Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz Talk NBA Playoffs, Deion Sanders, and More!

Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz talk about the NBA playoffs, Deion Sanders and his Twitter spat around Colorado players that have left, the unlikely possibility that JJ Watt actually comes out of retirement, the Lakers firing of Darvin Ham, the likely suspension for Patrick Beverley, fan heckling in sports, and much more!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:25):
watching very closely Game seven today Calves beat the Magic
and Donovan Mitchell how about that? He followed up a
fifty point performance in Game six with thirty nine points
today and that was enough. Polo Bancaro was really good
for the Magic, but just not enough. He had thirty
eight points, and the Calves move on and they're probably

(00:47):
gonna get smacked around pretty good against Boston.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
I would suspect, yeah, that series is gonna be a
quick one. But nonetheless give him credit for gaining this
win because the first quarter looked like it was a
one of the worst, you know, home game seven performances
we've seen quite a long time, right, I mean, we
have a Game seven at home against a team like
the Magic that had one guy that can score, one

(01:10):
whole player that could score that one whole player had
I think nineteen first half points. Part of that was
I think he had twelve foule shots and like that
in the first half, a lot of foul shots in
the first half and then the second half. Is what
feels like a lot of NBA games where playoff games,
where the better team sort of takes over and the

(01:31):
Cavs just have a better team than the Magic. And
I think the important part to take away from a
lot of these series so far, Brian, is the importance
of having that difference maker, right ben Caro Mitchell. But
you also need a little bit of help outside of that.
It can't just be one guy, but that one guy
can get you pretty far. And a lot of teams

(01:52):
are searching for that one guy around the league right now,
and once you find it, your fortunes changed pretty quickly.
And in this game, we saw, you know, Ben Kerra
come out and I think I text you at one
point nineteen first half points and is his number was
only like thirty five and a half for the live
game thirty seven and you know what, thirty eight. He
barely got there. Some of it felt like a typical, yeah,

(02:14):
kind of home series, the home team wins, So why
you fight for home field advantage and home court advantages instance,
and the Cabs were the better team on their four
home games in the Magic were.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, it's kind of interesting. We always say styles make fights,
right obviously in boxing, but yeah, that's the same thing
in football. Basketball would have you you might struggle with
a certain style, it might be a tougher matchup for you.
But if you take that in a slightly different different direction,
I think rounds make fights as well. Where if you

(02:47):
look at the NBA playoffs, like you just said there,
Jeff having a special talent that might be good enough
to get you to the second round. Yes, that might
be good enough to get you to the conference finals,
but you got to have more ingest that to really
challenge for a championship. Yeah, and I think that's what
we're gonna start seeing going forward. We're probably close to

(03:08):
seeing that with the Knicks, right with Julius Randall being out.
Jalen Brunton has been sensational, but you might start to
see that. Maybe not in this Spacer series, but if
they get to the Eastern Conference finals, sure you would
certainly see it against Boston.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, Well, it plays no defense I don't know if
it's gonna matter very much, but because you see what
happens in a lot of these games is the role
players we know that's not surprised. They play better at
home than on the road. And so when you have
a situation where you have a Jalen Brunson, right, a
lot of times the Hearts, the de Vincenzos, they pay

(03:45):
a little bit, a little bit. You know, it's not
as good on the road, right, you can't rely on that.
And there are the times when those guys have incredible
games on the road, But the point is it's hard
to rely on that performance each and every night. That's
why again, home court advantage is important. And I think Indiana, though,
certainly has more ways to beat the Knicks. They have

(04:06):
more scores, more reliable scoring options. But I don't know
if you just beat the the Knicks, the toughness they
play with. Matt and Brunt said, I go with the garden.
I don't know, man, I don't know if they're gonna
be able to do it, but you know that I'm
gonna watch. I'll tell you what. NBA playoffs, Brian, Yeah,
are so much fun to watch. I watch very little

(04:28):
regular season. I pay attention. I know what's happening, but
with what I do for work and whatnot, I watch
so much football it's hard to keep up. And then
March Madness happens and you're so focused on March Madness.
And when the NBA playoffs get here, man, these games
are even today it wasn't the prettiest game, but ended
up being the second half and it'd be really exciting.
And in these NBA games, these playoff games are just
good quality sports content.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
No, it really is. And man, you talk about high
quality sports content. Last night, Anthony Edwards put on a
show for the Timberwolves. The man is only twenty two
years old. Jeff, Yeah, he's twenty two years old. He
scored forty three points last night against the Nuggets. Yeah,
and that's that. We were just talking about rounds, make

(05:13):
fights if you will, right, Like, you might need more
than just one special player to really have a deep
playoff run. But you looked at Anthony Edwards. He was
a one man show at least in the first half. Nasrid.
Some role players hit some shots in the fourth quarter,
but Anthony Edwards was the biggest part of their game.
One win and they took down the defending champs. That

(05:35):
was so impressive from Anthony Edwards. And to have that
guy where you're like, hey, we just need a bucket.
Just do what you do. I love that when they
just throw the star the ball and they're like, just
make it happen and he's like, all right, no problem,
here goes And.

Speaker 3 (05:49):
I think part of that to the other star for
the Timberwolves their defense, yep, so that's like their second
star and the Nuggets just struggled to score in the
four quarter. I don't I don't watching the game, I
didn't feel like it was the Wolves defense. But I
think sometimes with defense, it's one of those things that

(06:11):
it does show itself in the fourth quarter, right when
when when you have been so physical all game and
you have really made the other team work really hard
for their shots, the fourth quarter tends to have the
shots a little shorts, which is where we saw a
lot in the fourth quarter. I thought for the Nuggets,
that's where it showed itself. And so I think that
even though it's hard to maybe see at times like

(06:33):
oh that wasn't a block shot, but a shot that's
short in the fourth quarter after a getting you know,
getting what a what a what? Charles Barklet's famously say,
bodies bang on you all game, you know it. I
think that's where you see it, and I think we
saw that with the Nuggets, where you have Edwards who
was unstoppable, and the defense and physicality of the Wolves

(06:54):
kind of shocked the Nuggets. I was. I was surprised.
I was very surprised at the pace I came started
with and against the Lakers, if you were called, the
Nuggets were leading zero halftimes. I don't think they even
won a first quarter outside of one of the games
against the Nuggets they had that same formula. But it's
I guess it's a better team. I expect game two,

(07:15):
the Nuggets come out pretty hot to start, like they
can't start the way they did and expect to win.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah, and this, like you said, it's been a trend,
right Like early in the first quarter, they were getting crushed.
It was like sixteen to four or something like that.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
It was.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
They ended up having a lead at the end of
the first quarter, which is pretty wild, especially if you
took the Nuggets minus one and a half in.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Which I did quarter, which was like most I need
that I had about three days last week where it
was it was, it was pretty much in the red.
So I got that one back. That was lucky. I
you know that happens.

Speaker 2 (07:49):
We'll take it, man, We'll take all the luck we
could get.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
I'm not saying no, I'm not giving money back.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
But isn't that crazy where the Nuggets they kept on
trailing in the first half against the Lakers. Seemed like
they always were behind in the first half and then
they won for the five games they played the Lakers,
but they were leading the Timberwolves at halftime. They had
a four point lead. You're like, okay, slow start, They've

(08:14):
righted the ship. Everything should be fine. And then all
of a sudden, the fourth quarter rolls around and nas
Reed's banking in a three, and Rudy Gobert's banking in
a fifteen footer and the Timberwolves are shooting Jeff seventy
one percent from the field in the second half. That's
where I'm wondering, Like, Okay, I know Anthony Edwards is

(08:37):
for real. I know the Timberwolves defense is for real,
but how much of that game one win was fluky
enough where this isn't a sign of things to come.
In the series, Like, how often are they gonna be
able to shoot seventy one percent from the floor and
banked in threes and elbow jumpers from Rudy Gobert are dropping,

(08:57):
Like that's just not gonna happen regularly.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
I'm with you on that, which is sort of what
we saw a little bit today where the Magic were
out of their minds in the first half of that game,
and I took Cavs third quarter. I actually took them.
I ended up taking the Magic under their team total
in the second half and both hit because I just
didn't expect them to keep that up. The Wolves probably

(09:22):
can a little bit more. But look, the NBA is
sort of predictable in that if you get if you're
a good team like the Nuggets, and you have a
bad performance in Game one and the other team, to
your point, shoots out of their minds and you're at
home in Game two, you typically win that game, and

(09:44):
you win by ten to fifteen to twenty points. That's
the vibe of the NBA. Thisn't mean's gonna happen. I'm
gonna bet on it. By the way, I bet on
the Nuggets to win probably cover first quarter I'll bet
at all you Okich had a really bad start to
that game. I would imagine like first quarter points for him.
I'm probably gonna hit the over for that too. They
oil wagering for the NBA post season is not a

(10:05):
bad idea, but it's just that's what the NBA does. Now.
After they split this, I think they'll splay and then
it goes back to Minnesota. Then obviously it becomes a
much different game. You know, once Minnesota wins that first
home game.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
You know, one thing, and this isn't you know, I
think you're on the right side of that. I would
certainly expect Denver to bounce back. But the one thing
I would throw out there is that I love that
Anthony Edwards and the Tea Wolves are greedy.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Right.

Speaker 2 (10:36):
We saw this in the first round against the Suns.
They had a three to zero lead. You know, they
could have easily said, you know, we'll get him at
Game five at home. Yeah, the Suns are good enough.
They got a game whatever, they didn't do that. They
went out there, they were intense, they were greedy, and
they swept Phoenix. So I certainly expect the Nuggets to
bounce back. They're just that good, especially at home. But

(10:58):
the one thing in their way they are facing a
greedy team that has a greedy superstar. And I mean
that as a compliment with is an absolute compliment when
you're greedy like that.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
We always have the discussion in sports about who's the
next in the league, right, who's the next to take over?
And in the NBA, they've been sort of hoping they'd
find that next after Lebron and Curry as that they've
got older, right, even Durant to some extent, it's totally
Anthony Edwards. Yeah, like it just you know, Yoga doesn't

(11:32):
want to be a superstar. He doesn't want I think
the spotlight that comes with and even though I think
he has a great personality, never really shows it right
at the Edwards I think he's that guy, right, Brian, Like, yeah,
he's the next guy, and obviously he's He's been in
a movie already, and he obviously has that personality to
be that superstar and sort of carry the league. And

(11:58):
I think he's that. I think I put money on
him being the next sort of face of the league
in four to five years when all those older guys
are just sort of done or on their last legs.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Man. That's the thing too, is Jamal Crawford. He mentioned
that toward the end of the game where Anthony Edwards
hit a bucket, and he didn't mention Jordan's name, but
that's who he was talking about. He was like, man,
what he just did right there on that move and
he'd hitting that little fade away. It looks awfully It

(12:28):
looks an awful lot like. And Reggie was like, say it,
say the man's name, and Jamal wouldn't, don't it.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
Yeah, the Donkey had in game four they side by
side with Jordan. Oh yeah, against the Suns too, right
in the finals, and it looks awfully familiar.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
I think that we've we're kind of like so guarded.
You know, how he gave Harold Miner the Baby Jordan
nickname didn't work out. I think we're so paranoid and
so guarded to any sort of MJ reference. None of
us are saying he's the second coming of Michael Jordan.
We're just saying there are things that Anthony Edwards does

(13:10):
that look an awful lot like MJ. That's just the truth, man,
That's where we're at it this time.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
Buddy. People refuse to like even like say, Lebron is
close to Michael Jordan. He's I think he's the most
talented player of all time, and then that means the
best player of all time. But I mean, dude's thirty
nine years old and put up you know, triple doubles
in playoff games, like, man, you got it? Like, so
I the we're afraid to do that where we're certainly

(13:38):
afraid to say Anthony Edwards has a fadeaway shot, it
looks like Jordan. But I'll tell you what, Man, that
was a Jordan performance to go on the road. Yeah,
playing that altitude, have no intimidation. That's an important part
of this, Like he is not intimidated by the moment,
and that's a that's a superstar quality right to be
in your biggest moment like this and go and give

(14:01):
it to the Nuggets. Now, the next step, obviously, is
doing in game two.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
You know, yeah, absolutely yeah, And I'm not.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Saying that that's going to make or break their success
in the series. But if he does in game two,
I think you're looking at, you know, an elite, top
tier superstar in the NBA moving forward. No, No, if
he doesn't do in game two doesn't make him not
a superstar, right, but if he doesn't Game two, I
think we're we can start making those Jordan S comparisons

(14:29):
if that's where we want to go with it.

