Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk NBA Finals, AFC South, Caitlin Clark Olympics Snub & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Mister Bucky Brooks. Hello, Buck, how was your week? How's
it going?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's been a great week, has been a great weekend. Andy,
excited to be on to talk you know for three hours.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I love it. I love being with you. I tell
you what I would like to move in with you.
But that's another story for another day, you know. Can
you believe? Can you believe that we're going to talk
about women's basketball again? Have been years, yet, decades that
have gone by my doing this show that we never
touched on. Two things soccer. We I mean three things soccer,

(01:10):
NHL at women's basketball. Last week we opened up the
show Women's Basketball Today, Women's basketball, in particular Caitlyn Clark,
who did not get selected to the USA Women's Olympic team.
All right, when you heard that news your immediate reaction,
mister Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
I knew the the sports war was gonna go crazy
because Caitland Clark is one of the more popular figures,
maybe the most popular figure in women's basketball. But I
knew they wouldn't have enough nuance to understand why it
was going to be so difficult for her to make
Team USA. Team USA is sixty six and three. They've
won seven straight Olympic gold medals.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
It's been a.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Team that is probably the hardest team for anybody to make.
You've had Hall of Fame players or Hall of Fame
players not making on their first try. Dawn Staley didn't
make it, Deanna Tarassi didn't make it. There have been
others who have failed to make it because it's so
difficult and because experience, particularly international experiences coveted. I knew

(02:13):
that Caten Clark would have a tough time, but I
knew the greater world would would lose their minds because
they just can't imagine a world without Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
When it comes to women's basketball, you know.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
You hit the nail on the head. They're gonna win
the goal with or without Caitlyn Clark. That we know. Okay,
they're that good. But here's the question I think that
people have to delve into because first off, it was
a political thing. It's a popularity contest. How can I
put her on the team? First off? Who benefits from
her being on the team? Obviously not so much the
team because I mentioned they're gonna win the goal. I

(02:46):
think it's the growth of the sport. Okay, broadcasting doubt
benefit of she's on the team because it'll be must
see TV. Everybody wants to turn her out to see
her the other women on the team. They'll get some visibility,
increase visibility with her being the team. Where's people gon
to tune in? People gonna watch it anyway, and they're
gonna win anyway. But not having her on the team,

(03:07):
even if she didn't play, but she probably wouldn't play much,
I think was a bad move in general from a
marketing point of view, not from a basketball point of view,
but from marketing the sport in general agreed.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I mean, look from a marketing standpoint, yeah, she's the
most popular person that you have. You should bring more
eyeballs to the sport. There's no denying that there would
be greater interest in the sport and all of those things.
But I just think about like the WNBA, right, and
the positives has been like arenas have been filled in
that stuff. But every night is an indictment on the

(03:42):
league when either she gets filed, she gets touched, She
doesn't play well, players aren't in endearing to her because
of all the popularity she's brought to the sport and
all of that other stuff. I could see a team
being like kind of like, yo, we're good on that.
But what really happened is she hasn't been in the circuit,

(04:04):
meaning she hasn't played any of the exhibitions.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
The head coach doesn't know her, has never coached her.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
And so when you talk about picking the twelve best
or fifteen best ladies to represent like there has to
be a trust factor. And because Caitlyn Clark hasn't played
in this group, they don't know her, they don't have
any skins in the game on her, so that's why
she was left off.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
It amazes me. I was on social media yesterday just
watching some of the quotes. It's amazing. I mean, I'm
gonna I don't know who said these things, but these
are some of the things that I read. I rather
watch grass grow, I'd rather watch paint dry, I'd rather
watch dir just be moved around because Caitlyn Clark is
none on the team, all right, If she's there, it's

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appointment TV. You people whoever did this, take your brain,
put it in a museum and study it for how
dumb you are. It is unbelievable. I'm reading about this.
Someone on serious EXCM I don't even know the name,
point out how silly it is for a sport that
it's trying to grow to have someone as popular as

(05:09):
clocked out on the team, even if she stinks it
was written, which she does, and that's a horrible vision.
And last, but not least, I think it was Michelle
Tafoy who said this on social media. It was a
lost opportunity, writing it was a chance not only to
grow the sport, but create interest. And she went as
far as to call the decision detrimental to the sport. Wow,

(05:32):
the sport will live the sport and men's basketball the NBA,
they survived after wil Chamberlain, they survived after Michael Jordan.
They survived that. There's so many superstars and the WNBA
will survive, and the Olympic team will survive without Caitlyn
Clark on the team.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, no, no, no, they definitely will survive without her on
the team.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And I understand that. But here's what has happened.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
That Kaitlyn Clark conversation has been hijacked by people that
are casuals with a political agenda. Okay, by casuals, I
mean they don't really know women's basketball, they aren't really
fans of women's basketball. They're using Kaitlyn Clark as a
pawn to advance a political agenda. And what has happened
is because so many voices are weighing in, is mudding

(06:18):
the water when it comes to what we're really talking
about the game. If we were talking about the game,
and we were talking about the team and putting the
best team, well then you could be again to have
the discussion that we love to have in this country
about a meritocracy. Does Caitlyn Clark merit a spot on
the team based on how good she is. My question
to the people who are saying yes, well, who are

(06:41):
you taking off?

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Who is she more accomplished than that?

Speaker 2 (06:44):
It's on the team right now, and there's no one
that you can remove. I mean, there have been MVPs
in the WNBA who have.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
Not made the team when they were in the midst.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Of ana in ANMVP season. So who are you removing
to bring Caitlin Clark on as a feel good story.
But remember, in our country, we hate that. We like
for everybody to earn it. We don't want people to
be given stuff, so we can't have it both ways.
We wanted a meritocracy in some areas and not a
meritocracy in other areas.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It amazes me. I mean, I don't remember any backlash
in any sport as big as this situation. And I
think you're right, it's not the fans of the sport,
because I would have to mention the fact that the
people who are going crazy and they're outrage, they're not
following the WNBA. They never have. They follow this one girl.
She's popular and they want to just go crazy and

(07:39):
they say it's a political thing. Some have even gone
so far as it's a racial thing. These people are crazy.
Those people who are saying these things couldn't name five
players in the WNBA. And it makes me sick, it
really does. I have never seen such outlandish behavior. And
any All Star team that's picked baseball, football, whatever it
may be, in the NBA, the NBA game, I've never

(08:01):
seen anything like this, have you? It's crazy?

Speaker 2 (08:04):
Well, I mean like this has kind of been part
for the course when it comes to Kaitlyn Clark in
a discussion, and there's so many different layers to the discussion.
One the basketball discussion part of it. If we talk
about Kaitlyn Clark as a hooper, she's a great hooper.
But right now, when we talk about in the pro game,
not the college game. In the pro game, we have

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seen some of the deficiencies that she has in her game.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
The physicality is bothered.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
She's a little more one dimensional in terms of just
being a three point shooter, not necessarily a playmaker in
this game.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
That's what it's like in the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
For those who are familiar with international ball, man international basketball,
women's basketball is ten times more physical than this game.
So it's gonna be tough for her to exist and
to be a productive player when she struggles.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
With the physicality of this game.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
The other part that I think everyone has to understand
when we talk about a team like, it's not just
about one player. And I think the fear internally is
if Kaitlyn Clark is down at the end of the bench,
every conversation when they come to the media is going
to be about, well, when is Kaitlyn Clark going to play?
And no matter how accomplished the coach, no matter how

(09:14):
I experienced, the coach man to have to deal with
that question, have to deal with the Kaitlyn Clark stuff
over and over and over again, it becomes a major distraction.
And so it's going to be a part of the
conversation no matter what when it comes to women's basketball.
But her presence on the team could be a distraction
and pretty divisive because we I would say, the simple

(09:36):
media is going to make it about Kaitlyn Clark versus
Team USA no matter how many times they talk about it.
She has to earn her way into the rotation and
era minutes.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
You know, I'm with you on THATTT I think that
to fuse all this situation, this craziness. It would be
really wonderful and it'll never happen. If Kaitlyn Clark would
stand by the podium, have some sort of a news
conference and say it's okay, you know, it's probably best
for me. I'm going to grow in the sport. I
need a rest. I went directly from college to the

(10:07):
WNBA and a grinding schedule. I'm learning the WNBA. I'm
getting beat up on a nightly basis, and I think
it's best for me to sit out. And it was
a Kansas Parker never made it. She was she never
made an Olympic team. Right, the first time was in Tokyo.
I think she was not on the team. So it's
not a big deal. I mean, so she didn't. She'll
make the next one. But she needs to diffuse it herself.

(10:28):
No one else could do that. If she could do that,
she would quiet all these naysayers. I mean, I think
that's the way to go.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
No, it wouldn't matter what she said. It wouldn't matter
if she said.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
If she could come out and talk about the sport
is in great hands, YadA, YadA, YadA. There are people
that are going to use her as a pawn to
just create chaos and to make it a situation where
everything related to the team is going to be divisive.
So I appreciate her standing up if she does take
that stand, but you shouldn't necessarily be on her.

Speaker 3 (10:59):
It should be on us.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
The I said, newfound women's basketball fans that are making
Caitlyn Clark a bit of a martyr to understand and
educate ourselves on international play, Team USA and all those things.
They don't need to apologize to us. The proof is
in the pudding. She has terrific skills and a great
future and potential, But I can't say that she's better

(11:23):
than any of the people that are on the team.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
I'm with you. I'm with you on that. You know,
and you talk about craziness, Okay, I mean this story
that came out the other day and I wanted to
share it with you. It revolves around football, and it
was a green Light podcast. Former NFL star Chris Long
did it and the Package running back Josh Jacobs talking
about this game the Eagles are playing the package in
South Paulo, Brazil, and he says, don't wear green and really,

(11:46):
when I first heard it, wow. I mean, if I
was a player and I heard what's going on and
they have to be broadcast, I mean, they're staying in
the hotel room and they're gonna be a military like
it's a transportation to the bullpark, whatever it may be.
I said, I'm not going I mean, and then they
say it was all false. I mean to me, the
NFL has to be smarter than that. A. They knew

(12:06):
there wasn't going to be a problem. B If in fact,
Green was a situation with Gogwood gangs, why would they
pick two teams that are basically are green. The Eagles
were green and the Green Bay Packers are green. I
don't get I mean this thing again, the dangers of
social media, the dangers of people you know, getting their
news source basically from social media and podcasts.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
Well, I would say the bigger issue was Josh Jacobs. Look,
he just misunderstood what was told to him and he
related that to the public. And as you and I know,
working in radio, we have to be very careful and
responsible for what we say. He just needed to make
sure he understood what he was saying in the potential

(12:53):
impact of his words when he said them on Chris
Long's podcast.

Speaker 3 (12:57):
He didn't.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
He came back conditioner an apology. But look, it's salacious,
it's sensational. When you say that he we can't wear
green because of ganggay City in another country. You know
that everyone is going to run with it, particularly on
Twitter or X.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
It's one of those things like you live and you learn.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
There's enough time to kind of separate his words from
what's actually going to take place in September.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
But yeah, it it costs a little bit of a stir.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, I mean I heard the story. I said, wow,
I mean, I think the NFL is probably gonna cancel
that game, and maybe I'm making a home game in
neither of Philadelphia or Green Bay. But thank good, I'm
sure the NFL checked all that stuff. I'm they're not
gonna just throw a game down there in Brazil and say, Okay,
you do the best you can, good luck. There's gangs
down there that ain't gonna happen. There's no way, right,
So then everything is good there. Great. Now, I did

(13:46):
mention in Game one coming into the set, but that
he was the best and we got a touch on
this at least, and you know about Game one between
Boston and Dallas and NBA players Game two tonight, and
he was the best player, and he was better than Luca,
He's better than Kyrie. I'm talking about Christa's Porzingis. Celtics
won that game one O seven eighty nine Game two.
As mentioned tonight, Dallas only had eight assists in a
game that eleven turnovers. But Porzingis scored eighteen of his

(14:10):
twenty points in the first half. Twenty points, six rebounds,
three blocks in twenty minutes. And the Celtics right now,
this guy has not played like in weeks. How does
he come off the bench and play like he did?
Was it because Dallas had no scattery put on this guy.
I don't understand how things like that could happen. You
would think he'd be somewhat rusty. I mean, I don't
think it's going to happen tonight. There's no way. I

(14:32):
don't think. But he came out there and like Gangbusters,
and honestly, he was in fact the best player on
the court.

Speaker 3 (14:41):
He was the best player on the court.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think you also have to understand this for pro athletes,
when you are motivated to prove nasaiers wrong, you have
a way to be able to summon other parts of your.

Speaker 3 (14:54):
Skill set and your character.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Kristaph Porzingis had been a member of the Dallas Bavericks.
Us about him and Luca and I getting along him
not necessarily fitting into the culture that the Mavericks had
established and those things. And because he had an opportunity
to go back to play, to kind of like have

(15:16):
a revenge game, he was ready to play, and that
emotion got him going. He got off to a great
start and then just kind of roll with it.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
We will see.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
Now that he's settled in, what does he look like
in game two, because now the emotion part of it,
the emotional part of it would be done. Does he
have enough fitness and stamina and skill to adapt to
what the Dallas Mavericks bring to him now that they
know that he certainly can hurt them by himself.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
He hadn't played a game since April to twenty ninth,
and I'm sure he wasn't practicing much. Maybe he goes
to the gym and just takes a couple of shots
shooting practice, but he wasn't running. I'm sure he had
a big calf. I don't see how that happens, and
then all of a sudden, you got a guy like Luca.
Basically he was shut out. To be quite honest, he
didn't dominate the game as he normally does. I was.

