Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk Hard Knocks/Receiver Storylines, NFL Award Predictions & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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My partner, Bucky Brooks. Bucky, how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm doing well, Andy, how you doing?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
I'm doing okay. I'm a little shaken.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I tell you what we need to make mention of least,
what happened last night to the former president prayers going
out to his film. You may like him, you may
not like him, you may be a fan of his
or not, but God speed, thank God. Nothing worse happened
that little shot that he had to the year, which
was terrible. A few inches more we'll be talking about devastation.

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So you know, thank God that happened, but an amazing situation.
I don't know if you watched it, but I just
happened to have the TV on live when the news
was saying was six o'clock Eastern. You stay tuned, the
president will be speaking in Pennsylvania. I said, well, let
me just see what's going on. It was one of
those things like you just don't forget, you know. So
our prayers are out for the family, they really are.

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Did you happen to catch that buck?

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Yeah? No, I happen to catch you.

Speaker 5 (01:27):
Obviously the news and the highlights and look, man, there's
no place for that, Like we've always talked about, like
in our country, you have a right to have different
opinions in those things, but the presidential office is one
that you respect to the highest degree. And the fact
that someone took a shot at the president, look, it
just speaks to like what we talk about when it

(01:48):
comes to violence and those things, like we just don't
want to see those things in any arena. And so
it's fortunate that the president was able to escape disaster,
but it's certainly something that we have to talk about
how we can make each other safe and healthy in
this country.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Well said I've always said we could agree to disagree,
but let's not be disagreeable. So we move on now,
trying to lighten things up here with a little bit
of sports and speaking of TV, I was watching the
HBO Hard Knocks. I will say this much right now.
I've watched the HBO Hard Knocks every year. I got
to believe that this probably is the best HBO Hard
Knocks I have seen. And it's probably no surprise to

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you as a former NFL player, but the amount of
information I watched and this week's show asked by the
NFL scouts and personnel people, it was shocking.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I was.

Speaker 4 (02:33):
I mean to you, I guess.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
It's no biggie because they did it to you as
a player, But to me, they really pulled back the
curtain this time, and I'm saying probably the best season
of Hard Knocks and the information that we get, like
JJ McCarthy didn't call the plays a quarterback of the
University of Michigan the offensive line did. I mean, these
are things that I had no idea and honestly, these

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guys really delve into the background everything from top to
bottom with these potential players.

Speaker 4 (03:01):
I loved it. Did you see it this week.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
Uh yeah, like so in living their life and knowing
about it, Yeah, I'm not surprised. I'm actually surprised that
they amount of access to the giants that provided with
the cameras there. But for the public, this is a
great opportunity for the public to really know the nuts
and boats of the job and how invasive these questions
are because as a team, you're trying to learn everything

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you can possibly learn about someone that you're investing in.
And you know, everyone talks about the fifteen minute interviews
of the combine and those things and what it entails,
but really it's a fact finding mission to better assist
who you potentially could be bringing into the locker room,
what they know, what they don't know, what the character is,
how they potentially fit with the rest of the pieces

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of the puzzle, and so a lot goes into that
and that's why, Look, the draft process is an inexact
science because you're dealing with people, not just production and
performance commodities, but people, and with people come different things
that affect their production and performance. It's been great to
kind of have this access so the viewing public really

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has an opportunity to see what happens behind those closed doors.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, it's unbelievable because to me, the skill set is
almost secondary. They talk to Caleb Williams and obviously he
was like five and zero to get the start at
USC and then they looked like five of the LS
six and when they did lose those ballgames, he refused
to talk to the media, and the scouts from the
New York Football Giants say, hey, look, this act wouldn't
play in New York. I mean that's a major factor.

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Forget about how good he was on the field as
far as the stats. They just say that that attitude
would not play with the media in New York City.
And honestly, that is a big checkbox against Caleb Williams.
I'm sure that Giants will say, oh, we like his play,
but his act would not play in New York.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
It wouldn't and so, and since we're talking about quarterbacks,
I think what you're seeing is how teams hold quarterbacks
to a different standard because everyone has to understand that
outside of the head coach and the general manager, the
quarterback is the face of the franchise. That means the
guy that you select to be your quarterback to be

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your franchise quarterback. He has to have an emotional maturity
about him and some professionalism about him that he can
represent himself and the franchise will in every situation. Part
of what was I guess the knock on Kayler Williams
had little to do with his play and more to
do with the emotional ups and downs that he appeared

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to display in these postgame presses. And when you talk
about someone that, Hey, when it's good, it's good. I
can stand in front of the microphone and say whatever.
But when it's bad, I go run and hide. That's
not exactly what you're looking for as a franchise quarterback.
And that's why it had to be addressed, because if
I AM going to bring somebody in to be QB one,
he has to be able to stand in front of

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the mic and deal with the good and the bad
that may come from the press each and every week.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
It's amazing. Really, my question I have for you, because
you've been there, You've been there, done that, I've been
through this. How far do these people go as far
as asking questions and kind of dressing down these potential players,
And how much could they ask? How much do they
as family relatives. I mean how far that they go
about high school coaches, college coaches, I mean how much
information do they get and can they ask these kids?

Speaker 5 (06:25):
I mean, you try and go as far back as
you can, maybe as far back as middle school. You're
trying to really get to know the kid, and the
only way that you can get to know the kid
is to talk to the people that are closest to them.
A lot of it depends on what do you discover
that someone has in their background.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Meaning you've been an upstanding citizen.

Speaker 5 (06:45):
You've been great all your life, like people don't say
bad things about you. Well, you don't have to dig
as deep because you're talking about someone who is an
A plus kid, someone that you absolutely wanted a program.
But if you've had some issues, let's say you've had
some legal transgressions, whether or in high school or in cottage.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
When now I got to dig a little deeper.

Speaker 5 (07:03):
Say you've had people in your family who've been involved
in things that may be illegal, if they've had issues, Well,
now I got to figure out how does that impact
the way the kid grew up and how does that
impact how he is now when he's about to come
into the program. All of those things do it, but
at a minimum, I'm talking to your high school coach.
I'm talking to some of your high school teachers because

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I have to know who you were from seventeen to
twenty three, so I can get a feel for how
will you be when you step into the building for
the next four or five years.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
You know, you bring up an interesting point. Just say,
we have a Heisman.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
Trophy quarterback and I'm a professional scout or personnel guy.
I'm sitting him down in that little room and talking
to him, talk to his coach. Coach has got great skill,
he could throw the long ball, he's got good speed, whatever.
And then I get on the horn the next day,
I'm going to talk to maybe his college math professor.

Speaker 4 (08:00):
So whatever the English.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Professor, and the professor says, you know what, I never
saw a kid, he never showed up a class. How
would that affect his draft? How would that affect his draft?
I mean, or the professor says he just never did
his work on time, or he wasn't a great student.
Would that affect his play? Would affect his draft pick?

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Potentially?

Speaker 5 (08:19):
If it's part of a pattern where you see someone
who's immature, you see someone who can't take.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
Care of business.

Speaker 5 (08:25):
What you're trying to do is you're trying to pick
out the patterns, and the patterns are they of predictive behavior,
that this is someone that is unreliable, not dependable. You
can't hold him accountable, he's not committed, he doesn't understand
how the small things really really matter. You want all
of that to take into the consideration because as a scout,

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you want to operate under the assumption that the person
the way that he is today, he's not going to
change tomorrow. So at a baseline, if we bring the
person in today flaws and all, are we okay with
who he's been up to this point. If we're not,
then we have to find someone else who betterfits our profile.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
And what we're looking for.

Speaker 5 (09:07):
But if we are okay, we want to know what
the issues are and how can we help him address
the issues that he walks into the building with. That's
all the part of the puzzle. What support can we
offer him to help him become a better person? Can
we help him when it comes to being able to
follow through and those things? Do we need to pay
more attention to making sure he can get to places

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on time, Does it require more hand holding than some others.
You want to know all of that because all of
that impacts how you have to build a plan for
him to be successful within your program. So the more
information that you have, the better it is when it
comes to planning and putting together the perfect plan for
this player to thrive in your program.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Okay, take us through the process for a second. This
will occur to the combine in Indianapolis and say Caleb
Williams is on a list to speak to X amount
of teams. Does he have the option to say, Yeah,
I'll talk to the Bears, but I won't talk to
the Giants, or I don't want to talk to anybody.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
Can they do that?

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Or you know, once you're on the list, you got
to go through the whole procedure and talk to every
team that requests you.

Speaker 5 (10:12):
Most of them in the combined guys will talk to
everyone who has requested in a formal interview. They may
not do the informal interviews, but they'll typically talk to
everybody in a formal interview because you just don't know
how the board is going to shake. Now, that's always
at the player's discretion whether they want to interview, whether
they want to do the medical in those things. But
most players, the ninety percent of players that are there,

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they go through it all. Maybe ten percent your top
guys can say now I'm only going to talk to X,
Y and Z.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
We've seen that happen in.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
The NBA, but in the NFL, for the most part,
everyone that wants to interview a top prospect gets a
chance to do one of those interviews when it comes
to the official sixty interview process.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
And I would think that the NFLPA will have some
sort of a saying how much can be asked to
possibility or does it work that way?

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Well, it certainly changed, and I could tell you that
has changed since the time I entered the league as
a player. So when I entered the league as a
player ninety four to ninety five, it was open season
in terms of what questions could be asked. They could
ask about mom and dad situation, kids, if you had babies,
if you did have children, how many different mamas that

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you may have, like all of these things that in
a true corporate situation you can't do well. As the
NFL has become more corporate and as HR human Resources
has played a greater role in what can happen. Some
of these questions you no longer can ask, and so
guys may dance around those issues, but you can't directly

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ask certain questions as it relates to family background, all
of those other things, and so it's different. But you're
still trying to get some of that information and just
to have a better understanding of who the kid is
and who he potentially could be when he steps into
those doors of you silly.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
You know, I'm watching this thing the other night, and
I'm thinking about the hippo rules for the general public.
You know, you just can't go public with you know,
certain illnesses. If you got to adopt, that's all protect
it over here. Your whole life is an open book.
So my question is this, Okay, I want to get
drafted in the NFL. I'm gonna play the game. I
gotta do what I gotta do. The giants want to
talk to me, I'll go in there. I'll ask all
the questions. But don't the players even have a possibility

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say and if they want to be on film or not?

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Think about that. I mean, I'll go in there.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'll talk to the personnel guy at the Giants but
I don't want the camera on I don't want the
world to know about me. Okay, it's a one on
one thing, me and the personnel guy for the Giants.
So don't the players have some sort of a say
that this Hard Knocks thing was going on TV. They'd say, fine,
the Giants are going on TV. I don't want to
be filmed on TV. When I ask me my questions.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I don't know because I want about that. Like, that's
a very very good question.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
All of these teams have their own form of Hard
Knocks though, So as much as you wanted to not
want to be on Hard Knocks to show us on
ering on Max or whatever, every team has that you
walk into the Atlanta Falcons room, their own broadcast unit
are taping those interviews because they're making a series, you know,

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behind the Process or whatever their designated series may be called.
So that's a part of everything. More access has been
granted to teams in their proadcast departments. I mean, I
guess the player potentially could ask out, but you got
to remember a lot of these players like the attention
that comes along with being on the camera. They've been
on social media all their life. They live their lives

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out in front of the public. So, you know, I
don't know if that's as big an issue as you
may bring up, but it is something that is interesting
to consider.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
You mentioned the term access, and I hear what you're saying. Okay,
So do the players even have any say so about
the access? And more than that, who gives HBO the access?
Is it the general managers?

Speaker 4 (14:03):
The coach?

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Is it the PR guy of the Giants? I mean,
who gives HBO all that access? Because I'm sure some
clubs or some coaches. I can't see the Kansas City
Chiefs giving that kind of access. I just can't see it.
I see the Giants. I don't know why, but they
were able to do anything and everything. So who gives
the okay on the access? The GM, president of the team,

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I don't know, coach. Doesn't the coach have any sort
of a say on that.

Speaker 5 (14:30):
So HBO's thing is different because that is one where
the league has put some stipulations in in terms of
like which teams can be considered and why they must
accept it when they're considered, Like, there's certain things that
have been established those teams don't really have a choice.

Speaker 3 (14:46):
You know when they approach you and they go.

Speaker 5 (14:49):
They're handful of teams that they approach, and at some
point somebody has to say yes because the exposure is
good for the league, and the league wants to just
like you and I have spent fifteen minutes talking about
the Giants, they want the NFL to be discussed on
major platforms because that creates more interest. The teams don't

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really have a say because those things have been established
in a normal situation where if you and I worked
for the Jacksonville Jaguars and we wanted to put cameras
in to follow the team meetings, well we got to
run that up the flagpole, and the people that would
have to sign off on that would be the general
manager and the head coach because they have to be
comfortable with those intimate conversations.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Being leaked to the public.

Speaker 5 (15:36):
The public haven't access to those things because everything shouldn't
be for public consumption.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Some of the things that I say to my team,
I don't want.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
The public to know because the public doesn't have the
proper contexts to understand why I'm saying what I'm saying
and how I'm saying it. To my time, right, Yes,
and we've seen that be an issue. We've seen people
take issue with something that a coach has said to
the team without fully having all of the context or

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perspective to really understand what.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Those conments meant. So yeah, I would have full access
if I'm the.

Speaker 5 (16:17):
Coach or the general manager. Some of this needs to
be run by me. But also understand the stuff that
we're seeing on hard Knocks. Uh, the team had to
approve what has been released to the public. They do
have editorial control to some degree with what has been
released to the public, so they signed off on the
things that we're seeing. The team is signed off on

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being okay with us having access to that stuff.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
There you go, well said, okay, we're just getting started
right now.

