Jonas Knox talks CFP and Jim Harbaugh's future!

Jonas Knox talks about SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey lobbying to have Georgia and Alabama in the College Football playoffs, the Thank God For Gambling Game of the Week, another edition of Do You Care, takes issue with the scheduling for some of the lesser conference title games, a possible landing spot for Jim Harbaugh, and another edition of Knox Locks!

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The Prince of Darkness is in the house on the
man up in his face, Jonahs knocks.

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I don't Shane chooses anymore.

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never heard of.

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They run through our ass like through a tin horn man,
and we could.

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Here's Jonas Knock scanning the fast playing Grandma.

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The bingo game is running to the wall. So there
is somebody in the world of football that is so
confident and so comfortable speaking in this way that they

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are going to piss off a lot of people. And
we'll explain who that is coming up here just a
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So nobody likes a cocky person, right, Like nobody likes

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anybody that's like two cocky, or anybody that just wants
to gloat about how great they are. Nobody likes that person, right,
that person and again, like you know, to each their own,
but that person, I think we'd all agree, is a douche.
I mean, you know, I know it's the holiday season.
I know we should be cheerful and everybody should be

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gift giving and all that stuff. But you know that
person who brags too much, a little bit too cocky.
Nobody likes that person because they're a tool, a douche,
a knob, whatever you want.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
To call it.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
What we happen to be in a very critical moment
in college football, because you got conference championship weekend, and
you got a bunch of teams trying to win conference
championship games and trying to parlay that in to a
college football playoff appearance so they can have an opportunity

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to be deemed national champions. Now we know one team
should absolutely be in no doubt about it, and it's Washington.
They win the Pac twelve championship last night. They were
third coming into the game. They've now swept Oregon, who's
one of the top teams in the country. So Michael
Pennixon company is on their way to the College Football Playoff.

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Now where they're slotted, whether it's two, three, four, I
highly doubt it would be one, but who the hell
knows where they're slotted. Whatever fact of the matter is,
Washington is in the college football Playoff. And by the way,
the fact that they were a ten point underdog, who
the f whiffed on that? Like there, listen, And I'm

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not exactly a gambling expert, as notated at the end
of each show when we do Knox Locks. So I
don't want to sit here and pretend like I know
everything when it comes to gambling, because I've lost probably
about seventy percent of the picks I've ever made, but
I've been doing it long enough that I know that
didn't seem right. There was something about them being and

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when it was nine and then nine and a half,
and then all of a sudden it went up to ten,
I was like, hold on a second. What they won
the last game, And you can claim that Dan Lanning
kicking a field goal at the end of the or
not electing not to kick a field goal at the
end of the first half, that was the difference. Whatever
you want to talk about. They won that game, and

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they won every other game. So how they were a
ten point underdog on a neutral site against Oregon made
no sense whatsoever to me. But nonetheless, Washington is on
to perceivably what I would assume would be a college
football playoff semi final appearance or college football playoff appearance.

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But then you got, you know, this other thing going on,
like the potential of an SEC team getting in, maybe
not getting in, or maybe two SEC teams getting in,
And you're wondering, well, how is that possible? Well, Georgia

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hasn't lost in three years. In fact, I think we're
two days away from the three year anniversary of Georgia's
last loss, okay, which is crazy, it doesn't get enough attention,
but there's been so many other fun storylines and bogus
storylines in college football that sometimes that stuff gets left out.
So Georgia hasn't lost in three years. So what if

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Georgia lost the SEC title game later on today to Alabama? Well,
then what do you do? Well, I mean, that's easy.
The SEC champion gets into the College Football Playoff. Yeah,
but there's a problem because Texas is knifing Oklahoma State
right now in the Big twelve title game, and so

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Texas beat Alabama earlier this year. So are you saying
that you're going to drop Georgia out of the top
four all together and then put Texas in and Alabama
in when Georgia hasn't, like it creates a problem, Like
there's a little bit of an issue. And then there's
the other conversation, which is, well, what if an SEC

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team just doesn't get in at all? Well? Greg Sank,
the commissioner for the SEC, was on Game Day on
ESPN earlier today and he was asked about that question,
the potential of an SEC team not getting in the
College Football Playoff at all? And he went on to say,
how that's not really the real world when it comes

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to the college football Playoff.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Take a listen, Well, let's go back to like Sesame Street.
So we're really basic. One of these things is not
like the other, and that's the Southeastern Conference. But they
have five of the top fifteen. We have five of
the top.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Fifteen, and our teams are playing everyone in the conference.
They're all attached, they have to overcome a lot of adversity,
intense environments, are going to be close games. But the
reality is there's been no one that's experienced success in
the postseason the college football Playoff that we have.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
So when you put us up actually.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Against the teams rather than in committee rooms, we stand alone.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Now that is confident. That is really confident. And there's
a couple of different ways.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
You can take that.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
You can take it like I said, and listen to
that sound bite and go, man, that guy sounds like
a douche. Or you can kind of revel in the
idea that there could be a lot of people pissed
off at a result like I sometimes like, and you
can kind of hope that, well, maybe Alabama beats Georgia

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and maybe Alabama gets in, and maybe Georgia does too,
and maybe Greg Sanki goes from that guy's a tool,
Well he doesn't know what he's talking about too. That
guy called his shot, and next thing you know, you
get two SEC teams in. I'm just saying like, there
is a potential of that happening. Now, there needs to
be some stuff that happens, but there is the potential

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of that happening. And maybe the conversation goes from what's
more important. What do you put more weight into Alabama
losing to Texas in the regular season or Alabama beating
Georgia in the SEC championship game, And that's where the
conversation comes either way. If you are somebody like me
who likes to stand back like that fat kid from

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Stand By Me after he starts making everybody throw up
in the pie eating contest, If you're like me and
you want to be lardass and stand back and admire
your work, that's all I want. I want everybody in
college football throwing up all over themselves. I want everybody
in college football getting sick to their stomach because of
the thought that two SEC teams could get into the

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college football playoff. That's what I want. You can criticize
me for it. I don't care. I am all about this.
I'm all about everybody getting pissed off about it. And
I would like to say this, Enjoy it. Why you can,
because you're going to look back on this whole time
in college football and you're gonna miss it. It's like

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when you walk through and you're doing some decorating and
you're doing some shopping for the decorations around Christmas time.
You ever seen that vintage Santa Claus, Like there's new
modern Santa Clauses and they've got like, you know, they've
got like like decent shoulders and traps because they're carrying
around a bag all night and they're trying to like

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steer reindeer, like you know, a bunch of reindeer in
the middle of the sky. So their arms like they'll
make these new Santa Clauses and they're like buff and
like cut up. It looks like they've been doing like
intermittent fasting as well too. And then you'll see like
the old school Santa Claus, the vintage one, and you
look at that and it makes you think back to
a time when hey that's the Christmas I grew up with.

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That was the first Santa Claus I ever saw, you know,
the one where his cheeks are all red. You know,
the hat isn't so perfect. It's kind of tilted a
little bit on one side of his head. You know,
he's got like the hair you could tell he hasn't
used a ton of Leavin conditioner. He doesn't have great arms.
He's just kind of thick strong, you know, like country

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boy strong. They call it to where it's like, eh, listen,
that guy's never been in a way, but he's been
shoveling gifts and hey, his old life, you know, like
farm boy strong. That's like the old vintage Santa Claus.
So when you're going through this store and you see
all this new modern crap that they're trying to sell you,
you know, everything's like, oh, get it while it's hot.
You know. It's it's fifteen percent off, yeah, I know,

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and as we get closer to Christmas, it'll be twenty
percent off, twenty five, thirty percent off, and then December
twenty sixth are basically giving it away for like a
half bag of funions. You can have whatever Christmas decoration
you want. Well, like you're watching you go through the
store and you're watching all this new stuff, and then
you see the vinted stuff and you go that kind
of warms my heart. There's going to be a time

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next year, the year after the year after that we're
not going to be able to have these arguments and discussions.
We're not going to be able to sit here and
fight over whether or not two SEC teams could get
in because when the college football playoff expands, you might
get three or four. That's just a fact. So if
I were you, if you're tired of the modern Christmas