(16:03):
You know, look, in a way, I'm happy because everybody
wanted to bury the Boston Celtics. They say they choke
when it comes to the playoffs. They were stuck on
seventeen titles. They are right now for the last sixteen years.
They were stuck on seventeen titles. Back in twenty twenty two,
they lost to Golden State. Last year they choked it
up to Miami. So, you know, I think the storyline
for the Boston Celtics at least was when it matters,

(16:24):
they fold. I don't know if that's a fair assessment
of the Boston Celtics, but that's basically a label that's
put on them. So they had something to prove. But
I think this series is not going to be one
and done. It's not going to be a four game sweep.
I think I make all as deep as six games.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:40):
Look at look, NBA series don't start until the road
team wins the game, and the Mavericks traditionally have not
won the first game of a series. I think Jason
Kidd is one in five in the postseason. In series
openers they lost. But what really matters is whether they
win the next game in Game two, because if they

(17:02):
get a split in Game two, they go back to
Dallas with a one to one split and they have
two home games where you would like to think home team,
you get a chance to go up three to one.
A big game for the Mavericks. They want to make
the adjustments. They got to understand what they're dealing with
the Celtics. But it was gonna be hard to beat
the Celtics on the night where they're just draining threes
like they were draining them, and poor sing Gets played
a big role in that.

Speaker 1 (17:23):
And I love what Jason Kidd did at the news conference.
He went in the news conference and said that Jalen
Brown is the best player in the Celtics, which basically
I think he is. I think Jalen Burn all year
long has been the best player on the Boston Celtics.
And Jason Tatum, I mean, obviously when it comes to
the playoffs right now, he has had problems when playoffs.
But I think what Jason kidds trying to do is
get into the heads of both Brown and Tatum by

(17:43):
maybe being a little devices between the two, and they
handle it very nicely. They just shook it off and
they knew. I think it was Jalen Brown that said
that the news conference set. I know what Jason Kids
trying to do, coach of the Mavericks, trying to get
into I had him they have an internal squabble. Ain't
gonna happen. But it was a good move on the
Jason kidpod. I thought it was great.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's a good move.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
But maybe he was being honest and maybe from a
coach at the standpoint, maybe there's something where Jason Kidd
looks at the tape and says, guys, we got to
make sure that we set our defense to defend Jaylen
Brown as the priority more so than Jason Tatum. And
every coach has to do that when he looks at
a team, he has to figure out who are the
guys that we need to be careful loves, who's the

(18:26):
top priority to defend, how are we going to do it,
and what do we want to rank the priorities in
terms of the things that we have to get done
to win a game, and maybe Jaylen Brown, because of
his game, his dynamic game, maybe he is more of
a thorn in their side than Jason Tatum.

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Speaker 1 (20:06):
You had to see this coming, you really did. We'll
get to that in just about a minute. He's Bucket Brooks.
I'm Andy Firman. This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox
Sports right now. But we have a caller by the
name of John from New Hampshire. John, you want to
talk to Bucky Brooks. And the only reason you're on
John is because I used to live in New Hampshire
and I love that state license plate, live free or Die.

(20:26):
What part of New Hampshire are you from?

Speaker 6 (20:29):
Well, right now, I'm in huts to New Hampshire.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
That doesn't Coe, that doesn't count too close to Massachusetts.

Speaker 6 (20:35):
I lived at Blant, Oh, Okay, that's a bit further
north to say that. Yes, I'm not a fan of
New Hampshire. Have only been here about a year and
a half. I was here to come stay with my brother,
et cetera. But I consider myself obviously somewhere from Massachusetts
because I grew up in the next city from Boston, Summerville,
which most famous.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
For all right, it's enough, and we don't really care
what's on your minds.

Speaker 6 (20:58):
Okay, all right, I won't let you know where I'm from,
where I'm going. As far as Caitlin Clark, you know,
this is kind of maybe a crazy idea, but you know,
she could play for another country depending on ancestry, right,
I mean, you remember my Tiata played for Italy in
the Olympics. You know, Paulo Bonco, who does hold dual citizenship,
could play for either Italy or the United States. Maybe

(21:21):
Caitlin Clark's grandmother or who whatever is from Great Britain,
and she could play for Great Britain and that was
turned off. Maybe that could turn off for American sandbase.
But obviously Great Britain would benefit, she'd benefit. Obviously NBC,
which is carrying the Olympics, wants her there no matter
what country she's from. So just kind of atlandish tape.
Maybe it's probably a one percent chance that could happen.

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But you know, it's certainly something to talk about.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Interesting. I'm impressed. I really am very interesting. John. Thank
you for cale, thanks for checking in. All right, let's
move into this area because I think that we saw
this coming. As I mentioned, it's about gambling, all right.
You can't turn around anywhere, Buck, And you know that
without seeing commercials, hearing commercials about various websites gambling situation.
I'm not into it. Even though I worked at racetracks

(22:07):
and greyhound tracks all my life, I never really placed
many bets of it, any bets. I just I did
it as a pr guy to promote the place. Now,
gambling always been there where in baseball. Let's go back
in time. Nineteen nineteen, the Black Sox scandal, Pe Row's
suspension from the game in the NBA. The official Tim
donahe he was tossed out of the league. Connie Hawkins,
Roger Brown, they were thrown out back in the fifties

(22:29):
CCNY City College of New York and the scandals of
New York City. Now we've got baseball again, all right,
And I'm not surprised. And you got this clown from
the Padres took up Pete Marcano. I mean, he's gone
for baseball and five other guys. Here's the deal, the
one thing, and it's going to happen. It always happens,
is going to continue to happen because people have that

(22:49):
urge to gamble. But the one thing that bugged me
when this whole thing happened the other day, when they
gave this guy from the Padres a lifetime band the commissioner,
he says that show Tani has been totally exonerated as
a baseball gambly suspect. How why tell us, Rob Manford,
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it. How this
guy and his former Palea interpreter, if Pepe Musahara is

(23:13):
able to establish millions of dollars in credit and seventeen
million in debt with bookmakers, I don't get it. How
this guy Otani is cleared. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Well, I mean, look that the interpreter is going to
jail like he admitted guilt.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
There's an admission of guilt.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
So I don't know if you just want Otani to
take the rep just for being his friend, but if
the other guy admitted that he was the one that
was involved, in it, then Otane is obviously a quitter
or not implicated in it. They did the investigation, they
talked to the guy who took on the charges in

(23:51):
the weight, and if he doesn't put Otani in it,
I don't know how we can say that Otoni has
done it.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Those two were the ones that were involved in it.

Speaker 1 (23:59):
I don't get. I mean, according to Major League Baseball, Markana,
who was sentenced to life out of baseball, he lost
all of his parlays involving the Pirates and the only one,
get this, four point three percent of all this Major
League Baseball related bets overall, So he wasn't even a
good gambler. That's the thing. But one of two things here,
number one, and it helps explain why the parlay bets
that legal sports books, including those in businesses with Major

(24:22):
League Baseball, are hustled, and they're hustled hard because you
can't win him as they're super sucker bets. That's what
they are. Whoever goes to a parlay bet, it's a
sucker bet. And Marcano's tout was probably some clown and
who's nothing about the game of baseball. It's just crazy looking.
I don't think it's healthy. I just don't I know
that habits legalized, has been legalized for years in Great Britain,

(24:44):
but they don't have the sports that we have. They
really got soccer and that's basically it. We've got so
many and I just think that people right now, with
the economy maybe being a little sour, people are looking
to say, I'll throw a couple of shekels over there.
They got myself out of a hole. Maybe that's why
they gamble. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Well, I mean, people gain before a lot of reasons.
It's no different than why people play fantasy sports. There's
a competitive part of it that it lures people in.
The money is the money, but there's a competitive part
of trying to watch a game, try and make a
few bucks while kind of scratching that competitive itch. The
problem that you have is when sports kind of got

(25:24):
in bed with the gamblers, they've created these situations where
now the thing that you were worried about, the boogeyman,
the boogeyman is now close to your players because your
players see all the stuff there's players see all the
money that's being in exchange, and they are probably some
of the most competitive people that you can find they

(25:45):
want to get in on the action, even though, look
we talked about the league rules and how they constantly
talk to the players about what they can and can't do.
It's hard, it's hard to resist that temptation to getting
involved on the action.

Speaker 1 (25:57):
No, I hate what you're saying, but I have no
friends of mine they say they can't watch a game
without putting money on it because it makes it a
little more interesting to them. Good for them, God bless him.
I don't have that feeling. I don't have it. I
don't need that juice on a game. And I just
watched the game for the beauty of the game. And
I love sports, That's why I do it. But and
I think, to some extent it is a disease. It
really is, and people can't control themselves. But you know, bet,

(26:19):
as they say, bet with your head, not over it.
But this baseball situation with Otani, if he was an
Ulso Ran player, there'd be a different story. That's just
my take because I'm not buying that. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I mean, you you are dead said that Tony Otani
bet on baseball, even though like there has.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
Been no investigation. They said that he has placed a bet.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
He has been cleared of it, he's been free of it.
But like perception becomes reality, and that's why baseball and
the sports don't want their guys there, because no matter
what has been said legally, like there's this this shadow
that hangs over here where you believe that he is
based on it, even though the evidence of whatever proves otherwise.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You're right. That's just the way I am. I'm as
stubborn loped That's that's what I am. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Firman. By the way. Coming up next on
Fox Live for the Tyrep dot Com studios, two giants
will meet on the same day this year. That's next
for first another Giant, our own Martin Weiss with your
sports coming up next. Sorry we're a little late.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Oh good.

Speaker 7 (27:16):
The Florida Panthers took Game one of the Stanley Cup
Final last night three to nothing over the Edmonton Oilers.
In baseball, Teoscar Hernandez hit two home runs, including a
grand Slam, as the Dodgers beat the Yankees for the.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Second straight night Nrorow.

Speaker 7 (27:29):
Aaron Judges hit two home runs in the eleven to
three Dodger win Red's won their seventh straight game, beating
the Cubs four to three Andrew Abbott with his fifth
win of the year. Cincinnati improved to thirty two and
thirty three, second in the NL Central. Toronto shout out
Oakland seven and nothing. Kevin Gosman had a complete game
with ten strikeouts in the win. Padres beat the Diamondbacks
thirteen to one. San Diego outscored Arizona twenty three to

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four in the last two games. Phillies beat the Mets
of seven to two in London, fifty four thousand and
attendance there Philadelphia with a fifteen fifty forty five and
nineteen there you Go record. Bryce Harper with three hits,
including his fifteenth home run on the season. Guardians won
eight nothing over the Marlins Cleveland with a three game
lead over the Royals in the AL Central, Astros beat

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the Angels six to one. Astros five games under five
hundred thirty and thirty five. Game two of the NBA's
Finals is tonight in Boston. The Celtics lead the Mavericks
wants to nothing in the series. College Baseball Super Regionals
North Carolina, Florida State, and Virginia all advanced Evansville beat
number one Tennessee. They'll play a game three later tonight.
Scotti Scheffler leads the Memorial by four strokes, and US

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Met's soccer lost five to one in an exhibition against Columbia.

Speaker 1 (28:41):
Bucky Andy back to you, thank you so much, to
you about it now now clashing like this isn't good
for anybody that's coming right up. He's Bucky Brooks on
Andy Firmo. We got his Bucky in a couple of
minutes from now. But Buck, I just heard Martin's report
and he said there were fifty four thousand people in
London watching the Phillies play baseball yesterday. And the first
thing that came to mind, like, if I had a
cricket match here in the US of A. I don't

(29:02):
think we draw fifty four thousand people. I don't think so.
Would you go to a cricket match here.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
No, we wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
But I did see that our national twenty team knocked
off a team, which was a big deal. It's a
big upset for us to win a cricket match.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, you're right, that was big. Yeah, that was a
big right. But I don't think you were fifty four
thousand people there. Anyway, you talk about college football, the
college football playoff games for the first time, they're gonna
go head to head with the NFL this year, and
I get the answer, it's about money. But there was
a time, and you know this, when the NFL gave
Fridays and Friday night for high school sports. Saturday was

(29:41):
reserved for college Christmas Day was reserved for the NBA.
And when you get bigger, it become a bully like
the NFL is becoming right now. And I love the NFL.
I'm just saying, it's about money, and I get it.
A bigger is nolways better? Because this is what's happening
right now. The College Football is announced its broadcast schedule
for the expanded twelve team postseason, setting up a Saturday
clash in December late December that's going to feature five

(30:04):
major overlapping football telecasts, with three first round college football
games and two NFL Week sixteen games. And this is
the schedule. Noon College Football one o'clock, Texans Chiefs four o'clock.
This is all Eastern Time College Football, Round one four
point thirty in the after an Eastern Times Steelers Ravens
nine eight o'clock College football. That'll be on ESPN that

(30:26):
night on ABC as well, Good, bed and different. I
don't know, And people are going to just line up
on the TV set at least they don't overlap, but
they're on the same day, which I don't know if
that's healthy, good, better and different. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Look, I mean, I think football is a building to
a bunch of different people, but also think they have
their respective fan bases to College football fans are always
going to tune into college football whenever it's on hardcore.
NFL fans are going to watch NFL games when they're
ever there own, particularly when they involve their team. It
won't impact the ratings, I think. Look, football is king anyway.

(31:00):
A lot of it depends on who's matched up, what
matchups are on. If there is a game where you
talk about two blue blood college football teams versus some
teams that are not as popular in the NFL, well
then more guys are gonna watch the college game. But
if the college football game doesn't have the same level
intrigue as a marquee NFL matchup, more people gonna watch

(31:21):
the NFL game regardless.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
I think both of them will pull high numbers.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
No, I'm with you right there, but you're telling me now,
and maybe you're correct. I don't know. I've never heard
of a study on this. I thought a football fan
is a football fan, But I think you see, there
are several college fans who don't appreciate or like the NFL.
Maybe you're right. I mean, if you live in a
college town, if you live like in Iowa or Oklahoma, Kansas,

(31:45):
maybe you're more prone to being a college fan than
being a pro fan because there's no pro team near you.
Maybe I don't know.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I mean it depends on Like I grew up in
North Carolina at the time where they didn't have a
pro team, And you're right, you kind of go to
your college stuff is bigger to you because that's what
you gravitate towards. That's what you talk about data, that's
what's talked about on sports talk radio and on the
local news. A lot of it depends on where you're at,
and really it depends on the level of teams that

(32:16):
are involved in those games.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, you're right. Now. Until this year, the college football
semi finals and the championship games, they fell on days
without NFL games, But with this expansion of twelve teams,
I think it's great. I love the expansion and the
addition of a quarterfinals in first rounder made it impossible
maybe not to overlap with the NFL, which is on
a mission maybe to overtake as many game broadcast as

(32:38):
again and look, you know it looks bad for the NFL,
but what could they do? But the NFL is spreading
its wings and why not? As you mentioned, it's the
most popular sport right now in the US of A.
And it's expanding its wings to London, Mexico, South America,
whatever it may be. And if I were asked a question,
the most popular sports right now in our country NFL,

(33:02):
college football, and after that maybe college basketball or the NBA.
I mean, that's what we talk about here. Is that correct?
You think that's the pecking order of popularity of sports here?