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Bucky Brooks I'm Andy Furman, and away we go. And uh,
I guess you're getting ready for the Olympics. Buck about
less than two weeks away the Summer Olympics. Is that
something you're really looking forward to?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (18:22):
Yeah, I'm always looking forward to because this is the
series of Olympic events that I get excited about. Whenever
you have track and field, you have basketball on those things,
I'm gonna be more excited about the Olympics because I
can relate to those events.

Speaker 4 (18:35):
I certainly like the Summer Olympics a lot better than
the Winter Olympics, that's for sure. I do to.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Enjoy the summer games and track and field and basketball.
Let's talk about the basketball for a second. USA Basketball.
They selected Derek White of the Boston Celtics to the
Olympic team as an injury replacement Kawhi Leonard Okay, and
then they admitted the NBA Finals MVP and his teammate
Jalen Brown. And Jalen Brown goes on Twitter, goes at Nike,
what do we do?

Speaker 4 (19:00):
What are we doing?

Speaker 2 (19:01):
He says, because Jalen Brown apparently has sneaker issues. He
signed with a Chinese brand, Anta last year. All right,
and he hasn't signed with a sneaker company for more
than three years since his deal with the Deed is expired.
He wears Nike, sometimes with the swish removed, so Nike,
obviously he is a major Olympic sponsor. White wears Nike.

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Put two or two together, That's why White's on a team.
This is not a good look. I think it's ridiculous
as a joke. And who ever thought that business would
take preference in selecting people.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
On the Olympic team. I was shocked when I heard
about this.

Speaker 5 (19:41):
I'm not necessarily shocked, you know, when you hear about
it and the way that you hear about it, like
you're connecting the dots. Now, that marketing piece is certainly different,
because you would like to be able to be in
an environment where marketing plays doesn't have to play a
role in who makes the team and who doesn't make
the team or whatever. Just just think about the conversation

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that we've had regarding Caitlyn Clark. You know, people saying
she should make the team because of the eyeballs that
she would bring, the attention that you would bring to
the women's team, et cetera, et cetera, and growing the game.
We're not having that same conversation in men's basketball for
whatever reason. But what it should be is I want

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to put together the best team. And if this is
a case of Grand Hill and the Olympic Committee saying
for the team, Jayden Brown is a great player, but
the piece of the puzzle that we need for the
team is someone who is more of a glue guy,
someone who doesn't demand a lot of shots, someone who
is a better fit when it comes to Hey, I

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just need you to do the dirty work and I
need you to be selfless and ego less when it
comes to the role that we ask you to play.
If that is the conversation, well that's a different thing,
because my job is to put together the best team,
not twelve to fifteen of the best player, but the
best teams based on how the pieces of the pozz
will fit together for us to reach the goal, which

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is to be a gold medal team.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
You bring up a great point which there is a
comparison between the Kaitlin Clark situation with the Olympic team
and Jalen Brown. And obviously Nike is a major sponsor
of the US Olympic team, and the committee and USA Basketball,
and certainly Jalen Brown does not wear Nike shoes and
Derek White does. But again, you came out there and said, basically,
I think what I read with Grant Hill said, Grant

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Hills the guy that makes the selections, and maybe Derek
White's a better fit. Maybe it is, but it certainly
doesn't look that way in the perceptions reality at times.
And I think that maybe Grant Hill should go out
there and stand behind the podium and says say, look,
this is the deal. You know, shoes company Nike had
nothing to do with who's been placed on the Olympic team.

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And I think that right now there's no speculation about that,
and it kind of looks kind of I'm not going
to say shady, but you gotta scratch your heads. It is.
This guy was the MVP of the finals. Derek White
a great player, he really is, and a very big
cog of the Boston Celtics. But for him to be
put on there over his teammates, and this may create problems,
you know, and the Celtics next year.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
What do you think? I mean?

Speaker 2 (22:13):
You know what, the two of these guys supposed to
be teammates who work hand in hand when the season
starts next year, this could very well create an issue
with them.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Well, here's where it can create an issue. It can
create an issue because you not only have taken Derek
White over Jayden Brown, but you now have Dereck White,
Drew Holliday and Jason Tatum, three Boston Celtics on the squad.
And everyone would say that you're either one A or
one B when it comes to the best player. That

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could create a little something in that locker room with
the Celtics that now Brad Stevens like they have to
talk about, like the entire organization has to talk about
those guys and why and how it fits and you
have to eliminate and make sure that there's no jealousy
or animosity based on that. From a team standpoint, you know,

(23:04):
Grant Healing, those guys, like, you got to put together
the best team and I don't want to say that.

Speaker 3 (23:09):
Look, Jayden Brown is a great player. He is a
fantastic player. He's worthy of.

Speaker 5 (23:12):
Winning the MVP and all that other stuff. But Derek
Wright is Derek White is not a scrub. He played
a big role in the Celtics winning the championship and
the role that they're speculating him taking on is one that,
hey man, you're not gonna get any shots. Dude, you're
gonna defend. You're gonna take the best player. You're gonna
pick him up ninety four feet. You can make life miserable.

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You're gonna pass, rebound, and cut. Would Jayden Brown be
okay with that role?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
I mean, like all of those things factor because there
are only so many guys that can shoot. There are
only so many guys.

Speaker 5 (23:45):
That can demand touches and shots. Would he be okay
being a facilitator and a glue guy as opposed to
being the role that he currently plays with his team.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
That's something that has to be asked.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
It's a great question, and I'm sure that went into
the thought process why he didn't make the club. But
you can't be hurting when you take a jayl Lebron.
I mean, he's not gonna hurt you.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
But there's been some talk right now that Lebron James
may not even start for the Olympic team.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Maybe you have to come off the bench. So these
are guys that basically were stars in their own right
playing with tremendous and that maybe be the best players
in the world in the face of the earth, and
sometimes you got to take a back seat for the
good of the team. I cannot see Lebron James coming
off the bench on the Olympic team, but he may
very well have to.

Speaker 5 (24:30):
I would say why not, Like, what would be wrong
with Lebron James coming off the bench when you have
so many great players that are around him. I mean,
just think about how the team is presently constructed. They
don't necessarily need Lebron's scoring.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Maybe this is also a way of Steve Kerr utilizing
a little load.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
Management where they don't wear out and older Lebron James,
but they keep him fresh for when they really need
them in the gold medal rounds.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
That could be something that plays a part in it.
I don't know, man.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
I think the first thing that you have to establish
when you take on one of these all star teams is, hey,
how going to everyone to step back and do less
when it comes to their roles and responsibilities. Whatever role
you played with your current team, for the Dream Team,
you're gonna have to play a different role, and everyone
has to be willing to do less, take less, take

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a more disminished role so that the team can flourish
as opposed to you just trying to go out individually
and win.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Yeah, hear what you're saying. All right, He's Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Furmer.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
We are Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio Now
coming up next on Foxlive from the tie Rock dot
Com Studios. One NFL player completely understands this move, Yes
he does. That's next, But first, Kevin Wyatt with all
your sports.

Speaker 9 (25:45):
Yeah, we're in the last weekend before the Major League
Baseball All Star Break and the Dodgers hoping that that
comes sooner than later. It's been a difficult week that
got swept by the Phillies. Now they blew a five
run lead against the Detroit Liiger, Detroit Tigers, blowing it
in the ninth inning, and they end up losing it

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in extra innings eleven to nine, and the news gets
worse for Los Angeles. They're open to get Dustin May
back for the stretch run, a good young pitcher for
Los Angeles, but they announced today that he will be
out for the rest of the season because of a
torn esophagus. Yeah, apparently he fell to eating dinner one
night reported it the next day and that came the diagnosis.

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So though, that's probably the oddest sports injury that I've heard,
at least in some time. Staying in the National League West,
the Diamondbacks, they won the late night game twelve to
one against the Toronto Blue Jays. Corbin Carol two home
runs and six RBIs in the victory. The Padres and
their five game losing strict day shout out to the
Braves for nothing. In the American League East, it's now

(26:49):
what tie a top of the standings Orioles in free
fall of and lost five straight games, including a six
to one defeat to the Yankees on Saturday, Aaron Judge
hitting his thirty fourth home run of the season. That
is a Yankee record for most home runs. Before the
All Star Break, Cardinals and Cubs heated Rivals in a
doubleheader in Saint Louis takes two, eleven, three, and five four.

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The Mets win their fifth game in a row seven
to three against the Rockies. The Texas Rangers beat the
Houston Astros two to one in ten innings, and the
Reds beat the Marlins ten to six. Henny Miami their
fifth straight loss. In soccer the US women's national team
winning a pre Olympic tuned up against Mexico won nil,
Sophia Smith with the second half goal. And a couple

(27:35):
of big soccer games on Fox today at three o'clock
Eastern the Euro twenty twenty four finals England and Spain,
and then at eight o'clock Eastern time Copa America Argentina
and Columbia.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Bet you guys all right, thanks keV seeing it now?
You know what Buck I would ask you it is?
Why are the women in soccer more successful than the men?

Speaker 3 (28:00):
There's so many great things.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
I think you can come down to players and coaching,
even though the women's soccer team was a disappointment.

Speaker 3 (28:09):
Last year at the World's Cup. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:12):
I think it's one of the great mysteries when it
comes to soccer in our country, and there have been
a lot of people I've seen it from the outside
looking at and people weighing in on love the youth
development model, what's going on access to kids, Where are
our best kids.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Playing soccer, etc. Etc.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Look, I think there are a ton of questions that
need to be answered. It's very similar to some of
the conversation that we have around basketball and AAU culture
and are we doing the best that we can to
develop our players.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (28:43):
I mean there's some soccer officionado's around our building that
I would love to hear their insight on some of that.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
Some people that are voiced.

Speaker 5 (28:50):
That they have a greater expertise on soccer than I do.
I just kind of watch them as far because I
like the game, but I don't know the ends and
out of what they're doing too well.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
I think you hit it on the head when you
said coaching. I mean, obviously they've had some problems over
the last several years. They got rid of the coach
this year, and well there's a big decision. I mean,
they've got to get the right guy. That's what they
got to do. But you know, when I hear the
women always winning and the men really struggling at times.
But that's for another day. But let's get back to
the NFL another football, if we can, the American football.

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And this player right now kept quiet all along. He
wanted the man to stay. He really did. And the
quiet man is the wide receiver from the Minnesota Vikings,
Justin Jefferson. He wanted his quarterback Kurt Cousins to stay.
And you know, kurk Cousins went to the Falcons the
heck of a deal, four years, one hundred and eighty mil,
one hundred million guaranteed over the first three years, you know.

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And honestly, the Vikings will start the season with Sam
Donald and JJ McCarthy. So you got a rookie of
quarterback perhaps starting a McCarthy. How is that going to
affect the success of Justin Jefferson, who basically was a gentleman.
I thought when they just asked the question about Kirk Cousins,
he basically said, look, I get it, I know why
he left. I did want it to stay, but God

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bless him let him go. But how is this going
to affect him and his statisticals? His stats?

Speaker 5 (30:09):
I mean it affect him to a point because obviously
every wide receiver is impacted by who's throwing in the ball.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
The good thing.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
That he has as a great play designer, and that'd
be Kevin O'Connell. Kevin O'Connor will make sure he puts
them in a situation where they're easy layups for the
quarterback to throw for him to get his touches. That
won't be necessarily issue. The issue could be, you know,
can the young quarterback or can Sam Donald can they
read react, process and deliver the ball on time the

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way that you want or will everything have to be
something that is completely dependent upon Kevin O'Connell to dialop
the right play at the right time to get the
number one wide receiver the ball.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
And we won't know that until we get a chance
to see this offense play play out.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
But I think Justin Jefferson should have a tremendous amount
of confidence in the job that Kevin O'Connor will do,
because the last two years we've seen Kevin O'Conor do
a great job of getting him the ball.

Speaker 4 (31:02):
You know, here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
I mean, certainly the coach has a lot to do
with and he's an offensive minded coach and no doubt
about that. But now we're gonna see basically, did Justin
Jefferson make Kirk cousins or the Kirk cousins honestly make
the receiver. And we've talked about this before, how a
quarterback could maybe make a receiver or vice versa. You know,
I'm not so certain Sam Donald or JJ McCarthy specifically

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especially McCarthy who's going to be a rookie coming into
the league. I don't know if they can make justin Jefferson.
I mean, Jefferson is a tremendous receiver, but he certainly
needs someone to get him the football. I question the
success offensively this year with the Minnesota Vikings. No matter
how good a coach he is, you got to get

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the talent. That's basically what it's all about. You need
the personnel.

Speaker 5 (31:51):
I mean, yeah, you absolutely need the personnel, but you
got to have I'm telling you, man, you can't unestimate
the role that the play design has when it comes
to helping someone get the ball. Part of why coaching
is essential at the highest level is because the coaches
are the guys who are expected to be the problem solvers.

Speaker 3 (32:13):
Meaning, I'm a wide receiver.

Speaker 5 (32:14):
Suddenly I can't get open mini, I'm playing against a
player that is better than me, and I can't win today.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
I need the coach to help me get open.

Speaker 5 (32:24):
That's where the coaching comes into it, either schematically either technically.

Speaker 3 (32:30):
Coach, I need your help.

Speaker 5 (32:32):
How can I defeat this person that's on the other end,
who's clearly better than me and that's when Kevin o'connoch
can go in the lab and say.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Asia, we're gonna do.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
We're gonna move you from outside to inside. We're gonna
start you in the backfield, motion out wide. We can
put you on a stacked alignement, or we're gonna make
you the inside guy on a bunch so now they
can't double team you. I'm emotioning you from one side
of the field to the other side, so it changes
the way that they play defense.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
But I'm going to do a bunch.

Speaker 5 (32:56):
Of different things that can unlock your potential. That's why
the coach import.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
Matters, and that's why you're here because you're a football
genius self.

Speaker 4 (33:04):
But I will ask you this question, how.

Speaker 2 (33:06):
Important is to have a second receiver because you mentioned
the term double team. I mean, you get a good
second receiver sometimes a you can't double team the guy,
and certainly it helps you a number one receiver.

