Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk NBA Finals, NFL Offseason, Lakers HC Search & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
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be here. He is. Happy Father's Day, my man, Bucky Brooks.
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I am great and he can't complain. Happy Father's Day
to all the fathers out there.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Special holiday. Everyone gets the opportunity to celebrate their day
being around.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yes, it is Father's Day and it's our day. Bucket
is ourday. We'll discuss what we're gonna do later on today. However,
you want to feel old, I'm gonna make you feel old.
Fort said when I heard this, I felt really old.

Speaker 5 (00:50):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
Kevin Wyrett top ofy I was giving these scores of
the College World Series in Kentucky one. Do you know
who is on that Kentucky University Kentucky baseball team. You
want to make, you make you really old? Pete Rose's
grandson place for them?

Speaker 4 (01:04):
Oh wow, Okay, I think that sou sound was playing there.
I was watching the game. I did not know his
grandson was playing for UK. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Yes, unbelievable. And if you got a minute, I'd like
to talk about the history of our day, buck, the
history of Father's Day if I can. If you got
a minute, all right, do you have a minute for me?
All right? On July fifth, nineteen oh eight, at West
Virginia Church sponsored the nation's first event in honor of fathers.
It was a Sunday sermon in memory of the three
hundred and sixty two men who had died in the

(01:32):
previous December's explosion at the Fairmont Cole Company mines. Okay,
but this was not the annual holiday. It was just
a one time deal, one time celebration. Then next year
and Spokene, Washington, a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, one
of six children raised by her widower. She tried to
establish an official equivalent to Mother's Day for guys for us. Okay,

(01:53):
she went to the churches, went to the YMCA, so
all of a sudden it kind of took root. They
really did, and Washington State celebrated the nation's first state
White Father's Day on June the nineteenth, June the nineteenth,
and nineteen ten, and in nineteen twenty four, President Calvin
Coolidge urged state governments to observe Father's Day. It is
now the third Sunday in June, and it is our day.

(02:15):
And what do you got planned today? Buck? I want
to do nothing. That's what I want to do. Nothing today.
My boys, both my sons, my daughter in law, they
are coming over today and I'm not gonna do a
damn thing.

Speaker 3 (02:27):
No, So it's gonna be pretty chill day. My son
is playing baseball in Nebraska, so I probably, like he
is the day off, so I'll probably catch up with
him via fay Sime. My daughter's gonna hang out, We're
gonna grab dinner. It's gonna be a pretty chill day.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yes, that's a great day, and I hope you have
a great Father's Day. I really do. Now, let's talk
a little bit about this NBA player situation, because the line,
the storylines for this players, it's ridiculous. They really are,
you know, first off to talk about Luca Danchu's and
the heat that he's getting. I have no idea why,
I really don't. I mean, his defense leaves Sunday to
be desired. But this guy's averaging twenty nine points, seven

(03:01):
points a game, nine rebounds, and six assists in the games.
And I know they're down three to one and the
game will the series will be over tomorrow and boys,
I no doubt about that. And stories have circulated on
social media that Celtic fans who purchase tickets to a
Game five wanted the team to lose in Dallas the
other day in Game four so they could celebrate the
title tomorrow night in Boston. Yeah. I don't know. I

(03:22):
get it. You have a ticket, you want to see
the celebration. But I think if you're a fan of
a team, you never want to see your team lose.
I mean, I did. I don't understand it at all.
Explain that one to me.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
He can't really explain that, But I do understand the
sentiment of wanting to celebrate on your home floor.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Imagine you're a Boston fan.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
You have an opportunity to watch them do it on
top of the Leprechaun what better way.

Speaker 4 (03:42):
To do it?

Speaker 3 (03:43):
To win at you know, the home arena, then make
it out to your favorite bar, hang out with the people,
will hang out.

Speaker 4 (03:48):
With all of your favorites, all of the locals.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I can understand why maybe you didn't root against them
in game four, but maybe you're okay with them coming
back in game.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Five to do it.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
But I will say it puts a different level of
pressure on Boston to get it done tonight because if
you lose tonight, then the pressure continues to mount and
escalate because the close that game is the hardest game.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
We've heard players talk about that.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
It'd be interesting to see how the energy either works
for the Celtics or works against the Celtics as they
try and get this done.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
The Celtic we'll get to them in a second. Was
then they got no respect. But the thing is with Luca,
I have no idea what's going on. And certainly I
was glad to see that Jason Kidd just the other
night kind of stuck up for him and he said
something about the media barbecuing him and the hot criticism
he's getting. He told him to back off a little bit.
I thought it was correct. I mean, look, this team
is his team. He carries them on his back. I mean,

(04:42):
he gets some elfan Kyrie Irving, but basically I would
have to say he's the best offensive player in the
game right now, maybe the best overall player in the
game right now. Have for him to get heat like that,
it's ridiculous. Look, the one criticism I guess he could
have the fact that he winds and cries at the officials,
but he didn't do that in Game four. You know,
I get it, you get upset. You gotta get frustrated

(05:02):
people pushing and shoving on you.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah no, but I can't let him off the hook.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Like when you're the best player, you do carry the
brunt of the criticism. I think about all the years
that Lebron had to deal with the weight of being
the face of the NBA and how the expectation was
for him, regardless of who he had. If he didn't
win the championship, it was a failure. Luca has worked
his way into that category where their high expectations for him.

(05:28):
He is unequivocally the best offensive player in the game.
He does have issues when it comes to playing defense.
They were isolating them, they were taking them to task.
They were barbecuing them one on one. The other part
of Luca's game is really his personality. He has to
stop whining and crying because what happens when he winds
and cries one he stops playing and so it gives

(05:50):
the other team a five on four advantage because he's
down there messing with the official. But this says a
bad message to his team because when his body language
is all bad, his shoulders are slump, it gives.

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Them a reason to then wind and complain. He has
to tighten it up.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
He has to know that, look with great responsibility comes
with being the leader of the team, and he just
has to make sure that he carries himself at a
higher holds himself to a higher standard when it comes
to that, he's going to wind and complain some but
he can't do it every play, and it was to
the point that it was every play and he can't

(06:24):
get He can't file out if he's the best player,
you can't file out with five minutes left in the game,
like you just can't. You have to be available for
your team. So that's something that he has to continue
to work on. Maturity can bring about that, But yeah,
it's something that he has conscious of.

Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, And the one thing I don't think that has been
brought to the forefront right now is that the injuries
that he's battling right now. He was on the Game
three injury report he had a bruce chest. He's been
on the previous playoff injury reports with a spring knee
and ankle sore in this So here's the guy. I mean,
he's just hurt. He's beat up, and look, he's probably
the main reason.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
And everybody's hurt though you're letting them off the hook.
Everybody's hurt, everyone's beat up. And I'll say this, like,
at the level that you're at in the NBA, when
it comes down to plane, no one cares. Like That's
what I would tell.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
You, Hey man, no one cares of all their ailments.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
When you show up and you decide that you're going
to play a tip off, no one cares what you're
dealing with. Like it's a nice backstory, maybe can provide
some context, but at the end of the day and
five ten years, when they talk about this finals, no
one is going to talk about the various things that
Luca was battling through to be available. So That's why
he has to understand it. He has to gut it out,
he has to suck it up, and he has to

(07:34):
play through all of those things and still help the
Dallas MAVs win. It's a tough task. It's not fair,
but that's just the way the cars that he's dealt.

Speaker 4 (07:43):
That's what it is when you're starting this league.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
But you would admit that he is the major reason.
He's the main reason really why the Dallas Mavericks have
be three fifty win teams in the Western Conference this year.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
And reached like he's a killer, like he is terrific
in the offensive machine.

Speaker 4 (07:57):
He can score, he can get it all done.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
The only thing that takes away from his greatness, I
would even say not even the defense, because you can
work around the defense. You can build the team around
him knowing he's a live building is when he stops
play to be distracted by the officials. If he's locked
in and focused like he was in Game four, it's
not an issue.

Speaker 4 (08:17):
They can play around that.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
So for him is can you mature enough where you're
locked in, focused and you keep the main thing, the
main thing, which is putting the ball in the basket
and find a way to lead this team to win.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
I will say this, and I look back and people
criticizing the Boston Celtics and saying the choke Ottess whatever
it may be, is TA that won sixty plus games.
I mean, then I choke out its number one number two.
When Dallas beat the Celtics the other night in Game four,
it was the first time that Dallas Mavericks beat the
Celtics since the twenty twenty one twenty twenty two season.
That's unbelievable. Look this past year, Boston beat him twice

(08:51):
in the playoffs one oh five, ninety eight, one oh seven,
eighty nine. I'll go twenty three to twenty four season,
Boston beat him one thirty eight, one ten. Boston beat
him on January or the twenty second of that year
one nineteen, one ten, and in twenty two twenty three
they beat in one twenty four to ninety five and
one twenty five, one twelve. They're just a better team.
Boston is a better team than Dallas, and the media

(09:12):
can't get that through the head. They want to bury
Jason Tatum. I don't know why. You know that the
tandem of Tatum and Brown may be the best one
two punch in the NBA. Really.

Speaker 3 (09:24):
Uh yeah, Look, I wouldn't dispute that. The problem that
you have is we like storylines, we like story arcs,
We like heroes and villains. And the problem that you
have with the Celtics, we could talk about Jalen Brown
and Jason Tatum being the two best players on the team,
but we really don't have that clear line of distinction
in terms of who's number.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
One and who's number two.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
We want Jason Tatum to be number one, but Jaylen
Brown certainly plays like the number one guy, and it's
hard for some of us to kind of get that
through that maybe Jayden Brown is the one destroy that
kind of stirs to drink for this team as opposed
to Jason Tatum. We always are worried from the media
standpoint on giving credit who deserves the most credit for
this team winning, as opposed to recognizing the beauty of

(10:06):
the team. This team is perfectly constructed, This team is taken.
I would say a bit of a different approach to
be able to win games the way they shoot the
three ball. An analytical driven team. But here they are
three and one and they have dominated everyone that they
played regardless of the injuries to the key players on
all the teams that they've knocked off getting to this point,
that's not their fault. If anything, you use that maybe

(10:28):
the Boston Celtics are the best conditioned team in the
league because they haven't had to deal with those injuries,
with exception of Christaff Porzingis. They'll get their flowers once
it's all said and done, if they win it, they
put the eighteenth banner up. But yeah, Jayson Tatum has
gotten some criticism, but I think it's more because everyone
wants him to be the number one as opposed to
appreciating the team for the balanced parts and the way

(10:51):
the puzzle pieces fit together perfectly.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
You bring up a great play with Jason Kidd after
the other game the other night, said that he was
trying to look at least I thought he was trying
to play a medal game in the news conference, saying
that Jalen Brown was Boston's best player, not Jason Tatum
trying to cause some problems internally. Not a bad deal
to get that stuff going. Didn't work, obviously, but I
agree with him. I think Jalen Brown is the guy
and if Boston wins tomorrow night, which I think they will.

(11:14):
I think he'll get the MVP trophy in the tournament,
in the playoffs, I really believe that he should.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
He's made the most clutch plays and clutch shots in
those things. Look, man, it's one of those things. It's
a bit of a popularity contest. It depends on how
they close it out and who has the biggest game.
But it should be Jayalen Brown based on what they've
done to this.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Point, right And look, you're right, this team is built
tremendously because I think it was Game two, it was
it was that true holiday. He had twenty six points,
eleven rebounds. I mean, so you don't know who's gonna
get you on that night. They're gonna beat you with
so many different ways. Derek White, I mean, they got
guys that could score at will. They got five guys
that could score at any time on any part of

(11:55):
the court right now, and it looks like the Celtics
got this formula down pretty good. They forced a missmap
is on offense that gets Dallas into a rotation and
they get into like a catch and the shoot threes
where they drive for lafs. They can't get it done.
At the other end, they take away the same shots
and they kind of live with the Lucas shooting and
Kyrie Irving shooting one on one and you can't win

(12:15):
like that. There's not a team effort there in Dallas.
They just don't have it. They really don't. It's Luca, well,
Kyrie and one of those guys are off. It's usually
Kyrie because Luca will get you inside. You can't win
and they're not gonna win. He needs some help, and
that's that's what the Celtics have. They got the help.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, they do have to help. And it's a tough look.
It's a tough matchup. I mean, there's the reason why
the Celtics won sixty four games in the regular season.
They are loaded their stack. Brad Stevens is don a
great job of adding the right pieces to the puzzle.
I talked about how it all fits together. Drew Holliday
being a huge pickup, being able to pry him from Milwaukee.
He gets you a veteran defended with a championship pedigree.

(12:55):
Christap Person gets coming over from Washington, giving them another look.
A long, deep shooter who early made his impact in
Game one where we saw how he stretches the defense
and puts you in bys. This team just plays really,
really well together. You got to give them credit. You
got to give Joe Mizoo a lot of credit for
making sure that the operation flows on the court.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (13:15):
They're a great team.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
Uh, I mean, are they one of the best teams
that we've ever seen.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
We'll see what it.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Looks like when they come back next year, but right
now we have to give them their flowers.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
They're the best. Uh.

Speaker 3 (13:25):
They've been the best team in the NBA the entire season,
and it looks like that throughout the post of the postseason.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
I'm with you right there. And look, I would say
this the other night. I think this is a key
when the when the Celtics lose, it's usually because they
beat themselves. And they were horrendous on shooting threes the
other night. For whatever the reason, it was sluggish. Maybe
in their mind they just realized that they the court.
I don't know what goes through an athlete's mind. You
do you you were an athlete, you played the game.

(13:52):
You know you're a three Zippi. You're under the the
visitor's court, uh, and their gymnasium in their arena. I mean,
what goes through Come on, don't you think you just
want to go out there and close it out. It
didn't look like that to me. But again, they beat
themselves dish to shot selection was poor, and I think
they're going to come out firing tomorrow night in Boston.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
I mean, that would be the anticipation, sometimes complacency considered.
Eure up three to one, you kind of expect the
other team to roll over, and the MAVs played with
great energy and effort, and that gave them a chance.
What you normally want to do if you're the Boston
Celtics in that three to zero game, you want to
see if you can jump on them early and see
if they just kind of fall apart in terms of

(14:34):
like get dejects and just kind of lick go of
the rope.

Speaker 4 (14:36):
They didn't.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
They had a lot of energy, and so now it
becomes even that much more difficult to deal with them
in Game five. The first quarter will really determine a
lot about how this game finishes out, because if the
Boston Celtics jump on the MAVs in the first quarter,
well then it's going to be a forty eight minute
coronation of the Boston Celtics. But if somehow the Mavericks
are able to either kind of stave off that emotional

(14:59):
wave actually what happened, and find themselves in the game,
then it becomes a little tricky because you remember, this
team was down three to zero to the Miami Heat
a year ago and forced.

