Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk NBA Playoffs, Caitlin Clark, NFL Offseason Roundup & More!

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Speaker 3 (00:40):
Andy? Hell's everything?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Everything is wonderful. You know I got a confession to
make to you right here, right now, in front of
the nation. Are you ready? I wanted to make this okay,
I wanted to make this a Caitlin Clark free show.
I can't. I can't do it, all right, not after
seeing the shade that's thrown at her, the hate, the dissing,
the intentional fouls. Honestly, I don't get it. I really

(01:03):
don't get it. The Las Vegas Aces said just the
other day on social media they would have sold out
the arena without her. Really really, maybe I doubt it.
I really do. These women in the WNBA might be
the most petty, backstabbing, haiti hating athletes I've seen in
sports today. It's got to stop. Caitlyn Clark has made

(01:25):
life better for you and your league. But maybe you
are too stupid to see that. Do you agree with me,
Bucky Brooks?

Speaker 3 (01:35):
I mean, like she certainly made it better in terms
of I would say Kaitlyn Clark, Andrew Reese and the
class they came in, they certainly made it better. But
Kaitlyn Clark is the headliner just because she was the
most popular college basketball player in in the league. She
brought a lot of notoriety and a fan base with

(01:56):
her to Indiana and the WNBA. But I'll I'll just
say this, when it comes to it, I think we
on the outside have made more of it than probably
needs to be made, and I think in turn that
has escalated some of the things that have happened. I
think people are just tired. I would say probably the

(02:17):
players are just kind of tired of Kaitlyn Clark, like
just probably Caitlyn Clark fatigue, and they were already going
to go at her because she was the hot shot
college player that was coming in Diana to ROSSI probably
set the table when she said it's gonna be real tough,
it's gonna be a transition for and then it just
continues to escalate just because the more that we on

(02:38):
the outside talk about her, the more on the inside
they want to prove a point that is gonna be
hard for her to transition to the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
No know thatubt about that. And I will say this.
You know, you make sense. You make a lot of
sense with you saying but I will say this, the
WNBA was really gaining popularity well before Kaitlyn Clark came
into the league. We both know that. But you've got
to be a complete moral and if you think she's
not gonna take this league and she has not taken
this league to another level, And I'll say this, the
television viewership, the television revenue is skyrocketing right now with

(03:08):
Clayton Clark in the league. Because I'll tell you why, nobody,
nobody on God's Green Earth is tuning in to watch
Chnity Carter that I tell you right now. She made
a name for herself yesterday by shoving and pushing and
knocking Caitlin Cluck down. So nobody's turning on the TV
to watch Kennity Carter. Believe me, they're turning it out
to watch her. And you're right, there's a little fatigue
and maybe we've gone overboard, not we, but the media

(03:31):
in general. But there's a reason. There's a reason because
she was an outstanding college player. Want to see what
she's gonna do with the next level then, and these
arenas right now are being sold out. They want to
see her. It's a great thing. And this envy, this jealousy,
I haven't seen that in other sports. Maybe you have
you played the game at the highest level you in
the NFL. Have you seen jealousy and envy when players
come in with big, big reps with a Heisman Trophy

(03:53):
into the NFL that I want to knock this guy around.
That is a jealousy there.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I mean, and it's always that. It's always a
very competitive deal. Like I mean, you talked about her
being an outstanding college player, but guess what everybody else
in the w BNBA was very outstanding and competitive and
a high level collegiate player. She comes in, there's going
to be a little look a personal competitive deal that

(04:21):
anybody is going to have with her. The physicality and
all that other stuff like that happens. I mean, it's
no different than what Caleb Williams is going to face
when he steps into the league. My thing is, how
does everybody, how does everybody expect for her to be
treated in the game. It's a competitive game where people
are trying to win, Like they're not going to put

(04:42):
rose pedals on the floor and like let her just
kind of waltz to the basket and do all these
other things. I don't know what people really expected in
a competitive sport, how they thought her competitors were going
to treat her.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
No, you're right, and I'll say this and I never
played the game, but the hazing for a rookie, get it,
heard screens, I get it, trash talk and I get it.
That's all part of sports, no matter what the sport
may be. But the cheap shots, they're no calls. Now
the w NBA they looking at the officiating and say meanings,
that's tough enough. The no calls as the press conference shade,

(05:14):
it's embarrassing. Really, this league right now, as we speak,
has never been as popular as it is right now,
and I think part of that credit has to go
to our It's been growing, there's no doubt about that.
But you know, they don't even talk about it. I mean,
there's no credit, there's no thank you.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
I don't understand, so so so what thank you?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Like?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
So like so even the way that we're talking about
the league itself in terms of her, like everyone should
bow down and thank her and treat her like a
queen and oh, we should be internally grateful for her
as coming. So you got to you gotta understand these
are highly competitive people, alpha dogs, a level competitors. No

(05:58):
one in like, no one like that is going to
give her her flowers on a nightly basis. And I
think what we're doing on our side, the media side,
is we're expecting every night for there to be a
level of gratitude that they show her. It's not gonna happen.
It's not gonna happen in a competitive league where they're
competing against her. I think they have said the right

(06:20):
things about her coming into the league. They talked about
her being great, they talked about all of those things.
But at some point when the ball goes up, hey,
look it's personal, it becomes a very physical affair, it
becomes a thing. And also know this, the way that
she is responded to the physicality welcomes more physicality, the
way that she's laid on the ground, the way and

(06:41):
I'm not saying that she hasn't handled the right way,
but it clearly she's not averaging forty points a game.
She's not doing the things and the pros that she
did in college. So obviously, until she's able to withstand
and whether the storm when it comes to the physicality
and tactics, she's going to continue to get it. And
the best thing that she can do is to be quiet,

(07:03):
because if she opens up her mouth and she talks
about how unfair it is or feeling like she's targeted
or being bullied, it only puts a bigger target on
her back to wear out. It's no different than the
way the Detroit Pistons used to treat Michael Jordan when
they had the Jordan Rules, and they beat him up,
and they beat him up until he finally had an

(07:24):
answer to the challenge. The only thing that she can
do is she has to answer it. Having all the
media people cry for her and do all that other stuff,
it only intensifies what she's going to face. This is
her battle. She has to of what it and I
think we are making a bigger deal out of it,
And because we keep talking about it, it only continues

(07:45):
to escalate because I can tell you now there's not
an NBA veteran WNBA veteran that is going to back off.
Because the media is like, oh, you guys are going
too hard on Caitlin Clark. That's never going to happen.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Well said, I hear what you're saying, but you know what,
I think what tipped the scale that made this, you know,
from bad to worse, It was when they gave her
that sneaker and the ASIA didn't get it from the
aces and she was the MVP. She's been in the league,
she's been a heck of a plan, she's proved herself
for the league. She didn't get it, and then all
of a sudden it became not because you're a great
player in college, not because you're coming in there heralded.

(08:20):
It came because of black white issue, that that that
her too, that that was a problem and the asia.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, yeah, she she she got a sneaker net had
been in the works. But there's always an occurrent of that,
like there was gonna be an undercurrent of the racial
dynamic intention from the time that she became like a
household name and star, going all the way back to
two years ago when she was in the Final four
and it was Caitlin Clark and she knocked off South

(08:46):
Carolina and in those things, like it was always going
to be an issue. It was always going to be
a theme because at the time South Carolina coached by
a black woman and Don Staley a team that featured
a predominantly black starting lineup and lineup. It became kind
of pitted as good versus evil. And then even going

(09:09):
to her and some of the other stuff, like it's
not necessarily on the court, I would say, it's us
on the outside. The portrayal and how we have taken
her and made it like she was the sole star
in college and put her on a pestl above others.
We always do that with great players, but it was

(09:31):
extra so the perception, the media portrayal, the media attention,
and all of those things have created this tension that
has continued to escalate. And so, whether it is fair
or not, that is always going to be a thing
that exists because on our side, it's not necessarily that
we made it good versus evil, but we certainly have

(09:54):
kind of created this dynamic just by the amount of
attention and notoriety that she gets compared to some of
the other competitors who have accomplished similar things and what
they've gotten, not only now, but what they've received in
the past.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
You're right, You're one hundred percent correct, You're one thousand
percent correct. But you know what also hurts the fact
that she's on a bad team, a real big team,
and it even makes it even worse than that, the
fact that she has a League All star Kelsey is
on her team, a teammate, and that has to be
a problem because that girl is the big time scorer,
and all of a sudden she's coming in. You don't
even hear about Kelsey anymore. And the Indiana Fever. I

(10:31):
would have to say that before the end of this season,
the Fever coach will be fired because of what's happening
right now. She'll take the brunt of it. No, this
is gonna happen to Kaitlyn Clark for sure, but this
team right now is where they're two and eight. I mean,
she'll be fired. She won't last the season. There's no
way she'll last a season.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Well maybe I just don't know, Like if I don't
know if everyone thought that, like Kaitlyn Clark was going
to loss into the league and the Indiana fever was
going to be great or whatever. They just got a
leader Boston the year before, who was a very accomplished
collegia player, national player, leer player, a dominant player for
South Carolina. That's her teammate. I mean, I don't know

(11:10):
if they thought that they were going to take over,
but me being a longtime women's basketball fan, being someone
who has paid close attention to the WNBA, she was
going to struggle. She was a number one overall pick.
She went to the worst team in the league. The
team has good players, but there are a lot of
good players in this league. It's a very competitive league.

(11:30):
You only have one hundred and forty four players. All
of them are A level players. It's hard for first
round picks to stay around. It was going to be
hard for her to come and I guess put the
fairy tale or storybook turnaround in place that I guess
some of us wanted. Yeah, they may fire the coach,
but it's not going to change until Caitlyn Clark's game changes,

(11:55):
until she becomes a star in this league, and not
a star because of note and popularity, because a legitimate
star by being able to put the ball in the
backet basket and being a high level teammate that does
more than just score. She's going to have to take
her game up the superstar status to be able to
help this team turn around.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
And what you said makes tremendousness because you talked about
with the Detroit Pistons, the bad Boys of Detroit, where
they did to Michael Jordan. You know, it happens. We've
seen that, and I'm telling you what's going to happen eventually.
And maybe I'm way off based on this. When Wayne
Gretzky was playing hockey, what did he do? What did
they protect them? They had these guys, they called them goons. Remember,
Wayne Gretzky had these goons way back in the day,

(12:37):
Back in the day, and looking at history right now,
when the Boston Celtics were really dominating, when they went
like nine out of eleven championships. They had a guy
on the bench by the name of Jim Loskatov. They
called them Jungle Jim Lostkatov. He came in off the
bench and he was like the goon. He really was.
When there was pushing and shoving whatever it was, he
came in there and like threw a couple of wackos
and punches whatever it may be, and he straightened things out.

(12:58):
So what she needs, what Caitlin Clark needs right now
is a quote goon to kind of protect her on
the court. That happens, right, That's what they do in sports.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Uh yeah, I mean she's gonna need some of her
girls to take on their role of being the enforcer.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
You know, you said, it's so much better than I.
I call them goons and you call them enforces. You're right,
but Gretzky, No, I.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
Mean, but no, But that's what it's called hockey. So
I understood exactly what you were talking about. That's part
of what she's going to need to do. Someone is
going to make it, have to make it personal to
kind of be her bodyguard and protect her on the court.
It has always been like that. It's no different than
Draymond stepping in to make sure that you're not going

(13:44):
to beat up Steph Curry. It has always existed the
problem that you have right now. The Indy NA Fever
simply aren't good enough to be able to do some
of those things. And even though they got to win
against the Chicago Sky, giving them this second win of
the season, they just don't have enough. And as the
team gets better, and as they continue to move forward
with Kaylen Clark as kind of like the star or

(14:06):
the fixed centerpiece of the team, they'll have some of that.
But right now, she's going through what Kayln Williams would
go through in the NFL and what some of these
other notable rookies would go through is the transition. Yeah,
and acclamation to the league. But yeah, it's always personal
when you have young people coming into the league, and
a young person like her coming in with so much

(14:29):
fame and notoriety, she absolutely has a target on her back.
She's going to continue to get that.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
And I'll say this, when Kennity caught a shoved her
and she felt to the floor, first of all, she
got to beef up a little bit, turned sideways. You
can't even see her. She must weigh eighty seven bounds
tripping wet. But what I didn't like is the fact
that when she hit the deck, Angel Reaes came up
the bench and clap. That was uncalled for. I don't
understand why angel Rees did that. I really don't. I mean,

(14:54):
I understand that there's a rivalry between the two of them,
there really is, going back to college days, but come on, really,
it was a bad look, Angela really was to stand
up and clap after your teammate knocked her on the floor.
That just did It didn't sit well with me.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
I mean, I can't say that it's the classiest thing
that I've ever seen, but we've all we've also seen
this from angel Reach before. Like she's okay in that
role of being kind of like the bad girl, being
the villain, the joker, if you will, Like that's kind
of the role that she plays in this I mean,

(15:30):
you know in this movie arc that's that's kind of
how she gets down and that's what she's done. Like,
I can't say that I personally enjoyed it or liked it,
but that's also kind of par for the course when
it comes to her and how she how she gets
down and what she does.

Speaker 2 (15:47):
Wow so much for me making this Caitlin Clark free show.
But you know, I think that had to be discussed
and we'll keep on doing that. Bring me throughout the day,
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Speaker 4 (17:37):
Hey, guys, great show as usual. Listen, listen. I don't
think you have to apologize for talking about this at all.
I don't see this as a black white thing at all.
I see this as name, image and likeness. These girls
are coming in coming in hot they are already getting paid.
The Angel Reese is showing up at the medgala. You know,

(18:01):
they're already millionaires. They are unapologetically authentically themselves. The it's
a it's a culture thing. It's it's Brianna Stewart and
Tarazi and Kansas Parker. They've been making money and being
ignored for a long time. They're they're comfortable with that.