Speaker 2 (14:30):
That's especially if they like they win Game two, they
get greedy, if they mess around and win this series
and take down the defending champs. Yeah, that profile is
just going to get bigger and bigger and bigger. But
he's special already. It's just a matter of how special
can he be this season and going forward we'll find out. Hey,
we got a lot to get to tonight. Of course,
ball is on our brain. Jeff and I huge football dudes,

(14:54):
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Speaker 2 (15:49):
I'm Brian No, he's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio,
coming to you live from the tire rack dot com studios. So, uh,
Dion Sanders in the news Jeff the head coach of
the Colorado Buffaloes here, So he is, He's punching down.
That's what's happening here. He is absolutely punching down. So

(16:11):
the story is, there was an article in The Athletic
earlier this week, and so when Dion Sanders initially got
to Colorado last year, he cleaned house right. He basically
told a lot of the current Colorado players, we don't
need you here we're bringing in better players. And a

(16:33):
lot of those guys were cut essentially and they had
to transfer, and so the story was about where they
ended up, where did they transfer to? And so it
quoted a few of the players. Xavier Smith was one
of the guys in this article, and he said a
couple of things like, hey, Deon, he neglected to get
to know his players. He destroyed their confidence, that sort

(16:54):
of thing. So there was a tweet that was posted
that looked at Xavier Smith's stats last year. Yeah, he
transferred to Austin b He had eight tackles and four
passes defended. And so Deon Sanders quote tweeted that and
just wrote loud Jesus, like what that's it? That's all

(17:16):
you bring to the table over here. And so that's
where we're at right now. I know you have a
lot of thoughts on this, Jeff, but to me, Cliff's
notes version, there's just not a lot of value in
punching down like that. Yeah, it's a Pro Football Hall
of Famer. What good does it do to go back
and forth with the former player. It just doesn't make
a whole lot of sense to me.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
So I said about a month ago off another story
that Colorado was an unserious program. Colorad fans didn't like that,
in no surprise, who likes when you know you tell
your program is not serious about winning? But they're not.
And there's continued examples of them not being serious about
winning long term, even just winning this season. And this

(17:58):
is another example of the article that it's actually for
interesting right. They spoke with the transfers, and my takeaway
from the article was two things. One is that pretty
normal what Dion did. What Dion did is not unusual
at any school with a brand new coach. The volume

(18:20):
is a little a lot, the volumes a lot, like
it's more volume than we see other programs in the portal.
But the idea of cutting players not anything different than
what's happening in other collegetable programs. It's not anything different
than than the NFL. It read like the NFL, where

(18:42):
players that are at the bottom of the roster are
players that coaches ignore because they're going to be cut
or not part of the roster. You know, none of
that was newing and I even thought by the way
that it wasn't even a gotcha. It just was like
a guy saying, like you know, I just wish he
treated me nicer. Yeah, it wasn't even that bad of
a thing a story, but the reaction from it has

(19:05):
been a hundred times worse than the actual story, right, Brian, Like,
it wasn't just read the story, It wasn't even that bad.
So then his son gets on Twitter and mocks the player,
one of the players in the article. As you mentioned,
his dad gets on social media and says, I have
time for this today? Do you have time to recruit

(19:26):
high school players? You kind of need those guys. And
so the thing that also strikes me as interesting about
this whole situation, I, for one, love Dion being in
the sport. It is so good for us in the
content business to have interesting people that we cover in
this sport. That, Brian, that is great for us. I

(19:49):
love it. I did pactual radio for so many years.
Packed a radio's long exists anymore. I love the Colorado
was interesting. It made my job easier, It made more
people want to listen to what I have to say.
Those are good things. I don't know Dion at all.
I have no ill will to or Diane. Every time
I time about Colorado, everyone thinks that I hate Dion.
I don't, but they won four games. I say they

(20:10):
were four to eight last season, and the talk on
that program is like they're Georgia, and I give Dion credit.
We're talking about his four win team who had one
Pacteal Conference win, by the way, and had and had
one conference win the year before, okay, And they talk

(20:31):
with the energy of a program that has arrived in
the sport, and they certainly have not. Their win total
right now is five and a half in Las Vegas. Yeah,
five and a half. And also, you know, I see

(20:51):
people say and I look, I don't disagree with with
some of this, but you know, Dion was able to
do to Colorado, you know what no one expected him
to do, and and you know, he turned around a
one winning program to a four one program. When we
say things like that about college athletics, we're often referring
to a coach that has basically the former players still there.

(21:15):
That's a lot different now because with a transfer portal.
But last year's team was mostly dion guys. It wasn't
like they had a team of Carl Durrell's guys. Dion
added his son and Travis Hunter and called her to
day the entire team was mostly made up the guys

(21:35):
that he brought in, which by the way, are now
out of the program. Their offensive line was not good
last season, Brian. They have five new offensive linemen for
the season with by the way, a first time offensive
line coach, and I think fill Loehold played with in Minnesota.
He might be great in his job, but you need

(21:56):
experience that position. With five new offensive linemen, they've had
seventy two players have signed in the portal out for
Colorado since they got there. Colorado has signed seventy two
players in the twenty twenty three cycle, So high school
and transfer portal sixty one percent are no longer on
the roster. You cannot build depth, you cannot build synergy,

(22:22):
you cannot build anything if your roster is completely turned
over year after year. And these are the things that
people like me who cover the sport, who cover recruiting.
I'm I love recruiting, mostly because my Ducks do really
good at it. But I follow a lot of recruiting.
And Dion can can get into homes with his obviously

(22:43):
his resume, his gold jacket, with his charisma and with
his energy, and he can kill high school recruiting Brian
if he wanted to, and he's just not doing any
of it. Like it it's will it's like willfully not
doing everything you can to win. And that's why a
lot of us think they're unserious is because you have
a coach feuding with you know, a two hundred follower

(23:07):
Twitter accounts and instead of going on and pound the
pavement for high school athletes to make your team better.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
No, yeah, good point.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
Yeah, And I just don't And again I don't think
it's I think they're gonna win six games this year.
And now he leaves with his son. I don't know
what the reason he'll give, but and then Colorado will
just kind of be stuck in there. You know, they're
in a better place than more a couple of years ago.
But they won four games last year and they got
worse throughout the season and now this year, heading into
this year, guys they have yeah, they have new players

(23:37):
on their roster. How many of those guys they get
in the spring portal like twenty that's not a portal
that we end up with a lot of superstars and
they have no depth. Brand new offensive line essentially, a
new offensive coordinator, new offensive line coach, new defensive line coach,
first time by the way, Delon coach Warrensapp has not
been a dlone coach before, as I mentioned, the first
time offensive line coach and a defensive coordinator who came

(24:00):
with credentials but never coached.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
Collegortable for well, there's a lot going on there.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
It's just a lot of noise for.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Yeah, not a lot of women. Well, that's what I
want to get to next, the noise, because there are
a couple of directions to go in when it comes
to that. First, we want to welcome in Manzi Bilangos,
who we always love doing yeah with her. Yes, And
I feel like the way Games five and six went

(24:30):
for your Clippers.

Speaker 6 (24:31):
Yeah, thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
How I handled that segment left and thank.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
You for that. I that sorry went down like that
Manzis it was.

Speaker 6 (24:41):
No Yeah, I was really frustrating.

Speaker 5 (24:42):
I said this yesterday that you know, I've been a
Clipper fan for a long time, so this isn't anything new,
but this definitely may have been the most annoying loss
that I've experienced, just because I felt like it was
Jekyl and Hyde and I didn't know what team was
going to be on the court, and at the end
when it looks like your team isn't even trying, like
they don't care, it's really hard to watch. Like you

(25:05):
saw the Lakers, Yeah they let go of leads, but they.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
Were in it. They they wanted to win.

Speaker 5 (25:11):
And the Clippers, I was like, the last game at Crypto,
do you even want to be there? Do you realize
that this could be the last game ever here at Crypto?
And then the last game it's like it's an elimination act,
like you care. And the only two players that look
like they cared the entire season or the entire series,
excuse me, were Norman Powell and Russell Westbrook, who had

(25:32):
struggled after Game one, but it.

Speaker 6 (25:33):
Looked like they're the only ones who cared. Yeah, it
was very annoying. It was.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
It's very annoying because one of the guys that you
pointed out that cares couldn't make a shot corner make.

Speaker 6 (25:42):
Sure I know, I know, And so it's like even frustrating.

Speaker 5 (25:45):
You feel bad for him because he wants he looks
like he's actually wanting it and trying, and it just wasn't.

Speaker 6 (25:51):
Working for him. After Game one, very annoying.

Speaker 5 (25:54):
Very frustrating, but you know, again used to it in
a way, so I know what's I don't know, guys,
I know, but.

Speaker 6 (26:02):
I'll be back. Sorry, I'll be at into It Dome,
don't you worry.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
I won't be on the wall though, because that looks
real steep, So I'll be there.

Speaker 6 (26:08):
I'll be there, guys.

Speaker 5 (26:10):
The Calves are moving on to face the Boston Celtics
in Game one of the Eastern Conference semi Finals that's
gonna start on Tuesday. They had a comeback win against
the Orlando Magic. At one point, they were down by eighteen.
At halftime, they were down by ten, but they came
alive in the second quarter. One O six one oh
six to ninety four was the final on the second half.
As what I was trying to say, One O six
ninety four was the final score. Donovan Mitchell thirty nine,

(26:32):
nine and five. They did take on Orlando, who's the
fourth youngest team in the league. Twenty four point three
is the average age, So you know, I think Orlando
did a pretty good job going all the way to
seven games. The NBA announced that Anthony Edwards technical foul
from the third quarter in Game one where.

Speaker 6 (26:48):
He stared down.

Speaker 5 (26:49):
Reggie Jackson was rescinded, Yes, one hundred percent.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
I was like, that's so soft. He didn't do anything
and they rescinded it.

Speaker 5 (26:57):
So that's good. In Major League Baseball. The nash have
retaken the lead over the Blue Jays. It's been back
and forth. Ten to eight is the score, bottom of
the seventh inning. The Royals on top of the Rangers
two to one. They're gonna start the ninth inning. The
Marlins yesterday lost to the A's twenty to four. Yes,
Oakland scored twenty runs, so the Miami Marlins trying to
do something. They're on top right now, five to two,

(27:19):
top of the sixth. The Dodgers. We've got some home
runs from Sho Hee, o Tani and Tho Scott Hernandez
and they are blanking the Braves four zero. Top of
the seventh. The Orioles are blanking the Reds four zero.
Top of the sixth. The Diamondbacks have extended their lead
over the Padres. It is seven to four, bottom of
the fourth inning. The Yankees game, they called it after
eight innings because of rain, but they officially beat the

(27:39):
Tigers five to two. Aaron Judge all Rise seventh tomer
of the season, but it was Juan Soto with the
three RBI double in the seventh that gave New York.

Speaker 6 (27:47):
The lead and the finish back to you guys.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Good stuff, Manzi with us here, it's us Jeff Schwartz,
Brian nough on Fox Sports Radio. We'll have, according to Monci,
in just about ten minutes here. So looking forward to that, Jeff,
you were talking about to months, right, that's right about
ten minutes from now. You're talking about the noise with
this Colorado program. Yeah, and there are a couple of

(28:11):
things with that if you rewind back, because I like
to do this, like how did we get here? How
did we get to where we are right here right now?
And if you look at Deon Sanders took over the
program and they beat TCU that first game of the year,
right TCU. They made it to the championship game the
year prior, of course they got smoked by Georgia, but

(28:34):
they made it to the championship game. So the first
game that you saw Dion Sanders on the sideline as
the head coach of Colorado, he won and that was
a huge upset. They were like twenty one point underdogs
and Dion it wasn't like this modest like, you know,
we're gonna build on this, and it was do you
believe now, Edwarder, you know, and looking back, TCU went

(28:57):
five and seven last year, you know what I mean.
I mean, so what it turned out to be, we'll
do a baseball comparison that would be like hitting a single.
It was a nice single, but he he pimped it
like it was a Grand Slam to win Game seven
of the World Series, you know, And so he touched
a nerve from the beginning, and there were a lot

(29:19):
of people that held onto that and let him know.
To your point, Jeff, they won one game in PAC
twelve play. Yeah, and so that's where we're at. That's
where I think that I don't want to make this
all Dion's fault, but Deon Sanders touched a nerve, and
like you said this piece in the Athletic, it really
isn't that bad. If you read some of the quotes

(29:41):
from the former players that had to transfer elsewhere because
Dion didn't want him there, it's not all just oh
that guy was the worst he was. It's like, yeah,
I wish he would have met with me and told
me I was off the team. But you know, stuff happens.
I get it. It's just funny that people on the
outside looking in oftentimes have a much bigger problem with

(30:04):
Deon Sanders than the actual players who were cut by
Deon Sanders do. And that's very telling. You.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Look, people that are defending Dion will say, like, he's
out to change the game. Look, if he wins ten
games this year, I'll be wrong. Come tell me all
admit it. But what has he changed so far? You know? Brian? Yeah,
like you know the the refrain as again, well, they

(30:33):
lost a bunch of close games last year and the
year before they got blown out of a bunch okay,
but they also won a game by three, They won
a game by eight. I won a game by three.
So they three wins by basically a touchdown or less.
And they have one, two, three, four, three and four
in essentially one score games that you know, like that's
a normal season for teams to be five about five

(30:54):
hundred in those games. Like, I don't really know what
the argument is for this year. A big jumped ten wins.
He said his goal is a Bowl game. That that
feels managed. Well, I don't think it wins six games, Brian,
but it's just a lot of noise. And also too,

(31:15):
you know, in college football, a lot of times because
of the age of the players, right eighteen to twenty
two and obviously some older players, this will be the
last year of those COVID players, right, the COVID year
players that are older is you know, the emotions is
a huge part of the game. Right in pro sports,
we don't see the up and down motion that we
see in college boards because the players are mature, they're adults.