Speaker 4 (15:10):
It to a game seven.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
If they win this one and it gets to three
to two, that still has to kind of start to
creep up in their minds that hey man, this team
can't come back on us, and it just changes the
psychological warfare of the series.

Speaker 4 (15:23):
Right.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
I will say this, and I think it's a true statement.
If not, you know, knock me down on it. For
the math, for the Dallas Mavericks to come back and
win three consecutive games, they can't do that without the Celtics' help.
In other words, the Celtics have to almost give them
the game, which I think they basically did the other night.
I heard all the commentators say, great defense, great defense

(15:44):
by Dallas. Okay, they ramped up the defense a little bit,
but you know what, they shot something like twenty seven percent.
They're not going to shoot like that again, Barton. They
just want that an off night forever you for whatever
the reason, maybe they was sluggish, I don't know what
it was, but the point is that, yeah, defense was
pretty good, but most of the time those shots go win,
and they were horrendous shooting that night. And again I'll say,

(16:04):
Dallas cannot win three consecutive games now without helping without
without the Celtics help. That's the bottom line.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Well, I mean it's always kind of the case, like
I mean, you got to play great, but also the
opponent has to help you. And yeah, the Boston Celtics
would have to help the Dallas Mavericks. They would have
to turn the ball over, they would have to do
some things that would grant the MAVs extra possession and
points in those things. The other thing, as much as
we love what the Boston Celtics do when it comes

(16:33):
to the three point shot, there is some volatility when
you play that way. The farther way you are from
the basket, the more the odds begins to diminish on
terms of you putting the ball in the hole. And
so you're going to have some of those nights where
it doesn't go in. Look, they played around one of
THEMS I think maybe Game two they didn't shoot the
ball particularly well and still found a way to win.

(16:53):
The difference was the MAVs made more plays in Game
four than they made previously in Games two and three,
and that's why they were able to win. So it's
been a fourth quarter affair most of these games. We'll
see if it continues to be that way.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
It amazes me. I mean, the bottom line is is
with media coverage of this series right now, maybe because
it's not really a Hollywood type series, there's really no
really big villain, and sometimes a villain's important in sports
because you could root four or against that guy. But again,
I will say this, Lucas getting drilled for the rent
of the reason. I don't know why. Maybe it's just
a storyline and the Celtics get no respect, and should

(17:31):
they win, they'll say, well, they won because you know,
there was injuries in Milwaukee, there was injuries in Philadelphia.
They had an easy way to get through the East.
I mean, come on, really, you win sixty four freaking
games during the year, you got to give this team
some credit. And should they lose, oh my goodness, it'll
be the biggest collapse in sports. So you know they
can't win for whatever the reason. So it's just the
way it's the way it's laid out for these two teams.

(17:54):
It's just it's said. It really is.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's sad. I mean,
it's just the.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Way that it is India the public when we have
like so many talking here, it's covering the sport. You
can get some of these opinions, but it makes a
great fodder.

Speaker 4 (18:07):
If they lose.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It makes for an even more glorious Hollywood ending in
terms of, like we see the story arc where they
have to have a little adversity because the Selvin's Seven
faced any adversity throughout the postseason, Like they've kind of
skated through the postseason really unscathed. So there is a
part of me and maybe a part of the public
they're kind of wants to see them have to battle

(18:28):
through some stuff before they can get the chip. We'll
see if it materializes on the court when they take
it again.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Game fun.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
It'll be over tomorrow night, so we have to worry
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(18:54):
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Speaker 2 (20:23):
All right, someone needs to really back off. That's right
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and this is Father's Day on Fox Sports Sunday on
Fox Sports. Lady by the way, Buck, you know, I
really thought I was tired when I heard all these
Taylor Swift stories, but then Caitlyn Clark came along, so
I don't know. I mean, and look, I have nothing
against the young lady, and I think she's done a

(20:45):
world of good for women's basketball and basketball in general.
But it's getting out of control. And why I say
that because the story with her is so amazing because
it involves sports obviously, it involves politics, and it involves race.
I don't know if that's good A yeah, but that's
what it does. Don't you agree with that. I mean,
it's not just a sports figure about her talents or

(21:06):
a lot thereof, or the development that she has in
the WNBA. It's about politics and race, and people who
don't even know what one damn thing about the WNBA
are getting involved, who probably never saw a WNBA game
in their life.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Yeah, it touches on even more than that.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Like you talk about sport, race politics, it talks on
political things. When it comes to gender, it comes to
even delving into you know, sexuality and prefaces in those things.
And so there's a lot of factors that have been

(21:44):
kind of lumped into it when it comes to Caitlyn Clark.
And I'll say this, man, I think America owns Caitlin
clark apology, because she's really being used as a prop,
you know, like she's being used as a prop for
a lot of people with different agendas that want to
discuss various things, but they're using her to face involuntarily
and so like, so she doesn't really have a lot

(22:07):
that she can do because people are quickly attaching their
personal beliefs to her. And it's not fair because on
the court, look, man, she's a baller. We'll see if
she can be a star in the NBA in terms
of like her game. But she certainly is someone that
has brought a lot of attention, a lot of notoriety
to the w NBA, and because of that, you have

(22:29):
more eyeballs, but you also have more talking heads discussing
the sport and discussing the sport using her as.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
A central figure.

Speaker 3 (22:36):
I just wish that she would be able to just
kind of play without kind of being involved as kind
of like the star of the drama.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
But unfortunately that's not kind of like the world that
we live in.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
It's funny and finally, she spoke out just the other day,
I was hobby she did. She's saying that commentators have
used her name as you mentioned to denigrate other WNBA players,
and I'm saying who and when I need names, I
want to hear about this. She said these comments are
not acceptable. Finally, and I'm kind of quoting her to
some extent, not exactly, but she said, people shouldn't be
using my name to push these agendas. It's disappointing, it's

(23:09):
not acceptable. Thank you, Caitlin. Finally you're speaking on how
much can you take? These people are killing her? You know,
she's treating every single woman in this sleep with the
same amount of respect. I think it's just a basic
human thing that everybody should do. And it's crazy. I mean,
I don't know where this came from, why it's coming from.
I don't know who started it, but it's like you say,
it's got to stop, and people do owe her an apologies.

(23:30):
You said, they really do. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Well, no, I won't stop.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
Because of the way that our media, I guess world
is constructed, we have to utilize certain people to begin
to push different things. And at a time where the
country is very very political and divided and like everything
is very very touchy and volatile, she has been thrust

(23:54):
in the middle of that war, and you have people
from like variants competing and utilizing her to push certain
narratives and continue to further different stereotypes, and you have
other people trying to rebuff stereotypes utilizing her and where
she stacks in the league as that part of it.
And no, it's not fair to her. It's not even

(24:14):
really fair that she has to speak up. Like we
all should be compelled to do what we want to
do when it comes to weighing in and offering our opinion.
Some of us are more workers, we do by example,
others are more vocal. Well, now she has been forced
to be vocal because all of the criticism that she
has taken in terms of hey, you should speak up
if you don't believe in these things, etc.

Speaker 4 (24:34):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
But no, it's not fair to her, like everyone who
has picked it up, and the thing that frustrates made one.
I will say this, I'm a women's basketball fan. I've
been a long time women's basketball fan. I have five
or six friends that coach women's basketball in college and
so my fandom comes from the joy of the game.
And some of the takes that are here on Kaitlyn
Clark have nothing to do with Kaitlyn Clark's game because

(24:57):
you can tell people haven't really watched her and they
haven't watched college or the WNBA, And to me, it
has been a little disrespectful to what the expectations have
been in terms of like how everyone should just kind
of fawn over Caitlin Clark that is in the league,
when if you know women's basketball, if you know athletics,
you know that competitors love going toe to toe with

(25:19):
the next hot name. That's a part of kind of
like the alpha mentality that is embedded.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
In the sport.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
And then the other part is like we always as
a country talk about priding ourselves and being a meritocracy,
and people have to earn their way to do those things,
and you got to get it out the muck, you
got to do all this. But yet the conversation that
we've had the last few weeks has been, oh, she
should be on the Olympics team because we're trying to
promote the sport. Well wait a minute, like she should
be good enough to get on the team if we're

(25:47):
promoting the sport, not just given a thing. Because so
much of what we've heard is don't give people handouts,
don't give people passes. They need to earn the right.
If she's qualified, if she's good enough.

Speaker 4 (25:58):
She should be on it.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
And so it's all of these things that really frustrate
me when I hear the conversation, because I feel like
in America we want it like we want it both ways,
and you can't have it both ways.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
You know, I'm glad you mentioned the Olympic team because
I don't get a lot of things right on this show,
especially when he played by the batrel Bellty. You'd be
betting you beat the living daylights out of me. But
I did say something last week, and you could sickond
that if it was true. We talked about the Olympic
team that she was left off, and I said, wouldn't
be nice if a player like a Brittany Grinder would say,
you know what, I got that broken toe, I haven't
played much. Maybe I'll move aside. Let her come on.

(26:31):
Didn't that happen just the other day? She's now an
alternate kit and Clark's now an alternate on the Olympic
team because Brittany Grinder has left. She's not on the team.
And now the stories are coming out about Brittany on
social media that you know, maybe she couldn't pass a
drug test. I mean, it's unbelievable. You know, there are
no facts anymore. People look at social media take it
for what it's worth and they don't do any fact

(26:51):
checking that there's no reporting. It's just rumor mill and
people use that for their news source. I don't know
if Britney Grinder is gonna test positive or not. Well,
I know is this it was a nice gesture that
she's no longer she bowed out, you know. And the
fact that she didn't say why it's aid personal reasons.
Oh boy, that opened the door for everything, and you
know who knows.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
I mean, yeah, yeah, it opens the door. I mean, look,
Kaitlyn Clark's eventually going to give her opportunity to make
the Olympic team. But I think people have to understand
this is the most difficult team to make in sports.
When you think about the women's team sixty six and three,
they've been of late, you know, turned seventh straight gold medals.
When you think about Hall of famers who didn't make

(27:33):
the team their first try, Dawn state they didn't make
her the team the first try. You think about the
w NBA, the countless women who have played in WNBA
and Shine of ben Stars and haven't had an opportunity
to make the WNBA. I mean to make the Olympic team.
In fact, I heard this, I think the youngest player
on the team maybe twenty seven, twenty eight, because they

(27:55):
value experience, and because Caitlyn Clark hasn't played in any
of the preliminary stuff, none of the camps, none of
the friendlies, none of the other the exhibitions or whatever,
like the coach doesn't know her, and so I think
people underestimate that part of it. Sports are about relationships.
It's about like building that commitment, accountability and trust where

(28:15):
when you walk out onto the court, everyone.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Knows that a.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
We can finish each other's sentences because we're connected like that.
Kaitlyn Clark hasn't been available. She hasn't been exposed to
the women enough to really confidently say, hey, she deserves
to be on this team. She hasn't outplayed them. And
the other point would be, well, who you taking off?
So Brittany Grounder steps aside. That's one, but some would
argue there are other people that should be in front

(28:40):
of the line before Kaitlyn Clark gets there.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
I'm just saying like it's one of the.

Speaker 3 (28:44):
Things I expect her to eventually get there, because we've heard,
you know, the saying like the squeaky will gets to grease.
There's been a lot of squeakiness around Kaitlyn Clark. So
she's going to find her way onto the team. But
then I will say this, did she earn it? Did
she really earn the right to be on the team
or is this a handout situation that many of us
in America oppose.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Well, I mean, look, the only people who could have
suffered by her not being on the team were not playing.
He's probably NBC because the Rings maybe get a little
bit of a goose with her on there. They want
to see her play. Other than that, they did have
win the gold with or without her. There's no doubt
in my mind about that.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
Well, I mean, they're good enough to win to go.
I know, you still got to play it out. You
never know what could happen.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I think they will. But you know, we had an
interesting caller last week saying, you know what, she really
wants to be on the Olympic team. Let her find
their ancestry and then maybe play for that country. But
who knows Steven's with us. We'll get to him in
a minute. Hang there, Steven, all right, he's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Ferman and coming up on Fox Live from
the ti raq dot Com studios. Just call him meathead. Yes,
that's next for first another meathead with all your sports

(29:43):
Kevin Wyatt, I that is, I apologize.

Speaker 9 (29:46):
That's an aff description, though I'm not going to deny
that either way. Speaking of Meathead's NHL Stanley Cup. Although
Connor McDavid not a meathead on Saturday, as he did
get his first career Stanley Cup final goal part of
a four point performance as the Edmonton Oilers pound the
Florida Panthers eight to one to force a fifth game

(30:07):
in Florida on Tuesday. The Panthers still ahead in the
Stanley Cup Final three games to one, but the Oilers
do live to fight another day. College World Series, the
last game of the day only got finished to say,
about four hours or so ago, not even as a
Texas A and M and Florida delayed by several hours

(30:29):
because of rain. The Aggies do eventually hold off the
Gators three to two the first game of the day,
though Kentucky and NC State. It's Mitchell Daily, the hero
of the day, walking it off in the tenth inning
with two outs to give the Wildcats a five to
four victory. In that opening round. US Open, it's Bryson

(30:50):
Deshambo in the lead. He shot a third round sixty seven,
good for three under par seventy as he now leads
the US Open by three strokes. He's seven under overall
for the tournament. Roy McElroy tied for a second. We
also have Patrick Cantley, the American, also tied at second
at four under par. In a Major League Baseball, Dodgers

(31:11):
pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto had to leave after two innings with
triceps tightness and got worse for the Dodgers on Saturday.
They end up losing to the Kansas City Royals by
a final score of seven to two. Astro's pitcher Justin
Verlander missing the opportunity to pitch against his old team
as the Detroit Tigers beat the Houston at Astros thirteen

(31:32):
to five, and Verlanders scratched on that start as he
had a sore neck. Cubs beat the Cardinals five to one,
Shota Imanaga going seven innings as He's now seven to
one on the season with an ERA of one point
eight nine. The Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers seventy
five mets when their fourth gave it a row five

(31:53):
to one. Against the Padres Orioles over the Philly six
to two. The a's n Minnesota Twins were reigned out.
Soccer the Euro twenty twenty four Championships in full swing
on Saturday. It was Spain beating Croatia three nails, switch
tilling over Hungary three to one, in Italy beating Albania
two to one. And as for the action on Sunday,
we have the first game coming up at nine o'clock

(32:15):
Eastern time, Poland and the Netherlands. The second game of
the day coming up at noon Slovenia and Denmark. Both
of those games can be seen over on FS one
and NFL News. T Higgins has signed his franchise tender,
so he will be reporting to camp in Cincinnati next month.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
Back to you guys, thanks, Kevise. Now, all right, a
new venue in a new day. We'll get to that
in a minute. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Furman. We
are Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio, holding patiently
from the Great State of Kansas. Steven, You're o with
Bucket Brooks on Fox Sports Radioday.

