Mark Willard & Ephraim Salaam Remember Former Ravens WR Jacoby Jones, Talk Davante Adams On "Receivers", Bronny Slumping, and More!!

Mark Willard and Ephraim Salaam pay tribute to former Ravens WR and Ephraim's former teammate Jacoby Jones, who passed earlier today. Mark and Ephraim also react to Davante Adams appearing on "Receivers" and throwing Jimmy Garoppolo under the bus. Plus, the guys talk more about Bronny James slumping in Summer League, the Top 5 QB's in the NFC, Jalen Brunson's discount deal, and more!!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Well, there's a
brand new documentary on Netflix called Receivers This after Quarterbacks.
I think we get the idea. Maybe we will at
some point get to left tackles. I don't I don't know.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know if we're gonna do.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
This the best.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's one though, I tell you what I've talked to
enough you you know how I feel.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I've done many a radio show with left tackles and centers,
and I'm like, man, y'all, those are pretty smart people. Yes,
we're stuff to say exactly we get it. So, my man,
there's there's a lot to get into tonight. Mark with it.
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The way tire buying should be. Look it's uh. It's
also though it's been a hell of a heavy weekend
in our country already, and I don't know this unfortunately

(01:08):
is just starting to feel like commonplace in normalcy, especially
with the way they handle it. But I bring up
receivers because to continue the heaviness I know, as Steve
de Sager just talked about, the NFL community lost a
former receiver today at an unbelievably young age. And I
know that you were a teammate of his once upon

(01:30):
a time, and so I wanted to just get out
of the way and let you say what you felt like.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Saying thank you. I appreciate that. And first off, so
Jacoby Jones' family child, nothing but love and respect. Jacoby
came in Houston as a draft pick in late late

(01:57):
round draft pick. In came from a school and he
had a tremendous amount of talent, but he was all
over the place. And I always often tell stories. I
think I've told a bunch to you and anybody else
when they asked me to question about you know, how

(02:21):
do you deal with as you get to be a
veteran in the locker room on a team, you know,
what are some of those responsibilities? And you know, Gary Kobiak,
who I was with in Denver when he came over
to Houston, he implored me to to you know, be
a voice in the locker room and to really change

(02:43):
the culture of how the Texans, uh were done and
built and made up much maligned offensive line. And you know,
although you can hear the stories and the reports about
how bad the offensive line was so forth, but he
also tasked me with something where they saw talent and

(03:06):
young players and they would say, hey, talk to him
for us, because sometimes players tend to to tune out coaches,
not sometimes most of the time, and so you need
voices that players can trust. And I remember seeing Jacoby

(03:33):
for the first time. He ran so fast. It was
like he was running on his toes. So he had
this crazy forward lean and his hands were moving just
as fast as his feet, and I was like, oh
my god, this kid is is electric. But like most
young players, they didn't know how to be a pro yet.

(03:58):
They didn't and you would run into situations. Andre Johnson
was also there for him, you know, the great Hall
of Fame Andre Johnson. But you would run, you know,
you just it's a lot. It's a lot, especially coming
from a small school, lame college, I think it was
a small school. You would come in and now you're

(04:20):
in the league and you're you're on the roster, and
it's a lot that goes with that. I myself as
a as a as a rookie felt the same way.
So I understand having a lot of expectation thrust on
you so young. And so I would pull him aside
and I would talk to him, and he was literally

(04:43):
like a little brother to me. Man, the kid was
so hungry. He wanted it so bad. Most of the times,
the kids just don't They don't know how to put
it all together. And we you know, I would stay
in his ear and now would he would come to me.
He would ask me things, and he was just a
great guy, great young player. And you never know if

(05:04):
what you're saying to them resonates, like you never know,
Like I don't go back two years later and be like,
hey man, remember those talks I used to have with you.
But after he had left Houston gone to Baltimore. Almost
was the Super Bowl MVP.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I saw him that year at the SBI's and this
is when I knew, right, And I don't want to
get emotional here, because this really meant a lot to me.
So I'm there at the sb's and he sprints over
to me with his mother and he said, Mom, this

(05:47):
is him. This is e from Salaam. He's the one
who helped me get my stuff together. Wow, and I
want I want you to meet him and to me,

(06:08):
that's it. That's it. That's all that matters. The money,
the ef fact, all of that stuff, none of that matters. Man,
I've never been that guy. Like, if you can help
someone better their life, tap into their gifts and become

(06:33):
who they're meant to be, what he did, that that's it.
I don't I didn't need that, but hearing that from him,
it really touched me in a way to make me
be like, wow, Okay, I get it. Similar to as
a professional athlete, I've gone to hundreds of schools and

(06:54):
spoken to schools teams. I've spoken to whole schools before,
classroom sports teams, basketball, for everything, and years later you
get letters in the mail from now adults who say, hey, man,
I just want you to know I was listening and

(07:17):
you helped me change my life. Like those are the
types of things that I believe I was blessed with
being here and being able to do to add value
to someone's life no matter what they're going through. We
all go through things, and Jacoby, to me.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Man, that just really.

Speaker 3 (07:38):
It really validated my thirteen year career in the NFL.
Not the money, not the pension, not the years, not
the games, not any of that. Hearing things like that.
And he's not the other He's not the only person
that I've run into after I spoke a lot about

(08:00):
Dwayne Brown, you know, when he came to Houston. Also
like my little brother. You know, it's tough, it's tough.
It's a lot that goes into this stuff.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
Man.

Speaker 3 (08:11):
And and and to find out today that Jakobe had
passed away, Man, it hit me like a truck. It
really did.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Man.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
Been forty years old, full of life, just energetic. As
soon as he walks in the room, he just just
brightened up the room.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Man.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
And boy, that one, Oh that one, that one hit
me hard, man, because I really really really enjoyed, uh,
this young man as a teammate, as a person, as
a brother, and it just, uh, life is shured.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
People.

Speaker 3 (08:49):
I will tell you this, whatever's going on in your life,
how do you feel about something? This is the only
one we get as far as I know, as far
as I know, what may seem like an insurmountable obstacle

(09:14):
in life, it's not reach out to that loved one,
reach out to that friend, call someone, reach out to
a stranger, Call somebody you haven't talked to in a
long time. Hey, man, check it in on you. You okay?

(09:36):
Little things like that. Man, we got to get back
to being human. We have to get back to being
human beings. Not Democrats, not Republicans, not this, not that,
just human beings. I don't care who you're going to

(09:59):
vote for. I don't care what your politics are. I
care if you're okay or not. And if we can
somehow tap into that, I think we have a chance.
I think humanity has a chance. You look and see

(10:20):
what's going over in other countries. Palestine is like, there's
no humanity. Everything is about this. While the Muslims old,
the Jews old, the Christians old every it's always something

(10:41):
that you place above humanity. And I get it. One's
beliefs dictates how they live and how they move through life.
I understand that. But human decency is human decency, and
every religion I know has human decency. And if we
can't tap into that, man, we're losing people. We're losing people.

(11:08):
There's a daughter without her dad this morning. There's a
dad without their child this morning. My mother, I didn't
say anything about this, but two weeks ago my father
passed away. I'll never be able to pick up the
phone and call my dad again. And here's the voice
he listened to the show. At the end of the
show last week, I said, I love you, Dad, because

(11:31):
that's the first time I've been doing radio. He didn't
hear a show. I've been doing radio for twenty years,
twenty plus years. Yesterday was the first day I knew
for a fact he wasn't listening last week. And it's difficult.

(11:54):
I get it, but we got to care about each other.
It's got to be important, and it's got a change. Man.
I'm tired of it. I got kids I'm trying to
raise man. Sorry about that.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Go ahead, man, No, hey, man, I listen. You already
know this. I tell you a lot, but I appreciate
the hell out of you, and I'm going to give
you my condolences twice for the loss of your father
and today the loss of your friend. A few things

(12:29):
struck me there right at the front of the line
was when you told the story of him bringing his
mom over to you at the s p's and the
first thing he said to you was, this is him.
That phrasing tells me that there were numerous conversations about you,

(12:55):
not in your presence, between the two of them through
the years, like Mom, this is him, this is the
one I've been telling you about. And that's uh, that's beautiful.
And I bet prior to that day it sounds like
you didn't know that. No, you didn't know that. So

(13:18):
I'm glad you got to know that. And and I'm
glad he got to have you as a teammate. And
I don't want to pry. I gathered this surprised you
today there's nothing for me. I have no idea what
happened sur So I don't know if he had an
illness or if something sudden. I don't know. And I again,
it's not my business until of the family chooses to

(13:41):
make it public, but if they ever do. But I'm yeah,
I'm just I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, And
I really and I think our audience really appreciates you
sharing what you just shared. So from so, I'm Mark Willard,
glad you're with us tonight. There's a lot to get

(14:04):
to and certainly we'll we'll we'll lighten it all up
and do the show that we normally do, but certainly
wanted to give you from an opportunity. I know you
wanted to say some things and you did it very well,
my brother. All right, this is Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1 (15:12):
All right with e from Salama Mark Willard Tyrek dot
com Studios that's where we sit. Whatever you're doing on
this Sunday night out across the land, we appreciate you
hanging with us. I mentioned the doc receivers. Some may
not know this about you. You're not just a football player,
but you're also you're a content guy.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yes, have you watched this yet yet?

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Okay, I'm only two episodes in.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
It's pretty good, it's pretty strong, it's pretty good access,
it's really good access. But I was told the stars
of the show, there are five of them that are
being profiled throughout, and I'm only two episodes in, so
I haven't really gotten to a spot where they're going
to socle back. The first two episodes are just introducing

(16:03):
and starting the process of the five players. Episode one,
I'm on Ross, Saint Brown, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel, Episode
two Justin Jefferson, Davante Adams. What I didn't know was
that this documentary is also starring Jimmy Garoppolo. I didn't

(16:25):
know that.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
But Jimmy, Jimmy's the foil, Jimmy's the joker, Jimmy is
the evil part of the show, that he is the adversary,
and I.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Didn't know that.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
And I don't know if he knew that, but this.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
This documentary started and it was like, oh wow, Like
if I were to give you thirty seconds of my review.
After two episodes, Deebo and George, like, first of all,
Joe George is very happy with his wife and family.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
That's great.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
Deebo's got the cutest kid I've ever seen in a
damn life. And both of them play for the forty
nine ers and everyone's like, wow, we're really good. Can't
win the damn thing in the end, but really good team.

