Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks talk Team USA Basketball, WNBA Media Rights Deal, Brandon Aiyuk & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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He is, I know you waiting for him. Let's get
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Bucky Brooks A little buck.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
How are you?

Speaker 2 (00:35):
How is your week?

Speaker 6 (00:37):
The week has been great, Andy, nice chatting with you.
Looking forward to the conversation to death.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
It's gonna be great. You know why because we're opening
up with the ladies.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
And speaking of ladies, Brianna is with us right now,
full time. Brianna muro our new executive director, executive producer.
She's in charge. He handles us right now. Brianna, welcome,
you're in this? Is it all right? The baptism is over?

Speaker 7 (01:00):
Ready to be here?

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Good. We're lucky to have you.

Speaker 5 (01:02):
We really are, all right, just stay tight and make
sure we stay in our lane.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (01:07):
And speaking of women, we're gonna start with the ladies today.
And what was the last time we'd ever did this
on a sports talk radio show, I mean, nationwide, I'm
not so certain there were five stations, five shows that
start this show with women's basketball, all right, And honestly,
I watched that Women's All Star Game last night. I'm
telling you right now, but honestly, they're passing the men.

(01:29):
It's a better game than the men. They're playing defense
and both ends of the courts. They're playing both both sides, offense, defense.
Forty eight minutes. They're doing it all. They really are.
It was an enjoyable game to watch, and obviously the
Olympic team lost to the All Stars, which is a
great game. I mean, I don't think I ever have
watched the WNBA All Star Game beforehand, but I think

(01:51):
with the Angel reaches of the world, the Caitlyn Clarks,
I tuned in and it was great and it was
like something like sixteen thousand people there.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I'm sure you watched it as well.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah, great, it was fantastic for it to be kind
of the spectacle and actually to see everything around the
WNBA All Star Game, there's a lot of interest. I
feel like the women are running with the baton and
the increased attention and exposure that they've been given, and
I think this has been great for the game. And
then the fact that they were able to knock off

(02:20):
Team USA that certainly, uh may change a little bit
of a narrative around the league, but it does bring
some questions and some horror conversations that we'll have to
have about Teams USA, no.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Doubt about that.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
Okay, I want to go back to Friday night because
I had the three point Contest all right, and I
think not to have Caitlin Clark and for the New
York Liberty, Sabrina and Escu not performing in the three
point thing, it is kind of like almost like Lebron
James not performing in the Dunk Contest in the WA
NBA or the NBA All Star Weekend. You have to
have these people there. And when they asked Caitlin Clark,

(02:54):
she really did not say why she didn't perform in it.
She kind of backed up, but I think on Escuba said, well,
she's just coming off the college game, and she's tired.
She needs a day off. That's not true, you know,
and I know why she didn't play. I believe she
didn't play. A She's tired of the ridicule, she's tired
of people picking on her, and b she didn't want

(03:16):
it all to be about her, because you know, if
she was in the three point deal, the whole thing
would be about her. I think she's tired of it.
She needs a mental rest. One day is not going
to get it done. And I think that the fact
that she backed out of that three point deal tells
everybody and anybody you could read through the lines there
that she is tired of people just hounding her, picking

(03:39):
on her and creating story. I read a story yesterday
about one of the trainers saying that she's hated. I mean, look,
that's not unusual. You played the game, you were in
the NFL. You know there are players that I hated.
Why because they're good? This envy, this jealousy, that's why
players I hated. Lebron James is probably hated not only
by fans because he's the villain, but he's probably hated

(04:00):
by other players. That's just the way they that's the
way it is. It's always been that way, it always
will be that way. You know that, Buck. It's true
players I hated. There are haters out there.

Speaker 8 (04:11):
Yeah, there are haters.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
I think she talked about just being tired, you know,
just kind of being tired everyone to take a step back. Now,
when you're tired and you want to take a step back,
you probably ask out of all of the activities of
All Star Weekend, but she participated. But I do believe
there is something to the fatigue factor. She has been
NonStop on the move man for like four plus seasons

(04:37):
plus now jumping right into the NBA w NBA thing.
It's a lot and I think for her taking a
step back, taking some time off as much needed. But
I will say this when it comes to her, I
feel like the buzz around her game has been positive
because what has happened is those early weeks when she
was struggling and getting knocked around in those things. We

(04:59):
have and talked about that as much because she's become
the consummate playmaker. You think about what she's been doing
with her assists, nineteen assists one night she had ten
assists in the All Star Game. She has figured it
out and unlocked a different part of her game, and
so I think there's maybe a growing appreciation for how
the young star is now beginning to show some of

(05:20):
the things that she showed in Iowa, even though her
game is different. You know, she's playing a different type
game now that she's played at IWA, because she has
become more the distributor than the finisher like she was
with the Hawk Eys.

Speaker 5 (05:33):
You make a great point because the college season endings
what March, late March, mid March, whatever it may be,
and a month later the WNBA season starts. As far
as the medic concern, they finished in March, but the
NBA doesn't start until late September's training camp. So there
you go, right there now being a playmaker.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
You're correct.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
Last night in the Old Star game, she did have
tennis assists. One assist shy of the Old Star record
of Sue Bert. And she's such a she knows what
to say. Okay, someone asked her about, Hey, you know
you had one more for the records.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Who's record?

Speaker 3 (06:03):
She's not.

Speaker 5 (06:04):
I won't take that from her. She's my homie. I mean,
she knows what to say. She's doing it the right way.
She's not attacking people. She may be under her breath
feeling like she'd like to attack some of the people
that have attacked her, but she's staying above board.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
She's doing it the right way.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
And leaven last night when she handed off to Angel
Reese who was her teammate, and gave her an assist.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
It's working out well.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
I think that people in the league right now are
beginning to gel and understand that, Yeah, she is helping us.
She is making this league relevant. She really is. And look,
people are coming to see her play. If you look
at the attendance figures around the WNBA, you know when
the Indiana fever travels around the league, it's them and
her that are bringing the crowds in, no one else.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
That's basically it.

Speaker 5 (06:49):
I didn't know who else was doing that three point
deal because she was knitted on Esco was knitted So
I really Thant wrote that familiar with the other performers
in that three point deal.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
You got to have the stars playing. That's basically what
it's all about.

Speaker 6 (07:02):
I mean, in the perfect world, what you would be
labeled in Andy is a casual right. That's what the WNBA,
the NBA. The young people that around basketball will call
you because you casually pop in and pop out, and
so you want to see the stars because that's what
brings you to the game. But for others, the hardcore
fans are saying no, like like put the heart core

(07:23):
ladies in there.

Speaker 8 (07:24):
They should figure it out.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
They'll know what I will say when you talk about like,
there's no doubt there. There's been a lot of exposure
to the WNBA in those things.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
Kaitlin Clark has been a great contributor to that.

Speaker 6 (07:36):
But I also will say Andrew Rees, Cameron Brinks, some
of the young crew have played a huge role in
bringing more people to the game. When you look at
what they're doing now in the WNBA in comparison to
what they used to do years ago, they're now copying
some of the things that the NBA is doing in terms.

Speaker 8 (07:54):
Of, hey, showing the ladies.

Speaker 6 (07:58):
Arriving to the game and the ladies in their fits
before the game. So what they're doing is humanizing the
faces in the jerseys. You're now getting the greater sense
of their personalities outside of.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
The game away from the court.

Speaker 6 (08:13):
You're seeing Angel Reese wear outfits, You're seeing some of
these other ladies wear their outfits, and so it's become
a more expressive thing.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
And as humans, we.

Speaker 6 (08:23):
Connect the more that we know about people, because it's
about relationships and relatability.

Speaker 8 (08:28):
And so the.

Speaker 6 (08:29):
League has done a really good job of kind of
opening things up, allowing these ladies to show more themselves.
And because of that, I think it has been a
mutually beneficial relationship with the fans and the new fans
that are coming to the game.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
No doubt about that.

Speaker 5 (08:44):
And let's talk about money, because everything revolves around money.
It's all about the gelt, It's all about the green cabage.

Speaker 3 (08:48):
You know that.

Speaker 5 (08:48):
I know that everybody knows that. Why do I bring
up money? Flipcus the WNBA and that was going to
get about two hundred million bucks a year part of
this new NBA recently approved media rights deal. NBA kind
of hold up a media rights deal eleven years, seventy
six million dollars, all right, you know, two hundred million
a year is not bad, all right, And it's an
increase of about one hundred and forty million for the WNBA.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
However, you know someone's not happy.

Speaker 5 (09:12):
The executive director of the WNBA Players Union Terry Jackson said,
this came out just the other day that the WNBA
is being undervalued at two point two billion with a
b over eleven years. And again, remember one thing, that
the WNBA is being kept afloat by the NBA.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
And the fact of the matter is that, look, there's.

Speaker 5 (09:35):
Only thirty six games in the season compared to the
NBA's eighty two. And in life, let's face it, in life,
there are people who do similar jobs don't get similar pay.
That that's basically what it's all about. I mean, you
watch TV anchors, all right. The TV anchor maybe on
ABC is not getting the same amount of money as
a TV anchor in NBC. You could do the same job,

(09:58):
but you're not going to get the same pay. That's
basically what it's all about. I'm not so certain the
WNBA is being undervalued. They should be tickled pink that
the NBA is throwing them the life preserver to stay afloat.

Speaker 6 (10:11):
I mean, I said initially, but I think in listening
to some of the stuff that I've heard executives around
the WNBA talked about, they were saying, look, this league
has only been in existence for twenty seven years, when
you think about what the NBA was doing. Even back
when they had the thirty fifth anniversary and thirty five
on their jerseys, they still were operating some with tape

(10:31):
delay games of the finals where they didn't show all
of the finals live.

Speaker 8 (10:35):
So if you.

Speaker 6 (10:36):
Measure them by what the NBA was at the same stage, look,
they're ahead of the games, they're on track. When she's
talking about the undervaluing, maybe it's about look at what
the stars are. Look at how the TV has lined
up this year with just no, it's not going down.

Speaker 8 (10:52):
It's only going to go up.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
As more young stars coming to this league that have
brands and a track record with the public, we only
are going to have more eyeballs on the game. And
so maybe right now people aren't looking with a proper
perspective in terms of what it could be. They're looking
at what it is and what it was, and not
necessarily casting that eye to the future in terms of

(11:14):
what the NBA would look what the WNBA would look
like in five, ten, maybe even fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
I buy that. I'll hear what you say. Okay, but
here's the deal. You throw that term out of casual fan.
I got to believe that maybe I was somewhat of
a casual fan because besides Angel reason creaton Clark. Really
and truly, I don't think there are many people interested,
and the attendance numbers prove it.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I mean, when Indiana.

Speaker 5 (11:35):
Played Atlanta this year in Atlanta, they had to move
out of the venue that they played in Atlanta to
get a bigger venue because the amount of people are
going to the games.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
I don't know if that's going to continue.

Speaker 5 (11:43):
I mean, I don't know if the Caitlin Clark magic
is going to continue year in a year.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
I mean, maybe it will. I mean, she's developing into
a great player right now. She's getting it right. She
was named Rookie of the Month this month and the WNBA, however,
maybe the Harney moon will be over soon. I know,
we'll see when the NFL season starts. If there's still
an interest in the WNBA, I don't know. I think
it's still a shaky slope that the WNBA is on.

(12:09):
They're on their verge moving upward. But we'll continue, that's
the question right there. So for the WNBA executive director
to come out and say we're undervalued, hold it. Put
the brakes on just a little bit. You know, it's
a little too soon, I think to make that decision.

Speaker 6 (12:25):
Maybe, But also you got to understand, like from their
vantage point, they always want to speak positive into it,
because the more that she talks about being undervalue, the
more we eventually have to talk about money going to
the pockets of the players, and their job is to
make sure that the players get their fair share.

Speaker 8 (12:45):
Of the pie.

Speaker 6 (12:46):
Maybe it's a little posturing and some of that. So
the statement is real, but it's also slanted and sued
with the note towards.

Speaker 8 (12:53):
Making sure that the players get their fair share of
the pie.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
You know, I don't get it. You know, I'm not
a money person. I really don't. I'm terrible with money anyway.
I can't even balance a checkbook. However, when I read
the other day that the WNBA is losing one hundred
million dollars a year, and then last night I see
the Phoenix Mercury have this new practice facility for fifty
million dollars. I assume the league didn't pay, but I
assume the ownership of the Phoenix Mercury paid for that.

(13:16):
But where's this money coming from? How does a business
stay afloat if you're losing one hundred million dollars.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Help me out with that. I don't get it.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
I mean, I'm waiting to see if the players checks
are bouncing. I don't get it. How do you lose
that kind of money and you still stay afloat? How
you say you're run the valued I don't get it.

Speaker 6 (13:34):
Well, One, you're attached to a huge brand. Obviously, the
NBA is crushing it. Just talked about the media deal
that they did. Every NBA owner understands that if we
are willing to kind of continue to pour into this league,
it's going to pay off tenfold. You think about being
able to open up the game to more fans, it's

(13:55):
like a different avenue to bring in people that can
watch by jersey, these by merchandise and those things. No
different than the NFL making a very strategic decision to
get all in behind flag football and the Flag Championships
that are taking place this weekend, and how that not
only opens it up for people that don't play tackle football,
but it opens up this huge lanes for girls and

(14:18):
ladies that want to participate in the spar because now
they're playing and all football is football they're more aptive
by jerseys and those things. All of this is done
with the design towards expanding the base and making sure
that you always have people that are interested in the game,
not only for this year, but for the next five, ten,
fifteen years.

Speaker 5 (14:37):
All right, Okay, I hear what you say. Now, let's
get back to the game itself. One seventeen one O nine.
The All Stars defeat the US national team. How bad
does that look for the US national team going to
now to France to play It's hard to defend the
gold medal? What does that do? I mean, do they
go back to the drawing Winston, we made a mistake.
I mean, I don't understand how that could happen. And

(14:58):
we'll get to the men's game a little bit, But
how does that happen that the All Stars can beat
the team that's representing our country? That to me doesn't
make any sense. It's almost as bad as when the
Holland Glow Charters lose.

Speaker 8 (15:10):
A little bit. So a couple of different things.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
You want to make sure that many do they have
the right team, and not only because a lot of
the conversation when they were picking the team was about
Kaitlyn Clark, but did they miss anybody else from the
w NBA that could be should be on that team
For the WNBA, it kind of legitimizes the league in
the sense of everyone talked about, you know, Kaitlyn Clark

(15:36):
coming in and how they should be thankful and on
their hands and knees that she arrived.

Speaker 8 (15:40):
And some of that is true. The students should be.

