Andy Furman & Bucky Brooks talk about the French Connection in the NBA Draft, How Nepotism is Everywhere, All-Breakout Defense Team, NFL Sunday Ticket Lawsuit + MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
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sports hurting? Okay, we'll explain that. Hey, just about a minute.
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my friend, the one and only Bucky Brooks. Hello, Bucky,
how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I'm good? I'm good, I'm good. What's going on?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
Andy?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:41):
By?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Your sound like a million you really?

Speaker 5 (00:43):
Do? You know?

Speaker 2 (00:43):
We have to welcome my rising star today. Brianna's here
handling it for us executive producer today. We've got to
take it easy on Brianna. How are you?

Speaker 5 (00:52):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Okay, let's hear for you. Check in good? Good?

Speaker 3 (00:56):
All right?

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Cool.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
We gotta be nice to today, Bucky, especially you, because
I know you could be mean at times. Not me,
because you know the way I am, right, So we
got to take it easy, all right, All right, here
we go. I'm hearing this story now, and like you know,
the NBA had their draft the other day. That's a
big deal. But in the middle of everything, who comes
up who pops out of the cake? None other than
the King Lebron James. Now he's gonna opt out. He's

(01:19):
gonna work on the Lakers with a new deal. You know,
I read the story and I heard about it, and
I'm thinking to myself, you know what, maybe it's not
such a bad Deal's thirty nine years old. I mean,
this guy haswer tremendous numbers. You know, a guy's thirty nine,
He's he almost average a triple double with twenty five
points a game, eight assists, seven rebounds. And look, he's
playing on a team that really and truly has to
be recreated. So if he takes some of that money

(01:42):
as he's opting out and maybe gives it back to
the ball club so I could build some people with
him and maybe some free agents, maybe that's not a
bad thing. I don't blame him for opting out thirty nine.
This may be the last goal around for the King.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
What do you think, well, I mean, you certainly go
opt out if you have an opportunity to build a
team that includes your son. He is certainly trying to
put his son in a situation where he can thrive
and flourish. We'll also showing to the people that, look,
it's not just a Lebron and Bronnie show. It's interesting
to see the comments and just the nepotism stuff that

(02:18):
everyone is seemingly outraged about when our company has kind
of lived on nepotism and cronyism because we always see
the old adage it's not what you know, it's who
you know. And so as Lebron James kind of steps
into that world with his son on the team, it
would help him to kind of squash some of the
conversation around it. If he can build a team that

(02:40):
is good enough to contend for a title, if he
can do that with his son on the team, then
no one can say anything. But if it's the situation
where the Lakers are bad and it's Bronni and Bron,
well that's when all the other stuff is going to
continue to overshadow what has been really a wonderful career
for Lebron.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
James, tremendous career. Really. I will get into the LEBRONI
situation a little bit later on, but I want to
talk about what I mentioned coming into the segment. Why
are these sports hurting? Okay, here's the deal, and I
no one has mentioned this, and maybe because on way
out in left field, I don't know. That's why I
need you to bring me back into the universe over here.
The NBA had back to back players from France one

(03:18):
to two in the draft and three in the top ten.
And these guys may be great players, but you know,
as fans, we can't relate. And I'm going to practice
my French on you if I can. Zacharie rial Cher
the first was that pretty good? The first pit for
the Atlanta Hawks, Zacharie real Chier. That's from like fifteen
years of French in high school. You know, I kept
on taking it over and over again. Today and Alex Cher,

(03:40):
Alex she they went back to back in the draft
this year. That's the second straight year a French player
went number one overall. All right, again, they may be
great players, and it's great for the league to say
maybe it has spread their wings and be an international
basketball conference if you will, Like the NFL is playing
games in Meo and you know, Brazil, whatever it may be.

(04:02):
So I think it's great for them, but it's not good.
It's not good for fan interest. We as fans, and
maybe I'm wrong, but we as fans love to follow
a college kid's career right into the NBA. And you
know what, you can throw baseball into that as well.
These two games, baseball and basketball were invented on our turf,
on the us of a. You know, we like to

(04:23):
see kids that play here. Major League Baseball, A Showyatani,
tremendous play. I watched the game yesterday. Hit that home run,
no doubt about it. But when you have a player
that you had not been able to follow his career,
a player who basically can't speak English, has to go
through an interpreter, I think that hurts the league, It
hurts fan interest. Maybe I'm crazy, Tell me I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, I mean it has an impact on it, certainly
right there has an impact on it, just in terms
of you can't build the brand early by having someone
who is in you know, who has been a homegrown product.
You know you're talking about in basketball, whether it's the
collegiate system, and baseball is still kind of like the
collegian system are coming up through the ranks where we

(05:05):
hear about them. It is just a different time in
a different situation. And unfortunately for us with our American sports,
we haven't done necessarily a good job at the lower
levels with some of our players. Because if we had
American players that were good enough to be number one,
number two overall, they would have been selected number one
or number two. So what we need to do is

(05:26):
do a self examination on what is going on with
our players. Why are so many people falling in love
with international players, what are the international companies do countries
doing differently to develop their young players, And maybe we
need to steal some of their ideas and implement them
on our own soil, because there's something that's going on

(05:46):
internationally that is allowing those international players to come in
and to come in and jump ahead of the American
born players, and so we need to figure it out.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
You know what, you got to help me out on
that one, because I have no idea. Because you go
back to the Atlanta Hawks, the number one pick Zacharie
Riache I love saying that. Really, six foot eight, six ' eight,
like one to ninety five, he turned sideways. You can't
even see the guy. He's only nineteen years of age.
Can you only average what maybe eleven twelve points a

(06:16):
game in France? And I don't believe the competition there
is as good as maybe some of the colleges here
in the USFA. Look, they say, he's got some scoring ability,
he's got some size, no doubt about that. He's got
to put some muscle on. He's gonna put some weight
on the guy. You know, as you say, I gotta
believe there are players buried here in the USFA, on
college teams that these scouts have never even seen, that

(06:38):
are better than this guy, zachari Ria Shah.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
Really maybe. But then also the other thing that you
have to maybe wonder because the league, or when you're drafting,
you're drafting on projection, not on necessarily production. And can
you project that you can take this player who maybe
doesn't have any bad habits and get him to play
the style of play the way that you want him

(07:05):
to play down the line, And is it a situation
when you look at some of these American players are
you saying, man, their bad habits are so far gone,
it would take so long to eradicate some of those
issues and put them in a situation where they can
be positive. I would rather tate the international player who
may not have as much experience, but he doesn't have

(07:25):
as many flaws, and then fix him and put him
in a situation where in two or three years he'll
be a better player than the American war player.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
But you got to leave. The coaching is better here
than in France. That has to be. I mean so
coaching to me transcends into teaching, and if they're better,
I guess fundamentally, then they have to be. I would
think better fundamentally here than in France. I don't see
how these guys can really make a big time in
the NBA. What was the last French player that made
it big in the NBA? I don't know.

Speaker 3 (07:56):
I don't know, Like I mean when you think about
I mean going all the way back like Tony park
Arker bords DL. There have been people players and other
players that have played like patun who has bounced around
around the league like they're players that have come from
French countries that have come in and played. It's really
on us as Americans to look at our youth sports

(08:20):
developmental system and figure out what is it that we're
doing wrong, because whether it's basketball, whether it's baseball, there
is something that is going on with our sports where
our players aren't developing at a rate that look suits
what pros are looking for, and some of it is
at the lower levels. It has become a money grab,
you know, whether it's AAU, whether it's travel baseball and

(08:41):
those things, it's become a money grab because players are
playing all these games throughout the summer and those things.
But I don't know how much time they're spending working
on their game and developing to the point where they
can become better players.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
You bring up a tremendous point. I mean they're playing
games like almost daily. You know, I'll turn on the
TV and I don't even know what channel I'm watching,
but I see like these elite games, high school games
or someone just the other night, just sc scanning the dial.
It was an elite game. And these kids will be
in high school kids, tremendous ball players. They got to
be better than these French guys that they really are.

(09:14):
And I'm not putting them down. I mean, I appreciate
you know, the basketball has been now worldwide. It's not
just with us, it's a worldwide sport. But let's move
over to baseball for a second. You know, I don't
see how fans can relate to players that can't speak English.
And I'm not down on them, and it's not a negativity.
It's just a question of like selling tickets. If you're
a promoter and you want to promote a game, you know,

(09:35):
it's very difficult to promote a game where you don't
know who these guys are. That's the name of the game.
You can't promote something that people have no idea what
you're talking about. I mean, are people going to rush
out and buy tickets for the Atlanta Hawks, because, as zacharie,
I don't think so. I really don't. I mean there's
a curiosity factor, and if this guy is a bust,
then everybody's going to say, well, you know, let's not
go into national anymore. Baseball is a different deal. I

(09:56):
don't think kids want to play baseball anymore. I really don't.
First with the difficult game to play, because you need
at least nine guys to play basketball is great. You
go to the park, two guys play with a ball.
There you go. So kids aren't playing basketball anymore but
baseball anymore. They're playing basketball and football. That's where they're going.
And you know, you're a coach, you've seen that, right, Buck, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (10:15):
But I think it's a little different, right.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
So the rules of engagement in baseball are different for
American players, domestic players, and international players. So when you
see the mad rush of Dominicans and Puerto Ricans come over,
it's because those guys can kind of skirt the draft process,

(10:37):
and so as a team, it is more economical, it's
economically sensible to go and deal in the international game
because you can get more players, players that may be
comparable athletes, at a cheaper rate and just throw small,
like small sums of money at them and you have

(10:57):
them under control. Whereas if they're American born and they
go through the collegiate system, they have to go through
the draft.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
It's a different deal.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
That's why it's more beneficial, and that's why we saw
the rast.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
I mean, we've seen the just the.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Influx of international players kind of comeing to the MLB.
It's just different set of rules, different set of rules
for signing domestic players than international players. So it's advantageous
to maybe live in that other world. In terms of basketball,
what you have is, you know, you talked about tuning
in and watching games, and I did see something where

(11:30):
Gina rim I talked about the difference in the European
model and the American model is the American model is
about games as opposed to practices, where in Europe they
played one game and they practice the other days. And
because of that, you're getting a more refined, a more
polished product.

Speaker 4 (11:47):
And that's what coaches and also going for.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Right now, Okay, they make it a more polished product,
but if the guy is just a better athlete, I
don't care what you look. If I go to the
gym with you and they want to polish me, you're
still going to be better than me because you're you're
a god gifted person. You're a better athlete than I'll
ever be. Right, you could polish me all day long,
ain't gonna work, right.

Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yeah, yeah, but at some point it becomes a skill game.
And those games are skill games. You can out athlete
people to a certain point. But now we're talking about
the best four hundred and fifty players in the world,
and when the athleticism is evened up, the athleticism is negated.
Now what Now you have to lean on your fundamentals

(12:29):
and your footwork and all those things. And if you
haven't developed those skills, well now you're just another guy.
And unfortunately for a lot of our players, they're just
becoming guys because they don't have the base, They don't
have the fundamentals to allow them to play at higher
levels against players that are just just as good, just
as talented in them.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
All right, maybe you could help me with this. In
the NFL, when they draft a player, there's a slotting situation,
but I know what the salary is gonna be in
each position. Correct, they've drafted first, you can know with
deep South. I'm not so certain that have that slotting.
In the NBA, do they would you know about that?
I try to check.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
I thought it was a money money situation, is okay.
I thought it was a money situation where they did
draft the kid from France, they could get away with
the maybe paying them a little less than they would
draft that kid from the colleges here.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
No, no, no, it's it's it's all the same. So
when they're drafted, it all the same, Like there's a
sliding system. They redid the CBA a while ago to
do that, so that that has nothing to do with
why it really in basketball, it comes down to like
that part of it. And I'll be honest with you,
one of the things that football is trying to do
is they're trying to cultivate in mind international soil to

(13:44):
see if they can create a similar system to what
baseball has done.

Speaker 4 (13:48):
And doing it.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Like you'll if you haven't heard, there's a big push
to see in the NFL to Africa, and you're seeing
more players conduct camps over in after Africa. Some of
that is to give back, but it's also the league
looking to see if they can find another area that
can present those the athletes that they covered that they

(14:10):
can develop and do those things.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
So it's not just okay, I'm sorry, is going to
Africa to get better athletes or to expand the NFL's
brand in that country. I mean, obviously it accomplishes this.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
It's it's a little bit of both. So right, it's
a little bit of both. So they have what it's
called the International Pathway Program, right, And so what the
league has created is the International Pathway Program provides a
couple of practice squad spots two teams if they will
house an international player on their roster for the entire year,
and sometimes they rotate it by division. So for instance,

(14:44):
if this year was the America the AFC South, each
of the teams the Tennessee Titans, the Indianapolis coltst, the
Houston Texans, and the Jacksonville Jaguars, we get an additional
slot to host and keep an international player on their roster.
What they're trying to do is they're trying to get
those games, those players up to speed to play a

(15:05):
sport that is still relatively new in those areas. But
by expanding the reach not only into Europe but then
into Africa, they're expanding the pool the players that they
can tap into. And when you begin to think about
that part of it, that the people who going to
be left behind are going to be the Americans, because
as people become intrigued and tantalized by taking a raw

(15:27):
talent and developing them and being able to maybe get
like similar results or someone without the bad habits that
they may have developed while playing the game, up here.
It's just something that you want to keep an eye on.
So it's not just look, basketball has done the same thing.
Basketball is expanded and created like an African Basketball league
that the NBA is heavily involved in. So this is

(15:49):
a push for all sports teams to kind of expand
their borders beyond the States and look to see if
they can cultivate and mind more talent outside of the US.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
I got it. Okay, you straightened me out. I appreciate that.
By the way, before we continue, Brianna, how do we
do first segment for you? How do we do Brianna
fill us in everything? Okay?

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We on Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio, and
we're talking about You mentioned this literally on about Brownie James.
Lakers drafted Brownie James at number fifty five, and you know,
some of the call it nepotism, and some of the
call it hayes. I'm going to say that lebron had
to move. I think the personal sums it up best.

