes. And he was the quarterback on
the Rams Super Bowl team. But look, Stafford had plenty
of help in Detroit in twenty fourteen. They had seven
Pro bowlers that was a third ranked defense. They had
a Dominicance Sue and Calvin Johnson. They got to the playoffs,

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went on the road against Dallas. Stafford turned it over
twice in the fourth quarter and they lost. So I'm
not gonna get my hope, Sep. I'm not gonna predict
grandeur for the Lions. But they go to the playoffs
and for now they're for real and they approved it
last night. And if you refuse to accept that, they
just get with a year and now again you've got

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a different agenda and you might be first lined for
front of lobotomy. We'll see where you go from here.
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(32:12):
picked on Justin Fields. But I will always give credit
where credits due. He's done some remarkable things for those
Houston Texans. And by the way, give it up to
Dimico Ryans. What a fabulous job. Let me share with
you what CJ. Stroud has done. He's even made a
little bit of history. And you got to give the
dude his flowers. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're coming to you
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We're back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.
Come to your live the Tarret dot com studios here
in Las Vegas. Eight seven, seven nine six six three
six ' nine. The phone lines are open. Shay's ready
to take your calls. We'll take the first six. Don't
get shut out eight seven, seven, nine and nine on
Fox Round nine, Bernie's trivia game Boy, we got a

(33:14):
battle pop He's trying to repeat. We got day from
Phoenix fighting his way back to the top. Kurt uh
Shaye put out the standings earlier today. You can find
him at on Twitter on the Fox Sports radio handle,
and I retweeted so to Chay, so line them up
folks eight, seven, seven, nine and nine on Fox eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

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six six three six nine and top of the hour
we resume, don't get shut out. Shaye'll take the first six. Uh. CJ.
Stroud has been remarkable now. I think earlier today mccollins
said something about he's so in love with Kayleb Williams
that he would give up TJ. Watt three picks, three

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number one picks and Jordanecks for Caleb Williams. Okay, alrighty,
Then you got to remember this success rate for NFL
first round quarterbacks is less than fifty percent. In fact,
since nineteen sixty seven, only nine first round quarterbacks have
actually led their original team to a Super Bowl. And

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out of the one hundred and forty eight first round
quarterbacks drafted in that time period, that's not great. Odds.
Do the math. Nine out of one hundred and forty eight,
and you want to give up two Pro Bowl starters,
three number one draft picks for a winking of promise. Well,
I don't know the way CJ. Stroud's playing now? Did

(34:39):
you know that? CJ. Stroud of Ohio State, the Ohio
State University and now of the Houston Texas is the
first quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than
nine hundred yards, four passing touchdowns, and have zero interceptions

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in their first three starts. He also has CJ. Stroud
also has the most attempts of any NFL quarterback without
an interception this season. This is why never buy the
argument and Justin Fields goes to Chicago, he doesn't have
any help. It's all their fall play him everybody else.

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He's five and thirty as a starter for a reason.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
C J.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
Stroud is proving that if you can play the position
at what the job description requires in the NFL level,
you can have success. Through three games, c J. Stroud
and again these are the Houston Texans, the drafted second
overall last year. Through three games, Stroud has completed seventy

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three at one oh three. That's seventy one percent eight
hundred and seventy seven years, all four of its touchdowns.
This is the part I like all four of his
touchdown passes while inside the pocket, Thank you very much.
You have to operate from the pocket now, outside the pocket,
where Stroud was often dangerous as a playmaker in college. Actually,

(36:08):
Stroud's only completed five of eighteen throws twenty eight percent
for twenty nine yards. Blah blah blah. I'm not picking
on him. He was probably under duress. Okay, he didn't
just drop back. I don't know what I'm looking at,
so I just take off and run because that's what
I've always done. Those darn coaches are trying to teach
me how to play quarterback, but you know, I just
need to go out my instincts. That's why we're five

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and thirty. No, Stroud was probably under duress, tried to
keep plays the line. But watch him. He operates from
the pocket amazingly. He's accomplished all of this. He's receiving
snaps behind a very unsettled, a very injury riddle offensive

(36:50):
line that is allowing the third highest pressure rate in
the league. But this is what happens when you can
make pred post matp reads and he can do it.
I was moved, honestly, when the Knight CJ. Stroud was drafted.
I was moved by his oratory and how he was
interviewed off the cuff. I really liked him, and I

(37:11):
like Bryce Shawn a lot too. But Stroud's your guy.
So far. He leads the league with his seventy seven
point eight completion percentage against man coverage. Again, that's recognition
two hundred and twenty two yards, two touchdowns, and the
average lead completion percentage against man coverage is fifty eight percent.
Stroud's at seventy seven percent. I cannot say enough good

(37:32):
things about c J. Stroud, And oh, by the way,
I had Houston last week plus ten and a half
and they won outright, give it up. So you know
I love Dion Sanders and you know I love c J. Stroud.
Oh by the way, Dion, this is the part for
the haters. He has five new trademarks he filed this
past month. Ain't nobody care f around and find out

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we keep receipts, pitpull and pumps working or to work.
I love the young man. I say he's a good person,
not a perfect person. Eight seven seven nine to nine
six six three six ' nine eight seven seven nine
to nine on Fox Dial him up. Bernie's trivia game.
It resumes here in well about six or seven minutes.

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Shay will take your calls. You'll get a trivia question,
He'll give you a bet to make. You can see
all the stands and the percentages and all that right there.
He puts it right on Twitter. We are now in
week nine of Bernie's Trivia Game, and we've got a
wide open contest. Can Poppy repeat? Can Dave overtake him?
We shall see. I'm Bernie Frattle. Keep it locked. You're
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does security for the Angels. David Barons, thanks so much
for listening. Okay, we've got quite a contest going here.
We are now in the week nine of Bernie's Trivia
Backyard Bunk and Bets, and we've got callers lining up.

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So without further ado, let's go to our guy, Shay.
Shaye take it away, Bud.

Speaker 1 (39:28):
We got questions, we got crisis.

Speaker 4 (39:33):
Who will come out on top calling on you?

Speaker 1 (39:37):
Let's see what you got. It's game time, it's showtime.

Speaker 6 (39:43):
It's Bernie's Backyard Bucks and Bets.

Speaker 8 (39:48):
Hey, Bernie, looks like it's about that time.

Speaker 2 (39:49):
All right, Shae, you got the standings out today and
we got a little battle going. Looks like we've got
maybe a couple of newcomers and the old standbys, So
why don't you get the ball, Shay.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Let's get this going. All right. We got Nathan from
Orlando with our first one. Nathan, how you doing? Man?

Speaker 9 (40:07):
Hey, evening, I'm an old standby?

Speaker 2 (40:11):
All right, Well, Nathan, we're glad to have you back.
And uh, you know, Poppy won it last year and
he called it every week, so consistency and persistency is
often rewarded. All right, Shae, what do we got?

Speaker 8 (40:23):
So with our first question, we're gonna go with this.
Which country is the NFL matchup between the Jaguars and
Falcons taking place this week?

Speaker 5 (40:32):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (40:33):
England? There you go, baby, have a little beans on toast,
bangers and mash, scotch, eggs, fish and chips. Right, sounds terrible?
All right, let's go.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
The game is set to take off Sunday at six
thirty eight Pacific Standard time. The over under is set
at forty three points. What are you guys taking.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I'm gonna go under, actually gonna go over here. I
know that Jacksonville's offense has been terrible. Pardon me, I've
said darn it? Well, no, hey, you might You might
be right, Nathan, I'm not the burning bush here, Palell,
you have an equal chance to win this darn thing.
And I will tell you baas based on what you've

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observed the way Jacksonville's offense couldn't score. You know, Husseinville
repute with a fist full of fifties and Atlanta runs
the ball. This could be a low scoring game. What
I have found though, you should get these two teams
over there and they open things up. So all you
need is twenty one twenty one tie and it's going
over but hey, good luck and hold it down there
in Orlando. And thanks for checking in, Nathan. Do you

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want to say something? Thank you, Bernie? Okay, thank you, Nathan,
Thanks buddy, good luck Okay, Jay.

Speaker 8 (41:50):
And with our next one, we got Poppy from SD Poppy.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
Hey, Bernie, Party's are officially eliminated. Man oh no, oh, no,
I know it's okay.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
We're gonna go with the Baltimore Orioles Oriols. We're gonna
go to the World Series.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
Guys, wouldn't happen? Would not that not be a great story?
Their win total this year over under it was seventy seven.
And by the way, I'll make a prediction. I predicted
doom and glue for the Potters. I bet you they're
gonna be good next year. You know why, pythagoream theorem.
They outscore their opponents by ninety eight runs this year.
You have to run the outside looking in. They'll come

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back next year because there won't be any expectations. All right,
what have we got for Poppy?

Speaker 8 (42:30):
So Poppy who leads the league in passing tds so
far this year in the NFL? Their guess, Poppy, Poppy,
did we lose you?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
What happened to Poppy.