(18:21):
They're they don't they don't want. You know, you'll get
a little bump for the Olympics or something like that,
but they're they're making money. They're if you're a star,
you're doing okay. If you're a run of the mill person,
you might not be doing well. But these older girls
have been making money off of corporate off of the
corporate interests, and they want to keep making money. They

(18:43):
don't want these girls upset in the apple cart like
Drey you know, like Draymond Green. Most of these guys
in the NBA are millionaires. So they don't care anymore.
They just they just want to get paid and they're
not going to say anything. But these girls are are
exponentially growing the league and making more money. And the
other girl say, well, I'm this is a risk. To me,

(19:03):
this is a risk my money. My money may go
down if I'm not as colorful as Angel or Kayler Clark. Yeah,
she pops. Angel Reese is the Bayou Barbie. So what
the dirty debut time? You know, it's like the w W.
People sell out a reader. The ratings are through the

(19:24):
roof people love, people love. I mean I love to
watch it. I mean, listen, if you got two nicknames.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
But you wouldn't watch it? If would you watch if
Kayla wasn't playing that she bought that that interest to
you and everybody else, Yes, you watch it? Well, would
you watch it to the point?

Speaker 4 (19:41):
If that's exactly the point? At Saturday at eleven o'clock,
would I be watching Women's VET with Kayla Clark versus
Angel Reese? I wouldn't be watching except because I want
to see. I want to see what happened. I want
to see how the story is. Caitlin could go four
and forty and I'd still watch because those It's like

(20:06):
Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in college. People want to
see how that story ends. People want to see, well,
what's gonna what's gonna happen about this? You know the
people I don't. And there's a bunch of other girls
in this class. They're very that that have have a big,
big media media attention, So get used to it. I mean,

(20:26):
this is just this is just the beginning.

Speaker 2 (20:28):
I don't I agree.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
I agree. He's going to stop anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
All right, Steven, go back, yeah, go back and watch
there you go. Hey Buck, we didn't talk about this,
and I think it's one of the biggest stories that
happened this past week in Major League Baseball. The implemented
the newly integrated statistics from the Negro leads and now
the new all time batting leaders Josh Gibson three seventy
two over time Cobbs three sixty seven. I got a question, though,
like why are they doing it now? Is it just

(20:53):
an ego boost for the commissioner rob Manford to help
his legacy. Now all of a sudden becomes like the
new Abraham Lincoln, the Great and mass and the Emancipator.
I mean, I don't get it. And what happens to
Jackie Robinson. He doesn't count anymore. I don't understand why
they're doing it now. And I will say this. I'll
leave you with this. The Negro League legends, the legends

(21:14):
that played in the Negro League. They deserve this, they
really do, but they're taken all these stats by Major
League Baseball. I think they kind of missed the point.
They missed the whole point of the fact that the
Negro leagues existed because these players weren't allowed to play
in Major League Baseball. That's why there was a Negro League.
And I don't think that people in Major League Baseball
even knew that or understand that agreed. I just I

(21:36):
don't understand why they're doing it now that I don't
get it.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
Yeah, no, I mean I don't. I don't know why
it's the thing now. In terms of like those stats
or whatever. Those stats have always existed, Josh Gibson has
always been celebrated as one of the top baseball players
Negro leagues or in Major League Baseball, and those things like.
There has been a concerted f for to make sure
that those efforts were recognized. They just did it on

(22:04):
a grander scale. Now. I don't know. I mean, I
can't tell you as to why the timing of it,
but I mean they acknowledged them, and I appreciate the acknowledgement.
I don't know what it means though, Like in turn,
it's really going to receive it because for so long
we've talked about Taikob and others being recognized as as

(22:24):
the best, and so when you mix in some of
those other stats, I still don't know if the mainstream
media will celebrate and talk to those guys like they
are the unquestioned number one or leader in the clubhouse
when it comes to some of these stats.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Well, I got a message for the commissioner, Rob Manford.
While you're at it. Why you're changing records and everything
like that, why not take in the Japanese records as well?
Of course a number of Japanese players playing in Major
League Baseball. You remember, they'll throw their stats in their
next I mean, really and truly, is how what you're
gonna do? I don't understand that. I mean it just
it's the stupidest thing I've ever heard of. And these
guys that played in the negro leagues, don't you understand, Manford?

(23:00):
Why they played? Why there was a Negro league because
they couldn't get into Major League Baseball. That's why. Yeah,
I think it's great that the stats are incorporated, but
it should have been done years ago. I'm glad it's
done now. But again, what do I say, what happens
to Jackie Robinson isn't count anymore? I mean, come on,
I mean, it's it doesn't make an I mean, what
about a Larry Doby, the first African American to play

(23:21):
in the American leagues. I guess this whole thing, you know, again,
Major League Baseball is looking for some sort of a
hook to get people to watch, to be interested in
it because they're so shadowed by the National Football League.
And it's said it really is because the World Series
comes out when when their season starts, and everybody's watching
National Football League games. So they got to do something.

(23:42):
But you know, every time they do something, they step
on their own foot. And I think they stepped on
their foot again, and this time it's unbelievable. It really isn't.
That's what I take it.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
They they stepped on their own foot because dag now
is Josh Gibson's contributions or the timing like time time? Okay, yeah,
I mean I don't. I don't know why there was
a push to make it apparent now. It should have
been rectified years ago. But right, I mean I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Like I saw the press release. Major League Baseball put
out a press release about this. You know what it said,
quote negro league stats may be viewed separately and or jointly.
What the hell is that you're either including them or
you're not including them separately or jointly. I mean, come on, really,
it's a dumbest thing.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
I mean that, Yeah, that, I mean that appears to
kind of I would say weaking, weaken the effect of it,
because if you want it to be inclusive, then what
you wouldn't do is put those stipulations on it. You
would make it, uh non optional that A you have
to include these things and this has to be a

(24:54):
part of what we're doing, and that other stuff. So
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
I'm with you. Look, I'm with you one thousand percent.
And it's funny because even though that announcement came out
earlier last week, I didn't see a lot a lot
of press on it, I mean a little, not much
conversation on you. It came out one day to everybody
talked about it for a day and that was the
end of it. There was no controversy, There was no
controversy on it. Really, I mean, they just say, well, okay,
that's it and go. And maybe because people don't even

(25:21):
know who Josh Gibson or how great Josh Skipson was.
I don't I don't understand it, but that that's on baseball,
shame on them, really, all right, He's Bucket Brooks. I'm
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Speaker 7 (25:42):
Yeah.

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Stanley Cup after they beat the New York Rangers in Sunrise,
Florida on Saturday night, winning it to one to claim
this best of seven Eastern Conference final in a six games,
So that means it's down a fifth year in a
row in which a team from Florida will be represented
in the Stanley Cup Final. The Panthers advance and they

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will face the winner of the Edmonton Oilers and Dallas Stars.
That series continues later tonight eight o'clock Eastern time. The
puck drops Stars and Oilers with Edmonton leading this best
of seven series three games to two, so Connor McDavid
potentially one game away from playing in his first career
Stanley Cup Final in Major League Baseball. The Dodgers get

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a great performance from Yoshinobu Yamamoto. He went six innings,
struck out seven, gave up one earned run as LA
beats the Colorado Rockies four to one. Yankees beat the
Giants seven to three, Aaron Judge getting his twenty first
home run of the season in the victory. It was
a three hour start to the Cubs in Reds game,
but eventually Chicago out last Cincinnati seven to five. The

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Phillies beat the Cardinals six to one. They approved a
forty one to eighteen on the season. However, Rangers Swarez
had to leave the game after being hit by a
line drive on his hand. It was a bruise that
caused him to have to leave, and the Philly is
certainly hoping that he's not out too long. He's had
an outstanding start so far to this season, currently carrying
a record of nine to one. Over In Paris French Open,

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top seeded Novak Djokovic winning his third round match in
five sets against Lorenzo Muzetti. The match ended in the
wee hours of the morning. Over in Paris, WNBA, the
Indiana Fever beat the Chicago Sky seventy one to seventy
as Caitlin Clark had eleven points, eight rebounds, six assists.
Angel Reese struggling shooting the ball two for nine, but

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did have thirteen boards in the loss. YUIFA Champions League
Soccer Action Real Madrid the champions of Europe after the
beat Dortmund at two nil. Women's College World Series saw
top seeded Texas shutout Florida ten to nothing, while second
seed A Oklahoma gets by. UCLA won nothing. Baseball the

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NCAA Tournament Regionals, the upset of the day came with
Dallas Baptist taken down Arizona by a score of seven
to nothing, knocking the Wildcats out of the tournament. Through
State of Texas, A and M takes down their heated
in state rival Texas. This one, though, was an extra
innings affair, as the Aggies do win it four to two.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
That's you, guys, all right, see you and now O keV,
thank you so much. Now trying to jump on success.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. He's
Bucky Brooks and Andy Ferman. We got asked Bucky in
about eight nine minutes for now and back to basketball. Here.
We got the Dallas Mavericks and the NBA of five seed.
They're gonna face the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals
that starts this Thursday. And they said brook they said
it wouldn't work. Luca and Kyrie and they carried them

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mats to the finals. And I got to ask how
they do it because in Game five, Luca scored twenty
of his thirty six points in the first half, topping
the Minnesota Timberwolves won twenty four one to oh three. Luka,
Doncis is playing better than any one on God's Green
Earth right now. I like to know, how does he
do with this guy's averaging twenty eight point eight points
a game, nine points, six rebounds, eight point eight assists

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in seventeen games in the twenty twenty four playoffs. How
do you stop this guy? Why can't he be defended?
I watched Minnesota the other night. They were like falling
on their face. They weren't picking him up, they weren't
double teaming the guy, I mean, the guy who was
shooting from the top of the key. How do you
stop the guy? Can the Celtics stop him?

Speaker 3 (29:18):
Uh No, Look, this is gonna be a great series.
It's gonna be a great series just because of the
talent that is being matched up. Having an opportunity to
see Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown go against Kyrie Irvin
and Luka. Doncis who's gonna be fundamental Holiday will probably
draw the assignment. He's one of the best defenders in
the league, high IQ defenders, super athletic, long. He's gonna

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challenge Luker. But the reason why Luca is so hard
to defend is he has great size, and so a
lot of people don't realize how big he is and
how strong he is. When you look at the body,
you don't see a muscle of up player, but you
see when you watch his game, you see him move
people around. He gets to his spots. He can play
with pace and timing. He's skilled. He can put the

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ball on the floor and go around you, but also
has the range to shoot from anywhere in the gym,
and he has like an old bag of tricks that
allows him to get his shot off around the basket.
You couple that with what Kyrie brings and offers probably
the best handle that we've seen in the NBA. A
guy who is an outstanding shot maker, who has really

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kind of found his piece which has allowed his game
to go to another level, whether he's sharing the load
or taking over as the number one when Luca kind
of falls back and allows him to go. This Dallas
team is fantastic to watch. And as much as I
talk about Dallas, you can say the same thing about
the Celtics. The Celtics have been the best team in
the NBA all year. Jason Tatum is a tough shot maker.

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Jalen Brown should I would say it's probably underappreciated for
what he brings. This is a great matchup. I'm looking
forward to it. I think it's going to be one
of the most competitive final series that we've seen and sometime,
and I'm just anxious to see them kick it off
and tip it off.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
I'm with you, I tell it right down. I tell
you what I think this Jason Tatum, and I love
watching him play, but for some reason, like he just
falters in playoff opportunities and all I hear is like
he's the best player in the team and he's not.
Jalen Brown is the Celtics. Jalen Brown is the best
player on the Boston Celtics. And if Porzingis could come
back from his injury, and they say he may very
well come back, that would be a big boost for

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him to kind of help out with Luca because they
need some big men underneath Al Harford. Perhaps, you know
he's he's getting old. I don't know if he could go.
He can't go forty eight. Al Harford can't go forty eight.
And Al Harford's one of those guys who go out
there and take a three. So I'm not so sure
he's gonna mix it mix it up underneath with Luca.
But you got to get someone out there to kind

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of stop this guy because he'll kill you outside and
he'll kill you inside. That's what he's doing. And I'm
really shocked the way, and you hit it on there
that Kyrie Irving has found this piece. He really has,
because when Dallas traded for him, I mean, people thought
like they're out of their minds, what are they doing?
This guy is something more than a cancer on a team.
He's a troublemaker. He can't win. He is fitting perfectly

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with Luca. It's it's amazing how they how they operate.
It's a beautiful thing to watch them play on the court.
Both unselfish ballplayers.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
Yeah, really unselfish. And I would say the thing that
is always kind of gravitated, it has always kind of
stood out about Carrie is just how much players adore
him and respect his game and what he brings to
the table. When you talk to players about him, he's
revered for his ability to put the ball in the

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basket of variety ways in his handle, his ability to
get to any spot on the floor whenever he wants
to look. It's unrivaled. The thing that we have now
is we have a natural antagonist because when he goes
back to Boston, given how it ended, given how he acted,
how he was divisive amongst the fan base, it's going