(17:58):
And you mentioned this early on about the nepotism is
not what you know, it's who you know. Peter VESSI
my good friend who is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.
He wrote for the New York Daily News, New York
Post USA Today was on NBC TV, He says on Twitter.
Unlike many of you, I don't have the leeway of
being all that indiinged regarding the Lakers drafting Bronnie James.
After all, my father got me my first job as

(18:20):
a high school junior in the New York Daily News
sports department when he was a desk man. That's the way.
It's life. That's the way it is. That's life. It's
who you know, right, So I have no problem with
the Lakers drafting you know, Bronnie James. What to tell you, honestly, honestly,
excuse me, I think it's rather cool that daddy and
son are playing on the same team. It's the first
for the NBA. I got it. I think it's need

(18:40):
I really do.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah. So it's interesting because I will I will say this, like,
there has been a huge issue in terms of gateways
and opportunities for a lot of people just because nepotism
and cronyism, meaning like guys and their buddies and buddies kids.
They kind of populate their employee ranks with people that

(19:02):
they know either direct blood relatives or friends of friends
and their kids, and that's how they kind of build
up their businesses. The issue is if you're an outsider
and you don't have those gateways, you don't have those luxuries,
then you kind of left on the outside looking in.
And from that vantage point, it's not necessarily a free system.

(19:23):
So you hear people on so you have segments of
the workforce who are saying, look, I didn't have those opportunities,
I didn't have the ability to leverage a relationship there.
I'm penalized because I don't know people. And so when
we talk about like a meritocracy or getting the most qualified,
sometimes the jobs aren't going to the most qualified. They're

(19:46):
going to the most connected, and so you have that divide.

Speaker 4 (19:49):
There.

Speaker 3 (19:49):
The other thing that I can acknowledge because I will
say this, like having kids, I will leverage opportunities and
relationships to give my kids chances to experience things they
may not have been able to experience. I think everyone
every parent tries to do that. The problem that you
have is when in Briani's case, I look, Lebron have

(20:10):
an opportunity to play with something is a family dream.

Speaker 4 (20:12):
It appears, so that works out.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
The problem that you have, though, is if you have
like nepotism running rampant, well, then you have a lot
of people on the outside looking in, and it takes
away from what we always talk about, like a free
and fair system that allows everyone to get what they
want based on qualifications and merit as opposed to who

(20:34):
you're knowing relationships.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
You know, it's funny the haters out there, it's gonna
cult nepotition. They're gonna say that Lebron James and his
agent Rich Paul engineered the deal that they get Lebronni
James at the Bernnie James on the fifty fifth pick.
That's fine. The hell with those people. I don't care.
I'm more concerned about how JJ Redditt got the coaching
job because he was doing a podcast with Lebron. I mean,
so right now, if you look at the big picture

(20:57):
you want to zero win, you can say, you know,
maybe Lebron did that and maybe he got you know,
he got JJ Reddick the job, and he kind of
pushed to get his son, and then why not. Why not?
I have no problem with that. Look, he's picked at
number fifty five. And remember in the last four drafts,
the only player selected at number fifty five to make
Ay Skort of an impact in the NBA was Aaron
Wiggins in Oklahoma City. Let's face it, he probably wouldn't

(21:19):
better of staying at USC, There's no doubt about that.
And I got to believe that he's probably going to
be playing in the G League for a little bit
just to get some reps, maybe playing in the Summer League,
the Rookie League this year. So I got no problem
with this whole deal because that's life. Sorry, you know,
suck it up. Nepotism. Sorry, that's just the way it is.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
Look, I mean, that is the way it is.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
I wouldn't say, like second up, I mean, it's the
thing that it happens all the time, and it happens
it's kind of like the first time we've seen it happen.
But how about we think about it this way, King
Griffy Jr. Playing with his son. I was playing with
his ead King Griffy, Like we've seen those things happen.
Think about out the number of executives and front offices

(22:03):
who have had kids who have gotten there their sons
or daughters' jobs within either their own organization or other organizations.
I e. Think about the Dallas Cowboys and Steven and
Charlotte Jones.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Who Mike Dunley.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Yeah. I mean, so it happens, and it's always happened,
and there's no way to quote unquote eradicate it because
it happens in American business on the daily. It's just
one of those things that we have to deal with.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
And for some.

Speaker 3 (22:28):
Reason on this side, people are having an issue with
Lebron James and Brianni doing it. I think a large
part of it is because it's Lebron James.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
Okay, let me, you're a win on our business, yeah,
and our radio business. Okay, this is an advantage here.
And look, you'll agree I'm sure you will. If you
wear a football uniform, there's a pretty big advantage you're
going to get a job and talk radio. Really, I mean,
that's just the way it is. I'm not upset about that.
I just I see it and I understand why because

(22:56):
it brings ears to the place and people get listeners
because you have a name, And that's just what it is.
I see it on the pregame shows on Sunday on
the NFL on TV, you know, and just you know,
you get a kid going to college right now, studying
to become a broadcaster or journalism communications, you know, and
there's two people out there. He may be qualified, she

(23:18):
may be qualified, and some guy just was an NFL
player just retired. There's a good chance that NFL player
is going to get the job over the graduate from
the school. Just just the way it is. That's society.
Why do you even have hr people in this business
is beyond me because you're hired basically on the uniform
that you wear, right, Am I right or wrong on that?

Speaker 3 (23:40):
I mean a little bit, you know, I mean you
heard it on the uniform you wear, and you heard
based on like the relationships and the connectivity that you
have with the people that are doing the hiring. But
at some point you would like to see a system
where everyone wants people that are qualified, right, correct, Like
that's the buzzword that we've heard throughout the American history, Like, Hey,

(24:01):
you want people to be qualified, We want things to
be equal, but it has to be you have to
be qualified to be able to do it. And everyone
kind of has a different way of judging someone's qualifications
as it relates to the running situation. But even to
JJ Reddick, people are saying that JJ Reddick is not
qualified to coach? Why not? Ja, Yeah, but JJ Reddick

(24:23):
played in the NBA for fifteen years. You're gonna tell
me that JJ Reddick doesn't know about the process and
structure of organizing practices and the x'es and o's that
are required to play at a high level in the
NBA just because he hasn't had a clipboard. Who's to
say that you gain enough experience and expertise by holding
the clipboard to be a good head coach. Like there's

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none of that, Like we've seen this happen before. We
saw Steve Kerr go for me in a TV broadcaster
to a GM back to a TV broadcaster to a
head coach, and he's going to go down in history
as one of the greats. Pat Riley was a TV
broadcaster before he became a coach with the Lakers and
then rolls up the ranks to be the head coach.
So there's no right of passage to being a really

(25:07):
good coach. A lot of it is feel and flow.
And if Jeenie Buss and the Lakers feel like JJ
Reddick can develop into an elite coach, well yeah, you
sign him. You live through some of the growing pains,
you ignore the noise, and you allow JJ Reddick to
go do a sting.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
You know, you're exactly right because Tom Brady's with no
broadcasting experience, is going to be doing gig fox right,
none at all. And I remember, yeah, when Boomer A.
Siasmin was called was playing for the Cincinnati Bengals. He
had left. He could have stayed another year. He told
Mike Brown, the owner, I'm leaving. Why he got a
gig on Monday night football on TV. We never broadcast
a game in his life. I see it. That's what

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happens all the time, right.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
It happens all the time.

Speaker 4 (25:46):
And so it.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
So it's not only that, right because people are outraged
about JJ Reddick going from being on TV to a
plumb job, right because I've heard the conversation where it'd
be different if he was going and coaching Brooklyn. It'd
be different if he was going somewhere and coaching New Orleans.
But he gets one of the best jobs that you
can get in the Lakers. Okay, Tom Brady, who you

(26:09):
talked about, Tom Brady, seven time champion. We give him
all the credit for being the goat. Tom Brady didn't
go from the field to just being the bc D
level broadcast team. He goes to the top of the
top right away. What would be the difference, There is
no difference. People like to pick and choose the arguments

(26:29):
that they want to have when it comes to who's
been gifted certain opportunities versus others who haven't.

Speaker 4 (26:35):
Look, life isn't fair in that regard.

Speaker 3 (26:38):
Like me, everybody would love to come out the field
and roll right to the A level job.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
For some, it's like that.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
For others, man, you got to you gotta spend a
lot of time working under your craft before you get
those opportunities.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
It is what it is You're.

Speaker 2 (26:53):
Right, he's Bucky Brooks and many Firman We on Fox
Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Hey, coming up on
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Speaker 8 (27:07):
Yeah, we do have a couple pieces of NBA news,
Paul George opting out of his contract with the LA
Clippers on Saturday, and Adrian Wardzanowski on Saturday night saying
that George is expected to meet with the Clippers, the
Philadelphia seventy six ers, and the Orlando Magic beginning on
a Sunday evening. Lebron James also opting out of his

(27:30):
contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, although all expectations are
that he will resign with Los Angeles and Sham Serrania.
Late last night coming up with some information. Patrick Williams
staying in Chicago. The Bulls forward gonna be coming back
on a five year, ninety million dollar contract. Major League

(27:53):
Baseball Dodgers Giants spent a great rivalry series so far.
San Francisco wanted on a walk off home on Friday
and on Saturday, it's the Dodgers taking it in extra innings.
They explored for seven runs in the eleventh inning to
win it fourteen to seven. Showy O'tani going deep with
his twenty sixth home run of the season.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Braves are the Pirates two one.

Speaker 8 (28:14):
Paul Skins one of the more impressive rookies we've seen
this year and in a couple of years pitching wise.
He was in the College World Series last year and
now has a two point zero six ERA, and on
a Saturday took the no decision but went six innings
and struck out nine. But the Braves again do win
it two to one. Elsewhere in Major League Baseball, things

(28:36):
going from bad to worse for the defending World Series champions,
as the Rangers have now lost six straight games, including
a six to five defeat to the Baltimore Orioles. Corey Seger,
to add injury to insult, had to leave the game
after being hit by a pitch on his left wrist.
Initial X rays were negative, but it did not look good.
He was really writhing in pain, and his status we'll

(28:56):
have to see what his status is going a forward.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
The La Angels on a roll.

Speaker 8 (29:01):
They've won six straight games, including an extra inning victory
six y five against the Detroit Tigers. The Padres also
on a winning streak five in a row for San Diego.
After taking down the Boston Red Sox eleven to one
behind two home runs from Manny Machado, the Twins beat
the Mariners five to one. That Toronto Blue Jays gets
six RBIs from Vladimir Guroro Junior to take down the

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Yankees nine to three. And in Soccer Copa America, Argentina
three to zeroe group play after getting a two nil
win against Peru. Lionel Messi did not play, but he
did not stop sixty five thousand fans from witnessing of
that game in Miami, Chile, and they eliminated after playing
to a scoreless draw against Canada. In the Euro twenty

(29:44):
twenty four Championships, Germany shuts out Denmark two nil despite
a weather delay more than twenty minutes had a bunch
of lightning and hail in the area. Germany able to
finish off Denmark. Switzerland eliminates Italy to nil, and that
tournament continues today over on Fox. First game will take
place at noon Eastern time. England and Slovakia second game

(30:06):
coming up at three Spain against Georgia.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Back you guys, Thanks Keevisey about now? All right? He
saw two first ten pitch that's unreal and that's coming
right up. But first his Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Ferman
and a guy from Casey Stevie. What's up. You're on
Fox Sports Sunday. How you doing, Hey, guys.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
With good morning, enjoying the program listen.

Speaker 9 (30:29):
I just wanted to comment on on Little Brownie. You know,
it's a lot of people are having a problem not
with the fact is what happened. I think it's an
admirable thing. The kid is, the kid is, it's an
admirable decision. You know, she's done a lot of good
things and the Lakers are just doing those straight business decisions.

(30:50):
But you're you're not helping the kid by giving him
this job. You're not You're not.

Speaker 5 (30:58):
Doing any It's like the I Manning situation. You can't
pull strings for a rich, rich kid, a rich a
rich kid and make him better. You know. It's just
no one has a problem with the.

Speaker 10 (31:15):
Fact that he was drafted by the Lakers. It's the
problem that Rich Paul, his agent, was the only one
team worked him out and sons, and they were telling
him that he's going to go to Australia rather than
play with them. So just just respect the process and

(31:35):
have this kid go through it instead of just saying, well,
I'm going to take my ball and go to Australia. Listen,
he probably would have benefited by going to Australia. But
Lebron's going to take a three year contract anyway.

Speaker 5 (31:48):
He's going to get what he wants. They're they're going
to play together. But if you look at the guys
that were drafted next to Bronnie, I mean, you got
David McKellar at the University of Kansas, who is a
borderline All American. It's not even close.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
To but here Steve. He's going to play in the
G League. I promise he'll be most of the season
in the G League. And look, I commend them. I
think it's great. I mean that's what Lebron wanted. I
think it's kind of neat as I said that he's
gonna play with his sons. No Fanzo Butts, even if
it was orchestrated by Rich Paul or Lebron or wherever
it may be, who cares. I think it's a great thing.
First father son in the NBA. Let him go, Steve,

(32:26):
have a good one, because I want to talk to
my man over here Bucky for a second. Because John
Calla Perry was on TV for the draft the other night.
Why he even showed up is beyond me, because you know,
after looking at the draft picks and this former coach
at University of Kentucky, he had a couple of lottery
picks in reached Shepherd he was drafted number three and
Rob Dillingham drafted number eight. Okay, that's great that he's

(32:46):
producing a lot of NBA players out of the UK.
Now he's at Arkansas. Okay, that's the seventh time in
Kentucky program history that two players were taken in the
first ten picks. Again, pretty neat for the Kentucky Wildcats.
But get this one. Cal Parry had Shepherd and dealing
him make a combined six starts last year. Oh my goodness.

(33:07):
Maybe that's why I lost to Oakland in the NCAA Tournament,
and maybe that's why he's not coaching Kentucky anymore and
he's done in Arkansas. How do you like that?

Speaker 3 (33:17):
I would say this. I would say that John caler
Pari is one of the best recruiters. He's one of
the best player developers that you will find. What John
caler Pari has done, he's made it a personal mission
to take players and help them become NBA players. And
he's done that. I would say maybe at the risk

(33:39):
of not building the best teams that he could have
built and established at uk and some other places. What
he has to decide is what is his life mission.
Is his mission to chalk up wins, win titles for
his respective school, or is it to continue to help
young people reach their individual dreams of playing in the NBA.

(34:01):
Because if he wants to do that, he'll continue to
do the things that he didn't. But if he wants
to build the best team, that model has to change
going forward. When you look at the way Yukon has
done it doing the older players, players that have either
been developed or transferred in that are four or five
six year players.

