The Fellas with Anthony Gargano & Jason Fitz talk Football is ALMOST here, Tom Brady, Caitlin Clark & MORE!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:35):
But last week back at the air, a couple of things.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I know fits He had a gig, I had a
baseball tournament. So we're back and it's starting to get real.
We're starting to feel it. It is now August seventeenth.
We are just a week away from Week zero in
college football, and in fact, next Saturday we'll be talking

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about the little slate flaw in a state Georgia Tech
among the Week zero games, so we'll be talking about that,
getting excited for all that stuff. You could smell it.
We're gonna add. This is week two of the preseason.
One more week. This is probably the toughest week. I

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don't know about you, FITZI, but I get the taste
of it. It's starting to feel like we've been through camp.
I watched the Patriots and Eagles on Thursday night. I'm like,
all right, yeah, I'm ready for the real thing now.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
It's funny because the way you say that you get
a taste to it. It's almost like the concept you know,
back in the day, because we all remember, especially when
certain things are illegal now weren't is smiled upon, and
it's like, I'll just give the first taste is free, and.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Then you know, you got to come back and pay
for a second. You're right, like we do.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
We all get a little bit of a that itch, right,
you get to scratch the itch a little bit, but
it doesn't feel real. And we've talked about the fact
that I like preseason a lot, you know, but I
do sit there and watching My god, it just makes
me salivate for the games that actually count. You know
that there's this moment and you saying, you know, Week
zero gives us Florida State, Georgia Tech.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
At least we get from the outset, we.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
Get a top ten team with some heaping expectations and
a little bit of pressure coming into this.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I just I'm ready for something that counts, right, and
that's that's just what we're all eager for. There are
plenty of things to be worked out in training camp.

Speaker 4 (02:35):
There's plenty of stories, and there's plenty of you know,
big names that we're still trying to figure out what's
going to happen good tractually, Like there's still news and notes,
But I'm ready to get to just the one distraction.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
And that's the real of it is.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
All the things that we yell about and scream about
right now go away the minute we actually have Sundays
with results, that suddenly become a distraction to whatever we're
you know, paying too much attention to right now. Like
I'm a big believer that on Sundays, whether or not
Ceedee Lamb or Dak Prescott has a new contract, is
it gonna make them play poorly against Washington? Right But
we don't have that game against Washington right now to

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to hang our hats on.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
All we have is the well, what's gonna happen with
the contract.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
So I'm just looking forward to paying attention to football
and not a bunch of bs.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
It doesn't matter.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Yeah, I'm so with you, and listen you and I
are saying, we're saying we love you know anything, So
we'll take the preseason and gladly consume it.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, preseason is like the bread.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
If you go to a restaurant and it's usually like
an Italian restaurant that have good that has good bread,
you go, oh, it's good, like to you know, little
olive oil whatever. But you don't fill up on the bread.
You know, like you gotta wait. The meal's coming. You're
just dying, dying for the meal. And that's kind of

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how I feel right now. It's like, all right, you know,
well I'm because the Eagles played, I'm two preseason games in,
I'm ready of college football. It feels so tantalizingly close.
That Labor Day weekend is the greatest, and you know
we're just two weeks away, so you know, when the

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closer it gets, it's that anticipation. You got the vacation
coming up. You're like, oh my god, well we'll get
here or not. Jeezus, week it's going by so slow.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
The funny part about that, though, is think about this.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
You know all of these fan bases right now that
are convinced that we're idiots if we say anything negative
about their team, then everything's gonna be just fine.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
We don't know what the hell we're talking about.

Speaker 4 (04:35):
We've obviously never watched the game, and we don't know, Paul,
all of those fans right now, with glowing optimism, are
going to make it through one half of one game
in week one before suddenly it's like, oh yeah, no, wait,
we suck, like there's just my god. But at least
right now there is this building. Like I was sitting
with the buddy last night who's a huge Patriots fan

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and his family's huge Patriot fans, and he was telling me,
like his uncle is convinced that you know, there there's
six win team, maybe seven, six, six, Like the Patriots
are not.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
The Patriots are three. We're gonna be dreadful this year. Yeah,
you're gonna have the first over. And by the way,
by the way, not for nothing.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
If you're only gonna win six games, you might as
well only want to win three and get that first
pick next year, right, Like, if you're.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Gonna stick anyway, then just go ahead and stink.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
But we are at this spot where fans are coming
in and everybody's convince themselves that you know, they can
put lipstick on the pig, and you just at some
point you wake up and realize you're still making out
with the pig and that that's not that's not fun.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Good morning, figure, How are you doing? Good?

Speaker 4 (05:41):
To have you back top that one, figure, top top.
I can't take on a pick, but I can't. Let's
go early that lipstick on a pig. Let's go make
it out with the pig. That's that was the one toed.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
My god, that's a tough visual to get over. I'll
be honest with you.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, your first yeah, you know, and my dogs at
my foot.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Big yeah.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
Likewise, and as you mentioned, you guys, you know, took
a little bit of a recipite. But we're back in
the saddle and we're just a little bit away from
the start of real football. Like Look, we debated that
the week one of the preseason after the Hall of
Fame game, whether you know how excited we were or
weren't for it. Look, once the full slate of their
NFL preseason rolled out last weekend, I won't lie and
say that I wasn't into it. It absolutely was. I wasn't

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glued to every single second of every game. But you
certainly take intrigue as to how the rookies are going
to look. How certain teams you know, who rolled out
a lot of their starters, you know, happened to look.
So I was actually disappointed to look on Friday to
see that there were no games. It was like, this
was the last time there was a preseason in the
NFL and there was no games on a Friday night.
It was weird.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
It was weird. It was the same way we were all.
I was like, all right, well, you know, you just.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Walk around assuming. It's like even if you don't look
up to it, look forward to it's like, oh, okay,
well I'm sure there's a game or two on tonight.
And you look up and you say, well, there's nothing.
You just want to check in on it. Yeah, check
in on something.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeh know.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
It's weird.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, And it was weird.

Speaker 3 (07:09):
And you know this this is this two the three preseason,
the week to three weeks.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
It's it's interesting because I wonder how much they're when
they go to eighteen, are they going to shrink it
to one or to none? Like how far do they
get rid of do they get rid of all the games?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
I just wonder how they can do none knowing that
it still does bring in revenue for the owners. So
I mean it's part of your season ticket package. Whether
people go or not, is you know, neither here nor there.
But so you're taking a revenue stream away from ownership. Now,
whether that gets funneled in a different way or made
up for it a different way, I guess that's something
they can explore. But it's say for doing twenty regular

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season games, which look, maybe they'll do with that in
fifteen years. I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me. It's
the NFL, I don't I just don't see how they
they probably going to have at least one, probably at
least two preseason games, one home, one road, one st
end up going to eighteen. I just don't see them
doing away with it completely, at least not in the
foreseeable future.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
Yeah, yeah, I can.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
I wonder if there's a world in a world, I
wonder if there's a spot where they end up finding
a way to televise joint practices.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
You know, I was wondering that the other day, because
they're so important.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
That's the next iteration.

Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, if you're an NFL network and you're you're missing
out of all the preseason games. You gotta do the
joint practices.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
And wouldn't we salivate for that the way we love
you know, hard knocks and any sort of coverage that's
behind the scenes. If you had the chance to actually
have a micd up practice between the Rams and the Raiders,
I'd watch that.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
I watch that all that different.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
You know, it's it's more football, It's like more real football.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
It's it's a look into it.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
I often wondered, Now, you know, teams don't want their
their IP basically out there, but I often wondered, when
you know, they start showing practices. You know, we're so
inside these days that I could completely see NFL network

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going all right, it's you know, they choo a practice
for the Raiders and they just televised practice. It's a
cheap doesn't costs anything, and people would watch it.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
But I would watch it.

Speaker 5 (09:23):
And there's a way that you can find a way
to get around. You know, there's a certain part of
practice that they won't.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Air, you know, maybe it won't be a field.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
Yeah, there's a way that you can get around televising.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Maybe that would press access too, right, correct, Yeah, the
reporters only have access to certain amounts, so you get like,
you get the easy portion of practice for the first
hour and then all of a sudden they shut that
off and go to another practice, and it at least
scratches the itch of wanting to see these things.

Speaker 5 (09:48):
Now, one thing they will tell the press members is
don't talk about tactical things that we're doing. Don't talk
about trick plays, don't So there was an honor system
that goes along with that that you obviously would not
be able to have if you're full on televis things
as well. So but again, if there's money.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Involved, you're gonna have another field.

Speaker 5 (10:04):
Yeah, there's a way around it.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
That's closed and you can work on it. But I
could see it, Yeah, totally see it.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
And the thing about the scrimmage is is you know,
you sure you'll have quarterbacks in red jerseys and whatnot,
but at least you're gonna have players who you've actually
heard of, you know, taking meaningful snaps like in practice
and taking real practice reps. It's like, would you rather
see that or would you rather see you know, a
bunch of undrafted guys who are gonna be playing in the
ufl out there playing football. For most of us, I
think we'd rather see you know, Davante Adams go one

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on one with Sauce Gardener in a joint practice.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know, totally, I listen.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
I got way more interest Eagles and Patriots. You know,
that gag was dreadful as I love it, like even
for preseason standards. That was that we even I had
had a difficult time, you know, kind of lock staying
locked in, And all I'm thinking about was Tuesday's joint

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practice was probably really good, Like I saw how I
liked from it. I mean for on Twitter, you know,
that would have been a that's a great kind of
alternative to go and watch those joint practices and by
the way, just regular practice, I would be in on
it all the time.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
We're also constantly, and I mean constantly told about how
the joint practices now provide a better test than anything
that you see in a preseason game, because everything in
preseasons vanilla. But in joint practice, as coaches discuss some
of this stuff and they show more complicated looks so
that they have more meanings, so we would get a
better sense, Like I'll get it, you know, Configuie and

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I are always on this raider space. Well, I'll get
a better idea of who Aiden O'Connell lives as a
quarterback seeing him in a joint practice against a complicated
defense than I will in a preseason game where he's
playing against you know, vanilla stuff that he's played against
since you know, middle school.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Like that doesn't tell us, right, I think?

Speaker 4 (11:51):
So? I do think we would get a better sense
of where our favorite team is if we had the
access to that too, which is a win for everybody.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
And and the you know you're in for a series,
you know, like what does that do for you? Although
I will say, uh, watching Joe Burrow for once, I
was like, wow, man, I felt that felt good watching
Burrow last week. You know it's interesting just what we'll

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take the crumbs that will take and just enjoy them.

Speaker 4 (12:25):
I love the way you said the crumbs that will take,
because you're right right now we are just like, please
have some more. Like there's just this a moment of
like we're sitting here begging for bad football, which is
what we should be doing. Is we've been talking at
somewhere about missing it. So you know, you know you've
been on a bit of a dry spell. At some point,
you just got to start taking dates, right, There's just
no doubt about it. So hey, it's I get it.

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I get why it happens. But at the same time,
you're right, we are. We are absolutely salivating over bad football,
and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
But I admittedly, you know, cause you said it, with
the Patriots and Eagles, sometimes those crumbs could be really stale. Yeah,
So it's like, do I really want this right now?

Speaker 2 (13:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (13:03):
I know I was, but it's it's worse because you
really want it and you're getting.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
That correct, You're like, oh my god, all right, I'm there.
I know.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's a couple of weeks. I know, I get it.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
It's funny.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
Last night, we uh, I'm I'm watching the Phillies game
with my little guy and my buddy Booth is texting me,
and Boo's like, dude, I need football. Like he's watching
the game to the Phillies game, and yeah, we're talking
about the Phillies and all and about the game itself.
It's like Phillies Nationals, right, it's just one on one

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sixty two, nothing special. And he's like, dude, I need football,
and he's like, he's a big Notre Dame fan. He's like,
let's go over the schedule. I go, there's only one
game to go over. Man, it's Farta State, and if
you win Farda State, you go underfeat.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
God, that's good when you say it like that. That
is so wild to me. Like with the playoffs on
the line and everything that's out there, it's like you
in one game, you're gonna be just fine.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
You're gonna end up at the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (14:12):
Yeah, yeah, you see that. I don't know if you
look at that schedule.

Speaker 5 (14:16):
I'm looking at it right now. I mean, all obviously
it's a big rivalry game. Sc people will have something
to say about it at the coliseum at the end
of the year, but generally speaking, it is a lot
of a lot of walkovers, to say the least.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Correct me if I'm wrong. I mean, how good are
they going to be?

Speaker 5 (14:34):
I don't really know. So the I mean Miller Moss
has taken over at quarterbacks certainly did not have the
same appeal or the hype as Caleb Williams. But I mean,
look at Lincoln Riley's past. You know now that the
Baker Mayfield at the time, so he's used to making stars.
Their defense should be improved. How good they're going to
be by the end of the season, I honestly cannot.
I do not know. This can be a six win team,

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this can be a ten or eleven win team. I
really couldn't tell you. So close I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
I'm thinking Notre Dame. If I was to put a
line on the game, I'd say Notre Dame is eight
and a half.

Speaker 5 (15:08):
I would say, I give him a touchdown right now, yeah,
just right this moment.

Speaker 1 (15:11):
Sure, man, that's gonna be like that.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
It's it's interesting because when you talk about USC and
where they are, you know, as a program, I'm not
sure Lincoln Riley is going to have as much grace
as we want him to have sometimes in that process,
Like if they really if USC falters this year the
way that they you know, I think they will, most
of us think they're not going to be particularly great.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
That's that's that's interesting to be in that spot, you know,
that's that's going to be because Lincoln doesn't have necessarily
a lot of grace with the entire fan base.

Speaker 5 (15:45):
So no, not at all.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
Just I think it is.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
It is kind of interesting to me to see how
it goes when the local media and the fan base
are all kind of waiting to just there's sharks in
the water.

Speaker 1 (15:56):
A little cut here turns into a severe bleed.

Speaker 5 (15:59):
His only saving great would be that I think USC,
even for as you know, as much money as they have,
I don't know if they're willing to pay him that
ginormous buyout that's fair. So he might be a year
away from being on the hot seat. If that makes fence,
you know, a sense fits. So like if if they
if the everything falls apart and they win five six
games this year, I think going into next season, then

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it's like, all right, if this thing falls apart again,
then we're moving on. But they committed a lot of
money to pry them away from Oklahoma, and I'm not
sure if they're willing to eat to eat that money.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
To be honest with.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
You, now that that's a good point.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
And also you know, it's just it's a little bit
of you need to be kind of patient, you know,
I understand that everybody wants The problem for USC is
that Oregon's going to walk right into the big t
oh yeah, And me, you know, a national championship contender.
So USC is going to be sitting here looking around saying, well,
how is it that Oregon did this? Like and then
on top of that, then everybody's going to be looking

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around trying to figure out where does USC stand in
this new stack to Big ten? Like this is just
going to be They are a program that's going to
have to get used to the fact that things are
not going to be asy as they were in the
Pac twelve.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
That's just real.

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Like a good year for USC is going to be
winning the Big Ten, and a normal year for USC
might be finishing third in the Big ten.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
And I'm not sure their fan base is ready to
hear that.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Well, I will say, finishing third in the Big ten
in today's world is probably a playoff birth or close
to it. So might might not be the worst you know,
you'll take.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
You look at the schedule, be ready. So they start
off with A and M.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
Great game, Notre Dame by the way we're talking here.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, they start off Notre Dame and A and M Saturday,
August thirt so, two weeks from today.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
All right, good, that's a great game.

Speaker 1 (17:37):
That's a beefy game.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, ye.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
Home Northern Illinois at Purdue, home Miami, Ohio home Louisville home.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Louisville's big because I think it was. If they were
at Louisville, I think that'd be much more of a challenge.
I think Louisville is actually going to be pretty good
again this year. Yeah, I don't think that's going to
be a walkover game.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
I think, you know, listen, Louisville's a that could be
ranked by the end of the year. They're on right now,
and I think they get a real good chance of
being ranked. Stanford may stake at home at Georgia Tech,
at Navy, and then November ninth is the big game.
That's Florida State at again in South Bend, home Virginia

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at Army, and then at City to end the season.
So I mean Chiefs that that's a I mean, I mean,
that's a couple cake.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Then they usually don't play.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Usually it's the opposite with them, But that's a cupcake
schedule cupcake.

Speaker 5 (18:37):
On top of that, I'm looking at their schedule. They
have three road games all season. Reading that right at
A and m Eperdu and at USC. Everything else is
at home. That's wild isn't it crazy?

Speaker 4 (18:48):
That is in the first year of the college football playoff.
It is funny how some teams the schedule. We always
talk about this in the NFL. We constantly sit there
in the NFL like.

Speaker 1 (18:57):
Well, they're going to play your first place schedule, which.

Speaker 4 (18:59):
Always makes me row up in my mouth a little bit,
because there's only a three game difference between first place
schedule and last play schedule in every single division, So like,
there are literally three games that are different. The rest
of them are all the same, So stop your crying.
But in college football, the schedules are so drastically different.
I mean, look at how different it's going to be
for Oklahoma versus Texas coming into the SEC. They're both
going to come into the SEC, but their schedules are

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not made the same. If you look at Notre Dame
their schedule and then look at Florida State, like, Florida
State schedule is brutal, Like, their schedules are not made
the same. And it's really interesting how some schools are
able to insulate themselves in this playoff era and make
sure that they have a better shot at it simply
by the way they've scheduled and that's where Notre Dame is.
Like I think we're having right now, the very discussion

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that is going to be loud about Notre Dame when
there's an attempt in November to figure out where they
belong in the seating process. There are people that are
going to say they have played nobody, especially when you
look at the way the schedule is going to work
out for the Big Ten, when it's going to work
out for the SEC and you're looking at Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
Saying they're not an automatic qualifier.

Speaker 4 (20:00):
They cannot win their conference, right, so they're gonna have
to sit there constantly looking into a large bid. There're
gonna be a lot of people yelling and screaming about
a two loss team that's played a brutal gauntlet versus
Notre Dame that's rolled through a bunch of Patsy's the
whole way. So, like I just I think this is
an interesting it'll be interesting to see what this year
does for the future of college football scheduling.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, all right, we're gonna take quick
tal we'll come right back. We're gonna be doing this
like hopping in and around college football and the NFL.
I do want to start college our NFL conversation with
I want to look at three teams each conference, guys
that you think the arrows up during the preseason, that

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the good things have happened, and three things that are down.
All right, three teams that you think have lost steam
during the preseason. So the little exercise coming up next.
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Speaker 2 (22:54):
All right. So during this preseason, yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
The typical, the big injury JJ McCarthy, which was a
devastating blow from Minnesota. I know that Donald's look better there,
but I mean at some point McCarthy I thought was
going to play FITZI.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, no, I did too.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
I think that that's an absolutely worst case scenario for
the Vikings like that, when you have a rookie quarterback
come in, I always say the same thing I would
say to Patriots fans right now, to give them a
little bit of comfort after we trashed them a minute ago.
I think that there's some element of the most important
thing is figure it out, is that rookie quarterback your guy.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
You know.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
And as much as the Vikings can try and tell everybody, hey,
we're still trying to win right now, the biggest goal
this season was to make sure that JJ had the
opportunity to at some point start to show that he
could be the future. Now you lose a whole year
for him, and this is the same thing, you know.
I'm consistent on it. I said one of the things
last year that I think we need to remember is
that a lost season for Anthony Richardson has meaning to

(23:59):
where the Cold are expected to be this year. So
for JJ to not even get any meaningful NFL games
in that a regular season, I think that's an abject disaster.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
You've lost here.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
The biggest benefit to drafting your quarterback in the first
round is you get that fifth year. Well, you just
lost one of those five years by no fault on
your own, and he won't even really be able to
do anything that helps that development other than study film
and be a pro that way. But that's not that's
not what they needed from him. So that's a that's
a pretty catastrophic loss for the Vikings.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah. I was surprised too about the midnistics. When I
first saw the injury, I'm thinking, oh, that's that's probably
four to six weeks, and then it was like, nah, man,
he's got a chance to be out for the season.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Yeah. I was surprised by that too. I don't know
how complicated that must have been.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
But I also thought it was pretty interesting that the
way they couched it is, you know, he's going to
be out for the year, but this was this was
best to give him a long career. It's like, well,
what'd you find in there that you needed to do
that much work for a long career out of him?
In this Gus Like, that's just that's kind of wild
to me.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
And you're all right, the rumors, the Brady rumors, Figgi
have already started.