Speaker 2 (33:16):
I mean, yeah, I think it's football in some particular order.
Then it goes to basketball. I would say, like whatever, NFL,
then college football, Basketball would probably be NBA before college basketball,
and then the rest of the sports, well can the
fall after that?

Speaker 1 (33:33):
And there's no coincidence there that those are the sports.
Probably that I most bet on as well, because it's
the easiest sports to bet on. I don't understand how
people could even consider betting on baseball. I wouldn't even
know how you would bet on baseball giving a guy
a run, who run and a half? I don't know
how that works, or betting on hockey. Betting on hockey, football, hockey, baseball,

(33:54):
or soccer, to me is insane. So the most popular
sports coincide probably the most sports that I bet on.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
I mean, probably so, but I look, I mean it
may be six on one hand, half a dozen on
the other when it comes to that kind of stuff.
But yeah, like I mean, you're betting, interest or gabbling.
Interest certainly plays a part in what is being wise.

Speaker 1 (34:18):
No, you're right about that, But I do know this much.
I'll probably end up watching every one of those games
that day, College and the NFL, and I think if
you were a fan, I think you probably would do
it as well. So I'm praying right now for that day,
which is Week sixteen in the NFL, to have a
tremendous snowstorm so I don't go anywhere, just buried in
my house and what just stayed in front of the
tube and watched TV all day long, right, And I
know people that I don't know if you do this

(34:39):
as well, that I have two or three or four
maybe TV's going on at one time. I can't do that,
you know. I can't multitask. And really I'm lucky that
I could like talk to you and do something else
at the same time. I can't multitask. I'm too stupid
to do that. I can't. Yeah, do you watch more
than one game of one time?

Speaker 3 (34:57):
I can flip back and forth, but I just have
to be I had to be locked in. I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I like something as it has to be your priority.
But I can watch multiple sports if I have a
casual interest in the sports, but if my team is playing,
I'm typically not gonna bounce around.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Home in the same way. All Right, He's Bucky brooks
Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready,
got a question? Just ask the man? Why? Of course?
Ask Bucky?

Speaker 8 (35:23):
Is next? You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
Oh, I asked Bucky, coming right up. But it's about
twelve minutes, not before the top of the hour. This
is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Here's Bucky
Brooks and Andy Firman. We're live from the tire rack
dot Com studios, and away we go. All right, I've
been watching sports for a long time and I watched
these games. I just dawned on me the other day,
so I asked Bucky this question. How much of a
difference does a home crowd make for a team in

(35:50):
any sport. I'm watching that game against Boston and Dallas
the other night. The Boston fans are going crazy. Does
it make a difference for an athlete? For that home
court advantage.

Speaker 3 (36:00):
Make a difference.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
It makes a difference, not only in terms of what
happens on game day, in terms of the fans, the noise,
all the things that go on your way.

Speaker 3 (36:08):
It's the routine.

Speaker 2 (36:09):
It's being able to have a familiarity with the environment,
and as long as you're familiar, you can get comfortable.
Being comfortable allows you to play at your best.

Speaker 3 (36:19):
So, yeah, it doesn't matter. Home court is a huge deal.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Okay, And there are some athletes I would think that
thrive on playing on the visiting court because they know
they're the enemy, that are villain, so they're going to
play even harder. Maybe it works detrimental to the home
team because the visiting team will come out there even
more fired up because they know they're the enemy.

Speaker 2 (36:40):
I mean, like sometimes yeah, I mean there are certain
teams and certain people that respond better to being the villain.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
You have to have it in you. Everybody's not built
for that. Though.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Everybody's not built to wear the black at A lot
of it depends on the person.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
It's competitive make.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
Up, all right. Next, why don't college coaches necessarily have
success at the next level. I'm looking Urban Maya for
an example.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
It's a different game. You're dealing with different people. In college,
you are the dictator. Everything kind of starts and ends
with you as a coach and the pros. It's more
of a cooperation, a partnership. Do you have the ability
to communicate well enough with the players so that they
buy into your vision? Ultimately that's what determines whether you
win or lose at the highest level. Can you create

(37:26):
the same kind of cooperation that you need to at
the collegiate level without having the same power?

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Interesting? Okay, why is Caitlin Clark having such a slow
start in a WNBA.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I mean, people told you everyone was mad at Diana
Tarassi when she said the WNBA one is more skilled
and has more talented. People gave it credit for it's
more physical than anyone anticipated, and that's certainly bothering her.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
And then as great as she is as a scorer,
there are some limitations to her game right now. She'll
eventually figure it out.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Right now, you have all of those things in play,
which is why she has been an up and down
player throughout the first part of the NBA season.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Could it be part of a physical problem, because she
really looks like like she waste. Weighs eighty five pounds,
soaking wet, she's a little beefun her.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
You think, yeah, that certainly could be a part of it.
She needs to beat bulk up. But she just has
to adapt and adjusts. And it's hard for rookies at
any sport to go from playing college to pros. And
she's had spurs, she's had moments, she's flashed like all
the Rickies flash.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
But in time, she'll get better. She'll adjust.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Yeah, and it's a rough situation.

Speaker 9 (38:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'm not trying to make excuses for it. But like
in the NBA, they don't have the draft at the
end of June, and they don't play again until October.
They got a camp in September and work it out
in college. I mean, she finished a grueling college season
NCAA tournament, gets drafted in about four or five weeks
after that. She's playing on a grueling schedule in the WNBA.
That's tough. Really, they don't have the training camp, I

(38:58):
don't think as long as as the NBA and the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
I mean, it's tough, but everyone has to endure that.
That's why it's tough for Ricky to come in. But
that's what everyone was saying. The casuals didn't want to
listen to what they were saying. They said it would
take her a while to adapt, and a lot of
people thought it was oh, the veterans, the NBA veterans
are hating on her. No, they're saying that because they
went through similar transitions.

Speaker 3 (39:23):
And that's what they were saying. So you need to
just tip your expectation from Kaitlin Clark because it's gonna
be hard for her to kind of dominate to the
level that she dominated in the collegiate.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
All Right, this might be the last one for it,
but it's interesting because everybody watches sports on TV. It's
about TV announcers, okay, and in all sports they're very
well paid. We know about that. Do the television executives
honestly think that people tunt the games for certain announceers?
I don't think so, but they're going to do that
at first for Tom Brady. But other than that, you
watch a game for the competitiveness of the two teams

(39:52):
that are playing, not for who's calling the game.

Speaker 3 (39:54):
I don't think I mean, I think so.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
I think I watched the game for the game, and
you know, whoever's broadcasting, it's kind of like a side piece.
But yeah, there are things that you can learn from
broadcasters and the people that are around the game of
teaching air, but not necessarily something that's gonna drive the ratings.

Speaker 1 (40:14):
Okay, Why the PV executives pay these guys so much money?
It's it's unreal, I mean, ten million dollars to call
a game, and really and truly they add nothing to
the game at times, and people are gonna watch it
if they're not doing it. If someone else is doing.

Speaker 2 (40:27):
It, well, there's something that happens star power on those
on those telecasts, and when you think about Tom Brady,
and I mean to a lesser Stantoni Romo who got
paid big bucks from CBS. Things are about the quarterback.
But Tom Brady I can understand. Because Tom Brady's a
seven time champion. You would like to see him convey
some of that knowledge, experience, and expertise to the viewer.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Interesting, All right, that'll do it fast, Bucket. Right now,
we got two more hours to go, so we're gonna
tell you every team in the NFL has improved. Really,
we got that and so much more. Where next on
Fox Sports son Day here.

Speaker 8 (41:02):
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Speaker 1 (41:05):
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(41:28):
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I'm good.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
We're not quite the halftime, but we're getting close to it,
so we'll make sure we finished the first half of
the show.

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Strong.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Yeah, I certainly will.

Speaker 3 (41:46):
You know.

Speaker 1 (41:47):
I'd say this every single Sunday, and I hope it
resonates in people's minds because what you do on Friday
on NFL dot Com when you scroll down writers as
his Bucky Brooks, you're doing yourself a disservice. You don't
go over there to read it.

Speaker 3 (42:01):
You really do.

Speaker 1 (42:01):
And I say that not so much because I love
him and he's my partner. But it's interesting reading. It
really is. And this week you touched on the AFC
South which now I guess you could call it the
Quarterback Conference. It's unbelievable and I had not thought about
that until you, until I read it, and no one
else had touched on it anywhere in the media except you,
and you talk about the quarterback Strong the young Studs,

(42:24):
So to speak to CJ. Strouds that Trevor Lawrence is
Anthony Richardson and Will Levice coming up, which makes that
division right now, which once was laughable. The AFC South
is somewhat competitive. I mean, you know what gave you
the foresight to even write about that because I haven't
seen anything like this and any and any platforms and
this is great. It really is. Just get into it

(42:45):
a little bit.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, So, like you know, the main the main thing
when it comes to THEFC South is a conference, a
division that is going to be governed by young quarterback play.

Speaker 3 (42:56):
You look at all the quarterbacks, Trevor Lawrence, CJ.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Stroud, will Love's, Anthony Ridgson, all decorated quarterbacks, all young
quarterbacks with tremendous talent, and now comes down to which
guy is going to play the best because the best
quarterback is probably gonna lead their team on a division
title run and quest For me, what is interesting is
c J. Strou was NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.

(43:19):
He's kind of been celebrated and moved into the top
five category the year before. Trevor Lawrence was a guy
that people were singing praises when it came to easy
a top five quarterback, Can he lead to jacksonth Jaguars
to a Super Bowl run and those things? And then
with Anthony Richardson, just thinking about the hype that is
surrounding his name and the fact that you only play

(43:39):
four games but they still expect him to be a
guy that jumps into the conversation as one of the
elites is surprising to me. And then will Levis, the
ownership and the general manager Ran Carthin going all in
on will Levis, trying to surround him with as many
veteran playmakers as possible. Yeah, this division is a good
one to watch because the quarterback play should be really good.

Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah. And let's talk about the Houston Texas for a
little bit, because right now I think there's a lot
of pressure on them to kind of do what they
did last year, maybe take it to another level. Rus
last year they took everybody so surprise, and you even
mentioned that no one thought they'd do anything last year
with rookie CJ. Stroud, who's the offensive player of the year.
But can they come back and do it again? Will
they do it again? Would they be the premier team

(44:21):
or are they the favorites in that and that division?
I mean, what would make them the possibility? I love
the of the coach, the demgo Ryans. I mean, if
I had a choice to play for coaches the National
Football he'd be one of them, and also the Detroit
Lions staff. I mean, I think those two guys are
the guys that will bring the best out of any player.
Maybe I'm mistaken. I just from an outsider who never

(44:43):
played the game looking at what's happening in the NFL.
Those are the two guys I think I must would
love to play for.

Speaker 4 (44:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
No, I mean I think you certainly would love to
play for those guys. I think it's about understanding who
you are, is about having some of that pro experience,
is about being able to put gas in a position
where they can succeed, and we've seen that happen. There
are a lot of factors that go into the right environment,
the right culture, but coaching certainly is a big part
of it.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
All Right, let's talk about the Texans for a second.
What would make them strong or stronger than a year ago?
Stefan Diggs, I mean there were some problems with him above.
A great player, for sure, but I think there was problem.
Look when you talk about problems, let's delve into that
a little bit. You played the game, you know what's
going on, you know what goes on in locker rooms whatever.
In my mind, there's two things that are probably chromatic

(45:31):
in sports. Number One, contracts money, that's a problem that
could surface and really be a thorn in someone's side,
and the guy wants to leave, a player wants to leave.
If that's number one or number two maybe relationships with
somebody when I talk about that, maybe female relationships. I'm
just saying. Maybe I'm wrong, but those are the two

(45:53):
things that would cause problems within an internal situation within
an organization. And maybe that's one of the reasons Whytephon
Diggs is no longer there, and now he's singing the
praises of being in Houston and being out of Buffalo.
So maybe we'll see a different Stephan Diggs right now.

Speaker 2 (46:09):
Yeah, but without knowing the situation, I don't know anything
about like lady problems when it comes to the locker room.
I'll say this, Stephan Diggs is a super competitive person.
He's been a dominant player wherever he's been Minnesota, first
in Buffalo.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And now going to Houston. He did a look.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
He played a huge role in Josh Allen kind of
finding his way as a quarterback when he came over.
It's not a coincidence that Josh Allen had his best
years with Stefan Diggs intel I mean a four straight
one thousand euro seasons, the amount of plays that he
made for.

Speaker 3 (46:42):
The Buffalo Bills while he was there.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
They go miss that going to the Texans. Diggs doesn't
have to necessarily be the number one receiver because you
have Nico Collins, JFT tank Dale who established himself as
a really solid number two, number three. But what he
can be is kind of like the veteran playmaker that
is there when you need it, when everything goes around. C. J.
Stroud can find Stepan Diggs because he's reliable, he's dependable,

(47:05):
and he's still a quality playmaker. This was a good
gift for the Texans. You also throw in the other
vets that they have in Joe Mixon Daniel Hunter. This
is a team that's looking to go from good to great,
and part of that can be done if those veterans
bring that playoff experience in wisdom and really teach their
young guys how to get to the next level.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Okay, let's stick with this Stephan Dick situation for a second.
Let's talk about the Buffalo Bills just for a second.
I don't want to get out of the division too much.
But without Stefan Diggs, I would have to say that
Buffalo Bills, at least on paper, are worse, and they're
worse at receiver. Okay, they may not be worse totally,
but I think they're worse at receiver. It's going to
hurt their quarterback and play. And I think removing him

(47:47):
is going to be somewhat of a new culture, so
to speak, and I hate that term, but a new
culture in the Buffalo Bills organization. I think it's going
to be a whole new facelift, if you will, for
the Buffalo Bills. And again I'll say it receiver. They're
worse on paper than they were a year ago without him.