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and you're tired of the new modern college football that
comes up, which you will be, because we all romanticize
the past. It's like seeing a payphone, seeing a picture
of a pager, seeing an old Nintendo unit, like you
just think like a rotary dial phone, like the old

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internet dial up sound. Like there's going to be a
time where you see a MySpace page and you go, hey, kids,
you know what, that's what I grew up with before
you had TikTok, I had MySpace. And there's going to
be a time when we're all having a twelve to
a sixteen to a three hundred team college football playoff expansion,
and you're going to think back and go. I kind

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of miss Greg Sankei standing up there grabbing his crotch
and telling everybody to do you know what. When it
comes to criticizing the SEC getting a team in or
multiple teams in, I kind of miss that debate. I
kind of miss that discussion. I kind of missed that
vintage college football argument. Enjoy it why you can, because

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this is the final year we're gonna get it. Oh well,
there could be a thirty. It's not the same. I
don't want to argue about the twelfth and thirteenth team
getting in, just like I don't give a rip about
who gets into the play in game when it comes
to the NCAA tournament. I don't care. When you start
expanding stuff, you start to spread it thin and you
start to water it down. This is your last chance

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to enjoy vintage college football. I would take full advantage
of it if you can. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio,
get me on Twitter at the Jonas Knox at the
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us as always on the iHeartRadio app. We are gonna
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hand out an award later on this hour, like we
do every single week in the NFL. We're also going

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Jonas Knox Fox Sports Radio, by the way, coming up
a little over ten minutes from now here from the
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out an award here on the show. I know a
lot of people say we're too negative here on this show.
Don't worry about it. We got an award we are
going to present to two teams in the NFL that
will be yours here a little over ten minutes from

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now on FSR. By the way, for those of you
listening on the podcast, we were just playing what's the
name of Iowa Sam with us here. He has been
conned into working on weekends again, Iowa Sam, What is
the name of the that's is it? Just mister grinch?
You're a mean one, mister Grinch, and who's who's the
original composer of that?

Speaker 5 (15:05):
Let me look hold on, Ravencroft?

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Hold on all right, So we're efforting here the h
the correct because we want to make sure we give
correct credit.

Speaker 5 (15:15):
Here to this.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
According to our update anchor, Nick Cope, it's uh, what
is it again.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Nick Thorough?

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Ravenscroft, thorough name thorough, very thorough, last name there.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
That sounds like a characterraft Game of Thrones? What a
what a name?

Speaker 5 (15:31):
Voice?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
So it's funny you play that because anybody that's listened
to Fox Sports Radio for a long time, you remember
when we had a gentleman call in on the weekend
overnights and he actually performed that song A cappello. Yeah
it was Lewis I was. We called him deep voice Lewis.
We called him something else and then realize that sounded inappropriate.
But deep voice Lewis called into the show and do

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you still have that? Sam? All right, so let's take
a listen to a deep voice Lewis acappella calling in.
I believe this was like in July. He called in
when we asked him, could you sing the mister Grinch song?
Because your voice is so deep, and this is how
it sounded.

Speaker 8 (16:11):
You're a mean one, mister Grinch.

Speaker 1 (16:16):
It sounds so good. Now. I would say this because
I've been thinking about this a little bit, like the
Grinch is always unhappy, like he's always miserable, Like he's
always unhappy. And I was thinking to myself, like, if
the Grinch went out drinking one night, let's say like
a Friday night, like say, for example, we'll keep it

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recent times. If the Grinch went out drinking, or say
he was just kind of hanging out at his place
on a Friday night watching the PAC twelve Championship game.
He strikes me as the type of guy that would
have like I don't know, a full bottle of sake,
three to four palomas, which is a tequila and grapefruit,

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and then like you know, like two or three variety
pack I pas in between, like the seven to ten
percent range like that that sounds about right to me,
Like Sam, would you would you say that that sounds
like something the Grinch would do on a Friday night
watching the PAC twelve Championship game. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
that would sound exactly like it. So oh, because I

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know what you're thinking It's definitely not a broadcast professional
that would do that, That's for sure. That sounds like
something that Grinch would do, not a broadcast professional. Here
from the tire raq dot com.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
Studio Jonas, and you know, the Grinch should probably forget
to set his alarm and wake up naturally somehow at
five twenty am. Hey throw his green fuzzy corpse into
the shower and then get to work out on time.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
That's all right, nobody knows, not even not even Mark.
All right, so us Mark, I don't know. But coming
up again, we are going to hand out an award
and we are going to also just kind of tell
you exactly why something in the NFL is way worse
than you actually realize. So you've got Jabrill Peppers of
the Knowing England Patriots, who has been actually one of

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their better players. He is having to apologize for what
is happening there in New England. And Jabrill Peppers is
talking about, oh, well, we've got we've got you know this,
this you know, unfortunate situation that is happening. And the
reason why he's having to apologize is because he was
caught on a hot mic talking about how the Patriots
are ass. So apparently he was talking with Saquon Barkley.

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They beat the Patriots last week, Tommy DeVito's fans throwing
up the hey Tommy signal, whatever you want to call that. Then,
so Jabril Pep Peppers talking with Saquon Barkley says to him,
you lucky we ass which was a very honest comment.
But here was Jabril Peppers having to apologize for the
comment after oh, we do have the original. Okay, so

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this is Jabrill Peppers telling Saquon Barkley his honest thoughts
about the New England Patriots.

Speaker 9 (18:53):
The Giants defeat the Patriots ten to seven.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Blood, so he had to apologize for that, all right,
So the apology was so bland in comparison to him
being honest about how the Patriots are asked that we're
not even going to play that. We refuse to. We
have it, we just don't want to play it. Here's
what's interesting about the New England Patriots. They're almost sympathetic

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at this point, which is going to be Look, I
know a lot of people don't want to believe that
that's the case, and there's a lot of doormats out
there that the Patriots stepped on over the past twenty years.
Who want to say no, no, no, But it's almost
to the point to where you feel bad for him,
And it reminds me of this story. If you remember
anybody who's ever seen like documentaries on John Elway. John
Elway was not a well liked guy when he came

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into the NFL because they didn't like the fact that
a rookie who had never played a snap in the
National Football League basically told an entire franchise and organization
to kiss his ass. I'm not playing for you, I
don't want to play for you, and if you draft me,
I'll just go play baseball. And so he was going
to go play for the Yankees because they drafted him.

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He didn't want to play for the Baltimore Colts at
the time, and unless they traded him to a situation
he wanted to go to, he refused to play go
play for the Yankees, and that did not sit well
with a lot of people. He ended up getting traded
to Denver and the rest is history. Hall of Famer,
one of the greatest of all time. But I remember
hearing there was like a documentary done about John Elway

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and Matt Millan, who was a member of the forty
nine ers at that time, as they were destroying Denver
in the Super Bowl in New Orleans fifty five to ten.
Matt Millan said that he actually pulled John Elway to
the side and he was ready to talk trash to
him because they still held resentment towards him because he
was so cocky and how could you do that? And

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you're a rookie, you've never played a snap, and you're
going to tell some more. And he said he felt
bad for him at that time because it wasn't until
then that he looked into his eyes and realized, man,
this guy actually is a competitor. He really want to win.
And he respected him at that moment more than he
had ever respected him because he saw a different side
of him in his moment of loss and heartbreak and

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just seeing him go from I don't want to play
for you because I'm too good for you to devastated
by another loss in the Super Bowl and it's almost
like the Patriots have reached that point to where you
almost look at him and go, well, like, yeah, I
didn't like him for all that time, but damn, I
kind of feel bad for him. You got Jabrill Peppers

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one of their best players, saying to Saquon Barkley, you lucky,
we ask? Yeah, because the Giants have been so dominant
all year. The Giants think the Giants are awful, and
Jabrill Peppers and the Patriots the organization with more Super
Bowls and everybody else and all the success that they

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bet like or you know, listen, o, you know, as
many super bowl as everybody else, but all those appearances
the dominant, like you've got Jabril Pepper's saying you lucky,
we asked and having a comment about it afterwards. And
by the way, he's one of your best players. He's
viewed as as a team leader, and your team leader
saying you lucky. We ass that's how far, that's how

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bad it's gotten. I made the comparison last week. The
Patriots reminded me of Mickey Rourke from the Wrestler, where like,
you know, he was like at the top of the top,
he was the guy, he was the star of the
entire sport. He was the guy you looked at and said, man, Randy,
the ram is everything. And the next thing you know,
you fast forward, he's living in the back of a van.

