The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk Tua Tagovailoa & Jordan Love Contract Extensions, Olympics & MORE!

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it was pay day for the quarterbacks as uh Jordan
Love four years, two hundred and twenty million dollars tua
tagliovola tuah, how about a four year, two hundred and

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twelve and a half million dollars quarterbacks getting paid?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Fit See where's your two hundred million dollar deal?

Speaker 4 (01:22):
Well, you know it's it's common checks in the mail.
Don't worry that checks in the mail. I'm gonna just
go to the bank today and just tell them, hey,
pay off my house. The two hundred million dollars I
promise is coming in the mail. Look, I love it.
When guys get paid, I do, and I think so
often we all freak out about the amount of money
these guys are getting paid. And my answer to that
usually is it's you'll overpay for anything. There was a

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former NFL health head coach that sat on my one
of my tour buses years ago. It might have been
a little intoxicated, and he said at the time he
was like, man, you know what, I would overpay for
a quarterback I know won't lose me football games, rather
than go back into the whole process and try and
find somebody else. I do think there is some logic
of like, hey, we got a guy that we think

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could be pretty good, so we trust him enough to
pay him. I have no problem with the to A deal.
I think Tua has shown enough. But the Jordan Love
deal to me is I think we do need to
at least acknowledge there's leverage risk to the fact that
the guys had one half of one good season. That's
a lot to pay for somebody that's had one a
half of one good Like we all remember the one

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good year Rick Meyer had, So I'm not like for me,
I like to see a little more proof of concept
before I make somebody the highest paid in this position.
But what the hell do I know? I mean, good
for him, he's rich, and the backers may they obviously
believe that they're about to continue their legacy of never
not having a great quarterback.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
You know, it's funny.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I would much rather pay Jordan Love right now as
we sit here much. I feel much better paying Jordan
Love to warrant million, to warrant twenty million, than Tua
to warrant twelve million. Oh wow, I I believe in
Love way more than I like Tua. Like I know

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where I want to get from Tia and and I
go with Tua, I go, He's a to me. Jordan Love,
I think has the chance to be great. So I
mean I much. I feel way more comfortable with It's
not even my mind is not even close.

Speaker 4 (03:28):
So I don't.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't like Tua. So I know, uh, you know,
you know we could. We'll probably be we'll probably disagree
on that.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
Well, here's the thing. I don't disagree with you that
I actually genuinely agree that Jordan Love has the chance
to be great. I just don't pay somebody hundreds of
millions of dollars that has the chance to be great.
I pay somebody hundreds of millions of dollars. I get
that to know, so that that's a that's the thing
for me with Tua. I mean I understand that a

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year ago it was should he even be playing football?
You know, like all of those questions that were happening.
But I also go back to I had the chance
to talk to Tealia, his brother, uh right after all
of the injuries were happening, and he made it really
clear that the family sat down and that two was
sat down, and everybody talked to doctors and they all
felt like it was medically that there was no heightened

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risk and they feels good about it. And I look
at it and say, if the Dolphins team doctors and
then to his personal doctors and family doctors have rolled
him out there, so I kind of eliminate some of
that head trauma concern because they've obviously talked, talked to
people smarter than me. So then it just comes down
to two of the quarterback, and I think two of
the quarterback has been good enough. And that's where like
once I've seen that's like you get like fifty million,

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like could enough?

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Like that's like I love Jordan love. I love what
he can be. Now you know again, could he be
Rick Meyer? I guess right, Like you know, we'll say
you're right. He's had you know, who do he play?
He was middling about five games last year, so you know,
I feel you.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
But I love what he can be. I love his
skill set.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I just I look at him and I go, man,
mean that dude, I would bet on him to I was,
in truth, I was never a big fan, never a
big fan, A slight he's you know, I mean, he's
not horrible, but he's not a guy that I think
will win for you.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
It's interesting because the way we're sort of saying, and
this is one of the most incredible things about quarterback
in the NFL. I don't think we're saying anything drastically
different with each other and still saying something different when
it comes to the money, because I don't. I don't
look at to it and say, man, this guy surefire
top five quarterback in the NFL. I don't think that

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at all. But I do think too of when he
plays well as the top half of the league, top
third quarterback, he's top you know, eleven twelves, and where
in that range. He fits in that ranged me. And
when you've got a guy that's in top sixteen, top
half of the league, he gonna make fifty million dollars
like that.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Yeah, I mean I get it. Like listen, that's the
court to deal with business.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Like I was.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
I was leaving because I want to a tax chain
with my friends. And my buddy Vinnie is, uh he can.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
You believe it?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Can't go ahead and out to one million dollar contracts,
you know, And I go, dude, I mean that's you
play quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
You know, that's what you're gonna get paid. I mean,
that's you know, that's what it is.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
I guess I'm talking more about you know, I I
is he we are probably are saying the same thing,
but I wouldn't be happy as a Dolphins fan rightly.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
Yeah, I just too.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
I just want to upgrade because I think he is
top twenty. Like I'll go with you. I mean, we're
probably mincing words, and you know, at some point today,
I'm sure we'll go through, you know, which quarterbacks, We'll
do our quarterback ranking just to kind of look at it,
and like if I'm trying to think about the quarterbacks
I'd rather have than Tila. There's probably you know, I

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mean you said top sixteen, it's probably around there, you know,
maybe top maybe maybe there's you.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
Know, sixteen seventeen, eighteen quarterbacks about to have.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
So here's the thing for me. If Tua was the
quarterback of my beloved Raiders and they gave him that deal,
I'm fine with it because what I don't want is
to have nothing. And so you say, like an upgrade,
I just think that upgrades are really hard to find.
And this is, you know, the whole reason I never
had a hard time with Derek Carr getting paid over
and over and over again, you know. And Derek Carr
is a pretty good example of somebody.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
That Yeah, I mean Derek Carr.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I you know, there's a tree in my backyard and
there's the Derek Carr tree and you just kind of
they fall to the ground and then you're you being
scarred as a Raiders fan.

Speaker 3 (08:03):
Right.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
There is horrific quarterbacks, right, and Derek Carr and two
they're not horrific at all, but they don't get me excited.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
But how many like? The hard part about that is,
how do you actually find a quarterback that gets you excited.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Dude, I feel you. I mean we're just talking generalities.
Like I'm just like, I'm with you, Like, you know,
you got to go through the process and you got
to hope your evaluation. And you know, every drafts six
quarterbacks and you know two are really good and one's okay,
and three steak. You know, So like I'm with you.

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I'm completely with you. I'm just talking about big picture.
But you're my ear. The Dolphins, I mean, you got
to pay them. I mean, I mean, you're a team
that's going to try to win. So that's what it is,
Like I get it. I've you and I are just
talking about do you like the guy? And I don't and.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
I do I don't. I don't love the guy, but
I like to. I look at the if we had
a class of pretty good it's pretty good quarterback That's
kind of where I am with it, Like it could
to a launch the career of a bunch of young
guys that aren't good. I don't know, I doubt that.
You know, we sit here all the time and we
talk about brock Perty's weapons, and then you look over

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at the fact that two has got, you know, in
the eyes of most he's got not only incredible weapons,
but he's got one of the best offensive minds running
everything for him. Just like, yeah, party, does you know
it's like he's got that benefit if you put to
a on a lesser team, or if you put to
a with lesser weapons, is he particularly great? I don't
think so, you know, And do we know at this

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point what that looks like. Probably not. But if you're
the Dolphins, you also can't take the chance, and you know,
and so it creates the payday situation for me to
a you know, all the way back to Alabama two
has been one of those guys that yeah, yeah, he's
pretty good man, like I like to it, but I've
never been clamoring and certainly to your point, when the
schedule comes out, this is like the great test for
quarterbacks to me in my mind, when the schedule comes

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out and you're you're looking at week by week with
your favorite team, do you look at a guy and say, oh, man,
we gotta take on insert name here. Like for years,
you know, if you were taking on the Steelers, you
were like, man, we gotta take on Ben, like we
gotta take on Brady, we gotta take on Manning. Now
I do think that, you know, as a fan, I
look at it and say, God, you gotta take on
my Homes. You gotta take on Alan? Do you gotta

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take on Burrow? Like I'm not putting to it in
that category at all, but.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
No, exactly when I look at Miami, I go, damn,
we got to take on the Hill right and Waddle
and McDaniel.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
Yeah no, And I don't. I don't disagree with that
at all. So like he's not the main piece. So
I totally agree with that that concept of it. I
also think that there's just sort of an element of like, yeah,
but he's he's good enough to execute what McDaniel wants,
and that makes that's that's sometimes I think all you
need eat out of a quarterback is like a pretty
good quarterback that's good enough to execute what a great

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coach wants is gonna still win your football games. It's
not reading Mahomes. It's not the best and the best,
but the best and pretty good is enough of a
combo to whin you have much football games?

Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah? You know, I mean, can you can you win
a Super Bowl? I don't.

Speaker 2 (11:23):
I just don't say it. I don't see good morning Figgie.
I'm sorry, what do you say? My brother?

Speaker 3 (11:31):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
You guys?

Speaker 6 (11:32):
I'm I'm tend to side with Fitzie on this one too, Like,
can you win a super Bowl generally speaking with an
average quarterback? It's unlikely, but you know, do you have
certain tiers? And I guess if this is an experiment
or that we want to do in the show as
far as ranking quarterbacks, it's something that we can do
down the line. But I mean there's really only ever
what three, four, maybe five guys where you say insert quarterback,

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he instantly changes your team and makes you a.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Super Bowl contender. There's a bunch of guys you can't.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
I'm not.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I'm not telling you that, you know, the Dolphager fools
like they had to do it. I mean, I get it.
This is a this is a different conversation I'm having.
I'm with you, guys. My point is I've never liked
to right like I just and again the great kid,
you know, Roo for his health and the whole thing
like that, But I'm just talking about as a as

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my kind of quarterback like that, I go, oh man,
he's fragile, He's he's just I and I can't.

Speaker 5 (12:32):
Joe Burrow's fragile. I think most people are.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Okay, yeah, slight. I mean I don't.

Speaker 2 (12:39):
I don't like his in his arms, Okay, like he's
just didn't. There's nothing about his game that I that
I go, you know, I really, you know, I like him.
But there's all the quarterbacks at his skill level. I
have to go through them that I probably like more,
if that makes any sense.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
Yeah, but I think to this point, you know, you
find a quarterback that is in a perfect situation that
fits his skill set. Now, granted you know, you have Waddle,
you have Hill, you have a bunch of talent around hi.
Would he be as effective without them? Probably not within
an offensive system, And I think having a guy that's
able to excel in a particular system, he's the right
quarterback in the right system for the right coach.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
I mean brock Party.

Speaker 6 (13:17):
You know, I don't think we love brock Party as
far as being a top tier quarterback, but he's certainly
going to be paid like one because the production level
warrants that in the system he plays in. So a
lot of times we just look at the raw talent
of a player and say, well, this guy is a
great quarterback.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
And that's fine, that's fair.

Speaker 6 (13:32):
But Tua Takaba Aloa is a really good quarterback because
of all the things around him. And look, even if
you were to lose waddle in hill because he's in
the offense with Mike McDaniel, I still think he'd be
an effective player. So I think because he excels in
the system that he plays in. Does he have a
strong arm, No, he doesn't need to in the offense
that he plays in, so I don't necessarily mind it.

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I think he's a quarterback. I'll put him in the
category of he's a quarterback that you can win with
if if he has if he has y, if he
has he and that puts him in a category with
eighty percent of the rest of the quarterbacks in the league.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
There's only a gus who don't eat that.

Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Yeah, this is where we disagree because I mean, we'll
do the exercise because I'm trying to think of the quarterbacks.
I go party over him with that question. I go
purty over.

Speaker 5 (14:19):
If you put him in in San Francisco.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
That he makes throws.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
And again, you know I'm in half in there, right,
So Buldy and I go through these film we already started, right,
and then now he's leaving for training camp. We looking
at the throws that Party makes over the middle, like
the throw, what he reads, what he does, and there's

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there's some throws that he makes that are really impressive.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
So will I go.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
I'm not like, you know, a love Gonga like a
top ten quarterback. And in that sense, Prety Party's in
my mind, uh, Betters has a better command of that position.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
So I constantly, as you know, I instead of sitting
there ranking because I think that's so hard in arbitrary
sometimes yeah, I put I like to put them on
shelves like alcohol. Right, So to me, like there's this
moment where, to be honest, like Tua is Tito's. Like
you walk into a bar and you're like, oh, Tito's
and so that's fine, Like that's that's Tua. He's Tito's.

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Like it's not, it's not. You're not like you're like,
get the job done. It's it's pretty good. It's fine.
It's not. It's not you know, grey Goose, it's not.
So I'm like wild like it's Tito's. It's it's very digestible.
Everybody drinks it everybody's pretty happy with it, and at
the end of the night, he gets the job done.
Like that's that's.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Ta's Tito's, I go Gordon's.

Speaker 6 (15:52):
And see I put to a, I think to a party, Look,
I might not disagree with you when that party might
have a slide edge over Toua, but in a in
a grant sense, I don't think the gap is really
that why And I think they both fall into the
same category of good enough to win with. If like
your Burroughs, your Mahomes, your Josh Allens, I think those
are the kind of guys who kind of supersede everything.

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Those guys make you instant contenders. But that's only ever
three to five guys at one time. If you're talking
about truly good, good quote un you can win with.

Speaker 5 (16:23):
I put them all in this. I put a lot
of those guys in the same category.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, like like Dak, Yeah, if you put that like
see to me, Dak is much better than to see.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
I don't think he's I think he's better. I would say.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Better like if you if you gave Dak those weapons,
like he's got CD and that's it.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
Well, he certainly has had as aunt. I mean he
had he had Amari Cooper he had. I mean, he's
had his level of weapons throughout his career.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
I'm just saying, if you add like Tyrie Hill is,
you could argue that the the number one weapon in football.

Speaker 5 (16:59):
Oh yeah, I would have voted for MVP for him
last year.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
I mean, like he changes.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
I was having this conversation about the Sean Jackson. We
were doing this whole thing about you know what it
is to have a guy on the outside, and like,
those guys just change games, those guys because you can't
cover them, which is amazing to me that the Chiefs
win without him, It's one of the I'm still blown

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away that that team wins twice without them, Like, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 6 (17:31):
Well, that's what having the best quarterback at tier, a
true top shelf quarterback.

Speaker 5 (17:34):
If we're going to the alcohol reference, we'll do for you.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, I mean, that's insane that he wins, that they win.
He is such a game changer, such a weapon just
on the field because of the space that he creates.
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 3 (17:50):
Right. Well, well, I love the boys.

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Speaker 3 (20:22):
So camp underway.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Everywhere the uh Aaron Rodgers with the Jets through a
seventy five yard beauty to Garrett Wilson making it eye
popping after he shows up with the Egyptian Cat T shirt.

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There's been all around camp. The storylines begin to mount.
This it's a fun time of the year. It's a
fun time to talk. I don't know about you, Fitzie,
but I love like the pregame. I love talking about
what is, talking about the trip that I'm going to have,

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talking about the game, talking about the season, the anticipation,
such a gift to human beings.

Speaker 4 (21:14):
It's the season of hope, right Like. The best part
about this time of year is that I don't care
if you're a Browns fan or Lions fan, or a
Raiders fan or a Jets fan. You got hope right
right now, everybody has convinced themselves that their team is
going to get everything right, and that their least favorite
team is going to get everything wrong. And there's no

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way to prove anybody's right or wrong about any of it.
So there's just a beautiful joy to so many people.
I think right now as fans getting ready for the season.
And that's why this part of the year is so special,
is that you know, right now, you see a seventy
five yard pass from Aaron Rodgers and you're like, everything's fine.
You know, you don't have to worry about the offensive line,
you don't have to worry about the Achilles, you don't

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have to worry about dysfunction within the organization, you have
to think about anything. You just think about the fact
that it's all going to work out perfectly right if
you're if you're a Browns fan, you're gonna think the
same thing the minute DeShawn comes out and plays one play, right,
you know, it's like all the things that we're questioning
right now don't matter because in practice, if you see
it look pretty good. You know, I did it yesterday.

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I saw the beat reporters for the Raiders saying, hey,
Aidan O'Connell looks pretty good for a minute, you know,
and these red zone shows to it pretty good. I'm like, hey,
you know, all hope is not lost. Like this is
what we all do right now.

Speaker 6 (22:26):
You also end up convincing yourself if things aren't looking good,
Like in day one you mentioned Aid and O'Connell and
Garda Minshew all they look horrible, but they're like, hey,
how about that raider secondary though, you know, or you
tell yourself, oh, they look bad. You know what, it's
a new offense. They're still adjusting. It's only practice number one.
They'll be fine. So these are the sort of things
you tell yourself as a fan throughout training camp. If

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you'll find a way to turn it into a turn
a negative into a positive, or if you're just one
of the cynical one, it's turn a positive into a negative.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
That there's certainly that element of it too.

Speaker 6 (22:56):
But yeah, it's like spring training and baseball there cuz
you know everybody's optimistic going into the season. This year
is our year, I will say more so in the NFL,
and we know there's a team that goes worse to
first every single season. You start searching for reasons to
be optimistic. Hey, if these things break our way, if
this guy stays healthy, if this guy has a breakout year,
why not us?

Speaker 5 (23:15):
That's what the NFL wants by the way, of course.

