Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk CeeDee Lamb Urgency, First-Year NFL Head Coaches & More!

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how are you?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I'm good, I'm good. What's going on? Andy?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
I couldnot wait to talk to you today because there's
certain things that are bubbling in my mind between my
ears and I have so much more newfound respect for athletes,
particularly football players. I'll tell you what I mean by that.
Yesterday the Chicago Bears beat the Buffalo Bills in preseason
by thirty three to six. That may have been the
worst thing to possibly happen to the Chicago Bears this year.

(01:05):
And why do I say that you took about a
pressure and expectations. They got the number one pick, the
Heightsmen win the Caleb Williams and the guy just was
he goes four to seven for passing ninety five yards.
He looked decent and I passed to DJ Moore. You
would have thought that they won the Super Bowl five
times over. I mean the pressure and the expectations I

(01:27):
wouldn't have been able to live with is going on
in that kid's minds Caleb Williams right now? Am I
over exaggerating this? Or the expectations right now? On Caleb Williams,
the way they're talking about him when he's writing about
him and he only had four of seven, He only
played what twelve snaps something like that? It was crazy
or twenty snaps. I don't know what it was. Expectations

(01:48):
right now can basically eat you up alive. Am I
crazy or what?

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, Expectations are not always a good thing because it
does add pressure, a heightened sense of expectation in terms
of what you're looking for a team. And so for
the Chicago Bears, you talk about number one overall pick,
They've been the hype darlings all preseason in terms of
all season because everyone expects this team to make a

(02:14):
major jump from what they did last year to this year. Look,
the expectation of Kayler Williams to come in and tear
the league up. All of those things have only escalated
since his debut against the Buffalo Bills. They went up
and down the field. And even though he only led
the team to back to backfield goals and it's two

(02:34):
drives that he was in the way that they played,
the way that they looked, the way that the team
kind of knocked off and blew out the Buffalo Bills
in the preseason game certainly kind of raises the bar
as we get close and closer to the regular season.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
And look, you've been around there, you've been there, you
played the game, and you're part of it. It's just
something that coaches are happy about. Certainly, you play the
game to win, I don't care if it's preseason or not.
And that's why they put points on the board, because
you play for a score win. But right now, I mean,
the Bears have created a situation that is even more
pressure laden than it was prior to the draft. I mean,

(03:10):
the fans just say, wow, they beat Buffalo. You know,
Caleb looked really good, and now they're expected to go
march along playoffs, maybe even deep in the playoffs. It's
a crazy phenomenon, it really is, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (03:24):
Uh yeah, it's pretty crazy to think. And they're in
a very very competitive division because the Detroit Lions the
Green Bay Packers aren't going anywhere. They're going to have
to scratch and claw to get to the top of
that division to give themselves a chance to get in.
But I mean, look, the optimism should be there because
the quarterback is legit, like Kayleb Williams was number one
overall pick for a reason when a Heisman two years ago,

(03:47):
and everyone has said when he plays within himself, meaning
if he's a little more disciplined and patient within the pocket,
he has the ability to be one of the greats
at the position. But a lot of times he ventures
or veers off this scription kind of does his own thing.
It's that delicate balance where you want him to be
the gunslinger, but you want him to be the discipline
game manager when need be. So it's just a matter

(04:08):
of him learning how to do that. But if he
does that, it does unlock the Bears offense and gives
them a great chance of doing great things.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Now you've been there and done that, and you've been
around coaches. I mean, certainly if you were to get
one on one with the coaching establis the Chicago Bears,
you know, they feel good and obviously they want to
go out, they want to win every game they can.
But do they honestly believe what the fans believe with
the expectations? Are they have they bought into that hype
or they just kind of calm things down and say, look,

(04:37):
just just take it one day at a time. Let's
make sure our quarterback could develop and play in this league.
How do they handle that?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
I think one when you're a coaching staff, what you're
trying to do is you're trying to shield your team
from outside expectations. You hope that your expectations in the
building are much higher than anybody would expect outside the building.
And then you try and keep focus on doing the
little things each day to help the team get to
where it wants to be at the end of the season.

(05:06):
And no matter what it looks like, how will it
starts or how poorly it starts, you want them focus
on just keeping proving it at the end of the day.
At the end of the season, we'll see where it
stacks up. But a lot of it is trying to
keep the team humble and hungry as they pursue to
drink well.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
And also, you know, you have a guy like Caleb
Williams who basically you performed decently. You know. I don't
know what kind of a grade you give a guy
after twenty snaps. I mean, I don't know what you do.
But you know, does he go around and say, hey,
it's not as hard as I thought it would be.
You know, obviously I'm going to the NFL. They say
it's a big transition from the college game to the
pro game, you know, and I did pretty good, so

(05:43):
maybe maybe it's not as hard as I thought it
would be. I mean, he's in for a root awakening
once the season actually starts. I right on that.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I mean it changes, but it doesn't mean it changes
in a negative way. He may be a rare guy
who the game slows down, he gets it and he's
able to hit the ground running, much like CJ. Stroud
was able to do. After a few slow games at
the start of the season, he settled in and we
saw his talent blossom. Every situation is different because a
lot of it is the environment that you're around, coaching, supporting, cast,

(06:14):
defense that you're playing with. All of those things factored
into the equation. So for Kayleb Williams, it's about him
playing his game and the Bears helping him play his
game but making sure he has the right stuff around
him and by not asking him to do too much
before he's ready. If they do that, they have a
great chance for him to be a very productive Ricky player.
And if he's productive, this offense hasn't enough talent where

(06:36):
they're gonna win.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Okay, So I'm an outsider looking in and I'm saying
right now they would have been better off losing that game.
Am I crazy for saying that? Because they win the game?
Right now, what it does? The only thing that helps
is ticket sales. I mean, the box office tomorrow morning
will be packed in Chicago saying, hey, we got a
shot right now. Do you see what they did the Buffalo.
You know, Caleb Williams is great, he's a great player.

(06:57):
If they would have lost that game, you know, the
fan basement, oh always me, here we go again. But
I think the fact that the only winners yesterday? What
people are to sell tickets? Am I crazy?

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Uh? Yeah? I mean, like certainly they gave them some optimism,
and so if you're the Bears like marketing team, you
sell that, You sell the fact that optimism to hope
that this team is going to be better. They're gonna
be a team that can jump from the bottom to
the top and make some noise happen. You got a quarterback,
you have an offense, this is exciting times in Chicago.
You sell all of those things and then you just

(07:31):
kind of figure out what it looks like.

Speaker 2 (07:32):
All right, you need to talk about winners. Let's talk
about real winners right now. Winners. I got the gold.
Let's go to the Olympics and the men's basketball team.
You know, really and truly, I mean, the big story
would have been if they lost, not not that they won,
because I think they were expected to win and they
should have won. They won ninety eight eighty seven yesterday
over France. That got the gold and hopefully the women
will get the gold today. Yet you know, the big

(07:53):
question in my mind was when they were down seventeen
points to Serbia the other day, where the hell was
Jason Tatum okay, and I want to know who was personal.
I mean, I don't know understand how this guy can't play.
And even the coach, coach Steve Kerr, said, you know,
it was my fault. I was stupid for not putting
him in the lineup. You know, it's the whole big deal.
I don't get it. I mean, I don't understand why

(08:14):
he was on the bench. You're an athlete, you played
the game. I mean, here's a guy who goes on
the Olympic team, the guy who's MVP in the finals
for the Boston Celtics. I get it. It's a great team.
These are the greatest players on earth. You got Curry there,
you got Lebron there, you got Durant there, and they
played great yesterday. But how do you not play Jason Titta?
How does he ride the pine and that game when

(08:35):
you're down seventeen when you need scoring.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Well, I mean, I think anyone who watched, not on
the Serby game, but if you watched the France game.
He played against France, and I don't hear the uproar
for people talking about he didn't play enough in the
France game. It's about putting the right pieces in place
to play, and the international game is so much different
than the NBA game, and I respect have a tremendous
amount of respect for Jason Tatum's game and what he is.

(09:01):
But what this team needed. The team needed more role
players to like kind of supplement the stars. And let's
be honest, we didn't expect them to go this way,
but the three best players for USA, Steph Curry, Lebron James,
and Kevin Durant, even at their advanced ages, they were
the ones to get it done, and so you need
to surround them with guys that could do the little things.

(09:24):
And while Jason Tatum is a great one on one
isolation player, he's great within the confines of the Celtics
offense and in the NBA at that moment, on those
stage in the Olympics, he wasn't the perfect fit to
be in the rotation around those guys. And look if
he comes back in twenty twenty eight, the next time,
the team will be constructed differently, and it may be

(09:46):
built more for him to be the lead player as
opposed to a supporting player, and he may actually play
a better He may play better in a lead role
than a supporting role, and there's nothing wrong with that
because everybody has different games and different strengths to the game.
But I don't understand the outrage over why Steve Kerr

(10:07):
had to play who he needed to play to have
this team win a gold medal.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
No, I hear what you're saying. And obviously a coach
does not have to answer questions like that. He feels
good into the matchup situation and that's what he did.
But after he played, after he did not play against Serbia,
according to reports that he was furious. He walked off
the floor following that win. And get this, his mom,
Now this is embarrassing. I mean, his mom wasn't happy
about it, and she was on X. She posted up

(10:33):
on X for the first time since back since twenty
twenty two. I tell you right now, I don't think
I'd want my parents to comment about anything I've done
athletically or any place in the workplace, or even if
I was in school, that I got a grade in school.
I just don't think it's a good thing. I mean,
to have his mom post up on that sort of embarrassing,

(10:53):
don't you think. I mean his mom was saying that she.

Speaker 3 (10:55):
Wasn't happy yeah, I mean, I mean it is. And
also this you know what I'm saying, Like, it's kind
of the tough thing for athletes when you play in
an All Star situation, right, so this is nothing more
than like an All Star Game, but on a bigger stage,
bigger platform. Everyone has to sacrifice and everybody can't be

(11:17):
the man in an All Star Game situation. People have
to step back. There's a natural pecking order that emerges
and the hierarchy that we saw Lebron, Steph KD because
when it got down to it and the team really
needed to make plays, the only ones that were really
built for the moments were Lebron, Steph and KD and

(11:39):
those other guys. They came in and they did those things.
But it's different, and Jason Tatum is a young player.
He has to understand like he will have his opportunity.
But look, just like Anthony, David Edwards and some of
these other guys that kind of were rotating through, he'll
get his opportunity. Tyreese Haliburton didn't play in three of
those games. All of these guys are like some of

(12:01):
the best in the world, but when you're on a
team with twelve sometimes you got to make hard decisions
as a coach, and I think Steve kurt made some
hard decisions, but ultimately he got the result that everyone wanted.
The team won another gold medal, and they had to
do it man in a very gritty fashion. But I
will say this, twenty twenty eight is going to be
harder because the international teams are much better. And if

(12:24):
this is the best that we have right now, when
those guys Steph, KD and Lebron age out, who's going
to be the next set to carry it? Because it
took everything from a group of all time greats to
win it, it's gonna be much difficult. It's gonna be
harder the next summer.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
On make a great point because James, Durant and Curry
won't be there in twenty and I'm sure they'll be
in the rocking chair by then. But Kurve, right now,
when you talk about the Olympics and the men's basketball team,
I would have to say this, there's more pressure. There
was more pressure on Steve Kerr than any of the
players because everybody expected them to win. If you lose, well,
this guy was hurt, He wasn't playing well, he missed

(13:01):
a couple of shots, but every blame would have been
on curR the coach. He had four different starting lineups
in the six games of the Olympic team played, but
basically it was the Big Four. It was James, Durant,
Curry and Joel and beat It and be That was
the lineup basically that brought them back and the comeback
against Serbia. But I give him a lot of credit
because he did say he quote vote like an idiot

(13:23):
for not playing Tatum in that one game, in that
game against Serbia, so you know, he admitted that. But
I guess he's stuck to his gun saying this is
the lineup, this is the team I need, this is
the team that I want playing. And obviously it worked
out because they won. So I'm happy they got the gold.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah. I mean, I think it's a very difficult thing.
And I think anyone who has coached at any level,
wreck ball, anything, sometimes the time gets away from you
right in the heat of the moment. Sometimes you can't
get to everybody, and you can't coach the game necessarily
to make every player happy. You gotta do what you
gotta do to win the game, and he did that.
They were able to get to win. It is a

(14:00):
very difficult thing that he was trying to navigate. You
hat twelve All Stars, right, I mean twelve of the
best players in the world, and you're trying to get
him in the game, and you're trying to tell someone
who is the man, someone who's a three hundred million
dollar player, Hey man, I got to sit you down.
I got to keep you out the lineup right now.
That's hard for anybody to stomach as a player, and

(14:22):
Jason Tatum will have a hard time. But he also,
like when we talk about team, team requires sacrifice and
if you're really about the team, if you're really about
the gold medal, you got to put your ego to
the side and do what's best for the team. The
true test will be how does Jason Tatum handle this
experience and what does it lead him to do in

(14:42):
the future when it comes to international play and the
national team. Does he pout because he didn't play a
major role this time around, or does he handle it
learn from what Steph kd and Lebron did to guide
this team to the gold medal and then step into
their role in twenty twenty eight and helped the United
States win another gold medal. That will be the key

(15:05):
because if he used it the right way, it can
be a great lesson to help him take his game
to an even higher level. And I know that's hard
for someone to imagine, who is just coming off of
a dominant performance in the finals where his team won
and he has been celebrated as one of the top
five or six players in the league.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
That's a great point because he was asked about that.
For twenty eighties is where he have to think about it.
He'll be back, he'll play, especially since those big guys
won't be there in twenty eight by one last question,
because I know you ran track at University of North Carolina.
My correct, I think you did?