Speaker 6 (15:42):
Gracious towards Kaitlyn Clark. She and a part of that
crew that came in had brought more eyeballs there. But
I think there's a disrespect that was given to the
ladies that were already in the WNBA playing This allows
us to see how good those ladies are for them
to take down Team USA, a team that hasn't lost much.
I think there's sixty six and three over any long

(16:05):
period of time. Yeah, this is one that was good
for the WNBA.

Speaker 5 (16:09):
Yeah, I mean, I think it was great. I mean,
it creates a lot of conversation right now. But you know,
Irique was school watch. She was like thirty four points,
she was like twenty one points in the third quarter,
she gets the MVP. Why isn't she on the on
the national team? I mean, she said she didn't want
to be on it. She told her to take a
deep breath and step away. But she had to have
been on the Olympic team, right, You would think that

(16:30):
she would be on that team.

Speaker 6 (16:32):
You know, Like I think people pointed to her as
one of the reasons everyone should probably chill on the
Kaitlin conversation because it took her a while to finally
be in consideration because it has been so loaded and
so good, you know, with the ladies and the number
of players they've had, and they won.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
So this is a huge wake.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Up call, and not only for Team USA because now
you got to do it self check and make sure
he were we kind of full of ourselves when we
didn't cast and eye towards some of the young talent
I could be on this team. Are we just going
along with the same people because we want and we
don't like change. Yeah, a lot of conversations will be had.
This is good and it ultimately will make them better
in the Olympics because they won't have their level of

(17:13):
complacency or entitlement that they had.

Speaker 5 (17:16):
Well, I hear what you're saying. Look, I still think
that the women are going to win the goal. I
don't think there's a problem right there, but I'm more
word now. But the men, because the men were forty
three point favorites over South Sudan and it took a
Lebron James put back with about eight seconds to go
in the game to beat them one oh one, one hundred.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
I get it. They want them the rest of the regulars.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
And then when I hear Steve Kerr, the coach of
Team USA, said I didn't do a great job preparing
our team.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
How stupid is that?

Speaker 5 (17:41):
What kind of a statement is that, you know, just
say we caught them on a bad day, say something
like that, I didn't do a great job. I'm tired
of coaches protecting their players by taking the rap for themselves.
I'm sure Kurt prepared them. These guys didn't play, that's
the problem. I mean, And look this Joe LMB, forget it.
He ain't doing anything. He's not doing anything for the

(18:03):
US team. He shouldn't be playing at all. I mean,
I don't understand what's going on. And I'm tired of coaches,
you know, kind of defending their players.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
What happened to today?

Speaker 5 (18:12):
And maybe you were around when you played, when coaches
were pointing fingers at players. I think coaches are afraid
right now to get into a face of a player,
especially in the public stage. Then don't want to do it.
I don't know why. I just and players do good.
Away with murder they do. Come on, Kurt, point the finger.
The guys didn't play hard es basically what it's all about.

(18:34):
I know you want them to rest the regulars. I
get it, but come on, forty three point favorites to
South Sudan and you went by a point.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Come on, really?

Speaker 8 (18:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (18:43):
I mean, like, look, things happen. That's why you play
the game. I think the other thing everyone has to
understand that fever basketball, international basketball is much different than.

Speaker 8 (18:51):
What we see in the NBA.

Speaker 6 (18:53):
The NBA has put rules in place to make it
less restrictive for players to move around and do those things,
and foeba, it's not that guys can camp out in
the paint. Their different goaltending rules. It's very physical, a
far more physical game than the NBA, and players are
having to adjust.

Speaker 8 (19:11):
As we look.

Speaker 6 (19:12):
At these things, though, I think we have to remember
what are they for. What's the context in which we
want these guys to play in these games, well, now,
these games are tune ups for what the Olympics will
look like. And in fact, I would say I want
my team tested. I want them to expose some of
the things that we need to continue to work on.

(19:32):
I want to be able to have the attention, the
full attention of my team as we're moving forward while
still being able to win. So I get Steve hur
taking some of that on him because it is on
him to prepare the team. It's also on the players,
but yeah, the coach has to find a way to
get the team up and going. And for everyone who
has taken issue with what the women's side of the

(19:56):
Dream Team has done. When it comes to leaving All Stars,
let's talk about Team USA.

Speaker 8 (20:01):
On the men's.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
Side, they decided not to take Jayden Brown. Jaylen Brown.
They elected to take his teammate Derrick White, who I
would say is not the same caliber.

Speaker 8 (20:10):
Player, even though he may be a Blue guy.

Speaker 6 (20:12):
There's some other things with the selection process where there's
some guys that are sitting at home that could be
playing with the team. All of that comes into play
when you don't play well. So, yeah, we got to
talk about and you're right about Joel Embiid. Joele Embiid
has been a big nothing burger on the court for
Team USA. Nothing. He hasn't offered anything. And Andy, what

(20:33):
is what is really compelling right about watching these games?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Right?

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Because everyone talks about Lebron and Steph Curry and they're
in the twilight. But whenever you have all of the
best players and you're in a situation where the game
gets tight, who do they give the ball to Lebron
James and Steph Curry. So all the people, all the
Kobe Steins, all the people that talk about him not
being able to compete with the goat, the players are

(20:59):
telling you who they think the best players are. Regardless
of his age, at thirty nine, almost forty, Lebron James
is still viewed by his peers as one of the
best players in the game.

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Speaker 2 (23:18):
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Speaker 5 (23:20):
Now, now, our guy from Kansas City wants to talk
to Bucky Brooks and that's Steve.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Steve, You're on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 10 (23:28):
Hey, Hey, Hey what man, Hey, I'm watching this replay
of South Sudan and USA on SS two right now, Man,
this is the kind of game they make movies about.
You know, they South Sudan should have won that game.
I mean, if they could stop traveling. Some of the
blame deserves to be on Bucky was making some great points.

(23:51):
Some of this blame deserves to be on Steve Kerr.
They should get Jalen Brown on this team right now.
I mean they got big problems. I mean, these guys
are too old. When your best player is forty years
old and you have to go to him to bail
you out, Steve, they started driving to the basket only
with about five or six minutes to go. You know

(24:13):
how this goes. They do the positionless basketball, fall away
three's no defense, and then at the end when they say,
oh my god, we're going to lose the South to Dan,
then they start doing what they're supposed to be doing,
which is creating offense. That's the problem is this team
is too old and they cannot create stuff off the dribble.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
By the well, Steve, let me just say one thing.
The next game I coach would be my first. However,
I'm watching the game and I think I know a
little bit about basketball. They should have dominated them because
I have the big men and I don't know why
Anthony Davis was not getting the ball. More give the
guys to the big men underneath and you could dominate.
Joel emb is not going to get it done, but
Anthony Davis would and Davis to not get the balling
up boom.

Speaker 2 (24:54):
That's the end of the deal right there.

Speaker 10 (24:55):
I I completely agree, and they can't defend and Anthony Davis.
But you have to have something besides, I just did
this fall away Golden State two point of offense just
chased my hide. You have the greatest composition of players
in the world and we're just running out the shot clock,

(25:17):
throwing up threes with we deserve to lose. Yesterday Southsterdan
played better just to drill Steve Carr in the head
to stop doing this. It's not ten years ago. Steph
Curry is not to Steph Curry of five or ten
and a forty year old guy bailed us out yesterday.
I mean, this is this is nuts. I mean, we

(25:38):
we have the best basketball Thame goes for the women.
Diana Toronzi is forty two years old, and what I
know what she's doing there. You know, I know what
somebody you know. You gotta go with Angel, you gotta
go with Caitlin. You got to go with the new blood. Man.
This is just money in Jersey sales.

Speaker 5 (25:55):
He say, you roll up. But I'll tell you what, Buck,
I think you'll agree with me. They'll still win a goal.
And I think that is very similar to the NBA.
They play lacklust of basketball throughout the season. They turn
it up during the playoffs. They'll turn it up when
when the when the Olympics start, Do you agree, Buck,
they'll turn it up big time.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
Like No, I think I think you have to be careful.
I think that is the thinking that we all kind
of get seduced into thinking that you can just hit
a magical switch, and that's not what can happen.

Speaker 8 (26:24):
I think we on.

Speaker 6 (26:25):
The outside of his fans, we need to respect all
those opponents and and and really have a belief that, look,
we can get beat if we don't play our best.
And then the players and the coaches have to really
also buy into that notion that there's a team out
there that can be the Boogeyman and they need to
be ready for him. They need to play. It's a
different type game. And I just remember watching the Redeemed
team dock with Coach K and Coach K talked about

(26:47):
how they had to really do a deep dive into
how to play international ball, how to coach it, how
to get ready for it because of a completely different game.

Speaker 8 (26:56):
These guys can't assume.

Speaker 6 (26:57):
That they're just going to roll out the balls and
be the best fifteen players in the world based on
what they've done in the NBA.

Speaker 8 (27:03):
It's a completely different game.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
If they don't play as a team, they're gonna have
a hard time winning and winning to the level that
we expect them to win.

Speaker 8 (27:09):
That's the men and women.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
They got their last exhibition tomorrow against Germany. We'll see
what happens. By the way, he's Bucket Brooks and Andy Firman.
He's a coach. He's a coach, not a PI. Now
he's gone. That's coming up next on Fox Live from
the Tiret dot Com Studios. But we are late, and
we're sorry, but here he is. Kevin whyite with all
your sports.

Speaker 11 (27:27):
Yeah, I was a nail bier for the men's US
Olympic basketball team as they got by South su Dan
by a final score of one oh one two one
hundred as Lebron James with a late layup to help
give the United States the victory. He had a twenty
five points overall for the game. So we'll have one

(27:47):
more tune up coming up. It'll be coming up on
Monday against Germany and that can be seen over on Fox.
As for the US Women's Olympic basketball team, they lost
to the WNBA Allstar on Saturday, one seventeen to one.
Zho nine o Rique Ogombowalle scoring thirty four points as

(28:08):
she was named the MVP, all of her points coming
in the second half. In twenty one of those thirty
four points coming in the third quarter, she els to
set a new All Star Game scoring record. Asked for
Angel Reach, she had a double double twelve points, eleven rebounds,
Caitlin Clark with ten assists. Evan Mobley getting a five
year max rookie contract extension from the Cleveland Cavaliers. It

(28:31):
can be worth as much as two hundred and twenty
four million dollars. Major League Baseball, the Dodgers, for the
second straight day, come from behind to meet the Red Sox,
this time in eleven innings, seven to six s as
key Key Hernandez hitting the game tying home run of
the ninth, Will Smith with the walk off base hit
in the eleventh. The Milwaukee Brewers win in twelve innings

(28:53):
against the Minnesota Twins, eight to four. The Houston Astros
now in first place in the AL West. They beat
the Mariners four to two, so that knock Seattle a
game back of Houston in the standings, and the Mariners
now yeah on a losing straight day, have lost their
last five straight games. But the Pittsburgh Pirates on a roll.

(29:14):
They've won sixth straight, including a four to one victory
against the Phillies. The Tigers making four straight wins with
a seven to three win against the Blue Jays, and
in the American League East, Baltimore eight four winners of Texas.
The Yankees fall nine one to the Tampa Bay Rays.
So Baltimore's leaving the ALE East is two games back
to you guys.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
All right, keV CINANAA, thank you so much. He's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
I'm Andy Furman with Fox Sports son thea Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Will he stay? Will he go?

Speaker 5 (29:40):
Okay, we'll get to that in just about a minute.
As Bucket coming up right around the bend, and the
big story I guess in the NFL right now, which
is right around the corner. I can't believe the big
game in Canon's gonna be a week from Thursday. You're
gonna blame it on Justin Jefferson, Blame it on AJ Brown,
blaming on Mon Ross, Saint Brown, Jalen Waddle, and Devonte
Smith will saying these are wide receivers and all these
guys going to average about twenty five mili annually. Okay,

(30:03):
Now the forty nine is wide receiver at Brendan Ayuk.
He wants to say he's threatening to hold out, and
I say that the forty nine ers don't need him.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
They can win without him. Does he have any leverage?
I don't think so. I think the forty nine ers
have all the cards.

Speaker 5 (30:15):
I think he'd be out of his mind to hold out,
and I don't think he will hold out. Last year,
this guy Auk had seventy five receptions over thirteen hundred yards,
seven touchdowns. But as you know, Bucky Brooks forty nine
ers have Christian McCaffrey sixty seven receptions.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
A year ago.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Tight end George Kettley at sixty five and Deebo Samuel,
So I don't think they honestly need him to be
competitive your thoughts on that? And I think he's going
to be there when when they go, when the belt rings.
I think he'll be playing for the forty nine.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Ers this year.

Speaker 6 (30:44):
Well, I think he has no choice but to play
for the Niners, just because definant schedule is so prohibitive
against players that elect to hold out, Like it's just
ridiculous in terms of the amount of money that players
have to pay per day by holding out, and then
what happens after a short period, They lose an opportunity
for an accrude year. So you give away additional money

(31:07):
and opportunities by not being there because you lose a
year on your work clock. That's significant as it relates
to the Niners. Yeah, the Niners can win without him,
but I would think people are doing people are making
a great mistake when they sleep on Brandon Nyuk. Brandon
Ayuk is the niners number one receiver. Brandon Ayuk was
their best receiver a season ago. Brandon and a Yuk

(31:30):
had twenty eight catches of twenty yards or more. He
was only behind Tyreek Hill and Cede Lamb. In terms
of big play factor International Football League, he averaged seventeen
point nine catch. You just don't see those kinds of
numbers from a number one receiver. And when it comes
down to looking at the forty nine ers wide receiver corps,

(31:51):
Brandon Ayuk is the proven route runner of them all.
Last year, the teams in the games in which the
Niner struggle people played more man demand because Manda Man
requires you to have guys that are really precise route runners,
because they take away the easy throws and the things
that Kyle Shanahan feasts on would play action, those things.

Speaker 8 (32:09):
Innull and void.

Speaker 6 (32:10):
When people are willing to play Manda Man, Brandon Ayuk
without questing his head and shoulders above everyone else when
it comes to route running. Yeah, they drafted Ricky Piersol,
but they drafted him as a compliment to Ayuk, not
necessarily as a replacement to Ayuk. So they need to
get it back in the fold. They need to make
sure that he is available and does that. But it's
a good business for the Niners to not pay him

(32:31):
right now because Brod Purdy is eligible for an extension
in the offseason, and once you pay him fifty million dollars.
You have to make hard decisions on who you continue
to keep on their rust.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Now here's the deal. You played the game, and I'm
going to run this by you.

Speaker 3 (32:43):
Would you do this?

Speaker 5 (32:45):
Forty nine ers veterans report on Tuesday to twenty third
of July. If he doesn't show up, he's going to
get fifty thousand dollars fines for every day of his absence.
What moron would do anything like that? Is it worth
it to shit out? I have to pay fifty thousand
dollars a day not to be there?