Speaker 4 (23:19):
That's fun to cover. That's what makes it like you
never know, You just never know. Who's Like we could
all sit here all day and give our best educated
opinions on what we think is going to happen. But
the beauty of the NFL is that, I think, more
than any any other sport, who knows is the real
answer for most of this? Like educated guess is all
you can do.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Oh to your spot on, spot on, you know you
look at it and you can look at it. Now
you go, all right, well, you know, I like teams.
You have an idea of the tears, but you have
no idea. You know, it's all about the health is
so much variable Now, the longer the season becomes, the

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more unpredictable it gets, because the more at risk guys are,
the more the hot team. I mean, I go back
to the when those Giants won those two Super Bowls.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
And the the in the.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Aughts, they they got hot at the end, like they
went through second half of the season. Let's go on
a wild card run. Like you mean, it's hard to predict.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
Well, and you mentioned health. Last year the forty nine
ers were one of the healthiest teams in the NFL.
So then you look at that and say, Okay, is
that something that can be repeated or is that just
a flash in the pan. I don't know, Like, and
that's that's a big variable. Like we spend all this
time right now talking about contracts, and frankly, I as
I said last week with the Cowboys and I'll say
again with the forty nine ers this week, I don't

(24:49):
think that actually plays into anything once we get the
season rolling, Like, I don't think anybody's gonna have a
bad Sunday because they're worried about money. I think we
overstate that when we don't have football to talk about. Injury, however,
is the thing that you do have to worry about.
That that is the one variable that can absolutely derail
or make anybody season great. Like in any particular division,

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you can go from worse to first in part if
you're just the healthiest team sitting through it, and that
gives that just another layer of hope there right now today,
there are very few teams that can look at it
and say we are absolutely out of this thing in
the NFL, and that that's pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
Yeah, I mean you're spot on with that stuff. I mean,
it's just spot on.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Yeah, we go back to last year and just look
at how many teams are basically horrible. I mean you
have the Chargers and you could even say there were
injuries involved with that. How many games did Justin Herbert
miss due to injury? And Arizona was four and thirteen?
But they are actually pretty dark competitive in a lot
of their games. But you add a whole lot of
seven win, eight win, nine win teams, or the ball
bounces differently. If Anthony richards stays healthy, maybe he you know,

(25:53):
stays healthy, they win one or two more games, and
all of a sudden they're in the playoff.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Mikes, you just don't know, you know, it's why you're
bringing him up. Yeah, I'm excited to see him. I
was talking to somebody close to the stike and they're
like really excited about him, really really Like it's funny
you and I talked about this figure uh about when

(26:18):
when Anthony Richardson was at Florida. We were both enamored
with his skill set for sure, and were foul along,
Oh man, what's he going to be like? And remember
his senior year he disappointed because you know, first of
all the team he was on the whole thing. He

(26:39):
had a couple like flashes, but you loved it. He
still liked his skill set.

Speaker 10 (26:43):
He still went, you know this, this kid could be something,
and they think they're very exciting in Indy, that Indy
could be one of those teams that pops on you.

Speaker 6 (26:55):
Yeah, well one, it was one of those like where
Drake Mays junior tape was better than his you know,
senior tape. Now, Grant, I'm not comparing Anthony Rigison was
obviously more of a raw athlete, but certainly had a
better junior season than he did in his final year.
But you saw flashes last year in the handful that
he did play of the skill set you know that
he possibly could bring, and you know, you mentioned Stichen

(27:15):
coming from Philadelphia, having that, you know, Jalen Hurts, you
know sort of offense where they build it around the
run game and then built the pass off of that.
If he's healthy, which by all accounts he is now, Grant,
you never know exactly how a guy's going to recover.
He didn't have a whole lot of reps last season,
but I am excited at the prospect of what he
could be just based on how raw of an athlete
he was coming in and just looking at as good

(27:37):
as he did in a small sample size. You know, Indianapolis,
the squad in and of itself, I think is pretty
solid across the board. Yeah, just if he can stay
healthy and develop into the player we think he might
be able to. I will give pauls to saying that
Houston's going to run away with that division.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
I really would.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Yeah, Indianapolis huially talented roster too. That's just something that
you point out there, figure that I think we need
to remember that. Thats very like you look at some
of the weapons there, you look defensive side of them, Well,
they've got talent all over the place. So it's a
really good situation for Anthony Richardson. I just I think
that division is one of the toughest to predict because
we just we still have so much to learn about

(28:14):
ar and where he is with a bunch of game reps.
So you know, it's one of those things where it's
a better situation I think, even than it was a
year ago. But man, there's still a lot of questions
to me. And it's not questions in a bad way
like I think sometimes when fans here questions. It's like, oh, well,
you're doubting, and it's like, no, I'm just a proof
of concept sort of guy. And I think that it's
fair to look back and say, Okay, we need to

(28:35):
see a little proof of concept from Anthony Richardson for
a full season. If we're being fair to what we
thought when he was coming out of college.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh yeah, definitely.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
And I'm just telling you from a I was talking
to just someone I would talk too close to psych
and who was saying how excited they are there like
that that he could be something because you know, you're right, figure, like,
right now, Houston is the crown jewel of that division,
and you go, well, what's in the Jacksonville is interesting too,

(29:07):
because Jacksonville, Like, is Trevor Lawrence just gonna be a
mediocre quarterback?

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Like? Is that who he is?

Speaker 6 (29:20):
I feel like it's still too early to say, right,
I mean, look at people have called them. The problem
is he had so much hype coming out. People were
saying like he's a generational talent and he's Andrew Luck
and all that stuff clearly hasn't, you know, borne itself
out at this moment in time. But he has the
physical skills. It's whether or not Peterson can bring it
out of it. We talked about guys getting giant contracts,
and he's certainly got one, and is it really deserved

(29:43):
based on you know, based on merit compared to what
you know to us or compared to and Joey. Look,
Jordan Well has a different conversation. He had a half
a season, if even half a season of production. But
you can certainly argue whether or not Trevor Lawrence actually
earned the contract that he got. But it basically tells
you that Jacksonville is putting all of their eggs in
his basket.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
And that's and that's my.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
That's my point in saying that, right, Yeah, like like
is he like you're gonna tell me? Like, I'm still
I would be stunned if you know Trevor Lawrence is
that guy right that he is just an okay, mediocre quarterback.

Speaker 6 (30:20):
I know he's answering year four though. To it's just
really difficult to try to try to pass judgment. The
problem is we've seen so many guys come out and
be spectacular from day one. When a player doesn't do that,
you know, you you start asking a lot of questions.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
But then you look at someone.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Like he's had some players around them too.

Speaker 5 (30:39):
Yeah, he's definitely had a lot of talent around him.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
That's fair, And I hear you he's entering year four,
but like Jordan Loves entering game nine basically of effective
quarterback play, and it feels like people are more hyped
for Jordan Love.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Yeah, well, I mean a couple of years ago.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
I mean he has that great comeback, you know, playoff
victory against the Chargers. I mean they were in that
game at halftime against Kansas City and nearly knock them off,
and then you found for it a year later and
it's all falling apart.

Speaker 5 (31:02):
So, like, the talent is there.

Speaker 6 (31:03):
The problem is a lot of times progressions with young
players is rarely ever linear.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Sometimes it is.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
John it's an escale, yeah, escalator, And you know Pat
Mahomes is great from from year one and then took off.
Josh Allen was mediocre year one and took off. But
it doesn't always work that way for a lot of players.
And so Trevor Lawrence might be Look, he might be
Jared Golf golf was horrible, Got McVeigh was better, petered
out came back again with Detroit, and now all of
a sudden is considered, you know, one of the upper

(31:29):
tier of the second level of quarterbacks. That could be
sort of the progression for Trevor Lawrence.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Without a doubt, without doubt. And it's like when we're
talking about it, I just believe in the skill set, right,
you know, I'm still going there's no way in the
world he's he hats the pan out. I might say
he's gonna be Mahomes, but I mean, did the touch
on his the touch on his throws.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
The you know, the way he moves, you know, I mean.

Speaker 6 (31:59):
I I mean he should have at least DAK level,
Dak Prescott level production in the regular season, at the
very least you.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Know, yes, yes, yes, you know.

Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's like Herb saying Dak Yeah, we keep saying Dak
Prescott level of production. Let's also acknowledge when you see
the deals that went out yesterday, if anybody thought that
the contract for DAK starting with the six was absurd
after yesterday, it's absurd to me that it won't. It's
going to be fifty five to sixty sixty five million

(32:28):
dollars for DAK, and deservedly so. Like, that's just what
the market bears.

Speaker 5 (32:31):
Now, which with them that did.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
I don't know what Jerry's thinking is and not offering
him an extension, but I mean, I don't get that
you drop them the ball on that situation. I thinkause,
it's only going to get more expensive, and look find it.
The reason why you overpay for an average quarterback is
because an average quarterback is hard to find.

Speaker 5 (32:48):
That's that's the issue.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Once you have one and you say, whether it's Tua,
you know, whether it's one of these guys who you
know puts up you know, four thousand and thirty eight
hundred yards, a few touchdowns, whatever it is, those guys
are difficult to find.

Speaker 5 (32:59):
Ask the Raider.

Speaker 6 (33:00):
You know, as teams who've been looking for a quarterback,
just an average quarterback for years. So once you actually
get your claws into one, you almost want to say,
I'd pay the guy, and I'll find somebody that can
come in here and really take advantage of his skill
set and make him better, versus trying to find a
quarterback who's at least who's somewhat better than he is,
because you might never find him. So I certainly understand it.
And if you're the Cowboys and you're gonna allow Dak

(33:23):
Prescott to play this year out You're you're playing with fire.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Yeah. Yeah, we'll come back.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
To the come back to the mediocrity conversation, Figgie, Like
how long? And I think most people understand why Derek
Carr is no longer the quarterback of the Raiders. But
it doesn't feel better having Aidan O'Connell, Battlegardner, Minshew than
it did having Derek Carr. It just doesn't, like, I'm sorry.
So you know, the Cowboys fans are sitting there's like
dacksonp pum and it's like, okay, daxup bum until you

(33:50):
actually have a real bum at quarterback and then you're like,
oh god, I wish we had Dak, Like that's just.

Speaker 5 (33:54):
Really of course, yeah, Quincy carterback, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
And the thing is is in the truth of the
matter is you know, I mean, he's he plays in.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Big games, like he's your guy, Like I don't know
what you want.

Speaker 5 (34:09):
Now you can argue whether he plays big in big games.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
So without a doubt, But if you're Jerry Jones, where
you're at in the in the progress of your Bill
like you were a contender.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
That's what you are, right.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
You can't pivot off your quarterback now, right, pivot pivoting
off your quarterback now is a death knell. When does
it happen where you're a contender and you switch quarterbacks
and it works out.

Speaker 5 (34:39):
Almost never?

Speaker 6 (34:40):
I'm maybe, I'm sure it's happened at some point, but
I certainly can't recall when that's happened.

Speaker 3 (34:44):
Right, because you're not drifting high enough right right.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
You don't have the capital, you don't have the free
agent capital, you don't have the trade capital.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
You're stuck. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (34:55):
Usually if you're a contender and you you know, you
get a young quarterback that's productive for you, it's because
you lock into it. You're San Francisco and brock Party
happens to step up because you had a couple of
guys injured. You're the Cowboys. You're looking to Dak Prescott
because Tony Romo got hurt. But it's rarely ever we
let this quality player walk and we drafted a guy
in the third round to be our starter, and he
ended up taking off and taking us the heights we

(35:17):
hadn't seen before. It just doesn't happen that way, it
doesn't happen all right, Fellas. This is I hate to
repeat myself, but.

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Speaker 2 (35:39):
Ah Boys. So you know we we didn't. We started
with Jordan Love, but we really didn't talk about Jordan Love.
I he's one of my favorite young players. So I
I I'm all in, Like I I believe it. You know,
short sample size or not? You know, small sample size

(35:59):
or not. I think we all saw it. I'm ready
to go for the ride. If I'm the Packers, I'm in.
I'm a Packer fan. I love it. I'm going. I'm
in on this ride with Jordan Love. I think your
eyes don't deceive you when it comes to him.

Speaker 4 (36:17):
I wish I shared your I'm just so like, man,
this is a fault for me. Maybe I should start
working on this with my therapist. Like I realized that
I am just so scared. The one thing I'll say
about this, it's a four year deal. So it makes
a lot of sense on a four year deal because
that means Jordan Love hits the open market when he's thirty,
by the way, but in today's world where he actually

(36:40):
hit the open market, who knows the contract will be
outdated quickly. I get all of those things. I think,
if you're the Packers, you got a young team, you're
not paying a lot of people. It makes a lot
of sense in several different ways. It's just, you know,
I can't I can't shake how bad it looked in
the early part of the season. And I know that that,
you know, getting familiar, getting comfortable, knocking the rust off.

(37:02):
I understand all the explanations. I also, as we've talked
about before, my friend, I love this concept of threes.
Like year one, quarterback is sort of able to figure
out the league. Year two, the quarterbacks really able to accelerate.
But also defensive coordinators start to then game plan better
for that quarterback. They know their tendencies. Year three, to me,
is the moment you really like the water hits level.

(37:23):
Like now, defensive coordinators have adjusted quarterbacks, quarterbacks have adjusted
Defensive coordinators would get a real sense. If I could
live in a dream world, I want three years to
evaluate a quarterback. I know the people in hell one
ice water and I'm not gonna get those three years,
but half a one season, man, Like, I don't know,
like half. Just let me ask this, if Jordan Love

(37:43):
played the exact same season and he was the quarterback
of the Saints or the quarterback of a team that's
not necessarily wildly regarded, would he still have Like I
feel like the fact that we were looking at the
Packers and there was all the conversation around Aaron Rodgers
and then I always get this right, So I think
there's benefit of the dotcoms. I'm not saying he didn't

(38:04):
have a great half a season. I'm just saying that
you don't usually play pay make somebody the highest paid
in the league on one half of one season.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, listen the anomaly of that, I hear you.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
I'm not not dis great with you, but I don't
think the Packers have anything to do with it.

Speaker 4 (38:21):
Well, you know you don't think you don't think we would,
view my eyes, if he was a terrible, if he
was part of a terrible franchise.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
In my eyes, the judging the way he played last year,
you gonna watching him. You know, I thought he was good.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
I liked him. I'd buy him. I mean right, So
I thought.

Speaker 4 (38:38):
He was I thought he was great. I just players
get hot sometimes, players go on streak sometimes, like I would.
I just don't know that if he was a quarterback
of the Carolina Panthers that we would be sitting here saying, yeah,
you gotta sign that guy.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Here, but you can't different he played in the playoffs, right,
like he he went into Dallas and had a monster game.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
So that also, you know, comes in the play but
he had a.

Speaker 4 (39:04):
Monster game against a team that came out so unmotivated
with questioned whether the coach should actually keep his job, Like,
I don't put that much weight in the playoffs. I
just I'm not gonna let one game outweigh the rest,
like to me.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Either, I'm just talking about his the way he played.
If you go throw it, you know I got his game.
I got his games right here in front of.

Speaker 3 (39:24):
Me, right, So all right, where we're at, we'll start.

Speaker 6 (39:29):
From the I say probably around week nine is really
when he took off, because before that it was really ugly,
very ugly. I mean that Monday night game against the Raiders.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Was had he had a he had a gay.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
He had a stretch where it didn't look bad but
let's go, I'll read you the numbers.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
Right.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
So he bears in a win, he throws two forty five,
three touchdowns, no picks. At Lanta they lose twenty five,
twenty four, he throws one hundred and fifty one yards,
three touchdowns, no picks.

Speaker 4 (40:04):
Yeah. Also, of those games, he respectively, he completed fifteen passes,
the first one of fourteen passes, the second one at
basically fifty six percent completion percentage. So we're not talking
about tremendous efficiency.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Yeah you want to, I'll give you the full numbers.
I'm just gonna read you the full numbers, all right.
Like you know, listen, I agree the efficiency.

Speaker 5 (40:28):
You know what they want the pack.

Speaker 2 (40:29):
That's the old thing to you know what I hate.
I gotta tell you, I hate stats. I hate I
hate this nonsense because what doesn't come into play is
he does young receivers. Sure right, he's it's a young
offense look terrible. Of course, you don't look terrible at
times early in the regular season. You got young, you

(40:52):
got a young receiving corps with a first time starting quarterback,
and you gotta like an offensive line that's growing as well,
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Speaker 2 (41:34):
So we're talking a lot first hour about the quarterbacks
and the Jordan Love contract.

Speaker 4 (41:42):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
I mean, I don't know if you guys want me
to continue to even go through his season last year,
I think the progression is makes sense.

Speaker 3 (41:54):
Like he has his slump.

Speaker 2 (41:56):
And I distinctly remember too, because I remember the Minnesota
game and he it was the Raider game that you
talked about, fig that he struggled, and then it was Denver,
uh that he did not play well, and then uh, and
then I remember the Minnesota game.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
You know, he's a.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
He for a banter reception and then he starts to
to really come into his own. They beat the Rams,
he plays well against the Steelers, and really from from
that standpoint from November on, because his slump happened in October.
I mean from November on, which would make sense in

(42:38):
the arc of a young quarterback. He's really good.

Speaker 4 (42:43):
Yeah, I don't disagree with anything you just said. I
just can't justify my mind huge money for that. Like
I if you had told me that there was a
full season of greatness, I could even buy it. There's
it's half a season.

Speaker 3 (42:57):
Yeah, but you're not.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Everything you explaining makes sense, but it doesn't change the
fact that I don't want to make I guess season
the highest paid quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (43:06):
Well, yeah, but you know that's for bogus, you know,
and that's sense. But in the end, he's gonna that's
not going to be the case. It's it's a bet
now contract. But listen, that's true. I don't I don't
want to get mince words with you. Where I guess
I'm frustrated by the argument it is it's impossible to

(43:28):
expect to.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
Have a full year, like it just makes sense.

Speaker 4 (43:36):
There's no they could. They could have let him play
out this year to make sure it would cost him
more money, but then they'd at least make sure they
had this year and they have franchise tag.

Speaker 2 (43:45):
Okay, young receivers are slow of them. An offensive line
that comes together and it arcs. It arcs actually neatly right,
like it's it's a it's a lovely sunrise.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
If you look at his season arc.

Speaker 4 (44:06):
Yes, I don't take away anything that it's a lovely
sunrise in your words, all to get all that to
come together at the end of of an arc, that's fine,
We'll acknowledge that. But I also look at it and say, Okay,
you're taking on you know, you look at the last
portion of the season. You're taking on a Minnesota team
that wasn't very good. You're taking on a Carolina team

(44:26):
that wasn't very good. You did beat a Tampa Bay
team that was better than we expected. You're taking on
a Giants team that wasn't very good. Like you look
at some of those wins in that arc, I would
just want to I don't care how good you look
in that situation. I want to see more than just
some wins over some okay teams and some wins over
some bad teams, and like, hey, we're just gonna forgive

(44:47):
the inefficiency early because the efficiency was good late, but
we're not even gonna acknowledge the fact that you know
with that arc, now everybody has a chance to adjust,
everybody has the chance to get better. Like Jordan love
Is is probably in the category of pretty good. I
just I don't see why there was any there's rush
to get back done.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
Yeah, you admitted the Chiefs, you know you might want
to break up the city. The fact that they beat
Kansas City and in the.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
Game twenty five out of thirty six three touchdowns.

