Dan Beyer and Kerry Rhodes discuss the US Women and Steph Curry!

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bit tongue in cheek in terms of the hot takes,
but there is a hot topic on hand, and it's
a topic that has dominated sports talk radio, I would
say for the last I don't know, four or five months,

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and it culminates today with the US women's basketball team
winning the gold medal, and we are talking about a
person who's not even on the team that won the
gold medal. But that's where this conversation goes. And I
don't want it to be a manufactured Caitlin Clark conversation,
but in this realm that we're in of social media

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and sports talk radio, there were many of people who
were cheering against Team USA today because they wanted Caitlin
Clark on that team and they wanted a reason to
point to that Caitlyn Clark should have been on that team.
And that is where we are today. And if it
wasn't for a foot on the line by Gabby Williams

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of France, which, by the way, if this was the
Americans taking the shot that was attempted at the end,
we would be talking about it. If this was the
men's team, would be talking about it. Kind of move
past it because it happened to France. But to be
down three and then shoot a three with your foot
on the line at the buzzer is a complete faux

(01:55):
paw and a mental error that I understand the the
game actually that's going on, but you the one thing
that you just can't do is take it to and
shoot it too. That's what ended up happening. But I
think there's a bigger discussion because over these last couple
of weeks and we've had shows on this network and
articles written. Christine Brennan did a whole piece and how
Kitlyn Clark should have been a part of the US

(02:18):
women's national team. Now that the US has gold, is
the US vindicated in keeping her off of that team.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's been the caation that happens by winning, Obviously,
the ultimate goal in the Olympics is to win gold.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
They won gold, so I think they're okay with that.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Obviously, there are people and detractors who from the from
the beginning, thought that Kaitlyn Clark should be on that team.
And that's all fine and dandy. We all understand that
that conversation, but the conversation should be the USA women
has now won eight Olympic gold medals in a row.

(02:58):
Their dominance has been cemented, and yes, a big what if,
a big, big, big what if if France wins that
game and USA loses, and then this conversation would be
on a astronomical would be on an astronomically different plane.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Does it does it make your skin itch? Do you
curl off? Does your spine twitch? When I even thought
of bringing up Caitlin Clark as part of this conversation,
after this moment where the United States women survive, you
mentioned when they're eighth straight gold medal, Diana Tarrossi wins
her sixth gold medal. Does any of that conversation irk

(03:38):
you at all? Does the Caitlin Clark conversation at this
point irk you at this point right now, as this
just unfolded, No, twelve or five Eastern nine to five Pacific?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
No, No, it would have been a fair conversation, a
fair I guess, revisit to what a lot of people
thought should have been the case anyway, So doesn't irk
me right now. But if this was yesterday, I would
have been completely irt then.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
But right now, no, Yeah, I think that this is
a conversation that people would have if the US did
not have, it would have been the lead topic on
social media, on debate shows, on TV shows, and then
in our medium here of sports talk radio. I'm going
to say a couple of things. And Christine Brennan's piece

(04:25):
that she wrote for USA Today was one of after
the US won the silver medal or excuse me, one
of their semi final game against or in the Olympic Games.
After the game, there were eighteen reporters waiting for the
US women's team, and she felt that that was too
little eighteen media members. She also pointed to the fact

(04:47):
that she had spoken with the journalists from Brazil who
was surprised that Caitlin Clark wasn't on the Olympic team,
and she had spoken with an Australian journalist who felt
the same way. They were all interested in talking with
Caitlyn Clark, and that is why USA Basketball dropped the ball.

(05:08):
So do you think that the USA Basketball because don't.
I don't think that. I don't think we need to
serve Australia and serve Brazil. And I know what her
point is is that Caitlyn Clark is a global name,
or you have an opportunity to make women's basketball that
global sport by her being there. Do you think that

(05:28):
was the reason that she should have been on the
US Olympic team. Because I don't feel that's the reason
she should have been on the US Olympic team.

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, I mean, I think that would have been the
only reason see would have been on the global Okay,
for sure, it wouldn't have been because of the play.
I think obviously it shows that they had enough to win.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
They got it done.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
So as far as her being on that team to
make that team a better team or the outcome would
have been different in a more grandioso a way for
the USA women's basketball team.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
I don't think that would have been the case for
me personally. I look at it is and I feel
Caitlyn Clark on that US Olympic team would have been
good for a couple of reasons, and when she was
left off, I was not hurt by it. I was
not mad about it. I was not furious about it.
I understand this global reach and maybe if that was
the opportunity, maybe the media members double if Caitlin Clark

(06:20):
is there. So I don't know, it's an answer that
we don't know. I felt that if USA Basketball truly
wanted to continue this dominance, and we saw today how
France is caught up. I heard on the broadcast that
the previous gold medal games, the average margin of victory
was twenty three points. Yeah for the US. So it's
pure dominance. But today we saw a team play even

(06:41):
now to help France's their home country, had home court
advantage with the fans there, but still they've never been
this close in a game in the Olympics until today,
during this stretch of success that they've had. It's just
the point Carrie that I feel Caitlin Clark and even
Angel Reese or another young player could have been put

(07:03):
on that team to help them learn the US Olympic
Basketball way and then carry that torch. And we've talked
about it, you've heard me say it before. If there's
a way of figuring out a way into passing the
torch to a younger generation, sure, maybe they're not going
to play. Tell you what, I think, Anthony Edwards has
now a much better appreciation for USA basketball, and he

(07:24):
was a guy who got to watch Steph Curry and
Devin Booker and Lebron James and Kevin Durant and Anthony
Davis or Joel Embiid play those meaningful minutes in the
final two games that they had. I feel that that
experience is probably better for him than him leading them
in scoring, you know during group player having the sort
of games that he had, Like, that's your experience that

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you will now take carry on and now you have
the torch for the next generation. I felt you could
have done that with Caitlin Clark. I didn't think that
she should have been there just because she's Caitlyn Clark
and needed to popularize basketball it's been by point. But
I will also say this the two things with Caitlin Clark.
Number one, I actually needed a break. I needed a

(08:08):
break from Caitlin Clark conversation. And again it's nothing about
her me too. Yes, And I know it sounds like
I'm talking out of both sides in my mouth is
we're talking about it here, but I don't feel like
I've been talking about it for the last two weeks.
It was just up until this point where now the
US is on the ropes, and I feel that the
Caitlin Clark supporters were just waiting for Team USA to

(08:31):
fall for their opportunity to pounce in. I think it's
been nice. I think Caitlin Clark's probably enjoyed it, having
a nice two to three weeks, you know, off of
not having her day job, and now you get back
to it. I needed a break from the conversation because
after a while it was just becoming too much, and
so I needed that break. And the other side of

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the coin is is if the US would have lost
today and fell to France, you know who, I would
have been felt sorry for Caitlyn Clark. How would those
twelve players on Team USA feel that when they come home,
all the people are talking about, as well, you didn't
win because of Kaitlyn Clark, talk about resentment, talk about

(09:12):
the feeling like there's no one more relieved. I think
today that the US won gold than Caitlyn Clark because
of all of the conversation that would have happened, none
of which was her fault. But if the US loses today,
there is I think an enormous resentment and maybe the
growth that we've had over this past season in the WNBA,
we would go two or three steps back because I

(09:35):
guarantee you that you know Diana Tarassi was going for
a six gold medal, Asiel Wilson, who's been dominant in
these games. Brianna Stewart's been dominant in these games. The
last thing that they want to hear is for all
the work that they put in, well, you would have
needed Kaitlyn Clark. I think it would have taken everything
and would have putting it three steps back, and Caitlyn
Clark would have been actually the ultimate victim. If Team

(09:55):
USA would have lost today, great.

Speaker 3 (09:56):
Great point, Dan, she definitely would happen, but also the
vitriol from the fans of hers and supporters of hers.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Would have been even more loud. Yes, And so the.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Ability to have any type of homeo staces between both sides,
which we talked about before, is obviously in life like
there are people that stand on sides of the fences,
whatever that side is, and you're not able to have
conversation with the other or be able to hear the
other because of how loud your stands is. And so
this definitely would have put that place or stoked that
fire again. And so I agree with you one hundred percent.