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He's got duct tape on his winter jacket, and he's
showing up to these autograph signings and there's guys around
him with like urine bags because they can't properly go
to the bathroom anymore, and like you just see these
broken It's like the Patriots remind me of that, but
they've almost become a sympathetic figure. You want to know
how bad it is in New England, Like, you want

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to know how bad it's gotten for the Patriots. Think
about this. They're so bad that even playing the Super
Bowl champion gets them flexed off of Monday Night Football.
That's how bad they are. In a couple of weeks,

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the Eagles and Seahawks are now the Monday night game,
and the Patriots in chiefs have now been moved to
Sunday one Eastern time. So even the New England Patriots
and Bill Belichick and potentially his final primetime game as
Patriots coach, arguably the greatest coach not only in the

(23:48):
NFL but the history of sports, his final primetime game
and ESPN's like, yeah, we'll go ahead, and now we'll
take our chances with Gino Smith in his turnovers against
the Eagles, Thank you though, have fun like, yeah, but
hold on, they're playing the Chiefs. They just won the

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Super Bowl. Yeah, we're good here. Thank you though. Appreciate it, guys.
That's how bad it is. And you can dislike them
all you want. You can be bitter about it. You
can hold grudges and say, well, I mean, you know
they deflated footballs and you know they were they were
caught filming sidelines and doing I mean, there are a
bunch of cheaters like you can do all of that

(24:31):
you want. You can make fun of Belichick's apparel, his attire.
You can make fun of the fact that Robert Kraft,
you know, got caught a couple of times going to
a massage parlor and Jupiter, Florida. You know, many of
us made the same mistake. You looked up orchards of
Asia and thought, what is this like a restaurant or
like a nursery where I can get some good gardening.

(24:52):
Oh never mind, it's old old rubber Craft who just
you know, needed to get some of the stress off,
you know, a little bit, just needed to you know it. Basically,
it was Deshaun Watson in the movie Cocoon. Okay, that's
what it looked like. But while you sit here and

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poke fun at them, and while you sit here and
make jokes about him, I don't think any of us
thought it was going to be this bad. I don't
think anybody thought it was going to go like this.
And they've almost become that sympathetic figure, like when Matt
Millan looked at John Elway to talk trash to him
and realize, oh god, I kind of feel bad for
this guy. Now, that's where the Patriots are at. Jonas

(25:36):
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latest from around the world of sports. A man who

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shocked us all with his Chris Smith's song knowledge, the
one the only Nick.

Speaker 10 (26:04):
Kobe appreciated Jonas By the way, our boy Thorole Ravenscroft.
He was the voice of Tony the Tiger for over
fifty years.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
That's him. Great, that's that's Thorole Ravenscroft. How much money
do you think he made off that commercial?

Speaker 10 (26:21):
So much money? And he also did a bunch of
Disney movies. He voiced stuff all over disney Land and
Disney World, the you know, Pirates of the Caribbean, the
river Boat, like, he's everywhere.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Have you have you ever talked to I'm sorry, have
you ever talked to a professional voice artist? Like people
that do that for a living? I have Okay, it
is amazing. They have an amazing life. I'll just have
that way, like it's literally they your agent, whoever emails
you a bunch of scripts. Yep, you go to a
sound studio. Many of them can afford to have one

(26:53):
in their home. You bang out these scripts and that's it.

Speaker 10 (26:57):
Yep, you got, you got your union and okay, that's
a popular commercial. It's Aaron all the time. The cast
just keeps flowing.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
I mean, can we look, we got to find out
how much he made throughout the course of his career.
And look, we're not sitting here trying to look through
anybody's wallet or bill fold, so to speak. From any
of you old schoolers out there and old timers out there.
But I need to find out how much the voice
of Tony the Tiger made because that commercial was on
television for.

Speaker 10 (27:25):
My entire life. Yeah, I mean he he goes back
to the fifties. He started with Tony the Tiger and
then all the way up until when he passed away
in two thousand and five.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
He was the voice of Tony the Tiger. God, that's awesome, outrageous, Jonas.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
I almost met the original mister Clean one time, but
he was in the bathroom. We would stop by his house.
He used to live in Santa Barbara. What he means
in the bathroom, Well, my friend Steve knew him. He
passed away recently, and he's like, yeah, we'll just go
I can't remember his name. Let's just go stop over
there and we'll say hi to mister Clean. And then

(27:59):
he was like very old at the time, and his
nursing assistant, like his in home lady, was like, oh, yeah,
I'm sorry, he's in the bathroom and he's take him
like half an hour to get out because he's sitting there.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
Cheez, thank you, Sam. Right, what I was about to
make some joke about you look it over the urinal saying, hey,
nice watch you go ahead and drop that little tidbit
on us. All right, so it's good to have Iowa
say I back, folks. Yes, yeah, sorry interrupt you here. Sorry,
wait to be depressing here on the show. Sorry, mister clean. Jesus.

Speaker 10 (28:27):
Well, we do have a championship game Saturday in college football,
but not much drama so far. In Arlington for the
Big twelve title game, Texas all over Oklahoma State thirty
five to fourteen quinn Ewers with three hundred and eighty
yards and four touchdown passes. Probably the most exciting part
of this game was at halftime, Jonas. You know that
they've always got the the Doctor Pepper chess pass competition

(28:50):
for some tuition. It went to double overtime and was
basically like sudden death and one guy beat the other
guy throwing just one chess pass.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
But that's that's.

Speaker 10 (29:01):
About the most drama we've had in this game so far.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
A Jerry World, how do you feel, by the way,
how do you feel about the chess past?

Speaker 7 (29:08):
Though?

Speaker 10 (29:09):
I mean, if they're not gonna out lot, then I
say more power to you. It is more efficient and
when you're talking about winning one hundred thousand dollars, it's
easy for me to sit here and say throw the
dang football like a football. But there's six figures on
the line, so I'd probably just bite the bullet and
do what I had to do to win.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Yeah, they need to out lot.

Speaker 10 (29:30):
I don't know why they're letting they you know, they
say throw the football like a football.

Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah. I also because I think they now is this
for the scholarship?

Speaker 7 (29:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Okay, so like this, this is what I would tell
my son when he gets old enough. Okay, man, Like,
I'd rather you not go to college than throw the
ball like that. I'll be honest, Like, look, you love
there's a lot of things you love out there that
don't involve going to college. I'm sorry you have a dad.
Can you afford to send me to college? Absolute not?
But figure it out, you know what I mean? Like

(30:03):
if you you know, just like do what you gotta do.
I just I don't know that I could that. I
would be willing to accept my son back into the
house if he used a chess pass to try and
win a scholarship. But again, parenting, it's not you know,
people do it in different ways, so I'm not trying
to be a judgment only to reach their own. Yeah,
we do have the MAC Championship game going on as well.

Speaker 10 (30:22):
Toledo leading Miami fourteen to thirteen, got five minutes playing
the third quarter. Still got the Mountain West Championship game
coming up three eastern on Fox, Boise State at UNLV.
SEC Title games at four eastern number one Georgia, number
eight Alabama, Then at eight eastern on Fox, Who've got
number two Michigan at number sixty in Iowa in Indianapolis,
and then the ACC title game also at eight eastern,

(30:44):
number four Florida State, number fourteen Louisville in Charlotte.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
NFL News.