Speaker 6 (45:17):
I guess the fittest point, Anthony, is why did you
feel the need to have to sign them to an
extension now?

Speaker 5 (45:22):
Why couldn't you wait another year?

Speaker 2 (45:24):
It's it's a smart business because if you're buying them,
you're buying them cheap. Now you're buying dollars, is what
you're doing. And if you believe in them, it makes
perfect sense to do that now.

Speaker 5 (45:35):
I mean, I guess I understand if.

Speaker 4 (45:36):
You're right, then you're If you're right, If you're right, really,
if you're right, if I would bet on them, you know,
if you're wrong, like like this is one of those
moments where like you know, you don't always have to
split at the blackjack table, even if the strategy tells
you to do that. I frankly like I'd rather I'd
rather be wrong and have to spend a little bit
more money and figure that out, because the salary cap

(45:57):
is ballooning in a way that I'll be able to
figure that out any then be wrong about it and
then all of a sudden be stuck in a contract
with somebody that turns out isn't as good as we
thought after one year. And like I said, as we
started this whole argument, I use Rick Meyer as the
the you know, the the test because I remember when
I was little, you know, Rick Meyer drew bledsoe coming out.
At the same time, people are like, oh, Meyer, such

(46:18):
a better quarterback, and like because he had one good year,
like you see this sometimes, so I just that was
a full good year.

Speaker 5 (46:25):
I go more on Scott Mitchell.

Speaker 6 (46:26):
This guy had a good half a year, you know,
after a mountain, a mountain of evidence.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
Mitchel had had a really like had a great arm, right,
he had a really good arm. He's lefty, he was
he was a horrific.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Quarterback from the light staypoint.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
I don't disagree, just talking about guys who and I'm
not calling Jordan Love a flash in the pan. I
agree that I think he's gonna be a really good
quarterback for years to come. I don't mind, but just
the idea that you paid him. Now, I'm with Fitzie.
I'd much rather if he come and balls out this
year and earns a much larger contract at least I
know at that point. But he had working against him
and the Packers to a certain degree. He did too,
the fact that he sat his first three seasons. You

(47:10):
lost those seasons to see exactly the kind of player
that he is. So if he does have a good
half a season like he did last year, now all
of a sudden, you're pretty much up against it and
you feel as if you need to get out ahead
of it. You don't have the additional year independent of
his option year to see exactly what you have to
work with.

Speaker 2 (47:25):
Well, that's the other thing, too, is like that's where
being in the building matters. That's where you're watching him
every day in practice. Sure you get to you know
the kid, like what we do is I mean, in fairness,
you know, we spew a lot of opinions and you
know it's theater, right, it's not all educated. In fact,

(47:48):
most of the time uneducated because you're not looking at film,
you're not looking at you don't know the kid, you
don't know what he's like in practice, you don't like
what he's liking around the facility.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
All that stuff, and it's impossible for us to know.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
So I'm not faulting, you know, the exercise of sports
talk radio.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
But we deal with a lot, you know, we deal
with from ignorance.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Yeah, I don't disagree with that. By the way, we're
making judgment calls based on the best information that we
have on hand, right, Like, that's that's all we can do.
But in fairness, that's the universal application, you know, for
every quarterback conversation.

Speaker 2 (48:30):
So I'm moving out a doubt same thing. I agree,
I agree with it. I guess I'm just talking about
you know, you're right, you don't get it. We don't
have We didn't get a chance to see him with
those extra because he sat, But the Packers got to
know him and they got to see what he is,

(48:50):
and they got to see his skill sets. Maybe not
in the game, but you're seeing it in practice, Like
that matters.

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Yeah, I don't disagree with that, But you still have
to I mean, in my mind, you still have to
go out and perform day in and day out, week
in and week out on the field to generate that
sort of there was just no urgency to need to
do this contract. We knew, we knew it was gonna happen,
and the inevitability. And I want to be clear, like,
I'm not anti Jordan Love. I think Jordan Love right
now has shown enough to think that he could end

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up being very good. I just I don't like the
word could around a contract that massive, Like I, it's
just so funny.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
It's so funny though you and I are we see
it completely opposite, both of them, like you were, you
were all about to and I don't understand it, right,
I take your Jordan Love take and go, Yeah, I
get you know you're the Dolphins. I mean, that's what
you gotta do, is the cost of doing business, and
this is who you got. But you're way more excited

(49:48):
over Tua than you know over the Jordan Love to
prospects of Tua as a of mean, excuse me, the
prospects of Jordan Love and in a cap friendly contract.

Speaker 6 (50:01):
Well acknowledging that toua, by the way, who has more
of a mountain of you know, use the word proof
of concept. There a lot, FITZI, he's shown that he
could be an effective quarterback for a couple of seasons
at this point in time, and by the way, is
making less than Jordan Love is making. I want to
point that part out that Jordan Love's contract is bigger,
even if it's not by a whole lot, it's still
bigger than Tua, who actually has proven for a couple

(50:24):
of seasons now that he can at least be an
effective NFL quarterback, where Jordan Love only has you know,
a handful of games under his hip.

Speaker 2 (50:31):
You would agree that you're betting on the you're betting
on the cop like, yeah, Love, you're betting that he's
an elite quarterback.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
That's what you're hoping. You're betting. Sure, Tua, you know
it's not an elite quarterback.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Yeah, But I mean, this is what Jeff Darlington tweeted
out last night, and I thought it was I thought
it was smartly written when he said, this isn't a
judgment or criticism, it's merely fascinating Because Tua and Love
got drafted on the same day. But Love was drafted
twenty one spots later. He's thrown nine hundred and seventy
six fewer passes in seven eight hundred seventy four fewer yards,
and played in twenty six fewer games with the lower

(51:03):
passer rating too. I like proof of concept, Like I'm
not saying that that doesn't make Jordan Love have all
the potential in the world. I don't pay for potential.
Like if I can avoid paying for potential, I'm going
to avoid that every single step of the way and
how often.

Speaker 2 (51:17):
But as a general manager, when you're looking at when
you're dealing with cap situations, your your hope is to
navigate this and keep the window alive. Right, So you're
the whole point of you having a guy in the
building is that you know what he is and you go,
all right, you know, I'm willing to bet on him
now and this way in three years the contract is cheap.

(51:39):
So I get what Darlington says, and that's all well
and good, and I understand, Yeah, we all want to
see it. It's you know, it's hard, you know, in
our in our minds to go from the blind. But
A they're not blind as blind, and B we're you're
you have to.

Speaker 3 (51:59):
Trust sometimes what you see that go beyond.

Speaker 4 (52:03):
And that's why But that's also where it comes back
to benefit of the doubt that is given at some
level to the Packers organization, because I don't believe if
the Browns had done that with you know, you look
back at Baker Mayfield, who, by the way, remember had
an incredible year with Baker with the Browns, and everybody said,
oh my god, Baker's the quarterback in the future.

Speaker 5 (52:20):
Like the Steelers in a playoff game. Yeah right, and.

Speaker 4 (52:23):
So like we we've seen these things before. An organization
that that doesn't have as much respect in the way
that they do things, I don't think we would be
as kind to the contract on because everything you're saying
is giving the pack can for myself.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
So you you could you do?

Speaker 2 (52:39):
I mean, if that's the way you read it, all right,
I'm only giving you my own opinion. My own opinion
is it's irrelevant who where he's playing, who the who
the people are. I look at I just look at
the player, and you know, but.

Speaker 4 (52:54):
You also just but you just said that they'd see him,
they see him behind seeing the scenes. That means you
got to trust Gouda Kunston. You know, Lafleur to be
great analysis. The analysts of what they see behind the scenes.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
I guess, and that's fair, And that's fair.

Speaker 3 (53:09):
I guess.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
I'm just coupling it with the fact that I love
what I see out of Jordan Love. Like I I mean,
we said here old last year and I told you that.
I mean, figure, how many times did I bring up
Jordan Love how much I love them?

Speaker 3 (53:23):
Right?

Speaker 2 (53:23):
So, I mean, I'm just giving you being true to
to how I saw it last year, breaking his film down,
that's all.

Speaker 4 (53:30):
And I don't not I don't. I just like him
a lot. That's a different SA Like Jordan Love and
I are dating. We're not like, I'm not putting a
ring on it, like and the the the packers just
went in and put a ring.

Speaker 6 (53:40):
I'm smitt Yeah, yeah, I'm smitten. Yeah, we've been we've
been dating for about six months. I'm not ready to
fully come in at this point time. I need to
see a little bit.

Speaker 3 (53:46):
More, you know. Yeah, I found my I got I
got teddy.

Speaker 5 (53:54):
Come on now, I feel you.

Speaker 2 (53:58):
It's all good, it's all good of what the world
is looking for you right here, my dear, I'm in love.

Speaker 5 (54:07):
With Jordan Loves talent as well.

Speaker 6 (54:09):
And to your point, you know, we can only go
off of what we see and even look even like
you're looking at the film much deeper than than even
than I do. Obviously we'll see things that that you
that you love. But I mean, only those in the
building really have a sense that they actually know. And look,
there's been there's a many a team that have you know,
bet on the player saying like we know the kid,
we know this, X, Y and Z, and it does
it doesn't work out, you know, So you're you're taking

(54:31):
a gamble. Area is wealth is because they have a
track record of making these sort of situations work.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Yes, but maybe they've earned that.

Speaker 5 (54:41):
I don't know, maybe that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Speaker 6 (54:43):
Maybe they've even though it's a completely different regime at
this point Ted Thompson is no longer there, maybe they've
earned it.

Speaker 3 (54:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. All right.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Let me uh, let's let's switch gears for for a
second and let me go to the Olympics. Because of
the time to ask you guys, so are you guys
as like keeked up about it?

Speaker 3 (55:09):
Are you following it? Like?

Speaker 2 (55:11):
Give me how you are about to consume the Olympics?
Which gets under which got on their way yesterday, which
is under way today, FITZI where, like, where are you
at with the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
I mean, I've got in my studio in my house
right now, I've got a TV on with some men
swimming in the background because it's on right now thanks
to the time difference to Paris. So it's on and
I'll get very excited for it. Am I following it?
I'll say this. I went to a dive bar with
some friends yesterday and had some non alcoholic beers still
on the wagon and enjoyed the opening ceremonies. I thought

(55:49):
they were really cool. I thought they looked cool. I
should say all of it. So it felt like, it
felt big, it felt grand. The rings on the Eiffel
Tower really hit. So it's the first time I felt
like that Olympic rush. I don't I didn't wake up
today though, Like as we started the show, I was like, oh,
I'll turn it on the Olympics. I bet they're on.
I do not find myself sitting here saying to my buddies,

(56:11):
oh my god, let's hang out watch the Olympics all day, right, Like,
So there is sort of an interesting because usually I
am that person every you know, I every you know,
two years because I love the Winner Olympics both. I'm
a person that really flocks to it. I feel like
I'm cautiously on the outside watching it.

Speaker 6 (56:28):
How about you fake Yeah, I would call it my
old intrigue. And to that same notion I have that
have the same swimming on in here. I got a
computer up with Australia versus Spain watching Josh Giddy and
you know, Willie Hergan Gomez go at it. You know,
it's it's entertaining, it's something to watch. I don't know
if it's appointment viewing for a lot of this. I
am interested in Team USA, the men's team. I'm interested

(56:48):
in the beach volleyball team and either the men's volleyball
team a little bit. But as far as you know,
being locked in on all these different events and having
to sit in front of my television at four am,
like it's it doesn't really grab me that way. But
I'm actually a little bit more, a little bit more
into it than I thought I would be. That being said,
it's still not mostly appointment viewing for me either.

Speaker 2 (57:09):
So and I want to ask you now, I'm curiously
I'm a little older, uh than you guys. But when
I was a kid, the Olympics were I just remember
being checking the metal count and like you know, USA
USA and the boxing and obviously basketball and swimming and

(57:35):
track and field and like just and I remember being
very patriotic, like you know, being loving sports. And and
it's weird because it's kind of waned and I'm not
as captivated by it.

Speaker 3 (57:50):
And I don't know if it's part of.

Speaker 2 (57:52):
The coverage, which is more of the you know, story
arcs as opposed to the events themselves. But now the
way you know, you can you can get it. You
can get just about any event you want, which is
kind of cool. But I'm curious, did you guys when
you were younger look at it or consume it differently?
I mean I was I remember being really really being

(58:16):
upset that, you know, the team that the amateurs because
we're amateurs in basketball before the Dream Team, and being
upset that like we're way better at basketball, like that
were you kidding me?

Speaker 3 (58:29):
Like I remember being mad at that stuff.

Speaker 4 (58:32):
I the Dan and Dan Olympics with Reebok doing the
commercial and like I remember all of that, like the
lead up to everything, there was this is a deep
thought for the Fellas. But I don't know at a
time where I think we need something like the Olympics
more than ever to unify us and in national pride
and having you know, some love for our country and
bringing all of us together in a very divided world.

(58:54):
Right now, I have this this quiet hope that somehow
the Olympics can do that, but it just feels.

Speaker 6 (58:59):
Like we're so divided it can't salvage it right now,
you know, And look for me, I would say it
was a point of private I was when I was
a kid coming up, the dream team had already been
formed and we were basically dominating the Olympics. And I
do vividly remember two thousand and four in Athens when
we didn't win the gold medal, and it was just

(59:21):
a hodgepodge of you had a young Lebron, a young Mellow,
you had Tim Duncan Ivers, and you just had a
bunch of tried to out talent as opposed to actually
having a team that fit. And the sense of pride
that I still that I had in two thousand and
eight when the Redeemed team was put together and now
I mean I still I expect you Team USA to win,
but even if they don't, it would suck, but it
wouldn't destroy my entire world.

Speaker 5 (59:43):
Two thousand and four, I was distraught. I was distraught
that the United States lost. Then part of me thinks
of it too.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
It might be a small part that just crossed my mind,
the fact that the sports that we follow the closest
have such an international influence.

Speaker 5 (59:58):
Now that the point of pride.

Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
Is a little bit lost, Like I mean, baseball is
not in on this particular cycle and we're not using professionals,
so maybe that's a little bit different. But when you
look at basketball and you start watching all these teams
for all these different countries and realize the international influence
that is a part of the NBA at this point
in time, you know it's you see yourself. A lot
of guys rooting for individual players, are saying like, oh,

(01:00:22):
I want to see Joker play for his country. I
want to see it. As opposed to Team USA. You
start rooting for your individual players, which is also sort
of a new phenomenon over the last decade where you
have people who are Lebron fans or Steph Curry fans,
not people who are caffans or Warrior fans, and I
wonder if that permeates at least from a basketball standpoint
into basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Yeah, it'sn't it odd.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
It's true because you know all the players now internationally,
you do, you watch it differently, but I think fits
Fitzy Nail did. I'm hoping that I was really hoping
that we would kind of all come together, like I'm
a big sports say could save the world, Sports builds churches.

(01:01:10):
I was kind of hoping that that we'd have this well,
kind a moment of unity.

Speaker 6 (01:01:14):
But well, I would also say it hurts that we're
in an election year, and considering recent events around it
being an election year, I think just you know, adds
more fuel to the fire of division.

Speaker 3 (01:01:26):
Yeah, you know you're not wrong. All right, Fellas, we'll
take a quick t you.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
We'll probably get back to football because that's where we
just can't get enough of it.

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I'm always blown away by this. So I was meeting
a friend the other day for lunch and we're working

(01:03:05):
on a project together that is that's uh, that's a
writing project that I'm doing that has nothing to do
with sports.

Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
So my buddy is not a sports fan.

Speaker 2 (01:03:19):
So I meet him at a at a golf course
and we're sitting in the in the bar in the
golf course and it's like a restaurant in the golf course.
So the golf course is owned by Ron Jaworski, who's
a friend of mine. Right, you know remember Ron Jawarski
ESPN of course, Okay, just f y. You know, I'm
just for the audience. Play quarterback for the Eagles for

(01:03:41):
the longest time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
He's a Philadelphia like the legend, Like he's one of
these you know, played here and he has got seven
golf courses in the area and he's just like a
mainstay in the community and that sort of thing. So
we're we're having lunch and I got my notebook out,
I'm just taking notes and we're talking and Jaws comes

(01:04:05):
over to the tape and he's sitting down, and so
we started getting into the conversation about the Eagles and
hurts and where it's because Jaws was came out and
was pretty critical of Jalen and you know, expecting a
lot from him, more from him from a leadership standpoint,

(01:04:27):
and Uh, anyway, so we're talking, we're getting into the
weeds with it, and I look over and my buddy,
he's got this.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
Glass eyed look on him, like.

Speaker 2 (01:04:39):
This glassy eyed look, and I'm watching him and he's
got no idea what.

Speaker 3 (01:04:46):
We're talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
He doesn't even know who Jaws is, right, Like, he
seems like a nice man, he owns the place, and
Jaws is like, I'm trying to shot right right, right right,
And this dude, my buddy's like, has no clue, no
concept of the conversation or who it was. And I'm thinking,

(01:05:09):
this is so weird because what must he be like
for him, just something that's become so mainstream and so
big and he's got no idea about it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:24):
Yeah, Honestly, almost everybody on the Ban Perry tour bus
doesn't like sports or didn't like sports at all at all,
and knew nothing about any sports. So what I would
sit down like when I would at the time when
I was a podcast, you know, trying to make it
back in whatever, twenty thirteen. The funny thing is I
would sit there and talk, and even if the guys

(01:05:45):
were in the dressing room where I like set up
my mic and just do my show, they look me
afterwards and be like, I have no idea what you
just talked about, Like none, Like the most of the
guys I toured with only know the Raiders or a
football team because I wear the shirt all the time.
So I'm actually I have a ton of people in
my life that are I'm very good friends with that
have no idea what I do because they have no

(01:06:06):
concept of sports. They come from a music world and
they have absolutely no concept of sports. So I'm actually
really used to that, Like I've gotten the point, Like
there's one of two ways when people say what do
you do? My answer to that is always I talk
about sports for a living. And I find that either
that creates for the next hour I'm talking to somebody
about their favorite football team, or they're looking at me
and they're like, I don't know anything about sports. I

(01:06:27):
have a lot of people on both sides of my life.