(10:31):
I think this time was very much needed for Caitlin
and the fact that the gold medal game was won
by the USA absolutely supports that growth. And I think
the ability, the ability ability for now all of them
to come together and just play basketball this second part
of the season.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
And you know, that's a great point. I think it's
difficult as well to carry over momentum from one Olympics
to another. I mean, heck, we just had a three
year break, and it was impossible to have that four
year break. It's just not a thing. There's not like
a way that you can carry momentum over from something.
You just have to be good every single year. And
I think that's what the US women's do. The women's
basketball team does. They're just better than everybody. Maybe their

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game has to be a little bit different. You know,
France wasn't a great three point shooting team, and I
think they made one in the fourth quarter. It was
brick City for a while, but the US was not
based that's not what they do. Now when you see
how the game has changed, and you see how it's
taken over the men's game, and you saw what Steph
Curry did on Saturday, Now you look at that aspect

(11:32):
and yeah, maybe that's needed for Team USA. Maybe they
didn't really have that aspect of the true three point
shooting or never felt the need to rely on it
because of how Asia Wilson and Brianna Stewart where. Maybe
now that changes things. But I think the close game
Carrie today, the almost losing, also helps the US women

(11:53):
where now we're not like, all right, here's the cakewalk
because there's not gonna be great momentum. But when we
play again in twenty twenty eight, it's not gonna be
as much of a foregone conclusion, because we felt it
was a foregone conclusion at the beginning, because there wasn't
even an argument of like, well, you're gonna win gold anyway.
You might also put Kaitlyn Clark on the team. What
if she met like though, So now at least playing
them playing a close game and showing that maybe the

(12:16):
world is caught up will make the games a little
bit more interesting in twenty twenty eight, and maybe we
won't be having just eighteen reporters in a semi final game.
Maybe there will be more because now we feel some
of the world is caught up, which, by the way,
not the fault of the United States.

Speaker 3 (12:31):
Right, No, it's beautiful as like you said, to be
able to win and go through adversity obviously is the
best thing for any team, and for a team that's
been so dominant the way that team USA, that the
women's team has been, to have a little bit of
a scare helps you when you win, because now they
can look at that, like you said, add some pieces

(12:52):
that they need. They need some three point shooting, they
need some youth, all the things that you know, Caitlyn
Clark or Ameslice could have it to that team. So
you can kind of see that see the formula, but
also know that like you said, it's not a foregone
conclusion anymore. We have to literally get the best players
that we can on this team. And maybe that takes
away from a Swan song situations from Diamonds Rossi or

(13:15):
people in the future. Right, So you'll probably change that
and attack that a little bit differently.

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in the day.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, Yeah, we like to thank Bo and Chris and
all the big guys.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
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but we'll continue rocking on here on Fox Sports Sunday.
Hit them up at Carrie twenty five Roads. You can
find me at Dan Bayer on Fox. So the US
women grabbed gold today. We saw the men do it yesterday.
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Speaker 2 (14:49):
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five Roads. You can find me Dan Buyer on Fox.
Joyce tweets him. Caitlin Clark should have been on the team.
Nobody cares about the sport without her. Caitlyn was left
off because she's white, oh Man, and then Diana Tarassi.
She just tweeted Diana Tarassi's Olympic stats where they were

(15:32):
slimed and barely averaged a point per game according to
this graphic, and Diana Tarassi's I guess contribution was not
good enough. I'm not gonna pick a fight with Joyce,
but this is what I'm saying. Imagine if they lost. Yeah,
like Diana Tarassi can now just laugh and show her

(15:53):
six gold medals and say scoreboard and laugh it off
and move on. But if the US would have lost today,
this is the conversation that happens, and the only real
and the real victims would be the twelve players a
Team USA who have to hear about this, and then
Caitlyn Clark, who did nothing to deserve this. But it

(16:14):
would only harbor resentment towards Clark by these other stars
of the WNBA, and any of the progress that we
have made in sort of I don't know, mending fences
and coming together as one over these last couple of
months of the WNBA season would have been completely washed away,
and I would have felt we'd almost be back at
square one. And I don't think Kitlyn Clark wants to

(16:36):
be back at square one. I think Katelyn Clark wants
to move on, wants to move on with her career,
because this conversation cannot be lasting for years and years
and years.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
Yeah, and it would have pitted Diana Tarassi back against
Kaitlyn Clark and the conversation that was already you know,
even before Caitlyn got to the WNBA, right, the comments
that Diana made, and so yes, it just would have
Doke to fire more. But I want people to just
let's let's just bask in somebody else's glory for a

(17:06):
little bit and not what somebody is perceived to be lacking.
Let's let's let's enjoy what just happened. Not even forty
minutes ago, Stream USA, the women's basketball team won a
gold medal.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
They won one for the country again. They've won eight
in a row.

Speaker 3 (17:24):
Let's talk about their excellence and not about what could
have been or what should have been.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Kelsey Plumb with some big free throws clear of Copper Yeah,
twelve points both for Plumbing and Copper Asia Wilson twenty
one points. But they got their guard play did help
them in this game. The guard play ended up saving
the day, and that guard play ended up coming off
the bench. It may not have been Diana Tarassi. Yeah,
but again just think Jason Tatum found out somebody's gonna
be number twelve. Hey, Tyresh Halliburton and Anthony Edwards. We're

(17:52):
having a great time on the bench watching that show yesterday.
Their time will come, Diana Tarossi, Sure time has passed,
but there the Jason Tatum conversation again was just one
that never resonated with me early in the week when
we were talking early in the Olympics when we were
talking about the men's team, because it was just such
an NBA conversation and that's not what these Olympics are about.

(18:14):
And that's what's what was just so great about yesterday was, Yeah,
you had all these NBA players that yet that you know,
not not only by the way on the US, but
even now with Wemby and France and you know, Nicholas
Batoum and others and Rudy Gobert. But it's just to
see them in a new situation, in a new a

(18:36):
new format, and to see just to see how it
all plays together. I don't want I didn't want the
drama of the NBA. We've talked about it for the
last two or three shows that that we've done over
weeks and weeks. I just want to sit back and
enjoy the games. That's all I wanted to do. That's
what I did yesterday.

Speaker 3 (18:52):
And it was a couple of takeaways from from me
with that. With with the Olympics men's basketball team is
number one, the big winner out of all of this
wasn't even there. And I would say that would be
Jalen Brown because imagine if he was there on top
of that and he played more or he didn't play,
and you have two of those guys on the bench

(19:13):
that are not playing, and then you know, for them
and for Jalen right to have the conversation be he
should have been there and he would have done this
instead of saying if he got there and was in
that same position, it would have looked in a different way, right,
that could it could be taken in a different light.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
So so you think Jalen brother the team r winning
the gold, the men it was good for Jalen Brown.
So he wouldn't look bad. Is that what you were saying?
Just him not being there? So the conversation about if
he deserved to be there? So is this the Caitlyn
Clark version of that story?

Speaker 3 (19:44):
Now I'm getting there right, So like now that conversation's
kind of it's it's one of those greatest what ifs.
And then it's like, on the other hand, it's like
it doesn't matter. So like it's the same situation with
the Kaitlyn Clark. Dang, you're saying from not you know,
from a from a from a nine a minute, very
specific situation of what could have been or what should

(20:05):
have been. Right, So those two things you don't have
to worry about it. We can kind of like table it.
But we can also look back and say, if you're
a Jalen Brown supporter, you know, if he was there,
he could have played, he would have done this. We
don't know if he would have been in a similar
Jason Tatum situation, but we'll never know now sure. And
then the other part of that for me is we
talked about it off air, just the camaraderie.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
That we saw with those guys.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
You just said it, Anthony Edwards Tyrese Halliburton's on the
bench excited for these guys. These guys are superstars on
their teams. Then you get to see all these guys
come together for a greater cause, whatever the cause may be.
We don't know individually what it is, but from the
outside looking in, they're all there to win a gold
medal and win it for their country. Yeah, and when
you see that, it just it pans out really well.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
I just think ten twelve years from now, when you're
looking back at that gold medal, imagine the stories that
you're going to have that you played on the same
team with Lebron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant at
the same time. Because that's it's not gonna happen again.
It's not gonna happen in twenty twenty eight. I mean,
there's a decent chance that all three of those guys
on that team. Yes, So when you're Anthony Edwards and

(21:11):
you have the stories like that's that's what you take
from it. It kid in the candy store sort of
sort of feeling with it. My biggest takeaway is just
with Steph and what it meant in these last two games.
You talk about like cream rising to the top, and
to see to see what he did in those in
that fourth quartery yesterday with the four threes, and to

(21:34):
see what he did in the semi final game to
keep them afloat against Serbia with his thirty six points.
This is I'm not a Warriors fan. I'm not a
Steph Curry fan. But I don't dislike Steph Curry. I
think it's very difficult to just, you know, was not
a not a fan. But that's okay. It's doesn't mean
that I that I don't like Steph Curry. What I

(21:55):
liked about it was I feel that Steph is probably
the superstar that gets the most flack that doesn't bring
it upon himself. Yeah, like Lebron, it gets so much
flack it's absurd. But I mean Lebron crowned himself on
the metal stand. Yes today, that's bringing some of it again.