Speaker 4 (34:18):
Sometimes if you're.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Doing it that way, well then that's a completely different
business model than the one that he's adopted for the
last fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Right, And he goes out there Bangal's chest saying, look,
I produce more millionaires in the Commonwealth of Kentucky than
anybody else. And that's great, you know, and I'm happy
for these kids that have gone to the next level.
But you know, he's really not paid to do that,
and fans don't care about that. They want championships. They
don't want to see Kentucky loose to Oakland and Saint
Peter's in opening rounds of the njAA tournament. And maybe
that's why he's out of here.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Maybe that is why he's out of there.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
I mean, look, Kentucky fans have expectations no different than
North Carolina fans and the like. And you want to
produce it, you need to produce at a high level
and kind of do those things. But he does have
to make a decision because to win the NCAA tournament,
it's a different blueprint than the blueprint that he's currently
using where he's having these young players that are phenomenal
young players, but in the tournament, it's about age and experience,

(35:15):
you know, that expertise that has been cultivated on the
basketball floor by working together, by logging so many hours
as a team, that what he has been doing that
doesn't work anymore. He has to figure out what is
important for him? Is it winning championships? Was to continue
to elevate young players to have an opportunity to play
in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
You're exactly right. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firmer, whel
Fox Sports Sonday on Fox Sports Radio. The answer man
is here. Who is it? As Bucky? Is next as
Bucky right around the corner. That's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy
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lie from the Ti Rock dot Com studios. And of
course it's that time, so let's do it. It's time
for ask Bucky. Let's do it right now? All right,

(35:56):
bucket ready? Yeah, you're ready? Oh, it's ready. Wats on
the NBA's French connection in this year's draft.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
Look, man, I think it speaks to just how much
the game has grown outside of USA. You've seeing a
lot of young players that are playing in the European
leagues who are being able to get it done. They
have a developmental model that works to fundamentally sound and
teams are intrigued by that. And so until the Americans
catch up and can match what the European players are

(36:26):
offering in terms of their individual fundamental skill sets. It's
going to continue to be a parade of international players
walking across the stage.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
There you go. Okay, Now, the Lakers drafted Bronnie James,
Lebron's son picked number fifty five. Was that a move
do you believe directed by the King himself?

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Look, I won't say it was directly a thing that
was done at Lebron James stuff, but I think he
has been vocal enough that he wanted to play with
his kid, and I think they certainly knew that. And
they also knew that if they draft him, it's unlikely
that he's going to depart as a free agent. So yeah,
I won't say that the King ordered it, but he
certainly hitted and nudged at it enough.

Speaker 2 (37:05):
All Right, this is an unbelievable situation. I can't believe
we're even talking about it. However, how real is moving
to the state of Kansas with a new stadium for
the Kansas City Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
I think it's very real.

Speaker 3 (37:18):
I mean, you know, if they can't get a new
stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, why not take it to
KSEK and see if you can figure out a way
to get it done. Look, they've offered everything. They're back
to back champions, and the fact that the town won't
step up and give them what they want. I think
if you're the owner, Clark Hunt, it's your job and
duty to look elsewhere. You're not moving them out the market,

(37:40):
but you certainly don't you have the right to take
him across town and across state lines.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Interesting. I hate to see that happen to the fans
at least anyway. Okay, let's go back to the NBA
and the NBA draft. Duke's Kyle Philipowski. He dropped to
the thirty second pick, not because of his talent, but
because of social media. He's dating a woman five years
his senior. Your thoughts, because I just can't believe that
this personal garbage is more important than his skill set.

Speaker 3 (38:10):
Yeah, I mean, look, it's a long twisted story, and
who knows how much she says stuff is spread in there.
But I can tell you, as a scout like you do,
dig into the details when it comes to someone's background
in personal life. And if you believe that the personal
life is going to be loaded with distractions, that's going
to prevent Philapowski from being the best player that he

(38:30):
can be. It certainly can look effect negatively impact his
draft stock. Now we don't know if that's the real
reason why he slid out of the first round, but
it's not uncommon for people to fall based on some
of the things that are in their background because that
is a part of their basketball character because you have
to deal with their stuff. How is it going to

(38:52):
impact the way they play and perform?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Okay, so part A to that question would be, well,
that hurt Bill Belichick inting a coaching job because he's
dating a twenty four years cheerleader.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
I mean it might, Like, let's look at it this way.
There's no reason you can tell me why Bill Belichick
shouldn't have got a coaching job this last cycle. So
with his age, that's that part of it, because he's
seventy seventy plus. Yeah, the fact that he has a
little twenty four year older old lady on his arm,
I mean that's something different. But I mean we've seen

(39:22):
older gentlemen have younger wives and girlfriends before, So I
don't think that will impact that. I think the age
itself is more so the concern for him than the
other stuff.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
I know, Like can say, is you go coach you go,
all right, next, Cleveland Cavaliers. They've drafted in the NBA
draft this year without even having a new coach. How
small a move is that.

Speaker 3 (39:44):
I think it's hard for basketball and baseball they operate differently.
I can't imagine operating and running a football team without
the coach's input. Ultimately, in sports, the front office job
is depict the players and to maintain the viability of
the franchise over the long term. The coach's job has
developed the product right now to give it the best
chance to win right now without the coach being involved

(40:06):
in the talks. I don't know what this is, but
it's unusual, to say the least.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah, I couldn't believe, but you would have to think
that even though the coach is not scouting the potential
draft picks, you know, he's going to mold the team
with the players and he has some sort of an
input on that. And they didn't even have a coach.
All right, last, but not least, we're almost in July.
Tomorrow's July first, and the NHL NBA seasons just completed.
I mean, is it a little bit too long with
the overlapping of sports. What do you think it can.

Speaker 3 (40:33):
Be a little long, but look, we love it. Man.
If we're gonna have these big deals, you get to
give the people what they want when it comes to
the big businesses in media giants. So it is what
it is. I enjoy it. The only month that is
a dead month is kind of this part of it, July.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
It's never dead when we're talking sports on Sunday. But anyway,
we move on. He's Bucket Brooks and many firm and
these players are all d and Bucky has it all
for you right here next on Fox.

Speaker 3 (40:57):
Don't listen, no Fox Sports Rade.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
All right, these guys will be breaking out. We'll explain
that in just about a minute. Good morning, this is
Fox Sports Sunday of Fox Sports Radio. He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Furman, and we're broadcasting live from the ti
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it may be. He's the guy, my partner, Bucky Brooks.
What's up? Buck Hour two? And by the way, by
the way, Brianna b our rising star you okay, you're
still with us? All right, just checking in, all right,

(41:43):
b We're moving on, Bucky. How's it going?

Speaker 4 (41:46):
Mere?

Speaker 3 (41:46):
Things are good, no complaints. It is a beautiful Sundays,
Yes it is.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna put you up, Bucky Brooks,
up against anybody, anybody on God's Green Earth with football knowledge.
I mean that you coached, you played the game in
the NFL. Are you scout and also with you write
every week on NFL dot com. All you gotta do
is go to NFL dot com on Fridays, click writers
and scroll down. You see Bucket's beautiful face and he

(42:12):
has the best of everything. And I don't know how
you do it. I really don't. It's tremendous reading and
I love it. And that's why we talk about it
usually every Sunday. Now, last week you had the rising
stars on the offensive side of the ball, and I
think the key that I saw there one of the
Pittsburgh Steelers was George Pickens and my correct George Pickens
was the guy.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah, George Pickinson was one of the guys from the
previous year who had made the list.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Yes, right now, this week he went on the defensive
side of the ball. How difficult was that? How do
you do that? I mean, is it your pigs? Do
you talk to scouts? How is this list constructed?

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Just a look at the conversations, a conversation of people
that you know with throughout the league, who really are
tied in with some of the young players. Is observations
of watching tape. It's also kind of just list to
what all you buddies are talking about. Who can make
a reasonable jump, looking at the depth chart, looking at
the situation, who came in, who left, how that could

(43:07):
increase their role? And so you do take all those
factors into consideration and you kind of split out of
the list.

Speaker 4 (43:13):
And we'll see, we'll see if we can get it right.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
See if we can get maybe a fifty percent hit rate,
that would be a positive, I would say coming out
of this.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Now, wait just a second, then you say, we'll see
if we'll get it right. Now, we'll see if you
get it right, because don't drag me in, because if
it's wrong, I don't want to get involved. You know
what I'm saying it's you. This is you, baby, this
is all you, and I give you credit for it,
but it's not we. This is a you deal. The
show is we and we share everything together, but the
list is you. All right, we do take the credit.
But also if you don't get I mean, I got

(43:41):
it written down here. At the end of this NFL season,
we'll see what's going on. But again, the list is
interesting because there's not necessarily rookies of first year players.
You have a couple of veterans. You're saying, hey, these
guys are going to bust out this year, at least
on the defensive side of the ball. Let's start with
the New York Football Giants. Okay, the edge Russian Kavon Fiebideaux. Okay,

(44:02):
did I pronounce his name right, Fibideau? I think I did.

Speaker 4 (44:05):
Yeah, kave On Tippodeaux.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
Yes, there you go.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Last year where he had like almost twelve sacks and
that was his second season. Why is he going to
bust out for the Giants this year?

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Because last year he gave us a little taste of
what he could what he could be. Eleven and a
half sacks came off the edge. Still kind of refined
in his game this year. He set up to have
more success because he's still playing alongside Dexter Lawrence, who's
an All Pro player on the interior. But now the
Giants brought over Brian Burns. Brian Burns, this guy looked
he's going to be paid megabucks because he is a speed.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
Rusher, extraordinarrow.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
On the other side, you would like to think that
he is going to command all the attention. He and
Dexter Lawrence are going to kind of command the double teams.
That's going to create a lot of one on one
opportunities for Kaveon Thibodeaux on.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
The back side.

Speaker 3 (44:49):
And he's already proven in year two that he could
get you double digit sacks. Those numbers could spike because
he has more opportunities on a better front line than
he played with last year.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
So I'm hearing right now what I learned from you
last week. On the offensive side of the football, A
lot of it is coaching and what player plays with
what coach who basically is a teacher and can teach
him systems and skills and things like that to make
that person better. What I'm learning here early on is that, yeah,
Tibodeau may be a great player, but what's going to

(45:19):
make him better is having a tremendous player playing with him,
like a Brian Burns on the other side of the ball,
because it takes a lot of pressure off him and
put a little more pressure on Burns, but it frees
him up.

Speaker 3 (45:31):
Yes, it does free him up. And what you're trying
to do and what more teams are doing. Man, if
you can assemble the front line with three talented pass
rushes that can get to the quarterback with consistently, then
you're beginning to be able the kind of front line
that will give you an opportunity to win at a
high level. The Giants have that dextin Lawrence came on Tibadeau,
Brian Burns. That is a very talented collection of people

(45:52):
and that's why it's going to be impactful for him.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
All right, Let's move to the Philadelphia Eagles. The defensive
tackle on the Eagles Jalen, And again the coaching factor
comes in there with Vic Fangio, tremendous defensive coach. He's
going to come down to the Philadelphia Eagles and this
guy last year had a decent season as a rookie.
But as you say, with Fangio, he's going to rise
even higher.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
Yeah, Vic Fangio is going to be interesting because what
he is going to do is he's gonna hold everyone accountable,
so a higher level of standards when it comes to
what is expected of them. He's also a veteran coach
who has seen a lot, done a lot, one of
the masterful play designers and schemers in the league. That's
going to give Jalleen Carter every opportunity to get these

(46:36):
one on one chances. And it's going to be by design.
It's gonna be by his own personal dominance of those
one on one matchups that we are going to see
a lot of splash plays from a young player who
showed us that he had the ability to dominate on
the inside. Well, now I think those skills will be
enhanced because Vic Fangio comes over to unlock in.

Speaker 2 (46:56):
All right, let's move to the Pittsburgh Steels. And this
is questionable in my mind because he's a defensive tackle.
He's sixty four, he's three hundred and ten pounds. I
think something like that. Keanu Benton and I watched the
Bengals play almost every game last year. I don't remember
even seeing this guy play. I think he wasn't even
a starter, was he Benton? And he seems going to
be rolling to the next level.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
Yeah, I think he will be rolling to the lux
level now. I don't know how many Pittsburgh still a
games you took in, but like he started to make
his mark around the middle of the season. He's a
guy that can jump into rotation, he can get into
the mix. He's not someone that's going to compile like
I would say, outlandish numbers. But what he is is
going to do is he's going to command it.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
He's a worker be at.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Delana scrimmage and his effort is going to create opportunities
for those linebackers to run and chase. It's not a
coincidence when you think about having him. You got Patrick
Queen behind him. Patrick Queen may make a lot of
plays and when we reround the tape, we may give
Queen credit for the tackle, but the opportunity was created
by something that Kenu Benton has done at Delana Scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
All right, let's move back. Another edge player right here
on the Green Bay Packers, Lucas van Ness and like
the Philadelphia Eagles with the new defensive coordinator of Vic Fangio.
You got a new guy in Green Bay and Jeff Hathley,
and maybe that's the difference. Maybe that's why in your mind,
this guy van Ness is going to rise to the
next level and bust out.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (48:19):
So this is a super athlete.

Speaker 3 (48:20):
And one of the things that people have a tough
time with with the Green Bay Packers is they always say, man,
they always just draft defensive guys in the first round
as part of an organizational philosophy, and it's paid off
well for them. Lucas van Ness is a former first
round pick, came from Iowa. Super athlete, freak athlete. Now
you want to take those freaky athletic traits and you
want to put him to use and allow him to

(48:42):
play in a system that frees him up to just
go be an athlete, seaball kickball, Jeff athlete. Wants to
do that, man, he does want to take put it
bogged him down with a whole lot of thinking. He
wants to be aggressive player on the other side of
the line of scrimmish. Because of that, with his athleticism,
He's going to have an opportunity remember this last year,
from week twelve on, this dude had five sacks and

(49:03):
fifteen pressures. And if you think about that small sample size,
you project that over the course of the season, which
you can't sustain that pace. This guy's a double digit
sack artist waiting to happen. And with Sean Gary and
some of the other guys that they have at the
line of scrimmage, Lucas Veneesques could end up being the
biggest star of their group.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
You know, it's funny because this kid Vaness went to
Iowa and that's basically a defensive school, no doubt about it.
They can't score a touchdown if they had five guys
in the end zone. That just can't do it.