Speaker 6 (01:06:29):
And see I find myself on the other side of
that coin when it comes to film. I have a
couple of friends who are big film buffs, and they're
talking about and like real deep, like this cinematographer did this,
so this person did that, and I'm.

Speaker 3 (01:06:40):
Like, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:06:42):
I thought the movie is kind of funny, sure, you know,
Like I'm sitting in the corner just kind of scratching
my ear like all right, well, we're gonna talk about
something else now, or so, I certainly have been in
those situations on from the other side of it, when
someone has that big of a passion and it's not
like you know, film maybe when you get into the
nitty gritty like that.

Speaker 5 (01:07:00):
But it certainly is not necessarily niche.

Speaker 6 (01:07:02):
Everybody loves certain you know, films or TV shows or whatever,
but I just can't get that deep into the weeds
in it.

Speaker 5 (01:07:08):
So it's it's weird. It's interesting.

Speaker 6 (01:07:10):
As mainstream and as big business as sports is, to
a certain degree, it is still sort of a niche,
you know. It you know, applies to a certain amount
of people. But there are a lot of people walking
in their day to day lives who couldn't tell the
San Diego Padres from the Washington Nationals. You know, it's
just weird for us to conceive that though.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Yes, But you know what's weird too, though, I'm not
asking you to break film down right like that that
movie's game shot, yeah, right, Like I'm not asking to
do that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:41):
But like sports is super and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:44):
The Eagles, like the Eagles in Philadelphia is the biggest
thing going, right. I mean, I'm talking it stands man,
woman child, you know, And I'm just saying. Rod Jaworski,
he's on a he's on Channel six, like the ABC affiliate, uh,

(01:08:08):
you know, talking about the Eagles, Like there's grandmothers like that.
No ard, Like like if I pulled the citizens of
my Delaware valley. I mean, I gotta believe that he
would get you know, eighty five percent that they would
recognize him of recognition. I mean, so I'm just I

(01:08:33):
was just kind of, you know, kind of marveling at this.
And I guess, you know, fits you come from that world,
like he's you know, a hunter of fisherman, you know, uh,
you know, he's I guess more outdoors in that sense.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
And then he's you know, he's just not you know,
he won't.

Speaker 2 (01:08:56):
I find it so odd, like dude, and he's a
but he's not a music guy. Like if you're a
music and that's your industry, then I get being consumed
by that industry. I think guy is a regular business guy,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (01:09:15):
Well, everybody talks about like all musicians want to be athletes,
and athletes want to be musicians, and I think that's
true for a lot. Like if you're talking about the
country music world, you're talking about like Jason Alden and
you're talking about you know, Luke Bryant and like big
names like yeah, they would all kill to be on
a football field. And you know, I last week when
I saw Jordan Davis my buddy, Like he's become good
friends with the Mannings and like that. It makes sense,

(01:09:38):
like there is a tie, But I think different different
than Jordan Davis, Jordan Davis the country singer, not Jordan
Davis the football player. But I also think there's just
a bunch of guys and girls in the music business
that you know, came up as ban geeks that just
never really focused on football, never really cared about football.

(01:10:00):
There's a bunch of people in the you know, music,
theater world and things like that, Like there's so many creatives,
you know, artists and things like that that's just sports
never really it's just never really tied in. And I
think you know, where you live makes a difference. Say
you talk about Philly, That's one of the things that
makes Philly amazing, right, like, is that you know, frankly,
it is such a hub of We talked earlier about

(01:10:20):
maybe some of the national pride missing from the Olympics.
I love a city that has cities some pride in
their sports right, so like Philly has that through and through.
So I think Philly is probably more of an anomaly
to find people that don't know about sports but you
can certainly walk around in a ton of places in
Nashville or Connecticut, where I've spent most of the last
twenty years of my life and find as many people

(01:10:41):
that do that, and don't you know, it's kind of
a split. It's even when I was on some of
the biggest shows at ESPN, I would tell people that
at the time, and I have a whole group of
friends and it's like, I've never seen that. Where can
I check it out? And it's like we've never heard
a first take, Like you don't even know what this exists,
like right, And there's just a whole section of the
population that is that way.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
I know, No, I know, And I guess part of
it's the region, like you said, like in this area,
we are so sports centric, like like the community revolves
around sports. It's it's pretty well I and I sometimes
have to to stop myself because having lived elsewhere in

(01:11:25):
the country, it's not like that in a lot of
other places.

Speaker 3 (01:11:30):
But yeah, because they're they're they're insane or like the
Eagles camp, it just consumes everything here the Phillies.

Speaker 2 (01:11:39):
Like it's you know, and and all the and it's
funny because all the teams feel the need to, you know,
to keep up, Like the Flyers have been a non
story for a long time. They signed this Russian wonderkin
Uh matt Vey Mitchkoff, and he's gonna like.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
Change the franchise. He's a franchise player.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
And so the general manager and the president went to
JFK to pick him up from He's a nineteen year
old kid from uh uh.

Speaker 3 (01:12:11):
From Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:12:13):
And there were Philadelphia reporters at the airport in JFK.
So that's good and like, and people were talking about
it all day at the local coffee shop, Warrick Hall.
So that just goes you to show you where sports
is and the kind of and the and the minds
of this region.

Speaker 4 (01:12:33):
Now.

Speaker 6 (01:12:34):
So juxtaposed that story with one that I heard from
a friend of mine from a few months ago who
was hanging out with someone of they had just met,
and that person had no concept of sports talk radio
at all. Like they were like, wait, so people like
sit on the radio and talk about sports, that's a thing.

Speaker 5 (01:12:52):
We had no idea that sports.

Speaker 6 (01:12:54):
Talk radio existed, this did correct, had no clue the
industry even existed. Now granted it's but even in being
in La. The fact that you don't even know that
the medium exists.

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
That was why that's my I'm not asking you to
give me the Dodgers lineup, but you know you got
to know that there's such.

Speaker 5 (01:13:13):
A thing, right, That's what I said. I was like,
I mean that's.

Speaker 2 (01:13:16):
Kind of like, you know, I mean, how do you
not know that that exists?

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
Like do they know that exists?

Speaker 5 (01:13:24):
I mean it sort of didn't seem like it based
on what my friends told me.

Speaker 4 (01:13:29):
Is that was that a deal breaking for your friend? Yes?
It was okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (01:13:36):
That was like, I mean, do you love on Pluto?
Like what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:13:39):
So, Brie, you would you would?

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
Uh if you was a guy that you were interested
in and he didn't know that sports radio existed, that
would be the end of the first.

Speaker 12 (01:13:50):
Eight Kevin is actually talking about me.

Speaker 5 (01:13:52):
Well, I I wasn't gonna out you, but.

Speaker 4 (01:13:57):
You were. You were with somebody.

Speaker 12 (01:13:59):
I was on a first date and this guy had no.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
Wait time out, time out, time out. I need more
of this.

Speaker 5 (01:14:06):
Right because walk into the lines then like.

Speaker 2 (01:14:12):
The vine you said this, I was like, wait, thing,
so if you had a date and meanwhile, if this
really happened. I need details, all right, sit tight, because
I need the I need this stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:14:24):
This is great. Where the fellas hanging out Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 2 (01:14:32):
Fellas from the tirag dot com studios. Jason fitz Kevin figures.
I'm Anthony Gargana.

Speaker 3 (01:14:42):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
So when last we left, we were talking about people
that are not sports people. So our producer, our producer,
Brianna was on a date, a first date, and we
found out that her date did not know that sports radio,

(01:15:05):
the actual medium existed. Three Yeah, I got so many
questions set the scene force.

Speaker 13 (01:15:17):
We were at this like overpriced to sushi restaurant, I'll
just say that, and just kind of talking about like, okay,
you know, you know, you know your background and everything.
How many sisters do you have, any brothers? You have
where you grew up? Blah blah blah. And then I said,
you know, I work in a sports talk radio and
he was like, oh, that's like a thing, that's like

(01:15:39):
a real thing.

Speaker 4 (01:15:40):
That you do. And oh my, he was like, yeah,
so wait, did you guys meet did you guys meet
through a friend or meet on an app?

Speaker 13 (01:15:46):
It was like on an app And it was the
first time I was on the dating app, and the
last time I was on the dating app on it,
I'll be.

Speaker 4 (01:15:53):
A cat lady.

Speaker 13 (01:15:54):
It's okay, it's just apps are not my thing. So
I just so yeah, and that's what I probably yet
for just being like, Okay, it's on an app and
let's just meet up, you know.

Speaker 12 (01:16:03):
So I don't know.

Speaker 13 (01:16:04):
So he was like, oh, that's a real thing. I
kind of thought it was like a hobby like people,
you know, they just like do like the YouTube thing
and talk about sports. I'm like, no, no, no, there
are professionals, there are legends there.

Speaker 12 (01:16:15):
This is like a thing.

Speaker 13 (01:16:16):
And honestly, like my stomach dropped, and I really it's
not like I wanted to get out of there at
that moment, like that's just a little mean. But I
was like, oh, yeah, we're never going to meet up again.
And I even offer to go halfers on the bill
because I'm like, I'm not I'm never going to see
this guy again. Like if you don't even understand it
as a concept, then you don't understand me as like
a person, you know what I mean, Like that's right,

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it's a part.

Speaker 12 (01:16:38):
Of my DNA.

Speaker 13 (01:16:39):
It's like RNA is just you know, what I mean,
it's like am is part, you know what I mean.
So it's just it was never going to work, and
at that moment, it's good better late than never or
better you know, realize it at that moment then like
waste my time kind of thing. But yeah, that was
it rip that dude like he's gone.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
So so.

Speaker 5 (01:16:59):
You rock.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
First of all, all right, you are you're gonna fight somebody, great,
all right, but so when the dude, so the dudes
like doesn't even understand that he talked about what he
was into was he he was.

Speaker 13 (01:17:15):
Like it's funny, and he was like a music producer
or he wanted to produce music. That was like I
should say that he was an aspiring music producer, but
he worked at like I want to say, with some
kind of like business stock thinging a jigger, numbers and
things like that.

Speaker 12 (01:17:32):
I don't even remember. But it was just not interesting.

Speaker 13 (01:17:35):
But in the sense of like maybe he was just
in his own little bubble like business and music kind
of bubble, you know, the thing that doesn't even work.

Speaker 12 (01:17:44):
You know, I don't like that.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
Yeah, yeah, but that is such a difficult because like
it's to your credit, it's kind of pointless at that point,
not because like, look, if he's a you know, if
he's a rocket scientist and you don't know anything about
rocket scientist, that's fine, But like you have to have
some base level. I think of you when you do
this for a living, it's because it's a passion for

(01:18:08):
you outside of just doing this, Like you're passionate about sports.
So if somebody doesn't even know the medium exists, then
you do to your credit, you kind of got to
look in the mirror on that one and be like,
how are we ever going to have stuff to talk
about that relates to me? Because you not only can't
really talk about work, you can't even talk to him
about the things that you're passionate about that create your work.
So that's yeah, that's a disaster.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
Yeah, it was over what's your your bottom line?

Speaker 3 (01:18:36):
Sports?

Speaker 2 (01:18:37):
Kind of like for a prospective suitor, give me your
base Like what does he the least that he has
to know about sports?

Speaker 13 (01:18:47):
I mean, as long as you if you can watch
a game with me, or you can go with me
to a game, or understand you know, I'm good with that. Like,
I don't expect you to name the last you know,
ten super Bowl champions. You know, that doesn't really mean
anything to me, But if you can have an interest
in it or have a team one team at least
just be like, Okay, I'll go I'm a Dodger fan,

(01:19:10):
or I'll go to I'm a Lakers fan because I
grew up in LA, so i'll root for them.

Speaker 12 (01:19:14):
That's fine. You know that.

Speaker 13 (01:19:16):
That's as basic as I can go. But just in
a sense of like morals and values. Unfortunately, I can't
date like a Rams fan, like because of twenty nineteen,
and I'm a Saints fan, right, so that's that's just
the opposite thing. But it's hard for me to like,
I don't think I could date a Rams fan. It's ridiculous,
but that's just how I feel.

Speaker 4 (01:19:36):
No, Listen, I agree, I couldn't date it. I couldn't
date a Broncos Chiefs arch Chargers fan. No, thank you.

Speaker 13 (01:19:42):
Oh my gosh, I'm still so validated, guys, thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
No, that's real. Listen, how do you you know?

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
Listen, we talk about you know, the true mixed marriages
that people talk about are like Eagles and Cowboys fans, right,
or Eagles and Giants fans. Like these households that are
divided that you know, the it's it's not about the
melding of cultures is beautiful. But when we talk about fandoms,

(01:20:10):
fandoms especially within the division, they don't come together.

Speaker 12 (01:20:15):
Great.

Speaker 3 (01:20:15):
That's a problem.

Speaker 13 (01:20:16):
It's a major problem. It's a difference in morals and
values than Kevin's looking at you.

Speaker 6 (01:20:20):
Rather taking your fandom way too seriously, this is the
most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life.
That sometimes can be perfect in every single way except
for the fact, oh are you root for that team?

Speaker 5 (01:20:30):
Notp can't do it? Canta find somebody else. Sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:20:33):
Man, It's already easy enough to argue in a relationship,
but I don't need to argue for Sundays a year, you.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
Know, as a little spark, a little extra fire.

Speaker 3 (01:20:43):
Why not? Oh my god?

Speaker 2 (01:20:46):
Well you I do talk to couples that are like
rival teams, and they say that the wagers are very good.

Speaker 6 (01:20:54):
Oh of course, right, And it's hard to lose. I mean,
you lose a bet, but it's a thing your own.
How else it's not gonna be a lot of division.

Speaker 2 (01:21:01):
Going on, you know exactly. But I love this idea,
I bree you crack me up man, that's awesome. Where
the fella is hanging? Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (01:21:10):
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Speaker 2 (01:21:14):
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a date, a first date who she met on an

(01:21:58):
app and they're out and the dude says he doesn't know.

Speaker 3 (01:22:04):
She tells him what he does.

Speaker 2 (01:22:06):
She didn't know that sports talk radio was an industry.

Speaker 14 (01:22:15):
A bri I still can't believe. I mean, Fincy, I
know that you had you know in that.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
You you could explain this much better than I about
your that world that you come from, because well look,
I mean it's so singularly focused, right, like to make
it in that industry, you have to be consumed, right, your.

Speaker 3 (01:22:38):
Entire life has to be about music.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
I think some people just never got into sports. Like
and look, I used to laugh when I first got
on National radio in twenty eighteen. I would still run
into people that I toured with years ago, and they'd
be like, so, how's your how's your little podcast going?
And there's always little podcast and it's like, well, actually,
I'm on national radio five days a week and I'm
on TV now and like, but but nobody in that world,

(01:23:04):
not nobody, but many people in that world just don't
consume it. And yes, there are, like I said earlier,
there are huge examples. We see famous people all the
time that love like famous musicians that love famous country
musicians that love NFL college football. There's a ton of
famous you know, R and B hip hop artists that
just are always around the NBA. So that certainly exists.

(01:23:24):
But I think for a lot of the people that
are bandoned crew guys and just sort of grew up
in the music world, so you're just you're never really
exposed to it. You never really cared about football one
way or the other, you know, and frankly, I had
I had coffee yesterday or tea in my case, you know,
I ever ever cleaned with my body. You know, I
had tea yesterday with somebody that works in sports that
flat outside. At one point he's like, yeah, I hate football.

(01:23:45):
I never got into football and he works in sports,
and I'm like, wow, you know, so you don't you
just you just never know. But to not know that
sports talk exists, it's just a.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Little whoa, whoa whoa. If somebody who works.

Speaker 2 (01:24:01):
In the industry, yeah, yeah, does not like football, hate it, Like, like,
how do you that's.

Speaker 3 (01:24:09):
A love thing? Delighting others stands list these people. I get.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
I'm a basketball first, I'm a baseball first, I'm a
hockey first.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
But to not like football, like, is that a real species?

Speaker 4 (01:24:29):
It exists? There are there are there are people out
there that don't like football, cousin like, it's it's real,
you know. And there are people that work in our
business that you know, they love they love baseball. They don't,
they don't love they don't love football, and it exists.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
I don't.

Speaker 4 (01:24:43):
It's not for me, like you know, it's it's just
not for me. But it's out there. They're certainly plenty
of people like that. It's funny to me and I
for years because so many of my friends were based
out of the entertainment business in general. I would throw
Super Bowl parties and people come over the house, particularly
you know ten years ago in Nashville, people come over

(01:25:04):
the house and the number of people standing there that
would talk during the game but not during the commercials
and had no idea who the teams were, and don't
understand football at all, don't watch it at all. They
just wanted to be around the social event of a
Super Bowl party. I've had so many people like that
in my life. It's really normal to me. You know,
It's just it's it's foreign to what I love. But
I think it's it's more normalized than a lot of

(01:25:24):
people realize.

Speaker 3 (01:25:26):
Yeah, I guess, you know. I mean, you know better
than I would listen.

Speaker 2 (01:25:34):
You know some people that and I'm joking around half
the time, I'm doing his tongue in cheek. I mean,
I understand when you're in a highly competitive world, the
world of music, where you're consumed right, like it's almost
a calling, right if you're consumed by academia and it's

(01:25:55):
a calling for you, Like you know, some people are
singingly focused, right, like hobbies and their vocations are one
and the same. For those people that have a calling,
you would agree with that, right, you know. I mean
in many cases, like even us, as much as you

(01:26:16):
know it's a hobby and a vocation for us, you know,
we still have other interests. You are, music, I like
to write and storyteller and you know, so there's there's
other interests that are there. But there's people that are
just fully consumed by that. It's just funny how sports

(01:26:37):
has become so mainstream, you know, so like you look, listen,
listen to Brix b Brie's talking about it, like my
mate has to has to have base knowledge for me
to even have a second date with them. I mean,

(01:26:58):
I mean that's how that's how widespread sports is. Is
that you got Brianna, who says, Brie, how old are you?