Speaker 10 (30:48):
Bengals coach Zach Taylor said receiver t Higgins will play
Monday against the Jaguars. As for Jacksonville, coach Doug Peterson
said he expects running back Travis Etn to play. Chiefs
have ruled outrunning back Jack McKinnon for Sunday night football
against the Packers. And if you're looking for some guys,
maybe you need to add late here for your fantasy team.
The Colts have elevated running back Tyler Goodson and receiver

(31:10):
DJ Montgomery to the active roster. They've gotten the Titans tomorrow,
Jonas back to you. Thanks Nick, Jonas Knox here on
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Speaker 1 (31:40):
All right, so we are going to have another edition
of Do You Care coming up here in less than
ten minutes from now from the tirak dot com studios.
But right now it is time to hand out an
award on this show. And there's a lot of people
out there who look at this and go, man, you
guys are just way too negative. You guys don't do
anything nice for anybody. You're just way too overly critical.
It's like a leg and sports radio and sports media,

(32:02):
you guys just feast on all the negativity. Blah blah
blah blah blah. Okay, with that being said, it is
time to hand out our tg F G Game of
the Week and it goes to.

Speaker 2 (32:21):
Panthers and Buccaneers.

Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh that is right, step right up, Carolina and Tampa Bay.
You are a big winner and you're probably thinking to yourself,
what do you mean this is the TGFG Game of
the week. What does TGFG stand for? It means thank
God for gambling, because if not for gambling, who's watching. Well, listen,
you can celebrate the departure of Frank Reich all you want.

(32:44):
It doesn't change the fact that Carolina is a diaper
fire and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who started off hot,
have struggled since then. And if you needed any indication
as to whether or not this game was deserving of
the TGFG Game of the Week, how about the fact
that this game was originally set to be played in
the early window, but it was flexed out and Broncos

(33:07):
Texans has taken its spot, so they move it over
to that lonely four h five Eastern timetime slot where
it's kind of like the in between, where it's like, listen, hey,
nobody's nobody's really looking. We got another twenty minutes before
the big dogs. Go ahead and step right up. So
congratulations to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Carolina Panthers
your TGFG Game of the Week because if not for gambling,

(33:30):
nobody's watching this crap. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio.
You can hang out with us on the iHeartRadio app.
And also you can get me on Twitter at the
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up next here it is a Saturday tradition. It's another
edition of Do You Care and it's yours here on FSR. Well,
hell yeah. By the way, I received a text from

(33:53):
the great Ralph Irvin. Ralph Irvin Fox Sports Radio. I'm
listening to the program here as we wax poetically from
the tire raq dot com studios. There we go, do

(34:14):
we have we have the drop of Ralph Urban like
reading a tweet. It was like a tweet or there
was some somebody was quoted as saying, taking knee my ass,
Like there was like a conversation about, hey, would you
take a knee at the end of the game if
you're up by this amount of points? And it was
like a comment or a quote or a tweet from

(34:35):
somebody that basically a coach or a player saying, take annee,
my ass, take an ea.

Speaker 5 (34:43):
My ass. Had to search for that one for a second.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
That was the intro into the weird world of Ralph,
which was one of the greatest stages we've ever known.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Oh my god, that's so good. Take a knee. Ah
oh man, all right, it is uh coming up here
next top of next hour, a little over ten minutes
from now from these tairaq dot com studios. Listen. I
don't want to blame one individual or one person, but

(35:16):
I do feel like two entities have screwed up in
a big way when it comes to college football. Two
major screw ups in a big way when it comes
to college football. And by the way, if you're not
the biggest college football fan, don't worry about it. This
applies to YouTube, so make sure you stick around for that.
That's coming up here a little over ten minutes from
now on FSR. But right now it is time for

(35:38):
a Saturday tradition. Here, it's time for this.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
There are so many stories in the world of sports,
and most of them are a complete waste of time.

Speaker 5 (35:47):
DMS your reports.

Speaker 1 (35:49):
Let's get kinky.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Here's some of the big stories from the last week
But Jonas, the real question is do you care?

Speaker 1 (35:57):
And for that we turn it over to our executive
producer Benson to find out what the hell people have
been talking about all week. Oh little little bonus thing here?

Speaker 8 (36:04):
Did you know the WWE is like sponsoring the Big
twelve title game?

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Here?

Speaker 8 (36:08):
Yeah, there's like a double belt on the field, and
I guess the winner gets a WWE title belt.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Well, the undertakers walking around.

Speaker 8 (36:16):
I thought he was just there to be a Texas fan.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
That's well, and he is a Texas yeah, like legitimately
because he's from Texas. But yeah, like they've got I
didn't know they were. I knew they were getting more
involved where they're doing like custom team design championship belt,
which is really smart. But yeah, they got their branding
all over the field of this.

Speaker 8 (36:32):
Yeah, very very strange.

Speaker 7 (36:34):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (36:34):
After Thursday's loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Seahawks head coach
Pete Carroll criticized the referees, saying there were way too
many penalties through the game, and he also said that
we've got to get out of that kind of football. Jonas,
do you care?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Yeah? It was awful to watch. I mean, like, look,
I know that people like to criticize al Michaels now,
which is the ultimate disrespect. He is one of the
all time greats to ever do it and still have
lost his fastball. And the guy doesn't need vegetables, Like
he's literally a middle finger to any dietitian on planet

(37:08):
Earth who says you got to eat your vegetables. You
got to eat your vegetables. And al Michael's like, oh yeah,
watch this. The guy eats ribbis twice a day and
he still performs at a high level. But like al
Michaels is making the point, like, of course we got
another flag. There's another flag on the field. More were
there nineteen penalty flags? Like nineteen penalties called in that game.

(37:28):
It was a rough watch and the officials got way
too involved.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
Next, Texas quarterback Quinn Yours having a career day to day.
He's appearing more and more likely to return to school
next year. Jonas, do you care?

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, listen. He's been solid all year long. At times
he's been great. The game against Alabama, he was throwing
dimes and throwing it down the field. I would like
to see him back for another year. It's a loaded
draft class, so yeah, I hope he hopefully he comes
back next.

Speaker 8 (37:55):
USC hired do you Sheilay is a defensive coordinator, Danton Lynn
to be their defensive cordon next year. Do you care
about this at all?

Speaker 1 (38:02):
Yeah? I kind of do. This is under the radar
PAC twelve and nobody cares about the PAC twelve. Sorry
to anybody out there listening on the blowtorch am five
to seventy LA sports facts or facts. That's why there's
like one and a half teams left in the conference.
But UCLA's defense was the best in the PAC twelve
this year. Like they were dynamite. It was the offense

(38:22):
and the quarterback stuff and all that that was an issue.
USC's was atrocious. So you've basically hired the best defensive
coordinator to fix the problem on your program and also
taken him from your art rival. Brilliant move by USC.
Congrats to them. That's a problem for UCLA next.

Speaker 8 (38:42):
The baseball world seems to believe that the sho hey
Otani sweepstakes is nearing its conclusion, with the Dodgers, Cubs,
Blue Jays, and Angels among the finalists. Jonas, do you
care not really?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Can we just make the move, like what's happening here, Like,
is he going to the Dodgers? I mean, like, I mean,
I think we can all agree he's probably not going
back to the Angels. Like it feels like that was
a move that could have been made. The Angels had
at a bunch of time to try and sell him
on their organization. So everybody, let's just let's fast track
this thing. Let's get it done and just get this
story over with.

Speaker 7 (39:15):
Next.

Speaker 8 (39:16):
Yeah, last night was officially the end of the aforementioned
PAC twelve conference. Jonas, do you care at all? No,
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
I don't. You want to know when I stopped caring
about the PAC twelve When I was trying to watch
a game I think it was last year. It was
USC Oregon State, And because I don't have the PAC
twelve network, I had to like stream it, but I
can only get like a free stream for a certain
amount of time. And so as USC is driving down
the field late to try and win the game in Corvallis,

(39:47):
I'm reminded that your free service is expiring in thirty
eight seconds if you would like to subscribe to the
PAC twelve network. Blah blah, And I'm thinking to myself
I'm trying to watch two college football teams play, two
good college football teams play, and I gotta like set
up some streaming service on Telemoondo Light to try and

(40:10):
make this happen. It was awful. The conference was an
embarrassing embarrassment to the sport. Everybody should be ashamed the
fact that it's gone. I couldn't care.