Speaker 5 (25:05):
I've not heard that, but I can't say I'm surprised
by it, because anytime a quarterbacks goes down, then he's
gonna be the first team that shows up. Because at
the age of seventy five, he was still out there
playing for Tampa Bay and still playing at a high level.
So it makes all the sense in the world why not.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
And if they brought up, they made sure two veteran tackles, right,
really good running back and elite receivers and oh, by
the way, Kevin O'Connell's buddy.

Speaker 5 (25:32):
Right, And adding to the fact that we're still been
waiting two years later for him to buy that ownership
stake in the Raiders and it hasn't officially happened yet,
so you know, but that's still, you know, looming out there.
If it hasn't happened, he's still eligible to play for
it for a football team, so you know, why not.
And look, if you're a team that you that you
feel is knocking on the door, I don't think Minnesota

(25:53):
is that team, although I do think they're probably going
to better this year than people think, but I don't
think they're going to be a Super Bowl contender. If
you are a team in that situation, why you call
Tom Brady engage his interest. It'd be the smartest thing
you could do.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
He's work right, he's talking, he's talking about it, and
you know there was a video him and you know whatever,
he's joking or whatever, but he looks fantastic. And I
don't know if you're him. Does Minnesota do it for you?

Speaker 5 (26:20):
No? No, Minnesota doesn't do it for me.

Speaker 9 (26:23):
No.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
I was just speaking in generalities moving on from Minnesota,
but specifically the Vikings. No, not right now.

Speaker 3 (26:28):
I mean, you got justin Jefferson, he got a good
tight end to by the way, you got that's O
line to protect you.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
I don't know, it's not it's not unattractive to me.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
Yeah, but you're in the same division as the Lions,
you know, like it's it's difficult.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's an easier conference, but it's a difficult division.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
Remember when Peyton went to the Broncos and one of
the things that they talked about at the time was
he wanted to stay in conference because he had so
many notes on each of the teams that, yeah, he'd
be facing you know, I think that there's a there's
a little bit of a curve to that.

Speaker 1 (27:03):
And then the other part of it is.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Well, I mean he was Tampa, so it's not like.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Hed, No, that's fair, you're you're right.

Speaker 4 (27:09):
I wasn't even thinking about that. You're right, so Tampa
is is you know, maybe that does make it a
little easier. I've already forgotten the Tampa era look at me.

Speaker 1 (27:16):
But I don't know.

Speaker 4 (27:18):
There's also a Brady walking away from Fox at this
point would be I mean, that would be damaging to
the entire.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
Way that Fox does business. And I just don't know that.

Speaker 4 (27:28):
Brady the business man loves the entire process of that.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
You really think so, because I I for a second
I thought about it, and I got to believe that
Tom and his reps made it clear that hey, guys, listen,
there's a chance I may get the itch and.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Want to go back.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
So you know, I'm here with you for the long
the long haul, but you may have to, you know,
deal with me for the next year or two thinking
that I may go back.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
That has to be.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
Written into his contract or some understanding. I mean, this happened.
I remember Troy Aikman at one point in time. I
forget exactly I think it might have been the year
that Donov McNabb got injured, broke his ankle or something,
and Andy Reid called him when the broadcaster from Fox
and Troy had been retired for what three three four
years by then? Yes, yeah, and he said he seriously
thought about coming out of retirement and doing it. You know,

(28:21):
it's it's not Jay Cutler was an analyst for Fox
on TV Yeah, and left and left mid season from
being from the boot to play for the Dolphins. So
it has happened before.

Speaker 4 (28:31):
Well, and a lot of people that played have it
in their contract that their contract presses pause that allows
them to go back and play.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
And it doesn't. It doesn't rip up the deal. It
just pauses the dealing.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
T And if you're Fox, you love it man Brady
News like it's like, all right, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
You know.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
It just makes the anticipation that much bigger, and Brady's
that much, you know, dominating the news.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I mean, I hadn't really thought of it from the
from that side of it. For Fox.

Speaker 4 (29:00):
To me, it's more like you just demoted Greg Olsen,
You've put the new pieces in place, You've already given
him a year, You've done all these rehearsals to get
him ready. You've got everybody on the same page to
make sure that this is a glowing, perfect debut, and
then weeks before the season, he's like, let's give it
another year. Like that just seems like that's for you know,
for the way that networks work with leagues to make

(29:22):
sure that the NFL is happy with their.

Speaker 1 (29:24):
Broadcasts, like all of that, that portion of it.

Speaker 4 (29:27):
And then there's the business side of not just how
much they're paying him, but at some point they expect
to get return on what they're going to be paying
him too.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
So I mean, I just think it creates such.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
A wrinkle, like you could you can backfill it and
move everybody up one slot and then just bring somebody
in for that for your lowest team.

Speaker 5 (29:42):
But you know, it's not ideal. It's definitely not ideal
for fox and they for sure be upset behind closed doors.
I think like, oh, this is terri week, have last minute.
We have to both put it this way, if Tom
went back for a year and then retired again and
said told Foxy I want to come back, they'd open
them bring him in with open arms. It wouldn't blink exactly,
you know, that's fair.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
They definitely, but let's let's play this out for a
second because it's a fun conversation. So, uh, Fitzy, I'll
make you Tom, and the vikings are there, So say
you have an itch, because it's clearly you always have
an itch. I'm sorry, It's like it's just about how
deep the itch is, right, But say you got d

(30:21):
itch and they go, yo oh, come on brother.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
J JA, Like, how about if Jefferson calls you.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
Tom, come on, Tom, come on back me and you Tom,
are you saying all right, wait, give me like like
till September, I don't know the middle of September, and
you see if there's any other teams that look more
attractive or you're jumping like what are you thinking?

Speaker 4 (30:55):
I'm not even entertaining it, like I'm if I'm talking
if you have the itch? Yeah, No, even if I
have the itch, I'm not entertaining it because the thing
of it is.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
See the prerequis is you got the itch.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
Yeah, but right now I'm Tom Brady at like, look,
so I'm Tom Brady the business man in this scenario,
and Tom Brady the business man is looking around saying, yeah,
I got a little bit of the itch and I
kind of want to play, but I also am gonna
look at the business. I'm gonna look at everything I'm around, Like, look,
I can't speak to what it's like to be an
NFL player, but I've over the last month, I've gone
out and played with Buddies three different times, you know,

(31:27):
for as many as twenty five thousand people. And the
number one question people keep asking me is, oh my god,
are you gonna go back out and tour again?

Speaker 1 (31:34):
Like is it?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
No?

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Like I get to scratch the itch by being around
it and have a good time, but I don't have
to deal with all the other stuff.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
I don't got to get on a tour bus. I
don't got to live in a bunk.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
I don't got to deal with twelve people on a
bus and all of the things that come with travel.

Speaker 1 (31:47):
I don't have to deal with the music business.

Speaker 4 (31:49):
I just get to get out there, scratch the itch
by being an ancillary part of a.

Speaker 1 (31:52):
Really cool night, and then go home, you know.

Speaker 4 (31:54):
And there's an element of Tom Brady, you know, the
right now as he's the minority owner becoming the minority
owner of the Raiders, Like he's got that business portion
of it. Moving forward, He's got a massive contract from
Fox that will let him be around the game. And
his celebrity is I'm not sure has ever been higher
than it is right now in pop culture.

Speaker 3 (32:16):
That guy. But that's not enough. He's a flickball guy.
Like he loves it. He loves practice. Like that's the
difference when you're when you're describing what I get to
go and I don't need to be on the tour bus.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
He enjoys the tour bus.

Speaker 5 (32:33):
Well, there's there is something to be said for If
he enjoyed it that much, then why did he retire
and I keep playing? You know, why didn't he spend
this offseason? And it's a certain degree, yes, I mean
what you.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Go for a long year, right, you look around, you go,
all right, well we're probably not going to go anywhere,
and you know you you're getting bagged up and you're like,
all right, that's it.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
I'm done. I'm done.

Speaker 3 (32:56):
And that's how you feel in the moment, and you
feel that way, and then you try to convince yourself,
you know, you spend the next couple of months, I've
got I feel good about it. I feel good about it,
and the next thing, you know, trading camps fit back
and you're like, huh, can I do that? And I
feel great because I've been working out, and are.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
You kidding me? I want it myself to go back.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
He's also he's gonna vince yourself to go back at
I mean played. It's funny.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
I like it.

Speaker 5 (33:22):
He's a full season removed, like he's like he's just retired.
This past off season with Tanna Bay. He did nothing.
He was I won't say he sat on his butt.
He did a bunch of stuff media and all that stuff,
but I mean he didn't he didn't scratch that itch
we're talking about last year at all. And so it
fits his point. He's gonna be able to do that.
I'll be it in a different, you know fashion from
the booth. He's still gonna be able to study. Film

(33:44):
is just going to be not from a competitive standpoint,
just from a from a working standpoint. I don't know
if he actually has the itch to go back and play.
I really don't.

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Again, I'm just saying I look at it and I
go I could see it.

Speaker 2 (33:56):
I could totally see it.

Speaker 1 (33:57):
I made a really good point.

Speaker 4 (34:00):
So like like there is some element of if he
had the itch he had the entire offseason could have
gone anywhere.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
If he had the itch he had the entire last year,
he could have gone anywhere.

Speaker 4 (34:08):
Like why, why now weeks before the season starts, would
the itch be the thing that wins over?

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Like I I'll tell you why, because you fought yourself.
You don't think he had in its last year. I
guarantee you had in this last year. And that's what
I meant about. You convince yourself that Okay, no, no,
don't do it, don't do it, and then the itch
just starts to nag at in, nag into sooner or later.

(34:37):
That's all you're thinking about. So I mean, I'm gonna
put it out a question again. I mean, we'll see
what happens. I mean, you know, you guys might be
right and he may just not do it and be
done right.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
It's also an element of the one year.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
If you get through this year, you're not He's not
coming back like that is it? This is your last window?
And he made me think of that.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Who knows?

Speaker 5 (34:59):
Yeah, because I don't. Look, he doesn't have paid Manning
is a bad example. He had the shoulder injury, and
obviously he knows the last year was not the paid
manning that we all knew and loved, and they won
pretty much in spite of him. Tom Brady won has
really nothing left to prove on a football field, and
two can really he won't tarnish his legacy even if
he goes out and plays horribly for a season. But
I just wonder from his standpoint, what does he have

(35:20):
to gain by coming back, you know, nothing, So like
at that point, I even.

Speaker 3 (35:27):
Do it because he wants to at the at the
risk of yearning, risk of watt what are you risking?

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I mean playing comes out and that's that's what I mean.

Speaker 5 (35:39):
You know, well he doesn't want that.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Yeah, for him, like if I go, it.

Speaker 3 (35:46):
Is mind he's not thinking he's going to suck, right,
and like in his mind like yeah, he'd be disappointed,
But in his mind's not thinking that, well, I'm going
to take quick to ye, Well we'll continue.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
It's fun.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Uh, we're the fellas hanging out Radio Fox Sports Radio
Fellas from the tire Raq dot Com Studios. Jason fitz
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Speaker 2 (36:09):
That was funny touring the break.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
I set a picture to the boys of my anthony,
who's uh spending summer between eighth grade and freshman year
of high school at camp, and uh, so he's ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (36:26):
He just got his uniform.

Speaker 3 (36:28):
He's gonna be playing the will linebacker spot, and uh
he'll be going if they go when they go to
a fifty front, he'll he'll go up and play edge
setting off the substitute. So he was, uh, he was
all fired up. Man, he got his number, thirty two.
I go, dude, that's a great number. You got thirty two. So,

(36:48):
uh he had, he had the uniform all last night.
He was all fired up over.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
Did he pick thirty two or did they pick thirty two?

Speaker 2 (36:55):
They picked thirty two.

Speaker 1 (36:56):
Okay, why, Like.

Speaker 4 (36:57):
You know, so now is that thirty two gonna be
like his thing moving forwards? You think like it's thirty
two going to be the new family number, like the
lucky number that's always happening around him.

Speaker 2 (37:06):
I think so, I think thirty two has got to
be that. Now. My little guy's thirteen.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
I always were thirteen, and the little guy who always
wears thirteen, so for him, it's thirteen. For I think
it's got to be thirty two. It's a good number.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Oh no, thirty two is a good Yeah, it's a
good ring to thirty two. It feels like that. That's
a good like that's a rich, rich number, like you're
playing in the NFL. Thirty two that means you made
it right like that. Yes, there's no doubt. I always
play thirteen on Roulette, so.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
You know there we go camp, do you obviously? But yeah,
thirteen and thirty one for Halloween. Always play those two numbers.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Oh nice, Well, I'm a thirteen man.

Speaker 3 (37:42):
I've always wore thirteen, so that was always that was
always my favorite number. But it's funny the excitement, man,
Like you know that my little guy's he's been playing.
You had a baseball tourta, but now he's been back
in football practice, so he's ready to go. So I
like I could just feel I got practice every night,

(38:05):
like freaking out, you know, just taking it all in figure.
That's what you got to look forward to.

Speaker 5 (38:10):
Dude, Trust me, I am already. You know my number
was ninety two back in the day I was. I
was a defensive lineman, so you were Reggie what I
was all this time. I like to be in my mind.
I was in my mind.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
I was on the field, not so much ninety two.

Speaker 5 (38:27):
I like it, but that was that was my number
back the day.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
Uh, any gigs like what we talked about the Brady thing,
And I'm curious who you used your your gig as
an analogy. Yeah, I mean how strong did your itch
ever get overwhelming?

Speaker 2 (38:47):
For you?

Speaker 3 (38:48):
I mean you play, I mean you your.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Applause is real, So it's intoxicating.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
You can go back and make an extraordinary living and
go back on the road, which is what you you
dig before playing, before you know, pack the rena is
in stadiums.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Yeah, zero interest, but you know it's fun to sit
in with friends, like you know, yeah Jordan Davis a
few weeks ago, Collective Soul after that, and then last
weekend I was out in Vegas with Chris Young and
you know, just come out, play a song or two,
you know, and have a good time with buddies and
then move about the cabin like it's nice because you
get to walk out and get to look at the
crowd and you get to feel that energy for a minute.

(39:27):
But you know, then the minute you finished, you're like,
all right, that was good, let's let's go. Like we
were in Vegas, and turned into you know, a bit
of a poise weekend and had a blast all weekend
hanging out. So like, it's funny that the playing in
the middle of Chris's pack show at Resorts World was
probably the It was a great highlight for me, but
it wasn't the fun the most fun thing of the
weekend even, Like it's just one of those things where

(39:49):
I love that my friends let me come in scratch
and it should be harder during football season because.

Speaker 1 (39:53):
We're all so busy. I don't think I'll get to
play much during football season.

Speaker 4 (39:56):
But yeah, I think next summer I might just spend
the whole time, you know, while I've got downtime, I
might more time trying to sit in with as many
people as possible.

Speaker 2 (40:03):
That's cool. It's funny, like how you go the zero interests.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
So this little this is almost like just a you know,
it's it's a way to keep your your your hand
in it a little bit in the summertime, and you
can do it on your terms.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah, Like I know too much about the rest of
the business, and like I remember the things I didn't
like about it, so it's easy for me to look
around and be like Yep, this is really fun, but
I know all of the things that come with it
that I don't want to be part of. So I
just want to have a good time, do this for
a day, and then, you know, go back to my
normal life because I wouldn't trade what I do now
for any gig in the world.

Speaker 2 (40:40):
Yeah, it's interesting. So sports is trumped music.

Speaker 3 (40:46):
I love it all right, We're the Fellas, come back,
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Speaker 1 (40:56):
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Speaker 3 (41:00):
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Speaker 2 (41:03):
Go ball egg Happy.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
August seventeenth, Oh, can't baby where I had a buddy
of mind say to me, why do you fast forward?

Speaker 2 (41:19):
Summer?

Speaker 1 (41:19):
It kills me.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
He's like, I got two weeks left the summer, leave
it alone.

Speaker 2 (41:25):
And I'm like, press the button, press it, move forward.

Speaker 3 (41:31):
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Speaker 2 (41:59):
All right, boys, he quick?

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Can I touch on figure he told about the Dodgers
glass now knowing on.

Speaker 10 (42:06):
The I l.

Speaker 5 (42:09):
Yeah, A little inflammation in the elbow doesn't sound like
something that's too serious.

Speaker 4 (42:14):
Uh.

Speaker 5 (42:14):
They just said they wanted to sort of manage his
innings at this point in time, so they felt the
best put him on the el opens up a roster
spot so they can call somebody else up. So I
won't say it's nothing to be concerned about, because anytime
you talk about an injury and arm issue with the pitcher,
it's it's obviously a concern. But it doesn't sound like
as if he's going to be shut down for any
considerable period of time. They just wanted to give him

(42:35):
some extra time. Apparently he wanted to pitch. He was
scheduled to pitch a later today, but Dave Roberts in
the front office thought it was best if they just
gave him a little bit of a rest, but and
gave him some rest. So nothing to be ultimately concerned
about long term. They just wanted to give him some
rest at this point.

Speaker 3 (42:51):
What's their rotation look like? Was beautif coming back, right, Yeah,
coming back like.

Speaker 5 (42:55):
That's a good question.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
The lack of disgust from Figy right there, just said
everything go ahead.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
But once their rotation look like is a great question.
So Butler just came back and did not perform well.
The other night against Milwaukee, Yamamoto just wrapped up his
last bullpen session. So remember he got off to a
great start to the season, and so he's going to
go back going to rehab assignment for a couple of starts,
and they're going to determine when he should return to
the rotation. You know, Kershaw has been steadily improving. Not great,

(43:23):
but he's been better when he's been back in the
rotation over the last couple of weeks. Bobby Miller was
someone there high on. He has not performed well since
being sent back down to the Miners to work on
some things. Their rotation is kind of all over the
place at this point.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
Really.