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Are you kidding? Come on, you would never do that.

Speaker 8 (33:09):
No, I mean I would never.

Speaker 6 (33:10):
Even last year you heard Chris Jones talk about they
had to go to the Super Bowl so it can
make up for the two million dollars that he lost
during training campboay fines because the difference now is teams
can no longer wipe away those fines and those things.
A lot of times you would have holdouts in the
past and people were like, yeah, we know, we find
you one hundred and sixty thousand, but just know once
you signed that contract, we'll waive all those fees. The

(33:33):
league has made it where you can't do that anymore.
It changes everything. As much as we want all of
these stars and these guys to kind of like get
the money that they want, it's tilted in the team's favor,
and so teams have to be willing to exercise the
vehicles they have at their disposal when it comes to
player negotiation.

Speaker 5 (33:53):
Well, let's talk about the forty nine ers one second.
They advanced to the finals of the NFC Championship Game
for the last five years, and they came up short
in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
You know, it's kind of a win now for this team.
They got to do it.

Speaker 5 (34:05):
They can win without him, but they honestly would have
a better chance of winning with him. And you mentioned
a great point. They were Brock Purdy. He's under that
first year contract. We's betting payed like seven hundred and
fifty thousand, which is peanuts as far as quarterbacks are concerned.
They're gonna goost that up pretty much. So next year
they got to get it done. This year is a
big year for the forty.

Speaker 8 (34:24):
Nine ers, huge year. Gotta get it right, no.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Doubt about that. All Right. He's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman.
We got a guy and.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Hold Doug call back to the top of the hour
because we got to ask Bucket coming up right next
right here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (34:38):
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Speaker 5 (34:50):
The man with the answers coming right up. That's as Bucket.
He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. This is Fox Sports
Sunday at Fox Sports Radio. And of course we're live
for the Tire Rock dot Com studio. So let's do
We're ready, Bucket, You ready, Yeah, let's do it. Ready,
here we go, All right, ask Bucky. Dak Prescott is
just his last ride in Dallas with the Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (35:10):
Let us know, Bucky Brokes.

Speaker 8 (35:12):
Yeah, I think this is the last one.

Speaker 6 (35:14):
I think it's the last one just because it's gonna
be cost prohibitive for this team to continue to going
with Dak Prescott making sixty million plus the NY move
and they found a new quarterback.

Speaker 5 (35:22):
Wow, all right, who will take Aaron Donald's place as
the most dominant NFL defender?

Speaker 6 (35:32):
Hmmm, let's go with Miles Gear from Cleveland. He's unblockable.
He has a Freakis game. He has just started to
kind of scratch the surface on what he could be.

Speaker 8 (35:44):
I think his game goes to the next level.

Speaker 5 (35:46):
Right, Okay, how soon will JJ McCarthy see the field
in Minneapolis?

Speaker 6 (35:54):
I think you have to look at the record season
schedule and target week eleven or twelve.

Speaker 8 (35:59):
I think it's right after their bye week. Whenever they
have their by week.

Speaker 6 (36:02):
The week after it could be the opportunity to switch
the thing up and allow him to take some of
those hits.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Part two of that question is that because Sam Donald's
not getting it done or are they just looking for
the future.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
I think some of it is because they're looking towards
the future. Yeah, Kevin O'Connell's vested in Sam Don. If
Sam Donald plays well, it's another feather in his cap.
But I just think this is about JJ McCarthy being
the right guy for this team right now.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
All right, let's get back to the forty nine ers
for a second. Right now, two Super Bowl losses in
the last five years. How can the forty nine ers
get over that hump to get it done this year
and win it all?

Speaker 8 (36:37):
Go back, repeat it? How can we super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Losses in the last five years? But how do the
forty nine ers get over that hump? You even mentioned
that it is a tremendous yearn.

Speaker 6 (36:48):
Yeah, it's the passing game. It comes down to the
passing game. Can they develop a drop back passing game?
When you look at when this team has been beating
this because teams have been able to bot up the
running game and take away the play action passing game,
which is so dependent upon the run game being established
when they force people, when teams are able to force
the Dogs into a traditional drop back passing game where

(37:08):
playfakes and those things aren't really a factor, it's been
hard for them and so everything falls on Call Shanahan's
shoulders to really create these opportunities, and it's hard to
do that weekend wake out. Sometimes you just want your
guys to be better than the opponent.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
Uh huh Okay.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
Did the Green Bay Packers really strike gold with their
quarterback Jordan Love or is it too soon to say that?

Speaker 6 (37:31):
It appears they struck gold, but more so, it appears
that they have confirmation and validation on their development process
where they sit guys for a couple of years before
they give them the keys to the car that has worked.
They work for them forever. From Aaron Rodins and appears
to work and Jordan Love. They have unlocked what you
need to do to get a young quarterback ready to ply.

Speaker 5 (37:52):
All right, moving along right now. You wrote about this
in NFL dot com and at the top of the
hour will continue.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
With some other things that you wrote about this week.

Speaker 5 (37:59):
But you wrote about the Packers and their coach Matt Lafeure.

Speaker 2 (38:03):
You said he's underrated. Tell us why he is underrated
as a coach.

Speaker 6 (38:10):
With Matt lean floor, I think a lot of it
is the first few seasons he won thirteen games. He
won thirteen in games first three seasons, but all the
debt was about Aaron Rodgers back to back MVPs.

Speaker 8 (38:22):
Playing at a high level.

Speaker 6 (38:23):
Well, when you remove Aaron Rodgers, this team has continued
to get better. They've improved. They look like a different team.
Dad has to go to him. He understands how to
put together team and no matter what we say about stars,
he's willing to play teams without stars wing games.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Okay, we're entering the NFL season beginning a week from Thursday.
We have the Hall of Fame game, and then after
that you will not have a free weekend until February,
no doubt about that, especially on Sunday. And I'm going
to ask you right now one of the maybe two
or three biggest stories in the NFL entering the season
this year, and I'll tell you mine. I think mine

(38:58):
has to be Aaron Rodgers. I think that as the
as Aaron Rodgers goes, so go the New York Jets.
And I think their quarterback, I mean, their coach right
now basically is on shaky grounds. Other than Aaron Rodgers.
What are the big stories in the NFL this year?

Speaker 8 (39:13):
Uh? You know.

Speaker 6 (39:15):
The big story to me is we talked about a
little bit. What are the Cowboys going to do? Is
this the last year that the Cowboys are together? As
we see it? We think about Ceedee Lamb contract year,
Dak Prescott contract year, Michael Parson is angling for a contract.
How much is is you're willing to extend this window
by paying those guys to keep them in the fall?

Speaker 2 (39:37):
All right, I'll ask you this.

Speaker 5 (39:39):
And it's very unusual that a coach in the NFL
gets canned during the season. I think that upsets everything
you know to fire them after the season when they
have the so called Black Monday after the season. But
which of the coaches right now as we enter the
season would be considered being on the hot seat?

Speaker 6 (39:56):
Robert Solid from the New York Jets, big time. The
expectation of the Jets are going to go to the super.

Speaker 8 (40:01):
Bowl with Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 6 (40:02):
They push all the chips in the middle of the table.
So if this team stumbles out the gate or they
hit one of these extended slumps, he gone, He's going
to be up out of there. So he got to
get him. He got to get him playing, Gotta get
him playing well from the jump. If not, somebody else
will have that opportunity to take over to Gang Green.

Speaker 5 (40:18):
All right, I'll ask you this, What about his neighbor
in New York, the coach of the New York Football Giants.
Could he be on the hot seat as well?

Speaker 3 (40:26):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (40:26):
I think so.

Speaker 6 (40:27):
A lot of it is how Daniel Jones looks and
how he looks on the sideline. Does he look like
mature professional? Is he someone that's loud and those things?
The crew everybody's been able to adapt and adjust, But
it really comes down to that part of it.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Interesting, Okay, you got one more, one more coach on
the hot seat to know.

Speaker 8 (40:45):
Well on the other side, right on the other side
of your.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Here we go, all right?

Speaker 5 (40:49):
If he goes, where should he go? That is more
next on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
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Speaker 5 (40:58):
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Speaker 2 (41:05):
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Speaker 2 (41:29):
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Speaker 5 (41:29):
How you doing hour two of the three hour extraffic
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Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yeah, man, We're almost hafway home. I'm excited. The conversation
has been good. Looking forward to finishing it all right.

Speaker 5 (41:39):
Speaking of the conversations, we is Doug from Texas to
hold with us, and he's been a gentleman he's done.
Socialists take him right now. Doug from Texas. You're on
with Bucky Brooks and Fox Sports on the Hello, Douggie,
how are.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
You good morning? I'm good.

Speaker 12 (41:50):
How a y'all doing good?

Speaker 10 (41:52):
So?

Speaker 12 (41:53):
I have two theories on the state Man court not
here in the three point contest. One, maybe she felt
that she didn't want to embarrass herself if she didn't win,
it may possibly feel like an embarrassment. Or Two, they
couldn't get she couldn't move the right back to the

(42:15):
half court.

Speaker 5 (42:17):
Okay, let me just say this and I'll speak for athletes,
which I am not, and Bucket Brooks will agree with me.
I don't think there's any athlete on God's green Earth
that would refuse to go into a competition, a game,
wherever it may be, for fear of losing.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Am I correct on that? Buck?

Speaker 5 (42:31):
I don't think anybody, as long as you suit up
on any sport swimming, track and field, soccer, basketball, football, baseball,
you know, I don't think any athletes says I'm not
going to go into this game or contest or challenge
because I may lose. Am I right about that?

Speaker 2 (42:47):
I'm sure? I am?

Speaker 4 (42:49):
No?

Speaker 6 (42:49):
I mean I think you always like, I mean, you
can acknowledge that that, look, this is a tough one.
It's gonna be a battle, but in your mind you
can never let it go to that point. A lot
of players, like, we'll talk themselves into it, whether it's
false bravado or just trying to create a different reality. Yeah,
they'll they'll talk themselves into I'm the best player here.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
Everyone came to see me, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 6 (43:11):
Even though they know that the task in front of
them is daunting, you still can never like give in
to that. You have to put your face into your
work and your preparation and all the stuff that you've
done to get ready for the game of the task
that you have at that day.

Speaker 2 (43:24):
Okay, and so what was the second thing you had?
Pud B Why she wasn't in?

Speaker 12 (43:28):
They couldn't, She couldn't she couldn't get something to agree.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
To move the mall rights back far enough.

Speaker 6 (43:36):
I mean she does, I mean, she does have limitless range,
but I think in those situations you don't want to
show off.

Speaker 8 (43:44):
You want to make sure you can get it done.

Speaker 6 (43:45):
But yeah, it'd be interesting to see when she does
jump in there and participate in three point shooting.

Speaker 8 (43:52):
What's your look like? Right?

Speaker 5 (43:53):
And look again, she said that she didn't want to
do it because actually on Esco is the one who
spoke for her the other day at the news conference,
saying that she was tired. Look, I'm sure she's tired,
but one game, a one event is not going to
be her give a great rest. She didn't want to
think to be all about her, and if she was
going to be in that contest, it would be all
about her. I'm not saying she's a shy individual, but

(44:15):
I think she's tired of the spotlight being on her
every single day. And it has been and it will be.
That's just the way it is, and that's why the
league has been thriving because of her. Really, Look, there's
been great players, There's no doubt Asia is great. You know,
Angel has done a great job, but she is the key.
She's the cog that has taken this lead to another level.

(44:36):
As we move on now comments on that.

Speaker 6 (44:41):
Look, she's been a big part of it. I'm not
going to give her the all of the credit like
she's the savior, but yeah, she's brought a lot of
attention and notoriety to the league, like the people who
support her in college that certainly followed.

Speaker 8 (44:53):
Her to the WNBA. And that's been good for the
bottom line.

Speaker 5 (44:56):
No doubt about. And now we've got to Bucket Brooks,
who's missed to everything. He really is player, coach, scout
and NFL dot Com rider, all right, and this week
and every Friday, he's in there. NFL dot COM's got
to column. And Brandon au basically is the key right now,
which we talked ABOUTI a little bit in the last
hour about you know, he may be wanting to hold out.
We'll see on the Tuesday when the veterans report the

(45:16):
camp for the forty nine ers, the wide receiver wants
more money. And I don't blame him because the salaries
have gone up in that position. But we agreed that
the forty nine ers could possibly survive without him, and
we also agreed that perhaps he shouldn't hold out be
very foolish because a he'd be fined fifty thousand a
year and he would not be a free agent the
following year.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
So where's he gonna go?

Speaker 5 (45:36):
And you wrote about that, where are some of the
teams that Brandon Ayu may end up, could go, should go?
And what would the forty nine ers get in return.
Let's start out with some of the people on the
list that you have put out there, and you said
that he might be a possibility for the Washington Commanders.
Why do you say that? Obviously they got Jaden Daniers

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is the quarterback. Occupianis a receiver. But again, you know
he wants money. But why would he want to go
to a team that's not competitive? That I don't understand whatsoever.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
Well, the Washington Commanders have familiarity. They offer him the
opportunity to jump a situation where he knows the people
that are really in charge. One Jade Daniels quarterback. They
played together at Arizona State. There's a natural chemistry and
connectivity that's there. To Adam Peters, the new general manager
of the Washington Commanders, was in San Francisco when they
drafted Ayuk. He knows the ins and outs about him.

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He knows his personality very very well. He knows how
he can make him comfortable in DC. To me, those
are the things that you want. You want a quarterback
who's responsible for getting you the ball to be on
your side, and you want the person who ultimately is
writing the big check to also be on your side
and Washington Brandon Ayuck is both those things in place.

Speaker 5 (46:51):
Okay, so let me run this by you said. Let
let's say we substitute a Bucky Brooks for Brandon Ayuk.
You're on the forty nine Ers, you're doing well, you're
making a good salary, your team is in contention. You've
gone to the Super Bowl two times in the last
five years. You want to get more money, so you're
gonna go to the Washington Commanders. So you'll watching the
super Bowl on TV. You won't be in it all right.

(47:12):
What's more important in the mindset of maybe many athletes
right now, is it the money or is it to
be a competitor and to be on a winning team.

Speaker 2 (47:22):
To me, I'd rather be on a winning team.

Speaker 5 (47:24):
If you're in Washington and after Thanksgiving when you know
you're not going to be in the playoffs, that's sort
of depressing in my mind.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
But maybe it's all about ego.

Speaker 5 (47:33):
Because you know these players that play your position, and
you may be as good or better than them, and
they're making more money.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
That may be a chip on your shoulder that probably
bothers you a little bit.

Speaker 8 (47:42):
Yeah, no, it certainly bothers you a little bit. But
let's make sure we understand this.