Speaker 3 (48:03):
Yeah, I mean, there's certainly worse.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
But if you are the Buffalo Bills, you're hoping that
Pat Mahome, that Josh Allen is Pat Mahomes, that he
has the ability to elevate the players around him, given
where he is in his development and the money that's
going his way. He has to do that because when
you pay Josh Allen the money that the Buffalo Bills
are paying him, his job is to elevate the offense,
regardless of whether he has legitimate playmakers or not. The

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expectation is that this offense is not going to skip
a beat because Josh Allen advances his game and in Houston,
Stefan Diggs helps Nico Collins, enttained Dell learn how to
be number one receivers in their respective environment based on
what he says to him and film, how they watch
him work on the practice field, and how he performs

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on game day.

Speaker 1 (48:48):
And this Texas team is somewhat balanced right now. You
talk about worse on paper, I would have to say,
you say the Cincinnati Bengals may be worse on paper
at the running game. They lose Joe Mixon and Houston
picks up Joe Mixon, which I think this guy still
got some tread on the tires.

Speaker 3 (49:03):
Yeah, Joe Mason still can play.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
You may see a different version of Joe Mixon utilized
in Houston, though maybe they lean more into his receiving
as opposed to his rushing. Yes, he still can play
a big role as the workhorse back. But the best
version of Joe Mixon is the one that gives you
a little bit of both. He gives you the running,
the power running between the tackles. He gives you the
playmaking on a perimeter as a receiver. If he shows

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up still capable of doing those things, that's when the
Texans offense becomes really scared.

Speaker 1 (49:32):
Okay, so are you picking the Texans to win that division?
AFC South?

Speaker 3 (49:37):
I think you have to be based on how they finished.
This is a team that's good.

Speaker 2 (49:40):
The quarterback is outstanding, and normally what happens when it
comes down to a teams that are evenly matched, you
have to go with the quarterback. And right now, based
on last year, c J. Stroud played at a higher
level than Trevor Lawrence and that's the difference. That's why
he gets to.

Speaker 1 (49:53):
Not Yeah, he's got to get healthy. I mean, let's
talk about you a favorite team, the Jacksonville Jaguars right now.
And sometimes you need great eight receivers or good, good
to great receivers to make the quarterback that much better.
Sometimes the quarterback makes the receivers. Sometimes it's the other
way around. And they've got two signings right now, free
agent signs Gabe Davis and Brian Thomas Junior was a
first round pick, so it's going to help them as

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far as wideouts are concerned and they may very well
help Trevor Lawrence go to another level, which could make
Jacksonville more of a competitor this year.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, so it's not even necessarily about them elevating Trevor.
It's about completing the wide receiver room. Most coaches will
tell you that the wide receiver room should look a
bit like a basketball team, meaning that you have multiple
guys in the unit that can do different things. Their
interchangeable skills and their complementary skills really enhances the passing game.

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Brian Thomas Junior and Gabe Davis add a vertical element
to the passing game that's been lacking the last.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
Couple of years.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Without the vertical element, they've been forced to play half
court basketball, meaning they only could work the five ten
fifteen yard box. Now, with the explosive plays on the outside,
Brian Thomas Junior gave Davis not only loosened the coverage
that's on Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram, but they'll create
more running room.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
For Travis tcy In.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
Overall, If these two guys can just play the way
that they've played before their arrival the Jacksonville, this offense
is going to be a much improved offense. But it's
not only that, it is the defense and how the
defense can improve. I expect this to be a battle
between the Texans and the Jaguars that goes down to
the season finale.

Speaker 1 (51:29):
All right, let's talk about the loss now. Calvin Ridley,
he comes out, he's not there this year. He led
the team last year in receiving yards, over a thousand,
receiving touchdowns, yet eight he's gone. That's a big loss.
I think on the offensive line was shaky at best,
shaky list those are two things that got to help.
You know, with Ridley gone and with Thomas and Gabe Davis,

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that may make up for that. But we'll see what happens.
I don't know. Is that big of a loss in
your mind? Calvin Ridley is.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
A big of a loss on paper, Yes, because Calvin
Ridley is a former Pro Bowl player.

Speaker 3 (52:00):
He had one thousand yards, had eight touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
But sometimes, man, a good player can go to a
good team and the chemistry and the connectivity is just off,
not in terms of personality, but just in terms of
playing style. And Calvin Ridley did not necessarily maximize his
potential in Jacksonville. Not his fault might have been more
of a coaching thing, but for whatever reason, he didn't

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play at a level.

Speaker 3 (52:23):
Where he dominated.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
Well, you move him out and you come to the
realization that maybe this team is better when they work
inside out and they revolve around Christian Kirk and Evan Ingram.
Everyone plays more of a balanced role, kind of shared
a distribution of the touches on targets on the outside
and allow the team to be.

Speaker 3 (52:45):
The reason for the success as opposed to the individuals.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Oh yeah, let's move along out to the Indianapolis Colts,
because right now, in my mind, the Indianapolis Colts could
be this year's Houston Texans. What do they mean by that?
That could come out of nowhere? Basically, And there's surprised
a lot of peace people because they have a quarterback
who missed basically eighty percent of the season last year,
Anthony Richardson. So is that a normal thing for me
to say that they can win the division? Surprise a

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lot of people because they don't know what to expect
with Anthony Richardson and he's got some playmakers around him,
with Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman Jr.

Speaker 2 (53:20):
He does have some playmakers around him, but he's the
unknown commodity, and he was the unknown commodity coming out
of college. He has always kind of been given I
don't say a pass, but people have always bet on
the upside and the potential. He hasn't realized that potential.
He only played four games last year before getting hurt.
Being hurt and injured as a part of his resume

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his history because it happened like that when he was
in high school, it happened like that when he.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Was in college. He has tremendous tools and talent.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
But now we got to see if that potential can
turn into performance and production. If it does, then in
Nova Scot Gold be in that conversation. But if it
goes through the struggles, then you may have to see
Joe Flacco come off the bench, come out the bullpen,
and see if he can say the Colts much like
Gardn Minshew did a season ago.

Speaker 1 (54:08):
Yeah, Joe Flacco is going to be close to forty
years old, right and the season ends will be forty.
I mean, he was tremendous last year coming off the bench.
I mean, can he do it again? I'm sure Indianapolis
is hoping they never see him play this year. They
don't want Joe Flacco to play.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Correct, No, they don't want him to play, but there'd
be two reasons why he could play. Inexperience injuries and ineffectiveness.
Anthony Richardson's inexperienced injuries to Anthony Rigidson or the young
quarterback being ineffective could lead Joe Flacco to come off
the bench. Rainy NFL Comeback Player of the Year has
success with the Browns, but he's forty. He's going to

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be forty, and that's a lot to put on an
older quarterback to come through to play at a high
level and do those things.

Speaker 1 (54:53):
Okay, they lose Zach Moss as a running backup, they
still have Jonathan Taylor. How big of a loss is
Zach Moos? And tell me a little bit more about him,
because I'm excited because now he's a Cincinnati Bengal.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
A really good player, productive player, was really good coming
out of college in Utah Field in admirably for Jonathan
Taylor when he had to step in almost at eight
hundred yards, he gave them a physical presence without him.
Now they need Jonathan Taylor to be available more often
they need Taylor to play at a high level so

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he can alleviate some of the pressure on Anthony Bridges
and to carry this offense if he's available. Jonathan Taylor's available,
this offense is tough because you make sure, you have
to make sure from a defensive standpoint to stop him,
and that opens up the field for everybody else.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Okay, so we've gone through Houston, Jacksonville, and Indianapolis. Would
you say that could be the order of the way
the team's finished thus far in that AFC south Houston
winning it, followed by Jacksonville, maybe the Colts.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
I mean, that's the order that I have, That's the
way that I predicted, and then some Titans are the
next same.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Okay, so we're looking at the basement dwellers right now,
Tennessee Titans. You don't think they're going to win the division? Okay,
any reason why they have Calvin Ridley right now wide receiver?
But Will Levis is he the guy? Is he the
quarterback right there? Is he that good?

Speaker 2 (56:15):
I mean, that's what they're banking on. They're banking on
that he's that good. And so that's what.

Speaker 3 (56:19):
Every move that they made was designed to help the
young quarterback flourish.

Speaker 2 (56:23):
They go and get Calvin Ridley to be code number
one with DeAndre Hopkins. They bring over Tony pol to
give them a scat back in the backfield. After moving
on from Derrick Henry. They're moving from a I would say,
a run heavy, run dominant offense to one that is
a little more quarterback driven. That says that you know,

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Brian Callahan, ran Carthon believe in will Levis's talent. They
will give him every opportunity to succeed at a high level.

Speaker 3 (56:50):
We'll see, because this.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Is a team that really hits their wagon to the
young quarterback, and we'll see if the young quarterback was
worth it.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
You don't have a lot of confidence in Brian callaen
and he coach here in Cincinnati, and I think that
he could get the job done. But here's the problem.
I think there's a lot of questions over there. Will
loves number one, and you mentioned it here in your story.
He completed only fifty eight percent of his passes. He
only had one three hundred yard game. But again, that
team was basically run heavy. Now, all of a sudden,
without Derek Henry, they're gonna be more of a passing

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game and we'll see what happens. But Ken will love
us get it done. He's got Calvin really a wide receiver.
I mean, it'll be really interesting to see. I just
don't think they have enough firepower to win that division.

Speaker 2 (57:30):
It's gonna be a very, very tough matchup for them,
you know. Like in terms of the division, they got
great pieces, They have veteran players that can play at
a high level, but a lot of it will determined
on the play of the quarterback. If will Levis makes
a major jump from year one to year two, they
can be in the conversation because DeAndre Hopkins and Calvin Ridley,
they're problematic in terms of how do you deal with them.

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The running game with Tony pol Tony Pollitt has shown
that he can make some things. He and Spears are
going to give them a very explosive, dynamic running attack.
But it's gonna come down to what does will Levis
do with the ball in his hands?

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Can he take care of it? Can he find a
way the leader down the field? Can they put points up?

Speaker 2 (58:11):
If he struggles with turnovers, they have no chance because
this division is very, very competitive.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
And last but not least when you have a new
head coach, isn't there like a grace period, like a
honeymoon period. So I don't think management or ownership is
expecting that much. Sure they want to win, but they'll
understand that he's got to change the so called culture
and the direction of that team. And it's a brand
new team right now. As you mentioned, they're going from
that run heavy offense to something else a little bit.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
But I would say the best thing that Brian Callahan
has been able to do is to bring his dad,
Bill Callahan over, one of the best offensive line coaches
in football, maybe the best when it comes to his
ability to develop offensive lines, his ability to help offensive
lines play at a high level.

Speaker 3 (58:55):
That's what Bill Callahan does.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
So as much as I may talk about this team
morphing into a pass every team keeping on the running game,
they're gonna find a way to run the ball because
everywhere he's been Bill Callahan's been terrific in terms of
helping his teams run at an efficient pace and run
like one of the best teams in the league.

Speaker 1 (59:13):
Okay, I'm writing this down now, so it's the AFC
South Houston, Jacksonville Indianapolis, Tennessee. That's gonna be it right there,
according to Buckey Brooks, you heard it here first. There
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That'll be at nine o'clock Eastern time. But let's talk
about some controversial situations right now, and that controversial foul
on Caitlin Clark the Indiana Foever's Caitlin Clark by Chicago
sky Guard, Chicago Skyguard, Nnity Carter and Shennity Carter refused

(01:00:38):
to answer any questions about that after the game was over. Now,
Carter got a lot of backlash for a foul. I'm
not gonna say a good, bitter and different, but that
was the name of the game. She got a lot
of heat on social media, but one person was more
upset about her not able to address it with the media,
and that person was none other than Golden State Warriors

(01:00:58):
for with Draymond Green, and he was an an episode
of his podcast just the end of day. He said, quote,
I love what you did. I don't love how you
went to the press conference and wouldn't answer the question
about it. Quite frankly, if you want to understand how
this thing goes, I'll give you a little advices from
Draymond Green to Tnnity Carter. You want to take on
the villain's role, great, love it. You've got to be
that enforceder on your team. Great, love it, but you

(01:01:21):
can't dodge the questions. When you go to the press conference,
you answer the questions. You did what you did, stand
on it.

Speaker 8 (01:01:26):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
Now I wasn't happy with what she did, but you
know what, you gotta you gotta own it. I love that.
I love that Draymond Green, you got to own what
you do. He does, She's got to do it too.

Speaker 3 (01:01:38):
Yeah, she has to own it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
But I think people have to understand, like some of
what may have transpired and how these things it just
didn't come out of like the air that you know,
the incident took place. Some would say that maybe she
suffered and took in inevert and elbow that kind of
fired her up. And so you look to have a
little vigilanti justice whenever you have an opportunity on the court.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Maybe that's what took place. I think this is what
has to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
I'm more disappointed in Kaitlyn Clark's teammates for not standing
up for greed because in team sports, in hockey, we
talked about the goons. The goons come in to make
sure that the stars are always protected. Someone if she's
the franchise, and we talked about her being the franchise.
Someone needed to stand up and protect her, and they
haven't done that to this point.

Speaker 1 (01:02:30):
You know, it's funny because I think that many people
have never heard of Trinity Card until that incident, and
then when you did little research on Trinity Card, then
all of a sudden, they started pounding on the girl. Okay.
In a rookie season she played for the Atlanta Dream,
she became the youngest player in the WNBA history. Just
scored thirty points at twenty one years of age in
two hundred and sixty twenty sixty six days. She had

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thirty five points against Seattle on August to sixth. Okay,
But then it happened there were some problems, okay, and
everybody's all, oh, okay, she's a troublemaker. July twenty twenty one,
with the Atlanta Dream, she was suspended indefinitely for quote,
conduct detrimental to the team. Big deal, big freaking deal. Okay,
And there was reported before the suspension she indicated that

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she wanted to fight another Dream player who would asked
her to improve her attitude touring a game. I get it.
It happens, okay, But now all of a sudden it
comes to the forefront. You know, they take away what
kind of a player she was. And she was a
pretty good player, all right, and she's still a pretty
good player. But now they're talking about everything her rap sheet.
That's what they're doing, Okay. In twenty twenty two, she

(01:03:36):
was with the Sparks. She played twenty four games. She
started two of those games. She averaged by eight point
nine points a game. In March twenty twenty three, they
waived her. She was obligated to pay her protected eighty
six thousand salary. I mean, she's had a whole bunch
of stuff going over there. She didn't play the WNBA
twenty twenty three. But the point is this to put

(01:03:57):
this out there that she's not a good that's bad.
That's a bad thing. But I do like what Draymond
Green says. You want to play like that, you gotta say, hey,
you know, go to the press conference, say yeah, I
got an elbow. She pushed me. She said, so whatever
it was, stand up own it.

