Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz talk Olympics, NFL Top 100, and more!

Brian Noe and Geoff Schwartz talk 2024 Olympics, the ridiculous nature of the NFL’s Top 100 list, one player with a betting line that’s unbelievable, a French pole vaulter runs into some trouble in his event, Michigan’s Connor Stallions scandal gets renewed, why Geoff needs to see more US dominance in the Olympics, and more!

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Speaker 2 (00:23):
To be with you here, Jeff Schwartz, how's the weather
over there in Charlotte?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
You gonna blow away? What's going on right now?

Speaker 4 (00:30):
So I'm not in Charlotte. I am at our week
our yearly trip to Fripp Island, South Carolina. It's a
beautiful place. We love being here. The problem is Hurricane
Debbie in the Gulf coast right It's in the Golf
Coast right now outside of Tampa. It's moving up through
about Tallahassee. That it makes a hard right turn to

(00:52):
the Carolinas. Okay, not a big deal normally, except the
weather's the weathermen, the people charge of these such things.
Natural Hurricane Center has said it's going to stall over Georgia,
South Carolina and in the eastern coast of South Carolina
for three to four days. Oh jeez, and potentially dump

(01:14):
between twenty and thirty inches of rain in the place
I'm sitting right now. So we have to figure out, Brian,
what are we gonna do because we're at a we're
at it. We're here to go to the beach, not
to sit in a house that we're renting. Yeah, we
could do that in the house that we already pay
for in Charlotte. So it is it's supposed to rain

(01:37):
seven inches in Charlotte too. It's not like it's not
going to rain in Charlotte. But so we're gonna wake
up tomorrow and figure the whole thing out. Wow, if
everyone has these suggestions, I have a feeling, Brian, only
back home Tuesday, So like one day tomorrow with rain
probably like cool, Like we can find enough stuff to

(01:57):
do with the kids in between rain bands, throwing in
the pool, you know, like it's not enough, some things
to do. But day two feels like a little bit
tougher to handle.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man, I've never even heard that a resting storm like normally,
like I give it, however amount of time it's gonna
blow on through. You know, it's gonna do its thing
and we're back to normal. No it's just gonna sit
there and rest for a little while and just rain.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
To every weather person has said, it's gonna sit over
the eastern coast of South Carolina and just churn in
the water. Obviously get a little more strength. Not a
hurricane though by the time it gets to us. So
that's good. At least we don't have to worry about
the wind. Shouldn't be that bad. But it's just the rain.
And we are not in low Country exactly, which is

(02:45):
part of South Carolina where it is below sea level.
Low country. We're close, we're at sea level. Obviously, we're
on an island. Huh. But I was I was driving
today to the grocery store, and I was kind of
looking at the like next to the road, like how much
rank can this road take before we get washed out? Here?
Do I have to when do I have to leave?

Speaker 3 (03:07):
That is not good.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
While you're doing that type of math that that is
not a good sign right there.

Speaker 4 (03:12):
Yeah, other math now about trying to win baseball wagers.
So well, we all have math in our head.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
I'm hoping the Twins hold on because I know you're
you're a season long white Sox fade. It looked like
an easy cash. Twins were up eight.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
To one, I want to say, at the most, and
they're a whole none.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
We got them on the run line. They have to
win by two. They're up by three right now.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
I have them on the run on the alternate run
line today because okay, one and a half was minus
one forty.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
That just didn't do it for you. Huh.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
Well, I up my wager amount after the All Star
Break on this so for those who don't know, I
wager against the White Sox run line every day. So
I need the team to play the white They're playing
the White Sox to win by two runs or more.
They've lost nineteen straight games, the White Sox have and
they've covered the run line twice in nineteen games. Oh wow,
so I've but I doubled my I doubled my unit

(04:03):
at the All Star break, so they've lost. I think
they've covered only one run line since then. So I'm
feeling pretty good.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
You're doing great.

Speaker 4 (04:11):
Yeah, it's funny. My other done baseball wagers that never hit.
So we're making our way. Uh it's it's It's allowed
me to make some some lovely future wagers. I've taken
the money from the White Sox put it on football,
so you ready for football season. Some Olympics as well.
I did not bet on the cressage. What I see

(04:32):
is on television right now, unfortunately, but I put some
I put some wagers in the old uh, the old,
the old Olympics. I like it.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
I tell you what, that would have been a thrilling
win if you took Noah Lyles to win the one
hundred dash. Because I was watching that live and I'm
not sure who the play by play guy was, whoever
the commentator was, he thought the sprinter from Jamaica one yeah, yeah,
and he was like, oh, looks like he won or

(05:01):
however he said that, I'm like, I don't know, man,
that was really really close. And then it went to
Noahlliles photo finish man that that was a crazy race,
but outstanding Noah Liles now the fastest man in the world.
What an awesome tagline for that, you know, baddest man
on the planet if you're the heavyweight champion in boxing

(05:22):
is pretty cool, you know, like Mike Tyson was known
as that for a while. But fastest man in the
world that's pretty solid as well.

Speaker 3 (05:29):
And that's Noah Lyles. Right here, do we know.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
What body part has to cross the finish?

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Torso? Gotta go Torso here, Corso?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
It was Torso, okay, Torso, Torso for the wind. Yeah,
it was a fun race. Yeah. I was thinking about
just in general, the Olympics every four years. I know
it's three years because the COVID year, but every four
years it goes to l A and twenty twenty eight
and Brian, we're in jobs that are you know, what's

(05:57):
our word? Very right like there, if you make a
mistake one day, you can just make it up for
the next day. Right. Oh jeez, Sorry, I'm being in
a life threatening this is a legit on my phone.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
You're not making any of this up. With the resting
storm in South Carolina? Yeah, wow goodness.

Speaker 4 (06:19):
Oh sorry, I guess you had to dump that. I'm sorry, guys,
I got a National Weather Emergency Alert. Storm surge warning
is an effect for this area. Oh boy, so I
had a I'm sorry. I didn't realize that was a sound.
We had to, didn't I mean, I didn't obviously do
that on purpose, right right? Yeah, But like I said,
I can make this mistake, Brian and make up for
it later. If you're an Olympian, you train four years,

(06:42):
four years for what will be obviously, Now, in between
that four years, there are world championships, there are other
qualifying events, there are other things to do in those
four years, But you're training for this moment, right. And
if you are a one hundred meters sprinter, you have
semi final, right, and then a final. I think that's it.

(07:02):
You're running a semi, you're running a final that you
run twice, and that's it. For four years, you've trained
to run twice and you lose by the smallest margin
or win by the smallest margin ever in one hundred
meters point zero zero five seconds.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's insane, Like, yeah, the.

Speaker 4 (07:24):
Fortitude it takes to do that. I don't have that patience.
I don't have the ability to just wait that long
for something. Now. I guess in other sports, maybe you
the examples, you wait X amount of years to get
to Super Bowl, right, and and the and so certainly
is that part of it, right where you just wait
to win a suit to get to Super Bowl, win

(07:45):
a super Bowl, and it might take you year to
get back to or never do it again. I get that,
But one you're an individual sport, and you know, unlike
professional sports, you know, you're not getting paid millions of
dollars to play these sports. I mean the US is
given out thirty thousand dollars for a gold medal, which
I know is a lot of money for a lot
of people. That seems like a little bit of Mount

(08:06):
Brian to win a gold medal for our country, right Yeah,
And I just I marvel at the mental fortitude of
all these athletes that have to wait four years and
all the training it has taken and the sacrifice that
has taken to get to this point for win, lose, draw,

(08:27):
But just what it takes to get here, man, is
it just hits a lot. It's a lot of waiting, hoping,
wishing and then obviously you have to shine your moment. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (08:36):
No, it's a great point because I think about the
two one hundred meter dash finals where Noah Lyles barely wins.
I mean it's as close as it can get pretty much,
and he wins Olympic gold. That's the first time on
the men's side for twenty years, right, last guy, we
got to go all the way back to two thousand
and four in Athens. That was justin Gatlin. So it's

(08:58):
been twenty years and Noah Lyles does it. Meanwhile, on
the lady side, Shakirie Richardson And to your point, Jeff,
she's been training and training and training. She wasn't allowed
to compete in the previous Olympics because of the THCHC thing,
and so she wasn't even allowed to.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Go last time.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
She's waited all this time and she gets silver, which
is an accomplishment. But Julian Alfred from Saint Lucia, it's
the first ever Olympic gold medal for her country, and
Sha Carrie gets silver, and I hear you, man, Look,
I don't have the patience sometimes to enter in a

(09:36):
bet on a season long prop in the NFL.

Speaker 4 (09:40):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
It's like I gotta wait all the way until January
to find out. That's a lot time.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
That's nothing compared to waiting four years for your shot,
and especially an event like that one hundred meters dash.
We're talking ten seconds or less, and it's freaking over.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (09:58):
This season long when total thing. There's so much money
to be made doing that, Brian and all the future
wagers because the markets can be so different from from
book to book, and I'm like, oh boy, I gotta
tie up a thousand dollars. And I'm like, oh jeez,
I just like use that money for now. I mean, look,

(10:20):
we got we go with sports wagering in March in
North Carolina's been able to do it, you know, at
a higher volume, obviously a little more money than I
would have done in the past, and just it gives
me like hives thinking about you know, like, legit, I
probably have two thousand dollars in future wagers right now,
Like that's it. Not like I'm it gives me hives

(10:41):
thinking about that. And I imagine our friends at bet
MGM are going to get more of that money when
we start up our show in a couple of weeks,
count on a kickoff and Bill Krackenberger just firing off
future wagers left and right. I tend to follow that guy,
you know, as we're talking about, so I feel like
my account's gonna in add a little bit more to

(11:02):
the futures market. Yeah, when we start doing that again.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
It isn't the easiest thing to sit around and wait
like that. So to your point, it's a great way
to frame it. To wait that long and props in
Noah Lyles. He cashes in in a big way. And
think about that too, where that was what did you say,
point zero zero five?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
I think it was point zero zero five? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Wow. So you're you're sitting up there just waiting.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
That must have felt like forever to find out what
the results were and if you won gold or not.
Some of the other things that happened today. How about
uh Novak Djokovic He wins Olympic gold for the first
time ever. This was his fifth Olympics, his first gold medal.
He takes down Carlos al karaz and what had to
feel good after the Wimbledon final didn't go his way.

(11:49):
And our guy Scotti Scheffler, he wins gold. He shot
a sixty two today. Yeah, he was nine under par.
Crazy comeback. Has an Olympic gold medal to go along
with all the other things he's accomplished this year.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Okay, I have a problem with with the with the
Olympics golf setup. So they play one tournament in Paris,
right or in France. I don't actually don't know if
it's in Paris. They play one golf tournament. If you
looked at the participants it's the same golfers, the golf
against the entire season and they play one freaking tournament

(12:26):
like gold medal Scottish Scheffler, Like, we can't come up
with a better way to do this. I think it's
like all these things, it's like the silliest one of
them all. It's just they're just playing golf what they
do every other week. Like I'm watching handball right now.
They don't play handball every week against each other. And
it's exact same leaderboard he saw two weeks ago with

(12:46):
the Open. They're playing the same it's the same guys
they're playing each other. It seems so silly to me
that Scheffler wins the gold medal. I mean, look, I'm
glad he won a gold medal, like for the same
thing they do all the time, nothing whatsoever.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
Isn't that the same thing as just the four majors?

Speaker 4 (13:03):
Right, it's the same, It's another major. It's what this is.

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, so you want it to be unique, Like if
we have.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
A Ryder Cup such as set up, can you have
like something I don't know, like something make it more interesting?
You make it more interesting. I don't even know how
you do that, but this feels like it was so like,
oh cool, chef won another tournament against everyone always plays against,
Like what a what a big surprise.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
This time it happened to be for Olympic gold instead
of you know, the Wells Fargo Open or whatever, it happened.

Speaker 4 (13:35):
To be Yeah, yeah, and again. So that now goes
into the question of like who had the better years,
Xander or or Scotty, because technically you say Scotty won
two of five majors. Xander won two of five majors.

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Right, yeah, and with all the overall.

Speaker 4 (13:50):
He had more money. I wouldn't looked up there to
how much money he made this year. It's a lot.
When you win six times, you win a lot of money.
But no, it was it just I have I have
a beef with the golfer. Where the golf would I mean, look,
there's horse dancing right now. These horses ain't dancing going
against each other, you know, so I think they gotta
find a different way to do Olympic golf.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
It's interesting I was thinking about that too, who had
the better year? Because most people go with Scottie Scheffler,
but you're known for the majors. Man we talk about
Tiger fifteen majors.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
Yeah, Zander, Scotty Scheffler would trade Xander's season in a heartbeat.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
That's what I think too.

Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, because one Scotty's won two Masters, he's the only
one of the masters that's it. Two Masters, Xander would
two other tournaments. Yeah, Like Xander's closer to a career
Grand Slam than Scheffler is after the season. And I look,
we joked about the Gold being filling like another major,
and obviously isn't. No one's gonna remember that he won

(14:52):
the gold last year. I don't think we talk about
his It'll be in his obituary. But it's not like
we look at judges season based off of the gold
medal or not. I think he rather have Xander season.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
Yeah, I think so too, because those majors, they just
they're more impactful. We know Arnie with this, you know
Arnold Palmer or Jack, I mean Jack with his eighteen
and Tiger with his fifteen. We don't throw in Olympic
gold medals or I couldn't even tell you.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
I don't know. Look, when when you get to like
discussing major winners and differentiating between them, then I think
you go into you know, the other like like brooks
Kepa has has five majors, he doesn't win a lot
of other tournaments, right, So if you pair him up

(15:40):
with someone else who has five majors, and you compare,
like who the better golfer is, then you would turn
towards who wins the other tournaments? I mean, and you know,
and that's probably the Tiger argument. Tiger's won so many other.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Tournaments, right, Right, that's kind of it where they were
talking about that with swimming, it's a great way to
look at it where look at it where it's all
the medals that you won, right. So the US in
the pool, they won the most medals, and a lot
of those medals were silver and bronze. So the other
way to look at it is you go buy gold

(16:13):
and the silver and bronze medals those are the tie breakers, right.
And so if you apply that to what we're talking
about with Schoffley and Scotty Scheffler, like Scheffler has the
two majors, and really Scotty has won so it's like
all his silver and bronze medals, all those non major championships,

(16:34):
the tournaments that he won that's nice, but he still
has one less gold if we're looking at the four
majors here, right, So I'm with you.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
And so it's curious, you know the way to look
at it. Obviously, if he takes Xander's year, he gets
arrested one less time, which is great for Scheffler and
for his record there. But yeah, I think Xander. I
think he would take Xanders. You're in a heartbeat.

Speaker 3 (16:58):
I think so too.

Speaker 4 (16:59):
Yeah, you know there was the top one hundred NFL
list came out, Man, get to this, brut I the
voting on this is it makes my point every year,
but do not trust players that's right to vote anything? Absolutely,
like would you would Lamar rather be ranked a head
of Patrick Mahomes win the Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (17:15):
It's exactly, come on, you.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Better win the super Bowl than be a two ton MVP.

Speaker 2 (17:19):
Totally, there's no doubt about that. We got a lot
to do. Right around the corner, Jeff, I have a
bet for you and everybody listening. Then you might hate,
but it is going to cash. Let's go make an
impassioned argument for that. Right around the corner. He's Jeff Schwartz,
I'm Brian, No, hang with us, right here on Fox
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Speaker 3 (18:29):
Okay, Jeff.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
So we'll talk a little bit later on the show
about NFL teams, the odds of them to make the playoffs,
odds to miss the playoffs. Kind of interesting that market.
Multiple sports books have it, BET MGM has it. So
we'll compare notes a little bit later. But while I
was thumbing around on the site about to get those numbers.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
I ran across the passing.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Yards for the season each of these quarterbacks here, and
there was one quarterbacks numbers that caught my attention the most. Okay,
now you might hate what I'm about to say here.
I think the more I talk, the more you might think. Yeah,
what do you think?

Speaker 3 (19:13):
Do you think it's an over.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
Aaron Rodgers?

Speaker 3 (19:19):
No, that's not who I'm thinking of.

Speaker 4 (19:21):
Oh, I mean it won't get one more guess. Yeah,
someone that I despise.

Speaker 3 (19:26):
I don't know that you despise him.

Speaker 2 (19:27):
But it's not a quarterback that you would immediately think, oh, over,
I'm hammering the over on this guy's passing yardage.

Speaker 4 (19:36):
I don't know. Then I'm lost.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
It is Giants quarterback Daniel Jones. Okay, now here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
He has the lowest passing yardage prop number in the
entire NFL on bet MGM site. Okay, Daniel Jones is
listed at two thousand and six hundred seventy five and
a half yards. That's okay, something, it's like twenty seven
hundred yards. Really, I looked at his numbers, Jeff, I

(20:07):
was just curious. Here, do you realize Daniel Jones threw
for three thousand yards in twelve starts as a rookie.
He threw for over three thousand as a rookie with
only twelve starts. And I was thinking about this too,
because he was injured last year. He had the neck injury,
then he had the ACL Yeah, how many And I

(20:27):
don't know this, but off the top of your head, Jeff,
how many quarterbacks in the NFL would you guess suffer
season ending injuries in back to back years?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Right?

Speaker 3 (20:40):
I can't imagine that number is very high.

Speaker 4 (20:42):
Yeah, No, it's not. It's not that high. This number
Brian has to be about him getting hurt again, right,
Like that's what this is about, because I mean, even
his worst year, he's gonna throw for over twenty six
hundred yards.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
Right.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
They're behind in games, Milik. Neighbors should help them with
you know, with with the passing attack. You have to
imagine this feels like either two things. One is there
preparing for injury, or two they expect him to be bench.
But I don't even know how much sure the backup
there is.

Speaker 3 (21:10):
So that's the thing, is good enough to be bench?

Speaker 2 (21:12):
No, it's such for behind him. It's the two headed
monster of Drew Locke and Tommy DeVito, Tommy Cutletz.

Speaker 4 (21:20):
Tommy Cuttz is back. I mean, maybe there's a we
think Drew Locke he has some of that swag we
know sometimes right, like maybe the Giants convince themselves he's
sort of the guy. But oh man, I I mean,
it's not like you're benching for a young player, you know, right.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
That's the thing is, I don't think there's any immediate threat.
The only reason Daniel Jones would get replaced is if
he is just that bad, which is possible.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
But it's a soft launch here.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Look at the beginning of their schedule, they host the Vikings,
they're at the Commanders. That's a pretty good one to
two in terms of winnable games for the Giants. So
if they get one of those games, if they start
to and oh like dude, ude, the wheels have to
fall off the tracks for Daniel Jones to get benched.
So yeah, if you're betting the under, you're basically saying,

(22:17):
I have to hope for an injury sounds bad, or
not be miffed about an injury.

Speaker 3 (22:23):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (22:24):
Right, Like, if you're betting the under, you're it's either
gonna be an injury or it's being benched for Drew
Locke or Tommy Davido. Like, come on, man, the over
is staring at you in the face right here.

Speaker 4 (22:37):
Yeah, we talked about Brian tying up money in futures wagers,
and I just don't know if I want to put
my money in the Giants. I don't know if I could.
Let's spend that money elsewhere.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Yeah, well, put this in perspective. Think about this. This
is how little respect Daniel Jones is getting. And make
no mistake, I'm not saying he walks on water. He's
one of the worst starting quarterbacks in the NFL. Okay,
but we're talking about the bar being so low of him.
Let's just call it reaching twenty seven hundred passing yards. Yeah,

(23:11):
Bo Nicks a rookie, he's slated at just under three
thousand passing yards.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Oh wow, I agree with you. If he plays a
full seventeen game season, he will Wow. He will easily
get over this number easily. What's the juice on the over?

Speaker 3 (23:28):
Do you remember it's minus one twenty.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
These sportsbooks be juice and minus one twenty both ways.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
Scoundrels they are, I know, I think they actually did
it on this one too. I have to double check that,
but I know the over is minus one twenty.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Let's don't have to pay a winner's tax on the BENMGM.
I'll tell you that. So I uh man, I kind
of like it. I'm not gonna lie, you know.

Speaker 3 (23:57):
I love it so much.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
I'm thinking about out putting all of my cash just
on the Daniel Jones over and not betting anything else.

Speaker 3 (24:07):
I'm that convinced Daniel Jones is going over.

Speaker 4 (24:09):
Or I'm like, I.

Speaker 2 (24:10):
Don't have to sweat out Week three Panthers on the
road or whatever, you know what I mean. I'm just
gonna go all in on d Jones with Malik Neighbors
over there, like.

Speaker 4 (24:20):
A seventeen game cheese that's one hundred and fifty two
point nine yards per game.

Speaker 3 (24:24):
It's nothing.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
What okay, do you have it in front of you
still the calculator you get Yeah, let's go down the list.
How about for sixteen starts? What are we looking at
average person?

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Twenty six hundred? Right, we're right, put it.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
At twenty seven hundred just to cover it.

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Okay, so twenty seven hundred at sixteen games, yep, all right, jeez,
I'm I'm sometimes here we go, Okay, that's one hundred
and sixty eight yards.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
One hundred and sixty light, let's go down one more.
Let's say fifteen starts. All right, he's got a neck injury, right,
he's out for a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
Even if you do like like, well starts yeah, two
or twenty five yards.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
To twenty five.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
He did it as a rookie. He did it as
a rookie quarterback. Got to three thousand yards on twelve starts, Like, dude,
unless his acl gets re injured, he is going over
twenty six seventy five and a half.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
It's happening.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
And I guess I guess too. If if you have this,
if you have this waging your pocket, he gets hurt,
you say the giant season win total under, you know,
like just like find a way that maybe get out
of it that way, you know, like there's always That's
the only thing about future wagers is if you're smart
about it, there are ways to make the money back.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Right there you go.

Speaker 4 (25:45):
It's not always, but there are ways to try to
make the money back, even just in a specific game.
You'd be like, I think he's actually gonna go unduring
this game. I'll wager for the same amount, you know
what I mean, Like, there's ways to even and out if.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
You need to, no doubt, and that number is so low,
there's going to be a week where it's like, hey,
how many passing yards did he have? One hundred and fifteen?
It's like is he still healthy? Yeah, it's fine, It's
totally fine. It doesn't even matter that he passed for
one fifteen. It's such a low number.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
As long as he is upright, he's going over that is.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
The bar for him is so low. I think the
Giants are gonna be bad this year. I did. I
have them under their win total six and a half.
And this is a good sort of brameter about why.
I mean, the sports books don't even believe in them.
I mean twenty seven and a half, I mean twenty
seven hundred yards. Yeah, what do you There's no Saquon Barkley.

(26:47):
It's not like you're having someone to rush for a
thousand yards on top of that. Yeah, I think the
Giants will be bad this season. When you look at rosters, right,
there's many ways to look at at a roster quarterback
number one, but too Brian, I just look at impact players,
you know, like, do you have impact players as of

(27:08):
right now? Try to have a left tackle impact player.
Maybe Malik Neighbors, we don't know yet, maybe still still
a rookie.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Two pass rushers.

Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's pretty good, Brian Burns Anddeau that's really good. Four
total players.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
They're not dripping with impact players, We'll put it that way.

Speaker 4 (27:25):
You know, they're not always with them. Like it's just
you look at these teams, and some of these teams
you're like, oh, oh wait, they have no one good yet.
I'm gonna go under your wind total.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Well that's the thing though, too. I think that those
two things can work out for you if you if
you bet them the right way, if you approach it
the right way, you might be right about the season
win total under for the Giants, But I think that
can also help your season long passing yards prop bet
on Daniel Jones. What's gonna happen? Right there's trailing by

(27:58):
ten points in the fourth quarter. Are they running it
with Devin Singletary. No, They're throwing the ball because they
have to, you know, so I love it even more
with Daniel Jones. I'm not expecting great things for the Giants,
but I mean goodness with Brian Dabel. Brian Dabele knows
how to coach offense. Okay, and I'm not expecting Daniel
Jones to be prolific, but we got to get to

(28:20):
twenty seven hundred yards when bo Nick's a rookie needs
to get to basically three thousand yards.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
That is that's ridiculous. I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
Like sometimes the sportsbooks do get it wrong unless they
know Daniel Jones is going down in week eight, which
they can't know it's going right.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Yeah, it might be. They might have the Daniel Jones.
It's scripted.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Hey, we're scripted to a degree. We've got Moncey Belanos
with us here this evening. Very fired up about that, Monzie.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
What is going on?

Speaker 4 (28:49):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Guys?

Speaker 3 (28:50):
Have you been pretty good? It's been a while.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
What has summer summer schedule?

Speaker 6 (28:57):
You know, because they move things around, so we're like
a summer schedule.

Speaker 7 (29:01):
But things are going to go back. I think you
guys are moving to you know, once football season gets here.
So that's what it was. But I've missed you.

Speaker 6 (29:09):
Happy to be hanging out here, maybe not as happy
as Noah Lyles, who won the men's one hundred meter
final in an absolute photo finish by what is it
fifth of a thousandth to a second, like something absolutely ridiculous.
The first American to win gold in the one one
hundred meters sprint since two thousand and four, Scotti Scheffler

(29:29):
won the gold in men's golf. Novak Djokovic won his
first gold medal in tennis, defeating Carlos Alcraz at the
age of thirty seven. In swimming, oh well, twenty eight
total swimming medals for Team USA, by the way, but
Bobby Fink goes back to back to win gold for
Team USA breaks the men's fifteen hundred world record. USA
also won the gold in the women's four by one

(29:50):
hundred medley relay.

Speaker 7 (29:51):
They also set a world record.

Speaker 6 (29:53):
American Christin Faukner won the gold medal in the women's
cycling road race. And right now we are tied with
China the most golden medals so far nineteen a piece,
so we're not doing too shabby. Let's check in on baseball,
where the Blue Jays and the Yankees are still on
a rain delay in the Bronx bottom of the eighth inning,
tied at three apiece. The Dodgers holding on to a

(30:14):
slight lead over the A's three to two. They're about
to start the sixth inning in Oakland. The Angels if
taken the lead over the Mets three to one. Top
of the fifth. The Padres and the Rockies were tied.
San Diego now on top two to one. Bottom of
the fifth. The Phillies, they've lost six in a row,
trying to avoid seven. Right now they are beating the
Mariners one zero. Top of the sixth inning, Kyle Schwarber
with the leadoff homer. The Giants already defeated the Rays

(30:37):
eight to two. The Diamondbacks beat the Pirates. After the
Pirates took out Paul Skens, the Diamondbacks came back and
won six to five. The Marlin shut out the Braves
seven zero. The Nationals edged the Brewers four to three.
The Ools with a nine to five victory over the Guardians.
The Royals also came back to beat the Tigers three
to two. The Rays edged the Astros one zero, and

(30:59):
the Red Sox defeated the Rangers seven to The White
Sox fellas have lost twenty in a row.

Speaker 7 (31:05):
The Twins beat them thirteen to.