Speaker 6 (47:46):
Professional football is professional football because these guys are pros,
and so it's always about the money, not only for
the players, but for the coaches and everyone around the league.

Speaker 8 (47:55):
You're trying to get the best.

Speaker 6 (47:56):
Deal that you can secure your future for yourself and
also for your family. Now, if things are even, then
you begin to make legacy decisions. Which team is gonna
put me closer to winning a Super Bowl? Howard winning
a Super Bowl impact me? They forever have to call
me champion. If I have that, it also helps me
when it comes to my bid for Hall of Fame

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or any other accolades. In those things, yes, I want
the team to win, but I wanted to win in
the right way where everyone is pulling the ship in
the right direction. So if you can find those things,
it absolutely works. But the money is a big consideration
in these conversations, and.

Speaker 2 (48:33):
I get it.

Speaker 5 (48:34):
I get the money's a big deal, and honestly, there's
only a short window where you could make that money.
And more than that, you know you're always one play
away from being injured, and maybe a career could be finished.
So I get that you want to get the money,
but it's kind of like in our profession. You know,
a lot of people do what we do, but everybody
doesn't make the same amount of money.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Think about that.

Speaker 5 (48:55):
I mean, you know, what we make is not the
same as what guys make during the week or doing
prime time hours, whoever it may be.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
That's just the nature of the beast. That's just the
way it is.

Speaker 8 (49:06):
That is the way it goes.

Speaker 6 (49:07):
And it's one of those things that we have to
be okay with. We got to underspt like, my lane
is my lane, and whatever was in store for you, Andy,
like is in store for you. But I can't be
jealous or envious of what you have going because like
thing works, things work out the way that they should.
And so I think a lot of this stuff is
about people worrying too much about other things as opposed

(49:30):
to locking in on the bottom line. Kid, the main thing,
the main thing, your performance, your production, all the other stuff.
That's what really really matters.

Speaker 5 (49:36):
Okay, So you told about the Washington Commanders. Now let's
talk about your guy. Drake made a new quarterback in
the New England Patriots, which I hope he does well,
I really do. But he'll need a receiver and there's
a possibility maybe. And I think if I'm the Patriots
and the general manager and personnel people, I'm going to
try to go after this guy. I mean, you got
to get Drake May a number one guy, and I
don't know. I think they really have one right now

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New England not.

Speaker 8 (49:58):
He don't.

Speaker 6 (49:58):
And the reason and why when you have a young player,
you want a veteran presence on the perimeters because the
reliability and dependability. I know that when we call display,
Brendan Luck is going to be at this spot. I
know I can tell my quarterback, you gotta let it go.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Man.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
You got to trust the system, trust and process. Well,
it's a lot easier to trust when you have veterans
who played in this sleep.

Speaker 8 (50:16):
When you have young players, you can get.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
Inconsistent performance because they're still adapting and adjusting to the league.
So for me, the Newton, the Patriots, they have to
be at the top of the list in terms of
trying to get Brandon and you from Sanrancisco.

Speaker 5 (50:28):
Yeah, I tell you what, they probably are on the
top of the list. And you know what that's going
to cost. The page this big time, maybe a first
and a second pick and whatever it may be, and
maybe a first pick the following year.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
I mean it may be that big.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
I mean it's going to be costly just because of
the market. You're talking about an All Pro player. Now
what some arguing come back with. And we've seen some
of this. Hey, man, I'm not paying big money for
wide receiver when I can wait for the college to
produce a Pooka Nakoula and some other guys right away
at a.

Speaker 8 (50:56):
Much cheaper rate.

Speaker 6 (50:57):
We're going to see a slowdown, I believe, and some
of the wide receiver your stuff, like you'll see the.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
Top of the top of the food.

Speaker 6 (51:04):
Chain, top of the marketplace. They may that thirty million.
The man, it's gonna be a huge drop off after that.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
And I think it should be.

Speaker 5 (51:09):
You know, I never understood why the wide receivers all
of a sudden in the last year or so, these
salaries of skyrocketed because maybe one general manager decided to
bay some big bucks. And I think wide receivers, and
maybe I'm crazy for saying this, I think there're a
dime a dozen. You get a guy who could catch
and he's fast, and he's in the draft and you
get him every year and you get good size. I
never understood, especially in this day and age, where the

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quarterback eats up so much of that salary structure.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
You really can't afford to pay the other positions.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
We've seen that with the running back position, and there's
no longer even a fullback fullback so like dinosaurs, so
you'll see that squashing other positions to save the quarterback
and save that money that's needed to pay the quarterback.

Speaker 6 (51:49):
Yeah, but the quarterback can't exist without everything around him
functioning at a high level. So if you have the
greatest quarterbacks, then you have poor receivers. You're not gonna
win games because they can't catch what he's delivering.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
The Pageots had a great quarterback on that poor or
basically no receivers.

Speaker 2 (52:04):
Think about that.

Speaker 5 (52:04):
How many Hall of Famous receivers did Tom Brady have
throughout his career?

Speaker 6 (52:08):
Really, I mean not many, and they won, But you
got to remember those first three championships. I would say
they didn't win because directly of Tom Brady. They won
because the defense of other parts of the team. Those
last three did he want in New England?

Speaker 8 (52:22):
Yeah, he was a big part of that.

Speaker 6 (52:23):
But they won as a collective, and so there is
something to that point. However, how many of those quarterbacks
exist in the league today. How many of those quarterbacks
can we put on the Tom Brady Patrick Mahomes level
where we talk about these guys can take anything and win.

Speaker 8 (52:40):
They're not many.

Speaker 6 (52:41):
Most of the quarterbacks in place need assistants. They need
to run a game, they need good play call they
need playmakers, they need everything to flourish and thrive.

Speaker 8 (52:50):
The elites, the greats, they don't.

Speaker 6 (52:52):
And that's why it's gotten skewed because people have been
able to look at Tom Brady and even to a
lesser degree, Pat Mahomes and what they've been able to
do in terms of winning Super Bowls and say.

Speaker 8 (53:00):
Hey, we don't need that.

Speaker 6 (53:02):
Now, you don't need that if you've got one of
the greatest of all time at quarterback. But if you don't,
you better get you some weapons around him so they
can elevate his game too.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
I hear you, Okay.

Speaker 5 (53:11):
Now, when we talked about why I asked you the question,
I mean, the big stories this year in the National
Football League, and we said Aaron Rodgers probably be one
of the bigger ones because you know, as he goes
so go to Jets, there's a lot of pressure on
the Jets and.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
The coaching staff.

Speaker 5 (53:23):
I think one of the stories we kind of slipped
on we didn't mention the Russell Wilson justin field situation
in Pittsburgh at quarterback, and we talked about what he
might need. What that quarterback might need is to receive it.
I got George Pickens, but I think they got Brandon
Ayuk will be a big deal. I think the Pittsburgh
Steelers should be or could be in the running for
a Brandon Ayuc.

Speaker 8 (53:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (53:45):
When I think about it, the Pittsburgh Steelers want playmakers
around George Pickens. They want to compliment what George Pickens is.
George Pickens is a big play specialist. Well, you now
put together two guys that can push down to field
on those vertical routes.

Speaker 8 (53:58):
You look at the quarterback.

Speaker 6 (54:00):
Russell Wilson's better when he throws the ball down the field.
They don't want to deconduct if they're going to, I
guess invest the time and way the odds of what
a negative could happen when it comes to a pass play.
They want big bang for their buck. He gives them
a big bang playmaker.

Speaker 5 (54:17):
All right now, I got to tell you right now,
and I apologize I have not I have not goofed
up on this. I've been following up the mama of
aman Ron Saint Brown, the receiver of the Detroit Lions.
She has not gotten back to me. I try to
give him on Saint Brian. I've been texting her every
other day, and I means she's gonna probably say I'm
a stalker. I mean, I'm gonna call her tomorrow. I'm

(54:39):
gonna say because they're going to training campstry. So I
don't think we're gonna get it, but I'm trying. But
you did mention in your list that the Detroit Lions
could be looking at are you looking? I don't understand why,
because they got some receivers here, they really do. Why
would they need a Brandon Ayuk.

Speaker 6 (54:56):
Well, what they would do would be a double whammy. One,
it would add a number one receiver on the perimeter
to what they already have in place. And two, it
would knock down their biggest rival, their biggest contentent. Remember,
the Detroit Lions were up I think seventeen on the Niners.
In the NFC Championship game, they are as good. I mean, look,
they are a team that has designs on a Super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (55:18):
Why not go all in?

Speaker 6 (55:19):
Because when you look at their lineup with Brandon and
you're coming on board with a marm Ra Saint Browns,
Jamison Williams, you's thinking about two running backs David Montgomery,
Jamior Gibs Sam Laporte over the middle field.

Speaker 8 (55:29):
How do you stop that? How do you defend that?
You can't? And so that's why you want to think
about that.

Speaker 6 (55:35):
Like Jered Golf could just pitch and catch and enjoy
what he has around him.

Speaker 8 (55:39):
That's why it makes sense to me.

Speaker 6 (55:40):
And you rob the Niners of their number one receiver,
you weaken them. So when you do play in a rematch,
look the field tips in your favor.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I hear what you're saying.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
Last, but not least, you said the New York Football
Giants may be interested in Brandon and I are. And
if I'm Brandon, Ayuk, listen to me. Please, if you're listening, Brandon,
stay away. You don't want to play with Daniel Jones.
I just don't think that you're gonna put up any
numbers whatsoever. If you end up in the Giants with
Daniel Jones. Maybe I'm crazy. I know they got my
leak neighbors at the receiver. He could probably be a

(56:17):
decent pro. But if the Giants get him, I think
that you're not gonna hear much of Brandon Ayuk. Maybe
I'm crazy. Just my take on that.

Speaker 8 (56:27):
He said.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
He said, if who gets and we won't hear about
him anymore. We think that if you think he's faded
to oblivion, he's factor.

Speaker 5 (56:35):
I don't think he'll have the numbers he had in
San Francisco with Daniel Jones a quarterback.

Speaker 8 (56:39):
No, he won't have the numbers, but he'll have the bread.

Speaker 6 (56:42):
And if he said move like it's just strictly for
the bag, it's strictly for the money, because they will
find a way to kind of create some things or whatever.

Speaker 8 (56:50):
And as great as brandan.

Speaker 6 (56:52):
Aki Yuki is, it depends on the quarterback situation and
they can't he trust someone to go in the outside
and feed him. If he does, then it makes sense,
like from marketing standpoint or whatever. There are a lot
of things that make sense about it. It's just that
is the football good enough? Can you endure the football?
To deal with all the other stuff that comes along
with being there.

Speaker 5 (57:12):
I hear what you're saying, but I think at the
end of the day he will be playing for the
San Francisco forty nine ers. He'll suck it up just
just the way it's gonna be, and they're gonna try
to go to the Super Bowl. He's Bucky Brooks. Get
him on, get him on Twitter, wherever you want to
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Sunday posted right after we get off the year. Now,
last year, bucket, this team went from worst to first.
We're talking about the Houston Houston Texans. Can they repeat?
I took a look at this schedule. Take a look

(59:25):
at the schedule right now. They're playing five defending division champions.
They're playing seven playoff teams, eleven games against teams that
finished last year with winning records. They'll play against Mahomes,
Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Dak Prescott, Aaron Rodgers, Tua Jordan Love,
Jared Goff, and Caleb Williams. Can they come back? That

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the quarterback was the offensive rookie of the year in CJ. Stroud.
He threw for over forty on hundred yards, twenty three tds,
only five ironts.

Speaker 2 (59:56):
But can they do it again?

Speaker 5 (59:57):
That got a little stronger running back, that got Joe
Mi Wide receive the Stefan Diggs who joins Tank Dell
and Nico Collins.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Can it come back?

Speaker 5 (01:00:05):
Because obviously CJ says that this offense on his team
looks like a monster. They made very well, but the
schedule looks like a monster too.

Speaker 8 (01:00:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:00:15):
No, it's such an interesting time when you just look
around and you just look at leaguing and you assess everything.

Speaker 8 (01:00:23):
Like what I love about like.

Speaker 6 (01:00:25):
Sports, in all sports is being able to kind of
look and see the teams on the rise and the
teams that are dominant teams and being able to hold on.
And I think this has given us an opportunity to
see that. And as we continue to look in assess
and see which teams are bubbling up, I like it.
I think it's time for us to be able to kind.

Speaker 8 (01:00:41):
Of look at that. I appreciate that.

Speaker 6 (01:00:43):
I appreciate that, I would say the hunters while also
appreciating someone to hunt it right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:49):
And I don't think anybody in their right mind, not
even you Bucky Brooks, could have predicted what they did
last year.

Speaker 2 (01:00:54):
Is that true? Did you see that coming?

Speaker 8 (01:00:57):
I did not see it coming. It kind of came
out of nowhere. Didn't see it coming. I didn't see
it coming. I didn't think it would be a team
like that.

Speaker 6 (01:01:02):
I mean, you always think, well, maybe there's always a
team on the rise, but I certainly didn't predict that
they would make the run that they ring.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Okay, so now we look at CJ. Stroud.

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
You know, obviously defense is going to be ready for
him right now. They were not ready for him last year.

Speaker 2 (01:01:14):
Through for forty one hundred yards plus.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Can he do it again? Will he do it again?
Will the defenses right now, you know, be ready for him.
Will it make it a little more difficult? Will he
basically face the sophomore slump?

Speaker 6 (01:01:28):
I would say that their better positioned for him to
repeat it. And one of the reasons why it is
Stephan Diggs coming over. It's a better team than they
had last year. You talked about Nico Collins, you can
talk about tang Dale, but Stefan Diggs is legit and
even though he won't necessarily be the number one there,
he'll set the table for everybody else.

Speaker 8 (01:01:47):
But it's not just him.

Speaker 6 (01:01:48):
Joe Mixing giving him that punch in the running game
and the singletary did a great job.

Speaker 8 (01:01:53):
But he's not but Joe Mixing can be when Joe
Mixon is right.

Speaker 6 (01:01:56):
And then on defense, Daniel Hunter coming on board to
compliment Will Anderson. It's a really good team. Now they
have to deal with the weight of expectations and how
that goes.

Speaker 8 (01:02:04):
But man, I mean, their rocks solid, their rocks out.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
They're really, really good football team and theatre Quarterabaal.

Speaker 5 (01:02:12):
I believe Stefan Diggs makes them a better team. They
got three tough receivers right now in Dell Collins and Diggs.
They're going to be really good this year and I
think they'd be the team to watch. But you know what,
let's talk about that. What other teams do you see
that are on the rise. They're going to turn it around,
and I think one of those teams, in my mind,
is going to be the Charges because of Harbaugh.