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Then you go to Amanra and it's like and you
probably know this. You know his dad was mister Universe yep.
And his brothers are also players, and they are just
like workout.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
They got out of the crazy, they won the dnjackpot.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Oh my god, Oh my god. Their their their workouts
are intense. So you get that. And then we go
to episode two and there's Justin and we get how
detailed he is. In fact, his personality is often determined
based on the accessories that he wears. And then you

(17:56):
get a little bit of his season and the money
thing and then the injury, and then you get Davante
Adams and Davante is just mad.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Because because he's such a fantastic.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Player and every week, I mean it's like Week three
in Vegas and Davante is already like this is different,
this is this is not Green Bay anymore, and that
is not Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
And that's like it. That's that's the whole story.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
He's just every offensive play, they're like, there he is,
he's open.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
Whoop, Snope, it's not a catch.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
Or it's a catch and he got hammered and he's
not happy about it.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Whoops.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
What a difference a day?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
May Yes, yes, I mean, just dip your toe in
the water.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Take a listen.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
This is a sample of what we get a lot
of after plays on receivers with Davante Adams.

Speaker 7 (19:01):
I gotta get gotta here if I lose my life.
I never been hit this many times in my careers.
Every game I get.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
I gotta get out of here before I lose my
bleep in life. Every game I get bleeped up. Woof dude,
It's like Week four.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I was like, I got so many questions. I've got
so many questions.

Speaker 1 (19:31):
But I'm telling you, man, you watch this thing, and
uh look I get it. Jimmy's not in the building anymore,
so that's fine. But by the same token, I have questions.
I don't like. I came away from one episode and
I'm like, ooh, I don't. I don't know how this

(19:52):
whole Raiders and DeVante thing. I don't know where this
goes from here. That's interesting. Yeah, I like, I really don't,
because it's not like the Raiders are like, oh dude,
we no, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
We found your answer at quarterback this year.

Speaker 1 (20:11):
You did.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
This is spicy.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's very spicy. I gotta get out of here. It's
very spicy. I gotta get out of here before I
lose my bleep in life. You know, they added.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
Gardner Minshew, who's fine.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
But like of all the teams in the NFL, as
we sit here today, I'd argue, you can't put anybody
above the Raiders in terms of quarterback question marks right now? Right?
Oh no, of course, Okay, all right, so here you
have it. I don't know how they move forward when
you listen to them talk on the sideline.

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Hmmm, cautiously perhaps.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
I mean, he's such a fantastic player.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
He's wasted, He's got a lot of money, though he.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Got a lot of money. He got a lot of money,
and I know, you know, remember when he came right
it was West Coast and Fresno State and Derek.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
Carr and he's like, what happened, guys.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
What happened? What happened?

Speaker 3 (21:29):
That's not what this is not what he signed up for,
not at all. But he's in it, and it's gotta
be tough, especially as your career goes on. You get
later in your career and just think he's one year

(21:50):
removed from being the it guy at receiver. So like
psychologically as an athlete, look, I was never as talented
as at my position as he is at his position.

(22:14):
But I remember when I left Denver and went to Jacksonville.
It was not the right fit, and I start to
question my abilities literally, like, oh, I think this is

(22:37):
after six years have been in the league. So my
seventh year, I was like, oh, do I even know
how to play offensive line? The change in offense completely
disrupted my abilities, my confidence, everything, the changing offense, changing offense, plays, philosophy, everything,

(23:09):
because it's one thing to come into the league and
join the team and you join their offensive system from scratch,
like you come in as a rookie, you know you're
gonna have to learn something new. But I had been
running the same style offense for a long time, which

(23:30):
was conducive to my body. And I wasn't the plays
they ran. You had to be three twenty five. I
was too eighty to eighty five coming from Denver from
his own scheme to a gap scheme, gap schemes, meeting
man on Matt to move this three hundred pounds man

(23:52):
five yards off the ball.

Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, I could run him off the ball.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I could get him going sideways and club him out,
but I can't nose and those road grade em and
he's twenty pounds every to me, And so I started
really questioning, Okay, what am I? What am I doing here?
What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (24:14):
He from?

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Is this the end of the road? Is this something?
So you can catch yourself in a position of being
that good. Similar to when I run over on time
and I'm not getting to our update. Guy Steve the Sager,
and he's glaring at me with those true pearly glasses,

(24:38):
staring at daggers in me, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 8 (24:41):
I very own Stephen to say, hello, gentlemen, Actually, what
I'm staring at is what's going on at the Miami
Dolphins Stadium tonight. The Copa America Final is due to start,
they say, in about fifteen minutes. It was due to
start a half an hour ago with Argentina against Columbia.
Needless to say, this is a much anticipated matchup, not
only for the Championship of South America. Argentina's ranked number

(25:05):
one in the world. It has three losses in its
last sixty three games. Tonight's opponent, Columbia, is unbeaten in
its last twenty eight games over the last two and
a half years, since a loss to Argentina. At one
point in the last hour, so many people were crowding
the gates and some broke through, no doubt without tickets.

(25:27):
They shut down all the gates to the stadium and
just in the last maybe twenty minutes or so have
started letting people back in. There were ticket holders who
were stuck in line and not able to get in,
and now it's mostly filled up. Unfortunately. I've seen videos
also of people just being let in and seemingly not

(25:49):
looking at their tickets. No scan, because we're getting so
close to kickoff. It's a zoo. This is not the
first problem that we've had with the South American Federation
hosting this tournament in the us NFL stadiums. This past week,
there's been a problem with the turf going over AstroTurf
and in some cases the grass turf being put down

(26:10):
literally two to three days before the soccer match started.
The governing body posted a statement yesterday warning fans that
you have to have tickets to even enter the parking
lot of this Miami venue, and yet ap tonight spoke
to several people who had parked their cars in the
lot of the stadium without tickets to the match at all.

(26:31):
I saw in the last twenty minutes security throwing two
fans back over a cement wall who were trying to
breach the thing over, grabbing their legs and throwing them back.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
I made quite a weekend for security detail across the
country doing great.

Speaker 8 (26:49):
There's a statement from hard Rock Stadium in Miami said,
in anticipation of tonight's final thousands of fans without tickets
attempted to forcibly enter the stadium, putting other fans, security
and law enforcement at extreme risk. So security had at
that time shut down all gates to try and control
the empty process and because of this we're getting a

(27:13):
delay in kickoff again. Most of the fans are in
the stadium. I'm not sure they all have tickets, but
it's gonna be a zoo inside there as if it
wasn't going to be already they're saying ten minutes they
will have kickoff.

Speaker 9 (27:27):
This is on Fox TV tonight.

Speaker 8 (27:29):
Fox already had the Euro Final today from Berlin and
Spain won again. They went seven to zero in this
tournament and took the title over England two to one
on a goal in the eighty sixth minute. The sendoff
match for US women's soccer is Tuesday in DC against
Costa Rica before they leave for the Olympics in Paris. Saturday,
the US Olympic women's basketball team has its sendoff game

(27:51):
against a team of WNBA Stars, and then that league
will be.

Speaker 9 (27:54):
Off for about a month.

Speaker 8 (27:55):
Today four games, including an Indiana win at Minnesota eighty
one to seven. Four rookie Caitlin Clark's seventeen point six assists,
six turnovers. Clark from three point range was two for eleven.
Carlos Alcarez swept Novak Djokovic to take the Wimbledon title
his second in a row. Robert McIntyre from Scotland won
the Scottish Open by one strokeover Adam Scott. Ryan Blaney

(28:19):
the winner at the NASCAR Race at Pocono, his second
victory of the season. Major League Baseball is now officially
on All Star break. The first round of the draft
is going on tonight this afternoon. Atlanta one at San
Diego six ' to three, the win to Chris Saile.
He's thirteen and three at the break. By pitching today,
he will not pitch in the All Star Game on Tuesday.

(28:39):
Wins for San Francisco, the Angels, and Toronto and Yes.
Former Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones died. He just turned
forty this week. His family said Jones died peacefully in
his hometown of New Orleans. He won a Super Bowl
in New Orleans with Baltimore, scoring touchdowns on a fifty
six yard reception and a one hundred eight yard kickoff return.
Jones died over in his sleep at his home. No

(29:02):
immediate cause of death was an auspect to you, Steve,
thank you.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Very much, appreciate that. It's Mark weather Dany from salam
Live Tiraq dot com studios. You know, we're having that
conversation about Davante and Jimmy and and listen, I'm certainly
not gonna ask you to put this out on and
into a microphone. You can stay general. Have you ever
been on a team where the offense just was like,

(29:27):
oh god, we that's that's not the guy, Like we
don't we don't believe in our guy? Yeah of course, yeah,
so what like what what what happens? What do you
I mean like, there's no others, there's no comp for
this in sports in terms of how a team and
an entire organization looks to one guy and and if

(29:50):
that guy is bad, I would imagine the ripple effect
is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Well, it is, it is. And you got to also
remember the players don't pick the guy. Sure, the coaches
picked the guy. So in that locker room where you
know he's not the guy and the coaches pick him,
it immediately does what undermines the coach in the locker

(30:23):
room because he sees what you see. He's a practice.
You're there, you're a part of it. You understand. There
are no dummies. They know, and you get yourself in
a situation where you're like, well, are what is it?
There's always something behind this. Then you start bringing up

(30:44):
was the contract? This is this cheap?

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Or is that?

Speaker 3 (30:47):
What? Like everything outside of what's best to win. When
I came into the NFL in nineteen ninety eight as
a seventh round draft pick, I got an opportunity to
start to fight for a position in camp. Whether I
fought forward hard enough and wanted or not was on me,

(31:12):
and that's how I got my start. The person that
I was competing with, they had just paid a large
sum of money as a free agent to come and
be the right tackle. I didn't even play right tackle.
I played left tackle. But they said, hey man, you

(31:35):
could be fourth string left tackle or you could be
second string right tackle right now. I said, well, I'm
going over here figure it out. But the opportunity to
compete for a job and then win that job, let
everybody in the locker room and everybody on the stab
know they're trying to put the best eleven on the

(31:56):
field no matter what. That's how you get That's how
you can galvanize a locker room. Now we're on the
same page. I talk about it openly because it wasn't
that way. Later in my career at Detroit eleven years later.

(32:21):
It wasn't that way. They didn't care about putting the
best eleven on the field. They cared about we drafted
him with the first in the first round last year.
Whether he's ready to go or not, he has to play.
I was told, we know you're better than him, we
get it. But I was brought there to push him

(32:47):
or push him out the way, and it didn't.