Speaker 8 (42:53):
Pobby you still there? We lost them. It looks like
we lost all Rightoby.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Well, Poppy calls back, so we can get in.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
We'll get you.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
You know what. You might have me stumped on this one.
I was gonna say Patrick Mahomes, but I wait a minute.
It's gotta be tool right, Okay. I don't get credit
for that. I didn't say that first, and I don't
want to screw up my pristine ninety record. But Tua
did not come out of my mouth first. So uh no,
good is Poppy back?

Speaker 8 (43:24):
And we got Poppy back?

Speaker 5 (43:27):
Yeah, I'm back.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
All right, Poppy, You're like the Potteris man when we're
calming on here there man, all right, did you hear
that trivia question?

Speaker 5 (43:39):
I heard a little bit and I got disconnected.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
I got all right, go ahead and give it to him.
I trust him, Go ahead and give it.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
So who leads the league in passing touchdowns so far
this year in the NFL?

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Oh that's a good one.

Speaker 5 (43:52):
I'm going with the Chansas City Chief. Tat to Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Oh, don't feel like the lone ranger, right, Mahomes came
out of my mouth for I caught myself and realized
that Miami scored ten touchdowns last week.

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Oh it's too all right, what do we got for
our bed?

Speaker 8 (44:09):
Here for Poppy, So we're gonna go back to the Dolphins.
The Dolphins are taking on the Bills at ten am
Pacific Standard time on Sunday. The Bills are minus two
and a half going into the matchup. Do you think
they cover?

Speaker 5 (44:21):
You know, that's gonna be a tough matchup. I know
Josh Allon it's five and one again to us, So yeah,
I think they're gonna cover. I'm gonna go with Josh
Allen and the Buffalo Bill.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
You know what, I have to agree. I played Buffalo
half a unit this week as well. I think I
think it's a different situation. Miami stepping up a little
here and no one can keep that pace up, and
Buffalo's defense will be probably the best defense they faced.
Uh well, actually New England's defense was pretty good. New
England hung with them, it hadn't been for the turnovers.

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So I like Buffalo to get it done.

Speaker 7 (44:54):
All right, Good luck, Poppy, Thank you Ernie, Thank you
guys much.

Speaker 8 (45:00):
And our next caller we got day from Phoenix. Welcome
back to.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Day from Phoenix, currently the leader, Currently the leader with
four weeks to go? How you doing, Dave? Well that
sound good, Bernie. There you go playing from the lead.
All right, all right, Shay.

Speaker 8 (45:16):
This player just tied the Brave single season franchise record
for stolen bases with seventy two stolen bases. Who is
this player?

Speaker 1 (45:25):
Well, that would be the MVP to be Ronald Acuna.

Speaker 2 (45:29):
Yeah, amazing. Acuna not only stole seventy three, he had
forty home runs. Forty and seventy Can you imagine? Wow? Incredible.
He's not bad. All right, what do we got, Jay?

Speaker 8 (45:41):
The Raiders are taking on the Chargers this Sunday at
one oh five pm Pacific Standard time. The Chargers are
minus five going into the matchups. Do they cover?

Speaker 5 (45:52):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (45:53):
Boy, so we got the Chargers.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Are they at home?

Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, they're in LA, but if you want to call
it home, they've got the they've got the worst home.

Speaker 7 (46:01):
Uh yeah, Chargers minus five?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
You say, yeah, I think.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
The Chargers are due to break out.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
I'll reluctantly say the Chargers win and cover.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Well, you sures think so, but they got that goofy
coach Brandon Staley first in line for a front of
the botomy. But on the other side, on the other side,
Jimmy g is still in concussion protocol. And it's a
game I would not bet, but believe it or not
believe it or not for whatever reason, the Raiders is

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a dog in this series. I'm gonna hold you said that.
What number did you give?

Speaker 8 (46:40):
Five?

Speaker 2 (46:42):
Yeah, I'll be looking for hopefully Brandon Staley more coaching malpractice.
But then Josh mcdanmie's on the other side. We've got
like freaking frack here. I'm gonna hold my nose and
take the Raiders just because, but I don't feel great
about it. So good luck, Dave.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Yeah, thank you very much, Thank you, Dave.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Thanks all right, Dave's a leader. All right.

Speaker 8 (47:04):
Next week, got Kurt from California.

Speaker 2 (47:08):
A regular. Hey, good evening, Good evening, Kimo Sabi, All right,
what do we got tonight for Kurt?

Speaker 7 (47:15):
So?

Speaker 8 (47:15):
What team did former Sun center DeAndre Ayton get traded
in the three team trade that went down this past
week in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
That would be the Milwaukee Fuck. Oh wait a minute, now,
I'm having a brain cramp.

Speaker 8 (47:39):
He's it is a tricky it's a little bit of
a trick question.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
I think I may be whiffing on this one too.
I can't Yeah, I can't give myself credit. I mean,
the three teams involved were were the Blazers, Bucks and Suns, right,
so I guess it would have to be Blazers, but
I didn't get it in time.

Speaker 8 (47:58):
And yeah it was the Blazers, Yes, those three teams.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
All right, all right, gotta be fair about this, screwing
up by pristine ninety trivia the percentage, but such a life? Okay,
what we got for our bet?

Speaker 1 (48:10):
For so Kurt.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
The Dodgers are taking on the Giants at six oh
five pm Pacific Standard time later today. The over under
on runs is set at eight. What do you guys got.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
I'll go with.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
The over. Yeah, this is one where I gotta I
gotta hold my nose and play the under. Kurt Clinton Gershaw,
his numbers have actually been very good this year. He's
been a I mean strikeout to walk ratio is outstanding,
is the he's outstanding. The Dodgers mahammer Christian Beck. But
it's gonna take five. Yeah, I'm gonna hold my nose

(48:51):
and play the under. But good luck, Kurt hey Burn. Yeah,
I don't think Fauburn is gonna need the points to
swee You really think you Freeze as a fourteen point
underdog is gonna beat Georgie out right?

Speaker 5 (49:09):
Didn't they have a bye last week?

Speaker 2 (49:12):
Who Georgia?

Speaker 7 (49:13):
No?

Speaker 2 (49:15):
No, they played they well wait a minute, they might have,
but they they struggled mightily against Cal a very lousy team.
Couldn't move the ball at all. So if you look
at transitive property, hey, look, stranger things have happened. Let's
see you Freeze is uh, he has pulled some rabbits
out of his hat in his past. If you're on

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the money line on that one, we'll have to give
you your flowers next week if they do it. But boy,
I'll tell you it's hard to be hard for me
to believe Georgia would drop their guard. Dude, do better
strap it on. You're right that that but that's those
are just facts, Okay, onwarding up?

Speaker 8 (49:52):
Well, thank you, Kurt. And then next and last we
got Paul from Rhode Island. How you doing, Paul, Paul, Welcome.

Speaker 9 (50:03):
In, Bernie Fineles, thank you for thinking my call. I'm
honest to talk to you. It's spend a second time
I talk to you. Thank you for making a lot
of money for me.

Speaker 2 (50:12):
Go ahead, shoot all right, well listen hold a diner
in Rhode Island, one of the coolest states in the nation.
I had a buddy Rob played for the Rhode Island
Rams and football back back in the eighties. So thanks
for calling in Bud. What we got for him tonight?

Speaker 8 (50:27):
So which Willem was the first to be eliminated from
the MLB playoffs this year?

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Wow, this is brutal.

Speaker 9 (50:39):
I want to say Oakland.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
A's that was right.

Speaker 8 (50:45):
Yeah, he's correct, He's correct.

Speaker 2 (50:47):
He's correct. They were even though they finished.

Speaker 9 (50:50):
They Yeah, I know I have au This is a
cousin's own fifty thousand Barry Colson in California, ben Court Farms.
But I never thought to him. But let me tell you,
I love you.

Speaker 5 (51:03):
I love your show.

Speaker 9 (51:05):
But yeah, it is ocal age. And as much as
I have like Ricky Henderson Henderson's listen, I'm an as
it's up to you, surf.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
You know what. I love Ricky Henderson. He was not
only one of the greatest players of all time, he
was very quotable. You guys. Hear the story about when
he was traded to Toronto played with my buddy Sean Green.
The bus pulls up to the hotel and the traveling
secretary says, hey, Ricky, you can get on the bus first.
You got tenure and Ricky says, what do you mean?
I got fifteen year? All right? What have we got

(51:39):
for the bet?

Speaker 8 (51:40):
All right, Paul? The Buccaneers are taking on the Saints
on Sunday at ten am on Fox. The over under
is set at forty. Are you taking the over or
the under?

Speaker 2 (51:48):
Paul on the Yeah, that's a big play. This is
going to be defensive battle, two pretty good defenses. And
the Saints haven't even scored more than twenty points in
any of the three games. And but Derek Carr did
practice today.

Speaker 9 (52:03):
But that, yeah, Camara's coming back.