Speaker 5 (43:35):
Their mainstays have been Glass now, who I just mentioned
is gone on the injured list the short term injuries
at least, and Flaherty, who they just traded for, who
has been his first start was great against Oakland, but
it's Oakland he's been decent since then. I don't know
if he's been lights out. He's been very good and
very solid for a rotation that's needed some stability. So
at the very least he's gone out there and given
him five six innings, which has been a struggle for

(43:56):
them for the greater part of the last couple of months.
So really, outside of glass Now and Flaerty, those are
your two givens. And then after that, it's a lot
of ifs. If Buler is back healthy and works out
his issues, if Bobby Miller works out his issues, if
Yama Moto comes back healthy. There's just there's a lot
of IFFs in question marks up and down that rotation
right now.

Speaker 3 (44:14):
Well, but if you got it, if you've got a
three in the in the playoffs, I mean that could
be nasty. I mean, you rock with glass Now, Yama Moto,
you go Flaherty or.

Speaker 5 (44:25):
Or ideally yeah, you know those will be your top
three in a perfect world.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
See how Kershaw goes, you can see how Bueller goes.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
But like you got, you got a real good chance
to have a big rotation for the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (44:39):
Yeah, there's just that there's too many yifs, though, fits.

Speaker 4 (44:42):
But what you were just saying the last three words
in the playoffs. Let's be honest, absolutely none of this
matters for the Dodgers. I don't want to I don't
want to oversimplify everything here, but like it doesn't matter.
They could have everybody just mail in the rest of
the regular season, doesn't matter. Like they're only going to
be judged by based on what happens in the playoffs.
So if they've got sick guys now and get him healthy,

(45:02):
like that's the only thing, Figgie that anybody's gonna remember
out of this run. The expectations. We almost forget how
lofty the expectations are supposed to be for this team
because it's been a relatively quiet compared to what people thought.
It's been a relatively quiet year this year, Like the
Dodgers has been very good.

Speaker 1 (45:18):
It's just we came in with the oh god, they
are gonna be the bet, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Like it's so it's overtook the Phillies for the best
record in the baseball at MLB. I mean, I don't know,
I think they're pretty Nancy. I mean, Bets has been
out forever. He just comes back and by the way. Wait,
oh my god, he's great. You know we're last night again.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
So I will say going into the year, like the win,
it was a win win.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
If the Dodgers lived up to expectations, the Dodgers were
going to be great, everybody would talk about it. If
the Dodgers didn't, fancy, go apoplectic and it'll be great
because people will be freaking out and we could talk
about it. I still stand by that. You know that, Yes,
the Dodgers have the best record in the BIGS, but
it's you know, by what a half a game, I think.

Speaker 5 (45:59):
So I think they're a little behind the Yankees. I
think the Phillies jumped over them too in the last
day or so.

Speaker 1 (46:05):
So they have one of the best records in correct.

Speaker 4 (46:07):
But the expectation coming into the year, well man, we
were talking about it like it was gonna be basically Batman,
Superman and Deadpool and Wolverine all on one team, just
killing everybody.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
You know, So like even that feels plase compared to
what we expected.

Speaker 4 (46:21):
That's all I'm saying is that nothing that happens today
will matter. They could lose the next ten games, it
won't matter if they win in the playoffs, everybody will
love this season.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
If they don't, they won't. That's the hard part about
all of this with baseball.

Speaker 4 (46:32):
It is like, at the end of the day, how
can I get meaning to what happens or the news
right now when we all know that the only thing
they'll be judged one.

Speaker 1 (46:39):
Is what happens in October.

Speaker 5 (46:40):
Well, I do think there's something to be said for
building habits as you get towards the postseason, and things
that you can rely on, and you know, building building
towards things that are reliable once the playoffs start, which
is a good bullpen, starting pitching, and the offense can
come and go. Dodger fans will tell you, you know how
great they've had. Great offense is the last couple of
the regular seasons. In the playoffs they've gone completely dark.

(47:01):
The issue has been health. If you don't have top health,
you know, when it comes from a pitching standpoint, going
into the postseason, that is going to be a major concern.
You don't see people, you know, piecemeal together rotations going
into the playoffs. At the very least you have the
confidence to lean on the fact that you have two
or three great arms going into the playoffs to keep
you in games, and right now I don't think they
can confidently say that. So look, it's not lost on

(47:24):
Dodger fans from a local standpoint. I won't say they're panicking,
but they certainly all concerned, mainly because they're no longer
running away with the division. Whether or not they won
one hundred plus games that they had the last couple
of years and you know, ran away with the best
record in the National League and then got swept in
the playoffs is different. I mean, now you're talking about
the potential of falling from being a division winner and
having a buy in the first round, of falling into

(47:45):
the wildcard, which is something that nobody thought would be
the case. Now granted, fits once the playoffs begins, it
doesn't really matter how you get there. No one's going
to care whether you are a wildcard or whether you
have the best record in the history of the sport.
If you win the World Series, you win the World Series.
It's concerning at this point because the things that you
need to be successful in the postseason, they don't necessarily
have those things clicking on all cylinders right now, and

(48:06):
that's a struggling starting to rotation and a struggling bullpen.
All that being said, to your point, I'm looking at
the standings right now. They have the fourth best record
in baseball in the one game behind the Yankees for
the best record overall, So it could be worse.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Yeah, I mean, you know, it's funny. I'm listening to
the Fitzie and we talk about devaluing the.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
NBA regular season.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I mean, adding the tiers in baseball is It's just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
It just makes it possible, like one sixty two.

Speaker 3 (48:40):
It's supposed to determine a lot more than having. Oh well,
I don't have to play a wildcard round. And by
the way it used to, that's probably not good because
when you lay off, when you have a layoff in baseball,
huge job, it's hard to get back to it.

Speaker 2 (49:00):
The wild cart layoff is bad, I believe it.

Speaker 5 (49:03):
Yeah, I think it certainly has a negatively effected the
Dodgers the last couple of seasons. Some teams are able
to weather through it and it doesn't cause much of
an issue, but losing a rhythm, especially in a game
that you play literally every single solitary day of the
week and not playing for five or six straight days.
I don't know how that can not affect you, especially
knowing that you're playing against a team that had to play,
that was playing do or die, you know, three four

(49:26):
days leading up to the start of the series.

Speaker 3 (49:28):
I know it's such a big event that they should
be baseball man, I just don't even understand that.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Sometimes I have to be honest with you. I like
it is all it is.

Speaker 4 (49:42):
But also, like you made the NBA comparison, the only
thing I'd say is right now, I would give Dodgers
the same Dodgers fans the same exact message that I
gave Celtics fans at the beginning of the NBA playoff rount,
which was like, stop worrying about what's happened in the past,
and just let this year be this year, Like the
Dodgers are one of the best teams in baseball.

Speaker 1 (49:59):
Like this is me oversimplified, but we do this all
the time.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
We take this this narrative from past years and we
apply it to this year's team. And I just don't
think that that's a successful in modern sports. I don't
think that that's a successful strategy anymore.

Speaker 3 (50:12):
I think I don't think it's like that in any
any error. I agree with you. I last year does
not have anything to.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Do with this year.

Speaker 3 (50:19):
It's completely different. Makeup. I'm with you now. Fans are
holding on the last year like Dodger fans, and you
correct me if I'm wrong, Figgy, but you that's your
emotional baggage that you bring into every season.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
It's hard to put the backpack down.

Speaker 5 (50:39):
I don't know if it's different than any other fan base.
To be honest, if you're a franchise that's been knocking
on the door for years and you don't win, ultimately,
they're going to say like, well, this good is not
good enough winning division titles. This about the Braves back
in the day when they won their what was it
thirteen fourteen straight division titles and only won one championship
and out out of fifteen people got you know, it

(51:00):
was just apathy set in, especially the lad the latter half,
you know, the last six or seven people stop coming
to regular season games. At a certain point, they're like, yeah,
call me on the playoffs start and see if they
don't find a way to screw it up when it
matters most it's it's not and they say they want
to start calling for heads. They want to call for
the heads of the president of the team or the
manager because they feel like you knock on the door
every single year and for some reason you don't win,

(51:21):
and somebody has to pay for it, as opposed to
just chalking it up to like you guys's point, every year,
you chalk it up to randomness. A team gets hot,
a key player gets injured, God God comes out of
nowhere and starts playing well. There's certain and unfortunately for
some franchises it happened. They happen to be the victim
every single time. You know, for whatever reason.

Speaker 4 (51:41):
Isn't that exactly where Bill's fans are right now? And
the funny thing about that is Steelers fans weren't were
there a few years ago?

Speaker 1 (51:47):
There were Steeler fans out.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
There calling for Tomlin's job because he couldn't win enough
Super Bowls with Big Ben. And it's like, this is
what happens, but it look is speaking from the opposite landscape.

Speaker 1 (51:58):
But like when your team stakes.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
One of the hardest things about being a Raiders fan
is that I have, at this point in my forty
seven years of life, right I have most of that.

Speaker 1 (52:07):
Watching bad football teams. So for me, it's here we
go again.

Speaker 4 (52:11):
But for the entire regime that comes in, they can't
worry about that, like for Antonio Pears and Tom Tolesco
coming in running the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Right now, this is year one of.

Speaker 4 (52:20):
This regime, so whatever happened last year is meaningless to them.
And the hardest part about fans relating with our teams
is that we carry this baggage and this angst and
all of this forward with us, where our organization simply can't.
The organization has to reset and say, Okay, new regime,
new year. What happened in the past doesn't matter. And
that's just a hard thing to remind fans, but it's

(52:41):
true and that what happened in the past doesn't go I.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
Want him out.

Speaker 5 (52:45):
Something's got to change, you know.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
That goes back, dude, Guys, I saw it with Andy Reid.
Randy Reed was the best coach in the Eagles history,
no one close to them, and Buddy, they were like,
get out, And I'm thinking, why do you want to
end to go? What of all people? Oh my god, it's.

Speaker 5 (53:10):
Like change for the sake of change. It usually is
not a good thing and usually doesn't end up yelding
the results that you wanted. You know, it's like the
old saying of dancing with the devil that you do
as opposed to the devil that you don't. He's like, well,
the devil that you do, you know, is winning, you know,
you know, seventy percent of his games, that makes the
playoffs every year. All you can do in any sport
is give yourself an opportunity to compete for a championship

(53:31):
on a year and year out basis, and then you
just kind of chalk it up to whatever health, whoever
gets hot, you know, any of those different factors. But
a lot of too often, you know, the front offices
and coaches get blamed for like they were good enough
to get a team to a certain point during the
regular season. Is it really their fault that it all
fell apart in the playoffs? So does it fall in

(53:52):
the players?

Speaker 3 (53:54):
It's it falls to circumstance, right because you know, I mean,
did Sean McDermott forget how to coach?

Speaker 2 (54:01):
In thirteen seconds? Right? Right?

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Like you know, I mean, like somebody's going to come
out and win a game, you know, against the Bengals
because their line got pushed around a little bit like
that's just not how it's just the matchup and the
circumstance of it all.

Speaker 4 (54:22):
I love the way you said the circumstance, because that's
the hard part that you know. And again, we just
have this valuable lesson from the Celtics because it's easy
to sit there and say, well, every year and it's like,
well that doesn't how does that play into this year?
And who they're playing every year is different. So if
you want to look properly at the Bills, for example,
you have to take into account the fact that each
year with the Bills has had a different weird ending.

(54:44):
So you know who is to blame for that? Well,
I don't think that there's any one person that would
suddenly change the fate of the Buffalo Bills. It's like
it's a little bit of bad luck combined with taking
on arguably the best player of all time at his position,
and you know might turn out to be your take
it on the best tandem of coaching quarterback by the
time it's all said and done, possibly ever, and you

(55:05):
just it just didn't break your way. Like better to
be lucky than good is a real thing. And I
know some people always tell me that that's a loser's mentality,
and it's like, no, there's a difference between I accept
losing versus I understand context. And context is important when
we have any conversation about why a team isn't winning
more games.

Speaker 5 (55:25):
Spotty one nuance gets lost in sports, especially in today's era,
where everybody has an opinion. Everybody has you know, the
hot their hot take. You know this team sucks or
this team is great, and there's no one between, and
there's no I can't give you, you know, deep context
as to why, because nobody wants to hear that. They
just want to hear me yell and rant and rave
that this team is terrible and they should fire everybody exactly.

Speaker 3 (55:48):
Like, there's a big difference like when you have competency,
and it's funny you look at the running NFL and
you look at the success of players, how much is
it due to the fact that you have competent head coaches?

Speaker 2 (56:04):
Right?

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Like, really, not all of them are competent, right, Not
all of them are Shanahan or McVeigh. There's a lot
of competent guys like that come through coordinators, head coaches
that the negatively impact a franchise or a player that
will bury you.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (56:26):
Yeah, And I'd argue that we have forgotten that. We
accept the fact that it's difficult to find a quarterback,
to find a great quarterback, and I think we've accepted
that as a society, we have forgotten that it's equally
difficult to find a great head coach. To find a
Tomlin is such a rare thing, and then the lack

(56:48):
of appreciation that comes with that coach is absolutely wild.
And sometimes like look at Dable, somebody we thought after
one year, like, oh, yeah, he's the guy, and now
we sit here and say, I don't know, it could
be the hot seat.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Like we just forget how hard it is is.

Speaker 4 (57:00):
To find an Andy Reid, and then when you have
an Andy Reid, suddenly you find a reason to not
appreciate him and you think, well, we'll find some other
guy to come in. For every Andy Reid, there's a
hundred guys that aren't Andy Reid that fail miserably and
as a result, they set your entire organization.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Yeah, picking a head coach is so huge.

Speaker 3 (57:17):
I was having this conversation with Baldy the other day,
which is we're talking about Davil, Is it Dable's fault,
or is the fact that the GM hasn't been able
to build whoever's been the GM an offensive line in
New York? And then you're rolling back with Danny Dimes, like,

(57:38):
are you kidding me? How's that Dable's fault that he
can't win with that roster?

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (57:45):
And that raises the whole like who do we blame?
Because at the end of the day, what everybody really
wants they want somebody to blame, right, And so the
problem is you just got to figure out You got
to look at all of this. And a buddy of
mine years ago said, as yourself this question, and I
think this is really true. He said, ask yourself this question,
look at your favorite team's roster, and then ask yourself,

(58:06):
point blank, how many of the players right now starting
on my favorite team would start on a super Bowl
caliber team. And that's the best way to look around
and be like, Okay, yes we should be in contention,
or no, we shouldn't. And I think if you actually
inject truth serum and you make fans of certain teams
do that walk around like Titans fans blow me up

(58:26):
all the time because all my years in Nashville about
why they get so much disrespect. Okay, well, I'll ask
your Titans fans, how many players right now on that
team starting on their twenty two would start on a
Super Bowl caliber football team. And when you take it
with that sort of critical lens, you figure out quickly
that maybe it's not all your coach, Maybe it's partially
your GM, and maybe it's the tandem of all of
them not being able to communicate to each other that's

(58:49):
causing your organization to fail.

Speaker 5 (58:51):
It's rarely ever one thing that's the issue. It's really
well the GM. Now, sometimes I f a GM is
so poor and puts together a terrible roster. But usually
the GM in the head coach just don't have the
sort of synergy they thought they did when they linked
up and it didn't work. Dave Ball is a great
example because Dave Ball and Josh Allen perfect marriage. If
Josh Allen had a different offensive coordinator, maybe he doesn't
develop and he stays that raw talented with all that ability,

(59:13):
but doesn't actually cultivate it and turn into a great quarterback.
Dave Ball as a great coach, but works with Daniel
Jones who maybe just doesn't have whatever it is is
just missing it and doesn't have that's not a right
combination for success between the two of them. So a
lot of times it's not just one thing. That's a combination.
And when you have the combination of the great head
coach and or coordinator, the great quarterback and a good
front office, that's who you get the sustained success of

(59:36):
like a San Francisco, a Pittsburgh. You know, enfranchises like that,
which are a few and far between, because sometimes it
is just kind of a perfect storm of all the
planets aligning for one franchise. You're finding the right people
at the right time that work well together. And that's
really really difficult to do, which is why there's not
that many organizations that do it consistently.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (59:55):
No, it's the truth, which is probably why Ben Johnson
stays the true roy and has cold feet about Washington.

Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
I get it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
Yeah, yeah, because you got to know, man, Like that's
the other side of it, Like, you know, you got
to know and when you're taking that opportunity as a
coach that everybody in that organization is on the same page.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
And one thing I've said in.

Speaker 4 (01:00:16):
My life, whether we're talking about music or sports, the
one thing that I know for certain is that I
want to work for people that at their core are
a fan of what I do, because if they're not
a fan of what I do and things start to
go wrong, whether it's you know, the platform or a
single doesn't do well or you know, show's not doing well,
if they're not a fan of what I do and
who I am, they're not going to fight for me.

(01:00:37):
And you got to know that going into the building
as a coach. You got to know that the owner,
the GM, that the team president, everybody involved is a
fan and has the same vision. And if there's any doubt,
you shouldn't take that job, because if anything isn't right
in that process, it is so easy for it to
go wrong, and once it goes wrong, nobody will give
you the context opportunity then to say, well, you know what,

(01:00:58):
the GM didn't really understand what I want out of
an offensive line, and that's that's such a nuanced conversation.
Nobody's gonna have first takers just gonna yell that the
coach sucked.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
That's it.

Speaker 4 (01:01:07):
And so all of a sudden, you and your family
are being dragged through the mug for something that had
nothing to do with your skill set.

Speaker 1 (01:01:12):
Like, that's the reality.

Speaker 4 (01:01:13):
I won't ever fault somebody for being patient and taking
the right opportunity.

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Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
All right, boys, we're talking about this. I pose the question.

Speaker 3 (01:03:41):
Of course, we always get sidetracked because we get into
these rabbit holes and have these winding conversations. I want
to do three up, three down, AFC NFC three teams
during the preseason that that look arrow up and three
I rode down. Let's start AFC three down the fitsie.

Speaker 4 (01:04:06):
I mean, one preseason game is hard to get three
down out of, but that being sat.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Up all the entire body of the preseason so far.

Speaker 1 (01:04:15):
The body of the preseason.

Speaker 3 (01:04:16):
Yeah, I mean like we're like, you know, we're only
got two weeks left, so we got a kind of
an idea now.

Speaker 4 (01:04:22):
That that's so wild to me that we only have.
So the Patriots are definitely one of the down. I think,
you know, even the trade over the course of the
weekend or the week I should say, sort of acknowledges
that the Patriots understand that they're not competing for anything,
and they understand that they're in complete rebuild mode. So
I think that's a bit of a down obviously. So
I'll take New England as one of my AFC downs.

(01:04:44):
Feel pretty good about that. I think we're only doing
the downs first. I mean, gosh, I'm trying to think
of bad, bad, bad preseasons. I don't know, Like New
England stands out to me is the one that's awful
of this Steelers down justin Fields didn't look great in
the first game, and I really think they need him
to take that job. So I'll take the Steelers as

(01:05:08):
a down in the preseason.

Speaker 1 (01:05:10):
Feel pretty good about that one.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
And then gosh, is there another team in the AFC,
I'm not thinking of that's had a terrible off of
the terrible preseason, I don't think so. I think those
are the only two that really come down to mind
for me figuring who am I missing.