Speaker 7 (32:54):
Not.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
The coaches, the organization decided this was this is what's
gonna That's where the money is. So that's that's where
we invested. That's what we're gonna do. And once you
start playing those games, they are different fractures to start
to happen because guess what we all practice. I'm not

(33:17):
lying to you. This is a real, actual story. I
myself was Ajohn was a John. I can't remember who
the We were both later in our careers, and we
were both offensive lineman. We were good former starters and
all of that, and so we said to each other,
since they're not going to let us play in the games,

(33:39):
we're gonna make Wednesday Thursday our games. We're gonna make
Wednesday Thursday our games. So we would go out there
on scout team. I've been in the league twelve years.
He's been in the league ten nine ten, I think
so far. When I tell you, we were demolishing the

(34:04):
starting defense so much so the defensive coordinator came into
our practice room and put the practice film on and
told us you have to stop doing this, which I

(34:25):
get because guys who start in playing the game they
not doing it, like.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Right, right right.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
And I've been on the other side of that.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Sure, sure, you're not trying to get hurt.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
You trying to out team guy who is.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
I'm like, bro, I'm not gonna let you chop my
hands because I got a broken thumb and I need
them for Sunday and you out here trying to make
the team. I've been on the other side of that.
But I was so mad. Me and this other player
we got together and we was like, no, we're gonna
take it out on man. We were running these plays.

(35:02):
The whole would be we couldn't get through a nine
oh seven period. We had to keep repeating plays. Man,
the whole would be so big. Were peeling off on linebackers.
I'm running down on safeties because you're supposed to thut
him up and let him go as a running back.
They not even getting to the running back. So when
you run a play and the running back is not

(35:23):
touched for twenty yards, you gotta run that again. They
know where the play is going. Scout team is designed
for you to call the right defense against the right play.
But too old surly offensive lineman decided, Nah, were gonna

(35:44):
make this our game.

Speaker 1 (35:48):
So I'd like to know a after the coach came
in and asked you to stop, did you? And also
coming up next, don't answer yet, coming up next. This
leads to a question ues Jan that Jeremy Fowler of
ESPN he polled execs and scouts and the coaches for
the top five quarterbacks in the NFC. The list might

(36:11):
raise your eyebrows, particularly one very notable absentee. We'll tell
you about that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (36:22):
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
Okay, y'all with Evram Salam, Mark Wailerlive Tirerack dot com studios.
All right, so we were just talking about quarterbacks. It
is based off of our conversation about Davante Adams in
the documentary on Netflix Receivers, where it is very clear
he wanted no part of Jimmy Garoppolo on his team anymore,

(36:55):
and he doesn't have Jimmy Garoppolo on his team anymore.
But I'm not sure he's got what he does want,
which is a much better quarterback. The days of Aaron
Rodgers and DeVante Adams are long gone, but it led.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
To this conversation.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
I found this interesting and wonder what your initial reaction is.
Jeremy Fowler of ESPN did a comprehensive poll in the
NFC of executives, scouts, and coaches. This is one of
those like anonymous deals, but this is not a fan poll.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
This is not asking teammates who may be biased or whatever.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Execs, scouts, coaches, give me your top five NFC only quarterbacks.
So there's no Homes, no Lamar, no Josh Allen, no Herbert,
just NFC here to me is the headline. Top five
just in the conference. Jalen Hurts is not on the list.

(37:57):
How does that grab you? That's grabbing. That's grabbing. He's
grabbing the heck out of me. I think he's I
think he's earned a right to be in the top five. Okay,
do you want to rattle off the top five? Sure,

(38:19):
I'll give them to you, and then we can pull
them apart in a bunch of different directions, because there's
a lot to say here. Number five is Jordan Love, okay.
Number four is Brock Purdy. Number three, I know all
you have to do is say that name and you're like, well,
there's the next two hours anyway. Number three Dak Prescott okay.

(38:44):
Number two Jared Goff whoa Okay? And I know now
some of you are like, well, waiting to the hood
the hell. Number one Matt Stafford. H that Stafford, number
one quarterback in the All right, okay, let's let you

(39:06):
go where you want to go.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
I have no problem with Matt Stafford at one. I
don't either. I don't have a problem with that. I really, NFC,
I don't have a problem with that. You can argue it.
Super Bowl winner, put up all the ards you want.
I'm sure he took a team that everybody thought was
melling it in and had some career record with receivers
nobody had ever heard of before.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
How do you not put him in number He's an
elite thrower of the football, Nkula. I mean, I don't
even write it. Took us three weeks to pronounce it,
let alone watch him start breaking record.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Right, So that's's fantastic.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
Yes, he's fantastic, all right?

Speaker 3 (39:47):
So what I would do? I'm not sure how Jared
Goff got there at number two. I like Jared Goff.
I think he's a poor man. Stafford's ironic. They were
for one another. Yes, but I will put Party, uh,
I will put Party second. I will put Jalen Hurts third.

(40:11):
I will put Dak forth and then Jarrett Goff fifth,
and remove Jordan Love.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
Out and remove Jordan Love you I and I get
that Jordan Love might be a sample size issue, very
very yes, because Jordan Jordan is tremendous. But there's a
sample size issue there. I get your feelings on golf.
There's a lot more to unpack here, so uh we
will we will unpack that here coming up next. There's

(40:39):
also some things to say about Jalen Brunson and Brownie James.
Will do that coming up on Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,
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That most recent commercial break just unceremoniously interrupted our conversation.
So returning to our story, as they used to say

(41:23):
on Dateline NBC, this is kind of what we were
talking about, and you got to lay out again how
you would rank them. But Jeremy Fowler VESPN did a
poll of NFC execs, scouts and coaches and they came
up with the top five NFC quarterbacks and the notable
admission was Jalen Hurts. O mission, I should say was

(41:47):
the notable omission. Jalen Hurts is not on the list.
I mean, dude, was about to be the MVP Super
Bowl win. Are all of these things just over a
year ago? Now? Apparently not on the list. But the
list goes number five Jordan Love, number four, Rock Party,
number three, Doc Prescott, number two Jared Goff, and number.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
One Matt Stafford.

Speaker 1 (42:12):
Now, what was your list again, you had no issues
with Stafford as one, I don't.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
And then where'd you go from there?

Speaker 3 (42:19):
I had what did I have? I think you had
Perty two party at two? Jalen hurts it three, Jalen
hurts it three. I had Jack at four, Jack at four, uh,
and I had jaredff five five.

Speaker 1 (42:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:34):
Okay, so bunches of questions.

Speaker 1 (42:37):
Let's start with put some words on why Jordan Love's
not on your.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
List yet because the sample size is too small, and
you got to remember, Jordan Love had a tremendous year
for Green Bay, absolutely a rebuilding year for them. When
you lose a Davante Adams and then you lose you know,
one of the two quarterbacks you've had forty years, it
seems like, yeah, what he has been able to do

(43:03):
with that young group of receivers that no one gave
a chance the second half of the season speaks value
because the first half wasn't you know, anything to write
home about. Yep, they got locked in. Of course, it
was his first year really starting, first full year of starting,
so it took an adjustment. Second half of the season

(43:24):
he came on. Did he come on enough to place
them to place him in the top five. No, they
went to Dallas and demolished them. Okay, good, yep, yep.
But there's a bunch of teams that could have done that.
All the playoff teams, in my opinion, could have done
that to Dallas. Dallas just doesn't, for whatever reason, decide

(43:47):
to show up. But that's neither here nor there. So
if Jordan Love comes out on fire this year and
he sustains that for the full year, then absolutely he
jumps into that conversation of being the best five.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
That's in my opinion. Okay. And then why why does
Jalen Hurtz coming third? For you?

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Slash?

Speaker 1 (44:15):
Why do you think he didn't even show up on
this list?

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Well, I don't know. They had a lot of injury problems.
Sure this past season they did not meet expectations. But
his ability, and he's shown his abilities to be able
to pass the ball from the pocket on the run
and his deadly ability attacking defenses with his feet, I
think automatically.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
Puts him on this list.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
Okay, automatically, well, okay, I totally get it.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
Let me just let's have a Devil's advocate cout. Okay,
I like that. Okay, let's let's do this because I
I can pull up on the internet why he's not
on the list. I'm not saying I wouldn't have put
him on the list, but I can why he's not.

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I can tell why he's not.

Speaker 1 (45:03):
Let me let me let me start with this, especially
as an offensive lineman. What is your thought on that?
And I'm it's off season, so I've already forgotten. What
the hell they called this thing? The push, the shove,
the brotherly shove, whatever the hell they Okay, what is
your thought on this kakamamie play? What is that?

Speaker 2 (45:22):
Is that? Jalen? Is it Kelsey? Was it Kelsey? What's
going on there?

Speaker 3 (45:27):
No, there's there's there's a combination of them. Because you
can put another quarterback in there and it may not
be as successful as it is for you. So it's
a combination. It's a play that they created that takes
the strengths of what they do offensively up front, but

(45:50):
the offensive line lit by Jason Kelsey and his ability
to find the right place. Also, they're really lifting him
up and push him through that. So there's a combination
of the two things that I think make that an

(46:10):
unstoppable play. That question leads to more here. Here's here's
what I want to do next.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
What do Let's see, let me make my list here.
What do Torod Taylor and Tommy DeVito and Kyler Murray
and Joe Flacco and Gino Smith and Baker Mayfield and
Derek Carr and Russell Wilson and Jake Browning all have

(46:44):
in common? What do they have in common? A better
quarterback rating than Jalen Hurts. Now, it's a stat so
you can crumple it up and hock it in the
corner if you want, shoot it like a foil ball
at the trash. You can do that, and I can
feel that. But that's enough names for me to go, huh, why.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Why?

Speaker 1 (47:15):
Why is his quarterback rating that low? It's below ninety?
Why is it that low? Is it possible that there
are things that are that we're not seeing with Jalen
Hurts because of what we're feeling. And here's what we're feeling.

(47:36):
We're feeling like a damnit. He probably should have won
a Super Bowl a year and four months ago. He
probably should have, but he didn't. He made one very
big mistake. It wasn't like he was bad in that
game at all. And then that came out the following
year and spent half the year as the do They

(48:01):
were the dudes. Plus here's my other point, your brotherly
shove and all of the things that that offense used
to do. You know what they make Jalen Hurts. They
make Jalen Hurts somebody who wins you your fantasy games.
And this makes people go, wow, he's one of the
best quarterbacks in the league. What Jalen Hurts is also

(48:25):
is somebody who did not throw for four thousand yards.
He is somebody who's touchdown to interception ratio was simply
twenty three and fifteen, not good like that does not
match with the other top quarterbacks in the league. And
I would argue, once the Niners went in there and

(48:46):
embarrassed them, they were a horrible football team for half
of a year. Okay, but many of those facts get
swept under the rug because of the name value and
the eyepop and all and the fantasy that had been
happening for a year and a half, So we we

(49:09):
ignore some of those factors.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
But I'll tell you this, when you talk about he
didn't throw for four thousand yards, No, he didn't. He
threw for thirty eight fifty eight, right, more than he's
ever thrown for in his whole career as a starter.
Oh on top of that, he also gave you, uh,
six hundred yards rushing, no question, and fifteen touchdowns on

(49:36):
the ground. Yes, so when you combine those, it does
whatever it is, six points go up on the board.
Other teams can do it. They didn't put a rule
in because they're like, y'all do it too, which'all well,

(49:57):
but which y'all mad at us for.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
But what you all say so said was other quarterbacks
could do it. Yeah, they could do it, all right.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
So what I'm saying is I would take out of
the top five quarterbacks, I would take a Jalen Hurts
before I would take Dak Prescott, before I would take
Jordan Love and before I would take jareded Golf. I
would take Jalen Hurts as my starting quarterback with his

(50:25):
intangibles over any of those three. That's why I put
him in the top five and Love out.