Speaker 3 (15:33):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I did you know he did?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
Noel Liars, Okay, Noel Lyles the American sprinter. He won
a bronze medal and that was in the four by
two hundred I believe that was on third and two
hundred meter and he had one hundred and two degree
temperature at the time, and he tested for COVID. I
want to know this. I want to know like things
that people ask these questions, like really, how don't they

(15:56):
test these guys, you know, prior to a race, if
in fact they're on drug, if they have fever, if
they have COVID, How in the hell did he race
in that race? A with one hundred and two fever
and B with COVID? I mean, and that's why obviously
he finished with the bronze medal because he should have
won it. That's his game, that's his race, the two
hundred meter. But how do they let him raise? I
don't get it. How did he get by the without

(16:17):
a security but the medical people?

Speaker 3 (16:20):
Well, so I don't know because I don't know what
the rules are anymore, like out there out of the
quote unquote pandemic, So I don't know if they changed
the rules again where he had to test and do
all that other stuff like he I mean, did he
test for his own good? Or did he test because
they made all those guys tests? And are their rules
forbidding them from participating? Because if there aren't any rules,

(16:43):
then I mean he's free to kind of do whatever
he wanted to do. When it came to it. It
impacted his play, but his race and performance, but he
was what I would say, also impacted if you're COVID
you have COVID and you already are kind of down
on energy, you probably don't need to do the pre
race theatrics that he did. He an't come out jumping around,

(17:03):
skipping hype man and then at the end of it
get carted off in a wheelchair. And now some of
this because I ran track, Some of this is the
showmanship and the gamesmanship that track athletes exhibit. But man,
if you elected win, if you elect a race, then man,
you got to put up her shut up, you know,
like you can't then lay around and get carted out

(17:26):
and do all this other stuff that he did after
he lost, Like because to me, he looks he looks silly,
you know, he looks idiotic to put all of that
in a pre race to then lose the way that
he lost after the race.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
You know, sometimes it's bravado and sometimes it's just emotion.
I think with him, it's emotion. I give him.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
The break.

Speaker 2 (17:44):
Was last year he won the one hundred meters World Championship.
He went on a rant then and he went on
the rand about how the NBA says that it's league
is title winners, and he was cold as saying world
champions and this is a direct quote from him. He
says quote world champion of what and that clip went
viral and NBA stars distant on social media, including Team USA.

(18:04):
I would have loved to have been in Paris to
see the relationship between the basketball team Team USA and
obviously him, Noah Lyles and Devin Booker and Kevin Durant
with two of those guys, obviously Durant because he loves
social media. They were dissing this guy just you know,
you gotta calm down just a little bit, and his
back off just to drop. I love the guy. I
love his athleticism, but maybe it's the emotion I don't know.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, but it's also inauthentic. It's not genuine. So anyone
watched it, if you have an opportunity to check it,
take a look at the Netflix documentary about the Sprint World,
those guys leading up to it. That's not his natural personality.
He did that to be the face of track. Like
some of those theatrics and emotions and things that he
does is just to command attention so he can be

(18:49):
the face of the sport. It's not who he really is.
And what happens is people get annoyed when you're not
authentic in terms of your performance, your actions, your being.
And that's what's more annoying about Noah laws If like
that's who he is, and people around him, we grew
up with him, knew that he is always kind of
in your face, full of all that bravado. Then you

(19:10):
live with it because we always can deal with someone
who is in our friend's circle who kind of has
that or zips those behaviors. But what you don't like
is someone who really isn't like that, but then they
put on for the cameras, because then it's annoying and
you kind of roll your eyes at him. And that's
why he got the reaction that he got, because most
people would have been sympathetic to him coming down with COVID,

(19:32):
big event, maybe the race of his life, and he's
not able to really do it at one hundred percent.
But because of all the stuff that goes along with
him being him, no one really cared about that. Everyone
went on to the next.

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Now here's the deal here that I have no idea
what's going on here because C. D. Lamb continues to
hold out for the Dallas Cowboys and the our owner,
Jerry Jones. He said the other day after the practice

(21:57):
and that I think was a joint practice with the
LA Rams. He said, quote, I don't have a sense
of urgency, all right, And he's going to get seventeen
point nine million this year. CD liber Here's a guy,
basically who had a tremendous year last year.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
What did he do?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
He led the NFL with one hundred and thirty five
receptions and he ranked second in the league with over
seventeen hundred yards, scoring twelve touchdowns. To me, Bucky Brooks,
to me, the longer he holds out, the more money
Jerry Jones is gonna have to pay as more wide
receivers get signed. Why is there no urgency for him
to sign this guy?

Speaker 3 (22:30):
Look, I can't understand it. It's one of the mysteries
that we have in the league. I don't understand why
Jerry Jones wouldn't sign it. He knows that he needs
his number one receiver. He knows that he needs to
come in, he needs to make sure that he has
the right weapons around Dak Prescott, particularly if they want
to win this year. For him not to be signed already,
to me, is really baffling. I don't I don't understand it.

(22:53):
I'll never understand it. I don't really understand how the
Cowboys go about doing business. I know they like standing
that in the headlines, but this doesn't make any sense.
If I'm Mike McCarthy, if I'm Dak Prescott, I'm just
annoyed because it's another distraction that will prevent them from
doing what they want to do and what they want

(23:14):
to accomplish the season.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
You know, you made a great point there, because they
want to be in the public eye. I think he's
gonna wait, wait, wait, Jerry Jones, and then violent if
I he'll break down, He'll sign them, will sign it
for big bucks so the Dallas Cowboys can get some
great notoriety and get the pub that he wants. Because,
let's face it, they may be and they call themselves
America's team.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
They are.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
I mean, they probably are the most popular team in
the NFL that has done nothing for like twenty five years, right,
But they have done anything since nineteen ninety five that
won a championship back then, right, And I said, remember
night and no, remember twenty nineteen, that's when Ezekiel Elliott
missed all of camp and he held out and he trained.
I think he trained in Mexico that year. So I

(23:56):
mean this is like a review, a preview of a review.
So what happens with guys that play for the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (24:04):
Yeah, I mean, like it's another thing in an ideal world.
When you get the training camp, you want all you
guys there. You want them to get to work because
so much of being successful is about chemistry and continuity
and being able to put it together and making sure
all of the pieces of the puzzle fit. And when
you don't get that, it's annoying. It's tough, you know,
it's tough to overcome that lack of cohesion and the

(24:27):
fact that, look, the Cowboys have known that this was
coming up. They known they needed to get their wide
receiver sign and they haven't done it. It's problematic because
this team cannot play without CD Lamb on the perimeter.
That's just the way they're constructed. They don't have another
viable option as a lead receiver, and if he's not there,
it's gonna be disastrous for the offense. Won't show up
in preseason, and it may not show up in the

(24:49):
early parts of the regular season, but it will show
up when they start to play against some of those
top teams. When you think about the Philadelphia Eagles and
what they have and how they can score points in
a variety of ways with the weapons and the firepower
on the perimeter, the Cowboys can't match that, and it
just puts an a tremendous amount of pressure on the
other parts of their team to have to play at
a high level if Ceedee Lamb is.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
Not there, and it really takes one player to kind
of set the mark. And I think it was justin Jefferson,
basically the guy in the Vikings, the receiver who basically
got it done a four year deal for one hundred
and forty million, and you talk about the Eagles got
Aj Brown three year deal with thirty two mili. So
I mean, this is the money that's out there. And
Cde Lambs stats with one hundred and thirty five receptions
last year, you got to put them up there. But

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again we talked about this before. Just because you do
the same job as someone else doesn't mean you're going
to make the same money or more than that person.
That's just the way it is in life, right. I mean,
there are many news anchors on TV and they all
don't get the same amount of money, although they all
do the same job.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
Yeah, I mean, it's all different. But when you get
to a certain level, right, what happens is the money
is the money, But really the money is a sign
of how much the team values and respects you. And
if you surveyed yourself, surveyed the league, and you believe
that you're the best receiver in the league, you want
to be compensated as such. And with the flurry of

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wide receiver deals that have kind of come off to
market over the course of the offseason, Ceedee Lambers patiently
sat and wait and watch the market go up. He's
going to want to be paid at the top of
the food chain. And Jerry Jones and those guys know that.
They understand that, and they have to figure out a
way to not only take care of him, but they
have to take care of Dak Prescott and Michael Parsons.

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These are things that you should be proactive about, not reactive.
The Cowboys should have had all this stuff locked down
months ago, and for the quarterback Prescott and some of
the others man, they should have been on this early
so you don't end up in a situation where you
have three players who need to get paid, and three
players who are going to command instrumented amount amount of

(26:52):
money and they're going to really anchor or be at
albatross around your neck when it comes to how you
build out your team from a salary cap standpoint.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
You're exactly right, Bucket brooks Andy Ferman, Fox Sports on
the have Fox Sports ready and I'll coming up next
on Fox Live from the Tyraq dot com studios. If
he's innocent, why apologize? But first, Kevin Wyatt's always innocent,
but he has all your sports as well.

Speaker 6 (27:16):
Well, maybe not always, but most of the time. I
try to keep it clean anyway. In the Olympics, Steph
Curry look clean shooting the ball from beyond the three
point arc. He was guilty of beating the French, especially
with four Daggers four to three pointers in the final
minute to help lift the United States over France ninety
eight to eighty seven to help the United States claim

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their fifth consecutive gold medal that goes back to the
redeem team in a two thousand and eight in the
same two countries on the women's side of things will
be competing for gold this morning at nine thirty am
Eastern Time. Is a scheduled tip off between the United
States and France for the US four excuse me, for
the Olympic women's basketball gold medal. Elsewhere in the Olympics,

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united States women's national soccer team claiming gold as they
beat Brazil won nothing in the American men and women's
track and field teams, each claiming gold in the four
by four hundred meter relay. So heading into the final
day of competition, the United States thirty eight gold medals,
trailing China, who has thirty nine. In Major League Baseball,

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it's a tight race out West as Mariners beat the
Mets four to nothing, Logan Gilbert seven scoreless inning, six strikeouts.
Astros get by the Red Sox five to four, yard
On Alvarez going deep twice for Houston, so Seattle and
Houston in a virtual tie a top of the American
League West. Out in the American League East, it's been
a continuous tight race between the Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles.

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The Yankees did split a doubleheader with the Texas Rangers
on Saturday. Meanwhile, Baltimore gets a win against the Rays
seven to five, So it is the Orioles on top
of the Yankees by one game entering Sunday, and it's
tightening up in the Now League West.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
The Dodgers heading.

Speaker 6 (29:01):
Paul Skeins just his second loss of the season and
his brilliant young career, winning at for to one. Diamondbacks
blow up the best team in baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies
eleven to one, while the padre is getting a win
on Saturday as they outlast the Marlins nine to eight
extra innings. The Dodgers lead in the NLS sits at
two and a half games over San Diego three and
a half over Arizona, and those two teams red hot

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right now. Arizona has won eight of their last ten,
san Diego nine of the last ten. Meanwhile, the Dodgers
treading water five and five over their last ten games.
In the NFL preseason, Caleb Williams an impressive debut four
to seven passes ninety five yards, a one to one
point eight passer rating, and that included a couple of
drops as well. The Bears roll over the Bills thirty

(29:44):
three to six. JJ McCarthy one hundred and eight eight yards,
two touchdowns and a pick in his preseason debut as
the Vikings get by.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
The Raiders twenty four to twenty three.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
Malike Willis five to seven for thirty eight yards in
this first preseason game of the season for him as
the Titans beat the forty nine ers seventeen to thirteen.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Back to you guys, all right, thanks keV. There we go.
Do you believe him? We'll get to that in just
about a minute. He's Bucky Brooks. I mean the firmwa
I've asked Bucky in about five six minutes. For now,
Let's talk about Jim Harborough for a second. The new
coach of the LA charge. As he said earlier this week,
he has no reason to apologize, as he continued to
deny having any knowledge of the impermissible scouting operation that
triggered this NCAA investigation of the University of Michigan football

(30:25):
program during that championship run last year. And Bucky, before
we get involved about this deal, if you believe him
or not, let's take a listen to the coach.

Speaker 7 (30:34):
Never lie, never cheat, never steal. I was raised with
that lesson. I have raised my family on that lesson.
I have preached that lesson to the teams that I've coached.
No one's perfect if you stumble, you apologize, and you
make it right today.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
I do not apologize.

Speaker 7 (30:52):
I did not participate, was not aware nor complicit in
those set allegations. So for me, it's back to work,
an attack with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
All right, this coach Jim Harba now with the LA charges,
and I would say this, maybe he didn't know, but
as a head coach, I think you're responsible for the
entire program.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Agreed, you are responsible for the entire program. But if
he didn't, I would say, proactively participate in those things.
I do understand why we take such a defined stance.
If Connor Standing's worked and operated on his own, on
his own and did his own thing when it came
to scouting and stealing signs in those things, and Jim

(31:31):
Harborrough did not sign off on that, Yeah, I do
understand him taking the defined stance because even though people
are on your watch and under your command, and you're
responsible for their actions when it comes to his reputation
and character, I do understand him standing up and taking
such a defined stance because you want to protect that
because all you have is your name.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
I believe him. I'm a big fan of Jim Habbar.
I like the guy. Maybe I'm biased here. I probably
am biased here, but again, I mean, you're to see
of your operation, you have to know everything that's going
on within the organization. There's so many people that were involved.
It's hard to even fathom that he didn't know what
was going on. But I'm gonna give you that a
benefit of the doubt because he is pretty defiant here.