Speaker 5 (01:05:24):
I mean, no one really, Like you said, it's hard
to glean from just you know, one game from any
of these teams to say the arrow is pointing down.
Like I said, the Patriots, I think is probably the
consensus for all three of us in the AFC because
they just look so bad. And Denver, I I mean,
I would.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
Have put Denver on the list, but Bonnicks actually looked
pretty good preseason. So I'm sitting there saying, I think
Bonis and the the Broncos are going to be you know,
I think I think the Broncos have the potential to
be one of the worst.

Speaker 1 (01:05:52):
Teams in the AFC. Again, But then Bonnicks came out
was really solid Week one. So I looked at it.
I was like, I don't know, maybe he.

Speaker 3 (01:05:58):
Was I guess, you know, I mean, it's all about
how you look at it, right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:03):
Well, I mean, if you want to say Vanilla defenses
and all that, you know, for a lot of these
guys and what they're facing, because I know that was
a big.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
I mean, I like Drake May. I thought Drake May
showed flashes a little bit like he looked he looked
the part. Yeah, looked better than you know, barey zappy.

Speaker 5 (01:06:19):
I guess for me, like it's hard for me to
really past judgment on any of these franchises based on
the preseason when a lot of starters didn't play for
many of the teams, I can just go off of
what the offseason or at least what I perceive the
all seasons to be for a lot of them. And
Patriots arrow pointing down. I would say Denver even still
probably errow pointing down for the most part, because they
still have a lot of work they need to do
to improve what they're doing. And i'd probably say Tennessee

(01:06:43):
to be honest with you, I think the arrow's down
on them as well.

Speaker 4 (01:06:47):
I would take the arrow down on the Chargers because
of the like it feels like the injury bug is back,
and that's just a constant thing. Like I think the
Chargers long term, as we say constantly, the Chargers are
going to be just fine. And I think Justin Herbert
is a superstar I think all of these things can
be true. But I also think that when you talk
about the injury bug hitting Herbert before they've even started
the season, that's just a little bit concerning to me.

(01:07:09):
So I think maybe a little bit of down on
the Chargers.

Speaker 5 (01:07:11):
Don't forget Joey Bosa, his annual injury has broke his hand,
So that's it's gotten off to a good start.

Speaker 2 (01:07:17):
I got. It's unbelievable, it's uncanny.

Speaker 5 (01:07:21):
It's just really unfortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:07:23):
It never ends fortunate. I know.

Speaker 5 (01:07:25):
I think the guy's played sixteen games or like twice
or something like that in his career, which is unfortunate
because he's a great player when he's actually on the field.
He's just never on the field.

Speaker 3 (01:07:34):
He's a great boy. It's insane and I always hate that.
I always think great, great boys get robbed. Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 4 (01:07:40):
Are we allowed to put like because it feels dirty
ding this, but are we allowed to put Kansas City
at all.

Speaker 1 (01:07:46):
On the down?

Speaker 4 (01:07:46):
It's just because the Hollywood Brown injury, I think is
pretty significant.

Speaker 1 (01:07:49):
Like we don't know how long that's going to be.
I don't know what the timetable.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
If they've they've said anything yet on that, but you know,
losing an important reason.

Speaker 3 (01:07:55):
I mean about signify I roads just an arrow. It
doesn't matter. It's something like, it's yeah, I considering.

Speaker 4 (01:08:01):
Hard now that I'm not picking the Chiefs to go
to the Super Bowl shut down.

Speaker 1 (01:08:05):
You know, like two things at once right there.

Speaker 5 (01:08:07):
He is expected to be an important player for them
and a position of need for sure, So a huge
position in and something that you know and people you
know are automatically going to question, well, see, Andy, this
is why you don't player starters in the preseason. So
which doesn't bother me. It's a it's a philosophical choice.
I don't care one way or the other if a
team decides to play their starters or not. Some guys

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rather like, you know, get out there and get hit
a couple of times and get a nice leather in
the preseason. Some would never rather not play. And I
don't know if there's it's an inexact science. I don't
know if there's a good or bad either way. I
feel like it's worked for some teams. The Rams at
Sean McVay have never played their starters. They've been to
a couple of Super Bowls and won one. You know
there's some where's where's.

Speaker 1 (01:08:47):
The line on that combo too?

Speaker 4 (01:08:48):
Because we've seen substantial players this year get injured in practice.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Sure, what are we supposed to do now? Be like, see,
this is why you don't practice your players. It's time
you play football. Your rear risk.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Happens every year. Bridgewater's career got destroyed in practice with
the tory ac lmniscus or whatever it was. Like, this
stuff happens all the time. Devastating injuries happen in practice constantly.
But because it's on TV for everybody to see, it's
in a game action. That's where the criticism comes in.
If you're out there playing football, it's a violent game
with a lot of explosive running and cutting. Unfortunately, you're

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gonna put yourself at risk for devastating injuries. And sometimes
they happen in practice, and sometimes it happen in games,
and sometimes you can't avoid them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Avoid it one way or the other.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Yeah, yeah, Hey, Joey Posa, you ready Yeah? Twenty sixteen, eleven,
twenty seventeen, sixteen, twenty eighteen, six Use your game started
twenty nineteen, sixteen, twenty twenty ten, twenty twenty one, sixteen,
twenty twenty two, four, twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:09:53):
Five.

Speaker 5 (01:09:55):
Wow, And there's a lot of single digits in there.
You had a couple sixteens, but I mean that four
five sixty sixteens. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah, and sixteens and three single digits.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
That's the big thing. We can You can put whoever
you want in.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
We just talked earlier about coaching and GM combo and
how important that is. There is, as we all know,
the most important thing in an NFL season is can
you stay healthy? And the answer to that for the
Chargers as an organization has been flat out no for
so stinking long.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
It's hard to even make sense of it.

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
Truly, it is hard to make sense of the level
of how is this happening that they have dealt with
year in and year out that I just I can't,
I can't comprehend it at all.

Speaker 5 (01:10:39):
And who do you blame for that? Is that the
training staff's fault that guys have all these injuries? Of course,
now that's a rhetorical question, it's not. But I mean,
I've heard, you know, fans certainly say that whenever they
are teams that are here with rational injuries. So clearly
the way their training staff is working them out is
it's like, I don't think that's how that works. No,
that's not how that works.

Speaker 2 (01:10:58):
It's called bad luck.

Speaker 5 (01:11:00):
Yes, it's just bad luck.

Speaker 9 (01:11:01):
Bad you know, you can't explain it's this seems to
be like the theme today, and like, look y'all, we
don't sit down and come up with the theme.

Speaker 4 (01:11:13):
But the more that we're talking, the more it just
becomes so clear to me that the hardest part for
us to accept as fans is that winning in sports
is as much about being good as it is about
just flat out being lucky, you know. And that's just
hard for everybody in the process to stomach, because if
we're being real, you don't want to sit there and

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think that winning in the NFL is like playing roulette.

Speaker 1 (01:11:35):
But it kind of is.

Speaker 4 (01:11:37):
And sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, and sometimes
it's all about just whether or not you were lucky
or unlucky, and that stinks, but that's real.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
So people don't like to grasp all into that because
it's not it's too random for them. It's like, well,
there has to be like this team built this way,
this philosophy works, and they win and this is how
this is the blueprint to win a championship when they're
really he is no full on blueprint to be able
to do it. Like you said, it's all about luck.
It's all about being able to stay healthy. But fans,

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you can't predict that sort of thing, so they want
to fall onto something that because that's become more easily predictable,
more easily knowable. Well, I know, if this team builds
a strong offensive and defensive line and whatever, whatever you
try to convince yourself is the way to do it.
And see, and this is why this team always wins.
It was like, well, I'm sure that has the philosophy
has a lot to do with why they're always in it,

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but ultimately, when it comes down to whether they win
or not, most of it has a lot of it
has to do with not what they have on the
field from a schematic standpoint, and more just some of
the existential things that you just can't control, whether or
not a guy's feeling well on that particular day, whether
or not one of your key players is hurt, whether
you're on your third or four stream quarterback, like the
forty nine ers were a couple of years ago in

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Philadelphia who didn't have a lot of experience. There's just
so many things that to factor in that fans just
and I keep it like we're still attacking the fans.
Media people do it a lot too. Yeah, we do
it more than anybody, to be honest with you, because
we have to stuff to talk about, and so it's
just it's unfair to everybody in the process.

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
I mean you said it earlier, like the first take thing.

Speaker 5 (01:13:07):
I mean, yeah, that's what it is, a thousand percent
and then a lot of fans will consume that and
then take that narrative and game keep writing.

Speaker 3 (01:13:14):
It all right, let's go arrow op afc arrow op FITSI.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
Uh so, I'm gonna actually disagree with something Figgy say
because I'll put the arrow up on the Titans. Will
Levis came in and played pretty well in his limited time,
and I think right now that's the biggest incomplete we
don't know for the Titans is Will Levis the actual
quarterback of the future, so look good in his first
preseason games. I'll give an arrow up to the Titans.
I give an arrow up to the Bengals just because

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you know, watching Joe Burrow Cook made me feel good.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Ye, Like, there's just.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
A level of that that was like whoa, And you
know what, while we're at it, I mean, I was
sitting out for nothing. I'm sitting at the Resorts World
in Vegas getting ready to play. I got my feet
up there watching my beloved Raiders. Aidan O'Connell came in,
Look pretty good, Gardner Minshew came in, look pretty good.
I know those defenses weren't anything, but come on, the
Raiders starters look.

Speaker 1 (01:14:08):
Better than I expected. Arrow up on my beloved Raiders.
Wow for two more weeks?

Speaker 2 (01:14:13):
Wow? All right?

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Yeah, I think I'm gonna second this summer. Yeah, exactly,
Well I'm going to second two of those now. Granted
to your point, Gardner Minshew and Aidan O'Connell, who, by
the way, were just looking terrible in practice all the
way up until the preseason game when they play against
the Vikings, who were, as you mentioned, are playing the
most vanilla of defenses. So how much you and glean
for that, I'm not one hundred percent sure, but kudos
to them. They made the plays, so I'll give the

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arrow up to them. Also, it's encouraging to see a
great player like Joe Burrow come out and perform the
way that he performed, you know, someone I think for
someone coming off of an injury like that, playing in
the preseason, I believe is actually important to get out there,
to work up a little bit of a sweat and
maybe even get hit a couple of times, you know,
just to get yourself your body back right and comfortable
in a real time playing environment. And he was able

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to do that and looked really good in the process.
A third team in the NFC. I don't know if
anybody else really jumped out to me, to be honest
with you, I thought Treyl Lawrence looked a little bit,
looks solid for that means, and I think this is
a big year for him and Doug Peterson and Jack Hues.

Speaker 3 (01:15:13):
If you're huge, listen, Doug's a hot seat guy. Yeah,
I mean they have to, uh jets.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
I hear a lot of.

Speaker 5 (01:15:25):
New York, don't you well, I will say, don't you
always this time of year?

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
I mean you know, I mean, listen, the guy, he's
healthy now, the guy looks good.

Speaker 4 (01:15:37):
I mean, like I just I will die on this
hill all by myself. I'll climb all the way up
to the top of Mount Mount Everest, and I will
plant two flags. One will have Kirk Cousin's face on it,
one will have Aaron Rodgers face on it, and the
flags will be the same. To me, if quarterback is
older than Moses, I don't want him out there playing
quarterback with the bat achilles. I just three seven and

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forty two year old. Quarterback with a bad achilles is
not what I'm going to bank my entire season on.
So I am comfortable banking against the Jets and against
the Falcons with their quarterback situation for now, because I
will tell yeah, I will take the approach that I
do not trust there.

Speaker 2 (01:16:15):
They are repaired achilles. Yeah, sure, sure, sure, all right,
well let me take it to you. Let's take a
time out.

Speaker 3 (01:16:22):
We'll come back with FITZI on Mount Everest, where the
fellas hanging out.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
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Speaker 6 (01:16:34):
listen live.

Speaker 3 (01:16:51):
Fellas Brianna and Mighty Mark, the fabulous production team. Fitzy figure,
I'm because as we hang out from the Tyraq dot
Com studios. All right, let me throw a couple of
teams at you. You guys, poo poo the Jets. No

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believers in the Jets fits. He's in the Himalayas. He's
still the top looking down. No Rogers, no, no, tired
of it. You don't even want to entertain the fact
that the Jets might be the best team in the
AFC East.

Speaker 2 (01:17:33):
No.

Speaker 4 (01:17:34):
Look, I think even if Aaron Rodgers plays lights out
there probably like the death of the Bills that gets
reported every year, I'm waiting for it to actually happen
before I actually start joining that bandwagon every year. This
time the Bills taking a step back, and it's like, okay.

Speaker 3 (01:17:50):
Especially out they got a running game. Man that cook
is is a beast in Miami.

Speaker 5 (01:17:55):
Is not great, but they're certainly not going anywhere so
EI they're just some walk over either.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
I know with those receivers, well, Jets, the Jets are
going to be pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:18:06):
I just don't think they're gonna be great. And if
Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 3 (01:18:09):
It's funny, Baldy was all a battlem Baldy guns, Dude,
they overtake.

Speaker 2 (01:18:14):
He's got him coming out of the eat within the
AC East.

Speaker 5 (01:18:17):
And that's what can we not before we get off
the jets and just talk about this year and neeptitude
when it comes to the son Reddick situation and how
you allow that to happen. How you can trade for
someone knowing he wants a new contract and just put
it on the back burner and not address it and
just assume everything's going to be fine, and now all
of a sudden you find yourself in this giant mess.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
Yes, like they need to change the policy and allow
well or maybe they maybe they can. I guess, I
guess they could have waited to announce the trade until
they actually had the deal in places I think about it,
That's what the Raiders did with Davante.

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
Right, like, oh yeah, you can do that, absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:18:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
They the fact that they didn't have the deal signed.
I think this is going to give every team that
ever trades for somebody in the contracts dispute a little
bit of hesitation, like we gotta get it signed first
before we do an it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
Yeah, you can't want to know going into it.

Speaker 5 (01:19:03):
Before you even doing you knew that the part of
the reason he was wanted out of Philadelphia, or that
Philadelphia wasn't going to work because they knew they weren't
gonna pay him. So if that's gonna be an issue
in Philly, why would it not be an issue with
the Jets? And why don't you hammer that out before
you trade for him?

Speaker 4 (01:19:15):
Well, the Jets had made it sound like they felt
like they had an understanding in place. I mean they've
they've sort of made it sound like, hey, we thought
that we were on the same page when we traded
for him.

Speaker 1 (01:19:25):
And how do you think that You got to know?

Speaker 5 (01:19:27):
Right, that's the thing that sounds that's c ya at
the last minute, after it's all you know, everything's already
hit the fan, is what it sounds like to me.

Speaker 2 (01:19:36):
Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't know how true
that is.

Speaker 5 (01:19:40):
Yeah, I don't. I don't think it is, to be
honest with you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
I mean I've been followed that pretty closely.

Speaker 5 (01:19:45):
Sure, Yeah, his.

Speaker 3 (01:19:46):
Son son is never punching man, like give him the contract,
like uh. And I know his son, Reddick and son's
a temple guy and I know him well and he
wants to play, but he's not a play unless he
gets his deal that he wants. So if he was
close to a deal, I got to believe that knowing

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of them that he would be he would have been
chopping at the bit to go.

Speaker 5 (01:20:12):
Yeah, just next level in aptitude is just it really is,
is what it looks like to me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:18):
Well, I know, no, I know, I feel you guys,
Uh Texans arrow up.

Speaker 5 (01:20:24):
Yeah, I'll go ahead, yeah, but for sure, yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
You know, I think the era was already really high
on them, but yeah, I'll take arrow.

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
Up on Texans even more so.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
I mean I just think they look well, look at
all they've added in the off season, on top of
the fact that the great year they had last year.
They're the team that you look at and you say, well,
obviously they're gonna, you know, take a jump forward. There's
no reason for me to think that they won't. But
you just see all the time and situations like this,
the team comes out of nowhere, plays well, even make
some improvements in the off season, and for whatever reason,

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it's a bit of a struggle, maybe because you're not
sneaking up on people anymore. I don't know. I'm not
saying Houston won't be good and they won't you know,
content for the division again and won't make a playoffs.
I just for people thinking they're going to make this
ginormous leap and win fourteen games. I just don't know
if it's going to be that big of a leap.

Speaker 1 (01:21:06):
For it is all a year ago right now.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
If we had told Texans fans that this year they
would win nine games, they would have freaked out been like,
oh my god.

Speaker 1 (01:21:14):
I can't believe that.

Speaker 4 (01:21:14):
Right If you tell Texans fans today, yeah, it might
be a nine win team, they would lose their minds.
Like the expectation on the Texans is double digit wins
and you know, in the same class as the Chiefs
and the Bengals and the Bills and the Ravens, And
I like, it'll be interesting because they they certainly could be.
But also figure, you're right, like it's one year, so
a little more proof of concept is not the worst

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thing to ask for.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
No, no colts, I've spelling.

Speaker 5 (01:21:46):
Quite true. I got this guy wait and see situation
for me to hear some good things about the cults.

Speaker 10 (01:21:51):
Now.

Speaker 5 (01:21:51):
I don't dis like them, but yeah, I don't know
if I can quite say arrow up right now.

Speaker 3 (01:21:55):
Yeah, but you know, you know it's funny sometimes you
know there's guys because you guys just also do a
lot of reporting and everything you hear things, you go
all right, oh yeah, from people you trust, I get
it all right. Where the Fellaws will come back? Another
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Speaker 1 (01:22:12):
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All right, Fellas, as we go in, uh coming up,
We're gonna do a little bit of a play the
schedule game, and I'm gonna pick.

Speaker 5 (01:23:08):
Random teams and uh, you're gonna look.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
You're gonna give me their outlook.

Speaker 3 (01:23:13):
We'll take a gander at their schedule and then we're
gonna go outlook. Uh, but before we get that I
just want to put a bed and put a boat.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
On the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
And it was funny we play snippets and I love
with Dan Patrick said.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
I had the same kind.

Speaker 3 (01:23:29):
Of vibe watching the gold medal last weekend and watching Lebron, Steph.

Speaker 2 (01:23:37):
And k D on the floor at the same time.

Speaker 3 (01:23:41):
I was just you know, enjoying, savoring that moment of
those great players together and watching Steph, who's just incredible, just.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Just an amazing uh, just an amazing talent.

Speaker 3 (01:23:57):
I mean when you watch him get hot, he start cooking,
and then you realize, oh my god, it's Lebron and
k DEAL on the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:24:04):
I mean, it was it was a pretty cool moment.

Speaker 4 (01:24:07):
Yeah, So it wasn't lost to me the amount of
times it felt like that team was struggling to pull
away and then at the end they just reminded you
how great they can be, you know, And that's you
just have.

Speaker 1 (01:24:15):
To appreciate a special era of basketball.

Speaker 4 (01:24:18):
Like you know, it's so so funny to me that
we get so busy every single time comparing this team
to the Dream Team and all of these things, and
that to me is just it's it's pointless, like what
we should be doing is just appreciating the fact that
this is generational talent.

Speaker 1 (01:24:33):
Like we're gonna sit there right now.