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to be personal. But we love nothing more than to
watch these hero storybook arcs where we love you, then
we hate you, then we love you again. He has
an opportunity to change that narrative by the way that
he plays, and look, man, I think sometimes with great
players they relish those opportunities. So it'd be interesting to
see how he handles the opportunity that is there before him.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
You know what sells and sports. I mean back in
the day, I think you got two teams and they say, well,
the Yankees are playing the White Sox, and let's go
watch the game. It doesn't work that way anymore. It's
now like player versus player. You need the bully, you
need the guy, you need the enemy, and you need
the guy who wears the black hat. And Kyrie Urvay's
gonna wear the black hat in this series. That's what

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it's all about, you know, to some extent. Lebron James
has done that for years. You know, people come to
see him either because he's a great player when see
him because they want to boo him. That's what they do.
I think you pit one against the other. If you
watch the promos on TV for the NFL on Sunday,
it's not the Chicago Bears against the New York Giants,

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it's quarterback A against quarterback B. You know, that's basically
what is It's Patrick Mahomes against Joe Burrow. When Kansas
City plays Cincinnati, it's not the Bengals against the Chiefs.
That's how they sell it, and I think that's how
fans kind of eat it up, good against bad, bad
against good, evil, evil and good. And that's what's going
to be in this series. You have everything you need,
two great teams, two large markets, a story team in

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Boston that has been so close that can almost tasted,
but they faulted at the end. They can't, they can't
close it out. And a team like Dallas that came
from nowhere. And you got two large markets. So the
TV ratings will be tremendous this year in the NBA playoffs.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Yeah, it should be tremendous. I mean, you talked about
two large markets. I'll just say just a skill level.
You have recognizable names, you have superstars that are involved.
It is a look. I think it's a team a
TV's dream matchup to have this kind of star power
in that kind of game, to have a national brand
and historical brand in the Boston Celtics versus an up

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incoming team. I can't even call them up in coming,
but I could say like a team that normally is
not given their due, the Dallas Mavericks on a major stage.
I mean, and no one thought they've been in the finals. Yeah,
no one thought that he would be there and all
the other stuff, because remember it's not only Kyrie, but
remember how people talk poorly about Jason Kidd and the

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things that he could or couldn't do as a coach. Well,
this is an opportunity for him to also rewrite that
narrative after some disappointing moments in Milwaukee.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Oh, you're right, You're exactly right. You know, sometimes people
need that second chance, you know, and he got it.
They got great players and they seem to like him,
you know. I think that's the bottom line. And you know,
I think that goes a long long way. When you
like the coach, do you play a little harder for
that coach? You've been there, done that in the NFL.
If you like the guy, do you play harder or well,
there's nothing to do with the way you play.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Oh no, I mean, I think likability is a huge
part of everything. You definitely go harder for the guys
that you like and respect. I would say in this instance,
for Carrie and for the Mavericks, there's a relatability because
of Jason Kidd. Jason Kidd is a Hall of Fame player.
Jason Kidd is a top seventy five player. Jason Kidd
did a lot of things that these guys watched as

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they were growing up. His ability to help them reach
another level is simply due to the respect and the
trust that he has earned from them. And sometimes it's
hard for players to give that trust away openly, but
he has somehow found a way to connect with them
where they trust him. And because they trust him, they

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play hard for him, They take hard coaching, they respond
to his instruction and tactics, and it's a beautiful thing
to see because when it's unlocked, you see them have
the kind of performances that they have. And it's not
just those guys. We didn't talk about PJ. Washington and
Derek Lively and some of the other guys making contributions,
but the two stars have certainly bought in. And it's
easier when your star is by into the culture because

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everyone else falls in love. There you go.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Firman. We are Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Riding. And by the way, you
want to answers, well, he's got him, asked, Bucky is next?

Speaker 1 (37:16):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
All right, ass, Bucky coming right up. He's Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman and we're live from the ti Raq
dot Com studio. This is Fox Sports Sunday. And away
we go, Here we go. Ask Bucky number one, John
Calla Powry, the new basketball coach at the University of
Akins are admitted at the SEC meetings just the other
day that is going to take a new formula to
win in the NTAA term. And he said that he
learned his lesson. He said, you can't do this now

(37:41):
with seven freshmen. I kind of ask you, why did
it take him so damn long to figure this out?

Speaker 3 (37:48):
Look, man, just because the talent is intoxiclicading. He did
a great job of accumulating great young talent at Kentucky,
but he took enough whoopings to know that in the
tournament is about experience and age. He's gonna make change
when he gets to Arkansas.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
No doubt about that. He better okay. Green Bay Packers
wide receiver Christian Watson. He missed eleven games during his
first two years. He missed eight games last year because
of a pulled hamstring on his right leg. Now, he
and his teammate Eric Stokers went to the University of
Wisconsin's school of Medicine and Public Health for eight hours
of hamstring testing. They may have found the cure that

(38:22):
one hamstring was stronger than the other. Has he found
the magic? And I almost forgot to tell you this.
That study was part of a four million dollar grant
funded by the NFL. Can you find the magic to
cure the hamstring pull?

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Yeah? I mean I think so. I mean I think
that you can point out the imbalances and the things
that potentially you may be doing to put yourself at
risk of pulling a hamstring and all of that. So like,
if the league has put a bunch of money in
it to research it, you certainly gonna get the best
advice when it comes to maintaining your health and being
able available for your team.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
How many hammys have you pulled in your career?

Speaker 3 (39:00):
A few times. I've done it a few times. And
sometimes it can be due to look man, just being
too lean in terms of your body fat being low,
not being hydrated enough. There are bunch of different things
that could be at the root. But it's good that
they've caught it and they'll try and make changes to
make sure we avoid some of these soft tissue injuries.

Speaker 2 (39:16):
That would be great. It really would. Okay, if there
is such a thing as a face of a league
or face of a sport, name them Bucky Brooks and baseball, football,
and basketball? Who might be the faces of those sports
or leagues? Still a baseball.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Look, I think baseball is tough. I don't know who
would be regarded as baseball. You can talk about Aaron Jones,
but I don't know if he has enough popularity. You
have like young guys like Tatis Junior and Rafaelo who
could be that. Like, I don't know who the faces
in baseball and basketball. It's random. People are trying to

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make aunt Anthinny Edwards that, but I think the face
would have to be Luca or Joker potentially being the
face to that. And then football, I mean what Pat Mahomes,
Pat Mahomes.

Speaker 2 (40:06):
Maybe Travis you think, I don't know, you know, you
hit something on it. With the baseball situation, it's tough.
I mean, maybe that's the problem with Major League Baseball
right now. You can't o'chawnie. Maybe, but God doesn't speak English.
I mean, I don't know, what do you do? Baseball
needs one. They need one badly. They're really doing Aaron judge.
I don't think he's that kind of guy. Great player,
but I don't think he's the face of the league.

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I don't know, kind of crazy.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
Yeah, I mean yeah, it's one that he don't have.
I don't know who the stars are, particularly in baseball.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
We move on, We move on. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
Andy Furman. We have two big hours to go, and
of course we're going to say let the battles begin,
that and so much more where right here? Fox Sports
Sonny continues, next, don't Fox Sports. Hey, these are the
two most compelling of all that's coming right up. Good

(40:57):
morning everybody. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Spots Rider.
He is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and we are
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(41:18):
missed the football himself. Bucky Brooks, how you doing? Buck?
Our number two on this three hour extravaganza.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
That's what it is.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah, the three hours extravaganza. Our number two really excited
to talk about more things that are happening in the
sports world.

Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yes, and we do that very nicely. Yes we do.
You know, we have a good pro and con situation here,
and I wanted to run this by you before we
get into your bread and butter, which is football. The
unrivaled a new women's pro league begins playing January. Alex
Morgan and Carmelo Anthony their investors in this league. It's
a three on three league, co founder by Brianna Stewart

(41:55):
and then the FISA Collier six teams five players each,
and the News least said that they will offer the
highest average salary of women's pro sports. Good for them.
I got to ask, though, is the public ready? I
know they want to jump on the success or, at
least the popularity thus far of the WNBA. Is the
WNBA that's successful to make this kind of a move.

(42:16):
The men's three on three, at least in my mind,
has been somewhat of a failure. I mean, it was
been on CBS Sports, I think on TV. I've watched
it every now and again. I just it doesn't do
much to me. Three on three minds me going to
the park and playing basketball. I can't see a three
on three league. Your take on that this announcement is
going to be in January a three on three league?
In fact, it's a good time, I guess because the

(42:37):
NFL basically is just about over, although they're crescendoing to
the super Bowl at that point in time. But other
than that, I just I don't see a three on
three women's league really making it.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
Look. I think three or three has always been kind
of a niche sport. It's kind of popular in pockets.
I think what was it is the Gus Macker imitation
that's always the big right, the big three on three
thing that is up in the Pacific Northwest. I think
it maybe in Montana may be spoken yeah like so
so like yeah, like so you have that kind of popularity.

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You do have the popularity of the Big Three. The
Big Three did bounce around a few different networks. It
started out on Fox, then it moved to CBS. They
now have a unique and special deal with x or
Twitter where they're gonna do some things and look, ice
Cube is try to get a foothold on that. The
women's three on three will be interesting because I think
three on three is an Olympic sport. Uh, there may

(43:33):
be some momentum that they can build off of it
this summer to kind of continue to fuel that. But
it'd be interesting to see women have more outlets in
the US. You know, you think about Britney Grind and
the issues that you ran into overseas well. A lot
of that is because women had to go overseas to
really get paid. If you have some opportunities domestically now

(43:54):
you can keep some of your stars stateside as opposed
to them having to go to Europe and other countries
to play.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
You know, they talk about it's gonna be the highest
salary for a women's league. I did. I don't do
a lot of research, but I did this because I
was curious, because I'm interested in money. Most people are
interested in money. The National Women's Soccer League their minimum
salary is thirty five thousand, all right, NBA it's about
seventy five thousand, and then National Women's Soccer League average
annual salary is about sixty five thousand. So you know,

(44:24):
they got to push it up if they want to
be the highest. And there's only and I guess they
could do that Becau's only gonna be six guys on
a team, six women on a team. So we'll see
what happens there. I'll probably watch it out of curiosity,
but you know, I hope they make it. I mean,
you know, to me, the more leagues out there, the
more jobs. That's basically what it's all about. So let
people work. You want to play basketball, you've give them

(44:45):
the opportunity to play. I hope it does work. And
it seems to me like the women's hockey, the women's soccer,
they're all they're all making some movement right now. They're
doing well, and I think the salaries will eventually go up.
As far as more people attending games, better TV contracts
and things like that. As long as there's a lot
of outlets, and there's a lot of TV outlets out there,

(45:05):
including paid for outlets, I think there'll be more sports.
I mean, you're gonna see I think probably pickleball a league,
a pickleball league down the road. Don't you think that's
gonna happen down the road?

Speaker 3 (45:16):
I mean, some of that has already been playing. We've
seen celebs and high end players player I remember watching
last year Stephan Graff and Andrea Augusty got together and
played in some pickleball matches, and that I think what
is different about this three on three league for women.
There are enough household names to maybe sustain. If you

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think about the league having only six players on the
team and who knows how many teams they'll have, there's
enough notable names that you can comprise the league with
people very familiar faces. And if you get that kind
of support from some of the top players within the
WNBA to continue to play, that's a way to kind
of drive it. And this is a perfect time to

(45:59):
capitalize on it. The league has never been hotter in
terms of the WNBA, and if Breonna Stewart is able
to convince Caitlin Clark to play, certainly brings more eyeballs
to that league, and that is a way for it
to be very successful.

Speaker 2 (46:11):
Exactly right. Okay, now we're going to get to Bucket
Brooks's bread and butter, which is football. Because you're the
best at it, you really are. And I tell you
right now, and I don't mean to embarrass you by
saying this, but I think basically you're wasting your time
with that column on Friday, which I love NFL dot
com and look at writers and scroll down to bucket Brooks.
You should write a book. You should write a book
on football. I mean, have you ever thought about doing that?

(46:33):
Because the knowledge that you have on the game of
football itself, because you have every aspect covered, You played,
you coach, you write about it, you talk about it.
Has there been a thought process of you ever writing
a book.

Speaker 3 (46:46):
I mean, it's kind of like one of the things
on the bucket list. But look, that's hard work, man.
It is the other thinking, all the thoughts writing it.
That's a lot of work. We'll see some point in
the life we'll get to it. Not right now, though.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
What you should do is take all those columns from
NFL and put them in a book. Maybe that's the
way to go. But do you know this pass Friday.
He's in there every Friday, and you have about quarterback battles. Okay,
and he asked the question. I guess you answered it,
But I want to know what you meant by it?
Is every job up for grabs in the National Football League.
You know, when they draft a player. I mean, it's
your job up for grabs. I mean, we talk about that,

(47:20):
but you talk about specifically quarterbacks. Are the jobs up
for grabs when you go to a training.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Camp, not everyone, you know. I think if you talk
about a fifty three man roster, how many spots are
locked in by the time we start training camp. I
would say maybe probably about forty are already penciled in.
There may be about thirteen spots that are kind of loose.

(47:44):
A lot of times those are backup spots and things
where you're like, either this guy's gonna be a starter
or he's gonna be out, but you have a handful
of battles, but a lot of the battles are already decided.
Every camp is not like that. Some people actually run
a very competitive environment and competitive training camp, But for
the most part, some of this stuff has already known

(48:05):
before we even get to the facility to kick off
training camp.

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Have you seen a newcomer steal a veteran's job in
training camp?