(32:14):
He's pretty aggressive saying that he didn't know. However, the
University of Michigan right now, they can face level one
NCAA violations and this is like the most serious the
association could levy to any individual. But he's free, and
he's gonna be free for five years. So if he
coaches the charges for five years and comes back to
college football, he's okay. He's free and clears. So the

(32:34):
whole thing is screwy because if Michigan gets hit with this,
he walks away, nothing happens to him, but the program
is hurt. And that's It's just something's wrong there. Don't
you think something something stinks in that whole situation.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Oh, I mean, I mean, like Michigan is left holding
the bag. The University of Michigan is left holding the bag.
And it's not only Jim Harbar, but Sharon Morgat pinched
with some allegations and some violations. Uh, there's some others
within the program who are no longer there who were
sanctioned for their role in this entire thing and some
of the other stuff that they've been done. So yeah,

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it leaves a little bit of a smudge on Michigan.
But let's be honest, Mike, We've seen a lot of teams,
a lot of universities, a lot of the top teams
get deemed and pinched for little things around that, and
it doesn't change or diminish like their accomplishments, but it
certainly just kind of puts like that that that cloud, right,
that cloud of doubt or that that that it just

(33:34):
it just tarnishes what was a wonderful accomplishment for the
Michigan mover raines last year.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
No, no doubt, right, and it's gonna be like a
cloud over him, you know, talk about legacy, you know,
throughout his career. I mean, just like as successful as
Bill Belichick was, the one of the greatest, if not
the greatest coach NFL history. You know, the deflate gate
and the scouting opponents. You know, really and truly, I
don't think that affects his his trophies that he's won,

(34:00):
super Bowls, that he's won. But there are people that
will say that quote he was a cheat, you know,
and you just you can't get rid of that. That's
just one of those things that will follow you, and
it has followed him. They're gonna say, wait, you know
he wanted Stanford. You know, he wanted San Diego State
Universe san Diego. So I said, maybe he did it
back there too. Maybe that's how we won, and that's
not really fair, but that's what happens.

Speaker 3 (34:22):
That is what happens. But I think for people who
paid attention while he was at Stanford and some of
those other places, like there was never any there weren't
any allegations of improprieties when it came to that kind
of stuff. Like he's always appeared to be above board.
He found his success in the margins in my mind,

(34:42):
when it came to physicality, toughness in an old school approach.
Now I would say this like signs stealing and the
way that this has been reported, Yeah, like it's ugly
when it comes to them gaining a competitive advantage. There's
some part of like trying to steal signs in game,
that's gamesmanship, but what they did or what they were

(35:05):
alleged to do, like goes beyond that. So I'm looking
forward to all of it coming out. I know the
notice of allegations and all that stuff has come out,
but I'm looking forward to really what kind of make
Saying says about it all, because he's the one who
knows if he was directed to do the things he
did or if he went out on his own and
did those things in an effort to elevate himself within

(35:26):
the program.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
That's the key right there, and it's going to come out,
come out real soon. We'll see what happens. And uh
feel bait for the kids playing football for Michigan if
they get to put on some portbait probation and they
can't go to a tournament this Year's that's what stinks. Really,
that's the bottom line right there. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm
Andy Furman. We are Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Ready,
how you want answers? You want answers well as Bucky.

(35:47):
It's freaking next as Bucky Right around the corner. Yes,
that's coming right out. He's Bucky Brooks. I'm Andy Firmerwell
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready and we'll alyve
from the Tirack dot com studio. So let's get it going. Yes, Bucky,
right now, let's do it. Here we go A. I
want to know, Bucky Brooks, the difference between joint practices

(36:08):
between teams and preseason NFL games, the advantages and disadvantages
between both.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Well, the advantages of joint practices is you get the
increase intensity, you get the physicality, but you get it
in a controlled environment because the coaches control when the
play's over, and so you have an opportunity to run
all of your team scrimmaging, all of that other stuff,
but your quarterback is not exposed to his because the
quarterback is off limits. The advantages from a team standpoint is,

(36:38):
I get the basically a preseason game intensity, a preseason
game evaluation, without the risk of my quarterback being knocked around.
That's why they favorite the cons is it's practice. It's
still not a quote unquote full game. You get some
of the competitiveness in those things, but it's still not
like the bright lights in the big stage, but it

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gives you enough where you can make solid determinations on
your first team, and then it allows you to play
your second and third teamers during the preseason game.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
An additional question there on the joint practices, because the
Cincinnati Bengals have two of them this year, with Indianapolis
and with the Chicago Bears. Do they keep score and
is there a clock or what do they do?

Speaker 3 (37:21):
Now, you don't keep scoring. You just go through different situations.
Like so before a period, they will announce, Hey, this
is third down situation. So you go through all the
random third down scenarios. It'd be some third and four
to six yard players, some third and seven plus yard plays,
some third and tens. So you get the work and
it's scripted out in terms of we script out the situation,

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but neither team knows exactly what the other team is
going to do. It gives you an opportunity to work,
but it works in a structured fashion as opposed to
the randomness of the game.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
As always, I know you'd clear that up for us
because I appreciate that. Now we move on to the Olympics.
I'm gonna talk about break dancing, which is an all sport.
And I asked you, Bucky Brooks, is breakdancing a sport?

Speaker 3 (38:05):
I would say no, but it's in the Olympics, so
I would consider it. I had no idea that there
was a sport until yesterday when someone made mention of it. Yeah,
but it's not something that I would say that I
knew that it was a sport.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
Now.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
I saw some of the contestants in breakdancing, and I'm
not I'm the furthest thing from an athlete. I mean know,
I'm coordinated, but I'm not an athlete. And I saw
there was one woman there and I promise you give
me a couple of shots of alcohol. I could have
done what she did, really, I mean it was embarrassing
what she did. She just laid on the floor and

(38:41):
kind of spun around. I could do that. I really can.
And they want to call that breakdancing, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
You might be able to do it. I don't know
if anyone wants to see it, though, Andy, No, like,
you may be able to do it. I don't doubt
that you can do it, but I don't know if
anyone wants to sign up to see that.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
You're exactly right. All right, let's talk about the Olympics.
Now on your mind, maybe the biggest disappointments and the
biggest I guess accomplish. Smith's in your mind.

Speaker 8 (39:01):
If the watching the Olympics, the biggest disappointment would be
track and field, the four oar one team, the four
about one hundred relay team not being able to get
it done like that was a huge disappointment.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
It continues to trend where they haven't been able to
just take advantage of a sport that they should be
able to dominate. So that's a huge disappointment. I would
say some of my excitement over the course of the Olympics,
I'm really excited about, like the women's four bar one team.
I'm excited about the women's soccer team pulling it off
because that was a bit of redemption after faltering in
the World Cup stage, the women were able to win

(39:34):
a gold medal. It's a new era within women's soccer,
and so they deserve credit for being able to bounce back.
And look, I'm gonna say this, and everyone expected the
basketball team to win, but for them to win the
way they had to win against Serbia and Joker and
Joker being regarded as maybe the best player in the world.
I give them a ton of credit because it's certainly
it's a lot harder with the pressure that we put

(39:56):
on the dream team to be able to get it
done every time.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
Well said, Okay, why is baseball not an Olympic sport.
It's gonna be an Olympic sport in LA in twenty
twenty eight, But why isn't it an Olympic sport.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
I don't know. It's been an Olympic sport in the past.
I don't know why it's not one now. But it's, uh,
it's kind of weird to kind of see that not
play out like it should be an Olympic sport. I
would be excited to see it play out. But what
they have to do is they're gonna have to play
the major The MLB guys are gonna have to come
because if not, it's not gonna they're not gonna be
able to win, not gonna be able to get it done.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yeah, there might be a fight about that because they're
gonna have to leave their teams in mid season for
two weeks and that'll be rough. I mean, I'm major
League Baseball. So we'll see what happens there. But I
want to see baseball come back. But we'll do that,
all right, Bucky Brooks, Andy Furman. Year one was good
for some. We'll explain that is so much more weird
right here on Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Next you don't listening to Fox Sports.

Speaker 2 (40:46):
Radio, they might be the Great eight that's coming right up.
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And here he is, mister Bucky Brooks. How old, Bucky?
How are you?

Speaker 3 (41:16):
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good. What's going on? Andy?

Speaker 2 (41:18):
Well, I'm gonna admit something to you. I'm gonna tell
you why I love Fridays, because Friday is today that
I get the Bucky Brooks experience. That's today that your
column comes up on NFL dot com. They know Bucky Brooks.
The public knows Bucket Brooks as a player, as a coach,
as a scout. But on Fridays you're a writer, and
one hell of a writer. You are NFL dot com.

(41:40):
You go to that website and you look at writers.
You scroll down, you see his beautiful face and you
read what he has to write. And honestly, what you
have written over the last months been tremendous. I don't
know where your police ideas from with their great a
lot of research and this year, this week he wrote about,
you know, first year coaches in the NFL. And before
we get all that, I'm going to ask you basically,

(42:03):
you know how tough is it to be a rookie coach,
first year coach in the NFL, Because I've seen it firsthand,
not that I have a player, but I've seen it,
you know, from a distance, somewhat of a distance, I guess.
You know, these new coaches come in and they're challenged
and tested by veteran players. It's tough, it really is.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
It is. It is a tough deal. And so you've
got to command of respect and a few different ways
that that respect is earned. It's earned through like your knowledge,
in terms of what you can show them. It makes
sense your teaching ability. You're able to kind of put
the pieces of the puzzle together in a coherent manner
where they're like, Okay, that resonates, I can do that, coach.

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Or you're accomplished in terms of your expertise, and on
one side of the ball, you come well established with
a great reputation, and as soon as they see you
and meet you, they can tell that you have it
that you have to in fact to help them answer
the problems that will arise over the course of the game.

(43:05):
And so it's one of those things is that you
know that the relationship that you have to keep nurturing
and building, and your first time in it, it's not
about the x's and o's. It's really about the connectivity
that you have with the team and then hoping that
because of your connectivity they buy into the x's and
o's that you bring.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
How important is it that you must have been a
player prior to becoming a coach in any position, because
if you're going to tell me how to block on
the line, you never played the game, I'm go home
and send in myself. Scratch my head, what does he know?
He never played the game, He's never been there done that.
So how important is it to be a player? Not
a tremendous player. I mean, you know Bill Belichick, I

(43:43):
guess play he was on a roster, wasn't a great player,
but he was a great coach, a great defensive coach.
But still, in all I mean, how important is it
to have played the game?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I would say that it's not the most important thing.
I would say that players, particularly in the NFL, they
value you guys that play, but they value it only
as far as you're able to show them how to
become better players. Meaning, if you're a former player, you're
teaching skills have to be on par with others because
you still have to be able to show me how
to play at a high level. So you need to

(44:15):
be able to take all of those experiences that you
may have had as a player and spin them together
and make it very easily digestible for aspiring players to
be able to play really well. So it's not guarantee,
but there's a little bit of respect that you give
because you're in the fraternity. You know how hard it
is to succeed between the lines, and so players will
always give those guys respect. But to hold on to

(44:38):
the respect. You better have some knowledge and wisdom and
some instructional ability.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
You know, I look at coaching basically pistically the NFL.
Of course that is somewhat of the pe the principle
in teaching, you could be a tremendous teacher in classroom teacher,
but that will not make you a great principal. You know,
if you move up from a teacher to a prison,
you be a great teacher, you relate well with the kids,
with this students, whatever it may be, and they put

(45:01):
you as an administrator as a principal, you may not
be a great principal. So the same thing that you
can be a great player, you'd be a great line coach.
You could be a great position coach, does not make
you become a great head coach. And you have probably
seen many of those people who have been assistants in
line coaches whatever the back coaches fail as head coaches.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
Yeah, I mean it's a different seal set, right. So
you leading a small group as opposed team and tary group,
and being a head coach is so much about organizing,
getting everyone on the same page. And it's not only
doing that, but it's having division to know where your
team is and where you wanted to go, but to
be able to tell the coaches and the players, here's
how we're going to get there. A lot of what

(45:44):
head coaches have to do is they have to anticipate
problems and solve them ahead of time, so when they
stand in front of the team and something comes up,
they can calmly and coolly say, hey, here's how we're
going to attack it. You spend a lot of your
time thinking about the what ifs as opposed to the
what is right now, and the best coaches have the
ability to really have the answers to the tests when

(46:06):
they need them, and that's what players want. Players are
looking to the coaches to be problem solvers. When a
problem comes up, can my head coach solve it so
we can continue to have success. That's what comes down
to and so a lot of your credibility hinges on
your ability to answer those questions in tough contests.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I remember years ago, Boomer Sias was quarterback in the
Cincinnati Bengals and the quarterback coach was Dana Bible, And
I even looked at it and said to myself, how
could Dana Bible tell Boomers Sias and what to do?
What is he a compliment? What has he done? And
I still today this day believe that there was some
sort of a rift between Bible between Boomer and by

(46:48):
not Bible and Boomer, but Boomer and Bible on my
way off face and I see I had seen that
going to practice. I mean, I just the way Boomer
handled it, the way he kind of looked at him,
the way he would not listen take direction from him.
Am I off base? And that I just don't think
that Boomer size and respected taking advice from a Dana Bible.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Maybe without seeing that the situation not being their firsthand.
I mean, there could be something to that, you know.
It just depends on that relationship, but also depends on
the coaching style and how they Dana Bib will treat
Boomer like, I mean, what was that relationship in communication?
Like because of the communication is on part, you can
naturally come to a mutual level of respect where you

(47:35):
may not be on the same page on everything, but
you respect your coach enough that you listen to your
byebies whish is and you give your best in attempting
to do whatever it is he's asking you to do.
But that comes from relationships, and relationships are more important
than a lot of the other stuff that we talked
about when it comes to ball.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Okay, I went off face a little bit here. I
went a little bit of tangent here because you wrote
about this and this is great. This is a great
stat Six of the past seven years except the year
twenty twenty one, there's been at least one coach that
is one of the division title in year one. That is
a super statistic. I mean unbelieved, it really is. And
you ranked I guess the great eight. And we got

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eight coaches that are coming in this year, first year coaches,
and we'll start with number eight. So I guess number
eight in your mind is the guy that has really
the least amount of opportunity at least chance to win
a division title this year. Am I correct with that?