Speaker 5 (33:20):
You need to have someone on the other side that's
a credible threat, someone that can either prevent the opponent
from double teaming or someone who can punish the opponent
for double teaming. If I'm going to use two my
chess pieces on Justin Jefferson where the gull on the
other side is going to face one on one coverage.

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Can he win against one on one coverage? And if
the defense is doing the old Patriots trick where they
are taking their number one receiver and placing our number
two and they're double teaming the number one receiver with
the number two corner.

Speaker 3 (33:56):
And the top safety, who is going to win?

Speaker 5 (34:00):
That means the third receiver has to be able to
win because he's going to have the favorable matchup.

Speaker 3 (34:06):
When you look at the Vikings, TJ.

Speaker 5 (34:07):
Hockinson, Jordan Addison, and Justin Jefferson, they have enough weapons
around Justin Jefferson where he is able to win. That's
why your wide receiver corp needs to be built like
a basketball team, where you have guys that can play
multiple roles to take advantage of what the defense does.

Speaker 4 (34:24):
Okay, we talked about Justin Jefferson.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
We talked about the quarterbacks and waiting there in Minnesota
and Donald McCarthy. The real story here is not that.
The real story with Kirk Cousins leaving going to Atlanta,
I have to say the real story is Dak Prescott
of the Cowboys. Because Dak is still winning for a
contract that when he sees what Kirk Cousins got four years,
one hundred and eighty mil, he's going to be licking
at chops right now and right now, Jerry Jones has

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a lot of contracts to get done prior to the season.
The biggest one, obviously is Dak Prescott, and Prescott right
now is waiting in the wings. He's going to get
some big time bucks and deservedly so good. People say,
I have no other option, and he's demand.

Speaker 3 (35:04):
I mean, yet they don't. They don't have enough option,
and he is demand.

Speaker 5 (35:08):
And he would never get enough credit in terms of
how good he is and how good he has been.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
Last year he had like a great season, but it's
lost in the playoff performance. They make no mistake about it.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Dak Prescott played at an elite level last year for
Mike McCarthy. Dak Prescott away from the Cowboys, Dak pre
Prescott will easily command sixty million annually.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
On the open market. And you've heard it here and
you may have heard it here first.

Speaker 5 (35:37):
Dak Prescott is a hot commodity. The leverages in his
favor for all the Cowboy fans that want to move
on from Dak Prescott, be careful what you wish for,
because he will go somewhere else and have a ton
of success in an offense that Liz designed for him,
with weapons around him that really help him elevate his game.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
So he has all the cards.

Speaker 5 (36:01):
That's why you see him smiling and dancing at weddings
and all that. There's no pressure on Dak Prescott because
Dak Prescott knows he has a big pay ahead of him.
And for instance, if the Elia Rams want to move
on from Matthew Stafford at the end of the year
because Matthew Stafford wants to retire, whatever, Dak Prescott could
very well be in LA playing and flourishing in a

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system like that. So you just have to understand there
are more teams that don't have quarterbacks that would welcome
what Dak Prescott offers as a QB one, no.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Doubt about that. I'll tell you what the reason I
bring up Dak Prescott. A. Obviously he's not signed yet,
but B because if you look, and we talked about
this earlier as well, you know the statistics, the statistic
lifetime comparison between Kirk Cousins in Prescott almost identical. These
these stats are almost identical between Prescott and Cousins.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
So yeah, like that's the thing.

Speaker 5 (36:55):
They're they're more alike than they're dissimilar, and people need
to understand that.

Speaker 3 (36:59):
That's why he is the next in line to get
paid in a major way.

Speaker 2 (37:02):
There we go, Bucky Brooks, Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday
and Fox Sports. Ready, Hey, you got questions, He's got
the answers. Why ask Bucky's next?

Speaker 1 (37:12):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
All right, asked Bucky? Coming right up. This is Fox
Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Rader. He is Bucky Brooks
on Andy Freman. Is about ten minutes before the top
of the hour, and we're a live from the tiraq
dot com studios.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
Are we ready?

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Here we go, Time for ask Bucky. Number one college
players in Division one revenue generating sports, just like football
and basketball, they cannot be excluded from US labor protections.
So the courts ruled that just the other day that
these athletes may qualify as employees. Now, how will this
affect the competitive balance of schools?

Speaker 5 (37:49):
I mean it effected in a few different ways, Like
you now have to have the afforded bilding to be
able to pay for things like workers comp insurance in
those things because those worker comp claims are going to
come and teams schools are going to have to decide
what level of business do they want. Again, does everyone
want to participate at the highest level where they have
to pay the money to run a D one program

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or do they want to drop down a notch and
maybe not have the restrictions that they would have at
the top of the charts.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
That's a biggie right there. I mean, right now, this
is really going to separate teams from the pack, you know,
the haves and the have nots big time right now.
It's going to be really different coming up now. Question
number two. We have Oregon State and Washington State as
we speak today. What's the future of the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
I don't know, man, Like who knows.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
I would think that one of those conferences, you know,
the Mountain West Rrect those guys would kind of fold
into it, but it'd be a lesser version of what
it's been. It'd be hard for it to get back
to power for status. But you know, they still can go.
It's still a great product, it's still a great name.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
They just got to figure it out.

Speaker 4 (38:57):
Well, you got to get some teams and they all right.
Some Olympics.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
As we mentioned right around the corner, Bucky Brooks tell
us the most difficult individual event in the Summer Olympics.

Speaker 5 (39:09):
Most difficult individual events. I would say this for me,
it would be synchronized swimming because the fact that you
and the partner have to be in sync underwater. You
don't know everyone's movements and those things. Imagine trying to
be on the same page underwater without being able to
see or yell at the person that is your partner. Yeah,

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I would think that would be one of more difficult
sports to be able to participate in.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
You know, I never even thought about that, but sometimes
I watch somebody's tryouts on TV and looking at women's gymnastics,
it's unbelievable what they do. I mean, I don't know
how you practiced that without getting hurt. I just don't
know how you do. I guess they have some sort
of a safety net on you or change to hold
you down in case you're going to fall. That gymnastics
thing when they're up in the air, it's just going

(39:54):
to hold your breath. All right, We move on if
less is more the NFL's bubble burst when when not?
If they expand to eighteen regular season games.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
No, it'll continue to thrive.

Speaker 5 (40:09):
Uh, there'd be more attention, more intrigue, more people focus
on those games because you're adding a meaningful game and
removing a preseason game. We've seen in college they get
away without having a preseason game. Primage did they go play?
So No, I think it would actually be better for
the NFL if you just go right.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
To those eighteen games.

Speaker 5 (40:29):
Let's get it done and put two five weeks in
and have an extended season that ends President's Day.

Speaker 2 (40:35):
All right, Last, but not least, your wish Bucket Brooks,
an Olympic gold medal or a super Bowl ring.

Speaker 4 (40:40):
If you had your.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Choice, super Bowl ring, I'll take who a ring? He
always participate in team sports.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Yeah, never too early now, never too early for awards.
Buggy has it for you next right here on Fox
Sports Sunday, stay with.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
US Sports all right, from hot Seat to hero that's
coming right out.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Good morning, This is Fox Sports Sunday at Fox Sports,
Rady heats Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and we are
broadcasting live from the tire Rack dot com Studios.

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football himself on Fox Sports Radio, and Buck, how you doing?

Speaker 4 (41:26):
Ready for hour?

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Yet?

Speaker 4 (41:30):
I gotta answer you me. I gotta do, I gotta dwell,
and I gotta get into this a little bit.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
We did this, asked Bucky last hour, and I asked
you your wish and a little bit gold medal or
Super Bowl ring? Without hesitation, you said super Bowl ring.
I gotta find out why.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Football is the ultimate team sport.

Speaker 5 (41:50):
To be recognized a champion in that sport means that
you've had to play your role in that whatever role
there was, how big or how small, you were part
of a team that is recognized as being a championship team,
and that legacy lives forever. I ran track in college,
I played football, and as much as I love track

(42:10):
and field, to me, I'm still drawn towards team sports.
I could see where individually, if you want to be
and not even selfish, but if you want to sell promote,
like being recognized as a Gold Medalist is everything, just
like people have to make the decision because people ask
the question, would you rather be a Super Bowl champion
or would you rather be a Hall of Famer? Well,
being a Hall of Famer is being recognized as one

(42:32):
of the elite players in the league.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
But for me, I would rather be a part of
being on one of the elite teams that I've ever
participated in the league.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
That's a tremendous answer, it really is. See, I thought
you'd come back and say, well, a Super Bowl ring
you could wear, and you can't wear an Olympic gold
medal around your neck every day. People do, right, I
mean they put it in the safe deposit box. That's
what they do. You can't wear it.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Goes through you can't wear it. You can't wear it around.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
For sure, it's great wearing a gold medal one, it
really is. But you know, really and truly, what do
you do with it when you think about it? I mean,
you're not You don't leave it in your home for
fear of being robbed. You put it in a safe
deposit box. And that's basically I guess you could frame
it and put it on your wall in your man cave.
But other than that, what do you do with it?
You're not gonna wear.

Speaker 3 (43:18):
It now, You're not gonna wear it. I mean.

Speaker 5 (43:20):
But it's just like super Bowl rings and those things.
You don't really wear those things. It's more so it's
a symbol that your team has been recognized as one
of the best teams to ever do it. It's more
that you know, and so that's why.

Speaker 3 (43:38):
That's why you have it. That's why you want to
have those things.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Oh I wish. I wish you would have had a
Super Bowl ring, I really do. But you know what,
if Jacksonville should win the Super Bowl, I would assume
you'd get one, right.

Speaker 5 (43:51):
I mean, I don't want to make that assumption. It
would be nice though if they slid one over.

Speaker 3 (43:55):
The table, though across the table, I think nice. That
would be nice if you had one.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
And why say that because Bucky Brooks is not only
a scout, He's a talk show host. He hasn't been
a coach. He played in the NFL and a writer
for NFL dot Com. I was worried last week because
I had not seen your Friday column posted. I guess
you took the week off, but you're right back at
it right now at NFL dot Com every week.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
And look, you had your awards this week, and I
want to get into them because.

Speaker 2 (44:19):
They were great. You're very brave here, mister Brooks. You
really are, because you did a preface this thing. It
was an exercise, but it's an interesting exercise, it really is.
And you say, look, it may not come to pass.
I give you a lot of credit for that because
it may not happen, but you went out on a limb.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
And I'm going to start with the Coach of the Year.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I'm going to ask you who and what and why
because your pick with Mike McCarthy or the Dallas Cowboys
and they say, look, this guy's on the hot seat.
I mean, how could you say this guy's here to
go from the hot seat to coach of the year.
Why would you pick Mike McCarthy. And I'm going to
tell you my picks after that.

Speaker 5 (44:53):
Okay, So what we did on this week at NFL
dot Com we were talking about long shot selections and
so we wanted to use the premise if we went
to the sports book, I think the odds were plus
eighteen hundred or more. All right, so they had to
sit in that they're not favorites. They're long shots to
be able to do it. Well, Mike McCarthy to me,

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as a coach of the year, he's a long shot.

Speaker 3 (45:16):
He's a long shot.

Speaker 5 (45:17):
Because everyone is pretty much poor dirt on the Dallas Cowboys.
They didn't do a lot of things in the offseason
to upgrade their roster. It's a team that despite winning
twelve wins three straight years, they faltered in the postseason.
Right now, there's a black cloud hanging over the Dallas Cowboys.
If Mike McCarthy is somehow able to get this team

(45:37):
to win twelve games again, to go into the playoffs,
and to win a couple of playoff games, he deserves
to be Coach of the Year. The pressure that is
on him, knowing that he's coaching for his Cowboys head
coaching job life, man, that is tremendous. And so if
he's able to pull this off where they win twelve
wins again, oh, he deserves Coaching the Year just giving

(45:59):
all the pressure that is around you.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Well, I will say this, he's coaching for his life.
He's got a lot of heat on him. There's a
lot of pressure on there, and to me, to win
Coach of the Year, you have to either win it
all or win close to it to get deep in
the playoffs, have a turnaround season that basically last year
you were on your back and basically you came back

(46:22):
out of nowhere. And more than that, you have to
have a qualified quarterback to help you get there, and
I think Dallas has that to have that in Dak Prescott. However,
I'm gonna come back and challenge you on that. Because
the odds are on favorite to win Coach of the
Year I have read several places. Is Matt Eberflus of
the Chicago Bears. To me, that's a ridiculous pick because

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there are many questions with the rookie quarterback Kayleb Williams. Again,
you have to have a solid quarterback I believe to
be qualified.

Speaker 4 (46:54):
To win and the be coach of the Year. Their
defense is great.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
I think Eba Fluis did a pretty good job with
their defense down the stretch, but coming in with a
rookie quarterback, that's the biggest question of them all. So
if I had a choice of McCary eber Flues, I've
taken McCarthey, all right. I mean, although eber Flus has
a shot, are you questioning why eber Flues would even
be there as an odds on favorite.

Speaker 3 (47:19):
A couple of things are helping his case.

Speaker 6 (47:21):
Won.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
The way the team finished last year, Matt eber Flus
had to jump in and take over the decoordinated duties.
He had to call defenses for the first time since
his arrival in Chicago.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
The defense got noticedly better. The defense got.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
After the defense played more like the defenses that it played.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
Under Mett ebra Flus in Indianapolis.

Speaker 5 (47:39):
So you love to see his imprint and his impact
on one side of the ball.

Speaker 3 (47:44):
The second thing is there are a lot of positive.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
Optimism and outlooks on what this offense is going to
be with Caleb Williams. They made all the moves in
terms of surrounding him with the talented cast of playmakers.
We've talked about Roma Dunes, they coming on board, they
have in and now in Dj Moore, I mean, just
all the weapons, upgraded offensive line.