Speaker 2 (01:02:28):
I really believe that.

Speaker 6 (01:02:30):
Yeah, Harbor is everything when it comes to like team building,
and you can just hear how the players are bought in.
You hear how they talk, you hear how they responded.
You see so many of them in the offseason program.
It's because he is a former player that can sell
the right stuff. He can sell winning. He has a
resume of winning everywhere he's been and so when he speaks,
they listen. They are a team that for all the

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things that we talk about, the talent that they've had,
because we've always talked about this team in the top five,
top ten roster. They have a quarterback that is lights
out who has the pretendial to be even better than
he shown. Harbor will bring that out, and it may
bring it out by doing a less is more type approach,
more runs, fewer things on his shoulders, better production, more effectiveness,

(01:03:14):
and that that could be the way that the Charges
get back on track.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
Right I think you're going to see a revised and
a brand new Justin Herbert under the tutelage of Harbor,
because Herbert came out of college basically, you know, very heralded,
and it was like head and shoulders, head to head
with Joe Burrow, and Borrow, to be quite honest, has
passed him by right now. But you're gonna see a
different Justin.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Herbert this year.

Speaker 5 (01:03:37):
I really believe this guy is really going to put
put it together because of Jim Jim Harbar's coaching.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
Yeah, I think I think you certainly would put it together.
And Harvard's coaching is everything. He'll give them the swagger,
He'll give them the toughness. The toughness is also what
is needed. You need those guys that can be able
to kind of add that physicality, that that that that
they grit, they grind that you have to have to
be able to separate your sales from some of the

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teams in the league.

Speaker 8 (01:04:05):
He believes in that he's going to do that their
strength and conditioning program. Being Herbert taking that part.

Speaker 6 (01:04:10):
Over, there are gains that you can make within the
margins by being able to really build a physical team,
a team that embraces that kind of grind and that
can ryn me style, but also puts themselves in a
position to do it by the way they work in
the off season, weight room, on the field, running and
conditioning in those things. To me, that is a huge
advantage in this one that Harbor has always taken advantage

(01:04:31):
of him building his teams.

Speaker 2 (01:04:32):
You know, I know CJ.

Speaker 5 (01:04:33):
Straub basically was the offensive Rookie of the Year last year,
but I had no idea that he was just a
fifth rookie to pass for more than four thousand yards.
He let the NFL in touchdown to interception ratio twenty
three to five, and he did win that Rookie of
the Year deal on the offensive side of the football.
I mean to me that that's an amazing stot for
a guy to come into the league. I mean it
certainly it takes years at times for people to develop.

(01:04:57):
We're not going to see Caleb Williams do whate a
Stroud did. I just think that what CJ. Stroud did
was very.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Very unusual.

Speaker 5 (01:05:05):
It doesn't happen. I mean what we saw there was
was quite unusual. I don't think you'll see that with
Caleb Williams this year. I just don't think you'll see it.

Speaker 6 (01:05:14):
No, you may not see it from Williams, which you
could see it from Jade and Daniels just because of
the experience factor. One of those guys is gonna pop.
One of those guys is gonna be a surprise. Maybe
it's Kavith Williams, maybe it's Jaden Daniels. Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:05:25):
C J.

Speaker 6 (01:05:25):
Stroud to me, was beat up unfairly during the draft process.
The conversation between him and Bryce Young should have been closer. Obviously,
you look at the way they played. Some would say
that maybe maybe everyone the football WORLK got it wrong
in terms of which quarterback should have been QB one. Uh.

Speaker 8 (01:05:41):
C J. Stroud was different.

Speaker 6 (01:05:42):
Though, because he just had that dog and he had
to steally confidence that was unshakable, and his teammates gravitated
to it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:50):
And then he's skilled enough to be able to make
the plays.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
There we go all right, he's Bucket Brooks. I mean
they Firman.

Speaker 5 (01:05:55):
We are Fox Sports something on Fox What's Radio? By
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They really are. We'll tell you all about it. It's
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But first, Kevin why with all your sports?

Speaker 12 (01:06:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (01:06:10):
It was a nail bider for the US men's Olympic
basketball team. They trailed South Sudan by double digits. It
was a sixteen point difference at one point in the
first half, but they were able to come back and
win it on a late Lebron late layup by Lebron
James to win it one to one to one hundred,
but that much too close for comfort, as the Americans

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do have one more Olympic tune up match before heading
out to Paris. It'll be Monday against Germany and can
be seen over on Fox. As for the women's Olympic
basketball team, they lost to the WNBA All Stars Saturday
night one seventeen one h nine arique On Gumbowali scoring
thirty four points, twenty one of them came in the

(01:06:52):
third quarter, and it also sets a new record for
most points in an All Star game, Angel Reese a
double double, twelve points, eleven rebounds, Caitlyn Clark with ten dimes.
And in Major League Baseball, the Dodgers, for the second
day in a row, come from behind to beat the
Boston Red Sox, doing it this time an extra innings.

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Key k Hernandez with a game tying home run in
the ninth, Will Smith with a walk off RBI base
hit in the eleventh to win its seven to six.
Milwaukee goes to twelve innings against the Minnesota Twins before
the Brewers win it eight to four. The Seattle Mariners
now out of first place, they've really been in free fall.
They've lost five games in a row, including a defeat

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to the Houston Astros four to two, so now the
Astros in first place in the American League West by
one game. The Pittsburgh Pirates won their sixth straight game
four to one against the Phillies. Tigers make it four
straight a seven to three win against the Toronto Blue Jays.
And in the American League East, the Orioles up by

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two games as they beat the Texas Rangers eight to war,
while the Yankees fall the Rays nine to one. About
you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
Kevisseying about it now? All right, they're creating a major mess.
We'll get to that in just about a minute. He
is Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Furman. And by the way,
we have bottom barrel betting coming up at about eight
nine minutes from now. Let me share a story with
you if I can for a second. But not to
be a name draper, but I guess I am. The
other day some local radio guy and it wasn't from Fox.

(01:08:25):
I mean I saw it on Twitter, but I know
he's on radio, and he called Bill Belichick, my guy,
Bill Belichick called him a hypocrite, called him a hypocrite
because he said because Belichick had never was basically there
for postgame interviews, kind of shunned the media, and now
he's part of the media, so now he's a hypocrite.
So I read that and I kind of really got upset,

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and I was going to write this character back up,
but I held my tongue and I didn't do it.
But I text Bill, seeing I'm not trying to drop names,
but I got his number and we do correspond, and
I said, this guy called you a hypocrite, but I
held back I didn't want to do it and everything
like that, and I asked him he wanted to come
on with us today, but he said no, maybe in
the future he might do it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:05):
So there is my Bill Belichick story for today. But
we move on.

Speaker 5 (01:09:09):
I mean, you know the way I am Buck, I
write the people, I call people, I send him text.
That's just the way I do. I got too much
free time on my hand. Maybe that's why I bug you.
I'm sure I've sent you a couple of letters to already.
I'm sure you've gotten.

Speaker 8 (01:09:20):
Some for you.

Speaker 5 (01:09:23):
All right, I'm trying doing the best I can. I'm
going to run this by about this team, the Chicago
Fire in Major League Soccer. They announced just the end
of day, which is like crazy. Why they're doing this.
They're going to set a bad president. I'm telling you,
they're going to provide compensation to fans if Lionel Messi
is unable to feature during the injury that he has
when the Miami.

Speaker 2 (01:09:44):
FC visit Soldier Field August thirty.

Speaker 3 (01:09:46):
First.

Speaker 5 (01:09:46):
This is terrible. This is a bad president. Think about
the NBA when Lebron sits. Our team is going to
pay back the fans. Right now, if Lebron doesn't play.
It's unbelievable. Why are they doing this. I don't get it.
Fans who already have tickets to the Fire are going
to offer the opportunity to claim two complementary tickets to
the Fires twenty twenty fourth Fan Appreciation Night for October nineteenth.

(01:10:10):
They're playing Nashville le f C.

Speaker 2 (01:10:12):
On that night.

Speaker 5 (01:10:13):
They're giving money back to giving tickets back. It's not
a good thing. It's not a good look. I'm telling you.
They're going down the wrong path. Other teams are going
to do it and it's going to get ugly. It's
a terrible Please don't do this. It's not good for sports.
If the guy doesn't play. Part of the game. The
guy doesn't play. Hey, you go to a Broadway show.
Sometimes the start doesn't play. They got the standings, that's

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what they do. It doesn't happen all the time that
they're going to see the number one guy.

Speaker 6 (01:10:39):
Yeah, it doesn't happen all the time, because if you
start giving away money. Man, you just talked about everyone
asks for a refunm whenever they don't get their way.
It's just one of the things that look, man, that's
a part of the deal. When you take the risks,
you assume the risk of buying a ticket, you assume
that the player may not be Doude.

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
It's amazing o.

Speaker 5 (01:10:56):
The tickets for at August thirty first match went into
my They started eighty nine bucks, which you know, I
guess in this day and age, that's not that bad.
I mean, I'm looking what ticket prices are all over
the place. You probably have to take out a second mortgage.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
Sometimes they got to.

Speaker 5 (01:11:10):
Win an NFL game for a family of four. It
really is, but it looked the MESSI failed to travel
to Chicago the last time these two teams met. That
was at Soldier Field on October fourth, twenty twenty three.
He had himself on a right leg injury that kicked
them on the sidelines. They didn't give them money back then,
but you know what they had sixty two thousand fans

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they watched as the fire beat of Miami four to one. Now, look,
I worked in North American Soccer League. I was the
PR guy for the then for Lord of Dale Strikers,
and we had some great players. We had George Best,
and sometimes George Best would go on a on a trip.
You never know where he was he was gone, he'd
go a wall. May he rest in peace. But we

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never get the money back when George didn't play and
George was the star, George was a George name of
the Joe Namath back in the day in the North
of Con Soccer League. We got off the plane, we
played the San Jose earthquakes through a five thousand women
at the airport. I promise you're waiting for George Best,
but really I never saw anything like that. George Best
was the guy. But when he didn't play, we never

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offered money back as a team, and no one demanded
their money back or tickets back or a complimentary ticket
to another game. It doesn't work that way. It shouldn't
work that way. Why they thought about this is beyond me,
and it's not gonna be it's not gonna be good.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
It's going to force other teams to do the same thing.
I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (01:12:31):
Yeah, I think other things need to stay a whole
firm on it, right, Like, hey man, you bought a ticket.
You assumed the risks. We don't guarantee anything. You bought
a ticket. This is what it is and that's how
it should be. Uh, you started rewarding fans and giving
fans their money back.

Speaker 8 (01:12:45):
I just think you just you don't. It's a slippery slope.

Speaker 5 (01:12:49):
Well, when Miami played the Vancouver white Caps earlier this
year and Miami rested Messi, Messi did not even play.
He was there, He wasn't nervy. They arrested him, and
they rested him and Louis Suarez and Sergeia Besquez. They
rested those guys for the game. The team, the Vancouver Whitecafs,
get this. They offered fifty percent off on in stadium

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food and drinks to the crowd. You can't do that.
You just can't do that. I mean, you just have
to suck it up. And that's the way it is.
The Fire also offered fans and incentive get this of
a two hundred and fifty dollars account credit towards new
memberships for twenty twenty four or a fifty dollars credit
for anyone unable to use the new member credit to

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all single game ticket buyers, regardless of whether Messi was
able to appear or not. You know, I get it.
People got the games because the stars are they going
to do this right now? If in the WNBA, if
Caitlin Clark is hurt, or she doesn't play, or she
look like she didn't play in the three point deal.
I mean, people who bought tickets for that, are they

(01:13:52):
going to get their money back? It shouldn't be that way.
That's just the way sports off. People get hurt, people
don't play, and you go to the game for the game.
I understand one individual can make you want to buy
a ticket, but if they're not there, suck it up.

Speaker 2 (01:14:05):
There's just the way it is.

Speaker 8 (01:14:07):
Yeah, I think that's what it is. Suck it up.

Speaker 6 (01:14:09):
There's just the way it is. And you have to
be you got to stand firm on that. If not, man,
you're just always find a way to play. Caate to
the fans, and yes, the customer is always right to
a point. And you just have to understand when you
buy these tickets, it's not a guaranteed that you can
see your favorite player, because what happens if you do
show up and MESSI gets hurt the first minute of
the game, Like, do you want to give them their

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money back then? Because in essence they said and watched
the whole game without really seeing him all of that stuff.
You know, you can't control everything. And so you just
tell them when you buy a ticket. That's what it is.

Speaker 5 (01:14:41):
I have never heard of anything like this in my life.
But looking to go see a Yankee game and Judges
isn't playing, do you get your money back? I mean,
I it doesn't work that way. It shouldn't work that way.
And you know it's going to transcend over the other
sports in the other leagues, and I hope it doesn't.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
I really don't.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Hey, if I'm driving the Green Bay back in the
day and Bucket Brooks wasn't playing, I'd want my money back.
How's that I want my money back?

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
Of them?

Speaker 2 (01:15:03):
I went to see Bucky Brooks play. That's just the
way it is.

Speaker 8 (01:15:07):
But there's a lot of a lot of refunds would
have been paid to you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:10):
Listen to you, oh man, all right, he is Bucky Brooks.
I'm Andy Furman.

Speaker 5 (01:15:14):
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Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
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Speaker 7 (01:16:06):
Good morning guys.

Speaker 13 (01:16:08):
I'm so excited to be here, so I'll go ahead
and recap last week.

Speaker 7 (01:16:13):
Bucky won three to one.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Okay, wait wait, I got a question.

Speaker 5 (01:16:19):
Yes, now that you're here permanently, it is your first day,
official day, full time, it's up to Bucky. Can we
start fresh? Can we start?

Speaker 2 (01:16:30):
I know I know you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:16:34):
Starting.

Speaker 2 (01:16:35):
Look, I could try. Give me credit for trying, right,
I don't try.

Speaker 7 (01:16:39):
Totally up to you, guys, how do you feel?

Speaker 2 (01:16:42):
What's up the Bucky I've loved Yeah, I love to
start first.

Speaker 8 (01:16:46):
Now you know we gotta way you go wait TI
football season stars.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
Okay, there we go.

Speaker 13 (01:16:49):
All right, So Bucky is up sixty five to forty seven.

Speaker 7 (01:16:53):
That is the Hey, it's not that bad. It could
be a lot worse.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
It sounds like South Sudan of the USA yesterday.

Speaker 7 (01:17:00):
For a little bit forty three and a half. That
was the points bread or something. Yes, that's crazy.

Speaker 13 (01:17:05):
Okay, So we'll get started for this week. We're gonna
start in the world of darts.

Speaker 7 (01:17:10):
Uh huh.