Speaker 8 (40:19):
Last next, I will always remember the fan dressing as
a ref and running on the field before going streaking afterwards.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
That's wonderful.

Speaker 8 (40:26):
Yeah, that was great, packed well after dark Rest in Peace.
The first trailer for Amazon's Fallout series, based on the
video game was released today, and I'm actually thinking it
looks pretty good. Jonas, Do you care at all?

Speaker 1 (40:37):
No, I don't like these people must think like people
that release stuff like around this time. They must go. Man,
everybody's home for the holidays. They'll watch this stuff. Well,
not if they're not nerds, because if you're not a nerd,
you don't watch this stuff. You know what you watch?
You watch football? Okay, you watch football. There's a UFC

(40:58):
event coming up later on, you got a boxing event
coming up later on. There are plenty of options out there,
so grab the eggnog, pour in some of what Sam
was drinking the other night, and watch some football and
be an adult. Stop being a child.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (41:14):
You know, it's really disappointing when people don't play the hits.
It just is. And I'm gonna explain why that is
coming up here in just a couple of moments from now,
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I went to a concert one time, and I want
to be a full disclosure here because I feel like
there's a lot of people who have experienced this experience
of this before It's happened to be twice where I've
seen a band live and they don't play my favorite song,

(42:17):
or they don't play the best song. Kind of a bummer.
It's like what you're known for. So I can remember
going to a concert and it was a Ramstein concert, right, listen,
don't judge me, And I'm not gonna sit here and
be judged by you, because I guarantee I could go
through your iPod or your iTunes and find some garbage

(42:40):
you listen to too. But the point is, I remember
going there to see the Ramstein and like, they didn't
play the best song minehurtz Brent, which means my heart burns. Okay,
they didn't play that song. I remember on that same
concert seeing System of a Down and they didn't play Spiders,
and is one of my top five songs of all

(43:02):
time in any genre. Now I know what you're thinking,
What are you some kind of metal head? No, because
in that top five is Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata a little
bit all over the place. You know, it's probably not
in my top five whatever's in your top five, So
screw you if you're judging me. But point is, nobody
likes to go see a band not play the hits.
It's like going to a restaurant who's known for something

(43:25):
and they don't have it on the menu when you
get there. That sucks. You go to this place, you
go there for one beer, specifically because they got it
on draft. You walk in, Hey can I get a
tall Yeah? Sorry, we're out, And then you look and
you see they got like a Dixie cup on top
of the beer tap, And you go, well, what was
the point of me being here? Anyways? Like, what's the point.

(43:48):
That's why you're here. It's what you're great at. Why
not stick to what you're great at, or have what
you're great at available so that you can showcase it
a little bit. Here's where I think college football screwed up. Now.
Many people are upset with the fact that I was
defending the four team college football Playoff earlier, more so

(44:12):
from a nostalgia standpoint, because I like the discussion and
the argument over teams four and five getting in. I
like that, I like that we're at a place where
Greg Sank goes on game day earlier this morning and
basically compares no SEC team getting into the college football
playoffs Sesame Street you know, like, it's not realistic. Even

(44:33):
if Alabama beats Georgia and even if Texas continues to
wipe out Oklahoma State, he's still calling for Yeah, it's
not realistic that an SEC team wouldn't get in because
you know, like Texas beat Alabama. So there's that. So
if Alabama beats Georgia, you know, Texas beat Alabama, I mean,
what are you gonna do? Put Alabama in head of Texas?

(44:54):
Are you gonna not put Georgia in at that point
when Georgia hasn't lost a game in three years like this,
So there's all that' up to it. But my whole
point was you're gonna miss it when it's gone. Well,
if you're critical of me defending the college football Playoff,
let's in unison criticize college football for something, specifically the

(45:16):
MAC and the Big Ten. Why is the MAC playing
their championship game on a Saturday? Why what are you
known for? We're the Tuesday Wednesday game. So if that's
what you're known for, and that's the quote unquote hit

(45:41):
that you've got, why are you putting it on display
on a Saturday. I don't want to watch Miami of
Ohio and Toledo no offense on a Saturday head to
head with the Big twelve title game. You want to
know what I want to watch it? I want to
watch my me of Ohio and Toledo play on a

(46:02):
Wednesday night when a Raptors Hornets game is on in competition.
That's what I want to watch it. That's what you're
known for, that's your go to So why the hell
you playing this game on a Saturday. You're the MAC.
It's like every conference has got something, all right. When

(46:25):
it's the SEC, I mean, listen, you get a pick
and choose. I mean, you know the SEC, it's a
sou they're cocky, they're braggadocius. If it's the PAC twelve,
oh nobody can watch it. If you're the Big ten,
low scoring defense, so on and so forth. If you're
the Mac, you're known for the Tuesday Wednesday League and

(46:46):
the Tuesday Wednesday Conference and if there's nothing wrong with it,
it's what you do, like, there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever.
That's what I want to see. I want to see
Mac games and the MAC Championship game played when the
MAC is showcased the most, and that's Tuesday Wednesday. I
don't want to walk into a macbar and they say, oh, sorry,

(47:08):
we're closed until Saturday. What do you mean? It's Tuesday
at seven Central time? What are you talking about? Yeah? Sorry,
close until Saturday. Man, Now that can't be it. All right,
I'll come back tomorrow. Hey, you guys open today now? No, sorry,
we're not gonna be up until Saturday. What are you
talking about? Tuesday? Wednesday night is your money making night.
That's what you're known for. You're gonna play this game
on a Saturday. Screw you? No offense similar to the

(47:34):
Big Ten? You know what? The Big Ten championship game
is being played later on Tonight's being played at Lucas
Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Now, gonna be very kind about
Lucas Oil Stadium and Indianapolis because I don't want Jim
Mersey getting upset if we're critical. All right, Hey listen,

(47:55):
I'm not. Jim Mersey has been known to threaten litigation
against some people who are critical against him. So I'm
just saying, I want to be careful here. I gotta
be careful. It's like being critical of USC. You don't
want to kick lose your media credential. You gotta be careful,
you got to be real sensitive to this stuff. So listen, Jim,
if you're an happy hour, even though its Saturday, I

(48:16):
want to apologize to you in advance, but the Big
Ten championship game should not be played in Indianapolis under
any circumstance whatsoever. That game later on tonight should be
at Soldier Field. That's where that game should be. I'm sorry.
And you could sit there and go, oh, but you know,

(48:37):
we need an even playing field. You know, the conditions
aren't conducive to play outside. It's Big Ten football. I
don't know about you, but when I think of it,
it's like the Big twelve. What do you think of them?
The Big twelve? Well, no defense, okay, perfect, no defense
in the Big twelve. And guess what, Texas has got

(48:59):
four twenty two on the board with eleven and a
half minutes left. They're doing their job, they're representing. Well,
what do you think of what do you think of
the Pac twelve? Well, I think of a conference that's
going to be dissolved soon, no problem, and it is.
They're doing their job. So this idea that like you're
gonna go ahead, Oh well, we want to make sure

(49:19):
more people are watching, you know, more people can see
what were the the you know, our display of football
and what we're doing in this conference all year long.
It's like, okay, I get it, but like, don't forget
where you came from. Don't forget to play the hits.
You're the MAC. This game should have been played on
a Tuesday or a Wednesday this week. That's when it

(49:41):
should have been played, not on a Saturday in competition
to Texas Oklahoma State. I'm sorry, it just should have
been played. And if you're the Big Ten, I don't
want Michigan Iowa played in a dome. I don't think
of dome when I think of Big Ten Championship game.
I think of the elements. This game's kicking off at
what eight pm Eastern Time? Later on tonight? We got

(50:04):
an eight Eastern time kickoff. What do you think the
temperatures are going to be inside that dome? I don't know.
Probably sixty eight seventy two seventy five degrees. It's nice.
There probably won't even be anybody wearing long sleeves. What's
the point. Don't need it? You don't need it at
that exact same time. You know what the elements are