Speaker 9 (01:04:12):
And I like that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:13):
That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
I like that. Yeah, I mean, like you just got
to put it out there. I think you have to
own it, and you can't worry about whether you're the
good guy back.

Speaker 2 (01:04:20):
You just got to live in your truth and if
you believe in the things that you're saying, then you
should have no problem standing in it. And will continue
to see this as this story continues to escalate and
all eyes are on these stories revolving involving Caitlin Clark,
We'll see how others respond to it. I think the
big thing that stood out to me is everyone was

(01:04:40):
so dismissive and so disrespective of her, and then they
did a little research. Yeah, you found the character things,
but you also saw the great individual performances that she
put up while she was.

Speaker 1 (01:04:51):
On the court, no doubt about. You know, at the
end of the twenty twenty season, Shennity Cattter was into
the twenty twenty WNBA L Rookie team. This girl as
a player, I mean she really is, and people say, oh, yeah,
I need these are remarks I heard. No one turns
on the TV to see Kennity Carter. You know, no
one heard of her.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
People.

Speaker 1 (01:05:07):
You know what, if you're a follower of the WNBA,
you did hear of her, You really did. And the
problem being that people are coming out of the woodwork.
They're not WNBA fans. They're Caitlyn Carter, the Cayton Clark fans.
That's what they are. And that's okay. You know, she's
brought a different audience. She's like the Taylor Swift of
the WNBA. I get it. But if you want to

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be smart about it, and you want to do some research,
you realize that there are other players in that league
that have had a better track record and have a
better resume at this point in time than Caitlin Clark has.
And the story.

Speaker 3 (01:05:41):
That is the end of story.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
Too often we try to make it about one person,
and we've tried to make it about her being the one.
She's the one that's going to carry them. She's the
one that's going to make it happen all by herself,
and that's not what it's going to be. It's going
to be very, very hard for her. It's going to
be very challenging for her. But if she does make
it to the end, will celebrate her because of the
lesson she had to endure on the journey.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
This is a part of the process. She'll get better.

Speaker 2 (01:06:06):
But man, I just love how everybody is beginning to
pay attention to the WNBA.

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
Yeah, it's great, and I'm even watching it right now.
I finally found out where I on TV is. The
other night they had a doubleheader on there, and I'm
watching the women's basketball. And it's funny because I think
there was like a I think there was a Cincinnati
Reds game on TV at the same time, which normally
I probably would not stay for the entire game, but
at least watch part of it. And I didn't, you know,
because I like action. I mean certainly, you know, baseball

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is a lot slower than basketball, and I love basketball,
and I turned it on. I really did. I would
hope that one day maybe Cincinnati could have a WNBA team.
I don't know, I think it's supported. I don't if
people would go to it, but you know I would go.
I really would. And it's She's changed me. As I
told you way back when I drove out to Bloomington, Indiana,
from where I live to see her play when Iowa

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play it Indiana this year. You know again, I don't
drive to see Northern Kentucky, which is near my house,
or University of Cincinnati or Xavier University. Women's basketball but
I drove to blooming toon the CEE Caitlin Clark. So
she has that interest, that magnetic interest for people who
don't follow the sport. You just want to see who
she is. And it's worked. It's working right now. The

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Arenas Friday night they were playing Washington. They sold out
over twenty thousand people. Two teams that have a combined
record of like six wins, and they sold out the
joint for twenty thousand people plus to see her. The
Washington mystics. I'm watching that game on TV. It's crazy,
but it's good. It's great for the sport.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
It's great for the sport.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Give her flowers because she has really been a huge
driving force behind the numbers that have absolutely blown up
to them NBA this season.

Speaker 3 (01:07:44):
She came with a fan base.

Speaker 2 (01:07:46):
She was a well established star at the collegiate level.
She did great things at Iowa and that allowed her
to kind of hit the ground running when she came
to the NBA. In terms of the fandom, everyone loves her,
supports her. She's done a great job of growing the game.
Now she to take her game up a notch so
that she can be the All Star player at this
level after being a dominant play at the collegiate level.

Speaker 1 (01:08:06):
There you go, He's Bucky Brooks on Athy Firman. This
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Speaker 7 (01:08:22):
Final last night three to nothing over Edmonton to Oscar
Hernandez hit two home runs, including a Grand Slam, as
the Dodgers beat the Yankees for the second straight night.
Aaron Judge hit two home runs in the loss, eleven
to three. Dodgers Reds won their seventh straight game, beating
the Cubs four to three, Andrew Abbott with his fifth
win on the year. Cincinnati improved to thirty two and

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thirty three, second in the NL Central. The Toronto Blue
Jay shout out the Oakland eighty seven and nothing. Kevin
Cossman complete game with ten strikeouts in the win. Padres
beat the Diamondbacks thirteen to one. San Diego's outscored Arizona
twenty three to four in the last two games. Phillies
beat the Mets seven to two in London. Bryce Harper
had three hits, including his fifteenth homer on the year.

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Fifty four thousand people watch the game in Philadelphia, with
a forty five and nineteen record. Guardians won eight to
nothing over the Marlins. Cleveland now with a three game
lead over the Royals in the Aos Central Houston Aastionals
beat the Angels six to one. Ashrolls five games under
five hundred and thirty and thirty five. Game two of
the NBA Finals is Sunday night in Boston. Celtics lead

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the Mavericks one to nothing in the series. College Baseball
Super Regionals North Carolina, Florida State, and Virginia all advanced.
Evansville beat number one seed Tennessee to force a game
three later today, Scotti Scheffler leads the Memorial by four strokes,
and US men's soccer lost a five to one exhibition
match against Columbia.

Speaker 3 (01:09:44):
Bucky and Andy.

Speaker 1 (01:09:45):
Back to you, guys, Thank you so much. Seeing about
an hour now, all right, it's all about embracing history.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. We
got by a Berrel Betting coming up about five, six,
seven minutes from now. But we got Steven regular guy.
I guess he's a regular right now. He's cool twice,
so it's a regular Steve in the Kansas City wants
to know the Bucky Brooks right here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 9 (01:10:05):
All right, another edition of Hurricane Kitlin. You know, listen,
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I guess I
agree with Raymond Green. I mean, uh, this would go
for Angel Rees too. The reason people are being so
harsh in somebody's opinions is that, you know, Angel will

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say something about you know, oh, it's just not a
one person team, and then she then she takes it
back or deletes it and then backs off, and it
actually helps the product if she would explain, explain her
opinion and not have to not have to say, oh,
I don't really want to talk about that. You know,

(01:10:48):
I don't think that's I don't think it's a bad
I don't think it's a bad thing at all to
talk about this stuff. It's just that I think the
w NBA is it was completely unprepared and maybe us
say basketball uh to to expand on that, point, they're
they're totally unprepared for for what for the kind of
media attention that that that they're getting. I guess I was.

(01:11:11):
I was hearing that USA Basketball was worried that that
Caitlin was not going to be able to play during
the Olympics. So that's why they took her off. That's
why they took her off the Olympics because they were
worried about They couldn't explain why she wouldn't get a
lot of playing time during the Olympics. So if you
come with that, if you come and just say, just

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just come out with it, don't be embarrassed about it. Hey,
she's she's a rookie, you know, it's if she may
be an alternate or whatever, then then people wouldn't wouldn't
criticize you. But if you try and hide it, and
you try and and you try and not not say
anything about it, then people people will start writing columns
and start criticizing you. I mean, it's it's pretty it's

(01:11:57):
pretty simple stuff. But they've been operating in this world
of kind of you know there, the w n b
A is a nice little world. They're subsidized and they
have no risk and and and Caitlin has just sort
of turned their world upside down. And I don't think
that's a bad thing. But I'm interested to hear your

(01:12:18):
opinion about why why she is not at least an
alternate on the on the Olympic team. Seem like you
that would be a no brainer.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
There you go, Bucky, You'll have the answer for you
right now, Steven, Thank you for the call. Well, Bucket,
can you answer that question for Steven? But more than that,
do you see what all this pushback right now with
so much social media and media in general, you know,
saying that why isn't Caitlin on this team? Can you
see them bucking the trend and maybe putting her on
the team.

Speaker 2 (01:12:49):
I can't can necessarily see her putting her on the team,
but I do believe that the conversation is good and
there are a lot of people that I believe any
conversation regarding this topic is great conversation when it comes
to exposure.

Speaker 3 (01:13:01):
So the exposure is there for the women's game.

Speaker 2 (01:13:03):
I just look, man, I just think it's hard and
I think people have to have a great appreciation for
the talent that is any WNBA in the talent.

Speaker 3 (01:13:09):
That is on Team USA and all those other things.
It is just a very difficult team to make.

Speaker 2 (01:13:14):
She can be a great player, but she's just not
seasoned yet, and I think all those things are certainly
coming into play.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
Here's my thought process, And tell me if I'm really
a kook on this one. Britney Griner had had a
broken toe and she really hasn't played much of it all.
And you know, maybe Britney Grinder will come up and say,
you know what, I'm not physically able. I'm going to
give my spot up to Caitlin Club. Do you think
something like that could happen?

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Repeat what you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:13:44):
Britney Griner has not played much, if at all. She
had a broken toe, and maybe she would come out
and make an announcement saying, I'm not physically able to play,
I'm going to give up my spot for Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:13:58):
Maybe. I mean, health can be an issue.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
A lot of it depends on when we talked about
Kaitlin Clark not making the team. Did she get arsinate
status where she's one of the first ones to call
if somebody goes out. Well, that's just like making a team,
because you are going to wanting to see injuries, but
it'll be interesting. Brittany Grinner hasn't played in a while.
You're talking about nursing that too injury. But what she
does give you its size, superior size to do with

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some of the other international players and some of the
big women that dominated in the post. So you want
to be reluctant before you move on from her, because
swapping out a big for a guard is normally not
the recipe to be successful.

Speaker 1 (01:14:36):
There you go, all right, We're gonna roll along right
now because we have that game that I'm so dominant then,
and I don't want to embarrass you anymore in bona
barrel betting, I really don't. I hate doing that, dear.
I love you like a brother, but every Sunday when
I beat you to death, I'm bonton barrel betting. It
hurts me. It ruins my day. But we gotta do
what you gotta do, right. I mean, I'm sorry, I

(01:14:57):
apologize publicly to you.

Speaker 3 (01:14:58):
I do all right, Okay, I appreciate the apologies. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:15:02):
Okay, he's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Frehman. Of course. Wow,
it's like having a cold beer in the desert. It
really is. We call it bottom barrel betting and you
know what and freaking next all right, boughto barrel betting
right around. The bet is about twelve minutes now, before
the top of the hour. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman,
and we're live from the tire rack dot Com studios.

(01:15:23):
We got a game to play. It's called bottom barrel betting.
Let's play it for me.

Speaker 8 (01:15:28):
It's bottom bottom mill. You thought you was late, wanted
to sleep? People, get my money.

Speaker 10 (01:15:32):
I'll put your brain to sleep betting.

Speaker 1 (01:15:34):
All right, here's the iyeman to take care of it
and give Bucky the bad news, will you? Because I uh,
I hate doing this to him, I really do.

Speaker 10 (01:15:41):
Andy, Do you honestly think it's going to be bad
news for Bucky?

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
I mean it's not.

Speaker 10 (01:15:46):
No, it's not it. Bucky got another one this week.
It was three to one Bucky as one of the five.
The match was actually canceled, so there were only four
this week and Bucky two one. Three of them. I
want to reach up one. Let me recount really quick.
One too, yeah, no, Bucky one, Bucky one. Oh, okay, anyway,

(01:16:06):
this week's matchups. I'm actually excited about this week. This
is a good, good slate we got. So we'll start
with kickboxing in the uh the Risen Fighting Federation over
in Japan. It's gonna be uh U Meino at minus
five fifty two versus Mamoru at plus three point fifty.
We will start with Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
Like one of my favorite, one of my favorite kickboxes.
I just love the way you bring the brown.

Speaker 1 (01:16:31):
You notice you know this? Come on, man, you've heard of.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
That, Andy, Andy? This is what we do.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
We we we study all these bottom's bottom line betting
like this one.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
Are you getting this information before before the contesting?

Speaker 10 (01:16:46):
At least he's preparing. This is why he's so dominant
in this game.

Speaker 3 (01:16:50):
Come on, come on, man. Bruce Lee was my favorite.
I used to watching all those Bruce Lee movies when
I was young.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
You're killing me. You're killing me, Smalls, you're killing me. Okay, Maminu,
I got Maminu, Mamoru memorial, Maminu, gotcha?

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Gotcha?

Speaker 10 (01:17:02):
All right? Next up, we got women's netball. It's kind
of similar to basketball. I guess there's a basket in
the front. Yeah, anyway, netball.

Speaker 1 (01:17:12):
If you heard of netball? Yeah, I mean goodbye?

Speaker 10 (01:17:15):
Who hasn't heard of netball. Yeah, this is happening over
in New Zealand. The league is called Premiership. Actually, I
love these team names here. It's the Waikato Bay of
Plenty Magic going up against Mainland Tactics.

Speaker 1 (01:17:32):
I'm gonna go with the Magic because I need some
magic to get back on the winning course. Yah, I
got magic.

Speaker 10 (01:17:37):
The team name is Plenty of Magic. Okay, I need
that of plenty magic.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
I need plenty of all right, Well, main Mainland Tactics.

Speaker 10 (01:17:45):
And Bucky Tactics is actually spelled T a C T.

Speaker 1 (01:17:50):
Information helping him out to it.

Speaker 3 (01:17:53):
I liked it. I like that a little spin on.