Speaker 4 (52:05):
I don't know, man, no, no.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I like the under. I like the under. I'm with you.
I'm with you in now, this this field, this hit,
it feels like a twenty to seventeen touch game. All right,
great job by everybody, Shay, Hopefully you guys will get
the standings out here as folks look forward to early
in the week, But the contest continues to rage. Dave

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from Arizona leads everybody with eleven hundred points, Kurt nine
hundred points, Poppy six, Nathan from Florida four hundred. They
all checked in tonight and and then of course, uh
we got the gentlemen from Rhode Island. You can come
out of nowhere and win this thing, Okay, Dave made
a hell of a run last year. At the end,
the keys to calling every week all right, good job, Shay,
good job, Mark, good job everybody, and onward and upward

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another another Bernie's backyard bunkin bets. He's in the books.
We'll have the standings after nine weeks out early in
the week was we had in a week ten? Next
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dot com. Coming up, the college football season is really
starting to take shape. You can draw a line down
the middle of the page. On the left. There are
some people that look like winners. On the right, well,
they are the opposite of winners based on how they
have performed or recent events, lack of results. I'll break

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it down for you. We'll start to get a little
granular on college football as we have the final weekend
in September upon us. I'm Bernie Fraddle Comedy Live from
the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirect dot com studios.
Keep it locked right here and listening to the Bernie
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you up to two am Pacific, five am Eastern and
as we are nearing another action pack college football Saturday,
and we're now to the point of the season. Most
teams have played four games. You only played twelve. So
you start to sort the minor from the you know what.

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You draw a line down the page on the left.
You got people I put in the winners category, starting
with Florida State. I said weeks ago, I thought of
Florida State. Got pasted LSU. They've got to be on
the short list now to get to the final four.
They beat Clemson at Clemson, where Clemson had been sixty
four and two thirty one to twenty four in overtime.

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You're now an official changing of the guard in the SEC.
This ushers in the seminoles. Perhaps there is in fact
a real return to prominence eight years after basically Clemson
took ownership of the conference. Now we'll see where they
go from here. But as long as Jordan Travis, their
dynamic quarterback, continues to play at the level, he's gonna

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get Heisman Trophy votes. And you got to give fourth
year coach Mike Norvel a lot of credit. But the
big picture, Floria State, yes, they are now better than
Clemson period. Ohio State, Okay, the end of the year.
They don't ask Kyle just how many we know Notre
Dame probably should have won that game, but that final

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drive will be in the highlight montage if the Ohio
State Buckeyes go on this year to get to the playoffs.
That you know, let's not forget before that faithful decision
non decision by Notre Dame's coach. Well, Ohio State win
sixty five yards and under ninety seconds. They scored on
a short touchdown run one second on the clock. They

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trailed for fifty nine minutes and fifty nine seconds. They
beat Number nine Notre Dame at Notre Dame seventeen to fourteen,
and along the way, you saw their young quarterback Kyle
McCord very much mature right in front of your eyes
on National TV at Notre Dame, made several cluts through,
finished with two hundred and forty yards, did not throw
a pick. You also saw a great strong play from

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Trevion Henderson hopefully he stays healthy all this year, and
even a standout game from Marvin Harrison Junior, who got
injured in the second half. But moreover, the Ohio State
defense stood up and ry Ryan Day could not contain
himself at the end of the game. Ohio State they're
on the winners ledger. So is Alabama. Believe it or not.

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Now this is gonna be a pulling teeth type of
season for Obama. They're still ranked twelve given the state
of their offense, which might have been a little better.
They beat Mississippi twenty four to ten. You know, Tommy
Reese has not been great as the OC but the
defense stepped up, stepped up. Okay, they allowed Lane Kiffin's
group just four yards of play. Jalen Milroe seventeen on

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a twenty one with a touchdown, but he did throw
a bad interception. But we're gonna get him a Hall
pass because at the end, they don't ask Kyle just
how many BAMA survives in advances. Don't bet against Nick Sabate,
not just yet Penn State. Now, Penn State's ranked number
seven for a reason. They destroyed Iowa thirty one to nothing.

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That says all you need to know about the state
of the Hawkeyes offense. Okay, because they did score forty
one against Western Michigan the year before, but give it
up to the Nindney Allons. They allowed just seventy six yards.
Seventy six yards. This is a conference game. Sixteen what
like fifty six through the year and twenty on the ground.

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It doesn't get any worse than that. By the way,
Penn State also showed they can be very, very physical.
All right, They're flexible, they're adaptable. Drew Aller had four
touchdowns with an interception. Again, I'm already looking ahead. I
can't help but I believe he's November eleventh, when Michigan
goes to Penn State. That's going to be a great game.

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But Ohio State will host Penn State a couple weeks
before that. For now Penn State, he's in the winners column.
We'll see if they can hold it. Duke and Kansas
a couple of teams known for their basketball exploits. Well,
they're in the winters column, but they're you know, no
rest for the weary. Kansas has Texas and Duke has
Notre Dame. But I love Duke quarterback Riley Leonard. He

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continued his hot play last week. Yeah, I was Yukon.
They blew him out. Utah would have been in the
Winter Circle, but they did not do well tonight. They
were four to zero heading into Friday night's game, and
all of the wins that's come against Power five competition.
Things don't look so good for Utah right now. They
better get Cam Rising back fast right. Give it up

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to Northwestern. Come on, man, this was crazy. Northwestern trailed
Minnesota thirty one to ten after three quarters, thirty one
to twenty four with just over two minutes. They scored
the game tying touchdown with five seconds remaining. Then they
beat Minnesota thirty seven thirty four. I think that boat
that Minnesota was rowing sunk. I don't know what happened

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to PJ. Fleck. I had bigger expectations for him in
that program. They barely beat Nebraska, they lose to Northwestern
Minnesota is not a good team, but this is a
huge win for the interim coach though with Northwestern Wildcats,
if you don't know his name, we'll say it on
national radio, David Brown. Look, they're expected to finish dead

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last into Big Ten. Instead, Hey give it up. Northwestern
is two and two. They're two losses to Rutgers and Duke.
I also want to give a wink and a nod
to the Wyoming Cowboys. Craig Boll always manages the field,
a very physical team that blocks and tackles. Well, you

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remember he came from North Dakota State. You know the
Carson Wentz is the Trey Lance all those teams. That
bull was gone when Trey Lance got there. But those
North Dakota State teams are tremendous. Cowboys making a case
for being counted among a handful of teams in the
group of five that are near the best. They were

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down twelve to that pesky app State team and they
come back and win twenty two to nineteen. Wyoming now
three to one. They had a very competitive lost in
Texas but remember they also beat Texas Tech in the
season opener. Well, for every winner, there's gotta be a loser, right,
Maybe the Moniker is not fair, but you get the
point these folks I'm about to share with you. You

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can't deny e. They're on the other side of the ledger.
We'll get to that in just a second, but first
let's go back to our guy, Kevin figures with the latest.

Speaker 11 (01:00:28):
All right, Bernie, still much to be left decided. With
the couple of days remaining in baseball's regular season, we'll
start in the National League, the Marlins overcame a late
three to nothing deficit to beat Pittsburgh four to three.
They have a one and a half game lead over
the Cubs and Reds for the final wildcard spot. Cincinnati
blasted Saint Louis nineteen to two. They had six home
runs in that game. Cubs lost to the Brewers four

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to three and ten innings, and the American League. Seattle
hit three home runs, including a grand slam. They hammered
the Rangers eight nothing. Houston got a qualities start from
Jose Urkety. They defeated Arizona two to one. Texas a
one game lead over Houston a top the AL West,
while Seattle is two games back. Houston also a one
game lead over Seattle for the final wildcard in the
AL and golf. All of today's foursome matchups are underway

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at the Ryder Cup Europe six and a half points
or as up six and a half points to one
and a half points, I should say, over the United
States so far for the tournament, and in college football
nineteen rank Oregon State allowed just fifty seven yards rushing
to the utes. They beat Utah twenty one to seven.
BYU defeated Cincinnati thirty five to seventeen. You also had
victories for Louisville and Louisiana Tech. Back to Bernie Fratto.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
Okay, thanks so much, Kevin. All right, Clemson, it's been
an incredible run. Seven ACC championships, two national championships, four
trips to the National Championship Game, five trips to the playoff.
All of this since twenty fifteen. Clemson is still regarded

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as a top end program. Their goals now now might
just be relegated to win the ACC and hope for
a playoff Perth, but a dynasty, at least for now,
appears to be over when you get beaten Death Valley
when you've only lost twice there, I think there's out
of the last sixty six games. You've just handed the

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Seminoles the title of the new boss of the ACC
and they are that league's strongest contender now to be
ordered a spot in the top four, and they can be.
They can be. You know, you beat Clemson in Death Valley,
and you beat LSU early on, it's gonna get crowded