Speaker 1 (50:32):
I understand that if you had a draft today, if
you got all the NFL gms and you're.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Just like, sorry, we've only got four players.

Speaker 1 (50:38):
This is a supplemental draft, and there are only four
players available. Actually, let's make it five. Let's let's let's
throw them in there and really just shake everybody up.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
There are five players available, and yes, just like any draft,
you have to take their age into consideration, their projection
for their career.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
You may not. This is not fantasy. This is real.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
And the five players are Jalen Hurts, Doc Prescott, Jordan Love,
Jared Goff and Brock Purty.

Speaker 2 (51:12):
Who's getting drafted first?

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Hmmm, so it's you didn't say Stafford, right?

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Nope?

Speaker 3 (51:22):
No, Stafford, Stafford, Jordan Loves, Hurts.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Rock Pury.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Party. Yes, and this is without seeing them play all
right as they I.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Don't know as they as they are right now, like
I can have if you if.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
You did that right now, Brock Party would go first.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
You think I think it would be I think it
would be Jordan Love.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
I think it would be Rock Party because if you
look at what Brock Purdy has done in his sample
size right in his two years, sure, first of all,
it's been amazing.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It's incredible.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
And if he were a first round draft pick two
years ago instead of the last pick in the seventh round,
we wouldn't even be having this conversation of having to
validate why he would be drafted first brother because but
because he was drafted where he was drafted, No, everybody

(52:22):
was like, listen, it's something's got to be wrong. So
they had to be someone. They had to it it's
something wrong.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
You know, I'm with you for crying out loud. I
coined the word droptism. I get like, you know that
I'm with you, But you know what is still bouncing
around also in the backs of people's minds. It's not
just the seventh round thing. The second thing that hurts
Brock is Jimmy. I get it.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
It's it's Jimmy.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
Because everyone looks at Garoppolo, who now has Dafonte Adams
literally pulling dreads off of his head, and they go, Lord,
Kyle Shanahan made that guy. They almost won a super
Bowl with this guy, and he can't even keep DeVante
Adams for three weeks happy. So there's gotta be something

(53:14):
in the water with the Niners that elevates a quarterback
beyond he actually is.

Speaker 3 (53:21):
The problem is, if you look at Brock Perdy's numbers,
they're vastly greater than Jimmy Garoppolos here, I'm with you,
So I'm with you just in that alone. That is

(53:41):
the counter argument to that sentiment, because yes, first of all,
Kyle Shanahan is an offensive savant. He is a players coach.
Guys love to play with him or play for him
because he can place you if you have any any
type of skill level, he can put you in the

(54:03):
position to maximize it. We can't subtract a player's abilities.
That's like saying, well, Deebo wouldn't be Deebo anywhere else. Well,
Carrie Kittle wouldn't be Kittle anywhere else brandan NYU call,

(54:26):
he would just be a regular, old regular Christian McCaffrey
wouldn't be Well, we saw what they Christian McCaffrey did
without he was still Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 1 (54:35):
Yep. Just better.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
So when you start taking away what a player's actually accomplished,
because at last I checked, Kyle Shanahan has never thrown
a pass in the NFL. He's never thrown the pass
the last two seasons for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
But brock Perty has at a high clip, I'm talking

(54:58):
about a really high clip, seventy percent completion rate forty
two hundred and eighty yards with thirty one touchdowns. Hey man,
I don't care what offens you in. If you can
do that as a quarterback, I will draft you first. Okay, period,

(55:20):
that's fair. Tell me, I'm yre you have a eighty
percent win rate when you start and finish the game.
Where can you find that? What are we looking for?

Speaker 1 (55:35):
I don't listen this list as much as some will
look at it as a compliment to Party. Because he's
ahead of Jordan Love and Jalen Hurts. Somehow he's behind
Doc Prescott in Jerdy.

Speaker 3 (55:47):
That's crazy to me.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
I okay, ok okay, jokes.

Speaker 3 (55:54):
Let me ask you this. If you put Brock Party
in Dallas with Ceedee Lamb and that defense and all that,
brock Perty still be good.

Speaker 1 (56:02):
Oh God, Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Yes, he would.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
If you put Brock Purty in Philly last year with
Dayalen Hurt when they had the running game and all that,
and they had a j. Brown Brown, you think Brock
Purty would have been good?

Speaker 1 (56:19):
I do, I do?

Speaker 3 (56:20):
So what are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (56:22):
I'd argue that Eagles now throw the ball more.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Now if you put him on Jacksonville, or if you
put him somewhere where there's not a lot of talent, yep,
you probably get no.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Okay, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (56:35):
Well the characteristic and we'll do this coming up next.
The characteristic that's jumping off the page to me is
if we really think about it, as not surprising that
this came from execs, scouts and coaches, which will tell
you about that coming up next. And then we need
to get to some NBA because the fair question is

(56:57):
did Jalen Brunson just change everything? So we'll get to
all of that with E from salam Mark Willard. This
is Fox Sports Radio. All right, glad you're with us
tonight with I from salam Mark Willard, Tyrack dot com Studios.
Copa America Final is now officially under way.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
Steve will have more on that.

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Hearing about finally man, Yeah, Argentina Columbia. Apparently there are
some injuries outside. I've seen video of fans climbing through
the ventilation system in order to get inside the building.
First of all, there's only two things that pop to mind.

(57:38):
One of them is the obvious, how the hell do
y'all let this happen? But the second one is I
got like, I cannot. How can you not respect the hustle?
It's like, holy hell, you really really want to be

(57:59):
in that building. These people are going shawshank redemption on
us for crying out loud climbing through holes.

Speaker 3 (58:07):
Andy, I mean seventeen miles of feces. I don't know
if it was seventeen miles, but that's the end, and
looked up to the side as he rained cascaded down
upon his face. He breathed his very very first deep
breath in twelve years. Go hit him shocking.

Speaker 1 (58:31):
It's not callendo, but it's not bad. It's not bad.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
Yeah, baby, it's not bad.

Speaker 1 (58:40):
If Caliendo ever gets a cold, you're in.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
I'm in, You're in. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (58:44):
So anyway, just to put a ball on this quarterback
thing we're talking about. You know what I see if
I see exec scouts and coaches say, and I'm just
gonna go ahead and take the liberties of Jalen Hurts
his number six because he didn't make the top five.
So let's say Hurts six, and Jordan Love is five,
and brock Purty is four, and then Dak is three,

(59:06):
and Golf is two and Stafford is one. That tells
me that those exec scouts and coaches are valuing something
that maybe we just don't value as much. And the
word I would use is experience, like Purty and Love
and Hurts, you know, all of whom you want and

(59:28):
I want a little higher up the board. They're pops.
They've achieved a lot. Believe me, Jalen, Hurts and brock
Party in the last two years have done all the
things that you know that DAK and Golf have not,
and Stafford has not done for a few years now.

(59:50):
But DAK and Golf and Stafford they've been around the
way a bunch of times, so that must have been
factoring into their thinking.

Speaker 3 (01:00:02):
Yeah, that sounds good. But if you told me, hey, man,
could I interest you in the first twenty one starts

(01:00:24):
four quarterback? You'll go seventeen and four seventy percent completion rate,
You'll throw for fifty six hundred and fifty four passes,
forty four touchdowns, fifteen interceptions. Would you like to sign

(01:00:50):
up for that? And I just left the name blank.
How many of those very same gms would say no,
not yes, How many would say no? What else you got?

Speaker 2 (01:01:10):
I'd argue nothing? And that is my point.

Speaker 3 (01:01:12):
Yeah, when you put that name and a face and
a round h on it, now all of a sudden,
he's fourth or third whatever. Like I'm like, you gotta
be able to make it make sense to me. And
if you can't, if you can, just say, if this
is your argument, Mark, if this is your argument, well

(01:01:37):
he's playing in the couch shutand system, then get out.
Don't even just open the door and go please, because
now you're not you're not understanding the nuance of the game.
Right the locker room, we just heard Davante Adams say,
hey man, I got to get out of here.

Speaker 1 (01:01:57):
I got to go.

Speaker 3 (01:01:58):
This not it. Okay, this is not it. I don't
want no parts of this. And so you think Demante
Adams will want some brock party.

Speaker 1 (01:02:11):
Yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
I think there's a lot of receivers in the league
right now want some brock party, the receivers because is
going to get there, is going to be there on time,
right and he's going to give you an opportunity to
go to work.

Speaker 1 (01:02:28):
And and and you left out a four and two
playoff record. I didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
I didn't want to bring that in there.

Speaker 1 (01:02:34):
I want the to the two losses one of them
is a dangling arm uh right, and didn't even play
the game for play one. The other one is over
time to super Bowl to Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Yeah, if I if I gave you that as a
GM to start your career first twenty one games. Are
you in the league, you can have that, you sign
it without even you wouldn't even let me finish. But
when you place a name of face and around on it, now.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
Is well, well, what's wild?

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Also when you you know, if you want to play
sample sized games with Jordan love and and Brock Purdy,
I know those are two different samples because Brock sample
is is not that small anymore. No, it's not that
small anymore. Some of the names that are ahead of them,
Golf DAC have literally shown you the things that you

(01:03:39):
would worry about with a party.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
They've already shown you they have them.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
They've shown you that, right, right.

Speaker 1 (01:03:48):
But but you know, Jared Goff, this is this is
a good time for Jared Goff to talk about Jared Goff,
and so there was a good time for him to
have a contract up for example, And and here we are,
and speaking of here we are, we have also arrived
at one of our three favorite moments of the night,
and it's time to hand it off to Steve de Seger.

Speaker 8 (01:04:09):
Hi, Steve, Hello, guys, I cannot tell you how stuffed
this stadium is in Miami for the Copa America final tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:04:17):
Think of somebody hanging from the skylight up.