Speaker 10 (01:17:55):
It, all right, next up, so actually this is kind
of fun. The European Athletics Chainchampionships are happening right now
in Rome. It's kind of like a precursor to the Olympics.
I don't know how it works, if like the winners
of these automatically get bids to the Olympics, but either way,
that's happening right now. So we'll start with the happy
on TV.

Speaker 1 (01:18:12):
Can I watch it on TV?

Speaker 10 (01:18:14):
I would assume it's televised somewhere. It's happening over in Europe. Though,
so it's bigger over there for sure, but either way,
half marathon first, So this is out of these two guys,
who do you think finishes with the better time? We
have Pietro Reva, the Italian at minus one thirty three
versus Samuel Baratta the Portuguese at minus one oh six.

Speaker 11 (01:18:35):
Bucky Ooh, that's a tough one, man. I could go
back and forth on this one, but I'm gonna go
with the first guy, Pietro Petro Reva. Yeah, yeah, Pietr Yeah,
I'm going I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:18:47):
Gonna say this. I've never done this before. I've never
agreed with him, but I'm doing Reva and I'll tell
you why. Wow, it's home, it's in Rome, and they'll
probably cheat. So he's gotta win, all right, big guys.
If he doesn't win or he's good at better time,
I'm you know, they'll probably.

Speaker 10 (01:19:02):
Think they're gonna bump him a little bit. Album it's
a home. I gotta go a reason interesting theory with it, Okay, Okay,
you gotta do it. Next up, we have the women's
hammer throw matchups. So who has the better score here
between Sarah Fantini the Italian versus Celia the Spanish.

Speaker 1 (01:19:21):
And this is the same games in Rome, the same
same And if it's all over, got a good pizza Fantini?

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
Okay, well I'll take the opposite. I'll take the competitor,
thank you, thank you very much.

Speaker 10 (01:19:36):
All right. And lastly the men's high jump, who jumps
higher between Thomas Karmoy the Belgian versus Jonas Wagner the German?

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
I mean.

Speaker 10 (01:19:48):
Jonas Wagner, not Jonas Knox, although he would probably score
well here you think so? And this is the same
games in Rome, yes, same games?

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Okay, Bucket goes yes, Bucky Ooh.

Speaker 10 (01:20:01):
Uh, carme Oy versus Wagner?

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
Give me give me names again?

Speaker 10 (01:20:06):
Can car Oy versus difference?

Speaker 1 (01:20:09):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
Wagner Wagner? I just want to make sure I had Vagner?
What's a question before? So Wagner I got?

Speaker 1 (01:20:16):
Didn't do like operas and stuff? I mean, listen, no,
I don't know.

Speaker 10 (01:20:22):
Uh. Now with with Krmoy from he's the Belgian, he's
from Belgium.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
How far is Belgium from Rome?

Speaker 3 (01:20:29):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:20:30):
Pretty, I'm gonna get this number for you.

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
A lot of question. She has to do the research
before he comes on.

Speaker 1 (01:20:36):
You just get the questions before I'll go with krmai Kara.
So how do you spell that? Guys?

Speaker 10 (01:20:40):
Fifteen hour drive?

Speaker 1 (01:20:43):
Well, that's close enough for me. So Karma, how does
he spell with karm oy c A R M O
y oh? I was close m o y It's fine,
all right, I gotta take him.

Speaker 10 (01:20:51):
All right. I'm excited about this.

Speaker 9 (01:20:53):
You are.

Speaker 10 (01:20:54):
I'll update you guys next week. See if Andy can
get a win this week.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
Hey, she's the second coming of Tailor Swift, but she's
hated why and more aware Fox Sports Sunday here.

Speaker 8 (01:21:03):
Next, don't listen no Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
All right, everybody got better. We'll tell you how, why,
whatever we want to hear about it, We'll get it
done in just a couple of minutes. Good morning, everybody.
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready. He's
Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman and we are broadcasting live
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to installers. Ti rack dot com the way tyer barring
should be. Bucky, we're rolling right now, Final Lowell, We're
going to bring it home. Are on the home stretch,
just like they did the Belmont Stakes yesterday, which I
had the wrong selection. But that's another story for another day.
You know, I'm listening to Martin Wise do the sports,
and he said US soccer lost to Colombia yesterday, won nothing.
You know what kind of a schmunk I am? I

(01:21:53):
thought they lost to Columbia University. That's that's how stupid
I am. Really, it's Colombia, the count. I thought columb
When I had Columbia, I think the Columbia Blue, the
Lions of Columbia. I love Columbia, went to graduate school
at Columbia. I love Columbia University. So I thought they
lost to Columbia University. Wow, I never knew this soccer
team was that good. No, it's the country idiot. That's

(01:22:14):
me stupid. All right, anyway, we move on. I mean,
that's the kind of guy you're dealing with. But that's
that's the pardoner that you have. Not that smart, really,
But I will tell you this much, I hate to
be the idea man for sports executives. These guys get
paid a lot of money. These guys get paid to
make decisions and they should do certain things that are

(01:22:36):
the right things to do, and they need a guy
like me to kind of get them on the right road.
What do I mean by that? I'm going to say
right now, the NBA could honestly learn something pretty good
for what Major League Baseball just did the other day. Okay,
Major League Baseball, as we all know, they added Negro
league statistics to the Major league record books, and that

(01:22:57):
was the right thing to do. It was the right
thing to do. Of course, the negro leagues ran at
the same time as Major League Baseball for about twenty
eight years before finally integration reached the major leagues. Okay,
and now what they do is they enrich Major League
Baseball and the history of the sport by including these stats.

(01:23:18):
It's meaningful, it's important they should do that.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
So what do I do.

Speaker 1 (01:23:22):
I go back now and say, wait a minute, maybe
the NBA should do the same thing with the ABA stats.
And if you're too young to realize that, if you
don't remember, if you don't know what it is. The
ABA was the American Basketball Association from nineteen sixty seven
to nineteen seventy six. It was a pretty darn good
pro basketball league and some you know, you may have

(01:23:45):
read about, you may have seen some film clips on TV.
Some of the greatest players went to the ABA instead
of the NBA before those two teams merged. The two
leagues merged back in nineteen seventy six. Would the ABA
bring us? Brought us the slam dunk Contest? The abay
Bird is a three point shot? And they also the
a BA brought us the Indiana Pacers, the Denver Nuggets,

(01:24:09):
the San Antonio Spurs, and the New York Nets now
the Brooklyn Nets. So I think maybe they should incorporate
the stats. Is that too far flong? Is that kind
of stupid? What do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:24:19):
Hmmm?

Speaker 9 (01:24:21):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:24:22):
I think I think it's a little different, guys, But
there are so many ABA teams. I don't think it's
necessarily a bad idea because so many of the ABA
teams folded.

Speaker 3 (01:24:33):
Into the NBA. I think it's different. I really hadn't
thought about it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
I think they include all those stats when they do
the NBA the Basketball Hall of Fame, because not the
NBA Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 (01:24:43):
Yeah, I think they do the best and it'll be
a situation like yeah with Caitlin Clark when I was
arguing the fact that you know they didn't have the
three point goal. This is the old time leading scorer,
and Pete Maravich didn't have the three point goal at
LSU when he was playing. And look, they had the
three point goal the A B A and they're gonna
out to all those points coming into the NBA. But
you know, I think that it's it's kind of the

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you have to include those guys, guys like Roger Brown,
Connie Hawkins, Danissel, all those great players that played. I
remember those guys. I mean, Fatty Taylor, all those great guys,
all those great plays. Spencer Heyward, the guy was great.
I watched Spencer Hayward play for the US Olympic team
in an exhibition in Madison Square Garden against the New
York Knicks, and they beat the New York Nick. Spencer

(01:25:26):
Hayward was unbelievable. He was tremendous. And now those names
are forgotten. But I think they need to incorporate those names.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
I mean yeah, I mean you certainly want those guys
not to be forgotten. You want them to be remembered
and those things. That's an interesting thing. They're andy maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:25:42):
Thank you, thank you, This is coming from a guy
that can't beat you in Bonn and Barrel Benny, but
still not dead. All right, all right, there we go.
And I hate to come back to this, but you know,
it's like on the top of my mind. I think
it's the top of everybody's mom me to talk about sports,
and it's off the field right now. It's this Case
Clark thing. I mean, look the w I'm just just
for a minute because I want to move on from it.

(01:26:04):
I really do, because I'm tired of it, to be
honest with you, I mean, I don't know how the
country cannot be tied of. I mean, I'm hearing commentators
like Bob Costa's chiming in your news reporters. Everybody's involved.
I mean, it's unbelievable how many people are involved with
this Caitlin Clark thing. Aren't you shocked a little bit

(01:26:24):
by it? Really?

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
No, I'm not shocked by only because like there's been
kind of like the topic of the conversation has dominated
conversation around women's sports and women's basketball for the last
two years. Ever since Iowa kind of burned not it.
I can't even say burst on the same but from
the time we went the final four and they lost
to LSU against Angel Reese. Caitlin Clark became a look

(01:26:48):
a megastar during that run to the final four, and
it continued through this and with her crushing scoring records
and becoming an all time great in that sport.

Speaker 3 (01:26:59):
You knew there was a lot of intrigued about her.

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
People have talked about the racial dynamics and all that
other stuff that is also at play. She's a huge
story because she was so good and a lot of
times we see this, but the thing that we're not
seeing a lot of times we see some of our
favorite college stars go to the NBA or go to
the professional ranks, and they may not necessarily be the

(01:27:21):
same for Caitlyn Clark. Not saying she's the same, but
it reminds me a lot of the Tim Tebow situation,
where I feel like Tim Tebow's career was derilled, not
necessarily because of his play and his talent, but because
of the fandom and the zealots.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
Around him made it where you couldn't even bring him.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Around because it created such a distraction and so many
discussions that it took away from the team.

Speaker 1 (01:27:49):
Yeah, I had nothing to do with football, you know,
the zealous, the people who didn't like the fact that
he was like a religious zealot if you will, I mean,
you know, and that should not bother anybody, but it did.
There are a lot of people, you know, the same thing,
similar maybe to the Harrison Bucker situation, the kicker on
the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, no one's talking about
his football prowess. They're talking about a speech that he made.

(01:28:12):
And if he wasn't a football player, that speech, what
he made, no one even care what he said. But
the fact that he has a public stage being a
football player. They attacked the guy. Hey, he went to
a Roman Catholic school, just make a speech. They invited
him there. You don't have to agree with what he
had to say. He said it, move on, and I
love the fact that he doubled down when they asked
him about it after the fact. And people were throwing

(01:28:34):
the F bomb at this guy on social media. It's unbelievable, really,
I mean, and there are some people that agree with him,
do right.

Speaker 2 (01:28:41):
Well, I mean, certainly that, but it's not the first
time that we've seen those kinds of things, Like when
when players or athletes make political statements or statements that
are deemed to be political, they get the barun of criticism,
which you know, like I'm okay with Like everything that
you do has a level of consequence that comes with it,
and you have to understand that when you step to

(01:29:03):
the mic.

Speaker 3 (01:29:03):
Colin Kaepernick had.

Speaker 2 (01:29:05):
To understand the consequences that came with him taking a
standard kneeling and speaking out about certain things. Harrison Brickner too.
Everyone should have the freedom to express themselves and then
you have the right to either agree or disagree with that.
But we should be able to have these disagreements and
having a healthy discourse as opposed to the cancer that

(01:29:27):
cancel culture existence that we're currently in.

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
No, what about years ago when Lebron James said a
couple of things, I mean he still has of obviously
there was that TV talker said, she said, just dribble.
I mean, what kind of a statement is that he
has no right to have an opinion? And I listed
with Lebron says and every other athlete, Yeah, could agree, disagree,
or just ignore it. I mean that those are the
choices you have. I mean, why does it bother people

(01:29:52):
so much? I don't get it. I really don't.

Speaker 2 (01:29:56):
Well, yeah, I mean, I think with our country, we
do like to spend a lot of time worrying about
other people and instead of taking care of our own,
whether that's political, whether it's sports or whatever. Like that
is kind of the state of our country right now.
And when we have that, everyone believes that their opinion
matters more they should weigh in, and that everyone has
a look a counter to whatever you say. There's always

(01:30:18):
a rebuttal and that's just kind of the way it is,
and that's the kind of the way it will continue
to be. It's just unfortunate because the clouds some good
things that can be done. One of the thing about
Harrison there was almost a tragic incident in Kansas City,
but Harrison Buckler was one of the guys that went
to the training room to try and get play.

Speaker 3 (01:30:37):
Yeah, you know, a teammate help at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:30:40):
Those things are massed in that we haven't heard a
lot about that, but I thought it was telling that
the trainer came out and talked about like Harrison comes in,
does this, tells us this? And it goes on like
that's the thing, Like it's possible for someone to be
an athlete and more.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
We just have to allow them the room to do that.
And when we do that, like a lot of times,
great things can't happen.

Speaker 1 (01:31:01):
You make a great point because when Harrison Buckner said that,
made that speech, and the pushback was really ugly and terrible.
You had Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reider's coach and a
teammate stand up and say and even Mahomes said, I
don't agree to everything he said, but he has every
right to say it. I don't hear or see anybody
from the Indiana Fever, from the general manager down to

(01:31:22):
the coach, to any to a teammate to say something
about to defend Caitlin Clark. Now, look, I understand being
a wide popular basketball player, she's brought some needed TV attention,
she's brought some revenue to a sport. Tanta sixteen year
old girls love her as if she was Taylor Swift,

(01:31:43):
all right, But I don't see any of her teammates,
management coaches saying it's crazy nothing. I mean, they stick
their head in the sind Dad is tough. And then
the other day I'm hearing Chris Cuomo of all people
on News Nation talking about Caitlin Clark I almost hit
my head against the wall, Like, Wow, this is big.
You get Chris Cuomo talking about it, everybody's talking about it.

(01:32:05):
It's amazing, it really is.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
It's big because it's out of convenience and so like
that's the thing, Like you have to look at people's
intention when they decide to weigh in on that. And
I feel bad for Kaitlin Clark because she has been
kind of put in the middle of something that she
didn't ask to be put in.

Speaker 3 (01:32:21):
You know, she's a hooper, she's just great things in
the community.

Speaker 2 (01:32:26):
She gets along with her teammates and all this other stuff,
but she has now been used as a political pawn
to further different agendas, and unfortunately, some of those agendas
have racial components to them.