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near the top. One of the things in IL has done,
one of the things that Transfer Portal has done, it's
create more parody near the top. There are eight or
nine teams that are going to make a case. I
think Utah probably fell out of that list last night.
Tonight Friday Night. Can't kind of out yet. They to
have everything in front of them. But there's still a
lot of undefeated teams out there. So Clemson is very

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much hurt by their two losses they've lost to Duke
and Florida State. Their decline, well, frankly, you can't really
say it's sudden. Okay, they've sort of regressed over the
last several seasons, and so when you pass the torch
back to Florida State, I was in frankly surprised that
Clemson put up that big a fight and it was

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a big turnover that Florida State had to take advantage
of it. Clemson gonna won the game, but it's not
the same Clemson team, and I think dappleswinning knows it.
Notre Dame they're on the right side of the list
right now. I think they have a very long road
to get to the playoffs. They cannot afford to lose
another game. They cannot and they're gonna have Duke in

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USC and there's some gaunt, there's a gauntlet in there.
They needed one stop six inches to get what I
think would be Notre Dame's biggest win in what a
decade or longer. They haven't beaten Ohio States in nineteen
thirty six, where they still have it. And we'll see
how Notre Dame reacts against Duke, but I think they'll react,

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they'll respond. Duke's a good team, Duke's stepping up in class.
But if Notre Dame, but this is gonna be a
season of ifs and wats. If they'd made that late
stand and pulled out the win, the Irish would have
had so much more breathing room the rest of the way.
They have a manageable schedule, but they do have Again,
Duke's not not a pushover, but you're gonna have USC.

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But that's doable, right because I don't like USC's defense. However,
having said all that, you know you still got to
play the game. You still got to play the game.
Doable but not easy, all right. So you heard me
singing the praises and the glowing praises of Dion Sanders

(01:04:47):
at the top of the show, and I meant everything
I said. But for this past week, both Dion and
Schador they had a rough one. Okay, Chador Sanders, I
think his heisman Campaig is over. He's not gonna win
the Heisman. He's not even going to be in the
short list. I still love the guy. I think he's
the first round draft choice. There's only one way I

(01:05:09):
think he could One way. I think he could rekindle
that heisman talk if USC somehow manages to beat or
check that, if Colorado manages to beat USC and they
kick off about eight and a half hours from now.
But come on, man, Sanders was under pressure constantly against
Oregon and the Buffalo's you know. I mean he really
missed his Travis Hunter. He had twenty three completions, thirty

(01:05:32):
three attempts, only one hundred and fifty nine yards, got
sacks seven times, and for the first time his dad,
for the first time in his major college coaching career, Dion,
He's going to have to respond to a negative result
inside that locker room and try to keep the Buffs
on an even keel. They're eight and a half hours
away from kicking it off against USC. I do think

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you'll see a different effort. I don't think, yes, he's
gonna I didn't look. I didn't bet the game. Es
he's laying twenty two. This could be a fifty to
twenty four. I don't know. They could hang that number.
Both sides could, so why bother. I'm not a fan
of USC's defense. I do expect them to pressure Shadoor,
but I do expect Colorado to make some adjustments. Look,
they still got athletes. They've done what they've done their

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three and one. I don't believe they're beating MESSI all right.
I want to give a lot of credit to Oregon
State because after losing the Pack two championship game last week,
to Washington State thirty eight to thirty five. Because I'm
a big fan of this Oregon State team and just
the way they play, and I was talking about them

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having the best defense. I thought in the Pac two
Pac twelve, what are you going to call it? And
yet last week Washington State put up a thirty eight
burder around them. That game showed a very high quality
and high level of play for both teams and both programs,
and it's unfortunate that they're both about to be left

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out of the Power five. It really genuinely is. And
what Oregon State did Friday night against Utah was very impressive,
with or without Cameron Rising. Okay, but what Oregon State
also did last week. They're down thirty eighth, or check that,
thirty five to fourteen entering the final quarter, they go

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on a twenty one to three run to get within
a field goal, unable to recover an on sidekick with
a minute left. Okay, it's hard to win them all,
but man, this Oregon State program honestly is for real.
And what they did Friday night against Utah, well major,
major tip of the cap for you Oregon State Beaver fans.

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(01:08:04):
teams who start oh and two and uh, the reality
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want to talk about them for just a second as
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(01:08:25):
Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tarrac dot Com studios. Keep
it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on
Fox Sports Radio. All right, back on the Bernie Fradtle Show,
Fox Sports Radio Comedy Live from the tyrack dot Com
studios here in Las Vegas. Top of the hour. There
was a little trade in the NBA this week. We're
gonna kind of break it down a little bit for

(01:08:46):
you it. Uh, it's a little shocking to me, but regardless,
it's a blockbuster and we're bringing the crew to get
their thoughts as well. But we've also got NFL starting
to take shape, and this is the juncture in the
season where you just look at certain patterns that are undeniable.

(01:09:07):
When you go back to two thousand and two, that's
the year that the NFL expanded to thirty two clubs.
If you were one of the ninety nine teams to
start ozen three exactly one the twenty eighteen Houston Texans
recovered to reach the playoffs. Yes, that means there's a
one percent shot for the Carolina Panthers, the Chicago Bears,

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the Denver Broncos, and yes, the Minnesota Vikings. Minnesota is
own three despite not losing any of its games by
more than six points. Yes, they are the defending NFC
North champions. Yes they were eleven to zero. They once
scored games in twenty twenty two. Oh, by the way,
the Vikings have lost seven fumbles this season. I told

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you the Pythagoream theorem doesn't lie. They gave up three
more points than they scored last year and managed to
go thirteen and four that should have been a nine
and eight season. These things, this math typically will regress
or progress back to the mean. By the way of
the thirty two teams starting owen two since twenty nineteen,

(01:10:16):
Cincinnati Bengals last year, well they're the only ones to
salvage a postseason birth see in the NFL. If you
want to be an eighty six percenter, twelve of the
past fourteen teams to start three in all, well, they
got into the playoffs. That's very encouraging news because the
Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles, and San fran San Francisco

(01:10:38):
forty nine Ers would brought perty who continues to play
mistake free football are in the cat bird seat. By
the way, just for giggles, purely want to get deep
into the weeds. The ninety two San Diego Chargers started
own to four and they still made it to the playoffs.
I don't recommend that you do that. Back to the

(01:11:01):
Cincinnati Bengals, I sat here last weekend and said, I
like the Bengals to win Monday night. The Rams got
an excuse me, touchdown late right on schedule. My buddy
Matt Stafford through two picks it's what he does. Man,
You'll see, it's what he does. He's not the same
without twenty eight Hall of Famers around him. And I'll

(01:11:22):
give him his props. He's gonna get Hall of Fame votes.
He's throwing for a gazillion yards and he's got a
Super Bowl ring. But he'll drive you nuts. U. Can
you imagine if the Bengals had started owing three. This
team was built to contend. The front office just gave
Joe Burrow two hundred and nineteen million guaranteed BUMPCAF or not.

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If you're winless at zero to three with a loaded
roster and soaring expectations, depression can set in pretty quickly
among NFL fan bases. But fortunately the Bengals fans don't
have to live in that world. Despite Burrow looking less
than one hundred percent Cincinnati, well, they gritted out a
nineteen sixteen win last last Monday over the Rams. And

(01:12:07):
if I were a Bengals fan, it was you didn't
enjoy it. It's like going to the dentist. But you
walk out of there probably better off than you were before.
But it would have been very difficult to watch. But again,
you know Nolan Ryan once said the mark of a
great pitcher is when you win games even though you
don't have your best stuff. Well, since he didn't have

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their best stuff, Burrow was faced. You know, he was
sacked a couple of times. He faced pressure the entire game.
And the Cincinnati on paper is a team that has weapons,
their weapons all over the field, but they could manage
just one touchdown. So this was like a sloppy, sloggy grind.

(01:12:48):
Not pretty. They don't draw pictures in the scorebook. But
on the other side of the ball is I've told
you lou Anarumo, and that defense has been so underrated
now for four years. They sacked Matt Stafford six times
rams and but you know how I great quarterbacks, a
third down, red zone, fourth quarter. Rams were just one

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of eleven on third downs. And yes, just like I said,
Matt Stafford was picked off twice before the season. I
think that Bengals fans may have been worried about some departures,
including Jesse Bates, who I think is a was a
terrific player. You had to hate to see him go.
But Bengals have shown that don't do not write them off.