Speaker 8 (01:04:19):
Holy cow, there were still within a half hour of
kickoff people climbing over the walls to get in. The
start was delayed by almost an hour and a half
tonight after thousands of fans without tickets had rushed the gates,
and in response, security just closed all the gates. This
won't be a record crowd because remember they've redone hard

(01:04:40):
rock stadium in recent years. So instead of an eighty
thousand capacity at sixty five thousand, I'll go ahead and
guess there's more than sixty five thousand for the game tonight.
There's also an extended halftime coming cause Shakiro, who's from Columbia,
is performing at the half. So with the late start
and the extended halftime, this is going to be a
law night.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Man.

Speaker 8 (01:05:01):
The crowd is at a fever pitch at the start.

Speaker 3 (01:05:05):
It just started.

Speaker 8 (01:05:06):
It is gonna be a long evening again. Argentina rank
number one in the world. Columbia unbeaten in its last
twenty eight games. This tournament is normally held in South America,
after all, it is their Confederations championship. This year's tournament
was held in the US at all of our big
NFL stadiums, not in South America, and so the US

(01:05:26):
was one of six guest teams.

Speaker 9 (01:05:28):
For this tournament. This time around.

Speaker 8 (01:05:31):
Columbia Argentina scoreless after ten minutes. And guys, there's a
reporter in plenty of reporters in Miami, but one in
particular that interviewed some Argentina fans outside just in the
last half hour that spent for their group fifteen hundred
dollars on tickets and they couldn't get in yet and

(01:05:52):
kickoff had started, oh wow. And others had a ten
year old in their group, and the ten year old
was so afraid after all that has gone on and
the crowds and the rushing at the ten year old
didn't want to go.

Speaker 9 (01:06:03):
In because they were so afraid.

Speaker 8 (01:06:05):
It's eighty five degrees still there also at nine thirty
at night, and some seniors were begging for water outside.
Can I just say the people who are organizing this.
It's not US soccer, although I have seen multiple interviews
of Spanish speaking fans saying this country wants to co
host the World Cup in two years. Not a chance.

(01:06:27):
They're not prepared for the It's the South American Federation's tournament.
They're organizing this, and this isn't the first problem there
has been with this tournament.

Speaker 9 (01:06:39):
Sad that it's.

Speaker 8 (01:06:39):
Been this kind of a disaster on that end of things,
because the crowds have been great, the TV ratings have
been great, and there have been a lot of great games,
including this matchup likely tonight. Spain won the Euro Final
two to one over England on a goal in the
eighty six minute. England had tied it in the seventy
third minute. Spain went seven to zero in this tourney
and wins a record fourth Euro. Carlos Alcarez swept Novak

(01:07:03):
Djokovic to take the Wimbledon title, his second in a row.
Scores today six two six two seven six. Robert McIntyre
from Scotland won Golf Scottish Open by one strokeover Adam
Scott thanks to a birdie on the final hole. A
twenty two foot putt. Sergio Garcia took the Live Golf
event in Spain.

Speaker 3 (01:07:21):
In a floff.

Speaker 8 (01:07:23):
Yeah, not much of a Nina anymore, but he is
finally a winner, his first pro victory in four years.
He had lost three other playoffs on the Live Golf Tour.
There may have been a difference in the winners checks
between these two events that were going on today in Europe.

Speaker 9 (01:07:38):
We'll get to that.

Speaker 8 (01:07:39):
In a Ryan Plady won the NASCAR Race at Pocono
and Major League Baseball is now officially on All Star Break.
Atlanta was a six to three winner at San Diego.
Chris Saal the winning pitcher thirteen and three by pitching today.
He is not pitching on Tuesday night. The All Star
Game Tuesday on Fox TV from Tech Texas, was a

(01:08:01):
four to two winner at Houston. Today, Seattle lost its
third straight game. Angels beat him three to two. The
Mariners are at the break the first place team in
the AO West, still one game over Houston, and Baltimore
beat the Yankees six to five. Each team scored three
times in the ninth The Orioles therefore alone in first
in the AL East at the All Star break, one

(01:08:23):
game over the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Back to you.

Speaker 1 (01:08:27):
Great stuff, Steve, I mean the Copa America stuff. We're
gonna keep an eye on it and throw to you
as well. You're absolutely right, Like when people say every
seat has a butt in it, that does not tell
the whole story in this one, because every seat's got
a butt in it, and then there's a bunch more butts.

Speaker 9 (01:08:43):
Oh there are people in the aisles.

Speaker 1 (01:08:45):
Yeah, yeah, more butts then seats.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
Wow, And no one is saying down anyway, So no.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
That's it right, So maybe maybe they knew.

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
They're like, look, we don't even need a seat, so
they're just like, well then fine.

Speaker 8 (01:09:02):
Have I mentioned that I can guarantee nobody this amount
of people ever has tried this hard to get into
the stadium for a Dolphins game ever.

Speaker 1 (01:09:11):
Ever, Ever, Darius Rocker doesn't care this much about getting
into this stadium for God's sakes. But hey, you know
sports man, right, Steve, Thanks so much, Live tyrock dot
com Studios. Hey I just saw this, and Steve, pardon
me if I missed you saying this. Did y'all see

(01:09:32):
that Schefter is reporting that Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison
just got arrested.

Speaker 8 (01:09:38):
From USC near La Airport on Friday, suspicion of driving
under the influence.

Speaker 1 (01:09:43):
Yeah yeah, the one O.

Speaker 8 (01:09:45):
Five freeway that goes well west to the airport area,
not that far from the Rams Stadium. Actually, police report
says a West LA officer found a white Rolls Royce
blocking a lane of the westbound traffic to Sepulvida. Oh boys,
he was asleep behind the wheel. Oh lord, close to midnight.

(01:10:08):
Arrest people around. And I know people get it Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (01:10:13):
If you are living wherever you're listening, if you're in Minnesota,
if you're in Maine right now, blocking a lane of
that area is death fence. You're not gonna like sneak
by hope no one saw me. Like causes a hallacious problem.

Speaker 8 (01:10:31):
So he was going zero miles an hour on the
LA Freeway after one hundred and forty miles an hour
on that Minnesota freeway a year ago.

Speaker 3 (01:10:40):
Oh, man, Jordan, come on, man, hey, he has way
too me And this is this is this is the problem.
There's a way too much at stake for you to
even still be driving, right, or for someone that knows
you to continue to let you drive.

Speaker 1 (01:11:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:11:02):
Right, this is where your circle comes into place. Until
you can get yourself together. They like, hey, look here, man,
wherever you got to go, I got you. Wherever you
got to go, I got you right yeap, three o'clock
in the morning. You let's go, man, boom, let's go.
I was in college, I didn't I don't drink, so

(01:11:22):
I was always a designated driver. How many times I
had to go to TIA wanted to get people. You
just got to be like, hey man, I got you. Man,
until you can get out of your own way, let
me be your support system with your goofy self. Hey,

(01:11:43):
guess what, man, give it back, Give it all back,
Give it all back. If it's too much to handle,
give it all back. That's it. Give it all back, man.
Nobody's gonna feel sorry for you. And today climate didn't

(01:12:03):
you say Steve that he was in trouble last year?

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
Yep? So now guess what driving one hundred and forty
from one hundred and forty, which is wild because it
was only what maybe a year before this, that Henry
Ruggs ruined his life, Yes, doing this exact same and

(01:12:27):
and someone else's my apologies for saying it in that order.

Speaker 2 (01:12:31):
Obviously he killed someone.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Yeah, like some mistakes, you get your take back, so
they're not going to let you keep making those mistakes.
Goofy man, these kids?

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
Man.

Speaker 10 (01:12:46):
Might I also add guys that this is also off,
not not even a full or maybe just about a
full week after the passing of their fellow rookie teammate
Kyrie ky Kyrie Jackson.

Speaker 9 (01:12:59):
Who is you know?

Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
He passed from a correction from a drunk driver.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Stop driving. Look, can't control yourself. You have too much.
Too many means too much means, too much money to
still put yourself behind the wheel of a car. It's
too much, you got hey, look man, yeah, Man, to

(01:13:28):
whom much is given, much is expected. You need to
expect more from yourself. Any of you young people out
there listen who are on the cusp of doing something
great and they don't have to be sports related, but
just accomplishing your dream. Do people understand how difficult it

(01:13:57):
is to accomplish a life long dream at the highest level.
If people really understood just how much it took, they
wouldn't just throw it away. Why would you just throw

(01:14:19):
it out the window?

Speaker 1 (01:14:21):
You know what he was doing in La they had
to be the SP's Nope, what he was in La
attending a premiere of Netflix's Receivers so he could watch
his teammate, Justin Jefferson, who just signed for thirty five
million dollars a year. And if Jordan wants to throw

(01:14:44):
that next contract away that he has not gotten yet,
he throwing it away now, Yeah, he sure is your
life away. Two of those. Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (01:14:52):
It ain't about the money, no, not even about the money.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
All right, much more to say on this, and we
got to get into Jalen Brunson. I find it to
be one of the most fascinating contracts I've seen in
big time sports in a long time. We will get
to that coming up next with E from salam Mark Willard.
This is Fox Sports Radio all right, with E from
salam Mark Weather Live TIRAQ dot Com Studios. In our

(01:15:18):
final hour, coming up top of the hour, we'll get
to Brownie a little bit. We'll talk out Bronnie, We'll
we'll talk this out Copa America Final.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
We're following along.

Speaker 1 (01:15:29):
There is still no score Argentina and Columbia. The big
story has not been the match, It's been the crowd.
H So more on that coming up around the bend
as well. What was your end. I'll give some detail,
but without getting too far into the weeds. I think
all our listeners need to know is that Jalen Brunson

(01:15:50):
left a big old bleep ton of money on the table.
He did and took a deal that. Let's be honest,
he's still gonna get a bleep ton of money because
there's always that lord sort of like, oh my god,
he left a lot of money on the table.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
Then someone will be there to be.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
Like, oh, what a charitable act to take one hundred
and fifty six million dollars. Look, the bottom line is,
if he hangs out for one more year, he basically
left one hundred and thirteen million dollars on the table,
and at minimum, I'm gonna give him the credit to

(01:16:25):
say at least one of if not the biggest reason
you did that is because you feel activated by what
the Knicks showed this year and you think by doing
this now you can help your team win. Now. I
also imagine you tell me from is he getting text

(01:16:48):
messages all day when he does this from like the players'
union reps?

Speaker 7 (01:16:52):
No?