Speaker 12 (01:27:06):
I'm thirty, So you're.

Speaker 2 (01:27:08):
Thirty years old and you go, you know what out
in the world dating world. I know that this means
so much to me that if you don't know what exists,
or you can't at least hang out and share a
watch a game with me, then you're out, like I
won't even think of you as a potential mate.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
You're off the list, Like that dude you told me
he was crossed.

Speaker 12 (01:27:32):
Off, immediately, crossed off, immediately.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
I think I love I love her, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:27:42):
First date, it's like, all right, how do you feel
about kids?

Speaker 3 (01:27:44):
All right?

Speaker 4 (01:27:44):
How do you feel about religion? All right? How do
you feel about family? Okay? Where are you on sports?
And then we're like, all right, I know, let's put
the bill I did. By the way, Bri, I have
to stress here the fact that you offered to go
Dutch on the date at the end. I really I
respect the hell out of that, Like, hey, this isn't
working out, let's split this like that. That's that look
typically cap to you, my friend.

Speaker 13 (01:28:04):
Yeah, because I knew that it wasn't going to happen,
and I'm not going to like walk there and be like, well,
let me just like get like a free meal. And
it was sushi, like very overpriced, you know, so I
already knew, like I'm not trying to waste your time.

Speaker 12 (01:28:16):
I don't want to waste my time. I don't want
to be you know, rude or you know, snobby, spoiled.
I'm an only child. I have my own spoiled tendencies,
but not in that case.

Speaker 6 (01:28:25):
You know, expensive sushi on a first date it's a
bad move too, But that might be a different discussion
for a different show.

Speaker 4 (01:28:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:28:33):
What.

Speaker 5 (01:28:34):
Yeah, sisfectation is way too high at that point in time.

Speaker 6 (01:28:38):
First of all, usually for a first date, you want
something very calm, very casual. You cocktails, yeah, cocktails, coffee
if you don't drink, something like that, something where there's
a lot of people.

Speaker 5 (01:28:49):
You know, you want to make sure the woman is comfortable.

Speaker 4 (01:28:51):
Expensive sushi, like you're you're you're laying it out from
the beginning. It's like, yeah, you know what, I can
afford nice things, let's go. You want, you want, you
want dinner. That's kind of you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:01):
It's wrong in that you're setting expectations. Whether you can
handle or not is irrelevant, right, you're setting the expectation,
and then the other fig you're doing, which I disagree
with too, is And this is where Figgie's talking about,
is the time element.

Speaker 3 (01:29:19):
Cocktail, like you know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Within a round of drinks, whether or not yours yourer's interest, Like, look,
look what I would Brie Bri in the middle of
the of this thing comes up. How deep into the conversation,
Uh did you get before the sports thing came up?

Speaker 13 (01:29:37):
Right within fifteen minutes exactly. And I had actually said coffee.
Coffee was my first initial. And then he was like, hey,
have you ever had sugarfish?

Speaker 12 (01:29:47):
And I was like, no, I haven't. He was like, oh,
let me take you there.

Speaker 13 (01:29:50):
And so I should have probably just crushed back a
little bit more, yeah, you know, and been like, actually,
let me just but.

Speaker 2 (01:29:55):
I really want to try to give me sugarfish sugarfish
flex right, I.

Speaker 4 (01:30:02):
Don't know, I think that's kind of a ball or move.

Speaker 14 (01:30:04):
Guys.

Speaker 4 (01:30:04):
I got to call me old fashion, but I'm like,
take her out, take her out somewhere nice, Like you're
just you're you're showing a little you're showing a little
something there. You're like, you know what, my bank account's fine.

Speaker 13 (01:30:14):
What if it was like a surfing turf and you're
having filet mignon and lobster And she says something like, yeah,
Jordan Davis just isn't my vibe or the band Perry
was the one of the worst bands ever, Like, wouldn't
your stomach.

Speaker 5 (01:30:24):
Think the hysterical?

Speaker 6 (01:30:26):
She'd be right, like you know what, I really couldn't
stand that Violinna's guy from the band Pairent.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
Fiddle Flare was terrible man, Like you got the worst
haircut ever. Like, yeah, I would do all of these things,
like I'd buy into all of it. No, but here's
the thing. Like, the way I look at it is
like if I'm going to go out, I like to
eat nice, right, Like, so if I'm going to pay
somebody for food, because I can cook. So if I
if I'm gonna pay somebody for food, then I want
an experience and I want to eat something I can't

(01:30:52):
make myself. So the way I look at it is,
even if the person I'm sitting across from this terrible company,
then at least let me get out there and have
a nice meal like I'd rather have. Well especially the point.

Speaker 2 (01:31:02):
Though, Yeah, but that's the point though You if you
do a cocktail around, you know it in fifteen minutes,
whether or not you could do it.

Speaker 3 (01:31:12):
You could do a sushi.

Speaker 5 (01:31:13):
Piece, yeah, and you can easily enjoy.

Speaker 2 (01:31:15):
Yeah, Like you can't edu your meal sitting across somebody
that you have no interest in talking to.

Speaker 6 (01:31:21):
Because then you're just end up wasting your time at
that point, and he's like, you have to kind of
sit there and suffer through it, and there's nothing wrong
with By the way, you get out to a casual start,
and if all goes well date two, date three, then
you can start stepping it up and say, all right,
you know what, let me show you what I'm working
with over.

Speaker 2 (01:31:36):
Here, you know, I mean, jeez, you could have in
your back pocket, right, like you could say, like things
go well like you know, so say the guy is
a is a Saints fan like Brie, and Brie goes, oh,
all right, and then the guy goes, hey, by the way,
you know what you want to you want to go
have some sushi after this, go get it because you're

(01:31:59):
doing happy.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
Yeah, right, you can double dip in one night.

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
Oh yeah, you can do the fast progression too, fits
depending things are going.

Speaker 2 (01:32:05):
Think about it, right if you got if you're rolling
with happy, like to be happy. I was perfect time
to meet somebody, right, you're happy hour. It's they caught
happy out for a reason. Cocktails or whatever you want
to show it. If you don't drink whatever you want
to do, you go get a cocktail. Life nice, you
talk nice conversation, all right, it's a perfect time. It

(01:32:27):
stimulates conversations after work where you do blah blah blah,
and then if things go well and you're having a
great conversation, then you play the sushi card.

Speaker 4 (01:32:39):
Okay, Okay, this just I just you know, I'm just saying,
like I just think maybe he was sawing the happy
he was a little smitten, and he was like, yeah,
you know what I want. I want more than just
coffee here, Like, let's let me let me take her out,
let me wind and diner. You know that you didn't
know about sports talking.

Speaker 12 (01:32:54):
Yeah, that was the end.

Speaker 13 (01:32:55):
And you know, the first there was one red flag
that we already had told keV was he had said,
you know, I don't really get butterflies, but when I
saw your profile, I got butterflies.

Speaker 12 (01:33:06):
And that's that.

Speaker 13 (01:33:07):
And that was immediate red flag I should have known, honestly,
Stage five Clinger.

Speaker 4 (01:33:13):
Yeah right, I'm not like in life in general, and
I don't care whether we're talking about relationships or friendships.
I no longer play games with anybody. I'm an open
book with everybody. Like I think honesty, in an uncomfortable
level of honesty, is the only way I choose to
live my life at this point, so like.

Speaker 5 (01:33:34):
Yeah, you don't have time for that anymore, to old
for that stuff now, don't have time for games.

Speaker 4 (01:33:38):
Yeah, there's like there is an element for me at
my my stage in life where it's like if you
can't know all of me, then you shouldn't be my friend.
And that's okay, Like that's like that. I'm fine with that.
It's just that's how I live. So I have no
problem like with the concept of somebody looking at a
profile and reaching out and being like, look, I I
your your profile is amazing, Like I love that of honesty,

(01:34:00):
but like I don't usually get butterflies, Like that's the
part of it that makes me want to throw up
in my mouth. Like if you just said I got
butterflies when I saw your your post, like I would
look at that and be like, okay, kind of weird
but not a total red flag. But if you started
with the I don't usually butterflies, like that's when not now,
I just want to punch you in the face, like
not you breathe.

Speaker 13 (01:34:22):
No, No, I would punch me in the face if
I could turn back time. But I was still I
was trying to be open minded because I was so
anti dating app, so I was like, why not, you know,
why not, Let's just see what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:34:33):
So question, Brie, do you prefer Do you prefer a
guy coming up and actually striking up.

Speaker 3 (01:34:41):
A conversation to you?

Speaker 12 (01:34:43):
Yes, with you, Yeah, I would, I would prefer that.
I'd prefer that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:47):
See your old school I like that very Oh yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:34:49):
I'm disgustingly old school honestly.

Speaker 2 (01:34:52):
Yeah, see that's good. But to Fitzi's point, So FITZI,
do you do the app?

Speaker 3 (01:34:59):
Are you or now?

Speaker 4 (01:35:00):
It's it's no, But it's harder and harder to meet people,
like I think that's one thing that like, because I
hear Breed on the like, look, in my mind, the
best way to meet anybody is to go out somewhere,
grab a drink, and like walk up to somebody at
a bar or coffee shop and be like, how you know, Like,
I think that's great. That feels less and less societally

(01:35:21):
normal at this point, and like where do you even
go to find that? So I think, you know, look, Cousin,
we get like old. I think when you're a little older,
you come from a world where eventually you have a
friend that's like, oh, you should really meet my friend.
So yes, but even that feels like that's more you know,
that's harder and harder to find. So I like, I
don't know that there is any one secret answer. I

(01:35:42):
just know that ninety percent of the people that I
even talk to that are looking don't know where to look.
Like that's society now, like I don't. I don't think
any of us have like a a spot that you
can be like, oh, this is the trick to all
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
Yeah, I forget now, you're you're right. I always thought
it's it. It's interesting because it always felt like it
always came was better through a friend or a family
member or somebody that you know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:10):
That kind of paired you up the.

Speaker 5 (01:36:12):
Old you two will be great together situation.

Speaker 3 (01:36:14):
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:15):
I in my past experience, those never worked out well
for whatever reason, so they weren't meaning.

Speaker 5 (01:36:21):
But it's just like, oh, you really thought there was
something there?

Speaker 3 (01:36:24):
Huh. Yeah, maybe I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 6 (01:36:28):
I look, and there's certainly are success stories, you know
with that you know, that line of thinking, ye just
didn't necessarily work for me.

Speaker 3 (01:36:35):
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:36:37):
I mean, I feel, you know, it's it's it's interesting
because uh, like FITZI that you're out there and you go,
you know, you're you're obviously open right to meeting someone
and so you know, I'm sure you're dating, doing your thing.
But it's it's funny how we do it today and

(01:37:00):
how it was like back in the day. And you're right,
is it acceptable to you walk up to to a
stranger and try to trick up a conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:37:08):
They look at you like why are you talking to me? Right?

Speaker 4 (01:37:11):
It's it's a weird world, you know. And you know,
there's so many of the concepts, like again, like the
concept of going out with your buddies and like having
a wingman. Basically it's like, hey, we'll go out and
we'll meet some people and we'll see what happens. I
don't even know where that exists anymore. So like it
is just a very you know, it's it's it's funny
because finding people, uh, in life seems like it's more

(01:37:35):
accessible than ever. But I would argue that it's actually
the opposite. Like now you're inundated with so much and
none of it. It's like there's no one way that works.
And no, it's just it's very it's all very confusing,
I think for almost everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:37:47):
Yeah, now I feel it. It's it's uh, it's tough.
All right, let's take a quick tear. We'll come right back.
I love that story, though, break real quick. Do you
have you guys ever heard of a movie Diner? An
old movie?

Speaker 15 (01:38:02):
I have not.

Speaker 2 (01:38:04):
So there was an old movie called Diner and was
the fact Now it was Different Rourke, Mickey Rourke's in it.
It's about these people in like this crew in Baltimore.
It's like a you know, like neighborhood diner and the
people that hung out in this diner. And there was

(01:38:28):
a guy that was a Colts fan, like a crazy
Colts fan, and before he was going to get married,
he gave the test his wife to be the Colts.

Speaker 3 (01:38:41):
Test and she had to pass the test.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
And it was like literally a question like twenty five
fifty questions or it was about the Colts and it
was awesome, Like it was a funny kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (01:38:55):
You can look it up. It's a real old movie.
I mean I was a kid.

Speaker 5 (01:38:58):
It was what color where Johnny United is his highly.

Speaker 3 (01:39:00):
Stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:39:03):
It was funny. But like for Rea, you gotta pa,
did you give her a test? Like throughout the movie,
like you're gonna give her a test? Did you give
her a test? Is she going to pass the test?

Speaker 8 (01:39:12):
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tire buying should be. All Right, Fitzy, we've been all
over the place. Let's talk a little college football for
a second. And uh, give me wait if I said
to you, the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:43):
Four teams.

Speaker 2 (01:40:46):
That you have our locks playoff locks, like we know
what right now, the teams are gonna be good, Like
Oregon's gonna be really good, Old miss you can't sleep
on it. I'm going beyond just the obvious of everybody else,
like of all the Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama
and Michigan uh and then uh uh and I Penn

(01:41:09):
State too, I think should be good. I'm going to
do an event a little bit later today for Penn
State down at the seashore.

Speaker 3 (01:41:18):
Give me your teams, give me your four locks.

Speaker 4 (01:41:21):
Georgia's a lock, Ohio State to lock. I I want
to say Oregans a lock. I really do. But now
we're talking about Yeah, I think I think I can
take the Oregans a lock. I'll give you a couple others, though.
I think Florida State's a lock because the ACC is
going to be trashed, so they'll win the ACC. I
feel really good about that. Same with Utah, like they're

(01:41:43):
gonna win the Big Twelve, which means they're going to
make the playoffs. So I think those are those are
teams that are locked for me, oh Miss if they
don't make the playoffs would be an abject disaster, I
mean totally.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
I mean, are it's loaded?

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
Yeah, Like, I'm with you on that. So those sort
of stand out to me as locks. But I do
think it's funny because some of them haven't just a
wild amount of pressure, Like the pressure mounts at this
point on Ohio State more and more because we all
know that they've used all of their resources to make
sure that they can buy the best roster possible, which
is fair and allowed in modern college football. I'm not

(01:42:17):
faulting that at all. It just means that, you know,
I think there is just a a sort of cloud
of pressure on them. How they handle that is going
to matter, you know. So a school like Michigan that
I don't think is going to necessarily be great, doesn't
have any expectations any pressure. A school like Ohio State
has all of that so you know, and then I
have curiosities on some of theirs, Like I'd love to

(01:42:37):
call Texas a lock, but I don't love the battle
between quinn Ewers and Arch and that just feels like
that could that could either work out really well where
iron sharpens iron, or that could work out just being
like the biggest distraction in history. So there are there
are things that scare me about most of those schools.

Speaker 6 (01:42:55):
Fig as far as non Obviously, for me, one that
I really like is Arizona going into the going into
the Big twelve. They finished strong in the PAC twelve
last year, and obviously I'm partial to the old PAC twelve,
but I think nor fla Fide is a star at
quarterback and is really gonna take They're gonna take off.

Speaker 5 (01:43:15):
I am confident that Texas has a good year.

Speaker 6 (01:43:17):
And again we're talking about an expanded playoff here, so
you're talking about twelve instead of four.

Speaker 5 (01:43:21):
You have a little bit more wigg room.

Speaker 6 (01:43:23):
And it sounds as if to me that yours is
going to pretty much end up taking I believe it's
going to end up taking that job. So I'm not
as concerned when it comes to that. Ole miss is
the obvious one. Despite the fact they lost their starting
tailback in conference, is still going to take off and
have a great year, and people to a certain degree
because of the loss of Daniels all sleep.

Speaker 5 (01:43:41):
On the LSU. But I think LSU is going to
have a big year this year. So I think they're
a lock for me too.

Speaker 4 (01:43:46):
Yeah, I agree with you on quinn yours. I think
he wins the job. I just think I don't think
there's any question on that. I just think a couple
of performances and all of a sudden, the questions they
paid a lot of money for arts to be there
are going to be yelling why Arch isn't in the game?
Go ahead because it's sorry to touch off.

Speaker 2 (01:44:03):
No, no, And you know what's funny, listen to what
you just said. You know, people spent a lot of
money to get arts there, right are going to be
very upset.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
So it's like I almost I wanted to give credit
to Art for like, hey, you know what, you didn't
transfer your sticking it out, et cetera.

Speaker 5 (01:44:21):
How much money is he making to stay there?

Speaker 6 (01:44:23):
That's one thing one part of the discussion nobody even
thought that, you know, thought to mention is like is
this ni L so big that he's like, you know what,
if I transfer to somewhere else, it might not even
match up to the amount of money that I'm getting
just to be a backup for this upcoming season to
stay at Texas.

Speaker 5 (01:44:38):
Think about that.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:44:41):
I was.

Speaker 2 (01:44:44):
I had a friend of mine who is the GM
of Nebraska, Sean Patten. He stopped by the studio this
past week and we really deep dove into the world
because you know, it varies from school to school. I
still don't even know how they're doing this, man, because

(01:45:07):
it varies from school to school, right, Like it's basically.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
How much can you raise? Like what's your collective?

Speaker 2 (01:45:16):
And you got some alumni, Like I was having a
conversation with Penn State people and they were like, yeah,
like we have to get our old alumni refuses. They
still think that offering scholarships to students is enough, and
like they're upset. And meanwhile the other Penn State people

(01:45:39):
are like, yo, man, we need you because we got
to get this collective right to be able to you know,
to be able to pay the players. It's it really
is crazy that there's no uniform rules, set of rules.