(22:16):
Yes he did. He was about to get his medal
and he did the fake crown on the metal stand.
So Lebron brings it. Yes, I don't think Steph does.
And when you talk about the Warriors dynasty, Steph is
obviously the biggest part of it, I believe because you
don't win the first one without Steph Curry becoming Steph Curry.
So we give him his flowers there, But there are
still some people who will fight back and say, all right,

(22:38):
is he really a top ten guy? Is he really this?
Does he really belong in the greats. I think we've
moved past the point he is obviously the greatest shooter
that we have ever seen in the NBA and the
greatest shooter that we've ever seen period. I think we've
moved away from that part. But it is still like
Steph Curry still had detractors would point out certain things.

(22:58):
You won the two with Kevin, you know, they say
what you want about the twenty twenty two title. Two
titles is nice. Four is a lot better, But I
don't know how many people give him credit for all four.
And when Kevin Durant came to Golden State, he, I mean,
think about stepping aside as the number one. And I

(23:20):
know that it was difficult for Kevin Durant to fit
in in that point, and we know about the Draymond stuff,
but it wasn't easy for Steph. And Steph Shotts were
also affected with that. Yeah, and maybe it was because
they were both I don't want to say two alphas,
but they were both one a options of why then
Kevin Durant decided to go elsewhere. But there's a lot
of sacrifice for Steph Curry, and I just felt that

(23:42):
he got a lot of flak for being truly one
of the greats, and they have his moment to shine,
to be on the same floor as Kevin Durant and
Lebron James as their teammates and rise to the top. Magnificent.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, twenty twenty two was I think the year that
I was you know, I looked at Steph Curry like, yeah,
he's he's he's one of the goats. You know, like
that year when they beat Boston in the finals and
and got that one. It was like they shouldn't have
won this one. And so you could see the excellence.
You could see Steph Curry, you know, becoming not even

(24:15):
becoming he was already there, but like cementing himself as
one of the great one of the greats of all times.
But uh, this performance these last two games has just
been outstanding, and I mean breathtaking, And you don't get
that from somebody a lot of times as just a
shooter or somebody that plays below the rim, Like, you

(24:36):
don't get that all factor from many players when they're
on the on the court and doing what they do.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
He's one of one when it comes to that.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
And so some of the shot making that he makes,
the way he moves on the court so gracefully, the
way that he does it. I mean, it's one of
those things whereas a normal person watching and I'm putting
myself in that normal category watching somebody like him maneuver
and and and do what he does at such a
high level on the court. It's not just the talent

(25:04):
part of it. And I think that's what shines when
you see Steph Curry. You know, he's worked at it
so much to be to be that. Yes, if there's
a god given ability that he has to shoot the ball,
but the reps that it takes, the conditioning that it
takes to be who he is and play the way
he plays, like those things from us should be the
most admirable things you can see as a fan watching

(25:25):
somebody do what they do at a great level.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
So when you see that, I mean I was jumping
up and down. I don't care.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
I don't really care about the Olympic basketball team in general.
But when you see that, you see the camaraderie, you
see the way that Steph played, It was breathtaking. I
was jumping up and down, Man, I don't do that,
and you know why, because it got better and better.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Like there was a point there was Okay, there were
like a couple of back and forth threes. I think,
I think Steph hit what I think, but Tom ended
up answering with one. But there was there was the
drive by Booker to the to the shot clocks winding down,
You're like, are they gonna get a shot off? Kick
it out to Steph. He pump fakes, takes one shut

(26:07):
step to the left and nails it. And that that
would have, by the way, been the icing on top
for me. But then you have the the arcing thirty
four foot or that goes in. That was just I mean,
each three got better with the state higher, and that's
what made it like it was just such a it was.

(26:27):
It reminds me of the NFL playoffs that we had
a few years ago when we had the Bengals beat
the Titans on Saturday of the playoffs, and it was
a great game when Cincinnati ends up, you know, getting
the upset, and then it was I believe it was
Green Bay and San Francisco playing in their game, and

(26:49):
San Francisco ends up pulling the upset. And then you
have the Rams beating the Buccaneers, and the Buccaneers come
all the way back to tie, but then the Rams
beat you know, yeah, Brady in the in the Buccaneers,
and so like, the games kept on getting better, and
then it's capped off by the Chiefs and Bills and
the thirteen seconds and then the overtime. Like it just
every game got better during that playoff. Every one of

(27:11):
Steph's threes got better over that fourth quarter, and it
was just it's great to see.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, my head with my head was sore. I actually
jumped up so hard one time. I banged my head
in the back of the thing. I didn't have I
didn't have I did not have a concussion, but I
was on the back of the thing. What's the thing
while I was at a little sports ball watching the game.
It was like, okay, behind gotcha, yea yeah, and I
hit my head. I was like oh, And then I
look back, I was like, oh, I'm fine, I'm fine.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
So it was good. I'm gonna say one other thing
to this. Give me ten minute quarters in the NBA.
You like the ten minute Oh my goodness, Like I like,
I forget on how it's different in the college basketball.
All right, we've got you got another supporter in the
ten minute. Yeah, game moves quickly, there's more urgency. We
talk about limiting the amount of games in the NBA,

(27:58):
and like, go, you know, do you play eighty two games?
How about just taking eight minutes off of each game
and you're not having as much wear and tear. Like
that would be amazing. I would be watching so much.
You could have triple headers on at night for that.
I am all for college basketball is forty minutes, you know,
but the women's game they do in quarters as well.

(28:20):
With this and the men's game. Loved it. Chris Prohfeeder,
technical producer.

Speaker 5 (28:24):
I agree, like I think sporting events are too long.
I know my sister's really in a Formula one these days,
and the reason she is is because, unlike other races,
you're done in like less than two hours watching the race,
like people have time now, and I don't think these
long events at night you can do anything to shorten
them like you do it like I'm not sitting here
trying to watch even a football game for four hours.

Speaker 3 (28:45):
You know what, you guys sound like. You guys sound
like the new age. You're all like social media. You
want your consumption really quickly. Let these guys play for
twelve minutes.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
Many about people who aren't into basketball. Only the last
two minutes matter. You would not the eight minutes that
you are losing. I think it would be great.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
I think it would be magnificent forty minute games in
the NBA things in and out.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Well, if you're doing that, you got to take the
ticket price down too, so then the fan, the fan
maybe are with that.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
So that's the other question. I think the commercial breaks
would be the biggest question if you were to do something.

Speaker 3 (29:17):
Can I play both sides and say that the basketball
games should be shorter, but we need to get rid
of the pitch clock in baseball?

Speaker 6 (29:23):
Sure, very anti pitch clock.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I was gonna make it political, but I'm just gonna
I'm not even gonna go there. We'll just we'll just
stay out of that, out of that realm. Yeah, there's
there's a way, there's a happy medium with Bo Benson.
That's what you can have. There's there's there's such thing
as too much and too little. Yeah, but I I
loved it. The games moved along quickly. Oh, it was magnificent.
I don't want twelve minute quarters. I don't want to

(29:49):
least stay away. You guys heard it here first. Dan
hates twelve minute quarters. So I just it was it
was a better watch. You just felt good. There was
more urgency, there was like it was just it was better.
And for us, we're sick of the regular season. In
the regular season and pretty much every sport is now
being watered down because all we care about the playoffs. Yeah,
why not make the regular season somewhat of a better

(30:11):
watch or experience? And I feel taking two minutes off
of each quarter would ACCOMPLI well, we got the end
season tournament, Dan, so that I help. Let's go to
Isaac and crown the latest on what's happening on this
Sunday morning as we did. Is it a wah? Would
that be?

Speaker 1 (30:29):
Wo?

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Is that goodbye? And for France?

Speaker 7 (30:32):
All right, good lilt there and the accenting of it
and what an oar of woa it was.

Speaker 6 (30:39):
See I'm intimidated.