Speaker 10 (32:48):
Happy Fathers Day, guys, you too. You bet it's you know,
Caitlin Clark has a great father and a mother from
house interested in going down. I agree with Nuckie at
one thousand percent. My only point is that I think
she's I think she's on the team.

Speaker 11 (33:09):
We've got more girls that are hurt. I think Chelsea
Gray or one of them who are still going to
back out. So Christine Brennan of USA Today said the
reason she's not on the team from the committee. From
what the committee said is that they were afraid that

(33:30):
she would be on there like a Christian Ladner and
then they would sell these jerseys and then when they
would have to talk about why she was not playing.
And I think that's I mean, we want to be
a meritocracy. And then she's handled herself great, and I think, honestly,
I think Angel Reese has handled herself great.

Speaker 12 (33:50):
I mean, this is like Glarry Bird and Magic Johnson
all over again. It's not going away anytime soon. I'm
going to be watching at New Eastern Today on CBS
I'm gonna be watching.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I want to see I want to.

Speaker 12 (34:03):
See the rematch. But if we're a meritocracy, then and
then they're being honest. They're saying that that they don't
know how to answer that question of you just be honest,
you just say, Hey, she's a rookie. You know she's
not gonna be playing on she will play against the
blowout of like New Zealand or somebody. When we beat

(34:25):
New Zealand by sixty. Put her out there. I don't
know the problem. Here's the problem. This is what everybody's
dancing around, is that the w n b A and
the USA Basketball they've been subsidized for so long by
our corporate by our corporate interests. They've lost money. They
don't know how, they don't know how to make a profit.

(34:48):
I mean they like, remember the NBA used to market
Charles Barkley versus Michael Jordan. You need to do that
right now, right by ironside, every game, every single game,
the market Brianna Stewart versus dianswer Razzi, go back to
the nineties, go back to this. But the NFL does.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
NFL does it every Sunday with their quarterbacks. Hey, Steve
got to cut you short. Thank you have a great
Father's Day, appreciate the call, and I want to get
back to this before we roll on to ask Bucky.
We talked about the meathead right there. The America is
Fourth of July tradition, the Nathan's Hot Dog Getting Contest.
Joey Chestnut will not be there this year because his
partnership with Impossible Foods, with an alternative to burgers and

(35:30):
hot dogs, that's blocking him out of the event. However, however,
he's going to have a face off against Kobayashi and
they want to take all hot dog getting contest on Netflix,
and that's going to be on Labor Day. The question
I have, you know, is major league eating? Which is
the I guess governing body here is major league eating?
Is that a sport? Tell me if it is? I'm in.

(35:50):
Is major league eating a sport?

Speaker 3 (35:52):
I mean, I guess there is something today, But I'll
be honest with you as someone, I can't watch this stuff.
Like to me, it's just almost nauseating watching somebody eat
and consume like a million hot dogs. I mean, God
bless them, like and I love a hot dog and
those things, but like when I watch those eating contests.
It's a lot to think and I know that you
have to train and and do all that other stuff.

Speaker 4 (36:11):
But to me, I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
I don't have a great interest in it, even though
I find it fascinating enjoy Chestnuts relationship with.

Speaker 4 (36:21):
What you're saying, is it impossible beyond me? I don't
want to mess up to think like it keeps him
out of fake stuff.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Yeah, Like I am shocked by that, but like teach
his own And I'm curious to see how many people
are going to tune into Netflix to watch two guys
E Like, what is the ratings going to be on that?
We're talking about the WNBA, Like, what kind of number
is that gonna pull?

Speaker 2 (36:42):
Well, the Kobeyashi chest nothing could. I mean, look, Nathan's
gonna be in trouble on July fourth. I mean, I
want to think I have a crowd they usually have
that live on ESPN. I want up the crowd will
be the same, but we'll see. I mean it's gonna
be interesting right now. But again, I don't know how
you put that on the on the umbrella as a sport.
I mean, do you consider it a sport. I don't know. Oh,
I guess you got a train. I mean, are you

(37:02):
an athlete because you eat a lot of hot dogs?
I don't know. See who knows whatever? Bucky Brooks Andy Furman,
Father's day, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. And
by the way, he has an answer, an answer for
every single thing. Why ask Bucky? Hey's freaking next?

Speaker 1 (37:21):
Don't listen to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Asked Bucky. Right around the corner. Yeah, that's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports.
Ready and we're live from the ti Raq dot Com studios.
Are we ready? Let's get it going. It's time for
ask Bucky. Let's do it all right? Question number one?
Here we go, as a new broadcaster, what advice Bucky
Brooks would you give to Tom Brady?

Speaker 3 (37:44):
I don't know what advice I could give to him,
Like he's pretty well versed. I would say, uh, I
would give him the advice that someone gave me. Stories
over stats. Don't get so caught up in talking about numbers.

Speaker 4 (37:56):
Give us the story.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
So anytime you have an opportunity to relate something that's
taking place on the field with an old story. Give
us the story because it kind of lets us behind
the curtain. It gives us the insight that we always
create for former players.

Speaker 2 (38:09):
Sounds great, I'll buy that. Okay, here's a question of
for good. Why is Aaron Rodgers as a no show
at mandatory workouts this week with the Jets? Why is
that such a big deal? Because if it was anybody else,
it wouldn't be a big deal. If it was in
Green Bay, it wouldn't be a big deal. But the
fact that it's the New York media, it's a big deal.
Why is it such a big deal that he was
a no show? I'm sure he had a normal excuse.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
It's a big deal because at the beginning of the
off season Aaron Rodgers talked about the importance of limiting distractions,
and because Robert Salad made it where it was an
unexcused absence, the verbiage gave us an opportunity to kind
of dig into what may appear to be a salacious
story for Aaron Rodgers not to be their amentatory camp.
If you're told his team that he wasn't going to

(38:52):
be there, there would be one thing. But if it
was truly a situation where they didn't know where he was,
it'd be a little more concerning. But at the end
of the day, none of this matters as much as
we get excited about the offseason. What matters is how
the Jets play when the time is up. Aaron Rodgers
has that pressure. We'll see if he lives up to it.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
Good deal, Good deal? Okay, your thoughts on the recently
passed face of the NBA to silhouette Jerry West.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
I love Jerry West, and for me as a former player,
what I love about Jerry West is Jerry West is
one of the not even the pioneers, but kind of
like the pinnacle in terms of former player turned executive
in terms of how to do it at a higher level.
One one championship as a player, but won countless championships
as an executive. The way that he built teams, the

(39:37):
way that he identified talent, that is what every player
who kind of wants to move into the front office,
that's how they want to operate. I would say he's
very similar to the way that many of us look
at Ozzie Newsom in the National Football League. It is
rare to be a great player that can also parlay
that success in the championships as an executive.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
All Right, here's a toughie. You ready a tough question
on Father's Day. Every sport needs or has a villain.
I'm gonna name the sport. You name the villain in
that sport? All right, Basketball, Basketball the villain.

Speaker 4 (40:11):
Geez. I don't know who the basketball right now is.

Speaker 3 (40:13):
I think people will kind of villify Carrie Irvins, So
maybe Carie.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Is the villain.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
Maybe Lebron, Yeah, yeah, Lebron.

Speaker 4 (40:20):
We'll get some of that too.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
All right, Baseball. I think the problem with baseball they
don't even have one.

Speaker 4 (40:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (40:26):
I don't even know, Like, I don't even know. I
can't even think of a big name. Like if you
ask me the villain, I would still say a Rode,
the current baseball player that that people absolutely hate.

Speaker 4 (40:39):
I don't have. I don't have a current one like that.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
They be the lock. Yeah, and that may be the
lack of popularity in the sport of baseball really, although
you know, people will deny that it's not popular. But
I think that sports need a villain. Okay, Football, Mmm,
who is the villain?

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Football? I think?

Speaker 3 (40:58):
I mean, now, people love Pat mahonmes. But I think
they're growing tired of Pat mahomes Y's talk about the
whole KNSA City Chiefs. Because of the Taylor Swift thing,
they become the Vildens.

Speaker 2 (41:07):
Yeah, could very well be it. I'm trying to think
of a villain of football. I mean, is there a
quarterback that's a villain?

Speaker 4 (41:12):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (41:12):
I don't know. We'll continue the all right, Bucky Brooks,
Andy Furman. By the way, every team wins in June.
We'll tell you why right here, next on Fox Sports Sunday. Next,
keep it.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Here, Dore listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
All right, one tweet can make a real big difference,
I really can. That's coming right up. Good morning, everybody,
It's Father's Day. This is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox
Sports Ready. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Furman and we're
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(41:48):
tyre buying should be. And yes, my guy, on Father's Day,
Happy Father's eight to one and all. And also to
my partner, Bucky Brooks. Yes, we're ready to rock today
and we're gonna do nothing the rest of the day
while you have your daughter there. So that's good. You'll
have a good day for you, Buck. Good.

Speaker 4 (42:02):
Yeah, it should be good. It's gonna be a great day.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
Yes it will. I got one last question that I
had remaining from as Bucky. I want to roll it
by it because I thought it would be an interesting one.
I turned the TV on now and I'm watching like
all these crazy sports. I see cornhole on TV, cornhole tournaments. Okay,
so I'm going to ask you the next big sport
to gain popularity on television and maybe even with the league.

(42:26):
I'll give you some choices. Cricket, picketball, pickleball, or women's
flag football. Will there be Well, I think there is
a league right now women's flag football. Maybe I'm wrong.

Speaker 4 (42:35):
I don't know. I would bet on women's flag football hard, really,
I would.

Speaker 3 (42:40):
Go yeah, I would go hard on that, just because
when you think at the lord levels out here in California,
girls flag football is like man, it's hot, is popular,
it's popular. It's really going to just sanction as a
championship level sport. I think you will see more flag
becoming part of the mainstream when it comes to our entertainment.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I think there's gonna be a big time league on that.
I think it's gonna be on television and more than that,
New York City high schools because I do some high
school sports writing for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the
New York City's the Public School Athletically PSAL. They have
flag football teams in New York City on the high
school level, and moreover, the New York Jets have supported
that in New York City. They bought the equipment for

(43:26):
many of the high schools in New York City. So
I think you're right, you're onto something with that flag
football for girls and women. So it's gonna be the
next big sport. There's going to be a league in
it too. I'm sure it's going to happen. Oh wait,
we move on, by the way, Yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
I'm sorry. You can see it.

Speaker 3 (43:41):
Because also the NFL is so behind it, because what
it does is expands the fan base. You know, when
you now have opportunities and for women to play. Well,
now it's easier to sell jerseys to young ladies because
they can follow the sport because there's still is something
for them down the line before there was nothing. Then
you give them a tangible opportunity because they've created opportunities

(44:01):
at the NIA in AIA level for women to get
scholarships playing flag football. Yeah, I think it continues to
grow and expand.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
There you go, and before we get into the National
Football League, because I have a whole list of teams
that have really done well in June. Of course, everybody
wins in June, as I said, But Randy's on the phone.
Randy from Florida wants to talk to Buckie Brooks and
Fox Bus Radio. Good morning, Randy, Happy Father's Day.

Speaker 13 (44:25):
More than gentlemen, Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day. Hey,
I want to compare in contrast something with you guys.
I was still living up in Gainesville during the Tebow era,
and for me that was overwhelming. I don't know how
that kid got through it. But looking at Caitlyn Clark,
I mean her fans and I will love her. There's
a little controversy going on in the WNBA. If she

(44:45):
just said, you know, this is not for me, maybe
I'll go back to Iowa and open up a youth
can't keeping with girls basketball. Something like that just walked away.
How often do something like that happened.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
It's a great comparison to Tim Tebow.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I do believe the phenomenon is very similar, and like
the initial response to the Olympic team is very similar
to some teams electing not to sign Tim Tembo, not
because of him personally, but because of the fandom, the
zealous they kind of follow behind him. With Caitlin Clark,
I think it would be unusual to see her walk
away because she's making so much money from sponsorship and

(45:21):
marketing opportunities. We talk about the Nike deal that she has.
She just signed a deal with Wilson Basketballs. Look, it's
in her best interest, even if she doesn't like all that,
to continue to stay with the w NBA as a
hobby because it.

Speaker 4 (45:35):
Leads to so many other things for her.

Speaker 3 (45:37):
I don't think she'll walk away to start camps in Iowa,
but I do think she'll be active in the community
because it only benefits her brand.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Good question, It really is a good question. Okay, now
we roll along to the National Football League. You're bread
and butter. That's what you do. Basically, you played in
the league. You know everything about it. You're scout in
the league. You work for teams. So here we go.
I got a list alphabetically from Arizona to Washington, and
I say every team is improved, and every team is
a winner in June. That's why fans go crazy because

(46:03):
they think the team has a change. Some teams I
don't think they do. I'm gonna start with Arizona and
I'm going to throw a couple of things out there.
You tell me if I'm crazy or not, and you
tell me if we're on the right track. I say
Arizona improved because they got they signed the first round
pick Jorda Williams from the Cincinnati Bengals. He's a starting tackle.
I think it's going to help them, and they got

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him at a pretty reasonable rate fifteen million a year.
I know it sounds stupid, but that's a pretty good rate.

Speaker 4 (46:29):
I thought.

Speaker 3 (46:31):
Yeah, I mean, look, they're improved. The team is improved.
They're gonna be improved because the quarterback is going to
be better one year further removed from injury. Yeah, this
team is improved. You can see the identity that they're
having on the Monte Austin Fort and Jonathan Annit. So
I agree with you, there's still a very improved squad.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
Okay. And also they got to receive a Marvin Harrison junior.
That's gonna help a lot too, So we move on.

Speaker 4 (46:53):
So it certainly he gives them a lary for his
gero type presence.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
Okay. So if you're an Arizona Cardinal Finn, you should
feel great right now to the Atlanta Falcons and you look,
the eighth pick in the draft, they got Michael Pennox
junior's quarterback, and I guess that was a no brainer,
but that was weeks after they spent millions upon millions
of dollars on Kirk Cousins. Look, I think they upgraded

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the position, which is great. I don't know who's going
to be the starting quarterback right now. I would think
Kirk Cousins, but again he's coming off that ACL. But
I think the Atlanta Falcons are in pretty good shape,
better shape now than they were last June.