(50:24):
like at Soldier Field, forty two degrees, little wind coming
in off the lake. And you know the old adage
in Chicago if you don't like the weather. Wait a minute.
That's Big ten football. Not this soft environment, this dome
with turf and everything. No, no, no, no, I want

(50:47):
a bad field. I want difficult elements. I want it
to be a little bit up in the air as
to whether or not you know one team's going to
be able to score or not, which is always the
case with Iowa. But now you're putting Iowa on a
fast track. I don't want to think about that. I
want to think about the elements. I want to think
about difficult circumstances. I want to see fog coming out

(51:10):
of their face mask. I want to see a giant
piece of turf sticking out of their face mask. I
want to see sad coming out of their mouthpiece when
they get tackled. That's what I want, because that's what
you do, play the hits, and I feel like the
Big Ten in the MAC have failed to do that
this weekend. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. Now I

(51:31):
know what you're saying. Look, dude, We need to hear
some of the compliments because there are people out there
that want to hear some compliments. There are people out
there that are sick and tired of all the put
downs and insults, and are tired of me sitting here
and trying to brag about how many people like this show,

(51:52):
saying you know what, you know what this is for
you guy writes in your bleep ass even makes those
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football is and disgrace the sport with those underhanded girly throws.
Still more manly and athletic than your bleep and bleep

(52:15):
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(52:37):
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I oh't know, we'll say.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
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You said that, Brian writes in ja Off Joni, You're

(53:04):
gonna have a special all night bleep session to your
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the Jonas Knocks on Twitter. That is, at the Jonas
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to read, So I think I should get a little
bit of a round of applause for being able to
get through those without getting us all fired. So, and

(53:49):
by the way, why did Pat mcavee catch astray? What
did he do? It's wrong with Pat McAfee.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
Yeah, he picked Iowa today.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Yeah, don't don't lump Pat McAfee into the this mess
of hate that this show deals with every week. Come on, man,
did Pat McAfee pick Iowa today?

Speaker 5 (54:07):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Yes, okay, and you know.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Why because he loves punters as a punter exactly, and
so did Lee Corso. And then they had a guest
on some guy named THEO and I.

Speaker 1 (54:18):
Don't know theovon. You ever never heard of THEO.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
Audience it's great, Yeah, no, I've seen him. And he
also picked Iowa. Yeah, I just did his last name.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
By the way.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
I just want to double check something now that we
have Iowa Sam by the way, making a very special
appearance with us here on a Saturday getting in preparation
the Big Ten Championship game. I just want to double
check something here real quick because I want to see
what Iowa was total team total is in the first
half again, because it was at I think it was
at two and a half last time we checked, so

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I'm curious to see if that is still the case.
Courtesy of our friends at DraftKings, because the fact that
like a Division one, a Division one team has a
point total of two and a half is just glorious
for the first half of this game. That is that
is really fun. Yeah, I mean it's disrespect, but you know,

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some would argue it's warranted.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
There might be some might be some truth in that,
but I think that all of the disrespect all week
might might fire up Iowa today.

Speaker 1 (55:16):
Yeah, they're gonna put up two field goals. It's funny
you're a little bit more confident now than you are
during the week. I don't know what change.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Oh, I still think it's going to be a drubbing.
I mean, I've been calling it the Io execution all week.

Speaker 1 (55:26):
So well, all I know is, you know what, we
got a lot of football coming up, and a couple
of these games shouldn't be played today, and they shouldn't
be played outside or shouldn't be played outside. That's what
I know. All right, at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter,
That is, at the Jonas Knocks on Twitter as we
bring this show to you live here from the ti
raq dot com studios. All right, it's coming up next
here we could see the return of one of the

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most controversial people in football history. We'll tell you who
that is next.

Speaker 5 (55:56):
I love Knocks.

Speaker 1 (55:57):
I really doing Jonas Knox Fox Shorts Radio. By the way,
the happy Holiday music is really appropriate following that barrage
of tweets that we just read, which you can hear
if you listen to the podcast after the show. So

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very angry.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
I'm very angry.

Speaker 1 (56:23):
So coming up no, he's not shut up. Oh yeah,
the great Ralpher ever, the most violent man in sports radio.
All right, So coming up in less than ten minutes
from now here from the tire rack dot Com Studios.

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Believe it or not, if you have a heart, if
you have a soul, if you're one of these positive people,
unlike some of the negative people that have sent in
some hate tweets here on this program that we read
a short time ago, if you have a soul and
a heart, there is one team you should be rooted
for this weekend in the NFL. And the answer may

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surprise you. So that'll be coming up here in about
ten minutes from now here on Fox Sports Radio. So
there's a really funny story out there in the NFL.
It's like a report that's made the rounds that obviously
the worst kept secret in the NFL and college football
is that Jim Harbaugh may be returning to the NFL,

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might be returning to the National Football League. Obviously a
guy who had success in the NFL, took the Niners
to a Super Bowl, nearly won that super Bowl. But
everywhere he's gone it's worked. And you know, there's some
people out there that we was saying, Oh, he's a cheater,
he is signed steel. Okay, Well, you know, I mean,
if you really want to look through the background of
everybody in the NFL, I mean, we could probably find
something wrong. Like who's got the greatest contract in the

(57:50):
history of the NFL, Deshaun Watson. I mean, you go ahead,
you read some of the some of the stuff that
came out there, and you tell me whether or not
that was worthy of a two hundred and thirty million
dollar contract. But nonetheless, people have track records and it
doesn't deter teams from making moves in the NFL if

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they need to make moves and that person's good at
their job. Jim Harbaugh is a great at his job.
He's a great coach. It's worked everywhere he's gone, and
it'll be on the sidelines returning to coach Michigan against
Iowa coming up later on. But this is what's funny
about this is, Uh, there's a report out there that
says don't sleep on the Panthers as being a potential

(58:35):
landing spot for Jim Harbaugh in returning to the NFL. Okay,
how about like three or four other teams who want
to mix into too. The rotation there, Like, why don't
we go ahead and throw a bunch of other teams
into the rotation there? The fact that the Carolina Panthers
are even considered a legitimate threat to land Jim Harbaugh

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as opposed to some of these other contenders in the
NFL is laughable. Here's what Carolina has to understand. And
David Tepper is talking about Bryce Young. We want to
protect Bryce Young this season and all that. All right,
Probably should have thought about that before you moved on
from DJ Moore and moved on for it, like, you know,
just probably should have thought that whole thing through. But

(59:20):
this is what's so funny about the Carolina Panthers thinking
they have a legitimate shot at Jim Harbough. And I'm
not saying that it won't happen because David Tepper could
offer up a ton of money and just completely overspending.
Jim Harbaugh was like, I can't refuse that kind of money.
He's paying Frank Wright twenty million dollars to go away.
He paid Matt Rule a significant amount of money over

(59:43):
a seven year deal. And in fact, if memory serves
me correct, Matt Rule had an opportunity to go to
the Giants or to the Panthers, and it was a
little bit of a bidding war, and to ensure that
they could land Matt Rule, they added another year to
the contract, so they gave him a seven year deal.
So it's not like David Tepper's not willing to spend
the money. But there are other teams out there that

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would be more of a tug on Jim Harbaugh's heart
strings and financial strings than just the Carolina Panthers, and
more so than the Carolina Panthers, for example, the Chicago Bears.
They drafted him, he played their seven seasons. He's been

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on record in years past as saying that's one of
his dream jobs. You don't think the Chicago Bears, if
they move on from Matt Eberflus, would be a team
that Jim Harbaugh would have interest in. Diana Rassini had
the report along with Carolina, Chicago's a team that would

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kick the tires on Jim Harbaugh. Kick the tires. They
would roll out the red carpet. And by the way,
if you're going to kick tires, make sure they're tire
rack tires. Just want to be clear here. But you
don't think Jim Harbaugh would have more interest from an
emotional standpoint if the money was close to Chicago then Carolina,

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a team who, by the way, has the number one
pick in the draft most likely if Carolina continues to
do what they do, that makes sense. Okay, Well who else?
I don't know. How about the Chargers, the LA Chargers
when they were in San Diego, Harbaugh played there and

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coached there. And if they move on from Brandon Staley,
which seems likely, you don't think coaching Justin Herbert would
be at the top of anybody's list. There's a lot
of talent there. You don't think Harbaugh would be interested
more so on going to a place like the Chargers
in the Carolina Panthers. What about the Raiders if they

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decide to move on from Antonio Peers and they decide, hey,
we appreciate it, but we've done this. We've gotten rid
of our interim coach like Rich Pisaccia, even though he
took them to the playoffs, and the Raiders aren't going
to the playoffs this year. You don't think Jim Harbaugh
would entertain the idea of going back to the Raiders.
And I say back to the Raiders because that's where
he started his NFL coaching career. Of course he would.