Speaker 7 (30:40):
Now Byers said it so well, anyway, what a farewell
it was so the Olympics today, particularly for the US
women's basketball team, because they won their eighth consecutive Olympic
gold medal today, rallying from a ten point third quarter
deficit to beat France sixty seven to sixty six. Asia
Willson led the Americans with twenty one points and thirteen rebounds.

(31:03):
BUS women's basketball team has now won sixty one consecutive
games at the Olympics. Earlier, American Jennifer Valente won the
gold medal in women's track cycling. In the gold medal
match in women's volleyball, Italy defeated the United States three
sets to none. One Major League Baseball game going on
right now, the Los Angeles Angels with a five to

(31:24):
nothing lead at Washington going to the bottom of the
fourth inning. We've got an NFL preseason game kicking off
at the top of the hour from Indianapolis as the
Colts host to Denver Broncos. This will mark Indianapolis quarterback
Anthony Richardson's first appearance since Week five last year, when
he went down with a season ending shoulder injury. Finally,

(31:45):
Dan and Carey, kudos to at justin c Underscore ninety
nine on Twitter because you guys were discussing the incredible
three point barrage at the end of the men's gold
medal game yesterday by Steph Curry. Well, mister c Underscore
ninety nine has procured the audio from the French telecast

(32:11):
of the game, so we're gonna play some of it
for you right now.

Speaker 6 (32:15):
And this, I'm not making this up.

Speaker 7 (32:16):
What you're about to hear literally translates to this devil
named Curry is hurting us.

Speaker 6 (32:24):
Beware, beware.

Speaker 7 (32:26):
Anytime he can elevate to detonate attention, he is going
to detonate.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Here it is.

Speaker 6 (32:33):
Listen, it's a different.

Speaker 2 (32:41):
Deal.

Speaker 8 (32:41):
The step Jewey, Steph Jewey show step Jewey.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
You guys. Oh man, I feel like sending my food
back after hearing that. Yes, no French fries for me.
I'm there. You call Steph Curry that yeah, yeah, no man, Yes,
that was that was a pretty good translation. And I
love the color commentator just jumping in. I don't know
what he said, but it was great. Yeah, the energy

(33:21):
was there?

Speaker 6 (33:21):
Ye there yet that was Antony Romo apparently on.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
The basically, yes, for sure, here's what Steph Curry is
going to do. That's my Tony Romo. I've never done
it before, just ended up. Good. Good job Dan for
Fox Radio. It was awful, It was absolutely awful. He's
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(34:28):
for forever Carrie about that no forever forever. But we
are going to be talking quarterbacks. And while it's good
news for two and bad news for one. In the NFL,
He's carry Roads. I'm Dan Bayer. That's next here on
Fox Sports Sunday. How soon is too soon? That's the
question that we're asking here on Fox Sports Sunday. He's
the All Pro Carrie Rhoads. I'm Dan Bayer. We're talking

(34:50):
quarterbacks down the National Football League, and you know, we
aren't talking about the veterans. That is not what the
preseason is about, because the veterans aren't playing, but the
young guys are, including some rookies, and yesterday was highlighted
by not one, but two performances by rookie quarterbacks, arguably
the most popular rookies in the NFL picks one to

(35:11):
two of the NFL draft. Caleb Williams playing for the
Bears against the Buffalo Bills, and Jayden Daniels making is
Washington Commander's debut against the New York Jets. And from
what you saw on social media, from what you would
see in the highlights, Daniels had a three yar touchdown run,
also had a big pass play in Caleb Williams limited duty,

(35:32):
had some impressive throws. There was a dump off and
eluding some pressure to DeAndre Swift who ended up breaking
for a big run. But there was there was a
lot of good when it comes to those two quarterbacks.
And earlier the show, we talked about almost almost feeling
bad for Caitlin Clark if Team USA would have lost
because of everything that would come with it. I feel

(35:56):
bad for Drake May a little bit. And this is
the question of how soon is too soon one preseason game.
We are not gonna judge. We're not gonna judge Drake
May and make our stamp of approval on whether he's
good or not based on one preseason game where it
was raining in Foxborough and he played limited snaps. But Carrie,

(36:20):
there is a slim chance that all three of those
quarterbacks that were taking one, two, three in this draft
have great NFL careers. Just the numbers don't pan out.
We thought we would have great quarterback classes in certain years.
Baker goes one, Sam Darnold goes three. You know, Josh

(36:42):
Allen's top ten pick, Josh Rosen, then Lamar at the
back end, and you look at those five quarterbacks and
you say, huh, then you look at the mac Jones
and the Trey Lance and all the different Yeah, there's yeah, exactly. Yeah,
we're talking one, two, and three, and we've seen a
three struggle. We've seen a one struggle. My only point
is this is I feel bad in the fact of

(37:04):
Drake May, is that some of this stuff can snowball
where it's not what you're actually doing, it's what you're
doing compared to the others. Sure, and I'm not drawing.
I am not saying that Drake May is not going
to work out. But all I know is this is
we feel that Caleb Williams is a better surrounding cast
for sure, and I would think Washington actually does as well,

(37:27):
and Washington, if they don't, maybe better equipped to handle
a quicker turnaround because you have Dan Quinn, at least
a veteran head coach who had coached in the NFL before. Well,
everything is new in New England, Jrod Mayo taking over
for Bill Belichick. That's tough enough in its own right,
and I don't know if you necessarily have the talent,
So now you kind of have some of these cards

(37:48):
stacked up against Drake May. I it's very early, but
as I see this path, I just think that Drake
May is going to have to go above and beyond
anything to be able to maybe get the notoriety that
Kiler Williams and Jayden Daniels do. And because he's going
to be in that light, I'm wondering if he's going
to be overshadowed by those two, which could have an

(38:10):
effect on his future.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Well, he's gonna be overshadowed by those two automatically. Those
two are cemented as the guys he's in the battle.
Even in his own quarterback room. Sure, nobody's even talking
about that. He didn't even bring that part up Bill,
where Milton is really good as well. And so the buzz,
the buzz and all the things around Milton during camp
and what he's doing and what he provides, it brings

(38:33):
me to a similar situation, and it's very similar.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
It's and we talked about the Commanders.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
They were a team that was called the Redskins before that,
and they drafted two quarterbacks in the same draft that year,
and the one that ends up being the one that
has the more longevity and has the better career was
Kirk Cousins, where you know, they drafted RG three first
and so that situation is looming as well. And so
for Drake May, he's in a tough situation. He's had

(38:59):
a team that's far less superior than those other two
teams as far as what they have readily available at
the moment.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
So it's gonna be an uphill battle for him. Yeah,
I think that there's a lot stacked against him in
this compared to what the other two quarterbacks. And I'm sorry,
we're just always gonna end up comparing him. And I'm
glad you you're exactly right about the Joe Milton thing.
Stuff like that spreads like wildfire, you know. If Joe
Milton and even in Thursday's game there was even some
hype about his performance. If that continues in another game

(39:28):
or two. Yeah, it's not that it's tough to overcome.
It's just it's really, really difficult. It's another hurdle that
you're going to have to climb to be successful. And again,
to think that all three of these guys are going
to work out just it's it's silly to think that
because numbers have not proven that in the past. And
I feel that's why I said is it too soon,

(39:50):
But I just feel yesterday I'm looking at the headline,
Look at ESPN, look at CBS Sports, look at Yahoo.
Impressive start for Williams. Williams looks strong. You know. Niels
completes big throw and scores touchdowns and you don't have
that with Drake may Drake.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
May came in and they got three putting on. He's
gonna play more in their next seam. Drod Mayo even
said it today. He said it last Friday as well.
But yeah, I don't want to be too soon on this,
but you can kind of maybe start to see it
a little on how it's gonna form out.

Speaker 2 (40:21):
All right, He's carry roads. I'm Dan Beyer. There was
something unacceptable in the NFL. It happened yesterday. That's next, Carrie.
Would you call it the Battle of the Ponies or
the Peyton Manning Bowl when the Colts and Broncos end
up going head to head in preseason football, I'd go
Manning Bowl. I go Manning Bowl. Yeah. I have stated
that no team has gotten more from a short stint

(40:45):
than the Denver Broncos have out of Peyton Manning. Think
about it. Record setting season, YEP two Super Bowl appearances,
one Super Bowl win. He now lives in the Denver area.
His Colt's tenure, I've always felt this way. It's really
been as crazy as the team's overshadowed by what he

(41:06):
did in those four years in Denver. And I know
Colts fans don't want to hear that, and it sounds
like it's blasphemy. It's just the fact that I think
Denver has gotten so much mileage out of the four
years that Peyton Manning was there that it almost rivals
what he did with the Indianapolis Colts. I agree.