Speaker 6 (31:08):
Seven in NFL news, maybe not shocking news, but Commander's
head coach Dan Quinn did say that their number two
overall pick, Jaden Daniels will play in Washington's first preseason.

Speaker 7 (31:17):
Game against the Jets.

Speaker 6 (31:19):
And in college football, Michigan head coach Sharon Moore could
face a show cause penalty and suspension for his involvement
in Michigan's sign stealing scandal. Yespien reports that the NCAA's
Notice of Allegations draft, which is subject to change, alleges
that Moore deleted a thread of fifty two messages with
former Michigan Stafford Connor Stallions in October of twenty twenty three,

(31:43):
reportedly on the date that the news broke that Connor
Stallions may have been, you know, doing a bring it on, hiding,
you know, and playing sight type of thing.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
Wow.

Speaker 7 (31:54):
Yeah, the day of.

Speaker 6 (31:55):
Is what they're saying, that these messages were deleted.

Speaker 3 (31:58):
Wow at all? Right now?

Speaker 7 (32:01):
No, yeah, no, no bleen Off, no blof Fellas. I
come back to.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
You, thank you, Monci. Yeah, it is Fox Sports Radio here.
We've got Jeff Schwartz, Brian No with you. We'll have
to get to that next hour. Jeff the Michigan situation
and all that good stuff. I was watching watching baseball
along with the Olympics, and it's just a random thing
that happened.

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Francisco Lindoor of the Mets.

Speaker 2 (32:27):
He just swung at a pitch and you know, the
bat went flying in the air and it just hit
the net and then it just fell to.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
The ground and that was it. No one got a
bat to the forehead.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
You know, I always think about that where baseball was
so reluctant to put nets around, and now it's totally fine.
No foul balls off the melon, no bats off your
left ear lobe, you know what I mean, Like, it's
so much better with that now.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
So when I was younger, and maybe even when I
before I had like kids, I used to love that
part of the game. You know, you'd sit like third
base line with this where we had tickets for Dodger
games we went and you know, you get a file
ball pop up, you're just sort of like you always
pay attention, right, And as soon as I had kids, Brian,

(33:15):
I'll tell you what, man put those nets up, because yes,
you know, we go to minor league games in Charlotte.
We have a great little ballpark in in Uptown. Uh,
and so it's a White Sox team. They're also bad,
by the way, Triple A team. And it's exhausting, just
like sitting there watching every pitch and make sure the

(33:36):
balls come hit your kids in the face man, because
they're not paying attention, right, Like I pay attention, but
ball comes my direction, we move out the way. I mean.
It's just like, you know, if it's that, if it's
hit that hard, and just the idea of like having
to watch there's still pop ups. You can still get
a pop up, but that's you got time you see
it coming like it's it's the line drives right, and

(33:56):
not having to worry about that anymore is so nice.
It is. It's so great to just sit there and
be like, I don't have to worry about a lodger
of hitting my kid in the face.

Speaker 2 (34:05):
Yeah, it's a net gain, no pun intended right with
the net thing. I don't mean to like that, but
it's a game. It's a gain for baseball.

Speaker 4 (34:12):
It totally is. And it's not distracting at all. You
know you think that, but I'm like, people sit behind
home plate pay thousands of dollars for tickets and never
complained about there being a net in the way, right,
So why does it matter if you've seen it on
the third baseliners a net yar you would even notice it?
You don't notice it. No, I like it. It's a
good addition to baseball. Baseball finally decided to like make

(34:33):
some changes that were needed right that and the pitch
clock's been great for the sport. Will tell you that
games go by it much.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Faster, Yeah, it has.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
And Monci mentioned that Paul Skeens was yanked out of
the game and immediately cinical, No, I'm like, how many
pitches We're talking like eighty two and they're like, oh no,
he did throw a hundred pitches. And then he was
he got the gate, and then the floodgates opened because
the bullpen didn't do their job, and the d Backs
came back to wind Backs playing pretty good baseball right now,

(34:59):
and you're n L West Division right there, Jeff, all right, we.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
Got a lot to do right around the corner.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
This list is freaking terrible, but it does reveal a
couple of interesting things. We'll throw them your way. He's
Jeff Schwartz, I'm Brian. Now hang with us. Right here
on Fox Sports Radio. It is Fox Sports Radio. He's
Jeff Schwartz. I'm Brian No. We're live from the Tirack
dot Com studios here. So, Jeff, you mentioned this in
passing the NFL Network's Top one hundred list. Number one

(35:27):
on the list Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 4 (35:30):
Congrats Dolphins fan.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
I guess as a Dolphins fan, I could not disagree
with this more. You know, Mahomes. Dude, Come on, how
is Mahomes number four on the list. I think it's
worse that Lamar Jackson is ranked ahead of him. Lamar
is number two on the list. Christian McCaffrey's number three.
Mahomes is number four. To me, Jeff, you alluded to this.

(35:53):
It shows you cannot trust the players. I love when
the media votes on an award and the players disagree
and they're like, the players should have the votes. The
players know, like, the players are so biased. They're way
more biased than the media ever has been. And the
other thing it does show is recency bias, because I
think they did this back in December, and so at

(36:15):
the time you think, well, hey, Lamar is having an
MVP type season. Mahomes, who you know Mahomes is yesterday's
news on the heels of one super Bowl soon to
win a second one in a row.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
It's just a joke, man.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
There is no list that makes any sense whatsoever if
you do not have Patrick Mahomes number one.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
So this is voted on by the players in November
early December. And I've mocked this list for years because
the players get a blank piece of paper measure it's
labeled one through twenty and they tell you to just
write down the names. And every year I did it
with my brother's name. First of my teammates handed it in.

(36:59):
There you go, oh right, un serious list. No one
takes it seriously. And the arguments against Patrick Mahomes being
number one is people say, well, last year he wasn't
having a great year when they were voting. But to me,
this is not really about year to year play, especially

(37:19):
when you get to the top of this list, like,
for example, Chris Jones was wearing pretty high on this list.
He he he disappeared from many parts of last season
to the playoffs. So so like Aaron Rodgers was ninety
six on this list, he didn't played last season, so
to tell me, And there's no shot at Chris Jones.
This is this is the reality of his play right.

(37:41):
He's an incredible playoff player, but there are times during
games and regular season he is non existent. And that's fine.
The Chiefs pay him to It's the quarterback in the postseason.
So the fact like that we can have those votes happen,
but then also claim them a home homes that we're
only voting on Mahomes because what he's done in the

(38:03):
given season is silly to me. It's the best part
of the NFL. Vote him number one. Yeah, I mean
even look, you want to put tyreek Hill and at
that point, I guess he was sort of near the record,
but I think he got hurt. Right, He's slip down
a little bit the end of the season. But maybe

(38:23):
it's boredom. I know Tom Brady wasn't always first place
every year, but it seems like the I don't know,
players tired of Mahomes me be number one. My biggest
takeaway of this has always been the same thing. Is
it just because you play does not mean you know

(38:44):
the sport. Yeah, it happened all the time. There are
so many my teammates I played with Brian that never
watched football outside of the film. I had to watch
on the game. I come home after games and watch
football the whole night. I love football. Man. A lot
of players just don't they their job.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, sure, job is.

Speaker 4 (39:02):
And they do their job. They should not be trusted
to vote on things like this and be taken as gospel.

Speaker 1 (39:07):
Right.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I do love what Tyreek Hill had to say about it.
This was on the NFL Network's Top one hundred list.
His reaction to being the number one player in the league.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Here you go. It's been a long time coming. I
said I was gonna get this since I was a
rookie bro. I told Tom Brady that too. I belong
number one over Tom Brady.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
Tom Brady, I'm calling you out. I'm number one, Cheetah.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
This is the first time to receive wherever did.

Speaker 4 (39:31):
It's too none that I'm thinking about it. Man, right,
the com soldiabley at this point.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
But Tyreek's hard to dislike, man. Tyreek is very very likable.
But look, man, we know that this list is silly, Jeff.
No matter how you slice it, Patrick Mahomes is the
most valuable player in the NFL. Even if you look
at it position by position, Mahomes is better among quarterbacks
than Tyreek Hill among wide receivers or whoever else you

(40:02):
want to Christian McCaffrey among running backs. He's just more valuable,
and he's better at what he does than what anybody
else does.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
That's where it is right now. It's more than obvious.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Yep. And next year, I'm sure the players are still
going to do the same thing. They just they just
you know, they just don't just don't get it right.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
Yeah, hopefully he'll still be top five in December next season.
You know, we don't know if that's gonna happen or not.
All right, come it up next? Will these teams make
or miss the playoffs? We'll compare notes right around the corner,
hang with us.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
Who's in and who is out? That is on the way.

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my barographs and NFL pied charts and all that good stuff,

(41:01):
and I was curious because BETMGM they're one of the
sportsbooks where they have odds on NFL teams to make
or miss the playoffs this season. And so I just
put everything together right the make miss odds team by team,
everything's right in front of you. So it just helps
my brain digest all of this stuff, you know, because

(41:22):
there's just numbers and figures for all these teams, and
I can't keep it straight unless I can look at
it all at the same time, you know. And so
if we look at some of the teams and we
don't have to get too crazy into the numbers and
what the betting line happens to be, because some people
just don't care about that.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
So we'll dabble with it. But just first blush.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
If you look in the AFC, let's start with that, Jeff, Okay,
who are a couple of the teams that you would
be very surprised if they did not make the playoffs? Right,
like the usual suspect, you'd be shocked if the Chiefs
did not miss the play if they didn't make the playoffs,
that's an obvious one.

Speaker 4 (42:01):
I'd be pretty look at this, I'd be pretty surprised
if like Baltimore did not make it. Mm hmm.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
Chiefs Chiefs.

Speaker 4 (42:13):
Oh yeah, you mentioned the Chiefs, Ready, Baltimore Chiefs, and
probably like the Dolphins.

Speaker 3 (42:20):
Okay, you'd be surprised if the Dolphins didn't make it.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
By the way, Dolphins at minus one fifty five to
make the playoffs, right, So I mean for the non
gamblers out there, you would have to risk one hundred
and fifty five dollars to win one hundred dollars.

Speaker 3 (42:37):
You don't have to do that.

Speaker 2 (42:38):
That's just the easiest way to explain it, right, you
could do You could bet twenty bucks on the Dolphins
and you would make, you know, a little.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
More than ten. Right, you can do that.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yeah, Okay, So you say Chiefs, Ravens, Dolphins, you'd be
surprised if those teams missed the playoffs. How about the Bengals,
you'd be surprised about them missing the playoffs?

Speaker 4 (42:59):
No, I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
You wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
Oh, sorry, Bengals. I think Colts are there plus two
hundred to miss. I mean, I think just with Burrows health, right,
I mean, he's shown that injuries can derail their season
pretty quickly. So I think that I'd be pretty surprised

(43:21):
for if they missed it. But I will tell you,
Brian Browns plus one four you make the playoffs is
a really good wager.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
You like that?

Speaker 4 (43:30):
The Browns are really good? Yeah, the roster is incredible.
It's just a matter of Deshaun Watson. I know it.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
I know it if he got close to his previous form, right, Like,
not the same version, just close to it with that
roster you're cooking with, grease, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
How about this?

Speaker 2 (43:51):
Are you more comfortable fading a team, right, taking a
team to miss the playoffs at plus money who's obviously
favored to get there, or are you more comfortable taking
a non playoff team from last season at plus money
to make it this season?

Speaker 1 (44:09):
Right?

Speaker 4 (44:09):
Like?

Speaker 3 (44:10):
Which are you more comfortable doing?

Speaker 4 (44:13):
Well? You're betting on that'sentially injury right for a lot
of the misses for the ones that should make the playoffs, Yeah,
versus betting on a team overachieving, right, I know that's
the hard Like. I feel like taking the wind total

(44:38):
under is a you have this a little more juice
involved with that. It feels like a safer play than
just taking the miss, even though the miss is obviously
plus money. And you know you lose one to one
if you lose, right, So, I mean, look I have
in my acapulpor here I I have some missed I

(45:01):
think I have Falcons missed playoffs at plus money already. Okay,
pull my little, my little preseason sheet here. Yeah, I
have a Falcon's no playoffs at two hundred plus good.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Plus two hundred's pretty nice.

Speaker 4 (45:17):
I already have that in the in the in the books,
I have Browns with a division at plus six hundred. Okay, yeah,
I have Vikings yes playoffs plus.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Three hundred Vikings playoffs.

Speaker 4 (45:30):
Yeah. Wow, I got some playoff odds in there here
like it? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
There we go quite aggressive? Okay, yeah, and your Chargers.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
I thought this was interesting, right, Like you've basically said
you think hardball's gonna be good there, but maybe not
in year one. So to miss the playoffs is basically
even money there minus one twenty to miss the playoffs.
It's even money to make the playoffs. You like them
more to miss it?

Speaker 4 (46:01):
Probably? I just think there are a year away, aren't they.
I mean, just talowise the Herbert's foot, the foot injury
man foot injuries are are are not are not great, Brian, Yeah,
and they lingered, dude, they linger all year. And so
I when I saw Herbert's out for the rest of

(46:22):
the preseason for the most part, it really does concern
me that he will have this problem all season. You
look at how many times do we see quarterbacks that
get hurt in training camp or at their training camp hurt,
and how it just hampers their whole season. Remember Burrow
last year? Right, yep? Yeah, Dak Prescott had a thing
a couple of years ago with this calf if I
recall or ankle where it was. Obviously he broke his

(46:44):
ankle another year, but there was some sort of lingering
lower body issue as well you entered the year. Even
other players like look at Travis Kelsey. You remember he
hurt his knee in training camp last season, and just
how that probably affected him halfway through the season that
he wasn't he wasn't the same guy he had been,
you know, sort of consistently, right, the older player come

(47:05):
off a knee injury, these camp injuries, man, it's hard
to come back completely healthy. And so I worry that
Herbert's gonna have a foot injury just lingering all season.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
He might, he might, and he doesn't have a great
wide receiving cores right now if he's gimpy on top
of that, right, So that's not a good combination for
the Chargers. How about we stay in La jeff because
if you look at the Rams, I'm surprised by this,
they're a playoff team last year. Sure they lost Aaron Donald,
but they've got some offensive firepower. They're at even money

(47:39):
to make the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (47:41):
Now.