Speaker 3 (01:32:39):
Regardless of whether she asked for it or not, she's
involved in it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:42):
And when you see it on these shows you talked
about Chris Cuomo and some of the other people that
have kind of picked it up and used her to
kind of talk about certain things. Look, it's problematic because
there's always been the intertwining of sports and politics and
those things. But for the people who like to say, hey,
when I tune into a game, I just like to

(01:33:03):
watch my sports. It's impossible to do that because people
continue to tie those things together, politics and sports, which
to change so many conversations, right about Kaitlin Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:33:13):
And change with the social media, because there'll be an
athlete that may tweet something and then all of a sudden,
someone says, what what did he say? You know, I'm
not gonna pay to watch him play? Why don't just
keep his mouth shut and play the game? And that's crazy,
it's really look I to say a former ESPN stafford
Now she writes for the Athletic Jamel Hill. I like
Jamel Hill. I think she got a row deal to ESPN. Okay,

(01:33:34):
and she said something the other day, she said, quote,
while so many people are happy for Kaitlin's success, including
the players, this has had such an enormous impact on
the game. Okay, there is a part of it that
is a little problematic because of what it says about
the worth and the marketability of the players who are
already there. And I'm going to come back and say, really,
the players are happy for Caitlyn Clark. I don't get

(01:33:56):
it because of the blindside attack she suffered from Carter
Chanity harder and because her teammates are not helping her.
I don't see it. I don't see that the happy
far oh no.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
I think that's different. But I also think, like, okay,
so here's the thing, and we talked about this last week.
I think what happens is when you have casuals of people.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
On the outside jump in.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
I think they expect NBWNBA players fellow WNBA players to
shower her with the rose pedals, to lift her up
at every point in the middle of a competitive thing.
That is not what's going to happen. In competitive sports,
there are people who live to make their name off
of the quote unquote superstars. Caitlin Clark has a lot

(01:34:36):
of attention. Well, these other girls were also highly sought after,
highly talented, very talented girls who were look BMOC on
their own campuses, right, and so this is an opportunity.
When they see her, they bring it to her because
they also want the acclaim and notoriety. This isn't anything
that's personal to them not liking her. This is about

(01:35:00):
copetitive people to alphus competing in one arena. There is
something to that, and so I think sometimes people miss
that part of competitive sports and they try and make
it a political statement that, oh, these girls shown her
they don't like her because she's getting that that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:15):
No, it's not that. It's a competitive environment.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
They want to go toe to toe because the best
love playing against the best, because they live for that competition.

Speaker 1 (01:35:25):
I hear what you're saying, and I agree, okay, but
I will say this much. When Caitlin Clark got that
shove from Chnity Carter, there was a big, happy, joyous
leap from her seat. And I'm talking about Angel Reichs
on the other team. She was clopping. She was happy.
So I don't see the evidence of players being happy

(01:35:45):
for her. Maybe there is a resentment fact I don't know.
And the reason what what's the reason?

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
How long were but how long are they supposed to
be happy for her? Like it's a career, it's.

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
A competitive thing.

Speaker 2 (01:35:59):
Like the're not gonna kiss her feet every time she
walks into the arena, like the media talks about her
at nauseum. At some point they don't have to continue
to say, hey, Caitlin Clark is great. Every day is
not a celebration of Kaitlyn Clark in a league where
they're keeping score and so look Ultimately it comes against us,

(01:36:19):
against the world mentality. And so when Angel reason the
Chicago sky Players are playing against the Indiana Fever, yeah,
it's personal. They knock her down, they do that. Those
are things that have always been done. Michael Jordan had
to face the Jordan rules against the Detroit Pistons. The
first thing that any player, any team does when someone
is talented, Let's ratchet up the physicality and see if

(01:36:40):
they can deal with bully ball. And if she can
deal with it, she won't face it again. But she
hasn't been able to deal with it. Will That's why
she keeps getting it.

Speaker 1 (01:36:48):
Yeah, I'm not blind to that because I remember the bullies,
the Detroit Piston bad boys. Yeah, I'm not blind to that.
I've seen that, and they did that. They show people around.
And Michael Jordan was banged up pretty good against those
Piston teams. He really was, and they brought some help
from over there. So I think it was magnified. Also
when Angel Reese stood up because Angel Reees was sort

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of like her nemesis in college. Okay, it was rival
good and bad whatever it may be, but it just
didn't look good. And why in fact would they be
resenting for Caitlin Clark for the national TV coverage she's
helped them get, for the maximized exposure she's helped them get.
Maybe she's got some credit also for the charter flights,
not all of it, but part of the deal. Maybe

(01:37:29):
because the charter flights and more than that, when I
hear that the arenas were sold out and Angel Reese says,
what about me? I helped sell about too. Yeah, I
believe she has to some extent. But I think that
we're not putting percentages about how much someone has helped
the league. It's a combined effort. Caitlin Clark's part of it,
and so were you, Angel, You really are. But it

(01:37:51):
shouldn't be that way. Stop being so freaking selfish. Really,
it's a combined that it's the league.

Speaker 2 (01:37:57):
See but see even in you talking about her being selfish. Right,
So we talk about her being selfish, but we want
to continue to talk on and on and on about
Kaitlyn Clark. We want to give Kaitlyn Clark all the
credit for all of the exposure and those things. She
certainly deserves a lot of credit for bringing a fan
base to the WNBA that didn't exist before that, but

(01:38:19):
at some point everyone wants Kayln Clark to get like
a fair shake, to not get I guess the retaliation
or the physical tactics that she's facing. But we create
that because all we do is we talk about how
they should bow down and how did should be so gracious,
and how they need to do this and do this
and that to Kaitlin Clark. After a while, any competitor

(01:38:41):
gets tired of hearing that. So if we want them
to ease up off her talking about Kaitlyn Clark.

Speaker 1 (01:38:48):
You know what, you make an excellent point, and only
that point could come from an athlete like yourself that
would know that played the game, Because if I was playing,
I don't like her. Was this, this, this, and this?
Who would make me sick? It really would. So I
hear what you're saying, and it makes a lot of sense.
But you know what, as long as Kaitlyn Clark's in uniform,

(01:39:08):
and as long as certain things happen like not making
the Olympic team, that gives a lot of fodder and
material for people like me and people who are behind microphones,
are behind laptops to write about it and talk about it.
That's what it is, that is what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:39:23):
But when you start making decisions because of the fans,
you soon become a fan. The fans aren't privy to
those If we're talking about the people that just came over,
they don't know those other ladies on the Team USA team.

Speaker 3 (01:39:36):
They don't know how Caitlyn Clark stacks up to them.
They don't know if she's.

Speaker 2 (01:39:39):
Good because right now, the fandom, the casuals, think that
Kaitlyn Clark is the best thing to ever play. She's
the best thing since slice bread when it comes to
women's basketball, and that's not true. And so it's very
disrespectful when people are talking those terms about Caitlyn Clark
without acknowledging there may be people that are better than her.
There may be people that are more experienced or more decorated,

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more accomplished than her. But yet we're supposed to give
her a spot on the team without her quote unquote
earning it. That goes against everything that we talk about
in other walks of life. We always talk about, oh,
you gotta want it. We don't want to give out handouts,
we want to do this, But yet we want to
give Caitlin Clark a handout to be on this team.

Speaker 3 (01:40:19):
It doesn't sit right with me, It doesn't sit right
with a bunch of people.

Speaker 1 (01:40:22):
You're exactly right. He's Bucky Brooks. He is right. Can
can knock that from him? He's one hundred percent correct.
Get him on Twitter, get him on X that Bucket
Brooks at any from an FSR or eight seven seven
nineteen hundred Fox if you have a comment eight seven
seven nine nine six sixty three sixty nine. We got
the blame game coming up at the end of this hour,

(01:40:42):
so don't go anywhere. But now we know why Mac
Jones failed as an NFL quarterback. That's coming up next,
and we're live from the tiraq dot Com studios. Turn
them turn that music up. I love Stevie Wonder.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:01):
I may even sing a little bit if you let me.
I don't know, but all right, it was the goat's fault.
The other goat that's coming right up, Hey is Bucket Brooks.
I'm Andy from and and WII are our Fox Sports
Sunday where the music O come on? Now? A little more?
Come on, really people, Okay, here we go. Just you
don't want to hear anymore. Here we go, Hey, we

(01:41:21):
got a phone caller from the great state of Iowa,
the home of Kaitlin Clark. Bred from Iowa wants to
talk to Bucky Brooks. Brent, what part of Iowa are
you from.

Speaker 12 (01:41:30):
I'm from the des Moin area, So that's right right
in Caitlin Clarks area. De Win's box, one hundred fifty
thousand people.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
There you go.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
What do you got on your mind?

Speaker 12 (01:41:39):
Well, I agree with it. I love this conversation. Obviously,
this is in such a great conversation the last couple
of weeks. I know it's getting annoying for some people,
but it's bringing out just a lot of great and
great points. But I want to say, hey, there's a
couple of girls on that on that watch are fantastic players,
but they're hurt. Britney Grinder has been hurt. Chelsea Gray
has been hurt. She has been played this year. I
don't think there's a number of really great players in

(01:42:02):
the league. Why didn't the girl from the Wings make it?
I think she's from a Notre Dame. I can't remember
her name exactly. He's a great player. Why isn't Angel
reached something this team? Why isn't Cameron Ranks is a
really good player. There's not a kid next, and it's
also been having a great year as a rookie. There's
a lot of great players. There's the Center, there's the
Center from the New York Liberty I think is a

(01:42:23):
fantastic player. Why is it she on this year? I mean,
it's a lot of politics there. I think I totally get,
you know, players that have done great things in the past,
but a couple of kids aren't even playing right now?

Speaker 3 (01:42:34):
Are the girls?

Speaker 1 (01:42:37):
Well, Gabe, I think we addressed this early on. I mean,
this team will win the gold in the Olympics with
it without Caitlin Clark and and you know, Candice Parker
didn't make the Olympic team a first shot out either.
So there's a lot of great players that will not
make that team. That's just the way it is. And
Caitlin calls one.

Speaker 3 (01:42:54):
Of them, well, I'll see this.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
He makes really really good points, right, Like, the players
that are hurt shouldn't make the team if they're not
going to be available to play in the look in
the Olympics. But I'll say this. Cheryl Reeve the basketball
coach for a team USA. She's a former head coach.
I mean, she's a head coach of Minnesota Link, she's
a general manager. She's done this for a while. She's

(01:43:20):
been the assistant coach for a while while they won
gold medals. At the end of the day, when you're
a coach, you tend to take the players that you
know the most right because there's a thing that most
coaches rely on, commitment, accountability, and trust. Who are the
ones that are committed, who can be held accountable, and
who do you have the most trust with a lot

(01:43:40):
of the reason why you see these older experienced players
is because they've been through wars together literally not figured
early where they've they've been the battle, they've gone through it,
they understand the adversity.

Speaker 3 (01:43:52):
They kind of have the team.

Speaker 2 (01:43:55):
When you get to the point where you have these
other spots that may come open, it's probably going to
come from someone in the pipeline. It doesn't mean that
Caitlin Clark or any of the ladies that he mentioned
won't be added to it. It's just the initial list,
the preliminary list. They're left off of it. But we've
seen each and every year, each and every time they've
had a national team, you have alternates that are elevated.

(01:44:18):
I am sure that some of the ladies that he
mentioned may be elevated to the team once we get
closer to the if closer to the event, and.

Speaker 1 (01:44:25):
There could be injuries with those players that have been
put on the team too. That's a possibility.

Speaker 2 (01:44:31):
Yeah, I mean, there's something to that, and so we're
just kind of see how it plays out. But they
put this out there early so that the fan base
could get used to the thought of her not being
on the team and then they can move forward.

Speaker 1 (01:44:45):
There we go, all right, He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman.
We a Fox Sports on the a Fox puts right now.
Blame it on the goat. Blame it on the goat.
That's coming up next live from the tyrack dot com studios.
But first we're on time. I think this time Martin,
Martin White with all your sports.

Speaker 7 (01:45:01):
Final last night three to nothing over Edmonton to Oscar
Hernandez hit two home runs, including a Grand Slam, as
the Dodgers beat the Yankees for the second straight night.
Aaron Judge hit two home runs in the loss, eleven
to three.

Speaker 3 (01:45:15):
Dodgers.

Speaker 7 (01:45:16):
Reds won their seventh straight game, beating the Cubs four
to three, Andrew Abbott with his fifth win on the year.
Cincinnati improved to thirty two and thirty three second in
the NL Central. The Toronto Blue Jay shout out the
Oakland a eighty seven to nothing. Kevin Cossman complete game
with ten strikeouts in the win. Padres beat the Diamondbacks
thirteen to one. San Diego's outscored Arizona twenty three to

(01:45:37):
four in the last two games. Phillies beat the Mets
seven to two in London. Bryce Harper had three hits,
including his fifteenth homer on the year. Fifty four thousand
people watched the game in Philadelphia, with a forty five
and nineteen record, Guardians won eight to nothing over the
Marlins in Cleveland. Now with a three game lead over
the Royals in the AL Central, Houston Nationals beat the
Angels six to one. Ashroals five games under five hundred

(01:45:59):
and thirty thirty five. Game two of the NBA Finals
is Sunday night in Boston. Celtics lead the Mavericks one
to nothing in the series. College Baseball Super Regional North Carolina, Florida,
Stateon and Virginia all advanced. Evansville beat number one seed
Tennessee to force a game three Later today, Scotti Scheffler
leads the Memorial by four strokes, and US men's soccer
lost a five to one exhibition match against Columbia, Bucky

(01:46:23):
and Andy.

Speaker 3 (01:46:23):
Back to you guys, Thank.