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They are on the short list to you know, be
in Super Bowl conversation, very much so. And by the way,
the Bengals defense Monday night. I don't know if you
guys do you like these? Do you like these double
headers on Monday Night? I haven't made up my mind
if I like him or not. I mean, more football
is always better than less football, but particularly the back East.
I mean one of the games isn't even kicking off

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the left ten o'clock at night, for grant out loud.
So anyway, the early game, if you want to call
at that, you saw a couple of elite defensive units. Well, actually,
since he was an elite defensive unit. Philly Wow, coming
off the Super Bowl, losstery, defying the odds. They're three

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in all. They completely smothered the Bucks, the Buccaneers, who'd
come into the game two another no two in one.
They beat him twenty five to eleven. But that doesn't
tell the story. Philly's defense held the Bucks to just
one hundred and seventy four yards of offense. Meanwhile, DeAndre Swift,
who comes over from Detroit back in his hometown of Philadelphia,

(01:14:37):
he was tremendous. Never forgot he only got one carry
week one. Why that happened. I don't know, And they
were making Taylor Swift references. By the way, he does
share a locker room with the other Kelsey. But Deandres
Swift was outstanding. Philadelphia is very much for real. Boy.
The NFC is loaded, and we always talk about the

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SEB loaded, and they are because you know, Kansas City
and Buffalo and this year of course Miami and Cincinnati.
But man, you know, between the Chargers and I mean
check that, between the forty nine Ers and the Eagles,
I don't know that I want to put the Cowboys
in there. We'll see how they do against New England
this week. Dak Prescott right on schedule. It matters most.

(01:15:23):
He'll have a dumb pregame speech afterward, you know, by
the way, what's he doing saying, Oh, the media, you
all got what you wanted. You put us on this pedestal.
I'll never put you on any pedestal. Pal. I don't
hear anybody who did it either name names. Now Dallas
has a lead defense. It's too bad they lost, you know,
Trevon Diggs. That's a huge loss. But if you lose

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one player, then you're you know, that's that's on you.
But Dak Prescott, I've never had expectations out of him,
and people are warming up to that. But it matters
most in a high leverage situation, when the situation demands
you to be great. He's never great. But thanks for
the dumb post game speeches. But Philly's defense for real,
they're one of three remaining undefeated teams again along with

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Miami and San Francisco. And if you really watch Philadelphia
a week to week, they haven't really had a genuine
complete game yet on both sides of the ball. And uh,
you know, we're gonna get heavily into the NFL on Saturday,
like like we always do. And there's some very interesting

(01:16:25):
matchups in the in the NFL this week, right, and
you there is no rest. I always it always bugs
me when someone says, well, they got a really easy
schedule coming up. The NFL is a gauntlet, all right. Yes,
the Eagles are laying a touchdown to the Washington Commanders,
but that's a divisional game. And do not be surprised
if Washington hangs around and turns it into a fistfight.

(01:16:47):
In the phone booth. Philadelphia with a short week to prepare,
I just talked about Cincinnati, they go down to Tennessee.
Since he layd two on the road, Mike Vrabel as
a home dog is nail. Do not be surprised if
Tennessee gives Cincinnati everything they can handle it. And do
not be surprised even if the Jets in Kansas City

(01:17:10):
have a slugfest on Monday night. But do not be
surprised if there's all kinds of pressure on the Milwaukee
Bucks this year. Coming up, I will share what happened
the other day. And you know Mark Medina and I
talked about this last week, Dame Miami. Yes, no lots
of phone calls. Well, now we got our answer. I'm

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it was in all the papers, a trade involving what
eight nine players, draft picks, three teams. Damian Lillard, He's

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going to a team that's spelled MI, but it ends
with Milwaukee instead of m I Miami. Wednesday night, it
was announced a three team deal. The Bucks get Damian
Lillard from the Blazers. The Blazers get DeAndre Ayton to
Monti Kamara Drew Holliday, who they'll probably trade, but the
trip Blazers also get a twenty twenty nine first round

(01:18:40):
pick and two first round swaps twenty eight and thirty. Meanwhile,
the Phoenix Suns receive Grayson Allen, Keon Johnson, the here
Little and Usuf Nurkic. All right, so here we are.
Damian Lillard is headed from the Portland Trail Blazers to
the Milwaukee Bucks, is part of a big three team trade.

(01:19:00):
It fairly well. It brought shock waves around the league.
It brought shockwaves around the league. The Blazers got a
haul back, gotta give it to him, Drew Holliday, who
again they trade DeAndre Ayden on a first round draft pick.
But everybody's saying, hey, wait, wait, wait, I thought Lillard
wanted to go to Miami. Well he did. But here's

(01:19:22):
what's interesting about this trade. In an era of player empowerment,
it's fascinating to see a team take the better deal
instead of acquiescing to a superstar. Plus, Lillard has at
least three more years on his deal, So if you
are the Milwaukee Bucks, you've got to be giddy. All right,

(01:19:43):
So you know, Damian Lillard, Giannis, they're inextricably linked. Lillard's
still in his prime. He's thirty three, but I think
he's still in his prime. But it's not like he
can wait out his contract and in three years, you know,
be the same guy for some other team. Milwaukee is
going to be where Damian Lillard either wins the title

(01:20:06):
as a feature player or not. And let's forget, let's
not forget. Giannis has been laying seeds all summer about
a possible exit. This is an interesting move by Milwaukee.
There have been multiple appearances, there have been multiple comments.
He said he wanted to be able to make sure
that the Bucks would ensure they'd be able to compete

(01:20:28):
for titles long term. The Bucks said they would, and
now they have all Right, this Bucks team instantly anyway
is slice it becomes the title favorite if they're healthy.
It's pretty hard to imagine that Giannis, Damian Lillard, and
Chris Middleton are going to be stopped with an irregularity

(01:20:52):
on offense. Now, they're gonna miss a little defensive help
with Drew Holiday gone, but with that kind of scoring
and they'll play enough defense. They're not like that goofy
Brooklyn team they tried to put together. I don't know
that it'll matter. All right, there is talk now that
on paper, maybe this is another quote super team. Right,
this is what happened to the NBA. This is just

(01:21:14):
like the name dream team. If I never heard the
term dream team again, it'll be too soon. But now
super team is now becoming the new adjective. The Bucks
have been a prominent franchise for a long time, and
finally they won it all in twenty twenty one with
their championship. You've got a two time league MVP in Giannis.

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But the beauty of this blockbuster deal is that it's
good for NBA in general and their media partners. All Right,
the Bucks are They were already set to be featured
in nineteen nationally televised games this season, including opening night
versus Philadelphia. That's October twenty sixth. Then that's you know, hey,

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that's three weeks's Thursday. Man, here we go, NBA. They'll
play a Christmas Day game against the Knicks, and then
you've got subsequent national TV matchups against the Lakers, Golden State,
and Boston. That's just among the nineteen nationally televised games
the Bucks will beyond this year. This makes it even better.

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You're looking at more buzz, more ratings. Remember the league,
the NBA, they're in pursuit of their next circle of
media rights. They're targeting fifty billion to seventy five billion
in aggregate rights. This is a league that has just
simply learned how to print money. So the buzz, the ratings,
Every Big Bucks game now is an event. It's great

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for the city of Milwaukee. And I think this helps
the NBA in their next media rights deal. And again,
the Bucks are thrust and I believe is a consensus
NBA title favorite. The sportsbooks have certainly responded that way.
The odds have come down dramatically, all right, And I

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don't know that I can compare this to when Shaquille
and Kobe got matched up or Magic and Kareem. But
on paper and again, the Bucks already won a championship
two years ago, and so what this does is it
strengthens their pursuit of another one. You pair Lillard with
a two time MVP and Giannis, Giannis wants that second title.

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Give it up to the Blazers two because they begin
a new era with their number two overall pick Scoot Henderson,
and they're people have forgotten DeAndre eight was a formal
number one, former number one pick Phoenix. Eh, they kind
of in their their kabuki dance with Aton, they move
on the Nurkic in the middle. I don't know if

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Phoenix can make a title run. They've sure got plenty
of talent on paper.

Speaker 1 (01:23:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
I think Allen is a good floor spacer. He's a
good three point shooter. The Sons have depth. But look,
when you put look, you really have to sort of
wonder if there was another agenda here When Jannis told
The New York Times over the summer that he really
wanted to see how committed the Bucks were toward winning

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another championship before deciding to sign another long term deal
with Stan Milwaukee now Giannis's contract runs through this year
and next year, and then there's a player option for
twenty five twenty six. Lillard is owned a ransom. He's
owned a ton of money, or owned he's owed a

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ton of money. Excuse me. He makes almost forty six
million in this coming season and could make as much
as two hundred and sixty million over the next four
years if he exercises his player option three years down
the road. But if you keep those two together, you've
got an elite player in Damian Lillard. And the Bucks
general manager John Horst admitted that we've been a fan

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of Lillard for a long time. So when you come
across opportunity like this, they're really hard to measure, They're
really hard to take advantage of. They're even harder to execute.
I know we talked to Mark Madina, will talk to
more at length. We had talked about how the talks
of Damian Lillard being treated to Miami had gone dormant,
but not because there was an effort. Even I'd been

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told there's all kinds of phone calls being made behind
the scenes, but we didn't know what they were. Well
now now we do, and I'm a big I'm a
Damian Lillard fan. He's a great player, but he's got character,
he's got competitiveness, he's very talented, and he's very experienced.
What a compliment to the Milwaukee Bucks. He's proven he's
not untested, right by the way. On Twitter. Back in