Speaker 3 (48:16):
It happens if a young player is playing really well
and they're able to sustain it, not only in practice
but in preseason games. Yeah, you can see a young
gus steal the job. A lot of it depends on
the confidence and the coaching staff when it comes to
playing a young player. But you absolutely can see a
young guys swiper job.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
All right, probably, and you mentioned this, the two most
compelling I guess battles of all coming up with this
football season right now will be quarterbacking and number one
would be the Pittsburgh Steelers Russell Wilson justin fields. Let's
talk about that for a second, because those two guys.
In Wilson, he wants to come back and show everybody
that he hasn't lost what he had, all right, And really,

(48:58):
in Pittsburgh they have a new offensive coordinator. How much
will that help Russell Wilson's I guess opportunity to not
only start, but to come back and do what he
does best.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
Well, it will help him a lot because Arthur Smith,
former Falcons head coach and former Tennessee Titans offensive coordinator,
takes over play calling duties in Pittsburgh. He is a
guy who has a reputation for helping quarterbacks play better.
A lot of that is due to running the football
being very effective on the ground. He's done that wherever
he's gone, but also like putting the quarterback in a

(49:33):
situation to thrive. When Ryan Tannehill was his quarterback, at
Tennessee when an NFL Comeback Player of the Year award,
had two of the best seasons of his career, passer
ratings well over one hundred in each of those years,
played outstanding football for the Titans. Well, Russell Wilson has
an opportunity to do the same. And I know it's
fun to dump on Russell Wilson right now, but Russell

(49:55):
Wilson was on a Hall of Fame path and track.
He has been a guy who' nine time Pro bowler,
who look, seven seasons he's been over one hundred. When
it comes to the passer rating, is about finding a
way to allow Russell Wilson to be more efficient and
effective from the pocket. Part of that can be enhanced
by having a dominant running game in front of him.

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If they can run the football effectively and allow Russell
to push the ball down the field, we can see
prime Russell reappear. Because no matter what people say, he's
still one of the more clutch quarterbacks that we've seen.
What thirty nine game winning drives in his career, second
most among active quarterbacks. He's still good.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
That's an amazing stat And I tell people all the
time when we talk about what you write on Friday.
If you love football and you love the NFL, you're
missing it by not googling NFL dot com and looking
for Bucket Brooks con when I read this said thirty
nine game winning drive second most among active quarterbacks, trailing
only Matthew Stafford. I had no idea that Russell Wilson

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was there. But he's gonna have his hands tied because
he's going against a former first round pick in Justin Field.
I mean, they didn't get Justin Fields because he's good looking.
I mean they wanted to play. And I don't know
if he's going to be he's going to be Russell
Wilson out for the starting job. But it's a possibility
he could. I mean can he.

Speaker 3 (51:13):
I mean it's a possibility. I mean if he plays
out of his mind going into camp right now, Russell
Wilson has slotted in as the number one. He slotted
in to be the starting quarterback. But it's an open competition.
If Justin Fields gets out there and plays well, flashes
some of the potential and promise that we've seen at
times in Chicago, there's absolutely a path for him to

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get the job. Russell will have to help him by
not playing well. But this is an opportunity for Justin
Fields to distance himself away from whatever happened in Chicago
where he wasn't able to kind of solidisfy himself as
a franchise quarterback. Join a new franchise and organization that
will probably put him in a better situation to flourish

(51:55):
in terms of running game defense, allowing him to be
a duel with threat playmaker that he's become since entering
the league. That's a good chance for him, but he's
still facing a veteran who has a lot of pelts
on the wall, winning experience, winning pedigree. That's gonna be
hard to top off. Russell will have to leave the
door cracked, and then Justin Fields will have to kind

(52:16):
of kick it down when he gets his opportunity.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
Okay, here's my question. If I'm Russell Wilson, or maybe
if I'm Russell Wilson's I mean Justin Field's agent, I mean,
will he get the chance. I mean, he's gonna be
going against what three preseason games, and when he does
get into those games, he'll be playing against the beef teams.
So even if he does well, they're gonna say, well,
he didn't do it against starters, and he's gonna play
with guys that probably a lot of them won't make

(52:39):
the roster. I don't know if he'll be giving a
fair shot. Not that he won't know that they don't
want to give him a fair shot, but I don't
think he'll be able to have the time to get
a fair shot. Right. If Russell Wilson's pencil then is
the number one guy, I mean, justin fields. All he's
gonna do. He's got to show off his talents in
practice and when he gets into a ballgame against the
also runs.

Speaker 4 (52:59):
Right.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
I gotta be good, be tough.

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Uh, it's going to be tough, but it can be done.
What I would tell him, I would tell him, you
made most of every opportunity. If you only get ten reps,
make sure that the best ten reps that we can see. Uh,
you can't worry about what Russell is doing. You got
to dig in and kind of lock in on yourself
and really focus on being a great player in your
own right and playing the way that you need to

(53:24):
play given the skills that you have. And so if
that means that you need to run more, use your
legs more. Do that, but don't try to answer the
outside questions, the narratives about his passing and pocket passing
efficiency and all of that. Just go play and play well.
If he does that, he'll get an opportunity. The game
always gives people opportunities to show what they can do.

(53:47):
He just has to be ready when the opportunity arises.

Speaker 1 (53:50):
Right.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
The only way he'll play big time if is Russell
Wilson gets hurt. Correct, I mean that's that's the way.

Speaker 1 (53:55):
It's going to be.

Speaker 3 (53:58):
Yeah, if it has a situation where somehow Justin Fields
is able to get on the field and start a
game or two early, maybe due to injury or something
like that. Don't knock on hoping that doesn't happen. But yeah,
if there's an injury that creates an opportunity for him,
that's when he can swipe the job. But even in
that situation, he has to handle it the right way.
He can't go into that situation worrying about, oh, this

(54:21):
is my chance to steal the job. He has to
focus on what can I do to him to steal
his Win games? I win games. I'm gonna have more
opportunities to be on the field.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
All right, you're talking about two compelling battles. That was
battle number one the second one, really and truly, if
I'm the head coach, I scratched my head and say,
what am I gonna do here? So Las Vegas Raiders,
Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell. Now, look, Gardner Minshew has
been a journeyman, a backup guy. But he did well
in Indiana last year for the Indianapolis Colts when needed
when he called them when Richardson got hurt. But is

(54:49):
he a number one quarterback? I guess he may have
to be a number one quarterback, but is he going
to be their quarterback for the future. I can't see
Gardner Minshew leading the Las Vegas Raiders.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Look, man, that's that's a million dollar question. They're paying
him fifteen million dollars guaranteed over two years to be
that quarterback. That's I would say when you look at
that number, that number is high end backup money, which
is what he's been for most of his career. What
Governer Minshew will have to do is prove that he
can be more consistent and be more than just a flasher,

(55:22):
meaning he can put up moments but then the longer
that he plays, the more defenses figure him out and
the production declines. The Indianapolis coach did a really good
job of working around Garnmentshew, working around his deficiencies and
limitations as a passer and playmaker. In Vegas. We'll see
if Luke Getsy is creative enough to be able to
do the same, because if he's not creative enough to

(55:45):
allow Garner Minshew to help Governmentshew unlock some of the
talent of this offense. Yeah, we're looking at a situation
where ad and o'conno could end up being the guy.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Now, the funny thing is, and you know this better
than anybody, that in sports, you get a label, a
label to your name, and I take Gardner Minshew's going
to be labeled as a sub, maybe a super sub,
but a sub, and it's very difficult to move from
that sub label to become the starter. That's why I
got to believe Aidan O'Connell's going to be the guy.
Although you did mention that Gardan Mintchell's getting some big bucks,
but this guy, Aidan O'Connell took the Raiders to a

(56:18):
five and five record as a rookie, which is not bad,
and he did it under a coach who wasn't a
head coach. He's like an interim coach. So I think
he did a pretty good job. So if I'm a
betting man, I'd say probably Aidan O'Connell gets to start
on the center on opening.

Speaker 3 (56:30):
Day, Yeah, I would think so. I think he look
he's earned a special spot in Antonio Pierce's heart. Antonio
Pierce talks about aid and O'Connell. He never is dismissive
of his chances of being able to start and win games.
To me, that speaks volumes about how much he trusts

(56:52):
Aidan O'Connell. And in a competition where it ultimately comes
down to who does the head coach trust the most,
ain't o'clin O'Connor has the O'Connell has the inside track.
This is one where I think Garna Minshew is gonna
have to play out of his mind to win the job.
Right now. I think O'Connell is pencil then to be

(57:12):
the starter.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
There you go, all right, So those are the two
battles that everybody's gonna be watching, because would you see
that maybe those are the two biggest battles that media
is gonna be concentrated on this year and up in
the preseason.

Speaker 3 (57:27):
I think so. I mean I think they're I think
they're really gonna be focused on that. I mean, we're
gonna talk at Nis him about the young quarterbacks and
the competitive environment that you will see people that talk
about Drake Maye. But really everyone wants to know, is
bow Nick's going to be the starter in Denver? Has
bow Knicks done enough to put himself in a position
to win the starting job? If he does that, he's

(57:49):
the starter. He's Sean Payton's handpick guy. Then it becomes
a different thing. Will he be Sean Payton's next Drew
Brees or will he kind of fall somewhere in between
being a solid starter or a guy that is just
going to be a high end number two for most
of his Innavil career.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
You know, today's the second of June. You know, I'd
say about five six weeks from now it gets rocking
and rolling camps open up. So believe it or not,
we're here. I mean, we're on the doorstep of the
National Football League season already, are we?

Speaker 4 (58:20):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (58:21):
Yeah, I mean it's here, and you know it's different
when they talk about the proposals and how the calendar
we flip. Yeah, once you get to June, you talk
about seven weeks until NFL training camps open up. You
have a few weeks like really this week and next
week of OTA's and then the players disappeared for the summer,
and before you know it, we'll be right back. And
once they get a training camp, it is a sprint

(58:44):
to what amounts as a marathon because the football season
runs all the way through February. But yes, I mean
it's right there, you can smell it.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Quick question about OTA's. Once the players split OTA's, are
they given like a workout schedule by their position coach
or they're on their own? How does that work?

Speaker 3 (59:00):
Okay, So when you are done for the summer, the
strength coach will give everyone a workout plan. He would
tell you follow these workouts. If you do these workouts
religiously into a t you'll come back in great shape.
You won't have any issues passing the conditioning test or
getting ready for training camp. You're on your own, so
you have to ser a field or a place to

(59:21):
work out. If you're working with a private trainer, a
personal trainer, you have to pay for that out of
your own pocket. You assume all the risks when it
comes to that. If you're working out away from the facility,
if you get injured, you take all of that on,
whereas if you worked out, stayed in your town, worked
out of the facility. In those things, the team assumes

(59:42):
the risk when it comes to liability if you get hurt.
You also have the ability to work with the strength
and conditioning coach who can give you the workouts to
ensure that you're going to be ready to play. When
you go off on your own and you deal with
a personal trainer, we don't know if that philosophy that
he hasn up with the philosophy that we have within
the team, and sometimes those confleet can conflicting philosophies and

(01:00:07):
mythologies can end up creating damage to you when you
come back because of the escalation to quick ramp up
to camp. Some of these soft tissue injuries that you
see are these different things being at play. That's why
I think you're having a conversation about the nflpa's proposal
to change OTAs as we know it, maybe to give

(01:00:28):
the team a little more control over preparing the player
instead of right now the way that's currently constructed.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
Interesting, always interesting with Bucky Brooks talks. There you go.
You want to get Buckey Brooks, get him on Twitter
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And of course we have by a beederal betting in
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Hey god, there's some good news. There is some good news,

(01:00:56):
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after we get up the year and the big news
right now, I think in the National Football League, this
kid wrestler Gable Stevenson, he won an Olympic gold medal

(01:01:40):
of the Tokyo Summer Olympics. He's going to the NFL.
He signed with the Buffalo Bills. He's expected to play
on the defensive line six one two seventy five. Expected
to play there, something he hasn't done before during his
athletic career. In fact, the first time Stevenson never put
on a pair of cleats was at a recent workout
for the Buffalo Bills. And he wants to be now
like Es besides Bob Hayes, the only athlete ever to

(01:02:03):
win a Super Bowl ring and an Olympic gold medal. Interesting.
I guess when you heard this news you had to
like scratch your head. Why and can he make the move?
Kind of guy who is a wrestler in college and
an outstanding gold medalist at the Olympics make it in
the National Football League in a position he's never played,
sporting has never played and the size six point two

(01:02:23):
seventy five defensive line is that big enough?

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
I will say that he faces long odds to be
able to make it. Best case scenario, he flashes enough
to earn a practice squad spot that gives him a
year to learn to position so he can compete for
a real roster spot the following year. I won't dismiss
it because he obviously is a gold medal caliber wrestler.

(01:02:51):
There's some crossover between wrestling and football when it comes
to leverage and contact balance in those things before a
player who is never played man, this is a tough task.
It's a really, really tough task for him, and the
Buffalo Bills will need to be invested in him making
it now. This is not uncommon for crossover stars to

(01:03:13):
make their way. A couple of years ago, they had
a rugby player, an accomplished rugby player, try out, try
and make the team. Didn't eventually make the team, but
had an opportunity to. This will be that you hope
that he flashes enough. That's intriguing, but it's really hard
to teach someone at the highest level how to play
the game unless they have a little experience in high

(01:03:35):
school or those things. Not saying that he can't make it,
but it's just the odds are really really against him.
In terms of eventually making it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:41):
You know, every coach and every sport thinks that they
have they're going to invent the wheel in a different
sort of way. That's great. That's what makes them creative
and good and separates them from the rest of the pack.
So you wonder know why maybe this guy Stevenson signed
with the Buffalo Bills. Their coach Sean McDermott. This guy
was a championship high school wrestling. He has a background
in wrestling, and he wants this kid to play the
defensive line, and he thinks he has the potential to

(01:04:02):
make it, so he becomes a genius of In fact,
this kid makes it, and they'll take all the credit
for it because he knows wrestling and he was a wrestler.
But you know, we'll see what happens. It'll be an
interesting story, and I think right now again, it'll be
one of those stories that people follow rather closely when
the camps open up.