Speaker 3 (41:23):
You know, he's at the Nuggets, Gangs basketball, Yeah, and
he's there with the Suns, and it's You're right, it is.
It's kind of hard to fathom because I played against
the guy obviously, so I know him from his Colts days.
But Denver does loom large in this for sure. I
think it's uh. I think it's just one of those
weird scenarios. And when it happened, you couldn't blame the

(41:48):
Colts and Jim Mersey to be like, Okay, we need
to move on. Not only do we need to move
on because of the seriousness of Peyton's neck.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Yeah, you had Andrew Luck. Yeah, that's a no brainer.
That's the quarterback of the generation. But now, in hindsight,
Luck decides to retire early, maybe you don't get as
much juice out of him as you would have hoped.
You know. I always wondered if Jim Mersey just kind
of maybe wishes that he would have just stuck with
Peyton Manning at that point.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
I mean not, I don't think he does. I mean,
at the end of the day, you have to you're
We've talked about it, like you you have to improve
your team, You're and not just for the next year,
for years to come, and so that the move.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Yes, they made the right move at the time, But
if you could go back in time, what would I
mean you could have maybe he doesn't have that record
setting season that he has with Denver, with Indianapolis, and
it has nothing to prove, you know.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
I mean, like you're going to a new situation, a
new team, you want to show you around him.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
You know, we're we're great. You had John Elway as well.
It was kind of your I don't want to say
ride or die, but he's just invested and he knows
the life of a quarterback. It probably wouldn't have played
out the same in Indianapolis. But if you're Jim Mersay,
you know what do you hope Chris Prefet, did you
want to get in on this, this pony show in

(43:07):
the Broncos and Colts?

Speaker 5 (43:09):
Well, I do love classic rock and I just couldn't
help but think of wild wild horses. Wow, I guarantee
dragged me away. But Paton Mannon got dragged away from Indianapolis.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Did you think of Genuine's pony when I said that?
Was that? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:22):
Definitely that's what I Yeah, I didn't go wild horses
at all, but I like wildhorses too.

Speaker 2 (43:29):
I don't give me ang. I like the song a
little too different anyway. Colts and Broncos about to uh
about to play. The Colts debuting their new field at
Lucas Oil Stadium, and it's going to be a synthetic
surface that we have always come accustomed to. I think
this will have the Colts new wordmark, their new font
that they have. But we're even seeing live shots from

(43:51):
Indianapolis on the NFL network in our studios right now.
Looks clean, looks crisp, looks very fresh, but it's still
artificial turf and different than grass, but there is there
is where you go with this. Last night, I'm at
my house watching the NFL Network catching up on preseason football,

(44:16):
and the Saints and Cardinals are playing, and they're playing
at State Farm Stadium, home of the Cardinals. I understand
all of this, so I don't need people to yell
at me on Twitter. I understand the Cardinals use the
stadium for training camp, but I am sitting next to
a former All Pro, someone who spent half of his

(44:37):
career with the Arizona Cardinals. And if you have the
ability to if you're doing yard work, maybe you're just
sitting around listening. I don't ask you to do this
if you're driving, But if you could check my Twitter
page at Dan Byer on Fox, you will see the
playing surface that the Arizona Cardinals and Saints were playing
on yesterday for Week one of the preseason. So you

(44:58):
have an entire offseason to say we're gonna get this
playing surface right. And again I understand they're having training camp.
This field, to me, Carrie unacceptable. If you're the National
Football League, like you cannot have a field that is
supposed to be grass and have the patches and bear
spots that you had in Week one of the preseason, Like,

(45:22):
it doesn't make any sense to me on how it
could be so poorly. I don't again, I don't care.
Figure out a different way. Put them put a fake field.
The Raiders have two different fields. They have a turf field,
they have their grass field. Yeah, the UNV plays on
the turf. I know, it's a different configuration. Figure out
a way that you don't have NFL football played on
that surface, especially early on in the season when you're

(45:43):
just about to start the year.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Well, I don't know what's worse. I know you sent
me the pitcher last night. I don't know what's worse
the fact that I'm used to it being that bad,
or playing on it that bad that I didn't even
recognize what you were talking about in the text, or
that this kind of just supports a lot of the
former players and people that have talked about the Cardinals

(46:07):
management and how they take care of their players and
take care of their field and being a little stringent
with money and all those things. It just really supports
that it's a bad look first preseason game. Take care
of the field, take take care of your players, and
you are presenting yourself for the first time to the
world and to a national audience, and that's what they see.

(46:28):
Of course people are going to have the same take
that you have. It's a bad look, I think.

Speaker 2 (46:33):
And we just got to tweet. Buddy DJ Carlisle, a
longtime Fox Sports radio listener, tweets and it says, at
least it's natural grass. I take thirty two fields looking
like that. If they'd all go back to grass, right, Okay,
you've played on that surface?

Speaker 3 (46:46):
Yeah, how fun is it to play on that surface?
It is not fun. It's slippery, it's moisture field. They
try to they bring in the grass every you know,
for every home game, take it out, they replace it,
they bring it back in, and so whatever they're doing,
it's not working well. So they need to come up
with a better plan. And again it's about presentation. When

(47:10):
you're thought of as almost a laughing stock from all
the other teams and the other fan bases for your
record and the way you've played for the last few years,
and then on top of that, have that be your presentation,
it's not a good look.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
It was one of the last thing stories of Super
Bowl fifty seven, right, and this is the point is
that field has always had issues. Yes, and I just
don't listen. The stadium has been around for twenty years
and it's we love the novelty of it, as you say,
move it out, but it just doesn't feel like grass

(47:47):
as the opportunity to really root and to grow this
lush field. Plus that field carry doesn't have a crown.
There's no crown on the field. It is a flat
basketball court, basically one hundred and twenty yards of sod's.
That's what you've got there. But there was no crown
that you would if you went to lambeau Field. Yeah,

(48:08):
say played on that field. I'm sure you go to Pittsburgh.
It's the it's the same thing. And this is the point.
And I'm glad DJ tweeted this because here the culture
playing on this surface. Would you rather play on what
the culture playing on right now or what the Cardinals
had to play on yesterday in their opener of preseason.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I mean, definitely this one. But I don't like the Colts.
They rather have the Colts when it I mean it.
I don't like the synthetic. Obviously I played on it.
I played on it with the Jets. I mean even
with that cold whether we had to make some adjustments
and we went to that and you know, it's fine.
I mean, I got through it played, you know, I

(48:48):
mean it was it was good and solid and a
nice surface. But lately they've been having so many injuries
on that turf in New York and so it's not
what you want. You would want great looking grass, but yes,
to play on this than what that picture was.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
In this in this era of new stadiums and new
technology and how we've figured this out. I don't want
to sound naive and go on a rant to talk
about stuff that I don't know what I'm talking about,
but it is just amazing to me that we've gotten
this far and this is all that we've come up with.

(49:23):
It reminds me of even the astro turf back in
the nineteen eighties, which was horrendous, right, it was the worst, Yes,
but guess what probably what ten fifteen, twenty years prior
to that, it was amazing. Look at this stuff. It
doesn't it This is astro turf. It's not grass. It's
not gonna get muddy. Like at one point it was awesome, Yeah,

(49:47):
but then all of a sudden, you realize some of
the drawbacks. And I think that's what you're saying as
well with like the Giants, Jets Stadium MetLife Stadium, is that, yeah,
it's awesome, but then now all of a sudden you're
starting to have problems, and then you're having more problems
and you're having non contact injuries, and you're like, you know,
let's do away with all of this. That's fine and dandy,
But when you're building these stadiums that half of them

(50:10):
are indoor and Phoenix has you know, the opening when yeah,
you can move it open and close. Yeah, Like they
still can't even get that right. Like it's not even
a closed stadium like where the Raiders are, where there's
is closed, but they they have the grass surface there.
That's that's the problem with all of it. I don't
want to sit here and call the Arizona Cardinals cheap

(50:31):
because I don't know the underlying fields of everything. But
the Dallas Cowboys take their training camp and go to Oxnard, California,
where it's thirty degrees cooler than it is where we
are in southern California. Yeah, and where what a thirty mile,
thirty minute drive away from Cowboys camp and where it's
usually held. You when you played for the Arizona Cardinals,
weren't practicing in Phoenix at that time. No, yeah, we

(50:54):
went to flag Staff.