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And depending on where they're picking in the draft, you
could potentially reunite Jim Harbaugh with JJ McCarthy, who's going
to be the third or fourth quarterback off the board.
So the idea of Carolina being, oh, well, you know,
we're really interested in Jim Harbaugh, it's like, Neat, what's

(01:02:44):
that do? This guy walks onto a car lot and says,
what's the newest car you got? Well, it's this one
over here, it's a twenty twenty four. It's got this, this, this,
and this. All right? Uh well I'm interested. Yeah? How
much you got on you? Like? Twenty bucks? Cool? See
that guy over there, Yeah, he's got like twenty grand

(01:03:07):
on him. So it's cool you're interested. Who isn't? Hey,
I'd like to win the lotto? Me too. What a coincidence?
At Carolina, Hey, we'd like to have Jim Harbar as
our head coach? Neat, so would we? Chargers Raiders bears,
all of them with emotional ties, all of them with

(01:03:29):
stuff that would be more appealing than Carolina. Like they
can want it all they want, but sooner or later,
David Tepper's kind of realize you're putting together an organization
that a lot of people just don't want to be
a part of because you don't have any patients. You're
gonna be on like your fifth head coach in terms
included in five years. Kind of a bad look. Jonas
Knox here Fox Sports Radio, get me on Twitter at

(01:03:51):
the Jonas Knox at the Jonas Knox on Twitter, and
again you can hang out with us as always on
the iHeartRadio app. All right, so we are going to
talk about one team in the NFL this weekend that,
believe it or not, you're actually going to root for.
If you have a heart, we'll tell you who that is.
But for all the latest from around the world of sports,
let's turn it over to Nick Cope.

Speaker 5 (01:04:10):
All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Jonas.

Speaker 10 (01:04:11):
Big Twelve Championship Game all but over at this point,
Number seven Texas blowing out Number eighteen Oklahoma State forty
nine twenty one in Arlington, Texas. Quinnie or As Texas's
started quarterback. He is out of the game because it
is so lobsided, but he has passed for a Big
twelve title game record four hundred and fifty two yards
and four touchdowns. There was a report from ESPN earlier

(01:04:33):
today that the chances of yours returning to play a
fourth year of college football have increased exponentially in the
last few weeks. MAC Championship game from Detroit and Miami
has likely just put away Toledo with the touchdown. It's
now twenty three to fourteen RedHawks with less than three
minutes to play. And on Fox, we currently have the

(01:04:54):
Mountain West Championship game in Las Vegas, Boise State and
UNLV tied at seven about midway through the four first quarter. Jonas,
I know you were railing on the MAC playing on Saturday,
the Big Ten playing indoors. How do you feel about
the Mountain West deciding the two teams in the championship
game via computers?

Speaker 1 (01:05:13):
Did you hear about this? Yeah? Look, it's another sign
of the times. It's really unfortunate that we don't trust
human instincts anymore. We just want to rely on technology
to do everything. It's sad as a matter of fact.

Speaker 10 (01:05:26):
Yeah, for those that didn't see, you had three teams
finished six and two. They didn't play each other, No
one was in the CFP rankings, so they averaged four
computer rankings, and the computers spit out and said UNLV
is the best team, Boise States the second. So you
guys are playing and San Jose State had no chance, Like.

Speaker 1 (01:05:44):
There's not enough tie Like you can't come up with
a tiebreaker five or six steps down the line that
could decide this thing. Like it feels like, look, we
all know this like in the NFL. Right, so it's
a record. There's the head to head. Yep, you've got
the divisional record, the conference record. Like there's like you
could down the line. Sooner or later you're gonna find something.

(01:06:06):
You can't find anything. They just go out whatever, throw
in a computer.

Speaker 10 (01:06:09):
Yeah, if you get to six or seven, I get computer.
But you could have you know, okay, who finished right
behind that cluster of teams?

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
How'd they farra get?

Speaker 4 (01:06:18):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
You could?

Speaker 8 (01:06:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:06:20):
Kind of lazy there by the Mountain West. Poor San
Jose State.

Speaker 1 (01:06:23):
Yeah, it's too bad.

Speaker 10 (01:06:24):
We do have the SEC Championship game coming up here
at for eastern about a half an hour from now.
Number one Georgia, number eight Alabama from Atlanta. The American
Championship Game also at four eastern, number twenty two to
lane hosting SMU Green Wave there in line to get
a New Year six Bowl game for the second straight
year if they beat SMU. Then at eight eastern on
Fox number two Michigan in number sixteen Iowa from Indianapolis,

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and in the ACC number four Florida State against number
fourteen Louisville in Charlotte and the NFL Bengals coach Zach
Taylor said receiver t Higgins will play Monday. They've got
the Jaguars for Jacksonville. Coach Peterson said he expects running
back Travis Etn to play. Chiefs ruled out running back
Jack McKinnon for Sunday night football against the Packers. College basketball,

(01:07:08):
a couple of ranked teams final their games, having on
final Wisconsin beat number three Marquette in Madison seventy five
sixty four Number eight Miami no problem with Notre Dame
sixty two to forty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:07:20):
And a final note.

Speaker 10 (01:07:20):
In baseball, Dodgers and reliever Joe Kelly are finalizing a
one year deal.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
Jonas back to you, Thanks Nick Jonas. Knox here on
Fox Sports Radio. By the way, coming up twelve minutes
from now, it is the return of Knox Locks a
little disappointed with what happened last week, but it wasn't
my fault. I know exactly who to point the finger
at and blame for that. We will get into that
for you again coming up here in about twelve minutes
from now here from the ti raq dot com studios. So,
if you have a heart and you have a soul,

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you should want for this to happen. Because who doesn't
want to see history? Like who doesn't want to be
a part of history? Like if somebody you know, pulled
you aside and said, hey, you know, you could be
there the first time something happened or see something for
the first time, who wouldn't want that to be the case?
Like you just go throughout the course of history, like

(01:08:09):
all the first all the huge moments, like if you
could be there, that'd be awesome. Like if somebody said, hey,
I got you tickets, you're gonna go to Super Bowl one?
Knowing what you know now, you're like, I got to
get there. I can actually go back in time and
go to that. Of course I want to see that. Yes,
give me an opportunity. You know, it's like the first

(01:08:30):
time somebody turned on a light. That'd be pretty sweet.
First phone call ever made like the like you want
to see this stuff, you know because you like history. Well,
there is the potential we could see some history in
the NFL this year. And it's Aaron Rodgers returning from
an achilles injury this quick. I've never really seen this

(01:08:52):
done before, tears his achilles, ruptures it and ends up
coming back the same season. Never seen that before. It's history.
And I know there are some people out there, like
a gentleman who sent it a tweet earlier. If you
want to hear what the tweet actually said, you can

(01:09:12):
listen to the podcast after the show, or you can
just go on my Twitter account at the Jonas KNOXI
the unedited version, but to summarize it, he basically said
that I'm so obsessed with Aaron Rodgers that I'm probably
pleasuring myself thinking about Aaron Rodgers on his birthday today,
which I believe it is his birthday. Now false accusation,

(01:09:34):
not true. But I would like to see Aaron Rodgers
come back and play this year. And if you have
a heart and you want to see some history, you'd
like to witness it too. But the only way that's
going to happen is if the Jets are in playoff contention,
and the only way the Jets are still quote unquote
in it, because little do you know, the Jets are