Speaker 6 (01:45:56):
Well, I mean, is it considering how the NCAA is operated.
I mean they got dragged, kicking and screaming into the
world that we're in now. To begin with, there could
be rules and maybe should have been rules. Have they
actually not drag their feet and taken some incentive and
done this five, six, seven years ago. So the NCAA,
which is hanging on by a thread as is and
loses lawsuits, you know, on a weekly basis at this

(01:46:18):
point in time, has nobody to blame but themselves for
opening this up to be the wild, wild West. And
by the way, I don't know if you can you
know it's speaking about nil and unlimited you know, piles
of money. I don't know if you can bet on
futures when it comes to playoff appearances in national championships,
But if I can, I'm throwing everything at SMU right
now to be in the national championship picture over the
next three years because they print money out there. You

(01:46:41):
think Texas has money, SMU money's different even compared to them.

Speaker 4 (01:46:45):
That's the thing I keep saying is like now more
than ever, if you want your favorite college sports team,
I don't care if we're talking about basketball or football,
you want your favorite college team to win, they can
control much of their own destiny if they have good talent,
talent evaluators, and people want to pay the money. Like
imagine if anything you wanted in your life, just in

(01:47:06):
regular life, if all it took was money and you
had it, how that changes your perspective on trying to
accomplish greatness. It's like, Oh, I want to be the
best musician ever. Okay, all you got to do is
write me a check for three million dollars and you
can do it. Okay, now I know exactly what to do, right,
Like I want to be the best WWE star in history. Great,
just write as a check and it will happen. That's
where college sports are right now. Like if you want

(01:47:28):
to have the best football team, you want to have
the best basketball team, you want to have the best
baseball team, just go raise the money, like you control
your own your legacy in ways that past the iteration
has never had. I think it's a beautiful thing for
college sports.

Speaker 3 (01:47:43):
Completely.

Speaker 2 (01:47:44):
I just wonder is it possible, like or when are
they going to have some sort of uniform rules, Like
like I was told with to again the friend of
mine who's the GM at Nebraska, and you know, I
mean they're he understands the lawyers and the compliance and
everything else, but you know, getting like when he does

(01:48:07):
a deal with a player, you know, the collective has
to be in on it. Like you know, when you're
negotiating with players, the collect there's a representative from the
collective right that is all in on the negotiations that
basically gives you the thumbs up or thumbs down.

Speaker 6 (01:48:26):
That's the funny thing because technically, legally, that's not supposed
to be the case. You're supposed to recruit the kid
and then once the kid has committed to your school,
then the collective is supposed to meet with them. But again,
this goes back to how college sports has operated for years. Anyway,
we know that's not how it always goes. So back
when all of this was illegal, this stuff was happening.
Now that it's a little bit legal, they still find

(01:48:47):
ways to get around it. So whether or not there's
going to be the way corrected, and look, we'll have
to see how this thing flushes itself out over the
next few years, because it's a little bit different when
you're talking about having a bunch of top recruiting classes,
but whether you buy them or whether you just out
recruited everybody. I'll go back to Jimbo Fisher in Texas
A and M who had what two out of three
years or three out of four years at the top

(01:49:08):
recruiting class and couldn't win more than six games. Like,
you can get all the talent in the world, but
if you can't coach them up, what does it ultimately
end up meaning? And if you have a bunch of
people that are buying a bunch of prospects but ultimately
don't win, I guess the argument is, what's the incentive
to have to change anything?

Speaker 4 (01:49:23):
Yeah, well there's also difficulty in like, look, this is
me putting on my reading glasses and being a nerd
for a second. The concept of normalizing all of this
is going to take I think probably some sort of
an act from Congress, which is difficult right now to
even figure out how they prioritize that, And it's going
to be challenged in court because the fact is, how

(01:49:45):
do you standardize something when we haven't figured out any
way to collectively bargain and unionize everybody involved in this.
So like, as much as we say we need a
standard for all of college football. What's going to prevent
every kid that doesn't like that standard from suing and
saying this is collusion. You can't do this. Also free
market like there there there is no way to just

(01:50:05):
come in legally and make a binding deal without suddenly
turning into a massive union versus Schools Players Association for
College Football like that. Yeah, this is this becomes a
nightmare legally. So like I think, unfortunately for all the
people like we need a standard system, if the NCAA

(01:50:26):
had gotten ahead of that, they would have a shot
at it. Now, the average college athlete got smart enough
to realize they control much more of their own destiny.
They'll just fight it in court and guess what, just
like they have every stink in time, they'll win in court.
So the nc double A really is powerless and a
joke in this process, and I think Congress is going
to have to step in. But we'll see if even
that gets challenged.

Speaker 5 (01:50:46):
Now the ensemble was smart in which they aren't.

Speaker 6 (01:50:49):
But if they were, they just allow the kids to
unionize and find a way to keep it under their
umbrella and regulate it a lot more and regulate, regulate
the distributions of money without having to be you know
you like it was in this court case. That's allowing
all these schools take to take twenty twenty two plus
million dollars and have to divvy it up to all
of their student athletes, you know that. But the idea

(01:51:09):
that they want to continue to cling to amateurism and
what has turned into a multi billion dollar sport and
the kids not getting much of a cutout of it.

Speaker 5 (01:51:17):
They have no one to blame but themselves.

Speaker 3 (01:51:20):
That's completely upsurd.

Speaker 2 (01:51:22):
When he's yelfing too, because talking to some people, there's
going to be a lot of these programs that just
can't afford to have football. They just can't afford to
do it.

Speaker 6 (01:51:38):
Either that or they're going to have to cut the
rest of their athletic program and like and get rid
of you know, seven eight other programs.

Speaker 4 (01:51:45):
I know, well, I mean in the Title nine world,
I don't know if they can.

Speaker 6 (01:51:48):
Yeah, well it would be to the detriment honestly if
a lot of their men's programs more than anything else.

Speaker 2 (01:51:54):
Well, it's funny because that's the next lawsuit to get filed,
because when they talk about Title nine, the football player
is going to say, well, we generate X, Y and Z,
why don am I getting the same as that when
we generate more revenue.

Speaker 3 (01:52:10):
It's not fair. So they fully expect that to.

Speaker 6 (01:52:14):
Happen, for that to go to court, right because as
of right now, the schools you know, get this twenty
twenty two plus million dollars and have to divvy it
up to all their student athletes and find a certain
way to do it. And they're not going to give
eighty percent of it to the football players, right for
the reason you just mentioned, y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:52:31):
I'm not smart enough to know the legality of this.
I don't pretend to be, but in my very simple mind,
there's a part of me that wonders if the future
is essentially all football players are treated like employees and
the cost of tuition is added to their salaries, so
they're not actually scholarships anymore. They have to pay for it,
but it just gets added into the salary that they're making,
which then means you no longer have to balance your

(01:52:53):
your scholarships the same way in Title nine. Like, again,
I don't know the legality of all of that, but
it feels like there's got there's got to be some
system some way to that.

Speaker 6 (01:53:02):
Yeah, or football acts independently outside of the athletic department,
is its own living, breathing entity, independent of every other sport.

Speaker 5 (01:53:11):
Yeah, how you do that?

Speaker 6 (01:53:12):
I'm not sure. I'm not smart enough and don't make
enough money to make those decision.

Speaker 3 (01:53:16):
But what do you do with basketball?

Speaker 2 (01:53:17):
Because now basketball, right is another interesting beast because you
know that's the second driver. And then there you have
both genders, right, so women, the women's game is so
exploding and has a big standing and then the men's

(01:53:38):
game so.

Speaker 6 (01:53:39):
But then and also from a from a revenue standpoint,
the NC double A is the one that controls the
revenues when it comes to the postseason. Unlike football, which
is just this conglomeration you know, made for TV, ESPN
along with the conferences, is completely different. How is the
NC double A going to factor in along with the conferences?
If you're talking about compensating athletes for tournament appearances and

(01:53:59):
all that, how does that gonna work?

Speaker 3 (01:54:01):
Yeah, you know, it's it's interesting.

Speaker 4 (01:54:05):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:54:06):
The whole college landscape and college football is I mean,
the one thing they got right was the playoff.

Speaker 3 (01:54:13):
Like, the playoffs aren't going to be awesome?

Speaker 5 (01:54:15):
It took way too long, but yes it did.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, we've been talking
about everybody's been talking about.

Speaker 5 (01:54:21):
Since the BCS. We were talking about the playoff of
at least six, eight, twelve teams whatever.

Speaker 3 (01:54:25):
It was exactly, but at least that piece is going
to be a blast.

Speaker 6 (01:54:31):
And now we're already talking about fourteen. We haven't played
twelve yet and we're already talking about fourteen.

Speaker 2 (01:54:35):
Well, I mean when they ask you guys about the
eighteen game season, which again looks like it's going to
happen quick.

Speaker 3 (01:54:42):
So we'll discuss that coming up next. Is that's what
we do?

Speaker 2 (01:54:46):
We expand fellas hanging Fox Sports Radio Fellas from the
tire Rack dot Com studios. So quick follow up off
of our college football discussion. So another friend of mine
we were talking about this, and he believes that the

(01:55:09):
high school world, high school football will have a similar
kind of nil piece to happen, so that they're going
to start paying high school kids to build these powerhouse
high school programs, Like I can't imagine, like how that,

(01:55:36):
and then it'll be a feeder system to schools and
colleges and I can't even like I can't. Even as
a father who's got a freshman football player, I'm like,
what you know.

Speaker 3 (01:55:53):
I mean, it's it sounds like complete lunacy.

Speaker 4 (01:55:58):
I mean, Florida is a state has already legalized name
image likeness for high school players. I think it's an
inevitability in Texas. Anywhere that there's big high school football,
it's going to happen. I think this is already one
step down the road. And look for anyone that thinks
that this is totally for And I remember when I
first moved to Nashville, I was driving around and so
this is ninety six ninety seven, right, So I'm driving

(01:56:21):
around in the late nineties, and I was listening to
the local sports talk guy, George Plaster at the time,
and I remember I just moved to the area, and
he was talking about a cheating scandal, for they found
out that high schools were paying middle school kids to
commit to play high school football at their respective schools.
So like in certain parts of the South, this thing's

(01:56:44):
been dirty for a long time. I think the name
image likeness thing is inevitable at some point in major
high school football markets. The question then, is are we
going to be in a world, Like, we're going to
be in a world where suddenly like mom and dad
are moving the kid to because the kid can make
you know, half a million dollars play in high school football.
They're probably right, So like how family is going to uproot?

(01:57:07):
Like if you were sitting there and you thought that,
you know, your kids could turn around and make six
figures playing high school football, but you'd have to move
them down to Florida or Texas, you got to tell
me as a parent that you wouldn't at least think
about it.

Speaker 6 (01:57:19):
Well, the crazy thing is stuff like that's already been
happening to a degree and with much much, much less
dollar signs. It was always about notoriety or being able
to get seen or playing on IMG academy. It was
basically built on that. Yes, so it's just going to
be taking full tilt to it to a completely different level.
Now you talk about kids who are moving to different states. California,

(01:57:39):
it's also legal for nil, so all of the state
powerhouses where a lot of the major talent comes from.

Speaker 5 (01:57:45):
This is gonna be more of the norm. And look,
it happened a lot anyway.

Speaker 6 (01:57:48):
You'd always have kids who were fudging addresses and where
they actually lived and all of that to be to
be eligible. But you know it's gonna be a completely
different ball game where you're gonna have kids moving out
of state because they're gonna chase those you know, six
figure even.

Speaker 3 (01:58:02):
And I that's that's the difference, right right. The difference
is it. Hey man, here's ten grand.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
You know, we're gonna give it to you in a
brown paper bag and you're going to come and play
in our high school. Right like that, we're talking about
significant dollars up your entire family.

Speaker 4 (01:58:20):
Yeah, when I was in Jacksonville for the Rivals camp
with five star players, there are quarterbacks there that people
told me already have over a million dollars in the bank.
Like that's just that's happening now. So like that, that's true.
That's happening from colleges that are paying like some some
families charge for visits all. I mean, there's all sorts
of stuff happening right now. That is just I mean,

(01:58:41):
the wild West is only going to continue.

Speaker 2 (01:58:43):
Exactly the families charge for it. So they charge you
as they charged the school.

Speaker 4 (01:58:50):
Yep, you want, you wanted to come take a visit.
What's in it for him that that that's a real
thing that multiple people and for me is happening, especially
for some of the big the big prospects, Like you
want me to take the weekend and come there, Well
I will, but what are you giving us? That's real?

Speaker 2 (01:59:08):
Wow, you know what, it's amazing. But I guess if
you look at it from that vantage point, you know
you're asking me to it's time. My time's my money, yeah, right,
times money. So you want me to go there, it's
not enough that you're going to just fly me there.
You're going to pay me for my time for the

(01:59:29):
weekend to go out there.

Speaker 6 (01:59:31):
Yeah, because if you don't and dine, I got this school,
this school, and this school willing to do X, Y
and Z.

Speaker 5 (01:59:36):
Are you willing to do a B and C?

Speaker 3 (01:59:38):
Yeah, you know it only takes.

Speaker 4 (01:59:40):
One school willing to do it. And then all of
a sudden that's the new standard. It's like, well, if
insert school, I don't even want to use a real
school because I don't want anyone to think that I
diside knowledge. So if Jason Fitz University turns around and says, well,
I'll pay you ten thousand dollars to come to this,
to come visit the school. Well, now all of a sudden,
you're turning around and saying, well, fits you is in
ten k Like what are you guys doing? You know,

(02:00:02):
and that that's that's literally all it takes.

Speaker 3 (02:00:06):
Yeah, is that worth an investment?

Speaker 15 (02:00:10):
Right?

Speaker 4 (02:00:10):
Like it I think it's all asinine, Like, yeah, there's
no return on investment for any of this, like exactly,
that's a part of this that I still have a
lot of curiosity about. Okay, your collective raised whatever, fifteen
million dollars to bring in Arch. Okay, what if Arch
never plays a single game for Texas? Was that worth it?
And you're good just losing fifteen million bucks for nothing?
Like there has to be an ROI at some point

(02:00:32):
that return on investment that matters to somebody somewhere.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Well, the weird thing about it is, and it's so
crazy right that these alumni, the alumni that are footing
the bill, it's like, well, you know, often get the
quarterback to come to my charity event, right, Like.

Speaker 3 (02:00:51):
It's basically for their own amusement.

Speaker 6 (02:00:55):
Yeah, Like how big and important I am, Luku I
got to come here. This is all about me, is
even less about the school, more about themselves than any
of these senses.

Speaker 3 (02:01:03):
For sure, exactly, that's this whole crazy society we live in.
We're oh my god.

Speaker 2 (02:01:10):
Anyway, big hour, come out the next Fellas Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3 (02:02:16):
We get off the air. All right, we were talking.
We started to show.

Speaker 4 (02:02:20):
Talking about I can I kind of can I confess
something to you? Can I can have a quick confessional
at the beginning of the hour of Lea. So you know,
I'm on this fitness journey. Okay, I'm taking assault the
rail stare, but you got everybody's got to know why
I'm out of bread. I'm on this fitness journey, right,
So I'm eating very structured things at very structured times,
and I want to get my lift in right after
we're done today. So I took that last commercial break

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and I ran downstairs. I literally sprint down the stairs
and I microwave my breakfast because I like egg whites.
Are whites say all tastes like trash anyway, So I
just microwave them. Only takes a few minutes with my
turkey bacon, Like it's not the most glorious way to
eat a breakfast, but it works, right, So I'm microwaving it,
but it takes four minutes, right, So I'm like, I
am down to the wire, like get cat. I get

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it all done. And then I'm like hustling with the
plate straight out of the microwave that is particularly hot.
And just as I'm hustling, Annabel comes running right in
front of me. My dog, my life, my entire like
just comes sprinting across from me because she smells bacon
and she now wants it. So I do this weird
twisty move as I'm like trying to not run over
my dog a little jump I do like I'm not
particularly flexible. It turns into what might have been like

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the closest have ever come to the splits. And then
I had to sprint up the stairs. As I put
the headphones on, you were saying, like Ti Irac doct like.
So look, this was an adventure of the last four minutes.
I got egg whites in front of me. Now that
I have anger, I'm not sure I didn't just pull
something in my groin. I don't know what's going on.
I just I had to confess that to the world
as I sat down out of breath and put the
headset back on. There we go. That's my last.

Speaker 3 (02:03:47):
So I do that too with my coffee, right like,
so I have to make to make my coffee.

Speaker 2 (02:03:51):
It's so much. Yeah, I can't imagine. That's God bless.
I applawed you. I employed your journey through certain things.
He said, I don't know how you deal with it,
but the coffee piece of it. So when I make
my coffee, it's an ordeal. So you know, I it
sounds stupid, but like I do this espresso thing. It's

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terrible or whatever.

Speaker 3 (02:04:14):
I like it right, So but it.

Speaker 2 (02:04:16):
Takes me usually about four to five minutes. So the
way I like, I'm always timing it like the same way.
So there would be times like mighty Mark will go
or or Bree. We'll ask if I'm around right and
then and if I don't respond, they know that I'm
I'm making doing my coffee because that happens like twice

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a show.

Speaker 4 (02:04:40):
I used to when I was doing morning radio every
day at ESPN for a long time, I brought a
frother and so I could froth my milk in the morning.
Gets coffee. Yeah, like like you give me a little
like So I had like a little coffee station at
my desk at ESPN where I can make the coffee.
Then I can put my sugar free vanilla in it.
Then I could cold for I could make my own

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frothy cold foam pour it on top. Oh, just talking
about that makes just it makes my nose.

Speaker 3 (02:05:07):
So you only go with you only go with the
cold press. Call you just like ice coffee, ice coffee.

Speaker 4 (02:05:14):
I'm an iced coffee year round, even in Connecticut. When
I'm shoveling snow, I drink ice coffee when I come inside.

Speaker 3 (02:05:19):
Yeah that's nuts. Like you ever do what the hot coffee.

Speaker 4 (02:05:22):
I don't like hot things, like I don't even like
hot soup, like I like hot liquids end up like
making my I get butt cracks, sweat like it's just
too I get too hot like my whole botty.

Speaker 3 (02:05:31):
Wait, you just said you drink you drink tea.