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Yeah, so we would go get away, get to a
look a cooler climate as well.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, it's just to me, it was just shocking to
see that, Okay, this is the start, Like how good
is that field going to be in week six? And
I know, hey, we're gonna put new grass in, We're
gonna put new SOD in, yeah for sure. But yeah,
but the new SOD should be in right like they
like to this point, like this is the whenever they
end up playing their their home opener, Like that shouldn't

(51:22):
be the first day of the new SOD. You need
the soft launch in the preseason and then and then
have it set out. But when you have to have
training camp inside of the stadium because it's too hot
out and you're not going on location, that's what you
end up getting. I just thought it was a bad look.
I just I was not a fan of it. And
I thought in an era where you're trying to avoid
all injuries in as many injuries as you can, I

(51:45):
don't know how much I'd love playing on that sortch I.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Mean it to perpetuate or to even add on to
what I was saying about the cheapness of the situation,
Like it sounds pretty cheap to have camp at your
your a home field stadium. If you're going to flag Staff,
that means you're at least shelfing out more money to
you know, take these guys to a place where it's cooler,

(52:10):
so they're not practicing on the field. You can implement
the field and get it in there. So that's part
of it.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
And I think the Cardinals will probably say, well, we
could bring fans in. We could bring fans and they
can watch practice and sit inside and we don't have
to go anywhere. That's a nice experience. And honestly, I'll
say this, I actually really like the Cardinals this year.
They impressed me last year when I thought they were
gonna be the worst team in the league. I actually
think that the Cardinals could push for a playoff spot

(52:37):
this year. As crazy as as that sounds. I know
they have some holes, but it's not difficult to get
a playoff spot now with seven teams in each conference.
But it's just the fact of all right, what is
his best, like, are you looking out for the fans?
You're looking out for your players. The fans will be
there if you win football games. Yeah, you know, there's
I get you don't want to be outside when it's

(52:57):
one hundred and fifteen degrees and you're not gonna have
practic this at five in the morning, you know, and
have a training camp practice that's not going to work out.
But there's got to be something done. There's got to
be some way to figure it out. And again we
preach all grass fields, all grass fields are that's the
way to go. It's not really possible. And even when
we do have some grass fields, they end up looking

(53:19):
like that and.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
The fans are gonna come regardless. The fans came to
flag Staff, so oh sure, you know what I mean.
So it's not about that. Would I would definitely think
it's more about money.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
In my opinion, He's carry roads. I'm Dan Byer. This
is Fox Sports Sunday, Jared Stindham getting the start for
the Broncos at quarterback today. But there's been a lot
of buzz about bo Nicks in the preseason that he
has had. We expect to see some bon Knicks later
on today. Hit them up at Carry twenty five Roads.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox easy

(53:50):
as one, two, three four, Maybe pretty easy for Carry Roads.
How will you fair find out next year? On Fox
Sports Radio. I love doing this show. Carry Roads is here.
I'm Dan Byer. It's Fox Sports Sunday because we just
did a topic that and something that's out of the
you know, way out of the realm of sports. It

(54:12):
is sports. It's what the Cardinals played on yesterday and
the response that you get from people. Clint sweet Ten,
Clint is a friend of our esteem technical producer Slash
anchor Chris Purfett. Clint says, looks like that, didn't punch

(54:35):
or verdicut late spring pure compaction in the middle. Arizona
is one of the largest Bermuda sod producing states. No
excuse for that. Four to one nine, So look like that,
and they have optimal growing conditions. Hot and dry is
what Bermuda loves, to be clear.

Speaker 5 (54:50):
My friend Clint, Clint Medland like he has worked on
like golf. His specialty at Texas A and M was
on surface conditions and he's worked on like golf course
and stuff. He knows his Bermuda back and forth.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Wow, what I need to hire him? Then you need
to bring him in? Is he is he up for?
Is he up for?

Speaker 9 (55:08):
He's He's worked in a lot of other industries too. Okay,
and this is maybe this is his point. He's like,
it's pure compaction. The reason why it's pure compaction is
because they're having training camp there.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Yes, so it's it's not just eleven guys on on
the side of the football moving up and down the field.
You've got eighty five guys all over the field for
you know, constantly for probably two hours two and a
half hours a day. Yes, and having that and it's

(55:40):
the this is the field we get. And then what
I do think happens is it puts your field. It
compromises your field that you have. Then in the fall,
if you if you you've had six months to get
this bad boy right, and this is your unveiling to
do so. Now essentially you're like, okay, let's in a month,
we gotta rip this one out and we got to

(56:02):
pull a whole new one in. And I just I
would rather have six months of work than to have
one month of work and try to have a field
stick and be what it is.

Speaker 3 (56:14):
And then what happens with that is when it's not
time to bring in that new sod yet, then they
start painting the field and that makes it even worse.

Speaker 2 (56:22):
Sure, residing is something that is not foreign to the
National Football League. We see it a lot. But I'm sorry,
residing is not better than what you have at the original.
And that's the point that we're talking about. Gosh, I
loved Clint's breakdown. It's good to know people. Chris Purfet, Right,
that's why those those lawn videos on TikTok, you know,
the guys just get like a truckload of sand and

(56:45):
then they're they're watering it. Like I talked to my neighbor,
like we were both watching the same TikTok lawn videos
and we're like, yeah, we should do that with our
law because our lawns end up connecting where we live.

Speaker 5 (56:54):
Appreciation anyone in life who has a tremendous knowledge of
one thing you don't think about too much, but like
when something like this comes up, you absolutely want experts
in that field.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
Well, and the only the only thing that I would
associate all of this too is when I was back
home in Alabama, in the hood and we would have
to spray to week be gone in certain spots, and
it leave the little ground, the little brown spot. That's
what I equated to.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
This is why when you try to what lay sad
where home plate was, it's ever gonna grow, right, it's
too compacted that it's already the batter's box and the
whole deal. All right, you're ready to strike up the
band and let's do it, all right, a game of
easy as one, two, three, four is here. I think
carry's gonna get a perfect score. Oh my god, I
really do so. Set that to set the overarres. Set

(57:42):
it up. It's nine and a half. I think it's
nine and a half. And the reason being twofold Number one,
I was up late doing this, so my my ability
to really really dive in and try to be creative
with some of the questions may have been hampered by it.

(58:03):
But number two, there's also like not tons going on,
and in fact, one of the questions has nothing to
do with anything that's going on right now. But it's
just a fun question that I like to put in there. Okay,
but I think you're going to do well in the others.
Are you ready to play. Let's do it. Carrie's got
three lifelines, Chris Purfett, Bo Bent and our executive producer
and Isaac Lohankron at the news desk. He needs to

(58:23):
get a perfect score of ten, where I give him
four questions and he doesn't have to give me all
of the right answers, just some of them. And again,
a perfect score is ten. You're over under today is
nine and a half. So anything other than a perfect
score will be a disappointment. Oh my god, Carry Rhoads
name one of two of the oldest players in the
NFL entering the twenty twenty four season.

Speaker 3 (58:44):
One of two. I mean, I will go Aaron Rodgers,
show me Aaron Rodgers. Yes, he is going to turn
forty one later this year. According to my account, oldest
player in the NFL's Lewis Yeah, yeah, right now.

Speaker 2 (59:02):
The Chicago Bears forty years old. He is second. Matt
Prater just turned forty yesterday. So those are your three
forty year olds. In the National Football League, you usually
have like four or five kickers or punters that you
know stuck around, but the kicking game has gotten younger
in the National generation. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:20):
The fact that Marcedes Lewis is still planned. Is it's
the weirdest most it is. This very odd for a
skilled position player to be still planned. So that's pretty
pretty spectacular.

Speaker 2 (59:32):
All right. The Summer Games are in the books. Carry
roads name two of three countries with the most medals
in the twenty twenty four Summer Olympics.

Speaker 3 (59:42):
Go the United States, USA, and I'll go China.

Speaker 2 (59:47):
Those are your final answers. Yes, show me the United States.
They are one twenty six, Show me China, all right,
ninety one. Did you know who third was? I would
go France would be third. No, wait, wait, wait, I
saw I saw Chris.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
Is that.

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
We've already got got to answer. Yeah, yeah, let's see
who would be third? It would be Great Britain, Great Britain.
I'll definitely go that's yeah, that is correct. Yeah, by
one medal is by France was fourth with sixty four.
Great Britain was third sixty five, and then Australia came in. See.
That would have been a trick question too, because I
saw France is up there.