Speaker 3 (48:05):
But now it's about helping.

Speaker 5 (48:07):
This team go from where they are to be in
a playoff team if they make the playoffs. A lot
of that is going to go to the selection of
Kleb Williams and the way the defense has vastly improved.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
Matt Evisflus would deserve credit for that.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Well.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
They ranked number one against to run after finishing like
thirty first a year before that. So and they increased
their interception total from like fourteenth to twenty two.

Speaker 4 (48:27):
So defensively they were great.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
But there's certainly a big question on the offensive side
of the football coming in with a rookie quarterback. But
if you were to ask me right now, and I'm
challenging you, but still, are you still going with Mike
McCarthy as your coach of the year? Ste McCarthy, I'm
going with Jim Harborugh, all right? Why do I say that?
Proven winner?

Speaker 4 (48:48):
All right?

Speaker 2 (48:48):
He's won in the NFL, came to college, won twice
in college one and all last year in Michigan, and
now he's coming back to the NFL. Plus he's got
a proven quarterback justin Herbert. The experience as a winner
and the experienced quarterback to me puts it all together.
Jim Harbaugh will be coach of the Year in the

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National Football League.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Agreed?

Speaker 3 (49:12):
I mean, yeah, but he's like the odds on favorite,
like whatever the odds are. The odds were probably like
plus two hundred for Jim Harbor to win it. It's
a long shot. My job is to provide long shots.
That's not a long shot. That's a layup, that's a
that's a chip, that's that's that's a little gumme putt
that you took right there.

Speaker 2 (49:31):
All right, I hear what you say. Okay, but you're
still going with the long shot. So my long shot
then would be ebra flus. All right, I mean, because
if Jim Harbon that makes sense, I've go to ebra Flues.
All right, Let's go with the MVP, all right, the
MVP in the National Football League and your pick. I

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guess he's a long shot. And you know what, I'm
not so certain he's such a long shot for what
they did last year. You got Jared Goffer of the
Detroit Lions quarterback. Why would he be such a long shot.
I don't get it, because he took the Lions to
the top last year in the NFC North.

Speaker 3 (50:08):
He took the lines to the shot, but to the top.

Speaker 5 (50:11):
But remember, I would say, the narrative or the perception
of Jerry Golf is not that he is MVP like,
so when you have an MVP on your resume, people
have to regard you as an elite player. I still
give the sense that many outsiders, many observers, don't view
Jerry Golf as an elite player. To me, he's a

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long shot to win the MVP because that's the perception.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
But when you look at what.

Speaker 5 (50:37):
He's done since twenty twenty two, he has been a
high end player. Look fifty nine touchdowns, I think he
only has like seventeen interceptions. He has been able to
really navigate and run this offense efficiently and effectively. Well,
now they have the opportunity to be more explosive in
my mind, Jameson Williams, more comfortable in his role as

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a compliment to Amara Saint Brown. You now have Sam Laporto,
who's played at a Pro Bowl level. He's entering year two.
You could say that the Lions may have the best
offensive line in football. If Jerriet Goff continues to manage
this offense the way that he's done, they're gonna win
a lot of games. They're gonna score a lot of points,
and he's going to put up numbers that we are

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going to have to give him the attention that he
deserves as an MVP candidate.

Speaker 2 (51:27):
You know what, I listened to what you say on
a weekly basis, and I shot it down either on
pencil or in my mind. And you have taught me
that the coaching situation in the National Football League at
least is so important to the development of various players. Now,
for the second straight off season, their offensive coordinator in Detroit,

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Ben Johnson, turned down head coaching opportunities to stay with
the Lions. Okay, because he says to some unfinished business.
If I'm Jared Goff, I give this guy half of
my contract because I.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Think he is shown right.

Speaker 2 (52:01):
I mean, he has made Jared Goff the quarterback that
he's been the last two years, don't you agree?

Speaker 4 (52:05):
I think he has.

Speaker 5 (52:07):
I mean, he certainly has done a really good job
put him in situations. But Jared Goff was number one
overall pick in the draft, like, we got to remember that.
He has certainly helped him though by putting him in
situations where the game is easy for him as the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
The Detroit Lions have been in the top five in
rushing and passing, and they scored thirty or more points
eleven times and in two playoff games a year ago.
So this team right now is ready and really and truly.
I mean there were years that if the Lions would
finish five hundred, that would be somewhat of a successful season.
I think right now, I think the opportunity there is.

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I think the mantra of the Detroit Lions of Super
Bowl of bust this year. Don't you agree that's probably it?

Speaker 5 (52:47):
I mean I think so if you asked their coaches
last year they tricked off the Super Bowl, they were
dominating the San Francisco forty nine ers in the championship game,
and let it slip their expectation be to be a
super Bowl team because last year they were a super
Bowl team.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
It's about finishing the game. They have to learn how
to finish those title games they didn't finish. They had
a lead and just didn't finish it.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Yeah, I think they'd be motivated and hungry to be
a super Bowl team.

Speaker 3 (53:15):
That has to be the vision, that has to be
the expectation.

Speaker 4 (53:18):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
I mean the season started on that Thursday night when
they beat Kansas City. I think everybody went crazy when
that happened. They said, oh, whoa, they're gonna be in
the super Bowl. They should have been in the super Bowl,
you know. I just pulled up their schedule, and honestly,
if they don't start four and oh, something's wrong. Rams,
Tampa Bay, Arizona, Seattle and one two. Three of those
four games are at home La, Rams at home, Tampa

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at home, at Arizona, Seattle at home.

Speaker 4 (53:45):
All right, I think they should be four and oh
after those first four games.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
And I hate to be that guy that looks at
the schedule and picks, because you just can't. People do
it all the time. I don't like doing it. I
don't like even hearing it. Because of injury factors, anything's possible.
But just looking at right now, just at a glance,
they should be four and oh.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Look at you, look at you already give them the
tight I you want to give them the title right
right away.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
I want to see them win.

Speaker 5 (54:10):
What you've done is, yeah, you set them up where
if they are off the mark, then you're like, man,
they're the biggest disappointment that I've seen this year.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
I won't do it.

Speaker 3 (54:18):
Yeada, YadA YadA.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
So yeah, like you've already set them up, you put
them out there to take debate.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Well, yeah, you're probably right, but I'll ask you this
as a player. Maybe you didn't do But do players
do that prior to the season They look at the
skirts saylo, we should win this when we should mean,
let me know what goes on in the locker room.
Don't they look at the schedule and say, you know what,
we really should win ten games this year eleven games?

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Don't they do that prior to the season, or they
don't I need to know if everything's on, Like.

Speaker 5 (54:47):
I mean, you do look at the schedule and you say, okay,
that could be a tough game, this could be a
tough stretch, like okay, we should be able to kind
of gain some ground here there or whatever. You respect
your opponent, but you also have a realistic view. Hey guys,
this is really important. We can get out to a
good start, and we all see the stats. The numbers
suggest early if you get out to a hot start,

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you're the probability of you making the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (55:10):
I mean it's tied with that. So that opening month
of the.

Speaker 5 (55:13):
Season where everyone is trying to figure it out, if
you can jump on the league, hit the ground running
from training camp, you can build a nice cushion that
puts people in this situation where they're chasing you the
entire season. So yeah, like it doesn't matter, and you
do look for those soft spots in the schedule.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
You know, And you talk about training camp, I get it.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
I mean, right now, training camp is almost like a
country club, you know. I remember back in the day
I read about this when the Bengals trading in Wilmington.
He used to train up in Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio,
and the late Paul Brown was the coach.

Speaker 4 (55:46):
They did three days, three of days. Now they don't
even do two a days.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
And then when they did that, it was like maybe
forty five minutes to an hour. Sometimes they do it
with just shorts and a T shirt. There's no pads.
I still believe the injury has increased because the practices
have decreased. You have to practice as if you were
going to play. That's my take on it. Tell me
I'm wrong.

Speaker 5 (56:12):
I've seen it two different ways. So I will give
you just real perspective from playing. I played in Green
Bay under Mike Holme. Mike Hogrim came from San Francisco
under Bill Walsh and the number one goal was to
get the team to game day fresh and ready to go,
so we would take off the pads. Our practices were

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a little shorter, but it was about execution. It was
about operating at a tempo that was game like, but
we weren't going to beat you up. We would do
what they call inside run drill.

Speaker 3 (56:45):
We would have the pads on.

Speaker 5 (56:46):
As soon as we finished that run period, they would
blow the whistles. We'd run to the sideline, take off
our pads, and go back and finish practice with our helmets.

Speaker 3 (56:54):
And our jerseys on.

Speaker 5 (56:55):
But it was about pace, efficiency, execution. I go to
Kansas City, Marty Schottenheimer won two hundred games. He's one
of only I think seven or eight coaches that have
won two hundred games in the National Football League. We
put the pads on, We slugged it out every day.
We beat each other up, but we felt like our

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superhero powers were on Sunday, we were the most physical
team in the stadium and that there's nothing that you
could have.

Speaker 3 (57:24):
Done to prepare you for how physical we were going
to be. And both methods have been effective.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
Both of them worked. Marty took that playbook and worked
with the charges. It worked elsewhere it can work.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
It really believes in.

Speaker 5 (57:38):
It really comes down to what you believe in and
how good your players are.

Speaker 4 (57:42):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (57:43):
I hear what they said, and you've been there, done that,
so I trust you and I believe you. Okay, But
I will also say this, I look at the preseason games,
and now I realize it's just for money. Of course,
if you look at the college game, there's no preseason
games to get right into it. And not only did
I get right into it, normally on Labor Day weekend,
they got a big game, and sometimes if a college
team loses that game, this shot at the national championship

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is out the window. That's how big it is in
college football. There's no preseason, so you don't need the preseason.
There is that four of those games, not a doubt,
the two get rid of the preseason because to me,
the meaningless the only thing preseason does in my mind,
it gives coaches the opportunity to see the kids that
they draft, let them play, because the regulars never played.

Speaker 4 (58:24):
They're afraid they're gonna get hurt.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
Right, Well, it's different.

Speaker 5 (58:28):
So what has happened has been the explosion of joint
practices have killed preseason games. What happens is, if you're Cincinnati,
I'm the La Rams. I come to La. We're gonna
play on Saturday. All right, Well we're gonna come to
town on Wednesday. We're gonna practice Wednesday Thursday ahead.

Speaker 3 (58:49):
Of day game.

Speaker 5 (58:50):
Well, I want to practice my ones versus your ones,
because in practice is in control of the environment, meaning
we can go nine on say, we can go team run.
We can go seven on seven with my quarterback participating,
but you can't hit my quarterback. So I get all
the intensity, all the speed, all the physicality of a

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preseason game, but in a controlled environment where I can
minimize some of the risk of my top players. I
like that as a coach because what's my number one goal.
I want to get to the regular season with all
of my players ready to go. In the preseason, I
can't control that, even though I say, hey, you just
gonna play a series. Man, at any point, my guy

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can get hurt. Yeah, I'd rather have the controlled environment.
We'll let the young players play in the game, and
you can be mad in the stands, but I've accomplished
what I've wanted to accomplish. Out of that preseason game.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
He's Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
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Speaker 4 (01:00:44):
I'm not gonna go there yet.

Speaker 2 (01:00:45):
You did have a long shot there, and I get
that But before we do that, I think, speaking offensively,
let's talk about Devonte Adams. All right, obviously not happy
with the Raiders. I get it, okay, But when I
hear remarks coming out of the mouth of Aaron Rodgers
says at this golf tournament in Tahoe the other day,
quote I love Devonte. I can't wait to play with

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him again. This is what he said the other day.
Is that tampering. Isn't that tampering?

Speaker 3 (01:01:13):
Bucky Brooks, Well, was that tampering.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
He didn't say that he was gonna play with him
again with the Jets. He just said I can't wait
to play with him again. He left that door open
whether is Aaron Rodgers going to the Raiders or whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:01:25):
He just kind of left it wide open.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
Okay, So Devontae Adams obviously not happy with the Raiders,
and I think when he went to the Raiders, he
basically wanted to play with Derek Carr.

Speaker 4 (01:01:34):
Derek Carr is not there.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
They got quarterbacks by the name of Aidan O'Connell and
Gardner Minshew. I don't think these guys are any better
than Derek Carr agreed. I mean, I think there was
shade below Derek Carr.

Speaker 3 (01:01:48):
Uh, let's see, how do I.

Speaker 4 (01:01:50):
Can I you want to do it in a night?

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
Son?

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Why fashion I get it?

Speaker 3 (01:01:54):
They they are not below Derek Carr.

Speaker 5 (01:01:58):
But I would say Derek Carr is a notchvillelow some
of the other elites in the game, right.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Good, not great, but good.

Speaker 5 (01:02:09):
I think that's where we would fall into if if
we were academic class, I would give him a B.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
He's a B does a solid bee, not a B plus,
just a solid be.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
And for DeVante Adams obviously, basically what he has done
in the past over the years, great player.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
He really is.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
What last year like eight touchdowns over eleven hundred yards receiving.
These guys are not going to help his stats. He
wants to leave. He's in the twilight of his career
right now. I'm sure I think he wants to get out.
He's made it known that he wants to get out.
No big deal. So what happens when you have a
guy like that on your ball club, like Davonte Adams,
and then you got guys stumping for him, especially Aaron Rodgers.

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Basically you could read between the lines and you know,
Garret Wilson on the Jets he's basically saying the same
thief he said, love to play with the guy. I
mean he's got one leg basically in New York with
the Jets.