Speaker 3 (48:29):
Well? Yeah, Dave Canalis, like Dave Danallison, here's a tough
situation in Carolina. He has a former number one overall
pick in Bryce Young, but Bryce Young overwhelmed last season,
so he has to come and repair Bryce Young's confidence
while building an offense that will support Bryce Young as
he's maturing into a franchise quarterback and then they got
to continue to get good play from their defense. And

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when you look at the roster, it's not one that
is loaded with talent, but there are some pieces in place,
and they've made some moves of the course of the
off season under new general manager Dan Morgan. But look,
no one has any expectation that this team is going
to go from worse to first. They're gonna be at
the top of division when the season ends.

Speaker 2 (49:07):
Okay, you mentioned in your story on Friday that Canal
has basically helped resurrect the careers of Baker Mayfield and
Gino Smith. You know, I have a problem with coaches
taking credit for a player's success. A player goes out there,
they practice, they do what they gotta do, and we'll

(49:27):
see what happens with Bryce Young obviously, and maybe if
Bryce Young comes around, and I think Bryce Young will
do well in the National Football League, But to give
a coach credit for Baker Mayfield and Gino Smith and
just it bugs me a little bit. I mean, am
I off based on that a little bit?

Speaker 3 (49:43):
Because coaches do matter. I mean, it's not just a
players game. Players don't come over with their own game
plans and just do whatever they want to do. A
good coach puts a player in a position to make plays,
they'll evaluate their talent, they'll look at what they can do,
and they're trying to put them in a situation that
always tilts the field in their favor. That's good coaching.
So the coach is like, when I look at Gino

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Smith and I look at what Baker Mayfield was able
to accomplish Gino Smith, maybe you could take some issue
with him being able to say a he elevated Gino,
but he was the position coach. He was a quarterback coach,
but as the offensive coordinator, play caller, he absolutely played
a huge role in why Baker Mayfield was successful.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
Okay, let's talk about your guy right now. Out of
the University of North Carolina, Drake may Drake made a
number three overall picking the draft last year for the
New England Patriots. He entered the game. The Patriots beat
the Carolina Panthers on Thursday night, seventeen to three. He
entered the game. It was actually the second series. He
followed a Jacoby Brissett. He had played seven snaps and

(50:42):
went down this way three runs, three passes, one full
star penalty, two of the passes with screens, the first
was a thirteen yardit to Antonio Gibson on third and
twelve and he finished two three for nineteen yards. Okay,
why do I bring that up? Because you talk about
the coach ranked seventh, and that's the New England Patriots coach,
first year Gerard Mayo, and he's following a legend, which

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makes it even tougher.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
I think, yeah, it absolutely makes it tougher because no
matter what people may have thought about Bill Belichick at
the end of his senior he'll go down as the
greatest of all time based on the way that he
won and won at a high level. That Patriots dynasty
was real. Jeremeyo steps into that, but he steps into
it replacing the legend, even though he was the team

(51:25):
had fallen off the last few years without a playoff appearance.
But he knows what it should look like. He knows
the plan. He's seen the plan work successfully in New England.
He hasn't really been exposed to another plan. He will
implement that, but try and implement it with his own
spin on it because of his style. But he can
be successful. I just don't think he has the talent
right now to be successful. But I expect this defense

(51:47):
to continue to play lights out like they've been playing,
and then the offense will splutter along until the young
quarterback can figure it out.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Okay, let's talk about your guy, Drake May. I mean,
he's gonna be the man, and he's gonna be starting
quarterback there. I think he will. He's a quarterback of
the future. I would think, not your Kobe Prissett.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
I mean, at some point he will be there. I
don't think there's a rush to put him on the field.
Elliott Wolfe the general manager for the Patriots, son of
Ron wolf who Hall of Famer in Green Bay where
they started the quarterback development system where they would take
young quarterbacks, draft him and just kind of park him
on the bench for a while until they're ready to play.
He's seen that, he's seen that work successfully, from Aaron

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Rodgers to Bredforth, I mean, from Brefort to Aaron Rodgers
to now Jordan Love. Why wouldn't he try to take
some of that and just give Drake May as much
time as his need to acclimate to the league.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Right, And I think that and maybe I pay you
off face, but you got to believe that management and
ownership of the New England Patriots. I don't think they
expect much this year. I mean, this team probably will
not make the playoffs again, and I don't think they'll
be too disappointed. So they're going to give him a
lot of rope, don't you think.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
Yeah. I don't know if anybody ever is into the
league expect him to get creamed. I don't know if
any owner that says, oh, it's okay if we go
three and fourteen and don't worry about it building stuff.
The persson is still on to win. You just got
to figure out how to win with what you have
until you can win with what you want and what
you need to get.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
M hmm, Well, I hear what you, Sam. I mean,
obviously you want to win, but I think realistically it's
gonna be tough to win. Although I tell you what
I think. Brian Callahan, you ranked the number six as
the first year coach the Tennessee Titans. I remember him
well in Cincinnati. I think there's a really good shot
that they could do something because they had back to
back losing seasons, double digit lost seasons for the second

(53:27):
consecutive year in Tennessee, which is kind of strange, but
I think they could get it done with Callahan, although
I still question the second year quarterback Will Levice at quarterback.
I mean still in all I think that he's got
a good staff and that could kind of count the
rack to talent or lack thereof on that ball club.

Speaker 3 (53:47):
Yeah, I mean they have some talent, They have some
veteran players, but to me, they kind of strike me
as an older team and can you get everybody to
get on the same page because some of the guys
they signed and then lake Quandre Diggs, Jamal Adams. You know,
they brought some of those guys over to kind of help,
but they're they're building, but they're an older crew, but

(54:09):
that that experience could help them if they get off
to a solid start. But as you said, it all
comes down to wild Epson. How will he plays. If
he plays well, then they gonna have a shot. But
if he doesn't, it's gonna be an issue because everyone
is depended upon him to make it happen, and you know,
as he goes, the team will go.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
How much will the loss of Derrick Henry hurt? Because
Derrick Henry to me, very similar to maybe said Kwan
Bokley in New York with the Giants, he was about
fifty sixty percent of that offense.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
I mean, he's huge part of the offense because they
ran the football and they were their identity was running
the ball. How do they get back to that part
of it? Tony Potler steps in for him, but he's
not King Henry, so it looked different. It'd be a
different type of running game, but it's still going to
turn and run the football, all right.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
So, of these coaches that we talked about right now,
who do you think has the best chance because this
some more on your grade eight obviously, but in this
group that we did right now, who do you think
has the best chance of getting into the play to
win the division? I mean, obviously playoffs win the division.
That's two different aims. I said, gonna see.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Yeah, I mean Tennessee potency could have the best shot
because of those guys we talked about. A team that
is more put together. The Titans are more put together
than those other teams, and the road to the top
it's hard for everybody, but it might be a little
They may be able to get busy in this division
because they're they're like minded in this division, they may

(55:42):
knock each other off, so's it's not a team that
wins eleven games to win the division. Maybe ten games.

Speaker 2 (55:48):
All right, we'll continue there. There is Bucky Brooks. I'm
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one coach has changed the culture, but now can he win?

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That's coming up next live from the Tirak dot com studios.
Culture is great, but quarterbacking is better. We'll get to
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all right, Bucket Brooks. We talk about things off the
field right now. I'm talking about culture, talking about things like,
I guess the culture of a team, and maybe you
mentioned the vibe. The vibe around the La the Las
Vegas Raiders last year has changed since Antonio Pierce changed

(57:16):
the so called culture of the Raiders. All right. They
even beat the Kansas City Chiefs. And you said he
had the Antonio Pierce Mahomes rules. What was the Mahomes
rules thing? I kind of missed that. What was that?

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Now? He he went on a podcast and just talked
about how they defended Patrick Mahomes. It was very similar
to the Jordan rules. They want to make sure they
got people in his bodies. They want to make sure
they hit him when they could. They want to get
people into paint to disrupt the rhythm and the timing
of the passing game, and so they had a very
clear plan for what they wanted to do with them
and they were successful, Like they beat the Chiefs up

(57:52):
on Christmas Day, and the Chiefs talked about how that
win propelled them to the success making them run to
the Super Bowl. All right, go ahead. So as he
knows what he's doing, he is not fearful of the
rest of the division, and so that gives him a
lot of confidence.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
All right, And I'm going to go back to what
you wrote about ap the vibes around the Las Vegas
rate has changed since he became the head coach. He
was the interim coach last year, and like you got
the full time gig in January, and you say culture change?
Is that because fear is culture related to fear with
players because they say he wants demanding more effort, more toughness,

(58:30):
more physicality. To me, that's fear. I remember when Forrest
Greg coached the Cincinnati Bengals. You could use the term culture,
which really wasn't in vogue back then, but it was fear.
Those players feared Forrest Greg.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
They did. I mean, look, I think that's a great comparison,
but I would say it's not fear. Based. I would say,
when you've been exposed to winning, you've been exposed to
winning at a high level, you know what's required to
get it done. So far as Greg played under the
legendary Vince Lombardy, Lombardy would tell you that it's about
fitness and the fundamentals that lead to success. A lot

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of conditioning, a lot of fundamental work. Do it over
and over again until it's perfect. That's how Forrest Grid
led to Cincinnati Binals. They went to a super Bowl.
They lost, but they went to a super Bowl. When
you think about Antonio Pears, he played it under Tom Coughlin.
Tom Coughlin believes in that fitness and fundamentals, fundamentals, fanatical
about the approach and the preparation. AP has that AP

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was like one of the leaders of that team. Everyone
looks to him. So he certainly has brought that to
the Raiders. And when you think about Tom Coughlin being
around the team a lot, Marvin Lewis been around the
team a lot. AP surround himself with head coaches that
have orchestrated turnarounds, so he's going to be more demanding,
and you can be more demanding and hold your guys
accountable without creating fear. You just don't let them get

(59:50):
away with the small things. You make them do it
over until they do it right, and you don't relent
off of that. That's not fear based, that's just being
very detailed, and ap is very detailed when it comes
to what he wants from his team.

Speaker 2 (01:00:01):
Okay, and I did mention coming up to the seven cultures. Great,
and certainly fear factor is part of culture, but quarterbacking
is better. So as good as coach as he is,
as much as a detailed guy as Antonio appears, is
I have a question can he get it done with
Aidan O'Connell and Gardner Minshew with quarterback?

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
Now, that's to me a question that it's subject for debate,
because I don't know if those guys are good enough
to win at a high level, particularly against Pat Mahomes
and Justin Herbert in that division. But what you're hoping
is that the rest of the team is so good
that maybe you don't need the quarterback to be the
lead actor. You just need him to be another supporting
player and they can find a way to get it

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done collectively. But the major question that they have is
do Are they good enough at quarter?

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Yeah, that is the question right there. And you talk
about culture, it's about turnaround. And you mentioned the term
turnaround coach. Maybe there's none better than Jim Harbar. I
know he's going through some well, he's not really going
through some heat. University of Michigan. It's not him. He's
clear in fury and he's out there in San Diego
with the LA Well la the LA Charges now and
look that team. To me, the Charges over the last

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three four years has been talented, but very underachieving. You
could kind of rest the showard that when they got
to the fourth quarter they would blow the lead. They
just gave it up all the time. So we'll see
what he could do now. But why is he such
a turnaround coach? I mean, wherever he went he won,
as mentioned early on San Diego, So the University of

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Stanford forty nine ers Michigan. Is it magic? Is it luck?
How does he get it done?

Speaker 3 (01:01:31):
Now?

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Some will come out out of the woodwork and say,
well he cheated. No, no, no, he can't do that
on the field. You got to get it done on
the field.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
Old school approached old school methods like some would say man,
it's kind of like your grandma's oatmeal cookie recipe, like
it's just tried and true. There's a proven formula that
he uses to win games, and that is physicality toughness.
They're gonna run the football and play great defense, and
they're gonna beat you up. And they pride themselves in
emerging as the bullies on the block, and their level

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of physicality, their level of toughness can be hard to
match an over a four quarter game. They wear people
down sixty minutes of just getting pummeled over and over
again by a team that is relentless. And how they
approach it, man, that'll beat most teams. And then if
they master the part of the game that you can control. Hey,
let's limit the turnovers. Let's limited number of pre snapped

(01:02:24):
penalties we have. Let's make sure everyone knows their assignment.
Let's not give the opponent anything. Well, now, you really
put yourself in a position to win, because most teams
can't execute at a high enough level to beat the
very disciplined and detailed team, and so Harbord has been
able to do that, and that's why he's one of
the best when it comes to turning it around all right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:42):
I mean, you look for big things from the Charges
this year, I think, don't you.

Speaker 3 (01:02:48):
I do, the injury to Justin Herbert tempers some of
that enthusiasmic excitement over them, but no, I still think
they have an opportunity to be a pretty good team.
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I want to go to one of the biggest stories
I think will be in the National Football League this year.
Maybe I'm wrong on this, I think it will be though,
Jaden Daniels and the new coach of the Washington Commanders,
dan Quinn. Dan Quinn obviously has been there, done that. Defensively,
he knows what he's doing. But you talk about high
We talked about hyper Earleon Michleb Williams in Chicago. I mean,
the expectations are going through the roof and he had

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a decent opening against Buffalo in the preseason, which means
absolutely nothing, but confidence wise, it probably means something. Jayden
Daniels is going to get it done. I mean they're
already touting him, as you say, as the front runner
for the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. So we'll
see what happens with the and then look, the good
news for Washington they're in a fairly weak division.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
I mean, there's good news for Washington. They're in a
weak division. They will have an opportunity to get it done.
Jaden Daniels did have a nice debut performance. We saw
him check down, I throw a deep past the Yommy
Brown down the sideline. This team is good enough because
dan Quinn is certainly going to have them competing. He
certain is going to work on the chemistry and make
sure they're connected as a team. They just need some

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juice at quarterback, and Jadon and Anders can give them
as a dual threat quarterback. He has big time speed
and home run ability as a runner, but it's really
good from the pocket. He's dangerous. You worry about the frame,
but there's no doubt he's dangerous.