Speaker 13 (01:17:10):
And so I have Gear DeVos at plus one thirty
one versus Colin Osbourne at minus one eighty five.

Speaker 7 (01:17:19):
We'll start with Bucky.

Speaker 8 (01:17:22):
Give me, give me any names of oz again.

Speaker 13 (01:17:24):
Yeah, Geart DeVos like the water I'm thinking. And then
plus one thirty one versus Colin Osbourne like Ozzie minus
one eighty five.

Speaker 8 (01:17:35):
Okay, we canna go Ozzy.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
I want to Assie too. Look, I'll get the lost
the devas.

Speaker 7 (01:17:43):
Yes, okay, cool.

Speaker 5 (01:17:45):
Although I'll tell you I don't think Osborne is is
a name that will be kind of going with this sports.

Speaker 2 (01:17:50):
I just don't think one would be playing the darts really. Yeah,
more of the loss.

Speaker 13 (01:17:56):
You take a bite of a dove and then throw
a dart what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:18:01):
That's exactly what.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
The logic hasn't worked out well anyway, so we probably won't.

Speaker 13 (01:18:05):
Okay, So we're gonna head over to the World of Tennis,
the Woman's Tennis Association. We're gonna do doubles. I'm feeling
kind of doubly. So I have Anna Bondar and Olga
Dana levetchk at minus one thirteen versus Cattery, Zena Pizza
and Fanny Staller. Haven't heard Fanny in a while at

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minus one sixteen.

Speaker 2 (01:18:27):
Andy, Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:18:28):
The only reason I'm going with Anna and Olga. Look,
I can't pronounce the other names. It's the only reason,
believe me. So let me see if Bucky could do it.

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
Oh, I would have to hear it again because it's
soaked on PHONEX. I would have to follow the finals.
I've had to sound it out and do it, so
I'll have to hear it again.

Speaker 13 (01:18:43):
Katter is the Zena, Pier, Peter and then Fanny Stoler.

Speaker 8 (01:18:50):
Okay, Peter and Fanny. That as I said, Peter and Fanny,
that was easy.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
You're killing me. You're killing me small.

Speaker 5 (01:18:56):
So I have a lot of composed WNB All Star
Game MVP and I have ad enough time calling her name.

Speaker 7 (01:19:04):
Well, yeah, that's a hard name.

Speaker 13 (01:19:06):
Okay, So we're gonna go to the National Rugby League
and they Thank god, these are like fun names. I
have the North Queensland Cowboys at minus one seventeen versus
the Cronulla Sharks at plus one oh four.

Speaker 8 (01:19:18):
Bucky, Oh, the Queensland Cowboys. Cowboys can't go wrong with
America's team, can't go.

Speaker 3 (01:19:23):
Wrong to you.

Speaker 5 (01:19:26):
I'm gonna go with the Sharks because I think they're tougher.
I just think a shark to me, Yeah, I think
when player has a certain uniform on a certain team
with a certain name, they kind of live up to
the building of that name.

Speaker 2 (01:19:37):
If you're a shark, you're tough. So I think I
got this one.

Speaker 7 (01:19:41):
Kind of like the top of the food chain, right
like with Wales.

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
Have you have beaten shark shark sandwich or something?

Speaker 7 (01:19:48):
No, that's so depressing. I love sharks. They're so cute.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
Really, go in the ocean, see how cute they are.

Speaker 7 (01:19:54):
I live by the ocean, and I don't want to
go with it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
I wouldn't go in though.

Speaker 13 (01:19:57):
Oh yeah no, So we're gonna like stay in Australia.
We're gonna go with the Australian Football League and so
I have the Gold Coast Suns at plus one thirty
five versus the Brisbane Lions at minus one seventy five.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
Andy the Brisbane Lions because I think I got some
information on them, to be honest with you, yeah I do.
I mean I'm not saying I'm cheating. I just happen
to fall onto this. The Brisbane Lions are pretty tough
and I think they're gonna win pretty big in this one.
This is gonna be my This hall been my key.
My key for the week is the Brisbane Lions.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
Dang.

Speaker 8 (01:20:32):
Okay, well I get a chance to go with Gold Coast.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
The Brisbane Lions hoodie.

Speaker 7 (01:20:38):
Oh cute is like rar for sure? Okay?

Speaker 13 (01:20:41):
And then so are you making fun of me? No? No, no,
you just are very excited about them. So I was
just like raar, you know, Okay, So we're gonna go
to Ireland Hurling. This is all Ireland Senior Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
Okay for the hurl right now.

Speaker 3 (01:20:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:20:57):
We got Cork versus Cork at minus one ten versus
Claire at minus one twenty five Bucky, who do you got.

Speaker 6 (01:21:05):
Oh, that's tough, that's tough. Let's go with Quark. Let's
go with Quark. First name, first name.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
Cork is the name. There's the name of the team.
I guess Cork, yes.

Speaker 7 (01:21:14):
Versus Claire and I think the rivals if I remember.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Is Claire a team or is clear someone's name?

Speaker 7 (01:21:19):
There is the team Claire, but it is it is
a name as well, right.

Speaker 5 (01:21:24):
So they named the team and the owner of the
team has a daughter of our name of Claire. I'm
sure that's the reason why I never heard of the
team named Claire. I'll go with Claire.

Speaker 7 (01:21:33):
There we go, so we'll see what happens next week.
Thanks guys.

Speaker 13 (01:21:36):
And this is hurling, right, this is hurling the All
Ireland Senior Championship.

Speaker 2 (01:21:40):
Let's not do hurling anymore. It's over. This guy gone
glad because when I hear the term hurling, I feel
like I'm going to hurl now. Thanks guys, by thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
Hey, an NFL MVP is having enough the field battle
that more next on Fox staying with us lock it in.

Speaker 1 (01:21:57):
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Speaker 5 (01:22:00):
Hey, it's all about the numbers that's coming right off.
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we'll get Tim McGee with us in about fifteen minutes.
Sounds good, huh.

Speaker 8 (01:22:48):
Yes, it should be a lot of fun. Looking forward
to the conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:22:51):
Now, I have a question for you because I hear
these stories all the time and it kind of draws
me nuts. How important on numbers for NFL players? I
know they've changed because back in the day several years ago,
it was really that certain positions how to wear certain numbers.
In the NFL, you know, quarterbacks usually we wore either

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single digits or maybe up to high teams, and that
was basically then running backs or whatever may be. Now
it's wide open. You know, why did they change and
why are number is such a big deal for these players?

Speaker 8 (01:23:25):
What happened? You ran out of numbers?

Speaker 6 (01:23:27):
Okay, So as you're pointing out, like there were numbers
for certain positions that you had to stay within. So
for white House, it used to be eighties were number,
and then they started allowing you could wear numbers above ten.
And so you saw, like with more wide receivers in
the league, more teams carrying wide receivers, you just ran

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out numbers really quickly, so they had to open it up.
The reason why they've changed now is in college is
wide open. You have big guys wearing zero, you have
small guys wearing high numbers, and those things. There's a
part of allowing the players to retain their swag.

Speaker 8 (01:24:03):
They open it up.

Speaker 6 (01:24:04):
And allow people to be able to do anything and everything,
with the exception of the offensive alignment. Because what happens
is if you have an office alignment with a number
that doesn't resemble like I think offense alignment have anywhere
from fifty to seventy nine, and so if you have
office alignment out of their number, that would be chaos

(01:24:26):
trying to figure.

Speaker 8 (01:24:26):
Out who's eligible, who's ineligible, and all those things. But yeah,
they've opened it up.

Speaker 6 (01:24:30):
They made it more fun because everyone can wear single
digit numbers, low numbers, all of this stuff.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
Okay, Now the question I have is, if you're a coach,
let's go back to the college level.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Off I everybody a little easier. In college?

Speaker 5 (01:24:44):
Do they hand out the numbers to players? Ask the
coach this is the number? I'd like, How does one
get a number one or a number zero? I mean,
there's a good chance I would think that if you're
a scrub, if you're a backup lineman, you're not going
to get number one. There's no doubt, mind you, they're
not going to get But you know someone who wears
number one, probably a quarterback or a leader of the team.

Speaker 2 (01:25:04):
And how do you get number zero? How does that?

Speaker 5 (01:25:06):
Does a coach hand it out? Now they are requested
by the players, what's the deal?

Speaker 8 (01:25:11):
Yeah, you had to ask for it.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
Zero just came into play last year the NFL open
it up and allow for teams to utilize zero.

Speaker 8 (01:25:18):
I remember Calvin really grabbing zero for the Jacks. Yes,
it's another number.

Speaker 6 (01:25:23):
I go all the way back to I think it
was Ken Burrow's with the Houston Oilers who used to
wear double zero.

Speaker 8 (01:25:28):
It looks it's a part of the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:25:31):
And everyone knows that single digits signified you being a
ball at whatever position. So if you elect to wear
a single digit, it means that man in your mind
or somebody's mind, they think you were balling. And so
then you got to go live up to or play
up to the hype that proceeds you. When when the
number thing comes.

Speaker 5 (01:25:49):
Well, I'm gonna go back on time because I remember
Jim Otto double Oatto set it for the for the
Raiders at the time, for then Oakland Raiders, he wore
double Oh, that was a big deal. Who just recently
passed away. I think he did Gymato, Yeah, remember.

Speaker 8 (01:26:02):
Him, Great Raider? Yeah, Great Raider wore double zero. One
of many.

Speaker 6 (01:26:06):
And you're seeing like players really identify with numbers. I mean,
you talk about the importance of what we see. People
pay big money, big money to be able to have
their number, because look, it's synonymous. Some people wear their
number from the time they went literal league all the
way up. For me, twenty two was my number for
the majority of my career little.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
And that's why Kaylen Clark we was twenty two because
you woren't.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
Maybe she made deep down the side, found some old
VHS S tapes and was like, you know what, I
like that twenty two.

Speaker 8 (01:26:36):
I want to wear that.

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
I think I think I think I'm a pattern my
career after him. I think that's maybe she did say that.
Maybe that's how it went down.

Speaker 2 (01:26:43):
Well, we'll have to find that. Well, we'll check into that.

Speaker 5 (01:26:45):
But I always thought maybe on way off basie, I
always feel like in college, you know, the players go
through the equipment manager and the guy says, what size
are you? Boom, here's your uniform. You know, they just
did they hand it out to you. So it's more
complicated than that. In other words, there could be on
the college level, you were in North Carolina, did someone
else warnt twenty two when you were there and you

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got to argue for that or how does it work?

Speaker 6 (01:27:08):
Well, it was retired because Charlie Tchucchie Justice War twenty two,
so it wasn't available. So I wore number seven, and
number seven to me was a significant number because it
was a single digit number. It's kind of like the
perfect number for what I wanted to represent, and so
I loved it. But you do have to have, like, look,
the best person to have a relationship with in the building.

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You gotta have a great relationship with the equipment manager.
And that's because, man, if you want to be taken
care of, you got to find a way to take
care of the equipment managers so you can get those things,
whether it's your number, whether it's the new shoes, all
the shiny little stuff.

Speaker 8 (01:27:43):
It's a big part of it.

Speaker 5 (01:27:46):
And why I bring up this number of conversation because
people are saying, what are you talking about With the
MVP of the National Football League right now, Lamar Jackson,
he's challenging the Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman the
use of their shared number eight numb because they both
wore a number eight. He still wears number eight they
share and they's going to the US Patent and Trademark Office.
He's complaining this is according to some record just the

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other day. Now, Jackson he owns or has applied for
several trademarks using the number in various phrases, and he
says that Troy Aikman's attempt to use the number eight
on apparel and bags would be and I'm courting him now,
likely to cause confusion or cause a mistake or to
deceive the purchasing public as to whether they're buying products

(01:28:32):
from Jackson or Aikman's company. And this is from Jackson's attorney.
I get it because you know, right now, when you
think of number eight, if you're an NFL fan, you
don't think of Troy Aikman he was yesterday's news.

Speaker 2 (01:28:42):
You think of Lamar Jackson. Is't that correct?

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
But I don't know why Jackson's complaining There should be
Troy Aikman doing the complaining, right.

Speaker 6 (01:28:50):
I mean, I guess I think it's all kind of
a little bit above my head. I'm trying to figure
out why they're arguing over a number that no one
in essence owns. But I do see what you, Lamar
Jackson's trying to make some money off of being able
to use number eight with his name in those things.
I don't know what Troy Aikman necessarily has with the
number eight, But we'll see what happens when the challenges

(01:29:13):
issued out in court.

Speaker 5 (01:29:14):
Okay, Jackson and Aikman, they say, wore the number eight
for the entirety of their professional careers. Aikman wore number
eight at UCLA, Jackson were the number at Louisville. Aikman
played twelve seasons for the Dallas Cowboys as a quarterback. Now,
obviously it was a Monday night football analyst. Jackson's applied
for trademarks and multiple usage of the number eight, including
ERA eight by Lamar Jackson Era eight You ate yet,

(01:29:37):
and logo of his styles white dog, Okay, a wild dog.
Here's my take, And if I'm with Lamar Jackson said.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
Look, you know what, switch switch jerseys?

Speaker 5 (01:29:46):
Why if you switch jerseys and change your number, you
open up a who a whole new merchandise sale?

Speaker 2 (01:29:52):
You really do? People are crazy?

Speaker 5 (01:29:54):
People buy jerseys of players, right, And everybody who's a
Baltimore raven fan and likes to both the Ravens and
Lamar Jackson probably has brought or wants to buy a
Lamar Jackson eight jersey. Well, if he's got the merchandise. Now,
if he goes and says, look, let Troy Jackson, let
Troit Aikman have the number eight, I'm gonna switch.

Speaker 2 (01:30:14):
I want number nine. I want number nine.

Speaker 5 (01:30:16):
Then all of a sudden that creates a whole new
merchandise sell for him, and now they're going to buy
the number nine Jersey. I don't think it's that big
of a deal. Let him do that.

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
Yeah, No, I think you have to the kind of
way to pros and cons unless he's running a pony
of big money for it. You know, some people feel
so strongly about the number they pay, you know, significant
sums of cash.

Speaker 8 (01:30:38):
To retain that money.

Speaker 6 (01:30:40):
I would ever, but it's one of those things that
has always been a part of like locker room culture
and lore, that people will pay significant sums of money
to retain a number that has been nearing due to
the heart forever.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
I think it's to me. I think there's much ado
about nothing. I just wanted to really get some insight
information on players and how they get their numbers, basically
either a college or approach.

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
But I got a heavy duty.