(31:37):
Right in college football, because of that, there are times
you play teams and you just can smoke them, right,
they already can feel that like you're going to beat them,
and they just sort of give up. You know, they're
going to get everyone's best shot every single game, absolutely
every single game. Everything that plays them is going to
play them like they play Georgia when it's to Ohio State. Yeah,

(32:00):
and I'm not saying that you cannot be very confident
about your program and your program success, but they don't
have the roster, yeah, to compete against teams that treat
that the super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's right, No, you're right about that, and that's the
weird thing to me. I like that Deon Sanders does
things to get attention, but I don't think he does
a good job of like getting all the fruit from
that labor, you know what I mean, Like recruit. Yeah,
he doesn't recruit. He's gotten all this attention and then
his attitude is like I'm not hard to find. It's

(32:37):
like they're not gonna seek you out. You have to
seek them out. And if you do, if you put
in that effort, he would absolutely be able to recruit
better than he does. That's what's strange to me. The
other thing, no, truly, Yeah, it's he's just not doing it.
But the one thing I don't want is to get twisted,
not just you and me, Jeff. But there are a

(32:58):
lot of comments out there Dion Sanders' job is to
win football game.

Speaker 3 (33:03):
Correct.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Okay, Like if you read the comments section, Jeff, it's
littered with I would rather have my coach develop young men,
young men to be successful and whatever endeavors they do
later in. His job is to win football games. Okay,
So if he thinks he has a better chance getting

(33:26):
rid of the current players and bringing in his players,
I have no issue with that that's job number one.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
I don't think anyone has a problem with that. It's
the other it's the other things that I think people
have an issue with. And I also think that for
a lot of us. And I'll basically steal this from
from Josh pat who mentioned I'm Josh paid, I should say,

(33:54):
who mentioned this idea of the Dion tax. Where it's
a bunch of people that don't really follow college football
that have become college football fans and they interject their
thoughts on college football, really on Dion in Colorado, and
they inject their thoughts on it, and it kind of
ruins the discourse, right because they overstate and overvalue what

(34:17):
happened last season in Colorado. So I'm gonna read this
to you and then we could uh maybe and this
I'm sure people. Three FBS Conference teams went one and
eleven and twenty twenty two, Right, one and eleven, Okay,
that that's Colorado, UCF in Northwestern. Okay. In twenty twenty three,

(34:39):
Colorado four and eight. UCF and Northwestern both made bowl games.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
Yeah, I was surprised about Northwestern.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
But my point is, like what Colorado did from one
to four is good. Yeah, but it's not even as
good as Northwestern last year. Yeah, right, or UCF.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
And that's the thing is, it's like, wow, news to
me about UCF and Northwestern because they don't get half
the attention that Dion Sanders generates. And I love that.
It's just like take advantage of that, you know what
I mean, Like use that platform to recruit your butt
off instead of just like, yeah, I'm not hard to find,
you can reach out to me. It's like, oh, man,

(35:15):
found the pavement, you know. And that gets back to
your original point of you know, are they really serious
about this?

Speaker 3 (35:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (35:22):
And yeah, sure, that's where we're at with it. Okay,
we got a lot to do here, Jeff. According to Monsey,
that is it right there. You will hear that at
least three times. Coming up next, you'll have three hard hitting,
possibly hardcore opinions sports related. We'll get to that coming up.
I'm Brian No, he's Jeff Schwartz. Hang with us right

(35:44):
here on Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
Know.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
We're coming to you live from the TIREC dot Com
studios here on Fox Sports Radio. It is time to
dive into this and.

Speaker 6 (35:59):
For absolutely exactly break.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
According to Monsi, hell, I guess it's that time. According
to Monci, do not. According to Monsett, don't you dare
sleep on Polo ban Caro.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
And I apologize Plo van Caro that I may have
slept on you throughout the season. But I keep seeing
images pictures in the NBA. Oh, the future is in
good hands. And I see pictures of victor Ian Vanyama,
Shay Gilges, Alexander, Anthony Edwards. I even saw one with
Jahn Morant. None have Paolo ban Cao. Let me tell

(36:35):
you who has a real chance to be the face
of the NBA. Polo ban Cao, twenty one years old,
led the Magic all season in points, rebounds, assists. He
officially broke the record for the youngest player to score
more than twenty four points in a game. Seven he
broke Lebron's record. Today he had thirty eight thirty nine.

(36:55):
He is actually improving game by game, series by series. All,
Paalo ban Caro, duke, you know product that has been
through adversity, you guys.

Speaker 6 (37:06):
Plo ban Caro is going to be a face of
the NBA. I'm saying it right now.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
According to Monsei.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
According to Monci, WNBA is in good hands.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
The WNBA preseason just started literally like two three days ago,
and people were mad because only three games were available.
One of those games was Kaitlin Clark. Y'all, she's a
number one pick. She actually sold out the arena for
the first time where the Dallas Wings play.

Speaker 6 (37:33):
Or yeah, the Dallas Way is the Dallas team.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
Yes, they actually sold out because of Kitlin Clark. But
people were mad that the Chicago game where Camilla Cardoso
and angelriesar. Now was it being shown. Somebody streamed it
on their phone. They got over two million people to
watch this on the phone. Guess what the WNBA heard
Now they are going to stream the next Chicago Sky game.

Speaker 6 (37:55):
So even though people were mad, this is a good thing.
This whole hype that.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
But it's like it's not going to translate to the WNBA.
It's literally happening right now. It's a good thing that
people were mad.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
It's a good people.

Speaker 5 (38:07):
It's a good thing that people are talking about it.
The WNBA is moving in.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
The right direction.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Let's go according to Monsey. According to Monsey, it is
time for the future.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Bring on the robot.

Speaker 5 (38:20):
Saw this yesterday in Major League Baseball. I should not
know who Ryan Blankney is. That is an umpire, and
I should not know who Jonathan Para is.

Speaker 6 (38:29):
These two umpires ejected.

Speaker 5 (38:31):
Yesterday Aaron Judge, for the first time, was ejected after
he disagreed on a strike call. All he did, guys,
he literally said something to the umpire as he was walking.
There was no confrontation. He didn't throw the bat nothing.
He just said something, started walking to the dugout and
they threw him out. These umpires don't understand that people
aren't not there for them. In the Bronx Boba, she
gets called the strike, he doesn't disagree, starts taking off

(38:52):
whatever he has on his ankle. The umpire is behind him.
He slams his helmet because he's mad, and he gets ejected.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
What are we doing?

Speaker 6 (38:59):
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Why are we ejecting the stars of the game. We're
not there for the umpires. I shouldn't know their names,
and here I am knowing their names. Bring on the
robot Empires.

Speaker 6 (39:07):
It's time.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
According to Monsey, all right, according to Mancy, the shoe
game needs.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
To be fixing.

Speaker 5 (39:13):
Yes, Bo and I are very upset about the shoe game.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
Fellas.

Speaker 6 (39:16):
If you want a new pair of Nikes.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
Jordan's, Kobe's whatever, you got to go through these stupid
apps and you're fighting bots, You're fighting people who don't
really want the shoe, they just want to resell it.
I am over this. Remember back in the day when
you used to have to get in line five six
am to go get your shoes.

Speaker 6 (39:30):
That's what I want to do. I want to go
get in.

Speaker 5 (39:32):
Line at the mall at six in the morning so
I could get my pair of shoes instead of fighting.

Speaker 6 (39:37):
People on the app or these stupid butts. I'm over it.
I'm over it.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
The people long for the East bake catalog once more. Yeah,
what oh sneakers to hell?

Speaker 3 (39:46):
New Balance dot Com? Very easy, very simple, guys.

Speaker 2 (39:50):
How often do you go there, Jeff.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
New Balance dot Com? Yeah, I know every few months
of my shoes get the worn out or get a
new pair of new Balances.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
I thought we're talking about a different shoe game because
shout out to my nephew Mini Matt. He got married
yesterday and we did the shoe game. I didn't know
if have you seen that at weddings bore?

Speaker 5 (40:10):
Yeah, well you they pick who is who's the answer, right,
They're like, yeah, who's messier?

Speaker 2 (40:15):
And then you pick right right, Yes, that's exactly what.
So I thought you were talking, like, what are the
odds that you're talking the next day? But it's about
about a different kind of shoe game, all right? Coming
up next? Is it a comeback or is it Tom
Brady two point zero that's on the way a comeback
or a publicity stunt. We will get to that here.

(40:37):
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JJ Watt did not realize we'd be talking about ja

(41:00):
J Watt. The man had one hundred and fourteen and
a half sacks in his ten year NFL career, easily
a first ballot Hall of Famer, and yesterday he was
hosting his annual charity softball game in Houston, Okay. And
so there was a question about, Hey, JJ, what do

(41:20):
you think about a comeback? I was like, wait, what,
this is what JJ Whitte had to say about that, Jeff, I.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Mean I told Demico last year. I said, don't call
unless you absolutely need it. But if you ever do call,
I'll be there. And he knows not the call unless
he absolutely needs it. This is the last year I'll
tell him that because I'm not going to keep training
the way I've been training. But he knows that if
he ever truly does need it, I'll be that farm.
But I don't anticipate that happening. They got a very

(41:46):
good crew.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Okay, doesn't anticipate that happening. One little, last little mini
cut here about he hopes that is not the case.
Check this out.

Speaker 7 (41:58):
I hope everybody stays extremely help and they dominate and
they don't need any other bodies, and then I just
get to watch and enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
From the couch. Okay, uh you, Jeff, Yeah, let's throw
it to you first. You're the former NFL player. I
have my theory on this, but what do you think
after hearing this from JJ Watt.

Speaker 3 (42:16):
I would like to let every team know I'm also
available to come in and play if you like.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Limited time available, huh. I'm not gonna keep working out
like this for nothing, though, it's gonna be this year
and no year.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
I think a lot of players struggle with being done
with football, right. A lot of times football is done
with you before you're done with football. And you know,
for me and my situation, I was fortunate in that
football was sort of try to be done with me
for many years in a row, and I kind of
defied defied that with all the injuries that I had,

(42:51):
and you know, I was when when I was done,
I was done. There was nothing left I had. My
body was told me it was done, and I'd played
my career. I'd don't what I wanted to do when
a Super Bowl, I wish I would have done it,
but it was I was done, And I also started
planning my next career in media. I've been I've been
doing some media in New York and sort of knew

(43:12):
what I wanted to do. And just thing is that
what has media has a mediate job already like he is,
he is in better situation that a lot of retired
players are. He has a next job, he has something
to do immediately after he's done. That's often the case
with Hall of Fame type players like JJ Watt and
so but again, players who have played football all their lives. No,

(43:36):
I did not. I played baseball high school. I play
basketball high school. Football is my third sport. You know,
I was not a you know, I love football. It's
my favorite thing ever, but it never defined sort of
who I am. And I think sometimes, you know, these
are all reasons why players like Watt still and Tom
Brady still talk about, you know, maybe maybe I could

(43:57):
still do it, maybe I could still do it. And
that's the thought process I think behind some of these
players that just can't give it up, you know, some
of it. I don't think Watt does it for attention.
I don't. I think Tom Brady does that a little
bit for attention. But I don't think Wat's that and
that type of guy. But like it's buddy, it's done.
And I don't know how many times it's over. You're
not playing the NFL anymore, and no matter how many

(44:21):
times you say you want to do it, it's just
the NFL. You're done. Like you're you'll be in the
Hall of Fame quite soon, three years from now, and
you'll get a gold jacket and that'll be your your legacy,
is that your Hall of Fame football player? And he
definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
Yeah, man, I saw it pretty much the same way.
I think it's just hard to find the next high.
That's really what it comes down to is think about
the high of being a star in the NFL, like
that Tom Brady level, where you are in the limelight,
you are a star, you're getting attention. It's hard to
feel that juice somewhere else. JJ Watt was a star

(45:00):
in the NFL, and you're not gonna feel that same juice.
Like doing your opinion, sharing your opinions on CBS on
the pregame show. That's like going as a star player
to doing studio work. That's like going from a hardcore
street drug to like, hey try this, it's Odul's you
know what I mean. Like, that's not gonna be the

(45:20):
same high at all. And the other thing is not
just the hyats. You love the game, like Tom Brady
and jj Watt, they loved football, especially Tom Brady, not
having to go through the wear and tear the same
way that JJ Watt did. But I think it's easier
to love when your body is not just betraying you
and you're having to go through all these surgeries and

(45:40):
aches and pains, and you can love it even more
that way. It's hard to give that up. And I
think there's just this little voice in the back of
your head that says, hey man, maybe I'm not done yet,
and that helps you cope with it a little bit better.
I don't know. I just know it's hard to turn
the page from a star started pro career to the
next chapter. That is not easy to do at all.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
It's not. But again, he has a next job. A
lot of us would kill to have a job with
with CBS, you know, sports immediately after after you're done playing, right,
And he so he has that next that next job already.
And again I think, look, it's not unique to just watch,
but a lot of a lot of players who again

(46:22):
their identity becomes football player. That's it's just hard. It's
hard for them to move on. And it's what sounds
like with him. I think also to maybe at a
charity event, you're you're more willing to just sort of
say like, yeah, you know, may maybe I'm still gonna
play for the crowd. That's you know, that might be
part of it. You can sort of play into the
crowd and whatnot. But yeah, he's not playing anymore this season.