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May of twenty twenty two, Damian Lillard was asked on
Twitter pick one current player he would want to help
him reach the playoffs. His one word answer, yahness. So
when you know what the Bucks have, and you know
they have a championship, but what does Damian Lillard bring

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When you get away from all the history onics and
all the hype, and you know all the headlines. This
is a guy who's averaged thirty two points a game
for the Trio Blazers thirty two, seven times all NBA selection.
Lillard was recently selected to the NBA's seventy fifth Anniversary
team as well. He's averaged at least twenty four points

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a game in the last eight season, and that ranks
fourth among all active players who played at least four
hundred games. He's only behind Kevin Durant, Joel Embiid, and
Lebron James. That's pretty good company. Last season, Damian Lillard
became the all time leading scorer in Blazers history. He
passed up a great all timer in Portland, a guy

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you've heard of, Clyde Drexler. Lillard had a seventy one
point game last season against Houston. He became only the
seventh player in the NBA to score more more than
seventy points in the game. The others on the list,
here we go, Will Chamberlain, I guess, believe it or not,
Wilted in five times, Kobe Bryant, Elgin Baylor, David Thompson,

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David Robinson, and Donovan Mitchell. There have been fifteen times
check that seventeen times where dam Lillard has has scored
at least fifty points in a game, twice in the playoffs.
But it's not just what he does on the floor.
He's also a good guy. And I remember seeing him

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in the NBA Summer League a decade ago. You just
see it in the guy. He carries it. He won
the Jay Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, he won the Stokes
the Jack Twyman Stokes Teammate of the Year Award. He's
even won a gold medal and represented his country the
only glaring resume on Damian Lillard's resume department of redundancy

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department is a championship and now he's got a chance
to check that box. And true to form, you got
to give it up to Damian Lillard. Heading out of town,
he had some very nice sentiments, and I'll quote him.
He said, I want to express my gratitude for eleven
storied years with the franchise and his loyalty that his

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bosses talked about Lillard being the all time leading points scorer,
dedicated commitment to the youth across Oregon, the entire Pacific Northwest.
He will remain a true trail vizard to the city. Look,
Damian Lillard, in his own words, said, I want to
be remember for who I was, not just a player,
but for the principal I stood on regardless of how

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successful I was, how major of the failure was the
criticism when people thought I should have done, when people
think of me no matter what was happening, I want
to be remember who I was. And look, I think
I think this is a Grand Slam event, Uh, you know,
for all the for the entire NBA, and I will

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tell you it's got it's got the attention, it's got
the attention of teams, for instance, like the Golden State Warriors.
All right, uh, why because I think people I think
people notice obviously other teams or the franchises, other players
notice when there's a shifting of the guard like this,

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when there's when there's a you know, a major event
that is a seismic shift within with you know, within
the framework of not just the NBA, because these things
don't happen in the vacuum. Remember, the Lakers have designs
in winning a championship next year. The gold State Warriors
have designs sort of the Phoenix Sun, sort of the Clippers. Right, well,

(01:29:47):
you don't have to worry about Damian Lillard and the
Portland Trail Blazers anymore. But if you get to the finals,
you're gonna have to worry about the Bucks. And it's
a whole different ballgame now. And of course you've got
the Celtics are gonna have to worry about the Bucks,
and so the Philadelphia seventy six ers, and of course
Miami and you know you didn't hear from Jimmy Butler,
but not even gonna quote what he said. So there

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you have it. This is a type of blockbuster deal. Frankly,
we didn't see coming. We didn't feel like there was
a great chance that Damian Lillard would end up on
the on the Miami Heat. Because the Miami Heat were
on stall along they wanted to trade Tyler Hero and

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Portland says, we don't need Tyler Herrow. We don't like
Tyler Herrow. We have other similar skills sets here, whether
it's his contract whatever, you know. Now you've got contending
teams that are rushing to the phones that are going
to react to this blockbuster right there. Don't be surprised.
I don't. I don't think Drew Holliday is gonna be
in Portland very long. Okay, he may be gone before

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the season starts. We'll talk about this with Mark Rodina Saturday.
But don't be surprised if the Philadelphia seventy six Ers,
the Boston Celtics, the Minor Heat, they all make a
run for Drew Holiday. Notice a trend there, Yeah, they're
all part of the East, all right. They got a
factor in holidays potential free agency next summer and the
possibility of signing him to a long term extension which

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he becomes eligible for in February. But listen, he's the
type of guy that can help put a team over
the hump if you are close, like a Boston or
a Miami. I don't know about Philadelphia, but be that
as it may. He's a defensive presence. He's paid a
lot of money. But the truth of the matters, you

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got to remember. By trading Marcus Smartaway this last summer,
the Celtics lost their key cog to that juggernaut defense.
All right. And I know that Drew Holiday has never
won a Defensive Player of the Year award, but if
you put him defensively in that Celtic lineup, you know,
darn well they become better overnight. All right, Enough about that,

(01:31:56):
Let's bring the crew and we'll bring Kevin and Shay
to get their thought and see what they are, what
their impressions are, what Milwaukee might do. Hard to believe,
but believe it or not, some teams are in camp
mild because there's some teams playing some games overseas. But
three weeks from Thursday, October twenty sixth, This Thursday is
October fifth. Three weeks from Thursday, the NBA teas it

(01:32:19):
up for real, So really interesting look now for the
Milwaukee Bucks. I'm Bernie Frattle. We are coming to you
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here in Las Vegas. Will take you up to two
am Pacific, five am Eastern. We are ruminating about the
major blockbuster three team trade. Of course, the centerpiece it
involved Portland, Milwaukee and Phoenix. But the centerpiece Damian Lillard
going to the Milwaukee Bucks. They are now very much

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on the short list to win a championship. Kevin, let's
start with you before we get into predictions or anything.
What was your knee jerk reaction when you heard this
Blockbuster deal come on in nowhere in the middle of
the week.

Speaker 11 (01:33:14):
My first thought was wow, and then my second thought
is this is probably one of the best things that
could have happened for Damian Lillard. As much as he
wanted to go to Miami, I think that from a
fifth standpoint, it makes a lot more sense for him
to go to a place like Milwaukee, who he basically
brings the asset that they were missing, which was a score.
You know, someone from the backcourt who can create his

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own shot, who can create a dynamic one two punch
from a pick and roll. And this is no slight
to Drew Holliday, who is a very good player. But
Damian Lillard, as you mentioned last segment, is a game
changer in one of the more clutch players in the
NBA over the last decade. So from that standpoint, it's
an upgrade for Milwaukee. I guess my concern would be
he's not getting any younger at thirty three years old,

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has a lot of years left on that contract that
he just signed, and had some injury issues over these
last couple of seasons. And you can say the same
thing about Giannis who is not quite thirty yet but
has had his share of injury issues as well. And
Chris Middleton is coming off of back to back seasons
with injuries. So to your point, if they're healthy, it's phenomenal.
The question is how healthy will they be throughout the season.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
Well, that's an excellent question. But the three of them
on the floor form I think as prolific offense as
there is in the league, and none of them have
to carry the team, where I really believe Jannis felt
he had to carry the team even though he had support.
And you're right, when Middleton's healthy makes all the difference.
But I gotta believe that Damian Lillard is slightly relieved

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because he had to really carry the freight in Portland.
He's not going to have to do it as much
in Milwaukee.

Speaker 4 (01:34:47):
No doubt. Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:34:48):
See, now he's the Robin instead of the Batman, and
that you know what I mean for a for lack
of a better term, and look, maybe he's Batman in
night wing or something however you wanted to describe it.
But you know, on any given night, either of those
guys can take over games, and neither of them have
to show to the load as much as they have
in the past. So I certainly understand why they will
be considered the favorites, and if they're healthy, that certainly

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makes sense.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
One issue for them would be they're not.

Speaker 11 (01:35:12):
The youngest team in the league, and they don't necessarily
have a whole lot of depth, so they run into
the issue that many they're not quite a super team
in the standard sense, like you know, say Phoenix or
so well. I think Phoenix actually got better at least
got deeper with this trade, So I like it for
them too. They're not a super team in a traditional sense,
but they just don't have a lot of margin for
error if one of these guys were to go down

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for any considerable amount of time.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
They do have three years to get this done. Now,
what's interesting. One of the dynamics I find interesting about
this trade is that I feel like Milwaukee really felt
the heat and they took Yanna seriously. They don't want
to see him leave town, right, So this is a
type of move, almost a defensive move, and a sort

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of an indicator to Yannis, Hey, we hear you loud
and clear. We're going to get you some support. To
what degree do you think Milwaukee was motivated by the
fear of Jannis leaving to make this do?