Speaker 5 (01:31:06):
Story for you right now, all right, And this is
kind of a strange story about how far a coach
can go or how far a coach should go. All right,
I'm talking about Utah State. Utah State University, their athletic
director and the University of the school, the school president.
They told their football coach, Blake Anderson, that he was
fired the other day. Why because the coach wanted to

(01:31:28):
personally investigate the circumstances of a player's domestic violence arrest.
All right, and he was fired. He was fired like
on Friday. Anderson, the coach, the former coach, now, he
contacted the girlfriend and roommate of a Utah State football
player in April. This is back in April twenty twenty three,
after he learned that the player had been arrested due

(01:31:50):
to an alleged domestic abuse incident, according to an investigation commissioned.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
By the university.

Speaker 5 (01:31:55):
So basically, what they're saying is that the coach and
above and beyond his duty. He tried to basically, I guess,
save his player star player, doing a fact finding mission
to determine if the player should be suspended or if
they needed to take any further action. And basically he
should have stayed in his own lane and not do.

Speaker 2 (01:32:17):
Work like that.

Speaker 5 (01:32:18):
I mean, he shouldn't be doing that. I mean, I
guess a coach obviously want to protect your player. You
want to do some investigation on your play, but that's
not your job to find out what's going on in
an alleged domestic abuse case. All right, and it says
here out of Utah State went on the website to
find out what's going on here. Utah State policy states

(01:32:38):
that all coaches and administrators in the athletic department must
submit a report about any incidents of sexual misconduct to
the school's Title Line office within twenty four hours of
learning about them. The university's led it to the coach.
Blake Anderson said, domestic violence incidents fall under this category,
and that's why he was fired. I'm not so certain

(01:32:58):
he should have been fired. I mean, that's pretty heavy, dute.
He just laid a hatchet down and fired a guy
over it. But I understand what he's trying to do.
He's trying to protect his player and see what exactly happened.
Have you ever heard of anything like this at all
going on in the college campus. It's kind of crazy, really,
how a coach to just go out of his way

(01:33:20):
to do some investigative work on a player who was
alleged in a domestic violence abuse situation. Kind of nuts, h.

Speaker 6 (01:33:31):
I mean here it zapped out for a minute, repeat
the last part of what you said, Andy my union
a half for a minute.

Speaker 5 (01:33:37):
Have you ever heard of a coach really getting zapped
for doing something like this, trying to defend a star
player who was involved in an alleged domestic abuse incident,
and the coach just went and did his own investigation
on the case.

Speaker 8 (01:33:52):
Yeah, So in reading about that, what appear happened?

Speaker 6 (01:33:54):
Like Blake Anderson made a couple of phone calls after
he got wind of the incident, called the roommate and
then try to get in contact with a girlfriend just
to see what's going on, because you're trying to make
a decision whether to suspend a player right away. But
by Leak policy, he is supposed to contact the university
before he does anything on his own. They also said

(01:34:15):
that there were some things in there baked in with
the title line. In those things that you have to
go with the proper procedure and protocols and those things.
I'll say this, I understand procedures and those things, but
I also feel like sometimes a coach is in a
bad situation in terms of he's trying to make the
best decision that he can to reflect the core values

(01:34:35):
of what the team represents. And so if you are
a no nonsense guy one that's trying to build a
team on character, where you want when one of your
players is involved in the incident to met out some
punishment to let everyone know that you don't condone that
kind of behavior within the program. The issue that you
have is everyone has to work together, So coaches have
to work but administrators to make sure that they are

(01:34:57):
kind of buttoned up. And it appeared that Anderson went
on this part of it solo and didn't contact administration,
and ultimately he is going to lose his job because
of policy and procedures as opposed to what his one
lost record was.

Speaker 5 (01:35:13):
Yeah, and Anderson told the investigators that he didn't know
he had to report the arrest of the university's Office
of Equity because it occurred off campus. You know, I
guess there's a lot of rules you really need to
learn and read prior to being hired as a coach.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
But to me, I don't know if you do that
on your own.

Speaker 5 (01:35:32):
I will say this, if they had won a major
bowl game, he wouldn't have been fired. If he had
a tremendous winning record, he wouldn't have been fired. And
they came back and said, well, you know, honestly, the
fact that you had a poor graduation rate as well,
and they said that the Utah States team had one
of the twelve lowest scores among Division I schools on

(01:35:53):
the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate during the past two years.
That didn't help me either. So basically they had this
deal and they were waiting in the wings to fire
him anyway. So this just basically, you know, just let
everything fall down and they want them out, you know,
and they couldn't find a real good reason. Now they
got the reason he's gone. You know, as I say,
if he was winning, he wouldn't have been fired.

Speaker 6 (01:36:17):
This is about money, and it was about being able
to try to fire someone with cause so you can
avoid the buyout, right, that's the only reason. That's why
you bring up all those other things. That's why you
kind of factor that in there. But it certainly didn't
appear to be a thing that was just about, you know,

(01:36:39):
the investigation of what it appeared that there was so
much more involved in it besides just the football part,
the performance for it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:48):
And this story really did not make a lot of
national news. I'm sure it's big news in the state
of Utah, but as far as national news, it really
didn't make that big of a deal. But you're so right,
because now he fired with cause, what does that mean
they don't have to pay out the remainder of his contract.
If he was not fired with cause, you know, then
all of a sudden he's leaving.

Speaker 2 (01:37:09):
He gets some money, the whole deal.

Speaker 5 (01:37:10):
Now he's gonna have a difficult time getting another job
as well, unless he's buddy buddy with somebody gets a
job as an assistant somewhere. But it is kind of
late in the game anyway as far as getting a
college football job.

Speaker 2 (01:37:20):
So again, I just think that again.

Speaker 5 (01:37:24):
If you're in doubt, if you have a question about
any story whatsoever, is usually about money, right, I mean,
money is usually the root of the evil of every
story out there. Why a guy gets hired, why gets fired,
It's all about money. Everything traces back to money. Even
we told Ayuk earlier today Brandon at to receive it
for the forty nine ers. It's all about money. It's

(01:37:46):
not about his playing a skill set or anything else.
Everything is about money. It's all about money. That's basically it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
We move on, all right. He's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 5 (01:37:54):
I'm Andy Firmer. We are Fox Sports Sunny and Fox
Sports Ready. You get him at at Bucky Brooks at
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Here's a guy who played in the NFL for nine years,
Tim McGee to a three hundred and twenty one passes,
over five thousand yars, twenty a touchdowns, and he joined
us right now. Tim McGee, you're on with Bucky Brooks
and Andy Furman.

Speaker 2 (01:40:04):
Thank you so much. How you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:40:06):
I'm doing. I'm hanging in there, firmar. What are you
guys up to. I'm just getting my morning exercise in
so I can extend this vertical.

Speaker 12 (01:40:16):
Life of mine.

Speaker 4 (01:40:17):
But other than that, life is just grand.

Speaker 5 (01:40:20):
I'll let you talk to Bucky. You say you know
Bucket Brooks, So you two guys could go for a
little bit here.

Speaker 6 (01:40:26):
Hey, Tim, thanks so much for coming on. Look, I
got to talk to you, like as a as a
former receiver, what do you think about the way the league.

Speaker 8 (01:40:34):
Has opened up since your playing days? It's all about passing.
You're seeing so many receivers go over a thousand yard mark.
What is the difference when you look at the game today?

Speaker 4 (01:40:43):
Well, number one, the rules, the rule changes has made it.
I'm going to say a lot easier, as you know,
on the wide receiver, as far as getting off the ball,
as far as building this stats that at the end
of the year you look where a receiver will have
a thousand yards. But I guess I don't want to
start to anybody up because I think they do a
wonderful job, but I don't think it has the impact

(01:41:06):
of say the eighties, nineties and even early two thousands.
They're just not impact plays. And of course they play
more games now, so it's just a it's a different game.
I think it's a more entertaining game. Don't get me wrong, however,
but if you're specifically talking about the wide receiver position,
you know, the gloves, the like I said, the rules,

(01:41:28):
the ability that the wide receivers can kind of flow
free off the ball. Obviously those are going to produce
some results where there were going to be a lot
more points scored and the fans will really appreciate the
game a little bit more.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Tim. I'm going to ask you this.

Speaker 5 (01:41:42):
The Bengals just the other day ended their running back
fumer running back Corey dillont in a ring of honor.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
How surprised were with that?

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
Decision, and now does this open up a ticket maybe
for him to can because he's got the numbers, he
really does. I was surprised because he was not one
of the more popular Bengals because the way he ended
his career in Cincinnati.

Speaker 4 (01:42:02):
Well, you know, that ring of honor and all, like
a lot of other things, it's it's a subjective popularity contest,
if you will. And you know, when I see that,
you know, you always want to congratulate the person that's
that's being honored, that has received that honor. But then
you look at it. You compare James Brooks, who in
my very very very strong opinion is the most underappreciated,

(01:42:24):
under undervalued running back and or player in Bengal history,
and uh, you know, you look at that and you go, okay,
what does it take for Brooks to get there? I mean,
considering obviously he is a he was just a top
dog in pounds of town, probably the best player I
know played it for the Bengals, but one top five
in the NFL. So but you know, cadus to Corey

(01:42:47):
well deserved. Like you said, it was surprising because he
wasn't one of the more popular players. And when I
say that. Yeah, his performance spoke for itself, but you
know around town, the way his career ended, I don't
think an it on a very high note. And there
was some bitterness on his part in probably the organization
as well as the fan base. So it was a

(01:43:07):
bit of a surprise. But like I said, more so
I was more surprised that James Brooks doesn't get the
accolades that he deserves, So that would be more of
my focus.

Speaker 8 (01:43:18):
Yeah, no, I think that's a valid point.

Speaker 6 (01:43:21):
I think a guy that we will eventually see end
up in that ring of honor would be Jamar Chase.
But I want to ask you about his running buddy
T Higgins. How important is t Higgins to the success
of the Bengals offense?

Speaker 4 (01:43:33):
Oh? I, as you know, and this is from personal experience,
and when I played, I played with Eddie Brown and
Chris Collinsworth, and it is a humongous difference when you
are at the number one position and you don't have
a number two or one a guy to really take

(01:43:53):
the defense off of you, and they can just double
you and double you and w a bracket you. And
when that defensive coordinator goes into the meetings on Tuesday
and they have your picture up there and saying Jamar
Chase and they say, well, this is how we're going
to stop this guy. They can be very, very successful.
When you don't have a T. Higgins, they can be
super and we've seen that with the Bengals play over

(01:44:16):
the last couple of years. When Tea is not playing,
Jamar's numbers are just not there because they're able to
focus on them. So I think t is probably just
as important in a different way than than Jamar is.
But they're both are extremely talented young men and you know,
got the great futures ahead of them. But I couldn't
say one is more valuable than the other. I think

(01:44:37):
they play different roles. And if you play the game,
and you surely truly understand the game, you'll understand what
your teammate brings to you. It is not about you.
That particular guy may get the accolades, he may get
the the numbers, but without another guy that may not
be possible.

Speaker 5 (01:44:54):
So if you bring an excelling point there to the
table about the one to one a guy to take
the pressure off the number one. We either I got
to ask you this nine years with the Bengals nias
NFL three hundred and twenty one pairs is caught. Maybe
how many more passes do you have had if Joe
Burrow was showing to you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
Well, I gotta say this first and foremost, I was
really pleased with my quarterback in Boomer siens and I
wouldn't trade him. And again, I know how talented Joe is,
but you're talking about a totally different era, era where
a quarterback didn't have the ability to sit back there
and read a book and take his time going mental

(01:45:30):
vacation because they know they weren't going to get hit
because the rules allowed didn't allow the defense. It doesn't
allow the defense to really tee on them and hit
him low. And you know, sort of the Terry Bradshaw era.
But so I take my quarterback if I'm playing back
then when I played, I want my quarterback in Boomer
Sienson because he was tough as nails. He was a leader.

(01:45:53):
I totally understood the game, you know, just pretty much had.
He was a guy. When they say a guy that
commanded the room, I mean that's that's what. He didn't
command the room, he commanded the organization. And you know
Joe Burrow was playing in a totally different era and
he's doing absolutely wonderful. He's bringing a lot of excitement
and brought a lot of excitement, uh, for the for

(01:46:13):
the community of Cincinnati and the surrounding area. So I
wouldn't trade Boomer for nothing. And I just make sure
we're on the same page because not only that I
had Boom, I had riding home and I had Eddie
Brown here, Chris Collinsworth if it was James Brook. So
you know, obviously that's not possible in this day and
air with the salad cap. There's no way the Bengals

(01:46:33):
or any team can afford that type of roster with
that type of talent.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
Hey, Toom, could you said, we've got sports update to do.
Could you hang with us a little bit? Sure, Okay,
we're gonna tell them's gonna tell us what you should
expect this year in the NFL. That's gonna come up
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Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:46:54):
It was a nail bier for the men's Olympic basketball
team on Saturday. They played South Suit Dan. It was
a struggle in the first half. They trailed by sixteen
points at one part of that first half, and it
took a last moment layup by Lebron James to put
the United States ahead at the buzzer one oh one,
one hundred, part of James's twenty five points. But uh

(01:47:16):
too close for comfort there for the Americans, as they've
got one more exhibition game before they head out to Paris.
It'll be Monday against Germany that can be seen over
on Fox. As for the US women's Olympic basketball team,
they lost to the WNBA All Stars one seventeen to
one oh nine as a al Rique ogum Bowally scored

(01:47:40):
thirty four points, twenty one of them in the twenty
one of them in the third quarter, all of her
points coming in the second half. Angel reached twelve points
eleven rebounds. Caitlyn Clark had ten assists the Cavaliers, giving
Evan Mobley a MAX extension for five years worth at
least two hundred and twenty four million dollars. And in

(01:48:02):
Major League Baseball, the Dodds for the second straight game
come from behind me beat the Red Sox. This time
they did it in eleven innings. Key k Hernandez with
the tying home run in the ninth inning of Will
Smith with the walk off RBI in the eleventh to
win it seven to six. The Brewers also won it
in extra innings on Saturday, they beat the Minnesota Twins
eight to four. The Astros are now in first place

(01:48:26):
all by themselves. They are a game up on the
Mariners after they beat Seattle four too. So the Mariners
right now in free fall. They have lost five games
in a row, but the Pirates playing well. They've made
it six straight wins after beating the Phillies four to one.
The Tigers have made it four straight wins in a
seven to three victory against the Blue Jays. Out east,

(01:48:47):
it is the Orioles ahead by two games after Baltimore
wins eight four of Texas, while the Yankees losing nine
to one to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Speaker 2 (01:48:55):
Back to you guys, all right, thanks.

Speaker 5 (01:48:57):
keV, all right, we got Tim McGee here, So Bucky
Brook fuck you your turn.

Speaker 2 (01:49:01):
Give Tim holla right there?

Speaker 8 (01:49:03):
Okay, So Tim, your your buddy.