Speaker 4 (49:29):
That LOLd nepotism there, lod nepotism there.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Brian Farrence taking calling plays for Kurt Farance, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
There's nothing wrong with that. I love a Belichick had
his son doing the plays as well, and on the
defensive side of the ball. It's the way it is
in life. But I'm going back to your list here.
Do you look at where they're drafted from what school?
Because Iowa's defensive minded. I remember Penn State for the
longest time was nicknamed linebacker you. I mean, if you
see two linebackers, one from Wyoming perhaps and one from

(49:57):
Penn State, would you go to Penn State because of
the tradition and.

Speaker 3 (50:01):
Linebackers not always, but I mean, you certainly are aware
that certain schools have a track record for developing certain positions.
It's funny that you mentioned Iowa. If you go back
and you look at their history, Iowa dbs tend to
play well in the National Football League. I mean, just
going back Micah Hyde and some of the other players
that have come out of there. They have a history

(50:22):
and a tradition that works. So yeah, like you try
not to scalt the helmet, but you're fully aware of
when a player plays for this school, particularly if it's
a long time veteran coach, you know exactly what kind
of player that you're getting. Yeah, so it can give
them some bonus points. It doesn't completely change the evaluation,
but you certainly give them bonus points for being able
to play for a terrific coach and for a school

(50:46):
that has a history of producing certain positions.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
And the funny thing is Ohio State or the Ohio
State University really does not have a great tradition for
quarterbacks until maybe last year when they drafted and it
worked out. But really and truly, the success that school
has had over the years, their quarterbacking has not really
been top notch level.

Speaker 3 (51:05):
Yeah, no, it hasn't been. But it's one of those
things where you make note of it, but you still
try to evaluate the player for the player, and it's
a challenge to not allow those prejudices and biases to
creep into your mind when you're making your notes and
you're kind of finalizing the report, but you certainly aware

(51:26):
of it. I mean, you just got to know how
it goes.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Okay, now, I gotta tell you, I admit this. You know,
I live in the greater Cincinnati area and I'm a
big Cincinnati Bengals fan. And this breakout listen, you give
me a I see no one from the Cincinnati Bengals
on there. B I see a lot of Baltimore Ravens
and Pittsburgh Steelers. And now in the linebacker position, I'm
seeing the Baltimore Ravens Trenton Simpsons. So you're scaring me
right here. I hope it doesn't work out because I'm

(51:49):
a fan, But tell me about Trenton Simpson. Really, I'm
a Homer. I can't help it.

Speaker 4 (51:54):
You definitely are Homer.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Tren Simpson linebacker steps in for Patrick Quayen for the
Baltimore Ravens. Super Fast, super explosive, a guy that the
Baltimore Ravens took a.

Speaker 4 (52:04):
Season ago third round pick.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
They gave him opportunity to just kind of sit and
watch the game from the sidelines, play and contribute on
special teams in those things. But now they expect him
to play in a big role. When you think about
what the Baltimore Ravens have traditionally done in terms of
developing their players, there's a reason why this team is
always in the conversation, not only for the postseason, but
for more. Trent Simpson is the next great linebacker that

(52:26):
the Baltimore Ravens will have, putting them alongside Rokwan Samoth.
He's gonna play fast, he's gonna be physical because the
peer pressure is going to demand that he does that.
But you're also getting a guy that on tape, particularly
in his college days, he was all over the field.

Speaker 4 (52:39):
To me, this terrific fit.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
I expect him to extend quickly on their defense, to
be one of the stars of the defense by season.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
En, Wow, that is kind of scary. Okay, linebacker again,
Devin Lloyd Team Near and Diddy O Heart the Jacksonville Jaguars.
And you say he's going to benefit from the scheme change.
What is the scheme change? And I will the benefit
and what kind of a game change are they having?

Speaker 3 (53:02):
Okay, So the scheme change the no from an odd
front to an even front. So an odd front just
basically tells you that they're putting the nose tackle right
over top of the center. And they were playing things
that required Devin Lloyd to be what we call an
off ball linebacker, meaning he was never on the ball.
He didn't walk up and challenge tight ends. He was
just off the ball one hundred percent of the time.

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Now they're going to more of a four man scheme
and they're going to have him in the mix a
little bit as SAM linebacker.

Speaker 4 (53:29):
And so the SAM linebacker sometimes.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Will require you to get at the line of scrimmage
and bang up the tied end. He has the skills
to do that. Also, by moving to a four man front,
they may be able to slide him in as a
designated pass rusher. On occasion and allow him to get
after the quarterback. When you go back and look at
how he played at Utah, this is what he did
when he was defensive player of the Year his final
season at Utah. He gave you splash plays from the

(53:53):
line of scrimmage, sacks, tackles for lost interceptions, big hits,
all those things. His evolving role and Jacksonville could allow
him to reprise the role that he played so successfully
at Utah.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Well, you sound excited about that. You know, it's funny.
When you mentioned the lineman, you're giving me the height
and weight. Okay, when you mentioned me the linebackers, you're
not really that concerned with the size. Is that true
or no?

Speaker 3 (54:17):
It's different now because the league is so much of
a passing league that it can't be about like the big,
lumbering linebackers that we had in yesteryear. If you have
that kind of player, and now you got to deal
with Christian McCaffrey coming out the backfield. Now you have
to deal with Alvin Kamara and some of the other
young guys. You have to deal with Devin h Chan
from Miami. The change of pace back that can put

(54:38):
the ball in the paint from anywhere on the field.
You have to put a premium on athleticism and speed
at the position more so than back, even though they
got to be able to deal with the run. Man,
it's hard to play with a big, slow team on defense.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I hear you, Okay, moving to the cornerback right now,
We've got to get some speed over there. You're saying,
this kid's going to be a superstar New England Patrios
Christian Gonzalez, tell me about this guy.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Yeah, Christian Zalas is a great one. I mean he's
a great one because like high waight speed he has.
He has the instincts and awareness to to make plays
on the ball.

Speaker 4 (55:11):
He can do it from off, he can do it
from press.

Speaker 3 (55:13):
He has a toolbox that is expansive, like I mean,
it's floaded with all kinds of tricks and gadgets in
those things. The only thing for him is just staying
healthy if he stays on the field. This dude to
someone that we're gonna talk about. Uh, there are not
many guys that kind of bring what he has on
his utility belt around and I fully expect the New

(55:34):
England pictures to take advantage of that. Because to me,
he's a true number one cornerback in every sense of
the word.

Speaker 2 (55:40):
Now wait just a second, because you say on his
resume here that he's got ballerina like feet. If someone
told me that I had ballerina like feet, I smack
you in the face. I don't want to have ballerina
type feet.

Speaker 3 (55:52):
Really, you know you don't. You don't think ballerina is
a graceful and nimble as they bounce. If you're not,
you've not seen the nutcracker. You've never seen the nutcracker.
You've never seen them bounce. I mean, like that part
of the deal.

Speaker 2 (56:06):
It makes me cringe when I see them standing on
their toes. I mean it really does. I mean I
don't know how they do it. But there's gotta be
another term you could have used instead of ballerinia type,
just a light on his feet. Maybe I don't know
the baleria I gave you.

Speaker 3 (56:18):
I gave you, I gave you the visual you talked
about how hard it is to be on your toes. Yes,
how to do please? Yes, Like we're talking about cringing,
we're talking about we're talking about all of these things
that would enable him to be a great player.

Speaker 4 (56:33):
Because he is so nimble.

Speaker 2 (56:36):
Wow, I just I don't want to talk about that anymore.
Going back to cornerback again, you know, the the good
teams get even better. You got Joshua Williams on the
Kansas City Chiefs. Why can't get throwing a Cincinnati Bengal guy?
This guy cornerback for the chief Joshua Williams. Tell me
about this guy and he's no kid. He's twenty four.

Speaker 4 (56:54):
No, he's not a kid.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Uh small school standout, played at uh Favbeld State University.
Shout out to fabel ste That's where my mom went
to school. So I appreciate that he's a Bronco. The
other part is he played back to back years he's
been on the field when this team has won Super
Bowl titles. That experience having to be in high leverage
situations as a young player man, that is significant. That

(57:15):
gives him an advantage when it comes to stepping in.
But not only that he'll step in for the Jerry Snead,
but he has a guy that he's playing opposite in
Trent McDuffie that is one of the best in the business,
not only as a playmaker but in terms of his
IQ and communication skills. That's gonna help Williams play at
a high level. I just love this combination and what

(57:36):
it could be. I think by the end of the season,
we're gonna talk about this combination. Man, one of the
best in the business.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
Wow, okay, we got three more ago, another cornerback again Pittsburgh.
Steele is how do you like this? I mean the
moving I mean they really are Joey Porter chewing. I'm
not surprised about this. I mean, really and truly, but
he was pretty good with his second year, but he
was pretty good last year. He really was. Joey Porter Jr.

Speaker 3 (57:58):
Pazy's son j like son of the name say Joey Porter,
who was a long time dominant player for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Joey Porter Junior to me was a bit of a surprise.
You talk about second round pick taking him out of
Penn State. When you watch them at Penn State, I
thought there were some limitations to his game. Thought he
kind of played best just at the line of scrimmers.
Didn't know about the speed factor. He goes to Pittsburgh
and to his credit, Man, he has developed.

Speaker 4 (58:20):
He is a really good player.

Speaker 3 (58:22):
He took over the number one role for them about
midway through and Mike Tomlin let him run with it.
And he's a feisty competitor. He doesn't give up on downs.
He's gonna challenge any and everybody that he walks out
opposite up. And I love that and I think it
only gets better from year one of year two is
when you typically experience your biggest jump in terms of

(58:42):
your development. If that happens for him, we're going to
be talking about this dude as a Pro Bowl player.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Yeah, and again, it's not fair moving to the safety position.
You got the guy in the San Francisco forty nine.
There's another great team. They're gonna get even better Gerra Brown.
I mean, come on, last year he was a part
time starter, had a couple of interceptions, and now they're
moving him into I guess they got a new scheme too.
I think eventually, don't they.

Speaker 3 (59:04):
Well, yeah, Yarry Brown, they're gonna go back to doing
some of the things. You got to remember, this dude
was called the takeaway King when he was.

Speaker 4 (59:09):
In Penn State.

Speaker 3 (59:10):
This dude dominated at Penn State in terms of taking
the ball away. I think he was responsible for sixteen
takeaways during his time at Penn State. He goes immediately
to the Niners and he produces at the same level.
Had three interceptions, two incand season one in the postseason.
Moves around well, good instincts, awareness. It's gonna be interesting
how they use him. I just know when you have

(59:31):
someone in your secondary that is really comfortable getting the
hands on the ball, you try to unlock them and
allow them to really see it and get it. This
system will enable him to have more opportunities on the ball.
And he's going to go get the football.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
It's been proved last but not least again. Your team,
the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Cisco kid, Andre Cisco, all right,
tell me about him because he's gonna do well again
in that new scheme.

Speaker 3 (59:53):
Yeah. One of my favorites, and he was one of
my favorites going all the way back to his time
at Syracuse where he had thirteen career interceptions. Just as
a knack and a feel for it. And what you
want to do is guys who have a feel for
the game, you want to unlock them, meaning you want
to have a system in place where you can challenge
them through film setting those things to understand the tendencies
and how the game will be played from the opponent,

(01:00:15):
and then you free them up from time to time
to hey, man, go make a play. And that takes
a combination of experience and expertise to know when I
can make a play and when I need to lay back.
Got to feel like going into his fourth year, he
understands the game now where hey, if he has more
opportunities to make place, he's gonna make a ton of place.
He can get his hands on a lot of balls.

(01:00:35):
Seven interceptions over the last two years. I expect that
number to continue to grow.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
As always a job well done. Bucket Brooks NFL dot com.
Get him on Fridays. You'll see him there right there. Okay,
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(01:01:01):
But when will you see your money? That's coming up
next live from the Tirack dot com studios.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:01:20):
Okay, we're gonna tell you exactly what happened. That's coming
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just search Fox Sports Ready wherever you get your podcasts,
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we get off the air. And I want to ask
the question the NFL Sunday Ticket, if anybody gets that,
raise your hand, if you pay for that, I want
to know, because we're going to tell you about this lawsuit.
What really happened years buck nine years for the Sunday
Ticket subscribers to see their day in court. Happened the

(01:02:04):
other day. The lawsuit accuses the NFL and its network partners,
that being CBS and Fox, of violating anti trust rules
to sell Sunday ticket at an inflated price. Oh wow, surprising. Uh.
The league argues that the Sunday ticket, with each team
getting about sixty two million, it falls under the anti
trust exemption from the Act that was pushed by the

(01:02:26):
former commissioner, the late Great Pete Roselle. So what about you.
If the NFL loses this case, you then YouTube sport
Sunday ticket could change. But first there's going to be
some appeal. So remember you're not going to get the
money back that quickly. Right. Do you get Bucky Brooks?
Do you get Sunday ticket? Uh?

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
Yeah, I've always gotten Sunday ticket. Part of it was
because it was when it was like Sunday ticket through DirecTV.
It was part of like a disc kind of thing
that we can get as an employer. But yeah, really
expensive though, really pricey. Love watching it, have any access,
but kind of pricey.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Well it's amazing, you know. According to statistics here, more
than two point four million residential subscribers, forty eight thousand
businesses that brought the package from the seventeenth of June
and twenty eleven to February seventh, twenty twenty three. They're
included in this lawsuit, but maybe they're going to opt out.
Who knows. If they win, the NFL could owe twenty

(01:03:23):
one billion dollars in damages since federal anti trust law
allows for triple the damage is sustained. But you know,
it's not going to happen for a while, and there's
gonna be back and forth. There's gonna be appeals. So
I don't have your hand out just yet. I don't
think it's going to happen to you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:43):
I don't know, like like this is. This is tricky.