Speaker 2 (47:41):
I realized they snuck in at the end there last season.
They got hot down the stretch. But are you surprised
that the sportsbooks and some of the fans are that
skeptical about the Rams. I think they got a pretty
good team and they're even money to make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (47:57):
It's minus one twenty two miss.

Speaker 2 (47:58):
The playoffs will higher on the Rams than I think
a lot of people happen to be.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I have Rams Division winner in my in my futures. Yeah, wow, Okay,
the Rams they had the really bad year with two
years ago with mcveighen when Stafford was hurt? Would him
and Stafford have been together? McVeigh and Stafford and they
have won nine games every season, at least nine games
every season. They're they're a good football team. They have
so often a lot of concerns right now with injuries there,
their offensive lines a little beat up in camp, but

(48:27):
Puku obviously healthy, Cooper Cup. They do have to replace
Aaron Doll, but they drafted two defensive linemen, you hope
sort of the some of the parts is kids sort
of replace a legend like Aaron Donald. But they winn't
they just win football games, Buddy, I don't know. They're
they're a good football team.

Speaker 3 (48:43):
They're good. They're good. Also the Bears. This surprised me
a little bit too.

Speaker 2 (48:48):
Same odds make the playoffs minus one ten, miss the
playoffs minus one ten?

Speaker 3 (48:53):
Which do you like better?

Speaker 4 (48:58):
They actually minus one ten for once?

Speaker 3 (49:01):
Huh yeah, I know surprises not minus one thirty on.

Speaker 4 (49:05):
I don't see minus one Oh the Bears, Okay, here
we go.

Speaker 6 (49:08):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
I was trying to find the minus one ten. I
was like, oh, I go miss.

Speaker 3 (49:13):
I would go miss. Also, yeah, I.

Speaker 4 (49:14):
Think people are way too high in the Bears. We've
never seen will be really good. But like we have
not seen him play a NFL game yet, Like how many?
How many? So Stroud did it last year as a
starting quarterback as a rookie. How many rookies make the
playoffs in year one.

Speaker 2 (49:28):
It's hard, dude, It's really hard to do. And listen
the Bears. They're making strides. Their defense played great in
the second half of the season.

Speaker 3 (49:37):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
I think, like you just said, I think Cayleb Williams
is like the Jim Harbaugh of quarterbacks, meaning, I think
I think Harbaugh's going to be good with the Chargers,
maybe just not in year one. I think Kayleb Williams
is gonna be really good with the Bears. I'm just
not convinced he's gonna hit the ground running as a rookie,
that's all.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
I I don't know.

Speaker 2 (49:57):
Man to make the playoffs. I think it's a tall
order for the Bears. I'm with you, Yeah, Wow, you
want Vikings to make the playoffs? Huh?

Speaker 3 (50:07):
What is it with the Vikings that you're high on?

Speaker 4 (50:10):
I think they got some they got some good pieces.
And I think it's more that you know one teams
in the North that I have a real trouble with.
He's the Lions. Really well, it's not that I I
like them a lot because I love Dan Campbell. I
love his attitude and what he's done for the organization,

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but I just can't go over the golf thing.

Speaker 3 (50:35):
Okay, you know.

Speaker 4 (50:39):
He's he He's just like okay, right. I mean I
have a hard time back in a team to win
a conference. I know, people like the Lions a lot.
To get back to where they were last year NTCY
Championship game with a quarterback, We're just like, yeah, I mean, sure,

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they've been the system. I guess he's fine if you
don't have to rely on him to do anything. I
have a hard time the Lions, man, I do.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
It's weird because if you look at Goff, just what
he did last season, and trust me, I hear you.
He threw for almost forty six hundred yards, thirty touchdowns,
twelve picks.

Speaker 3 (51:22):
That's pretty good. And I know he doesn't do much.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
For me either, but in terms of production, with that
running game and the like, they just they put a
lot of pressure on defenses and he doesn't have to
be all world to be effective. He was really effective
last season and with am and Ross Saint Brown and
Jamison Williams, I don't know, man, they got a good
thing going over there in Detroit. You think there's gonna

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be a big step back this season.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
No, no, And it's not to worry. It's not worright,
it's not the right way to put it. It's just something.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
I have.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
This step back is probably the wrong way to put it, Brian.
But I just don't know if they're gonna be as
good as they were last season.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Yeah, No, I get that. I get that. I think
that also.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
I think I think Jared Goff is the anti Lamar Jackson.
You know where Lamar has these chad dropping plays, these
ooh and ah type plays.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
When has Jared Goff ever done that? And I would
argue never.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
So if you don't go, oh wow, what a throw, like,
I think a lot of it is just it looks
very ordinary, and sometimes he gets short changed on the
production that he puts up.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
His production last year. You can't argue with him, man,
you know, no.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
You can't. He did a he was he was good.
I know he was great last year. I had not.
It's just I's working with Lions, and I could to
be totally wrong about it, but their defense is still
a little suspect, you know, Like I don't know. Yeah,
but I think the number for the Vikings is good

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at plus three hundred.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
By the way, there's one team here. The odds aren't
great betting wise. For Tampa to miss the playoffs. It's
minus won eighty five. Like they're They're favored fairly heavily
to miss the playoffs. There's not a great payout if
you bet that. But Jeff, you look at their first
ten games. Holy hell, have you looked at this? They've

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got at Lions, Eagles, at Falcons, at Saints Ravens, Falcons again,
at the Chiefs forty nine ers. There's some tough games
to start off this season for Tampa. But their favorite
to miss though, their favorite to miss, right, And that's
where I'm saying, like, I could see why you would
want to bet that. Yeah, maybe the season win total

(53:45):
is a better way to go about it.

Speaker 4 (53:47):
So most every year we have a Worster first team.
Just to the way the NFL works, is that Carolina first.
But like h plus seven to fifty make the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (54:00):
Man, I plus seven fifty to make the playoffs, even
if they don't go worse to first, that's the NFC stuff.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
They might have to go first to get it.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Listen, man, Crazier things have happened where if look if
Bryce Young can look CJ. Stroud like, you know, not
the same, but like that, we didn't think the Texans
were gonna do anything last season. They were what a
three thirteen and one team the season prior and they
won ten games and went to the playoffs. So if

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they could just get some quarterback production, yeah, Carolina could
in that division, they.

Speaker 3 (54:39):
Could surprise some people.

Speaker 4 (54:41):
Yes, absolutely, that's just that's a It's a.

Speaker 3 (54:44):
Bad division, man, it just is.

Speaker 2 (54:47):
I don't know, maybe who's and just in the middle
of that the team that isn't sexy, but they had
the same record as Tampa last season, the Saints. You know,
if you're not expecting the Panthers to pull vault to
the top of the division, if you think Tampa's gonna
take a step back, if you're not convinced that Kirk

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and the Falcons are gonna win it, they are the
Saints just hanging around.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Sorry, buddy, I worked too hard to put money on
Derek Carr.

Speaker 3 (55:23):
Okay, okay, just throw that Throw the money you were
gonna use on Derek Carr, throw it on Daniel Jones.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
I hate to be mean, but it's just I just
I make, I make too much money for that.

Speaker 3 (55:35):
Yeah, passing yards.

Speaker 2 (55:37):
Just put that money on uh on Daniel Jones to
get to at least twenty seven hundred passing yards. Okay,
that's probably better investment. All right, we got a lot
to do coming up next. It's brand new and the
reactions are already ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (55:51):
We'll get to that. He's Jeff Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I'm Brian No live from the tire rack dot com
studios here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (55:57):
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff's Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
I'm Brian now coming to you live from the tirec
dot Com studios.

Speaker 4 (56:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
So, Jeff, we got the first taste of the new
kickoff rule here Hall of Fame game last Thursday. Are
you on board with the new kickoff rule or do
you just like a bunch of touchbacks?

Speaker 4 (56:21):
So we got a little bit of it right because
the game got suspended. My my middle, my crack middle
couldn't happen where I had both sides plus one and
a half, which is just a while away to watch
our present yay right now. So they called dynamic kickoff.
It took a little bit to get to get used

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to look in the XFL. We got some fun kickoff returns.
I mean, look, I think with every change in life,
especially in sports, it's the structure of the game. It
is fair to be a little get off my law
on angry. Why you change my game? Yeah, but also

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just get We'll give us some time. We saw what
five six in the preseason with no starters playing, right.
The fun thing is, I think this is going to
evolve throughout the season. We're gonna have Week one look
different than the Super Bowl. I I personally have felt
that this didn't need to be changed, right, Like, just

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let let touchbacks be touchbacks. I think teams might decide
if you kick the ball through the end zone it
goes to thirty currently it's a twenty five. They're just like,
we don't want to mess with this. We're going right
to We'll give them five yards whatever. Sometimes will choose that,
but we don't know what it's gonna be yet. It
looked funky. I'm not gonna lie, but well, like okay,

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like like I mean, like, well, we'll get used to it.
This is like every change in sports, you just get
used to it.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Yeah, I'm totally fine with it. I think it's way
better than just a bunch of touchbacks.

Speaker 4 (57:59):
You had.

Speaker 2 (57:59):
The return kickoff rate last season was twenty one percent. Like,
that's insane. That's a way too heavy of a percentage
of touchbacks, you know, non returns, if you will. Where
it's like, we gotta do something about this, and yeah,
I get it. It looks a little funky, it looks
a little different. It looks a little XFL like, you know,

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it doesn't quite look like the NFL. But I think
it's just gonna take a little bit of time to
get used to it. Remember there was pushback about the
extra point being pushed back, and it's like, oh, it's
just gonna make any difference once. Why are they doing
It's a lot more interesting the way they have it now,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (58:40):
Oh yeah, way more interesting.

Speaker 3 (58:41):
I think it's way better.

Speaker 4 (58:42):
Yeah, I think I think this will be more interesting too.
It just it just takes it just takes time to
get used to new Brian, and everyone will get used
to new We'll get we'll get used to it and
we'll move on from there.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
I like the point you made about we didn't have
starters in there, and we had I think it was
eight kickoffs and seven of them were returned, and it
was just funny because the general reaction was, like, Devin Hester,
he just went into the Pro Football Hall of Fame yesterday, right,
So he was being interviewed during the game and he's like, yeah,

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you know, it's kind of shaky here, Like we are
getting touchdowns left and right.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
We've got to give it a little bit of time.
And I looked what you said.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
There's a lot more strategy that comes into the mix here,
where let's say you're up by two touchdowns in the
fourth quarter, you're just gonna bang the ball out of
the end zone and give them the ball at the
thirty and do a little you know, risk management right
there instead of the possibility of a longer return for
gambling for what we do, Jeff, this is going to

(59:45):
impact it in terms of the totals. I think that
you're gonna have better field position normally, and you might
be able to take advantage of it with a couple
of early season overs. It's definitely gonna have a ripple effect.
So I'm on board with it, and it's way better
than a bunch of touchbacks.

Speaker 4 (01:00:02):
Yeah, you just don't know, obviously, you know what it's
going to end up looking like you know, I mean,
and deciding, especially with the wagering part of it, like
you just don't know what it's going to be.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Yeah, right, it's uh. I think it's terrible. They call
it the dynamic kickoff.

Speaker 4 (01:00:23):
Yeah, dynamic kickoff, yeah, dynamic. Yeah, that's that's an overse
that dynamic.

Speaker 2 (01:00:27):
Right yeah, No, it's come on, let's just say the
new kickoff, you know what I mean, something like the
dynamic kickoff. Okay, I think we're over selling it just
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:00:36):
It's just different, right yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Do you think your Chiefs are going to have a
position player kickoff? We're going with Harrison Butker on this thing.

Speaker 4 (01:00:46):
So comment made by by Dave Tobe. She's just a
special team's coach. You mentioned that justin Reid and they
had the fortunate ability to have a safety be the
backup kicker that he might kick off here. But if
you look at it, the XFL and the NFL a
little bit of different rules. The kickers are not allowed
to be part of this until the runner reach a

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certain point, and the XFL the kicker was allowed to
go right now and make tackles. So the kicker is
gonna be less involved in getting hit by the blocker.
The tackle parts, not the injury concern, right, it's the
part The concern is the shedding blocks, right, So I
think choose to try both ways. We'll see the first

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everyone sort of rams up in the preseason later this week, Brian.
I think everyone will sort of ramp up with with
you know, with their ideas as we get closer. I'm
curious how many coaches don't show things. We saw the
Bears a little bit the other night. They did sort
of some stuff where they took a guy in the
middle and moved him and ran to the edge, like

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to the side to try to trap. And we're gonna
see so many variations of this next couple of days
and so many weeks as we as teams figure out
exactly how they.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Would like this to be, right, right, Yeah, like the
blocking schemes and all of that stuff. Yeah, you get
you're gonna get creative with it. Think about the Lions
on offense, what they do with their blocking schemes. So
a play like this, there's a lot that you could
do to try to trap a guy, right like you
do like some counter variations.

Speaker 3 (01:02:21):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be fun.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
I like this too, where justin Tucker, the Ravens great kicker,
he's added a few pounds in the off season because
he's preparing for contact.