Speaker 2 (01:04:17):
All right. So you like the fact that Washington could
be a contender this year, maybe not win the division,
but at least make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:04:25):
Yeah, I think they can be in the mix. And
with the Cowboys dealing with the stuffs they're dealing with,
oh yeah, who knows. I mean, you can't pencil anybody
in Philadelphia has a new offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator,
and so it takes a while for everyone to get
on the same page. When it comes to that, they
have as good a chance as anybody else within that division.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
Right, He's about defensive minded coaches. You got Mike McDaniel,
Mike McDonald right now in Seattle. What is that going
to do for the offense on that team in Seattle?
Because I think with Gino as quarterback, I mean, what's
gonna happen now, is gonna be a heavy defensive minded
team the Seattle Seahawks.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
I think they will be that. And I think what
he'll do is he'll keep something the positive from what
his predecessor, Pete Carroll has established, but it'll be a
little more militaristic in terms of the approach. They're gonna
be buttoned up in detailed and they gonna play hard
and do those things Offensively, they may be dynamic because
the college coach being grubbed offense coordinator has been elevated

(01:05:22):
to take over the Hawks, and so they're trying to
push it down the field with Gino Smith attacking. Yeah,
but this team can get it done. They can get
it done on defense. It'd be a little different fashion,
a little more complexity to what they were doing but
they canna play hard, they can play fast, and he's
gonna make sure they're on the right page.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
Puckey Brooks. I'm really surprised of this because I you're
very sky high on the Atlanta Falcons and they're coach
Rahee Morris. I gotta ask you, why is that You
got Kirk Cousins, who's thirty six, thirty seven years of
age coming off an injury. I know he's a four
thousand yeard passer. He's done that on his resume for
like what ten twelve years, whatever it may be. And
they got Michael Pennox Jr. And I think the other

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day Cousins came out said he is somewhat concerned of
why he even now went to ATLANDA. I mean, the
money was great, but he didn't know the situation over
there where he's going to be. So if he comes
back to form after that, Achilles, maybe it gives him
some firepower. But other than that, why so high sky
on Raheem Morris and the Atlanta Falcons.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
One, they had the path to the least resistance to
win the division. There's not a nominated team within the division,
the Saints, the Buccaneers to Carolina Panthers. There's not a
top five team in the division, so you close the
gap there too. Offensively, they have firepower and weapons. Drake London,
b John Robinson, Kyle Pissed. They have enough to be
able to score. Kirk Cousins has seven four thousand yeard

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seasons on his resume. Kirk Cousins doesn't need to be
anything beyond what he's been in the past, and this
team is good enough to put points on the board
and move the ball up and down the field. Defensively,
Rahee Morris and Jimmy Lake have teamed up again. They've
been together a lot. I first met him in Tampa.
Rahie Morris goes on to have a lot of successes

(01:07:04):
defensive coordinated defensive back coach, wide receiver coach. He comes back,
takes all that experience and puts together in Atlanta, and
he and Jimmy late because they've worked together, and they
worked together last year with the Rams. They can put together.
It's solid being but don't break defense. That gives their
offense opportunities to win games. I think that the best
team in division, which is why I was Bullet showed
him as a number one coach too.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
Well, you're really excited. I mean, if all the coaches
we went through, I mean, you're really sky high, as
I say on Raheem Morris and he's out of foul
because you're excited about that team, really off watching.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
Well, I mean, I just I just think he's a
good coach. He's taken all the stuff that he learned
from the Rams, and he talked about the collaborative effort
that the RAMS had with Sean McVay and Lefs Sneed.
He wants to learn from all those things and put
him in place. Now. There's a lot of controversy over
the quarterback situation and Kirk Cousins and why double down
and get Michael Pennix. But as he talked about, it's

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the most important position in the game, and we neglect
the second position. And even though it's the current and
the amount of money paid for both, you know, one
hundred million dollars plus for the quarterback, top pick for
the second quarterback, that's a lot. But if you secured
that position for the next fifteen to twenty years, you're
always in play as a title contender. One of the

(01:08:16):
reasons why they're gonna be in play this year is
because Kirk Cousins is going to give them a chance
to win every game.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
All right, I'm with you. Then I'm gonna follow Landa Falcons. Now,
there's no doubt about that. He's Bucket Brooks. I mean
the firmerweel Fox Sports on the a Fox Sports Radio.
By the way, one NFL team is in big trouble.
They really are. There's coming up next live for the
Tyraq dot com studios. But first Kevin Meyer with the Sports.

Speaker 6 (01:08:37):
Well, one NFL team that didn't look like they were
in trouble a Chicago Bears on a Saturday, I because
Caleb Williams looked impressive in his preseason debut. He went
four to seven passing ninety five yards a one to
one point eight passer rating even included a couple of drops,
so that those numbers could have even looked better. As
the Bears roll over the Bills thirty three to six.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
J J.

Speaker 6 (01:08:59):
McCarthy all so looking pretty good at times one hundred
and eighty eight yards two touchdowns, also had an interception
in his preseason debut. The Vikings do beat the Bears
twenty four to twenty three. Malake Willis showed some good
flashes last year, and in his preseason start this year
this season, went five to seven for thirty eight yards

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as the Titans beat the forty nine ers seventeen to thirteen.
In the Olympics, the United States adds another medal to
their accounted as a bronze medal for the United States
men's water polo team as they beat Hungary earlier this morning,
eleven to eight. In women's basketball, the bronze medal match
of that tournament has just concluded. Australia claims the bronze

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as they beat Belgium eighty five eighty one. The United
States gonna have a chance to go for gold against France,
that game set to tip off at nine to thirty
Eastern time. That's for the men's basketball team, they win
their fifth straight gold medal, going back to the Redeemed
team of two thousand and eight. Steph Curry eight to
twelve from beyond the three point line, coming in the
final minute to put away France as the United States

(01:10:03):
wins at ninety eight to eighty seven. The United States
women's soccer also striking gold out in the Paris Olympics
as they beat Brazil in the final one to nothing.
Major League Baseball tight race in the American League West,
a virtual tie between the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros.
That's after both teams won the Mariners Blake and the

(01:10:23):
Mets four nothing. Behind seven scoreless innings from Logan Gilbert.
Astros over the Red Sox five to four. You're on
Alvarez going deep twice for Houston. The AL East also
a tight race. The Baltimore Orioles lead the Yankees by
one game. That's after the Yankees split a doubleheader with
a Texas Ranger. Meanwhile, the Orioles beat the race seven
to five. The NL West really tightening up. Looked like

(01:10:45):
it was gonna be the Dodgers division to lose, but
don't look now. They've got two teams nipping at their heels.
The Diamondbacks blow out the best team in baseball, the
Philadelphia Phillies, eleven to one. The Padres also getting a
win as they beat the Marlins in extra inn So
the Dodgers leading in the NLS now two and a
half games over San Diego, three and a half over Arizona.

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Thennebacks have won eight at the last ten. The Padres
have won nine of the last ten but the Dodgers
dreading water just five and five over their last ten games.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
Back to you guys, thanks Cap seeing it now? Okay,
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This is an unbelievable story, but it's messy, and I
like messes, I really do. I don't make a lot
of messes, but I'd like to read about them and
the New York Jets. They're being sued by an eighty

(01:11:59):
one year old rockstar and it could result in the
team losing its logo as well as tens of millions
of dollars. Get this back in nineteen eighty nineteen seventy three,
Jim Pons he left his career as a successful bass
player the vocalist to work for the Jets as their
film and video director. Five years later, the Jets were
looking for a redesign, so Pons submitted his logo idea

(01:12:23):
and the front office loved it, so the team used
it as his primary logo from nineteen seventy eight to
nineteen ninety seven, and they used it twice again in
twenty twenty three to alternate their uniforms, and then earlier
this year, the team announced that they'd be using pons
design full time this year, and they even filmed it
in a mini documentary with him, in which he told

(01:12:44):
the story of this original design. But then get this.
Three months later, TMZ revealed that Pons was suing the
Jets and the NFL for stealing his logo, claiming that
he still owned the original design since it was created
out of his original scope of work. Unbelievable. So can
you imagine the Jets be going on the field Aaron

(01:13:05):
Rodgers on there with a uniform with no logo on
its unbelievable? I mean, who would have funk that stories
like this would arise, and who created the logo and
he assuing that he wants his logo back. I think
it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:13:17):
Well, I mean it happened. I mean, it's not uncommon,
like people are always trying to do it. But I mean,
if he created a logo and the Jets didn't compensate him,
then I mean he has every right to sue. I mean,
I think this is something that from a business standpoint,
they should have buttoned it up and you know, before
he could even get to this standpoint. So for the Jets,
it's a situation where they potentially could have egg on

(01:13:40):
their face because they didn't take care of business and
just take care of the guy, you know, given what
he wanted early years ago. And this probably never comes
back up again.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
I never thought the Jets logo was such a great
logo anyway, did you. I mean, what do you think
is the best logo in the NFL?

Speaker 3 (01:13:56):
H Well, I would say the Jets logo. I thought
it was cool, like in the day, like the one
the uniform that they're going back to with the white
face mask and the green h it reminds me of
back in the day. When they had Richard Todd. When
I was coming up, Richard Todd and Al Tune and
Free Mnneil and those guys. I would say, the best
logo in the league. You know, it's different because I'm

(01:14:18):
partial to classics. I think the Raiders' uniform and logo
is timelessly the Cowboys. Yeah, the Cowboys uniform is that.
I mean, I understand the love on the street for
the Chargers because the powder blues and the lightning bolt
and things. So yeah, so I think those things are great.
You know, I'm torn because the Denver Broncos are kind
of flirting with their They have this uniform change, but

(01:14:42):
they have their old school uniform uh in play, which
is back when the Orange crushed, when they had Rick
Upchurch and called Mecklenburg and those guys. There was the
bright orange with the blue helmet and the I would say,
kind of like the horse in the middle of the deep.
I like that uniform. But they're bringing some of that back,
but they had this new stuff. I think a lot
of times when teams look back their old uniforms, their

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original design is their best uniform.

Speaker 2 (01:15:08):
I could you know what I'm with you? Ten thousand
percent and I'll give you an example. Back in the day,
I Tom. I don't know if you know Tom Tinkle.
Tom Tinkle used to play for the Cincinnati Bengals. Tom
Dnkle and the late quarterback of the Cincinnati Bengals, used
to do a show with me on a Sunday morning
and it was unbelieva and they played the Houston Oilers,

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and I love the Oilers so much. With their logo.
I wrote to the equipment manager and he mainly one
of those ponchos that they wear on the sidelines, and
like a schmuck, I mailed it back to him. I
should have kept it, but I mailed it back to him,
but I wore that on the show, and you know it,
really the fans went crazy because I'm wearing a Houston
Oiler deal and it's a Bengal pregame show. But just

(01:15:51):
just the way it was. But it really brought back
some memories here because those logos back in the day,
those are the best. Like you said, those old unions
were the best. It really was. Wow. Yeah, great uniform,
amazing Bucky brooks Andy Furman, Fox Sports Sunday on Fox
Sports Radio. And of course right now it's not a game,

(01:16:13):
it's a way of life. It's bottom barrel betting that
it's freaking next boom barrel betting coming right up. This
is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports. Ready, these Bucket
Brooks and Andy Furman and we're live from the tyraq
dot com studios. And of course before we get involved
with botta barrel benning, I do want to apologize because
I got so excited about the logos with the old
Houston oilers. That show I did with Tom Dinkle was

(01:16:36):
also done with Greg Cook, the late quarterback of the
Cincinnati Bengals, So I got crazy. I just forgot his
name of the time. So we move on, all right,
and let's play the game.

Speaker 4 (01:16:44):
Let's play It's bottom you thought you was late?

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Funny to sleep people, get my money. I'll put your
brain to sleep, Betty.

Speaker 2 (01:16:52):
And it's hard to believe he's back. He's back. The
eye man is back. I can't believe it.

Speaker 9 (01:16:56):
I'm back. Like Cam Newton trotting into the end zone
a few years ago. You remember that he was shouting,
I'm back. I'm back, Like that's me right now, like
my last bil You're back. Okay, Well you know what
else is back. Another Bucky victory three to two this.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Week didn't happen when Brianna was here. I'll tell you
that right now.

Speaker 9 (01:17:14):
Yeah, yeah, well this was her lines. I'm just I'm
just the messenger right now. So so it looks like
your first loss with Brianna's lines. Uh, Bucky three, Andy two.
So it was a close one. Overall score Bucky seventy one,
Andy fifty six, so you actually have closed the gap.
Since when did we.

Speaker 2 (01:17:31):
Start from zero? That's what I'd like to do. We
can study when does that happen?

Speaker 9 (01:17:34):
I feel like that would have been a good time
to do it when Bree stepped in. I don't know.
We can talk about this. We can. We can talk
about a reset maybe, but Bucky would need a prize
because he has won then in that case. But either way,
we'll get into this week's lines. Japanese Baseball NPB the
Tohoku Roku ten Golden Eagles versus the SoftBank Hawks. Bucky,

(01:17:56):
who you got ooh?

Speaker 3 (01:17:57):
Go Toen Eagles. Go to Eagles, fly by five?

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
All real?

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
You know I'm gonna I was going to go with
the soft back so if Bankhawk, so at the beginning,
because I'm kind of soft. I'm a softy, okay, so
I think it's gonna be good for me. I'm going
with the soft bank.

Speaker 9 (01:18:11):
All right, natural fit Women's cricket. We have the Manchester
Originals at plus one oh five versus the Northern Superchargers
at minus one thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:18:22):
And I'm a supercharge guy. I'm a super kind of
charge guy. Really, yeah, I am. I think they know
other supercharge maybe on drugs for some reason. I have
the field. No, really, I think they hope they're not
testing in cricket and women's cricket. I think they may
be with some you know, some charging materials in this system.
Hopefully they don't get caught, because right, right, right, right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:44):
All right, give me the opposite. I can't take the
charges if they're on drugs.