Speaker 11 (01:36:06):
I think that was the biggest motivator as to why
they made this trade, Because because Gianni's has been so
public two times over the last month or so, has
talked about, you know, his whether or not he feels
the team is going to be committed to building long term,
and the unfortunate thing is for a team in the
market like Milwaukee, they're not a destination franchise. You can't
just hit the reset button and clear up salary cap

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space and sign free agents. It doesn't work that way.
So unfortunately, you're going to have to make a move
like this for a guy like Damian Lillard who three
years from now is going to be deteriorating and not playing,
you know, giving you the return on investment for the
amount of money he's going to be making. But for
the right now, you make that sacrifice because you don't
want to lose Giannis in a.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
Couple of years.

Speaker 11 (01:36:47):
So you end up making this move knowing it's going
to hurt you in four years, but knowing that if
for the next couple at least the next two and
maybe even three, you know you're going to keep your
superstar happy and have a chance to compete for championships.

Speaker 2 (01:36:59):
So the last saying, I think the best fit is
Boston for Drew Holiday because they traded away Marcus Smart
last summer. But in order to get Holiday, they're going
to have to let the Malcolm Brogden go or Al Horford.
I'm not sure do you expect Drew Holiday to end
up with Boston or where do you think he ends up.

Speaker 4 (01:37:15):
Boston is a good destination.

Speaker 11 (01:37:17):
And look that the Celtics already agreed to a trade
from Malcolm Brogden to the Clippers in the offseason before
they got mixed for some health issues and failed physical
whatever the situation was. So it's not like they aren't
willing to move off of Malcolm Brogden because they already
tried to. There's multiple teams. I think the Clippers will
be a great fit for Drew Holliday. They were in
the James Harden sweep stakes and really they were the

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only team that he wanted to go to, and the
Clippers weren't willing to give up the assets, similar to
Miami when it comes to the Miami Portland situation with
Damian Lillard. So there are a number of different places
that Drew Holliday could go to make an impact. But
I do agree that if you're Portland you want to
get him to the Eastern Conference, if that makes any
difference to you, I think really just getting young assets
and more draft picks is all that matters to them,

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and more movable assets. Austin is a place that definitely
would make sense.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
I like your Clippers thought, but they're going to have
to bring it. They're gonna have to be willing to
let a bunch of high salary veterans Norman Paul, maybe
Marcus Morris, Nicholas Patoomb, Robert Covington and draft picks and
they're gonna have to give him a hall. But good stuff,
all right, Shay. Your thoughts on this whole big blockbuster deal.

Speaker 8 (01:38:19):
Well, when I first saw it, I said, finally, I mean,
I just I've always wanted to see Lillard on a
team where he we could see him honestly flourish. And yeah,
like we have seen him flourish. But again, it's the
Portland Trailblazers. You can do so much on that team,
and you can show off so much of your skills
with that team. But then I was like, okay, wait,
three team trade, and then I see that DeAndre Ayton's involved,

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and I was like, Okay, what did the Suns get back?
And I don't know if the depth that they received
was worth losing the best defender on their team. Yes,
they got a lot of depth, but I mean, how
much is Grayson Allen actually going to play behind Devin Booker,
Bradley Beal and even Eric Gordon. I don't even think
he's going to see much more and it's at all.

(01:39:01):
And then it's like it's like, was Ayton really that
upset with the Sun's organization where we really had to
let him go? And then even with Nurkic' it's a downgrade.
It's yeah, I get it with Ayton's off court problems,
there could be some things, but again it's a different organization,
it's a new breath, and he's still fairly new to
the league. So I don't know. I just I didn't
really see the Sun's point of view at this. I mean,

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if he really was on that was that unhappy, I
guess you have to do it, but I just didn't
see it could have been a financial move too, but
it just didn't make sense to me on the Sun side.

Speaker 2 (01:39:32):
Fair enough, they got some interesting pieces. I think the
bottom line is use of Nurkic should do at least
a good job as DeAndre Ayton, only because I think
Ayton had been in the doghouse for so long that
this this just needed to happen, you know. But you
bring up a lot of really good points here, A
good job, guys. All right, coming up we have Chris
Perfett's World of Soccer. But first let's go back to

(01:39:53):
a guy Kevin Figures with the latest.

Speaker 11 (01:39:55):
All right, and foursome's well underway at the Ryder Cup
and cooling Roy McElroy and tell me Fleetwood taking on
Justin Thomas and Jordan's speed. As a matter of fact,
I believe that one just wrapped up. No, that's still
a few holes left to go. But as of right now,
Europe up seven and a half points to one and
a half points for two team USA, So the United
States has some ground, more ground to make up. There

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were down six and a half to one and a
half coming into the day. Baseball Friday Night Dodgers defeated
the Giants six to two. Earlier in the day, San
Francisco fired their manager, Gabe Kapler. Seattle shutting out Texas
eight to nothing, while Houston defeated Arizona two to one
in the Aos. The Rangers have a one game lead
over the Astros and a two game lead over Seattle.
Houston currently leads to Mariners by a game for the

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final wildcard in the American League. Wins from Miami and
the Reds, while the Cubs lost to Milwaukee, so the
Marlins have a one and a half game lead over
Cincinnati and Chicago for the final wildcard spot. In college football,
Djua Younglolay through a touchdown pass to help lead nineteenth
ranke Oregon State over number ten Utah twenty one to seven,
a couple of touchdown passes for Keaton Slovas for BYU,

(01:40:58):
they defeated Cincinnati thirty five to twenty seven. Also a
thirteen to ten victory for Louisville over NC State. Cardinals
are now five to oher on the season. Back to
Bernie Frettle.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Kevin is it just mere? Does USC have an next
quarterback on every other team in the country, So.

Speaker 4 (01:41:14):
It seems like right and slovis my god?

Speaker 11 (01:41:16):
J C. Daniels, Yeah, he's like, it's fifteen is. These
guys are all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:41:20):
He came out of modern day a year early. Now
that's a cautionary tale.

Speaker 11 (01:41:24):
Yes, that's a cautionary to All right, let's we mentioned
Jackson Darts.

Speaker 2 (01:41:28):
I was gonna say, we'd be here all night if
we start talking about these guys for crying out loud. Yeah,
all right, good stuff as always, kevin Ie, great job, buddy.
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Speaker 6 (01:42:05):
The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum. I am,
It's all here in this report from the world of soccer.

Speaker 10 (01:42:25):
Leonel Messi will not be in the MLS Cup playoffs.
I feel confident saying that today here at the end
of September, looking at the remaining schedule, and it's not
a reality that anyone wants to face that anyone in
US soccer wants to face. Certainly not the league officials
in MLS want to face, and certainly not what anyone

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in the press wants to face. Raptured as they are
in Messymania. The sports Summer going into the sports fall
has been dedicated to three celebrities, Dion Sanders, Taylor Swift,
and Leonelle Messi. Of the three, Leonel Messi is the
only one who is a current player, and between Dion
Sanders and himself, he's probably the only one that can

(01:43:08):
match Taylor Swift's social media footprint anywhere else and the
celebrity worship that she Garners and MLS is acutely.

Speaker 4 (01:43:17):
Aware of it.

Speaker 10 (01:43:18):
It is why they brought them over, and believe me,
inter Miami does not bring him over on their own.
They need the help from the league office to do it.
But it is why the league still continues to have
Lionel Messi as its top selling jersey right now. They
understand the power of messymania. But sometimes just because you
want something doesn't mean that, on a fair field of competition,

(01:43:42):
that you can have it. Sitting at fourteenth in the
Eastern Conference, it would take a mathematical impossible amount of
points with everyone else dropping points or simply just not
able to keep up with their pace to catch up
to Nashville SC and put inter Miami into the MLS
Cup playoffs. Compounding this problem, we had on Thursday, the

(01:44:05):
Lamar Hunt US Open Cup final between Inter Miami and
Houston Dynamo. Leonel Messi had to watch from the sidelines
as Houston Dynamo beat them two to one. The longe
goal for Inter Miami came in stoppage time when it
was very clear they weren't going to win this game
at all. So they've been denied the US Open Cup,
which is a prestigious award. They will not gain the

(01:44:27):
Supporters Shield for most Points in the season that probably
belongs in a runaway to FC Cincinnati, and they certainly
will not make the MLS Cup playoffs, which is the
most prestigious award. And it is a playoff system which,
in the United States idea of sports, the highest place
you want to be playing. And I wonder, Bernie, and

(01:44:49):
I want to ask you this, how much is the
MLS Cup playoffs worth to the rest of the country if,
Leonel Messi, the one that you have sold your entire
league upon, is not playing in it. We know for
a fact that MLS can produce very fun playoff games,
but the MLS's strategy has been messy, messy, messy, messy,

(01:45:10):
messy Messi And believe me, it's a very good strategy.
But if you don't have him playing on that, I
do want to ask all these people that you sold
messy Mania to, how do you swear that circle. How
do you convince them to watch the other teams in
there that that's just as good when Messi won't even
see the field. I know the rational answer to this
is just wait until next season. That's when enter Miami

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with a healthy Lionel Messi is what's going to shape
the fate of MLS. But MLS was really riding high
on Messymania for a while, and no amount of work,
math or any kind of goals scored is going to continue.