Speaker 3 (01:04:19):
Yeah, it'll be one. But I will say this, Jordan Mayalta,
the big time tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, was a
guy who's a rugby player and when they drafted him,
it took him. He had never really played He was
a rugby player exclusively. He finds a way to make
the transition. It took him a year and some change

(01:04:39):
to kind of get it down, but here he is.
He has just do a major deal, a blockbuster deal
to stay with the Eagles for a long time. So
it can happen a lot of times. It depends on
who's the teacher in the room. Who's the guy that
is going to show this guy how to play, who's
the d line coach? How long are they going to
invest in him. Did Sean McDermott the head which have

(01:05:00):
a vested interest in seeing this guy succeed or was
this a free office up front, office driven move where
the scouting staff kind of drove this drove the team
to sign them. It'd be interesting a lot of things
to play, but they get hurt when you when you
have a long roster and you haven't expanded practice squad.
You can take some chances like this. He can be
a guy that if he shows enough, he earns a

(01:05:22):
practice squad spot and then you just kind of see
how he continues to develop over time.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
You know, HBO has the Chicago Bears on their season
show with the Inside Football deal. You know, they should
have got the Bills. Yeah, they should have the Buffalo
Bills with this right, it would be great. I'd love
to see this kid what he does and how he
makes it. If it does make that would be the
story right there. I guess it's too late because they've
already picked the Bears. So we'll see. And the Bears

(01:05:46):
isn't a bad story, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:47):
With k the Bears is a better story. It's a
better story. The quarterbacks annoying them, Yeah, everyone ignoring them
as a Super Bowl contender because of Caleb and all
the weapons that they brought in and Allen Roma Doonza.
The defense played really well the last half of the season.
There's a lot of positive busts. It's a brand name.
Remember they are a blue blood franchise. People have always

(01:06:10):
wanted the Bears to be back. The league is better
when the Bears are relevant. Well, this gives us an
opportunity to have a preview of that. And if the
league could and the TV executives could give it they want.
They would love to see the Bears turn out to
be what the Detroit Lions have been. Where they shot
the behind the scenes footage of the Lions one year
in training camp, and then two years later they're one

(01:06:31):
of the hottest teams in football. For the Bears, if
they could enjoy a similar plight, the league would love
that because it would give us a little behind the
curtain access to the team that we is gonna talk
about a lot because they're one of the better teams
in the league.

Speaker 2 (01:06:44):
Here you go, He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Firmerwe on
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He may be gone,
but certainly not forgotten. That's coming up next live for
the Tirock dot com studios. But first, Kevin Wyatt with
all your sports.

Speaker 8 (01:06:57):
Yeah, there got plenty of matches going on at the
French Open at Roland Garos in Paris, and Coco Goff
has advanced past the fourth round, beating Italian Elizabeta Cocchiareto
in straight sets six ' one, six ' two. Also
top seeded Egos Viatic advancing in straight sets against Russia
Anastasia Potapova, and she didn't lose a single game. She

(01:07:20):
won in straight set, six nothing, six nothing. As for
the men's singles, Carlos Alcarez set to get going in
about half an hour he's gonna be facing a Canadian
Felix Augur Aliasm and right now Stefanos Zizipas, the Greek
nine seeded, playing Matteo or Naldi of Italy, and right

(01:07:41):
now he is ahead in the second set one game
to known, but did drop the first set six three.
Novak Djokovic last night in five sets, advancing a past
the third round, and he played until the wee hours
of the morning three o'clock Paris time yesterday, but he
does advance in a five sets, winning the final set

(01:08:02):
six nothing against Italian Lorenzo Mouzzetti. In the NHL, the
Florida Panthers advancing to the Stanley Cup Final. They beat
the New York Rangers two to one, winning the Eastern
Conference finals in six games. So Florida it's gonna have
a team in the Stanley Cup finals for the fifth
year in a row. Team from Florida will have it

(01:08:23):
will be in the Stanley Cup finals fifth year in
a row, as the Panthers now gonna play the winner
of the Stars and Edmonton Oilers. That series continues later
Sunday night. It will be an eight o'clock or eight
o'clock Eastern time. Puck drop as Edmonton leads this series
three games to two, and in Major League Baseball, Dodgers
beat the Rockies for to one behind a strong start

(01:08:43):
from Yoshinoba Yamamoto. The Yankees get a home run from
Aaron Judges beat the Giants seven to three, Cubs outlast
the Reds seven to five, as that game was delayed
by three hours because of rain, and the Phillies beat
the Cardinals six to one, but did lose Ranger Suarez.
He got hit in his hand by a line drive,
so he had to leave the game, and the Phillies

(01:09:03):
hoping that Rangers is not gonna be out too long
because he's been out standing so far this season. A
nine to one record to begin play, and then WNBA
on Saturday. It was only one game, but it was
one of the most anticipated matchups of the early part
of the season, as the Indiana Fever beat the Chicago
Sky seventy one seventy Caitlin Clark eleven points, a rebound,

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six assists, Angel Reese two for nine shooting in the basketball,
but did bring down thirteen boards. U weave a Champions
League Soccer Real Madrid wins it against Dortmund two nil
Women's College World Series. Top seeded Texas beats Florida ten
to nothing and second seat at Oklahoma over Ucla won
nothing and CAA baseball tournament. The big upset Arizona eliminated

(01:09:45):
by Dallas Baptist who wins that one seven to nothing.
Third seed A Texas in and beats Texas and extra
innings four to two. Back to you guys, thanks kevseeing
and now all right playing stay away. That's right around
the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:09:57):
He's Buckie Brooks. I'm Andy Ferman. And by the way,
by the betting coming up in about several minutes from now.
You know, I heard that the sports cast Buck that
the Cubs in the Reds can imagine winning three and
a half hours for a baseball game to start. That's disgusting,
that's disc I mean, really and truly. And the commissioner
wants to speed up the game, and I get it.
I mean people want things like right now. You want

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you know, instant coffee, you want your classes done in
an hour, you want everything right now, right this second.
And you're gonna sit three and a half hours at
Wrigley Field in the rain to watch a baseball game. Really, really,
you gotta have your head examined. Call a freaking game.
I don't get it. I mean, I'd like to see
how many people hung around to stay and watch that
ball game. It's a meaningless game. Would you have stayed
three and a half hours to wait for the first pitch?

(01:10:42):
I'm not, I'm not. I mean, I guess the concession
is loved. It came on selling beer during the time.
I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:10:49):
I don't know. Yeah, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't wait
that long. There's not a game that I would I
would that a regular season game that I would stay
around like I would have to move on. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
It's crazy. Really, it's craazy. Look, let's talk about this
verses saying playing stay away over here. Talk about the
Baltimore Ravens. They're practicing right now most of this spring
without the NFL's reigning MVP. Their quarterback Lamar Jackson, has
been absent for four of the teams first five voluntary
organized team activities. Okay, is that a big deal because

(01:11:23):
it's voluntary, you don't have to go. I mean, and
you mentioned early on today that OTA is maybe on
the way out, you know, and certainly makes a lot
of sense if they do get rid of them. So
it's voluntary, there's no big deal. I know people are
holding out. You could stay away for two reasons. Number one,
you don't want to go, but number two, like the
T Higgins in Cincinnati, he's just holding out. Now, if

(01:11:44):
you hold out, what does that do for team morale?
I mean the other team guys that the teammates are saying, hey,
come on, we need you, you know, come on play.
I mean, are you looked at as a pariah or
they respect you because hey, look, you're standing in your ground.
You want more money, you want a better contract.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
Okay, so two different things at play. So T Higgins. First,
T Higgins is, what's the restrict prison. He hasn't signed
his tender, so he doesn't have to come in. There's
no such thing as a holdout in his case. He
just hasn't been picked up. So until he signs his deal,
it's not considered a holdout. It's just that the team
would just take it as in terms of the players,

(01:12:23):
and he's just handling business. He's just doing his own thing,
So that's not as big of a deal. Because he
was franchise tagged and because he hasn't signed it. He's
under knowing the obligation to be at any of these
workouts or whatever. With Lamar Jackson. Look, it's voluntary, but
I will tell you the starting quarterback, the franchise quarterback,

(01:12:46):
is expected to be there. Like in most situations, the
quarterback is there. He's the leader of the team. He
kind of makes it happen, and you want him there.
You want Lamar Jackson there to make sure that he
not only knows the ins and outs of the offense,
but he's developing the industry with the players around him,
not only the offensive line in terms of getting their protection,
calls and stuff right, but the rhythm with the receivers

(01:13:09):
on the perimeter. To me, even though it's voluntary, I
would bet you internally from a coaching standpoint, you're a
little disappointed that he's not there. You like to think
that your best player is going to be the leader
in the clubhouse and he is going to be there
to show everyone how to get it done. It's not
a major concern. It's just a little more disappointing that. Look,

(01:13:30):
he's a franchise quarterback. You paid him a bunch of money.
You kind of expect him to take the league on
some of these things.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
You've been around the block, you played the game, you
were in the National Football League. You know what reason
would Lamar Jackson have to not show up? Why wouldn't
he want to show up even if it came and
didn't play, just to be there.

Speaker 3 (01:13:51):
It depends. I mean, like sometimes guys have personal things
going on, Like we're not privy to what's going on
in his family life background. Maybe he's taking care of
some business as it relates to that. You just don't know.
But I would say in a perfect world, if you
don't have anything going on like that, then you would
like him to be there. You know, and you understand it.
If you have some family stuff that he has to

(01:14:13):
take care if he has to take care of some business, cool,
But in a perfect world, you want your starting quarterback
to be there because as he goes, the rest of
the team goes, and it's critical that he and the
offense are on the same page. You want this team
to hit the ground running. There's enough time to do
it in training camp and ultimately dese practice won't quote

(01:14:35):
unquote matter, but you would like to see him there.

Speaker 2 (01:14:38):
And it's funny what you just said is almost a
mirror image of what the Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. Really,
he said, quote, it's this time of the year, it's
voluntary time. It's really not something that we can comment on.
We can't and that's just the time of year that
it is. So I can't speak for anybody that's just
not here. So he said the right things. I'm sure
in the heart of hearts he'd love to have seen
it in there, but there's nothing he could do about it.

(01:14:59):
So the OTAs, as you mentioned early on and you
wrote about it Friday, they could be on the way
out and we'll get to that later on. But I
think it's a good deal that they get him out
of there. Really, if no one's going to show up,
why have them, I mean, really, there's.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
No need for him right, No, that it is the
need to it, there's a benefit to him. I just
think you can just read, you can change the calendar
to make it more beneficial and we can continue to
talk about that later on.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
That's what we'll do. We'll do that. Bucky brooks Andy Furman,
Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready of the Game
that continues to create thrills. Yes, it's bottom barrel betting,
and it's freaking next bottom barrel betting coming right up.
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People, get my money. I'll put your brain to sleep. Betting. Yes,
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Speaker 7 (01:16:03):
Oh Andy, I'm so sorry Bucky won this week. I'm
so sorry to disappoint you there, Bucky, Bucky. Bucky took
this week three to two, so it was close. The
overall scores Bucky forty six, Andy thirty three. So again, Andy,
you're really not that far behind overall. It's just gonna
take a few big weeks from you.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
I feel like the Detroit Pistons. That's what I feel like.

Speaker 7 (01:16:24):
All right, So we'll start today with floor ball. Oh sorry,
that was last week. That was last week. Excuse me,
excuse me. We're starting today with bowls, which actually not
to be confused with bowling. This is actually called bowls.
It's also called lawn bowling. It's played on grass.

Speaker 3 (01:16:40):
Yeah, I have no lawn bowling.

Speaker 7 (01:16:42):
Yeah, it's big in the UK, I think. So we
have Craig Newton at minus one eighteen, who's facing off
against Matt Wires, who's also minus one eighteen. Bucky, who
you got, Oh, let's go with Craig Newton.

Speaker 3 (01:16:55):
You caught his name first. I'm gonna go with him.
Sounds like you have some inside scoop. So I'm gona trust.
I'm gonna lean on your instant because you Craig.

Speaker 1 (01:17:01):
New all right.

Speaker 7 (01:17:02):
I don't know. I don't know if that's a winning strategy, Bucky.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
But but Wayne Newton? What about Wayne Newton? We get
Wayne Noon in there.

Speaker 7 (01:17:08):
Maybe that's just no, no, no, it's it's Wires versus Newton.
But uh, how does he spell his name w y
e r s. It's actually w h y e r S.

Speaker 2 (01:17:17):
I'll take him because he's unique.

Speaker 1 (01:17:19):
I like the spell.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
I'll take Wires.

Speaker 7 (01:17:21):
Yeah, kind of similar to our guy Kevin wired Over
in the Update studio.

Speaker 2 (01:17:24):
Well, if he's as good as Kevin Wye. I'm gonna
change back to Newton really because I don't think Kevin
Wire is much of an athlete. All right, Next, I'm
just saying maybe I'm wrong, Okay, really, all right? Well,
well I don't want to make any enemies here. We
have we have a chess match up next.

Speaker 7 (01:17:40):
I don't know if these guys are enemies, but it's
the Vorkovich Memorial Tournament happening in Kazakhstan right now, and
it's preed Key versus Gupta. Andy will start with you.
Praed Key is plus one twelve Goop does plus.