Speaker 4 (01:24:35):
We sit there and say, well, which team was better,
But you know you're gonna sit there with your grand
kids someday and say, yeah, but I watched those guys
play together on the Olympic teams and it was incredible.
You know, we sit here and talk all the time
about what, you know, the All Star Game weekend needs
to look like and why it's a failed product, and
then you watch the Olympics and you realize that when
you see the best of the best playing like they
give a damn man, it just hits different, you know,

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and that level of energy is just so different. Kudos
to the rest of the world for catching up, but
kudos to those guys for.

Speaker 1 (01:25:03):
Coming out and playing the way they did.

Speaker 3 (01:25:06):
Yeah, man, fake, I look at it and go and
I love what with Fitz He just said, I love it.
I mean to me to drink Team Dispecial. It's onto
its own. There's nothing like it. There's never going to
be anything like it. They were the greatest collection at
that moment, and you had the greatest player ever in Jordan.

Speaker 2 (01:25:25):
So we'll just leave that.

Speaker 5 (01:25:26):
B Yeah, and I'll also say they didn't I mean,
no disrespect to them, the level of talent they played
against something in the world to say not the world's
not no where to compare it to words been the.

Speaker 3 (01:25:36):
Last not like you watch you watch Look, you watched
Serbia play.

Speaker 2 (01:25:42):
Yeah, I mean, I mean they're good.

Speaker 5 (01:25:45):
Oh they were working over the US. Serious, Steph Curry
kept him in it by himself, and then of course
they had the surge in the fourth quarter. But I
mean it was unreal. I mean it was surgical the
way they were they were carving up and these are
some of the best athletes in the world. There again
a w excuse me an NBA Allstar our team. It
was insane.

Speaker 3 (01:26:01):
They don't forget Joel either, because Joel helped neutralize.

Speaker 5 (01:26:04):
Oh yeah, he was huge, he was huge.

Speaker 2 (01:26:08):
Uh but no, but you're you're spot on, man.

Speaker 3 (01:26:11):
The Euro game is great, Like it's just a great game,
and they.

Speaker 2 (01:26:17):
Have caught up, and you know, it's just it's what
it is. It's it's great.

Speaker 3 (01:26:21):
We gave basketball, it's our gift to the world, and
the world's embraced it. So you know, that's that's what
it was. I just enjoyed that moment and it's such
a big way.

Speaker 5 (01:26:32):
And I enjoyed the fact that look for disclosure, and
I don't think it's a shock to anyone. I want
the United States to win, obviously, but I enjoyed that
the games were competitive, you know, the fact that they
weren't running teams off of the floor by forty points,
you know. And I do think that's a big reason
why there was a giant surge in the ratings. You know,
the Serbia game was was solid, and then the gold
medal game was through the roof. And I think that's
because they saw the United States struggle against Serbia, so

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people were intrigued to see, oh, maybe maybe we'll have
something here ba. Yeah, maybe they won't lose by you know,
they won't win by thirty five, you know. I just
it was It's entertaining to watch, even with Steph Curry
going off from the fourth quarter. I mean that game
was in doubt up until the final fifteen to twenty seconds,
you know, against France, which is which is healthy for
the sport, you know, it's healthy for the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
Overall.

Speaker 5 (01:27:16):
I enjoyed every second of it, and I think the
more and more the world can be more competitive. I
think the greater it is because I think it challenges
the United States to be better too. Well, we've gone
over the days where we can just throw a collect
hodgepodge of talent together and talent our ways to win,
because even when we do have guys who come together
a couple of months in advance and work out, you're
still on the verge of potentially losing to a team

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like Serbia. You're still you know, nip and tuck against
a team like France in the gold medal game. And
I think that's good. I think that's a good thing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:44):
Yeah, yeah, spot on. Hey, a couple of the things
that have come up.

Speaker 3 (01:27:47):
Then I want to get your your guys opinion on
before we go back to the arrows and then do
the Insta schedule. The average judge kately Klaw, who's bigger?
It's funny, my man, Eddie Webster says to me, you
got to test that guy.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Is he human or is he machine? And he's just ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (01:28:11):
Is Caitlyn Clark right now bigger than iron Judge?

Speaker 1 (01:28:16):
The answer to that is quickly yes, it's not even close.

Speaker 2 (01:28:20):
Such a baseball hater.

Speaker 3 (01:28:21):
No, no, no, here's what I just one of the buses.

Speaker 4 (01:28:28):
Stones Now this is this is the easiest answer to
this to me is who's more likely to be asked
to host Saturday Night Live this fall? Aaron Judge or
Kitlyn Clark. I think we all know the answer to that,
which is why.

Speaker 3 (01:28:40):
It's you're not wrong. I hate you, know, you know,
I gotta tell you. It kills me, it wounds me.
But you're not wrong. I don't want to say right,
but you're not wrong.

Speaker 5 (01:28:53):
Think of where we are now that the best player
on the most iconic franchise is right now, who's a month.

Speaker 3 (01:29:00):
Is like like like our listener Eddie Webster says he is,
She like he is six eight like to seventy muscle.

Speaker 5 (01:29:10):
He's gonna hit over fifty home runs again this year.

Speaker 3 (01:29:12):
No, I mean, Kiddedy's a cartoon character, really is, You've
never had anything like it? And he plays for the Yankees.
He plays for the freaking Yankees, and he's not bigger.
To Kateley Clark, he's not.

Speaker 5 (01:29:27):
No, I hear it. I don't think it's even close,
and says she has just off the radar that baseball
is from a national scale. It really is.

Speaker 3 (01:29:35):
But she she tapped into pop culture, right, so she
taps into the ethos. It's not to say that, you know,
the w NBA is bigger than baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:29:49):
No, but she's bigger than She's bigger than the WNBA,
which is again why she should have made the Olympic team.
But that's a different debate for a different day, you know.
Like the point, I mean, the point being, she is
as an individual phenomenon and pump and pumps up anything
and everything that she touches. Right, the fact that she
went to the Yankee game. I look, there were gonna
be eyeballs on the yank the Yankees are the Yankees,

(01:30:09):
but I mean there's extra eyeballs because Kaitlyn Clark was
there and was interviewed during the game and in the
booth and like that turned into a phenomenon in and
of itself, despite the fact that the Yankees themselves have
one of the best players in the league and have
the best record I think in the league right now,
and yet they're not top They don't get top Billy.
It's not the fact that it's the Yankees, it's Kaylyn
Clark is going to see the Yankees.

Speaker 3 (01:30:29):
That was the headline. I know, it's like Taylor Swift
going to see the Yankees, right.

Speaker 5 (01:30:34):
No doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:30:36):
And by the way, you know, we can we can
have a debate all day long about whether or not
Taylor Swift is the best singer or the best entertainer
or the and it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 (01:30:45):
She's the best.

Speaker 4 (01:30:46):
Celebrity, Like there's no doubt about it, and like there's
just both.

Speaker 2 (01:30:49):
The most popular in pop culture. She is the queen.

Speaker 5 (01:30:54):
I mean, no debates can debate.

Speaker 4 (01:30:56):
Yeah, and at this point I would say that Caitlyn
Clark is the queen of sports. Like I'm not sure
there are many people in all of she bigger than
my Homes. She's I would say, she's right now.

Speaker 5 (01:31:08):
Right now, yeah, right at this very second. Because also
considered the fact that you know, Mahomes has.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Had time too as big as Whomes.

Speaker 5 (01:31:16):
Malmes has also been because the nature of football has
been to a certain degree off the radar for the
last four months. I mean, Kaylyn right around the time
Kaylyn Clark's a sent and began to the point where
it is now. I mean she was big last year obviously,
but I mean right after football season ended, is right
when March started rolling around and we're talking to start
talking March madness with college basketball, and that's when her
profile from a national standpoint really picked up even more,

(01:31:39):
or I should say really as she was closing in
on Pistol Pete's all time scoring record, which rolled into March,
So her star was ascending right as Patrick Mahomes was
riding off until the sunset with a Super Bowl trophy
and kind of disappearing for a little bit.

Speaker 4 (01:31:53):
I also think there's an element of, like Mahomes being
you know, one of, if not the greatest quarterbacks of
all time, comes right on the heels of just having
seen Brady do these things. For Caitlyn Clark, this hits
different because it's the first person that has crossed over
this way, and crossover not an accidental like term here
for me, like as we've talked this morning about some

(01:32:14):
of the music background for me, like one of the
things in country music, you know, it's not uncommon for
people to turn around and say the Ban Perry, for example,
was a one hit wonder because if five I Young
crossed over and was a big hit, I was a
part of that, right, Like I lived that. But the
funny thing is the band itself had five or six
number ones in country music. Nobody paid attention to that.
It's just that the one song crossed over, and that's
what Caitlin Clark is doing. She's crossed over outside of

(01:32:37):
just her normal audience. So it hits this whole different
level in a whole different way. So I think part
of this with Mahomes is that Mahomes and Andy Reid
get the immediate Belichick Brady comparison.

Speaker 1 (01:32:48):
There is no comparison for.

Speaker 4 (01:32:49):
What's happened in pop culture around a w NBA superstar
the way that we're seeing with Kaitlin Clark.

Speaker 3 (01:32:55):
It's just it's so let's let's do that. Let's examine
this for a second, because this is interesting. So Mighty Mark,
our fine producer, says, Kitly Clark is like a summer
hit record.

Speaker 2 (01:33:10):
To your point, Fitzie.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Now there's a difference between a like a big hit.

Speaker 2 (01:33:18):
That Peter's out. Will her star always be?

Speaker 5 (01:33:26):
I think if she doesn't win, I think it's gonna fade.
I don't think it's gonna last longer than a literal summer,
you know, because especially there was a lot there was
not a lot of expectation for a team at the
very least with her coming in. I mean, as evidenced
by the fact that they have the top overall thing. Real,
I mean, she has.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
To be respect I couldn't tell you the champions.

Speaker 5 (01:33:49):
And no, but I mean the fever can't win seven
games a year even if she's playing solidly. She she
will do nine last night, like yeah, the lead.

Speaker 4 (01:34:01):
Right now on ESPN dot com, as I just pulled
it up, the top story Caitlin Clark shines in first
game post Olympic break and the top scory is you know,
clark Store's twenty nine fever inch closer to playoff spot.

Speaker 5 (01:34:13):
That's what you mean right there?

Speaker 4 (01:34:15):
Yeah all, and we've we've now embraced this whole like, well,
the fever is so bad and look at this, she's
doing this all by herself, Like right, So will it
Will it sustain? I don't, I don't know. I think
eventually it has to lead to dominance and championships. But
there was a real question would it sustain from college
to the W And the answer to that has been absolutely,
My god, you know, so now will it sustain year

(01:34:36):
one to year two in the W? Is the W
season long enough and are people passionate enough about it?
The one thing I'd say is that like this year,
it even survived an Olympic break. This is we're just
back from the Olympic break and all of a sudden,
we're right back to Caitlyn fever.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
Yeah, so I'll ask you this. There's the next question
about the funny. I you know you you hit me
with the W. Right, I guess that's that's the catch
for it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:03):
Yeah, yes, definitely right.

Speaker 3 (01:35:05):
So I feel sometimes sometimes I'm so out of loop
with my own world that, you know, if I'm not
as passionate about something, I'm like, I shut it off
because I have no bandwidth.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
Right, you got no bandwidth?

Speaker 9 (01:35:21):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
How much bandwidth? The can? You can?

Speaker 5 (01:35:23):
You have?

Speaker 3 (01:35:24):
And if you you know, I got a family and
everything else and I got the other sports that I cover.
So all right, so I'll ask you this, are we
obsessed with the W in two weeks? Like when when
it's college football weekend, Labor Day weekend?

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Is the WU going to get top billing?

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
No top billing?

Speaker 3 (01:35:47):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:35:47):
Well, it still gets some billing, or more than it
probably would.

Speaker 2 (01:35:51):
Is it? A? But here you go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Like you guys remember newspapers, right, so your story all
for sure?

Speaker 2 (01:36:01):
Right your store? I used to work for them.

Speaker 3 (01:36:04):
That's where I can's would spawned my career, right so, uh,
it's something called above the fold, right so on on
an LA times that would that would fold up like
that if you were above the fold, that was a
big story. Uh, are the is the double once college
football starts? It's not above the fold? Is it below

(01:36:28):
the fold? Or is it page two?

Speaker 4 (01:36:32):
It's right on the line of the fold. It's like
right below it's below the fold. But not by much
for Caitlin, Yeah, I mean it's passively because ESPN and
a broadcast partners.

Speaker 5 (01:36:43):
Yeah, they're gonna pump up their own property too.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
In general, forget about the.

Speaker 4 (01:36:48):
No but like no, But what I'm saying is that
it's not even in general like because I get what
you're saying. But what I'm saying is that when ESPN
gets to the w n b A playoffs, they're going
to make sure that it is part of the consciousness, which,
by default, because they can control the narrative of what
we're interested in, is going to create a level of
interest that if they didn't have broadcast rights to it,
they simply wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (01:37:09):
So while that, I think it's fascinating. When did the playoffs?
When did the playoffs begin?

Speaker 5 (01:37:13):
I am not believe the regular season I'm looking ends
on October twentieth.

Speaker 1 (01:37:18):
I believe late October.

Speaker 5 (01:37:19):
I thought, yeah, okay, so I think that's because of
the Olympic break, so what extended out their season so October?

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
So were you telling me that it is going to
be interesting right, like, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:31):
Maybe I'll uh, you know, it is what it is,
and I'll have to eat crow whatever you're saying. It'll
be NFL college football, the full teeth of it, and baseball.

Speaker 5 (01:37:45):
Baseball postseason at that point.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
Yeah, oh my god. I mean you're talking to the
teeth of the.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
NLCS ALCS, the start of NBA and hockey.

Speaker 4 (01:37:56):
If Caitlin Clark is in the playoffs and the WNBA
w nb A will get more attention than the NLCS
and the A l c S nationally.

Speaker 1 (01:38:04):
Yes, I believe that.

Speaker 5 (01:38:06):
I think this and the start of the NBA and
the NHL playoffs as well regular season.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
Excuse me, yeah, I mean the start of the the
start of the the marathon of the NBA in the NHL.

Speaker 3 (01:38:18):
So you're telling me also broadcast part tell me. You
just gotta tell me, like you can tell me that
water cooler chalk will be Katelee Clark playoff run or uh,
and people.

Speaker 2 (01:38:31):
Will watch it like they will watch a full game.

Speaker 5 (01:38:36):
Well, I would say it also depends on how she's performing.
If she's playing. First of all, all of this is mood.
If the Fever donate the playoffs and it's just yeah, Well,
if they're playing and she's dropping thirty a night and
drops a you know, drops a fifty burger or something
like that, that's getting It might not get top billing,
but it's certainly going to be you know, you know,

(01:38:56):
use industry to use an industry term. No, it's telling
you in a world. If it's in a world in
college football, or she does something that significant, I guarantee
you because I'm telling you, yeah, nice.

Speaker 1 (01:39:09):
Look.

Speaker 4 (01:39:09):
If we're watching Sports Center on a Wednesday, and Sports
Center in the morning has given us all the highlights,
I believe that if Caitlin Clark drops thirty in a
playoff game for the Fever, the Sports Center will play
that before they play the AL or NLCS, either either
one respective. I agree and I don't think they're going
to put the games on I mean, I don't know
the w NBA playoff right, well.

Speaker 1 (01:39:31):
Put them on Friday Saturday. So they're not going to
put it on college football.

Speaker 2 (01:39:36):
On the nf No. I wouldn't do that either, I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:39:38):
But they are going to put it on Tuesday, Wed.

Speaker 3 (01:39:40):
I mean, I look, I'm a news person, right so
the news angle. I mean, you know, I hear you
figure won the a bloc thing, right, like.

Speaker 5 (01:39:50):
Well, especially if it's news and we're talking about transcending
sports at that point, right, So if.

Speaker 3 (01:39:53):
It's I mean in fact that she would do this
and she gets him in the playoffs, and if she's dominating,
like you know, I like I got it, like you know,
God blessed. That's a great story, sure, and it is.
It's just so interesting that you know, ESPN, I get
would would do that. But a l CS NLCS is it?

(01:40:17):
That is it that has it fallen that much naturally?
Like in like if it's in LA, it's it's the
top story over the RAM.

Speaker 5 (01:40:27):
I think in those in those particular regions where those
series are being played, then I think those are going
to give the top billing regardless of what's going on
right well.

Speaker 4 (01:40:36):
The Dodgers. The Dodgers being in the playoffs is not
going to be historic. Caitlin Clark's first foray into the
w NBA playoffs will be And that's just perspective, Yes,
from a national step in perspective, She's gonna have history
on her side and people are gonna people like watching
the first you know, it's like, like we've said before
with the NBA, look at how we paid attention to

(01:40:58):
the first season that Russ averaged toub double. It was
a story every day, and then the next year we're like,
because he did it again.

Speaker 5 (01:41:04):
It's like and all of a.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Sudden, it was like, well, I don't know who else
is overrated? Like it's crazy how that happens.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
Yeah, it's it's so fascinating.

Speaker 3 (01:41:12):
Uh does baseball And it's interesting because Renalf the bet
FITSI and look I hear you.

Speaker 2 (01:41:22):
Diminishes no way, Uh the.

Speaker 3 (01:41:26):
Standing of baseball nationally would overtake Caitlyn Clark mighty marks
on the text board telling me that Arad Judge failed
to save baseball. Thus he's relegated to just faces in
the crowd.

Speaker 5 (01:41:44):
I guess what more does you want him to do too.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
He's like.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Like, what, Like, what does he need to do? Is right?
So let's discuss that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
And then I want to get to that we can
do the NFC and then, uh, it's the schedule, so
I want to pick teams I don't want to go
over and we're looking out looks both in the NFL
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low to everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:44:11):
Hey, good morning. Hey, So we were.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Talking about the whole Caitlin Clark, you know, like the
phenomenon of it and all.

Speaker 2 (01:44:21):
And in the midst of it, I go well, are
you like, what would you watch?

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
Would you watch you know at WNBA or are you
watching you know, college football NFL? She's like, I watch
the football And it wasn't even a second Then I go, well,
how about baseball? I'm watching baseball to watch that? And
it would you say, Breek? I said, do you watch
a w B A?

Speaker 5 (01:44:43):
And you said what, No, I and I never have.

Speaker 10 (01:44:47):
I mean, you know, I mean I will say, like
Caitlin Clark coming into the league. Now, I'm definitely more
aware and I pay attention to kind of what's going
on because it's my job, but not because I think,
you know, I think the product has gotten better, but
it's not something that I'm going to go out of
my way and watch on a daily basis.

Speaker 4 (01:45:08):
Well, and by the way, I think, hey, that's a
fair response by you, and I think it's pretty wild
how often we decide as a society that because you're
a woman, that means that you must support Well.

Speaker 3 (01:45:21):
That was the conversation we were having, right because go ahead,
breaking well it was.

Speaker 10 (01:45:28):
It brought up Bill Birthing about how you know, Bilbird
was saying that you know, a lot of women always
say like, oh, well, guys don't support like women professional athletes.
And then he was like, no, no, no, you as
women don't support women professional athletes. Can you name you
know three to five WNBA players And they're like, oh no,
actually you can't, you know, And I'm super I mean,

(01:45:48):
I'm not one hundred percent guilty of that, because I
mean I do, I would pay attention to a little bit,
but I'm not following up.