Speaker 9 (01:18:47):
All right, Yeah that's true. Bucky's taking the Originals then,
all right, darts. The Modus Super Series takes place in England.
It's Wayne Jones at plus one twenty versus Steve West
at minus one sixty five. Bucky, who you got?

Speaker 3 (01:19:01):
Oh let's go to Steve West.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
Oh great, I'm so happy. I am so happy because
Wayne Jones was my buddy. Wayne Jones was the baseball
coach at Hunter College in New York City. Really, yes,
I love Wayne. I don't know if it's the same guy.
Maybe he changed careers. I don't know. Wayne Jones was
my guy. I gotta go with Wayne Jones.

Speaker 9 (01:19:21):
Good, all right? Super League Rugby we have the Warrington
Wolves versus the London Broncos. This is also in England.
If you couldn't figure that out from the London location, Andy,
who you got?

Speaker 2 (01:19:32):
Gotta go with the Broncos because I have a Denver
Broncos logo shirt, so I gotta just cross out Denver
and put London on the top.

Speaker 9 (01:19:38):
Oh okay, that makes it nice and easy. He is
Fucky you got the Warrington Wolves? Then are you gonna
go with the Broncos as well?

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
Taking the lord?

Speaker 1 (01:19:52):
All right?

Speaker 9 (01:19:52):
And alright. Our last line of the week is Ozzie
Rules football. We have the Collingwood Magpies. This is the
Brisbane Lions. Bucky, who you got?

Speaker 3 (01:20:03):
Oh give me Magpies?

Speaker 9 (01:20:04):
Magpies.

Speaker 2 (01:20:05):
What's the other one?

Speaker 9 (01:20:06):
The Brisbane Lions. They're at minus one sixty five.

Speaker 3 (01:20:11):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:20:11):
And I've never done this. I've never taken the same
one as Bucky, and I will still not do no. See,
I was de's a tease. Would you call that a
little bit of a tease.

Speaker 3 (01:20:20):
It's a fake out?

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
I get fake I faked you out, but you got nervous.
I know you got a little nervous. They did. I'm
going with the lions. I'm going with the lions, all right?
How can you go with the magpie? What I name magpies?
Come on? Really? But still it's an ugly word.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
It is just stupid.

Speaker 9 (01:20:37):
All right, I'll be back next week.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
Thank you very much. You know what, you could only
do this in August. Really, We're gonna explain that and
so much more where on Fox Sports Sunday right here next,
don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio first is a
long way from here. That's coming right up. Good morning,
This is Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio. Hey,

(01:21:00):
Bucket Brooks. I'm Andy Furman, and we are broadcasting live
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(01:21:21):
how are you?

Speaker 3 (01:21:22):
I'm good. I'm good and good. What's going on? Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:21:24):
Everything is good? You know, But there's only one major
problem here on this show. What we lack today? We
lacked a little controversy. I think controversy is good. See
you bring out the best of me. Really, I'm kind
of like one of those devil advocate kind of guys
of poking and punching and pulling and you know, and
you kind of set me straight, you know. I guess
it's a good thing, but I kind of miss it.

(01:21:46):
I kind of missed it back. I got a little
bit now, I got a little bit now. Are you ready?
Because I heard and I read this the other day.
Tim Murphy used to coach football at the University of Cincinnati,
but then he left and he went to Harvard and
it became like, you know, an unbelievable coach. I mean,
he just won every year. He won the Ivy League
every year at Harvard. And he made a major comment

(01:22:06):
which I read. I want to share with you the
major difference between NFL football and college football. Are you
ready for this? This is what he did. He says
it's simple. The NFL has a two hundred and fifty
five million dollars salary cap. Everybody gets the same amount
of money, so it is equality and equity. If you're
fortunate enough to win a Super Bowl, you don't get

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the first draft pick, you get the last draft pick.
So everybody has a good chance to succeed the way
the system is now in major college football, if you're
a mid level school and a quality league, let's say
the Big Ten for instance, or the SEC. You say
you're Purdue and you have a tremendous nine to two season,
you go to a bowl game. What do you get

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for that? All you get is someone's going to clean
you out of your roster and instead of having to
recruit sixteen guys, now you've got to recruit thirty or
forty guys. College football is the wild wild West. The
rich get richer, and it's a train wreck. If you're
a school like Ohio State or Michigan, if you're a
school like Alabama or Georgia, you just made it easier
to get back to the national championship, not harder. Great point.

(01:23:10):
I mean, I'm not trying to be controversial here, but
that's just the way it is. I understand the whole
situation with the transfer pool and the portal and the
anil and all that stuff, but there's gotta be a
better way. There's gotta be a better way. He makes
a great point because schools like Purdue decent program in
a tremendous conference. You have a great year and then

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look at your roster. Next thing, you know, everybody's gonna
be in the portal. You're gonna lose those guys. And
he says, as coach Murphy says, instead of losing sixteen
guys maybe for graduation or whatever, you're gonna have to
recruit thirty or forty because they gonna want to go
to a bigger and better program.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
Yeah it's true. I mean, it's definitely true. There guys
are certainly hunting and looking for the next best deal,
and it makes it very, very tough to maintain your roster.
And it's unfortunate that everyone is looking for a better thing.
But that's just kind of the way the way it goes.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:24:04):
I think coaches can try and do their best to
protect their players and keep their players on the roster,
but ultimately, man, you you kind of have to know
that if you're one of those teams, and I can't
even say A Lord Division, right, I can't even say
if you're not a I have you potentially gonna lose

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your team to one of these other squads. It's just
I guess it's the way of doing business in college
sports right now.

Speaker 2 (01:24:31):
Like you know, just yeah, the best I guess the opportunity.
But you know, you turn the radio one and you
hear hosts behind the microphone talking about, you know what,
the team is going to do, their perspective, and they're
gonna win, They're gonna lose the players that have the personnel.
I think you've gotta take a step back and take
a look at what has happened over the last year

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or two. I'm looking at Colorado. I have nothing personal
against Dean Sanders. I loved that when he was in Cincinnati,
when he played for the Cincinnati Reds. I think it's
a tremendous athlete. But when he came into Colorado, I
gotta take I got to ask you a take on
the fact that he basically told these players, you're not
going to play here, so get lost, get out, and
he cleared the roster out just the other day, he
had a news conference with the media in Colorado. He

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wouldn't talk to the local CBS affiliate guy because he
said CBS did him wrong because they picked him last
in the conference this year. But you know there's national
with CBS dot Com, not the local Denver CBS guy
for the CBS station. So he just he went off
big time in the media when he went crazy. And
you know, you don't win like that. You just can't
win doing stuff like that. And the transfer portal, and

(01:25:36):
so many questions I have. Why is it that you
could put your name in the portal and you have
to sit out a year? You know back in the day,
and you know it when you went to school, if
you were to transfer from North Carolina to another school,
you'd have to sit out a year before you could
play again. Why and how does this happen and why
did it change in that direction? I don't understand it.
Maybe you can help me out. Rather than talk about

(01:25:56):
what teams are going to be great, I want to
know how this thing came up. About the evolution of.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
This, Well, the evolution is you had the greedy people
who didn't want to share with the people who were
really growing the game, and so the players were not
getting the share everyone else was eating off the backs
of the players. You had coaches who watched their salaries
explode to the point where coaches are making ten million dollars,
but you had players who couldn't go get a meal

(01:26:25):
from the training table if it wasn't on the car,
because it could be a violation depending on what time
of year it was. And so what happened greed undid everything,
and then when it went to court, the courts litigated
and found that it wasn't fair to the players that
were doing all the work that they didn't get a cut.
And so if it had been a situation where it
could have been the little things back in the day,

(01:26:45):
where they were just more fair and equitable to the players,
then you wouldn't see the portal in these things. But
I kind of want to talk about because you brought
up Deon Sanders and some of the stuff and how
he should maybe play nice with the media, even though
from the time he is taking the job in Colorado
everyone has taken shots at him. I believe that Dion

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is always going to be a polarizing figure. Right He
was polarizing as a player because people say that he
shouldn't be so cocky, he shouldn't be arrogant, he should
be humble at like he's been there before. But that's
not who he is. The bravado is a real part
of his personality. That's who he is. And there are
other teams who've also lived in the portal. Look at
the teams that are just living in the Porter. Alabama

(01:27:29):
has a bunch of players today've taken from the Porter.
Georgia as well. There aren't many teams that are at
the top that aren't taking transfers. And so it does
appear to be a little slighted that when Dion and
Colorado lives in the Porter, when he inherited a one
and eleven team, a team that won one game, everyone
expects him to stay with those same players when that's

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not a reality in today's sports. So to me, I
do understand why he gets annoyed, even though I would
tell him that waging a war against the media is
a fight that he can't win because the power to
pen is always going to win out. But I do
understand the frustration that he may see when his program
has had a lot a lot of these anonymous sources

(01:28:11):
and players that were in the program talking bad about
the program, and we're living in yesteryear as opposed to Hey,
he was four and eight last year, attacking for what
he is and if that's not good enough, then that's
not good enough. But all these stories that continue to
come out about it, A lot of it is just
clickbait because they know if you talk about Dion, you
can talk about you can get a bunch of clicks.

(01:28:32):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (01:28:32):
I'm so happy you mentioned that, because you just can't win.
You can't win. I mean, you got to suck it
up sometimes because now I think the media will have
a jaded aspect towards Deon Sanders. Maybe they did before,
I don't know, but now they're gonna do everything they
can to dig up some dirt and hurt him, especially.

Speaker 3 (01:28:52):
If they've they've already, I know, but they've already, they've
already done that. Though like it's been, it's been that
way from the jump, Like the way that his recruiting
practices were, there were other people that run people out.
They may not do it as I would say, as
openly as he did when he told the guys to
jump into portal, but they run people out. They're people
that run teams, run players out each and every day,

(01:29:14):
and they move on. It is a professional business now
at the collegiate level, and that's how coaches are treating
it because they're cutting players basically and forcing them into
the portal so they can have that roster for others.
He's getting the heat, and I would tell him, because
we're friends, I would tell them, hey, man, you can't
win this one. By being very divisive and acrimonious or

(01:29:36):
antagonistic to the media, You're only making it worse because
more people are going to tune it. And no matter
what he says, there are people that are not gonna
like him. So he just has to focus on the product,
which is winning. I will say this, it's asinine that
he was ranked as the second worst coach in that conference.
I know anyone who is anyone who has watched him,
anyone who has watched them coach. Like, whether you like

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HPCU Black College Football or not, he dominated at that level.
You cannot be a good coach if you don't win
to the when you win to the level that he won.
So it's disrespectful to him to say that he's the
second worst coach in that, like, is really ridiculous that
it would be ranked like that. I understand that he
can't act and respond like that, but I would say

(01:30:16):
that being the second worst coach in a conference with
a bunch of coaches, yeah, that would ignore me too.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Well, and you know what, you're exactly right. I mean
he was dominant in HBCUs. So these people that haven't
done that homework and maybe it was just in a
topic because they don't like him, I don't know, But
I don't understand why if you do go into portal
you could immediately play, maybe because they're doing these kids
a favor because they're not going to play on the
team that they were kind of told to leave. But
I remember back in the day, like when you played,

(01:30:45):
you had to sit out a year before you went
to play somewhere else.

Speaker 3 (01:30:48):
Yeah, but that's not fair because we don't make coaches
sit out a year when they change schools. And a
lot of people before they jumped into portal whatever, like
they shouldn't do this. You should go to the school
because of the school. You should go to the school
because the educational opportunities, whatever opportunities that the school presents
to help you live a better life down the line. However,

(01:31:09):
most players pick their schools based on the coaches, and
the coaches have had free agency the entire time, where
they can stay with the player, get them signed, and
as soon as the player signs the dotted line, they bounce.
That's assistant coaches and head coaches where players should have
the same freedoms. If the coach is not there, they
should also be given the access to leave, just like

(01:31:30):
coaches are given the access to leave and coach right away.
So there's no sit up here for coaches, so there
shouldn't be a sit up here for players.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
Right now, I'll go one step further. Let's talk about
the Big Twelve Conference because I'm familiar with that. Why
because University of Cincinnati's in there? Why do they end
up in the Big Twelve? Because it's money. It's a
great payday. School's gonna make a lot of money there.
But I will tell you right here now, as much
as I want to see them do well and win
in that conference, it's gonna take years. I mean, I
don't understand how they could compete financially with nil with alums,

(01:32:03):
with these other schools, how they can do this do
it in the Big twelve. I mean, they were somewhat
dominant when they were in a college conference USA because
they were a big wig there, a fairly big market,
had some money. I don't see, maybe I'm wrong. Help
me out here. Can the University of since I compete
a year in, year out and be competitive in the
Big twelve in football?

Speaker 3 (01:32:25):
Maybe down the line. I mean, look, I said, and
watched Utah change their recruiting profile and change how they
had been able to recruit and compete in the Pac twelve.
They were a team that wasn't in the back Pac twelve,
but they eventually got better and better and better where
they were able to win championships in the Pac twelve.
For Cincinnati, it's the same thing. Playing up, as they

(01:32:47):
would say, would give them an opportunity to expand the
recruiting base. It would give them a chance to change
their profile in terms of how people view them and
respect them as like one of those teams in their tops.
It may take some time, but they've competed. But remember
this is a team that's competed in the playoffs, So
they shouldn't feel like the little sister or the stepchild

(01:33:07):
to anybody. It's just a different conference. They're just playing
against different teams, but they should be able to compete
and compete at a high level.

Speaker 2 (01:33:12):
Okay, let's go back to your good friend Deion Sanders,
because again, you know, I know the media has taken
shots at him, and so maybe it's envy. Maybe I
don't know. They don't like his attitude, the bravado, whatever
it may be. But he he had some great pub
and I last year I remember sixty minutes to two
big pieces on him, tremendous pieces. Maybe they made him shine,
may mean it looked great. So for him to come

(01:33:34):
back and do that, it just like you say, you
can't win. It's not going to help him in the
long run. It really won't.