Speaker 4 (47:28):
I agree with you, Dan, better shape because of the quarterback.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
People have talked about this team offensively for years, the
weapons that they've accumulated kal Pitz, Drake Lund, John Robinson,
they add Darnelle Moody to the equation. They have talent,
but they needed a distributor, they needed a point guard, when.

Speaker 4 (47:44):
Now they have two.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
They have Kirk Cousins, who's the old vet, the steady hand,
who should be able to kind of get the ball
to the perimeter. He's coming off an Achilles injury, so
you wonder how long can he how long will it
take for him to get back to the level that
we've seen him play at, particularly down in minnesot And
then Michael Pennix Junior, who was eighth overall pick someone
they feel has special talents and qualities. Can you keep

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him on the sideline for two seasons while Kirk Cousins
is running the team. I would say it's a good
problem to have, even though it's a very expensive problem
to have.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
Right, So, if you're a Falcons fan, you should feel
pretty good, at least in the month of June. All right,
let's move to the Baltimore Ravens, and people will say,
you know what, they were crazy to sign a thirty
year old running back and Derrick Henry. However, I pulled
that back a little bit because they got him a
free agency for only eight million dollars a year, and
I think that right now when they get him, they

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didn't get it just because of his name. I think
that they want to have more of a commitment to
the run game because when they were in the playoffs
last year, that hurt him. So I think they're in
pretty good shape. They're not going to use him. I
don't think in Baltimore as they did in Tennessee. He
was like seventy percent of the offense in Tennessee. But
to have a guy like that, there's still some treads
on that tire and for only eight million dollars a year,

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I think it's a pretty good deal.

Speaker 3 (49:00):
Yeah, I think it's a pretty good deal. I am
putting an abstist buy it because I'm waiting to see
how this plays out. If you told me that Derrick
Henry was coming over to the Ravens and they were
running the old offense under Greg Roman, I'll be really
excited about it because I know it's gonna be smash
mouth power based in those things with Todd Munkin. I
just still need to see how this plays out. Last

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year we saw them kind of flip the script that
kind of throw it around the yard. They want to
show different parts of Lamar Jackson's game. Derrick Henry kind
of puts them back in the old mold, and I
just need to see how it fits with the spread
mentality that they've created. Derrick Henry is still a good player,
two time Russian champ, and the dilemma that it creates

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having him beside Lamar Jackson is tough on the defense.

Speaker 4 (49:45):
How does Todd Munkin put it together? Though?

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Interesting? Okay, But I gotta move to the Buffalo Bills
because this is the one team when I looked at it,
I think they need be worse. And I hate to
say this to Bills fans, but I think they may
be worse on paper at least receive a position that
they were a year ago. Of course, they traded Stefan Diggs,
but I think right now it might be a welcome
situation as far as what they change the culture of

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that team. And I hate to use that word, but
I think there was a problem there with Stefan Diggs,
not as a player, but I think just and irritating presence,
if you will, in the locker room. Maybe I'm wrong, Buck,
but I think that yes, on paper, they're worse receiver,
But overall they may be better off without him.

Speaker 4 (50:29):
I won't say that they're better off without him.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
I think like most teams in the nation, Folloall League level,
they have a few strong personalities, a few big personalities
that you have to deal with, and you can tolerate
them as long as.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
The production and the talent is there.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
For all the things that Stefan Diggs might have been
as a distraction, there's no doubt that he elevated Josh Allen.
Just look at the numbers Josh Allen before him and
after him. Now you're trying to replace that, and I
don't know who on their roster can replace what.

Speaker 4 (50:58):
Stefan Diggs was giving them.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
They were able to kind of I want to get
away with it in a way with Stephan Diggs playing
in a diminished role, but without him on the field,
who's their number one receiver. They're gonna talk about going
to twelve personnel, two tight ends on the field and
doing those things. But when I look at this team
right now, there's no one on offense that I'm scared
of outside of Josh Allen. And it's a dangerous thing.
And what they're banking on is he can do Pat

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Mahomes type stuff. Pat Mahomes elevated the offense without Tybreek Hill.
Let's see if Josh Allen is the player that many
of us has touted him to be in terms of
being on par or in the same conversation as Pat Mahomes,
because he has to elevate a look a squad, a
unit that doesn't have a true number one.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Yeah, and look, a lot of people are gonna say that,
you know, Josh Allen made Stefan Diggs. That's not true.
Stefan Dicks really helped Josh Allen. Maybe the stomachs that
made him. We'll see if Josh Allen could make a
receiver that's the key. Can he make one?

Speaker 3 (51:55):
We'll see, Yeah, I mean, can't he make Kenny elevated man?
So it's gonna be on him to be a more
accurate playmaker. Remember Stefan Diggs helped Josh Allen become a
more accurate passive. Remember he entered the league not having
thrown over sixty complete and over sixty percent of his passes.
So he's been woefully inaccurate throughout his lifetime his career
as a player. Without that, can those other guys expand

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the strikes on and make it easy for him to
register completions.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
All right, let's talk about the Carolina Panthers. Carolina fans.
I know he had a miserable year, but it's June.
You should be happy. And maybe there is an upside
right here. And I'm looking at Deontay Johnson, the receiver
they got from the Pittsburgh Steelers two years ago. This
kid who's going to be twenty eight in July, he
had over eleven hundred yards receiving. Can he come back

(52:42):
and do that? And basically they got him almost for
nothing from the Steelers. So Deontay Johnson could be a
start to help their offense. Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm
looking at the positive. I'm looking to help all the
fans out there, for all the teams. Maybe Johnson's the
guy to get Carolina on the right path.

Speaker 4 (52:58):
He's a good player.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
I'm not confident vastly improved team. We'll see David Canalis,
first time head coach taken over. It was a mess
last year in Carolina. At least they appear to kind
of be there's some synergy, some alignment in terms of
the general manager, head coach, quarterback and what they want
to do, but it's hard to make that play out

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on the field. Deontay Johnson teams with Adam DeLand to
give them some support. Jonathan Mingo, the receiver that they
were drafted last year, will also have a role, but
a lot of it is on Bryce Young. How how
big is the improvement from year one to year two
for Bryce Young?

Speaker 4 (53:36):
If you improved, then everything will go away.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
But a lot of his own Dave Canalis being able
to get Bryce Young up and going and playing at
a better level.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
All right, Chicago Bears. I mean, if I'm a critic
of the Chicago Bears, they drafted Caleb Williams and I
would have liked to see them beef up that offensive
line to protect them, but instead they went to get
some targets for him in Keenan Allen and the Romeo
Doonza in the draft. I guess that's the key. You
want to get Kayla Williams some targets. But again, I

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think the offensive line would have been a better situation.
But I think that things will shape out for Chicago.
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (54:11):
They're talented and they're ready to go. They have veterans
in place, and I think it's really important to make
that distinction.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
What the Bears have done is they've.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Surrounded your young quarterback with veteran guys who've played. What
that leads to is better trust between the young guy
throwing the ball to where the ball should be thrown
and trusting that the veterans are going to be on
those spots. When you have young guys, it's a little
more volatile because it's inconsistent.

Speaker 4 (54:32):
They kind of do their own thing.

Speaker 3 (54:33):
They don't really have that outside of Roma Dunz, who
is a high IQ player. So they're good. It's just
about the protection up front. If they can protect them,
they can run the football. He should be set up
for success. I wouldn't expect these numbers that have been
thrown out forty five hundred yards and that's of I
think he can be good if he hits set that
thirty eight to four thousand mark. The Chicago Bears are

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in the money when it comes to what their offense
looks like, and defensively, Matt Eberfliss has done a really
good job of getting them on the on the right path.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
Okay, I told about the Cincinnati bell Sinnati Bengals. You know,
obviously the big question mark is Joe Burrow. Will he
be back, will he be healthy? The guy's somewhat injury prone.
I hope he does well. The risk seems to be
okay right now. But I think the one Achilles heel
this team had last year was the defense and the
defensive safety situation. So getting Von Bell back at safety,
I think it's a pretty good deal. And I looked

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up and they said he only the Bengals only paid
one point two million for the guy, because the Carolina
Panthers are paying the rest of the six million dollars
for Bell. So I think it's a pretty good deal.
They get him back, they're not paying much.

Speaker 3 (55:34):
Yeah, that was a huge deal what the Bengals did.
And here's the thing that drives me crazy. They let
two of their tough safeties go a year ago. When
they let Jesse Bass go and Von Bell go at
the same time, they were banking on young players being
able to step into those roles.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
It didn't work out.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
They moved Dax Hill outside to cornerback now away from
the safety nickel position. Von Bell comes in to give
him that steady presence in the back end.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
And what is needed. They needed another what.

Speaker 3 (56:01):
We call traffic cops, someone that could direct all the players,
get him on the same page, make the calls, make
sure everyone is in alignment on defense. Fine Bell comes
back and get him. As a result, I don't think
you will see as many busts and blown coverages as
you saw in previous years. And lou and Aromo is
underrated as a defensive coordinator. Now with the veteran kind

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of directing things at the third level, I think you
see that defense kind of get back on track.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Good glad to hear that. Or Cleveland Browns bringing back
Zadarius Smith the defensive ends a pretty good deal. I
guess it was like a loaner last year, and I
guess they gave him another shot. He did well last year.
The only problem I have bringing him back he's gonna
be thirty two years old, so you know that's that's
the age where things start slowing down a little bit.

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But I think he was a good player. It's going
to help the Cleveland Browns of defense.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
Yeah, I mean the Browns certainly need up on defense.
But we can talk about all the things the Browns
and everybody else, but ultimately Brown's plight will be determined
by Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson plays well, then there won't
be any issues with the Cleveland Browns. And DeShawn wasn't
doesn't play well, then they have no hope. They put
a lot of money, a lot of resources into the

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former Pro Bowl quarterback and he's yet to deliver to
the degree and to the expectation based on his compensation.

Speaker 4 (57:20):
He has to play well.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
So it's on, Uh looks on, it's Kevin Stefanski handing
it over to Ken Dorsey to get Deshaun Watson playing well.
King Ken Dorsey unlock Uh, Deshaun Watson's talents in the
dog pound. That's the number one thing.

Speaker 2 (57:36):
All right. Go to the Dallas Cowboys right now. I
guess the big question right there is Dak Presco. He
said to get the money. There's no one else to
play quarterback on that club, so it's going to be him.
I think the big move for Dallas Cowboy fans, and
it hasn't been talked about much, but it's off the
field because uh, you know, Mike zimmer now is the
defensive coordinator after losing Dan Quinn. I think it's a
big move. We'll see what happens with Mike Zimmer coming

(57:58):
back with dan Quinn, who was one heck of a
defensive coordinator. So we'll see that's going to be the
change I would think, and maybe change for the good.
I don't know, because I think dan Quinn's pretty darn
good and you know better than me.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
Yeah, dan Quinn is really good.

Speaker 3 (58:11):
Dan Quinn And the underrated part of it is Joe Witt,
who was in Dallas as the defensive pass game coordinator
secondary coach, did a really good job of backing up
dan Quinn. They've worked together to make happen. Both guys
are nail with the Washington Commanders. But it's not only
that part of it that will impact the Cowboys. It's
the mass exodus of what I would say veteran personnel

(58:32):
that goes you think about Dorrence Armstrong and some of
the other guys from defense that left. You have a
defense that is going to be vastly different with Mike
Zimmer coming in, a grizzle coach who can look he
might rub some of the players wrong because he's gonna
challenge them and the style of play is going to
be different than it was with dan Quinn. And then offensively,
you have CD Lamb in the building. You bring Zekiel

(58:53):
Elliott back, which changes stuff. You don't really have a
young back that can offset some of the load that
Zeke has.

Speaker 4 (59:03):
What are they going to do offensively?

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Can they be as efficient, as effective, as explosive as
they've been in the past.

Speaker 4 (59:08):
I don't know. Man, to me, it.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Appears that the Cowboys are in a decline as opposed
to ascending as one of the top teams in the league.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Well tell what We're trying to be positive here, Bucky.
Come on, Dallas Cowboy fans are listening. But I have
to agree with you, I really do. I'll talk about
the Denver Broncos for a second. They had the twelve
pick in the draft, and all of a sudden, their coach,
Sean Payton picks up bow Knicks And maybe it's a
desperation move. I don't know, but you know what, he's
rolling the dice, and he's an offensive guy, and I

(59:37):
think that he thinks that he could do that and
mold Boone Nicks into the quarterback they need. So I
give Sean Payton a lot of credit. Maybe he could
do it, Maybe he can't. He better do it because
they need a quarterback.

Speaker 3 (59:48):
Yeah, they shut only need a quarterback. Bow Knicks is
the right type for what Sean Payton wants to do.
When you look at bow Knicks's skill set and I'm
not seeing he's Drew Brees, but he plays the game
in a manner in which Drew Brees for a long time.
He can operate underneath the intermediate areas of the field works.
The middle of the field is a timing, rhythm quarterback,
which works for him. Russell Wilson was not a rhythm quarterback,

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so that message that doesn't job in Peyton's offense.

Speaker 4 (01:00:15):
Both next would be fine.

Speaker 3 (01:00:16):
Both next would be solved in this offense because you
don't set them up for success. I don't know if
they have the personnel yet the firepower to help the
young quarterback, but they'll get better.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Just because this is.

Speaker 3 (01:00:25):
More of a Sean Payton team than previous the previous version.
That gives me hope that they will be more competitive.
Don't think it changes the win call him much, but
I think there certainly will be more competitive than they
were a season ago.

Speaker 2 (01:00:40):
Sounds great. I'm gonna stop here, take a little bit
of a breather and I will pick it up maybe
with the Detroit Lions. I maybe do it next week. Okay,
big guys, we don't have to do every single one
this week, So we'll do that and we'll continue on.
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after we get off the air. Now, let's talk a
little basketball here, talk about the playoffs, Boston Celtics. That'll
probably wrap it up tomorrow night in Boston, but let's
take it in depth. Look, let's pull back the curtain
if we count for a second. Buck Brad Steve is
the general manager when he coached Butler in Indianapolis. I

(01:02:04):
remember him back then. Look what he's done is general manager.
He traded for Derek White, he obtained true Holiday, he
played little little, basically nothing for Christas Porzingis, and he's
got the Jays Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown. And let's
talk about that duo right now, because this time a
year ago, and look, both of those guys, Tatum and Brown,
known as the Jays, They've been the subject of a

(01:02:25):
lot of speculation, a lot that they can't get it done,
they can't close it, whatever it may be. And this
time a year ago, Jason Tatum of Brown looked a
lot less special than he do today. That's for sure.
They had a game seven loss against Miami the Heat
in the Eastern Conference Finals. Jason Tatum in that game,
he turned his ankle and he played ineffectively, and he

(01:02:47):
really was terrible in that big moment. He really was.
And Jalen Brown he had what eight turnovers in that game.
So it's a little different right now, but I will
say this, I would say it, I said it before.
These two guys are the best one two punch in
the National Basketball Association right now. The other day when
Boston won one on six ninety nine in Game three

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was a Tatan had thirty one and Brown at thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:03:10):
I mean really, I mean they're fantastic tandem drafted back
to back years, just the way that they've grown. I
can't even imagine that the Celtics thought that this duo
would be what it has been or what it is becoming.
They are co number one players on a team that

(01:03:31):
is the best team in basketball. Jason Tatum can put
the ball in the bucket of a variety of different ways.
He's a tough shot taker and a tough shot maker.
Jalen Brown is a well rounded player that is a
two way player. I can play defense, can lock up,
can steal can defend, but also on offense is really
electric and dynamic, and we have seen his game even

(01:03:53):
grow over the last couple of years. There was a
time where a few years ago they were talking.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
About this guy.