(46:44):
I mean, he's already looks like he's lost a bunch
of weight, which a lot of players obviously do in retirement.
So I I don't expect him to play for the
for the Texans.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
I don't either. And that's the thing though, too, is
it might be a bit irrational to even still have
that voice where he's literally told Demiko Ryans. They were
teammates for one year, right It was Demiko's last year
as a linebacker for the Texans, and that was JJ
Watt's rookie season, so they were teammates for a season.
But he has told Demko, like he explained right there,

(47:16):
I told him last year, if you need me, if
you really really really really need me, I got you.
He's like, I'm still working out like crazy. You know,
I'm not gonna keep working out like this in case
the phone does ring, But think about it, Jeff. They
got daneil Hunter in the offseason. They traded for him.
They picked up Denico Autry, who had eleven and a

(47:38):
half sacks last season. Will Anderson Junior was the number
three overall pick, so they got a lot of pass
rushers over there. I don't know that the phone's gonna
be ringing, but it's hard to give that up. Something
else that it makes me think of is we haven't
yet seen the part time player, you know, the aging
veteran that he'll make. We talked about this with Gronk

(48:01):
a lot, like, Hey, maybe Gronk's not done. He'll be
there from maybe the final two to three regular season
games and be around for a playoff push. And it
didn't happen. You think that could happen sometime in the
near future. Or a Gronk type player, a JJ Watt
type player, someone who's at the very end and they
just give you this little stint toward the end of

(48:23):
the season.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Yeah. I think it's with the Chiefs. Hope they deal
with Travis Kelce.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
This season, Like, but he there in one right, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Hey dude, man, like just be ready for Week seventeen,
you know, like just just be healthy for the playoffs.
Obviously it's not that simple, but I mean that's certainly
for older players. That's I think what the team hopes, like, Hey,
can we get by with the minimal amounts from you?
Would you do what you have to do to get
ready to play in the postseason. I mean that's I

(48:51):
think the dream for like the Chiefs this year, it's like,
we can do as little as possible with Travis kelce
early in the season so that he's ready to play
in the postseason. Because look, it's why they drafted another
tight end. I mean, Travis Kelcey is near the end.
I don't know how you want to phrase that, but
you know, it's probably closer retirement than not, you know.

(49:13):
And I think the Chiefs would love if the setup was,
hey man, like, we'll just get you through the regular
season as easily as possible, and then the postseason you're
ready to go. Because we saw in the postseason right
when he had the weeks off to play the Dolphins,
remember he took Week seventeen, a week eight team off,
and then for the Super Bowl, those two games were
his best games in the season. He looked the best
in those two games, the freshest in those two games. Yeah,

(49:37):
that is no coincidence for that, and I think the
Chiefs would love for that to be the case, right like,
hey man, again, we will you know, we'll take care
of you, and then the postseason you're ready to shine
for us.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
I don't know, man, I'm a little different than you
on that because they gave him that two year extension
highest paid tight end in football.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
I think they just redid his deal. I don't think
gave him actually extra years.

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Did they just reworked it a little bit.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
I think it was reported incorrectly. Yeah, I think they.
I think they actually just gave him more money over
the next two years. I don't think gave him a
two year.

Speaker 2 (50:08):
Extension, but he's still the highest paid Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Yeah, yeah. But my point is, I think you're out
of this essentially like twenty twenty five. I mean, I
think that's his last year of this deal.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
I think that I hear you what you're largely saying.
My thing is they're hoping he's more than just a hey,
crank it up for the final couple of games of
the regular season, will be there for the playoff push.
You know, he's not at that stage yet. You're right.
That's what I'm wondering is could we see that sometime
in the near future where there's a guy like JJ

(50:38):
Watter someone like that, where it's like, just give us
five weeks. Yeah right, I.

Speaker 3 (50:43):
Mean, didn't Gronk do that for the Patriots? In eighteen,
really the Super Bowl year. I mean Von Miller with
the Rams a couple of years ago in that trade, like,
hey man, we just need everything you got for the
postseason run and obviously got hurt. Hasn't been the same
player since Joe Flack this past year. Has that like
a Joe Foccon situation?

Speaker 2 (51:02):
Yeah, a little, a little bit, Yeah, yeah right. I'm
just I'm waiting for that time where you know, Gronk
has not played all year, Yeah, right, and he is
literally activated for the last couple of regular season games
and the playoffs. We haven't seen that yet, and I
don't think we're that far away from seeing someone like that, Brian.

Speaker 3 (51:24):
I think it's just it's too hard just to show
up in the middle of the season to be ready
to play.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
And there's that part of it too.

Speaker 3 (51:30):
Yeah, that's the biggest, the biggest issue here. It's not
that it can't be done, but oh, okay, you know
what I just rack. I found an example, you ready,
h Eric Weddle with the Rams. Yeah. Eric Weddle showed
up in Week seventeen.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
I think that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (51:45):
And he eventually tore his pack in the Super Bowl
because he wasn't. He just is thirty eight years old
and showed up in Week seventeen. But he gave him
exactly what they needed. They needed that they need from one.
He played the rest of the Super Bowl. He was
fantastic in the postseason. That's what you're talking about, right,
show up at seventy eighteen. I think the positions where
it's easiest to do are on defense, So like pass rusher, safety, right,

(52:10):
maybe running back. You know, like you just sign Adrian
Peterson at the end of the season and you let
him roll. That's probably the easiest pusiness to do that.
I don't off it's a line be too hard.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Quarterback could be quarterback, no chance, Yeah, very tough. It
goes back. This is something the late Al Davis said
to how We Long, Like how he Long had retired
as a member of the Raiders, and you know, he
Al Davis approached him, was like, you know, just fifteen
rushes a game, you know, fifteen pass rushers, you'd shock

(52:47):
the world. Come back, and how he Long explained he
is like, for a second, I thought, you know what,
maybe and he's like, you're crazy, You're out of your mind.
I can't do that, right, now are you insane? But
I'd say it like, look, man, we're about to have
eighteen games in the not too distant future. That is
going to happen. It's just a matter of time. I
wonder how far away we are from the truly part

(53:09):
time players that are not trying to grind through an
entire eighteen game season, and they're trying to you're activating
a veteran for the last push. I don't know, man,
I think there's something there that could could happen. It's
on my radar, Jeff, That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Look, I don't think it's impossible. I just think that
the if you desitate a roster spot for this exact thing,
I think teams will be open to doing it. But
they're surely not going to keep someone on the roster
who's not going to play for them until the end
of the season. Yeah. Now, there have been cases, I'm sure.

(53:48):
I mean, I don't know off the top of my
head besides the Wettle one, But I mean there's guys
that have missed big chunks of the season and come
back for the postseason and been very helpful for their teams. Right,
But that's injury related, right, right, I mean the argument,
like you know, the pain Manning Super Bowl season with
the Broncos. He was out for half that season and
then came back at the end and did enough to

(54:10):
win them the Super Bowl. It wasn't wasn't his best
of the best paying name we've ever seen, but they
won the Super Bowl. So we've seen some of that.
I think of a tiny, small convluted sample size.

Speaker 2 (54:21):
By the way, who was the lineman from the Giants
from Syracuse who was activated.

Speaker 3 (54:28):
And last year?

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yes, Justin few He was playing against the Bills right
in that that primetime game, and that was his Sunday
night football intro. Right, he was like Justin Pugh straight
off the couch. Yeah, like you know, it has happened
in different instances before. I just wonder if we're going
to see that, you know, right there for the postseason

(54:52):
ramp up right there. I'm trying to find the Oh yeah,
here you go, here's ther Justin Pugh thing.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Justin Pugh straight off the couch.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
That was his Sunday night intro.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
So, I mean he was he went right from the
couch to the Giants. Yeah, that's that was impressive. I'll
tell you that all.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Right, Jeff. We've got more NFL stuff right around the
corner here. We've got a potential uh kickoff return, man,
you might not have seen coming. We've got my favorite
team that's in the news.

Speaker 3 (55:22):
Jeff.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
I love when that happens. Huh. We can talk about
my favorite team, you know, So we'll do that right
around the corner. I'm probably No, he's Jeff Schwartz, hang
with us right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm prian. No,
he's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming
to you live from the tire rack dot Com Studios.
Makes me uh, I was watching the Canelo Alvarez fight

(55:45):
last night. Yeah, Jeff, very nice. Yes, always fights right
around Sinco to Mayo, happy Sinker, to Myo, to everybody
out there, you know, partying it.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
Up Tacos before with the chicken and here you go.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
Canelo. Nice performance last night, Jeff, you know, took his
time and then just took his opponent apart. At Canelo,
he's he's way more powerful than he gets credit for him. Man,
that dude hits hard, hard and he moved on. So
heck of a career by Canelo. Man over sixty wins

(56:19):
now craziness. You a fight fan at all, Jeff No.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
The next the next fight I might watch is Tyson Paul.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
I will watch that too, might I might know.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
It's funny because my radio co host on Sirius as
MMA fighters retired now, but he calls the PFL fights
on ESPN and Sean O'Connell and like, so I should
be a big fight fan. I watch when he's on
just because I want to support him, but like I don't.
I just it's not It's not my thing. Man. I've

(56:51):
never been a boxing and the only fight I ever
watched start to finish was his fight like four years
ago when he won a million dollars and the tournament,
the PFL tournament and MSG's awesome. So only fin I
watched out there. It's like it ended being three rounds.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
I love fighting, man, I love boxing. I enjoy MMA.
I'm not as big of a UFC fan as I
am boxing, but I do. I enjoy UFC stuff.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
I have this Basically my brain is full of sports, okay,
but I don't have the room to add more. I
would love to add WWE back into my life, which
I watch like the Attitude Era as a as a teenager,
right sure, yeah. I love to watch every time I

(57:40):
stick the WrestleMania the Undertaker coming back like that, it
looked like the most fun. Everyone I knew who watches
wrestling loves wrestling. I don't have time to add that
back to my life.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
I'll tell you what, man, I hear you. I think
what you have to do if you do have any time,
you gotta go out somewhere and be around the crowd.
There's nothing like it. Like, for instance, we were in
New Orleans last week when it was the Ryan Garcia
Devon Ainy fight in this place we just went. We
were just out and about and there was a sports

(58:12):
bar that had it and it was crawling with people
and the hype you know, of this fight and how
crazy it was. Devin Haney got knocked down three times.
I got down knockdown more than that, but knockdown three
times officially, and it was one of the strangest fights
I've ever seen. Ryan Garcia, it was some of the
best fighting I've ever seen, some of the worst fighting

(58:34):
I've ever seen. And now you get the drama on
top of it where he tested positive for peds and
Devin Haney Now was like, yeah, no, I'm not interested
in a rematch. It's like, how can you not be
interested in the rematch. I want to hear a fighter
say if he's not cheating, yes, put him in the
ring and I'll kick his ass. That's what I want
to hear. But Devin Hainey was like, no, I'm not interested.

(58:55):
I'm over it.

Speaker 3 (58:57):
Yeah, you know, then I have to be in a crowd.
So that's the problem them. I could just you know,
watch sports.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
At anti crowd.

Speaker 3 (59:05):
Huh uh, it depends. I just the problem with the
crowd stuff is like sometimes it's just I just can't
stand like what sort of.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
People say, yeah, yeah, you know you're not a fan
of people asking for penalties during football games?

Speaker 3 (59:24):
Certainly not. No, that's a that's that's a that's a hard.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
Pass for me on that you don't like.

Speaker 3 (59:30):
I mean, I was, you know, when I was in
Buffalo for the Bills game. It's just yeah, it's a
hard pass for me. Dog. It just yeah, I mean, look, certainly,
like when you are playing craps, you would love to
play with a hot title.

Speaker 2 (59:44):
So that's the same idea.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Obviously as watching sports with a hot crowd. But it's
just something I just would rather not have to leave
the house to do that. So, yeah, I haven't got
into to boxing or MMA, really wrestling. Yeah, I just
I mean, I'll have to do some soccer probably for work,

(01:00:08):
some World Cup, you know, some World Cup action for work.
I do some UFL for work. But yeah, it's hard
to get into other sports right now.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
You know, it's fun. I got a question for you.
Do you ever have you have to have something betting
wise where a bet didn't work out and then going
forward you're like that freaking guy lost that bet? For me,
do you have I don't know if it's the scorpio
in me that just holds onto this, but I'll give
you an example. Freaking messy Linel Messi is the best

(01:00:39):
soccer player in the world. Arguably. Some people think he's
the best of all time. He's certainly on the short list.
But I'll never forget, Jeff, I don't know how to
bet soccer. But the World Cup was going on not
that long ago, and I'm watching a game live and
I'm like, Okay, Argentina is clearly going to score the
first goal. I think they were playing Poland, and I'm
like they're definitely going to score the first goal. So

(01:01:00):
I bet on that, and then I looked closer at
the fine print and I'm like, oh shoot, I bet
on to score the first goal in the first half.
I'm like, that's different. I wasn't intending to bet on that.
Fast forward. Messi has a penalty kick in the first half.
My girlfriend's like, you ready to win. I'm like, I'm
ready to win, and he just skies it right over

(01:01:23):
the net. And so every time Messi is being his
normal Stutley self, I'm like, stupid Messy. He wasn't there
when I needed him and he airmailed it over the net.
Do you have that you do that in betting as well?