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
No, no, you know why why? Because that contract is
not a market center. The market is what the it is.
The reason we're talking about it is because he took it.
He took under market value, yes, for the purpose of
allowing his team to put the right pieces together for

(01:17:14):
them to make a deeper run than they did this
past season. Now, the Knicks had it going. Of course,
they only played six players, right, so when you get hurt,
three of those six players get hurt, and now you
don't have a deep enough bench. Then you start thinking about, okay,
so what can we do to get better next year?
What do we need to do and how flexible are

(01:17:37):
we And as the leader of that team, unquestioned leader,
Julius Randall, it was him, not anymore. He understands, I'm
going to get my money, coming off one hundred plus
million dollar contract, getting his second hundred plus million dollar contract,
which is amazing for player his stature, his height, coming

(01:18:00):
into the league, the way he came into the league,
it's a testament to hard work and leadership. Now that's
not because if you go to uh, let me see,
what's a point guard a young point If you go
to Luca and say, hey, Luca, Jalen Bronson took this,
and Luca's gonna look at you like I don't got

(01:18:21):
nothing to do with me. Lucas agent's gonna be like,
oh yeah, okay, we're not on that type of whatever
they do, and that I ain't got nothing to do
with us. Right, it's different for it that the football,
it's different. He took a deal to help the team,
to help himself. He wants to be a champion. And

(01:18:42):
when the Big three got together in Miami, Duane Wade
took less, Chris Bosh took less to fit Lebron James in. Yeah,
they all were making an obscene amount of money, but
they didn't take the max.

Speaker 1 (01:18:59):
They didn't leave this much on the tape.

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
No, no, no, no, because this is this is like each individually.
They they you combine it all. Yeah, but he left
a lot on the table because he's more concerned with winning,
because he knows what winning in New York, in that market,
with that team, he knows the value of that. Now,

(01:19:22):
this isn't guaranteed, but he's edging his back m hm.
He knows that there's probably an opt out in three years.
He's gonna get repaid again, right three years. If it does,
it's not looking like it's supposed to look. If they
haven't made the play the you know, the type of
moves and and the progress that they should have made.
Then he gonna get his max. He's gonna get he

(01:19:43):
gonna he gonna right, he gonna crack it. Somebody gonna
give it to him. It's a young player three years
you kidding me? And so he's positioning himself and he's
edging his back. If we win a championship in the
next three years, his market value is and it's on parallel.

Speaker 1 (01:20:01):
No question, And yeah, look he is uh, he's gonna
eat for rest of his life.

Speaker 2 (01:20:08):
So that's not to me. What the question is.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
The question is why can't other people ask for their
favorite stars to do the same. That's what I want
to get into. Coming up next with e from salam
Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. This is straight out of
the athletic based only on the dollars. My man just

(01:20:34):
enacted the greatest financial favor in NBA history and it's
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recommended installers tyraq dot com. The way higher buying should
be speaking of the way it quote should be like,
what's going to stop fans from calling for this? And
I know your answer might be like, hey, who cares
what the fans have to say?

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
Who cares?

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
But you know, this has been sort of a characteristic
that Tom Brady has cruised around in a portion of
his career with where it's like, oh, he always took
less money. He always took less money, and he allowed
his team to go do some things out there with
their roster and that helped and all that, I get it.
Nobody like you said, Luka, Dancis'll be like, that's got

(01:21:38):
nothing to do with us. But when somebody does this,
and you're right, he didn't do it out of the
goodness of his heart. He did it because he wanted
to win. He did it because he loves playing in
New York. He did it because all of his college
buddies are on his team and he wanted to make
sure that they were a taken care of him be

(01:21:59):
they all stay together.

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
And d you're right, he can recoup this money down the.

Speaker 3 (01:22:05):
Road, which you will. And I don't think what you
would understand that, and look, you hit on a few
things right there. If you could tell me, hey, your
three best friends from college, can you guys can play

(01:22:25):
together in the pros in the biggest media market in
the world. All right, but it's going to be tough
to pay all of you. The number one thing I
would say is, Okay, so what do I need to
do if I'm the best player out of the three?
What do I need to do to keep this thing rolling? See,

(01:22:51):
most fans and most people believe athletes are oh, I'm
gonna get mine now. For a large portion of athletes, yes,
What people don't realize is the level of sacrifice it
takes to win a championship and sacrifice your body, sacrifice

(01:23:15):
your time, sacrifice being comfortable, all these sacrifices. But another
sacrifice is also you sacrifice your open market value you're
worth for a reason, though not just because like he's

(01:23:40):
playing in the perfect situation for himself and his best
friends essentially, and they got it rocking and rolling. The
garden is a place to play again. The mecca of
basketball is popping now. They're all on the side of
buildings and Times Square all of that. If you were

(01:24:01):
going to create freshman Jalen Brunson, if he could sit
in his freshman dorm and create his perfect NBA scenario,
wouldn't this be it? Wouldn't this be the exact thing?

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Sounds like it to me.

Speaker 3 (01:24:25):
So if that's the case, why wouldn't you sacrifice and
do whatever you had to do to keep it. That's
where people don't they just think they just looking at
the money. They're just looking at the money. You know
how many people who've chased money into a terrible situation,
hey Man. Earlier in the episode, in the Show Today,

(01:24:48):
we talked about a certain Davante Adams who was like,
I'm gonna go ahead and get this money. Just because
you chase money doesn't mean you're chasing a better situation.
He's in utopia right now. He's in basketball utopia. I
get to be with my friends, my closest. The best

(01:25:10):
time I ever had in the NFL outside of playing
in the Super Bowl was going to Houston and playing
next to Chester Pits, someone I knew before he even
played football at San Diego State. He was just a
regular student. We didn't get a chance to play together
at San Diego State because when he decided to walk On.

(01:25:32):
I was going into the draft five years after he
got drafted to the NFL. I got a chance to
play right next to my guy left guard, left tackle.
To me, that was everything, sure, because you don't get
an opportunity to do things like that.

Speaker 1 (01:25:55):
Well, like, we're leaving one other piece out of this,
which is whatever he was good, whatever he left on
the table was still a year away. Yeah, oh yeah,
Like he's not eligible for that bigger money for another year,
which brings into play injury, it brings into play poor play,

(01:26:18):
It brings into play factors that are out of your
control that could change your value. And so he also
he's also taking that out of play and setting up
if let's say nothing gets worse, let's say he's healthy
and continues to look like Jalen Brunson, then he can

(01:26:42):
now hit free agency following year ten in the NBA.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
He will still be just thirty thirty one years old.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Get the bag, baby, And do you know what the
projection is that if if all those things are really good,
what does he sign in following the twenty twenty eight
NBA playoffs with five hundred million or something like that.

(01:27:11):
Five years, four hundred seventeen million dollars, an average of
eighty three million per year, like Live Golf is looking
at him like, damn dog, there's a lot of money.

Speaker 3 (01:27:29):
People gotta understand, man, people, this is this there's checkers
in the chest. Yes, there's checkers in the chest.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
Well it's low stakes. Like either way you're coming out
of this man a very very very wealthy person.

Speaker 3 (01:27:45):
Come on, man, right look, and that's just on the field.
I'm on the court. Yes, he's in the number one
medium mark. He is the player, the face of the Knicks.
He's mister New York right now. Yeah, I'm gonna stay

(01:28:07):
and I'm gonna keep this thing going because the more
we win, the more doors open. If the Nick get
to play in the NBA Championship, brother, do you know,
come on now, you already know what this is.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
Oh, people don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:28:21):
Because of the success of the Yankees through the years,
New York is a basketball town.

Speaker 2 (01:28:28):
It is a basketball town.

Speaker 1 (01:28:29):
And the only reason it doesn't feel like a basketball
town is because the Knicks are never any good. If
they like, if the Knicks were to make the NBA Finals,
I don't even the people would take a month off
from me. But watching the.

Speaker 3 (01:28:47):
YEP and so look, he understands where he is, he
understands his value, he understands the value of his team,
and what's needed. They gotta get more depth, more real depth.
They ran literally ran out of bodies and ran out
of gas. Yeah they did, and that's a that's a big,
big thing. And knowing that and knowing what your core

(01:29:10):
and your nucleus is, then yeah, you you you.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
Want that, well, no doubt. The other side to this, though, aphrom,
is that part of this, like NBA teams might be
looking for this slash asking for this, certain players might
see the value in doing this because of the new
CBA and without getting into all the boring stuff and

(01:29:38):
acting like we understand things that nobody on God's Green
Earth understands. Bottom line is these teams don't want to
go over the second apron because it is incredib The
penalties are insane.

Speaker 2 (01:29:53):
They are insane.

Speaker 1 (01:29:54):
And so if you're looking for your team, as Jalen
was in this particular, to be flexible, to still just exist,
you're gonna have to find players who are willing to
help the team stay under the second apron. And I
know that that's kind of a sensitive issue because you know,
like we're watching that right now with Brandon Ayuk and

(01:30:16):
his battle with the forty nine ers, because they're basically
saying like, we love you, but like I don't know
if you've met this guy Brock, Like we have to
pay him in seven months, and so sorry, we need
you to take a little less. And Brandon's like, no,
I'm not taking less. That's your problem, it's not my problem.

(01:30:40):
And I get both sides on this, but the bottom
line is you end up at a stalemate and then
people start having to use their leverage and all of
this stuff. So to me, even though you're right he's
playing chess, he's potentially not leaving money on the table
depending how it goes, it is still a very very
valuable thing that he just did for his team.

Speaker 3 (01:31:02):
Yes, unbelievably value valuable. And I mean, look, I truly
hope it pays off. I hope it really pays dividend,

(01:31:24):
because you know, when players make sacrifices like that, it's
important for the organization to get it right. You said
what you want about New England, they would winning. It
was the seven of them, six of them, excuse me,
they got six. Well, whether we know what they did

(01:31:44):
with the money or not. They got six championships out
of it. I'd say it paid off. Now Tom Brady's
gonna make more money off the field and he ever
made in football. That's the point. That's the point. Michael
Strahan's made more money off the football field than he
has in football. That's the point. You're in the number

(01:32:07):
one media market. That's hello, hell them about chess, Hello
checkers man.

Speaker 1 (01:32:21):
I mean, I will say the one thing, and I
think I've said this to you before, and yes, this
is inspired kind of by the Warriors situation through the years,
and it maybe doesn't apply to the Knicks. I get this,
but there are aspects of this new CBA that I
think are not great for fans. And the reason is

(01:32:47):
is the constant movement and the fact that there is
no stipulation for homegrown players players that are drafted by
a team.

Speaker 2 (01:32:59):
That's the only thing I would change.