Speaker 4 (01:45:49):
That for this season.

Speaker 10 (01:45:51):
We've got about four or five games left in the
MLS regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
It's a rap.

Speaker 10 (01:45:55):
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
it needs to be reiterated. So do not let anyone
talking about the math for a miracle season try to
dissuade you from what I am saying. They are trying
to sell you a load of hope that is empty
and false. At this point, cold reality is coming with
October that Lionel Messi will not be in the playoffs.

(01:46:18):
The other story we have for you Bernie comes from
us from Italy, and it is one that I think
American fans can resonate with. After all, it is a
story of social media disrespect and athletes. After all, we
have an entire league dedicated to it. It's called the
National Basketball Association. And we also have a yearly ritual
where quarterbacks in the NFL looking for contracts decide to

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take the team off of their Instagram profile. But Napoli
found itself in hot water on TikTok when a video
came out mocking Victor Ociman, one of their fantastic strikers
and one of the reasons they won the Italian title
this past year after missing a penalty kick in a
zero zero draw against Bologna, and it seems to have

(01:47:02):
become a tipping point between Osaman and the club. Now
we have to give a little bit of background on it.
Number one is the status of Napoli itself. Napoli is
not one of the Big three. For them to have
won the title is remarkable. Since two thousand and one,
only three clubs have won the Italian Scudado ac Milan,

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inter Milan and Juventus.

Speaker 4 (01:47:25):
That's it. That's the list.

Speaker 10 (01:47:27):
It has been dominated by those Big three, and financially
Italy is dominated by those Big three. And even then
Napoli is still an even smaller fish when you consider
the global scale of clubs who try to buy up
Italian players to put in their own leagues, especially in
say the Premier League in England. So the last thing

(01:47:47):
you'd want to do is create a rift. And I
don't think Osiman is overreacting. I don't Black players, African
players in Italy are subjected to oil horrific amount of
abuse sometimes when it comes to when they fail in
a certain play. It has been well documented for a

(01:48:08):
very long time and for the club's own TikTok to
mock Osaman put him over the edge. His agent was
beyond in sense and has threatened to sue the club
over the unacceptable video, even though it has been long
since deleted. In addition, the country of Nigeria itself is

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getting involved and has weighed in on the slander, as
Osiman is a native of that country. Nigeria's Sports minister
issued a statement condemning the video itself. This is no
simple affair of a player getting in his feelings about
being heard about what someone says on social media. It's

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level of disrespect for the club itself and it is
has far reaching implications for both Osaman and for Napoli.
For Napoli to remain relevant, it cannot do this kind
of thing to one of its star players. I mean,
it might have just seemed like a harmless prank by
someone using TikTok, but social media has a lot of
power these days. If Napoli wants to stay among the

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elite of Italy, it better men fences and better men
fence is quick because the pressure on Napoli is immense
and the pressure on Osaman to go somewhere else in
Europe to play for a bigger club. I mean, take
your pick of any club in England love to have
Osaman right now, be that one of the Manchesters or
Arsenal whoever. Osaman's contract with Napoli expires in twenty twenty five,

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and I'm going to be beyond shocked if Osaman remains
there for that long of a period of time. More
to keep up on Burnie, we got a full slate
once again here in the Premier League this weekend.

Speaker 4 (01:49:42):
Enjoy This has been the world of soccer, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
That's a trip around the world in the world of soccer,
which we bring you every week in because there is
always news and we're here for it. Coming back, we
revert back to the other football right the Bears are
still a mess, and boy they are a bigger mess

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than you even realized. I'll break it down for you
and I will juxtapose their quarterback versus another young Ohouse
State quarterback who frankly has not only been remarkable, he's
actually setting NFL records. I'm Bernie Fradle, re covered of
your life from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tarrac
dot Com studios. Keep it locked right here. You're listening
to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. By

(01:50:33):
were wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show, come
to you live from the Tarrack dot Com studios the
Fox Sports Radio here in Las Vegas. Before I go
any further, I want to think my broadcast team. They've
been with me since eleven pm Pacific Friday night back
in Los Angeles. It would be Mark Ramsey, our technical producer.
Outstanding job tonight shows, Titus a drum, Kevin Figure is

(01:50:54):
always great with the updates, excellent input on the Bucks trade,
and the same with Sean mogan Garde. Great job with
the game tonight, moving right along, you get the standings
out this week and some really interesting thoughts on the
Suns and their participation in the trade or lack thereof,
if you get my drift, all right, this just In

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the Chicago Bear is still a mess. Yeah, it's in
all the papers. And you've heard me be critical about
Justin Fields for three years now. I've never once believed
he was a major league quarterback because of the way
he approaches the position. Not a personal attack, not hardly.
I think he's a guy of high caliber, a by character,

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and not everybody can make it in this league. I
gave you my stats earlier. One hundred and forty five
one hundred and forty eight players drafted in the first
round since nineteen sixty seven, only nine took their original
team to the Super Bowl. But last week Fields completed
only nine passes for ninety nine yards or checked out
eleven passes. I had a late touchdown that was complete
for Gazy, so what an interception? There are no tangible

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improvements in his third season, and this is a pivotal season. Now,
Remember you didn't want Mitch Trubisky. What if Justin Fields
had these numbers? And don't lose your mind's people. I
never once would reply that Mitch Trubisky was going to
lead you to a super Bowl. But what if Justin
Fields would have done this these three years twenty five
and thirteen made the playoffs two or three years, sixty

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four touchdowns, thirty seven interceptions, completed sixty six percent of
his passes. Well, that's exactly what Mitch Trubisky did. Oh no,
but you didn't want him, and I understand he was
not going to get you to the super Bowl. But
it's still Justin Fields can understand it's his position. You
play with your eyes. You got to get the damn
ball out of your hands, make your prey and posts

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and that reeds. You observe what's taking place. You receive
the ball, you make mental snapshots. You understand that if
your defense is in his own, that may give you
license to run. You run horizontally, let your receivers side
adjust their routes if they're in man the corners back
or to you. That's allowed you to take off and run.

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That's what Jared Golf did last night in the first quarter.
But you've got to be able to recognize what you
are seeing. He's had thirty starts. Maybe something miraculous will
happen and maybe things can turn around. Bears are going
to stick with him, and they should stick with him,
and they have to stick with them. It would be
interesting to see what happens next year, though I don't

(01:53:23):
know what is exactly going to change. His default mechanism
is to run. But I'll tell you this, Ohio State
had another quarterback who's a rookie, the number two pick
overall this year. And oh, by the way, he joined
a team that had a shaky offensive line that's got
an injury riddle offensive line. I don't want to hear

(01:53:43):
any more about the Bears and this lack of support
thereof everybody else's fault. Those darn coaches. GOLLI g. They're
trying to get me involved in an NFL offense so
we can actually operate like an NFL team. Let me
tell you about c J. Stroud. What this young man
has done his first three weeks in the NFL is
nothing short remarkable. He's the first quarterback in NFL history

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to throw for more than nine hundred yards, four passing
touchdowns and have zero interceptions in their first three starts.

Speaker 5 (01:54:16):
C J.

Speaker 2 (01:54:17):
Strout also has the most attempts of any NFL quarterback
without an interception this season. We're talking about c J. Strout.
He's had three starts, not thirty. Now, some people might
have thought Houston would be the worst team in football
this year. Chicago, some people actually were crazy enough to

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say they'd win the division. And Justin Field's got MVP votes.
MVP bets that word. You know, people actually bet that
Fields could win the MVP this year based on what Okay,
Stroud has completed seventy three to one hundred and three
passes and seventy seven yards. All four of us touchdowns

(01:54:58):
have come from operat inside the pocket. Yeah, and actually
can be done outside the pocket, where Stroud was often
dangerous as a playmaker in college. Well, he's only five
of eighteen eighteen. I don't blame him, though. I think
he's under arrest and he's flushed out and he's trying
to keep a play alive or throw it away to

(01:55:18):
live another day. He has I'm throwing a pick all year,
So it's not that he's got happy feet like Fields.
Does that counter clockwise dipsy doodal. You know, Curl, I'm
getting sick of watching that. Amazingly, by the way, c J.
Stroud has accomplished all of this while playing again behind
an offensive line that's injured and very unsettled, and they

(01:55:43):
allow Houston. These are next gen stats. They allow the
third highest pressure rate in the league, but that hasn't
stopped CJ. Stroud by for leading the league with a
seventy eight percent percentage completion against man coverage. Here's why
that's important, because the rest of the league is only

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fifty eight percent. There's your tail of two quarterbacks, both
from Ohio State, one place to position what the NFL requires,
the other is still learning after thirty games, and it
appears to be the coach's fault not letting you walk
that back. I think he's a good guy, justin fields,
just not a major league quarterback. That's gonna do for

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