Speaker 4 (02:05:34):
Yeah, I drink hot or iced tea. It's iced tea
all day.

Speaker 3 (02:05:37):
Oh iced tea. Oh you don't even drink. Why you're
anti hot liquid?

Speaker 4 (02:05:43):
I'm anti hot liquid. It raises my body temperature. I
get sweaty. It fits like putting in a picnic.

Speaker 3 (02:05:47):
I don't need that, you know, Wow, that's wild. I'm
a famous hot leg whites.

Speaker 4 (02:05:53):
This splits my groin and butt cracksweat into This segment
might be the best segment ever in Fox Sports radio history.

Speaker 3 (02:05:59):
Yeah, you've you did you did well? Did well?

Speaker 4 (02:06:04):
Anthony's like, I don't know, man, Like, I'm sure he's
a fellow. We're gonna have to put him on fellow.

Speaker 2 (02:06:09):
I'm not the biggest fan of the butt crack sweat.
That's probably not my.

Speaker 4 (02:06:15):
You know, but everybody knows what I'm talking about. Everybody
knows what I'm talking about.

Speaker 3 (02:06:19):
I get it. I believe me. I listen. I feel you.

Speaker 4 (02:06:22):
I mean certain things difference between and lower back sweat.
Let me say that, like lower back sweat is like
that's when you know the things aren't really.

Speaker 3 (02:06:33):
You know, I feel you. There's different types of sweats.
I got you. I'm waiting Phil a lot of you guys.

Speaker 6 (02:06:39):
Discussion reminds me of the Buccaneers had a center, Ryan
Jensen was his name, and apparently his butt sweat so
often like the quarterbacks would have to have like an
additional twel and had to wipe their hands in between
going under center because the ball would slip out of
their hands because of his butt sweat so bad.

Speaker 3 (02:06:55):
Yes he had, he had, Yes he was. He had
a problem.

Speaker 4 (02:07:02):
Unbelievable big sweater in general, Like, I'm not, I don't
perspire a lot. I'm not particularly you know, s fitzy,
but I am. When I drink. If I drink anything
warm immediately, I just I like, I just I get
damp as a person. I just feel like my skin
getting like hot.

Speaker 3 (02:07:22):
Probably should you probably should not have put it in
the word we're damp. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (02:07:28):
Do you just gid moist?

Speaker 3 (02:07:29):
I thought that was all right.

Speaker 5 (02:07:31):
Now we're just going down. And do you do you
generally just run hot? Like fits? Is that the thing?
So like any any anything else that.

Speaker 6 (02:07:39):
You add additional that makes like just raises your temperature
by a thousand.

Speaker 4 (02:07:43):
No, I don't. I don't generally like I like to
I like to be cold, like I keep my house
at sixty eight, okay, and that's like, that's that's nice
for me. I'm currently sitting in the house in sweats,
like because I like like the way I look at it.
I never like being hot, Like I can take clothes off,
uh if I'm if if I'm hot, but only to
a certain extent. I can layer up if I'm cold,

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so make me cold, and I could just keep putting
on layer after layer after layer and I'm fine. So like,
I just I like being on the cooler side.

Speaker 5 (02:08:12):
So definitely not a fan of the summer, is what
it sounds like to me.

Speaker 4 (02:08:14):
So, oh, got no summer? The four seasons? Yeah, when
summer's the worst of the four.

Speaker 3 (02:08:19):
Wow, it's Yeah, the fall is number one.

Speaker 4 (02:08:22):
There's no question about that. Winter is number two. I
actually like winter doesn't bother the number. Wow, yeah, winter's.

Speaker 3 (02:08:30):
Number two, dude, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (02:08:33):
I think snow is pretty I like snow.

Speaker 3 (02:08:35):
It's pretty, okay. I mean, listen after you know, one
or twce or twice, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:08:39):
I feel you. I like the seasons, but there's nothing
fun about it. You know, cold it's horrible, Like thirty
seven degrees is a I'm not to worry about bitter cold,
but like just the temperatures in the thirties or twenties
like that for me, Like.

Speaker 4 (02:08:57):
That's that's I rarely slow down in life, So I
think it's a it's a nice time to Like if
I'm home and it's that cold, then you know, you
get a little fire going and you open up the
curtains because it's like it's still clears, you know outside,
you like you're just like, nah, no summer, man, there's
way too much. I hate humidity. I hate sweat. I

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don't like I'm not a lake guy. I never have
really been a lake guy.

Speaker 3 (02:09:23):
Like I'm not. I don't like lake, but I like
an ocean.

Speaker 5 (02:09:26):
The ocean, come on, yeah, I mean the ocean's fine.

Speaker 3 (02:09:31):
The ocean's fine.

Speaker 4 (02:09:32):
Like every time somebody's like, oh, let's take an ocean vacation.
I don't know why my friends say it that way.

Speaker 6 (02:09:37):
But why do you saying, Patrick Mahomes or the current
at the Frog Patrick Mahomes from Rader practice this.

Speaker 3 (02:09:42):
Week, let's take an ocean vacation?

Speaker 4 (02:09:45):
Like yeah, like, yeah, let's go to the beach. Yeah,
but then, okay, what are we doing? Like, what what's
our activity? Because I give me two days on the
beach and I'm bored out of my mind. I gotta
have something.

Speaker 3 (02:09:55):
Ah, you shaved?

Speaker 5 (02:09:58):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (02:10:00):
Yeah, I can say it. You can't.

Speaker 2 (02:10:02):
So you can't sittle the beach. I can sital the
beach chef with a book right fourteen hours.

Speaker 4 (02:10:09):
I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (02:10:09):
Fits can't sit still, That's what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:10:11):
You're one of those.

Speaker 5 (02:10:12):
Yeah, constantly on the move.

Speaker 4 (02:10:14):
Yesterday I had a complete day off and I booked
myself like with friends. But I went to get coffee
with a friend at ten, coffee with a friend at noon.
I met a friend to watch the opening ceremonies at
one o'clock and that went until I met friends for dinner.
And then after I met friends for dinner, I went
and met friends for a drink. Like I, I cannot
sit still. It just is not part of how I'm wired.
So like I don't need to be amused all the time,

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but like I just can't. I could do one day,
Like if I go to an all inclusive in Mexico.
I've done that several times. And I go to the
all inclusive and like you sit down and you know,
the day one, I'm like, yeah, this is pretty nice.
And day two I'm like, okay, so I get it.
The pools here, the beach is there, the drinks and
the food are there. What else are we doing? Like,
I just can't. I just can't. I can't do that
day in and day out. I get too restless. Daw See.

Speaker 6 (02:10:57):
I go there to make sure it, to make sure
and ensure that I don't do anything else. That's part
of the beauty of it.

Speaker 3 (02:11:03):
Do you like to read?

Speaker 4 (02:11:06):
I mean not really. I don't have the attention span
to read. When I was a kid, I was like absolute,
Like so you know, in kid, when you're in elementary school,
for example, and you have like a number of pages
you're supposed to read every year. I would always hit
my number of pages in the first month of school.
I was a huge reader as a kid. As I've
gotten older, I just I struggle to focus just sitting

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there trying to read. I just bought a book about
breathing exercises and meditation, which is ironic because I can't,
you know, I can't calm down long enough to read
the book. But I'm going to go through that, so
we'll see how that goes. Oh my god, all this
in drug free, well, I mean all this, and I
mean other than cannabis, all this in drug free, right,
So you know the number of times, like people in

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general have been like, well, you know, you talk so fast.
I'm like, that's who I am as a person. I
just run it. I run it one hundred miles an hour.

Speaker 3 (02:11:56):
No, you do interesting?

Speaker 6 (02:11:59):
And how many nights have we done this? Or early
mornings however you want to categorize it? And fits is like, oh,
I didn't have any caffeine today. Now I was like, wait,
could have fooled me.

Speaker 3 (02:12:07):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 5 (02:12:07):
It's unreal.

Speaker 3 (02:12:08):
I know, I know, I now get.

Speaker 4 (02:12:10):
I get. I'm up to where I can have two
or three iced teas to day. I try to get
the decaffeinated ones whenever that's an option. But I haven't
regularly consumed any actual amount of caffeine since May fifteenth,
so and it has not changed anything in my life.
Like there's been no alcohol, no, no caffeine, no, no
sugar free anything. And like it is, I'm my mental

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is clearer, I feel better, like all of those things.

Speaker 2 (02:12:35):
I will point I would like to pick your brain about.
It sounds interesting, it's.

Speaker 4 (02:12:40):
It's the usual for me. It's compulsive. I know nothing
in moderation, but.

Speaker 6 (02:12:43):
Yeah, yeah, I am fearful if and when you do
get a hit of caffeine in the future, you're going
to literally burst through the wall like a.

Speaker 5 (02:12:49):
Kool Aid man or something.

Speaker 3 (02:12:50):
You know.

Speaker 4 (02:12:52):
Oh god, you are so like I am cool, absolutely
like like kind of what I want to do is
wait till I'm like meeting somebody for the first time
and then just slam like one of those huge energy
drinks that fun of ounces and then just walk and
be like what's up, guys, Like I just I feel
like I want that in my life.

Speaker 5 (02:13:09):
Literally hit backflips inside.

Speaker 3 (02:13:10):
You know, all right, all right, this is sorry. I
took us wildly off, you know, I got Nickle on.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
The text board saying, listen, Christmas is only good for
I mean that Winter's only good for Christmas in New
Year's and fits.

Speaker 3 (02:13:30):
He's out of his mind.

Speaker 4 (02:13:32):
Okay, let me just say this about winter though. I
love Christmas by the way, as you know, I love
Halloween and Christmas. Right, So, but we'll give Christmas to winter.
We'll give New Year's to winter. And then what do
I get right after that? I get one of the
best seasons with the playoffs and then the NFL, which
I love. I get to cover the super Bowl, which
I absolutely love. And then we go straight from the
super Bowl into March Madness, which is a fun time

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to cover all of that. Last year I got to
cover the Natty, right, like all of those things on
the college basketball side, like that era of January through
April is a great and fun time in sports. So
for what I do, I find it to be a
lot of fun. On top of that, you know, like
it's it's nice that I have the distractions.

Speaker 3 (02:14:12):
It's you get excited.

Speaker 2 (02:14:13):
I get depressed into the football season. Ye yeah, it's
like Football's Oh February sucks.

Speaker 3 (02:14:20):
Football. Football is over.

Speaker 2 (02:14:23):
Quite frankly, the Super Bowl is not for football people,
you now, is It's not fun?

Speaker 3 (02:14:31):
I mean, unless your team's in it. It's not the game.

Speaker 2 (02:14:35):
First of all, it's not even about the sport the
game itself. While you know we all love it, it's
not the greatest. The championship games are better that you
know usually and.

Speaker 4 (02:14:46):
Even for you.

Speaker 6 (02:14:47):
I mean, I go back to like Week sixteen of
this past season and you're like, oh, football is almost over.
Like we haven't even gotten to the playoffs yet they're
already lamenting the end of the season.

Speaker 3 (02:14:57):
I know that I do that to figure over times
fits you.

Speaker 4 (02:15:02):
I do it to all.

Speaker 3 (02:15:03):
I do it every year.

Speaker 2 (02:15:04):
I go, oh, I can't believe it's November college football.
It's only got two weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:15:08):
Laugh. Right, This is what I'm gonna do this year.
I've decided this in my life is after the Super Bowl,
I'm gonna take a little vacation. I'm gonna hang out,
like take a week, and then I'm gonna come back
rested and recharged and ready for March madness, which is
then gonna lead me straight to the NFL Draft. And
then when we finish the NFL Draft, then we're into
summer and what do you have in the summer. Nothing,
That's why summer sucks, Like if you there's just nothing

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sports wise going on. As somebody that doesn't have kids,
So many of my friends spend their summer chauffeurring their
kids from one area of the world to the next.
Like the more adults that I see that are unhappy
in summer because they're just waiting for school to start again.
But even for those of us that don't have kids,
like it's tough, like the socialization part of it is
just yeah, it's fine, but I don't need it.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
So yeah, well I think we agree falls the greatest.

Speaker 2 (02:15:56):
I mean, listen, when we get off the air today,
I got my little one has baseball practice, and then
we have equipment handout for football. It's gonna get size
for jerseys for his jersey and for his equipment, and
then it's it's all Monday. He has, you know, practice

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every day between football and baseball. It's every day. And
the big one's already been in camp since the June.
So I mean, like you want to talk about chauff
it every day that he's got a baseball tournament and
down the shore by the by the seashore for like
five days, so we'll do that. But other than that,

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it's chauffeur him back to football during the week and
then tournaments in the weekend.

Speaker 5 (02:16:47):
So more than enough going on in the life of
Anthony Gargano this summer, that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:16:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 16 (02:16:51):
Well, yeah, it's not it's it's it's not me, it's
as it's me as dad well of course, yeah, right,
like so it's that it's just dad being an uber
driver basically.

Speaker 3 (02:17:03):
Yeah, you know, but that's what you you I got,
that's your that's a window into your life. Figgie.

Speaker 2 (02:17:09):
Yeah, no, you're right as you get the little man
you know every day, you know, let's say, and you listen,
I love it, so I'll not complaining. Yeah, I'm looking
forward to it, to be honest, it's great. I'm just
giving you in the window into fits. He's talking about
his all his friends with kids, and that's He's right,
that's what we do. And to use sports thing is

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like you take your vacations through.

Speaker 6 (02:17:32):
Sports, right if they're on a travel team or something,
and basically turns into a de facto vacation for the
rest of the family.

Speaker 3 (02:17:38):
Yeah, because you can't have you don't have enough vacation
days right to do it.

Speaker 4 (02:17:45):
So it always a.

Speaker 3 (02:17:47):
Fitz. He's like, here's the reason why I'm single. Mad.

Speaker 4 (02:17:50):
Yeah, I'm looking around at this and I'm thinking, like,
you know, the glory of my like and I say
this so thankful, but like you know, is somebody that
doesn't have kids? Right? And then you look around and
you know, for Yahoo, where I do the majority of
my work during the summers, they don't ask much of me.
So I this is really, I think the first summer
in my entire life that I haven't just been like

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in the music business, you make all your money in
the summer. When I was at ESPN, I spent all
summer filling in on other TV shows, like trying to
grow my career. It's the first time in my life
I've ever been like yeah, like I don't know, I
worked maybe five hours a week during the summer. Like
I've got the luckiest summer life, wow, in history. And
I still like, genuinely live so thankful for it. But
I also look around and I'm like, that's fine, Like

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if I had if I had the fall off, it'd
be much difference. I just fall as fall as top
shelf summer as well, it's just you know, hey, give
me your well vodka and it's gonna hurt, but we'll
get through it.

Speaker 3 (02:18:45):
All right.

Speaker 4 (02:18:47):
I like it.

Speaker 3 (02:18:48):
We're back to the top shelf, and now exactly.

Speaker 4 (02:18:50):
Back, says the sober guy. The sober guy's here giving
you alcohol analogies.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
Good guy, Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 2 (02:18:56):
I like it all right. We got to take a
quick too, We'll come back. The Brain will join us.
We'll take a look at sports through the eyes of betting.
Coming up next, fellas right here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 7 (02:19:10):
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Speaker 2 (02:19:24):
Ah, welcome back, fellas hanging out on a lovely Saturday
morning here in the summer. Recover your live from the
ti rack dot com studios. Now, let's take a look
at sports from a betting angle. Our man, the Brain,

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joins us. Brad Fineberg, Good morning.

Speaker 15 (02:19:51):
Brain, Good morning, How are you today?

Speaker 3 (02:19:54):
All right, we're good, We're good. We're just we're having
to fall.

Speaker 2 (02:19:59):
We're talking a lot of football and uh enjoying uh
Fitzi's view on the world it's all.

Speaker 4 (02:20:07):
Very very weird views on the world happening today. I'm
not gonna lie. I I mean, I just said summer
is the worst of the four seasons. So brain, that's
where we are right now. You go, oh yeah, no,
I go, I Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.

Speaker 15 (02:20:20):
I think it would be in the if I get
had to do, it was a pie distribution of every
summer of every season of twenty five percent. I think
summer would get five percent of the vote. Like I
think that you're to call it the worst. I'm saying,
I think that would be I don't think that would
I don't know. I don't think most people would agree
with you on that.

Speaker 4 (02:20:40):
Fair But you know, when you got the hot takes,
sometimes you just got to stay with them, even if
the people I.

Speaker 15 (02:20:44):
Respect it, I respect it. I don't like being I
don't I don't like being too hot, so I get it.
And plus there's no football, so that would be a
reason enough to figure right, see see Anthony.

Speaker 4 (02:20:55):
One at a time. I'm converting people. I'd also rather
shovel my drive.

Speaker 15 (02:21:01):
It's gonna be a that's gonna be like you're being
in like a like a church or like e saying
like that, and they have like the except the glass
teens and you like they have like all these you
have to count, would count every single team, how many
click pieces of glass that would be in there. That's
that's that's how it's gonna be to convert, uh people

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to think summer is the worst month. It's gonna be
a slow process.

Speaker 4 (02:21:24):
We'll get my followers one.

Speaker 3 (02:21:26):
At a time.

Speaker 2 (02:21:27):
Yeah, yeah, he'll figure he'll make it happen. One thing
I know about fits we put his mind to it.
He's a guy who accomplishes things, that's for sure. Uh,
I got some fun little odds. I'm curious. I'm gonna
throw your way if this is the first head coach

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fired in college football.

Speaker 3 (02:21:51):
Oh yes, Billy Florida is the favorite.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
Same Pittman from Arkansas, next Mario Christobal from the Hurricanes.

Speaker 15 (02:22:06):
Well, their over unders too high.

Speaker 3 (02:22:08):
That's the problem with him.

Speaker 15 (02:22:09):
They're supposed to be good. But if they're they're over
unders nine wins, So I don't I would probably to
take over schedule. Florida has the most difficult schedule in
college football this year. I believe. I think they have
been number one rank schedule in terms of difficulty but
how long has Napier been there?