Speaker 3 (01:03:47):
They won the thing, which was huge, and so the
appeals and stuff. But now with all the things that
are going down on the court, I think it's harder
to get done. But I think it's a huge win initially.
We'll see if they ever get what they're demanding.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
No, right, I don't think it's going to happen. It's
gonna be ongoing. But I never for some reason, I
never got the Sunday ticket. You know, to be honest,
I'm pretty stupid. Tell me what the Sunday ticket actually is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:10):
So it's an opportunity to watch every game and market
out of market game. They also have some other things
where they have mixed channels and Red Zone channel where
you can watch the ad the red every time they penetrate. Yeah. So,
I mean there are a bunch of different things that
you can watch, but the main thing is you can
watch your favorite team. So if you're a Cincinnati Bingles team,
they're not playing in an area, you can't catch them

(01:04:32):
on the tube. You can watch them play the Seattle
Seahawks on direct TV. That used to be the model,
and so it gave you an opportunity to see your
team every week, and you weren't at the mercy of
the local markets see down.

Speaker 2 (01:04:45):
I don't understand because I live, as I say, in
the greatest Cincinnati area. Every home game is on TV
and every away game is on local over the r TV,
which you don't have to pay for. I don't understand that.

Speaker 3 (01:04:55):
Yeah, but what if I lived in Cincinnati, but I'm
not a Cincinnati Bingles fan. I don't want to see
the Bengals.

Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
I don't want to see the Bengals every week. I
have to move there for work.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
Like I'm working for Proctor Gamblo somewhere there that process
me in Cincinnati, but I'm a long time Tampa Bay
Buccaneers fan. I want to see them, and so it
gives me the opportunity to watch my favorite team no
matter where I'm at.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
And that's funny because prior to the Bengals coming into
the existence in nineteen sixty eight, most of the people
in the greatest Cincinnati area were Cleveland brown fans. And
if you go up the road from Cincinnati about fifty
sixty miles, which is Dayton, Ohio, I believe the Dayton
local market carries the Browns games over the Bengal games.
That's kind of strange, really.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised because they have all these
different territorial splits.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
Yeah, they should do all right, Okay, so now we
see so in other words, if you're a Sunday ticket holder,
don't be shopping heavily right now. Don't be racking up
that credit card because I'm not so certain you're going
to be getting that money back anytime soon. So just
a word to the wise. That's what we're doing. That
all right, we move on. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Iny Furman.
Of course we have Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
It's a way to up on comfort and fun. It

(01:06:02):
really is. That's coming up next Life from the Tirack
dot Com studios. But first our guy Kevin why with
all your sports.

Speaker 8 (01:06:08):
Yeah, we had a big day in Major League Baseball
on Saturday. Braves over the Pirates two to one. Paul
Skeens another impressive start for Pittsburgh. Just a year after
he was in the College World Series for LSU. He's
now in the big leagues and pitching incredibly well. Six innings,
nine strikeouts, one run allowed, and his ERA on the

(01:06:29):
season two points zero six. But he did take the
no decision as the Braves do end up winning this
game two to one. Dodgers and Giants big rivalry Series.
Game one ended in dramatic fashion, the Giants walking it off,
and on Saturday it's the Dodgers getting paidback, winning this
one in extra innings fourteen to seven, as Los Angeles
scored seven runs in that top of the eleventh inning.

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Showy Otani on the day, hitting its twenty six home
run of the season. He's now hit twelve home runs
in the month of June. The Texas Rangers, it's going
from bad to worse. They've now dropped six straight games,
including a defeat sixty five to the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday,
and dad injury to insult. Corey Seeger had to leave

(01:07:13):
the game after he was hit by a pitch on
his left wrist.

Speaker 2 (01:07:15):
Now, X rays were negative, but it did not look good.

Speaker 8 (01:07:17):
He was really writhing in pain and it'll be interesting
to see exactly what his availability will be going a forward.
The La Angels, though, and things looking up for them.
They've won six games in a row, including an extra
inning affair six to five to the final against the
Detroit Tigers on Saturday. The Padres also playing well as
they've won their fifth straight game, a big eleven to

(01:07:38):
one win against the Red Sox. Manny Machado two home
runs in the game that wins over the Seattle Mariners
five to one. Blue Jays beat the Yankees nine to
three behind six runs batted in from Vladimerica Railroad Junior
NBA news Paul George opting out of his contract with
the La Clippers, so he is now a free agent,
and Adrian Warjanowski saying that he will meet with the

(01:08:01):
Clippers the Philadelphia seventy six ers in Orlando Magic as
soon as Sunday evening. Lebron James also opting out of
his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, but all expectations
are that he will resign with Los Angeles and Shamsherania.
Late last night, Saint Patrick Williams intending to sign a

(01:08:21):
five year, ninety million dollar deal to return to the
Chicago cub Soccer Big weekend as we have both Copa
America and the Euro twenty twenty four Championships. Argentina three
and oh in the Copa America group play after the
defeat Peru two nil in Miami, lion Lo Messi did
not play because of a groin injury and Chile eliminates

(01:08:42):
or Chile was eliminated after they played to a zero
zero draw against Canada. In the Euro Tournament. Germany shuts
out Denmark two nil. That spied a rain delay, those
heavy rain, hail lightning in the area, but they didn't
get the game in and it's a Germans winning at
to nil. Switzerland knocked Italy out of the tournament, winning
that game to nil, and that tournament continues today on

(01:09:05):
Fox beginning at noon Eastern time, will be England and
Slovakia in the first game. Spain and Georgia will face
off in the second matchup at three o'clock Eastern time.

Speaker 2 (01:09:15):
Bancks you guys, thank you, kevsey In And now all
right now, sports that do this must do this. We'll
get to that in just about a minute. Bo and
Barrel Benny coming up about four or five minutes for now,
be's going to handle less. So take it easy, to
have a drink. Relax, Okay, But Bucky, after all these years,
I figured it out. You know, I love sports. I
worked with sports, talk about sports with you, and I
figured it out. Why you don't see the NFL giving

(01:09:36):
out free hats of free footballs or dala hot doorgs.
They don't have to do it. But when I was
a pr man for racetracks, I did stunts. Why we
needed them. We needed to get the attention, We needed
to get people through the gates. As matter of fact,
when I was working at Latonia Race Course in Florence, Kentucky,
I had Chris Collinsworth race Mister Hurry. Mister Hurry was
a thoroughbred horse who was owed for one hundred as

(01:09:58):
a thoroughbred racing at a race and O obviously Collinsworth
lost that race, but we got pressed. We got a
big crowd for that deal. When I was at Monticello
Raceway in upstate New York, Monticella, New York, I had
two elephants racing on a track. I got a lot
of people there to come in. And when I was
a pr guy for the four loada Dale Striker soccer
team in the North American Soccer League, we were on
a four to five game losing streak. I had a

(01:10:19):
team psychiatrist talk to the team. You know what, we
made the front page of the four Load of Dale News.
So you got to do stunts when the team needs it.
That's basically it. NFL doesn't need it all right, But
now I read this one. This is kind of unusual.
It's the Roto Ruda toilet row. Okay, for the Lake
County Captains, a baseball team in East Lake, Ohio. What
are they doing now? This unique seating experience. It's a

(01:10:41):
groundbreaking first and minor league baseball. It's going to offer
fans the opportunity to enjoy the game from the comfort
of DeLux High end toilets position right behind home plate.
I'm not so sure, Bucket Brooks. I want to sit
in a toilet to watch a baseball game. What about you?

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
No, I don't sitting in the tilly Western baseball game,
even though it's a nice novel idea. But yeah, there
are the things that I prefer to do when it
comes to watching a baseball game. Sitting on the toilet
is not one of.

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
Them, by the way. As an added bonus, fans now
can now prove their plunging prowess in the Roto Ruters
Plunger Challenge. Two brave souls will battle it out each
game to see who could expertly launch, expertly launch and
stick a plunger into Roto Ruters target with his score

(01:11:29):
not just breaking rights, but a prime spot and get
this in the coveted Rodo Ruter toilet row Really and truly,
I get a free plunger too. I'm not so certain again,
I want to walk around with a plunger after I
leave a baseball game. I just it doesn't kind of
excite me to want to go to a game. If

(01:11:49):
you want to do it, that's fine, but count me out.
Just count me out. It's ingenious and it's getting them
some press. We're talking about it here, But I don't
think I want to get a plunger.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Yeah, I mean I feel you on that. I'm with you.
I'm with you on that. I probably would.

Speaker 2 (01:12:05):
Yeah, and look you in the National Football League, I
guarantee you in the years that you played there. I
know that special days for for cancer. You know, they've
gotta wear pink shoes something like that, And I get
that that does not more of a promotion. I guess
it's a it's a service, if you will. But they
don't do any crazy stunts in the National Football League
still be because they don't have to. They don't have

(01:12:28):
to do those stunts that people come in drove to
see the games. When you work a minor league baseball,
you work at a Class B racetracks like I did,
or kind of minor sports, you have to do things
to be somewhat creative to get people in the ballplark
or in the stadium.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
I can I can see that. I mean, it's it's
a harder it's a harder seal and there are more
things that you have to do when it comes to
just getting.

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
What about when you were in North Carolina play did
they do any crazy stunts getting what? They put a
pack for every football game at the Chapel Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:13:02):
I mean solid, I can't do it all the pack
of time. The basketball team their thay, they did some
different things for a lot of times to team. Wead
uh afternoon basketball game ahead of.

Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
I hear you. All right, you're goggling a little bit.
Now we'll get that cleaned up. We'll take care of
that in a couple of minutes, because he's bucket Brooks
will get that thing fixed. I'm Andy furmanweel Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. And by the way, we
call it a game of luck, has a lot of chance.
But also it's called bottom barrel betting, and it's freaking next.

(01:13:46):
All right, little Stevie wanted to pushing us into bottom
barrel betting. He's uh, Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, whel
Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready and we're lying
from the tire Rock dot com studios. All right, Stevie,
tell us we've got a game to play. Let's play.
You get to thank for me. It's bottom motto.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
You thought you was late?

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Put my friend wanted to sleep. People, get my money.

Speaker 8 (01:14:05):
I'll put your brain to sleep.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Betting.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
All right, little minchel, here for the very first attempt
at the nation's favorite game. Here's Brianna for bottom barrel betting.
How are you.

Speaker 6 (01:14:15):
I'm good, I'm good, I'm excited. Let's do this.

Speaker 11 (01:14:19):
Yes, okay, so last week Bucky did win four to
one oh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
Four to one. Dominant, A dominant performance.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Take it easy, back off.

Speaker 6 (01:14:29):
That's a good comeback. I guess. Yeah, Bucky, you lost
the week before.

Speaker 3 (01:14:32):
Right, yeah, it is a nominally yes.

Speaker 11 (01:14:35):
So fifty seven forty one is the updated score as
of now.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
He's pulling away.

Speaker 6 (01:14:40):
Jeez, just a tad, just a tad.

Speaker 11 (01:14:43):
So we'll start down under the Australian Football League. We
have the Saint Kilda Saints minus one forty seven versus
the Port Adelaide Power at plus one sixteen.

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
Bucky, who do you got?

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
Oh, let's go to saying kill the Saint. Let's go
with the Saints. The Saints come Marchina.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Yeah, okay, you're not gonna come watching it this week
because I got pulled Adelaie. The big Ports coming in.
I got pulled Alaie.

Speaker 11 (01:15:08):
All right, now we're gonna head over to cricket. There's
the Sri Lanka T twenty Premier League. We have Jaffna
at minus one versus Guy Ye at plus one oh four.

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
Oh man, Okay, Bucky's a cricket guy here. But I
think I'm gonna go with Joshua. I don't know why.
I just I just like the name. Is that stupid?
I'd like to name Joshua.

Speaker 6 (01:15:33):
Whatever is going to get you the victory, right I hope?

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
So like you need one basically, all right, well I
go to opposite. I just take the opposite. Yeah, if
you're going that way, I'm not going.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
To seems to be working for you too, really, it
really doesn't.

Speaker 11 (01:15:45):
Yes, Okay, so we're gonna head over to hurling. It's
a senior championship.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
I like to hurl right now, to be honest with you.

Speaker 11 (01:15:54):
Ireland semi final taking place in Dublin. It's a huge rivalry.
It's killed Kenny minus one oh four versus Claire at
plus one sixteen.

Speaker 3 (01:16:05):
Bucky, let's go with you, Kenny.

Speaker 2 (01:16:08):
Okay, you know this is not a hurling. It sounds
like a husband and wife fighting Kenny against Claire. I mean,
I don't understand this, but I'm gonna go opposite. That's
what Bucky always does. It seems to work for him.
I'm gonna go opposite. I'm taking Claire. Claire helped me
out here, will you please? I need to win.

Speaker 11 (01:16:25):
Yeah, Claire to come to the rescue here. All right, now,
we're gonna head over to darts. The Modus Super Series
is Round Robin League, I'm guessing, and we have Brian
Rahman at plus one sixty nine versus Scott Taylor at
minus two forty three.

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
Andy, let me figure this out here. Darts Brian Roman
Scott m uh, you know, I kind of like I
kind of like Brian Roman. I'll tell you why. I
think Scott Taylor to me is a phony name. I
don't think he's a real guy. Really. I think it's
a made up name. And if you're a making, if

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it's a made up name, he's a cheat. It's a
cheater and he's a liar. Okay, no, really, I'm not
rooting for him. I don't wanted to win. Brian Taylor.
Brian Roman sounds like a kind of a royalty regal,
a little bit of a regal kind of guy. Brian
Roman is going to bring it all home for me.

Speaker 6 (01:17:22):
Okay, Bucky, you good with Scott Taylor.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
I'm good with that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:25):
Say I don't have as much confidence in Brian.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
But okay, you're not taking Brian Roman because I took him.
That's the only reason I make it real easy for you.
I'm going to come back and haunt you.

Speaker 3 (01:17:35):
I don't want to.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
I just want to separate from you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Oh is that right? I hope you will be doing
this Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:17:42):
I just want to. I want to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:44):
I want to increase my lead separation. The more separation.

Speaker 2 (01:17:47):
All right, It's like I like starting in a hole.
I'll come back. I will, definitely.

Speaker 11 (01:17:53):
It's a good comeback story for sure. Okay, So we
have table tennis. It's the Ukraine Secca Cup.

Speaker 8 (01:18:00):
I have.

Speaker 6 (01:18:00):
Well, there's a.

Speaker 11 (01:18:01):
Valerie Mellenic at minus one ninety versus Roman Cheriff Crif
co Chriiff co at plus one thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
Who oh bucket.

Speaker 3 (01:18:17):
First name was was give me.

Speaker 6 (01:18:19):
It was like Valerie Mellenic versus.