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
Eight thirty pred k Goopa, Coopakoptap. I like Gupta. I
like Coopta.

Speaker 7 (01:17:59):
Okay, Okay, he's.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
Got to live with that name. That's what I mean.
Anybody who's got to name a Gupta, Hey, Goop, can
imagine sitting in class and the teacher's taking attendance. Gupta,
Are you here?

Speaker 7 (01:18:09):
That's just mean, that's just mean, Andy, But that's his name.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Change it.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
I got him, though, Bucky, I'm going Pren I'm gonna.

Speaker 7 (01:18:18):
Go prep yes, sir, yep, all right, known chess analyst
Bucky Brooks going with pred Key.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
I need to win Bad.

Speaker 7 (01:18:27):
Next German basketball, we have the Bundesliga semi finals. Now, uh,
Wurzburg versus Bayern Munich. Now this is not to be
confused with the football club. This is basketball. Remember, so
plus three twenty for Wurzburg and UH minus four thirty
four for Bayern Munich. Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:18:46):
Uh, that's easy. I mean, if they're there, their football
team is good, then the basketball team also has to
be good. So let's go with Bayern Munich.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
It's a power. When I was working for the Ford
Little Delle Striker soccer team, we had a soccer player
who played for Byron Muna, Gerd Mueller. They called him
the Bomber. He was tremendous. But I'm not taking him
because I don't want to bite him. I want Worsburg.
Despite that, Despite despite Gerd Mueller the Bomber, I'm going
Worsburg all right.

Speaker 7 (01:19:13):
All right, Another German basketball matchup. This is the other
semi finals. So the other conference, we have Chemnitz versus
ALBA Berlin. And you will start with you on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Albert Berlin, because they got two names. If you got
two names, you're big, you're better, is good. You got
to Albert Berlin is bigger than one. Yeah, two is
better than one.

Speaker 7 (01:19:32):
You're right, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:19:34):
Uh, just easy, shimnitz shimnitz. I just I just like it.
I just like when you have a whole bunch of
consonants in your name.

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
I'm just gonna go with this, easy call, all right.
And lastly, we have field hockey. The Yeah, the Nation's
Cup group stage is being held in Poland, so we
have France at minus one sixty four versus Malaysia at
plus two sixty Bucky, we will start with you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:58):
Oh, let's go with France. I took French in sixth
grade because it was a romance language, So I'm gonna
go with it again.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
You're a romantic. We we know that Bucky Brooks is
a romantic, really a lover, all right. And I guess
I'm not a Malaysia and I gotta go with Malaysia.
I don't know why. I just I don't see the
Frenchman playing field hockey for some reason. I just can't
because they're eating cheese and wine. You don't do that
playing field hockey. And I'm saying this. Maybe I'm getting

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too deep into these situations, aren't they?

Speaker 4 (01:20:27):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:20:27):
Hey, it's bottom barrel betting. You gotta you gotta go
for any angle you can find. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
That's what I try to do because I don't know
these sports, and I'm gonna disadvantage. Bucky's the athlete, and
there's a difference. There's a definite advantage if you played
the game. He played the game. I did not. I didn't.
I mean, I admit it. Man, what are you gonna do?
And I'm gonna move on? You cool can start? Guys,
Why haven't we heard more about this incident? That is

(01:20:52):
more here Fox Sports Next.

Speaker 1 (01:20:56):
Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
It just doesn't fit the narrative. We'll explain that in
just about a minute. Good morning, everybody. This is Fox
Sports Sunday. I'm Fox Sports Ready, He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
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raq dot com. The way Tyer Barn should be. Bucky
Brooks the main man right here, center stage, mister football.
Love having you here on Sunday with me to learn
to discuss to child down on everything in the world
of sports. But you know what I'm most happy about, Bucky.
You know what makes me real happy. I'll tell you.
I'm happy that I don't have to read those tennis

(01:21:42):
names like Kevin Wyatt does. I couldn't do it. I
don't know how he does it. I mean, I hear
the top of the owl, bottom of the hour, sports updates,
and these names in tennis. I don't know if he
puts them out phonetically. I could, I wouldn't read him.
I would just say, if you want to find out,
go to our website. I would never read those names.
I couldn't pronounce them. It's crazy, it really is. Now
you do it, Kenvy, you do a hell of a job.

(01:22:03):
I just can't do it. And I do want to
say something, and I haven't done this in a real
long time. I want to wish a good friend. He's
the leading he has more high school wins in college
and basketball high school coaching basketball than anybody in northern Kentucky.
He's been under the weather ladies in the hospital for
a while. Ken Shields. Kenny Shields coach basketball at Northern

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Kentucky University. He listens every Sunday. He's a great friend
and I know he's listening now and get better. Kenny,
He's the main man. Kenny Shields. He coached NKU, took
the NKU Norse when they were Division two to the
National Tournament Division two two years in a row, and
coached high school basketball for years in Northern Kentucky. Has
more wins something like eight nine hundred wins or whatever

(01:22:45):
it may be, more than anybody else in college in
high school basketball. So good for him. Now now to
the task at hand, which basically is football. And we
were talking about you. Basically you wrote about this Friday
NFL dot com Bucket Brooks Scholl down the writers OTAs
on the way out and you say it's going to
make a lot of sense. Tell us basically, what OTAs

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are for the uninformed and why would they make a
lot of sense to get rid of them?

Speaker 3 (01:23:12):
Well, OTA's are They call them organized team activities. Basically,
OTAs are a practice. Ltas are a practice without pads.
When you go to an OTA, if you're watching, you'll
see a team go through individual drills, you see them
go through group drills, special teams practice will be a
part of it, and then they'll finish with your seven

(01:23:33):
on seven, which is take the offensive and defensive lineman out.
You just got a perimeter. They're throwing the ball all
over the yard. Defense is playing coverage running to the ball,
and then you have eleven on eleven drills, which looks
like football. You have the offense and defense going against
plays they don't have on pads. But uh, it's one
of those things where you're a were just trying to
get some work. The league wants to take eliminate OTAs

(01:23:58):
and change the offseason count because as it's presently constructed,
you go to off season workouts starting mid April. Well,
the Super Bowl ends now near the end of February,
so there's about a six week off period before you
go to off season program. And then the program goes
in three phases. You have Phase one, where you only

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can have meetings, so the guys are lifting, they can
only have meetings that last for a few weeks. Then
you have Phase two, where they can go on the
field and they can do individual drills on the grass
at the facility, but you can't do any team things.
And then Phase three, which is when we have OTAs,
that's when you can't have individual and team drills. It
can be in a competitive environment no pads on limited contact,

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but it's as close as you can get to practicing
like you would in training camp without some of the
rigors of it. And what the league in the NFLPA
would like to do is change the calendar. So instead
of starting in mid April, they want to kick it
back to sometime in June or June July and allow
the team to gradually ramp up the training camp. So

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once the guys come in in June or July, they
stay pretty much with the team and everything is about
building it up and to training camp kicks off at
the end of July. So two things.

Speaker 2 (01:25:15):
Training camp will start earlier in the summer rather than
like a late July it was start made right after
the fourth of July probably, And would this have to
be approved by the PA Players Association, Well.

Speaker 3 (01:25:27):
Yeah, the PA is the one that is actually pitching it.
They're proposing it, so yes, because it's part of the
collective bargaining agreement. Yes, the players and the management council
the owners would have to approve it. The pros would
be this would probably be the start of setting the
framework in place for the team to go to an
eighteen game schedule with two preseason games two by weeks,

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and it would all be a part of that. When
it originally hit Twitter, there are a lot of pushback
from players who didn't lie in those things. There were
some scouts that didn't like it because they said it
interrupted what normally would be the vacation time. You don't
get the break that you normally get before the summer.
But to me, I think it's more sensible because the

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six week layoff between the end of OTA's Now and
the beginning of training camp, you have guys going independently
on their own. When you come back and you report
the first day of physicals, you didn't have a day
of meetings, and then the third day you're at it,
you're practicing. And the one thing that I know about coaches,
they want one hundred miles an hour from the jump.

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So after a six week layoff, you jump right back
into training camp and you expected to go right away
at what we call NFL intensity. The reason why we
see these injuries might be due to the lack of
acclimation between a not doing anything to now doing everything
full speed. Now you would eliminate that because you would

(01:26:54):
have the guys and you could gradually escalate it. To me,
it makes more sense than the stop and starts that
you consistently see in the current system.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Kind Of like spring training in baseball, you come in
there and work yourself into shape a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:27:06):
That is exactly what it would be like. It would
be like spring training in baseball, where they're there, they
kind of come around. It's loosey goosey. Then you kind
of get into it, you play, play some games, and
then you hit the regular season running like that.

Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
You know, how come they don't do well? I guess
they do it in college, right well, spring spring workouts
in college and then kind of like did down into
what August? They don't do anything really till August and
they go right into it. There's no preseason games in
college football.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
I guess no, there's no preseason. No, they're no preseason games.
But you know what the difference is in college the
players are always around. There is never a time in
college where the players are going for six weeks. They
may not be practicing football, but they're always with the
strength and conditioning coach they're always lifting, they're always working
on speed and agility to development all of those things.

(01:27:57):
But there's never a six week period where you're like, hey, guys,
let's get out the building. We won't see you come
back and we're right back at it. That never happens.
So the NFL is the only time where you have
these long, extended breaks. And then even in thinking about basketball,
basketball will have a three week or three month period
where they're off, but the guys start playing right away

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and you have summer League. Now that might not include
the Vets, but then there's a break, and then you
have the run up to training camp. This is kind
of how it goes interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:28:30):
We speaking of college, I got to put this is
on the side. You're North Carolina Tarhells beat my school
from Brooklyn, not that I went I didn't go there,
but I lived in Brooklyn. Long Island University basically is
based in Brooklyn, have a campus on Long Island, but
they also have one in Brooklyn, and they beat them
in baseball and the super Regionals just the I think
it was Friday night they played so.

Speaker 3 (01:28:50):
Oh the Diamond Hills. That's when they had to walk
off Grand Slam to walk off Grand Slam to beat
it because you guys were up on the right, they
came down on the way to rally, found a way
to rally and kind of.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
Get the shocks of lu There you go, all right,
I'll tell this football story. He was kind of scratched
my head when I read about it. This is Harrison
Butker thing. It won't go away. I think the talk
has honest a little bit, and it's great to me
at least that Patrick Mahomes, a quarterback, his teammate on
the Chiefs and his coach Andy Reid supported him. He
really did. And they may not have agreed with what

(01:29:21):
he said in his statements, but they just support him.
I think that's what a coach should do. And you
got to love that. When Butler was interviewed again, he
doubled down when asked about it again recently. You know,
I respect him for that. Look, that's his belief. Who
was a Christian school, Catholic Roman Catholic school. He's Roman Catholic,
that's his religion. And they asked him to speak and
they got what they wanted to boom. I thought about
it for a bit, and I thought about the coaching

(01:29:42):
profession How does a coach handle off the field situations?
I think every coach is learned in extras and o's.
They know exces and o's. I mean, you put all
these coaches in a room in football, I mean they'll
all come out with a similar score, maybe once a
little higher than the other. But they all know they're
exs and o's, or they wouldn't be the coach. What
separates a coach a good coach or a great coach

(01:30:03):
is how do you handle the media off the field problems?
They diffused them? Do you ignore? How is that done?
And did Andy Reid do the right thing? I think
he did. I think that's how you win players over.
I really do.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
So.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
What I want everyone to understand, whatever the divisiveness, that
when issues come up, and people having different opinions, people
having different political affiliations, people having just different beliefs in
the locker room, all of that stuff is welcome and encouraged.

Speaker 7 (01:30:37):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:30:38):
The beauty of the locker room at the NFL level
and whatever sport or whatever is like, people take you
as you are, and they accept you as you are.
They respect your opinion even though they may disagree with
your opinion, and so even though the comments that Harrison
Bucker made were controversial and they drew a lightning rout

(01:30:58):
of criticism to him, the team will support him as
a teammate even though they may not agree with his viewpoint,
because everyone in the locker room doesn't have the same
opinion on anything. And that's what you saw. You saw
Travis Kelce, you saw Patrick Mahomes say. They didn't necessarily
agree with what he said, but they respect him as

(01:31:19):
a teammate, so they'll support him as a teammate. And ultimately,
when you talk about free speech in those things, in essence,
that is what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to
be free to have your opinion, to say what you
want to say, and people should respect that that right
even though you disagree with it. It shouldn't be a cancelation.

(01:31:43):
It should be okay, you believe that, I believe this,
Maybe we agree to disagree. That's where the locker room
should be more like the fabric of the country, where
you are able to have disagreements and disputes without it
being a thing that becomes personal and divisive amongst the team.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
You know, I've always said I think that we could
agree to disagree, but we don't have to be disagreeable.
That's the key right there. And now you hit it
right on the head at the nation right now, there
are relatives, there are family members that don't talk to
one another because of political situations. I mean, it's it's crazy,
but that's the way we are right now in our
nation and are not going down that road. But I
will say this, one thing that's been ignored by the

(01:32:24):
national media is this story. The Harrison Bucker thing really
and truly was like wildfire. It's unbelievable. But there's another
story with another kicker in the National Football League that
really and truly has gone really under the radar. Two
women have accused NFL kicker Brandon McManus of sexually assaulting
them while he was on a team flight to London
last September for your Jacksonville Did you know him for

(01:32:47):
your Jacksonville jet? Did you go to that trip? Did
you go to London with them?