Speaker 5 (01:03:04):
I mean I wouldn't go so far as to say that,
but I would say that like he's wanted, like people
want him, he's valued people see that. Now, what you
have to do if you are the Jets front office
or another team that's examining him, where is he? Is
he ascending player meaning continue to get better? Or is
he a descending player he is beginning to show signs

(01:03:26):
of falling off? And can you get a descending player
to take lesser money? Like meaning the conversation has to
equate to the production. And if it's not even, then
what is he willing to settle for? How much money?
Does he want to play with Aaron Rodgers for like
minimum dollars just because he wants to rekindle the friendship

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in the on field relationship, or yeah, I want to come,
but I also want to get paid top of the
market money. All of those factors come into whether he
can play with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
Ever, again, you know you mention over there.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I don't think he wants to play with Aaron Rodgers,
goes their buddies as much as he wants to play
with Aaron Rodger, because he has a better chance of
winning in New York with the Jets with Aaron Rodgers.
That's the reason why. I mean, certainly money's a factor,
but I think when you're coming down in the twilight
of your career, I think you want to go out
with a legacy that you've won, at least won something.
And certainly his status ratio is going to be hurting

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right now because really the reason he went there to
LA was Derek Carr. Derek Carr's not there anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
No, Derek Carr isn't there anymore and he's not coming back.

Speaker 5 (01:04:34):
And Devanta Adams actually had more success with Aaron Rodgers
than he ever had with Derek Carr. I can understand
from a nostalgic standpoint, him being like, man, I really
had a good when I had a four time MVP
throwing me the rock. Maybe just maybe I need to
go back to that. He got his money, so the
money's no longer a consideration. Remember, like, once you get

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your money, now you're like, well, I got my money
now I want to go back and play and have.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
All the other stuff. So he has that or he
will have that opportunity to do that. Yeah, we'll see.
It'll be interesting.

Speaker 5 (01:05:07):
It'll be interesting what what transpires this year.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
It'd be interesting if Aaron Rodgers is able to stay healthy,
uh and give us more than four plays that he
gave us last year. At a lot of factors into that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
The Jets, well, you have your long shot. He has
my long shot that I'm going to tell you that
Devota Adams will be a Jet.

Speaker 4 (01:05:26):
He's gonna be on the Jets. That's my thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
I mean, you have all this whispering going on there,
something's going on where there's smoked this fire. He'll be
playing for the Jets this year. There we go, he's
Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:05:37):
But go ahead, I'm sorry whispering.

Speaker 3 (01:05:42):
They're whispering. They're they're they're operating not in good faith,
that's what you're saying there there. Okay, we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
That's my long shot. I mean, we will get back
to your long shots at a minute. But he's Bucket Brooks.
How many firm we are? Fox Sports? Something on Fox
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Speaker 9 (01:06:08):
Yeah, we're entering the last day of baseball before the
All Star Break and there's a tie at top of
the American League East standings. It's because the Baltimore Orioles
in free fall. They've been in first place much of
this year, but they're now have lost five straight games,
including a defeat to the Yankees six ' one on Saturday,
Aaron Judge going deep again for New York, but the

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Yankees and Orioles now tie the top of the AL
East going to the National League West. The Dodgers atop
the division, but they're hoping the All Star Break comes
rather quickly because after getting swept by the Phillies, they
now blew a five run lead to the Tigers on
Saturday to drop the second game of that three game

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series eleven to nine. As the Tigers tied it up
in the ninth one in extra inning. Shoeyo Tony did
hit his twenty ninth home run of the season for
Los Angeles. But more bad news for the Dodgers, as
Dustin May, a great young pitcher. They were open half
of the stretch, run out for the season because of
a torn esophagus, now staying out west. The Diamondbacks win

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the late game of the night twelve to one against
the Blue Jays, Carbon Carrol going deep twice for Arizona,
the Padres snapping their losing streak as they shout out
the Braves for nothing. It was a double header between
the Cardinals and cub Saint Louis wins both games, eleven
three and five for the scores in those two. The
Mets win their fifth game in a row. They beat

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the Rocky seven to three, The Rangers over the Astros
two to one in extra innings, and the Reds hand
the Marlins their fifth straight loss ten to six. Soccer,
the US women's national team win a tune up for
the Olympics against Mexico, won nils So Sophia Smith with
a goal in the second half. Fox is gonna have

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two big soccer games. Will be the Euro twenty twenty
four finals between Spain and England that kicks off at
three Eastern and at Copa America Final Argentina in Columbia
that'll get going at eight, and Wimbledon the women's final
went to Barbara Kretschakova in three sets, winning at six '
four and the third against seven seeded Jasmine Poulini. And

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we'll be set up for a wimbledy men's final matchup
between Carlos Alcarez and Novak Djokovic and love vick Aaberg
the leader of the Scottish opening by two strokes over
Scotland's Robert McIntyre.

Speaker 8 (01:08:32):
Back to you guys, Thanks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:33):
Jev seeing it now, all right, these are the game changes.
We'll get to them in just about a minute now.
We've just crossed the fifty yard line and we call
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Speaker 4 (01:08:41):
He is Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
I'm Andy Furman, and of course we got bot on
barrel betting coming up at about eight nine minutes from now.
Let's get back to this offensive play, the long shot,
the long shot, and I love it, say Kwon Barkley,
because he's on the Eagles right now. And what a
slap in the face that would be to the New
York Football if in fact he is Bucky Brooks long
shot Offensive Player of the Year.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Why would you pick him?

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Because they are a team that Jalen Hurts threw for
over thirty eight hundred yards. You know, I don't think
there's such a running offense, although they did have success
two years ago when they changed their offense in mid
season from heavy passing to running. But did they really
need Saquon Barkley. Was it done as a move to
just like slap the Giants in the face in the

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same division.

Speaker 3 (01:09:28):
No, I mean I believe they needed him.

Speaker 5 (01:09:30):
They needed him because what he does is he balances
out their offense and he makes life easier for.

Speaker 3 (01:09:38):
Jalen Hurts. We have to remember this for the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Philadelphia Eagles.

Speaker 5 (01:09:43):
As we knew them when Jalen Hurst was an MVP
candidate runner up, they're no longer that team. Kellen Moore
takes over as the offensive coordinator. Jalen Hursts out of
his own offense at the offense is ninety different. I
will say this and and maybe this will help us
kind of understand the perspective where I'm coming at. When

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I looked at Jalen Hurst when he was coming out
of Oklahoma, in my mind, Jalen Hurts was a Dak
Prescott clone. Dak Prescott played in Dallas. Kellen Moore was
his backup then he was his offensive coordinator. When you
look at Dak Prescott and how he has kind of
grown into being whatever it is, top eight, top ten quarterback,

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whatever you want to put him at, Kellen Moore played
a big part in that.

Speaker 3 (01:10:28):
Maybe Kellen Moore sees the same.

Speaker 5 (01:10:30):
Thing that I saw in terms of Jalen Hurst and
Dak Prescott, and he is going to build an offense
that is very much like the offense is that Dak
Prescott thrived in.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Well, what's the common denominator between the two? Dominant running back?

Speaker 5 (01:10:44):
Ezekiel Elliott doing his prime alleviated the pressure on Dak Prescott.
Saquan can alleviate the pressure on Jalen Hurts. This offense
can be one where Sakuon Barkley gets to fourteen maybe
fifteen hundred yards as a rusher, all the other pieces
continue to thrive in the passing game.

Speaker 2 (01:11:04):
You know, the more I hear this Saquon Barkler, when
I heard he went to the Eagles, you know, and
I grew up being a Giants fan. But then again,
when I watched HBO Hard Knocks two weeks ago, the
general manager was doing everything in his power to try
to keep him there, and I remember the press. I
think the owner of the club came in and told
the gym, let's try to keep Saquon. I love him,

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That's what he said. This is good to bite them
in the rear end.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
I know it will.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
He was like seventy percent of their freaking offense last year.
How do you get rid of this guy? I know
they paid the big bucks for their quarterback Daniel Jones,
which I think right now is going to be a bust.
I don't you know Saquon Barkley saved Daniel Jones on
the offensive side of the football. To get rid of
Saquon Barkley and let him go to someone in your

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same division.

Speaker 4 (01:11:50):
Not a good move. Not a good move at all.

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
No, no, not a good move. You're right. Not a
good move.

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
One of those things that they have to continue to
work on when it comes to like, how do you
replace him? How do you replace what Sakwon Barkley was
bringing to your tab?

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
They can't. They can't replace him. That's the thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:12):
If you lose a player on a team and you say, well,
I got this guy, he's a backup, he could do this.

Speaker 4 (01:12:17):
They don't have that in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Plus, they don't have a top they don't have a
top fifteen quarterback, Lintone, a top ten quarterback. You know,
Daniel Jones is not the guy. And you know, I'm
sorry to say that. At least Sae Kwon Barkley protected
him and made the offense go. They don't have guy
to make the offense go, and Daniel Jones is not
the guy.

Speaker 4 (01:12:36):
So we move on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:37):
Let's look at the defensive player of the year, because
you've got a long shot here.

Speaker 4 (01:12:40):
And here's a guy who changed his name. Good move on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:43):
His party changes it to Joshua heinz Allen on the
Jacksonville Jaguats because I think he was being confused with
josh Allen all the time, the quarterback on the Buffalo Bill.
So now officially he's JH. Joshua heinz Allen. Right, you
picked him because this guy could sack. He's a sack leader,
he really is. He may very well be the defensive
player of the Year, but you've got to get some

(01:13:03):
notoriety out of jackson velesta Key.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
He does have to get some notoriety out of Jacksonville.
Seventeen and a half sacks last year. I think he's
better positioned this year to make a run at twenty
plus sacks. And the reason why is because the supporting
cast around him is better. Eric Armstead coming over from
the San Francisco forty nine ers gives him a big
body presidence inside. Trayvon Walker continues to develop. Former number
one overall pick gave him ten and a half sacks

(01:13:28):
last year. You think about the offense. If the offense
is able to jump on people and put points up,
that creates more opportunities for him to get after the passer.
Better team means better production from Josh Hans Allen.

Speaker 3 (01:13:43):
I look forward to seeing him kind of dominate this year.
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:13:46):
Now, let's look at the offensive Rookie of the Year,
and we talked about Devonte Adams, you know, trying to
get his stats up there with Aiden O'Connell in LA.

Speaker 4 (01:13:54):
That's not going to happen. He's going to the Jets.

Speaker 2 (01:13:55):
But you know, you've got a similar situation right here
in Buffalo because you got Keen home In the Buffalo's
rookie wide receiver as the offensive rookie of the Year,
and Josh Allen needs this guy needs this guy barely.
With the Stefan Diggs leaving, they need a receiver and
this guy could very well be the guy. We'll see
what he could do with Josh Allen. Josh Allen's going
to rely on this guy big time, and maybe Josh

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Allen makes this guy the offensive rookie of the year.
So I don't think it's such a long shot in
your mind.

Speaker 5 (01:14:24):
No, I don't think it's a long shot. He hand
picked him, He picked him to be his number one.
He is the guy that Josh Allen went to management
and said, this is the guy that I would love
for us to draft. And so when you have a quarterback,
a player who has that kind of vested interest in
the development of a young player, they're gonna put more
time into it. And when you put more time into it,

(01:14:45):
that means better chemistry, better continuity, more opportunities, because he
wants to make sure that everyone is right about making
him the number one, the number one receiver on the perimeter,
the second round pick. Yes, so I think you could
see the numbers spike. And also, let's be honest, they
don't have a number one or established playmaker. So we

(01:15:06):
can talk about the Titans Kincaidan knocks, but really it's
about Keyan Coleman being the number one gallon the perimeter and.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Last, but not least, I hate to say, it's a
Pittsburgh Steeler is gonna be a defensive rookie of the year.
In your mind, in your mind, this guy's six four
two thirty three. He ran about four four three forty
in the combine. Peyton Wilson on the Pittsburgh Steelers. This
guy's tough and I'll be seeing him play probably twice
this year against Cincinnati. But again, the stock him up
like the old Pittsburgh Steelers on the defensive side of

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the football.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
They are sorking how Peyton Wilson is terrific.

Speaker 5 (01:15:38):
He follows a long line of great Steelers in terms
of like he is going to be the next rate
still the linebacker. You put him alongside Patrick Queen. Uh,
these guys are gonna dominate. And for Wilson instincts, i
Q awareness, his ability to do so many different things
is really going to take this defense to the next level.

Speaker 3 (01:15:57):
I know we're trying to figure out how is it
going to fit?

Speaker 5 (01:15:59):
They got the money gang Queen, but Peyton Wilson at
the end of the year will be the one who
has the greater impact.

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In a long shots.

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That bad bad bad week at.

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Office, bad week at the office. But we'll get into that.
We'll get into this week's lines here. Well, we'll start
with the saale GP Grand Final, which is taking place
in San Francisco this week. Sailing, you know, sailing, sailing.
I grew up sailing. I I this is a special
special spot in my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:17:29):
But I think our bottom barrel, Betty, have to be
on terra firma, on land, all right, all.

Speaker 11 (01:17:35):
Right, in the future, going forward, going forward, Well, this
time it's on water. So it's gonna be New Zealand
versus Australia versus Spain.

Speaker 8 (01:17:45):
So out of those three, Andy, who do you have winning?

Speaker 4 (01:17:49):
I would have to say, I'm gonna go with New Zealand.
You go in New Zealand, why, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Let's see. Let's see.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
I always feel like they are always in the conversation.
So you're right about New Zealand Australia. Let's go to
Australia from down.

Speaker 4 (01:18:07):
So another way you were going to take New Zealand
Bucky Brooks. Is that correct? You will go to take that?

Speaker 3 (01:18:11):
No, I wasn't.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
I wasn't necessarily going to do that, but I was
going back to all my the America stuff a cup,
stuff that I remember, and I thought, I kind of
always remember, like Australia or New Zealand always kind of
be in the conversation.

Speaker 8 (01:18:23):
New Zealand and Australia.

Speaker 11 (01:18:24):
You're both going with that kind of bottom right corner
of the world there, so you.

Speaker 8 (01:18:28):
Know, we'll see who comes out on top.

Speaker 11 (01:18:30):
All right, Next up we have table tennis little ping
pong match. It's Alexander Strutinsky versus Mikola Slowska.