Speaker 3 (01:02:33):
You know, That's what my question is. What's it going
to take for the people that aren't on board with
this to be even more so not on board with it?

Speaker 4 (01:02:42):
You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
Is it aol an injury to a kicker where you're like,
I told you this thing was so stupid. Why are
they doing this? You think it's something like that where
they're just even more not on board with it.

Speaker 4 (01:02:55):
I think they're not on board with it if it
doesn't produce touchdowns like they claim it's going.

Speaker 3 (01:02:58):
You're okay, fair, Yeah, that's.

Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
I think that's I think people will not be on board.
I think otherwise, man, you know, the people are stubborn,
they're hard headed. I think once they if the word
dynamics seem to bother a lot of people. Right, So

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we need some points, right, we need some points in
long returns. If we don't get those, people will be
fed up about the change. For a reason you mentioned
the extra point the change is that they missed the kick, right,
and now we have to you know, and the game
situations change, so that has been justified. If no more
action comes from this that, I think it's hard to

(01:03:43):
defend making the change.

Speaker 2 (01:03:45):
No, it's yeah, that's perfectly said. That's exactly it. And
an injury here or there would just add to it.
You know, if it's a well known kicker, people would
lose their minds that he would just kick the ball
out of the end zone and not even you know,
be a threat to be kind to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:00):
But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
I guess they're expecting touchdowns left and right, and it's like, bro,
let's start with baby steps.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
We're getting kickoff returns. That's a step in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
We'll worry about the you know, the long I don't know,
Devin Hester like kickoff returns another day, but just give
it a little bit of time. We're gonna give some
time right now to Mancy Bolanos, our good friend who
is with us to spin us around the sporting landscape.
What it's going on here, Manzi, Hi, guys.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
So I'm gonna start with the good news out of baseball,
because I'm sure you heard about Freddy and Chelsea Freeman's
son who was hospitalized with the rare condition called ye
yane bar syndrome, I think is always pronounced. And so
Freddie Freeman has not been with the Dodgers for a minute.
Now well, she just posted on social media after eight

(01:04:48):
long days and the pediatric ICU were officially home Max.
Their son still has a long road ahead of him
to regain his official strength and relearn how to walk.
But we are so thankful to have our family back together.
Thank you to God for this miracle. Thank you to
our incredible team of doctors and angel nurses for taking
such good care of our boy, and to our village

(01:05:09):
for helping so much with Charlie and Brandon their other sons.
So good news out of the hospital, back home Chelsea
and Freddie Freeman.

Speaker 7 (01:05:17):
So that's good. Now it's for the Dodgers.

Speaker 6 (01:05:19):
Right now they are beating the A's three to two,
bottom of the ninth inning in Oakland, and they're down
to their final out.

Speaker 7 (01:05:26):
Sorry, I was watching that play literally right now. So
down to their final out are the A's.

Speaker 6 (01:05:32):
The Blue Jays and the Yankees are now back in
action after like a ninety minute rain delay. They are
tied at three apiece and they just got going top
of the ninth inning. In the Bronx, the Angels are
beating the Mets right now, three to two, top of
the eighth inning. Now, the Mets are one game back
of the final Walkhart spot in the National League. Right now,
it is the eighth inning. In LA, the Padres are
beating the Rocky seven to two. They're about to start

(01:05:53):
the bottom of the eighth inning, and the Phillies have
exploded with a bunch of home runs. They're beating the
Mariners six to zero. Top of the ninth inning. Phillies
trying to avoid losing seven in a row. The White
Sox officially have lost twenty in a row. The Twins
outscored them thirteen to seven. The White Sox became the
first MLB team since the nineteen eighty eight Baltimore Orioles
to lose twenty games in a row. So ouch there,

(01:06:16):
the Diamondbacks came back to beat the Pirate six ' five.
The Pirates are three and a half games back of
the final Walkhart spot in the National League. At the Olympics,
USA and China are now tied with nineteen gold medals
after Day nine. The latest gold medal Noah Lyles, who
won he was the first American to win the one
hundred meters sprint since two thousand and four. It was

(01:06:36):
an absolute photo finish there. Scotti Scheffler did win the
gold in men's golf earlier today, and Novak Djokovic, at
the age of thirty seven, defeated Carlos Alkaraz to win
his first gold medal in tennis. He just becomes a
fifth athlete to complete a Golden Slam, so he's won
four majors and a gold medal. Only other people who
have done this Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal, andre Igessie I

(01:07:00):
said that, right, and stephie Graff. So now only five
people have done a Golden Slam. In the NFL, probably
no surprise, but the Commanders did say that their number
two overall pick, Jayden Daniels is going to play in
their first preseason game against the Jets.

Speaker 7 (01:07:14):
Back to you guys, thank you, Like, I'm glad you
mentioned that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:17):
At the end. What are the Bears doing not playing?

Speaker 6 (01:07:19):
Kayleb, don't get me started, don't I After I remember
they came out and they were like, yeah, he's gonna play,
and then they were like, oh, he's not gonna play.

Speaker 7 (01:07:26):
In this one. Well, then what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (01:07:28):
I don't get it.

Speaker 7 (01:07:29):
I don't get it either.

Speaker 6 (01:07:30):
That's all everybody wants to watch Caleb Williams and they
didn't even play him.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
Are you on board with this, Jeff? You want Caleb
Williams to get a few reps out there?

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
I am pro preseason reps. If Andy Reid can play
Patrick Mahomes in the preseason, so you can play your rookie, right,
very simple, right, I don't The fact that Caleb Williams
did get one drive in the Hall of Fame game
is so silly to me. He needs to get ready
to play a national football.

Speaker 2 (01:08:00):
Yeah, I don't understand it. And we get into these
debates and the other side they'll be like, well, do
you think it's gonna make or break caleb season if
he gets one drive? No, we're not saying that, right,
But where's the logic in him being out there in practice?

Speaker 3 (01:08:18):
You know what I mean? Like, it's the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
I don't know why we're acting like preseason games are
a death defying stunt.

Speaker 8 (01:08:27):
In fairness of the barriers of the Hall of Fame
game is kind of like an extra preseason game, right.

Speaker 4 (01:08:30):
So, so Yeah, it's extra time to get him ready
to play.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:34):
Yeah, if they said he's gonna play like fifty five
to sixty snaps, but yeah, it would have been nice
to see him out there on Thursday.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
They said that in the Hall of Fame game, I
think before the.

Speaker 4 (01:08:43):
Hall of Fame game. Yeah, they put that out there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
They put it out he's gonna play Holy Cow. They
initially I didn't know they put it like fifty fives.

Speaker 3 (01:08:51):
A lot of sun throughout the preseason, like, oh ok, gotcha, yeah, gotcha.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
I thought you met in the Hall of Fame names. Specifically,
it's like holy Cow. They ramped that down from May
fifty five snap's the zero Yeah. Wow, craziness right there.
And now I don't remember how you pronounced this. I
grabbed the audio. You remember, Jeff, I know you do.
Travis Frederick really good offensive lineman with the Cowboys. Yeah,

(01:09:17):
but he was forced to retire because of that same
syndrome that is affecting Freddie Freeman's child.

Speaker 3 (01:09:25):
Right. I grabbed the audio because I never knew how
you pronounced this. It's this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Syndrome Gian Beret syndrome is what it is. And May
we're praying for Freddy's son. Hope everything is totally fine
right there. But yeah, Travis Frederick had to retire. It
it affects your nervous system. He was a very good
offensive lineman for the Cowboys. Yes, yeah, yeah, So hope
everything's okay. I heard that Freddie was going home to

(01:09:53):
be with his son, and I was like, man, I
wonder what's going on. But Monsy just let you know
what the deal was right there. So I hope everything's fine.
And uh yeah, on my wish list today, Jeff betting Wise,
we would like the Mets come from behind victims.

Speaker 3 (01:10:09):
Okay, okay, not huge steaks.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
But last leg of the two leg parlay, you know,
so that'd be nice if they could come back runners
at the corners here with one out in the eighth,
you know, we're threatening, and I also need the Yankees
to score one more run. So we would like the
Blue Jays to not score in the top of the ninth,
and that would put the Yankees in an even better
position to get that extra run. If they don't score

(01:10:32):
in the bottom of the ninth, then we got extras.
The ghost runner on second base, so we're hoping to
get out of the ninth inning unscathed. Here is what
we're looking at as the Mets just ground into a
double play. The dream is almost dead with the Mets.

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
Are when I got hooked yesterday by the uh I
mean hooked this morning with the USA women's basketball team,
had it, I kind of just gave up on gambling, Like,
so we checked out.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
You know what, that might be the best approach. I'll
never forget. I have to share the story with you, Jeff,
Like we went down to Mississippi. This was the yeah, yeah,
well two of them. It was the craps story, right,
we go to the craps table. So we're in Mississippi.
We're at the is it the beau Ravage?

Speaker 3 (01:11:22):
Is that it?

Speaker 4 (01:11:22):
Jeff?

Speaker 2 (01:11:23):
Yeah, yeah, great casino, very Vegas, like over there in Mississippi,
in Biloxi, because I think they were opening a new
bet MGM sports book, and so we did our shows there.
We did a live remote there, and so we're hanging
out during the weekend and Jeff and I find ourselves
at the craps table. Jeff and I lost our first bet,

(01:11:45):
and Jeff's like, let's get out of here, Like, well,
you love it and it's not a bad dude. I
will sit there and be like, all right, gambling wise,
like sports betting. If I'm cold, I'll keep betting, you know,
wrong approach. If I'm hot, I'm like, I want I
can just you know, ramp it down now, you have
the better approach if you're cold, just to walk away.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
I think it just depends on sort of like how
is it process while you're losing or just being dumb?
You know, like it just depends on how you're losing
to come up with the idea of why that is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
No, that's a good point. That's yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Listen, you know when you're just blindly chasing things or
talking yourself into something because you're ticked off that you
lost the previous bet, you know that, and that's those
are bets you should not be making correct but right
if your process is correct, like if you really were
on the winning side and you just got screwed. Yeah,

(01:12:47):
as long as your process is right, fire away. It's
pretty much what it comes down to. Fire away, fade
the white Sox. Right, that's a good But.

Speaker 4 (01:13:00):
Oh, I lost my six today. It's just the amount
of money just keeps pouring into my account is so lovely.
I can't believe it's a thing I can't I got
to live this way with all this White Sox money.
Thank you White Sox.

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Yeah, oh man, they are. I don't know who they
have up next on the schedule, probably doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Doesn't matter. You need, don't care.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
You need to check where they have covered up all
right right around the corner. This has to be the
funniest thing that has happened at the Olympics. He's Jeff Schwartz.
I'm Brian No. We're live from the tire rack dot
Com studios here on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
I'm Brian No, coming to you from the tire rack
dot Com studios over here. Okay, Jeff, So this has
gotta be the funniest thing that has happened during the Olympics.

Speaker 4 (01:13:53):
So yes, my wife this last night.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Oh this is so good. So there's a French pole vaulter.
I'm gonna screw up his last name. I'm not sure
how you pronounced it.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Okay, Anthony, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:14:09):
Vaults, Yeah, double a Anthony Amaradi something like that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
That's French.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
But sure, okay, So Anthony, he's trying to clear the
bar and He's got it cleared, Jeff, except the old
man's zone got in the way. Down goes the bar, right,
It didn't clear the other pole, like you just said,
right there.

Speaker 3 (01:14:34):
Yeah, And his.

Speaker 2 (01:14:35):
Instagram followers have been surging ever since because this guy's
like package got in the way of him clearing the bar.
He's an Olympic sensation. He finished in twelfth place. No
one cares.

Speaker 3 (01:14:49):
They're like, this guy is awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:14:51):
So the best part about this is that his knee
hit the pole first, by the way, oh wow, okay,
well is his junk hit the pole? And not only that,
but my wife is right next to me, and she's
listening to me talking about this, and she cannot believe

(01:15:13):
I'm talking about this in the national radio. The thing
about the fun part of this conversation, this is not
like serious radio, right, Like, I have to be very
careful with my words here. I have to use in
nuendos and talk about how he had two poles, one
he was using to jump over and the other one
that hit the other pole. Brian, it was I would

(01:15:34):
like to I would admit I watched it way more
than I probably should have. I was mesimized by that clip,
like it like it just was. How do you not
like get it put down enough to where this this
can't happen. It's give me the first time that's ever happened,
right in the Olympics, the first time it ever happened.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
Yeah, I don't know about pole vaulting. I know it
has happened with like racing. There's been some.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
Story Chris Jones, it happened to comments that is the
best moment in combine history.

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
Three time Super Bowl champion, like the in the Hall
of Famer. Yes, his juncture just flapped out. Okay, would
you would you rather? I guess the answer would be yes.
You rather win a gold medal than have than be
known for this. Okay, we're not a bronze medal. I

(01:16:32):
have a bronze medal. No, I wouldn't. I would no chance,
no chance.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
I'm famous for having a gigantic man zone.

Speaker 1 (01:16:41):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:16:43):
Yeah, sure that's better than any day.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
I'm just telling you guys that are listening right now,
it's it's bigger than you think, like idea of what
we're talking about. It's it's bigger, I promise you it is.
It's so oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:17:03):
It's it's so funny.

Speaker 4 (01:17:05):
These are the moments about the Olympics that you you
just don't get in other sports, right, other sports times,
I mean even turning into a more serious you know,
the the whole Kim golf thing, right, like from from
South Korea. Like there are storylines in the Olympics and
things that happened in the Olympics that you just don't get.