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
I did. I didn't go on to Charter though I
flew independently.

Speaker 2 (01:32:54):
Look lucky for you. Lucky for you? Really the Jacksonville
Jaguars is According to a lawsuit, The women were identified
as Jane Doe one Jane Doe two in the lawsuit,
they worked as flight attendants on the Jaguars team charted
flight this is back on September the twenty eighth. Both
women claim that during meal service on the flight, McManus
he used the term grinded against them. He also tried

(01:33:15):
to kiss Jane Doe one earlier during the flight of
coin to the lawsuit, and McManus now has signed a
contract recently to join the Washington Commanders. He denies the
allegations presented in the lawsuit, and attorney for McManus disputes
the women's accounts. It's amazing to me. Its amazing to
me that really and truly this is a is a story, really,
but it doesn't in my mind, maybe fit the narrative

(01:33:38):
of our country right now, where people agreed to disagree
on various topics, where this is almost i hate to
say it, stories like this with abuse and attacking women.
It's almost kind of like commonplace in the world of sports.
But it doesn't fit the narrative where what Butner's does.
Do you hear where I'm coming from on that?

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
Do you agree? Uh, you're saying that it hasn't received
as much attention as to Harrison Buckner stuff. Well, I
think I think there are two different things at play.
One Harrison Buckner's commencement address because of the language, because
of the way that it clicked and it went, everyone
had an opportunity to see that. Unfortunately, this situation with

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Brandon McManus, because it's a he said, she said situation
that everyone was in privy to because you just hear
the allegations. It wasn't like we all were on the
plane or saw Brandon McManus conducting himself in a certain way,
So we we don't do that where we actually had
a chance to see Harrison give his speech. We heard

(01:34:42):
his words and all of the intent. That's going to.

Speaker 2 (01:34:45):
Disagree for a second, I'll tell you why. I say
that maybe on way off Basie on this, but you say,
no one said this was on a plane. It's like
there weren't any witnesses it was on a plane. Where
were the teammates, where were the coaches? Someone on this plane?
How to see this?

Speaker 3 (01:34:57):
I mean, I know one said just yeah, but they
just filed. They just filed the suit and it's a
civil suit, not a criminal suit. So if it was
a criminal thing. It would have been filed like more
immediately and then there would have been action. But because
it's civil and it's one seeking damages or in a
reward for the damages on the emotional stress and harm

(01:35:18):
that was caused to the women based on that, like
no one knew. Doug Peterson just said that he was
just aware, just made aware of the allegations because none
of this came to light and toil the women filed
the suit and so that's why. So it's not like
we as the American public, were on the plane where
Brandon mcnimannus, the team and the teammates were on the plane,

(01:35:39):
and they certainly would do a thing where they do
discovery and they talk to the witnesses and the people
that were on the plane in those things. But it's
different than what Harrison Buckman was doing because we saw it.
We saw it, and so there's an immediate reaction. Whenever
we see anything, we have an opinion, whether people ask
us for our opinion or not, we have an opinion
on a situation and things that we've seen we didn't

(01:36:01):
see the Brandon McManus thin. That's why we don't really
have a strong opinion on it.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
This is crazy. Really, you make a world of sense
when you say that the nation the world saw Harrison Bucker,
and everybody's got to have an opinion, yay or ay.
We like him, we hate him, you know, and some
people told him to go at himself and things like
that and it was disgusting. But everybody saw that, So
I had an opinion, you know, on this situation. Yeah,
teammates may have seen him, you're on a close quarters

(01:36:28):
you're on a plane, but the nation didn't see him.
So this is a team situation with coaches, and maybe
there were some teammates that saw him, but they'd sooner
not say anything than get involved. Now, if if there's
a tape on that plane and I went viral and
people saw it, then then there may have been some
hollow baloo on this stuff. Maybe then.

Speaker 3 (01:36:50):
Maybe, I mean, like right now is so fresh that
no one knows because it didn't come to light until
last week and so people are just now being made
aware of it. It is the same attorney that represented
the victims and the Deshaun Watson, Tony Buzby. Yeah, and
so he is created sometion of dust up. He brought

(01:37:14):
that up and you know, like in anything, particularly when
it comes to the judicial system, whether it's criminal or civil,
you kind of have to wait until all the information
is presented before we can make a judgment. That's how
that operates. Whereas with Harrison Buckner's situation, you're just trying

(01:37:36):
to you can make an opinion immediately just because it's
an opinion. He said what he says, you didn't either
like what he says or you don't like it, and
then people inject themselves into the conversation. I mean, that's
just kind of the way it goes. That's that's where
we are right now when it comes to social media
and those things.

Speaker 2 (01:37:55):
I hate to put you on the spot, but I
know that you were involved with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Have
you heard any of this stuff prior that is coming out?
You know anything about this?

Speaker 3 (01:38:04):
No, I mean no one knows, Like just like Doug Peterson,
I don't fly on the charter with the team. And then,
just like Doug Peterson said, because this lawsuit was just filed,
no one knew, like unless complaints with levied, it goes
up to HR and those things like it would still
even be protected and confidential, Like no one would know

(01:38:26):
right away. And so unless the behavior was egregious where
everyone saw it, and everyone saw the incidents that were alleged,
I think it's hard for anyone to say that they
know about the Brandon McMahon situation.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
Yeah, and the women say they have and they will
continue to have psychological and emotional distress as a result
of the bus alleged actions. They are seeking more than
a million dollars in damages against McManus and the Jaguars,
and they have demanded a jury trial. Interesting to be continued,
all right, he's Bucky Brooks, I mean de Firman. Get
him at Bucket Brooks or at Andy Furman. Eversaw love

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(01:39:46):
after we get up the air and his good news,
his good news on a kicker. We had two Kicker stories,
the Harrison Bucker one controversy. We had the one McManus
and Jacksonville now Washington kind of a lawsuit coming up
on that flight to London last year, but listen to
this one is a pretty neat one. After missing a
less second kit against the Chiefs last year, Buffalo Bill

(01:40:08):
kicker Tyler Bass, he deleted his social media account. I
guess he was getting killed on that now. Since then,
get this. Fans from the two teams as well as
other NFL teams, they donated more than four hundred thousand
dollars to his charity, Ten Lives Club. As a result,
the nonprofit will now build the Tyler Bass Adoption Center

(01:40:29):
in his honor. And I think that's beautiful. It really
is so a bad thing turned out to a good thing.
He missed a kid, but now he's got a new
adoption center in his honor, and the kick goes away
and they'll have a chance, hopefully in the future to
make up for that. Good news.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Good guy, that is good news. That's great news. And
that's the thing that's wonderful about the football community, like
how they support one another and those things. And so yeah,
something that was good ultimately becomes something that something that
was bad ultimately becomes good for Tyler Bass and his family, you.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
Know what, his something that was bad that became good again,
because I say, what took so long? On the night
that Angel Hernandez announced his retirement for baseball, a former
Big league pitcher, Cci Sabathia went on an X and
he gave him a farewell. He says, that's all folks.
And Hernandez, as you know, he's been in the league
for thirty three years, was Major League Baseball's most notorious umpire,

(01:41:19):
really a big time topic. His comments were always out there,
a real big time topic and really, by no means
one of the Major league's best umpires. As a matter
of fact. Data from public umpire score cards also indicated
Hernandez's reputation became outsize. He generally ranked get this Buck
in the sixties or the seventies out of eighty five

(01:41:41):
to ninety umpires, according to Dylan Yepp, the founder of
Umpire Auditor, How in the heck has he lasted thirty
three years? I guess the only reason I could think
of is the fact that he came pretty complicated back
in twenty seventeen when he filed that laws to against
Major League Baseball. He claim in racial discrimination, preventing it

(01:42:02):
from becoming a full time crew chief and getting coveted
postseason assignments. That did it for him. I guess the
lawsuit was twice dismissed in federal court, even as the
subject became a rare window into relations between Major League
Baseball and its umpires. I guess that did it, and
then he became a full time guy. He lasted thirty
three years. Now he's gone. Boy, he was pretty bad.

(01:42:23):
He was pretty bad. I don't know how he lasted
that long. And you know, down the road, I guess
in a year or two from now, they'll be replacing
all the umpires with automated umpires. Amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:42:36):
I mean, look, I'm not a fan of the automated
umpire thing, understand and I understand we as a public
demand that we want perfection from the people that are
deciding and ultimately officiating the games. But some of those things,
human error is a part of it, and you're not
going to have perfect people. I think the most important
thing you want full time umps and referees, guys that

(01:42:58):
can devote their time and attention to the crew.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
I'm glad you brought that up, because yes, human eraror
is part of the deal. And when I watch an
NBA game and there's two and a half minutes left
on the clock, I know for a fact it's going
to last fifteen minutes. And when they go to the
video and they review it, you want to get it right.
I get it, but you know what, I think that
stops the momentum. It stops the flow of the game,
and I just assume they get it wrong. And they

(01:43:22):
still sometimes get it wrong, you know they really do.
But I'd rather than just play the game, forget about
the video. Just play the game, make the call, let
the officials make the call. And that's basically the way
it's got to be agreed.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Uh yeah, I mean that that's the way that I
would I would say, like, just just play through good, bad,
and indifferent. Just play through the calls.

Speaker 2 (01:43:41):
I mean they've had some notorious calls that were bad.
Remember with the Saints several years ago in that playoff game.
I mean it was a bad call and that time out.
Just play the game. Human error is part of the deal,
and it happens. I mean, no one doesn't intentionally, but
that's the way it is. And when they have these
college basketball games or NBA game, I'm telling you, the
last two and a half three minutes on the clock

(01:44:03):
could go for fifteen to twenty minutes. And I don't
think fans want to handle it. I don't think coaches
want it. And again, if a team is on a roll,
I think it takes away from the momentum. I think
that's part of the game. Momentum is a big factor,
especially in the game of basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
Yeah, it's a big factor, and you don't want to
crush momentum when you have things going. Look, it's that
fine line. You want to get it right, but you
want there to be a flow to the game. You
don't want the constant stops and starts where the officiate
officials are more the star than the players. I want
the players to decide the game, and so I don't
want guys to swallow their whistle, but let the players

(01:44:41):
ultimately be in charge and who wins and who loses.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
And you talk about swallowing in the whistle, they certainly
have not swallowed the whistle in the NBA and the
playoffs because they're letting them play and the players getting
real physical, real physical. I don't know if that's good
or bad. It could could relate to injuries. But again,
I mean, I'm watching the playoffs. It's like a different ballgame.
These guys are playing at a different level. In the
playoffs is you know, win or go home. But the

(01:45:05):
officials of maybe they've been told that they've been dictated
by the league office, you know, let him play, and
they certainly are letting them play. But they're getting banged
up pretty good.

Speaker 3 (01:45:16):
Yeah. But for me, I think the playoffs should be
about that. The playoffs should be about Hey, let's limit
the calls, let's play, Let's let them play. You have
to earn your buckets, don't bail people out, don't put
teams at the line, and allow them have a parade
to free throws. Let's make people earn what they're getting.

Speaker 2 (01:45:33):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
It can't be excessive, it can't be egregious. But I
would rather settled between the players as opposed to the
officials stepping in and kind of maybe doing too much.

Speaker 2 (01:45:44):
Yeah, you know, the officials should be seen and not heard.
And now the officials have taken the line like guys
like Angel Hernandez. I mean, he's like a personality. He
was a bad official. I think. Well ruin his career
more than anything else is when they started putting that
strike box on TV, and you could see when he
was calling balls and strikes at the ball game. You
could see how big he was. I remember there was

(01:46:04):
one game and they wrote about this. He called a
pitcher strike and it bounced to the plate and he
called it a strike. I mean, this guy was terrible.
It's amazing how he lasted thirty three is amazing. How
he even got to the major leagues. But he's gone
now and gone and forgotten and let him go. But
you know, I'm not so certain it's better to have
the AI umpires down the road. I think there was

(01:46:27):
something to be said about the fans really enjoying managers
coming out of the dugout and kicking dirt on home
plate and arguing with the calls. I think that was
part of the game. Maybe it's gone, that's a long
lost art, but I think fans like that. You know,
guys coming out there and just jowing it out with
the umpire. You don't see that anymore. David Bell does
that a little bit with the Cincinnati Reds. He's got

(01:46:47):
a short fuse, but other than that, you don't see
many managers doing that in baseball.

Speaker 3 (01:46:54):
Yeah, not as much as we used to. Like we
see Earl Weaver and it was crazy. Guys come out
there and do it time. Obviously, Yeah, they would do it,
kick dust up on the umpire shoes see that as much.
We recently saw Aaron Boone go bananas because of it
was an interference call or something that happened at at

(01:47:15):
second base and he just blew a gasket. But yeah,
it's rare that you see those guys do it. It
was a big part of the game, though. You would
see those moments and and and that's kind of the kid.
You remember those things, and it did appear that baseball
was front and center. Baseball was everything, so we saw
a chance. We had a chance to see that stuff more.

(01:47:37):
Now baseball has faded. It's no longer the number one sport,
and we don't see it as much as we used to.

Speaker 2 (01:47:43):
Gotta be entertaining, you know, baseball is so involved with statistics,
with you know this that, and people don't care. People
don't even know what they are Forget about the statistics.
Entertain us. That's what we need to do. I remember
when Loup Panelo was managing the Cincinnati Reds. He was arguing,
we call one time he picked up a base and
pitched it up into right field. He just picked the
base up and threw it away. People love that. It's entertainment.