Speaker 8 (01:18:38):
Bucky, who you got?

Speaker 3 (01:18:43):
I mean, didn't give me any eyes or anything like that.

Speaker 11 (01:18:45):
Oh so Strautinsky, So what am I doing here? Strautinsky
minus one thirty seven and Slowska is plus one hundred.

Speaker 3 (01:18:56):
Give me give me the first name.

Speaker 8 (01:18:58):
Strautinsky got you first name?

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
If you can't pronounce it, you can't get it. That's
part of the deal.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
I can't, I can't.

Speaker 6 (01:19:09):
I got him.

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Note, I guess I got Slowska. Where Slowska from?

Speaker 4 (01:19:14):
Good?

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
Good Questionland, I'll have that for you after the commercial break.
I'll look at the next commercial break next.

Speaker 11 (01:19:20):
All right, we haven't done snooker in a while, but
this this weekend is the Shanghai Masters Tournament. So it's uh,
c god, it's a ce jeu jouee versus Tom Ford.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
I gotta go with Tom Ford because I can't pronounce
the other guy. I mean, you're making me crazy. Really,
bring it back to earth a little bit, will.

Speaker 8 (01:19:40):
You, Bucky? You're gonna go with Tom or the other one?

Speaker 4 (01:19:46):
Well, you can't pronounce it.

Speaker 3 (01:19:48):
The other guy. The other guy, he's gonna take.

Speaker 4 (01:19:50):
To pronounce joie j j A w e E right JOEI.

Speaker 11 (01:19:58):
Yeah, something like that. All right, Uh, Major League Cricket
is up next. We have the Washington Freedom. This is
actually in America. I thought that was surprising. Yeah, major
League Cricket. So Washington Freedom versus the Los Angeles Night Riders. Bucky,
who you got.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
You got some go to Washington Freedom.

Speaker 8 (01:20:15):
Wow, I'm surprised you didn't go with l A.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
What would you go on? Would you go with the Washington.

Speaker 3 (01:20:21):
Did the name the name, the name matches matches?

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
I like the Night Riders.

Speaker 11 (01:20:26):
I like the night all right, real, uh, real quick,
last one here we have Mexican baseball. We have the
Henerles de Dourango versus. I'll go Donaro stay Union Laguna
and okay.

Speaker 4 (01:20:38):
I got that one.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Okay, I'm gonna be like, I can't pronounce its.

Speaker 8 (01:20:42):
I'll go Donaros one.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
I don't know, I don't know which one that is.
What does that mean I'll go with that one? What
does that mean?

Speaker 8 (01:20:50):
You'll go with the Henerals Henerals?

Speaker 3 (01:20:52):
All right, the opposite.

Speaker 4 (01:20:54):
We got a biggie coming up next right here on Fox.

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Don't listening to Fox Sports.

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You know, as a coach, you just can't say it.
We'll tell you all about that just about a minute.
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with you right now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:37):
Are you ready?

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
I'm ready, I know you're ready.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:21:41):
This is the case of a coach maybe maybe going
just a bit too far to defend one of his players.
And we're talking about Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy.
He had this year number twenty this year for the
Cowboys at Oklahoma State, and his start running back Ali
Gordon looks like he may be a Heisman Trophy winner
or at least Canada this year. He just got a
recent DUI and he didn't suspend Gordon, okay, And I'm

(01:22:05):
not so certain. I'm into the suspension situation, and I'll
tell you why, all right, because I think that when
you suspend a player, you're hurting the other players on
the ball club. You rely on this guy, he's your teammate.
Suspending him it's not the way to go. You hurt
the entire team. You need to punish him, not the team.

(01:22:27):
Do you agree on that, Because people are going crazy
that Gundy didn't suspend him. I'm not big on suspensions.
The other way to punish a guy. I don't think
suspensions got the way to go. Although ninety nine percent
of coaches in America probably would suspend their player forgetting
a duy, what do you think?

Speaker 5 (01:22:45):
I think you have to know the player well enough
to understand what consequence would really changed the behavior. Sometimes
at consequence you have to take the game away from
him because it means that much to him. Other situations,
it may be something else that is very very meaningful
to him.

Speaker 3 (01:23:00):
It can be an individual basis.

Speaker 5 (01:23:02):
But Mike Gun he has to figure out what's the
best punishment to change the behavior from the player. In
most instances it would be take away a game, make
him sit down, or whatever. But you are right, you
do hurt the rest of the team when you remove
your best player. It's a slippery slope. But whatever he does,

(01:23:23):
he has to be consistent in what he does, because
if Ali Gordon doesn't get a suspension, the next player
can't get a suspension. You know, it has to be
evitable because if not, then you're playing star games where oh,
the star doesn't get punished, but a lesser player does
get punished. He just needs to be consistent and the

(01:23:44):
consequence that he decides to give Ali Gordon and the
next guy, they may have a transgression.

Speaker 2 (01:23:50):
I'm not upset that he didn't suspend him, although most
people in the media are going crazy that he should
have suspended him. I'm questioning, not even upset. I'm just
questioning why my gun and his logic. I said that
Gordon's reported blood alcohol content of zero point one zero
would have translated to two or three beers or maybe
four for a two hundred.

Speaker 4 (01:24:11):
And fifteen pound man.

Speaker 2 (01:24:12):
And then Gundhi goes on to say, I'm not justifying
what Aldi did. I'm telling you what decision I made.

Speaker 4 (01:24:19):
He said.

Speaker 2 (01:24:19):
I thought, okay, and get this, I've probably done that
a thousand times in my life and it was just fine.

Speaker 4 (01:24:27):
So I got lucky. People get lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:24:29):
I think when you talk about DUI driving under the influence,
drinking and driving, you don't use the term lucky, and
you don't tell your kids as a coach what you
have done that you did it. I just I think
it's a bad No.

Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Well it's bad. It's a bad pr take, but it
also may be a bad I would say, like moral take.

Speaker 5 (01:24:55):
Just in terms of drinking and driving. We just had
an incident last weekend where we lost a pl and
two of his friends in a drunk driving incident reportedly,
and so Mike Gundhy can take a more forceful stance
against DUIs, whether it's the suspension or not, but coming
out and talking about, oh, it's okay. He's very dismissive

(01:25:16):
of getting behind the wheel of a car impaired, and
at some point Ali Gordon is lucky that not only
did he keep his own life, but he didn't impact
somebody else's life, for their family's lives by getting behind
the wheel inebridated.

Speaker 3 (01:25:33):
He needs to make sure that it.

Speaker 5 (01:25:35):
Doesn't happen again, and whatever punishment that is, it has
to be talked about. It has to be discussed, but
more importantly, you have to change the behavior, because it's
about changing the behavior.

Speaker 3 (01:25:45):
So he knows a man, just call it uber, call
a car service to come get you, but do not
get behind the wheel when you've been drinking.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
And going back to Gundhy, there's no way to justify
talking about drunk driving in any way, matter of form.
You just can't talk about it because there's nothing you're
going to say this to make it right or good.
And he did that. But here's the deal, I don't
know in the higher situation. Where's the school president, where's
the athletic director here?

Speaker 4 (01:26:11):
I guess Mike Gundhy has.

Speaker 2 (01:26:13):
So much juice at Oklahoma State that he could do
as he pleases. If you're a first or second year
coach and don't have much success, you know there's a
good chance that you would be reprimanded as coach for
what you said. You might be suspended, and the athletic
are at the and or president of the school would
do something about that. These guys are nowhere to be found.

(01:26:36):
I don't understand that. And look, I have nothing personal
against Mike Gundhy. I lived in Oklahoma. I'm an Oklahoma
State fan, so to spend went to many of their
games in Stillwater. I just again, I don't think Oley
Gordon should be suspended because when you suspend somebody, you're
hurting the entire team and teammates number one, number two.

(01:26:57):
There's other ways to do it, especially now Buck with
ni l Maybe he could hold back the hold his
nil money. I don't know, there's other ways to punish him.
But the big story here is not Oli Gordon get
the DUI, because we'll see that again and again and
again on college campuses with athletes. The big story here
is the coach who should act as a parent, so
to speak, a leader. I don't tell these guys that

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he did it, and is okay, that's the problem I have.

Speaker 3 (01:27:25):
Oh yeah, I mean that is that is a major problem, Tov.
And you want to make sure that you deal with
the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:27:35):
Look, I just think my good I won't even say
he missed booked, but he just he was reckless in
his conversation when he talked about it. He needs to
make sure that as a leader and one of the
guys that's viewed as the leader, one of the leaders
in the community, that look man, he makes sure that
Oli Gordon and his players understand the severity of the

(01:27:59):
mistake that he made in terms of getting behind the
wheel of a car impaired. They have to understand that
because they were lucky this time that nothing happened. But
if there was a tragedy, a fatality because he got
behind the wheels of the car, man, that blood is
on everyone's hands in terms of being dismissive on how

(01:28:19):
it took place. And so I just hope that Mike
Gundhi certainly understands, like from a pr standpoint what he said,
Ah man, it's just so many bad things to that.
He just has to he just has to rectify it.
But like you can only ask someone to say what
they believe it. Maybe he doesn't believe in that. But
if he doesn't believe in that, it's very unfortunate. As

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the leader of young.

Speaker 2 (01:28:40):
People and this announcement. He was saying this the other
day when they had the big twelve media Days in Vegas.
It may have been a wise situation for Gundhi to
have brought Ali Gordon up with him and lot Oli
Gordon at that point in time to apologize publicly and
would have gone to a national audience. Maybe that's the
way to do it. I'm not saying to humiliate Ali

(01:29:01):
Gordon embarrassing, but at least he has an opportunity to say, look,
I screwed up. I made a mistake. I shouldn't have
done it. I won't do it again. Let's bury this
and let's move on. But here's the question I have.
Athletes have to answer to a different to a different
I guess premise if you will. What do I mean
by that? If a member of the band at Oklahoma
State had a duhy I would promise you he would

(01:29:24):
never be suspended. Probably no one would even know. So
athletes have to answer to a different calling, a higher calling.
Why I don't know. To tell me why you're an athlete?
Tell me why do athletes have to answer to a
bigger calling than someone else.

Speaker 4 (01:29:39):
What if someone who's on scholarship.

Speaker 2 (01:29:42):
Band members are on scholarship, they get scholarship to be
in the band, why wouldn't they be suspended. Why is
a football players should be suspended. I don't understand the difference.
I really don't.

Speaker 3 (01:29:53):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:29:53):
I would say to whom much is given, much is required.
And I think it's a privilege to represent the university
and to where the jersey, and so with those privileges
comes a certain level of responsibility that you have to
live up to certain standards and codes.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
That's why they would have to do it. And I
would say the.

Speaker 5 (01:30:15):
Band probably has some things that they have to live
up to when they represent the band, because you got
to remember, it's bigger than you, It's bigger than the
one individual person. You are representing the university when you
step out into the community.

Speaker 3 (01:30:27):
And so if.

Speaker 5 (01:30:28):
The team allows you to act a certain way, that
is unbecoming of being a representative of the university, Then
how can outsiders view the university in the highest regard.
So that's why you want to hold your team, your
players to those lofty standards and expectations.

Speaker 2 (01:30:47):
Okay, you made a great point. They representing the university.
Here's the difference. When Oli Gordon goes out and still Water, Oklahoma, everybody, mother, child, woman, father,
whatever it may be, recognizes Ollie Gordon. They'll stop there's
for an autograph. And that's I mean, that's the representation
you're talking about. But if I'm a band member and
I'm playing the flute or whatever in the Oklahoma State

(01:31:08):
band and I'm on scholarship, and I go down the
street and still what, no one knows who the hell
I am.

Speaker 4 (01:31:12):
That's the difference.

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
Not because you were in the uniform, not because you
play football, because you're recognized, that's the deal. Because you
publicized and recognize, the games are on TV, you're interviewed.
That's the only difference. Because you're both representing the school,
and you're both wearing school colors, and you're both on scholarship.

Speaker 4 (01:31:29):
That's the difference.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
Because if I'm a bad way, if I'm the third
backup quarterback on Oklahoma State. There's a good opportunity if
I got a duy. No one would even know about it, right,
No one know about it, No one know who I am.

Speaker 3 (01:31:42):
Uh, Okay, I get that. And so let's say this.

Speaker 5 (01:31:45):
Let's just say you are at the university president and
you get pop with a dewey. Always is just supposed
to be like, ah, it's okay, he's the university president.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
He got pop with a dewey.

Speaker 5 (01:31:56):
Does he not have consequences for those actions? I mean,
if we're going to do it, you have to do
it for everybody. And I think that their policies, whether
it is more ethic conduct, whatever they put, they bake
these into your employee contract that you have to represent
the university in a certain light at all times, and

(01:32:16):
if you misrepresented, there are consequences that come with that.

Speaker 3 (01:32:19):
That's every employee.

Speaker 5 (01:32:21):
And now as student athletes are venturing into the employee
world based on nil and those things, you have to
have strict measures and codes of conduct based on that
because they do represent the university and anything they do
on or off the field.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
You bring up a great point. Okay, let's say the
president of Oklahoma State University. What do you have let
it there?

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
They got pop up a Dowey as you say. Now,
they won't nothing will happen to them. They won't get
suspended and they won't get fired. But the board may
want them fired. But again, the president has been said
by the football coach, you know, the star player, nothing
happened to him, really, so why should something happened to
the president. Well, the fact that he's in a more
responsible position, he should know better.

Speaker 4 (01:33:05):
So he probably would get fired. Though, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
Think absolutely he probably would get fired.

Speaker 5 (01:33:10):
And that's why I say, like it's working and reverse,
that's what's happening, like it should be if you really
want to be it. And this is on the university president.
The university president can tell the ad here's what we want.
We want a blanket policy if any of our student
athletes are involved in X, Y and Z.