Speaker 3 (01:03:58):
He can't dribble, he can't do this, he turned the
ball over, He has some egregious turnovers on a major
state where people question, how can he be a three
hundred million dollar player? I think he's answered it resoundingly
this postseason. He is terrific and so combined. These guys
are wired the right way. They play together, and despite
outsiders trying to pit them against one another, it is

(01:04:19):
really worked because they found the right glue players to
surround them. So both of these guys can flourish in
their own respective ways, and.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
They seem to enjoy one another. I don't think there's
any real competition amongst them is like who's better, although
I do believe that Jalen Brown will get the MVP.
After they went tomorrow night. You look at game one
and two in the playoffs against Dallas right now, it
was Jalen Brown who got the job done. He scored
twenty two and twenty one respectively. Tatum was struggling. He
struggled to find the shot. In one of those games

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on Wednesday, as I mentioned, each guy came up there
and they scored thirty one and thirty respectively, and Brown
was in there for a couple of dunks and Tatum
had four to three pointers. So these guys come to
play every game, and I think you'll see big games
tomorrow night. It could be all over and I look
forward to see Jalen Brown holding up the MVP trophy.

Speaker 4 (01:05:07):
Yeah, it could be all over.

Speaker 3 (01:05:08):
And if it's all over, it's gonna be something where
we do celebrate the greatness of both of these guys.
And whether it's Jalen Brown or Jason Tatuman gets the
MVP if they win, we're just talking about how great
this due has been and they'll be legendary.

Speaker 4 (01:05:22):
You understand what goes along with winning in Boston.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
That it'd be the eight team title and everyone who
has won and been a major contributor for those teams
has been celebrated in a major way. We're talking about
all the Hall of Famers that the Celtics have had
throughout the years. It puts them in a different category,
a different stratosphere.

Speaker 4 (01:05:39):
If they pulled this off for the Celtics.

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Yeah, I love what Tatum said the other day because
when Jason Kidd tried to put a wedge between them,
saying that Brown was better, he says, Hey, I think
it's a smart thing to do. They're trying to drive
a wedge between us. But he says it's not a
big deal, and that's great. I'd love to hear that, because,
you know, some player wouldn't say a word. The fact
that he said that. You know, I always it's a
good move on the pun of Jason Kidd because obviously

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nothing else was working with his teams to try that.
But right now, Jalen Brown is the highest paid player
in the NBA. I think that Jason Tatum right now
could probably boost up his salary right now because he's
got a contract extension this summer after the playoffs are off.
So that's going to be the story after the season.
I'm sure for the Celtics, they'll pay him. They'll pay

(01:06:23):
them both, and they should.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Yeah, they have to pay them both, and they certainly
will pay him. You know, they'll they'll make sure that
both of those guys are compensated and compensated fairly and
you should want to kind of see those things happen,
because if you've done a really good job as a
as an evaluator, if you've drafted well, if you've evaluated
the right people, you don't mind signing your guys to

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those second and third contracts.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
And even if it pushed them whatever at.

Speaker 3 (01:06:50):
The luxury tax threshold, if it forces that, at the
end of the day, it's about hoisting championships in Boston,
and I think they're willing to sacrifice some of the
monetary stuff they have to sacrifice to make sure they
can see to hang banners in that are in and they.

Speaker 2 (01:07:04):
Will hang a banner after tomorrow night's win. But I
will tell you this much, should they lose, which I
don't think is gonna happen, there's no way on God's
green earth, Dallas is gonna win three straight games. But
if they do lose, and then all of a sudden,
these guys are going to be said, they'll be called
choke artists. They can't get the job done. They fold
in the big games. And I think that is so
unfair because it doesn't take away for how great they are.

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I mean, they're great. They're two great players and there's
a pleasure watching not only them play, but watching the
entire Celtic team play. They play team basketball the way
they passed that ball around, and defensively Dallas can't keep
up with them. That's the key of the game right there.
They just work the ball so well, they really do.
And tomorrow night they say that poor Zingis may be
healthy enough to play a couple of minutes, so that'll

(01:07:45):
really help.

Speaker 3 (01:07:47):
Yeah, if for Zingis comes, because he stretches the floor,
he pulls another defender out of the paint. He also
gives them another three shooter, a three ball shooter, which
man just stretches the defense all over the floor and
it leads to more open opportunities to drive and get
into the paint. He's a huge addition, a huge asset
to the Steam and they need him. My issue, in

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my concern would be for Perzingis. He was injured, took
about thirty eight days before he came back, played in
two games, and then he's right back to being injured again.
How serious is this injury and is it worth risking
his future to get what contributions he can give you
right now? I think that's an organizational decisions. Something that

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they have to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
We'll find that out tomorrow, all right, He's fucking Brooks.
How many Furman we are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio. Just call this Love at First Sight. That's
coming up next Life from the Tyrock dot Com Studios.
But first, Kevin wyantt, we'll show you some love with his.

Speaker 9 (01:08:45):
Sports alrighty Yeah. The Dminton Oilers showing some lov to
there are fans by winning a game in the Stanley
Cup Final after being down three nothing to the Florida Panthers.
But they beat up Florida eight to one on Saturday
night to force a fifth game in sunrise on Tuesday,
Connor McDavid his first career Stanley Cup Final goal. He

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had four points overall on the day as the Oilers
live to fight another day. College World Series Kentucky wing
it over NC State Mitchell Daily with the walk off
home run in the bottle of the tenth eighting with
two out to give the Wildcats the win five to
four in the opening round. Second game of the day

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was delayed by several hours because of rain and late
at night early in the morning local time in Olmahad's Texas,
A and M holding off Florida three to two. In
the US Open. Bryson Deshambo is in the lead after
three rounds. He shot three under par around a sixty
seven on Saturday. He's now seven under for the tournament.

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Tied for second is Roy mclroy, Patrick Cantley, the American
also tied at four under par, and Bryson de Shambalo
gets going at two twenty Eastern Time, Roy will get
going to ten. In Major League Baseball, Dodgers pitcher Yoshinoba
Yamamoto had to leave his start after two innings. He

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had trice up's tightness, and it got worse for the
Dodgers as they end up falling to the Royals seven
to two. The Houston Astros fall to Detroit Tigers thirteen
to five, as Justin Verlander unable to pitch against his
former team. He was scratched from his start because of
a sore net Comes beat the Cardinals five to one,
Shota Imanaga going seven innings. He's seven to one on

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the season now with an ERA of one point eighty nine.
Other notable scores in Major League Baseball, Mariners over the
Rangers seven to five. Mets beat the Padres five to
one to win their fourth straight game. Orioles over the
Philly six to two. The game featuring in the Athletics
and Twins was reigned out. In soccer, the European twenty

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four Championships underway on Saturday. It was Spain with three
goals in the first half to beat Croatia three nails.
Switzerland over Hungary three to one, Italy defeats Albania two
to one. And he actually continues this morning as we
have the first game of the day at nine o'clock
Eastern time Poland and the Netherlands, and at noon Slovenia
and Denmark. The third game will be at three o'clock Serbia.

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In England, the first two games will be seen on
FS one. The matchup between England and Serbia can be
seen over on Fox and in the American version of football.
Tee Higgins as signed his franchise tag. He will report
to camp for the Bengals next month. Back to you guys,
all right, thanks keV seeing it now, and now let's
see what he says about it in two months.

Speaker 2 (01:11:34):
We'll do that. We'll get to that in just about
a minute. He's Bucket Brooks on Andy Fermana, we are
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio, Happy Father's Day
and Bata Barrel Betty coming up at about six seven
minutes from now. And now here's a story which kind
of got to me a little bit in a little
too gushy for me because I said love it first sight.
After his first mini camp on the coach Jim Habba,
the LA Charges new coach, quarterback Justin Herbert said that

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his new coach, Jim Habbaugh has changed him, and he
said it's been an ardor to play and share the
quarterback room with him. Now, look, don't you think it's
a little too early for that kind of lovey dovey?
Don't you think that that's why I said come back
to me in two months? He would you have to say,
I mean, come on, really?

Speaker 3 (01:12:13):
Uh No, I think that impact is real. There's something
to what Jim Harbaugh does that makes players not only
gravitate to him, but show the utmost respect for him,
whether it's been at any of his previous boys USD, Stanford,
San Francisco, Michigan and now the Chargers players adore him

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and his players ride for him. When you listen to
Justin Herbert's words and you hear him at depression. He
talked about not only his intelligence in terms of Harbars,
but his connectivity and competitiveness and how competitive he is
and how he's willing to get in there and do
the sleds and all the other stuff with the players
after the thing, man, he has endeared himself to the players,

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and when you earn the players trust and then you
can coach them as hard as you want to coach
them in terms of being demanding in those things because
they believe that you really have a love for them.
It sounds like Johnny high school type stuff, but it's
the stuff that works at the highest level.

Speaker 4 (01:13:15):
And my expectation the Charges are gonna be good.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
They're gonna be good because Harbaugh finds a way to
create a culture in an environment where guys can be
the best versions of themselves and they're gonna have the
necessary ingredients to play well at the NFL level, and
that is toughness, physicality, extreme effort, and then this continuity
that you have to have to win when adversity strikes.

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They're gonna have those things, which makes them a very
very dangerous team to deal with.

Speaker 4 (01:13:41):
An AFC.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
You know now that you said it, I believe it.
I believe it right now because it says and I
read this the other day, I couldn't believe it. Said
Harbar offer joins the players in post practice lifts for
specific drills. It's been a different experience than Herbert has
been with other other coach. He says, it's one that
he has appreciated. Harbor right now, he's sixty years old.
And it says that he's done push ups with linebacker
Junior Colson, He's shown rookie quarterback Casey Bauman a proper

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drop back and pulled hundreds of pounds of weights. And
Herbert said that Harbard doesn't playfully do these workouts. He's
always trying to win. I mean to me, you get
a coach like that that's doing it, you want to
do it with him? How could you not want to perform.
I mean, he's the kind of the guy you wanted
to run through a fire for. I would think, right.

Speaker 4 (01:14:24):
Yeah, you are. And here's what I would relate it to.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
And I'm gonna say this as a former player, but
I'm gonna say this, just the experience in being in
the National Football League and how a lot of times
former players were shunned from coaching roles. We have seen
the impact that Dan Campbell has had on the Detroit Lions.
And if you watch The Hard Knocks when Dan Campbell
was there and you look at the staff that he

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is assembled with a bunch of former players and how
they were able to connect with the players. There is
something to being within the fraternity that players respect. They
respect that Hall has been there, they respect that when
he's saying it, he's saying it from a place of
experience and expertise. Hey I've been in those shoes. I
know what this camp is like. I know how hard

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this game is. But if you listen to me, I'm
gonna get you to the other side. And because he's
had results, positive results where he's won a national championship,
he's won a bunch of games, led a team to
a super Bowl, guys are more willing to buy in
that matters in this league because it's still a league
built on relationships. And we talked about it. I've said

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it on multiple times on the show. Commitment, accountability, and trust.
If guys see that you committed, if they can hold
each other accountable and they can develop that trust, well, then.

Speaker 4 (01:15:39):
You can kind of go to the next level.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
And Harbaugh establishes that by making sure he's vulnerable enough
to jump in there and exposed to even at sixty
to jump in there and do those things while displaying
the competitive zeal that they can see.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
They're all in on him. And it's not only justin Herbert.

Speaker 3 (01:15:56):
It's the words that I've heard from Derwin James, what
I've heard Joey Bosen people say about him. This team
is all in and the reports that you get about
Harbor cutting short practice thirty minutes, but gas still staying
on the field. What you want is a team that
wants to not ah man, I gotta I gotta stay.

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He has a player led team that gives them an
opportunity to do great things on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
It's all about kat according to you, commitment, accountability, and trust.
And look, here's a part of the story that I
went crazy with because I won't know why other coaches
don't do this, says Holdball's attention to detail and energy
has stood out to players the most. While other camps
are more relaxed, with players in baseball caps and loose
practice jerseys, the Chargers practice in game jerseys and helmets.

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It's a strategy that the team's best players have already
brought into but it didn't come without some questioning because
it says that you're going to breathe differently in the
practice jersey, practice pants, or whatever the case may be.
How do you like that? Why don't other coaches do that?

Speaker 11 (01:16:58):
Well?

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
I mean, it just depends. Some people don't get it.
But you got to understand everything that Jim Harboy's trying
to do is he wants his team to play a
physical brand of style where they're tougher and they outlast
the other team. I've heard this because and watching what
he did at Michigan and them talking about outlasting the
opponent and how hard the game is and how you
got to be ready for it. He wants them to

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know that, a, we play football a different way than
other teams do, and our style is different than their style, but.

Speaker 4 (01:17:27):
When we meet them, they're going to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:29):
Fill us because we've prepared for this to be a
very physical affair. We've prepared for this game to be
a long grind, and we're going to outlast you in
the end. That's why. And it stood out to me
immediately that's why when you watch them during OTA's you
saw them in helmets, you saw them in jerseys, you
saw them in practice pants, because they're getting ready to

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play football. Other people are taking it light and it
may work for other people. A hats on backwards, shorts,
loose atmosphere.

Speaker 4 (01:17:58):
It's just a difference.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
But the reason why his player is by end because
they've seen the positive results in his previous destinations. That's
why there's little questioning and the messaging every day is
about toughness, physicality, out working, outlasting. We're gonna outwork people,
were gonna outlast them in the end.

Speaker 4 (01:18:16):
That's what it's about.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
And his teams are going when they have that breakthrough
moment where they get into a game and they win
late in the fourth quarter, they're gonna look back to
all the things that they've done and say that, Hey,
that's the reason.