(01:17:28):
I mean, yeah, there was one time, I guess Lebron
maybe flash of people backs in it, right like sure,
but no one remember him for that. This young man,
well for every and he should lead into it, by
the way, he should totally Like his Instagram is TikTok accounts,
like they should all be like any whatever acronym he

(01:17:48):
wants to create for himself, it should all be that.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
It should be his profile picture. It's just the zoomed
in Oh absolutely.

Speaker 4 (01:17:56):
I saw someone on Twitter and did it. Anyways, for him,
that's what this ship, that's what his life should be.

Speaker 8 (01:18:03):
Is this terrible marketing people, by the way, Oh, absolutely terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
We're absolutely all over it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:11):
Already got dumped once today for the emergency side off
the phone. I can't get dumped twice. I can't get
in trouble again. For what I say, how would you
market this?

Speaker 8 (01:18:22):
I don't know, okay, really being on the smarter move.
Of course, OnlyFans like you can do the to a
girl like her.

Speaker 4 (01:18:29):
She's not She's like, but yeah, but she's too uppity
about the whole thing. I don't want to be known
for a thing.

Speaker 3 (01:18:34):
I'm embarrassing.

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
I'm not doing this. I mean, in a sense, this
is embarrassing for him. He lost, He lost the pole
vault with.

Speaker 8 (01:18:42):
You lost, and then on top of that, you're junk
is like viral, that's a that's a I turn off
my phone for a while.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
No no chance, no no chance.

Speaker 3 (01:18:52):
I'm married's phone right now.

Speaker 4 (01:18:53):
Every suit is lady in his life. If it's ladies,
it might be men. I don't know. We don't know
whoever he.

Speaker 7 (01:19:01):
Talk to.

Speaker 3 (01:19:03):
It's banging for the wrong like the wrong reason.

Speaker 4 (01:19:06):
It's okay, maybe it's fine. Just take brown eyes, It's fine, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
I don't know what the equivalent is, Mary, Maybe you
can help us in the female world.

Speaker 8 (01:19:16):
If I okay, like the jannat Jackson thing you remember
during the I mean, it's like, that's looky kind of equivalent.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
I don't know, but just like Jen Jackson. Thing is
a little different because it was that's way more famous
than this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
I mean that was like but for a guy to
be famous because of the size of his area, like,
there aren't many things guys would put above that, you
know what I'm saying, just as a guy thing.

Speaker 4 (01:19:41):
Like if you're not gonna win gold and you can
win something else, yeah, that's his profile should be something else.

Speaker 2 (01:19:51):
There isn't anybody else in the history of the Olympics
that finished twelfth that is better off than this guy is, right,
Like he's at the for finishing twelfth.

Speaker 4 (01:20:01):
Oh yeah, absolutely easily.

Speaker 3 (01:20:04):
Oh it's and the video is hysterical.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
It's like the slow motion like the Playboy channel did
this video or something.

Speaker 4 (01:20:13):
Well, it's just like it's certainly it's certainly not for kids.

Speaker 3 (01:20:17):
No, I have to I didn't notice the knee. I
had no idea that was the look.

Speaker 4 (01:20:24):
It's more fun if it's not the knee. But the
knee obviously was part of the equation.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
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(01:20:54):
Sharon Moore, Michigan head football coach, Right, yeah, he could
face a show cause penalty, could also be suspended. He
allegedly deleted a thread of fifty two text messages with
our guy Connor Stallions, mister Sigin Steeler himself. We're gonna

(01:21:16):
have a Netflix special on this right entitled sign Steeler.
So the now head coach, Sharon Moore allegedly deleted some
texts with Connor Stallions and the whole stealing of the
signs operation here.

Speaker 4 (01:21:31):
All right, So for those who might have missed this,
it was revealed or this year the individual working for
the Michigan Wolverine football department, Connor Stallions, was in the
stands at away games recording the signals for the opposing
team teams or the Michigan was going to play. And
it had been I think determined that Jim Harbaugh, the

(01:21:55):
head coach, I did not know about this the stowns
was doing this himself. There was some video Evans that
maybe that he was next to the coaches during the game.
So yeah, okay, all right. At the time, the biggest
question I had and still have this right now is
did the players know personally know that this was happening,

(01:22:20):
and then how much did it affect? Separat of that,
how much did it affect the winning and losing? Because
Michigan had the most talent team in the country last season,
and they beat everyone's butt each and every week, there
weren't a lot of close games they had, you know,
so my thought at that time was, you know, okay,

(01:22:47):
I think Jim Harbury knew about it, but how much
did it really affect the game? Because teams changed their signs,
You still have to execute on the play right, Like
you might tell your players, hey, you know they do
this when we call this, but the players have to
do it or I have to execute it correct. And
if the players are not in on it and they
don't know this specifically what you're doing, I don't know,

(01:23:07):
and I feel like it's less of an issue. And again,
Michigan kicked everyone's butt like knowing what and then also too,
when this stopped, they then beat Ohio State, Iowa, Alabama,
and Washington. Correct, that's the four games they want the
ends season, so like they want they beat everyone without
Connor stallions. All right, but the more evidence we get,

(01:23:31):
and that the way things are in life, right with
the more the more information you get, your opinion might
change on something. Brian, My opinion is sort of it
Probably it's not nothing, right, I don't know how big
it is, but it's not nothing. You know, something was
happening here that shouldn't have happened. That the lead text
messages and obviously a panic move there. But to go

(01:23:53):
they said, he went to fifty eight. He's got games
fifty eight times. I have to believe that the Michian
staff knew this was happening.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
No, that's the biggest joke with this whole thing is
And so again.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Let's talk about this about from a football perspective quickly, Brian. Okay,
So the system has changed now because they have the
radio communications between the coach and the player now, which
they not have a college football So previously you would
turn to the sideline, they give you a signal, right,
and that would be the play call. And that's sort
of the way it worked. So if you video, if

(01:24:30):
you are videotaping the signal and then you match up
to the TV copy of the play or the play
on the film, you can guess what they're doing. Right.
The thing is the signals change each week for the
most part, right, They're not going to keep them the same.
It's also adjustments off of stuff, so you might call
something quarterback might change the play and whatnot. Right, So

(01:24:52):
the fact that coaches didn't know this seems odd to
me because if you are going to a game plan,
you say, hey, man, I know when they do this,
we're you know, when they said on this they're doing this,
we should we should adjust. Our coach is going to
be like, all right, well, thanks staffer for giving that information,
and I guess possible notability, right, Like, I don't know,

(01:25:13):
I don't know where they got it from, but but
we have it and then players they have to execute.
The question I have that will not be answered is
what do the players know? Because there's two different things
ways this go down, right, Like, every team has tendencies. Right,

(01:25:34):
So if a coach says to me, hey, on third down,
we think they're doing this, all right, it's not guarantee
they're going to do it, but I know it pretty
well they're going to do that. If a coach even
told me, hey, guys, on third and five, they're doing this,
I think they're gonna do it, Brian, but I know
they might not write like it's not one hundred percent

(01:25:55):
of the time, versus saying to me, like Schwartz, I
know when they signal this, that's the exact thing they're doing.
But for two separate things, right yeah, ones off tendencies
and one's off the explicit knowledge that we have their signals.
And there were times, and everyone will tell you, there
were times when I play games where I picked up

(01:26:16):
on defensive line calls and linebacker signals. And I didn't
look to the sidelines in the NFL because it didn't
matter there. But I picked up stuff all the time,
right Like this, Spen's gamesmanship baseball has the same thing.
That's totally fine in my book. But if the Michigan
employers were being told, hey, hey, on this play, JJ McCarthy,
the quarterback, if they're going to run this exact pressure

(01:26:40):
with this coverage behind it, and I want you to
do this when we give you that call, that's a
little bit different than telling them, hey, they might do
this on this play, and that to me is just
a really nuanced part of this that will change my
opinion on how I feel about this whole thing.

Speaker 3 (01:27:00):
Well, a couple of things.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
The first thing is it's the biggest joke in the
world for Jim Harbaugh to say with a straight face
I know nothing about any of this. Come on, dude, really,
And there there's footage you've seen Connor stallions on the
sideline when Michigan's facing Ohio State and he's got these
signals where sometimes it's pointing to the sky where that

(01:27:24):
indicates it's going to be a pass or it's going
to be a run. And so the players might not
have been briefed on exactly how and why they have
this information, but they certainly utilized it, you know what
I mean if the the staffers like, yo, I know
when it's going to be a pass, I'm going to
point to the heavens and that's going to signal it's

(01:27:45):
a passing play.

Speaker 4 (01:27:46):
Yeah. But again, like that is not that unusual if
a coach were telling you, hey, man, we think it's
a pass play here, because in a given game, you
might pick up their signs. Sure, and and and by
the way the signs are public, right, Like, that's part

(01:28:07):
of it too. It's like these are not like they're
hidden behind something and then they admission they're out in
the open that you can already pick the signs if
you want to, if you have a cameraman that has
a good view of the field and you match up
a TV copy to the place, like Brian, you could
already do this, not to the same extent as if
you videotape them directly, but you can already stee their signs.

(01:28:30):
So again, to me, it's it's the explicitness of telling
your players I know exactly what's happening here, versus I
think I know what's happening to me. As a nuance
that matters to me. It might not matter anyone else.
But again, as a player in college, Brian, I knew

(01:28:51):
what our defensive calls were. In practice, I can just
look at the coach and see like, oh, they're pressuring right.
Like that's different than again just sort of guessing like
I think think this is cover three or the field
pressure versus saying, hey, guys, field pressure right here? You
know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
Yeah, well, I think that Look if you look at
a couple of cheating scandals. There are differences, but there
are also some similarities. I look at this Michigan cheating
scandal along with Spygate and the Astros banging on trash cans.
You know, now with Spygate and the Astros certainly Spygate,

(01:29:27):
they're using video.

Speaker 3 (01:29:28):
They're recording these signals, right, which is a no.

Speaker 4 (01:29:31):
No, it's the same thing. Sounds was doing a different
different right, right.

Speaker 2 (01:29:35):
Yeah, he wasn't videotaping them, at least to my knowledge.
He was at the games and stealing these which was illegal.

Speaker 4 (01:29:41):
No he no, he uses phone and videotape.

Speaker 3 (01:29:43):
Oh he was video. Okay, So there you go, So
there are even.

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
Believe that's what I believe. That was what he was
doing while he was there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
So you got It's funny, right, like Spygate, what Michigan
was doing, what the Astros did, and the Astros were
recording signals as well, right, and they were relaying it
and they're banging on trash cans to indicate what pitch
is coming.

Speaker 3 (01:30:01):
It's just funny to.

Speaker 2 (01:30:02):
Me how the reaction differs so greatly, you know what
I mean, Like the way it seems to be Oh,
Astro's dirty, cheating scoundrels. Okay, fine, oh Patriots, those cheaters
Michigan football. Have you heard no comments that have nearly
as much venom to them as you do with the

(01:30:24):
Astros and Patriots.

Speaker 4 (01:30:27):
Well, the Patriots have had a rap for a while, right,
that's partly why. Right, it's because of Belichick and all
the things that happen. Yeah happened. Yeah, Well, I think
to the unknown nature of what actually occurred here is
still in question. That's probably why, Brian, we have some
some sort of I don't know what happened. And Plus again,

(01:30:50):
after it happened, they still won. They beat their rival,
they won a big ten championship, came in two playoff games.
So it's like, well, how much it really matter if
they they still continue to went the same rate that
they did. Now, Look, the offense wasn't as good. Now
that could be a product of the better defense as
they're playing as well. So I'm not just saying that
the only reason why the offense was a little bit

(01:31:11):
slower was because of not knowing the signs. But that's
why I think there's not as much discussed. Plus what
is it, I mean, you're not take away their championship.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
No, right and so, and that's where the NFL was
so stupid. The NFL made Spygate a much bigger issue
than it ever was, just by the way they went
about it.

Speaker 4 (01:31:34):
But they made deflaight Gate into a bigger issue. It
was times one hundred, right.

Speaker 2 (01:31:40):
The flight Gate was the biggest clown show, Like that's
the one where we're in court and we we're hammering
it up. That was the byproduct of Spygate. You're right, Yeah,
they kind of they did the opposite. Actually, they pretty
much got rid of the Spygate tapes and that was. Yeah,
the flight Gate was when they really went all in
and that it was.

Speaker 4 (01:32:00):
The opposite because everyone was angry that they took it
easy on the pageots that first time, extra hard this time.
I mean Brady got suspended because he look, I mean,
obviously taking a hand to your phone not great.

Speaker 3 (01:32:12):
Side and you're innocent, but deleted all the texts.

Speaker 4 (01:32:18):
Guys looked. I don't I don't have crimes to commit,
at least not yet, so I don't plan on racing
my text messages. But they will get them from you.
They don't disappear if you're in the cloud. If you
if you're on the cloud, maybe they're they disappear. But
and think about Shrewd moore is last year, guys, when

(01:32:40):
Harvall was suspended, he he coached just on game day, right,
He wasn't in charge of the whole the whole team,
you know, for the entire week. So to start off
your coaching tenure now being under investigation, but by inn
c double a not the best way to start. Michigan's
already hired a high powered attorney for the situation. They're

(01:33:01):
going to fight this the entire way as they should.
There's no vacating championship. They're the best team last season.
That that doesn't change anything, but it does question again
what anyone knew, how much the Stallions evolved, who paid him?
What did he do? Again? To your point, the idea

(01:33:23):
that he was like a lone wolf in this.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
Stupid That's the thing is you have to play the
game of in order for this to be true, you
know what I mean, Like, let's just walk down the
road of Jim Harbaugh doesn't know anything about this, wouldn't
you When you're on the sideline with Connor Stallions and
he's pointing to the heavens and everybody on the field
is looking at him. Wouldn't you walk over to him

(01:33:48):
and be like, hey, buddy, so what's going on? Like
you would just be like, I don't know anything about
what's going on, like whatever. They've got their own thing going. Really,
the head coaches know what Come on, man, what's mad?