Speaker 1 (01:33:00):
I'd love to see that be at least a portion
of that money kind of be set aside and not
be attached to the cap and the tax and the
apron and all of those things, because I do believe
you're not going to get as many Jalen Brunson's as
you want, which means you are pushing more toward the
NFL vibe of dudes are gonna be changing jerseys all

(01:33:23):
the time. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:33):
And I don't think that's great. No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (01:33:36):
I don't think that's great. When you get something that
that's really cooking, you know what I mean, Like you're
gonna want to keep it together. The Celtics in theory,
the Nuggets, these teams are going to be next, So
better make good when you've got your chances, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:33:54):
Okay, coming up next, you ready to talk about Bronnie.

Speaker 3 (01:33:57):
Oh yeah, we talk about whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:33:58):
Let's talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:59):
Let's us do it. Let's talk about Bronnie. Coming up next,
Mark wellerty from Salam Fox Sports Radio, All right, Live
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(01:34:21):
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Small sample size, So nobody needs to get everything all

(01:34:44):
ruffled based off of a small sample size. But I
can express some compassion, can I not one of the
things that I didn't love? And I think I've been
pretty clear on this with regard to the Lakers drafting
of Bronnie James. You can miss me with the nepotism talk, Okay,

(01:35:08):
I honestly couldn't give a rip.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
People who scream.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
About nepotism help their kids out all the time. So like,
there are certain things that make this world spin, and
some of them, you're not gonna stop people helping their
kids out when they're in a position to do so
is one of them. So, my god, if you want
to attack nepotism at the NBA level, last week was

(01:35:33):
a weird week to bring it up for the first time,
because all over the place.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
So I don't care about that. I do think that.

Speaker 1 (01:35:44):
It says some things about the way the Lakers are
running their organization. And the other question that I have
and I really want to form it as a question
because I've never met Lebron or Bronni. I don't know
their family dynamic, but I openly, as a dad question
whether or not Lebron was simply trying to live out

(01:36:07):
his dream as opposed to whether or not this was
Brownie's dream. And is this the right position for Brownie
to actually have a shot, a real shot at the
NBA or would he have been better off at a
spot where he could continue to develop and have the

(01:36:29):
spotlight be a little lesser. For that question, eve from Yeah,
I do feel like these last four days have not
been good because he played in the Summer League. He
hoisted up twelve to three point shots. Let me count one, two,
zero went in and he's the one we're watching and

(01:36:49):
he's in the fish bowl. Well we're watching him.

Speaker 3 (01:36:51):
Yeah, but the reality of the situation is well, just
to answer your question, was this the and I talked
about this a little bit last week, the best situation
for Brownie would have been to go to Miami because
they develop. They have a real strong development of young

(01:37:12):
players amongst that coaching staff and the trainers they do.
They're they're the rosters littered with undrafted guys, second round
draft picks who come in and give meaningful minutes. Uh,
And they're consistently a playoff team. So to that point,
I think Miami is the best destination in terms of
developing young talent who may or may not be ready yet.

(01:37:36):
The Lakers are not on the flip side of that.
They don't They don't develop young talent. They like to
have talent come in and be ready to go. It's
just how it's always been. With that said, when I'm
watching the Lakers in summer League, honestly, you want to
know who I'm watching.

Speaker 1 (01:37:57):
Connect? Don't connect. I knew you'd say that, but that's
because you're, like you're dialed in your fan now.

Speaker 3 (01:38:03):
Yeah, Like I'm not going to watch the guy who's
going to be playing for the South Bay Lakers for
the majority of the city. I'm not. I'm watching the
guy who's going to be on the roster when it starts,
and that's their first pick with the seventeenth pick overall,
don't connect. Who is amazing that we were able to

(01:38:24):
get him at seventeen yep. So for me, I'm watching
him score twenty five the last time out with six rebounds,
and four assists, and I'm like, oh, okay. I like
his length, I like his outside shooting ability. I like
that pick for the Lakers. As far as Bronnie, because

(01:38:47):
we're talking about Bronnie, all eyes on Bronnie. Not quite
sure what people expected to see in Summer league. Summer
league is littered with players who played last year in
the NBA, played in.

Speaker 1 (01:39:03):
The G League, and.

Speaker 3 (01:39:08):
Draft picks, so the competition level was higher. Right, Like
I watched Brandon Miller, who you know, at the beginning
of the year was in the conversation for Rookie of
the Year, Right, he came out and went crazy in
Summer League. I think twenty eight or something like that. Right,
he's playing one time. That's it. He's done for the summer.

(01:39:30):
But most teams have their first round draft picks from
last year and.

Speaker 1 (01:39:36):
Their second round draft picks.

Speaker 3 (01:39:37):
Anybody who was on the team who's not a veteran
per se playing in summer league. Just having Brownie out
there to get the flow of what the NBA is
in general, It's okay with me. She keeps shooting, I wouldn't.

(01:39:57):
I wouldn't. We know he can shoot. I've seen him shoot.
We've all seen him shoot. Now, getting the rhythm and
being able to shoot on rhythm in NBA games is
something that you won't get unless you're shooting the basketball.
Now we know he can shoot. He can shoot, and
so I would say, yeah, this is the perfect place

(01:40:19):
to miss a bunch of shots. It's a perfect place.
It's a perfect place to learn. How to fight over
a man setting a screen on you, not a boy,
but a grown man setting a screen on you, how
to rotate defensively when you do switch on a screen.

(01:40:41):
All of these lessons he's learning while playing in the
summer league. So I wasn't expecting Branni James to come
out to give me fifteen a game.

Speaker 1 (01:40:52):
I don't know who was. Oh neither was I. Neither
was I. But again, think about everything you just said.
Bronnie is learning while in the summer league. Process does
not fit with the statement with a guaranteed for your contract.

Speaker 3 (01:41:11):
Well, look, man, that's gonna be what it's gonna be. Well,
he's got a great agent. He got a great agent.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
Yes, he's got a great agent.

Speaker 3 (01:41:19):
I'm not mad at them, Hey, man, agent, neither of mine.
If the Laker's gonna fall forward, then they gonna fall
for it right, seven million dollars, four years, seven million
dollars boom.

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
But let me but let me ask you, man, like,
did lebron set his kid up?

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Right or not?

Speaker 3 (01:41:35):
I think he set him up. I think he got
him in the league. I think he helped.

Speaker 1 (01:41:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:41:40):
Now, look like I said, he walked him the third
and told him to get home. The rest is on him.
I do it for my style, I do it for
both of them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
But is there a map on how to get home?

Speaker 1 (01:41:50):
Hey?

Speaker 3 (01:41:50):
Man, some things you got to figure out yourself. He's
on third base. Get home. If you can get home,
more power to him if he can't. He started his
life with his first job in pretty good position to
continue to go and be successful. Now, Bronnie James could
play in the NBA for two years and then go

(01:42:12):
over seats for fifteen years and have a tremendous career
maybe right, I'm saying, Or he can he can be
in the league for eight years and and develop into
a phenomenal a piece to a team whatever. I don't
know what his future holds.

Speaker 1 (01:42:29):
Or the too much too soon fish bowl could take
him down the same way it's taken down.

Speaker 3 (01:42:35):
So yeah, I think this is a little bit different though, Okay,
I think it's a little bit. He's been in the
fish bowl. That's fair his whole life. It's not like this. Yeah,
But what I will say that, I will say this
the fish bowl to people who were born in it,
it's just home.

Speaker 2 (01:42:54):
Yeah, I got you.

Speaker 3 (01:42:55):
Now, if I catch you in the wild and I
bring you home and put you the fish bowl, and
you got all these people looking at you, that's nervous breakdown,
I hear you, right, But if you're born in the
fish bowl.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
Smaller bowl though, he just got moved to a much
smaller ball.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Look, I get it, but trust me, he under this
is he's it.

Speaker 1 (01:43:21):
I know. I know.

Speaker 3 (01:43:23):
Didn't maybe though, but it is didn't have to be
didn't it didn't. It didn't have to be it. It's
all I'm saying. There were options there. This is the
one that was chosen. And look and how you get
what you get? His son is in the NBA. His
son got drafted into the NBA. That's a beautiful thing.

(01:43:45):
That's a beautiful thing, you know, it is it is
no matter how you shape it. I hear, it's a
beautiful thing. Now what he does with that It's similar
to what we do when we get to this time
every right, Lebron James handed off the league to his son,

(01:44:06):
like I'm handing off this segment to one Steven to Sega.

Speaker 8 (01:44:10):
Good evening once again, gentlemen, let's get to our three
NFL stories. His NFL Network reports Bengals wide receiver t
Higgins will not have a long term deal by tomorrow's deadline.
He would be the only player to play out this
season on the franchise tag, then he can become a
free agent next year. He'll make over twenty one million
dollars this season. We mentioned last hour that Vikings wide

(01:44:31):
receiver Jordan Addison from usc was arrested for suspicion of
driving under the influence after eleven pm on Friday near
La Airport. That there was a disabled vehicle blocking lanes
on the one oh five and when CHP California California
Highway Patrol arrived on the scene, they spot Addison asleep

(01:44:52):
behind the wheel of a white Rolls Royce. He was
arrested released from custody a couple hours later. A year ago,
Addison was cited by Minnesota State Patrol for going in
a fifty five mile an hour zone one for Vikings
veterans are due to report to training camp in less
than ten days. Former Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones died.

(01:45:16):
He just turned forty this week. His family said Jones
died peacefully in his hometown of New Orleans.

Speaker 9 (01:45:22):
Apparently he died overnight in his sleep at his home.
No immediate cause of death was announced.

Speaker 8 (01:45:28):
The players are back on the field in Miami ready
to start the second half of the Copa America Final.
Argentina scoreless against Columbia. They have finished up the Shakira
halftime show. Needless to say, a lot's been going on
in Miami tonight. The kickoff of this one was delayed
almost an hour and a half after thousands of fans
without tickets had rushed the gates. We've talked about this

(01:45:50):
earlier on tonight's show. I've seen so many comments, including
in Spanish, and literally the first two tweets I saw
in Spanish, this one said, people, the fault tonight is
not of the United States or the organization of the stadium.
Here the fault lies with people without culture who think

(01:46:10):
they can do whatever they want. Another tweet in Spanish
is our culture also always screws up big events. People
that don't have tickets and you want to enter for free,
and then you're victims, and then you blame the organizer,
the US or the stadium. It is scoreless at the break,
about to kick off the second half. Columbia has outshot

(01:46:31):
the number one ranked team in the world, Argentina, eight
to three. The Colombians are unbeaten in their last twenty
eight games over the last two and a half years
since a loss to Argentina. Spain won the Eurofinal to
to one over England on a goal in the eighty
six minute. Among the four WNBA games, wins again for
Connecticut and Las Vegas. Indiana won at Minnesota eighty one

(01:46:54):
seventy four. Rookie Caitlin Clark seventeen points, six assists, six
turnovers from three point range. Clark was two four eleven.
Carlos Alcarez swept Novak Djokovic to take the Wimbledon title.
Alcarez is twenty one years old. He's been in four
major finals already and won all four. Robert McIntyre from
Scotland took Golf Scottish Open. Sergio Garcia took the Live

(01:47:17):
golf event in Spain in a playoff. More in a moment,
NASCAR win at Pokono for Ryan Blaney, and baseball is
now on All Star Break. The All Star Game is
Tuesday night on Fox TV from Texas and the Rangers.
Corey Seeger was added to the AL All Star Team
for the injured Carlos Correa. Texas was a four to
two winner at Houston. Meanwhile, Seattle lost its third straight game.