Speaker 5 (01:45:54):
I'm not keeping up. I couldn't tell you.

Speaker 10 (01:45:56):
I can't separate the divisions of the teams, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:45:59):
So I'm guilty of that.

Speaker 3 (01:46:01):
It's just interesting how the world, like what it is
is the world. If you're a young female basketball player,
you need an outlet, right, Like the WNBA is the
greatest thing in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:46:18):
It's it's it's something.

Speaker 3 (01:46:21):
To you know, to dream about, right, It's your quest
and it should exist. It's as interesting about something that's new.

Speaker 2 (01:46:32):
Right. It really comes down to something that's.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
New on the scene that you go wow, like we
all know that that that's a noble lead, Like it's
noble for young women to have a goal, like young
boys have a goal for the WA for the NBA, right,
I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:46:53):
And I don't disagreet with any of that.

Speaker 4 (01:46:55):
I just think it is a little funny that we
automatically put some responsibility on women to support women's sports
when it's like, you know, like what you like? I
mean that doesn't you know nobody goes in and says, well,
women should only like women should all support female singers
because they're women. Like, that doesn't work that way, Like
what if you just happen to prefer male singers, Like
are you only supposed to you're supposed to go see

(01:47:17):
every big movie that has a female lead in it
because you want to women supporting women.

Speaker 1 (01:47:21):
I just think there is a level.

Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
Well, but if you're a woman in sports, I disagree
mildly because if you're a woman in sports, isn't it
your duty to support WIBA?

Speaker 5 (01:47:34):
I wouldn't think so. No, no support something that sports. Well,
here's why, Because if you're a woman in sports and
you're striving and.

Speaker 3 (01:47:46):
Hoping that we know that the w NBA existence is
important to young women. It's something that it's a cause
that shouldn't become the could become the reality. Therefore I
should support it.

Speaker 5 (01:48:00):
It's important for young women who are basketball fans and
thrive to play in the WNBA.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
You're a sports but sports of sports that you have
to separate sports, like like if you're in music, you don't.
I'm with you, guys, like that has nothing to deal
with it.

Speaker 1 (01:48:17):
But wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 3 (01:48:19):
You know how difficult, Like if you're a young baseball player,
Like I know, I did a story on this young
girl who plays baseball, not softball. She's a terrific baseball player,
and it would be incumbent on her to support the WNBA,
so her dream of a female baseball league would come

(01:48:40):
to fruition.

Speaker 4 (01:48:41):
Yeah, but okay, so I'll go back to the music
side because you just said it's different, But this is
let's take Taylor Swift out of the equation.

Speaker 1 (01:48:47):
Because she's not a country artist.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
For the last fifteen to twenty years, there's been a
massive movement attempted that it swells and just doesn't work
to get more women radio play at country music, Like
the women struggle to get enough radio play to get
the recognition that they deserve in country music. So if
that's something you're passionate about and you love women that sing,
then you should absolutely buy records and go see tours

(01:49:10):
and make sure that you're requesting those songs at radio
stations and download all that.

Speaker 1 (01:49:14):
Yeah, that's very real.

Speaker 4 (01:49:16):
But at the end of the day, like, if that's
just not your thing, do you have an obligation to
support other women that are musicians just because you're a woman?

Speaker 1 (01:49:23):
Like, no, I mean at something.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
You're a woman in music, you do.

Speaker 4 (01:49:27):
See to me, Like, your obligation is to support what
you love. If you're a woman in sports, then you should.
You should find the sports that you love and you
should become as active in them as possible. Now, I
don't ever want to put somebody in a bubble because
of their gender or because of where they're from.

Speaker 2 (01:49:41):
This something, it's not putting anybody in the bubble.

Speaker 5 (01:49:43):
It's about have to like something they don't even like.

Speaker 2 (01:49:48):
Well all the time, let me finished for a second.

Speaker 3 (01:49:53):
It's about supporting something that's a cause that is related
to your cause. You're like, I just brought up the
woman in baseball, right, it's girl I adore, by the way,
who is a hell of a baseball player. Well you should.
You should also support the WNBA because it's in relation
to your passion. It's about breaking a barrier.

Speaker 10 (01:50:16):
Well, I have a question because I'm what we're talking
about sports, right, So I think if we're trying to say, like, oh,
women are trying you want to support the WNBA, I
think isn't it the kind of like the bigger thing
of you want to support women to actually accomplishing their
goals Like you as a woman, you want to support
other women accomplishing their goals, like or like if that
woman baseball player wants to accomplish a goal about doing

(01:50:39):
something that you're really passionate about. I mean, I think
that it's like a little bit more broader than like, oh,
we just want to like bring.

Speaker 2 (01:50:45):
Much you got to watch every game?

Speaker 3 (01:50:47):
Yeah, talking about in generality of supporting it, like being vocal,
how using your platform to support it?

Speaker 4 (01:50:56):
Yeah, But like I don't think that every woman that
works in sports, Like I don't think every NFL sideline
reporter or any every TV personality that works in sports
suddenly has an obligation to support the w NBA if
they don't, like what if you just don't like basketball,
Like I mean, I just think that has to be
allowed in this process. Like if you're not a big
fan of the product, you shouldn't have to be disingenuous
in supporting something if you're a woman as disingenuous.

Speaker 3 (01:51:19):
But but if you're a woman, if you can relate
to breaking a barrier and to helping something exist. I'm
not saying you've got to be that you got to
wear the crown of the WI b A every day.

Speaker 12 (01:51:31):
But but if you're a woman that plays party well
and you want you want women's baseball to if you
play flag football, if you play in the women's flag
football leagues and in one of those leagues in the country,
I think your.

Speaker 4 (01:51:43):
Your obligation is to do whatever you can to grow
your sport. Is your obligation to turn around and also
grow women's golf for the w NBA or women's hockey.

Speaker 3 (01:51:52):
Say you use your if you could relate to the cause,
you try to help out any kind of in any
way you can.

Speaker 5 (01:51:58):
But don't it necessarily works that way either, you know too,
I mean it.

Speaker 3 (01:52:02):
Doesn't work that way. I'm just talking about. In the end,
I do figure you have a duty to do certain things.

Speaker 5 (01:52:09):
And see I think it wouldn't hurt especially if you're
someone who has a platform. If you're a Citland Clark
and you say, you know what these women want to
start a baseball league, get behind me and support them.
I think that more than anything, that's my point. Sure,
I don't think she has an obligation to do that, though,
Is that Jim Martin shouldn't follow her shoulders to have
to do that.

Speaker 3 (01:52:26):
Well, I'm not saying Listen, if the girl reaches out again,
we're talking to hypotheticals, right, Yeah, of course we are. Yeah,
that's why, that's why. But if the girl reaches out
to Caitlyn Clark and says, hey, Caitlyn, I really need
to help me get some awareness on are you know
I'm fourteen years old. I played in an all women's
league and we really wanted to We're trying to get,

(01:52:49):
you know, baseball, for women to be a to be
a thing, and we want to play baseball. We don't
want to play softball. I think it's just it's incumbent
on Caitlyn to say, Okay, hey, I'll tweet about it
or talk about her, or just try to send someone
awareness your way.

Speaker 4 (01:53:06):
I think the only thing Caitlin's responsible for is being
the best basketball player she can be, and whatever else
happens in her life, well, if she chooses to find
other hills and other things that she wants to support.
That's a beautiful thing, but I don't think there's any obligation.
I also don't think there's any obligation for the women
baseball player to support the w if they just don't

(01:53:28):
like the sport. Like I think that I want to
live and look, this is altruistic, middle aged white tude talking.
So I'm the first to admit that I want to
live in a world where like we're sitting here and
we love all. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't have
to be clarified whether or not it's women's or men's
or this or that. Like if you love it, love it,
and if you watch it, watch it, and like it's
that simple.

Speaker 1 (01:53:45):
It doesn't have to be.

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
Let me throw something else at you, guys.

Speaker 3 (01:53:48):
So because I look at the WNBA, and I can't
call it the W because I don't know it, right,
So I don't know the league. I don't watch it,
I see the headlines. I'm not really that interested in it.
I don't have time, right, Like, I just know what
I have, right, I know what I enjoy. Now I've

(01:54:12):
made I was having this conversation with somebody and they
were making me feel guilty, and I'm like, listen to
the Premier League starting.

Speaker 2 (01:54:20):
Do I like the Premier League?

Speaker 3 (01:54:22):
I mean I like, I like Big time soccer, but
I don't have time to watch the Premier League. I
don't have time for another fig. I just like my football,
all right. I like my baseball. I like my basketball,
my NBA and some NHL. I don't have time for
anything else. I go gag. I hope it does well,
but don't make me feel guilty for not watching it.

Speaker 5 (01:54:44):
Nobody should make anyone. Yeah, no, wanhould make anyone feel
guilty for not liking or supporting their particular sport like that.
That's ridiculous to me. And I'll say like for all
of us, we all will have time for things that
we want to make time for. And if it's not
that big enough of a priority on the list, I
understand it. Because you are with the majority of a
lot of other people in this country and where they

(01:55:05):
have been for the last thirty years since the WNBA
has been a sport. That's not an indictment on you. You
shouldn't be shamed for that, No more than someone who
doesn't like football that thinks it's too violent. I think
that people shouldn't have their rights and not want to
watch it too, And I.

Speaker 2 (01:55:18):
Don't begrudge them that. I don't begrudge them that.

Speaker 4 (01:55:21):
Look, I'm hurried and I'm coming at this from a
way different standpoint than you guys, only because during my
time at ESPN, I covered more W than I did
Major League Baseball. I've hosted more W shows, I've talked
more W than I have Major League Baseball in my.

Speaker 1 (01:55:36):
Career for sure.

Speaker 4 (01:55:37):
So like, I actually have a lot of I won't
say love for the product. I have a lot of
understanding and like of the product, and it's something that
I've watched a lot of. And I even at that point,
I don't say that because I want like a Blue
Ribbon or some For me, it was an obligation that
I turned into something that I like doing because it
was something that we talked about a lot on previous
shows that I've been involved in, so had to be informed.

(01:55:59):
So for me, you know, But I also don't want
to feel bad that I don't love baseball, and you
guys have never made me feel bad about that, you know.
I think that's that speaks back to the world that
I want to live in you know, I just don't.
I think we all in the in the pick and
choose society, there's sports every single day, so pick what
you like, support the hell out of it, and then
if you don't like it. My only thing that I
always say to people is like, if you don't like it,

(01:56:21):
you don't watch it. The best thing to do is
to shut up and let the people that do like
it enjoy it like it doesn't. I don't need to
go out there planting a flag in the streets saying, oh,
baseball sucks, just like people don't need to plan a
flag in the streets saying WWA sucks.

Speaker 1 (01:56:33):
Like I think the moderation on all of those.

Speaker 2 (01:56:35):
Doccocer thing was a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:56:37):
Like, you know, and how about a fig I mean
you would have I tell you, let's take a quick
time out and we'll continue it, because the soccer thing
is relevant in the same in the in the in
the same conversation, uh where the fellas. We hang out
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Speaker 3 (01:57:14):
From the tirerack dot Com studios. You know, it was
funny I was gonna bring up, like, soccer is an
interesting conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:57:28):
Because anytime there's a fight for a sport to get
well known, to be driven, when you do talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:57:38):
I used to apologize for talking about sometimes because I go, listen,
I'm not a trained eye. I mean, you know, I
like it, I know it, but I don't know it
probably as well as other people, and I would feel
guilty about it. And then I thought about bringing this
whole conversation up, and I go, you know, honestly, I
really just want to talk about football.

Speaker 4 (01:58:01):
The funny thing is, though, like when I was at
the time my first national radio show with Sarah Spain,
and we talked.

Speaker 2 (01:58:09):
A lot of dubut Sarah, that's perfect, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:58:11):
And that's something that Sarah was really passionate. She was
passionate from day one about we're going to make women's
sports a topic. And what's funny to me is that
that was twenty eighteen and we were often chided by
the bosses for not sticking to the most relevant things
because we were talking about the w and that shows
you how different Like we'd have w players on and
you know, we would afterwards in our coaching sessions they

(01:58:33):
would come back and be like, yeah, but you know,
make sure you're focusing on the biggest stories of the
day and all that stuff. That It's funny that now
it's gone from the why are you talking about to
the why aren't you talking about it? And both were
equal amounts judgment. You know, both were like why would
you spend a segment talking about that? Now it's like, well,
why wouldn't you spend a segment talking about that?

Speaker 1 (01:58:51):
It's wild to me, it's nuts.

Speaker 2 (01:58:55):
I remember that show. It was a good show.

Speaker 3 (01:58:56):
Sarah was good and you guys working, you guys worked
worked well off each other. I always always liked her.
I always liked that show. I was like I was,
I was a fan of yours before we before we
work together.

Speaker 1 (01:59:12):
I mean, who isn't really I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:59:15):
Sarah the advocates for what you were pining for a
last segment there, because as far as women's sports in general,
for sure, she's one of the biggest.

Speaker 1 (01:59:23):
Champion platform to advocate.

Speaker 2 (01:59:26):
She played wet football.

Speaker 4 (01:59:27):
Yes, yeah, cousin, we we we buried the lead through
the whole show. By the way, like tomorrow, for the
first time ever we hang out in person. Can we
just like mention that, like you and I are going
to see each other in person tomorrow for the first
time ever.

Speaker 1 (01:59:41):
Like I don't know how to control that. My no
nos are going to say yes, yes all day. I
don't know what to do.

Speaker 3 (01:59:46):
We're gonna be in uh in New York tomorrow at
the Javid Center for Fanatics. They do Fanatics Fest and
the Great Apparel Company Casino. They have the big, big
sports kind of gathering celebrities and the whole thing. And
so Fitzy and I fig are going to man the

(02:00:08):
Fox Sports Radio stage.

Speaker 5 (02:00:10):
Oh, the biggest celebrities on hand, clearly. I mean, come on,
you got the fellows there, let's go. Yeah, that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:00:16):
Yeah, we're pumped up. Yeah, I'm pumped up.

Speaker 3 (02:00:20):
Pants reminded me when when I first I did I
worked with Liquor and I worked together a whole season
and we did the we did Army Navy in like DC,
and that was the first time I actually met him
and we had like we talked on the phone.

Speaker 2 (02:00:41):
It's like fifty and I like to do the same thing.

Speaker 3 (02:00:44):
And it's crazy, right I remember, go dude, we stayed
out til four o'clock in the morning. It's a shame
you got a flight the next day, FITZI, or else
we would have did Manhattan tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (02:00:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:00:57):
Now I got to be in LA the next day,
so you know, I'm a I'm coming into New York
and then getting all right out afterwards.

Speaker 1 (02:01:03):
But you know, it's worth it to see you, That's
all I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (02:01:05):
Like, I'm looking forward to it. Brother.

Speaker 4 (02:01:07):
If I had done, if we had lined things up properly,
I would have flown from New York, which would have
made a lot more sense than training back to Connecticut
to then fly from Connecticut.

Speaker 1 (02:01:17):
But that's that's fine. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (02:01:18):
It's fine, Like I.

Speaker 1 (02:01:19):
Already had that.

Speaker 3 (02:01:20):
Next time, we're doing Manhattan, we're doing tonight. I'm at, yeah,
I'm all.

Speaker 4 (02:01:24):
In on this, Like I this is the first foray
for us to get to hang out together in person.
We're gonna have like people everywhere. And I keep getting
all the updates on Fanatics Fest, and it looks like
it's an absolutely incredible event. So you know, I feel
like we're just we're making sure Sunday ends with the
bank that there's plenty of star power on the last day.

Speaker 2 (02:01:47):
That's great, all right, let me let me throw this at.

Speaker 3 (02:01:51):
You because we we we got to figure out and
and I want to do this. So when you're looking
at the next two weeks, and let's take your Raiders,
all right, because I want to bring it home to you.

Speaker 2 (02:02:05):
Guys, what are you seeking to know over the next
two weeks.

Speaker 4 (02:02:12):
Competent quarterback play. It's the only thing that's holding this
team back. I still think the Raiders have a pretty
good roster almost everywhere else.

Speaker 1 (02:02:19):
So I'm just looking for one of.

Speaker 4 (02:02:20):
The guys to just just clear cut take control of
the gig, like one of the guys needs to go
out and win the job, not a well, nobody really separated.
So we're gonna go with Aiden like we need somebody
to actually step in Figgie and just dominate.

Speaker 5 (02:02:32):
Thousand percent early. Like you said, be competent. I don't
need you to go out there and be paid manning,
but show that you can put together some drives. You
can work off a play action, make some throws downfield.
You're not gonna find this out before the start of
the regular season, but I do want to see if
Zamir White can be the Bellkower running back for a
full season as opposed to just a couple of games.
But you won't find that out until start of the
regular season.

Speaker 2 (02:02:52):
Yeah, I'm actually looking forward to Demir White.

Speaker 5 (02:02:55):
I am too.

Speaker 2 (02:02:56):
I like him.

Speaker 5 (02:02:57):
I do?

Speaker 2 (02:02:57):
I do? I like him?

Speaker 9 (02:02:59):
Do?

Speaker 5 (02:02:59):
You just never know until throw into the fire?

Speaker 3 (02:03:01):
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Speaker 2 (02:04:17):
Boys. Let's start off.

Speaker 3 (02:04:19):
I'm gonna give you teams and we're gonna we're gonna
address them and kind of look at them, will analyze
your schedule a little bit, and we're gonna do this segment.
We're gonna do NFL, We're gonna dive into college. All right,
So this hour is gonna be looking at teams, teams

(02:04:40):
that fascinate me. I will give you the Chicago Bears,
a team that I find very interesting, have a chance
obviously with their skilled people, that could be really good
offense led by the roock led by Caleb. Let's look

(02:05:02):
at the Bears FITSI.

Speaker 4 (02:05:05):
Well, I mean Caleb had you know, the nice little
preseason moment that made the highlight reel, so everybody feels
good about it.

Speaker 1 (02:05:10):
But he's got weapons everywhere.

Speaker 4 (02:05:12):
They open the season against the Titans, team that I
think is particularly difficult to game plan for because you
have no idea what that coaching staff is gonna do
or what that team's gonna look like So that's that'll
be a little wild for Caleb, because I'm not sure
that you can genuinely study and know what the tenancies
are gonna be for this Titans team. And then they
get the Texans after that, so I think a little

(02:05:33):
bit of an interesting opener and then a difficult team
for there. But look, the Bears feel to me like
a fringe playoff team. It feels like they're gonna take
a massive leap forward. And that's in part because I
trust their weapons, I trust their defense, and I do
trust Caleb Williams.

Speaker 1 (02:05:47):
I think it's gonna be a star.

Speaker 4 (02:05:48):
I don't love the Eberflus remaining portion of this, but fine,
Like that's the decision they made.

Speaker 1 (02:05:54):
They got a lot of easy games on this sea.

Speaker 4 (02:05:56):
I'm just looking at the meat of the schedules like Colts,
Rams will be and then Panthers, Jags, Commanders, Cardinals, Patriots,
Like that's they got a little run there where they're
going to be able to pick up some wins. So
I think in the middle of the season, the Bears
get hot, they become an even bigger phenomenon for everybody
to be talking about.

Speaker 2 (02:06:15):
Big.