Speaker 4 (01:18:22):
Okay, so good, let's go Valerie.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Let's go Valley.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
I like, thank goodness, because these are for victory.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
These are for victory.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Yeah, because I'm really hot because I took Brian Roman
in darts, so I had to go with the Roman
again in table tennis. And maybe they're related. I don't know.
I don't know how they have time to play table
tennis in the Ukraine? Is this this match in Ukraine?

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
You know?

Speaker 6 (01:18:44):
I was just actually looking that up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
I mean, I'm gonna go on the internet check this out,
because they got bombs going over there all the time.
I mean, what do they play on the ground.

Speaker 11 (01:18:51):
I guess in a case, but there's always time for
table tennis.

Speaker 6 (01:18:55):
And yeah, yes, you're right, alrighty. So those are the
best that we have for this week.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
Nothing else, nothing. You have any questions for me a bucket,
because this is your first adventure into Sunday Morning Sports
Talk with me and buckets. You have any questions whatsoever
and anything that you've learned in the first two hours
with us, you know, because I know how nervous you were.
I see you. I'm looking now that you're sweating all
over your body. No, really, Brian, to be quite honest,

(01:19:25):
I could say this publicly. It's somewhat disgusting, it really is.
I mean, either get a towel or change of shirt
or something.

Speaker 11 (01:19:33):
No, I mean everything has been super straightforward.

Speaker 6 (01:19:36):
You guys are really great.

Speaker 11 (01:19:38):
Yeah, I mean just coming up with these like bets
and trying to figure out who to pick. I'm I'm like,
I'm really interested in how you guys do that. So
that's that's a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:19:46):
Okay. The next question is will you be back here
next week to give us the results?

Speaker 6 (01:19:50):
No, I a man will be back by then.

Speaker 2 (01:19:52):
So this is something that you're doing us a favor.
You know, you don't want to come back because you know,
I'm very shallow when it comes to these situations. I mean,
if you don't come back next week, I guess you
may have told somebody I can't work with those two guys.

Speaker 6 (01:20:05):
No, it's an Iman's show. I'm just filling in.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Oh okay, so this is a one time deal. Yes, okay,
But is there anything that you could take away that
you learned. I mean, someone's going to ask you probably
tomorrow would work. How did it go with those two guys?
Did you learn anything? Was? It was educational?

Speaker 11 (01:20:23):
Very educational. Everything was super structured. You guys have a
really good flow. It's just it's incredible. I really I'm
having a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
Bucky are you hearing this?

Speaker 3 (01:20:33):
I mean really, I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
Yes, Wow, I appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
I like it, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
And any other questions you must have a question you
could ask at least Bucky when he played in the pros,
I asked him why he won number twenty two. I
thought he won number twenty to two in the Pros
because of Caitlin Clark.

Speaker 6 (01:20:49):
Did you have a favorite teammate, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
Favorite teammate?

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
Oh, man, besides me? Besides me?

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Yeah, you're you're great. You're a great so nature I
means favorite teammate, college pro. We played together multiple spots.
Where we go, we go.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Okay, it was a very good year for one NFL team.

Speaker 1 (01:21:08):
That's next up, Fox, don't listening to Fox Sports Radio radio.

Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
All right, it's the month of June, the last day,
so everybody's a winner, at least in the NFL. That's
coming right up. Good morning. This is Fox Sports Sunday
and Fox Sports. Ready. He's the man, he's the pro.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm a deferman and we're broadcasting life
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way tya bier should be. Bucky Brooks, are you ready?
We're on the home stretch right now. We're doing it.
We're on the twenty. We're in the red zone. We're
in the red zone of Fox Sports Sunday. That's what
we are.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:21:50):
Look, I'm ready for it. Let's finish it, all right?

Speaker 2 (01:21:52):
And b Brianna, this is your last hour with us forever.
How's it going? Can you make it through? Are you okay?
We're off forever.

Speaker 11 (01:21:59):
I'll be back eventually, but for now, Yes, it's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
Okay, which Ryan will You'll make it. You'll make I
know you'll make it. All right. We move on now,
Bucky and I were doing this for several weeks. We're
going to go through every single NFL team because in
the month of June, everybody's a winner, you know, everybody
feels good for every team. There's been improvements and we
talked about them. So right now this is part three.

(01:22:24):
We're up to the New York Football Giants. And now
you mentioned this earlier today with the All Pro Brian
Burns from the Carolina Panthers. That really ups the Giants,
at least on the defensive side of the ball, because
what they did, I think they handed over some draft
capital to Carolina, a second fifth round pick, and they're
not paying much money. His deal is worth twenty eight

(01:22:45):
million dollars a year, and that's a win for the
Giants because they're not paying much of it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:51):
Yeah, I mean it is. It is a big win
for the Giants, you know. But here's the thing with
the Giants. Giants gott to play better. They got to
get back into the mix. And so when you talk
about this team, you talk about the way they construct it,
you lose Sakwon Barkley, Daniel Jones coming back off the injury. Yes,
you've upgraded the defensive line, but is that enough. Malik
Neighbors comes over at wide receiver to give them explosive weapon,

(01:23:11):
but is Daniel Jones good enough to get the ball
to him? And then maybe the biggest question I would
have for the team is Brian day Ball is probably
highly likely to take over the play calling duties. Can't
he rediscover the magic that he had a couple of
years ago, just because it take the place. She doesn't
mean that thing's going to fall back to place and
go back to how they were a couple of seasons ago.

Speaker 2 (01:23:32):
Yeah, let's talk about Sae Kwon Barkley because I really
loved it when he played for the Giants, because I'm
somewhat of a closet Giant fan, grew up with the
New York Football Giants when they even play at Yankee Stadium,
and he was like sixty percent of the offense. Who
takes over for Sakwon Barkley right now? And I'm not
too keen on Daniel Jones's passing acumen, if you know
what I mean. I don't think he's going to get

(01:23:53):
it done. I don't think he's the quarterback of the future.
Although the way they pay him and paid him, it
looks like he is going to be their quarterback of
the future.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
Yeah. Look, they gave them, they gave them significant money
to be the quarterback. But that was a couple of
seasons ago. Now that contract looks dated. That contract puts
them right in the middle of the pack, which is
where he is as a player. The thing about the
Giants is they got to make sure that they can
evaluate and rate their people without giving them the Homer bonus,

(01:24:23):
meaning sometimes when you draft a guy, you like them
because you drafted them high, you invest in them. You
can't kind of separate that affinity for them, the adoration
from a true heart analysis, where a we didn't we
didn't get the type of player that we want. We
need to make sure that we upgraded and get better
at this. I don't know if the Giants have always
evaluated their team in that right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Interesting, you know, I'd like to see the Giants do well.
Two years ago when they beat Minnesota in the first
round of the playoffs, I thought things was looking up
for the Giants. Last year, they fell flat on their
face again. So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:24:58):
Yeah, you really, league. They also played a tougher schedule.
When you win into postseason, you you get a tougher schedule,
you play tougher opponents, and so they weren't quite ready
for that jump.

Speaker 2 (01:25:08):
Okay, let's go this now, Let's go cross town to
the New York Jets. The key there I gotta believe
is Aaron Rodgers. Is he healthy, is gonna come back?
We'll even show up to practice. These guy's traveling all
over the world, he's even show it for the for
the practices. However, you know, to keep him healthy, you
got to bolster that offensive line. I think they did
because they signed the former Dallas Cowboy Tyrone Smith to tackle.

(01:25:30):
I think they drafted a kid out of Penn State,
uh fashion, I think was the guy w's gonna help
them on the offensive line as well. So if that's good,
if they could keep Aaron Rodgers upright, you got a
pretty good feeling of what the Jets doing. Well, maybe
this year.

Speaker 3 (01:25:46):
Very positive on the Jets a lot of it. They
will go as Aaron Rodgers goes, and Aaron Rodgers is
only going to go as far as the protection will
allow him to go. If he's protected, he's still able
to throw the ball from the pocket. He can deal
like anybody. However, if he's not protected, then it becomes
an issue because he's not gonna be mobile enough to
move around and elude and you don't want him taking hits.

(01:26:09):
So it comes down to the front line. If the Jets,
the Jets front line plays and then they're gonna have
an opportunity to get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
All right, Philadelphia Eagles, this team, but they just get
stronger every single year. I don't have to get it,
but they usually have like a mid season slump, then
they came back. I remember two years ago they changed
their offense to a stronger running game, and they really
rolled towards the end of the season. So see what
happens right now. They signed in free agency a twenty
six year old by the name of Bryce Huff, and
they trade a Haysan a Hassan Reddick to the Jets

(01:26:40):
because they had to replace Huff. So they know what
they're doing. This Philadelphi Eagles team, they know in this
Howie Rosen, the general manager, he's pretty sharp. I mean,
the Eagles are there every single year and they just reload.
I mean, then in the forty nine Ers and the
Kansas City Chiefs, you know, they talk about the draft
trying to equalize the National Football League. It doesn't really

(01:27:00):
seem to work that way, because right now the Chiefs
might be the most dominant team in any sport. They
really are when you think about it. I mean, they
are the dominant team in the National Football League, and
I guess as long as I have Patrick Mahomes, they
will be.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
Yeah, I mean, there're gonna be a team that's always
in the conversation because they have a great head coach
and a great quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:27:21):
Those two factors.

Speaker 3 (01:27:22):
Alone give you a chance to win every game. The
new factor in what they've done on defense, Dee's bac
Nodle outstanding defensive coordinatorybe the best defense coordinator we've seen
what he's been able to do with the young secondary,
getting them up to speed without kind of shrinking the playbook,
but just getting them to play fast within the complex scheme.

Speaker 4 (01:27:38):
That they're in.

Speaker 3 (01:27:39):
And then it's just a matter of finishing it out.
You know, it's an exhaustive run to go to back
to back titles, and so even if their schedule gives
them opportunity, will they run out of steam down the stretch.
It's really important how any manages not only they're mental,
but they're physical because it's a drain. It's such a

(01:28:02):
drain when you've been a perennial champion because you get
everybody's best shot. There's not a week that you can
step onto the field and say, hey man, we're just
gonna breathe get back right. Everybody cheats you like their
super Bowl, and so you have to be ready for it.

Speaker 2 (01:28:13):
Yeah, if you remember last year on that opening night,
on that Thursday night, it was the Detroit Lions that
beat the Kansas City Chiefs. I mean the Lions were,
you know, really hyped up and they had a decent year.
They probably should have went deeper in the playoffs. But
to come on the season like gangbusters on that opening
Thursday night to beat the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas
City Chiefs, that was huge. And again they gave them
their best game, they their best shot on opening night.

(01:28:35):
It's going to happen again this year.

Speaker 3 (01:28:37):
It is going to happen again, and they got to
be ready for it. They have to be ready for
what is coming down to pipe and if they're not,
it's going to overwhelm them. And it really I think
to me, it's how do they finish the last half
of the season, because that's when the fatigue is set in.
You just talked about playing late, I mean into February
back to back years. Program starts in a I mean

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not a lot of time that they've enjoyed. So they
have to find a way to keep the batteries charged
up and ready to rock.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Yeah, is there a complacency does that sit in like
guys like Travis Kelsey basically has been running around the
globe with his girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (01:29:13):
You know, and I mean is his girlfriend?

Speaker 2 (01:29:16):
I understand that, but I mean it's football becomes secondary,
secondarily a secondary situation in their mind right now. So
we've been there, done that, we won a couple of
Super Bowls, we got the rings. What else do we
have to prove? Does that happen with these guys? Or
is that the coach Andy Reid have to get them
in camp say, look, you've done nothing. Now it's a
brand new season. Everybody's out to get you. Let's go
and play.

Speaker 3 (01:29:37):
Yeah, And he has to get them in line, and
he has to coach them harder. And there's a way
that you can do it to make sure that they
are responding to the way you're getting after him. But no,
they got to coach from hard. They got to go
hard in the paint on them to get them up
and going. So hopefully they can do that, because I
would be excited to see this team reel off three

(01:29:58):
in a row. Never been done.

Speaker 4 (01:29:59):
To be excited.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
I love to see that. Okay, Now, this Pittsburgh Steelers
team really scares me because you talked about coaching Mike
Tomlin to me, is the first ballot Hall of Fame.
He's a great coach, he really is. And now they
got Arthur Smith running the offense, and they got Russell Wilson.
This is gonna be a team to watch. A lot
of stories I believe gonna come out of the Pittsburgh
Steelers camp in preseason. He goes to the Russell Wilson
Arthur Smith combination.

Speaker 4 (01:30:21):
Yeah, I think so, and I agree with you.

Speaker 3 (01:30:24):
First thing, Russell Wilson certainly was not as bad as
he was two seasons ago.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Last year was solid on tape.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
Arthur Smith is a much better play caller than anyone
would give him credit for that. Overcame a lot down
in Atlanta, but more importantly before then, overcame a lot
in Tennessee.

Speaker 4 (01:30:40):
Didn't really have all the weapons that you need.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
So I like that. And just overall physicality, toughness, the tone, demeanor.
All this stuff is going to help the people at
top because the hair coaster manas it from everybody, It's
going to work out well for the Pittsburgh Seals.

Speaker 2 (01:30:54):
Oh right, I's talk about the San Francisco forty nine
as you talking about changing their scheme at least on
defense a little bit. Chase Young is gone, but Leonard
Floyd's coming in. Is he going to be the replacement
for Chase Young? Kenny fill the void?

Speaker 3 (01:31:07):
Yeah, that's interesting because talented enough to fill the void.
But can he stay locked in and focus enough to
fill the void? Leonard Floyd deporting These are huge vocuancy,
But yeah, I mean, I think it's one of these
things where you're hopeful and you're optimistic, but then you
just got to see how it plays out on the field.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Okay, a lot of coaching changes around the National Football League,
which I'm learning from you, really makes a big difference
because schemes will change, I guess, learning tactics will change,
teaching will change, and one of those changes right now
in Seattle with Mike McDonald helping, I guess on defense.
We'll see what happens there. And Pete Carroll's not gone.

(01:31:46):
He's gone right now, so we'll see what happens, you know,
as far as Seattle's because there will be a new
look without Pete Carroll there on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
Yeah, it will be a new look. And one of
the things that I could say, like annoying people that
have been around McDonald. He's one of the best at
simplifying things like making things very very complex, pretty simple,
pretty clear, detailed and digestible in terms of the comprehension
that'll help with a younger team play dynamic to get
after it. Oh yeah. I look, there are a lot

(01:32:14):
of people that have kind of been spinning by the
Seattle six and I think I'm one of those. I
just think the combination of what they have intact on
our offense to do with what they're going to become
on defense gives them a chance to win and went
right away.