Speaker 1 (01:46:25):
You, Martin. I know you have a wonderful day. Thank
you for all you do for us. Now let's get
back to this thing with the goats, all right, And
it's an unbelievable story when you think about it, but
you know what, it makes sense in a way because
Mac Jones did not succeed as a quarterback with the
New England Patriots, and former Patriots running back Damien Harris
puts the blame solely on the coach Bill Belichick, and

(01:46:48):
Harris played for the Patriots from twenty nineteen to twenty
twenty two. He was on a show just the other
day and he said jones failures were not all his fault.
It's unbelievable. Really, I read more and more into it,
and it kind of makes a little bit of sense.
What happened in New England to Mac Jones is because
of the fact that he took away an offensive coordinator
who coached him to be a Pro bowler and almost

(01:47:10):
coached us to winning our division with a rookie quarterback.
And then you take Matt Patricia, who's coach defense his
entire life, Joe Judge, who's been a special teams coach,
and you just throw them in there and say, hey, coach,
did coach this kid up? He's a first round pick.
But as long as your teaching what I say, everything's
going to be fine. Do you agree? Can this be
possible that it's Belichick's fourth because the Patricia thing was

(01:47:34):
crazy anyway to make him an offensive guy who's a
defensive coach, Right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
Yeah, I mean I think you certainly can say those
things impacted the way that mac Jones performed. He might
have regressed a little bit, but Bill Belichick didn't set
him up for success. He might have, like Belichick might have,
thought he was doing was in the best interests of
the team, but it had a negative impact on mac Jones.
Mac Jones played at a pro Bowl level when he
first entered the league. Mac Jones showed promise for the

(01:48:02):
Patriots early, and it never reached that again.

Speaker 3 (01:48:04):
The Common Denominator Josh.

Speaker 2 (01:48:05):
McDaniels departs, you have musical cheers when it comes to
the people that are the voices around him and in
his head, and ultimately the Patriots move on from him.
You do wonder new opportunity in Jacksonville, not to be
a starter, but a different voice, a refreshing environment for
him where he can kind of relax and kind of
be the person that he was when he was in Alabama.

(01:48:28):
We'll see what kind of impact it has. But yeah,
I think Damien Harris certainly has something. He's onto something
when he talks about how Bill Belichick kind of messed
up what was a good thing going in mac Jones.

Speaker 1 (01:48:40):
You know, I think that comes to a point in
time that you know, Belichick was great, had tremendous success,
and if you put the I hate to use this,
turn the Mount Rushmore of coaches in the National Football League.
He's got to be one of those coaches. He's got
to be up there. But I think with success comes stubbornness.
You don't want to change your ways, you know, and
maybe you shouldn't have to change your ways because you've
been so successful throughout the time you've done it that way.

(01:49:03):
So he was stubborn with Mac Jones, but I think
he was also pretty stubborn with Cam Newton. He thought
Cam Newton could come back and play, and you know
it didn't happen either. I mean, I think down the
end of his career. I'm not saying his career is over.
He may coach again. I don't know who's going to
hire him because I think there's a fear factor in that.
When he comes in, he wants to do it his

(01:49:24):
way and only his way, and I don't think a
lot of people want to give up that power. That's
why he may not got a coaching job again.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
Yeah, that doesn't mean those other people are right. There's
no one that has won as many Super Bowls as
Bill Belichick, and there is no one who coaches for
a long time in the league who doesn't have a
bit of a slump. Don Shula at the end of
his run, lost a lot of games, didn't have a
bunch of winning seasons during the end of his tenure
with the Miami Dolphins. Tom Landry summarily dismissed from the

(01:49:54):
Dallas Cowboys at the end of his tenure. It happens
to everybody, but I will say this, when you look
at the New England pages in a number of close
games that they played when a roster that compares to
others was far inferior.

Speaker 3 (01:50:08):
He is a great coach. And did he make some mistakes.

Speaker 2 (01:50:11):
Sure, I think he would admit that he made some
mistakes along the way, But that shouldn't take away from
someone inquiring about his ability to build a team because
there is no one that is won to the level
that he's one in the National Football League.

Speaker 1 (01:50:25):
What do you think would make him make Patricia an
offensive coordinator when this guy coach defense all his life.
I mean, and you you know I have talked about this,
like you once told me that you know, to be
a coach, you have to learn, or at least a
head coach, learn every position, be a line coach, of
defensive back coach, linebackers coach. So yeah, but learning on

(01:50:46):
the job from one position, it's entirely look defensively, you
have to know what the offensive doing, so you have
to have an offensive mind to some extent, right, you
know what the schemes may be because you're lining up
against the offense.

Speaker 3 (01:51:00):
So here's the fun thing.

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
Because people have taken Matt Patricia to task for what
they did on offense, but they were a better offense
for Matt Patricia downland Upton last year when they had
Bill O'Brien. A lot of times people think that to
be great on one side of the ball, you have
to stay on that side of the ball, when in essence,
to be great on offense, you really need to know defense.

(01:51:24):
And the only way to know defense is to coach
on that side of the ball, because when you coach
on the other side of the ball, you really learn
all the ins and outs about the wise behind what defenses.
Do you take that and go to offense. You now
have a better understanding of when we do this, this
forces the defense to react like that, this is how
we should counter those tactics.

Speaker 3 (01:51:47):
To me, it makes sense. Bill Belichick has done that
a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
He's always made guys get out of their box, make
them coach different ways, cross train them, because what it
does is it enhances your.

Speaker 3 (01:51:58):
Overall knowledge of the game. And the best coaches know
all parts of the game. They're not pigeonholed and just
learning one side of it.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
Right, and I'll tell you something else, And maybe this
is nothing new to you. For sure, but you know,
when a coach is at a certain position, it's like
the Peter principal. You could be a great teacher, but
that doesn't necessarily mean you could be a great principal.

Speaker 3 (01:52:22):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
So you could be a great coordinator, that does not
mean you're going to be a great head coach. Josh McDaniels,
to me, was a pretty darn good offensive coordinator. You know,
he may never well be a great head coach when
all of a sudden done with his career.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
Yeah, And some people are like that. Everyone's not necessarily
built to be the leader. Everyone's not built to be
the one that organizes everything. We all have our different
strengths and weaknesses. And when you play into your strengths,
that's when you have your greatest opportunity to succeed. And
so for some coaches, that is being a head coach.
For other coaches, that's being an assistant coach, position coach

(01:53:00):
for others, desk being a.

Speaker 3 (01:53:01):
Coordinator, one that can tie it all together.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
You have to know, as the head coach, how can
I put this guy in the best position for him
to help our franchise.

Speaker 3 (01:53:09):
Doesn't always work.

Speaker 1 (01:53:10):
Out, okay, Jacksonville, the Jaguars are close to your heart.
Mac Jones is a member of the Jaguars right now.
Your assessment, does he have a shot, will you see
some playing time, will he see the light of day,
or can he change things around?

Speaker 3 (01:53:24):
I think he can turn it around.

Speaker 2 (01:53:26):
One of the things that I learned from one playing
with the Raiders under the late Al Davis and playing
for the Green Bay Packers with Ron Woolf, who learned
from Al Davis. You always kick the tires on former
first round picks. If a guy was taken in the
first round, you want to kick the tires on him
because someone saw some talent in him that was at
a higher level, and the rest of the league typically

(01:53:47):
saw someone that was drafted in the first round as
the first round talent. For mac Jones, because it's the
quarterback and they have extra value, you always want to
take a shot on that. Maybe it was the environment,
Maybe was the coaches that were in his ear. Him
out of that environment put him in a newer environment.
Jacksonville is his hometown, so he's certainly very comfortable there.
Doug Peterson is a different type coach than Bill Belichick

(01:54:09):
and the guys that were there. Maybe he gets with
those guys and just kind of has an epiphany in
terms of how to play the game and those things
I will say, and watching him practice, he's looser, he's freer.
He appears to be having a lot of fun, and
a lot of times when you're having fun, you end
up playing well. Who's to say, as a backup quarterback
to Trevor Lawrence, if he gets his opportunity that Bank

(01:54:30):
Jones can't go in there and play well and set
himself up for either a return to start or maybe
a long term situation in Jacksonville just mutually beneficial to
him and to the team.

Speaker 1 (01:54:40):
Well, you say he's looser and having a lot more fun,
because there's certainly a lot less pressure on him right
now because he knows Trevor Lawrence is the quarterback and
he's not vying for the number one spot, being drafted
number one and coming to fill in for a Tom
Brady situation in New England that was a lot of pressure.
Right now, there's no pressure because he probably won't see
action unless Trevor Lawrence it's hurt or they're winning by

(01:55:01):
nine touchdowns maybe in one game.

Speaker 2 (01:55:04):
That is probably true that he doesn't have the same
kind of pressure that he had on him once before.

Speaker 3 (01:55:10):
But it's still a situation where he has to learn
how to play.

Speaker 2 (01:55:16):
He has to add some tools to his tool built
to put himself in a position to maybe be a
starter again in this league. But he's having fun. You
can see on social media that he's having a lot
of fun. He's happy to be and excited to be
back in his hometown. It might just be the right
situation for him and we'll see where he goes from there.

Speaker 1 (01:55:33):
All right, He's Bucket Brooks on Amy Firman. We are
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Let the air
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all right, the blame game coming right up. It's about
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(01:55:55):
from the tiraq dot Com studios. And of course, at
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And look, I would be remiss if I did not
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Mark the hammer, Ramsey, he's the man and of course
the eye man right here with the blame game, let's
play you ruin me.

Speaker 8 (01:56:22):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault. What is
all your fault?

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
Maybe it's everyone's.

Speaker 8 (01:56:31):
Faults, the liar. That's why there's the blame game. Let's
figure out who to blame.

Speaker 10 (01:56:39):
All right, don't blame game. This is this is the
perfect way to close out the show. I love that
we do this. This is just like a cafeteria food fight.
Is just blame. We're just throwing it all anyway. Uh,
let's go. The Indianapolis Colts just built three swimming pools
inside Lucas Oil Stadium, complete with over two million gallons

(01:57:00):
of water. The venue will host the twenty twenty four
US Olympics swimming Trials June fifteenth and twenty third. But
with this being the case, why can't NFL stadiums just
install natural grass instead of artificial turf? Who do you blame?

Speaker 1 (01:57:12):
Andy of the owners, they didn't want to spend the money.
Come on, don't you see what's happening. It's all the greed.
Greed is good. If you're in the National Football League,
you know they cut back the preseason games. Why they
don't make a lot of money on those preseason games.
They want to expand the regular season. Money, money, money,
the green cabbage of salvation. It's all about money. That's
what it is. The guilt right now.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
Look, it's certainly the owners, because what happens is you
play seventeen games in a stadium, only eight or nine home.

Speaker 3 (01:57:42):
But you have.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Concerts, you have tractive pools, you have all kinds of
other events in the stadium. It is easier to maintain
turf than grass.

Speaker 3 (01:57:50):
So it's the money situation.

Speaker 1 (01:57:52):
Oh they're smoking grass, that's why that's the problem.

Speaker 10 (01:57:56):
Well, the player's president of the NFLPA, Ryan Kelly, who's
a for the Indianapolis Colts. So I guess we're sticking
to the cults theme here for a sec. He was
asked about the potential of an eighteen game NFL season,
and he took a little jab at Roger Goodell, saying,
put on a helmet for eighteen of those games, then
come talk to me, fucky, who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:58:15):
Well, I mean, look, I blame ownership, but I blame
ownership because it's gonna be a boom to the pocketbook.
The most popular sport in the country has an opportunity
to put another regular season game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:26):
That's gonna add more money.

Speaker 2 (01:58:27):
To the owner's pockets but also the player's pocket. Look,
this is a business decision. You wipe away a preseason
game for a regular season game, everyone gets more money.
Players can complain about it, but it's better for the game.

Speaker 3 (01:58:38):
It's better for the league if you had another game.

Speaker 1 (01:58:40):
And I'm gonna take a different stance on this because
I kind of like the fact that on eighteen. Why
more is better? We love football, and I can't stand
having an auto amount of games. Seventeen games, So you're
gonna get screwed at home. You're gonna miss a home
game if you're a season ticket holder. So at least
now you have nine to nine, at least it's even
make it sixteen eighteen. But seventeen is a stupid amount,

(01:59:02):
So go ahead. I love it, We love the NFL.
More is better in this case.

Speaker 10 (01:59:07):
All right, Well, you guys touched on it a little earlier.
But the US cricket team upset Pakistan in the Cricket
World Cup the other day. Guys, this was legitimately one
of the biggest upsets in sports history. But uh, nobody
in the US really cares. Who do you blame, Andy,
I don't blame anybody, but no one does care.

Speaker 1 (01:59:24):
I mean cricket. You know what if they had a
cricket match behind my house right now, I closed the drapes.
No one cares about cricket, really, at least in our country.
You don't even know what cricket. You can't even spell cricket. Really,
Please give me a break, Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:59:40):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:59:41):
No one pays attention to cricket. I mean I blame
us because maybe we don't expand our horizons. But we
should think about more than just a major sports I
think we just need to continue to expand our sports palette.

Speaker 3 (01:59:53):
All right.

Speaker 10 (01:59:54):
Well, the Mike Tyson, the Mike Tyson versus jacqullfight, The
Mic Tyson Mike Tyson excuse me, Jake Paul fight was
officially rescheduled for November fifteenth, after Tyson was dealing with
a medical emergency. He was dealing with some ulcers or something.
Is it even worth it at this point? Andy, who
do you blame?

Speaker 1 (02:00:12):
Who? Wait? Bucky goes first? I went first last time?

Speaker 10 (02:00:15):
Excuse me, Bucky will start with you.

Speaker 3 (02:00:17):
Oh look, man, Mike Tyson should me to bring out now?

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
And am worried about Mike Tyson get in if you
had a medical situation before you even gets in the ring.
Like Jake Paul is not a professional fighter, but he
certainly swings hard enough to hurt Mike Tyson.

Speaker 3 (02:00:28):
I'm worried now. I don't want to see this fight
go on.

Speaker 1 (02:00:32):
All right, Mike, take a step back, Iron, Mike Pickers.
I think it's the age factor. You better get a
doctor taking care of you pretty good. Because I don't
like what I'm hearing your medical issues, and they didn't
really announce or release exactly what the issues were. Maybe
it's time to just say we don't need this, you know,
let it go. Your health is more important.

Speaker 10 (02:00:50):
All right, Well we'll end with this quick one. So justin,
Jefferson just got his new contract, record breaking makes him
the highest paid non quarterback in the league. Three Cowboys
players have yet to be paid. Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (02:01:02):
Jerry Jones, pay the people m hm.

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