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
If you fart in the facility? That coach knows about
it exactly, doesn't know that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
The coach doesn't know about a cheating whole system you
have in or come on, dude.

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Yeah, I mean, look, there's you can I think because
of the nature of the sport now that it's legal
to quote unquote cheat I mean not in this sense,
but the idea of paying players, right, they used to
be taboo forever and not allowed. There probably is a

(01:34:37):
lot of system put in place to allow coach pausible
deniability for a lot of things. And remember that Harbaugh
have had bif Pogi's now in Charlotte as like his
little you know, like head of state, right what they
call the president's person, the chief of chief staff. Yeah,

(01:35:00):
everyone has a chief of staff now, and you can
make that you can you can make the case that
if things went through the chief of staff, a guy.
I'm not accusing Bif Pogy at all of anything. He's
using his name because he that's who he was. Like,
if you have a guy like that in charge, you
know somewhere, and everyone has him now, right, most top
ms do, and everything goes through him to the coach,

(01:35:21):
you can make the case that there's a possible deniability
factor to this, right where no one ever told horror
By anything. The chief of staff just said, you know what,
We're done with it, We're done with it. I'm like,
I'm not accusing Biff Pogie of anything using his name,
of example, because people should know who he is. But
your point is the valid one, right, is that on

(01:35:44):
the sideline on game day you should would notice this
guy next to your defensive coordinator, Parma's not calling the plays,
throwing more and I think the past game Josh Gaddis
did last season or to your ago, they would, I mean,
certainly if they're like waiting to hear what to call

(01:36:04):
and he's like, yeah, they're gonna run his own here,
and they're like, all right, well let's call this. Like
was listening to all that stuff in his headset.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
During the game, So yeah, it's zero chance he knew
then too.

Speaker 4 (01:36:16):
They go back to the play I'm so fast with
this player thing, dide one of the players ever be
like to Blake horn Ever go like, how do they
know this stuff? Did one of this in your offensive linemen?
And be like, b offense line coach, how do you
how do you know that this is what they're doing?

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
It would be funny if they're like, man, our staff
is just on it. I don't know how they are there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:39):
They just man, Brian, we're locked in this. Wee yeah,
Zach Ohio State is doing so it's a story that look,
it's gonna beet uglier. It feels like we're gonna be lawsuits.
You know, this is gonna test the power of the
n C double A, which is diminishing by the day,
because you know, Mischi's gonna fight this, and yeah, it's
gonna be really it's gonna be really fascinating. Dude.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Here's what happens too, I'm betting borderline, nothing happens.

Speaker 3 (01:37:05):
You might get a suspension or.

Speaker 4 (01:37:08):
It seems like a violation of some sort, but yeah,
you get.

Speaker 2 (01:37:12):
A little slap on the wrist. It's not gonna be
anything significant and they're just.

Speaker 3 (01:37:16):
Gonna move on. And that's the thing.

Speaker 2 (01:37:18):
Look, man, this provided an advantage. I don't think it
provided the ultimate advantage. And that's what they're gonna do, right, Like,
they don't have the teeth anyway. The NC double A,
they're like a parent that say, hey, you kids, knock
it off, and they don't have any they don't have
anything that can levy a punishment, you know what I mean.

(01:37:40):
It's like, kids, knock it off. A parent would be like,
or you're grounded for a month straight. Like the NC
double A is like, knock it off, please, you know,
Like they just don't have any teeth.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
That's where they're at right now. All right, we got
a lot to do.

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(01:39:04):
tire buying should be. I feel like every read should
have Lamb of God in the background, Jeff, I think
that music just enhances any type of reading that's going
on during these shows.

Speaker 4 (01:39:17):
You agree, I have to agree, Yeah, yeah, I do. Yeah,
I mean, especially you know, the Olympics are on right now.
This obviously replay from earlier today, but they're doing the
fifteen hundred meter swim. I mean, I would imagine that
what's playing in the leader's head right now is Lamba God.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
I That's exactly how i'd fire myself up. Maybe that's
what Noil Noah Lyles listened to before the one hundred meter.
Maybe that's why the guy from from France, you know,
that's why they didn't clear the pole vault right to
stop it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:50):
Lamb of God.

Speaker 4 (01:39:50):
Really, I love how much men are obsessing over this,
the pole vault thing, and women just do not care.

Speaker 3 (01:39:59):
They don't, they don't. They don't know what we're wired like,
they don't know how we're wired yet.

Speaker 4 (01:40:02):
It's just like it's I couldn't. I still can't stop
watching it. It's just measurizing to me.

Speaker 3 (01:40:08):
We cannot be more different as creatures. Man, No, you
just can't.

Speaker 4 (01:40:12):
It's like a fascination thing for us. We're like, oh, okay, well, jeez,
not my problem. I wouldn't make I'm not olympian and
not also not my problem. So it's just it's I
we had a world record fifteen hundred right here for
oh oh, I love when the orange line. You're like,
it's oh, I know that it's such a great record,

(01:40:33):
world record for the fifteen hundred. How awesome?

Speaker 1 (01:40:35):
Is that?

Speaker 4 (01:40:35):
Very nice? I am an American elitist when it comes
to the Olympics. I think we should win everything. Like
the fact that that we lost like air pistol to
South Korea, it's a problem. Right, we should not lose
any we should not lose any single shooting activity.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
And you know what, think about that too. The pressure involved.
You're expect to win whatever competition it happens to be
if you're an American, right, you're expected to win. I
wonder how much pressure Shakiri Richardson felt before the one
hundred meters dash. And I'm not saying that's why she
finished second, but I think the pressure is a real thing. Right,

(01:41:16):
If you're from Saint Lucia and your country has never
won a gold medal before, and Shakiri Richardson is expected
to win gold, that's a different it's a different u
situation there with pressure, I think that can make a difference.

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
This is why I did the four year thing. I
mean securit Richard obviously, unfortunately, you know, had to miss
the last Olympics, and so the pressure on her means,
you know, to win this year and the time frame
and this is all sports. But you know, Simone Biles, Okay,
I think she's twenty nine. I don't want to get
her age wrong. I think she's twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:41:52):
Gonna make sure they think she's twenty seven.

Speaker 4 (01:41:54):
Twenty seven, Okay, that's old for a gymnast. She yeah, right,
she changed the age. The age is twenty seven years old.
Thank you for correcting me.

Speaker 3 (01:42:07):
She I'm all about gymnastics, Jeff, buddy, need anything I got?

Speaker 4 (01:42:10):
He changed the age range for gymnasts, like your age
for Jims was like sixteen to twenty two. Right, She's
twenty nine, and you're like, okay, this is probably it
for her. So you have every four years plus the
span of time of your life. It's not just Olympics.

(01:42:33):
I played eight years the NFL, buddy, that's it. Eight years.
I retired to thirty. Yeah, okay, but it feels even
more aggressive when it comes to the Olympics, right, because
again you're every four years. So yeah, it's it's a
lot of pressure the metal fortitude of these athletes to

(01:42:55):
continue to push forward in the face of lots of training,
lots of adversity, and again not a lot of money.
You've seen stories in this cycle where a flavor Flave
I believe is sponsored the women's water polo team, if
I'm correct on that. Yeah, yeah, and then another competitor

(01:43:16):
athlete said that she couldn't afford a rent, and he
picked up her rent. There's a four mini dollar donation
to the rug the USA one's rugby team. Like, these
athletes are doing this without how a lot of us
and professionals get paid. They're doing this, they're graded obviously
for they're doing it for the glory of winning gold

(01:43:36):
and everything. But you know the swimmer watching right now,
I mean with thirty eight thousand dollars for winning a
gold other countries giving up seven hundred thousand dollars. So
and the other countries too. We talked about Kim the golfer.
You get to skip mandatary military service if you win
a medal.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Wow, it's try how it varies. Because I think it's
Hong Kong. I think they give out like you said,
it's like sixty thousand dollars Poland they're like, they don't
give any money Poland's like, we'll paint you a picture
for free, like really, and they get a couple of perks.

Speaker 3 (01:44:08):
They don't get any money, do you. But I think,
what is it, thirty eight thousand.

Speaker 4 (01:44:13):
Whatever, thousand dollars? We have to up that a little bit. Yeah,
but if we did that, we get we get some
more people that they can do air rifle. You're really
upset about this, Yeah, I mean I feel like I'm
in the South right now, I can just go to
some neighbor's house down the street. Million you could. You
can win air rifle, right, yeah, clearly. Yeah. So it's Brian,

(01:44:38):
I inside information. So I'm in a we rent a
house down here, and we're trying to figure out what
to do with the storm coming.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
Yeah, sitting storm, just sitting storm.

Speaker 4 (01:44:48):
It's gonna sit over us it say twenty to thirty
inches of rain. We're trying to figure out what to do.
It's like in the breaks, my wife is coming in here.
We're trying to figure out backup plans, and I'm the
point where I'm just like I just want to dry
home and avoid all this tomorrow. But she wants to
like get on a plane, go to Miami, go to Cacoon, like,
go to Florida, like she has this week off from work.

(01:45:11):
I understand that she.

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
Wants to go to the beach somewhere time to do something. Yeah,
I would.

Speaker 4 (01:45:16):
Imagine that we're going to drive back home tomorrow or
Tuesday morning and fly somewhere Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Okay, that's that might might be the game plan.

Speaker 4 (01:45:28):
Huh. Probably Miami, and then I'll fly home Sunday in
time to do our show at five to get look.

Speaker 3 (01:45:33):
At you, Look at you.

Speaker 4 (01:45:35):
That's what I like to hear.

Speaker 2 (01:45:37):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (01:45:37):
Priority, I've skipped enough Sundays. It's football season. Now we're
locked in. I look if I had to put in
the work during basketball season in playoffs to it's football season.
Now it's time talk football. I put in the work
talking about other sports. Let's talk about football season.

Speaker 3 (01:45:54):
Buddy amended that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
You know I'm about to enter in my season long
bed on day Annuel Jones overpassing yards.

Speaker 3 (01:46:02):
I'm telling you, get on it.

Speaker 4 (01:46:03):
It's not a bad bet.

Speaker 2 (01:46:05):
Get bet MGM twenty six seventy five and a half
got to get to. Basically, we'll just call it twenty
seven hundred yards passing. If he plays double digit games
he's probably gonna get there. Seriously, he threw for over
threeenty and twelve starts.

Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
As a rookie.

Speaker 3 (01:46:22):
You got Malik Dabers. Now, I've been trying. You've been
working on vacation plans.

Speaker 2 (01:46:27):
I've been working working on throwing some cash in my
bet MGM sportsbook account over here to bet On Daniel Jones.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
All right, we got some wow moments here.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
We gotta throw your way first, though, always a wow
moment when we hear from Monsey Belanos with the latest
what's going on Mancy?

Speaker 1 (01:46:45):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:46:45):
You know, and just being wild over here at the
Fox Sports Radio studios.

Speaker 4 (01:46:49):
You know, how did how did you cover the pole
volt story? Is? Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:46:53):
Yes, I so you guys right now were saying how like, oh,
women don't care? We care. I looked over at Bow
and I was like, I can, I can about good story.
I absolutely care. I mean, how could you not?

Speaker 1 (01:47:06):
I was?

Speaker 7 (01:47:07):
I was with you, Jeff. I could not stop watching
the video.

Speaker 6 (01:47:10):
I was like, I'm sorry, you need to see one
more time what happened, just for reporting purposes, you.

Speaker 7 (01:47:15):
Know, because I gotta do my jo. I just needed to,
you know, see exactly what went down the count I
ain't capen, girl. We talked about it yesterday. I ain't cappen.
There is no cappin. Have you seen the video, because
I don't think you have. That's why you seem to
pretend to not care when we care. We definitely care.

Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
But let's move on from that story before I get
carried away and we talking about NFL stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
Guys.

Speaker 6 (01:47:44):
Okay, Quandre Diggs has reunited with Jamal Adams in Tennessee.
The free agent Veterans safety has reached an agreement one
year deal.

Speaker 7 (01:47:52):
Worth up to five million. So there we go there.

Speaker 6 (01:47:55):
Commander's head coach Dan Quinn said that their number two
overall picked Jade and Daniels will play in Washington's first
preseason game against the Jets.

Speaker 7 (01:48:03):
In baseball, after more than a.

Speaker 6 (01:48:04):
Ninety minute rain delay, the Yankees walked it off against
the Blue Jays thanks to dj lemayhew a single right
up the middle.

Speaker 7 (01:48:11):
It was so interesting.

Speaker 6 (01:48:12):
The Blue Jays brought in another infielder, like they had
like five infielders, and then he still put it up
the middle and they walked it off.

Speaker 3 (01:48:20):
So you were hating on my bet, MONTI.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
They were trying to They didn't want the over three
and a half team a team runs from the Yankees,
but DJ found a way.

Speaker 6 (01:48:30):
He did find a way in ten innings the Orioles.
They also won earlier today against the Guardians nine to five,
so the Orioles and the Yankees are still tied for
the top spot in the Al East.

Speaker 7 (01:48:41):
The Phillies snapped their.

Speaker 6 (01:48:42):
Six game losing streak. They shut out the Mariners six
to zero. The Padres defeated the Rockies ten to two.
The Angels beat the Mets three to two. The Dodgers
edged the A's three to two.

Speaker 7 (01:48:52):
We needed that one.