Speaker 5 (02:06:16):
Yeah, it's hard to disagree with a lot of that.
It's just there's a lot of unknowns. Yet we're all
excited that Caleb Williams service was able to make the
play that he made last week in the preseason. But
once the regular season starts up and there's actually game
plans and more sophisticated defenses, you just wonder if you
know whether or not the learning curve is going to
be a little bit steeper. It doesn't mean I don't
think Chicago is going to be solid this year, and
they can compete for a playoff spot potentially, and I

(02:06:38):
do like that defense. Bringing in sweat midseason last year
was great. Defensively, they should be really good and they
have all of the skill position talent. You just wonder
if the offensive line can hold up, if they can
actually protect Caleb, and you know, if Caleb can actually
get it done at this level and maybe not freelance
as much and play within structure, which I know at
times was sometimes difficult that usc sometimes born out of necessity,

(02:06:59):
but sometimes because he had little bit of happy feet
in the pocket. And you wonder if I'll have word
to his advantage at the NFL level. So I'm mildly
encouraged by Chicago, and to your point, I guess I
would use the word intrigued was the word I think
you used, Anthony. I'm very intrigued by how this season
can go, because I can see it going in two
different ways.

Speaker 3 (02:07:15):
To be honest with you, Yeah, all right, can they
get to ten is the question? If they're a playoff team,
They're in a very difficult division, right, it's top heavy.
The Lions and Packers are probably the two best teams
in the NFC.

Speaker 5 (02:07:29):
And Minnesota is not a pushover, even though I think
even with Darnold as the starter, I think from a
team standpoint, I think they have a solid roster.

Speaker 3 (02:07:36):
All right, let's go over the schedule. See if you
can get ten. I'll read it, you guys analyze it afterwards.
Home Tennessee at the Texans, tough game at Indianapolis, tough game,
home Rams, tough game home Panthers, home Jaguars at Washington

(02:08:00):
at Arizona. That's the stretch I mean, home New England.
That's the stretch that fits he was talking about. Then
home Green Bay, home Minnesota, at Detroit, at San Francisco
at Minnesota, home Detroit home Seattle, and at Green Bay

(02:08:24):
to end the season.

Speaker 5 (02:08:25):
See for me, I don't think the schedule overall is
really that easy. I think there's a stretch in there
where you can clean up, and the problem is you
better clean up at that point in your schedule because
it does not get any easier. I think Tennessee Houston,
Indy Rams to start off, you could easily be one
and three in that situation. I can easily see that.
And then when once you get past New England, now

(02:08:46):
you're Green Bay, Minnesota, Detroit at San Francisco at Minnesota,
Detroit again, Seattle, green Bay again, that's a pretty brutal
stretch to the end the season. FOURTEENA doesn't have a
lot of experience.

Speaker 4 (02:08:57):
I got him generously to nine. Like if I'm giving
A some benefit of the doubt, I get them to
nine wins.

Speaker 5 (02:09:02):
Now, yeah, yeah, I can probably see that.

Speaker 2 (02:09:06):
Yeah, but by.

Speaker 4 (02:09:07):
The way, nine wins in Caleb developing would be a
home N'll take that.

Speaker 2 (02:09:12):
In a heartbeat. Definitely fits he definitely If.

Speaker 4 (02:09:14):
Chicago ends up with their first for the first time
in franchise history with A, we have got our starting quarterback.

Speaker 1 (02:09:20):
Doesn't matter if they win five games, If Caleb goes
out and CJ. Strouds it. They're like Bears fans are
going to be absolutely going.

Speaker 3 (02:09:27):
They'll be losing besides some stuff, without a doubt. While
the team that intrigues me the Browns, who again similarly
in a very tough division, the AFC North, one of
the best. I think both North divisions are the best
divisions in uh in in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (02:09:49):
So let's look at the Browns schedule. Can you come
up with ten for Cleveland? And it's all gonna it's
all gonna be all the quarter quarterback.

Speaker 5 (02:10:02):
That's what the spotlight is on this year.

Speaker 3 (02:10:04):
Because they're really good everywhere else. They're terrific everywhere else.
Here's their schedule. Fellas home Dallas to start the season
at Jacksonville home, Giants at the Raiders at Washington at

(02:10:25):
the Eagles home, Bengals home Ravens home, Chargers at the
Saints home, Steelers at Denver at Steelers home, Chiefs at
Cincinnati home, Dolphins at Baltimore to end the season.

Speaker 1 (02:10:50):
That's a tough that's a tough schedule. I mean it
really is.

Speaker 4 (02:10:53):
Like I think the Browns look last year, they still
won a bunch of games, even with DeShawn not playing well.

Speaker 1 (02:10:59):
The Browns are stacked, They're loaded there.

Speaker 4 (02:11:01):
I think they're a great football team. I don't trust
the quarterback position, but I think they're a great football team.
So I but when you go through the schedule like
that again, I feel like I get him to nine,
maybe ten, and that's just not gonna be good enough.
Like it's tough in the AFC because they're gonna be
taking on the Bengals and the Ravens, two teams I
absolutely believe in. So yeah, and they're not gonna win

(02:11:23):
their division, so now it becomes a wildcard combo, and man,
I I can get him to ten, though I think
the Browns are too talented to not get I like
Stefanski too much.

Speaker 1 (02:11:32):
Also, I think I'll.

Speaker 2 (02:11:33):
Get them the big I'm with you.

Speaker 5 (02:11:36):
You know, I'm not the biggest fan of Deshaun Watson,
and he certainly hasn't shown himself well the last couple
of years, I would say, even when he was healthy.
So he's the biggest question mark. But they're so good
everywhere else. I think Chubb is supposed to be ready
close to, if not opening a day pretty early on
in the season, so I'll give a boost back to
the run game. So yeah, I think the Cleveland can
can very easily win ten eleven games this year.

Speaker 2 (02:11:59):
All right, now let's go to Dallas.

Speaker 3 (02:12:04):
Now, when last we left, FITZI, you were bullish on
the Cowboys, still him, We both were, Yeah, I thought
you two figure I know you are you?

Speaker 2 (02:12:16):
I know you are?

Speaker 3 (02:12:17):
You both we talked about arrows up down, all the
drama that's played out. Are you as bullish as you
once were?

Speaker 5 (02:12:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:12:28):
Yeah, yeah, nothing, nothing but contracts is going to change
my bullishness on this team going into this season at all.
So at some point, you know they'll get it worked
out with CD, I think. But anyway you want to
look at it, I don't think CD's gonna sit there
and sit out the season, right, So they'll get it
figured out.

Speaker 1 (02:12:45):
Everybody will.

Speaker 4 (02:12:47):
We'll have to come by out together at some point
and they'll Yeah, I'm still bullish on the Cowboys. They
win twelve games every year. They'll win twelve games agetting
this year.

Speaker 5 (02:12:53):
And if anything, if you're DAK or you're CD and
you're looking for a new contract that you haven't gotten,
if anything, you're gonna play better and ball out even
more this year. So for people think CD might take
a step back, it might ask to prepare him for
and have an even better season than he did last year.
So I don't think Dallas and Dallas's schedule certainly is
not the easiest, but we're.

Speaker 2 (02:13:12):
Gonna go over it.

Speaker 3 (02:13:13):
Yeah, coming up, and I'm anxious to see what you
guys think.

Speaker 2 (02:13:16):
No, all right, so sit right there.

Speaker 3 (02:13:18):
We're gonna go over that and we're gonna do some
college football coming up next.

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Speaker 2 (02:14:30):
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Speaker 3 (02:14:30):
When last we left, we were talking Cowboys. Both remain
bullish on the Cowboys. Both you guys remain bolls. Here's
their schedule Week one at Cleveland home, New Orleans home,
Baltimore at the Giants at Pittsburgh home, Lions at San

(02:14:58):
Francisca at Atlanta home, Eagles home, Taxans at Washington home,
Giants home, Bengals at Carolina home, Buccaneers at Philadelphia home Washington.

Speaker 1 (02:15:27):
Twelve and five. Got them at twelve and five.

Speaker 2 (02:15:30):
Did you really you got out of that?

Speaker 4 (02:15:33):
I really got. I got twelve out of that. Yeah,
and that's what the split with the Eagles. I still
got them to twelve.

Speaker 2 (02:15:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:15:38):
The Cowboys are Oh god.

Speaker 1 (02:15:41):
They're twelve win team.

Speaker 3 (02:15:42):
I think we need to show that there's no way
I don't see it.

Speaker 4 (02:15:47):
Let's put a line on the sand and eleven. Let's
put this line in the sand at eleven. That way,
we gives it both sides a little wiggle room. We'll
put the line is eleven, and or we'll say the
line's ten and a half. I'll take the over on
ten and a half. You take the under on ten
and a half.

Speaker 2 (02:16:00):
And uh, yeah, you said twelve. You did say eleven.
You said twelve.

Speaker 5 (02:16:04):
Well, I don't want to hear it.

Speaker 1 (02:16:07):
I'll give you.

Speaker 3 (02:16:09):
I'll give you the I'll be sporting and give you
the eleven is a push because I like eleven is
not out of eleven.

Speaker 2 (02:16:17):
They could win. I could see them winning eleven.

Speaker 5 (02:16:19):
Well, if you can win eleven, you can win twelve, right.

Speaker 3 (02:16:21):
Yeah, way, their bases their basis ten. I could certainly
see eleven. Uh, theyn't win at twelve. So I so
I'm staunch about that, Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:16:34):
Yeah, I'm I'm passionate that they are.

Speaker 4 (02:16:37):
When I say twelve when football team, to me, that
means that they're gonna win eleven or twelve somewhere. That right,
Like when I say the Raiders are gonna win seven
games if they win six or they win eight, I'm
not particularly.

Speaker 3 (02:16:47):
I hear you, but twelve, like, I think they can
win eleven, right, like I do. Like I could see
them at eleven, I don't see them at twelve. I
think there's a big difference between eleven and twelve. It
sounds stud I know, but I think there's a big
difference because in the seventeen games, the twelve and five

(02:17:09):
is no, it's you. You got to be pretty dominant
to get twelve in a long, arduous season.

Speaker 2 (02:17:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:17:17):
I don't disagree with that, but that means that the
Cowboys have been pretty dominant three years or straight season.

Speaker 3 (02:17:23):
And I and I go, show me where again, outside
of CD LAMB, where they're dangerous?

Speaker 5 (02:17:30):
Where were they dangerous last year?

Speaker 2 (02:17:32):
I don't care about last year. I'm just saying says
it's not about last year.

Speaker 5 (02:17:37):
In the world. Okay, that's about this year currently where
they're dangerous.

Speaker 1 (02:17:43):
Why do they need more than that?

Speaker 5 (02:17:44):
Correct?

Speaker 4 (02:17:45):
They have an MVP caliber quarterback in an Envy one
good enough for that.

Speaker 5 (02:17:50):
It has been in the past. Would that weapons on
the past is irrelevant?

Speaker 3 (02:17:54):
Counselor your partner already said the pass is irrelevant.

Speaker 2 (02:17:58):
I'm just going by his Now.

Speaker 5 (02:18:00):
We're basing it off of hypotheticals, which is all.

Speaker 3 (02:18:02):
I could go hypothetical. You're looking at the roster right now,
you go, this is the roster.

Speaker 5 (02:18:07):
Yeah, and I'm saying based on based on history, this
is the roster.

Speaker 3 (02:18:11):
But your partners said history is irrelevant to the year.
So you're looking at this roster going into this year.

Speaker 1 (02:18:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:18:20):
I don't care about the Bengals other than Joe Burrow
and Jamar Chase being on the same page. I don't
care about the Cowboys other than Ceedee Lamb being on
the same page with Dak Prescott. I don't care about
the Chiefs other than Patrick Mahomes being an MVP game.

Speaker 2 (02:18:33):
With Daverscott, with Mahomes and Barrow, No, I don't.

Speaker 1 (02:18:37):
Well, I think I think that too.

Speaker 4 (02:18:38):
That back team, yeah, I put that tack team on
that same righte Ever, you know second in MVP voting.

Speaker 3 (02:18:44):
I don't care about that. I don't care. Come on,
I don't DA equals Mahomes or Barrows. We know none
of none of us do.

Speaker 5 (02:18:52):
We're just talking about from the production in AGA from
a regular you're talking.

Speaker 2 (02:18:57):
About bloating fogayzy numbers.

Speaker 5 (02:18:59):
Wow, Loaded as you want, Loaded all you want is
produced twelve wins for three consecutive seasons. What we're talking
about right now is over under our regular season.

Speaker 2 (02:19:11):
Victories under twelve.

Speaker 5 (02:19:13):
All right, I guess we'll see.

Speaker 4 (02:19:16):
We'll take it, push it. We'll take a push at eleven,
I'll take you. You'll take eleven.

Speaker 3 (02:19:20):
Forget that I'm not being sporting. You've ship twelve, you.

Speaker 1 (02:19:23):
Got twelve, Okay, fine, I'll take twelve. I'll die in this.
I'll take twelve, all right.

Speaker 3 (02:19:28):
Here's the deal, you know, I mean, the one you lose,
I don't worry about no dyet nothing. You're taking us out,
all right, to a freaking feast and drinks.

Speaker 5 (02:19:41):
Well, unfairness, the fits is probably both of us. Actually,
you know, will table have to take you out?

Speaker 2 (02:19:46):
Is what it is.

Speaker 4 (02:19:47):
No, no, no, I'm gonna double down on this because I've
never I've never written two against one. So I'll tell
or you know, take me out here. Here's here's what's
gonna happen. I'm gonna make you two bets right now.
Number one, I'm gonna bet you that the cow Boys
win twelve games. Number two, I'm gonna bet you the
Cowboys finish ahead of the Eagles and this year season.
I got two bets coming for you because if you're
ready for the action.

Speaker 1 (02:20:08):
Let's go.

Speaker 2 (02:20:10):
Listen. I'm standing right here, brother.

Speaker 1 (02:20:15):
There we go.

Speaker 3 (02:20:16):
You know, for you, Jalen Hurts is going to stick
it up your geee seven ways from Sunday.

Speaker 1 (02:20:23):
A J. Brown because fired by mid season.

Speaker 3 (02:20:28):
I'll take the Cowboys OC former OC Kellen Moore to
right the ship. I got Barkley, I got Brown, I
got Devonte Smith, I got a good old line.

Speaker 2 (02:20:43):
Let's go.

Speaker 1 (02:20:45):
You got if you're you got opus.

Speaker 4 (02:20:48):
Kellen moorese, I gotta remember the last time anybody woke
up thinking, oh my god, we have to take on
to Kellen Morris.

Speaker 3 (02:20:54):
Okay, let me go to McCarthy, who had the best
quarterback for fifteen years and one on Super Bowl and
was fifteen and one and let his team lose to
the lowly Giants after a bye week, and it got
schooled by Eli Manning on a on a Hail Mary

(02:21:16):
before halftime.

Speaker 1 (02:21:19):
Looking states, so does Kellen Moore.

Speaker 4 (02:21:23):
Kellen Moore has had Dak Prescott and Justin Herbert as
his quarterbacks. It hasn't managed to scare anything.

Speaker 3 (02:21:28):
Herbert was hurt, they were hurt last year. All around him.
The thing was a mess. Dad a bad head coach.
He was terrible. You can't give me one year with
the Chargers.

Speaker 4 (02:21:38):
I mean, but you can give me Harball coming in
and decide not to keep him. Like nobody in the
building fought for him, right.

Speaker 3 (02:21:44):
Yeah, because Horble is gonna want his own people. But
I mean, if that's not an indictment on Kevin Moore's.

Speaker 4 (02:21:50):
The Great White Hope, then all of a sudden Herbert
would be like, hey, at least coordinator around.

Speaker 2 (02:21:54):
I mean, listen, I mean, I can just look at it.

Speaker 4 (02:21:57):
Go.

Speaker 2 (02:21:57):
Would I rather have Kelli Moore or Carthy.

Speaker 5 (02:22:02):
McCarthy McCarthy I hate McCarthy the first He was.

Speaker 3 (02:22:12):
A Fugesian green bag. Should have won way more than
he did. I'm I'm out on McCarthy.

Speaker 1 (02:22:18):
Now I'm I'm out. I'm equally out on Keller Moore.
I love these bets.

Speaker 3 (02:22:22):
Listen, I don't care about Kelli Moore for I'll be
honest with you. Was I doing car wheels with Keller Moore?

Speaker 12 (02:22:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (02:22:27):
I wasn't all right. But after last year.

Speaker 3 (02:22:30):
Keller Moore looks like uh shan Kyle Shanahan compared to
Brian Johnson and Syriani's offense last year.

Speaker 1 (02:22:39):
So this is this is the bet we got the
two bets.

Speaker 4 (02:22:42):
It's twelve wins for the Cowboys and it's the Cowboys finish.

Speaker 1 (02:22:45):
Ahead of the Eagles. That those are my two bets.

Speaker 4 (02:22:48):
And I'm just saying, now we're gonna need like a
fella's weekend is where we cat back to back dinner.
But it needs to be one of those dinners where
like I'm a little uncomfortable pulling my wallet out, Like
it's just like I don't want to look at don't
show me the bill because I see the bill, I'm
gonna freak out. Like that's sort of got McDonald's. We
ain't going from to McDonald's, Like we're going, Yeah, we'll
go to Philly and.

Speaker 13 (02:23:08):
You have a family, to man, that's ridiculous, right, I mean,
And so my here's my oldest Anthony's order at chick
fil A.

Speaker 5 (02:23:21):
Okay, this will be good. All right, let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:23:22):
So he said, Dad, could I get Chick fil A?
Where do you want that? I want two chicken sandwiches.
I want twelve count nuggets, large fries, and large vanilla milkshake,
no topics.

Speaker 5 (02:23:40):
Sounds like a standard order for a growing teenage boy.

Speaker 2 (02:23:42):
I got it. It works. And you know what that
costs me? You know what that cost me for.

Speaker 1 (02:23:49):
Oh my gosh, his order.

Speaker 5 (02:23:51):
You can feed a family of five back in the
day for that much. Uh at a place like that.
That's insane. It's disgusting. Yeah, like that is just flat
out gusting. Yeah for and for to be honest, it's
just a chicken on a piece of bread. It's really
the sauce that really makes a Chick fil A.

Speaker 2 (02:24:08):
I thought the other day was the worst.

Speaker 3 (02:24:09):
So my little one likes uh, so, my little guy
likes hamburgers, right, so we're Wendy's, right, he goes, So
the chick fil A is near the Wendy's, So I go,
mos what do you want from Wendy's. I'll go to
chick fil A for Anthony, and I'll go to Wendy's
for Mosmo because they're right down the street. So he says, Daddy,

(02:24:32):
I want a double and I want a single. So
he gets two burgers, but one's a double and one's
a single cheese burgers. Just for the two burgers sixteen dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:24:47):
That's ridiculous, Like.

Speaker 3 (02:24:48):
We're not talking about no fries, no, no, no, no,
not drink no, no drinks.

Speaker 2 (02:24:54):
Nothing right.

Speaker 3 (02:24:55):
Imagine, like you know, you go to a pub and
you get one of the pub burgers that I love,
the pub burgers, like the big fat hamburgers that are
done quality meat.

Speaker 2 (02:25:07):
Like that's a sixteen.