Speaker 3 (01:33:41):
No, it won't. It won't help him in the long run.
But also know like deand doesn't care, Like he's the
same one that DAWs Tim McCarver with water when he
was playing for the Atlanta Braids. Based on what Tim
McCarver said about him and the World Series, I would
say that Dion probably regrets that, and he may eventually
regret going at the media hard. But also say this,

(01:34:02):
because we're on this side where we can always attack.
And remember, the media stuff has changed. It went from
being a we're going to report the stuff to now
have an opinion, and that opinion grows louder where everyone
is an opinion based columnist that has an opportunity to
weigh in loudly on what they think you should or
shouldn't be doing. I can understand the annoyance, but you

(01:34:23):
always want to handle yourself with class, and sometimes it
does require you to fire back. And look, we'll see
if he was just in firing back at CBS and
some of the reporters, because I know he attacked the
reporter from the Denver Post who's maybe put a bunch
of negative things about him. But ultimately, you got to perform.
And it's not gonna be easy for them given the

(01:34:45):
schedule and they played North Dakota State right out the gate.
It's gonna be a difficult situation. But they got to
figure out a way to get it done because that's
the only way he's going to shut them.

Speaker 2 (01:34:54):
Up, right, And you know what, He's not the first
coach and it certainly won't be the last coach that
exploded against media. Bill Belichick took a different approach. He
just didn't talk to him at all. You know that
they said, what do you think of this? When moving
on to Cincinnati? That was his answer that.

Speaker 3 (01:35:08):
And there's something to that. But like even then, you
got to think the only reason why people didn't tear
Bill Belichick to shreds is because he won. And then
in those final couple of seasons when it didn't go
his way in the point, what do we do? We
ripped in so you can't win. The power to pin
is always superior. The only thing you can control is
the performance between the lines. And he has to make

(01:35:29):
sure that his performance between the line is terrific because
what has been overshadowed with all the negative stuff of
the positive things like the Greade point average, the people
that are there, what they've done or whatever. It's just look, man,
you're judged ultimately by the wins and losses. They gotta
win more and he has to win more.

Speaker 2 (01:35:47):
In you two and the late Bob Knight, I mean,
I think the media was someone fearful of and they
were afraid of Bob Knight. They way were. I mean
you go to a news conference, I went to several
of them. I mean they were afraid to ask him
a question they were afraid of. Talked to Bo night,
they really were, and he'd chopped your head off. But
again he won, that's the deal. But down the end
of the stretch, at the end, and they got him,

(01:36:07):
you know, the media was.

Speaker 3 (01:36:09):
They got them. They wait, they wait, they wait, and
then it's funny because it's the same circular arc, right,
so they drive you out, and then as soon as
they drive you out, all of the reflective pieces about
how wonderful you were right comes right and they get that.
Like so it just is one of those things you
can never win. Like, we're really governing, particularly on the
media side, by the power of the click, and so

(01:36:31):
much of what is done now is all about generating
clicks and having a lot of attention. And everyone wants
to get uh the attention by being outlandish or polarizing.
And that's just the way the media business is right now.

Speaker 2 (01:36:42):
It's amazing, you're exactly right right about you. You attack them,
they'll beat you up, they'll tear you down. And then
when you get thrown out of it and basically, and
I saw recently with Tom Brenneman, you know Tom brond
the announcer, you know what he slip got back. You
just got back that all of a sudden. Oh, it's
great that he's back. He deserved to be backing of it.
But but you were to say people that said that

(01:37:03):
he should have been fired, you know, because what he says,
slip of the tongue. I mean, it's an amazing how
the cycle goes, right, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:37:10):
Well, yeah, the cycle goes And yeah, it took I
think Brendan four years before he was back in. Yeah,
after the incident, and yeah, like I mean, it's always
going to be like that. And Nick Saban has said
this about the media whenever a player messes up, like
there was always a lot of pressure on him to
he when you're gonna throw them out, when you're gonna
dismiss this player from the program, And he said, maybe

(01:37:32):
it's best for us to keep the guy in the
program so we can help him rehabilitate his image and
learn from creating expressions as opposed to dismissing them. Because
what happens is, Okay, we go hard, we get the
player out of there. Then what we're on to the
next story. And so it's really not about the well
being of the person that you're talking about it's about
like just the media and the lynch mob mentality when

(01:37:55):
it comes to people that mess up or the shortcomings
their feelings.

Speaker 2 (01:37:58):
But we're not part of the lynch mob all the way.
I mean, you and me, I don't.

Speaker 3 (01:38:01):
I don't think no. I mean sometimes I can, I
can throw a shot every now and then, but I
understand it. I understand the role that that that we
play in it, and I get that. But sometimes even
being on the inside, you can get tired of it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
Well, I agree, I think. Look, there's something different to
be said by me that if a coach makes a
call at the end of the game, and you look
in that Super Bowl when Seattle was playing against New England,
I mean, that was a silly call and you could
criticize that, but you don't have to attack the coach
for making that call, but just you question it. That's
there's a difference than attacking and questioning. And again with
the Deon Sanders thing, I just feel bad because I

(01:38:34):
do like Dan and what he did. He went off
of these guys and you know, again, like you say,
he doesn't care, but he can't win, and they're gonna
they're gonna get him. They will you know. And if
he happens to leave Colorado on his own, or they
throw him out, whatever happens, they'll say I told you so.
And then then it'll resurface somewhere and they'll say what
a great coach he was. That's the cyclist, just the

(01:38:55):
way it is. I know. It's if the script is written,
that's it, right. He's Brooks for sure, unreal Bucket Brooks
on Twitter out ex at Bucket Brooks at Andy Ferman
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phone number. That translates to eight seven seven nine nine
six sixty three sixty nine. And of course we have
the blame game, the blame game at the end of

(01:39:16):
this hour. But right now, if you're a fan of
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(01:40:23):
gonna say this, Bucky Brooks, I'm gonna say, if you're
a fan of the following teams, I'm gonna say I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, because we're gonna play a little game here
of some teams, maybe six, seven, eight teams, I don't know.
Can they go worse to first in the National Football League?
And the game is gonna be I'm gonna say, I'm
gonna be the devil I'm gonna say why they can't,
and you're gonna make a case, maybe possibly that they can.

(01:40:45):
All right, And I'm gonna start locally with my Cincinnati Bengals,
and I'm gonna say, yeah, I understand that they were
in a tough division AFC North, the only division to
have four teams with winning records last year. Okay, and
it may be worse this year, may be tougher, but
I don't think they're gonna go from worse to first.
I think they're gonna have a tough few of people
are in and around Cincinnati, God bless them. They think

(01:41:06):
they're going to the super Bowl. I'll be happy if
they make the playoffs. Really, they got a new running
back in Zach Moss. I don't know if that's an
upgrade or not. Chase Brown backing up there in the
running back position, I don't know. Joe Mixon's gone. I
think that's a loss. Tyler Boyd's gone. I think that's
a loss. And I watched them last night. They still
can't stop the run. I know it's exhibition. Defense is
gonna be the Achilles heel of this team. Make a

(01:41:28):
case for my Cincinnati Bengals Bucket Brooks.

Speaker 3 (01:41:32):
Look at starts and starts with Joe Burrow. As long
as you got Joe Burrow in the mix, you have
an opportunity one of the best quarterbacks in the league
when he is healthy and available to Sincinny Bengals winning.
They win at a high clip when you have him
and Jamar Chase Anti Higgins, Chase Brown emerging as a
running back, and Zach Moss like I mean, they have
enough to be able to go after people offensively. Defensively,

(01:41:52):
there's some work that needs to be done, but they've
tried to address some of those situations. Geno Stone coming over,
bringing some veteran to kind of help the young guys
that they were rolling out with. Lou Anamrumo when he
has the firepower, he is a really good defensive coordinator.
I think they get back on track. But Joe b
is really the reason why you can count on them.

(01:42:12):
Whenever he's on the field, they have a chance, and
I like their chances.

Speaker 2 (01:42:16):
I'm glad to hear that. I glad he played last night.
He looked decent. He led him to a score in
the first quarter, then he sat down the rest of
the game. But you know, if he's healthy, You're right,
they go as he goes. That's the way it is,
all right. I'm going with the Chicago Bears next, and
I'm gonna say why they may not go worse to first.
And we talked about this at the top of the show.
So many unreasonable expectations that come with the first round

(01:42:40):
quarterback draft pick as a heights been winner in Kayleb Williams.
The pressure is ridiculous. And after they won last night,
well yesterday afternoon against Buffalo, and he looked good, he
really did. But it's preseason, it's exhibition. People are salivating already.
I just think there's so much pressure there. Yet he's
surrounded with some good offensive talent in DJ More, Keenan Allen,

(01:43:01):
the first round pick on Doosey. I just don't think
it's gonna happen yet. Give him time to develop, let
him breathe. Expectations are crazy. Go ahead, bucket on the
Chicago Bears.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Chicago Bears a better off of last year. So you
think about the way they finished, defense found their stride.
Matt Eberflus took over, did a really good job of
calling plays and got the defense playing well. Monte Sweat
looked like a dominant player in a Bears uniform. So defensively,
they're beginning to play the style that he wants. And
that's really good because if they played the band but

(01:43:34):
don't break style of defense that he wants, then it's
on Caleb Williams and the offense to get going. When
I look at the offense, Caleb Williams at quarterback, Kendan Allen,
DJ Moore of Romer, Doonzay Hard Trio to stot Cole
Comet being able to control the middle of the field
as a tight end, DeAndre Swift in the backfield. They're
loaded on offense. So offensively, man, if a quarterback, the

(01:43:54):
young quarterback can quickly acclimate to the game, this offense
can put up twenty seven to thirty points a game,
they're gonna be in the conversation. So I like the Bears.
I like what they've done throughout the off season, but
it all hinges on the play of the quarterback.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
All Right, the man has set the stage. The spotlights
are on this guy. Jim Harbar, coach of the Los
Angeles Chargers. Here's my question here. The last time he
coached in an NFL game was like ten years ago.
The league has changed. I mean, if you coach your coach,
I mean, you know the game and you've told me
many a time it's not so much exras and o's
is how you develop relationships with players. And apparently from

(01:44:30):
a distance, what I'm seeing and hearing and reading is
that he's got these guys like really relisting to him,
respecting him, and they got talent. But I just don't
know if they could get it done. This team has
always been a team that gave away games in the
fourth quarter. I hope he can make the difference. I
don't know if they can. And again, Herbert's been a
little injured. That could be a major factor. So I

(01:44:51):
think there's a question mark there with the LA Chargers.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
I mean there's a question mark, dear, like you wonder
like there's been a bit of a talent Drane, Mike Williams,
Kenyon and Allen departed. But this team is gonna be
different the Baltimore West. They're gonna run the football. Greg
Roman comes over, They're gonna try and get it done
with Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins punishing people between the tackles.
Justin Herbert is still there, even though he's dealing with
the Liz Frank injury. Can you allow him to be

(01:45:18):
a compliment to what you want to do offensively in
terms of running the football, throwing off play action, taking
shot Steve to an unheralded cast of playmakers on the perimeter.
And then defensively, Jesse Mentor was taking over the defense,
maybe being a little more attacking than Brandon Staley, but
finding a way to mix in some simulated pressures in

(01:45:38):
those things to allow them to have maximum coverage. Look,
it's hard to bet against Harvard. Everywhere he's gone. He's
won everywhere San Diego, Sanford, San Francisco, Michigan, while Whitney
went in LA. He has a blueprint that works, and
I'm willing to bank on that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
Blueprint and I want them to win. I'll tell you
what I like him, But more than that, the mid family.
I love Jesse Mint, that coach at Mount Saint Joe
College in Cincinnati, but his dad, Rick Rick Minter, who's
on the staff as well. You know Rick coach at
University sitting that. I love Rick Minter. He's my guy.
So I like to see them do well. Rick Mint
has been unbelievable. He being all over the place but
the Eagles, he's been in Michigan with him. I mean,

(01:46:17):
this guy, I don't even know where his house is.
I don't know where he lives anymore. I mean, it's
like a no man's life being a coach, isn't it.
It's worse than being a player. I mean, these guys
just go pick up their bars and go from the
city of the city.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
I mean it's tough. I mean, it's definitely a tough life.
Like you got to be able to react and adjust
and adapt quickly. Having help him in the movers and
whoever has to go from organize and get it done.
It's hard to move around as much as they've been
able to do. You know, It's it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
It's unbelievable. I'm just wondering, though, do the team's pay
you moving expenses? Just questioning.

Speaker 3 (01:46:53):
Sometimes depends on the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:46:54):
But it's been a kind of an agent. You have negotiated.

Speaker 3 (01:46:58):
You got to get it done or you gotta paid
well enough to be able to move. But that's yeah,
So for sometimes they conversated to give you a little
little stipend, little some change to get the.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
Moving going all right, sounds great, all right, we did
a little bit of that, a little bit of this. Okay.
He is Bucky Brooks on Andy Firm and we are
Fox Sports Sunning on Fox Sports Radio. It was mom.
It was mom that pushed the coach over the finish line. Yes,
that's coming up next live for the Ti rock dot
coms to this. But here he is mom's lovely son,
Kevin White. Oh yes, I'm sure.

Speaker 6 (01:47:29):
Anyway, the United States adding another medal to their count,
the men's water polo team taking the bronze medal game
as they beat Hungary earlier today by a final score
of eleven to eight. So the United States taking the
bron in men's water polo. They just awarded a bronze

(01:47:50):
medal in women's basketball, Australia and Belgium going on for
the third place in the tournament, and in it's Australia
winning the bronze eighty five to eighty one. As for
the gold medal, Matt coming up later today at nine
thirty am Eastern Time, the United States going for yet
another goal as they face off against host country France.
It was the same matchup on the men's side of
things on Saturday, as Steph Curry leading the way for

(01:48:14):
the United States, going eight to twelve from beyond the
three point arc. Had a couple of dagger shots there
in the final minute to lift the United States over France.