(01:48:03):
That's what sports is. It's entertainment. It's not numbers. You
want to be a number guy, you know, get it
to finance. You know, baseball should not be all numbers.
You know, launch distance in this and that and who
the home runs? A home run if it gets over
the fence, it's a home run. I don't care how
far it is. I don't care to launch angle. I
don't care about that stuff. But baseball wants to do it.

(01:48:24):
Let him do it all right. He's Bucket Brooks on
Iny Firm and we are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio, and it's a tough way to make one
hundred g's. That's coming up next live from the tiraq
dot com studios. But first, here's our guy, Kevin Why
with all your sports. Yeah, French Open tennis action going
on right now. Carlos Alcarez is in the middle of

(01:48:44):
his match. He got going about thirty or so minutes
ago as when he started, So they're now I think
in the actually they're still in the first set. It's
tied at two games apiece. Carlos Alcarez, he's up playing
Canadian and bear with me here, Felix augaire Alias. I'm
trying to say his name as great as I can,
but he's the twenty first seed there at the French

(01:49:05):
Open and Carlos Alcarez and him in that first set
tied at two games apiece. Earlier tonight, a couple of
notable matches on the women's side of things. Coco Goff
won her fourth round match as she beat Italian Elizabeta
Cocchiaretto six ' one, six ' to two, and then
top seeded IGAs Viatic winning in straight sets against Russian

(01:49:26):
Anastasia Potapova, and Igasvatik didn't lose a single game in
this match. She wonted six love, six love, as she
advances past round number four and uh Friday night into
Saturday action at the French Open. Novak Djokovic did advance
in his third round matchup, but it took him five
sets to get past Lorenzo Muzzetti, but he did win

(01:49:49):
that fifth set six love, but that match went until
three a m. On Saturday local time.

Speaker 8 (01:49:56):
In Paris, NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, the Panther eliminating the
New York Rangers in Game six, winning at two to one,
as they go to the Stanley Cup Finals. The fifth
year in a row a team from Florida has represented
has been represented in the Stanley Cup Final. The Panthers
will play the winner of the Stars and the Edmonton Oilers,

(01:50:16):
and that series continues later tonight eight o'clock Eastern is
a schedule puck drop. As Edmonton leading three two, Conor
McDavid potentially one game away from his first appearance in
a Stanley Cup final. Major League Baseball Dodgers over the
Rockies for to one, Yoshinobu Yamamoto going six inning, seven

(01:50:37):
strikeouts in a walk in the victory. The Yankees beat
the Giants seven to three behind Aaron judges twenty first
home run of the season. Cubs outlast the Red seven
to five in a marathon affair that was delayed by
three hours because of rain before the Cubs eventually do
win it. The Phillies beat the Cardinals six to one,
but Rangers Suarez had to leave the game after he

(01:50:57):
was hit by a line drive, had a bruised hand
because of it, and the Phillies hoping that he's not
out too long because he's having an outstanding season nine
to one so far. In the WNBA. There's only one
game on Saturday of the Indiana Fever. Chicago Sky Indiana
wins at seventy one seventy behind Caitlin Clark's eleven points,
eight rebown, six assists. Angel Reese struggling shooting the ball

(01:51:18):
at two for nine field goal percentage, but she did
have thirteen boards. UIFA Champions League soccer on Saturday saw
Real Madrid win that European Club Championship against Dortmann at
two nil, and if the Women's College World Series top
they did. Texas beats Florida ten nothing, Oklahoma over UCLA
won nothing. And in the NCAA Baseball Tournament the regional round,

(01:51:40):
the huge upsot of the day Dallas Baptist not only
beating Arizona seven nothing, but they knocked the Wildcats out
of the tournament all together. Third seed at Texas, A
and M beats their heated rival Texas and extra innings
four to two.

Speaker 2 (01:51:55):
Back to you guys, Thanks, keV, have a great day.
We'll see you next week. Okay, now here's a deal.
The question of the day is would you And I'm
gonna ask Bucky Brooks would he or anybody else for
that matter. After I do this for you, we're gonna
have the blame game in about ten minutes. But last week,
Liz McGuire was sitting on the third baseline of a
Blue Jays game talking with a friend when she was

(01:52:17):
hitting the head with a one hundred and ten mile
per hourifoul ball off the bat of Bobashett all Right,
the ball traveled over the protective netting installed and this
is installed at every Major League baseball park, and the
medics quickly rushed to McGuire's attention all right, of course, Now,
most people would have been worried about the large bump
forming on her head, and they rushed straight to the hospital,

(01:52:37):
but she didn't. She said that she'd liked to go
back to her seat watch the final linings of the game,
which resulted in a four to three Blue Jays lost. Now,
to make matters even worse, she didn't even get the
ball that hit her, and some other fans scooped it
up instead. Now, after the game, McGuire decided to go
to the emergency room. It was determined that she had

(01:52:59):
avoided serious damage. She just had a mild concussion and
normally the story would probably end here, but it didn't.
It didn't. As soon as she got home, she posted
two pictures to a few hundred followers, asking the Blue
Jays if they could hook her up with the ball
since she never got a ball. It was at Blue
Jays she goes, hey, I got my face mashed. I

(01:53:21):
got it mashed in by one hundred and ten mile
an hour foul ball of Bobachet's bat. I didn't even
get the ball, she writes, I even stayed till the
end of the game. Anyway you could hook a girl up.
This is what she puts on her zeke exicount all right.
Her surprise, the tweet went viral. It went to over
fifteen million people, including the Blue Jays. The blue Jays

(01:53:42):
got back to her. They offered her tickets to an
upcoming game and assigned bobashet Baseball. Then get this tops
the card maker. They joined in the and they asked
if they could make one hundred and ten trading cards
with her picture and send them all to her, And
Maguire said yeah, no, no, no big deal. She said
she'd auction you off a limited number of the cards

(01:54:03):
on eBay and donate the partial proceeds to a local
children's hospital. However, she was generally shocked. She saw how
much things they were going for. As of this week.
Get this, As of this week, only four cards were
for sale, the cheapest selling for almost one thousand dollars.
So this means if Maguire were to sell all one

(01:54:23):
hundred and ten cards at that price, she can make
over one hundred grand. Not bad for getting hit in
the face. So the question I asked, would you, I'll
answer that for me. I would I'd get hit in
the face for one hundred grand like this, hitting the
face with a ball, I would do it, would you,
Bucky Brooks?

Speaker 3 (01:54:40):
How much damage to my face?

Speaker 2 (01:54:43):
Well, she got a big bomb, she gotta knock. She
got a knot over on forehead.

Speaker 3 (01:54:48):
Ooh yeah, I don't. I don't know. Man, A hundred thousand,
I don't know I any more for the stress that
comes along with that. Yeah, I'm going to need more
than just one hundred grand.

Speaker 2 (01:55:00):
It's amazed. Well, look you you probably got hurt more
when playing football. I would think, right, she got a
mod concussion. People got worse concussions playing football.

Speaker 3 (01:55:08):
I would think, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would anticipate that
there are the injuries are more severe football than uh
the foul ball. But you gotta be aware. Like that's
the thing about like going again. You gotta be aware.
You gotta have your eyes up. You can't be chatting
and so focused on your hot dog and beard that
you don't see the ball coming here.

Speaker 2 (01:55:25):
Yeah, you're exactly. I got a baseball games. I see
people on their cell phone. I see people bringing books,
reading books, magazines. It's amazing, it really is. Eating. They
do everything, Tony to friends, They do everything, but watch
the game. That's what they do. I don't know, but
I would do. I could hit in the face. You
could hit me in the face for one hundred grand
I'll tell you right now. That's it, all right, Bucky Brooks,
Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready, this

(01:55:47):
is what you all waited for. What is it? The
blame game is freaking next. Oh, the blame game. Right
around the corner, that says Fox Sports Sunday and Fox
Sports Ready. He's Bucket Brooks and Andy Furman and we
are live on the Ti rock dot Com studios. And
of course it's about eleven minutes before the top of
the hour. And at the top of the hour, which
will be nine am on the East Coast, the Swallow

(01:56:08):
Domb himself, Mike Harmon will join Ryan Hollins. So stay
with us right here on Fox Sports Radio. And we
want to thank our tremendous staff. Kevin Wirrett, you are
a tremendous athlete that was only kidding. Mark Ramsey with
all the controls and the Eye Man himself, the Eye
Man always available to help us what we need here
on our show. Now the blame Game, let's do it.

Speaker 5 (01:56:27):
You ruin me.

Speaker 1 (01:56:28):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 7 (01:56:32):
It is all your fault.

Speaker 1 (01:56:36):
Maybe it's everyone's fault.

Speaker 2 (01:56:38):
Who the liar?

Speaker 1 (01:56:40):
That's why there's the blame game theme.

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
Let's stray around who to blame the liar?

Speaker 7 (01:56:46):
You're the eye, man, I'm the liar?

Speaker 2 (01:56:48):
No, no, you no?

Speaker 4 (01:56:48):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:56:49):
Okay. Also, I think it's worth mentioning before we jump
into this that Kevin Wired actually just left, so he
missed your apology.

Speaker 2 (01:56:57):
I take it back, I take it back.

Speaker 7 (01:56:58):
I was gonna say, just remember to apologize next week,
but it's already taking.

Speaker 2 (01:57:01):
Ain't and a half.

Speaker 7 (01:57:02):
Got it, got it all right?

Speaker 2 (01:57:03):
So the one shot that's he gets.

Speaker 7 (01:57:06):
Here we go. Shiloh Sanders College, son of head coach
Dion Sanders, filed for bankruptcy earlier this week. Who do
you blame?

Speaker 1 (01:57:14):
Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:57:15):
How that hell could you file for bank First of all,
wish he getting the money to file for bankruptcy. And
when I was in college I couldn't file for bankuercy.
You know why I had no money?

Speaker 1 (01:57:25):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
Well, obviously he's got a ban accountant, someone stealing money
from him, or he's spending like a pig. So this
problem is his it's all on him. Sean, how do
you do that? Ask you that I don't get how
you could file for bankruptcy. It's unbelievable, Fucky.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
You filed for bankruptcy to protect yourself against a lawsuit
from a security guard that issuing you in one eleven
point nine million dollar judgment. You filed bankruptcy to make
sure that you don't have to pay him, even though
you were fifteen years old when the allegations in the
conviction took place. That's why you file a bank rept
so you don't pay someone who waited ten years to

(01:58:02):
try and collect money on an incident that happen at school.

Speaker 7 (01:58:05):
Makes sense to me.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Yeah, And that guy probably knows that he's got some
money and that's why he's suing him now.

Speaker 7 (01:58:12):
A video went viral after the Mavericks won the Western
Conference Finals a few days ago of Luka Doncic enjoying
a postgame recovery beer, only to have it confiscated by
a Mavericks executive. Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
Look? Look, I don't blame Michael Finley for taking the
beer from Luca. It's a bad look, particularly when you
have TV cameras around. Even though that might be a
part of basketball culture, you certainly don't want that out
there for public consumption. So Michael Finley was trying to
do Luca Asali by protecting his image, as opposed to
letting them have the drink and for everyone to see it.

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
Andy, that's ridiculous. I tell you what. I remember when
I used to go to the Nick games and go
after the Nick games into the locker room, Dave de
Bush would have a six pack right near his locker.
You know, things have changed. I get it. Maybe it's
not proper, But you know who I blame on this,
the MAVs exact. If you know why, he probably wanted
the freaking beer. Let Luca drink the beer. He's gonna
drink the beer anyway, so who cares. It's not poison.

(01:59:08):
It's not like injecting poison in your vein. It's a
freaking beer. And the Bush would have a six pack
after May he rest in peace. You have a six
pack after every game, right by his locker after a
Nick game.

Speaker 7 (01:59:19):
So the executive just took the beer and had it first.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
He wanted it. He wanted That's why, all.

Speaker 7 (01:59:25):
Right, Real Madrid won the Champions League yesterday. The Champions
League Final is one of the biggest sporting events of
the year globally, but in the US we barely even
hear about it. Who do you blame, Bucky, I just
blame us for.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
Not being open minded enough to really embrace soccer. Soccer
is the world's most popular sport, but for whatever reason,
we haven't done it. Some of that is, I would say,
youth coaches and those things not necessarily encouraging and keeping
the best athletes in the sport. So, yeah, the youth coaches.
They made it where we don't view soccer like the
rest of the world.

Speaker 2 (01:59:57):
You soccer, Andy, we don't hear about it because we
don't want to hear about it. That's why. And you
know why, Kevin Wyatt's to blame. I blame Kevin.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
Why.

Speaker 2 (02:00:05):
You know why, Because the announcers and the media people
who speak TV and radio can't pronounce the names, and
those players in those leagues you're.

Speaker 7 (02:00:14):
Not even here anymore. He's just kind of I don't
care hell.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
Here, it's someone will tell him because they can't pronounce
the names. So because they can't pronounce the names, what
do they do? They ignore it? That's why they don't
talk about That's why they'll talk about the National Hockey League.
They can't pronounce the names, so rather than not pronounce
it but do it poorly, they don't talk about the NHL.

Speaker 7 (02:00:31):
All right, one more quick one here, USC and head
coach Lincoln Riley have reportedly been trying to get out
of their Week one matchup against LSU this coming season
for over a year now. Who do you blame?

Speaker 1 (02:00:41):
Andy?

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
They're probably not getting enough money, that's why. But Lincoln
Roley right now, he needs to get out of it.
He's not gonna win, he's not gonna win that game,
but he probably wants more money. That's why.

Speaker 3 (02:00:50):
All Right, Bucky, you know, I mean, look, this is
all USC. They gotta be courageous enough to take on LSU.
Can't run from them, all right, than you

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