Speaker 3 (01:33:31):
This is the punishment without fail. Everyone knows.

Speaker 5 (01:33:35):
And then and then it's not necessarily that oh, we're
gonna kick you off the team. But then the coach
stands in front of the team say hey, guys, I'm
just telling you now. One, you shouldn't be driving drunk
or whatever. But if you are convicted of a DUI
or an under the influence violation, it is an automatic blank.

(01:33:55):
I don't have any control over it. I'm telling you
what it is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
If you viole related, that's you knowingly violating the code
of conduct, and at that point you at the hands
of whoever the punish the punisher is.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
And I would vetch it a guess that ninety nine
percent of the colleges would play Division one football do
not have such a code, or at least the coach
would look the other way. I think that they bring
in so much money the president and athletic director to
look the other way, say hey, let the coach handle it.
He'll do what he wants to do. Because we see
what has happened at Georgia. I mean Georgia. It happens

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every other day with these athletes, and nothing is happening.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
Do UIs?

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
I mean our situations and.

Speaker 5 (01:34:36):
You have yes, you have some stuff. You have some
stuff I think Jalen Carter and some other stuff. Yeah,
but it's still now remember the outrage and look, we
can sensationalize it on our end, right like, because that's
what we do from a media standpoint. But we have
to make sure that you know you're holding people accountable

(01:34:57):
for the decisions that they make. And anytime you are
representing a university or university of a company, a franchise,
you have to understand that there's certain things that come
along with that. And it may or may not be
right that you are viewed as a role model, but
that's just what it is. And so you have to
adapt and comply, and you have to do it, and

(01:35:19):
you have to do it quickly.

Speaker 3 (01:35:20):
I continue to be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:23):
And it's interesting because something like that happened recently here.
You remember Jerry Faust, He used to coach a Mola
High School in Cincinnati, right he went to know your name?

Speaker 4 (01:35:30):
Mola High School.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Their principal got tapped with a DUI visiting someplace in
Nashville is about a month ago. And as soon as
I read that, he got thrown out of a bar
and then he came back in like what a disguise on,
believe it or not, And he came back in and
they flew them out of It's unbelievable. Really, you can
look it up on the internet. And he came back.
As soon as I read that story, that he's gone.

(01:35:53):
Mola High School principal, are you kidding me? Catholic High School?
He's gone. And certainly he's gone, he's let go. He's
not the prince anymore. You know, That's what happens. So
you know, the setting is set. That is the position
that you may have. And certainly a position like a
football player is protected by his coach. I don't think
a principal, or an athletic or the or a president

(01:36:14):
doesn't have that kind of protection.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
And really and truly, in this day and.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
Age, the football player is more valuable than the athletic
director or the coach or the president because he's the
guy that's the cash cow. He's bringing the money into
the university.

Speaker 5 (01:36:28):
Yeah, I would say that it's all flip because it
shouldn't be that because you shouldn't be you shouldn't be
forced to bow down to a young person as the
representatives like, oh, we don't want to punish them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:40):
Because whatever, because guess what.

Speaker 5 (01:36:41):
Young people need guidance, direction, They need structure, and the
structure has to be in place so they understand that.
Hey man, it's just not a society where you can
just run around without reproach. You have to abide by
the laws of the country. You have to buy by
the rules and the regulations that are part of the university.
And so if we're saying from day one, you can't

(01:37:04):
get behind the wheel and drive impaired or there's X,
Y and Z, well now you knew what it was
and you took the risks, and so actions deserve consequences.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Last, but not least, if this happened in North Carolina
when you were playing, what would have happened.

Speaker 3 (01:37:22):
We would have been suspended. Coach Brown would have suspended us.

Speaker 5 (01:37:26):
And I think most universities around the country would have
a suspension, like I think it would be. I am
surprised that Mike Gundhy has been able to do that,
and I'm also surprised that the ad didn't step in
immediately after that. Oh Coach Gandhy said that, But yeah, no,
at the university, we hold our guys to our higher standard.

(01:37:47):
We are going to suspend them for whatever. It just
shows that Mike Gundhy has the juice. Mostly administration would
step in. It's just step in and be like, oh, yeah, no,
you have to because just think about it from a
pr standpoint. Oklahoma State looks crazy. They look crazy, like
from not doing it, not saying kick him off the team,

(01:38:07):
but the fact that there's not a suspension or something
that people can see like yeah, because you got to
remember they're young people in the state of Oklahoma, young
kids eight nine years old that loved the football team.
That may take oh, well, Ali is the star player.
He got away with doing it. So when I become
a star, I can have my own set of rules.

(01:38:28):
And so that's what we talk about. You don't want
to be a role model, but you don't have a choice.
That's just the role that you're in. And so Mike
Gundy should have taken all those things in consideration when
he made that decision.

Speaker 2 (01:38:38):
If I was my Gundy's advisor, if I worked at
Oklahoma State, I say, coach, this is what I would
do if I were you. The first game of the
season is usually against the Division FS, one type of school,
a choice state, or whatever may be. Suspend him for
half the game for half. When you do that, you're
easing the pressure. Everybody's happy. You gotta do what you

(01:38:59):
gotta do, and you eliminate all the conversation like we
just had. Now that conversation goes away because he's been
suspended and just do it for half a half of
the game against a mediocre opponent. That's what you gotta do.
But he didn't do it. But we welcome your phocals
on this at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox
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In this we got the blame game, but now we
know how they got there. We'll tell you all about
that next. This is a real cutthroat move and that's
coming right up. He's Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:39:37):
I'm Andy Furman.

Speaker 2 (01:39:37):
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Fox Sports Sunday right after we get off the air. Now,
the question is, or the question was, how did the
University of Colorado really join the Big twelve conference?

Speaker 8 (01:40:14):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:40:15):
The answer came out a couple of days ago, according
to documents. Get this, this is unreally, it really is.
The school was offered two point five million dollars as
a signing bonus from the conference last year to leave
the PAC twelve. Now, Bucky Brooks can or should the

(01:40:35):
PAC twelve sue the Big twelve for doing what they
did underhandedly offering them a signing bonus to get these
teams at school out of their conference.

Speaker 4 (01:40:46):
I think it's disgusting, I really do.

Speaker 5 (01:40:50):
I mean this business never personalized business, and in a
big money business where you're trying to put together the
best conference that you can to make more money. Look,
it's a small expense for the Big twelve to say, hey,
we'll pay.

Speaker 3 (01:41:03):
You up front if you come over.

Speaker 5 (01:41:05):
It's gonna be better for not only you, but it's
gonna be better for the other member institutions.

Speaker 3 (01:41:10):
Let's do it, and let's be honest.

Speaker 5 (01:41:13):
We have seen in major business where corporations are seeing
a company struggling and they're like, hey, they're struggling. Hey,
let's let's kill them off. The PAC twelve was floundering,
they were losing people, they didn't have a TV deal.
They took advantage of an opportunity. Some would say like, oh,
that's not right from an ethical standpoint, but I would say, Man,
this business. If you're struggling, my job is to make

(01:41:36):
my brand better. I could make my brought my brand
better by taking something that's attached.

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
To your brand, and you're gonna lose it anyway, so
I might as well have it. That's what they did.

Speaker 2 (01:41:46):
So you think the PAC twelve should have went into
some schools and offer them as signing bonus to get
him into the PAC twelve. You think that maybe they're
looking at.

Speaker 3 (01:41:54):
Maybe they should have.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:41:56):
Yeah, they dropped the ball because there's no relevance right now.
The PAC twelve is no longer and if they had
been on the front end of it, maybe they would
have gone to the Mountain West and asked some of
those teams like a Boise State or San Jose State
or some of those other teams to come on board
to continue to try and fortify their conference.

Speaker 3 (01:42:14):
They didn't.

Speaker 5 (01:42:14):
They sat there and waited and waited and it flipped.
They got poached UCLA usc all left Oregon. Other team
you dubbed they left, So they're without anything and a
prestigious conference at one point that was part of a
power five is now no longer. And so they're powerful
with some of their members in those four big conferences.

Speaker 3 (01:42:39):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:42:40):
The strange thing is here the other three Pac twelve
teams that followed Colorado into the Big Twelve, and they
did it just like a week later after Colorado admitted
into the conference. They didn't get a signing bonus. According
to the Big Twelve admission agreements, they didn't get one.
I mean, and it's funny because I asked the commissioner.

Speaker 4 (01:42:57):
Your mock of the Big twelve.

Speaker 2 (01:42:59):
They asked him, and he came out with a really
a pretty good answer. He says, they're the one that
got us the four. So in other words, he's new.
If they got Colorado, Colorado coming in with primetime, maybe
that was the deal right there. And they came in,
they said, well, look we got Colorado, Arizona. Arizona State

(01:43:19):
Youth thought they got to come into and they did,
and they came in with other signing bonus. But I
wonder if they knew at the time that Colorado did
get a signing bonus.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
I mean they may or may not known, but it
doesn't matter. You're late to the party. Every negotiation is
its own negotiation.

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
If they didn't have the foresight to ask for a
signing bonus, then that's on them to sign the contract
that they didn't negotiate that in.

Speaker 3 (01:43:43):
But Colorado, for whatever reason, had a bigger.

Speaker 5 (01:43:47):
Brand, and maybe that brand was that Dion Sanders was
gonna come and bring a bunch of eyeballs to the
game when his team is on, and that's going to
bring more eyeballs to the conference he did. Maybe that
has something to do with that. Regardless of what we
may think about Dion, dionas must seet.

Speaker 3 (01:44:05):
Well, we won't say Diane, We'll say coach Prime.

Speaker 5 (01:44:07):
Regardless of what we say about Coach Prime, he must
see TV.

Speaker 3 (01:44:11):
Everybody tunes in.

Speaker 5 (01:44:13):
Everyone has an opinion, whether you love him or hate him,
you tune in and you watch those ratings speak for themselves.
And Colorado probably understood that and at the table they
were like, yeah, you want us. I know why you
want us because we are a draw. Regardless of what
the record says, we are a draw and you're going
to pay us for then that brand name that you're

(01:44:33):
linking to your conference.

Speaker 4 (01:44:35):
I will tell you this much.

Speaker 2 (01:44:36):
Last year, Deon Sanders to college football was like Caitlin
clarck is to the WNBA, because I think the first
four weeks of college football last year, Colorado was on
the first three.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
Yestional TV.

Speaker 5 (01:44:50):
They were, Yes, they were, and so that's that's what
it is. That's what it is, that's what it's always
going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:57):
It's amazing and they bret your mouth. The commissioner of
the Big Twelve, his remark was to the meeting when
the meetia said, well wait and wait a minute. You
know these other three teams didn't get a dime and
you gave Colorado, you had a big bonus two point
five mil to join the conference.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
What was the deal? His answer was great, He says,
first mover, one got us four.

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
So Dion sand he wouldn't say that, but one got
us four in a bad year for Colorado and they
wouldn't have done it. You're right, you know in college sports,
and sports is all about personalities. It's about following people.
Like right now, the All Star Game is going to
be must see TV. Why because of that rookie pitcher
on the Pittsburgh Pirates. It's not the game itself, it's

(01:45:36):
the personalities and people in the game, you know. I'll
look at the listings on TV what games are on.
If I see the Indiana Fever playing, I'm not a
big fan of the Indiana Fever, but I want to
watch Caitlin Clark. I watched the WNBA now because of her.
There was another game on yesterday, I think that Vegas
was playing La.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
I said to myself, you know what, it's kind of
a nice day. I'm going to go outside instead. I'm
not going to waste the middle of the afternoon watching
that game. You know, not a bad team, not too
bad teams. Vegas is a hell of a team. But
I like watching Kaitlyn Clock play. She's exciting. She's must
see TV. So is Angel Reese on Chicago. Those are
the games I want to see play. And in the
National Football League maybe it's a different animal. Maybe because

(01:46:17):
the league is so strong, there are so many great
players and so many personalities, and the way the league
is marketed, it's all about quarterback versus quarterback. That's what
it is they market the stars. Baseball doesn't do that.
They finally got a star and Pittsburgh is a pitcher.
You know, they don't do it with Otani, they don't
do it with anybody else, but they're doing it with
Pittsburgh and he's starting in the All Star Game. They

(01:46:38):
got to realize, these people who work leagues and commissioners
of leagues, it's not the team, it's not the sport.
It's the players in this sport that do the selling
for your team and your sport.

Speaker 3 (01:46:50):
The way it is, it is dead.

Speaker 5 (01:46:52):
And that's what you have to remember, Like it is
always about making sure that it's about the players, because
the players are the reason why it happens. And so
that's what we always have to keep him mind exactly right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:06):
He's Bucky Brooks Sady Firm, and we are Fox Sports
Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (01:47:11):
And of course one NFL quarterback is balking these days.
He really is. That's next.

Speaker 2 (01:47:16):
But first, Kevin Wyert, he's barking with all your sports now, yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:47:19):
Bucking up all the baseball scores from Saturday. We are
one day away from the All Star break, and the
Dodgers man they want that to come as quickly as possible.
They got swept by the Phillies earlier this week, and
then on Saturday, they were up by five in the
ninth inning and end up losing it extra innings eleven
to nine. And to make matters worse, they were hoping

(01:47:41):
to get Dustin May, one of their great young pitchers,
back for the stretch run, but has been reported that
he will miss the rest of the season because of
a torn esophagus, staying in the National League West that
I'm backs get a big win against the Toronto Blue Jays,
pounding him twelve to one.

Speaker 8 (01:47:57):
Behind two were home runs from.