Speaker 6 (01:48:53):
The Red Sox beat the Rangers seven to two. Raised
with the one zero lead or they've beat the Astros
one zero. The Twins handed the White Sox are twentieth
straight loss. Thirteen to seven was the final score. Royals
three to two over the Tigers, and the Nationals. They
beat the Brewers four to three earlier today. The Marlin
shut out the Brave seven zero. The Diamondbacks came back

(01:49:14):
to beat the Pirates six to five, and the Giants
defeated the Reds eight to two. Right now, the Cardinals
and the Cubs are scoreless. In the bottom of the
second inning in Chicago. At the Olympics, Noah Lyles became
the first American to win gold in the one hundred meters.

Speaker 7 (01:49:29):
Sprint since two thousand and four.

Speaker 6 (01:49:31):
With that gold, US and China are now tied with
nineteen gold medals after day nine.

Speaker 7 (01:49:36):
That picture that you see.

Speaker 6 (01:49:38):
Of Noah Lyles winning his foot is over, but the
Jamaican runners foot seems to be further over the line.

Speaker 7 (01:49:46):
Apparently it's not with your foot that you win, it's
with your chest.

Speaker 3 (01:49:51):
It's the torso.

Speaker 7 (01:49:53):
Yeah, like that's so we I didn't know that you
would think it's whatever crosses first.

Speaker 3 (01:49:57):
Nope, all about the torso.

Speaker 6 (01:49:59):
So that makes sense because you also see like right
at the end when runners like kind of push their
body like they never try with their foot.

Speaker 7 (01:50:05):
It's like the entire body. So a lot of people
when you see that.

Speaker 6 (01:50:08):
Picture from overhead, it does look like the Jamaican runner
maybe in front.

Speaker 2 (01:50:12):
No, you want to use the torso and sprinting, You
don't want to use the torso when you're pole vaulting.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
Our friend, no, no, no, he didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:50:21):
He used a lot more than the tors so. Brian,
what was I talking about? You made me lose my train?
You're so right. You're so right. We have a lot
of gold. That's the point. That guy has a lot
of stuff. Back to you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:50:37):
He's got a lot of Instagram followers.

Speaker 4 (01:50:38):
Now there, I know she's getting more than we are.

Speaker 2 (01:50:44):
Brian, let's find out here because it's Anthony am Muradi
something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:50:50):
Sure, let's see what is if he has not made
this Okay, right.

Speaker 8 (01:50:55):
Now he has ninety eight point one k followers.

Speaker 3 (01:50:58):
Okay, that's going to serve we're getting funny.

Speaker 8 (01:51:01):
One of my friends is actually following him right now.

Speaker 3 (01:51:07):
It just goes underscore in the middle, Anthony underscore Amarati Ammaradi.

Speaker 4 (01:51:12):
He does he have a does he have the profile
picture yet?

Speaker 6 (01:51:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:51:14):
His profile picture is him like shooting acting like he's
got to pretend gun. He's just posing like he's kind
of like shooting at the camera type things.

Speaker 4 (01:51:25):
Is the other best story about the Olympics the guy
from Turkey who showed up to the air.

Speaker 3 (01:51:29):
Oh that was so good.

Speaker 4 (01:51:32):
He is.

Speaker 7 (01:51:34):
That's like your uncle showing up Like it was just like,
who is this guy?

Speaker 4 (01:51:37):
Yeah, everyone's wearing protective like these cool little glasses. They're
not protected, but like the cover one eye. She can
focus on the other eye. They have all these belts
ones on the gun. He just showed up and like
loaded his pistol and just shot it.

Speaker 3 (01:51:48):
Right with his hand in his pocket.

Speaker 1 (01:51:49):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
He didn't have the noise camp, noise canceling headphones on,
all that type of stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:51:55):
He just showed.

Speaker 8 (01:51:56):
He went viral also for being a cat lover. I've
seen like he's popped up on my like Twitter, Yeah,
with a bunch of Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:52:02):
People were like, please nobody kill this man's cat because
he's going to be John Wick all over.

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:52:08):
That interesting.

Speaker 8 (01:52:10):
I think he had one gold like a couple of
years back and he was like, I don't I don't
need to practice or anything.

Speaker 3 (01:52:14):
I've done this before.

Speaker 4 (01:52:16):
Wow, I love it so much. Are they wearing air
protection for the little air for the little air bb
they shoot?

Speaker 2 (01:52:23):
Well whatever they're Yeah, a lot of those guys they
have the like the big huge headphones on to cancer Baby,
That's what I'd be listening to. But he's just like,
I don't need headphones. Good and he just shows up
and does his thing. Yeah, he he was fantastic.

Speaker 6 (01:52:40):
Man.

Speaker 4 (01:52:41):
What what sport in the Olympics have you been most
mesmerized while watching so far take out the pull, Walter.

Speaker 2 (01:52:53):
Mesmerized by I'm trying to think of everything that I've watched,
you know, like watching sports that I normally don't watch,
Like I bet on handball. I had an under in
a handball a game. You have a problem, Brian told
you this before.

Speaker 3 (01:53:07):
No I hit, I hit, I sensed value and I
hit the.

Speaker 4 (01:53:10):
Problem if it's only a problem if you lose. Right's
handball was the one for me where I watch it
and you know what it is. Actually I'll take another stab.
It was not handball fencing. I have no idea what's
happening they they just award points. They always argue in
both sides about points. Yeah, they're doing a ton of
replays like they're watching it all the time. They're also tethered.

(01:53:34):
What are they tethered to? They think they're gonna run away?
Why there are tethers on them?

Speaker 2 (01:53:38):
I don't understand. I don't understand whatever they're called in
water polo. If they're called fouls, I'm not sure. But
I don't understand why you lose possession, right, I don't
get it. Where sometimes it's very light contact and all
of a sudden, they're just heading the other way and
I'm like, what what happened?

Speaker 3 (01:53:58):
Well, they don't have the ball.

Speaker 4 (01:53:59):
And more what my roommate's wife in college was a
water polo player and the women, at least I know
this a little more. In the men, maybe they're very
aggressive under the water. Yeah, there's a lot of punching, kicking,
you know, clawing, fighting happening there. I think the fouls,

(01:54:21):
we just don't see them because they're under the water
and your heart. Unless you're an official who's walking back
and forth and has watched all of it, it's hard
for us to tell when a foul curtain went in dent.

Speaker 2 (01:54:31):
Yeah, maybe I can understand that, But there are some
times where there's hardly any contact and they're like, eh,
not your ball anymore, and I'm like what what?

Speaker 7 (01:54:40):
Why?

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
So there's a lot of things I just don't understand
about some of these sports, right, like the intricacies.

Speaker 3 (01:54:47):
Yeah, I got nothing.

Speaker 2 (01:54:49):
If you know what stands out too in gymnastics, where
you'll hear some of the commentators because all I know
it's like diving, it's like they're very aggressive. Oh there,
they'll be like, oh, it could be a toe that
wasn't pointed, and it's like, oh shoot, they look for that.
It could be you know, like this little twist wasn't completed.
I'm like, oh shoot, I don't notice it.

Speaker 6 (01:55:11):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:55:12):
I like it because to your point, you get informed.
But then we like, that's a three point deduction, like
just immediately in the middle.

Speaker 3 (01:55:18):
Of the routine, three tests out of bounds, three tests.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
Three tests at a lot of three. T Oh, that's
one point fell off the balance beam. Yeah, and now
let's just turn on social media where people are posting
videos of themselves saying here's why I didn't make the Olympics.
That's all people failing it like diving or swimming or gymnastics.
I've laughed a lot of the videos I will say that,
so thank you for those who have done that. I'm
just sitting here waiting for waiting for break dancing to start,

(01:55:42):
because I know that's a sport where excellent I'd excel
in that one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:47):
Absolutely, coming up very shortly. All right, coming up next,
we pay it off. A couple of stories that made
me say either wow or what We'll share them with you.
It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz, I'm Brian No.

Speaker 3 (01:55:59):
Hang with this.

Speaker 2 (01:56:00):
Right here, we are live from the tire rack dot
Com studios. It is Fox Sports Radio. He's Jeff Schwartz.
I'm Brian No. Okay, So a couple of stories here,
Jeff either.

Speaker 4 (01:56:14):
Music today.

Speaker 3 (01:56:14):
Yeah, it's the new tradition over here, right.

Speaker 4 (01:56:16):
I noticed today?

Speaker 3 (01:56:18):
So I always forget this guy's name. What is it again,
Mary Mack? It's Josh, Josh. What's this guy's what's his name?
Does this song?

Speaker 2 (01:56:27):
Who's this guy? Who does this Song's? Okay, No one's listening,
Josh Turner.

Speaker 3 (01:56:36):
Good lord, she's.

Speaker 8 (01:56:38):
Going on a rent right now here in the studio.

Speaker 4 (01:56:40):
She's talking about the pole vault.

Speaker 6 (01:56:41):
I know it.

Speaker 4 (01:56:42):
It's okay.

Speaker 8 (01:56:42):
Now she's talking about who is the greatest Clipper of
all times?

Speaker 4 (01:56:45):
Actually, there's she I grew up in Los Angeles. She's
the only Clippers fan. I I there might be other
Clippers fans. She's the only talks about the Clippers though.

Speaker 8 (01:56:55):
Yeah, she's pretty heated right now. That's so I didn't
hear what you guys are just saying right now. Of
all time, she said, Blake Griffin, and she's it's her.

Speaker 4 (01:57:06):
Blake Griffin.

Speaker 3 (01:57:07):
She said Blake Griffin.

Speaker 4 (01:57:08):
What did you say?

Speaker 3 (01:57:09):
What did you say?

Speaker 8 (01:57:09):
Wancie is.

Speaker 3 (01:57:11):
Elton Brand?

Speaker 8 (01:57:12):
Her brother said, Elton Brand.

Speaker 3 (01:57:14):
Elton Brand.

Speaker 4 (01:57:15):
Wow, it didn't Elgin Baylor play for the Clippers. I
have that wrong too? Did you play the Lakers?

Speaker 3 (01:57:21):
He was gonna meet you.

Speaker 4 (01:57:22):
I thought he played both. I thought he played both.
Oh he was a GM with that's what.

Speaker 2 (01:57:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:57:25):
Yeah, I thought he played for the Clippers. I thought
he played for both of them.

Speaker 3 (01:57:28):
If he never, I don't know. I don't If he did,
it wasn't that long anyways.

Speaker 8 (01:57:32):
Yeah, so that's that's that's what was happening. That's so
I didn't know who the artist was, but it's just her.

Speaker 3 (01:57:36):
No, thanks for not leaving me hanging.

Speaker 6 (01:57:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:57:40):
No, of course, of course he was. Elgin was with
the Lakers the whole time. So old school. He started
off with a minute.

Speaker 4 (01:57:46):
Twenty two years with the Clippers being with Donald Sterling.
Good for him. Yeah, wow, yeah, I knew was a Laker.
I thought maybe he played for the Clippers too.

Speaker 3 (01:57:56):
Okay, so this headline caught my attention.

Speaker 2 (01:57:58):
Jeff, I saw this and I said, what So there
was a man who stole a Jackie Robinson statue okay,
stole it from a Kansas youth league. And the punishment
is in he will spend fifteen years in prison. It's
fifteen years in the clink for stealing a statue. I said, what,

(01:58:21):
So I read this story. Apparently he did a couple
other things wrong. Because so I read the story, I
was like, was he an accessory to murder?

Speaker 4 (01:58:27):
Also?

Speaker 3 (01:58:27):
And that's why he's like fifteen years for a statue?
Good lord? But apparently he ran.

Speaker 2 (01:58:33):
From police, he entered a man's house, this whole thing.
There were other things along with this. That's why he's
getting fifteen years in behind bars.

Speaker 4 (01:58:43):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:58:43):
That headline made me go.

Speaker 4 (01:58:45):
The thought of being in prison. I don't know what
I was watching. It brought this up to me. It's
just not for me. No, couldn't do it.

Speaker 1 (01:58:55):
Not.

Speaker 2 (01:58:56):
This caught my attention to So Kobe Bryant's Stayed Center locker.
It sold that auction for two point nine million dollars.
Jeff and I thought it was interesting because at first
I was like, wow, goodness, three million bucks for a locker,
and we realized the late great Kobe Bryant, it's special

(01:59:18):
significance and all that.

Speaker 4 (01:59:20):
I like the statue they put it on in front
of Staple Center of him and as one really cool
I mean him and his daughter. I should say it
was very it was very well done. That's the first
athlete that has passed away that I'm not an emotional,
like sentimental person all. That was the first one where
like that got like, I mean, I grew up. Ye,
he's my guy, is a Lakers fan like and and

(01:59:41):
his daughter made obviously you know the other people on board,
but that was a very sweet, sweet little satue they
put outside of him and his daughter. I thought the
Lakers did a good job with that.

Speaker 3 (01:59:50):
No, I did a great job. And this was crazy too.

Speaker 2 (01:59:54):
So during the renovations of Staple Center when it still
was a Staple Center in twenty eighteen, there was an
unnamed maintenance worker that saved the locker from demolition and
then it sold for almost three million dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:00:08):
How crazy is that they're just going to demolish the thing?

Speaker 4 (02:00:11):
And uh, I guess at that point he had passed away.
I dont understand why they would probably demolish it.

Speaker 3 (02:00:16):
I guess it's twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (02:00:18):
But the maintenance worker was like, we're just gonna get
rid of this like this could be worth some real cash.
Sold for almost three million bucks. Goodness, all right, great stuff. Everybody,
have a good evening. Keep it locked here on Fox.

Speaker 3 (02:00:29):
We'll catch you later