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
Uh? Well, like, I mean more senior today can help
me and you with the rebounds there. But uh oh no,
not specifically. I don't think where I remember a certain
player or there's so many wagers I've lost that obviously
I've been upset about and whatnot, but not not a

(01:01:59):
player or person that I I refuse to bet Like
Falcons games, they always lose. So there's not like a
player who I think or a person where I just
won't bet on them.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
I don't know, I'm just a madiac man, I don't know.
It's something about betting where you're almost you're you're as
close to a guaranteed win as possible, and then if
it goes you know, it doesn't go your way, you're
just like no, right, like how did that happen? I
act like I bet like crack our guy Bill Krackenberger,

(01:02:35):
he'll bet an ungodly amount of money regularly. I act
like that's what I had on the line. I probably
had like fifty dollars on the line. And every time
I see MESSI I'm like a stupid messy didn't come
through for me when I needed him. I think it's
a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
But money, money is money, though, no matter.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Like, yeah, it's the competition of it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:55):
Yeah, yeah, it certainly is. I I mean I bet
on the on the race yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
And proxy to you, Yeah you had a nice cat.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
And as exacta thanks thanks for my friends that sent
me up on that. It was like two dollars, man,
I don't it's I don't want to lose my two dollars.
So I did I hit it hit a little exactly yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:03:15):
And it was such like one two three or just one.

Speaker 3 (01:03:18):
So basically, EXACTA is one.

Speaker 2 (01:03:21):
Two, so you buy it right, you gotta box it's six.

Speaker 3 (01:03:25):
I had six horses and that's how I ended up winning. Yeah, well,
exact to box.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
Yeah yeah, that's right, that's crazy. It worked out like that.
Three horses right there, neck and neck down the stretch. Okay,
let's get to my favorite team here in a in
a in a minute here Jeff first though, Monzy bolanos
with us to spin us around the sporting landscape. Manzi,
what is going on, girl fellas?

Speaker 6 (01:03:49):
Show hey, o Tani is trending.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
He went four for four today with two homers as
the Dodgers completed a sweep of the Braves. It was
a five to one win. So show hey, just on fire.
He homered yesterday, you know, breaking Dave Roberts says, the
most home runs from a Japanese warn player in franchise history,
and then two today. He is on fire, so he
is trending rightfully.

Speaker 1 (01:04:12):
So.

Speaker 6 (01:04:13):
The Marlins still holding on to their lead over the A's.
It's eight to two bottom of the eighth inning. The
Orioles just blanking the red. Still seven to zero. Top
of the ninth inning.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Bases are loaded, the Orioles are down to their final
out though here the Diamondbacks still beating the Padres eleven
to four, top of the eighth inning. The Yankees, they
beat the Tigers five, two and eight innings because of rain.

Speaker 6 (01:04:34):
Aaron Judge home run number seven on the season.

Speaker 5 (01:04:36):
The Rays walked it off against the Mets seven six
and ten innings. It was Johnny DeLuca who had the
two RBI triple to win it in the tenth inning.
They complete a sweep of New York. We've got hockey
playoffs going on. It's the second round out of the
East and right now the Rangers are beating the Hurricanes
four to two in New York with about four minutes
to go in the third period. There is gonna be

(01:04:57):
a game seven and later on on the ice between
the Stars and the gold Nights. The pucket is set
to drop at seven thirty pm Eastern time. Game seven
in the NBA earlier today was the Calves with the
comeback win against the Magic one O.

Speaker 6 (01:05:09):
Six to ninety four was the final score.

Speaker 5 (01:05:10):
Donovan Mitchell leading the way thirty nine points, Plo ban
Caro thirty eight points four Orlando. The Cavs will face
the Celtics for Game one of the Eastern Semi Finals
on Tuesday. We do have the NASCAR Cup Series out
of Kansas. They just got going. They're still in stage
one so we're very early, but Ross Justain is in
the lead after just fourteen laps.

Speaker 6 (01:05:31):
Again, they just got going back.

Speaker 2 (01:05:33):
To you, guys, Matzi, do you bet on sports?

Speaker 5 (01:05:35):
You know, I've done it very little and I'm not
very good, So I no one, no.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
One, No one's good.

Speaker 5 (01:05:42):
Yeah, it's frustrating, Like it's hard to like not want
to go big, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:05:50):
When I'm in Vegas, it's a problem.

Speaker 5 (01:05:52):
Like I can sit at a table let blackjack, like
all of it, and I'll be.

Speaker 6 (01:05:57):
There for hours. And so maybe it's a good thing that,
like I haven't had.

Speaker 5 (01:06:01):
Success in sports betting because I think I would really
dive into it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
Man, Manti, I could see you reacting very similarly the
way to being emotional.

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
Yeah, that's the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:06:15):
You have to be able to detach your emotion from
your wages.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
I can't do that.

Speaker 3 (01:06:21):
Yeah, that's that's not great.

Speaker 6 (01:06:24):
I know my problems.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
I am. I was just in Vegas recently, and I'm
much better at sports wager and then playing craps like
it just kind of frustrates me. We're like, at least
at least have a chance, like when I you're on
sports you know, like I have a thought process. Craps
is just like I just lose the money immediately, you know.
It's so frustrating. It's it's just like it's so frustrating.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
I'll never forget. Man. Jeff, we did the thing for
you know, countdown to kick Off, Yeah, sponsored by bet MGM.
And so we were in Mississippi and it was it
was at the Bowl Ravage, beautiful place right there in Mississippi,
and uh, you and I we went to the craps
table and you and I we just lost our first bet,

(01:07:06):
and you were like, let's go, We're out of here.
I was like, well, he's like I've learned. If you're
called just get away.

Speaker 6 (01:07:12):
I mean, there's that's the right way to approach it.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:15):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
I don't do that, but that's the right way to
approach it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
Oh. Now, if I if I don't feel like the
vibe of the table, I'm I'm gone.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
Now that I understand, especially with like Groulet or like Blackjack,
or if you sit down and they don't know how to.

Speaker 6 (01:07:28):
Play blackjack, that affects your hand.

Speaker 5 (01:07:31):
So I'm with you on that on Like, if I
don't like the vibe, I'll get up, But if I
lose and the vibe is popping, I'm gonna stay there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:39):
Okay, Yeah, if the.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
Rulo really is like, if you lose three straight hands
of blackjack, you should get up and leave. If you say,
kind of staying with Roulette now you lose, I mean
not Roulette craps. You lose more money on craps typically
if you do that. So sometimes maybe two sevens you're
like out of here. But yeah, you shouldn't stay at
a table that would you stick at.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, better, I'm out of there. I better to move on. Hey,
how about my dolphins in the news over here, Jeff,
what happened? We got Odell Beckham Junior brand new Miami
dolphin hunting out the real news. It's not just about
the aqua and orange right here. According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler,

(01:08:21):
he said that other teams were in the mix. He
was told that Kansas City was appealing to Odell Beckham
Junior as well as Buffalo, but he opted for Miami,
and he's betting big on Mike McDaniel unlocking him. What
do you think about this, this choice by OBJ to
go to Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
I saw a tweet that said who's stopping this offense?
And it laid out the skills and players for the Dolphins,
and I answered, cold weather.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Yeah, it was all Metallica songs. Sad but true right there.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
Yeah, it's a problem, right, Like I even looked it up.
Tu when it's under seventy degrees, like sixteen thirteen, when
it's over, he's you know, he's twenty over five hundred.
It's a problem. I don't know how else to put it.
I mean, I you gotta have a high seed in
the playoffs to play your games at home, which again

(01:09:18):
I mean the AFC is a lot worse weather than
the NFC. Right, NFC is a lot of dome teams,
and on the West coast. I mean the AFC. You're
looking at the teams that are good Cincinnati, Baltimore, Kansas City, Buffalo.
You know, for New England for so many years, you
better be able to play with some cold weather, Brian,
otherwise you're not gonna be able to to win in

(01:09:39):
a way that you want to. And the other thing
too is you know they didn't address the offensive line
I think enough in the offseason, right, it seems like
to be a big concern of mine for the Dolphins.
You have. Look, I love Armstead and left tackles buddy
of mine, like great dude, but he's got one year
left right essentially, and he's got to avoid the injury bug,

(01:10:03):
which is unfortunately been a problem at times. Isaiah went
at left guard's okay. You know you got Aaron Brewer okay.
At center, you're okay, at right guard, you're okay. At
right tackle. You droctored Patrick Paul. Maybe he's the answer
for the future at uh at left tackle. But it's
just not a lot of depth, right, I guess I
can Bird's there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
I mean, it's like it's it's but you when you
go like he's okay, he's okay, he's okay. The whole
thing collectively is just okay and right and it's rough.

Speaker 3 (01:10:35):
And I don't think and I can't why you dropped
the trump Robinson after the injuries you had last season
at pass rushers and the season it might have felt like,
you know, we just have to show up that position.
We can't have that happen again. But it's really unfair.
Sort of, the the bar is have you done enough
to be Kansas City? But is the bar though, right,

(01:10:55):
because that's the ultimate goal. I'm not sure Dolphins are
in any better shape than were last year for that
of game.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Yeah, And I hate it, but you're accurate about the
cold weather stuff because you rattled off the record and
the game against Kansas City. I know it was brutally cold,
but they had just nothing going on and you could
play the game of Kansas City's defense was really good
last season, which they were, and it was abnormally cold. Fine,

(01:11:24):
but you've ta the ball looked like a medicine ball,
you know what I mean. He's trying to throw it.
He's trying to throw like this anvil and it's a
screen pass and it's like, bro, it didn't even it
hit his shoe, like it's nowhere near being a completion.
It was just such a disaster against the Chiefs in

(01:11:45):
that playoff game. And that goes on top of all
of the other failures in cold weather. Yeah, it's a problem.

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
Yeah, and medicine ball. And you know, look again, I
think that the standard is really hard because you know,
it's again it's it's beating the Chiefs, right, and that's
the standard, and that's what it was for Tom Brady
for so many years. I have you've done enough to
beat the Chiefs. But the Dolphins, I think the positive
is that you're always gonna be in the playoff hunt

(01:12:12):
with the situation, with a certain setup, which is fantastic, right,
I mean that's where you sort of want to be.
But and you can get you know, you get lucky, right,
you just kind of sort of just like you have
a year when everything works out for you. But I'm
not sure their team got that much better. Look, Godell's
signing is just a depth you know, It's just it's
another guy like that. That to me doesn't change, Uh,

(01:12:33):
what doesn't change. I thought that the one entering parts
of this offseason was was Tyreek Hill admitting that his
head coach basically told him that he was soft in
the playoff game, which I mean, I think as the
right it's it was true, but that that actually I
think bodes well for the relationship that Michael Daniel has
with the players. He's able to tell the players and
then Tyreek Hill is able is sort of confident enough

(01:12:55):
to just tell everyone that's what he told me. Yeah,
that that's actually not a bad thing. I think the
players like the coach. I like the coach, but there
needs to be some of that toughness instilled in the
colder weather.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
No, I like that, that's true. It seems like a
lot of players take offense to anything, and I like
that Tyreek Hill didn't take offense to that. He even
joked around. I can't remember which player, if it was
Lugerious Need or somebody else cornerback that jammed him. He
was like, he jammed my ass to can Kun. Yeah,

(01:13:27):
it was just this crazy jam at the line of scrimmage.
But yeah, I mean collectively, they gotta be tougher in
the cold weather. What do you think real fast about
for Odell Beckham junior of those three teams Dolphins, Bill's Chiefs,
just for individual success? Do you think he made the
best choice? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:13:47):
Good question. He already want a super Bowl. He doesn't
want that, right, Just talk about like most yards essentially kind.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Of like just just individual production. Knowing what the Chiefs
have personnel wise, knowing the quarterbacks, like all those factor
everything in. Do you think saying, hey, I'm gonna go
to Miami and I'll be there with you know, with
Tyreek and Jalen Waddle and Mike McDaniel. We've got this
lethal offense and he can get his look at the

(01:14:20):
bills like you got Josh Allen and what you drafted
Keon Coleman and you got a bunch of just random
wide receivers over there. Be fair.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
I don't know if Odell is a number two.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
He might not be.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
He's like that part of it. We're like you look
at at Buffalo and I'm not sure he thought about this.
I'm actually just went to where he wanted to live
and paid him a lot of money, which was certainly Miami.
But he's probably a three right now, right, Yeah, So
in Buffalo he's a two. If Keon Coleman's good, immediately

(01:14:53):
in Kansas City he's what one and a half at
the moment. Un if you're worthy, he'll be there quite soon.
But if she Rice is out for any length of
time this year, he immediately becomes a much uh you know,
a higher target player. How don't if he wanted that.
The other thing about about pre agency as well, Brian,

(01:15:15):
is he's won of Super Bowls. He's not chasing super anymore.
He won with the Rams, so he has that already done.
He's gonna play in Miami, Like you can choose two
cool weather cities or play in Miami with no sted
income tax.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
It's right, and you could talk yourself into that pretty easily.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
I'm not saying that that's the only way players think
about it, but it's not. It's not. It's sort of
it sometimes at this point of his career. Yeah, you're
looking at the quality of of of quality of living,
quality of life taxes, where you want to live. I
don't know where he lives in the off season, but
would surprise you if it was Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:15:53):
Uh, you know, yeah, And.