Speaker 4 (01:18:28):
That's our secret sauce. We outwork people. That's why we win.

Speaker 2 (01:18:31):
How do you like that? I love it? Okay, we'll
see what happens during the season. I think they will
win this year because he does win. He's a winner,
all right. He's Bucky Brooks on Andy Furman. We have
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. This isn't a game,
it's a war bottom barrel betting. It's freaking next all right,
bottom barrel betting, right around the bend. This is Fox
Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks and

(01:18:52):
Andy Furman and we're live from the Ti rock dot
Com studios. We gotta gate the play though, let's play it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
It's bottom bom mill.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
You thought you was like money to sleep people, get
my money.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
I'll put your brain to sleep. Yes it is. Let's
go to the eye man, because time is a wasted here.

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
All right.

Speaker 14 (01:19:09):
Well, last week it was a tie, so Andy, that's
an improvement. Yeah, you know it will take it as
a win for Andy because it was a tie.

Speaker 11 (01:19:17):
Uh.

Speaker 14 (01:19:17):
And Andy, actually the fact that you chose the same
option as Bucky on one of them, you both went
Pietro Reva in the European Athletics Championships. Yes he won,
and the other option ended up having a DNF, So
that kind of saved you there. That was a pendulum
swinging moment. So well done, Andy, Well done.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 14 (01:19:37):
So let's get into this week's this week's line, so
we'll start off with American Cornhole League. I think this
might be the first corn hole line we've had on
this segment. So that's a big moment. And there are
three guys here that you're gonna have to choose from.
So three three options Alex Rawls at plus one forty,
Trey Birchfield at plus one sixty five, and Cheyenne Bubenheim

(01:20:00):
at plus two seventy. Andy will start with you. So again,
options Yes, Bubenheim, All right, Bucky?

Speaker 5 (01:20:08):
Who you got? We got Ralls, Birchfield or Bubenheim.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Oh, I'm going with Rolls.

Speaker 5 (01:20:13):
Rolls, gotcha?

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Rolls?

Speaker 5 (01:20:16):
Alex?

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
What a voice? A voice you'll never find.

Speaker 5 (01:20:22):
I wonder if they're related.

Speaker 14 (01:20:23):
Okay, moving on to squash Colombian men's singles. This is
a squash over in Colombia right now. It's uh God,
I hope I can pronounce this right. Ellena Wassny versus
Cardenas Bucky.

Speaker 5 (01:20:37):
Who you got?

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
M Let's go with el Nasity.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
Oh, well done, buff, Thanks goodness, I could pronounce the name.
I'll go to Cardenas Ellena Wasson.

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
I think he's Egyptian. I looked at this up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:49):
Thank you, thanks for the help. I could pronounce it.
I have don't enough time pronouncing Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 14 (01:20:54):
Haven't done esports in a while. So it's a team
Falcons versus Space Station, Gaming and Rocket leg Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Who you got uh face station? Space station sa face station.

Speaker 4 (01:21:05):
All right, here we go, Team Falcon.

Speaker 5 (01:21:07):
Team Falcon, all right.

Speaker 14 (01:21:08):
Canadian Football Saskatchewan Rough Riders versus Hamilton Tiger Cats.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Oh give me the Ti Cats.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Hamilton, Hamilton. All right, all right, continue, we got Bucky next.

Speaker 1 (01:21:23):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:21:26):
All right, these are the five best, the best in
the business. We'll get to that in just about a minute.
Good morning, everybody. This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready,
it's Father's Day. Happy Father's Day to one and all.
Here's the number one father of them all, Bucky Brooks,
my partner, Buck. We're in now, we're number three. Is
almost time to relax. It's Father's Day. It's our day.
We deserve it. It's our day, Buck, Yes, it is.

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I tell your door to that too.

Speaker 4 (01:21:51):
It is there. I'm excited about it, looking forward to it.
It is a great day. So Happy Father's Day to
all of the fathers out there. To my father back.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
In role, Colin he's probably on his way or getting
ready for church right now, but I want to celebrate him.
He's an amazing man who's done a lot for me
and my family, and so I hope all the Father's
Day get their flyer, all the fathers get their flowers
on this day for them.

Speaker 2 (01:22:13):
Yes, and happy Father's Day, mister Brooks. Yes, and we're
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for you, Mister Bucky Brooks, does your dad listen to
our show in church?

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
Ooh, probably not. I think he too much for him
in church. Now, I don't think he listens to an
in church. He may catch it on the podcast, though I.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Thought he might do that. All right, let's talk about this.
Who about Buckey Brooks right now? The son, the player,
the coach, to scout, the writer and I love an
NFL dot com and this week was a great one
if you miss it. Every Friday NFL dot Com, Buckey
writes a column fanfl dot com. Just click on the
writers and scroll down to Buckie Brooks, And this week
he wrote about what I love offense in football? And
you started out with Calvin Johnson. And I remember back

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in twenty twelve he almost had two thousand yards? What
do he had? Hundred and sixty four yards something like that.
What made Calvin Johnson so good? Obviously a Hall of
Famer number one wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. But
what made him so good?

Speaker 3 (01:23:21):
Well, one, you talk about a guy who had unbelievable
advantages when it comes to just being a supersized athlete
on the perimeter. You just don't see guys six four
sixty five that can run four three forties, that can
jump out of the gym and just kind of overwhelm
defenders like Calvin Johnson. So when you have that kind
of size, that kind of speed and athleticism and the

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ability to expand the strike zone with his length, he's
nearly impossible to guard. You have a quarterback in Matthew
Stafford who was willing to throw it to him, and
throw it to him regardless of the coverage, and he
could come down with it. You just don't see freak
athletes like that, which is why he was a Hall
of Famer, which is also why he established a new
single season record for were the position.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
Okay, and you had an unbelievable statistic in your story
this week. Last year, twenty eight pass catches finished with
one thousand plus yards, including a pair of whiteouts who
exceeded seventeen hundred yards, Tyreek Hill and Cedee Lamb. Twelve
players making one hundred and more catches in twenty twenty three.
And look, I get it. It's a different game today

(01:24:22):
than it was when Calvin Johnson played. So maybe it's
even more special that Calvin Johnson did what he did
because now it's a passing game. The game has changed
so much so, I mean there's not even a fullback
that the term full back basically is like a dinosaur.
No full backs anymore in the game of football. So
the running game is basically there, but it's not as
strong as it once was.

Speaker 3 (01:24:44):
No, it's not as strong. It's a passing league. It's
all about the past. It's about putting guys in a
position to make a ton of plays, and as long
as you have guys that can win their one on
one matchups on the outside, like you're gonna go, You're
gonna opt to attack drough the and that's what all
these teams are doing. And the athletes on the perimeter
are so much different than they were and yesteryear, better athletes, stronger,

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more explosive, more dynamic, and I would say better prepared
to play because of the exposures they have gotten in
terms of the reps seven oh seven high school, everyone
is thrown around the yard.

Speaker 4 (01:25:16):
So you're getting a better product in the National Football
League than you were getting before.

Speaker 2 (01:25:21):
Yeah, people love it too. You got the top five
guys that basically are the biggest threats to break the
NFL single season receiving record. You got the top five,
all right, we're gonna go through them. And you got
number one, Tyreek Hill. And what amazes me with him,
It didn't make a difference what quarterback he had. He
was great in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes. Now he's

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great with Tua. So this guy's got it all. So
he's going to be number one. And again, what makes
him so good He has some pretty big numbers back
to back years with seventeen hundred plus receiving yards in Miami.
He's gonna get over two thousand. I know that he will.
I don't know when, but he will.

Speaker 4 (01:25:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Look, he's gonna have that opportunity back to back seasons
with seventeen hundred yards.

Speaker 4 (01:26:02):
He can do it in a variety of ways.

Speaker 3 (01:26:03):
He can take the top off the defense vertically, he
can make big plays on catch and run concepts horizontally
running across the fields. And he has a play caller
that wants to attack. And they believe that the best
players on the perimeter. It's not only tybreek Hill, it's
Jayden Waddle, and so they put the defense in a
bond over and over and over again, and you have

(01:26:24):
to kind of account for all of the different things
that they can do.

Speaker 4 (01:26:27):
But tybreek Hill is destrawed a sturge to drink in Miami.

Speaker 3 (01:26:30):
He is going to have enough opportunities to put him
close to two thousand yards with two a tongue by
lower a quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:26:36):
Okay, number two, this is an amazing one. But I
gotta tell you a story. You got a monro Saint Brown,
all right, I must have sent him something in the mail,
because I'm looking at my texts and I got a
text here on December the eighth, twenty twenty two. All right,
hello Andy, this is the mother of a Monra and Equanimius.

(01:27:00):
We just got your wonderful article. Thank you so much.
And I wrote back, I said I would love to
chat with him on our radio show sometime Happy Holidays.
I signed it, and she wrote me back, off season
is probably the best time. I got the phone number here.
I'm gonna call this week. Maybe we'll get him on
on next Sunday. What do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:27:19):
I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:27:19):
This is amazing. I don't remember sending him anything, to
be honest, but I send everybody everything.

Speaker 4 (01:27:24):
I mean.

Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
I mean, yeah, like you kind of want to make
it where everyone feels, specially you're not just out there
just blasting everybody any firman stuff. So like, try not
to say that on air.

Speaker 4 (01:27:32):
Andy. You may think that, but don't say it on air.
I will say this.

Speaker 3 (01:27:36):
I would say this having known Amarra Saint Brown since
he was in high school, I can say the player
that we're seeing now is the same player that he
was in high school. High IQ intensely competitive, natural alpha
dog who loves the competitive part of the game. I
am not surprised that he's had success in the league.
I may be surprised to the level of success, but

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this is a dominant player and he is, and I
would say an unorthodox number one receiver because he does
most of his work from the slot. But he is
going to get opportunities because he's earned the right to
get the ball from Jarrett Golf any and everywhere in
any situation in location. He's going to find a way
to be the priority in the passing game because of that.

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That gives him a chance to get to the two
thousand yard mark. It's about opportunities and it's about being
able to cash in those opportunities, and he's shown in
the past two years that he certainly can do it.
That's why I think he continues to stack on top
of the numbers he's already put up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:34):
I'm shocked that he's in your list. I am, and look,
I think here's the guy, and maybe I'm mistaken, but
when I watched him on hand knocks, wasn't he a
guy that had a little bit of a chip on
his shoulder? Where he was drafted in the draft?

Speaker 3 (01:28:45):
Absolutely, and he should. He was drafted in the fourth round.
And then when you think about when you think about
just the people that were taking ahead of him. He
was disrespected in terms of that, and so that chip
shows up every time he's steps onto the field. He
is highly motivated to prove the people that he shouldn't
have been a Day three pick.

Speaker 4 (01:29:06):
And I think we've seen that in his play.

Speaker 2 (01:29:08):
Your back to back seasons one hundred catches a thousand yards,
and I tell you what he's making GoF look pretty good.
He really is. I mean, I think Gov you know, honestly,
before he got the big deal, before Detroit had all
that success last year, I thought he was a quarterback,
a functionable quarterback, not a superstar. I still don't think
he's a superstar. I don't think he's a Hall of Famer,
but I think guys like Brown have raised his valuability.

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I guess you'd call it it makes him a better quarterback, because,
as I say, sometimes the receiver makes the quarterback. Sometimes
it's vice versa. But I think that Brown has made
Golf a better quarterback. I really believe that. Maybe I'm wrong, but.

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
He absolutely he has done it.

Speaker 3 (01:29:49):
Look man like, there's nothing like having a dependable option
on the perimeter. And when you have someone who is
a high Q player like a mam Ra Saint Brown.
It frees the quarterback up to be able to do
different things because they can be on the same wavelength.
They can finish each other's sentences. Amar Ra Saint Brown
can do that. He's worthy of being able to not

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only get into the thirty million dollar club, but he's
worthy of being in consideration for this list because this
dude has back to back seasons with one hundred catches
and a thousand yards and he's going to continue to
do that as the weapons around him improved. Jameson Williams
and some of the other guys that they have is
only going to loosen the coverage up to allow him
to go crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
I want to ask you a permission. When I called
his mother this week, I mentioned your name because obviously
you have the cloud. I don't want to say I'm
calling for a Bucky Brooks who want to get on
Bucky's show on Sunday? Can I do that?

Speaker 4 (01:30:41):
I mean, if you want to. I don't know if
they can remember saying anything, but sure, throw my name
up there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
Want to say, if Bucky told me so, I'm playing
high school. We have a show on Sunday. And I'm
calling it beheaf of Bucky Brooks. Perfect. That's what we'll do.
I'm going to call I may even call today, I
may call this after that, we'll see. I don't know.
Number three. You got Justin Jefferson obviously the highest paid
pass catcher in the league. Unbelievable. But who's going to
be his quarterback? That's the question.

Speaker 3 (01:31:09):
That question Sam Donald's probably Sam Donald's gonna be the quarterback.
And uh, Sam Donald's going is going to find a
way to kind of force feed the ball to Justin
Jefferson because when in doubt, you're gonna throw it to
your top player. Kevin O'Connell does a really good job
of crafting the offense to generate and create big plays
for Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 4 (01:31:30):
Now it's just a matter of Sam Donald getting them
the ball.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
I believe he has an opportunity because it takes a
few different things. It takes not only a creative play
caller to give you opportunities by designing plays that put
you in the right spot, but it also takes a
bit of an offense that has to operate a little
more of a one dimensional approach. The Vikings are going
to have to throw it. I don't know how effectively
they're gonna be running it. And so that's going to

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give Justin Jefferson enough opportunities to maybe get to two thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:31:56):
All right, I mean you you did your HOMEWORKID it's
all doubt my mom, because you got names that I
never would have thought it would be in the top five.
He got number four, George Pickens from the Steelers. Again,
I think perhaps Russell Wilson and he could hook up.
I don't think Justin Fields is gonna be the starting quarterback.
I'm sure Russell Wilson is the guy unless he gets hurt.

Speaker 4 (01:32:17):
Uh yeah. Look, so here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
We could go chalk and I could have listed everyone
that finished in the top five last year. I could
have said, oh, ceedee, Lamb's gonna be that. AJ Brown's
gonna be that. But what fun is that?

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
Chase?

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
Well, you got t Higgins on the other side.

Speaker 3 (01:32:33):
Let's see which guys are in passing games that almost
make them be the sole option when it comes time
to throw. So George Pickens goes in there. And the
reason why is you go back and you look at
the past. Think about AJ Brown when he was with
Arthur Smith and how they ran the football, but there
was really one target on the perimeter. It was him
and John new Smith throwing off play action. When I
look at George Pickens, George Pickens for his career has

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averaged almost seventeen yards of catch. Last season he averaged
eighteen yards of catch. And just think about the quarterbacks
that he play with. Well, now you've removed a passing
game option in Deontay Johnson.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Who else is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:05):
Russell Wilson going to target besides George Pickens? Because of that,
I think he gets more balls and they're gonna be
impactful because the running game is really gonna make it
difficult for teams to double George Pickens.