Speaker 5 (01:00:28):
It's always different when you sorted by gold medals, because
then Japan would be third because they had the third
most gold medals at twenty got it. I think they
only had like forty total or something.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
I would have changed it up, but it was the
two of three question. Yeah, and so it was gonna
be the US in China. Anyway. I could have done
most silvers, but I don't think anybody was. And he
was really keeping track of that, by the way, US
first and silvers and then France China second. France had

(01:00:57):
twenty six in third. All right, you are three for three.
I told you, oh, this is this is my This
is my favorite question. Not because I am trying to
rain on the parade of this sport, but I think
what it does is it tells you on like how
busy your life is and how certain things have happened. Carrie,

(01:01:19):
name three of the four schools that made the Final
four this past spring and men's basketball.

Speaker 3 (01:01:23):
Three of the four, yes, you go, Purdue, Kay, Connecticut
and Alabama. All right, I'll tell you what this Alabama
boy may have ridden the Crimson tied to a perfect score.
Show me Alabama, show me Yukon, show me Perdue there

(01:01:48):
it was, all right, he has six for six. Sometimes
you forget, do you remember? The other one was? Let
me say that's crazy because I'm say Purdue Alabama.

Speaker 2 (01:01:59):
So I'm to play Connecticut. Purdue played. Who did Purdue play?
You're gonna kick yourself. You're gonna they kick yourself. Ah?
Who did Oh? Anc state? There it is? Yes, there was, Yes,
that was the fourth see I told you perfect perfect score. Finally, oh,

(01:02:24):
name four or five US states that have hosted a
winter Summer Olympics, four or five or the five four
or five states? So, and just for clarification, so in
the twenty twenty eight games, softball is going to be
in Oklahoma City. We are not like Oklahoma would not
count for that. That would just be where the games
are made. For four or five states. Four of the

(01:02:46):
five US states that have hosted a winter or Summer Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:02:49):
Georgia four or five Georgia, Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (01:02:57):
Okay, is that a state or is that a California? Georgia, California.
Do you want a lifeline? Yes? I need a leftline
for this. I'm gonna go I low, I low swinging.

Speaker 7 (01:03:07):
I'm actually going to say, like way back at the
start of the twentieth century, Saint Louis actually hosted the
Summer Olympics.

Speaker 6 (01:03:14):
So I'm gonna go Missouri.

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Missouri, and I'll go with Chris for the last one.

Speaker 5 (01:03:23):
So you could either go Utah for Salt Lake City
or Lake Placid was New York state.

Speaker 3 (01:03:28):
Yeah, we'll go to Utah for sure. So Georgia, California, Missouri, Utah. Okay,
show me Georgia. Nineteen ninety six Carry Roads attended. I
was there, so was I. I knew Chris Perfet. See,
I didn't even finish my setence.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
I'm sorry to say Chris Purfet was also there before
he got in. Yes, that he was at the nineteen
ninety six Olympics. I know I saw Chris that day.
It was crazy. Yeah, yeah, he was. He was a
little little guy.

Speaker 5 (01:03:55):
Heave a little fistbombs this tallst tall guy just going
by me and like we're both sweating to death.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Here's my favorite thing about Carrie Rhodes is that Carrie
Rhoads is a NFL All Pro, top level athlete, and
when he was making his way through school, probably played
I don't know, Yeah, I know you played football, but
maybe basketball, ran track, the lifted weights, the whole deal.

(01:04:20):
His biggest draw in Atlanta was to go see Dominique
Kauz in US gymnastics, no question, that is what you
get with you. And the boy was a fourteen years
old fifteen years old at the time.

Speaker 3 (01:04:32):
Yes, yes, it was I think every little boy's dream
at that time.

Speaker 2 (01:04:37):
Sure, showing up in Atlanta. What were you checking out
in Atlanta, Chris perpet I so.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
I was only ten, so I barely have any memory
of it besides how damn hot it was and trading pins.
I don't think Sydney was one. I remember a lot
more of what sports I saw.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
This is his humble break to be like I also
is that. Yeah, I got to get in both, all right.
So Georgia, we showed. We showed Georgia. Right, we unveiled that.
Show me California, show me Utah, and show me Missouri.
The show me State gives Carrie Rhoades a perfect score

(01:05:15):
love ten. Yeah, it was correct. See a really easy
game today, and yeah, New York the other Lake Placid
held the Winter Games in nineteen thirty two and nineteen
eighty an easy game of easy as one, two, three,
four today it was. It was. It was fairly fairly easy.
And I was surprised.

Speaker 3 (01:05:36):
Because you you put the pressure on me to get
that nine and a half, so you know, you could
take that in a different way and feel the pressure
to succeed.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
I thought the final four one was going to be
the curveball, and then I realized when you got Alabama,
I'm like, oh, that's right, because I think people remember
purduing you Kon. Yeah, but also it's just the fact
of people have enjoyed their summer. The NCAA tournament feels
like it's a long way away, and you're like, wait
a second, who played in those other semi finals. We

(01:06:06):
had Alabama play out here against Clemson in the regional final,
But the NC State one, who was kind of the
story of the n CUBA Tournament's the one that you
end up kind of forgetting.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
And the only reason I forgot is because they beat Duke,
So I didn't want to remember.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
Them, you know, I think I think it's just impressive
carry got through those first three without needing a lifeline
at all either.

Speaker 2 (01:06:25):
Yes, Aaron Rodgers, Numeral Uno, and then you were on
the fence about the third medal, but we only needed
two and so.

Speaker 5 (01:06:34):
Yeah, just kind of just kind of sitting there like
it's fine, I don't want to talk all to day.

Speaker 2 (01:06:38):
So We're good both. We love you man. We'll we'll
tighten the screws next week when we moved to our
new time. Next week five Eastern, two Pacific, Carry and
I will be getting together. And then the week after that,
I'm going golfing. So I think it's going to be
you and Harmon hanging. It's just going to be me.
Remember it's my show. When you're not here. It is

(01:06:58):
a Carrie Carry right now, it's the Isaac Low and
Crown show. He's here to give us the latest of
what is happening on this Sunday, this final day of
the Olympiad.

Speaker 7 (01:07:08):
And it ended in glorious fashion Dan and Carey for
the US women's basketball team, because today they won their
eighth consecutive Olympic.

Speaker 6 (01:07:17):
Gold medal, and they had to do it the hard ways.

Speaker 7 (01:07:20):
They rallied from a ten point third quarter deficit to
beat France sixty seven to sixty six. Asia Wilson led
the Americans with twenty one points and thirteen rebounds. The
US women's basketball team eight consecutive gold medals. They have
won sixty one consecutive games now at the Olympics. Earlier today,

(01:07:40):
American Jennifer Valente won the gold medal in women's track cycling.
On the gold medal match in women's volleyball, Italy beat
the United States three sets to none. One Major League
Baseball game underway right now. The Los Angeles Angels with
a five to nothing lead at Washington in the bottom
of the fifth inning.

Speaker 6 (01:07:58):
One NFL preseason game going on right now.

Speaker 7 (01:08:01):
The Indianapolis Colts a three to nothing lead over the
Denver Broncos with three eleven left to play in the
first quarter. Anthony Richardson returning to action for the first
time since Week five of last season, when his rookie
campaign was cut short by a shoulder injury. He completed
two out of four passes for twenty five yards and
now ended quarterback for the Colts. None of the them

(01:08:22):
Joe Flacco, He's completed three out of five passes for
twenty eight yards. Finally, Dan and Carey, back to the Olympics,
were earlier today in Paris, French police arrested a shirtless
man with a British accent for climbing approximately halfway up
the outside of the Eiffel Tower. He went about five

(01:08:45):
hundred feet up the Eiffel Tower before he was intercepted
by cops and arrested. And here is video from a
bystander commenting on this individual climbing up the Eiffel Tower.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Dude, climb in the Eiffel Tower. He just passed the
blue ring. I don't think he's wearing a shirt.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
Now.

Speaker 7 (01:09:07):
The reason we know the gentleman has a British accent
is while he was being escorted away by the cops,
he made the.

Speaker 6 (01:09:16):
Following comment bloody warm, bloody warm.

Speaker 1 (01:09:22):
And on that.