Speaker 4 (02:22:27):
Well, and look, you mentioned he's been there long enough.
I'll look it up real quick because I don't want
to misspeak on it. But he's been there long enough
to have expectations. And I think the reality of the SEC,
and look, this is something that's new. Is like when
you've expanded the way he's been there since twenty twenty two,
When you expand the way the SEC has expanded, Florida
fans are going to have to figure out if they

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have the right people to help them win at the
highest level in the SEC. And I'm not sure that
Napier's shown anything to show that he can do that.
That Florida is supposed to being constantly in contention for
the East and they're just not.

Speaker 15 (02:22:59):
Now, you know, it's interesting, I guess, Well, Florida, it's
funny like I guess when they had Spurrier, they obviously
were really really good and obviously with Urban but that's
been an interesting like to me, like University and that
when they had those two individual coaches, they were like dominant,
dominant programs. And obviously it's a great state for football

(02:23:20):
that you can't really get any better. But My question
you guys is when those guys haven't been there, have
they had any success?

Speaker 13 (02:23:28):
No?

Speaker 4 (02:23:29):
Man, not really, I got obviously.

Speaker 15 (02:23:31):
I mean I'm wondering. I'm just saying, like it's which
you you know, you would I would have thought Florida
would be like an you know, an automatic just you
couldn't be bad if you tried kind of program. But again,
I'm going back with like forty years and and I
would I'm thinking Spurrier had a good whatever it was, ten,
Urban had a good seven or whatever it was. Uh,

(02:23:53):
And I feel like the other call it twenty or
so have been very like filled with seven and five
kind of years. So I don't know, I don't know.
I mean, I'm just saying I don't know why that
would be, because you would think that Florida, with being
a great university, being great recruiting, would be a program
that would be, you know, theoretically top ten every year.

(02:24:14):
It just hasn't been the case. And I don't I love,
you know, infrastructurally, maybe there's things that make it more
difficult there that you know, maybe what you're going about
to see, they just they're not giving themselves the best chance.

Speaker 3 (02:24:24):
I'm not sure, have you done much with college football
win titles?

Speaker 15 (02:24:30):
I have not. I bet I bet some stuff not
like not an obscene not an obscene amount. And and
the other thing is like again, in terms of and
I did last year, I did a ton of like
the season win stuff, I did a ton. But the
thing is, and again look at and I probably have

(02:24:53):
like eight things better or something like that. But the
thing of it is is you know, when you're front
of your money for the entire year, it's also it's
not as simple as I like this team's over, I
like this team's under. You know what I'm saying, Like,
it's you're you're fronting your money for theoretical.

Speaker 2 (02:25:12):
Right, so you're looking like I need to have a
return that would be greater as if I invested it in.

Speaker 15 (02:25:19):
It's something like that market correct correct and you know, look,
it's it's it is it. It's not an easy decision
because see, you see stuff that you like, and you know,
I'll say you, I'll give you a long shot that
that I think has legs. Guys, I think the team's
returning sixteen starters and they were I think they're around.

(02:25:43):
I got them at twenty to one to win the ACC.
It's SMU. Look at their schedule, give a chance to
bring it up. Schedule was the easiest to the ACC. Okay,
they returned I think sixty starters. They return the six
most starters and college football. Still it's a good quarterback.

(02:26:05):
They to me when I look at that, and the
only different most of them they had was Florida State
obviously is the favorite teams you see, but at that
only I made them in that game probably three to
two UNDERD. I think they have a real chance that
they win the game to go to the Steam title
game because that schedule they had was just easy and
it was a twenty to one bet.

Speaker 2 (02:26:26):
And there's no I like him at In fact, they
brought them up earlier a MU because seven and a half.

Speaker 15 (02:26:33):
It's eight and a half because that's the team.

Speaker 3 (02:26:36):
I I know there's frictional conferences.

Speaker 4 (02:26:39):
But that's the team.

Speaker 15 (02:26:41):
I mean when these things come out, guys do wanted
that schedules is importantating how good the team is, and
looked at their schedule, it was I thought, couldn't have
asked for an easier schedule. They avoid Miami, they have
played North Carolina, They avoided almost every good team in

(02:27:03):
the ACC except except for FID. But it's at home.
And that's how you are looking to win a bet
like that. You know you need that game to be home.
You just have to a one game season. You gotta
win it. But I think they have a really good chance.
And that was like my favorite. And then we're looking
for like you know, bestibat and like in this hit,

(02:27:24):
that was probably my favorable.

Speaker 3 (02:27:27):
All right, I got how much.

Speaker 2 (02:27:28):
I got something for you guys. I got something for
you guys, all right, you and Fizie and Figgie. All right,
I have the leader in sacks. There are four guys
in the NFL who are having over under a thirteen
and a half sacks. Go around the horn, Sue gets

(02:27:51):
it before they miss brain.

Speaker 3 (02:27:53):
I'll start with you, TJ.

Speaker 4 (02:27:57):
TJ.

Speaker 3 (02:27:58):
Watt is one.

Speaker 2 (02:27:59):
Correct, Fitzi, Miles Garrett, Miles Garard is two, fig Max Crosby,
Max Greeny.

Speaker 3 (02:28:09):
Guys are rolling three for three. Last one Brain back.

Speaker 15 (02:28:14):
To you, Uh, Michael Parsons correct.

Speaker 3 (02:28:19):
You guys swept the board, very good, very good.

Speaker 4 (02:28:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (02:28:26):
Three guys have our at twelve and a half. We'll
play that one and then we'll call the quitch. But
let me see if you can get that, uh brain who?

Speaker 15 (02:28:37):
Yeah, Well, I'm between I'm between two guys, and I'm
just appraied to say I'm wanting to be wrong because
it's the guys. I think I'm gonna say it.

Speaker 2 (02:28:50):
Nick Bosa corract twelve and a half brain, you are
the brain, uh FITZI.

Speaker 4 (02:28:59):
Oh that is that's tough.

Speaker 17 (02:29:03):
Trey Hendrickson, Yes, yea very good for the complete sweep
fig Oh come.

Speaker 15 (02:29:15):
On, wait what do you say? What's what's next?

Speaker 3 (02:29:18):
One?

Speaker 4 (02:29:19):
One more?

Speaker 3 (02:29:20):
Twelve and a half, twelve and a half, eleven and
a half.

Speaker 5 (02:29:25):
So there's one left at twelve and a half.

Speaker 3 (02:29:27):
Yeah, I'll give you a hint a f C.

Speaker 15 (02:29:30):
Josh Allen correct.

Speaker 3 (02:29:33):
Wow, you guys rolled through that. Very good man, very good,
pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 (02:29:41):
I like that.

Speaker 15 (02:29:42):
It's hard. Look, it's hard to get, you know, hard
to get double digit sacks. Those are like the elite, elite,
elite guys trying to think it's funny. Was there any
guys who are But I'll look, I can look it
up and a half eleven and a half. I'm trying to.

Speaker 3 (02:29:57):
Think, uh, there's one guy to eleven and a half. Chris,
you know, and you know and at ten and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:30:13):
You got Chris Jones, Daniel Honor, Hassan Reddick who's not
in camp.

Speaker 15 (02:30:19):
Yeah, I would. I would be on him now, that's
the one. I would definitely be on his under way.

Speaker 3 (02:30:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (02:30:28):
Well, really, I really like the the under for for
Reddick for multiple reasons why he's had an incredibly productive run.
Incredibly productive. Fancy listen. I mean you obviously know the
Eagles at an elite, elite, elite level. I felt his
play last year went down towards the end. I felt
like he got tired and maybe I don't know, I

(02:30:48):
I felt like he wasn't evehere near the same guy
he was coming lost the chiefs of the Super Bowl,
coming to a new team, holding out. I don't, I
don't know. I just and that's a big number on
top of it. That's just it's not easy to get,
you know, eleven Sacks. I like that under for everyone listening.

Speaker 2 (02:31:08):
Yeah, I agree, I you know, listen, and I agree
with you. I thought he had a down year too. Yeah, yeah,
that's for sure.

Speaker 4 (02:31:18):
I think we have to factor in the fact that,
like I know, as a pass rusher, but like if
he ends up missing a bunch of time to get
ready in this defense, I do think that there are
fair conversations about what that will do to his production
this year too.

Speaker 15 (02:31:31):
Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, I think
it's incredibly fair. Yeah yeah, I think I think it's
I really think it's too high of a I think
it's too high.

Speaker 2 (02:31:41):
Of a number.

Speaker 15 (02:31:41):
I really do.

Speaker 2 (02:31:43):
What would you well? Let me because I know you
got some stuff. I guess, I guess here's with your
baseball stuff. You do, okay, hitt through your baseball stuff,
and then I want to try to sneak at a
quarterback question.

Speaker 15 (02:31:57):
You gotta put her. I've got a lot of stuff today,
So everyone take out your pencil on that's year to go. Listen.
I went big against Carlos Carrasca today. Guys, listen. I
have a lot of respects for the Phillies lineup. I
don't have any respect for Carlos Carrasco. Guy has a
five point three era. I bet over two and a
half runs, had a la about a dollar fifty. Wasn't cheat,

(02:32:17):
but I did it. I bet over five and a
half hits as well. I look, I tripled it. I
took him under four and a half strikeouts. This guy
goes five innings, two runs, five strikeouts. I'm gonna be
Tom Hanks that we'll be crying. In baseball, I took
Andy Abbot Cincinnati Reds under two and a half runs.
It was close to even money. Kim Bay's offense stinks.

(02:32:40):
Abbot fifteen to five to the under this year, twenty
eight and thirteen in his career, like the matchup, took
a manga of the Cubs under two and a half
runs fourteen and four this year. Royals don't have a
great lineup, and I also bet under four and a
half runs the five inning line. Amanja and Lugo have
been honestly right up, there's the best pitcher in the

(02:33:00):
league in each to respective league. I don't get why
that was four and a half runs. Really like under
four and a f runs in the five ending line
in that one, Eric, Betty, Now look I got I
got pinched yesterday. I took Drew Thorpe to have a
good game against Seattle to happen first hitting man. Yeah,
he put me out of my misery quickly. But you
know what, Setti's been really consistent. Betty's fourteen and six

(02:33:23):
to under two and a half runs Seattle's and he's
near ray in the two. Seattle's lineup is new worst
in my opinion. What's not even opinion is the worst
in Major League baseball. I'll take my chance at Betty
gives up less than three runs. Michael King, one of
my favorite pitchers in baseball. Over five ma Hals strikeouts
plus a dollar twenty against Baltimore. Yeah, Baltimore's good, but
he's thirteen and seven of that over six and one

(02:33:44):
is last seven. I would have made it six and
a half. I think five and a half's too low.
Getting juice, I like it. Cutter Crawford Boston Red Sox
over fifteen and a half outs on the overnight line.
Somehow I got plus one twenty five on this. It's
now minus one forty, but I still I get he's
sixty three if left eighteen of the over I think
he gets at least five and a third innings pitched.

(02:34:05):
Crawford with four and a half strikeouts fifteen and six
this year, he's averaging five and a half. Yankees, you know,
not an elite team in terms of not striking out.
I thought that line should have been five and a half.
Michael Lorenzen under a five and a half hits, forty
one and twenty his last three years, thirteen and four
this year going against the below average Toronto lineup, and
I'll give you two hitting props. Ben Rice Yankees not

(02:34:28):
to score a run. He's only scored a run in
nine of his twenty six starts for getting plus one
oh five. And again, I think Crawford's a decent pitcher.
And Lawrence Butler, Anthony, I know you know this guy.
Oakland A's scored a run in his last eight games
thirteen and five, the last eighteen games scoring a run,
you can get plus one forty five. The Oakland's are

(02:34:48):
mashing right now, and Lawrence Butler is hot. I have
got much more of a fifty to fifty bet than
getting plus one forty five.

Speaker 2 (02:34:55):
Wow, that's good stuff, man, excellent. I love your Carrasco
going agains, Carrasco fading them.

Speaker 4 (02:35:01):
And I'm with you.

Speaker 15 (02:35:03):
And by the way, I like I don't keep it out.
I like under five and I like under sixteen and
a half. OUs for Carrasco. I just think this.

Speaker 3 (02:35:12):
Yeah, it's a bad matchup.

Speaker 15 (02:35:14):
Yeah, seven hits, six runs, let's call it.

Speaker 2 (02:35:17):
Yeah, now you figure out the game script and the
picture is the window to it. So I'm with you, Brain,
always a pleasure of great stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:35:26):
My brother.

Speaker 15 (02:35:27):
Appreciate those you guys. I'll see you next week.

Speaker 3 (02:35:29):
Thank you. Brother is the brain checking in. We'll come back.
We'll wrap it up.

Speaker 2 (02:35:34):
We got to at least put the quarterbacks in tears, boys,
because we started the show with the quarterbacks, and let's
see where is.

Speaker 3 (02:35:43):
Jordan Love and where's Tua?

Speaker 2 (02:35:45):
Just to make it a neat bow with a fellas
hanging out right here five Sports Radio. All right, welcome
back fellas. Hope everybody has a wonderful weekend. Enjoy yourselves,
fellas every week every Saturday, five to nine.

Speaker 3 (02:36:10):
We love it and hanging out.

Speaker 2 (02:36:13):
Jason fitz Kevin figures on Anthony Gargana once again thanks
to Mighty Mark and Brianna. Brianna will find a wonderful
sports mate. We learned that today. She's got to have
a sports guy, so we'll work on that, all right.
We started the show by debating the contracts, the tour

(02:36:34):
contract and the Jordan Love contract.

Speaker 3 (02:36:39):
So boys, let's just do the exercise. Because we talked
about it, we never really did it. The tears. Let's
just go buy tears, all right, kind of rent where
they come in.

Speaker 2 (02:36:52):
So the obvious tears Mahomes is in a tear by himself.
You guys tell me agreed, disagree? We just can keep
going all right with everything?

Speaker 4 (02:37:02):
All right?

Speaker 2 (02:37:04):
Yes, tier two, because you gotta put him in a
tier by himself, Tier two, Lamar Brow, Josh.

Speaker 5 (02:37:13):
Allen agree those three.

Speaker 3 (02:37:16):
Yes, yeah, I'll give you that, Okay, Then the next tier.

Speaker 2 (02:37:22):
I got Herbert, I got Stafford Rogers because he's healthy.
I put Stroud in there. I like him a lot, and.

Speaker 3 (02:37:38):
That I would go with that crowd.

Speaker 4 (02:37:40):
You're not putting Golf in that tier at this point.

Speaker 2 (02:37:42):
I got him in the next tier with Prescott. But
you're right, GoF probably belongs in that.

Speaker 4 (02:37:49):
I think if we're putting Stafford in that tier. Golf
and Stafford are sort of both a one be to me,
so that'd be my life. I would agree with that,
and I wouldn't have had a hard time if you
not Aaron Rodgers down a tier because it's been so
long since we saw him. But I also understand that
if he's if he's the version of himself, he belongs
in that tier.

Speaker 2 (02:38:06):
So oh exactly, And like he's so hard because you
can't quantify what you're going to see, the injury and
everything else, but shrapolate and say, if he's selfieve self,
he belongs in that tier at this stage of his career.

Speaker 5 (02:38:21):
I would agree with that notion.

Speaker 6 (02:38:23):
I was just saying, I would agree with you guys
in adding out Jared Goffin to that tier as well.

Speaker 4 (02:38:26):
Yes, if we did not have the playoff failures, would
Dak have made that that tier to you? Yes, okay,
I I I understand that argument. I won't contest it.
I personally would have put Dak in that same tier
that we're just talking about because of the you know,
I'll take seventeen games over one. But I also understand
why the big game is a big part of why

(02:38:47):
he gets tiered down.

Speaker 2 (02:38:48):
So yeah, well, and and you know, even the big
games during the regular season, right, like you know, he
doesn't you know, those road games where it's like are
here they go and he just feels to fall short
and that stuff. So but I agree, like, you know, again,
he's the next tier. He I originally had him on
in that tier and I crossed him out, but I

(02:39:09):
got him in the next tier. And in the next tier,
I have him. I have Jordan Love, I have Lawrence
Jalen Hurts. Actually I don't have Lawrence. I've been down.
I have Party in that list, in that grouping.

Speaker 6 (02:39:31):
See, when you get into that group, for me, that's
when you start getting into the you know, good enough
with enough around him. And that's where I started throwing
Tua in there. And that that's where I throw the
kind of the rest of the solid to good quarterbacks
in that tier.

Speaker 5 (02:39:44):
Yeah, I don't think t.

Speaker 2 (02:39:45):
Was a.

Speaker 3 (02:39:47):
I put Trevor, Lawrence and two in the in the
other tier.

Speaker 5 (02:39:52):
And see, I will put both of those guys in
the tier.

Speaker 2 (02:39:55):
I feel you I like you know, listen, the whole
premise was I like Love, right, So I was careful
not to Oh, I couldn't have c. J. Stroud and
Love in the same tier, even though I think they
belong in the same tier because Stroud was so dynamic
last year.

Speaker 3 (02:40:15):
So I thought you guys would be like, you know,
that's kind of pushing it.

Speaker 4 (02:40:19):
Yeah, I could see. I can see both sides. I'm
with Figgie. I would probably bunch more like when we
are talking about this tier now, which is what like
the third tier in this. To me, there's not a
huge there's not a huge difference between Brock and Tua
and and and Love and all of them. At this point.
They all have good and bad to them. They all
have sort of detractors and pros. So like I don't,

(02:40:42):
I don't necessarily passionately disagree, but I would. I would
probably put more quarterbacks into that tier.

Speaker 3 (02:40:48):
Would you put Mayfield in that tier?

Speaker 4 (02:40:51):
No again this year? Then yes. If he does it
again this year with the different coordinator and everything, then yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:40:57):
But right now those are guys I had. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:41:02):
For me, Mayfield is kind of just passable, decently passable starters,
kind of the category I put him in. About Murray,
it's been so long he has to work his way
back up.

Speaker 3 (02:41:13):
Yeah, because he's a guy that you look at and
you go, m yeah, he should be.

Speaker 6 (02:41:19):
And he's done it. He's at the abilities, but he's
just right now. I can't put him in there.

Speaker 2 (02:41:23):
Well, we're getting kicked out, So everybody, thanks for hanging.
We love you guys, see you next week. Fellas are out.

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