Speaker 9 (01:47:59):
Corby and Carroll, the Padre snapping a five game losing
streak as they shut out the Braves for nothing. A
tie now at top of the American League East. Orioles
had been in command of that division, but they're in
free fall right now. They've lost five straight games, including
a defeat to the Baltimore to the New York Yankees
excuse me, six to one, and it is now a

(01:48:20):
tie a top of the division. The Yankees and Orioles
all even as they head into the last game before
the All Star break. Aaron Judge hitting his thirty fourth
home run of the season that leads the league, and
that's a record also for the Yankees for most home
runs before the All Star Break. It was a doubleheader
between the Cardinals and Cubs. Saint Louis sweeps it, winning

(01:48:42):
at eleven to three and five to four. The Mets
win their fifth game in a row, beating the Rocky
seven to three. Rangers and Astros goes to extra innings
where Texas wins at two to one and the Reds
beat the Marlins ten to six. Miami has now lost
five straight games. Soccer tune up before the Olympics for
the women's national team. They beat Mexico, won nothing, Sophia

(01:49:06):
Smith getting the second half goal, and Fox is gonna
carry two games. Today. The Euro twenty twenty four final
Spain and England kicks off at three Eastern time. Then
we'll have the Copa America Final Argentina and Columbia at
eight o'clock Eastern. In the WNBA, the New York Liberty
beat the Chicago Sky eighty one sixty seven as they

(01:49:29):
hailed Angel Reese to eight points, but she did grab
sixteen boards. And at Wimbledon, it was Barbara Kretchikova winning
the title in three sets. Sixty four was the final
number in the third and she beats a seventh seed
at Jasmine Polini. And we'll have the final, the men's
final coming up between Carlos Alcarez and Novak Djokovic. Ludvig

(01:49:51):
Aberg wins the Scottish Open by two strokes over Scotland's
Robert McIntyre.

Speaker 4 (01:49:55):
Back to you guys, all right, Ken, thank you so much.
Have a great Dan.

Speaker 2 (01:49:58):
Now is this noise any good? We'll explain that in
just about a minute. He's Bucky Brooks. I me Andy Fermow.
We have Fox Sports Sunday at Fox Sports Radio and
we're from the ti Raq dot com studios live and
of course we've got the Blaying game coming up in
about six seven minutes from now. Let's talk about the
Buffalo Bills for a second. I say the arrow may
be pointing in the wrong direction entering this season. Why
the roster many players part of their way. Stefan Digg

(01:50:20):
is gone, Gave Davis has gone on their offensive side
of the ball, Michael Hyde's gone on defense, Jordan Poyer's
gone on defense. So you know, could be somewhat of
a rebuilding year for Josh Allen and basically the Buffalo Bills,
but the left tackle Dion Dawkins had something to say
about his quarterback.

Speaker 4 (01:50:36):
Josh Allen.

Speaker 2 (01:50:37):
He was on the Colin Coward Heard show this week.
Let's take a list to Dion Dawkins.

Speaker 4 (01:50:43):
How does he lead? Does he ever bark?

Speaker 3 (01:50:45):
I mean, does Josh ever bark?

Speaker 4 (01:50:47):
I mean, is he ever allowed?

Speaker 2 (01:50:48):
I mean, like you, we didn't have to, but has
he ever gotten after a little bit like you?

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
Absolutely, Josh.

Speaker 10 (01:50:53):
Josh is like one of those guys that will do
what it takes at that moment, and he's definitely a
barker when that time comes. And I've actually seen the
bark a lot more this OCAs where he's been like
very very like verbal because our team is different, like
it's it's different.

Speaker 4 (01:51:14):
Not some young dudes on that offense.

Speaker 10 (01:51:16):
We got some young dudes that like, you know, like
when they come in, like they see a little bit
of success and it could change. So Josh was doing
exactly and what he should.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
Okay, that was Dion Dalker's left tackle of Buffalo Bill
started the Colin Coward earlier this week right here on Fox.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
But it's ready.

Speaker 2 (01:51:32):
I only one man can answer this question, as Bucky Brooks,
and I'm so happy you see it right now. I
would tell you right now that players no coaches, and
players know their teammates and their players.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
What do I mean by that? You can't change your personality?

Speaker 2 (01:51:47):
Okay, Marv Levy, if you remember, way back in the day,
coach the Buffalo Bills, a mild mannered man never raised
his voice. If he came into the locker one day
and started shouting and screaming and giving the F bomb
out there, people would know, Oh, it's not him, it's phony.
So Josh Allen right now is barking. He may not
really have that in his personality. Players know that, you know,

(01:52:08):
and players that have been around him know that. So
you just can't change. You've seen that, bucket. If you're
a mild manned guy just the way you are. Coaches
cannot change. The players know that it's not real when
they start doing something that's out of their ordinary personality.

Speaker 5 (01:52:26):
Yeah, but in certain situations, maybe a player who has
those natural leadership skills chokes him down because he doesn't
want to be offensive. So let's say in Buffalo that
Josh Allen is normally a barker.

Speaker 3 (01:52:39):
Who likes to woof and get after his guys.

Speaker 5 (01:52:42):
You had a player there in Stefan Diggs who maybe
didn't respond well to that. Josh Allen probably choked his
personality down, toned his personality down to accommodate and respect
the wishes of Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 3 (01:52:55):
Stefan Diggs isn't there anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:52:57):
Now Josh Allen could maybe be his authorself in terms
of how he goes about leading in those things that
might be what you're seeing. You removed Stephan Diggs. Now
Josh Allen can fully be who he is. The Carolina
Panthers did this years ago, and I'm not saying that
it was an issue between Steve Smith and Cam Newton,
but Cam Newton could never.

Speaker 3 (01:53:18):
Fully be the leader of the team because.

Speaker 5 (01:53:20):
Steve Smith was always around and he had been the
guy that was viewed as the leader. He had a
big personality. He was more vocal than Cam Newton or
anybody else on the team at the time. So to
help Cam Newton be able to develop that voice, they
removed Steve Smith from the equation, and then Cam Newton's
leadership and all that other stuff went through the roof

(01:53:42):
because he didn't have to worry about any potential friction
that he had with his receiver because that receiver wasn't there.
Maybe the Buffalo Bills cleared the path for Josh Allen
to take the next step in his development as a
leader by removing Stephan Diggs and allowing Josh Allen to
be able to kind to set the standard and to

(01:54:02):
kind of put his imprint an influence on the team.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
I would say this, there's a big loss by losing
a guy like Stefan Diggs. But I'll go one step
further and say I don't think Josh Allen's crying about
him leaving. I don't think there was any love loss
between Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen. And I'll tell you
right now, from what I look from the outside looking in,
I know no information whatsoever on is my speculation only

(01:54:26):
that Josh Allen did not like Stefan Diggs. There was
a personality problem there for whatever the reason.

Speaker 4 (01:54:32):
I heard some rumors.

Speaker 2 (01:54:33):
I'm not going to go public with it, but I
just don't think there was a problem there. And I
think that Josh Allen to some extent was intimidated by
Stefan Diggs. I really believe that Stefan Diggs is happy
in that without him. Josh Allen's happy to him without
him as well. But the team is not as strong
without Stefon Diggs.

Speaker 3 (01:54:50):
So this is what we're going to see. We're going
to see how good is Josh Allen? Right right, because
a lot of Josh Allen's success has been directly to
Stefan Diggs. So now the Buffalo.

Speaker 5 (01:55:02):
Bills have rolled the dice and said, Josh Allen is
your team, go with it. We will now have an
opportunity to fully assess how good Josh Allen is because
they've removed the guy that everyone is saying was the problem. Now,
Josh Allen, can you provide a solution? Or maybe we
got rid of the wrong guy when it came to
the locker room?

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
Dynamic time will tell. There we go.

Speaker 2 (01:55:24):
Bucky Brooks, Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio.
It's finger port thing time. Why we call it the
blame game, and it's freaking next all right, the blame
game right.

Speaker 4 (01:55:36):
Around the corner.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. He's
Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman. We are live from the
Ti rock dot Com studios, and of course at the
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Mike Harmer will join NBA star Ryan Hollins does at
nine o'clock Eastern, top of the hour right here on
Fox Sports Radio. Thank you, mighty, Mark Ramsey, Our staff

(01:55:59):
guys are okay, Kevin wy with the sports updates, and
of course the I man himself.

Speaker 4 (01:56:03):
But right now it's time for the playing game.

Speaker 1 (01:56:07):
Me, it's all your fault. It's your fault.

Speaker 4 (01:56:11):
It is all your fault.

Speaker 1 (01:56:15):
Maybe it's everyone's faults.

Speaker 6 (01:56:18):
The liar.

Speaker 1 (01:56:19):
That's why there's the blame game. Let's figure out who.

Speaker 2 (01:56:22):
To blame, Who to blame? My man, I'm blaming you.
Blame you, oh man?

Speaker 11 (01:56:27):
Okay, well I'm curious here, who do you blame? Because
Arch Manning, it turns out, will be in the EA
College Football video game after all, if you guys remember,
for a while he was not going to be in it,
he opted out, but now turns out he's in it
with an eighty seven overall rating, and some people are
upset about that. He's barely played it all, and he

(01:56:48):
has a pretty high rating in the game. So, Bucky,
who do you blame?

Speaker 5 (01:56:52):
I blame Manning and the legacy of the Mannings. Paid Manning,
Eli Manning, Archie Manning. They had a huge influence. They
paid a lot of money. I need to get him
on the game. So you're not gonna pay a lot
of money to put him on the game and have
him suck. It's the legacy. They are betting on the
come that he's going to be just like his predecessor,
really good college players.

Speaker 8 (01:57:12):
Andy.

Speaker 2 (01:57:12):
Yeah, you know what, though, give me those stats and
give me the name arch Smith.

Speaker 4 (01:57:17):
He wouldn't be there, Arch Manning. You got the name Manning.
That's it. You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:57:21):
Maybe if my last name was Manning, I'd be in
a booth doing football games. That's just the way it is,
just to name. If I make my last name was Brooks, right,
maybe I'd be a big time guy. I'm just a
schlep over here. I'm the sidekick to Bucket Brooks. His
back must hurt him every Sunday because he carries me
for three hours.

Speaker 4 (01:57:38):
But that's just the way. It's all about names. It really.

Speaker 8 (01:57:41):
He got us on commercial and stuff too. Maybe we
should make an Andy Furman commercial for Fox Sports.

Speaker 4 (01:57:45):
I say that ain't happening all right.

Speaker 11 (01:57:47):
Well, Pittsburgh Pirates rookie sensation Paul Skens. He was pitching
a no hitter the other the other day earlier this week,
pitched seven innings no hitter, but the manager Derek Shelton,
pulled him from the game once he reached ninety nine pitches.
Some fans are saying they robbed him of a chance
at history. Who do you blame Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
Well, you know what, prior to that, he pitched six
perfect innings in another game early on. So the manager
said that basically he was tired. Now here's the deal.
If he had one hit, if he had given up
one hit, I think and everybody would not complain if
they took him out. The fact that he had the
no hitter too. Everybody wants to see the no no
But you know what, you got to save the guy.
He's throwing the throwing the baseball one hundred and three

(01:58:27):
hundred four miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (01:58:29):
He's his arm's gonna fall off.

Speaker 2 (01:58:30):
He was tired. You know, I think it was a
wise move. You know, you look for the future. You
look for the longevity rather than the success. At that moment,
he'll pitch your no hitter. He'll get his no no,
but not right now.

Speaker 8 (01:58:41):
What do you think, Bucky?

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
Yeah, you try to preserve him. You don't want to
throw him too much, too soone you want to okay.
Also you got to protect play against him too.

Speaker 11 (01:58:54):
Okay, so Uruguay, Sorry if I'm saying that wrong. Players
climbed into the stands and fought some fans following their
loss in the Copa America tournament earlier this week.

Speaker 8 (01:59:04):
Who do you guys? Blame? Fucky? We'll start with you.

Speaker 5 (01:59:08):
Well, I blame the fans are being so passionate. Sometimes
that passion spills over into a lot of emotion. We
know how big these Copa Cup games are. Everyone is
into it. But you would like to have a little
more restraint. But I like the passion. As I had
a coach tell me, I would rather say whoa than
giddy up. I like the fans are passionate that they're
gonna need to be passionate with the big thing going.

Speaker 8 (01:59:30):
I like that and I like it too.

Speaker 4 (01:59:32):
You know, I understand you could pronounce it.

Speaker 2 (01:59:34):
You're a gray or you're a gray, you're a gray,
You're a gray. Either way, whatever it is, I'm glad
I don't live there because I can't pronounce it, all right,
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (01:59:44):
But you know what I blame.

Speaker 2 (01:59:45):
I blame the field, the dimensions of the field, because
if they had a moat, it wouldn't happen.

Speaker 4 (01:59:50):
Some of these fields in sok have a mote. There's
no moat there.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
Next time, play with a field where there's a moat,
so the fans can't get in there.

Speaker 4 (01:59:58):
Keep them away. All these fans are animals.

Speaker 8 (02:00:01):
You know that, all right?

Speaker 11 (02:00:02):
Serena and Venus Williams took a little jab at Harrison
Butker on stage at the SP's the other day talking
about enjoying women's sports. Quote accept you, Harrison Butker. So
he has since responded saying she was a great host,
but she used the opportunity to disinvite those with whom
she disagrees.

Speaker 8 (02:00:18):
Who do you blame, Mandy?

Speaker 2 (02:00:20):
You know it, really and truly, I really respect the
Williams sisters, but she was way off based there in
that situation on that stage because Harrison Brookeder had every
right to say what he said, and he did it
and he didn't hurt anybody, and she took a real
slap in him, slap in the face. And he just
did it to a Catholic school. He was invited there
and it was a Catholic I guess mission, so to speak.

(02:00:42):
It was a cheap shot that she did, and I
just it was ugly.

Speaker 4 (02:00:46):
It really was.

Speaker 8 (02:00:47):
Bucky Well.

Speaker 5 (02:00:49):
I would say both things were ugly because much like
he presented his opinion in front of a room for
the people, she did her.

Speaker 3 (02:00:55):
It's just what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:00:56):
And that's it. We'll see you next week. I have
a great week. We'll see you.

Speaker 10 (02:01:00):
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