Speaker 2 (01:32:28):
You talk about a bargain. They signed Sam Howell from
the Washington Commanders. He's signed through twenty twenty five for
like two million dollars a year, which is unbelievable. Does
this guy have any promise to be playing quarterback for
Seattle Sam Howell.

Speaker 3 (01:32:44):
I mean he has promise, he has potential. He had
an opportunity to play last year in Washington. It wasn't
as bad as like it was made out to be like.
He was pretty fine. But for the Seattle Seahawks, this
is a perfect way to go because backup quarterback making peanuts.
If you get to the point where you don't like
Geno Smith at the end of his deal. Man, you've
got a quarterback right there in place who's been developed

(01:33:06):
in groom to take it over. I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:33:09):
I like what they're doing. I like their team building process.

Speaker 2 (01:33:11):
All right, let's talk about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers right now,
because sometimes in sports, not just football but sports in general,
you have a superstar and basically he's overlooked, doesn't get
the recognition he gets for whatever the reason, maybe the
city he plays for, maybe the team he plays for.
And one of those superstars at least in my mind
he's going to be a Hall of Famer, is Mike Evans.
Mike Evans is the only player in NFL history to

(01:33:34):
reach a thousand yards receiving in each of his first
ten seasons. Tremendous player. When you talk about great receivers
in the National Football League, he's almost an afterthought. I
don't know why, but he's an icon at least in Tampa,
and that got him. He's going to be back for
two more years, So I think that's great. I really do.
I like Mike Evans a lot. I just don't think
he gets the recognition he deserves.

Speaker 3 (01:33:54):
No, he doesn't get enough recognition for what he's been.
He's been a model of consistency on the perimeter nine
ten plus seasons with over a thousand yards, being the
number one receiver facing all the double teams and tactics,
and more over, of revolving door of quarterbacks around him,
he's continued to flourish. That speaks to his talent, This
speaks to his professionalism when it comes to going about

(01:34:14):
his business. So yeah, there's a lot to like about
Tampa Bay, particularly when it's the passing game that revolves
around Mike Evans.

Speaker 2 (01:34:20):
Right now, we move along to Tennessee, and Tennessee right
now is really and truly a different face, if you will.
Derrick Henry's not there, and Dereck Henry really and truly
was their offense for the last several years. He was
their offense. Now he's gone, But they also have a
new coach and Bill Callahan and his daddy's going to

(01:34:41):
be there as well, So we'll see what happens. I
don't know what to expect. I don't think anybody really
knows what to expect from the Tennessee Titans right now,
because I think they're going to go more to a
pass option, a pass offense, don't you think?

Speaker 3 (01:34:53):
I mean, I think they're going to lean into the past.
But I think they understand what the quarterback they need
to dominate on the rank. If they dominate running the football,
that's gonna give them a chance to hit some plays
down the field on play action. What I don't see
is right now, who is the guy that's gonna command
all the attention where you have to drop people in
the box to open up the thing. They don't have

(01:35:15):
that right now. Running back maybe top emerges where you
have to feel like he needs a little added attention.
But right now, man, I think they're just gonna line
up and rock.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
What do you think about the quarterback situation in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
I give them credit for supporting them, and then if
you will let us believer, you got to give them
every opportunity to fail. So I would treat this as
a full, long, long auditionancy if you can handle the role.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
So in other words, you say, this Tennessee Titans situation
this season is almost like a learning experience for coaches
and players. And not to expect too much out of
the Tennessee titles.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
I mean, I think this are gonna push the try
and win games. But I think at the end of
the day, man, that's a lot of inexperience that you're
dealing with coming up, a lot of moving parts, and
so it'd be interesting to see how a first time
head coach takes over. And the fact that his dad
is in the building could help him because his dad
has been a head coach.

Speaker 4 (01:36:12):
I mean, so.

Speaker 3 (01:36:15):
His dad certainly can help him and get him on track.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
All right, Last, but not least, he took about a
first year coach. But he's the first year coach with
his team with the Washington Commanders. Dan Quinn. This guy
Dan Quinn, he's had success and also he's had some
failures in Atlanta. Then he had a pretty good three
year run with the Dallas Campbell Cowboys as defensive coordinator,
and then he got a second chance. So you know,

(01:36:38):
maybe coaches that got a second chance learn from their failures.
We'll see what happens in Washington. But he's got a
tough road to ho coaching the Washington Commanders, that's for sure.

Speaker 3 (01:36:49):
Yeah, I mean, he does a road to hoe. He
has to rebuild, and he has to rebuild it the
way that it needs to be done in terms of
like toughness, physicality, effort. He has to get them to
play hard. They play hard. They got enough talent to
win games. Then it's about raising that standard. And can
you raise the standard with a young quarterback? Can you
put Jayden Daniels on the field and trust that he's
going to take care of the football. He's going to

(01:37:10):
put the team in the right situation on all these
mixedown calls, and he's gonna make the plays that are
there to be made from quarterback. Easy to say, harder
to do. But that's kind of the lynchpin in terms
of how good that team can be.

Speaker 2 (01:37:23):
Well, I think dan Quinn knows in the back of
his mind this is his second chance, but it might
be his last. So this pressure, there'll be pressure every
Sunday for him.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
Always. It's always like that. Everyone wants you out of
that seat until you out to seat. So he has
to just lock in and focus on the things that
are important. If he does that, they've got enough talent
to win some games.

Speaker 2 (01:37:44):
Okay, last, but not least, Let me run this by
it because you know you're so close to the to
the action and playing the game, coaching and scouting, whatever
it may be. And you talk about coaches and coaching changes.
Have you ever seen or been on a team where
a coach was having difficulty where the assistant coaches were
backstabbing him and you've heard about that and these guys

(01:38:05):
wanted his job? I mean, was there like a mutiny
on that team? And you don't have to mention names,
well though I'd love to hear the names if you can,
but I know you won't that. But but have you
seen that?

Speaker 3 (01:38:17):
No, I mean, not like a fool of coup takeover situation.
But everyone talks, Everyone has an opinion. Everyone around the
building has an opinion to think about. Like the great
teams and great organizations, those opinions are kept in check
because it's always about the team first. It's not about
questioning the decision. You have the arguments, you go back
and forth, everyone says their case, then the decision that made,

(01:38:39):
and once the decision is made, you go and put
forth everything to make those things work out.

Speaker 2 (01:38:44):
So yeah, but I'm sure there's assistant coaches that are
second guessing calls that coaches make. But I guess those
assistants will you know, air that out in the coaches meeting.
But if it gets out in public or players here,
that not a good thing, especially the teams that are losing.
On losing teams.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Now, it's an every good thing to do it, but
it depends on what kind of coachure and the environment
you've created. If you created an environment where you can
hold everyone accountable, where you can have these hard conversations
in front of each other, then you let it rip.
But if you have not established that kind of culture,
that thing can backfire. It can backfire you in a
major way because at the end of the day, the
players have to want to play for you, and so
you've got to be able to kind of tap into

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something that keeps them playing hard because it's not an
easy situation.

Speaker 4 (01:39:27):
So, yeah, there's something.

Speaker 3 (01:39:29):
About like you're talking about the community and all the
stuff of railing behind it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:33):
You know, I kind have seen that happening, And look,
I have no evidence of it happening, or it happened.
I could see that happening with the Charges last year
with the coaching staff. Can you see if from a
distance you can see that with that team just imploded?
It really did.

Speaker 3 (01:39:48):
Yeah, So you're talking about the village, right, So the
village is everything right. It's not only the assistant coaches,
it's everyone around the building, support staff. Everyone has to
believe in the vision that has been set by the leader.
So let's say, hey, which is driving the program? Than
the head coach needs to clearly state what the mission is,
what the vision is, and how everyone can play a
part and helping the team fulfill that mission. And then

(01:40:10):
as a coach, you have to be on lookout, not
from a paranoia situation being paranoid, but just looking around
seeing how they symbol seeing if all of them are
huddled up while we're supposed to be doing something up
and down there, whispering to each other and saying, hey,
if I would do this and that and whatever, and
so they never fully believe in the plan. It is

(01:40:31):
better to have a few guys that wholeheartedly believe than
a couple of guys that are fifty to fifty because
the believers are gonna find a way to get it done.
And so it's one of those things where the head
coach has to demand loyalty from a staff.

Speaker 2 (01:40:42):
There you go, as always he's the best, as Bucket
Brooks giving us the rundown on what's happening in the
National Football League as we speak right now. You can
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of this hour. But right now, big paydays. We're gonna

(01:41:04):
talk money. Big paydays are right around the corner for
these players. That's next.

Speaker 1 (01:41:09):
listen live.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
All right, they're gonna get the green cabbage sooner or later.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. He
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Speaker 3 (01:41:56):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:41:57):
Now, let's talk about money. Everybody wants to talk money,
so let's do that right now to Green Cabbage, and
we talk about Justin Jefferson, the receiver. He set the tone.
He said it earlier this month, how he signed the
most lucrative non quarterback contract and NFL history value of
one hundred and forty million, one hundred and ten million
guaranteed for four years. Then the Jags they signed the

(01:42:20):
quarterback Trevor Lawrence five years, two undred and seventy five million,
two hundred guaranteed, Bucky Brooks. Who's gonna be next? Let's
check the potential free agent list. Who's next? And I
think it's gotta be another quarterback, probably Dak Prescott from
the Dallas Cowboys, who was small enough maybe to wait
for these other guys getting signed.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
Yeah, Dak Prescott's gonna be the first sixty million dollars quarterback.
So the money's gotten up to fifty five million annually.
Dak Prescott is probably gonna be sixty to sixty two
million right now, just the cost of inflation, his expertise,
he's experienced all that other stuff that he offers. Yes,
Dak Prescott's going to hit I mean, look, he's gonna
break the Cowboys over the cole or any other team
that he engages in. Because right now everyone talks about

(01:43:03):
the Cowboys having the leverage, they don't have a leverage
in this situation. No trade clause, no franchise tags. All
the big goes to Dak Prescott. So Dak Prescott can
dictate what he wants to do, how he wants to
do it, and where he wants to do it. To me,
we've never seen a quarterback in their prime hit the
market like this. He's gonna crush it when it comes

(01:43:24):
to getting a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:43:26):
So why wouldn't Jerry Jones sign him a month ago
before they spa before the Trevor Lawrence Steel came out.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Well, same reason why he didn't sign him when he
had him on franchise tags. There's some people in the
building seemingly based on if you follow the money, that
aren't fully into the Dak Prescott experience, like that's the
only way to explain it. We've seen lesser quarterbacks get
signed much sooner because it's always more. Look, it's better
for the team if you do that from a salary

(01:43:56):
cap standpoint. But now, like you look in the pool
swimming like everybody else, it just makes it a very
challenging deal to kind of watch. But if you're a
Cowboys fan, man, get used to looking at Trey Lance
as your starting quarterback because that's who's gonna be your
starting quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:44:13):
You know you talked about leverage. I mean I look
at that Prescotta. I think he's a serviceable quarterback. I
don't think he's a Hall of famer. You may think so,
but I don't think he's a hall of famer. And
we've talked about this. I mean he gets the job done.
In your rankinge mean you can win with him. He's
top fifteen, well yeah, top fifteen, yes, And we looked
at his spots all times, pushing it because I don't

(01:44:35):
think he's top ten.

Speaker 3 (01:44:36):
You don't think he's top ten right now in terms
of like currently in the league, dak crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:44:40):
Yes, yes, but we looked at his stats several weeks
ago and we said his stat's very much mirror Kirk
Cousins and Kirk Cousins to me as a quarterback you
could win with. But I don't think it's a Hall
of Fame quarterback, you know. I mean, and again, to
be get in the Hall of Fame, you probably have
to win a couple of Super Bowls. That's that's the
bottom line. That's the ticket, I would think. But you know,

(01:45:00):
Dallas right now there is no leverage because there's no
one behind him to play that position. So in other words,
I'm looking at this way. The skill set does not
have to be that strong. If you're a quarterback and
there's no one behind you, you're going to get the guilt,
You're going to get the money. It's just the way
it is.

Speaker 3 (01:45:18):
Oh, that is the way it is. And the way
that you have to look at it is don't look
at it dollar for dollar, right, that's not fair. Look
at it like in terms of salary cap persentage, how
much money of the salary cap are they occupying? The
other part is what is everyone else making? If we're
talking about Daniel Jones making forty million dollars, which is crazy,
but if he ranks at fifteen, sixteen, seventeenth on the list.
What can you say. The money matters. The conversation has

(01:45:41):
to match the production, and the market is the market.
But we can be mad at it. But obviously we
know owners. Owners are not paying anything unless they have to,
unless they're being made to. And that's what we're seeing there.
They're being forced to put up a shut up when
it comes to this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
Well, you're talking about Jerry Jones, open up the checkbook.
You better open it up for wide receiver ce d
Lamb as well. Last year, ce d Lamb had his
first all Pro season one hundred and thirty five receptions,
seventeen hundred plus yards and single records in the Dallas
Cowboys organization. So CD's gonna get his money. Dak Prescott's
gotta get his money, there's no doubt about that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:17):
Then Michael Parsons also has to get his money. Yeah,
So that's why maybe they weren't active on a FREEK mark.
They know they got some whopping contracts on the horizon.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
Yeah, and that's gonna happen real soon. I mean, well
that in your mind happened before the season starts. I
believe it will.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
Yeah, that Micah, I think I think the pecking order
will go this pegging water would go Lamb Prescott Parsons.

Speaker 4 (01:46:43):
Parsons the farthest.

Speaker 3 (01:46:44):
Away from being able to hit like the market. So
you take care of those other guys first.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
All right, And other than that, the two more quarterbacks
that have got some big paydays as well. One is
tur because he's entering his rookie option season and also
Jordan Love and those those are Loves questionable, but again
it's the position and he's got leverage. Who's else goet
a quarterback for them? Two is gonna get big money
to no doubt about that. He led the NFL what

(01:47:08):
was in his first Pro Bowl year with over four
thousand yards forty six hundred yards. So two is getting
some big money. Jordan Loves gonna get money because of
the position he plays.