Speaker 3 (01:15:55):
So I think that's just for him. It made sense
for his family to just stay in Miami so that
when players get later in their careers they look at
at life and family and the best place for everyone
to be, like to be in that sense, And it
sounds like Miami might be that place for him right now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
Yeah, could be all right. Coming up next, Jeff will
look at some possible betting opportunities here and everybody listening,
you've heard of bad beats before, right you know we
all know about that. I'd like to introduce a new
phrase based on today's outcome. Okay, throw that way, throw
that your way, right around the corner. I'm Brian No,

(01:16:36):
He's Jeff Schwartz. This is Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No.
He's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio. We're coming
to you live from the tire rack dot Com studios. Man, Jeff, So, uh, look,
we're all aware of what a bad beat in gambling is. Right,

(01:16:56):
seems like it's gonna work out for you and then
it goes horribly. I would like to introduce a new phrase.
I would like to introduce torturous beats.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Oh what happened to you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:10):
That's uh, unfortunately what happened to us with Marcus Morrissenior
over here? My goodness, So this is what makes it
so bad? I texted, By the way, my phone is
screwed up, Jeff. If you haven't gotten a text from me,
I probably sent you a few and they're just not
going through an android. I know, I knew I was

(01:17:32):
stepping into that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:33):
Just ruined all groups. Brian's that guy everyone who ruins
the text message, who like you're you're just like you
can't send gifts and photos because Brian has an Android
and just Refu's just stubborn about it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:46):
I will not change. I will not I refuse. I know,
I know it's I've dealt with so much iPhone smack talk.
I will never ever convert. Will not happen. But yeah,
I told Jeff, I'm like, hey, man, I love Marcus
Morris Senior going over two and a half rebounds today.
Game seven calves taken on the magic right and uh,

(01:18:10):
he got two rebounds right away. He plays seven minutes,
gets two rebounds. We need one more rebound. It's the
first quarter. He's he's got two of the three that
he needs. He didn't play another second in the game.
They didn't didn't put him back out there. Oh my gosh, Jeff,
that's just freaking brutal.

Speaker 3 (01:18:33):
So you know, it's one of those things where and
you wager enough, as we both do. I told you
I've tracked. I still kept my promise. But I've tracked
every single wage I made all season, all year. The
only one I haven't put in there is my horse
racing from from yesterday. I have records and all ready
to go. Nice I gave back a lot today. Though
I started I started sixteen and four in May, I've

(01:18:54):
probably gave a half of that back today. So uh
is like you learn that you're gonna have these torturous
moments and you just have to laugh them off because
you also, like, like we talked about at the beginning
of the show, I had nuggets first quarter yesterday, I had
no business winning that way.

Speaker 2 (01:19:14):
That's right, Yeah, none, right, And I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:17):
Want so like you good and the bad. But if
you do it long enough, and the key is, you
don't wager more than you're you can afford to lose.
So if you lose a couple hundred bucks or whatever,
it's not the end of the world. You just laugh
it off. If you're losing more than you can lose,
then that's becomes a problem. So you just learn to

(01:19:38):
roll with this. Man, it happens every single weekend. You wager.

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Yeah, that's a good outlook because Marcus Morris Senior, this
is all based on Jared Allen being out.

Speaker 3 (01:19:49):
Jared Allen bet the problem if the process is good
but the results don't happen, that that's part of wager
and like you can live with that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:58):
Yeah, So Jared Allen has this rib issue and he
was out for Game seven, and it's like, oh hey,
Marcus Morris Senior. He started Game six. He played twenty
seven minutes in Game six, and I texted Jeff, I'm like,
I'm on over two and a half rebounds. Two rebounds
in seven minutes. It's like, this is looking awesome. He
never got back in the game. That's torturous right there.

(01:20:21):
There's no other way. I can't say it. I don't
know if that applies to this man too, but it might.

Speaker 6 (01:20:35):
One was not enough for show Hey o Tani.

Speaker 3 (01:20:38):
First pitch to show Hey swang on and a hammer.

Speaker 8 (01:20:42):
Deep centerfield way back.

Speaker 3 (01:20:45):
In gone a first pitch home run for show Hell Chany.
It is five to one Otane with two home runs.

Speaker 6 (01:20:54):
Today a in five seventy l e sports on the call.

Speaker 5 (01:20:57):
O Tani actually went four for four, which homers and
the Dodgers completed a sweep of the Braves. Five to
one was the final score. The Orioles crushed the Reds
eleven to one, and the Diamondbacks defeated the Padres eleven
to four. The Yankees beat the Tigers five two and
eight innings. Because of rain Aaron Judge with the seventh
homer of the season on the ice. The Rangers beat
the Hurricanes four to one in Get four three excuse me,

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in Game one of the second round of the NHL Playoffs,
and in Game seven of the NBA the Cavs with
the one oh six to ninety four comeback win against
the Magic.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
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dot com. The way tire buying should be. Darvin Ham
out as the Lakers head coach, Jeff fired years in
look man. First things first, it didn't take long for
the honeymoon to be over. This was a team that
was in the Western Conference Finals last year and now

(01:22:12):
Darvin Ham is out of a job. He was the
toast of Lebron and Anthony Davis when he got the
job just two years ago, and now he's gone. And
a lot of that is running into the Nuggets. The
last couple of years where they crashed and burned to
the tune of losing eight games and winning one game,
and it didn't fare any better in the regular season.

(01:22:33):
That was a big part of it. What do you
think of d ham being out of a gig this early?

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
Those are just let Lebron coach the team. You know,
you mentioned NFL players maybe coming back and you know,
kind of having a split season and doing something unique.
The just I know it's been done before in the NBA.
They just let Lebron be player coach, Like, just give
him the title of assistant coach, maybe not head coach.
Assistant coaches give it to him, right, because I don't

(01:22:59):
think any coach is gonna satisfy what Lebron wants from
a coach, and I don't even know what that actually is.
At times the other rotations were a little bit bleak
and whatnot, and I think that every coach has those moments.
But the fact is they're just not good enough to
be the Nuggets. Whoever coaching him, It doesn't that nothing
in that series. From the coaching perspective of Phil Jackson,

(01:23:20):
it would not have matter in that series. They're not
better than the Nuggets. And so if a new coach
helps you get better players, Okay, then then go for it.
The names thrown out are like Tylu already has a job,
right the Boonholzer who the knock on him was like
in the games he look like deer in the headlights
half the time, right Like that was that. The knock

(01:23:42):
on him in Milwaukee was like, you'd be like, what
if he doing right now? They didn't feel like a
Lebron guy to me? And I fired all the assistant
coaches too. I don't know, man, I guess you need
to keep Lebron happy. He's gonna I would imagine he
resigns there. But there's just not a lot of mobility.
They have to get that much better right now. They
need to get younger at certain positions. They need to

(01:24:03):
get more shooters, and then you get you know, guys
that don't have back to back, well not back to back,
but don't have like you know, yo yo ing good
game bag in bagging of the posts. Like they need
to get someone who's not Russell, you know what I mean.
But I don't know who those players are going to be.
I don't know what what trades they're they're gonna want

(01:24:25):
to give up the future. They actually have a bunch
of draft picks for the first time in a long time.
They for a while, we're giving those up, so maybe
they're able to kind of do both get you know,
a couple of young players in there. And I think
about the draft to NBA draft unlike the NFL draft
or unlike the baseball draft. Man, after like the top
nine picks, it is hard nine ten picks to find

(01:24:46):
a real superstar. That's very rare. So Lakers are never
gonna be drafting that high.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
It can happen, but like you said, it's it's not common. Yeah,
but that's the thing, man, is U Look, Darvin Ham
had his shortcomings, there's no doubt about that. But it
becomes so trendy to put more of the blame on him,
you know what I mean. You just mentioned it, the
yo yo performance of Di'angelo Russell. That's not a Darvin

(01:25:14):
Ham thing. Like the problems go beyond Darvin Ham, but
it just becomes this sort of like, ah, he's to blame,
it's his fault. He did have some goofy rotations. I
don't know why. Rui Hachimurro was in the doghouse throughout
most of the regular season and why Torrian Prince was
the guy that fascinated Darvin Ham. Yeah, certainly, it's not

(01:25:37):
like he walks on coaching water. There are things that
you could win at d Ham and say that's weird.
I don't get that. But even if he strengthened his rotations,
you know what I mean, and he didn't have these
funky lineups, d' angelo Russell is not all of a
sudden an all star guard, you know what I mean.
Like the problems go beyond Ham. But this is what

(01:25:58):
happens in sports a lot, Jeff is it becomes that
one guy where you're like, yeah him, and then the
sheep follow and they're like yeah him. And I'm not
saying he's blameless. I'm just saying I thought there was
more blame placed at his feet than the realistic then

(01:26:19):
what was real, what was really at hand, you know.
And I also think this man we always talk about
coach killers. We always act like that's an inside job,
you know, like this superstar just didn't want the head
coach anymore and now he's gone. Sometimes that happens. Sometimes
it's the opponent that's a coach killer, and the two
coach Killers for Darvin ham are Na, Kola Jokic and

(01:26:42):
Jamal Murray because if they're not running into the Nuggets
the last two years, he's probably still got a gig.

Speaker 3 (01:26:49):
Yeah, I think anyone outside of the Nuggets and Wolves
in the West, Lakers beats in any serious even even
okay see, but the nugget to kryptonite for them, and
the Wolves I think will be tough because of the
way they play defense and just say like okay, Lebron,
you can you can score your thirty. No one else
will score, you know, or you know, we'll we'll try

(01:27:11):
to limit ad with Gobert and just let all your
shooters have their chance to to to lose the game
for you guys. But yeah, I think it don't play Denver,
then he probably keeps his job. But you still, I
mean the point we made the last segment about the
Dolphins and they're chasing the Chiefs, right, the Lakers are
chasing the Nuggets, maybe the Wolves. Now they have to

(01:27:33):
do everything in their power to build teams to beat
those those teams, and so that's a it's a roster issue,
it's a player issue. You know, Lakers, two superstars are
getting up in age. They gotta find an effusion of
youth on this team, and until they find that, they're
gonna be in the same position every year. They're going

(01:27:54):
to be a playoff team fighting for you know, the
playing game and then running up against a Nuggets team
that is quicker than them, faster than them, bigger than them, talented,
like all those all those things unless they get Unless
the Lakers get younger and get more shooters.

Speaker 2 (01:28:12):
Yeah, and that's the crazy thing too, is they were
pretty close. I know they lost in a gentleman sweep,
but like Mike Malow and the head coach of the
Nuggets said after that series, He's like, we had to scrap.
We had a scrap for everything in that series. Yeah, yeah, right,
Like think about Game five, that's a tie game and
Jamal Murray hits a shot with a few seconds to go.

Speaker 3 (01:28:35):
Happened twice right, game.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
Game two, same way, like big twenty point comeback and
he hit the buzzer beater.

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
But that's the thing, right, Like the Lakers don't have
that Jamal Murray. Like Lebron is that guy, of course,
but he's thirty nine years old. We joked about this
via text matches, like if you could. You can wager
on first quarter points and rebounds. Maybe, I don't know.
If you do first half. You can't pre flop. You

(01:29:03):
can't pre wager on second half player points. But I
think me and you would would automatically fade Lebron every
second half because he's just he's older player, and he's
not often going to be better at the end of games.
The starter games. Now the back half of the series,
he's kind of tried to slow play the first half right,
took more rest, didn't go as hard to better, be

(01:29:27):
better and second half. But they don't have a Jamal
Murray to just make a game winning shot for them. Yeah,
and again he's there too, so it'd be like Anthony
Davis right like, you're you go make the shot. They
don't have that right now, and so until they find
that player, because a getting Lebron's thirty nine, he's great,
he can still do a lot of things at basketball court,

(01:29:48):
but they don't really have a number two in those
situations and that really hurts them.

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
Yeah, and you mentioned Tylu he's a candidate for the job.
He still has a job. He's with the Clippers right now.

Speaker 3 (01:30:00):
Wasn't it already a Lakers coach before that, right, or
Cavs coach?

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
Yeah, right, yeah, I was over there with the Calves.
But yeah, and he was asked about this. So the
Clippers got bounced by the MAVs and immediately after that loss,
Tyleru was asked about this Lakers opening. Here's what he
said about it.

Speaker 8 (01:30:18):
Your thoughts on the Lakers kind of rumored that your
name is bouncing around for their next head coaching position,
obviously of time left here, your overall thoughts on that, Yeah,
I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Really have a comment on that. I mean, it's great
to be wanted, you know, that's a really good feeling,
you know, But like I said, I want to be
here and hopefully we're able to solidify that. Aren't the
Clippers in the same place as the Lakers right now?

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
That's what's crazy to me is, look, man, I know
tyl Lou does a good job, but it's just funny
to me that the Clippers just got bounced as well.
And I know Kawhi only played two games and that
factors into it, but it's weird to me, Jeff, where
you have to coaches Darvin Ham, Tron Lou and bringing

(01:31:03):
Mike Budenholzer so Bud. Last year, Jannis missed half the
series against Miami in the first round. They lost in
the first round. He gets fired. He won a title,
he won seventy percent of his games. He's out of
a job. See you bye, don't want you anymore? And
is that not what just happened with tron Lou like

(01:31:26):
Kawhi missed most of the series and they disintegrated in
the final two games against Dallas. And he's like this
hot coaching commodity. I know he does a good job,
but they're viewed so differently. Darvin Ham and Mike Budenholzer
much must look at each other like, I don't know, man,
I guess we're at fault, you know. And tarn Lu's

(01:31:47):
just kind of like they love me, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:31:49):
I mean the other think Budenholzer was look, I hope
he's as petty as I would be, Like, I'm sure
he was sitting there from the pacers, right.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
I know, come on, let's go. I'd be so bitter.
I would just be talking to myself in my basement, like,
I guess they're gonna fire Doc Rivers now right, I mean,
no Joannest, but I got fired, so he's gonna get
fired too.