Speaker 4 (01:33:16):
I expect him to have a huge year.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
Whether he gets to two thousand or nine, he is
going to be in that fourteen to fifteen hundred yard
category because he's a special playmaker and now he is
the number one receiver on a team that desperately needs
him to play at a high level.

Speaker 2 (01:33:29):
Okay, Buckey bar So I'm gonna come back and challenge
you on that. You're right, who else is you gonna
throw to? So other teams defensive coordinators are going to
know that they'll double them. They'll double team them, right,
I mean, won't they do that. He's a star receiver.
They'll they'll play zone on it. They'll just make a
really tough for him.

Speaker 11 (01:33:44):
To do it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:45):
So I'm gambling that the fact, Okay, you can double him,
so you remove somebody from the box with what if
Najee Harris and Jalen One are going crazy running the football?
Can you continue to double when Arthur Smith is so
good and so persistent at running the ball. I'm saying
that George Pakins is going to end up getting more
one on one opportunities because they're going to throw on

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obvious rundowns and those throws are not going to be
nickel and dimers. They're gonna push the ball down the
field because that's what Russell Wilson does. George Pickens is
not DK Metcalf, but he has some DK Metcalf qualities
in terms of being able to be a vertical stretch guy.
Think about the success that Russell Wilson had with DK Metcalf.
I think they replicate that in the Still City.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
Okay, he's the number four. If I may ask, how
tall is George pickers. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (01:34:30):
He's a sixty three sixty four years. He's a tall receiver. Yeah,
he's big. That's good, fast and physical.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
So I'll see him when he comes to Cincinnati. That's
for sure. Number five, No surprise here. Really on the
Cleveland Browns, he's the number one guy. I'mari Cooper, he
really is, and he's gonna. I guess this guy want
all of a sudden done hill off every receiving record
in the Cleveland Browns record book, I think so.

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
I mean, now, I can't say that it's been a
glorious history for Cleveland Browns, even though the legendary Paul
Warfield played there. But I get you're saying a MARII
Cooper is in a unique situation. He's in a unique
situation because the numbers he's been able to put up
without an established quarterback. I mean, you just think about
the guys that have played quarterbacks since he has been there.
It's been a revolving door. And then you get to

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Sean Watson, who looking I'm not saying it's a make
it or breaking year, but he has to kind of
prove it's been two years. They haven't really got a
bang of return on an investment.

Speaker 4 (01:35:22):
He has to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:35:23):
And I think, look at the numbers that Stefon Diggs
put up with in Ken Dorsey's offense. You think about
Stepun Diggs racking up stupid numbers as the focal point.

Speaker 4 (01:35:34):
Amari Cooper now becomes that guy.

Speaker 3 (01:35:36):
He's been able to get back to back one thousand
years seasons since coming over, Those numbers explode because they
also have other options that will prevent you from double teaming.
You think about David and Joku to run a game
with Nick Chubb, Jerry Judy coming over, more opportunities, not
his restricted coverage that he's facing. Marik Cooper should benefit
from all of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:35:56):
What impresses me most about your top five list is
at is nearly only one quarterback on that list. I
really and truly his head and shoulders above everybody else.
And that's Tua. You know, Jared Goff perhaps maybe I
don't know, but every other receiver on this list is
working with I would have to say a B a
B list quarterback, would you agree? I think that's what

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it is. And in Minnesota, really and truly you don't
even know who the quarterback Sam Donald really, come on,
he's a band aid until I get a quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:36:27):
Really, he is a band aid.

Speaker 3 (01:36:29):
But that's okay though, And the reason why it's okay
you kind of want those situations. When you think about
how someone is going to put up numbers at the
highest level, you have to be a little more dependent
upon that wide receiver. It reminds me, and this is
before I got the Green Bay, but it reminds me
of Brett Favan its early days when he had.

Speaker 4 (01:36:46):
Sterling Sharp on the perimeter.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
And I know our younger listeners won't know or really
appreciate what Sterling Sharp was, but back in that time,
early nineties, it was unheard of for a wide receiver
to catch over one hundred balls. I think Sterling did
it in either two or three years consecutively because he
was the number one option and there was no one
else on the perimeter. Some of these situations are very
similar to that. That's why I'm banking on those guys,

(01:37:10):
just because they will get so many artmitunities, so many
targets with the ball head in their direction.

Speaker 2 (01:37:15):
I would be really impressed. I mean, honestly, if guys
with these kind of Class B quarterbacks, it breaks, some
were shot at some sort of records, because that would
tell me how good they really are. I mean, you know,
in Pittsburgh, I mean you got Russell Wilson. I mean,
I think it's a good situation. But the Minnesota situation,
that's gonna be tough. I mean, Jefferson's a great receiver,
but you know, I'm not so certain Sam Donald's the guy.

(01:37:37):
I just don't I don't know see what happens over there.
And they're not crying much. I mean, when Kirk Cousins left,
there wasn't a big outcry of like you know, wow,
Wowie's me. It's like, okay, life goes on, right. I mean,
and they didn't even try to trade or do anything
at all. They get a quarter, is it too late?
I mean, they're just going with Sam Donald, right.

Speaker 3 (01:37:57):
They are just going with Sam dar And that's okay
for now, because with Sam Donald you have a veteran
who is kind of used to playing his role in
understanding those things. But there's a sentiment in Minnesota, particularly
with Kevin O'Connell, that they can get the most out
of Sam Donald, that he just needed the rite system
to right opportunity. He certainly has a supporting cast around him.

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He just has to play within the system and see
if the production can come all right.

Speaker 2 (01:38:23):
Last, but not least, on your column on Friday, you
say Max Crosby defensive player of the year. Can't argue that.
I mean, who else is up there? Who else did
you have in mind? I mean, he's got to be the.

Speaker 3 (01:38:36):
Guy, right Well, I mean I think he has an
opportunity just because of this. You look at the last
two years how successful he's been. I want to say
it's twenty six and a half sacks that he's had
playing under Patrick Graham. You now look at them bringing
over Christin Wilkins to put a big time disruptive player
beside him. That will lead to more one on one

(01:38:58):
situations seeing him just kind of outwork opponents on the perimeter.
He's energized the bunny when it comes to that stuff.
But if he gets more one on one opportunities, that's
gonna lead to more disruptive plays. And he gets more
disruptive plays for a team that has a high profile
like the Raiders. Yeah, that's gonna put him in the conversation.
Last year he finished fourth, the numbers should improve this year.

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That that's why he has a chance to get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
I know, all you have to see is the statue
let down there. Fifty two sacks, eighty eight tackles for
losses in eighty three career games. Pretty good. That's pretty
dunk good really, So you know, if he's not the
defensive player of the year, I like to see who is.
And he's got to be at least in the top three.
So it's a pretty good call on that. All right,
we move on. That's pretty good. I like to receive
a situation because you didn't take the easy way out,

(01:39:43):
you know. I mean, you could have wrote Jamar Chase
down there. You could have wrote all the big time receivers,
but you didn't. He wrote the guys that really and
truly could blossom. I mean, say, I want to see
Saint Brown do that, and hopefully we'll get him on.
If we don't get him on, we'll get his mom on.
How's that?

Speaker 4 (01:39:56):
How about that? That works?

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
All right? We should have got around from others. That's
what we should have done. We move on, all right.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. Give us on Twitter
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We got the blame game in this hour. Okay, Now

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please check his resume, please, that's next. Is he qualified? Well,
that's right around the corner. He is, Bucky Brooks, He's qualified.
I'm Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio on a Father's Day Sunday, and we're live
from the Tireraq dot com studios. And I asked the question, Bucky,
is he qualified? I'm talking about JJ Reddick. Okay, talk

(01:40:43):
about this Los Angeles Lakers mess, and it really is
a mess. I mean the Dan Hurley thing. He never
was going to go, and we'll tell you why in
about ten minutes why he turned them down. And they
got family there for sure, and his dad's from Jersey
Hall of Fame coach in high school in New Jersey,
and his wife didn't want to go. Those are all
the reasons. But we've got some real reasons why he
probably didn't want to go, and living on the coast.

(01:41:04):
But this JJ Reddick thing about he's the ESPN NBA analyst.
He played in the NBA for fifteen years. Here like
a ninety plus minute meeting and visit with the Lakers
about a month ago, and they said this weekend he
was going to visit again for the Lakers head coaching job.
My question is this, This guy JJ Reddick never coached.

(01:41:24):
He never coached youth basketball, never coached in high school,
never coached in college. Okay, So to compare her that,
Dan Hurley's a joke. Dan Hurleys went back to back
NCAA titles at the University of Connecticut. He won Wagner
College in Staten Island, New York, a lowly Division I school,
and Dan Hurley won when he coached at Stanton Island's

(01:41:45):
Wagner College, same college with PJ. Carlislimo coach. Okay, So
why does JJ Reddick get a shot to coach the
LA Lakers with no visible recommendation, no visible success story
as a coach. I don't get it. Why don't you apply?
I'm gonna send the letter to the Lakers saying Bucky
Brooks should be the head coach of the Lakers. Really,

(01:42:05):
why is he getting a job at the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
I mean, it's the same reason Steve Kerr got a job.
It worked out well for Steve Kerr after he learned
some lessons as a general manager where he flopped and
with the Phoenix Suns he made his way to the bench.
He didn't have any coaching experience and it worked. I
think a lot of it can be alleviated by you
got to trust the person. If you trust the person

(01:42:29):
that JJ Reddick can figure it out, then what you
can do is you always can surround him with veteran
assistants that know how to do the day to day
parts of the job.

Speaker 4 (01:42:39):
JJ redd has been in the league for a long time.

Speaker 3 (01:42:41):
JJ Redick has played for great coaches throughout his career,
starting in college and then working his way through the pros.
JJ Reddick knows what goodball looks like. And I will
say this, there's a belief that players that were not
A level players, but B level players are better equipped
to coach because because they couldn't skip steps along the

(01:43:03):
way to carve out a career. JJ Reddick can take
all of those experiences and craft plans and do the
strategy and the management part of the piece to be
a successful coach. I wouldn't say that the Lakers are
the best fit for him just given the profile, because
his mistakes, his growing pains will be magnified because everyone

(01:43:23):
views them as a blue blood franchise in their watch.
But if he was somewhere else, we're kind of working
through some of those things, like not saying that Orlando
or Washington of what he could work.

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Through those things, it would be better. But there's no
reason why JJ Reddy couldn't be a coach at the
next level.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
Okay, a couple of things. Number One, I agree with
you wholeheartedly because I think that maybe be players in sports,
especially in baseball, we say great great managers have been
maybe not so great players simply because maybe the great
players expect so much, expect players to play as good
as they did. I go back to the late Ted Williams.
When Ted Williams managed in Washington. Okay, he wasn't really

(01:44:00):
a great manager. Why because I think he demanded so
much of players. He thought everybody probably could play like
he could. But then again, when I was a kid
growing up, Ralph Holp the Major he managed the New
York Yankees a great manager. Why he was never a
great player, but maybe he learned by watching the game
on the bench. You know, So I hear what you're
saying on that. That's number one. Number two we're talking

(01:44:21):
about respect. I don't know how Lebron James could respect
a JJ Reddick in the huddle, but he JJ Reddick
is telling you to do something, and Lebron's and say,
wait a minute, you know what are you talking about.
You never ran this play, you never caught I can't
see that happening. And number three you mentioned early on
about how players really buy into coaches like Jim Harbaugh

(01:44:44):
with the Charges. He gets involved with them. He's had
success before. JJ Reddick has no success because he's never
coached the game. Harbaugh had success, but he coached the
forty nine Ers, had tremendous success in Michigan, and he's
going to have success with the Chargers. Players buy into that.
So I if I'm midter viewing, I get JJ Reddick
off my list, especially in LA. I think the critics

(01:45:07):
will go crazy in LA with JJ Reddick as coach.

Speaker 4 (01:45:11):
Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't say that. Like here's what
I would say.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
I look at the finals and I look at Jason
Kidd being in the finals, and Jason Kidd is a former.

Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
Player who went immediately to coaching and he had to work.

Speaker 2 (01:45:21):
Through some of those growing but he was an assistant
coach too.

Speaker 4 (01:45:24):
He started out, I think he was a head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:45:26):
I think he might have been a head coach the
Nets with the Nats Bucks, and then he's made his
way because this is his third.

Speaker 4 (01:45:31):
Stop as a head coach.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
I will say that he had to kind of work
through those ground paints and a lot of times it
takes the patience. But I wouldn't discount JJ Reddick because
the conversation that you mentioned about Lebron James. Lebron James
obviously thought enough of JJ Reddick and his basketball mind
to do a podcast with him, which is where some
of this stuff kind of started from. And players will

(01:45:53):
respect coaches that can help them go to the next level,
meaning helped them go to the next level individually where
they can get paid more and collectively where they can
be a part of a championship team. And those things
JJ Reddick can get on the floor, he can lace
them to shoes, and he can shoot with the best
of them, so they can't question whether he could play
or not, so that he can show certain guys how

(01:46:15):
to improve, he can show certain guys how to develop,
and then it's about the IQ and the acumen. He
has done that, and surrounding himself with the right kind
of assistant coaches, older coaches, former head coaches that have
been in the league but don't aspire to do that anymore,
he certainly can build around that. And the person that
he loves to take issue with, I would say Doc Rivers.

(01:46:37):
Doc Rivers has done that for a long time. And
say what you want about Doc Rivers. Doc Rivers as
a champion. Doc Rivers has won an NBA title, and
he has done it with franchise where he's led them
to the postseason. Those things. JJ Redick and Doc have
these issues. But if he follows Doc rivers blueprint, he
certainly can be successful. Get great coaches, great assistants that

(01:46:59):
can help you in the areas where you're not sharp
at and then you learn from the experience. But you
can't get experience until you have a job. And so
this is the opportunity for him to get a job.

Speaker 2 (01:47:09):
Yeah, but I think that you hit it on the
head when you said that he'd be better served maybe coaching.
And the more I hate to use the term desolate area,
maybe coaching like a New Orleans, Carolina, someplace who doesn't
have that exposure San Antonio. If the man would ever leave,
you know in those places, LA's that market's going to

(01:47:30):
be brutal for him. I just don't think you want
to start out in LA. You know, Carolina, Salt Lake
City in Utah, those are the places I think he
should be starting out in.