(01:47:40):
The Angels hit a three run homer bottom of the
eighth to beat the Mariners three to two. Seattle is
the first place team in the AL West at the break,
still one game over Houston, and Baltimore's now alone in
first in the AL East at the break, a game
ahead of the Yankees after beating the Yanks six to
five as each team scored three runs in the ninth.
Atlanta and All Star at your Chris Sale won at

(01:48:01):
San Diego sixty three. Sale thirteen and three by pitching today,
He's not pitching. On Tuesday, Detroit beat the Dodgers in
thrilling fashion again four to three, two runs bottom of
the ninth. Yesterday it was a homer in the tenth
to win in a comeback in Oakland won at Philadelphia
eighteen to three. Now we did have golf today. I
mentioned the winners, and it's quite a story that a

(01:48:23):
guy from Scotland wins the Scottish Open. That's the one
I wanted, he had said. But the payouts were this.
In the live Golf event in Spain, a tie for
fourteenth place got you just over three hundred thousand dollars.
At the PGA event, a tie for fourth got you

(01:48:43):
three hundred thirty thousand dollars. Sergio Garcia winning this playoff,
it's his first pro victory in four years. Well, every
winner on the Live Golf Tour gets four million dollars
for three days of golf, and his team, because of
how he filed, also won the team event on their
scores for the weekend, so you can add to him

(01:49:04):
another seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars bonus. The runner
up gets two and a quarter million dollars. In the
live golf event today, the winners check for Robert McIntyre
at the Scottish Open about one point six million dollars
and he won it by one stroke over Adam Scott
thanks to a berdie on the final hole. He made

(01:49:25):
a twenty two foot foot that was a difference of
about seven hundred thousand that one shot, or perhaps you know,
going to a playoff, I should say. McIntyre said afterwards.
I'm from a working class background. I've got two older
sisters that my parents foster. We foster a boy just
now that's been with us for six seven years. I
was given a great opportunity by my whole family. We

(01:49:47):
used to have a horse for my sisters, he said,
couldn't afford to do both that and golf, and my
sisters gave up the horse, gave me a chance to
go and travel some within Britain and here with them
chanting his name and they queued the back bagpipes as
he won. Robert McIntyre takes the Scottish Open, and now
the British Open is this week in Scotland at Royal True.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
Back to you, my goodness, I mean that whole thing.
And again, if you're new to our show, pretty much
at seven thirty Pacific every Sunday we get the side
by side live versus PGA too or breakdown, and it's
never not fascinating.

Speaker 3 (01:50:24):
Never it's like the only we talk here.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
Nope, it's absolutely, and you know what for all and
you and I have been on the same side on
this one, which is, if you want to get mad
at live golf and Saudi money.

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
You can do that.

Speaker 1 (01:50:41):
Don't don't don't be hypocritical. Nope, don't be mad at
the golfers unless when you were offered your job you
said thank you so much for the offer. But before
I signed, I'd like to know where the money is coming.
To know is the boss, is the CEO, is the
owner of this company is a good person? And and
where what does he or she donate? Where is this money?

(01:51:04):
If you didn't do that, then don't say anything here.
And it's especially true if I'm let's say Sergio Garcia
and I'm at the twilight of the career and I'm
let's be real, like he's not going out there, he's
not gonna win anymore majors, but he just won enough
money as if he just won two majors back to back.

(01:51:26):
Good lord, it's really incredible, it's really incredible. Oh, what
a what a good weekend to say that statement. So much,
so much, so much with with with that said, and
we're live in the Tirak dot Com studios coming up next,

(01:51:47):
I'd like to you know, it's easy for us, those
of you following the COPA America story where there are
way too many fans in there, more fans than seats.
Game with Matt was delayed, breakdowns and security. It's very
easy to say, how on earth, how on earth do
you break this security down? There's another group of people

(01:52:09):
that need acknowledgment in all this, and I'd like to
do that. Coming up next with E from Salama Mark Willard,
And this is Fox Sports Radio, Okay, Tyraq dot com Studios.
That's E from Salama Mark Willard. It's been a wild show.
It's been a whild weekend roller coaster of emotions for

(01:52:30):
a lot of reasons. And this COPA America thing was
just starting to unfold as you and I got going tonight.
By the way, still a scoreless match fifty eighth minute now.
But you know what everyone's been talking about is the stadium,
the barriers coming down, people breaking into the stadium, way

(01:52:50):
more people than seats, and it sounds just like a
complete bleep show there even though the match goes on.
I don't know if you've been doing what I've been doing,
Like during commercial breaks, and whatnot. But I've been watching
all over social media the videos of what was unfolding

(01:53:10):
outside the stadium and inside the stadium, but outside the
seated area, you know, in the in the hallways and whatever.
The concourse, it's absolute insanity.

Speaker 2 (01:53:25):
And I just wanted to spend a couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:53:29):
Sort of acknowledging and sending some sympathy to the security
that's actually there on the ground. You know, it's one
thing to be boy, the security plan was sure a mess,
but like if you're just Bob or Cheryl and you're

(01:53:50):
at the turnstile, this looked like hell, yeah, like, what
the hell are you supposed to do? These are people
making you know what I mean, Someone's like air two
hundred and fifty dollars for the night. That's your salary,
And here you are, here's your little smock that you
can wear, and now you're in charge, and and and

(01:54:13):
people who are out of their mind, emotional and determined
just completely went haywire. And this looked like an awful
experience for those people. And I bet it's not done yet.

Speaker 3 (01:54:30):
Yeah, it's it was aggressive.

Speaker 1 (01:54:34):
Oh my god. I mean some of these people, brother,
you could see looking at him. You're like, oh, you.

Speaker 3 (01:54:43):
Just watching people climb into the air duck, like the
vent vote right is out of control. But you like,
like who started it? Who was like, hey, let's.

Speaker 4 (01:54:56):
Go in.

Speaker 2 (01:55:01):
And I mean people you can tell you.

Speaker 3 (01:55:03):
I mean, women, kids, they're climbing into the air dubbed.

Speaker 1 (01:55:07):
I mean, but there are people you looking at them
and you're like, oh, you're just You're just a retired
person who's taking a one day Sunday job and now
you're running uphill on a concrete slab tackling Argentine fans
who are like, I mean, it's just.

Speaker 3 (01:55:29):
It's it's there was a scene, man. The funny thing
is the ones going to jail and go miss the match.
And then that's the worst part.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
Oh and there's a line of.

Speaker 3 (01:55:38):
Them, Oh yeah, you gotta sit in the back of
a hot van while the while the match is going on.
You don't even you can't even hear it.

Speaker 1 (01:55:47):
Was it worth it? I bet every one of them
would say yes. I mean, just my perception. And you know,
I like you and I both appreciate the hell out
of soccer, and I know you probably even more than I.
But like you grow up in America, you grow up

(01:56:07):
in America. It's not like even those of you, and
I know it's huge, even those of you who think
you've got your euro team and you you bet on
it and I love soccer like.

Speaker 2 (01:56:19):
No, no, you don't.

Speaker 1 (01:56:21):
Not, not like pretty much every other country where this
is literally too many people worth a night in jail.

Speaker 2 (01:56:30):
They're like, yep, they.

Speaker 1 (01:56:32):
Knew that, they knew the ramifications and they didn't even blink,
willing to take that chance.

Speaker 3 (01:56:40):
By you don't eve. People don't even have seats, they
just standing in the aisle. It's so funny, how how
how Twitter is because it's like Colombian fans cause disturbance
before the start of the Corpora America final match between
Colombian Argentina. Let me guess going for Argentina.

Speaker 1 (01:57:07):
Uh maybe just a bit, maybe just a bit. And
by the way, second group of people that I have
sympathy for, people who actually hide tickets and got completely
hosed by this. Yeah, because that once the security line
is broken. Now security doesn't trust anybody. And I've seen

(01:57:29):
plenty of videos of people getting held out or getting
put through hell, or getting separated from their family, their kids.
People got hurt, There are injuries, there was a stampede.

Speaker 3 (01:57:44):
The people who are climbing in the ducks. Though, where
are you going? Does someone have a blueprint of where
this lets out?

Speaker 9 (01:57:51):
It's a great question.

Speaker 2 (01:57:54):
Where are you headed to laundry?

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
Shoot? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:57:59):
I don't know. It's gotta lead somewhere.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
You may be in a worse position than before.

Speaker 1 (01:58:09):
It's very possible. I'm just trying to think in my life,
like take out the idea of my kids are in danger,
and outside of that, I don't know that I would
get into an air ducked. No any other reason, no
any other ansaneod, this is not a movie. I'm a

(01:58:33):
very big sports fan. I love the sports. I really
do think. Come on, I don't think i'd get the ducked.
You know, you know what that I'm watching this thing?

Speaker 3 (01:58:48):
Man, when soccer players get hit man their lifeless bodies
as they lay down is crazy.

Speaker 8 (01:58:54):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:58:55):
I'm like, nobody even he tripped over Messy, tripped over
his own foot, and then he just his lifeless body.
My life is.

Speaker 1 (01:59:06):
Yeah, he's still down, and you're right, he did not
get touched by anyone.

Speaker 3 (01:59:12):
Man, Shake it off, bruh, Like, let's go.

Speaker 1 (01:59:16):
That actually should be the way that this ended, the
players themselves should have to go through the ducks to
get into the game, and would any of them come
out the other side uninjured?

Speaker 3 (01:59:25):
I'd argue know last I checked, the air ducks at
any place can't hold seventy people crawling through it at
the same time.

Speaker 1 (01:59:33):
That's what it looked like, was what was happening. Oh God,
I don't know why I find all of this using. Anyway,
it's a great show, and look, I do want to
circle back one last time to where you started the
show and just wish you and every NFL family member

(01:59:57):
who knew Jacoby Jones the absolute best man.

Speaker 3 (02:00:02):
Yeah, humans, let's be humans. People, Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (02:00:04):
May you rest in peace, play and spand your next