Speaker 3 (01:32:17):
Yeah, I would be I'd be so yeah, I'd be
so uh, I'd be so petty, so petty. Yeah. Look,
I think because just Ty Lucas Les named Lebron probably
likes right, so they just connect the dots of well
Lebron wants and and what well I happened? But okay,
I mean Steve Balmer's gonna let him go to Lakers.

(01:32:37):
They're opening up and the into it is gonna be
ready right for next season. That it's it's in Englewood,
right next to Form. Is that where they're building it?

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
I think yeah, I think it is right by the Forum. Yeah,
I think it's right there.

Speaker 8 (01:32:53):
I uh.

Speaker 3 (01:32:54):
I have so many fun memories of the Forum. Brian
really back in like oh yeah, so we had.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
Like general admission Megada concerts, that sort of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
I did not. I have great memories of the Sports
Arena too. I don't know if you ever have great
memories of the sports arena. But my dad we had
season tickets we shared with I think two other families
for Lakers games. So there's a sizzler across the street,
which I think it's still there. We drive the Sizzler.
We'd we'd go, we'd go have a nice little sizzler dinner.
And the walk across street to the Form and the

(01:33:21):
Form was just like super cool. It just was because
it just was a smaller arena, right, and it was
intimate and there was a jazz band that played before
games and it was like, you know, like the Winning Times,
you know, the Winning Time Show. It just was a party,
like it was a place you wanted to go and
watch a game. They also had the announcing crew not

(01:33:43):
on the floor, they were up in the stands and
we sat above the like where chick Hern was at.
I was like every time I walked by, it was
like this chick Hern. I was like, I loved it
as a kid. Sports arena a little different. Sports arena
was different because it was it was It was.

Speaker 2 (01:34:02):
That the magic of the forum too with the showtime
Lakers and my.

Speaker 3 (01:34:05):
Yeah, that was a little bit you know before me
like his comeback was uh huh was sort of when
I you know, when I remember going to Lakers games.
But yeah, it was it was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
That's fun man. All Right, we got a lot to do. Uh,
we got to get to the possible return Man, that's
on the way and up next. Man, you talk about
something backfiring. This backfired about as badly as it possibly
could have. He's Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian No. Hang with
us right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm Brian No.

(01:34:43):
He's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to
you live from the tire Rack dot Com studios. Man, Jeff, So,
this went about as badly as it could have. It
was not the Clippers trolling the Dallas Mavericks. It was
a company trolling the MAVs. So the company is named

(01:35:07):
sky Scanner. And there were ads outside of Crypto dot
Com before Game five, so the series is tied to two, right,
and so there were ads outside of the arena that
were promoting flights, like NonStop flights from Dallas to Cankun. Right,

(01:35:30):
So it's just a joke of like, hey, we're gonna
send Dallas to Cancun pretty soon because the Clippers. Yeah,
the Clippers are gonna beat the MAVs. And then the
Clippers got crushed in Game five, ye, and then the
Clippers got crushed in Game six and the series was
over and that did not work out well for what

(01:35:51):
it's worth the Clippers said before Game five Jeff Right
series tied two two. They put out a statement to
ESPN the billboard at LA Live is not owned or
operated by the Clippers. Yeah, we have the utmost respect
for our opponents and in no way endorse this message.
That's what they said.

Speaker 3 (01:36:11):
Do you think, well, it'll be like one, two, three,
Galvetson soon? Do you like new can coon Man?

Speaker 2 (01:36:19):
The TNT guys are having a lot of fun with
I've never.

Speaker 3 (01:36:22):
Been to Galveston, but I might go. I might want
to go smell the water there. I might want to
be like, go see what's happening down there. Yeah, Charles
Barkley's disdain for certain things is it's just it's so entertaining,
it really is. It is the women in San Antonio,
the Gallaxon thing. And then and then you know, the

(01:36:44):
Cancun joke has been going on obviously for years, and
then to hear that that's what set off Pat Beverly
to throw a ball at a fan because a fancy
cantcuon on three when they were playing. It's like, you're
a three year old NBA veteran, Why are you getting

(01:37:05):
upset at a fan? For he didn't. It wasn't anything mean,
It was just mocking you guys were going home the
series was over, and like to to lose a single
cent in a suspension over this, which he will have
to be suspend obviously, yeah, but but to like lose a

(01:37:26):
single cent because of this, and look, he will be
fine in amount. That's not going to change his life, right,
And by find I mean like he'll have to pay
because he will to be suspended. But the idea of
losing any money that you were going to earn because
you threw a ball at a fan for Saint Cancut

(01:37:48):
on three and that is the story, right, is ludicrous
to be on top of obviously losing any sort of
future media gig because you're disrespectful to a female report
order that was in the locker room. It's just really
foolish behavior and completely unnecessary. And it goes to show.

(01:38:13):
So I'm a I'm a big believer Brian, that your
true character is during times of adversity. It's it's not
like that it's a life changing thing. But I just
I my high school football coach us to always tell
us who will rise when adversity hits. That's the last
thing he told us before we win the football for
he gave me two things. I love that. And then

(01:38:33):
don't lie to yourself. It's my favorite. He lost for advice.
That's my advice. Don't lie to yourself. Okay, but I
think your characters revealed in times of adversity when things
are when things are going well, everyone could be a
perfect human, right, Yeah, but when we saide versity. Pat
Beverley threw a ball at two fans okay, a woman
and a man, and then called out a female report

(01:38:56):
for not following his podcast, which I guess he's been
doing this all year local beat writers, which is just
completely silly. Nonetheless, but in times of adversity he acts
like a punk like that that that is that it's
not good that. I feel like though, that's who you
really show who you are in those times, right, and

(01:39:18):
it look in terms of verse of your emotional I
understand him being upset about losing that that's a normal
reaction to have as a professional athlete or any any athlete, right,
but then to take to take that out on a reporter,
take it out on a fan like just an immature
clown man.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
Yeah, No, it is it's you can't throw a ball
at fans, you know. And I'm not saying anything would
justify it, But listen, man, some fans have said some
crazy things over the day, over right, And if they
said something right, if it was just like way over
the top, it still wouldn't justify it throwing the ball.
But if it was something way worse, I could be like, Okay,

(01:39:58):
I can see why he had that a one, two
three can coon blast. It's like, oh yeah, I get it, White.
Pat Bev through the ball and he missed the guy
the first time. He hit the hit the girl accidentally
in the side of the head, and then he fired
it at the guy the second time. And you were
talking about the inside the NBA crew over there on

(01:40:20):
TNT the best. They're so great, man, they're fantastic. But
this is what Charles Barkley had to say about Pat
Bev throwing the ball into the crowd twice.

Speaker 3 (01:40:29):
He gonna get suspended. Yeah, yeah, man, hit that lady
in the head. That'll be next to try. That don't matter.
He was trying to hit. Yeah, yeah, you can't hit
no lady. Help Yeah, and then.

Speaker 7 (01:40:42):
You can't life, man, And I understand that but you're like, listen,
I've done stupid stuff and you get it, and I
got criticized.

Speaker 3 (01:40:50):
That's just wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
He gonna get suspended for that, and that's gonna be
a good one too, because he didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Do it once, he did it twice. Yeah, no doubt,
no doubt. Don't expect that from a thirty five year
old veteran from an eighteen year old. It's not just stupid,
he's not He's not wrong, man, right, but he's completely right.
And you know, I think obviously if you want to
give a you know, middle finger to that guy like
that would have been totally fine. You want to to

(01:41:17):
say something back to him, yeah, certainly, but you know,
part of our role as athletes is to understand, you know,
one of those times or when of those times are appropriate, right,
And certainly I've said things to fans back to fans,
but you know that's I found the proper time to do. So,
you know, losing like that and your series being over
and by the way, a game that wasn't terribly competitive

(01:41:37):
in the fourth quarter, you know, like it wasn't like
it was a close game and it was over, you know,
and it's just really foolish behavior.

Speaker 2 (01:41:44):
Man, I'll tell you what you made me think of
something with I think it was Darryl Kyle. He was
a former pitcher for the Saint Louis Cardinals. I went
to a Cardinals Cubs game with my dad a long
time ago, and we were with the bleacher bums. We're
Cardinals fans, but we were at and we were in
the bleachers, and uh, this Cubs fan was just hackling

(01:42:05):
the Cardinals. It might have been specifically heckling Darryl Kyle.
And he just looks up to the guy and he
goes he goes, hey, man, uh, did you play little League?
And the fan was like yeah, And Daryl Kyle pause
and he goes, huh, you must have sucked. The fan

(01:42:26):
was just like he had nothing. He's like, wait a minute,
I don't know. I don't have any comebacks. If you
heckle me, I'm the heckler. But man, every now and then, athletes,
oh they that's the way the fans.

Speaker 3 (01:42:40):
So well, Yeah, the Cardinals losing a series of the
White Sox is pretty embarrassing, by the way, terrible my
White Sox fade did. That was not did not go well.
The last the last three days. Thankfully the Socks are
in Tampa Bay, where I think they'll actually beat lose
to the Rays. Look on social media, obviously, and I
think part of this too is we as athletes get

(01:43:05):
so much hate for lack of a better word, on
social media that I think sometimes in public we feel
like it probably a social media. Where's social media you
can theoretically throw a ball in someone's face and nothing happens,
And in fact we probably get praised for that, you know,

(01:43:27):
And in real life that's not how you act, you know, right,
And so I do sympathize a little bit with athletes
that really just get it all the time on social
media because it can be a lot, it can be
overwhelming at times. I'm sure Pat Beverly's mentions or just
filled with people that inappropriate things to him. But that
this is real life, not on social media.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
No, No, you're right, And that's look, man, that's sometimes
fans take it way too far. But that's the thing
we were talking about, Dione Sanders punching down, Yeah, you
know what I mean, getting into the back and forth
with a former player on Twitter or whatever, and there's
just no value in it. And unfortunately the fans have
the upper hand. The fans could say some crazy stuff

(01:44:09):
and they should never get away with that. But if
the player reacts, it's always going to be the player's
fault no matter what. You just can't punch down like that, man,
You're gonna get caught. It's like being on you being
on the football field. It's like you're the second guy.
The instigator never gets caught. It's the guy who reacts
that's who gets the penalty every single time.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
This goes to my last point on this, Brian, is
I do think if we allowed one assault a year.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
Charles loves that too.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
Yeah, so the player on your ticket, it says you're
electronic ticket, It says, you know, you agree to be
assaulted by.

Speaker 2 (01:44:50):
A player if you deserve it.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
Yeah, if you deserve it. And so a player gets
to call a fan out once a year, you get
one opportunity. So if Pat Bev hadn't done it, and
he could call that fan out, all right, let's like
let's go.

Speaker 2 (01:45:02):
You want to fight, like yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
And it would stop a lot of the heckling, or
maybe it would increase it. To get into a fight
with the pro athletes.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
Sort of like it makes me think remember Andre Hirelinko
how he had the hall pass. Yeah, with his wife,
he had the once a year hall pass. You know,
I like what you're thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:45:20):
But once in your whole how do you? I don't
know any other women? How it worked for my life?
How about use it on my wife? Hey? Wife, can
I have a hall pass too with you? Once in
your whole past?

Speaker 5 (01:45:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
Oh yeah, you didn't know about that. Yeah, this is
a real Yeah, there was a whole story where once
to your hall pass.

Speaker 3 (01:45:44):
Yeah, take a just use on my wife. I gotta
look this up. I'm gonna andrake Carolinko hall pass. I
just can't believe it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
Yeah, but baby, think what you're talking about the once
a year fan hall pass?

Speaker 3 (01:45:56):
Oh you ain't lying? Wow? Oh yeah, once a year yep.
AK for the headline is AK forty seven was granted
an annual cheating pass. And the concept seemingly works for
the couple. I mean, look, if it works for them,
more power to them. I'm not knocking things that work
for couples. That's obviously, you know, great for them.

Speaker 2 (01:46:16):
But wow, I could do a nine hour interview with
Andre Kiralinko just based on that concept. You know, I
would have a million questions for the guy, you know
what I mean, like, how did you go about picking
the one person for that year? What if it was January? Yeah,

(01:46:36):
you use the Hall pass then that early?

Speaker 3 (01:46:39):
Yeah, yeah you have to. And so it's what it
says here one not only affairs will not be tolerated,
and the agreement isn't reciprocal. Okay, they've been married at
this point. This is articles in twenty thirteen. They've been
married for thirteen years already.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Wow, so they're still going strong.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
Well no, this article is from twenty three team. I
don't know where they are they are now that they're
currently still married, but uh wow, I uh yeah, that's
that's all. Yeah, the question of of of the choice?
How does that how you come up?

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
How did you choose? Did you run it back?

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
I'm curious if.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
It is my this is my twenty eleven Hall pass,
you know I ran it back in twenty nineteen, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:47:26):
And dreck Kerlink I'm seeing if he's still married, I
mean a matt if you personal life. Oh he's still
they're still married?

Speaker 2 (01:47:35):
Could he is it like vacation? Could if he didn't
use it? If you don't use it, you lose it
type thing, right or can you? Or can you?

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
Or can you? Can you stack him up for one
year like he used all on one season? He was
a World of Warcraft gamer wall in the in the NBA.
Looks like they're still married.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
Yeah, wow, happy couple.