Speaker 3 (01:47:18):
Absolutely, I mean he's gonna get money for sure because
of the position that he plays, like that's part of
the deal. Yeah, But they still have time and they
really have time to kind of get this done. What
is great about this part of the year, and we can
talk anybody into being could contend it because hope everyone
is hanging their head right, hope some of it would

(01:47:38):
dissipate as soon as we get to the preseason and
he was doing we started seeing our favorite team on team.

Speaker 4 (01:47:43):
Like, yeah, we're not good enough, we'll do it.

Speaker 3 (01:47:45):
But yeah, like right now, everyone has hope, everyone has
big dreams. We can go from worse to first. We
can do it. This is our year, no matter what
has happened before, this is our year.

Speaker 4 (01:47:55):
We can get it. We can get it done.

Speaker 2 (01:47:56):
And you know, if you're a Green Bay Packer fan,
you look they're gonna say, look, we got the replacement
enough for Aaron Rodgers. Last year, Jordan Love through thirty
two touchdowns, second in the league only to Dak Prescott's
thirty six, and he led Green Bay into the playoffs
and in the divisional round and they just missed maybe
with the forty nine ers. So I think there's some
high hopes right now in Green Bay because of Jordan Love.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
Oh, I mean, without doubt, like dear high hopes.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
It's part of the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:48:22):
Like they've been able to kind of separate from by
doing that. So yeah, I mean there's all kinds of
stuff like this is what it is. And these are
the conversations that they're having in front offices as they're
trying to scrimmage around. Hey, where can we stack on
the landscape? How can we get better? What are the places,
positions where we need to address going forward to help
us close the gap on the contenders? Or if I'm

(01:48:43):
a contender, to stay at one step ahead of the
people that are ron from my spot.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
The money will be flowing. Last question, Bucket Brooks, are
you a little upset that you came a little too
early in the National Football League before the real big
bucks showed up?

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
No, no, no, I'm not upset about it. I think he's great.
I just can't imagine the amount of casts these us
making it. I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:49:07):
What you're doing is unbelievable, right amazing. I wish you
know what. I'm not gonna say. I wish I was
in the league because I didn't have the skill set.
But maybe if I had a chance, I don't know.
I don't think the money would excite me to want
to play football. You know, people don't understand payday is great,
but what they've gone through they deserve every cent they get.

(01:49:29):
But every down that you play could be your last.
It's a dangerous sport. I get that, but it's just
so much time away and so much training goes into it.
I couldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I don't
think I have the willpower to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:49:44):
Maybe, like I mean, it's not for everybody, but right,
some people win the sacrifice, even when they don't love
it to get to a greater end. When it comes
to like, hey, it's a means to an end. I
have an opportunity to make a significant amount of cast
I can do this for two or three years, kind
of roll through it, and then I'll just shut it
down after four or five. Some guys are willing to
do that. Just kind of depends on how you are.

Speaker 2 (01:50:06):
But don't you believe most of the people in the
National Football League are playing for the love of the game.

Speaker 3 (01:50:09):
Now for the check, it's a combination. You know. The
check symbolizes how much you respect me. That's what the
check symbolize. That's why people talk about being the highest
paid or the top It's not necessarily like the look
the minimum difference between in football terms in terms of

(01:50:31):
thirty two and a half million and thirty three million.
But to be able to say that I'm the highest
paid of the position, there's a different level of cachet
that comes with that, the way people view you, perceive you.

Speaker 4 (01:50:41):
And those things.

Speaker 3 (01:50:42):
You want the money behind you because that is the
fact factor. But ultimately, you play the game because you
love it. It's too hard to play this game train
get beat up on and do it without loving it.
And as a leader, you're trying to identify the guys
that show they really love it. Who are the guys
that show up on time? Who are the guys that
stay late. Who are the guys to do the little
things in the locker room to make sure that it's

(01:51:03):
easier for everybody else. Those are the guys that are
invaluable because they keep it all together.

Speaker 2 (01:51:09):
There we go, we trd to keep it all together. Here.
We're a little late for Kevin. But right now is
it really about race? Really? That's coming up next Life
on the Tirat dot com Studio. But first, Kevin Wired,
We're sorry, we're a little late. Oh, go ahead with
the sports. It's all right.

Speaker 8 (01:51:21):
I love being fashion only late anyway. So, although the
Dodgers a little bit late, but they did get seven
runs in the eleventh inning last night against the San
Francisco Giants to win in extra innings. Fourteen to seven,
Showyotani cranking his twenty six home run of the season.
Paul skeins, he's a guy who's really coming early as

(01:51:42):
far as the Pirates expected development of him. He was
in the College World Series last year pitching for LSU.
Now he's in the big leagues having a sensational rookie season.

Speaker 1 (01:51:51):
Now.

Speaker 8 (01:51:52):
He did get a no decision against the Braves on Saturday,
but Sken's playing incredibly well, pitched incredibly well. Six innings,
one run aloud, nine strikeouts, has an ERA on the
season two point zero six. But it is the Braves
winning this one at two to one. Elsewhere in Major
League Baseball, the defending champion Texas Rangers things going from
bad to worse. They suffer their six straight loss against

(01:52:15):
the Baltimore Orioles six to five, but Corey Seeger having
to leave the game after he was hit by a
pitch on his left wrist. It did not look good.
He looked like he was in a lot of pain.
X rays weren't negative, but we'll have to see exactly
what his status will be going forward. A couple of
teams out of that Arona roll, the Angels, they've made
it six straight wins, including a six to five victory

(01:52:37):
against the Tigers in ten innings and the Padres. They're
now on a five game winning streak and including a
big eleven to one demolishment of the Boston Red Sox.
Manny Machada with big game two home runs for San Diego.
The Minnesota Twins win against Seattle five to one. Toronto
over the Yankees five to three, nine three, excuse me,

(01:52:57):
nine to three as Vladimore Guerrero had six runs batted in.
In the NBA, the Clippers Paul George opting out of
his contract so he is now a free agent, and
Adrian Wardjanowski saying that he is expected to meet with
the Clippers the Philadelphia seventy six ers in Orlando Magic
as soon as this evening. Lebron James also opting out

(01:53:19):
of this contract with the Lakers, but the expectation is
that he will resign with Los Angeles. In Soccer Copa America,
Argentina three to zero in their group play after they
beat pert Peru to nil. As Lionel Messi did not
play due to a groin injury, Chile was eliminated. They
played to a nil nil draw against Canada the European

(01:53:43):
twenty twenty four Championships. Germany shuts out Denmark two nil. Wha,
they're delay in that game of more than twenty minutes,
but they were able to finish it as that Germany
ends up winning that one, Switzerland knocking Italy out of
the tournament two nil. And we got two more games
coming up later today that will both be shown on
Fox England and Slovakia. They'll kick off at noon Eastern

(01:54:03):
and then coming up at three East Spain will face Georgia.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
Back to you, guys, Thank you, keV have a great day.
Look how did this enter the picture? We'll get to
that in just about a minute. He's Bucket Brooks and
Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports
Trader the Blaying game coming up maybe four or five
minutes from now. And I just want to run this
by it because we wouldn't be complete if we didn't
happen to mention Caitlin Clark. We didn't talk about it
once today she got to mention that. We talked about

(01:54:28):
how she's getting in the media because for several reasons, politics,
sports obviously, and race. And Andrea Williams I don't know
Andrewa Williams, but she writes for The Tennessee and newspaper
and she says that Caitlin Clark is marketable because of
her race, because she's white. And I thought, and maybe, look,
I'm myive, maybe I'm stupid. I thought race was absent

(01:54:49):
in sports. Tell me about that, because maybe she's right
because I look at Asia Wilson, and Asia Wilson didn't
get a sneaker deal until Caitlin Clark got one. Maybe
it is about race. Maybe it's easy to sell product
to white America then African American America. I don't know.
Maybe you could help me with this, because when I
read the column, I said, wow, I mean this is

(01:55:11):
pretty big. So Andrea Williams hit on something maybe from
the Daily tennesseean that talented Clayton Clark, she says, is
marketable because of our race.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
I would say that. I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:55:22):
I wouldn't limit it to that. I wouldn't say that
because I think that is being disingenuous to how talented
she is. Like, it's not just because Caitlyn Clark is
a white female that can play or whatever that she's marketable.
I say, it kind of touches on a bunch of
different things. I would say one, Kayln Clark is a
phenomenal basketball player, and Kaylyn Clark played in the place

(01:55:44):
where she was able to build up her brand. Iowa
fans are rabid about their team. They look they're fanatical
about the way the Lady Hawk ass go about doing
their business on the court. Kaylyn Clark was a perfect
storm because the team got better as she got better,
and they were able to follow along with her for
three four years as she did it on a big

(01:56:05):
stage in the Midwest where you had a lot of
people paying attention. Because when i played in Kansas City,
the King's City chiefs used the marketer games to Iowa
because it's right there in the corridor. So she had
the ability to really build a big brand right in
that Midwestern section.

Speaker 4 (01:56:23):
So she comes with a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (01:56:25):
Now, there were some people that would say, from a
marketing standpoint, right like, when you're a corporation in the business,
who's your target market, And if you're talking about the
target market being kind of like Middle America, White America, whatever, like, yeah,
she does look like the girl next door. And so
because the girl next door is dominating on a bigger stage. Yeah,

(01:56:48):
it's an easier sale to get her to do it.
And it's not necessarily that you're just targeting that. But
if they're running the numbers and they're saying like, hey,
this is the fan base that's building up, or this
demographic is buying up all of these products that she
would be a great fit for, you're trying to mesh
those things together. So I wouldn't say that she's completely

(01:57:10):
more marketable because of her race, but I certainly think
that race and dynamics and all that plays into some
of that.

Speaker 2 (01:57:18):
Yeah, well said, Well said, that's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Ferman,
Will Fox Puts Sunday and Foxbut's Radio. Now some fun,
Now we could put some fingers. Why the blame game
is freaking next? All right, the blame game, come right up.
He is my guy, of course, Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Fourman.
Of course. We're live from the tiraq dot Com studios.

(01:57:38):
Top of the Hour, nine o'clock easton. Ryan Hollins and
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Kevin Wye with the updates and the rookie. The rookie,
of course, Brianna. Now let's play you ruin me. It's
all your fault. It's your fault by them, all your fault.

(01:58:00):
It's everyone's fault, the lawyer. That's why there's the blame game.
Let's figure out who to blame. All right, b are
you ready?

Speaker 6 (01:58:09):
I'm so ready. Okay, you guys are ready to do it.

Speaker 11 (01:58:11):
Yeah, So the NFL is ordered to pay four point
seven billion dollars in the Sunday ticket case.

Speaker 6 (01:58:17):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Who's up? Who's going first?

Speaker 6 (01:58:19):
Let's go Bucky first.

Speaker 2 (01:58:21):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:58:21):
I'm gonna blame the NFL for being greedy. I mean,
like there's a thing where like every everyone always wonders like, well,
they just kind of like become the hog. They get
slaughter because they always consume with the dollar. So I
blame the NFL. They made the prices too high. They're
gouging the prices and taking advantage of the consumer.

Speaker 2 (01:58:38):
I'm gonna do something differently today. I'm gonna say I'm
not blaming anybody here. You know why, I'm taking after
Gordon get Go from the movie Greed is Good. Greed
is good. Get it all you can get it, Suck
it in. They got the money. Why not. People paid
for it. They wanted it, So greed is good. I'm
not blaming them.

Speaker 6 (01:58:56):
If that's the Wall Street, not the NFL.

Speaker 3 (01:58:57):
All right, this week shaut That week saus andy, like
we're supposed to be blaming people today, you decide not to.

Speaker 2 (01:59:03):
All right, it's the NFL. There a bunch of pitch,
There we go, there we go.

Speaker 11 (01:59:07):
Okay, So the NBA had Day two of their draft at.

Speaker 6 (01:59:09):
Four pm Eastern time. Who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:59:13):
Who's up me? You submit? That's yes, sorry, you gotta
blame the NBA. Come on, Adam, So are you that stupid? Really?
Four o'clock it was like one o'clock, I think on
the West coast. Who's gonna watch this? First of all,
you don't have enough material to have two days, do
it in one day like you always do four o'clock
Easter time. Who's watching? People are stuck on the freeway
at four o'clock?

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
Really?

Speaker 3 (01:59:36):
Well, I mean they had too much going on because
they had the ESPN had the draft, and they had
the Hockey Awards right after that, the NHL Awards, and
so if you go copy the National Football League, then
you need to do it like the National Football League
does it. You gotta hype it. You got to put
it in prime time so everyone can see it at
four o'clock, which is one o'clock Pacific time. I'm like,
what is this on the TV? I don't even know

(01:59:57):
what this is. And because it was so rapid for
I was like it was pointless. You couldn't even watch it,
and it was over before you really could tune in.

Speaker 11 (02:00:04):
Right, Okay, So the last one here is Jets quarterback
Aaron Rodgers continues to miss workouts.

Speaker 6 (02:00:11):
Bucky, who do you blame?

Speaker 4 (02:00:13):
I mean, look, man, he's the diva. They get to
let him do whatever he wants.

Speaker 3 (02:00:17):
It's not a big deal because it doesn't matter, but
certainly you would like to think your franchise quarterback is
being the building. But look, man, he's the key. As
much as people talk about Lebron holding a franchise hostage,
Aaron Rodgers has the New York Jets hostage. He's on
to make activity because he can do whatever he wants,
whenever he wants, however he wants.

Speaker 4 (02:00:34):
And so I blame Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (02:00:36):
You know what, though, Aaron Rodgers has the New York
Jets by the hanky downs. That's what he does. He's
kind of buy the hanky downs right now. And you
if he if he can getting away with it downs
the hanky downs, yeah, I don't think going any farther. Okay,
kind of hanky down downs. If he get getting away
with it, good for him, all right, But gotta blame
the coaching staff because everybody in that team knows that

(02:00:57):
the coach is a week put your foot down and
do something. He's still on your team and has to
do with team players. Do that's what you gotta do.

Speaker 3 (02:01:05):
I've never heard the term hangy downs. Well you're heard
it now, like all Sunday.

Speaker 4 (02:01:10):
That's all I think about, like.

Speaker 3 (02:01:11):
Hangy downs in the world.

Speaker 2 (02:01:13):
Don't be thinking about that. All right, It's been wonderful.
Be God bless you. We hope to have you back again.
Stay with us on Fox. It's gonna be great on
Fox Sports Radio.

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