Speaker 6 (01:09:23):
Note, that's it for the twenty twenty four Olympics.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Back to you, Thank you very much, Isaac. And by
the way, as Carrie and I drove in today, one
of our exit ramps was on fire in southern California,
so it kind of rivals some of the news in Paris.
It was on fire. Yeah, just not the actual pavement,
but just the grass that was next to what was
the freeway and then the exit ramp that was on fire. Yeah,

(01:09:48):
So Covida was hot. It was hot coming the things
that you will see. And Isaac, by the way, has
brought the French call of the US basketball win on set.
And then we have the British man who feels is
just way too Hot to climb the Eiffel Tower and
then the American Playboy play version of that, bringing the

(01:10:09):
heat as the Olympics have come to an end. All right,
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the NFL, you heard Colts Broncos playing right now. We're
still getting adjusted to the new kickoff rule. If you
aren't the only one, there's company me, Carrie, Isaac, NFL referees,

(01:10:52):
the Kansas City Chiefs. We're all having problems with the
new kickoff rule. We'll explain next year on Fox Sports Sunday,
Fox Sports. I'm Dan Byer. He's carry Rhodes, the All
Pro hanging out big thanks to Isaac Loohingkron Chris Profet
and Bo Benson for all they've done on the show.
Today there's a story about the preparation that will now

(01:11:14):
be underway for the Olympic Games in four years in
Los Angeles, taking place starting in mid July. I think
it's July fourteenth through the thirtieth, I think are the
official dates of the twenty twenty eight Olympic Games, so
a little bit earlier than these games. We've got some
news on that. But we are one weekend, almost one

(01:11:36):
full weekend to the NFL preseason, still trying to get
accustomed to the new rules, get familiar with the new
rules on the kickoff, and we are not alone and
trying to figure out what happened because last night in
the Chiefs Jaguars game, the Kansas City Chiefs saw a
kick bounce into the end zone and then it bounced
forward into the landing zone. And so what the Chiefs

(01:11:59):
did is they took the ball and then took a
knee in the end zone, and the referee said, Chiefs
ball thirty yard line. Yeah, that's not the rule. The
rule is. There are a lot of different rules. I
don't even know if I can explain them all to you,
but the Jaguars and Doug Peterson had communication from his

(01:12:21):
people saying, no, that should be a safety because even
though the ball landed at a certain point, it bounced
in the field of play, and then the Chiefs player
took the football and went back into the end zone
and downed it. It was therefore a safety, but the
referees needed to confer because they were about to give
the Chiefs the football at the thirty yard line. It's

(01:12:43):
not going to happen all the time, but this is
such a drastic change carry from what we have had.
I don't know if there was a way to soft
launch anything. If these are the scabs and the wounds
that we have to deal with in the preseason. But
last an officiating crew even got the call wrong for

(01:13:05):
how it was pursued. Now, the officiating crew may have said, oh,
we didn't see the ball. We didn't, But then that
tells you that there's a there's a part of the
play that an official could be confused on. It's just
right now. It is going to take a while for
this to actually work. But last night the NFL officials
actually didn't understand the kickoff rule. Yeah, it's gonna take

(01:13:26):
some time.

Speaker 3 (01:13:26):
It's a lot of I guess, ancillary situations that can
come from a normal just mundane could be mundane, part
of the game could be a little bit more interesting.
So we'll see what happens with all this. And this
is this is the rule.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
So if the kick hits in the end zone, stays
in bounds, is returned or downed. If it's downed, it's
then a touchback to the thirty yard line. That's what
they thought happened. But this was one that came into
the end zone and then went into the landing zone

(01:14:07):
and then the Chiefs brought it out of the landing
zone and brought it back out so and brought it
back into the end zone, completely confusing. Yes, in fact,
this scenario that was brought that happened last night was
not in the NFL's explanation of rules on how this
is all going to lay out. And there are rules
with the onside kick that the NFL hasn't even explained that.

(01:14:29):
I don't think people are going to understand. They just
said normal on side kick rules, but there's a different
layer to it. It's just all it's all going to
be really confusing. And last night, even the NFL officials
were confused by it. I'm going to be confused a
little bit in twenty twenty eight, and I understand that
this conversation here is maybe more local than anything else.

(01:14:52):
But Paris will now hand off to Los Angeles as
the host of the Summer Olympics, and we are getting
the Summer Olympics back in the United States for the
first time since you and Chris Purfett attended the nineteen
ninety six Games in Atlanta. Yes, so they are back
in Los Angeles in twenty twenty eight. It was announced
yesterday by LA Mayor Karen Bass and speaking with reporters

(01:15:16):
at the Paris Olympics that all Olympic venues will be
accessible by public transportation only. No cars going to these events.
It is a car free Olympics in the NFL. Excuse me,
the NFL, the City of Los Angeles is urging all

(01:15:41):
employees in companies to work from home, to not go
to work for those two weeks. I was not here
in nineteen eighty four. I do not know what the
Olympics were like in nineteen eighty four. I know one
person who was, and Steve Hartman, after setting up next
you cann tell us all about it. But by my
understanding is that the streets were pretty clear because people

(01:16:03):
stayed away in nineteen eighty four, and that's what they're
asking everyone to do in twenty twenty eight. They are
also going to bring in three thousand buses to move
people around to different venues in Los Angeles so they
can go to those Olympic Games. This sounds like an
absolute nightmare, and it's four years away. I can't imagine.

(01:16:24):
I'm all for public transportation, I'm all for that, but
this city is not built for that, and it just
seems like it's a fingers crossed sort of deal.

Speaker 3 (01:16:36):
Yeah, I won't be attending anything by public transportation, so
I guess I would be absent from these the twenty
twenty eight games. But no, it sounds like a disaster.
It sounds like something that they're trying to, you know,
get in front of Obviously they've done it before, they say,
But it doesn't sound like it would be a good idea.
And I don't even have like a valid reason why,

(01:16:58):
but it just doesn't sound right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:00):
I think we've got two places where there's opening ceremonies
going on, and when you have two different venues. We
were talking before the show. You don't even know necessarily
where to have the torch, right, like it would seem
like it would be the obvious fit. You just put
it at the LA Coliseum where they've had torches, you know,
the torch in the past of the games. But is

(01:17:20):
that really gonna one up the hot air balloon torch
that you know, grace the city of Paris over the
last two weeks. Because you always want to be bigger. Yes,
you always want to be better. You always want to
one up it. And you know, by by a lot
of the accounts, you know, Paris had a great Olympic Games.
I don't know the inside and all the exact nuts
and bolts of it, but I think overall it seemed

(01:17:42):
to be a pretty successful games and everyone's interest in it.
And now it's going to be LA's turn to try
to outdo that and well mineus. The opening ceremonies, which
was a little over the top, I would I feel
in sense other than that, yes, everything else is pretty smooth.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
You are.

Speaker 2 (01:18:00):
Celine Dion was great, She was the best. She was great.
And when you have the athletes coming in on the river, hey, perfect,
that's that's it's unique at all. They stayed. They stayed
outside of it, Yes, as best you could. Like when
you have that like, that's a great way. I don't know. Again,

(01:18:20):
there is something to see all of the athletes filing
into the you know, to an arena. But I thought
that it was unique in what Paris did. La is
going to try to top it. Here's the other thing
where I think that they went wrong and trying to
trying to determine all of this. There's one simple solution.
Don't call buses buses. If you were to say we

(01:18:40):
are going to have three thousand shuttles, completely different. Nobody
wants to get on a bus. No, No one wants
to be moved around. So when you say we were
bringing in three thousand buses to take over the roadways,
just say three thousand shuttles. It sounds a lot easier
and as much easier to swallow.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
A little more, a little more like it seems classy
with a shuttle, Like you go onto a mysterious Hollywood
party in the hills.

Speaker 2 (01:19:10):
You're not saying I'm going by bus.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
We got shuttles on the bottom, are going to take
you up and next picket to the top and it
sounds elegant.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
I've been on many covering a golf tournament because a
lot of golf courses don't have the infrastructure to end
up supporting a tournament normally, so it's a one officer.
You have to shuttle everything, and they have big coach buses,
but they call it a shuttle, and we know it's
a bus, but it's a shuttle and it works for us.
Something they'll look forward to in twenty twenty eighty. If

(01:19:37):
you're planning, I.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Guess I won't be there, Dan, You'll tell me how
I goes. Though you're gonna go in that bus?

Speaker 2 (01:19:43):
Huh yeah, you know what I've actually thought to myself.
It is something that I will want to check out
when it's here and be a part of too experience,
just so you can have, you know, just like your
stories from Atlanta. Take a picture. He's carry roads. I'm
Dan Byer. We'll talk to you next week at five eastern.
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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;}Dan Beyer and Kerry Rhodes discuss the US Women and Steph Curry!