Speaker 3 (01:48:00):
Yeah wow today.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
Yeah, that's a's a great story.

Speaker 3 (01:48:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
You can't make that up.

Speaker 3 (01:48:10):
Oh man, We're going to.

Speaker 2 (01:48:11):
Get to the opposite of what we expected here shortly.
But first Monty Bolanos, who was with us and is
here to spin us around the sporting world here, Manzi,
what should we know?

Speaker 6 (01:48:22):
We should know that WHOA, we should pay more?

Speaker 5 (01:48:26):
Players probably have that a deal I think with their
significant others, and it's just not talked about.

Speaker 2 (01:48:33):
I think you're right. Yeah, I want to circle back
to that. But there's something it's raining a little bit
in Philadelia.

Speaker 6 (01:48:40):
You see that brow. That's why my reaction was like.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Yes, it was a grounder to the short stop and
he got his spike caught and just airmailed it. I
can't do it just as.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
That's exciting thing that's happened to the Giants all season. I'm
not gonna lie. It's like that's how it's not raining.

Speaker 6 (01:48:58):
It was. It was a little bit ago. It looked
like it came down for maybe just a minute or two.
But no, he definitely got stuck.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
It was bad, bad, really.

Speaker 6 (01:49:11):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (01:49:11):
The Giants, though, are beating the Phillies, even though.

Speaker 6 (01:49:14):
Again we think it might be raining a tiny bit.
It is one zero bottom of the second inning.

Speaker 5 (01:49:19):
Earlier today, the Dodgers completed a sweep of the Braves,
was a five to one win show Hey Otani went
four for four with two homers in this series. Though
against the Braves, Otani, Max Munsey and Thos got Hernandez
homered eight times, and the Dodger pitchers limited the Braves
to just six runs in twenty nine innings.

Speaker 6 (01:49:36):
Like a complete sweep of the Braves.

Speaker 5 (01:49:39):
The Orioles crushed the Reds eleven to one, The Diamondbacks
defeated the Padres eleven to four, and the Pirates defeated
the Rockies five to three. The Yankees they called the
game because of rain halfway through the seventh inning before
going officially into the eighth inning, but they beat the.

Speaker 6 (01:49:53):
Tigers five to two.

Speaker 5 (01:49:54):
Also victories for the Guardians and the Rays, who walked
it off against the Mets, the Rangers. The Red side
snapped the Twins twelve game winning streak. Red Sox won
nine to two. Mariners won today, White Sox and the Cubs,
who shut out the Brewers five zero on the ice.
Round two of the NHL Playoffs officially started in New York.

(01:50:14):
The Rangers edged the Hurricanes four three. That's five straight
wins for the Rangers to start the playoffs. But there
will be a game seven that a Game seven that's
about to start between the Stars and the Golden Knights.
Tip off is or the puck is gonna drop literally
any minute now, and this is a game seven. We've
got a game seven earlier today, or we had one
in the NBA. It was a comeback win for the Caves.

(01:50:35):
They took down the Orlando Magic one O six to
ninety four. Donovan Mitchell thirty nine points in the win.

Speaker 6 (01:50:41):
And we've also got the.

Speaker 5 (01:50:43):
NASCAR Cup Series from Kansas officially, while not not really
into the third stage just yet, but Kyle Larson is
currently in the lead one hundred and nineteen laps into
the second stage.

Speaker 6 (01:50:55):
So guys, it's been fun.

Speaker 2 (01:50:58):
Always, always, And I didn't mean to cut off your
first comment there. The Giants short story. I mean too,
this is a common thing with the hall pass.

Speaker 6 (01:51:08):
I bet you it is.

Speaker 5 (01:51:09):
I bet you it's an agreement and it's just not
talked about because I mean, nobody wants to admit that, right,
especially like a wife that they I wouldn't want to
admit that. But I I think it's more common than
maybe we know.

Speaker 3 (01:51:22):
I'll just say this. I do not have any information
on this, but I think that it probably is a
lot in some relationships because it's just better to know
to know, but just also like, yeah, to know. But
I think that there are sometimes when you know, not
breaking up and it's just not worth it, you know.

(01:51:44):
So I would imagine it probably happens more often, but
just not as open as as you know, it's mass
an advertisement, like like my husband's available.

Speaker 2 (01:51:53):
Exactly, come you know, come, you.

Speaker 3 (01:51:56):
Know, come say HIFU to me too. It's before social
media era, you know, it's kind of before like you know,
you slide the d ms.

Speaker 2 (01:52:05):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:52:06):
So that's a good point. That's a really good point.

Speaker 3 (01:52:08):
I wonder if she had to vet them to like it.

Speaker 6 (01:52:11):
She has to approve and he has to be like
he is she okay? And she's like no, she's prettier
than me.

Speaker 3 (01:52:19):
You gotta go, you gotta go somewhere else. Wow. I
didn't think we get to this today, but we are.

Speaker 2 (01:52:24):
I have so many questions for Lincoln.

Speaker 3 (01:52:27):
Who get him on next week? If we're working together again,
can we get him on?

Speaker 2 (01:52:31):
Can we please know how great that would be? That
would be sensational.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
No, we don't want to talk about the playoffs, buddy, okay,
we want to talk about your hall pass with your wife.
Explain how this works?

Speaker 4 (01:52:44):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:52:45):
Is he tindering? Is he just going Tinder? Like swiping
a little bit?

Speaker 2 (01:52:48):
My whole thing is right, That's what blows my mind.
Is I get it? It's a hall pass. You don't expect.
You don't tolerate cheating, but to get to the hall pass,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Like, look, jez okay, so like if he's I guess,
if he's going out? One night stand obviously works, but
who is signing up for a one night stand? Like
when you meet someone in person sober, not at a
club or bar. Like, hey, look here's the deal, lady,

(01:53:22):
I met on Tinder one night with you. That's it,
that's all you signed up for.

Speaker 2 (01:53:27):
I mean, you're right, I don't know, so many questions.
So we got to get him on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:53:33):
We gotta get Andre Kirolinko on the show. We got
a lot to do. Let's go rapid fire to close
it down here, Jeff, I got so many things. We
got potential prop bets coming up here. I want to
throw this out. Could this team be the Dallas Mavericks
of the NFL? Okay, okay, I want to throw that

(01:53:53):
your way, among many other things. Jeff Schwartz, Brian now
keep backed right here on Fox Sports Radio. I'm probably no.
He's Jeff Schwartz here on Fox Sports Radio, coming to
you from the Tirack dot Com studios. You know, it's

(01:54:13):
kind of crazy if you stop and think about the
NBA playoffs, Jeff, how sometimes the opposite of what we
expected is happening. Where if you look at the Timberwolves,
right they just beat the Nuggets in Game one, they
swept the Suns. Think about what was commonly said about
the Timberwolves when they traded for Rudy Gobert. It was like,

(01:54:35):
are they drunk? What are they doing right now? And
look at them now? And it was the opposite with
the Suns when the Suns got KD and then eventually
Bradley Beal. We were like, this is gonna be amazing,
and they got swept. And if you just take that
concept and look team by team, sometimes it turns out

(01:54:56):
to be the opposite of what we expected. The Clippers,
we're all like, oh my gosh, Kawhi and Paul George,
it's gonna be amazing. Not so much. Were we giddy
about the Nuggets ever, They just want a championship. Yeah,
we talked trash about the Celtics, like, hey, Tatum and Brown,
they basically played the same position. Look at them now.
You know, we often get fired up about the wrong teams, right.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
Well, we know best. That's why. That's where the where
the fans like, we know best about roster moves, so
we know that like what the team is doing is
bad versus what they're doing is good, and then we
never have to admit we're wrong ever. So No, I mean, look,
personnel and the match matters, like Rudy Gobert being matched

(01:55:45):
with and with with with Edwards and and with with
kat like it works for them. Right. Getting Durant added
to the Suns, they's sort of too many of the
same type of player, right, Yeah, it so some of
the times those fits don't matter. Look, the Nuggets kind

(01:56:05):
of coming, not coming out of nowhere, but we unfortunately
like to focus on the big cities and big stories
and you know, Warriors and Lakers and out West, and
the Nuggets are in Denver. They're not getting the attention that.
Even this season, the Nuggets were on TV, but not

(01:56:25):
as much as the Lakers and Warriors. The Wolves went
on TV as much as the Lakers and Warriors, and
part of that it's just kind of big city buys.
When it came to I think for Denver's run, right
sort of, and the year before, if you recalled, Jamal
Moyer was hurt, right, two years two years ago the
ball even though was that the Bowl year or you're
after the year after the bubble? They they were he

(01:56:46):
was hurt, right, So the Nuggets weren't as good as
they could have been in that postseason as well. Right now,
I'm watching the baseball game as you guys are right now.
They just I don't watch a lot of sign night baseball.
They just like straight up Mike the player and talked
him all in.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
Now, Yeah, Marsh, they're just talking to Marsh like, hey, man,
so are the wife and kids are good? All right?
You know, base hit to right field.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
I guess in this sport you can do that, right
and you can catch a baseball wall talking.

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
Oh yeah, you absolutely can do that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
Yeah, it's kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (01:57:19):
It is cool. It just you got to get the
right person. I remember the All Star Game last year
and they miked up Julio Rodriguez, who's a great player
for the Seattle Mariners. He was the boringest interview I've
ever heard. With my two years at guy provided absolutely nothing.
And it's like, can we make up someone who's like entertaining?
Can we do that? We don't care how great of
a player he is, he's got to be entertaining if

(01:57:40):
we're going to make him up.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
How does Marsh get his hair to look that wet?

Speaker 2 (01:57:45):
Oh he's constantly, you know, throwing some water on that.

Speaker 3 (01:57:49):
Yesterday my wife sent me a picture of Jason Worth
at the Kentucky Derby or baseball player and said, why can.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
You responded, no, Hall pass right? Is that what?

Speaker 3 (01:58:00):
Yeah? That's what I tell I know. I She said,
why is kid rock at the at the Derby? I said, Worth? Yeah,
used to play baseball and send a picture of I
could just had a picture of Brandon marsh would in
the same picture we have gotten done.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
They do look very similar.

Speaker 3 (01:58:20):
It would have gone and done.

Speaker 2 (01:58:22):
Let me throw something at you, okay, because I'm just
gonna throw as much as we can shoehorn into this
bad boy.

Speaker 3 (01:58:28):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:58:28):
At the end of the show, I was thinking about
this a little hybrid NBA playoffs and NFL. You tell
me if I'm crazy here, Okay? Could the Dallas Mavericks
of the NFL this season turn out to be the
New York Jets meaning this, Okay, there's some initial fanfare
at the beginning. The Jets get Aaron Rodgers, Oh wow,

(01:58:52):
the MAVs get Kyrie Irving, oh wow. And then last
year it didn't work. They were an eleventh place team
in the West. They didn't even qualify for the play
in you know, and they just didn't have a whole
lot of Hey, look out for Dallas this year, you know,
And now look at them. Dallas is a lot better.
You give it a little bit of time. Could in
the Jets. It's not like they're a trendy pick to

(01:59:15):
be a really good team this year. I think a
lot of people bought in last year, Rogers got hurt
and they're just off the grid right now in terms
of like public appeal. Do you think the Jets could
be the MAVs of the NFL this next year?

Speaker 3 (01:59:31):
What is lucas stance on vaccines? I think I need
to know that before determine whether or not. I mean,
can you have two different ideologies owner between Cuban and
the Johnsonville?

Speaker 2 (01:59:42):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
The reason we don't talk about the Jets is because
I think people look at Rogers and think like, yeah,
it's just not gonna work out. You know, like we
talked about Dean Sanders and distractions and they're too again,
they're two different distractions, right and you look at how
Rogers has spent his offseason and it's like they just
I think a lot of us have been like, yeah,
it's just not gonna work. It's just too it's too
much noise around the Jets. And then there's up and

(02:00:08):
coming players in the in the AFCJ Stroud. You know,
the Bengals get healthy. They're not up and coming, but
the Bengals are exciting team when they're healthy. Yeah, the
Ravens you mentioned, we talked about the Dolphins earlier, the Chiefs,
the Chargers with Herbert and with Herbert and Harbaugh. It
just there's better stories, there's more compelling teams. So I
think you're right about people not paying attention to Jets.

(02:00:31):
But again, you look at all those teams at AFC
and you're like, yeah, are the Jets gonna be the
contender in the AFC?

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
Yeah, that's fair. I think it's similar with the MAVs.
If you look at the competition in the West, there's
a lot there. There are a lot of roadblocks in
their way. But it's just weird to me where Kyrie
went there and there's all sorts of fan fair it
didn't work immediately, Yeah, and we're just like, eh, not
into it anymore. That's what's weird to me about the Jets.

(02:00:58):
There were so many people who bought into the Jets
going into last year where it's like Aaron Rodgers with
a real defense, they could be good, And that just
doesn't seem like anybody's on that train going into this
next season.

Speaker 3 (02:01:12):
Yeah, I'm surely not. I think I would take their
under at the moment, just nine and a half, I
think I saw Yeah, you know, but Kyrie and Rogers
would probably have a good meal together one day they could.

Speaker 2 (02:01:24):
They might always fun. Jeff will hopefully text you winning bets.
That's assuming you actually get my text messages and my
phone stops being stupid.