Speaker 3 (02:25:08):
Dollars burger, right, not what it turns out to be
three paddies and to your roles, like you're going to
charge me sixteen dollars, that's not right.

Speaker 5 (02:25:20):
Well, price gounging to the nth degree is all that
is ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (02:25:24):
It's ridiculous and I don't even know how to like
his come on, Like I grew up with nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:25:30):
I've been open about that.

Speaker 4 (02:25:32):
But like I remember when we were going when I
had to go to New York for the weekend for
lessons when I was at Juilliard as a little kid.
My dad would stop at the at the McDonald's right
across the Connecticut New York state line at the time,
and it was twenty nine cent to hamburgers, right, So
my dad would just get enough hamburgers in a sack
to feed me for the weekend, and that was my

(02:25:52):
food for the weekend. I can't imagine now, like how
how that works. Like there was a period of life
where that that kind of helped my family not have
food issues. So I can't imagine what it's like now
to turn around and be like, yeah, I'd love to
get you a two cheeseburger meal. Unfortunately it's twenty dollars
Like that just doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (02:26:10):
No, no, it's it's it's out. It really is outrageous,
you know, when you think about it, it's it's no,
it's terrible, even like a pizza. Now, like I last
night they went. It was a Friday night because so
we cooked usually like four but it's hard with practice, right,
so they got practice every night, so you know it's

(02:26:31):
it's hard. So last night was a night out because
they had practice. And the whole thing it was a pizza.
Anthony gets a pizza and Mosmo gets a cheese steak
and it was thirty eight dollars. No, my wife and

(02:26:51):
I didn't eat. I mean I could have had one
of anthony ate six slices. There were two left over
and I'll eat them for lunch today. Mons or half
of steak left, so we'll eat that for lunch today.
But you know, thirty eight dollars, I mean that even
the pizza joints, like you could get a pizza for
ten bucks. It was daisily right, like pizza staple. Hey,

(02:27:16):
this is Figgy's last show before paternity leave.

Speaker 5 (02:27:21):
Yeah, going away for a while.

Speaker 3 (02:27:23):
I want to I get it. Listen, I want to
you know, I wish you well, brother. No, I appreciate
the mission.

Speaker 5 (02:27:28):
Thank you, guys. Yeah. Likewise, and you know, obviously it's
gonna be it's a bittersweet get a chance to spend
time with my son. Uh, it's gonna be amazing to
spend some some real quality time with him. But also
the bitter part is leaving you guys, especially during this
time of the year where football is ramping up.

Speaker 2 (02:27:44):
You know, I know, how long are you two months?
How long will you have?

Speaker 5 (02:27:47):
Yes, so I'll be I'll be back in October. I'll
be back in October. Yeah, right, so it will be
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Speaker 4 (02:28:02):
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the w go back on the podcast. On the show,
it's an old it's conversation we were having last hour.
Calm down, everybody, relax. I'm not backing on the W
at all. I love the W now that I said that,
Now back to our regularly.

Speaker 2 (02:28:22):
That's fabulous.

Speaker 4 (02:28:23):
I'm just imagining Figgy coming back and like this show
number one, he's like Katelin Clark, right right off the top.

Speaker 5 (02:28:29):
Oh hit the playoffs and there we go, and then
as a three, then as a footnote at the very end,
and Patrick mahomes dow a six touchdown passes tonight. Back
to you, Yeah, back to you.

Speaker 2 (02:28:40):
If you don't lead.

Speaker 4 (02:28:40):
Your first update back with the W update, then you
are not the man I thought you were.

Speaker 1 (02:28:44):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 5 (02:28:45):
All right, challenge accepted. The problem is I probably won't
have a job after I do that, so I'm it's
just like it might be the first and last the
last update that I do. Oh God, well.

Speaker 4 (02:28:55):
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please God, please go.

Speaker 1 (02:29:00):
I canna listen to the previous hour. A lot of
w NB A love here.

Speaker 2 (02:29:03):
Well, it's gonna be great. I mean, you're gonna get
some beautiful time.

Speaker 5 (02:29:07):
I'm looking forward to your boy.

Speaker 3 (02:29:08):
Man, it's so much beautiful man, thank you, Thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (02:29:12):
Well, we'll be checking in.

Speaker 5 (02:29:13):
Man, you know, pase absolutely with you, you know, and
you know I'll be listening.

Speaker 4 (02:29:17):
To be making like dinner every day for for the wife.
You're gonna make sure that like, oh yeah, all tied
it up and everything.

Speaker 5 (02:29:22):
Trust me, you know, you see, like the memes are
like mister clean, like sweeping the floors and all that.
That that's that's definitely gonna be me.

Speaker 4 (02:29:28):
You know, I would totally be a househusband. I would
do a thousand like I'll clean, I'll cook, I'll take
care of everything. I'll feed the dogs like everything's good,
like I'll be a househoustman.

Speaker 3 (02:29:39):
I can see that you got you had that hmesticated
vine like discipline.

Speaker 2 (02:29:45):
You know you're disciplined, you're fastidious.

Speaker 1 (02:29:49):
That's true. I also look good in the French made outfits.

Speaker 5 (02:29:53):
The most important right.

Speaker 4 (02:29:55):
I've gone wildly off the rails in the last hour
of the Fellas I apologize America.

Speaker 10 (02:29:59):
Good yes, sir, off the show, saying kissing a pig
with blipsticks.

Speaker 1 (02:30:04):
Oh my gosh. There's been a lot of travel the
last week. I might be losing my mind. Boys, I
don't know what's happening.

Speaker 4 (02:30:12):
I did start off by talking about kissing a pig,
and now I'm in a French made outfit.

Speaker 1 (02:30:16):
So you're welcome. The Fellaw's this in adventures.

Speaker 5 (02:30:20):
This is the stuff I'm gonna miss.

Speaker 3 (02:30:23):
All right, let's get back to what we said. So
we have our our Cowboys Eagles bets.

Speaker 2 (02:30:29):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:30:30):
Since you have the Cowboys over the Eagles, I'll divorce
myself from the conversation and I'll let you guys go.
I'll give you their schedule coming up, but give me
your analysis.

Speaker 1 (02:30:45):
On the Eagles.

Speaker 4 (02:30:48):
Look, I think the Eagles have all the talent in
the world, and they have all the talent to win
a Super Bowl. For being very serious, I think everything
that you could possibly want. The hardest thing is that
they've just got to write the ship of whatever was
wrong last year. And I know that the argument is, hey,
they bring in better coordinators that are going to be
a better fit, and Sirianni's going to have everything figured out.
And you know, I can absolutely see that. I believed

(02:31:09):
in Jalen Hurts when he was drafted. I believe in
Jalen Hurts today. I believe in the weapons around Jalen Hurts.
There are some complications. I think replacing Kelsey when you
talk to former offensive linemen, is going to be an issue,
Like that's not something that is easily done.

Speaker 1 (02:31:22):
They've lost a few pieces that I think can be
a little bit of a concern.

Speaker 4 (02:31:25):
But look, if everything breaks right for the Eagles, then
they are every bit. You know, I don't think it's
a hot take to say that right now, the upper
tier in my mind in the NFC is clearly you know,
I've already mentioned Dallas, I will mention Philly, I will mention.

Speaker 1 (02:31:38):
San Francisco and Detroit.

Speaker 4 (02:31:39):
Those are the four teams in the NFC that I
think walk into the season with the best shot at
a super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (02:31:44):
Philly is one of them.

Speaker 5 (02:31:45):
Yeah, I don't disagree. And you look at amidst all
the issues that they had last season, they were still
or there were twelve and one or twelve and two
before one, that's what it was, ten and one before
it all fell apart at the end of the season.
And look, they were ten and one and we were
lamenting every single week how they didn't look good. But
you know, all these comeback wins and Jalen's inaccurate and
all these different So that tells you just how talented
they are and how wide of a margin that they have.

(02:32:07):
So if they've just improved a little bit, whether it's
from a play calling standpoint, you mentioned, can lose, losing
Kelsey's not gonna help. Defensively, They've reloaded on the D line, Like, look,
the sky's the limit for them. So if we're talking
about Dallas winning eleven twelve games, there's no reason why
Philadelphia can't be right there with them. And this is
a fight to the end to determine who ends up
winning the division with between you know, between eleven and

(02:32:29):
thirteen wins, I can see both of them coming right
down to the wire having similar seasons.

Speaker 2 (02:32:35):
I just to do the schedule.

Speaker 3 (02:32:37):
You got Green Bay in Brazil, Home in Atlanta at
New Orleans at Tampa Bay home, Cleveland at the Giants
at Cincinnati home, Jacksonville at Dallas home, Washington at the

(02:33:00):
Rams at Baltimore home, Panthers home, Stealers at Washington home,
Dallas home Giants.

Speaker 4 (02:33:14):
I got them to eleven in that game.

Speaker 3 (02:33:19):
Okay, all right, let's do the Packers because they're a
team that intrigues me. I think the Packers are a
team that could actually I love love. I mean, I
know you're a little dubious, fitsy, I want.

Speaker 1 (02:33:38):
To love them.

Speaker 4 (02:33:38):
We're just so early in our dating relationship. I feel
like we need to go on a few more dates.
Like I'm ready for some heavy petting, but I'm not
ready to put a ring on it. Like that's that's
where I am. So you're you're not breaking at No,
everything's everything's still above the clothes at this point, we're
straight middle school with this. Go ahead, gonna have to

(02:34:00):
have met this whole show at this point. God forbid,
this be the week that the bosses are all like
intently listening to every second of it.

Speaker 1 (02:34:06):
Go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (02:34:08):
That's a classic. All right, here's their schedule, all right,
here you go. Eagles Brazil, like we said, Colts at
home at Tennessee, Vikings at home at Rams, Cardinals at home,
Texans at home at Jacksonville, Lions at home at Chicago,

(02:34:33):
Niners at home, Dolphins at home at Lions at Seattle home,
Saints at Minnesota home, Bears.

Speaker 4 (02:34:48):
I think I just accidentally got them to twelve, and
that doesn't feel right. So I'm gonna take them back
to ten. Yeah, I'm taking them back to ten. I
must have miscounted. That's all I demand to recount.

Speaker 1 (02:34:58):
There's ten. Ten is the best. I can feel good
about it. And I mean, look, guys, like, if Jordan Love.

Speaker 4 (02:35:05):
Is who he showed he was the back half of
the season, then the sky's the limit for this team.

Speaker 1 (02:35:09):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (02:35:10):
If Jordan Love takes even the slightest step back, then
they're a ten win football team. So you know, I'm
I think I'm being fair and reasonable and saying I
really like Jordan Love. I just would like to see
more than half of one season before I anoint him
as the future of the league.

Speaker 5 (02:35:24):
I agree one thousand percent.

Speaker 3 (02:35:26):
But I mean, I think we can say, like nobody's
annoying him in the future of the league, but I
think he can be very good.

Speaker 5 (02:35:32):
Oh no, I think we all agree. We have the
conversation a couple of weeks ago about him and Tua
and contracts and all that stuff, and I think Fitz
and I's point is we just want to see a
little bit more we're now. It wasn't arguing whether or
not Tua was better than him. It's just like he
just has more production over more years, So that that
was just what the what the do?

Speaker 3 (02:35:50):
Literally, I am and as often you guys are always
at tandem and I am a solo. I'd love love,
So I'm all in think if.

Speaker 4 (02:35:59):
This is like the like this is here's the thing,
because this is like eighties wrestling where we know that
you are whole Cogan and we can't take down Hull
Cogan by ourselves. It takes two of us, right, So
Figgie and I got a tag team together and we
got a hope, hope, like hope like hell that this
is a Saturday Night's main event where we somehow get
the big win two on one and you know, nobody
has to cheat and breeze back there with the metal

(02:36:20):
chair ready, so we might.

Speaker 5 (02:36:21):
Have to cheat, you know, I mean that you might
in the back of the head with the megaphone or something.

Speaker 1 (02:36:26):
You know, Marcus definitely got the megaphone.

Speaker 4 (02:36:29):
He's ready for it, like we've got the whole tandem
is ready to take So maybe that makes you Andre
the giant in this situation because we know, like we
can't slam you unless you let us slam you.

Speaker 1 (02:36:39):
Like that that's just the we get it. We understand
our role. We just it takes two of us to
get through.

Speaker 3 (02:36:46):
You guys are the greatest. All right, let's take a break.
We'll come back Raiders because I gotta thro boys, a
boat man, I gotta I can't get out of here.
What I'm doing Raiders is the best. We're the fellas.
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Speaker 3 (02:37:16):
Fellas from the ti Raq dot com studios. On this
August the seventeenth, two weeks, just so you know, one
week from today, week zero, and we'll have Georgia Tech
Florida State, so actually have a real team in action
two on week zero and in two weeks Labor Day,

(02:37:38):
and of course that is the big college football kickoff,
that whole week Labor Day weekend, which is so much fun.
I would like to see them adopt more of a
week zero slate. And now that you have the playoffs,
I think you could do you can have some fun
with it and kind of do a whole lead in
while you have the spotlight order yourself. I think college

(02:38:02):
foot would be would suit it to do a week
zero splash and continue their labor day and have some
big games over the first two weeks of the season.

Speaker 1 (02:38:13):
Yeah, I totally agree.

Speaker 4 (02:38:14):
And look, there are certain places like I've long since
argued that the NFL, frankly could put literally Titans Jags
on the first night.

Speaker 1 (02:38:22):
Everybody would watch it.

Speaker 4 (02:38:23):
We're so thirsty for it, right, And I know college
football has become the second biggest port in America, but
I think there is a showcase opportunity, especially with all
of the change of sitting with the buddy last night
that knows a lot of sports, but as we sat
and talked, it was it was interesting to talk to
he and his dad and there wasn't really an understanding
of what the college football playoff structure looks.

Speaker 2 (02:38:41):
Like this year.

Speaker 4 (02:38:41):
And it's a reminder that if you don't live in
it every day, people need to be reminded. So the
advantage you have in Week zero and even through week
one in some of this is.

Speaker 1 (02:38:51):
You have a captive audience.

Speaker 4 (02:38:52):
Give me big matchups that people are going to want
to flock to while you retell the story of what
makes college football interesting.

Speaker 1 (02:38:58):
This year.

Speaker 4 (02:38:58):
I think this is, without quo, the most interesting season
in college football history. And the numbers are going to
show that people are gonna flock to it. It's gonna
be incredible. But from the outset I would be building
more hype.

Speaker 2 (02:39:09):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, I just.

Speaker 5 (02:39:12):
Don't want the concept of the week zero. Why not
just make your Week one and do what the NFL does.
Game on Thursday, maybe two, game on Friday maybe too,
and roll it through the weekend. You have the entire
weekends to yourself. You can literally have Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
and then Monday on Labor Day nothing but college football
with quality matchups and that huge matchups. Yeah, and have

(02:39:32):
that be week one.

Speaker 4 (02:39:34):
Yeah, have it be SEC versus Pig ten, right, like
give me, give me just oh my god, it can't
because with the playoff expansion, now, if you lose Week one,
you have plenty of time to make the ground up.
So you know, in my mind, it's all the more
reason you get out there and from the outset you establish,
oh my god, we're gonna get to see you know,
Oklahoma versus Oregon. That sort of like give me, give

(02:39:55):
me big matchups that everybody's gonna flock to to want
to see that feel like what Bowl season used to
be from the outset.

Speaker 2 (02:40:01):
Totally, that'd be awesome. Fake. But Week zero I just
like to name Week zero. It's just.

Speaker 3 (02:40:10):
It's ridiculous because it started with like, I will throw
a couple of game. We'll send you know, Notre Dame
er Bollsted College to Ireland and we'll throw a game,
and we'll I know, we'll have a couple other games.
And then people are so crazy about football that they go, hey, man,
Fresno State.

Speaker 5 (02:40:29):
I'm in, oh yeah, right, yes, absolutely so.

Speaker 3 (02:40:33):
And then all of a sudden, there's like four games
like Louisiana Lafayette and you go, all right, water boy,
I'm in for water Boy. And people will go, all right,
well there's five games. Now you gotta call it a week.
We'll call it week zero. Like it's like college football light.

Speaker 5 (02:40:52):
I need full fat. Let's go from day one.

Speaker 2 (02:40:57):
All right. I gotta give this to you boys, I
mean you earned it, this.

Speaker 1 (02:41:01):
Whole fourteen wins in a Super Bowl appearance.

Speaker 11 (02:41:03):
Here you go the Raiders, Ah September eighth, four oh five,
on a sun splashed afternoon in Los Angeles Raiders.

Speaker 2 (02:41:20):
Chargers look at that.

Speaker 5 (02:41:25):
Yeah, well they say they expected to be back by then.

Speaker 1 (02:41:29):
I will see it's.

Speaker 2 (02:41:31):
Maybe soft opening for heart.

Speaker 5 (02:41:33):
That was probably pushful thinking on fans party.

Speaker 2 (02:41:37):
Uh at Baltimore.

Speaker 3 (02:41:42):
Home, Panthersky Home, Browns at Denver Home, Stealers at Rams Home,
Kansas City at Cincinnati at Miami Home, Rocos at Kansas City,

(02:42:11):
at Tampa Home, Atlanta Home, Jacksonville at New Orleans home Raiders.

Speaker 1 (02:42:23):
But they are the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (02:42:24):
Who's Who's home Raiders? I just wanted to say Raiders
one more time? Now Home Chargers.

Speaker 5 (02:42:30):
Oh there you go. Oh it's the Chargers book in
the schedule, all right, yes, yes, So.

Speaker 4 (02:42:34):
I had them generously going like so, my prediction all year,
without going through the numbers, has been that they're about
a seven win team, is what I think. The way
we just did it, I had them generously at seven
wins going into the last week, so I could see
them getting to eight wins.

Speaker 5 (02:42:48):
Eight he had Yeah, I had them at six. Okay, okay, so.

Speaker 2 (02:42:53):
I can find savvy if I do my due diligence,
I can find yeah.

Speaker 5 (02:42:57):
Yeah, I mean that's my thing is if I can
if I can get them six I can steal another
win somewhere, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:43:02):
Yeah, Hey, I didn't answer because I'm a schedule nut.
As you know, I'm a weirdo. The uh, the NBA
came out this week. I actually did w's and l's
for every on my show. Yes, I dave ever six
every Sixers game, I did w's and els. And to
make it entertaining, I have my producer can juggle, so

(02:43:26):
I had him juggling in the background, so he was
juggling Clement times.

Speaker 5 (02:43:31):
Oh that's great.

Speaker 2 (02:43:32):
I was doing the schedule.

Speaker 5 (02:43:33):
That's a miracle.

Speaker 1 (02:43:34):
Figure.

Speaker 4 (02:43:35):
If you're committed to the show, you'll spend your paternity
leave learning how to juggle so that we do this
in the fall.

Speaker 5 (02:43:39):
I have a homework assignment. Now it looks like.

Speaker 3 (02:43:44):
Uh, Spurs, Nicks, t Wolves, Mavericks, Sixers, Celtics, Lakers, Warriors, Nuggets, Sons.

Speaker 2 (02:43:53):
Good. I like it right.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
Where the fellas, We're out of here. Damn love you guys.
We'll see you next weekend.

Speaker 6 (02:44:00):
Yeah,

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