Speaker 6 (01:49:06):
Andy was on earlier and saying that wide receivers are
a diamond dozen that quarterbacks can basically make and elevate
and create any wide receiver, can you please give them
a little insight on how it's actually reversed, how wide
receivers can make the job so much easier for quarterbacks,
and why they are necessary evil.

Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
Yeah, you know what to answer that question. In short,
it's called rack runs after the cats. So you know,
the quarterback gets the really simple. The quarterback gets the
credit for adr catch or touchdow or reception. However, the
wide receiver could have caught that ball, casing point Jamar
Chase T. Higgins, you know, justin Jefferson, so on and

(01:49:44):
so forth. These guys Tyreek Kale, once they touched the ball,
the action has just started. They have the ability. Like
I said, I am huge on impact play, huge on
impact play. I don't look at stats so much. The
only stat I really think is important average yard for catch,
and quarterback gets the credit. But quarterbacks are not going

(01:50:05):
back to the going back and throwing eighty yard passes.
What they're doing, they're throwing ten to fifteen twenty yard
passes and receivers are taking them to the house. And
that's why the receivers probably deserved more credit than the quarterback.
But we know it's a quarterback league, and we know
they're going to give the quarterback the most valuable player.
Unless the receiver has twenty four catches for six hundred

(01:50:27):
and eighty nine yards and twelve touchdowns. We know the
focus has to be on the pretty boy quarterback, the
model Joe Burrow, the Patrick Mahomes. But without the Tyreek
Hills and the Jamar Chases, they'll just be a normal
Daniel Jones type of quarterback. So wide receivers are the

(01:50:48):
number one position in the National Football League. And I'll
debate that with anyone at any time, including you, fur Ball,
including you for Ball.

Speaker 5 (01:50:57):
Sal Lev the tim so a little bit of it,
and let's talk about what I receive his first second,
let's tell about Brandon Ayuk from the San Francisco forty
nine ers. I say that forty nine ers can win
without him. You know, they don't really need him. He's
threatening to sit out. The Veterans go to camp on
Tuesday for the forty nine ers, and if he sits out,
it's fifty grand a day.

Speaker 2 (01:51:15):
They can unload him.

Speaker 5 (01:51:17):
I think we'll play for the forty nine ers, But
I do believe that if he does go and they
trade him, they could win without him.

Speaker 4 (01:51:24):
I think so too, because the creativity that they have
in their coach in Shanahan, they have the ability with
so many weapons, and they kind of remind me, quite honestly.
They remind me of our team back in the day.
And I know most people wouldn't remember that the splitting,
but we had so many weapons and for the forty
nine ers have so many weapons. Well, they love him back,

(01:51:44):
oh absolutely. However, I think, like you said, I think
they can adjust very easily. But you know, it's one
of those situations where I understand the kid's position. He
wants to get paid. He wants to get paid now
because as Buck you know, we that window of opportunity
is very small. And in the National Football League today,

(01:52:05):
hey man, you make your money and move on with
life where and then you don't have to have the
tense surgeries that I had, including the knee replacement eight
weeks ago. So that's just the way it is.

Speaker 6 (01:52:15):
Oh wow, well, hopefully you're covering well from that knee replacement.
I want to ask you, though, because there's been so
many young players that have kind of jumped in the
league and had immediate success, so much different from yesteryear.
When you see a guy like Puka nikoua a fifth
round pick that can come in and dominate right away,
what do you think is behind so many of these
young guys success the system?

Speaker 4 (01:52:37):
The system and were before when we came into the league.
And again I'm comparing, but I'm not saying one better
than the other. I'm saying to answer your question, I'm
clarifying that these guys have a huge advantage because the system.
Some of them run the same system in college and
they don't have to wait that turn, you know, for
to speaker, like when you came into the league and

(01:52:57):
I came into the league, there was a start in
front of you to earn your time on special teams,
and then you've got to play a little bit in
the situational football and then hey, if you are lucky,
you built yourself up to a starter and then a star. Nowadays,
with the system, you know Sean McVay system, it's a
plug and plut and you know, if you have the
extreme talent, they like that Jamar Chase and the t

(01:53:18):
Higgins and you know, the dustin differences in the Tyreek
Hills of the world, and there's many of them if
you don't have that, you still can be successful in
the National Football leaguecause the ruge allows.

Speaker 5 (01:53:30):
This is my last question for you, because I know
you want to go back and do your rehab on
your knee. So I'm not going to bug anymore. I'm
gonna run and talk about injuries.

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:53:38):
With the addition of flag football now with the NFL,
and now it's an Olympic sport as well. Do you
see maybe someday the NFL replacing the tackle football game?
And now it sounds crazy with flag football? Could that happen?

Speaker 4 (01:53:53):
No, the fans are embedded in tackle football. It's a
biden sport for the players, but it's a very entertaining
sport for the players and the television networks, and that's
what drives again. People love to see that big hit,
they love to see that tackle, they love to see
that broken tackle. They love to see the running back

(01:54:13):
run over guys or and so forth. So that's the
element that you cannot delete from the game. It's the
physicality of the game has to exist in order for
it to be successful, and that's why it's one of
the most successful sports in the world, not just in
the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:54:28):
Now let me let bucket go one more time.

Speaker 6 (01:54:31):
No so, and thinking about that, give me a laun
shot or off the wall prediction from a former player.

Speaker 8 (01:54:38):
What do you see happening in twenty twenty four? Open
up your crystal ball and let us know.

Speaker 4 (01:54:42):
Well, you know, I see everyone again, Jason Patrick Mahomes,
and I see Lamar Jackson getting to the pinnacle of
success of the Super Bowl and winning the Super Bowl.
I hope it doesn't happen, but I'm predicting it will
happen based on they have to be very, very very

(01:55:02):
super hungry after the way they see it in the
season ended last year and again, if my Bengals can
just keep the quarterback position healthy, I think they'll give
them a run for the money. But AFC again, I
just see you're gonna get the Super Bowl champion coming
out of the AFC.

Speaker 5 (01:55:18):
Tim, you're a good man. Thank you for your time.
God bless you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
Tim.

Speaker 4 (01:55:22):
I appreciate you guys having me all right.

Speaker 2 (01:55:24):
See you have a great day. All right. That's Tim McGee,
he's Bucky Brooks.

Speaker 5 (01:55:27):
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Speaker 2 (01:56:06):
All right, the blame game right around the ben.

Speaker 5 (01:56:08):
It's about thirteen minutes now, before the top of the hour,
and of course he's Buckie Brooks and Andy Furman and
we are live from the tire Rack dot Com studio.
And of course at the top of the hour, that
would be nine am on the East coast, Mike the
Swollendome himself, Mike Harmon will be joining Ryan Hollis so
right here, keep it on Fox Sports Radio, and I
want to thank our great stuff. Brianna is here. Brianna

(01:56:28):
muro are new executive producers. She's here today. Thank you, Magic,
Mark Ramsey and of course Kevin. Why would all the
sports updates? But right now it's time to play the
blame game. Let's play with me. It's all your fault,
it's your fault.

Speaker 2 (01:56:42):
What it's all your fault?

Speaker 1 (01:56:47):
Maybe it's everyone's fault, liar, that's why there's the blame game.

Speaker 2 (01:56:52):
The blame game.

Speaker 1 (01:56:53):
Let's figure out.

Speaker 3 (01:56:54):
Who to blame.

Speaker 5 (01:56:55):
Yes, all right, Brianna, are you ready for the blame game.
We're gonna blame you.

Speaker 13 (01:57:00):
Supposed to blame me first, Okay, yes, I'll take that. Okay,
So now we're gonna blame or no, we're not gonna
blame Ingrad But Ingrid Andress went viral last Monday for
an unfortunate performance of the national anthem at the home
run dermy. She says she was drunk during the event
afterwards and that she was going to head to rehab.

Speaker 7 (01:57:18):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:57:20):
Let Bucky go first.

Speaker 6 (01:57:22):
Look, I blame whoever's responsible for booking her. Like, one
of the things that you're responsible for is making sure
you know the talent who you're bringing on board. If
there was any inkling or any possibility that she could.

Speaker 8 (01:57:33):
Show up and not represent in a way that is becoming.

Speaker 6 (01:57:35):
A the franchise. You can't allow her to go on,
so I have to. Unfortunately it's the talent booker. The
booker gets to blame for this one.

Speaker 5 (01:57:42):
See that's what you're wrong, Bucky Brooks. But you always
pointed the finger at the wrong person. First of all,
Ingrid was drunk, she gotta blame her. Why do I
blame her? If you're gonna drink drink light beer or
alcohol free beer, that's the problem. You're blaming the wrong person.
Why would you blame the booker. The booker had no
idea that she's gonna come on unloaded. Okay, so you
gotta blame Herror. You do your drinking, fine, but do

(01:58:04):
it with light beer or the alcohol free beer.

Speaker 2 (01:58:06):
That's what you're blame, Horror. That's it.

Speaker 7 (01:58:11):
Okay, On to the next one. Corporate greed.

Speaker 13 (01:58:14):
How can the city of Saint Pete approve a one
point three billion dollars stadium for the rais?

Speaker 7 (01:58:20):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 5 (01:58:21):
Okay, I'll take this one because I have believe there's
some underhanded political shenanigans going on, because somebody both of
somebody in politics to have a bad baseball team that
no one goes to in the city of Tampa slash
Saint Pete. To approve a one point three billion with
a b billion dollars stadium that no one's gonna go to,

(01:58:43):
it's a joke. It's ridiculous, and that team should move.
They're looking for a team in Montreal. They're looking for
a team in Nashville. There's your team right there. The
Rays get him out of there, and they get a
brand new stadium. It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
It really is. Someone's on the take, and it's not good.

Speaker 8 (01:58:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:58:59):
I don't know if someone's to take, but look, they
had a deal in place years ago to maybe split
their time between Montreal and the Tampa area.

Speaker 8 (01:59:06):
For whatever reason, that deal filled through.

Speaker 6 (01:59:08):
I thought it was gonna be cool to kind of
see a version of the Expos come back. But in Tampa, man,
the Rays have been too good for too long to
allow this team just to walk out.

Speaker 8 (01:59:17):
You got to figure out a way to pony up.

Speaker 6 (01:59:18):
Now we'll see if it's monopoly money or real money,
but kudos to them for trying to find a way
to keep the devil.

Speaker 8 (01:59:23):
Raised in time.

Speaker 13 (01:59:25):
Okay, now we're gonna head over to Alabama. The university
plans to honor coach Nick Saban by naming its football
playing field for him at Bryant Denny Stadium.

Speaker 7 (01:59:37):
Who do you blame?

Speaker 13 (01:59:38):
Like, should they keep it the Bear Bryant Field in stadium?

Speaker 10 (01:59:43):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:59:43):
No, no, no, you get it, get it, you got it.

Speaker 4 (01:59:44):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:59:44):
You got to reward Nick Saban for the legend that
he is there. Look, look, Bear Bryant is the legend.
But Nick Saban has surpassed Bear Bryant in terms of
his relationship, his success at Alabama.

Speaker 8 (01:59:58):
He deserves to have something they after him.

Speaker 6 (02:00:00):
Better way to do it than to recognize him by
naming the field after You know.

Speaker 5 (02:00:05):
I enjoy the naming of the fields because it keeps
history and perspective. It really does. And both these coaches
with tremendous they've done a lot. That's number one. Number two,
it's great that they're doing it and they're not having
a corporation put their check out there and say name
it after my company, So that's even better. But number three,
here's my take on this, And maybe it's warped, maybe
it's crazy, but I don't think they should name any

(02:00:26):
stadium any facility until that person is dead.

Speaker 2 (02:00:30):
Really, I know it sounds morbid. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 5 (02:00:32):
I say that they named the street in Cincinnati called
Pete rose Way, and after they named it after Pete
rose Way, that's when Pete got into all the trouble
with the alleged gambling and the things like that. So
I think that wait till a guy passes and then
you can remember him forever and ever and ever. But look,
what if Nick Saban gets a DUI next week. I

(02:00:54):
mean it's possible, and I know he's a great coach
and it probably won't happen. But I just believe that
you should name after the guy is gone. Maybe I'm wrong,
but that's my take on it.

Speaker 8 (02:01:04):
No, No, I want my flowers on. I'm alive, Like
you don't get a chance to enjoy.

Speaker 6 (02:01:07):
What's the whole point of naming the thing after a
person who's no longer there?

Speaker 8 (02:01:11):
He chance to? Really?

Speaker 6 (02:01:14):
You bad, bad things can always happen, but you can't
live your life in field.

Speaker 3 (02:01:17):
You got to.

Speaker 8 (02:01:17):
You gotta reward people for doing that.

Speaker 6 (02:01:19):
So Nick Saban needs to have his his field named
after him.

Speaker 8 (02:01:23):
Other people need to have things named after them, give.

Speaker 3 (02:01:25):
Them their flowers.

Speaker 2 (02:01:28):
He told me into it. You taught me into it?

Speaker 13 (02:01:30):
What Coach K has the whole floor named after him?
What if he got a g u I what are
they gonna do?

Speaker 2 (02:01:35):
He's funny.

Speaker 5 (02:01:36):
Come on, he went to the military academy taking it
up the coach kid. That's that's a different animal. Really,
he went on. He played for Bob Knight. Nothing's gonna
happen to coach k blame.

Speaker 13 (02:01:47):
Okay, CBS has reached an exclusive, multi year, multi platform
rights deal with the English Football League.

Speaker 7 (02:01:54):
Do you even care? And like, who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (02:01:57):
Who's m Bucky?

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (02:02:00):
Buck Yill?

Speaker 6 (02:02:02):
Look, man, I'm fine with all the leagues. I want
everyone to get their shine. So I'm actually okay with it.
Like I can't say it necessarily appeals to me, but like, yeah,
the more the Mirria so intemeing. You have an opportunity
to show shore showcase and let us see what it
looks like.

Speaker 8 (02:02:16):
I'm behind it.

Speaker 2 (02:02:18):
You know, here's the problem.

Speaker 5 (02:02:19):
There are too many leagues and there are too many
outlets on television and it needs to fill time. Okay,
what do I mean by that? At the end of
the day, I'm screening around television. I got the clicker
with me. I'm seeing cornhole. I'm seeing with football. I
saw with football and with Football League A with football
game on TV. It's unbelievable. Look the English Football League.

(02:02:40):
I'm not a big English Football League fan. I probably
won't watch it. I don't care. They got to announce it,
they got a multi year multi platform rights there.

Speaker 2 (02:02:47):
Who cares. I don't care. I blame the fact that
there's too many leagues and too many teams. Okay, that's it.

Speaker 5 (02:02:52):
Thank you so much, Brianna, Thank you, Bucky. It's been
a great day. Keep it here, Keep it here on Fox.
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