Speaker 2 (01:48:22):
Ninety eight eighty seven.

Speaker 6 (01:48:23):
Is the fifth straight gold medal they have won, going
back to the redeem Team in two thousand and eight.
United States women's soccer strikes gold at the Olympics. They
beat Brazil in the final one nothing, and both the
American men and women in track and field winning gold
in the four x four hundred meter relay. Major League Baseball,

(01:48:45):
it is a tight race in the American League West,
a virtual tie between the Mariners and Astros. That's actor
Seattle shuts out the Mets four to nothing behind seven
scoreless innings from Logan Gilbert. Astros get by the Red
Sox five to four after Jodan Alvarez goes down twice
for Houston. The American League East also very tight, the
Baltimore Orioles leading the Yankees by one game, the Yankees

(01:49:07):
splitting a doubleheader with the Texas Rangers on Saturday, while
the Orioles beat the Rays seven to five. The National
League West, they looked like it was the Dodgers division
to lose, and getting a little closer, getting a little
nerve racking time for Los Angeles, as they are now
just ahead by two and a half games. They they beat
the Pirates in a hand of Paul Skins his second

(01:49:29):
loss of the season, in a four to one victory,
but the Padres also won, beating the Marlins ninety extra innings,
the Diamondbacks blowing at the Phillies, the best team in baseball,
eleven to one. So don't look now. The Dodgers lead
just two and a half games out West, the Padres
two and a half back, the Diamondbacks three and a
half back, but both of those teams red hot. Arizona
has won ai their last ten. The Padres have won

(01:49:51):
nine of their last ten, but the Dodgers just five
and five in their last ten games. NFL preseason Caleb
Williams impressive in his debut four seven ninety five yards,
a one to one point passer rating, and those incompletions
included a couple of drops, so those numbers could have
even looked better for Williams. As the Bears roll over
the Bills thirty three to six. JJ mccarthrey had one

(01:50:13):
hundred and eighty eight yards two touchdowns plus an interception
in his preseason debut as the Vikings get by the
Raiders twenty four to twenty three. Malik Willis five to
seven thirty eight yards. Titans beat the forty nine Ers
seventeen to thirteen. Back to you guys, thanks, keV. All right,
mom knows best this time. We'll get to that in
just about a minute. He is Bucket Brooks. I'm Andy Ferner.

Speaker 2 (01:50:32):
We have Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports Radio, and Buck,
with your permission, we're gonna have obviously the blame game
in about seven eight minutes for now, but I want
to talk about your good friend Deon Sanders again because
he's a great story because it's not just the media
that attacks Deon Sanders, it's fellow coaches. And I got
the proof right here Chris last year and that lead
up to that rivalry game between Colorado his school and

(01:50:53):
Colorado State, and that game was last September. The coach
of Colorado State, Jay Norvell, took a shot at Deon
Sanders and he said, quote when I talked to grownups,
he said, I take my hat and glasses off. That's
what my mother taught me that that's ridiculous. That's just
a below the belt comment that he made to Don

(01:51:14):
because Dillon always wears those glasses, he always wears the sunglass.
He always wears a cowboy hat. But the comments did
much more than just fuel the tension for the game.
And by the way, Colorado and Dion won that game.
They beat the Rams forty three to thirty five in
double overtime. But they helped launch get this, a multi
million dollar viral sunglasses campaign. Unbelievable. The Sanders sunglasses campaign

(01:51:39):
was underway before the comments, obviously, but the CEO of
Smaac Entertainment, which represents Sanders in the off the field
deals that he has, they teamed up with a Blender's
I wear and they were working on his own line,
but the product was not slated to launch until last November.
But when Novelle attacked Sanders for the indoor unglasses, the

(01:52:01):
company kicked it into the high gear and court. Dion's
mom didn't appreciate that too much. This is what the
company said just the other day. But when Coach novel
decided to take a shot at Dion's mom, we literally said,
get the factories going, We're going to launch these glasses
this week. And they did, and it's unbelievable. They promoted
something between sixty seven thousand and seventy two thousand pre

(01:52:23):
sales in less than a week. Unbelievable. But the coach
of Colorado states a schmuck is you got a cut
of that?

Speaker 3 (01:52:29):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:52:29):
Who was his deal? But who knows? Stop attacking Dion Sanders.
You can't win. You can't win, you can't I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
No, I mean, look, he's a target because he puts
himself out there and there's a lot of tension that
comes along with it. We saw the Oregon coach Dan
Lanning play for the cameras during the game where they
were beating Colorado down. We saw the pregame speech and
all that other stuff that comes with the territory, high
profile coach. You have to understand that Dion has done
a lot of talking and so he has to live
with it. He has to back it up. You know,

(01:52:57):
the only thing that people really care about did you
win it? Did you lose? All that other stuff in between?
No one cares when you win. To the victor goes
to spoils and so you got to win. If you
want to be on the other side of if you
want to talk and walk around and do all that,
you have to be able to do it. You got
to win, and you got to win at high level.

Speaker 2 (01:53:14):
You know what, I hear what you're saying, and certainly
the bottom line is winning. But people's images, people's opinions
are shaped by the images and what people say. Because
I don't know coach Norville from Madam mean that a lineup,
I couldn't pick them out. I don't like them. I
don't like the guy. I don't like what he said
about the understandings. I just don't like. There's certain things
when you see TV interviews with various players, you read

(01:53:37):
about what they do, you in your mind form an
image on how they do it, what they say, how
they look, how they represent themselves, and that just it's sad,
but that's the way it is. You know, in a
little bit of a sound bite on radio, you could
form an opinion on an athlete and just just the
way it is.

Speaker 3 (01:53:53):
Yeah, it is the way it is, and it's always
going to be like that. You have to understand that
you got to make sure that you put yourself in
a position to take care of your business, and you
can control what you can control. With the other stuff
you can't really worry about. But if you're doing your best,
you're living right, you're doing good things, then you can't
worry about all that other stuff. And for Dianna and
the people within the program, if they're doing the right stuff,

(01:54:14):
ultimately the light would be put on the good things
that they're doing right.

Speaker 2 (01:54:18):
Look, I love Pete Rose. Years ago, I worked at
a racetrack. I was a PR guy and during the
winter months, he would be there every night. I love
We got to know each other rather well. And I
watched that HBO special about a week or two ago,
and I honestly think it didn't put him in a
nice light. It wasn't the Pete Rose that I know
who was a fun guy, a real funny guy, a

(01:54:39):
friendly guy. He'd stop and sign autogrip to anybody and everybody.
And there was one incident in that show on HBO
when a female reporter in Philadelphia asked him a question.
He came back to celebrate the nineteen eighty World Championship
team in Philadelphia. He was there with the guys and
some woman reporter came up to him and said, you
know what about an alleged incident that you have with
a young female years only had to say was that

(01:55:02):
today's not the day and time to talk about that.
I'm here to celebrate this event with my fellow teammates.
But he went nuts on her and said that was
fifty years ago. What do you care about, it's under
your business. It was wrong. I understand it. It kind
of set him off. But you just can't do that.
You just you gotta take a breath before you talk, right,

(01:55:22):
You gotta wait. You gotta wait, you get.

Speaker 3 (01:55:24):
A pause, you gotta pause and think, you gotta think.
You gotta take your time to think.

Speaker 2 (01:55:29):
I need to do that here sometimes too.

Speaker 3 (01:55:31):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (01:55:32):
All right, he's Bucky Brooks, I'm Andy Furman. We are
Fox Sports Sunday on Fox Sports.

Speaker 3 (01:55:37):
Ready.

Speaker 2 (01:55:37):
You know, everyone has someone to blame, so it's time
the blame game. It is freaking next, all right, higher ground,
that's where I want to go with Stevie won and
the blame game coming right up. It's about eleven minutes
before the top of the hour. By the way, at
the top of the hour, don't forget the swollen Bilm himself,
Mike Harmonial joined Ryan Hollins right here. How Fox Sport's ready.

(01:55:57):
That's nine a m. Eastern time. When we get off
the air. He's Bucky Brooks and Andy Firman. We're live
for the tire Rock dot Com Studios and I want
to thank Buck. We need to thank our wonderful staff,
the magic Man, Mark Ramsey, Kevin White. We're all the
sports up, THEYS thing. I'm in returning today, but right
now it's time for the playing game.

Speaker 3 (01:56:15):
You ruin me.

Speaker 1 (01:56:16):
It's all your fault. No, it's your fault.

Speaker 9 (01:56:19):
What is all your fault?

Speaker 1 (01:56:24):
Maybe it's everyone's fault. Who knows he's a liar. That's
why there's the blame game.

Speaker 2 (01:56:29):
The blame game.

Speaker 1 (01:56:30):
Let's figure out who to blame.

Speaker 2 (01:56:32):
He's a liar. Okay, I'm sorry. Here we go the
IMN I man, get it going with the blame gate.

Speaker 9 (01:56:37):
All right, let's get the ball rolling. So we'll start
with this. The Patriots released veteran wide receiver Juju Smith Schuster, Andy,
who do you blame?

Speaker 2 (01:56:46):
I tell you what? Though they announced that and they
say it's because of a veteran. They want to go
to a younger audience or a younger personnel. It's bull,
It's money. You got a problem. It's all about money.
How do you release Juju Smith Schuster? I love the guy.
He could play the game, and they say they don't
want it because they want to go younger. Bull, the
team can't win. You need a guy, You need a
veteran guy.

Speaker 9 (01:57:07):
Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:57:08):
I mean, he may need a veteran guy, but he
wasn't really productive anymore. Like he had that great rookie
season when he played with AB but he's never been
the same guy since that point. Last year he had
twenty nine catches, only two hundred and sixty yards in
a touchdown nine yards per catch. That's not enough to
keep him around. I am applauding did New England pages
for moving on put the younger guys out there so
they can grow with the young quarterback.

Speaker 9 (01:57:29):
Boom Sticking to the NFL after it seemed like a
trade was inevitable, the forty nine ers in Brandon Ayuk
have reopened their contract discussions. Nothing's guaranteed, obviously, but it
actually came after Amari Cooper, the Brown receiver, put on
his Instagram story quote, I wouldn't be mad you know
when he was rumored to be involved in those Niners
trade rumors, But Bucky, who do you blame?

Speaker 3 (01:57:52):
Look, man, the whole Brandon Ayuk thing just drives me
crazy because like the Niners have all the leverage in
this situation he's holding in. They need to get it
res because right now, what I do is I see
a team that has a Super Bowl hangover at some
point to nine is and now you've got to agree.
He has to figure out what the number is and
they just got to meet him there and then just
be done with it. If they want him back as
the number one, did they need to pay him?

Speaker 2 (01:58:13):
Can you please do this behind closed doors. I'm getting
a little sick and tired of reading about the forty
nine ers and Brandon. I either do it or don't
do it. Make up your freaking mind already given the
money you don't, I don't understand. And Brandon, if you
don't want to play for him, move on. Somebody else
will take you. But enough already, it's ugly. I want
to read about football and games, not about money and negotiations.

Speaker 9 (01:58:37):
All right, Olympics topic here, there is break dancing in
the Olympics. As you guys, were talking about earlier. Still
no baseball though, So who do you blame? Andy?

Speaker 2 (01:58:46):
I blame the United States. I'll tell you why. Because
they know they can't compete on the world stage in baseball.
They're afraid and the Major League Baseball is going to
put some pressure on the US Olympic Committee because they
don't want to upset their baseball season in the middle
of the summer to take their athletes away to play
in the Olympics. So I blame the US of a breakdancing.
You know what, though, they probably needed to fill a

(01:59:08):
spot really, because as they in sport, that's for sure, Bucky.

Speaker 3 (01:59:13):
Yeah, MLB has to sign off on participation because it's
not going to work if you don't allow the Major
leaguers to participate. When you look at the World Baseball
Class again, all the other teams and how the US
has struggled to knock those team off. They're gonna need
their best to be able to compete at an Olympic level.
So MLB has to get on board to make it happen.

Speaker 9 (01:59:31):
Right, This one's kind of funny. Michigan football is under
the ear the investigation right now for the illegal recruiting,
Yet Michigan has invited former coach Jim Harbaugh as their
honorary coach on August thirtieth in their home opener versus
Presno State Bucky. Who do you blame?

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
Oh? I like this. This is Shiran Moore and Michigan
being petty, petty, petty, and I like the petty. They
have done it consistently with Jim Harbaugh. They don't believe
that they were doing wrong and so they want to
kind of shove their noses in it. So that's where
Harbor's coming back.

Speaker 2 (02:00:02):
I love this. This is Jim Hawbar and University of
Michigan and the coaching staff of the football team giving
the middle finger to the NCAA. That's basically what it is.
And I love every minute about it because Jim Hawbar,
in my mind, was honest and truthful. I love the man.
Maybe I'm biased. I said it earlier. I don't think
he honestly knew about it. I really don't. I mean, certainly,

(02:00:23):
as head coach of CEO of the program, you have
to know what's going on, but I don't think he did.
He trusted his staff, So do you know what. I'll
be there August starting at in Michigan. I want to
see it all right.

Speaker 9 (02:00:33):
That will do it for today's blame game.

Speaker 2 (02:00:35):
Well done, gentlemen, really thank you. I mean, it's always
a pleasure having.

Speaker 9 (02:00:38):
You here, and said it's a pleasure.

Speaker 2 (02:00:40):
Are you going to be with us next week?

Speaker 9 (02:00:42):
I think I will be. I will be right.

Speaker 2 (02:00:44):
I have a great day. Stay turn Obviously on Fox
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.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Andy Furman and Bucky Brooks Talk CeeDee Lamb Urgency, First-Year NFL Head Coaches & More!