(01:09:54):
one of the worst teams in the AFC. Again, only
the Patriots are worse. You need the Jets to start
winning some game games and that starts tomorrow against the
Atlanta Falcons. Now they're at home against Atlanta. But in
order to stay in contention, for Rogers to come back
Christmas Eve against the Commanders, they got to win two
of their next three and the most likely wins of

(01:10:18):
their next three are the home games against Atlanta this
weekend and the Houston Texans next weekend, because they're not
beating the Jets after that. So in order for them
to be in quote unquote, it is a requirement for
Rogers to come back this season, and if you have
a heart, you'll want to see it too. They got

(01:10:38):
to win two of their next three and it starts
tomorrow against the Atlanta Falcons. So even if you don't
like the Jets, even if you've made a ton of
jokes about the New York Jets, and who hasn't over
the past decade plus, you should be rooting for the
New York Jets and Tim Boyle to get it done
against the Atlanta Falcons, an overrated team from the NFC
South tomorrow. Otherwise you're not going to get a chance

(01:11:00):
to see history. Jonas Knox here Fox Sports Radio. Right now, though,
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this bad boy with another edition of Knox Locks for
Week thirteen in the NFL and It's yours here on
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but at the Jonas Knox. At the Jonas Knox is
where you can find that. Make sure you stick around here.
Coming up a little over twelve minutes from now here
on Fox Sports Radio, it is Monsey, Belanjos and Alex Curry.
They will take over the airwaves here. Also, we do
have an update before we get into Knox Locks. There's

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been no movement on the Iowa team total in the
first half of the Big Ten Championship coming up later
on tonight, Iowa sam interesting though the first half team
total points courtesy of our friends on DraftKings for Iowa
in the Big Ten title game that should be played
outdoors at Soldier Field, but instead it's indoors. The team

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total in the first half is two and a half
for Iowa. Baby yeah. Unfortunately, the team total for the
second half is at a half, so a half point,
so really.

Speaker 5 (01:13:25):
Let that disrespect bubble up.

Speaker 1 (01:13:26):
Look, here's what I would like to see happen. I
would like to see Iowa kick a field goal in
the first half and get a safety in the second half. Iowa, Iowa, Iowa.
That way, you go two for two on your team
total bets first half and second half, and even if
you lose the game, you want some money. You're literally

(01:13:48):
hedging your bets emotionally.

Speaker 5 (01:13:50):
How about Iowa wins five to three.

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Let me ask you this, what is there more of
tonight points from Iowa or ipa drank by you during
the course of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:14:02):
I'm gonna take the ladder on that one.

Speaker 1 (01:14:04):
That'll be that's a hundred for sid because you gotta
u you gotta you gotta dust off.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
Something has to numb the pain while I'm watching the execution.

Speaker 1 (01:14:12):
You know, Either that or get you back on track
where you were last night.

Speaker 5 (01:14:14):
That's what that any little hair of the dog.

Speaker 1 (01:14:18):
Yes, you certainly do.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
Yeah, I do, I do know right now, right now, yeah,
definitely all right.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
So I want to obviously thank Iowa Sam who made
a special appearance here on a Saturday with this here
on the show. Also Bo Benson Nick Cope, a man
of vast Christmas music knowledge is showcased earlier which you
can find on the podcast. And Bree who's way too
nice for all of us here at Fox Sports Radio,
for making this show sound as good as it did.

(01:14:45):
And right now it is time for this lock it.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
Let's lock it and no knocks loucks.

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
And before we get to the games this week, we
must take a look back last week where I told
you the Pittsburgh Steelers minus two at the Bengals that
was the pick, and I was right. Now, the offense
looked significantly better than it had under Matt Canada significantly better.

(01:15:17):
The points though for the team not exactly that, but
they did enough minus the two at Cincinnati to get
it done on the road, so that was a big
win for us. Now, I will absolutely accept full blame
and full criticism and responsibility for the fact that I
had the Arizona Cardinals plus two and a half. The

(01:15:38):
fact that I had Arizona plus two and a half
against the La Rams thinking Arizona was gonna somehow find
something at home, that's embarrassing. They didn't find anything. They
got their ass whooped for three hours in that game,
and they looked like the team that's picking either one
or two in the draft coming up in April. That's

(01:15:59):
what they look like. So I accept full responsibility for
taking the Arizona Cardinals plus two and a half the
last week. I will not accept full responsibility for taking
the New Orleans Saints minus one and a half. I won't.
I'm sick of New Orleans. I'm done with New Orleans.
I'm tired of believing that New Orleans with Derek Carr

(01:16:19):
is a different team and they you know, they're gonna
get it together, and they still got some quality players there,
and it's not that far removed from twenty eighteen ish
blah blah. I'm done with it. I'm done with New Orleans.
I have bet on New Orleans for the last time.
They look terrible last week against the Atlanta Falcons, who
are not a good football team either. I'm done with

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the Saints. I'm not willing to accept responsibility for that
loss last week that was on them, but it still
counts against my total on the year. So a one
in two performance last week brings me back to seventeen
seventeen and two because of the damn New Orleans Saints.
That's the record thus far. But right now it's time
for Week thirteen. Lions at Saints. Oh guess what We're

(01:17:03):
gonna call this the revenge pick. I'm going with the
Detroit Lions. I don't care that the Detroit Lions have
looked mediocre the past couple of games. I don't care. Listen,
I don't care that Jared Goff has been outplayed by
Justin Fields and Jordan Love in consecutive games. I don't care.
I don't care that the Detroit Lions, whoever one thought

(01:17:27):
was gonna run away with the NFC North, has all
of a sudden, somehow made it a question, even though
I think they're still gonna win it, just because they
have not looked great the past couple of years, and
you've got Dan Campbell faking punts and apologizing for it
after the game. I don't care about any of that.
This is a get right opportunity for the Detroit Lions.
So it serves two things. Number one, it serves the

(01:17:48):
Detroit Lions getting back on track, and number two, it's
a screw you to the New Orleans Saints, who have
screwed me for the last time this year. I don't
like the fact that it's a four point spread on
the road for Detroit, but I'll take my chances. This
is all about revenge. Give me Detroit minus the four
Dolphins that commanders plus nine. I'm getting nine points in

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this game at home. Look, Washington stinks, I get it,
But you don't think there would be a little bit
of a little bit of a feeling of a look defensively,
I mean, our defensive coordinator just got clipped. I mean
like he just got fired, and he got fired during
a holiday weekend. The least we could do is show
up and keep this within double digits. Like you don't
think that they're capable of that. Miami's a good team,

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but Miami against really good teams, and two of their
three losses have been on the road against really good teams.
But it's still a road game here, and I look
at this and I go outdoors different weather environments. Miami's
not playing in South Florida where it's seventy five to
eighty five all year long. I'll roll with this. I
like Washington getting the points. Give me the Commanders plus

(01:18:58):
nine Panthers Buccaneers. I'm taking Tampa Bay. I don't think
firing Frank Reich solved anything there in Carolina. The only
thing it solved was that Carolina is going to be
in the market for a head coach, and if you
listened to this show, they apparently believe that that's going
to be Jim Harbaugh, which is laughable in my mind.

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I don't know why Harbaugh would pick Carolina over some
of the other opportunities you might have. So I will
take the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. We know this about Tampa Bay.
Baker Mayfield's had a pretty good year. He really has.
Whether it's good enough to make him the long term
starter there in Tampa Bay with the Bucks, I don't know.
But we also know that Tampa Bay can beat bad teams,

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and last I checked, the Carolina Panthers were the best
of the bad teams in the NFL. They are atrocious.
I will take Tampa Bay minus the four even though
This was my thank God for gambling game of the week.
It doesn't mean they're excluded from Knox Lock. So a
double appearance for the worst game in the NFL this weekend.
Give me the bucks minus the four and that your

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Week thirteen edition of Knoxlocks. That's what I'm talking about.
Thank you for everybody who hung out with us, Thank
you for listening. It's Montian Alex next here from me
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