Speaker 3 (01:47:41):
I mean, yeah, like you would help, but like, he's
not gonna get that. And so if he's willing to
take the job, he has to know what comes with it.
He has to be on his game, but ownership also
has to have thick skin to deal with the criticism
that's gonna come away. So just like your initial take
was like, oh my god, he's not qualified to do it,
where everyone in LA is going to say the same thing.
But Jennie Buss and that staff they got to stand

(01:48:01):
and say, hey, we believe that he's going to grow
into the position. We are going to surround him with
the best coaching staff that we can put around him,
and we're willing to live through some of the rough
times to see him get to the other side, and
they have to be willing to do that. I don't
know if they have the stomach to do it, but
if they're willing to do it, that's the only way

(01:48:22):
that JJ Reddick can succeed.

Speaker 2 (01:48:24):
Fans will go crazy. And if they hire him, I'm
telling you right now, he's Bucket Brooks. I'm Andy Ferman.
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(01:48:47):
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all sports.

Speaker 9 (01:49:00):
Yeah, we're less than a thirty minutes away from kicking
off the first major sporting event of the day nine
o'clock Eastern time on FS one. The Euro twenty twenty
four Championships continue as Poland will square off with the
Netherland second game of the day coming up at noon
Eastern times Slovenia and Denmark. That game also on FS one,
and then at three o'clock over on Big Fox Serbia

(01:49:23):
and England. In the Stanley Cup Final last night, it
was Edmonton living to fight another day. They absolutely demolished
the Florida Panthers eight to one. Conor McDavid his first
career Stanley Cup Final goal along with three assists of
four point performance as he helps the Oilers cut the
series deficit against the Panthers to three games to one,

(01:49:44):
enforcing a game five in Florida on Tuesday. In the
US Open, Bryson Deshambo is ahead by three strokes after
three rounds. He shot three hunderd par for a round
of sixty seven on Saturday. Currently is seven under four
of the tournament. Roy McElroy tied for second place at
four under par. Patrick Cantley, the American, also tied at

(01:50:08):
four under McElroy. Can't Ley both tea off at two
ten Eastern time. Brison to Shambo tease off a little
bit after to twenty. In the College World Series last night,
Kentucky over NC State and extra innings, Mitchell Daily with
a walk off home run with two outs to give
the Wildcats the five to four win in the opening round.

(01:50:31):
Second game of the day delayed by several hours because
of rain in Omaha, and I went late in the
night and even into the early morning hours as Texas
A and M holds off Florida by a final score
of three to two. In Major League Baseball, Yoshi Noba
Yamamoto had to leave his start after two innings the Dodgers,

(01:50:52):
saying he had trice up's tightness and got worse for
LA as the Royals end up winning it. On Saturday
seven two, Justin Verdlander ended up not being able to
pitch against his former team. He was a scratched from
his start on Saturday because it was sore neck, and
Detroit ends up winning that game against the Astros thirteen
to five. Cubs over the Cardinals five to one. Showeda

(01:51:16):
Emonaga now has an ERA of one point eighty nine
in a record of seven and one so far this season.
The Mariners over the Rangers seven to five. The Mets
win their fourth game in a row, beating the Padres
five to one, Orioles over the Philly six to two
when the A's in Minnesota Twins. That game was rained out.
And in football, Bengals wide receiver T Higgins has signed

(01:51:38):
his franchise TACK so he will be at camp for
Cincinnati next month.

Speaker 2 (01:51:42):
Back to you guys, that's great. Let's take a look
at the records. Okay, that's coming right up. He's Bucky
Brooks on Andy Fermer we on Fox Sports Sunday, Oh,
Fox Sports Radio on the playing Game coming up at
about four or five minutes from now. Now. The question
is why did Dan Hurley turn it down? Well, it's
quite simple because most of these coaches, I say eighty
percent of the coaches that have coached college went to
the NBA failed. First, I don't have the control a second.

(01:52:06):
Quick peak. Billy Donovan in nineteen years at Florida for
sixty seven one eighty six record, fourteen NT DOUBLEA Tournament appearances.
Now he's with the Chicago Bulls a record of one
fifty six and one sixty two. All right. Rick Bettino
four years with the Boston Celtics one oh two, one
forty six. John Calla Parry with the Nets, seventy two wins,

(01:52:27):
one hundred and twelve losses. Can't get it done. That's
college is safer first of all, that there's no triveling
as much as well. His trial done as bad as
the NBA. And you have control. You're the player personnel
director as well as the coach, don't you agree. That's
why he probably turned it down. He hasn't made a
connecticut really when you think about it, he ham picks
his players. He could cut or release whatever he wants

(01:52:49):
to do, and basically he's got it made two years
in a row. NTUBA Champs. NBA is a different animal.
Can't get it done.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
Yes, it's a different it's a different animal. It's a
very lead to have sucsame success. Some things that work
in college will not work in the pros. Even though
I do believe you can coach pros hard if you
earned their respect. For Dan Hurley, I understand what this
could have been a little bit of it is look
a little ploy, squeeze a little more money out of Yukon,

(01:53:18):
explore the possibilities of being an NBA coach. Continue to
kind of build up that foul in that notebook. Learn
from the process to set yourself up, because eventually he
wants to make the jump. Everyone wants to kind of
be in the most competitive league. You want to kind
of test your acumen and test what you believe in
against some of the best coaches in the brightest minds.

Speaker 4 (01:53:39):
Just not his time yet.

Speaker 3 (01:53:41):
And I would say this, why leave a situation where
there's gonna be a statue for you? You know, I
just think it would be hard to replicate what he
already has created in Yukon. But maybe in four or
five years. He doesn't feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (01:53:56):
Right, I think if the New York Nick job opened up,
I think he go there. These in these coaches. That's
another factor there, because I know his wife wasn't too
happy when she heard of California, But I said, it's
one coach that has success. In nineteen eighty eight, in
his final year Kansas, Larry Brown won the national title
and in two thousand and fourth coach of the Detroit Pistons,
he wanted to take championships. So Larry Brown is the

(01:54:16):
only coach that is coached in college, won in college,
and went to the NBA and won in the NBA. Tough.
It's tough to do.

Speaker 3 (01:54:23):
Yeah, it's tough to do great because two different games,
completely different games, you have to learn different rules, and
the players are different.

Speaker 4 (01:54:30):
The players are empowered. So what you have to have is.

Speaker 3 (01:54:33):
Having old school principles with a new school mentality where
you can relate with the players, but still find a
way to hold him accountable, just like you would you
collegiate players.

Speaker 2 (01:54:44):
You know, it's amazing because everyon when Rick Patino took
over the New York Knicks, he tried to use the
college tactic. I mean, what did these guys to press
for forty eight minutes pick them up in the back.
You can't do that. You can't have an NBA to
the place too game to do that. You can't do it.

Speaker 3 (01:54:58):
Yeah, he did do that, He did press those things
and back then look like people scoffed or whatever. But
if you notice in the postseason, you've seen more teams
pick up ninety four feet. You see more teams kind
of utilize the strategy or whatever. I would say this
Rick Patino's strategy would work. But you only can do
that with a younger team. See if you have a
young team where the in the league. Yeah, a young team,

(01:55:21):
a team that hasn't been in the league for a
long time, they don't know any better because they're exposed
to basketball has been what they experienced in college. Within
old NBA team nineteen year vests, they are going to
be reluctant to expend that kind of energy, even though
we are seeing teams do it in this postseason to
help themselves when it comes to shrinking the shot clock

(01:55:41):
and the amount of time that you really have to
play defense on the other end of the court.

Speaker 2 (01:55:44):
Yeah. And when I watch the NBA playoffs, least the
finals right now, it's a different game than you watch
a game in November, and these guys are playing at
a different level.

Speaker 11 (01:55:50):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:55:51):
I mean, it's certainly a different game because they know
the money is on the line. Go back to John
Kyla Perry for a second. He was a Kentucky for
fifteen years. He had a record of four to ten
and one to twenty three is mentioned with the nets.
He was seventy two and one twelve and he won
a national title of Kentucky. So, I mean, it's just
a different game. It just it's tough, and I know
it's the same sport, but it's the same sport in

(01:56:11):
a different game. So you know, Hurley may eventually go
to the NBA. And I say, if the Knick job
would ever open up, I think he'd take the Nick job.
That would be a dream come true for him, a
you know, local guy from the metropolitan area in New
York City coaching the Knicks. That would be great. But
he ain't going to LA and the one of the
reasons being, I mean, someone had to show him these
records of all these coaches that were in college and

(01:56:31):
had great success in college and couldn't cut it in
the NBA. I mean, it's not a secret. It's tough
to do, it really is.

Speaker 4 (01:56:39):
Yeah, it is tough to do. It's tough to pull off.
It's one of those things the league.

Speaker 3 (01:56:43):
It's not only tough to do one time, but it's
tough to be able to do it over a sustained
period of time, just because it's so different, the constant
turnover in those things, and you don't get a chance
to pick your players like you do in college when
you're doing the recruiting.

Speaker 2 (01:56:56):
You're exactly right here we go, all right, he's Bucky
Brooks and I'm Andy from And this is the best
part of the show because everyone needs a escapegoat, they
really do. That's why we have the blame game, and
it's freaking next. The blame game coming right up. It's
about ten minutes before the top of the hour. This
is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. And by
the way, at the top of the hour, nine o'clock

(01:57:17):
on the East Coast, Mike Harmon the Swollen Dome and
former NBA star Ryan Hollins will join you. That's nine
o'clock Eastern time. Mike Harmon and Ryan Hollins and our staff.
I tell you what, our staff is second to none.
I put them up against anybody. I really would, even
Kevin Wyre. Yes, I would Mark Ramsey, Kevin wyre thuring
the updates. But now now we'll lie for the tirack

(01:57:38):
dot Com studio and his time for the play game.

Speaker 1 (01:57:41):
You ruin me. It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 11 (01:57:45):
What in all your fault?

Speaker 2 (01:57:50):
Maybe it's everyone's fault, see the liar.

Speaker 1 (01:57:53):
That's why there's the blame game, the blame game. Let's
figure out who to blame.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Yeah, here's the eye man, tell us, I mean who
to blame?

Speaker 14 (01:58:01):
All right, Well, you guys are gonna be telling me
who to blame. Actually, so willa you We'll start with this.
The Chiefs Super Bowl ring has a typo on it
incorrectly listing the Dolphins as a seventh seed when they
were actually a sixth seed.

Speaker 5 (01:58:14):
Who do you blame, Bucky, the proofers.

Speaker 3 (01:58:18):
I blame the people that researching that wanted to put
this stuff inside the ring, and in the quality control
of the ring makers, someone should have been able to
catch that.

Speaker 5 (01:58:25):
Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:58:26):
That's the logical answer, Bucky Brooks, that's the intelligent answer.
The real answer is this that ownership of the Chiefs
really a penny pitches because they're trying to get that
new stadium. Okay, they're putting the squeeze to the people
of Kansas City. And you know what, if they didn't
go to a jeweler on the street corner instead of
Tiffany's in company, maybe they wouldn't have a mistake. That's
the problem. Get your hand in the wallet, you make

(01:58:47):
a money hand of a fist. Get the guys a
decent ring, and, by the way, at the same time,
get Jason Kelsey a ring another one because he lost
his last one. You know, did you hear that story?
Kn'ty University of Cincinnati and he was playing a game
some kids and they had to put the ring in
a vat of chili. And I guess someone stole his
ring because he went into the chili vat and they
couldn't find the ring anymore. So get him another ring.

Speaker 5 (01:59:09):
He just had to put his ring in a vat of.

Speaker 2 (01:59:11):
H It was a game they were playing with some kids. Everybody.

Speaker 5 (01:59:14):
He didn't have a choice. He didn't have a choice.
He just had to put it in chili.

Speaker 2 (01:59:17):
Well, they wanted to be a guy who'd be a
good sports playing the game ring it to a vat
of chili, and they couldn't find the ring. It's gone.

Speaker 14 (01:59:24):
I have so many questions, but we have to move
on an Trevor Lawrence signed a five year, two hundred
and seventy five million dollar contract extension with the Jaguars,
tying him with Joe Burrow as the highest paid player
in NFL history.

Speaker 5 (01:59:37):
Burrow has at least made a Super Bowl.

Speaker 14 (01:59:39):
But a lot of people don't really a lot of
people consider Lawrence a disappointment because of his generational pre
draft status.

Speaker 5 (01:59:44):
Andy, who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:59:46):
He better stop me. He's lucky that the going ry
to quarterbacks is that kind of money. He really is
now the pressure is really on him. Him and Justin Herbert.
Those guys really got to prove but that they could
do something. Otherwise they're gonna be labeled. You know what,
They're gonna be called Kurt Cousins clone. That's what going
to be called.

Speaker 5 (02:00:01):
Bucky.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
I blame the pre draft conversation because what we did
is we said Trevor Lawrence for failure. All of the
conversation about him being a generational talent. Let us have
these exorbitant expectations. I don't think he could live up
to him. But when you hear all as the best
quarterback prospect since John Elway, how can you live up
to that?

Speaker 14 (02:00:20):
Jake Fisher of Yahoo Sports reported that the Cavaliers Donovan
Mitchell is not expected to seek a trade this offseason
and will instead likely sign an extension with the team.

Speaker 5 (02:00:29):
Who do you blame, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (02:00:32):
Look, he got what he wanted, He got his coach fired,
despite the facts that he went to two postseason games
and won almost one hundred things. Yeah, Donovan Mitch should
have everything, Give him whatever he wants, even though he's
never won anything by himself.

Speaker 5 (02:00:41):
What about you, Andy?

Speaker 2 (02:00:42):
I like to pull a curtain back and say, looky, look,
it's a good team because of stay in Cleveland. He
probably met a woman. They stay in Cleveland. She's a
Cleveland girl, so he's staying with her. That's probably the
real reason, you know, really pull.

Speaker 5 (02:00:52):
Back the carton, all right, one more quick one.

Speaker 14 (02:00:54):
MLB has disciplined umpire Pat Hobart for violating the league's
gambling roles.

Speaker 5 (02:00:58):
Who do you blame? Andy?

Speaker 2 (02:01:00):
I blame him. Control yourself. Come on, you're a leader,
and look, he'll be suspended, and he has been suspended
for a couple of games as well. As you don't
bet on your game and your team, you're not going
to lose your job for life. But he'll be suspended
for several games. It's a no, no, it's disgusting.

Speaker 3 (02:01:13):
Look man, just a matter of time, you know, its
gonna happen when the lee's gotting bad with the gamblers.

Speaker 2 (02:01:17):
Happy Father's Day, everybody's been great. See you

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